A local fella I know was reading my recent post about Global Warming and Climatic Change ... and told me yesterday when I seen him ... that I am not accurate ... and basically said that I am not scientifically smart enough to really have a scientific opinion on the matter, bottom line. And if you happen to read this James ... I understand totally ... because you are right ... I dont have nearly the education you have ... especially when it comes to science ... since your such a buff of it. And as I told you ... dont as well feel like you would be insulting me ... to comment on this blog and point out how illiterate I am in science ... I dont find it "insulting" at all because I DONT have that much knowledge on certain thing's.
But I never claimed to have much knowledge on the subject of science ... or meteorology, etc. And I "choose" to call it "Global Warming" ... because ... well ... I mean the ice cap's are melting away and it appear's to be fairly rapid ... so I choose to call it warming ... because despite my scientific background ... I just figure an increase in temperature will cause ice to melt. What is my scientific background that makes me conclude this? Well ... heh, heh, heh ... I poured hot water on my windshield several morning's to melt the ice it collected from overnight. :)
The man(James)did point out to me in lengthy detail about all the cooling and warming trend's of the last million year's or so that been going on. And that just because a bunch of scientist's band together on one theory doesnt mean it's accurate because science is about "questioning" theories and not popular opinion or theory. And I will buy that sir.
Look ... I am not trying to blame anyone here on this "warming/ change" thing ... okay? As a matter of fact ... I hate this blame game that been going on with this matter between the left and the right. But regardless of what anyone tell's me ... about what the cause is ... and "why" this is happening ... or who's fault it is? ... look ... I really dont care. My redneck uneducated theory is this ... I dont see what good we do by trashing the earth the way we do ... okay? And I know you may say ... it makes money and prevent's starvation or whatever. There are million's starving as it is ... regardless of our wealth ... only because of our greed. And the bottom line is this ... as I pointed out in previous post's ... this "green tech" thing is going to be "big business" ... a "new" industrial revolution in it's own way ... I'll bet on it! And I'm a betting man! Hell man ... my poor wife's eyes water from this damn smog (especially when were in certain part's of Los Angeles, where she seem's to keep a tissue in hand)! We got dead fish washing up on coastlines ... other fish trying to flee from their known area's because of their survival instinct's ... and not being able to cope with this rapid change. Polar Bear's, Seal's, and other's from their enviroment's hauling ass and getting out of Dodge as well.
Cleaning up our damn air and water's wont do a damn bit of harm either ... nature been fairly good to us ... and we should be grateful for that ... and "share" our wealth by supporting that which has supported us for so many million's of year's ... that's all, and I dont think it's asking much ... or putting anyone in any more poverty than we already have ... for this reason ... I will support the "Global Warming" theory.
PS: The post that the gentleman was talking about he read was ... The "MELTING" is the tip of the "ICEBERG" ... and "CHANGE" you can bank on ....
Why the name Ranch Chimp? it was in humour because, science says that humans have similar DNA to a chimpanzee,so I felt some way related biologically to a chimpanzee. 2nd, everytime I was out of Texas on a vacation or for whatever reason I’m always asked things like, do I live on a ranch?,or have cattle? so I commonly call Dallas the Ranch. "Politically Depressed" was also humour inspired by the 1993- 2002 Bill Maher TV/ tele show "Politically Incorrect".
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Friday, December 26, 2008
How the U.S. Army ... made me question the "Salvation Army" ...
While working as a security officer in Uptown Dallas' West Village ... I worked evening's and out on the street ... unlike a security "guard" job ... it is very different ... because it's a nightlife district ... and you have to deal with many people from all different income level's, many folk's as well ... that simply just had too much to drink ... local's, tourist's ... you pretty much ... see them all. The ones that nobody likes seeing though seem's to be the homeless.
I got to know all those who were homeless as well and walked the street's looking for some change ... a quick cash job ... a bag of chip's ... a bump of dope or a drink ... or just simply a decent squat to catch a little sleep. You can meet 30 homeless folk's and talk with them ... and they all have a different story of how they got to where they are. And after awhile you get to see how difficult it really is to get out of that cycle once your caught in it. So to these folk's that look at them and chuckle or are sarcastic from a few drink's and tell them ... "Go get a job!" ... it's not as easy as you think. Many of these folk's had regular steady job's at once ... friend's family ... and a few pretty damn smart as well.
Two guy's that I seen nightly who were in this situation ... were both Veteran's of the U.S.Army ... both pulled active duty stretches in combat zones ... one served in the Viet Nam conflict ... the other younger guy served in Desert Storm. Both were willing and able to work ... and I managed to get them some odd and end's job's for cash and food here and there when I could, cleaning up ... or any miscellaneous quick cash gig's that could put a few buck's in their pocket ... and a couple meal's. The one who served in Viet Nam had a steady place he found to stay ... it was in a quiet secluded area of a nearby graveyard ... the other guy who served in Desert Storm ... stayed at various squat's around the area (vacant building's).
One of the thing's that caught my atencion ... and more than once amongst homeless that I had conversation's with ... but these two stood out ... because they both served in the Army ... was the fact that both at one time or another were turned away from a place to stay for the night by the Salvation Army Shelter on lower Hines Blvd. in Central Dallas. What I gathered from these and various homeless folk's was that you had to pay $7 to $10 a night for a bunk at this shelter. Why this caught my atencion? Because this is a non- profit organization ... that has some slogan about "caring and sharing" ... and these guy's in my opinion ... shouldnt have to pay a dime to get a bunk for the night. Their tax-exempt ... their all about loving thy neighbor and christian values ... they have a whole army of folk's ringing bell's in front of stores across the Metroplex and America this time of year ... I even hear them bell- ringer's get about $6 or $7 buck's an hour too.
Now I am sure there are alot of good folk's at the Salvation Army as well. I dont know much about them ... besides they offer alot of help at these disaster's and so forth along with other group's like the "Red Cross" and "FEMA" ... I personally never had any dealing's with them ... nor do I shop at their stores ... because once I was looking for a used file cabinet ... went in one of their stores ... and it cost as much if not more than one that is brand new! Never went back since. But I just dont understand these fee's to spend the night.
There are more homeless folk's out there on the street's that have served in some branch of our military at some time or another in their lives, than I realized ... I found. You see ... I dont feel that one veteran should have to ever be without a roof over their head ... for as long as they live in our country...especially a country as wealthy as our's. There should be location's throughout America to where at any time, any veteran should be able to get a meal and/or a bunk for the night if needed! Without NO CHARGE. These people served our damn country man! ... what the HELL is wrong with us?!! This in my opinion is pathetic! And Hell no ... I wont put a damn dime in a Salvation Army kettle either!
And this isnt only Dallas ... this is all over America ... in every metro area coast to coast. It is sickening to me ... that an Iraqi citizen can make a phone call ... and get U.S currency/ cash delivered to them if their in need or need a new needed appliance or whatever quicker than an American Veteran who pulled active duty in a combat zone can get a goddamn meal and a bunk for the night! And I hope that this is something that President Obama will address ... cause none of these other's with all their influence in Washington ... and hook-up's ... never seemed to do a damn thing about.
I got to know all those who were homeless as well and walked the street's looking for some change ... a quick cash job ... a bag of chip's ... a bump of dope or a drink ... or just simply a decent squat to catch a little sleep. You can meet 30 homeless folk's and talk with them ... and they all have a different story of how they got to where they are. And after awhile you get to see how difficult it really is to get out of that cycle once your caught in it. So to these folk's that look at them and chuckle or are sarcastic from a few drink's and tell them ... "Go get a job!" ... it's not as easy as you think. Many of these folk's had regular steady job's at once ... friend's family ... and a few pretty damn smart as well.
Two guy's that I seen nightly who were in this situation ... were both Veteran's of the U.S.Army ... both pulled active duty stretches in combat zones ... one served in the Viet Nam conflict ... the other younger guy served in Desert Storm. Both were willing and able to work ... and I managed to get them some odd and end's job's for cash and food here and there when I could, cleaning up ... or any miscellaneous quick cash gig's that could put a few buck's in their pocket ... and a couple meal's. The one who served in Viet Nam had a steady place he found to stay ... it was in a quiet secluded area of a nearby graveyard ... the other guy who served in Desert Storm ... stayed at various squat's around the area (vacant building's).
One of the thing's that caught my atencion ... and more than once amongst homeless that I had conversation's with ... but these two stood out ... because they both served in the Army ... was the fact that both at one time or another were turned away from a place to stay for the night by the Salvation Army Shelter on lower Hines Blvd. in Central Dallas. What I gathered from these and various homeless folk's was that you had to pay $7 to $10 a night for a bunk at this shelter. Why this caught my atencion? Because this is a non- profit organization ... that has some slogan about "caring and sharing" ... and these guy's in my opinion ... shouldnt have to pay a dime to get a bunk for the night. Their tax-exempt ... their all about loving thy neighbor and christian values ... they have a whole army of folk's ringing bell's in front of stores across the Metroplex and America this time of year ... I even hear them bell- ringer's get about $6 or $7 buck's an hour too.
Now I am sure there are alot of good folk's at the Salvation Army as well. I dont know much about them ... besides they offer alot of help at these disaster's and so forth along with other group's like the "Red Cross" and "FEMA" ... I personally never had any dealing's with them ... nor do I shop at their stores ... because once I was looking for a used file cabinet ... went in one of their stores ... and it cost as much if not more than one that is brand new! Never went back since. But I just dont understand these fee's to spend the night.
There are more homeless folk's out there on the street's that have served in some branch of our military at some time or another in their lives, than I realized ... I found. You see ... I dont feel that one veteran should have to ever be without a roof over their head ... for as long as they live in our country...especially a country as wealthy as our's. There should be location's throughout America to where at any time, any veteran should be able to get a meal and/or a bunk for the night if needed! Without NO CHARGE. These people served our damn country man! ... what the HELL is wrong with us?!! This in my opinion is pathetic! And Hell no ... I wont put a damn dime in a Salvation Army kettle either!
And this isnt only Dallas ... this is all over America ... in every metro area coast to coast. It is sickening to me ... that an Iraqi citizen can make a phone call ... and get U.S currency/ cash delivered to them if their in need or need a new needed appliance or whatever quicker than an American Veteran who pulled active duty in a combat zone can get a goddamn meal and a bunk for the night! And I hope that this is something that President Obama will address ... cause none of these other's with all their influence in Washington ... and hook-up's ... never seemed to do a damn thing about.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
The GRAND ($1000) ILLUSION TRINITY: ... Following the "BLIND"...will NOT make you see "CLEARER"...
We are entering an era saturated with many "illusion's" and as many "illusionist's" to present the array of falsehood's they have, to sell you their product. Because of our increasing desperation ... many of us will seek out these illusionist's ... in hope of a better life ... or some other tangible reward ... but it is mostly all that ... an illusion. All these that dictate and are out to "help" you have only interest in themselves, and the agenda's of those they truely serve. And most importantly ... are blind to the reality that is right around the corner. Your political representation is bought and paid for basically in some way or another, by those who do nothing but dictate, again ... there are 3 major power's that control everything, from your money/ finance, to your occupation's, property/ commodities, media's, energy/ fuel, etc. I call them the "3 Entities", which are your largest corporate/ finance institution's, your largest mega religious movement's/ institution's ... and the most powerful/ largest government's of the world.
This is why I said that one must have the ability to see thing's not as right/ wrong, good/ evil, black/ white, red/ blue ... etc. Why? ... because as we evolved ... all of this became so clouded and polluted ... that there is no truth to it anymore. The 3 entities that I have spoke of in my earlier post's and this post ... that lead humanity and it's system's ... are the ones who lead blindly. They have many illusion's to present us ... they certainly "look" powerful ... and have an abundance of wealth ... they are the best educated ... have the most elaborate vocabulary and line to feed you to make you have "confidence" in their decision's and idea's ... but what even they do not see ... is they are as lost as those they try to control and lead.
Their "leadership" abilities is what is taking us on a destructive path ... that must come about in time. This is what I spoke of earlier as the "storm's" to come, and with these storm's will come anger, revolt, and folk's sooner or later just getting sick and tired of the same shit in different package's, so they change the package to ride it for another few decade's, creating new political icon's, pop culture figure's and movement's, to make you think you are moving forward, but since we dont think, we get caught in the cycle etc, etc. They are alway's a step and few year's in front of us, that is why it is important time wise to stay a step ahead of them, but you cant as long as you keep feeding off those they give you to choose from. These illusionist's come a dime a dozen these day's ... and slither from the woodwork ... or in these times in cyberspace and the various media's including the political and religious movement's that they control. But do not expect any of those who lead us on any path to have the answer's ... and when their idea's and proposal's fail, and the bubble burst's after a brief robust period ... they will alway's have some fancy word's to cover their obvious lack of being able to get anything straight, and/ or making it work for any significant duration.
Your major mainstream religious institution's are in the same game and controlled by the same bunch. What's amusing about this ... is these folk's who dictate this avenue, actually compare themselves in our western religious majorities to the "Christ" figure that is wrote about in the bible ... the Jesus of Nazareth ... a person according to the same bible was one of the strongest critic's of the church/ synagogue, and one that was obviously opposed to these institution's of falsehood's and corruption. These same power's according to the same biblical teaching's were responsible for this man's execution. Thus a religion was designed to be embraced by those who are oppressed, but designed truely and manipulated through revision after revision to benefit only the oppressor's. Nor does any of this have anything to do with a spiritual world ... all this is done to manipulate the masses for power.
Is there such a thing as "truth"? ... well there certainly is ... and it is actually as clear as day ... but following those who are blind ... will not make you see any clearer.
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This is why I said that one must have the ability to see thing's not as right/ wrong, good/ evil, black/ white, red/ blue ... etc. Why? ... because as we evolved ... all of this became so clouded and polluted ... that there is no truth to it anymore. The 3 entities that I have spoke of in my earlier post's and this post ... that lead humanity and it's system's ... are the ones who lead blindly. They have many illusion's to present us ... they certainly "look" powerful ... and have an abundance of wealth ... they are the best educated ... have the most elaborate vocabulary and line to feed you to make you have "confidence" in their decision's and idea's ... but what even they do not see ... is they are as lost as those they try to control and lead.
Their "leadership" abilities is what is taking us on a destructive path ... that must come about in time. This is what I spoke of earlier as the "storm's" to come, and with these storm's will come anger, revolt, and folk's sooner or later just getting sick and tired of the same shit in different package's, so they change the package to ride it for another few decade's, creating new political icon's, pop culture figure's and movement's, to make you think you are moving forward, but since we dont think, we get caught in the cycle etc, etc. They are alway's a step and few year's in front of us, that is why it is important time wise to stay a step ahead of them, but you cant as long as you keep feeding off those they give you to choose from. These illusionist's come a dime a dozen these day's ... and slither from the woodwork ... or in these times in cyberspace and the various media's including the political and religious movement's that they control. But do not expect any of those who lead us on any path to have the answer's ... and when their idea's and proposal's fail, and the bubble burst's after a brief robust period ... they will alway's have some fancy word's to cover their obvious lack of being able to get anything straight, and/ or making it work for any significant duration.
Your major mainstream religious institution's are in the same game and controlled by the same bunch. What's amusing about this ... is these folk's who dictate this avenue, actually compare themselves in our western religious majorities to the "Christ" figure that is wrote about in the bible ... the Jesus of Nazareth ... a person according to the same bible was one of the strongest critic's of the church/ synagogue, and one that was obviously opposed to these institution's of falsehood's and corruption. These same power's according to the same biblical teaching's were responsible for this man's execution. Thus a religion was designed to be embraced by those who are oppressed, but designed truely and manipulated through revision after revision to benefit only the oppressor's. Nor does any of this have anything to do with a spiritual world ... all this is done to manipulate the masses for power.
Is there such a thing as "truth"? ... well there certainly is ... and it is actually as clear as day ... but following those who are blind ... will not make you see any clearer.
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
The "MELTING" is the tip of the Iceberg ... "CHANGE" you can bank on ...
Report's today are from NASA ... using the latest in satellite technologies ... and ONCE again confirming that "Global Warming" is a REALITY.
Now ... you are free to call it what you choose ... I choose to call it "Global Warming" but many like to call it today ... "Climate Change" ... well ... heh, heh, heh ... were damn sure going to see some change ... you can bank on that! Either way you slice it ... it's knocking on the door as I write this. And the timing couldnt be better heh? Right when the entire world has to deal with radical fundamentalism, starvation, and let me not forget to mention ... deterioration in ... let's just say "economic confidence" (which should increase soon). :)
NASA report's that between 1.5 to 2 trillion ton's of ice has melted away in Greenland, Antarctica, and Alaska since 2003, and call's it an alarming acceleration rate at that ... with best estimates that sea level's may rise 18" to 36" by the end of the century ... the way I see it ... maybe even more! These finding's will be reported this week by NASA Geophysicist Scott Luthcke to the "American Geophysical Union Conference" in San Francisco.
Should we "panic"? You can panic all you choose ... but it will get you nowhere ... the only thing that can get us anywheres is taking every necessary step we can to deal with it ... because one thing is certain ... and that is we wont stop it. And all these ton's and ton's of trash/ pollutant's we throw into the atmosphere 24/ 7/ 365 wont do a bit of good either. The way I see it ... is it can only "worsen" the acceleration. Remember all of us and life around us ... is a product of "this" enviroment/ current eco's. It is very important to plan and execute any action on this ... and in a manner that dont take forever to decide on. No ... we dont have to all ride bicycle's and live in mud hut's. But we have spoiled ourselves to the max ... and we need to tighten up. There are so many little thing's that we can easily adjust to if we just "act". For one ... personally ... and this is just small ... but in combination with other small idea's add's up to "significant" ... but I never knew why we need "drive-thru's" of anything? Have we lost our leg's? or just gotten too damn lazy to get out of our vehicles shut down the engine and walk inside? And if you think we have economic problem's now ... rest assured ... we havent seen nothing yet.
The human species has displayed no "balance" ... and have populated at an "alarming" rate in my opinion. You know ... "balance" being ... give a little ... take a little, heh? We have done nothing but take, take, take ... and give very little. Even many of us snowball ourselves into believing that we are Mother Natures little sacred prototypes or Teddy Bear's, and that life and the star's evolve around us. We have been lucky as Hell as well ... that something like a large meteorite hasnt dropped in on us, and just wiped out our existence, for thousand's of more year's till some newer intelligent species can evolve to replace us after the dust clear's and light come's back, another item we may have to deal with a few year's down the road possibly.
So ... this is why our acceleration of "action" is importante, and not acceleration of pollutant's ... because the only thing that is going to rescue us ... is our technologies and sciences ... were on our own on this one. And besides ... we owe the earth one ... for being so unintentionally kind to us ... for so many 100's of 1000's of year's.
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Now ... you are free to call it what you choose ... I choose to call it "Global Warming" but many like to call it today ... "Climate Change" ... well ... heh, heh, heh ... were damn sure going to see some change ... you can bank on that! Either way you slice it ... it's knocking on the door as I write this. And the timing couldnt be better heh? Right when the entire world has to deal with radical fundamentalism, starvation, and let me not forget to mention ... deterioration in ... let's just say "economic confidence" (which should increase soon). :)
NASA report's that between 1.5 to 2 trillion ton's of ice has melted away in Greenland, Antarctica, and Alaska since 2003, and call's it an alarming acceleration rate at that ... with best estimates that sea level's may rise 18" to 36" by the end of the century ... the way I see it ... maybe even more! These finding's will be reported this week by NASA Geophysicist Scott Luthcke to the "American Geophysical Union Conference" in San Francisco.
Should we "panic"? You can panic all you choose ... but it will get you nowhere ... the only thing that can get us anywheres is taking every necessary step we can to deal with it ... because one thing is certain ... and that is we wont stop it. And all these ton's and ton's of trash/ pollutant's we throw into the atmosphere 24/ 7/ 365 wont do a bit of good either. The way I see it ... is it can only "worsen" the acceleration. Remember all of us and life around us ... is a product of "this" enviroment/ current eco's. It is very important to plan and execute any action on this ... and in a manner that dont take forever to decide on. No ... we dont have to all ride bicycle's and live in mud hut's. But we have spoiled ourselves to the max ... and we need to tighten up. There are so many little thing's that we can easily adjust to if we just "act". For one ... personally ... and this is just small ... but in combination with other small idea's add's up to "significant" ... but I never knew why we need "drive-thru's" of anything? Have we lost our leg's? or just gotten too damn lazy to get out of our vehicles shut down the engine and walk inside? And if you think we have economic problem's now ... rest assured ... we havent seen nothing yet.
The human species has displayed no "balance" ... and have populated at an "alarming" rate in my opinion. You know ... "balance" being ... give a little ... take a little, heh? We have done nothing but take, take, take ... and give very little. Even many of us snowball ourselves into believing that we are Mother Natures little sacred prototypes or Teddy Bear's, and that life and the star's evolve around us. We have been lucky as Hell as well ... that something like a large meteorite hasnt dropped in on us, and just wiped out our existence, for thousand's of more year's till some newer intelligent species can evolve to replace us after the dust clear's and light come's back, another item we may have to deal with a few year's down the road possibly.
So ... this is why our acceleration of "action" is importante, and not acceleration of pollutant's ... because the only thing that is going to rescue us ... is our technologies and sciences ... were on our own on this one. And besides ... we owe the earth one ... for being so unintentionally kind to us ... for so many 100's of 1000's of year's.
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Friday, December 12, 2008
I'm dreaming of a "TIGHT" Christmas.....
Well...heh,heh,heh...I couldnt help to think of that old holiday favourite this year of "I'm dreaming of a white christmas"...when I see all the bargain's this year that are out there. Dallas hasnt been hit as hard like alot of the nation on the economy side...but that is yet to come.Dallas has a very diversified and vibrant economical climate..has for year's...simply because it's a "free for all" town. Very little regulation..moderate cost of living...very pro-business..the kind's of thing's that attract business instead of scaring away business in other word's. Which has also been the reason it is the fastest growing area in the nation..one million new resident's every 7 year's settle here..according to the U.S.Census Bureau.
But all this highsiding will not last for long...how do I know? Simple...because crap roll's downhill! And as Wall St. and the nation tighten up...we depend on them...so we will too...in time.But this must happen...it is part of what we need to educate ourselves on the mistakes we all make.We all need to tighten up.
But I am waiting to see what the holiday shopping figures will be in early 2009 when their released.The stores are as packed as usual...but heres the catch...folks are shopping...but that doesnt mean their spending nearly as much.Folk's are getting
"tight" with their dollar's.Look at the stores this season..I never seen deal's like I see this year...I mean...before christmas...50%off,60% and 80% off?!!
Now think about that for a moment...say a place is announcing saving's/sales of 60% to 80% off...what does that tell you...if they havent filed bankruptcy and are having a liquidation? Obviously we been getting the shaft...because how can you afford to let mechandise go for that much of a discount and still stay in business? We are getting railroaded is all on prices obviously.
Hour's are even getting cut back of cashier's all over the place...usually they "add"
at this time of the year.And folk's are not going as wild when it comes to spending...plus the fact that credit limit's on card's by the bank's are tightening up too. Many folk's are using their brain's now..and looking at way's to really "save". Not the crap that they are told through these advertisement's that say
..."Buy this...buy that..right now...before the sale end's..or it's too late" I dont think sometimes we realize how much we actually spend...and I am far from a cheapskate myself...I am one of those..who will blow money if I have it also. But I've learned over the year's the hard way...to tighten up somewhat.
But...tis the season for giving..indeed...and this season is special...because it is a season of economical enlightenment as well.
But all this highsiding will not last for long...how do I know? Simple...because crap roll's downhill! And as Wall St. and the nation tighten up...we depend on them...so we will too...in time.But this must happen...it is part of what we need to educate ourselves on the mistakes we all make.We all need to tighten up.
But I am waiting to see what the holiday shopping figures will be in early 2009 when their released.The stores are as packed as usual...but heres the catch...folks are shopping...but that doesnt mean their spending nearly as much.Folk's are getting
"tight" with their dollar's.Look at the stores this season..I never seen deal's like I see this year...I mean...before christmas...50%off,60% and 80% off?!!
Now think about that for a moment...say a place is announcing saving's/sales of 60% to 80% off...what does that tell you...if they havent filed bankruptcy and are having a liquidation? Obviously we been getting the shaft...because how can you afford to let mechandise go for that much of a discount and still stay in business? We are getting railroaded is all on prices obviously.
Hour's are even getting cut back of cashier's all over the place...usually they "add"
at this time of the year.And folk's are not going as wild when it comes to spending...plus the fact that credit limit's on card's by the bank's are tightening up too. Many folk's are using their brain's now..and looking at way's to really "save". Not the crap that they are told through these advertisement's that say
..."Buy this...buy that..right now...before the sale end's..or it's too late" I dont think sometimes we realize how much we actually spend...and I am far from a cheapskate myself...I am one of those..who will blow money if I have it also. But I've learned over the year's the hard way...to tighten up somewhat.
But...tis the season for giving..indeed...and this season is special...because it is a season of economical enlightenment as well.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
President Bush on "DRUG WAR" Progress...NAIVE, NONSENSICAL, RUBBISH ...
This "War on Drug's" that was started from the first President Bush ... has done nothing in my opinion ... that positively effect's the drug problem in America. He was on CNN News today ... talking about all the progress made, and while doing so ... I couldnt believe what I was hearing ... and what a Hell of a time to bring up this nonsense! Another example of just how blind those are in Washington as to the reality of the current condition in the country they govern.
Let me elaborate here ... and give a clearer picture on the "Reality of the Union" if you will. All this drug war consist's of ... is making a buck for many in the court's ... prison system's ... with law enforcement and dealer's. I could go on and on ... about the waste of money that could really go to combating drug addiction. Pres.Bush speak's of how they targeted cocaine and how much they removed from the street in major bust's. The reality is ... that many of these major bust's are set up by the drug cartel's themselves on the Mexican/ American border. Texas for example who has the largest border with Mexico ... say they make a so called "major" bust in El Paso one day of say a half a ton of clean cocaine (before the massive cut's it will take before it hit's the street). That 1000 pound's is a diversion in many cases ... so that when law enforcement is focused on El Paso ... 20xtimes that amount (10 ton's) is coming in through the Del Rio area ... hundred's of miles away. Same applies to marijuana and opiates ... and pharmaceutical's are even making their way across the border, even gun's, even child prostitutes for that matter ... anything that makes a buck. Many law enforcement on both sides of the border ... especially the Mexican side ... are on the "take" (pay-off's).
Presideent Bush said that drug use amongst teen's is down by 25% ... heh, heh, heh, heh, heh ... these statistic's are political rubbish! And the drug use thing amongst teen's changes like the damn season's ... just like crime statistic's ... more rubbish ... good print though ... just meaningless. Many teen's get high recreationally ... and "score" dope from multiple places ... usually from their teen contact's ... who get supplied through the internet, the street, and many prescription drug's even come from home. And the interaction is a different world from the street dope houses in urban area's and curbside dealer's, and especially the clientele. Even speed/ meth these day's is coming in from Mexico (which was originally and exclusively a USA creation and market) ... trying to put the once local meth lab's out of business. Mexico has even gotten into in recent year's now ... the opium trade ... which for year's has been dominated by Afghanistan (after year's of the southest asian dominance, and grade's/ type's vastly vary ... asian being the popular white for instance, these dayz the Mexican tar, totally different) ... and still is ... but folk's south of the border with their pro- business and strongly competitive spirit are getting a piece of that action too ... why not? The cartel's military personel ... are better equipped weapon's wise and even technology wise than even the law enforcement on BOTH sides of the border ... and most importantly ... pay better!
The statement that drug use is down across America? ... and the dealer's are being rounded up etc? More nonsense .,. understand ... supply WILL meet demand. If one of your local dealer's get's busted ... a replacement will be set up the same day, why? Because the pay is great and folk's (addict's) need their stuff. Take the Dallas/ Fort Worth Metroplex for example ... in 2008 ... there is no such thing as "dry" or "tapped out" these day's ... and info on where to obtain drug's if you dont have a steady line/ connection ... or say your new in town ... is better available than the internet info ... just on the street's. Dope houses and curbside drive-thru's/ walk-up's go 24/ 7 in this town as well as any metro area across America ... including ... not far from 1600 Pennsylvania Av. NW, in DC.
The talk about the "faith based" group's and drug intervention programmes making progress ... heh, heh, heh, heh, heh ... well ... bless their heart's ... at least their trying, but this current approach is another programme doomed to failure. Another thing ... locking up an addict in prison does not do much of anything ... and sometimes makes the addict more hungry ... because ... when it comes time for release and hitting the street's and they see their old homies/ buddies and have them "dope dream's" prior to release, they will be all over the next tempting bump/ hit like a cheap suit ... every dope fiend know's that the first hit/bump of the day is the best/ strongest! They can be monitored by probationary/ parole department's supervision? More nonsense ... info on how to beat screening test's and product's are as available as a loaf of bread in a 7/ 11.
I could go on and on ... but just wanted to make a few point's here. You see ... bottom line is ... when you do something like this "War on Drug's" ... and you do it for 20+ year's basically the same way ... and have nothing to show for your effort's and investment's ... you move on to "Plan B" ... and if you dont have a "Plan B" ... well ... duuuuhhh ... you create one! President Bush' statement today on the progress of the "War on Drug's" is only naive, nonsensical, rubbish.
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Let me elaborate here ... and give a clearer picture on the "Reality of the Union" if you will. All this drug war consist's of ... is making a buck for many in the court's ... prison system's ... with law enforcement and dealer's. I could go on and on ... about the waste of money that could really go to combating drug addiction. Pres.Bush speak's of how they targeted cocaine and how much they removed from the street in major bust's. The reality is ... that many of these major bust's are set up by the drug cartel's themselves on the Mexican/ American border. Texas for example who has the largest border with Mexico ... say they make a so called "major" bust in El Paso one day of say a half a ton of clean cocaine (before the massive cut's it will take before it hit's the street). That 1000 pound's is a diversion in many cases ... so that when law enforcement is focused on El Paso ... 20xtimes that amount (10 ton's) is coming in through the Del Rio area ... hundred's of miles away. Same applies to marijuana and opiates ... and pharmaceutical's are even making their way across the border, even gun's, even child prostitutes for that matter ... anything that makes a buck. Many law enforcement on both sides of the border ... especially the Mexican side ... are on the "take" (pay-off's).
Presideent Bush said that drug use amongst teen's is down by 25% ... heh, heh, heh, heh, heh ... these statistic's are political rubbish! And the drug use thing amongst teen's changes like the damn season's ... just like crime statistic's ... more rubbish ... good print though ... just meaningless. Many teen's get high recreationally ... and "score" dope from multiple places ... usually from their teen contact's ... who get supplied through the internet, the street, and many prescription drug's even come from home. And the interaction is a different world from the street dope houses in urban area's and curbside dealer's, and especially the clientele. Even speed/ meth these day's is coming in from Mexico (which was originally and exclusively a USA creation and market) ... trying to put the once local meth lab's out of business. Mexico has even gotten into in recent year's now ... the opium trade ... which for year's has been dominated by Afghanistan (after year's of the southest asian dominance, and grade's/ type's vastly vary ... asian being the popular white for instance, these dayz the Mexican tar, totally different) ... and still is ... but folk's south of the border with their pro- business and strongly competitive spirit are getting a piece of that action too ... why not? The cartel's military personel ... are better equipped weapon's wise and even technology wise than even the law enforcement on BOTH sides of the border ... and most importantly ... pay better!
The statement that drug use is down across America? ... and the dealer's are being rounded up etc? More nonsense .,. understand ... supply WILL meet demand. If one of your local dealer's get's busted ... a replacement will be set up the same day, why? Because the pay is great and folk's (addict's) need their stuff. Take the Dallas/ Fort Worth Metroplex for example ... in 2008 ... there is no such thing as "dry" or "tapped out" these day's ... and info on where to obtain drug's if you dont have a steady line/ connection ... or say your new in town ... is better available than the internet info ... just on the street's. Dope houses and curbside drive-thru's/ walk-up's go 24/ 7 in this town as well as any metro area across America ... including ... not far from 1600 Pennsylvania Av. NW, in DC.
The talk about the "faith based" group's and drug intervention programmes making progress ... heh, heh, heh, heh, heh ... well ... bless their heart's ... at least their trying, but this current approach is another programme doomed to failure. Another thing ... locking up an addict in prison does not do much of anything ... and sometimes makes the addict more hungry ... because ... when it comes time for release and hitting the street's and they see their old homies/ buddies and have them "dope dream's" prior to release, they will be all over the next tempting bump/ hit like a cheap suit ... every dope fiend know's that the first hit/bump of the day is the best/ strongest! They can be monitored by probationary/ parole department's supervision? More nonsense ... info on how to beat screening test's and product's are as available as a loaf of bread in a 7/ 11.
I could go on and on ... but just wanted to make a few point's here. You see ... bottom line is ... when you do something like this "War on Drug's" ... and you do it for 20+ year's basically the same way ... and have nothing to show for your effort's and investment's ... you move on to "Plan B" ... and if you dont have a "Plan B" ... well ... duuuuhhh ... you create one! President Bush' statement today on the progress of the "War on Drug's" is only naive, nonsensical, rubbish.
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Saturday, December 6, 2008
Bunk Politician's, Beggar CEO's, Bridge Loan's, and Bailout's ....
These are the element's as I pointed out in my earlier post's that add up to failure is all. And as I said ... it must get worse before anything get's better ... and it will. Eventually as well ... all that we depend on to make us function daily will fall apart ... the sooner ... the better. And no matter how much we give, we who work and make this engine run are going to still have very hard time's ahead. We should NOT be frightened to let this all fail ... understand ... it is all for the benefit of us all.
This is no different then the classic "Good cop ... Bad cop" game. First you have the republican's making threat's during the election's to frighten us into believing that if Obama is elected ... we are doomed to terror, communism, forced islam, black's taking over, economical meltdown ... and on. While their setting up to indirectly use that to push for a "speedy" 3 quarter's of a trillion dollar's to bailout those in the private financial sector. Now we have democrat's like Barney Frank, Dodd and other's telling us that if we dont bailout the "Big 3"(Ford, GM, Chrysler) that over 3 million more job's may be lost and even million's more effected. DO NOT believe any of this. Why? because ... America is too much of a valuable asset and investment for the big money to let fail ... bottom line being ... even if we didnt bailout any of these, "we the people" will NOT FAIL ( just be painful, which will happen anywayz) ... only these CEO's, politician's, and mega corporation's will ... the people will only temporarily lose some employment, and all those billion's we give them to keep us faithful slaves of their dying system of past will go to us the people instead ... and trust me ... they all know it. Other investor's will rapidly pour in from all part's of the globe and put us all back to work ... and rebuild on smaller level's the new economy.
I dont want to see the "Big 3" fail ... but they actually wont either way ... and YES ... bankruptcy is a workable option even. They say they will pay back the American people? DONT believe any of this ... the American people will only get a prolonged system of failure ... worthless job's that can barely put food on the table, constant war's, inflation to go through the roof within the next 3 year's or so ... and endless misery ... smokescreened with petty gift's that make us feel we are moving forward like saying minorities will climb the ladder ... gay/ lesbian's may be allowed to legally bond or other petty crap that doesnt put a dime in your pocket, make you any freer ... or do you any good at all ... they give a little bit at a time ... and only when they need to ... we are trained like dog's ... and that is what we are basically categorized as. Give a trick ... and a smile ... and they'll toss you a bone. What they fail to see ... is they are also dog's ... and most old dog's ... regardless of their status or breed ... it is hard to teach new trick's too. Let nature take it's coarse ... and what doenst work no more, die ... and never look back ... that is the secret to moving forward to the better.
The "Big 3" want now ... $34 billion this week ... they actually drove to Capitol Hill this time in Hybrid vehicles. They are NOT sincere ... if they were ... they would have done that the first time. They say these and smaller vehicles are what they are working on? Again ... DO NOT believe this ... GM is announcing layoff's to come, yet the Arlington, Tx plant (Dallas area) will have NONE ... and the Arlington plant put's out all full size SUV's and Truck's ... that ARE NOT Hybrid's. It is a plant that sit's on 250 acres of land ... employ's over 3000 in 2 shift's ... and are YES ... union. Chief Economist Mark Zandi (moody's economy.com) say's by his calculation's ... they will at least need somewhere's between $75-$125 billion to ride through this, and that $34 billion is nothing more than maybe like an appetizer. Even many of our politician's are brainwashed into thinking that keeping this ship running as usual is the answer to our future ... it is NOT ... as I said over and over in past post's ... WE MUST LET SOME OF THIS FAIL! Not all at once ... but piece by piece. And it all will ... in time. So we are basically pumping money into a graveyard.
They scared the politician's friday (yesterday) announcing ... jobless claim's are now at a high not seen in 26 year's ... and of course ... they say now we are in a reccession, and are claiming that it has been on for a year ... again ... lies ... during the election's if you recall ... they were just saying we are not yet technically in a reccession ... of course ... I pointed out that psychologically America was ... and that's the important part ... not what some survey or stat's online tell you ... I get my info ... from the trenches and the people that actually work and spend daily ... and when I see folk's cutting back on spending ... I just put 2 and 2 together ... because that is the real world we live in ... not the world that is televised and transmitted to you via online or satellite feed's. Unemployment will get worse than this ... all in time ... we will feel something ... but those who dictate will feel the worst of the impact ... not us! ... in time. They will lose their plastic empires to more hungry new investor's from all over the globe ... and be weeded out like ... well ... weed's eventually. So this constant feeding them money and loan's will only be a waste in the long run...do not worry...we will be making more vehicles right here in the USA ... several year's in the future ... just not under the same ownership's. America is a great place to live and invest ... great scenery ... lot's of land ... friendly neighboring and peaceful countries ... a Constitution that is 2nd to none ... and there is ALOT of big money still in the world ... trust me. DO NOT feel sorry for these whiner's ... they are failures ... and need to retire.
The sad part is this ... because of all this "fear" being dished out ... we will see a deal made with our money and government and these weakling relic's this next week. YES ... we will end up granting them ... undisclosed billion's. GMAC car financing is trying to become a "banking company" ... Why? To try to get also part of the first $700+ billion that went to the financial sector bailout is why. What Jane Velez Mitchell of CNN call's "double dipping" ... she's exactly right and hit the nail on the head! If these auto maker's had such a grand viable plan ... the private sector of investor's would be all over it like a cheap suit. GMAC and Chrysler are majority owned by private investor's ... who are very financially well off ... and they WONT even put any part of their own money into their own failing investment's/ asset's ... ding, ding, ding!! ... does that tell you something?
This is no different then the classic "Good cop ... Bad cop" game. First you have the republican's making threat's during the election's to frighten us into believing that if Obama is elected ... we are doomed to terror, communism, forced islam, black's taking over, economical meltdown ... and on. While their setting up to indirectly use that to push for a "speedy" 3 quarter's of a trillion dollar's to bailout those in the private financial sector. Now we have democrat's like Barney Frank, Dodd and other's telling us that if we dont bailout the "Big 3"(Ford, GM, Chrysler) that over 3 million more job's may be lost and even million's more effected. DO NOT believe any of this. Why? because ... America is too much of a valuable asset and investment for the big money to let fail ... bottom line being ... even if we didnt bailout any of these, "we the people" will NOT FAIL ( just be painful, which will happen anywayz) ... only these CEO's, politician's, and mega corporation's will ... the people will only temporarily lose some employment, and all those billion's we give them to keep us faithful slaves of their dying system of past will go to us the people instead ... and trust me ... they all know it. Other investor's will rapidly pour in from all part's of the globe and put us all back to work ... and rebuild on smaller level's the new economy.
I dont want to see the "Big 3" fail ... but they actually wont either way ... and YES ... bankruptcy is a workable option even. They say they will pay back the American people? DONT believe any of this ... the American people will only get a prolonged system of failure ... worthless job's that can barely put food on the table, constant war's, inflation to go through the roof within the next 3 year's or so ... and endless misery ... smokescreened with petty gift's that make us feel we are moving forward like saying minorities will climb the ladder ... gay/ lesbian's may be allowed to legally bond or other petty crap that doesnt put a dime in your pocket, make you any freer ... or do you any good at all ... they give a little bit at a time ... and only when they need to ... we are trained like dog's ... and that is what we are basically categorized as. Give a trick ... and a smile ... and they'll toss you a bone. What they fail to see ... is they are also dog's ... and most old dog's ... regardless of their status or breed ... it is hard to teach new trick's too. Let nature take it's coarse ... and what doenst work no more, die ... and never look back ... that is the secret to moving forward to the better.
The "Big 3" want now ... $34 billion this week ... they actually drove to Capitol Hill this time in Hybrid vehicles. They are NOT sincere ... if they were ... they would have done that the first time. They say these and smaller vehicles are what they are working on? Again ... DO NOT believe this ... GM is announcing layoff's to come, yet the Arlington, Tx plant (Dallas area) will have NONE ... and the Arlington plant put's out all full size SUV's and Truck's ... that ARE NOT Hybrid's. It is a plant that sit's on 250 acres of land ... employ's over 3000 in 2 shift's ... and are YES ... union. Chief Economist Mark Zandi (moody's economy.com) say's by his calculation's ... they will at least need somewhere's between $75-$125 billion to ride through this, and that $34 billion is nothing more than maybe like an appetizer. Even many of our politician's are brainwashed into thinking that keeping this ship running as usual is the answer to our future ... it is NOT ... as I said over and over in past post's ... WE MUST LET SOME OF THIS FAIL! Not all at once ... but piece by piece. And it all will ... in time. So we are basically pumping money into a graveyard.
They scared the politician's friday (yesterday) announcing ... jobless claim's are now at a high not seen in 26 year's ... and of course ... they say now we are in a reccession, and are claiming that it has been on for a year ... again ... lies ... during the election's if you recall ... they were just saying we are not yet technically in a reccession ... of course ... I pointed out that psychologically America was ... and that's the important part ... not what some survey or stat's online tell you ... I get my info ... from the trenches and the people that actually work and spend daily ... and when I see folk's cutting back on spending ... I just put 2 and 2 together ... because that is the real world we live in ... not the world that is televised and transmitted to you via online or satellite feed's. Unemployment will get worse than this ... all in time ... we will feel something ... but those who dictate will feel the worst of the impact ... not us! ... in time. They will lose their plastic empires to more hungry new investor's from all over the globe ... and be weeded out like ... well ... weed's eventually. So this constant feeding them money and loan's will only be a waste in the long run...do not worry...we will be making more vehicles right here in the USA ... several year's in the future ... just not under the same ownership's. America is a great place to live and invest ... great scenery ... lot's of land ... friendly neighboring and peaceful countries ... a Constitution that is 2nd to none ... and there is ALOT of big money still in the world ... trust me. DO NOT feel sorry for these whiner's ... they are failures ... and need to retire.
The sad part is this ... because of all this "fear" being dished out ... we will see a deal made with our money and government and these weakling relic's this next week. YES ... we will end up granting them ... undisclosed billion's. GMAC car financing is trying to become a "banking company" ... Why? To try to get also part of the first $700+ billion that went to the financial sector bailout is why. What Jane Velez Mitchell of CNN call's "double dipping" ... she's exactly right and hit the nail on the head! If these auto maker's had such a grand viable plan ... the private sector of investor's would be all over it like a cheap suit. GMAC and Chrysler are majority owned by private investor's ... who are very financially well off ... and they WONT even put any part of their own money into their own failing investment's/ asset's ... ding, ding, ding!! ... does that tell you something?
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
The "Bank of Hank-Xmas Drive" (PT.2) ... show the brotha some "$$LOVE$$"
Well America ... were back at square one ... with lies, lies ... and more lies. But it's the season for giving ... heh? Dont forget our present brotha Hank! Dont hold your breath if you like living. Once again ... Hank is up to his old prank's as I pointed out in several previous post's. How did I know? Well there certainly wasnt no special talent on my part ... I'm just a player ... and know how a player operates is all. They "play" the people ... and we should "play" them. It's called being "fair". After all ... you cant "win" if you dont "play". Heh, heh, heh ... :)
A week ago or so Treasury Secretary Henry "Hank" Paulson told congress to please use restraint before shelling out those "bailout/ rescue" billion's ... to make sure we dont act to hasty and shell out money where it dont belong. Well ... everyone done so ... and Hank done his part distributing the first half of the $700 billion to Wall St. Now that other $350 billion or so ... may have to be used before the month of January 2009 arrives ... why? Because yesterday Hank and brotha "Fuzzy" (Fuzzy is what I call Bush because everything that comes from his mouth is fuzzy) appeared on the White House lawn yesterday to say they may need to spend it already. You know ... now as of yesterday ... "Citigroup" along with "Citi's" cousin's needed some $$LOVE$$ as well, as you already know.
Also to top it off ... slowly leaking it's way into the masses mind's via media, congressional democrat's already have a stimulus package made up to present to President Obama his first day in office that exceed's his initial proposed package of $175 billion he ran his campaign on as a promise. The plan congressional democrat's have is calling for up to possibly an additional $700 billion in a stimulus package ... yes ... a whole new $700 billion! Hopefully every cent of that new stimulus will go to the peoples and American infrastructure, job creation ... etc. If it dont ... we should raise all Hell nationwide ... including rioting coast to coast and avoid any taxation ... and even spending on anything we dont desperately need to. Buy off the "black market" ... from the individual ... off the street corner or internet or wherever ... plus when you do ... it's all tax free! That's illegal? Prove it! Remember, they need us more than we need them ... that's why moderate income folks will pull through this storm the easiest ... because we know how to improvise and survive ... they obviously dont ... if they did ... they wouldnt need us. Trust me ... I've played the game for so long ... and I win about 90%+ of the time!
I would like to see something go to the American automaker's ... considering they are only asking $25 billion ... and laying out plan's to show as collateral. All these investment bank's showed nothing ... not even an invoice or tax return ... and have received in the hundred's of billion's without answering to anyone ... or even remotely having to be accountable for any of it. And you can bank on it ... that most of their money is in offshore account's, foreign investment, and they have no out of pocket tax expense ... as I wrote earlier ... their existence alone is a "write-off".
It is also said that Obama may hold off on new tax regulation's for a year or two ... focused on that top 5% of America. Because it hurt's business and investment confidence ... WHATEVER! I would hope President Obama would not refrain from imposing new regulatory condition's ... immediately! They had their free ride ... it's someone else's turn now. I am a capitalist ... I am pro-free market 110% ... and believe me ... a little more tax to the top 5% is NOT asking much at all ... and no one will spend a day in the poor house. What would be their incentive? ... simple ... they get to claim the USA as their homebase ... and reap all the reward's of being here ... like our government handout generosity ... our extensive tax write off's and loose law's, the people who are the bread and butter of consumption ... who borrow and spend like there's no tomorrow ... and the full protection of the U.S. military ... so they can walk the street's without fear of a roadside bomb on every corner.
Merry Xmas Hank...c'mon...show us a lil $$LOVE$$! :)
***** "BANK OF HANK" PART ONE HERE
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A week ago or so Treasury Secretary Henry "Hank" Paulson told congress to please use restraint before shelling out those "bailout/ rescue" billion's ... to make sure we dont act to hasty and shell out money where it dont belong. Well ... everyone done so ... and Hank done his part distributing the first half of the $700 billion to Wall St. Now that other $350 billion or so ... may have to be used before the month of January 2009 arrives ... why? Because yesterday Hank and brotha "Fuzzy" (Fuzzy is what I call Bush because everything that comes from his mouth is fuzzy) appeared on the White House lawn yesterday to say they may need to spend it already. You know ... now as of yesterday ... "Citigroup" along with "Citi's" cousin's needed some $$LOVE$$ as well, as you already know.
Also to top it off ... slowly leaking it's way into the masses mind's via media, congressional democrat's already have a stimulus package made up to present to President Obama his first day in office that exceed's his initial proposed package of $175 billion he ran his campaign on as a promise. The plan congressional democrat's have is calling for up to possibly an additional $700 billion in a stimulus package ... yes ... a whole new $700 billion! Hopefully every cent of that new stimulus will go to the peoples and American infrastructure, job creation ... etc. If it dont ... we should raise all Hell nationwide ... including rioting coast to coast and avoid any taxation ... and even spending on anything we dont desperately need to. Buy off the "black market" ... from the individual ... off the street corner or internet or wherever ... plus when you do ... it's all tax free! That's illegal? Prove it! Remember, they need us more than we need them ... that's why moderate income folks will pull through this storm the easiest ... because we know how to improvise and survive ... they obviously dont ... if they did ... they wouldnt need us. Trust me ... I've played the game for so long ... and I win about 90%+ of the time!
I would like to see something go to the American automaker's ... considering they are only asking $25 billion ... and laying out plan's to show as collateral. All these investment bank's showed nothing ... not even an invoice or tax return ... and have received in the hundred's of billion's without answering to anyone ... or even remotely having to be accountable for any of it. And you can bank on it ... that most of their money is in offshore account's, foreign investment, and they have no out of pocket tax expense ... as I wrote earlier ... their existence alone is a "write-off".
It is also said that Obama may hold off on new tax regulation's for a year or two ... focused on that top 5% of America. Because it hurt's business and investment confidence ... WHATEVER! I would hope President Obama would not refrain from imposing new regulatory condition's ... immediately! They had their free ride ... it's someone else's turn now. I am a capitalist ... I am pro-free market 110% ... and believe me ... a little more tax to the top 5% is NOT asking much at all ... and no one will spend a day in the poor house. What would be their incentive? ... simple ... they get to claim the USA as their homebase ... and reap all the reward's of being here ... like our government handout generosity ... our extensive tax write off's and loose law's, the people who are the bread and butter of consumption ... who borrow and spend like there's no tomorrow ... and the full protection of the U.S. military ... so they can walk the street's without fear of a roadside bomb on every corner.
Merry Xmas Hank...c'mon...show us a lil $$LOVE$$! :)
***** "BANK OF HANK" PART ONE HERE
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Friday, November 14, 2008
The "Bank of Hank" (PT.1) ... and the spirit "Oversight Committee" ...
Henry "Hank" Paulson ... U.S.Treasury Secretary and Chairman of the "Bank of Hank" has a basic motto ... which is ... "A sucker is born every minute". Once again our Treasury Guru is changing lanes with no turn signal in heavy traffic. The spirit "Oversight Committee" is not intervening in any of this ... because ... they are obviously in some "spirit" world ... Why do I say this? ... Because no actual oversight committee even exist's! (at least not in our world!) And now we are taking 9" inches instead of 6! Understand ... if you give these folks an inch ... they will take a mile ... that is the nature of the "game" ... if you think otherwise ... your blind and/ or deluded ... and will lose your ass in the real world. Not one "oversight" position has been filled ... and when they asked for the "bailout" ... the rules were that the White House and Congress will have confirmed an oversight committee and have a report to present ... and all by a deadline date ... which has already long passed!Hank ... you've been "made" brother ... and America ... you've been "had".
What the bottom line here is on this"bite" ... is that was the whole "rush" of passing this bailout ... including Hank getting down on his knee and begging Nancy Pelosi (D-Speaker) ... "Please". The bite was moved quickly all orchestrated by Bush/ Cheney because they feared that because of poll's ... the democrat's might control the House and Senate ... and even the Oval Office ... if they didnt move then ... there could be too many obstacles causing delay's with the suspected new democrat power. Now that they have the blank check ... deposited in the "Bank of Hank" ... and managed to slip out of confirming any oversight personel ... they have until January 20,2009 to do everything they can ... to make sure the money is locked "contractually ' to where they want it to go.
Notice in the last 2 week's or so ... now all kind's of companies are asking for a piece of the pie ... even a group proposed to give a piece to credit card holder's who cant pay off their credit card's! And they were quickly denied ... but I agree there ... as far as I'm concerned ... if you cant pay for all the crap you charged ... too bad. I got almost $30K in debt on card's over 20 years ago ... I didnt ask anyone for squat ... and if I did ... as far as I'm concerned ... when I cant carry my own burden ... I might as well put a gun to my head. I have mixed feeling's about helping the big auto maker's ... I want to definitely give them something ... however ... I want them to realize ... if you want to stay in the game of competition ... start making car's that "compete"! ... fuelwise as well as longevity ... the Japanese make us look like rookies from south of the border! My daughter just bought a brand new fully loaded Honda yesterday, it wasnt cheap, but it was the logical best bet for the buck, not Ford, Chevy, or Pontiac! But the auto industry mean's ... job's ... and is a bedrock industry of American capitalism at it's finest. Another damn thing ... what the hell ever happened to just filing plain ole "bankruptcy"? ... Geeeez ... every weakling from coast to coast want's a damn "bailout"!
In other "economic nightmares" ... Delta and Northwest Airlines just merged ... forming the largest airline in the world ... well ... I'm just slap happy excited ... another mega giant to try to monopolize things more! Letting some of these folks fold and fail (especially mega investment banker's/ manipulator's) or at least file bankruptcy ... tighten's the ship! If an airline fold's ... the damn planes dont like disappear ... or the mechanic's vanish, and other personel ... they roll on to another investor! But at least a merger is better than a handout. The G-20 posse which Bush host's this week ... are already talking universal global market regulation's, and their "host"(Bush) is already sideswiping the call ... if you listen to his clever address yesterday ... saying that old school western capitalism regulatory policies is the only way. Well then listen to what the Hell you preach sir ... and let those who are not up to parr to compete ... FAIL! Did he not also tell the people that the new global market is much different and more complex than the old? Well then that tell's you to let your global constituent's be player's in ground rules! Usually on mega airline merger's ... the prices increase to consumer's because ... well ... less competition. This will be interesting though because of the dollar and less travelled skies ... however ... the future actions of OPEC as far as supply decreases might play a role as well. Cincinnati as well as Memphis from this has their Hub status in jeopardy ... but what they are not reporting ... is many others do as well (mid-size American cities) ... trust me. And consumer's already lost the fight to improve airline service ... across the board!
I am more concerned with the small businesses of America ... that Transmission shop in your neighborhood ... the corner print shop ... the countless small businesses which are the bread and butter of the American workforce ... who employ three quarter's of American's. After all ... they dont "export" job's ... and they are our saviour when we get in a bind. It takes about (well in Texas and most states) $25K to start a small business up ... do we realize how many small business start up's a couple hundred billion can create? think about it. What about the million's of personal retirement investment's, municipal bond's, etc? Should not everyone get a piece of the pie in the actual domestic business sector ... after all ... investment banker's are no different than billionaire bookie's ... who employ a bunch of high fashion flunky hustler's.
This is exactly why Obama is staying out of the G-20 hoopla this week. He say's it's because there is only one President at a time ... but I know what is in the back of his mind on this one ... he dont want to "brush" shoulder's ... because he is about to enter with a fist and proposal's that they will basically "hate" ... and they all see him coming as well ... that is why they have been hustling overtime. Rest assured ... Obama has everyone of their number's! He might not be an experienced politician ... but believe me ... he certainly know's the game! And his attitude already silently frighten's all these player's!
While many were voting for him out of desperation ... or based on race/ ethnicity ... or because they just joined with the popular cult ... I was voting for him because I seen and made this guy from day one ... and I kept silent about him, and what I truely made him as ... which is a smart soft spoken campaigner who realizes ... to effect the game of old in any way ... you must enter the arena like this ... for the pop culture image ... and then become a major part of the system/ game, but at heart ... he's a real warrior. You must get inside to actually take any action.
PS: A woman that has a little neighborhood store read this and thought that my view's about credit card user's are a little harsh. My point is ... that many folk's just over charge without no concern for the outcome ... and "buy" thing's they dont even remotely need or even use much. Then whine about ... "they need help ...". For crying out loud ... why in the Hell do folks whine after they splurge or induldge in this manner? When I was 10's of thousand's in debt 20 years ago ... I didnt whine that the "bank's did it to me", I am the one who done it to myself.
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What the bottom line here is on this"bite" ... is that was the whole "rush" of passing this bailout ... including Hank getting down on his knee and begging Nancy Pelosi (D-Speaker) ... "Please". The bite was moved quickly all orchestrated by Bush/ Cheney because they feared that because of poll's ... the democrat's might control the House and Senate ... and even the Oval Office ... if they didnt move then ... there could be too many obstacles causing delay's with the suspected new democrat power. Now that they have the blank check ... deposited in the "Bank of Hank" ... and managed to slip out of confirming any oversight personel ... they have until January 20,2009 to do everything they can ... to make sure the money is locked "contractually ' to where they want it to go.
Notice in the last 2 week's or so ... now all kind's of companies are asking for a piece of the pie ... even a group proposed to give a piece to credit card holder's who cant pay off their credit card's! And they were quickly denied ... but I agree there ... as far as I'm concerned ... if you cant pay for all the crap you charged ... too bad. I got almost $30K in debt on card's over 20 years ago ... I didnt ask anyone for squat ... and if I did ... as far as I'm concerned ... when I cant carry my own burden ... I might as well put a gun to my head. I have mixed feeling's about helping the big auto maker's ... I want to definitely give them something ... however ... I want them to realize ... if you want to stay in the game of competition ... start making car's that "compete"! ... fuelwise as well as longevity ... the Japanese make us look like rookies from south of the border! My daughter just bought a brand new fully loaded Honda yesterday, it wasnt cheap, but it was the logical best bet for the buck, not Ford, Chevy, or Pontiac! But the auto industry mean's ... job's ... and is a bedrock industry of American capitalism at it's finest. Another damn thing ... what the hell ever happened to just filing plain ole "bankruptcy"? ... Geeeez ... every weakling from coast to coast want's a damn "bailout"!
In other "economic nightmares" ... Delta and Northwest Airlines just merged ... forming the largest airline in the world ... well ... I'm just slap happy excited ... another mega giant to try to monopolize things more! Letting some of these folks fold and fail (especially mega investment banker's/ manipulator's) or at least file bankruptcy ... tighten's the ship! If an airline fold's ... the damn planes dont like disappear ... or the mechanic's vanish, and other personel ... they roll on to another investor! But at least a merger is better than a handout. The G-20 posse which Bush host's this week ... are already talking universal global market regulation's, and their "host"(Bush) is already sideswiping the call ... if you listen to his clever address yesterday ... saying that old school western capitalism regulatory policies is the only way. Well then listen to what the Hell you preach sir ... and let those who are not up to parr to compete ... FAIL! Did he not also tell the people that the new global market is much different and more complex than the old? Well then that tell's you to let your global constituent's be player's in ground rules! Usually on mega airline merger's ... the prices increase to consumer's because ... well ... less competition. This will be interesting though because of the dollar and less travelled skies ... however ... the future actions of OPEC as far as supply decreases might play a role as well. Cincinnati as well as Memphis from this has their Hub status in jeopardy ... but what they are not reporting ... is many others do as well (mid-size American cities) ... trust me. And consumer's already lost the fight to improve airline service ... across the board!
I am more concerned with the small businesses of America ... that Transmission shop in your neighborhood ... the corner print shop ... the countless small businesses which are the bread and butter of the American workforce ... who employ three quarter's of American's. After all ... they dont "export" job's ... and they are our saviour when we get in a bind. It takes about (well in Texas and most states) $25K to start a small business up ... do we realize how many small business start up's a couple hundred billion can create? think about it. What about the million's of personal retirement investment's, municipal bond's, etc? Should not everyone get a piece of the pie in the actual domestic business sector ... after all ... investment banker's are no different than billionaire bookie's ... who employ a bunch of high fashion flunky hustler's.
This is exactly why Obama is staying out of the G-20 hoopla this week. He say's it's because there is only one President at a time ... but I know what is in the back of his mind on this one ... he dont want to "brush" shoulder's ... because he is about to enter with a fist and proposal's that they will basically "hate" ... and they all see him coming as well ... that is why they have been hustling overtime. Rest assured ... Obama has everyone of their number's! He might not be an experienced politician ... but believe me ... he certainly know's the game! And his attitude already silently frighten's all these player's!
While many were voting for him out of desperation ... or based on race/ ethnicity ... or because they just joined with the popular cult ... I was voting for him because I seen and made this guy from day one ... and I kept silent about him, and what I truely made him as ... which is a smart soft spoken campaigner who realizes ... to effect the game of old in any way ... you must enter the arena like this ... for the pop culture image ... and then become a major part of the system/ game, but at heart ... he's a real warrior. You must get inside to actually take any action.
PS: A woman that has a little neighborhood store read this and thought that my view's about credit card user's are a little harsh. My point is ... that many folk's just over charge without no concern for the outcome ... and "buy" thing's they dont even remotely need or even use much. Then whine about ... "they need help ...". For crying out loud ... why in the Hell do folks whine after they splurge or induldge in this manner? When I was 10's of thousand's in debt 20 years ago ... I didnt whine that the "bank's did it to me", I am the one who done it to myself.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
We the People...rave and rejoice...while AIG and friend's robb and rape us...
Again...we are getting screwed,blued,and tattooed as I write these word's! The Fed and Corporation's have been actually working overtime...and believe me...they are not wasting any time at all.All the thing's that we feared of this bailout before we approved it...is becoming a reality.And the folks benefiting from it...are getting bolder and bolder...at least they know how to take advantage of a sucker bet when they see it.
We are still in a daze,patting each others asses,shedding tears of joy,celebrating, etc....because we finally have a President other than a white male in the Oval Office. While those who robb us...are ...well...robbing us in overtime...taking advantage of the "moment".Not that we shouldnt be joyful and celebrate...but who's watching the foxes in the hen house,that's been doing us in...and getting all the "hook-up's"? NO ONE! And get this..we are even paying the thug's overtime who are robbing us! This has got to be the biggest scam in American history.
Today the fed announced an additional $27 billion for AIG,after AIG reported another $24 billion loss...and get this...they even threw a few more lavish parties,passing them off as meeting's.First we gave them $85 billion...then another $60 billion,and then today another $27 billion...and the Fed say's that it's because AIG is a "systemically significant institution"...too important to fail.So is a prison system...heh? The Fed even scraped the initial pay-out plan..and are not giving any details to even Congress on what the new plan's are...no transparency whatsoever. And we are no better off today then we were when we were told to rush this bailout through...more lay-off's today...now with DHL..and Circuit City announcing bankruptcy. Hundred's of thousand's of more job's at risk by the end of this year..
yes...in only a month and a half!And with today's announcement..the Fed will "extend" the loan's(corporate welfare)...and get this...even "reduce" their interest on the payback's! What does this mean?..heh,heh,heh..simply this...they win if it work's out...and we get all the risk's if it dont.
What a deal heh?...they report a loss of $24 billion...and get $27 billion for doing so...that is the easiest $3 billion "hook up" I've ever seen! And even the Fed refuses to be held accountable for anything that goes sour.The Fed has dished out $2 trillion in loan's over the last year and a half...and our Congress doesnt even know who got what in the deal's.And the ones dishing out arent talking either...just telling us..."dont worry...their handling it".Oh...they did announce that they will"limit" "golden parachutes" for the top 70 executives...hmmm..what does that mean..a cheaper hotel..and a happy hour? heh,heh,heh...dont count on it.
Meanwhile...the price of a barrel of oil went up today almost a buck and a half..but OPEC swear's that if the price doesnt go up any more..and soon...they plan to even further cut production...heh,heh,heh,...their telling us straight up...that they will not let the price go down any further! I have pointed this out several times in previous post's as well..the bottom line is this...none of them give a rat's ass what we think...and how can you blame them for screwing us? We have bent over with a smile...and shown we are full of fear if we dont do what they tell us. America! It is time we robb them! Boycott them...scam them...and bite back before they bite us...in any way you can...they deserve everything they get.And while we take back.. we should feel heroic for doing so! Hammer these bastard's hard and relentlessly,and most importantly...enjoy every minute of it...heh,heh,heh. And believe me...we will
....in time.
In other part's of the globe...China just announced a huge multi hundred billion stimulus package for it's country...and guess what? It's going to go for infrastructure for it's people,school's,hospital's,mass transit,job creation..etc...etc..isnt that something? A communist government doing more for the people's then our own government would for us with our own damn money...and what China is doing will also benefit the globe...and especially America...financially...especially our export's this time.They are and will do more for us...then our own failed investment institutions will do for us...in our own damn country...and we are paying these bastard's way on top of it.That's the reality!
We are still in a daze,patting each others asses,shedding tears of joy,celebrating, etc....because we finally have a President other than a white male in the Oval Office. While those who robb us...are ...well...robbing us in overtime...taking advantage of the "moment".Not that we shouldnt be joyful and celebrate...but who's watching the foxes in the hen house,that's been doing us in...and getting all the "hook-up's"? NO ONE! And get this..we are even paying the thug's overtime who are robbing us! This has got to be the biggest scam in American history.
Today the fed announced an additional $27 billion for AIG,after AIG reported another $24 billion loss...and get this...they even threw a few more lavish parties,passing them off as meeting's.First we gave them $85 billion...then another $60 billion,and then today another $27 billion...and the Fed say's that it's because AIG is a "systemically significant institution"...too important to fail.So is a prison system...heh? The Fed even scraped the initial pay-out plan..and are not giving any details to even Congress on what the new plan's are...no transparency whatsoever. And we are no better off today then we were when we were told to rush this bailout through...more lay-off's today...now with DHL..and Circuit City announcing bankruptcy. Hundred's of thousand's of more job's at risk by the end of this year..
yes...in only a month and a half!And with today's announcement..the Fed will "extend" the loan's(corporate welfare)...and get this...even "reduce" their interest on the payback's! What does this mean?..heh,heh,heh..simply this...they win if it work's out...and we get all the risk's if it dont.
What a deal heh?...they report a loss of $24 billion...and get $27 billion for doing so...that is the easiest $3 billion "hook up" I've ever seen! And even the Fed refuses to be held accountable for anything that goes sour.The Fed has dished out $2 trillion in loan's over the last year and a half...and our Congress doesnt even know who got what in the deal's.And the ones dishing out arent talking either...just telling us..."dont worry...their handling it".Oh...they did announce that they will"limit" "golden parachutes" for the top 70 executives...hmmm..what does that mean..a cheaper hotel..and a happy hour? heh,heh,heh...dont count on it.
Meanwhile...the price of a barrel of oil went up today almost a buck and a half..but OPEC swear's that if the price doesnt go up any more..and soon...they plan to even further cut production...heh,heh,heh,...their telling us straight up...that they will not let the price go down any further! I have pointed this out several times in previous post's as well..the bottom line is this...none of them give a rat's ass what we think...and how can you blame them for screwing us? We have bent over with a smile...and shown we are full of fear if we dont do what they tell us. America! It is time we robb them! Boycott them...scam them...and bite back before they bite us...in any way you can...they deserve everything they get.And while we take back.. we should feel heroic for doing so! Hammer these bastard's hard and relentlessly,and most importantly...enjoy every minute of it...heh,heh,heh. And believe me...we will
....in time.
In other part's of the globe...China just announced a huge multi hundred billion stimulus package for it's country...and guess what? It's going to go for infrastructure for it's people,school's,hospital's,mass transit,job creation..etc...etc..isnt that something? A communist government doing more for the people's then our own government would for us with our own damn money...and what China is doing will also benefit the globe...and especially America...financially...especially our export's this time.They are and will do more for us...then our own failed investment institutions will do for us...in our own damn country...and we are paying these bastard's way on top of it.That's the reality!
Friday, November 7, 2008
"Mother Murder"...Dena Schlosser PT.1: ... about to walk free in Texas...
A Dallas area State District Court today ruled that Dena Schlosser of Plano (North Dallas suburbia) can be released from her hospital rehab incarceration next month. Judge Chris Oldner of the 219th State District Court ruled for Schlosser to be released next month for "outpatient" treatment, and for a plan to be completed by December 05, 2008.
In November 2004 Mrs. Schlosser grabbed her 10 month old daughter ... took a kitchen knife and severed her daughters arm's,which in the process ... her daughter bled to death. After her task ... she called 911 ... and reported what she had done ... and waited calmly for authorities to arrive ... put up no resistance ... and explained what she had done. I can only assume that the process was not as easy as cutting off the leg's of a cold dead turkey either ... especially with a kitchen knife. Authorities who arrived at the scene reported she was very calm at the time.
In April 2006 Justice Oldner found Schlosser "not guilty" by reason of insanity at her now 2nd trial ... Schlosser's first trial ended in a "hung jury". In 2007 her husband John divorced her and left with their 2 daughters to move to Weatherford (a small neighbouring Metroplex community)
Schlosser was committed to a North Texas State Hospital in Vernon (SE of Dallas) where she shared a room with another mom named Andrea Yates who a few years prior to this case ... drowned 5 of her children in a row in Houston ... she was also found "not guilty" by reason of insanity. Schlosser was transfered to another Hospital shortly after with minimal security ... Rusk State Hospital (Vernon is maximum security). The entire time Schlosser has done nothing but bitch, moan, and bellyache about her conditions in writing to the Judge since day one. She also wrote the Judge stating she wanted another trial because of medical record's mistakes that were made at her trial that were already corrected. Her first written letter to the Judge came only 7 month's after her incarceration ... asking to be released ... that she thought she has been rehabilitated. And her attorney say's that she has made progress. Um,um,um ... imagine that! Now Judge Oldner say's she can be released ... but she must find a suitable residence near the Rusk facility ... she can have no unsupervised contact with children ... and she must continue to remain on birth control.
I must be insane myself ... because ... like the Andrea Yates case ... I cannot see the punishment here. There has also been a couple other cases in recent years in Texas where the mothers killed the children ... and not one has done a day in a prison. All the cases that I recall..it was voices that told the mother's to do so ... and the voices were identified as being from god.Schlosser was no exception ... for she also received messages from the Almighty.
Why are not any of these individual's doing prison time? The death penalty in Texas only applies to murder #1 cases that have an additional felony ... such as aggravated robbery, rape or such along with the initial murder charge, even though personally speaking ... I think the death penalty should also apply to any of these cases as well. At least let these offender's do some actual prison time ... like ... you know ... "life" ... where they can even get paroled after good behaviour after 15 years or so ... for Petes sake ... what kind of messsage are we sending with these so called ..."not guilty by reason of insanity" verdict's? They say... it's either voices from god or stress or what have you. Well ... then call god in as a material witness in these cases ... if god doesnt show up ... oh well! Stress? Uhhhh ... why do these folks get pregnant annually? Did they ever hear of birth control? They cant help it ... their insane? Knock it off ... this isnt a damn "Dr. Phil" episode! All the personal letters that Schlosser wrote to the Judge ... with legal details of what actions to take? I mean ... is she insane ... or a criminal law major?
I dont find their thinking to be "insane" at all ... I think some of our thinking is irrational actually. I dont even think the most liberated counties in the USA such as San Francisco County or even Multnomah County(Portland,Or) could swallow this nonsense! I sure as Hell dont!
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In November 2004 Mrs. Schlosser grabbed her 10 month old daughter ... took a kitchen knife and severed her daughters arm's,which in the process ... her daughter bled to death. After her task ... she called 911 ... and reported what she had done ... and waited calmly for authorities to arrive ... put up no resistance ... and explained what she had done. I can only assume that the process was not as easy as cutting off the leg's of a cold dead turkey either ... especially with a kitchen knife. Authorities who arrived at the scene reported she was very calm at the time.
In April 2006 Justice Oldner found Schlosser "not guilty" by reason of insanity at her now 2nd trial ... Schlosser's first trial ended in a "hung jury". In 2007 her husband John divorced her and left with their 2 daughters to move to Weatherford (a small neighbouring Metroplex community)
Schlosser was committed to a North Texas State Hospital in Vernon (SE of Dallas) where she shared a room with another mom named Andrea Yates who a few years prior to this case ... drowned 5 of her children in a row in Houston ... she was also found "not guilty" by reason of insanity. Schlosser was transfered to another Hospital shortly after with minimal security ... Rusk State Hospital (Vernon is maximum security). The entire time Schlosser has done nothing but bitch, moan, and bellyache about her conditions in writing to the Judge since day one. She also wrote the Judge stating she wanted another trial because of medical record's mistakes that were made at her trial that were already corrected. Her first written letter to the Judge came only 7 month's after her incarceration ... asking to be released ... that she thought she has been rehabilitated. And her attorney say's that she has made progress. Um,um,um ... imagine that! Now Judge Oldner say's she can be released ... but she must find a suitable residence near the Rusk facility ... she can have no unsupervised contact with children ... and she must continue to remain on birth control.
I must be insane myself ... because ... like the Andrea Yates case ... I cannot see the punishment here. There has also been a couple other cases in recent years in Texas where the mothers killed the children ... and not one has done a day in a prison. All the cases that I recall..it was voices that told the mother's to do so ... and the voices were identified as being from god.Schlosser was no exception ... for she also received messages from the Almighty.
Why are not any of these individual's doing prison time? The death penalty in Texas only applies to murder #1 cases that have an additional felony ... such as aggravated robbery, rape or such along with the initial murder charge, even though personally speaking ... I think the death penalty should also apply to any of these cases as well. At least let these offender's do some actual prison time ... like ... you know ... "life" ... where they can even get paroled after good behaviour after 15 years or so ... for Petes sake ... what kind of messsage are we sending with these so called ..."not guilty by reason of insanity" verdict's? They say... it's either voices from god or stress or what have you. Well ... then call god in as a material witness in these cases ... if god doesnt show up ... oh well! Stress? Uhhhh ... why do these folks get pregnant annually? Did they ever hear of birth control? They cant help it ... their insane? Knock it off ... this isnt a damn "Dr. Phil" episode! All the personal letters that Schlosser wrote to the Judge ... with legal details of what actions to take? I mean ... is she insane ... or a criminal law major?
I dont find their thinking to be "insane" at all ... I think some of our thinking is irrational actually. I dont even think the most liberated counties in the USA such as San Francisco County or even Multnomah County(Portland,Or) could swallow this nonsense! I sure as Hell dont!
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Monday, November 3, 2008
"America...and our right and nature to defend ourselves"...
One of the local topic's that brought this to my attention...was over the last couple week's in Texas,gun sales were at an all time high.Why?..Because there are many rumor's floating around the Texas community that there is a good chance that Obama may be the next President..and if so...he has plan's to be stricter on gun right's,and possibly add extra taxes on ammunition..so ammo sales are going through the roof in Texas also.Whether these rumor's have any truth to them..I dont know. Even though I am an NRA supporter..I know damn well even if government tried to disarm American's...especially Texan's...it would be like trying to control drug traffic..hopeless.Folk's will defend themselves no matter what...some wont..and wait to get shot..then call authorities(if they live)...but myself..no way Jose!
Washington,DC just earlier this year...overturned a DC gun ban..so that folks can at least try to defend themselves without fear of being turned from a victim into a criminal.But also the info I gathered online was that...the restrictions and rules are ridiculous as well...like only being able to have revolver's..and unloaded or some similar crap...uhhhh..what do you do?...uhhhh...tell the thug about to waste you to hold on a sec...while you load? As far as I'm concerned to all those politician's that want us to abide by these rules...or law's...Go screw yourselves.
Nancy Pelosi complained about it..and said it is a mistake...but what many of these politician's dont see...is the neighborhood's that many of us regular folks have to live in..and our reality...hardly anyone in Washington knows a damn thing about the real world..and only talk to us when they want our vote.
In the Pittsburgh(PA) neighborhood of "Crawford Square" for instance yesterday (Pittsburgh is one of my favourite US cities by the way)a 75 year old woman shot an intruder coming up the stairs at her after he broke into her townhome...in his groin,he is in an area hospital...surviving non-threatening injuries from it.She was defending herself...and that's all I need to know..for Petes sake...the lady is alone and 75 years old..what was she supposed to do? The only mistake she made in my opinion...was not shooting the SOB in the head.She used a .38 revolver.
In my neighborhood this last sunday(NW Dallas)night(11/02/08)..11:50pm...2 men knocked on a neighbors door...pull a gun when the neighbor answered..demanded money...what they didnt know was our neighbor had a gun...shot at them killing one of the suspects and the other is on the run..they dont really know yet if the 2nd suspect recieved a slug as well..but did..get away. I tried to look up more details about it online..but this is Dallas..and I got like 85,000 results or so(on home invasion shootings)I said..to hell with it.This is common here in Dallas as far as home invasion style robberies...so we see our fair share of action in this town...usually latino immigrants are the target's of these and many get killed in the process by the intruders.
Why wont gun control work?...because this is America..and law or no law...we have a natural right to defend ourselves..and it's our nature!
Washington,DC just earlier this year...overturned a DC gun ban..so that folks can at least try to defend themselves without fear of being turned from a victim into a criminal.But also the info I gathered online was that...the restrictions and rules are ridiculous as well...like only being able to have revolver's..and unloaded or some similar crap...uhhhh..what do you do?...uhhhh...tell the thug about to waste you to hold on a sec...while you load? As far as I'm concerned to all those politician's that want us to abide by these rules...or law's...Go screw yourselves.
Nancy Pelosi complained about it..and said it is a mistake...but what many of these politician's dont see...is the neighborhood's that many of us regular folks have to live in..and our reality...hardly anyone in Washington knows a damn thing about the real world..and only talk to us when they want our vote.
In the Pittsburgh(PA) neighborhood of "Crawford Square" for instance yesterday (Pittsburgh is one of my favourite US cities by the way)a 75 year old woman shot an intruder coming up the stairs at her after he broke into her townhome...in his groin,he is in an area hospital...surviving non-threatening injuries from it.She was defending herself...and that's all I need to know..for Petes sake...the lady is alone and 75 years old..what was she supposed to do? The only mistake she made in my opinion...was not shooting the SOB in the head.She used a .38 revolver.
In my neighborhood this last sunday(NW Dallas)night(11/02/08)..11:50pm...2 men knocked on a neighbors door...pull a gun when the neighbor answered..demanded money...what they didnt know was our neighbor had a gun...shot at them killing one of the suspects and the other is on the run..they dont really know yet if the 2nd suspect recieved a slug as well..but did..get away. I tried to look up more details about it online..but this is Dallas..and I got like 85,000 results or so(on home invasion shootings)I said..to hell with it.This is common here in Dallas as far as home invasion style robberies...so we see our fair share of action in this town...usually latino immigrants are the target's of these and many get killed in the process by the intruders.
Why wont gun control work?...because this is America..and law or no law...we have a natural right to defend ourselves..and it's our nature!
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Most of our "War's" are strictly......"Business"...not "Freedom"...
We have the finest trained military personel in the world,the best of the best when it comes to our defense hardware as well...we have lost so many of our defenders in a war(Iraq)...that is strictly about business.Let's see how fast our President would respond to freeing a countries people's who have nothing for us to milk them for.Or has a military or government themselves that is very competitive.Then...we alway's go into these war's having our personel tie one hand behind their back's.We train them to do a job...the job is to exterminate the threat...how can one do their job when you over-regulate them? Who in the world do we believe we are fighting in this war? An opposition who think's with "our" value's..a mush headed philosophy? The opposition is doing it's job...should we not?
First of all...I dont believe our place is Iraq...nor our job to tell everyone else around the globe how they should govern...but that's just me. My value's are mine, and are not the value's of many other's around the globe...as long as they dont attack me...I wont attack them...my philosophy is quite simple..and when it does come to war...I actually believe in eliminating the threat..again...simple.A dear friend of mine...who is an immigrant,a muslim,and an Arab..asked me one day.."How do we expect to go into a country..who has been thinking the way they think for centuries...and all of the sudden expect them to be able to embrace the way we think? ....." Why are we so quick to tell other's what is the right way to live? And more importantly...why do we even have one American soldier dying in a place like Iraq?
We would all love to see world peace and hold hand's and sing song's together..and that's nice...but's it not the reality at this point in our evolution..as we evolve we get less violent as a species..as history will show you.What extremeist muslim's may do in 2008ad/ce...isnt much different then what christian's were doing 500 years or so ago...and christian's been around much longer as well. Meaning it takes "time" for cultures to evolve to the next level of existence and mindset.It is human nature and history that people's will "free" themselves when push comes to shove..all... in time. The remedy for oppression?..simply"free will". All people's of the globe are played like a pawn in a game...when we wake up and actually see this and stop believing in the nonsense and stupidity that we are taught to believe since childhood,is also the time that we will achieve peace and balance and freedom,and true independence. One thing our species does not understand yet...is simply.."balance"..we weigh everything...see in term's of good/evil..black/white...
right/wrong. Not even our own modern civilized government understand's this..no matter what our class is or culture...most of the species dont.But will...rest assured...all...in time.
We dont truely know what freedom is...why? Because we have not yet evolved to the point where we know as individual's how to actually take control of our own lives and break the chain's that keep us psychologically slaves of other's.Subconsciously we are actually masochistic...yet not yet realize it. Being masochistic by choice is one thing...being masochistic genetically is another.It's not that we are stupid..we are not...understand ..this took 1000's of years to accomplish.
Peace,liberty/freedom...will actually find it's own way...just like globalization will. Our challenges in the future will be just as challenging and cause some conflict as well...why and when? Because we will come to a point when the human will evolve to the next step..and no longer be a species of just nature..and more of a product of our creation,intelligence and biotechnology...thus...the less advanced of the species...being those like us..will have a type of resentment toward's them ..because we will not understand them..and of coarse this will also cause conflict...with those this time...not just because of cultural/religious differences,but actual biological differences...the species will splinter is what I am saying...in time. After this time...there will be no more reason for war...or even anything that remotely resembles business as we know it today,our existing values or any way that we even live for that matter.Those who think like us...will...well...let's just say be replaced...basically like every several generations are.Our utopia will actually become a reality!
First of all...I dont believe our place is Iraq...nor our job to tell everyone else around the globe how they should govern...but that's just me. My value's are mine, and are not the value's of many other's around the globe...as long as they dont attack me...I wont attack them...my philosophy is quite simple..and when it does come to war...I actually believe in eliminating the threat..again...simple.A dear friend of mine...who is an immigrant,a muslim,and an Arab..asked me one day.."How do we expect to go into a country..who has been thinking the way they think for centuries...and all of the sudden expect them to be able to embrace the way we think? ....." Why are we so quick to tell other's what is the right way to live? And more importantly...why do we even have one American soldier dying in a place like Iraq?
We would all love to see world peace and hold hand's and sing song's together..and that's nice...but's it not the reality at this point in our evolution..as we evolve we get less violent as a species..as history will show you.What extremeist muslim's may do in 2008ad/ce...isnt much different then what christian's were doing 500 years or so ago...and christian's been around much longer as well. Meaning it takes "time" for cultures to evolve to the next level of existence and mindset.It is human nature and history that people's will "free" themselves when push comes to shove..all... in time. The remedy for oppression?..simply"free will". All people's of the globe are played like a pawn in a game...when we wake up and actually see this and stop believing in the nonsense and stupidity that we are taught to believe since childhood,is also the time that we will achieve peace and balance and freedom,and true independence. One thing our species does not understand yet...is simply.."balance"..we weigh everything...see in term's of good/evil..black/white...
right/wrong. Not even our own modern civilized government understand's this..no matter what our class is or culture...most of the species dont.But will...rest assured...all...in time.
We dont truely know what freedom is...why? Because we have not yet evolved to the point where we know as individual's how to actually take control of our own lives and break the chain's that keep us psychologically slaves of other's.Subconsciously we are actually masochistic...yet not yet realize it. Being masochistic by choice is one thing...being masochistic genetically is another.It's not that we are stupid..we are not...understand ..this took 1000's of years to accomplish.
Peace,liberty/freedom...will actually find it's own way...just like globalization will. Our challenges in the future will be just as challenging and cause some conflict as well...why and when? Because we will come to a point when the human will evolve to the next step..and no longer be a species of just nature..and more of a product of our creation,intelligence and biotechnology...thus...the less advanced of the species...being those like us..will have a type of resentment toward's them ..because we will not understand them..and of coarse this will also cause conflict...with those this time...not just because of cultural/religious differences,but actual biological differences...the species will splinter is what I am saying...in time. After this time...there will be no more reason for war...or even anything that remotely resembles business as we know it today,our existing values or any way that we even live for that matter.Those who think like us...will...well...let's just say be replaced...basically like every several generations are.Our utopia will actually become a reality!
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
"SOCIALISM", "REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH" & "The AMERICAN SUCKER"
Many folks wont particularly like how I word this ... but I can only write the reality. The bottom line is ... we the American people/ taxpayers are being used as the biggest suckers in the world. And to show you how confident that some in Washington are about being able to brainwash us ... they are actually coming right out in the open with some of their plan's and clearly showing their ill manipulations.
The GOP thru the McCain campaign have gotten so desperate that they are now using "Fear Card #53" ... and telling us this week (as I pointed out they would do the previous week ... how did I know? because the game that they play is so "old school" that if you just pause and look a moment ... you can see it coming) that if you vote for Obama ... it will be doom and gloom ... that he is an undercover socialist who has been planning with domestic terrorist's how to take over the country ... and rob everyone of money ... and redistribute it to those with none. Unfortunately ... there are some who will buy this ... they simply dont know any better is all. They indirectly threaten people by making them think that if you dont agree with them ... you are un American ... you are a socialist/ communist ... or you side with islamic extremeist's ... you are unpatriotic ... etc, etc. This type of psychological control was actually used many moon's ago in much of the deep south ... to keep black's at the bottom and the communities segregated ... so this is nothing new ... it's just repackaging of old tricks. And anyone who "questions" them ... is also a socialist/ communist.
But what is truely remarkable when I see those supporters at rallies who cheer on what the McCain camp is saying ... is wondering if they are really listening to what the GOP is saying, proposing ... and actually doing? I mean ... we Obama supporters for instance are alway's told that we are in a trance because of the piped piper Obama and his fancy word's ... but really ... look closely at that ... and then ... you determine who is speaking clearly ... and who is just rambling in circles. I mean come now ... they want to tell you Obama will take the peoples money, and socialize with socialist's or communist's ... or terrorist's? What about the Bush Administration? Has he not made unfair trade packages with China ... and supported, wined and dined with the leading member's of the Communist Party of China? Has this Administration also borrowed China money to pay for oil ... from the Arab's? Is he not personal friend's with the Bin Laden family as he has been for years and interacting with their business affairs? Did they not just bring up a proposal ... of 3 pages, to give czar powers to Henry Paulson (Treasury Secretary) to over see $700 billion we give him ... to make thing's "better", which are going to as I said get worse for American workers any way you slice it? Ask yourself this ... who is "redistributing" who's money here? Who has been trying to pass more and more laws that will invade every American's privacy right's as well?
There was other way's to deal with this crisis ... which is not our crisis to begin with ... this is the crisis created by a handful of those who wrote tax laws in their own favour ... and lender's who hired mathematician's to write lending policies that no ordinary person could understand. They didnt do this? Then you are naive ... every person down to the office secretary in this business know's how it's run, and get's briefed on what to do and what"teaser" packages to sell on the phone or online or in person ... everyone knows what the score is here. For 6 years I worked as a "preparations specialist" for a fortune 500 group of 27 insurance companies in their graphic art's/ printing dept. All I did all day long was revise policies, rules, regulations, and was responsible for proofreading them as well before they go to press. The employee's were screwing the company as well ... as the company was screwing the people. Dont think that I dont know the game ... Hell ... I played in the game for long! : ) Not just that game ... but others. I'll just leave it at that. And if you read this and want to ask me questions about it ... dont ... cause I wont answer ANY. (that involve me)
From this "war" ... to the bailout/ rescue ... to all that we give from the kindness of our heart ... their are many in our own system/ government ... and many around the globe that just take American's for a bunch of sucker's. Just like us paying monthly salarie's to former insurgent's to fight with us now ... and change sides (what they call a "surge" ... was nothing more then a damn "pay- off" ... heh, heh, heh, heh, heh : ) is just another package deal that will financially drain us for more ... Hell no ... I wouldnt have paid them nothing ... but a damn bullet in their head ... once you take up arm's against me ... as far as I'm concerned ... I only wish for your defeat. I sure as Hell am not going to pay you money to be my friend ... it's against my nature as a human you can say. If your living high on the hog on Wall St. and dont want to share ... with those who helped create your wealth ... and you all of the sudden fail one day ... I wont give them a dime ... meaning ... NO ... I would not have given a dime to any of these ... even though I know that it is essential to their survival ... and to bail them out is not American ... nor is it fair in any sense of the word.
Even our so called "free trade" isnt even "free" ... if it were ... government wouldnt intervene with those who go over to Mexico or Canada to buy everything from gas to prescription drugs ... Hell if it wasnt for this internet and thing's like E-Bay, we wouldnt even have anything halfway fair as far as trade. If anyone has been leaning toward's "socialism" it has been the current administration and President. And even McCain's health care is more crapolla ... give a $5000 tax break for health care? That's not even enough to pay an annual family package rate for a year. Here ... you want to give "we the people" a tax break? Then to save all the money of the work it involves and hours to give us these so called "tax breaks" ... just let us NOT pay any taxes out of our paychecks or at the stores or on gas or whatever for a few months, then you wont have to collect it ... figure it all out and try to reimburse or redistribute it ... we'll just keep it ... how about that? They sure wont do that ... now will they? All you have here is the same basic BS you get at a store sale ... where you sign up for this or that ... pay this or that ... and get promised to get a mail in rebate ... Hell ... dont rebate us! DONT charge us ... it will save everyone time and money! This is all BS!
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The GOP thru the McCain campaign have gotten so desperate that they are now using "Fear Card #53" ... and telling us this week (as I pointed out they would do the previous week ... how did I know? because the game that they play is so "old school" that if you just pause and look a moment ... you can see it coming) that if you vote for Obama ... it will be doom and gloom ... that he is an undercover socialist who has been planning with domestic terrorist's how to take over the country ... and rob everyone of money ... and redistribute it to those with none. Unfortunately ... there are some who will buy this ... they simply dont know any better is all. They indirectly threaten people by making them think that if you dont agree with them ... you are un American ... you are a socialist/ communist ... or you side with islamic extremeist's ... you are unpatriotic ... etc, etc. This type of psychological control was actually used many moon's ago in much of the deep south ... to keep black's at the bottom and the communities segregated ... so this is nothing new ... it's just repackaging of old tricks. And anyone who "questions" them ... is also a socialist/ communist.
But what is truely remarkable when I see those supporters at rallies who cheer on what the McCain camp is saying ... is wondering if they are really listening to what the GOP is saying, proposing ... and actually doing? I mean ... we Obama supporters for instance are alway's told that we are in a trance because of the piped piper Obama and his fancy word's ... but really ... look closely at that ... and then ... you determine who is speaking clearly ... and who is just rambling in circles. I mean come now ... they want to tell you Obama will take the peoples money, and socialize with socialist's or communist's ... or terrorist's? What about the Bush Administration? Has he not made unfair trade packages with China ... and supported, wined and dined with the leading member's of the Communist Party of China? Has this Administration also borrowed China money to pay for oil ... from the Arab's? Is he not personal friend's with the Bin Laden family as he has been for years and interacting with their business affairs? Did they not just bring up a proposal ... of 3 pages, to give czar powers to Henry Paulson (Treasury Secretary) to over see $700 billion we give him ... to make thing's "better", which are going to as I said get worse for American workers any way you slice it? Ask yourself this ... who is "redistributing" who's money here? Who has been trying to pass more and more laws that will invade every American's privacy right's as well?
There was other way's to deal with this crisis ... which is not our crisis to begin with ... this is the crisis created by a handful of those who wrote tax laws in their own favour ... and lender's who hired mathematician's to write lending policies that no ordinary person could understand. They didnt do this? Then you are naive ... every person down to the office secretary in this business know's how it's run, and get's briefed on what to do and what"teaser" packages to sell on the phone or online or in person ... everyone knows what the score is here. For 6 years I worked as a "preparations specialist" for a fortune 500 group of 27 insurance companies in their graphic art's/ printing dept. All I did all day long was revise policies, rules, regulations, and was responsible for proofreading them as well before they go to press. The employee's were screwing the company as well ... as the company was screwing the people. Dont think that I dont know the game ... Hell ... I played in the game for long! : ) Not just that game ... but others. I'll just leave it at that. And if you read this and want to ask me questions about it ... dont ... cause I wont answer ANY. (that involve me)
From this "war" ... to the bailout/ rescue ... to all that we give from the kindness of our heart ... their are many in our own system/ government ... and many around the globe that just take American's for a bunch of sucker's. Just like us paying monthly salarie's to former insurgent's to fight with us now ... and change sides (what they call a "surge" ... was nothing more then a damn "pay- off" ... heh, heh, heh, heh, heh : ) is just another package deal that will financially drain us for more ... Hell no ... I wouldnt have paid them nothing ... but a damn bullet in their head ... once you take up arm's against me ... as far as I'm concerned ... I only wish for your defeat. I sure as Hell am not going to pay you money to be my friend ... it's against my nature as a human you can say. If your living high on the hog on Wall St. and dont want to share ... with those who helped create your wealth ... and you all of the sudden fail one day ... I wont give them a dime ... meaning ... NO ... I would not have given a dime to any of these ... even though I know that it is essential to their survival ... and to bail them out is not American ... nor is it fair in any sense of the word.
Even our so called "free trade" isnt even "free" ... if it were ... government wouldnt intervene with those who go over to Mexico or Canada to buy everything from gas to prescription drugs ... Hell if it wasnt for this internet and thing's like E-Bay, we wouldnt even have anything halfway fair as far as trade. If anyone has been leaning toward's "socialism" it has been the current administration and President. And even McCain's health care is more crapolla ... give a $5000 tax break for health care? That's not even enough to pay an annual family package rate for a year. Here ... you want to give "we the people" a tax break? Then to save all the money of the work it involves and hours to give us these so called "tax breaks" ... just let us NOT pay any taxes out of our paychecks or at the stores or on gas or whatever for a few months, then you wont have to collect it ... figure it all out and try to reimburse or redistribute it ... we'll just keep it ... how about that? They sure wont do that ... now will they? All you have here is the same basic BS you get at a store sale ... where you sign up for this or that ... pay this or that ... and get promised to get a mail in rebate ... Hell ... dont rebate us! DONT charge us ... it will save everyone time and money! This is all BS!
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Sunday, October 19, 2008
"Sealed with a kiss"..."America ... get out !!"....
Thousand's of Iraqi peoples flocked to the streets of Baghdad yesterday, many chanting even in english ..."America...get out!!". Although I pointed out in my earliest postings that this would come..and those who know me on a personal level ... remember me telling them this as far back as a few years ago ... and our waste of time, money, lives, etc ... I didnt expect it to come this quick ... but ... things move quicker these days ... thank goodness!
As far as I'm concerned ... GREAT! ... let's get the hell out of there! As an American ... I am sick and tired of going through this crap over and over and over, I have family and friend's that had to fight in these pointless wars. We freed the people from the evil clenches of Saddam ... right? We done everything that we said we would ... even gave them billions in "cash" handouts that would probably equivalent the handouts we give to those on Wall St. Handouts that our own people couldnt even get in our own country of our own damn money ... screw all these bastards in Washington ... Iraq ... Iran ... and all of the places ... including the reserves of oil there...if they dont want to sell to us ... fine ... I'm sure plenty of others will pump and drill for our dollars!
We have such a hypocritical government ... who are basically becoming tyrannical, and feeding us this crap ... and those people's crap about this all being to "free" them. Our government dont give a flying crap about humanity ... except for what they can milk it for ... if they did ... people like Bush wouldnt wine and dine with folks that eat fetuses as a delicacy (China's elite). The Iraqi people are "waking up" to the reality ... and they are wanting to be heard ... and I couldnt agree with them more. Because it isnt the "people" that are at fault in any cases ... it's those who lead us and lead them. After this so called bailout/ rescue ... you can see how concerned they are about us who hire them as well ... just look at the picture ... they dont even try to hide it ... they just look straight at us and tell us were stupid. And we are ... to let this crap continue.We even got sold out to a damn communist dictatorship ... who we will owe for years to come.
First of all ... that is Iraq! ... not America ... we cannot be immuned from Iraqi Law! Just like in our country ... we have laws too. Besides ... as I am writing this ... the reason why "terror" or "bombing's" have slacked up there ... is only because we pay those who fight us there ... money ... to fight with us.When we stop paying them, what do you think they will do? They are laying low as I write this ... to see the outcome, of our election ... the terror groups are currently plotting to sabotage oil lines/ refineries ... not just in Iraq, but worldwide. They are also plotting to hit nuclear facilities wherever they are able ... that was actually their initial plans for the 9/ 11 events ... they won ... but also lost in the attack on the World Trade Center ... how did they "lose"? ... their intentions were to kill far more then 3000 people ... they screwed up on their timing ... if they waited a little longer ... they could have got in the 10's of 1000's of casualties ... and they know it!
And Iran ... is someone we will need to negotiate with sooner or later ... why? ... because they are not the Iran of 20 years ago ... they are now very powerful ... and if we muscle our influence around too much ... their next idea is to take out Saudi oil production ... with bombs ... and Iraq too ... and we will have a war so much bigger on our hands ... than we have now ... that we will have no option but to use nukes and start an all out world war. So even Obama's proposal to sit down with Iran ... with no pre-conditions is the "right" thing to do. It's never been done like that? ... heh, heh, heh ... well there's a first time for everything now ... isnt there? I am a man who looks to resolve problems ... not bank on tradition! We need to stay out of these people's business in many of these countries ... and when we do ... we will have far less threats of terror.
America ... get out!! (besides ... we need our money and troops to defend ... America)
PS: Another point ... since oil companies need to protect their drilling in Iraq, let them pay for their own security ... not with our tax dollars ... we actually pay for all the contract security as well (rent-a-mercenaries) ... they can afford it ... eh? I'd make them a deal ... heh,heh,heh ... pay for you all's own security ... and we will let you all write it off on your taxes ... eh? : )
As far as I'm concerned ... GREAT! ... let's get the hell out of there! As an American ... I am sick and tired of going through this crap over and over and over, I have family and friend's that had to fight in these pointless wars. We freed the people from the evil clenches of Saddam ... right? We done everything that we said we would ... even gave them billions in "cash" handouts that would probably equivalent the handouts we give to those on Wall St. Handouts that our own people couldnt even get in our own country of our own damn money ... screw all these bastards in Washington ... Iraq ... Iran ... and all of the places ... including the reserves of oil there...if they dont want to sell to us ... fine ... I'm sure plenty of others will pump and drill for our dollars!
We have such a hypocritical government ... who are basically becoming tyrannical, and feeding us this crap ... and those people's crap about this all being to "free" them. Our government dont give a flying crap about humanity ... except for what they can milk it for ... if they did ... people like Bush wouldnt wine and dine with folks that eat fetuses as a delicacy (China's elite). The Iraqi people are "waking up" to the reality ... and they are wanting to be heard ... and I couldnt agree with them more. Because it isnt the "people" that are at fault in any cases ... it's those who lead us and lead them. After this so called bailout/ rescue ... you can see how concerned they are about us who hire them as well ... just look at the picture ... they dont even try to hide it ... they just look straight at us and tell us were stupid. And we are ... to let this crap continue.We even got sold out to a damn communist dictatorship ... who we will owe for years to come.
First of all ... that is Iraq! ... not America ... we cannot be immuned from Iraqi Law! Just like in our country ... we have laws too. Besides ... as I am writing this ... the reason why "terror" or "bombing's" have slacked up there ... is only because we pay those who fight us there ... money ... to fight with us.When we stop paying them, what do you think they will do? They are laying low as I write this ... to see the outcome, of our election ... the terror groups are currently plotting to sabotage oil lines/ refineries ... not just in Iraq, but worldwide. They are also plotting to hit nuclear facilities wherever they are able ... that was actually their initial plans for the 9/ 11 events ... they won ... but also lost in the attack on the World Trade Center ... how did they "lose"? ... their intentions were to kill far more then 3000 people ... they screwed up on their timing ... if they waited a little longer ... they could have got in the 10's of 1000's of casualties ... and they know it!
And Iran ... is someone we will need to negotiate with sooner or later ... why? ... because they are not the Iran of 20 years ago ... they are now very powerful ... and if we muscle our influence around too much ... their next idea is to take out Saudi oil production ... with bombs ... and Iraq too ... and we will have a war so much bigger on our hands ... than we have now ... that we will have no option but to use nukes and start an all out world war. So even Obama's proposal to sit down with Iran ... with no pre-conditions is the "right" thing to do. It's never been done like that? ... heh, heh, heh ... well there's a first time for everything now ... isnt there? I am a man who looks to resolve problems ... not bank on tradition! We need to stay out of these people's business in many of these countries ... and when we do ... we will have far less threats of terror.
America ... get out!! (besides ... we need our money and troops to defend ... America)
PS: Another point ... since oil companies need to protect their drilling in Iraq, let them pay for their own security ... not with our tax dollars ... we actually pay for all the contract security as well (rent-a-mercenaries) ... they can afford it ... eh? I'd make them a deal ... heh,heh,heh ... pay for you all's own security ... and we will let you all write it off on your taxes ... eh? : )
Saturday, October 18, 2008
When will our Representative's...actually represent those who hired them?...
There is something very wrong in America when those we hire simply do not do their job.Any of us would be fired in a heartbeat..with NO severance pay even...if we performed the same way on a job.
What bring's me to ask this...is many event's...but one of the most disturbing is this company "AIG"...not only after this bailout did they throw a lavish party at a resort that cost several hundred thousand's of dollar's...but they also sent their upper crust on a hunting trip that cost over $90,000. Many of the so called "elite" of Wall St. are....as usual...throwing parties at the usual hang out's they frequent,drinking the best of the best...and smoking the finest import Cuban cigar's money can buy.And believe me...there is so much more going on that we dont even see.
Do we even realize...that any American citizen who would seek help from our government's social services...whether it's in the form of food stamp's or any other help/services...they would be monitored like a criminal offender on probation/parole? No...this is the truth...any time you ask government for assistance you will have a schlew of forms to fill out..and have to report,check in or whatever...to update them on everything you have earned...even if it was just a few dollar's...it is itemized. I personally have never taken ANY assistance from the government...but I knew so many that did..that's how I know this first hand.Is any of our representation monitoring anything that these folks are doing that we just allowed to use billions upon billions of our tax dollar's?
You would figure that these folks would be somewhat...a little grateful for all we done for them...at least show a little concern...or respect...or something.And if it wasnt for our media...exposing this...yes...on camera..we wouldnt even know what the hell they are doing.And NO..this is not the left media trying to stir up trouble...these folks are actually doing this!
And the relentless...WHINING...that has been coming out of big business..complaining that Obama's tax plan's want's to penalize them and take their hard earned wealth..and spread it around to everyone..and trying to label him as a evil socialist of some sort.That is NOT what Senator Obama is proposing at all.First of all...they dont even come clean with how much tax they pay. Do we realize that the tax law's written are in THEIR favour? The average working Joe Plumber/Joe Sixpack or the other stupid names they pawn off on us (cause Joe the Plumber's name isnt even Joe...it's Sam..and he dont even have a plumber's liscense) does not have the item's or enough to write off to even get a free tax ride as these folks do. With any decent accountant...you wont loose any money to taxes...and they know it! I do my own taxes every year,as well as a couple buddies,from time to time.
We are "bailing out"...oh...forgive me..it's called a "rescue" I believe this week, folks who actually go to a convention...fly first class..eat at the best restaraunte's...sleep in the best hotel's...go get a massage..that includes everything from oral sex...to getting tied up and whipped to an orgasm...and get this, it's all a tax write off! If you think I am lying...you are very out of touch with reality. These so called massages or physical therapy treatment's are in many cases sex services..that go under some made up name like "XYZ enterprises" or such,the gal's even carry hand held credit card scanners..when going to their appointments to service the clients. It's simply wrote off as a business expense..and no one ask's,what exactly does XYZ do?
For Pete's sake...hopefully the new administration will look into these thing's a little closer and expose some of this...I have no problem with folks doing these thing's at all...so that isnt the issue here...the issue is..the tax revenue's and what they go to.While we are all worried with the handful of fear card's they deal us to worry about...behind closed doors...these wimpering slithering worms are giving us the shaft! And until we take action...they WILL continue to do so...Why? Because they look at us as STUPID...Geez...wake up America!
What bring's me to ask this...is many event's...but one of the most disturbing is this company "AIG"...not only after this bailout did they throw a lavish party at a resort that cost several hundred thousand's of dollar's...but they also sent their upper crust on a hunting trip that cost over $90,000. Many of the so called "elite" of Wall St. are....as usual...throwing parties at the usual hang out's they frequent,drinking the best of the best...and smoking the finest import Cuban cigar's money can buy.And believe me...there is so much more going on that we dont even see.
Do we even realize...that any American citizen who would seek help from our government's social services...whether it's in the form of food stamp's or any other help/services...they would be monitored like a criminal offender on probation/parole? No...this is the truth...any time you ask government for assistance you will have a schlew of forms to fill out..and have to report,check in or whatever...to update them on everything you have earned...even if it was just a few dollar's...it is itemized. I personally have never taken ANY assistance from the government...but I knew so many that did..that's how I know this first hand.Is any of our representation monitoring anything that these folks are doing that we just allowed to use billions upon billions of our tax dollar's?
You would figure that these folks would be somewhat...a little grateful for all we done for them...at least show a little concern...or respect...or something.And if it wasnt for our media...exposing this...yes...on camera..we wouldnt even know what the hell they are doing.And NO..this is not the left media trying to stir up trouble...these folks are actually doing this!
And the relentless...WHINING...that has been coming out of big business..complaining that Obama's tax plan's want's to penalize them and take their hard earned wealth..and spread it around to everyone..and trying to label him as a evil socialist of some sort.That is NOT what Senator Obama is proposing at all.First of all...they dont even come clean with how much tax they pay. Do we realize that the tax law's written are in THEIR favour? The average working Joe Plumber/Joe Sixpack or the other stupid names they pawn off on us (cause Joe the Plumber's name isnt even Joe...it's Sam..and he dont even have a plumber's liscense) does not have the item's or enough to write off to even get a free tax ride as these folks do. With any decent accountant...you wont loose any money to taxes...and they know it! I do my own taxes every year,as well as a couple buddies,from time to time.
We are "bailing out"...oh...forgive me..it's called a "rescue" I believe this week, folks who actually go to a convention...fly first class..eat at the best restaraunte's...sleep in the best hotel's...go get a massage..that includes everything from oral sex...to getting tied up and whipped to an orgasm...and get this, it's all a tax write off! If you think I am lying...you are very out of touch with reality. These so called massages or physical therapy treatment's are in many cases sex services..that go under some made up name like "XYZ enterprises" or such,the gal's even carry hand held credit card scanners..when going to their appointments to service the clients. It's simply wrote off as a business expense..and no one ask's,what exactly does XYZ do?
For Pete's sake...hopefully the new administration will look into these thing's a little closer and expose some of this...I have no problem with folks doing these thing's at all...so that isnt the issue here...the issue is..the tax revenue's and what they go to.While we are all worried with the handful of fear card's they deal us to worry about...behind closed doors...these wimpering slithering worms are giving us the shaft! And until we take action...they WILL continue to do so...Why? Because they look at us as STUPID...Geez...wake up America!
Sunday, October 12, 2008
"The Price of Vice"... Drug's, Gambling, and Prostitution ....
This has been a topic on just about everyone's head at one time or another ... whether it has hit us at home ... in the news, community, etc. Sen. Obama has even proposed the decriminalization of marijuana for instance ... but NOT "legalization". As a result ... he has been labeled the most left candidate ever. Well ... if this is called "left" ... let me then use a little "common sense" here and even go a step "lefter", I guess. Why? Because over time in America ... this will eventually take form in some way.
Whether we realize it or not ... we pay quite a hefty price for others vice's ... even if we dont engage with act's of prostitution, or use drug's, or even play a damn lottery, not to mention ... real gambling. Even "bingo" is a form of gambling, and betting on horses racing, dog's or even rat's. We are up in arm's over our economy, ranting and raving on how "our" government spend's. Yet we dont even look at what we are spending as a people ... and will continue to. If we just simply used what we are born with ... which is called "common sense", we could be far better off financially as a whole then we have even been in our "glory economic times" ... because simple answers that dont need a "Havard" degree to analyze for a year and debate about are right in front of us ... but our "stubborness" and our need to impose our "value's" on all humanity and citizenry ... we wont even pause for a moment and look at reality.
But the "legalization" of these vices would actually save us a bundle ... and give us money to actually help families, children, communities, and try to regain an actual surplus. Just drug's alone would be enormous. Now the drug dealer's/cartel's would actually be the first in line to oppose this ... they sure as Hell dont want drug's to be legal. The legal system ... from law enforcement, to the petty cases court's to the attorney's that know how to do nothing other then enter "no contest" plea's for their client's in these petty drug cases ... would hate it as well ... cause they all make a fortune off drug's being "illegal". The prison system would not like it either ... why? Because prison's get so much per prisoner in tax revenue to keep the prison's going, especially the privatized prison industry where most of these go in alot of states. In Texas for instance ... by incarcerating petty cocaine cases ... you can get tens of thousands per year per offender ... have the offenders do all their own work from agriculture/ farming ... making clothes/ uniforms ... to even general maintenance of the facilities ... and basically not spend much of anything on them ... allowing those who run these institutions get abundant salaries, bonuses, and rathole and divert millions of these dollars into other channels. Keeping drug's illegal makes billion's for many ... except for those who pay the taxes to keep all this insanity going ... which are "we the people". You take poor people, working class people ... you imprison them as "criminal's ... because they hadnt enough money to afford defense ... giving them state appointed attorney's who are more deadlier to their client's than even some of the prosecutor's ... and make million's off their incarceration.
The money just off legalization of drug's that we the peoples would have to use for real important goal's would be incredible. Consider how much we actually spend on this war on drug's in law enforcement. Consider how much we spend for the court's and incarceration ... consider how many unaccounted billion's annually go to countries like Mexico, Columbia,and especially Afghanistan ... despite all our presense even in Afghanistan ... the opium trade there is just booming! Well ... heh, heh, heh, heh, heh {: ) ... at least some folks arent feeling the pressures of Wall St., or the failed banking institutions worldwide ... eh? Were suffering ... their living high on the hog!
Full legalization of prostitution and gambling ... the same thing ... pimp's wouldnt like it ... Vegas and world gambling resort's wouldnt like it ... why? Because our money would actually go to us ... instead of them! They love for us to stick with our traditional value's ... because we keep them all "rich" by doing so. Change, liberation, and decriminalization would basically put them all out of business. It would increase crime and these vices? Actually it would drastically reduce crime, vices, and addiction, and these lying pieces of shit know it ... remember ... "The forbidden fruit's are the sweetest". Just for a moment ... think out of the box ... use common sense ... look at the picture ... do the mathwork ... and see what you come up with ... and most importantly ... use actual reason and fact. People especially children dont look at doper's, alcoholic's, and other's with strong addiction's ... and say .... "Wow ... I want to be just like them" ... It's simply not natural. And anything that anyone could ever want as a vice is already very available ... and will continue to be as long as we have a system that fully operates on money. You wont change human nature.
Just imagine instead of trying to combat the underworld and their rackets ... and not knowing which community these things pop up in next ... we would actually have control of where these addict's and businesses are ... we could regulate them ... and make a small fortune in tax revenue's at the same time.
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Whether we realize it or not ... we pay quite a hefty price for others vice's ... even if we dont engage with act's of prostitution, or use drug's, or even play a damn lottery, not to mention ... real gambling. Even "bingo" is a form of gambling, and betting on horses racing, dog's or even rat's. We are up in arm's over our economy, ranting and raving on how "our" government spend's. Yet we dont even look at what we are spending as a people ... and will continue to. If we just simply used what we are born with ... which is called "common sense", we could be far better off financially as a whole then we have even been in our "glory economic times" ... because simple answers that dont need a "Havard" degree to analyze for a year and debate about are right in front of us ... but our "stubborness" and our need to impose our "value's" on all humanity and citizenry ... we wont even pause for a moment and look at reality.
But the "legalization" of these vices would actually save us a bundle ... and give us money to actually help families, children, communities, and try to regain an actual surplus. Just drug's alone would be enormous. Now the drug dealer's/cartel's would actually be the first in line to oppose this ... they sure as Hell dont want drug's to be legal. The legal system ... from law enforcement, to the petty cases court's to the attorney's that know how to do nothing other then enter "no contest" plea's for their client's in these petty drug cases ... would hate it as well ... cause they all make a fortune off drug's being "illegal". The prison system would not like it either ... why? Because prison's get so much per prisoner in tax revenue to keep the prison's going, especially the privatized prison industry where most of these go in alot of states. In Texas for instance ... by incarcerating petty cocaine cases ... you can get tens of thousands per year per offender ... have the offenders do all their own work from agriculture/ farming ... making clothes/ uniforms ... to even general maintenance of the facilities ... and basically not spend much of anything on them ... allowing those who run these institutions get abundant salaries, bonuses, and rathole and divert millions of these dollars into other channels. Keeping drug's illegal makes billion's for many ... except for those who pay the taxes to keep all this insanity going ... which are "we the people". You take poor people, working class people ... you imprison them as "criminal's ... because they hadnt enough money to afford defense ... giving them state appointed attorney's who are more deadlier to their client's than even some of the prosecutor's ... and make million's off their incarceration.
The money just off legalization of drug's that we the peoples would have to use for real important goal's would be incredible. Consider how much we actually spend on this war on drug's in law enforcement. Consider how much we spend for the court's and incarceration ... consider how many unaccounted billion's annually go to countries like Mexico, Columbia,and especially Afghanistan ... despite all our presense even in Afghanistan ... the opium trade there is just booming! Well ... heh, heh, heh, heh, heh {: ) ... at least some folks arent feeling the pressures of Wall St., or the failed banking institutions worldwide ... eh? Were suffering ... their living high on the hog!
Full legalization of prostitution and gambling ... the same thing ... pimp's wouldnt like it ... Vegas and world gambling resort's wouldnt like it ... why? Because our money would actually go to us ... instead of them! They love for us to stick with our traditional value's ... because we keep them all "rich" by doing so. Change, liberation, and decriminalization would basically put them all out of business. It would increase crime and these vices? Actually it would drastically reduce crime, vices, and addiction, and these lying pieces of shit know it ... remember ... "The forbidden fruit's are the sweetest". Just for a moment ... think out of the box ... use common sense ... look at the picture ... do the mathwork ... and see what you come up with ... and most importantly ... use actual reason and fact. People especially children dont look at doper's, alcoholic's, and other's with strong addiction's ... and say .... "Wow ... I want to be just like them" ... It's simply not natural. And anything that anyone could ever want as a vice is already very available ... and will continue to be as long as we have a system that fully operates on money. You wont change human nature.
Just imagine instead of trying to combat the underworld and their rackets ... and not knowing which community these things pop up in next ... we would actually have control of where these addict's and businesses are ... we could regulate them ... and make a small fortune in tax revenue's at the same time.
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Thursday, October 9, 2008
"Believe nothing you hear..and half of what you see" PART 1 ...it's called "Survival"
As a child...one of the thing's that my dad told me that stood out the most for me over the years .. especially being on my own since the age of 13/ 14 and surviving has been when he told me..."Son .. believe nothing you hear in this world .. and only half of what you see". Remembering this has saved my ass more then once. And the current condition as far as this election .. and this economical crisis ... this is really good advice. Now some may say ... "Where's the crisis?" or that the fundamental's are strong or the other fancy cliche's they have to spout. This is rubbish ... DO NOT BUY IT. These people are so far out of touch with "reality" ... all they see is their little world.
Yes ... the fundamental's of the economic machine(those who run it)are strong ... like I said ... the big boy's and gal's will never see a day in the "poor house" ... bank on it. So therefore ... there is NO reason to worry about them at all .. let them worry about themselves. We already babysit these vultures with our taxes and finances. The one thing we never look at ... is that they need us ... we DO NOT need them.We are not in a recession? Again ... not technically ... but what do you need to make you realize the impact of this instability before it hit's home? Are you waiting for a "sound bite" to make it official? Like from the "Maverick" or "Wall St." or perhaps "Bush"? Listening to them will clearly show you that they are running around like a chicken decapitated ... the last thing you want to do is be a dog chasing it's own tail behind these weak nitwit's.
The "Maverick" himself is showing extreme desperation as of after this last debate. This shows you right there to "avoid" him ... this guy is flip flopping so fast on everything that the media cant even keep up with all the flip flop's that he's shelling out. They got this poor gal from Alaska(Palin) trying to push it that Obama is really a terrorist even. McCain is using proposal's now of even Sen.Clinton, even proposing things like a new $300 billion bail out now for those who fell behind on their mortgages .. and now some are furious over it because those who have paid without missing a beat will get nothing as far as help .. he is also using former proposal's of his opponent Obama .. the one he say's know's nothing, seen nothing, done nothing, and is nothing ... right there show's you the level of desperation, and show's that the Maverick himself has NOTHING original to even come up with ... and is well ... becoming ... nothing himself ... unless he can really find something that will sell. His tax plan is a failure ... his military strategy for withdrawal from Iraq is a failure ... his new proposal's are also a failure ... and the entire desperate republican party is a "losing" team. Obama is just word's as well .... however ... his word's are more positive as far as direction .. and vesting in the people's interest, his administration would be far better as far as cabinet choices as well. And the bottom line is this..neither one of these guys will be able to fix the mess that is yet to come any time soon ... the "ride" as far as how comfortable it will be ... will be a much smoother ride under Obama .. but still rough, no matter who is in.
My daughter came to me asking if I thought this is the right time to buy a new car, since prices are going down and all kind's of deal's are coming forth. If your paying cash/ trade ... yes. If you are looking to get financed ... NO. Why? Because the desperation will get more stiff before it flatlines .. you want to do it before the markets come back ... but not after they peak on the rebound ... right now ... just sit tight and dont move too fast on anything. 401K's? ... Sit! do not jump. There will be a rebound ... if you need to jump because of financial strains ... do it only if your maybe 60+years old ... if your in your 20's, 30's, 40's ... sit tight ... because when all this flatlines and the comeback starts to come ... your resistance to withdraw will pay off for the "long-term". As far as car's and homes? True ... the prices are low .. and will comeback stronger in about 4 to 5 years ... but also realize that because of the current market and credit crunch .. you must "beware" of any contracts that you are getting into for the long term even more then ever ... they are going to milk you to the max as far as ANY financing of anything is at this time ... I would still sit for a tad and analyze on a daily basis the markets, rates on lending .. and especially for some of this "first" smoke to clear on who actually is stable, and who is not, and who is bailing who first, and especially domestic and foreign financial ties with whom, and their status. Example: This week for instance .. Iceland banks with many UK investors are doing bad .. stay away from affiliates till this ressolves.
Some may think ... that they dont feel good sitting on their 401K .. maybe because the hit many took over the last 2 weeks and the drops/losses ... and that's understandable ... but no#1 importance ... DO NOT panic! If you feel you need to pull out but dont want to rathole it in your mattress or whatever .. probably the safest place to put your money in right now .. believe it or not .. is government bond's, that's probably the maximum protection out there at this moment ... and please ... stay away from Europe ... their shaft is just starting to penetrate .. and they havent even took 6"inches yet ... sit and watch them first before leaning towards them. Alway's remember misery loves company .. and avoid the "company". Also remember that the entire world market will have some kind of reaction after the November elections no matter who wins ... and this "reaction" is up in the air as to which road it will take ... but yes this election in this country alone will actually effect the markets ... providing there isnt one of them cliffhangers of "hanging chads" or other nonsense like in 2000 with Bush and Gore ... lets get a straight victory ... let everyone get it off their chest's and get this on the road!
The flip side to all of this is this ... there is still alot of money/ capital out there in the free market ... some may have less .... but those who have something ... this will open doors for many new investors ... especially small global competition, which will eventually bring the big ones to their knee's of failing or playing the new game, downsizing, dividing into multi companies, and a number of other things to just try to stay in the competition. So the bottom line is ... money is alway's going to be generating one way or another ... it's just by who? As far as China ... heh, heh, heh .. dont worry about them ... we have alot of their money tied up as well ... heh, heh, heh, as long as they have so much vested interest in this nation ... they will have to also "protect" their "interests" ... on every avenue ... heh, heh, heh ... who's got who ... heh? ... if we fail ... you all lose big time ... so lighten up and listen! Dont worry as I said ... greener pastures lie ahead .. it's only a matter of survival ... something we are damn good at by nature!
Yes ... the fundamental's of the economic machine(those who run it)are strong ... like I said ... the big boy's and gal's will never see a day in the "poor house" ... bank on it. So therefore ... there is NO reason to worry about them at all .. let them worry about themselves. We already babysit these vultures with our taxes and finances. The one thing we never look at ... is that they need us ... we DO NOT need them.We are not in a recession? Again ... not technically ... but what do you need to make you realize the impact of this instability before it hit's home? Are you waiting for a "sound bite" to make it official? Like from the "Maverick" or "Wall St." or perhaps "Bush"? Listening to them will clearly show you that they are running around like a chicken decapitated ... the last thing you want to do is be a dog chasing it's own tail behind these weak nitwit's.
The "Maverick" himself is showing extreme desperation as of after this last debate. This shows you right there to "avoid" him ... this guy is flip flopping so fast on everything that the media cant even keep up with all the flip flop's that he's shelling out. They got this poor gal from Alaska(Palin) trying to push it that Obama is really a terrorist even. McCain is using proposal's now of even Sen.Clinton, even proposing things like a new $300 billion bail out now for those who fell behind on their mortgages .. and now some are furious over it because those who have paid without missing a beat will get nothing as far as help .. he is also using former proposal's of his opponent Obama .. the one he say's know's nothing, seen nothing, done nothing, and is nothing ... right there show's you the level of desperation, and show's that the Maverick himself has NOTHING original to even come up with ... and is well ... becoming ... nothing himself ... unless he can really find something that will sell. His tax plan is a failure ... his military strategy for withdrawal from Iraq is a failure ... his new proposal's are also a failure ... and the entire desperate republican party is a "losing" team. Obama is just word's as well .... however ... his word's are more positive as far as direction .. and vesting in the people's interest, his administration would be far better as far as cabinet choices as well. And the bottom line is this..neither one of these guys will be able to fix the mess that is yet to come any time soon ... the "ride" as far as how comfortable it will be ... will be a much smoother ride under Obama .. but still rough, no matter who is in.
My daughter came to me asking if I thought this is the right time to buy a new car, since prices are going down and all kind's of deal's are coming forth. If your paying cash/ trade ... yes. If you are looking to get financed ... NO. Why? Because the desperation will get more stiff before it flatlines .. you want to do it before the markets come back ... but not after they peak on the rebound ... right now ... just sit tight and dont move too fast on anything. 401K's? ... Sit! do not jump. There will be a rebound ... if you need to jump because of financial strains ... do it only if your maybe 60+years old ... if your in your 20's, 30's, 40's ... sit tight ... because when all this flatlines and the comeback starts to come ... your resistance to withdraw will pay off for the "long-term". As far as car's and homes? True ... the prices are low .. and will comeback stronger in about 4 to 5 years ... but also realize that because of the current market and credit crunch .. you must "beware" of any contracts that you are getting into for the long term even more then ever ... they are going to milk you to the max as far as ANY financing of anything is at this time ... I would still sit for a tad and analyze on a daily basis the markets, rates on lending .. and especially for some of this "first" smoke to clear on who actually is stable, and who is not, and who is bailing who first, and especially domestic and foreign financial ties with whom, and their status. Example: This week for instance .. Iceland banks with many UK investors are doing bad .. stay away from affiliates till this ressolves.
Some may think ... that they dont feel good sitting on their 401K .. maybe because the hit many took over the last 2 weeks and the drops/losses ... and that's understandable ... but no#1 importance ... DO NOT panic! If you feel you need to pull out but dont want to rathole it in your mattress or whatever .. probably the safest place to put your money in right now .. believe it or not .. is government bond's, that's probably the maximum protection out there at this moment ... and please ... stay away from Europe ... their shaft is just starting to penetrate .. and they havent even took 6"inches yet ... sit and watch them first before leaning towards them. Alway's remember misery loves company .. and avoid the "company". Also remember that the entire world market will have some kind of reaction after the November elections no matter who wins ... and this "reaction" is up in the air as to which road it will take ... but yes this election in this country alone will actually effect the markets ... providing there isnt one of them cliffhangers of "hanging chads" or other nonsense like in 2000 with Bush and Gore ... lets get a straight victory ... let everyone get it off their chest's and get this on the road!
The flip side to all of this is this ... there is still alot of money/ capital out there in the free market ... some may have less .... but those who have something ... this will open doors for many new investors ... especially small global competition, which will eventually bring the big ones to their knee's of failing or playing the new game, downsizing, dividing into multi companies, and a number of other things to just try to stay in the competition. So the bottom line is ... money is alway's going to be generating one way or another ... it's just by who? As far as China ... heh, heh, heh .. dont worry about them ... we have alot of their money tied up as well ... heh, heh, heh, as long as they have so much vested interest in this nation ... they will have to also "protect" their "interests" ... on every avenue ... heh, heh, heh ... who's got who ... heh? ... if we fail ... you all lose big time ... so lighten up and listen! Dont worry as I said ... greener pastures lie ahead .. it's only a matter of survival ... something we are damn good at by nature!
Monday, October 6, 2008
"Credit Crisis?"...simple..."Know when to say No"...
The so called "Credit Crisis" is something I been hearing about on the streets more then the damn election or even Wall St from just the people that I encounter on a daily basis..many of which read this stuff. Again...I want to point out that"we are our worst enemy".But it seem's like so many are so "dependent" on credit..and when it slack's up some...they feel under the gun.For me...I think that our dependency on "credit" is something that we can learn to do without...it has become so much of a necessity these day's.If you can pay with your debit card for instance...your better off.
Till this day...every month..I still get offers for credit cards in the mail...some of which offer to pay off other debt's by taking up a debt with them...WHAT!!!??? I mean...I'm not exactly "brilliant"..but I damn sure am not "Sam Plankhead" or "Joe Sponge"!Over 20 years ago...I used credit cards for everything..no crap...I literally mean everything too.I actually charged my lunches,drinks,gas,clothes,beer,
...whatever...to card's.I never even seen a "paycheck" in them day's(1980's)..I would have it direct deposited...charge everything and once a month...write check's to those who I charged to their card's.I would go out and buy a new car..."finance" it then I wouldnt even keep it long enough to pay it off...trade it in ...and take up a note on another new car after a few years.Time passed...and before I knew it..I learned that much of what I was paying monthly were interest rates that were going up throughout the duration of the cards usage...in other words...what you signed for...changes after the first 12 months or so,as far as interest,if you just read the small print.And before I knew it...I was almost $30,000 in debt just on card's.I been so busy...I havent even checked what I was spending,paying,and the changes in rates etc.I would just mail them checks and forget about it.
What did I do? I cut them all up! And worked for the next several years...clearing up the mess "I" created...because it was all my mess/doing's...it wasnt the bank's fault...even though their advertisement's were so enticing...hell...that's what their in business for...to make money!It wasnt the governments fault...or Wall St.
It was simply...my fault. I just said..enough.Intead of trading the 3 year old car...I then kept it for..."9 Years"...had it paid in 4 of those years...5 years with no payment after that...it was "simple".Then Instead of buying another brand spanking new car...I got a used car....again.."simple".These day's...I owe no one nothing!When these great/outstanding card offers come to me..via phone or mail..I just simply say "no thank's". It's hard? It's not as hard as you think...at first it seem's hard cause your so used to charging now and paying later..after a few month's getting familiarized with it...it get's easy..and simplifies alot...and is actually quite relaxing..and a "good" feeling. This is still a free country..and free market, many of our financial problem's are simply caused by our own actions..and our lack of discipline when it comes to managing what little we have as working class American's.I am not defending bank's or even Wall St. ...I know their scam's better then they do these day's...I am saying that...we just are simply the main cause for our own financial mishaps in many cases. Another thing to understand...is how these institutions actually take what you owe...and milk the government on "that" as well using tax codes/manipulations..I learned alot since them day's..so I know how crooked they can be.
But the bottom line here is...it is still our responsibility to look out for our best interest's..not the government's.And you dont want to see the day when the government is responsible for your finances either...why? Because you will have to answer to them 24/7 when you do.There was a time...when American's excercised more responsibly then many of us do now.
Several years back when my dad was alive...we were in the old "Playboy" casino down on the boardwalk in Atlantic City(South Jersey)burning some time at the tables before taking in one of them extravagant fetish floor shows.He was a gambling man. I tried my luck at some blackjack while he played the larger stakes at another table. I was small time playing..$15/$20 bets...then doubling up on win's etc.I got to the point where in less then an hour...I was up over $800+(ahead/winning's)..I was on a "hot streak" some may call it. What did I do...since I was "hot"...and my so called "moment"? No ...I didnt continue to bet...I was excited over my winning's but not showing it.Instead I casually looked at my watch(like I was pressed for time)
tossed the gal dealing a few chips as a gratuity...and I "walked" to cash in my chips...and didnt go back to the tables...that's the "discipline"!
Till this day...every month..I still get offers for credit cards in the mail...some of which offer to pay off other debt's by taking up a debt with them...WHAT!!!??? I mean...I'm not exactly "brilliant"..but I damn sure am not "Sam Plankhead" or "Joe Sponge"!Over 20 years ago...I used credit cards for everything..no crap...I literally mean everything too.I actually charged my lunches,drinks,gas,clothes,beer,
...whatever...to card's.I never even seen a "paycheck" in them day's(1980's)..I would have it direct deposited...charge everything and once a month...write check's to those who I charged to their card's.I would go out and buy a new car..."finance" it then I wouldnt even keep it long enough to pay it off...trade it in ...and take up a note on another new car after a few years.Time passed...and before I knew it..I learned that much of what I was paying monthly were interest rates that were going up throughout the duration of the cards usage...in other words...what you signed for...changes after the first 12 months or so,as far as interest,if you just read the small print.And before I knew it...I was almost $30,000 in debt just on card's.I been so busy...I havent even checked what I was spending,paying,and the changes in rates etc.I would just mail them checks and forget about it.
What did I do? I cut them all up! And worked for the next several years...clearing up the mess "I" created...because it was all my mess/doing's...it wasnt the bank's fault...even though their advertisement's were so enticing...hell...that's what their in business for...to make money!It wasnt the governments fault...or Wall St.
It was simply...my fault. I just said..enough.Intead of trading the 3 year old car...I then kept it for..."9 Years"...had it paid in 4 of those years...5 years with no payment after that...it was "simple".Then Instead of buying another brand spanking new car...I got a used car....again.."simple".These day's...I owe no one nothing!When these great/outstanding card offers come to me..via phone or mail..I just simply say "no thank's". It's hard? It's not as hard as you think...at first it seem's hard cause your so used to charging now and paying later..after a few month's getting familiarized with it...it get's easy..and simplifies alot...and is actually quite relaxing..and a "good" feeling. This is still a free country..and free market, many of our financial problem's are simply caused by our own actions..and our lack of discipline when it comes to managing what little we have as working class American's.I am not defending bank's or even Wall St. ...I know their scam's better then they do these day's...I am saying that...we just are simply the main cause for our own financial mishaps in many cases. Another thing to understand...is how these institutions actually take what you owe...and milk the government on "that" as well using tax codes/manipulations..I learned alot since them day's..so I know how crooked they can be.
But the bottom line here is...it is still our responsibility to look out for our best interest's..not the government's.And you dont want to see the day when the government is responsible for your finances either...why? Because you will have to answer to them 24/7 when you do.There was a time...when American's excercised more responsibly then many of us do now.
Several years back when my dad was alive...we were in the old "Playboy" casino down on the boardwalk in Atlantic City(South Jersey)burning some time at the tables before taking in one of them extravagant fetish floor shows.He was a gambling man. I tried my luck at some blackjack while he played the larger stakes at another table. I was small time playing..$15/$20 bets...then doubling up on win's etc.I got to the point where in less then an hour...I was up over $800+(ahead/winning's)..I was on a "hot streak" some may call it. What did I do...since I was "hot"...and my so called "moment"? No ...I didnt continue to bet...I was excited over my winning's but not showing it.Instead I casually looked at my watch(like I was pressed for time)
tossed the gal dealing a few chips as a gratuity...and I "walked" to cash in my chips...and didnt go back to the tables...that's the "discipline"!
Friday, October 3, 2008
Fear NOT the "Ball of Confusion"...fear only "Ourselves"...
While our paid leaders and every big business lobbyist(foreign and domestic)continue
in this game of..ass kissing and bending over for each other on the Hill,as they have been doing for 2 weeks now. We still have both sides telling us how this is going to collapse..the same as the President did when it started..with his usual fear tactics for money..the same tactics he used on us to attack Iraq...so he could move in friends to free the peoples,and on that bundle of petro that Saddam been ratholing.Now their trying to milk us even more since this administration only has a few months left...with this "stampede bill" as Ralph Nader has called it.And actually
Ralph is one of the few actually speaking the truth in all of this...hmmm...imagine that!The most fitting song I recall for what we have is "Ball of Confusion" by the "Temptations"(around 1970 if I recall correctly)..a great group of artist's who inspired many musicians...and credit to them for such a great memorable piece!Uhhh another thing...were still all here...2 weeks after our final warning from our dear wimpy President..C'mon Mr.President...pull yourself up by your bootstrap's...isnt that what you preach? Show us that"free market spirit" of yours...that "toughness" that West Texas "rugged individualism"...c'mon...sir...set an example,heh,heh,heh.
All these ingrates are no better then a bunch of over educated,over paid con artist's and thug's...who will all see their day,rest assured...IN TIME...heh,heh,heh
There is nothing to fear...all they created is simply a "Ball of Confusion" this is all old school tactic's,even the Temptations who wrote the song summed this crap up damn near 40 years ago...just to show you how old this game is.Half these folks got Law Degree's and are just clever at selling us case after case. They even now got Obama and McCain all bundled up and bending over and giving in...to try to win their place in the Oval Office,while having to kiss up to American's at the same time.The only advantage with Obama...is his law expertise is in "Constitutional Law" and many of the top crust secretly dont even like that!They would never admit it...because their simply too scared what it would make their image. The so called "Mafia" that they made American's believe were "evil" years ago...have more integrity and credibility then these slithering worms on Wall St. and the Hill.As a child I spent much time around these so called "evil" people...in Brooklyn N.Y. as well as Las Vegas...and they were at least honest and you didnt get the shaft unless you were deserving of it.And most importantly...understood "business" taking a desert rest stop...and turning it into the mega business it is today(Las Vegas).And those of the righteous,who once opposed them and called them "evil",bought them out and turned Vegas into another rip-off haven for the corporate elite and politicans,now labeling it.."family friendly".Bunch of damn hypocrites!
No...the only thing to truely fear is us and our faith in these entities who control our lives,finances,churches,schools,mortgages,retirement funds,etc. We have gave them the "green light" to control us all.And dont believe that we are all worldly,civilized and liberated with our so called modern "democracy"...we are yet far from what we will become...trust me! This system that we use to begin with is from ancient Rome...and even they were more liberated then us!Imagine that!It is ALL up to us...and American's more then ever are sounding off...these politicians are between a rock and a damn hard place...we got them lying so much now...hewh,heh,heh...they cant even recall which lies they told and when and are having to flip-flop week to week just to find more lies to cover up the previous lies.We actually got them by the ball's and they know it!
Many economist's have different idea's and plan's to deal with this so called "bail out"...their just not being heard on the Hill too much.Our own President never once tried to use his executive powers in no fashion to help this..instead...has done nothing but whined,and played the fear card...telling us week after week that we are doomed and wont be able to get loans,credit,jobs,etc,etc.Our President declined to act at all...just rush us,and plea to us to take the whole rap...this shows you that he is a phoney and this is all a scam.Even Ralph Nader has better alternatives,
and he isnt even an economist bred by Goldman Sachs.And our political candidates...havent even got the ball's to scratch their own ass with out asking permission...even the so called "maverick" himself...Maverick my ass! This new plan is full of earmarks and pork is all..it went from 3 or 4 pages to over 400 pages of crap spending that will do nothing for one damn working american household...except enable us to borrow and spend more then we can afford...and end up generation after generation,enslaved more,in debt more..and giving up even more and more of our rights to even foreign countries with communist dictatorships.
The reality is this.We are going to be worse off in a couple years down the road then we are now...no matter who gets elected,or what or if any bill of any kind gets passed...period.That doesnt mean it is not going to get better...in the future it will actually get much better after the storms pass.All this need's to come to pass...there is no "one pill" fix to this...and the human race and it's "greed" is to blame for everything from the economy,to poverty,to the enviroment...our punishments are simply a result of our actions and still being in our primitive stage of evolution.And anything that human mind's and hand's can create...it can also destroy and start a "new". Many are actually going to do very well in this so called"crisis".Why? For instance, real estate is declining in price(which is a REAL asset,like gold or platinum,diamonds,etc)those who have cash and capital...can buy dirt cheap and stand to handsomely profit in the long term.All this will also gain foreign smaller investors..which will create revenue and jobs domestically...to do
what we dont do enough of now..."export".Only the friends of those fighting to pass this bill will hurt the worst...especially folks like Bush and Cheney...who are breaking up now...only because they invested 8 entire years into making their dream marketplace..and now it's at the edge of the cliff waiting for a bump!
in this game of..ass kissing and bending over for each other on the Hill,as they have been doing for 2 weeks now. We still have both sides telling us how this is going to collapse..the same as the President did when it started..with his usual fear tactics for money..the same tactics he used on us to attack Iraq...so he could move in friends to free the peoples,and on that bundle of petro that Saddam been ratholing.Now their trying to milk us even more since this administration only has a few months left...with this "stampede bill" as Ralph Nader has called it.And actually
Ralph is one of the few actually speaking the truth in all of this...hmmm...imagine that!The most fitting song I recall for what we have is "Ball of Confusion" by the "Temptations"(around 1970 if I recall correctly)..a great group of artist's who inspired many musicians...and credit to them for such a great memorable piece!Uhhh another thing...were still all here...2 weeks after our final warning from our dear wimpy President..C'mon Mr.President...pull yourself up by your bootstrap's...isnt that what you preach? Show us that"free market spirit" of yours...that "toughness" that West Texas "rugged individualism"...c'mon...sir...set an example,heh,heh,heh.
All these ingrates are no better then a bunch of over educated,over paid con artist's and thug's...who will all see their day,rest assured...IN TIME...heh,heh,heh
There is nothing to fear...all they created is simply a "Ball of Confusion" this is all old school tactic's,even the Temptations who wrote the song summed this crap up damn near 40 years ago...just to show you how old this game is.Half these folks got Law Degree's and are just clever at selling us case after case. They even now got Obama and McCain all bundled up and bending over and giving in...to try to win their place in the Oval Office,while having to kiss up to American's at the same time.The only advantage with Obama...is his law expertise is in "Constitutional Law" and many of the top crust secretly dont even like that!They would never admit it...because their simply too scared what it would make their image. The so called "Mafia" that they made American's believe were "evil" years ago...have more integrity and credibility then these slithering worms on Wall St. and the Hill.As a child I spent much time around these so called "evil" people...in Brooklyn N.Y. as well as Las Vegas...and they were at least honest and you didnt get the shaft unless you were deserving of it.And most importantly...understood "business" taking a desert rest stop...and turning it into the mega business it is today(Las Vegas).And those of the righteous,who once opposed them and called them "evil",bought them out and turned Vegas into another rip-off haven for the corporate elite and politicans,now labeling it.."family friendly".Bunch of damn hypocrites!
No...the only thing to truely fear is us and our faith in these entities who control our lives,finances,churches,schools,mortgages,retirement funds,etc. We have gave them the "green light" to control us all.And dont believe that we are all worldly,civilized and liberated with our so called modern "democracy"...we are yet far from what we will become...trust me! This system that we use to begin with is from ancient Rome...and even they were more liberated then us!Imagine that!It is ALL up to us...and American's more then ever are sounding off...these politicians are between a rock and a damn hard place...we got them lying so much now...hewh,heh,heh...they cant even recall which lies they told and when and are having to flip-flop week to week just to find more lies to cover up the previous lies.We actually got them by the ball's and they know it!
Many economist's have different idea's and plan's to deal with this so called "bail out"...their just not being heard on the Hill too much.Our own President never once tried to use his executive powers in no fashion to help this..instead...has done nothing but whined,and played the fear card...telling us week after week that we are doomed and wont be able to get loans,credit,jobs,etc,etc.Our President declined to act at all...just rush us,and plea to us to take the whole rap...this shows you that he is a phoney and this is all a scam.Even Ralph Nader has better alternatives,
and he isnt even an economist bred by Goldman Sachs.And our political candidates...havent even got the ball's to scratch their own ass with out asking permission...even the so called "maverick" himself...Maverick my ass! This new plan is full of earmarks and pork is all..it went from 3 or 4 pages to over 400 pages of crap spending that will do nothing for one damn working american household...except enable us to borrow and spend more then we can afford...and end up generation after generation,enslaved more,in debt more..and giving up even more and more of our rights to even foreign countries with communist dictatorships.
The reality is this.We are going to be worse off in a couple years down the road then we are now...no matter who gets elected,or what or if any bill of any kind gets passed...period.That doesnt mean it is not going to get better...in the future it will actually get much better after the storms pass.All this need's to come to pass...there is no "one pill" fix to this...and the human race and it's "greed" is to blame for everything from the economy,to poverty,to the enviroment...our punishments are simply a result of our actions and still being in our primitive stage of evolution.And anything that human mind's and hand's can create...it can also destroy and start a "new". Many are actually going to do very well in this so called"crisis".Why? For instance, real estate is declining in price(which is a REAL asset,like gold or platinum,diamonds,etc)those who have cash and capital...can buy dirt cheap and stand to handsomely profit in the long term.All this will also gain foreign smaller investors..which will create revenue and jobs domestically...to do
what we dont do enough of now..."export".Only the friends of those fighting to pass this bill will hurt the worst...especially folks like Bush and Cheney...who are breaking up now...only because they invested 8 entire years into making their dream marketplace..and now it's at the edge of the cliff waiting for a bump!
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