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Monday, February 25, 2008
BERNANKE MUST SAVE THE DOLLAR...1970'S REDUX!
LIKE IN "NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN" THE "BAD GUY" GETS AWAY WITH IT...
HE IS NEVER CAUGHT...
AND THE MOVIE ENDS SO ABRUPTLY...WITH A SCREEN BLACKOUT...THAT THE AUDIENCE IS PISSED...OR SHOCKED... AND MOST PEOPLE EXPECT "TO BE CONTINUED" TO FLASH ON THE SCREEN...
BUT...THE B-MAN SIMPLY HAS TO BE THE "SHERIFF" OF WALL STREET...AND START LAYING DOWN THE LAW...
THE FED HAS TO QUIT CARRYING WATER TO SUPPOSEDLY DYING MARKETS...
AND THINK ABOUT THEIR HIGHER GOALS OF CURRENCY STABILITY...AND AN ECONOMY THAT IS FREE OF ALL KINDS OF INFLATION...INCLUDING ASSET INFLATION...
OSCAR'S LESSONS: EVIL ALWAYS WINS! DON'T EVEN TRY TO FIGHT IT!
THEY WILL BE IN SELF-DESTRUCT MODE VERY VERY SOON...
OSCARS GAVE DEMOCRATS A GOOD LESSON ON HOW THINGS REALLY WORK TONIGHT...
MARKETS IN RALLY MODE ON PLUNGE PROTECTION CONFIDENCE!
THE "BERNANKE PUT" IS BAAAAACK....!
BUT FOR HOW LONG...? THAT IS THE REAL QUESTION...
Friday, February 22, 2008
PLUNGE PROTECTION KICKS ASS!! 250 POINT SURGE IN LAST HOUR!!
BUT DOES ANYONE REALLY BELIEVE THE NUMBER...OR IS IT JUST A HEADLINE EVENT THAT GOES AWAY AS SOON AS PLUNGE PROTECTION CANCELS THE PROGRAM TRADES...?
WHAT KRUGMAN MISSES....
RATHER, THE NEXT PRESIDENT WILL BE ANOTHER F.D.R...WHO RESCUES THE NATION "FROM THE HARD RIGHT!!"
KRUGMAN ONLY MISSES THE ANALOGY BY A FEW DECADES...BUT AT LEAST HE'S THINKING IN HISTORICAL TERMS.
LIKE I SAY...THEY LET KRUGMAN TALK...AS LONG AS HE DOESN'T MAKE SENSE PART OF THE TIME...AS TODAY'S OP-ED CLEARLY SHOWS...
AMERICANS ARE THE NEW OTTOMAN EMPIRE!
SO TO....THE 21ST CENTURY IS BEGINNING WITH THE COLLAPSE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE...AND THE END OF THE PAX AMERICANA...
NATURALLY THERE WILL BE CONFLICTS RESULTING FROM THIS HISTORIC TRANSITION..
ALTHOUGH SOME WOULD SAY THE PAX AMERICANA HAS BEEN THE POX AMERICANA FOR SOME YEARS NOW...!
THE DOLLAR: TRASHED BY THE FED!!
THE "HOLDING ACTION" IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY PROBLEMATIC.
WE COULD SEE A MAJOR BREAK ABOVE 150 ON THE EURO...1000 ON GOLD AND 100 ON OIL VERY SOON...
THIS WOULD BRING ABOUT A LOT OF "NEW PARADIGM" THINKING...WHICH BY THE WAY...IS LONG LONG OVERDUE.
IF 1971 WAS THE DEMISE OF BRETTON WOODS...THEN 2009 WILL BE IT'S OFFICAL BURIAL IN THE SCRAP HEAP OF HISTORY...ONCE AND FOR ALL.
IT WOULD BEHOOVE THOSE IN POSITIONS OF MEDIA INFLUENCE TO START DISCUSSING THE COMING BREAKDOWN...TO PREPARE THE AMERICAN PUBLIC FOR WHAT IS COMING.
AND ACADEMICS SHOULD START SERIOUSLY THINKING ABOUT "FUTURE PARADIGMS" AND FORGET ABOUT TRYING TO SAVE OR RESUSITATE THE PAST...
PAX AMERICANA IS OVER... OUR "NEW CENTURY" WILL BEGIN IN 2009!
WE AWAIT OBAMA'S "NEW BEGINNING" PRESIDENCY!
SLOWLY, SLOWY EVERYTHING EVER PREDICTED ON GLOOM AND DOOM IS STARTING TO COME TO PASS...
AMAZING HOW REALITY DOES WIN OUT AT THE END OF THE DAY....
ALL THE HYPE AND ALL TOUTS FADE INTO THE BACKGROUND...
WHAT I DO FIND ASTONISHING IS THAT ANY OF THIS SEEMS ODD OR STRANGE...TO ANYONE.
THE REALITY WAS ALWAYS THERE FOR REASONABLY INTELLIGENT PEOPLE TO SEE... BUT IT WAS IGNORED....REVILED...PUT DOWN...MARGINALIZED.
BUT WHY, AND BY WHOM...?
OBVIOUSLY THERE WAS A "HIDDEN AGENDA" ALL ALONG... THE NARROW AGENDA OF A SELECT ELITE...WHOSE GOAL WAS PERSONAL ENRICHMENT AT THE COST OF SACRIFICING EVERYONE ELSE...
EVEN MORE AMAZING...THIS PRIVATE AGENDA OF THE SELECTED ELITES...ACTUALLY BECAME PUBLIC POLICY...
SO IN THE END, THE PUBLIC HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO GO ALONG... VOICES OF DISSENT WERE MAGINALIZED...AND IGNORED... EVEN THOUGH THE TRUTH OF THOSE DISSENTING VOICES WAS CLEAR FOR ALL TO SEE...JUST THINK ABOUT ALL THE "FLUFF NEWS" COVERAGE YOU HAVE LISTENED TO THESE MANY YEARS!
WHAT WAS EVEN MORE INTERESTING IS THAT REASONABLY INTELLIGENT PEOPLE WERE DRAGGED INTO THIS "RECEIVED WISDOM!"
IN SHORT..."THEY BOUGHT THE BIG LIE!!" AND THAT I WILL ALWAYS FIND INCREDIBLE...!
FREE TRADE AND GLOBALISM WAS TOUTED FROM WALL STREET TO THE HALLS OF ACADEMIA...EVEN AS THE DEFICITS GREW AND THE DOLLAR COLLAPSED... EVERYONE SAW IT...BUT NO ONE WITH A "BIG SOAP BOX" SPOKE UP...BUT THEN MAYBE THE BIG SOAP BOXES WERE BEING CONTROLED FROM HIGHER UP...?
A FEW SPOKE OUT...ROSS PEROT...THEN HE WAS SILENCED IN A MOST UNUSAL WAY...
PAUL KRUGMAN HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO SPEAK...BUT ONLY IF HE REMAINED "RESPONSIBLE" AND PAINFULLY ACADEMIC IN HIS VIEWPOINT.
NOW SUDDENLY A "GREAT AWAKENING" IS UPON US... BUT THIS TIME IT IS AN ECONOMIC GREAT AWAKENING...
THE ONLY HOPE IS TO HAVE NO HOPE FOR THE CURRENT SYSTEM...
BUT ULTIMATELY HOPE WILL COME BACK...IN THE FORM OF A NEW SYSTEM...
PERHAPS AS A NEW NEW DEAL THAT SOME OF US HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR...
THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE END...WE AREN'T FINISHED YET...
PERHAPS IN 2009 A PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL DECLARE:
"THE NEW BEGINNING" ....BECAUSE THAT IS TRUTHFULLY WHAT IT WILL BE...
TURKS INVADE IRAQ!!
THIS IS REALLY THE CONSEQUNCE OF WASHINGTON BEING ALMOST COMPLETELY DIVORCED FROM ANY FORM OF REALITY...
THE FULL APPREACIATION OF THE DISASTER THAT HAS BEEN THE BUSH PRESIDENCY WILL ONLY BE SEEN AT SOME FUTURE TIME...
THINGS ARE INCREASINGLY OUT OF CONTROL....
Thursday, February 21, 2008
STOCKS SOAR ON $1000 GOLD AND $100 OIL!!
THE MARKETS ARE IN A SERIOUSLY IRRATIONAL PHASE NOW...
THIS WILL ALL CORRECT IN A FEW DAYS...
MARTIN FELDSTEIN IN GLOOM AND DOOM CAMP!
LIKE:
BERNANKE IS IN A "CATCH-22"....
AND THIS RECESSION COULD SURPRISE PEOPLE IN IT'S LENGH AND DEPTH...
BUT MACRO ECONOMICS IS A CLOSED SYSTEM...THERE ARE ONLY SO MANY "MOVING PARTS."
AND REASONABLE PEOPLE WILL THINK ALIKE AND DRAW SIMILAR CONCLUSIONS...
WHAT I SUSPECT IS NEEDED IN THE US NOW...IS NOT CLOSED SYSTEM THINKING...BUT RATHER THINKING "OUTSIDE OF THE BOX."
1. WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF THE "CHEAP LABOR" PARADIGM...BECAUSE THAT'S REALLY WHAT IT IS...NOT THIS BULLSHIT ABOUT GETTING PEOPLE "BETTER EDUCATED!"
2. WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF LONG TERM TRADE DEFICITS BY THE US...AND HOW CAN IT BE REVERSE...AND PLEASE DON'T SAY "THE MARKETS" BECAUSE THE MARKETS WILL "CURE" THE US ECONOMY BY KILLING IT!! AND EVERYONE KNOWS THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE ALLOWED... THERE IS SOMETHING CALLED "POLITICS" YOU KNOW...THAT WILL TRUMP ECONOMIC THEORY SOONER OR LATER...
3. CAN LABOR IN DEVELOPED NATIONS BE "PROTECTED" WITHOUT STOPPING THE DEFLATIONARY EFFECTS OF CHEAP LABOR PRODUCTION... OR...SHOULD CHEAP LABOR EVEN BE ALLOWED TO "IMPORT" DEFLATION INTO A DEVELOPED ECONOMY FROM ABROAD...?
SO HEY...! UNCLE MARTIN!
LETS START THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX...AND CUT THE CONVENTIONAL BULLSHIT THAT EVEN I CAN SPOUT... BECAUSE. I'M NOT ON THE SHORT LIST FOR THE NOBEL PRIZE!!
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
WELCOME GLOBAL TRADERS...READ GLOOM AND DOOM IN YOUR LANGUAGE!
AND OTHERS INTERESTED IN THE AMERICAN MARKETS...
THIS IS THE PLACE YOU SHOULD HAVE BOOKMARKED YEARS AGO...LIKE MOST OF OUR LOYAL READERS HAVE ALREADY DONE... AND THANKS TO ALL OF YOU!
WE ARE FREE...WE ARE GRASSROOTS...WE ARE KNOWLEDGEABLE AND MACRO ORIENTED AND MAIN STREET ORIENTED, NOT WALL STREET ORIENTED...WE NEVER RECOMMEND STOCKS TO BUY OR SELL IN PARTICULAR...WE NEVER MENTION TRADES...
THE GOAL OF GLOOM AND DOOM IS NOT GLOOM AND DOOM...BUT RESTORING RATIONALITY TO THE AMERICAN MARKETPLACE...
WE ARE NOT PERSONALLY "GLOOMY" IN FACT WE HAVE ALL THAT WE NEED...AND THEN SOME.
AND WE APPROACH LIFE WITH A GREAT SENSE OF HUMOR...AND ADVENTURE...!
AND THESE DAZE A "SENSE OF HUMOR" IS REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT!! ....RIGHT?
BOOKMARK THIS PAGE...WE WILL KEEP YOU POSTED ON OUR THINKING.... AND ON OUR TRAVELS THROUGHOUT THE AMERICAN ECONOMIC LANDSCAPE....
YOU CAN READ GLOOM AND DOOM IN YOUR LANGUAGE USING GOOGLE TRANSLATION TOOLS IN THE SIDEBAR... OF COURSE IDIOMS DON'T REALLY TRANSLATE WELL...BUT IT IS ASSUMED YOU ARE SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT...! AND YOU ARE...OR YOU WOULDN'T BE HERE...
IF YOU'RE A HAPPY PERSON...WHO JUST THINK THE CURRENT SITUATION IS FUCKED UP...
THIS IS YOUR WEB PAGE...!
HOPE TO SEE YOU SOON...!
TO READ FED MINUTES CLICK HERE....
AS TO THE MINUTES...WHAT CAN THEY SAY...PLEASE START SPECULATING AGAIN...WE CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT ASSET BUBBLES...
GREENSPAN SCREWED US...IT'S NOT OUR FAULT...
MY HUNCH IS THAT THE FED IS GOING TO HAVE TO START ACTING LIKE CENTRAL BANKERS AGAIN... AND NOT THE STOOGES OF WALL STREET!
IT'S COMING...PER USUAL...A BIT LATE...
BUT EVENTUALLY BERNANKE AND THE FED ARE GOING TO BE RAISING RATES...AND PROTECTING THE DOLLAR LIKE THEY SHOULD HAVE YEARS AGO...AND WHICH IS NOW A "NATIONAL SECURITY" ISSUE!
AND RESTORING CONFIDENCE IN THE AMERICAN ECONOMY...WHICH WAS ALLOWED TO BECOME A HOLLOWED OUT SHELL UNDER GREENSPAN AND HIS WALL STREET CLIENTS...!
THIS CAN ALL BE DONE...ONCE THE GROW-UPS ARE BACK IN CHARGE...AND THE WALL STREET LIKUDNICS AND GREED IS GOOD REPUBLICANS ARE OUT OF POWER...OR TOTALLY DISCREDITED...
AND BOTH OF THOSE SITUATIONS ARE COMING APACE EVEN NOW!
AMERICANS LIVING ON BORROWED MONEY FROM THEIR 401Ks!!
THE 401K IS THE FIRST PLACE MANY PEOPLE GO FOR "LOANS.."
AT SOME POINT...PERHAPS IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRTION...THE ENTIRE HOUSE OF CARDS THAT WALL STREET HAS IMPOSED ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO BE REVEALED, RECONSIDERED AND REPLACE...WITH SOMETHING MORE FAIR, WORKABLE AND REAL WORLD BASED.
JOB ONE IS FINDING OUT WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON...ON WALL STREET? AND WHY? AND HOW IT CAN BE STOPPED...
THAT IS THE MISSION OF THE NEXT PRESIDENT...
ALBANIANS SEEK "CULTURAL GENOCIDE" OF SERBS...AND ALL WESTERN SOCIETY.
OSAMA MUST BE WONDERING ABOUT HIS SUPPOSED "SHIT-FOR BRAINS" ENEMIES IN THE WEST!! ....AND LAUGHING OUT LOUD!!
BECAUSE;
THE ALBANIANS CLEARLY COMMITTED "ETHNIC CLEANSING" AGAINST THE SERB POPULATION IN KOSOVO...EVEN BEFORE THIS BIG NATO MISTAKE...
IN FACT THE VERY TERM "ETHNIC CLEANSING" WAS FIRST USED TO DESCRIBE THE ACTIONS OF ALBANIANS AGAINST THEIR SERB NEIGHBORS IN KOSOVO...! WE TEND TO FORGET THAT LITTLE FACTOID...
LIKELY THE SERBS....AND RUSSIA...WILL NEVER FORGET THIS INSULT TO THEIR CULTURE AND IDENTITY .... I WOULD EXPECT SOME TYPE OF RESISTANCE MOVEMENT IN KOSOVO AND IN SERBIA...BACKED BY RUSSIA...AND VERY SOON!
AND EVENTUALLY THE ALBANIANS WILL TURN ON THEIR STUPID WESTERN SUPPORTERS IN NATO AND IN THE EU AND US... PUTIN SHOULD JUST SHUT UP...AND LET IT RIP!
ALBANIANS HAVE NO RESPECT FOR WEAKNESS OR INFIDEL COWARDS...AND THEY WILL TRY TO DESTROY EUROPE JUST AS MUCH AS OSAMA WOULD... BECAUSE THEY ARE ON THE SAME TEAM!
ONLY THE ALBANIANS NOW HAVE A KEY POSITION INSIDE OF EUROPE FROM WHICH TO MOUNT THEIR CAMPAIGNS OF TERROR AND CRIMINALITY... THANKS TO THE AMERICANS AND NATO!
SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO WONDER WHOSE CALLING THE SHOTS IN THE WEST...AND IN NATO...
CLEARLY THE AMERICANS ...AS THE GOLEM OF ISRAEL AND STOOGE OF THE LIKUDNICS...ARE KEY PLAYERS IN THE RECENT DEBACLE(S)...
BUT JUST AS BUSH HANDED IRAQ TO IRAN...
SO TOO THE EU AND NATO HAVE HANDED KOSOVO TO THE ALBANIAN MAFIOSI AND CRIMINAL GANGS...
AND EVENTUALLY TO OSAMA'S JIHADI...
ANOTHER SAD CHAPTER IN THE INCOMPETENCE OF THE WEST...AGAINST GLOBAL MUSLIM EXPANSION...
THE FED WILL BE FORCED TO RAISE RATES...BEFORE END OF YEAR!
NO MATTER WHAT THE REAL ECONOMY CONSEQUENCES...
SIMPLY PUT THE ASSET SPECULATION GAME IS OVER...IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO GO ON AS LONG AS IT DID... GREENSPAN WAS NEGLIGENT IN HIS DUTIES AS FED CHAIRMAN...
THE BUBBLES WERE ALLOWED TO DEFINE THE US ECONOMY...AND NOW THE TIME HAS COME TO PAY THE PRICE...
AND THE PRICE WILL BE PAID...NOT ON WALL STREET WITH STOCK VALUATIONS "ALWAYS GOING UP" BUT RATHER ON MAIN STREET WITH HIGHER REAL ECONOMY PRICES ON EVERYTHING...!
THIS ISN'T GOING TO BE OVER TILL IT'S OVER...
AND IT'S STILL A LONG WAY DOWN...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
HOLY CRAP! OIL UP $3 AND GOLD UP $25!!!
WHAT THE FUCK IS THE DOW RALLYING FOR...?
SERBS KICK ASS!!
KOSOVO WILL BE THREATENING EUROLAND WITHIN A FEW YEARS...AND THE ALBANIAN MAFIA CRIME WAVE WILL START IMMEDIATELY...
OSAMA'S BOYS NOW HAVE A HOME AWAY FROM HOME WHILE TRANSITING TO THE EU AND THE US...
WAR ON TERRA ....MY ASS!
IS IT JUST ME...or IS GAS WAY OVER $3 AGAIN...?!
WELL MAYBE IT'S JUST ME...FORGET IT....
BUT WAIT...OIL OVER $100 NOW...!!!!! WHAT THE HELL...IS GOING ON...!!
THIS LINK IS A GREAT RESOURCE FOR FINDING THE CHEAP GAS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD... BECAUSE THAT 'S WHERE WE BUY GAS...AFTER ALL...!
BOND MARKET BLOW OUT...!
BECAUSE YOU SEE...THE BIG MONEY RUNNERS CAN'T "DO" CD'S....
IT'S EITHER STOCKS OR BONDS...THE "MATTRESS" IS JUST NOT AN OPTION FOR THESE BIG PLAYERS... THAT'S ONE ADVANTAGE THE SMALL PLUNGER HAS... HE OR SHE CAN JUST "GO HOME." WHICH IS WHAT I'D ADVISE AT THIS STAGE OF THIS DECLINE...
RALLY REASONING...
SO SOME MONEY IS LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO PARK TEMPORARILY...LIKE FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS...
OK SO FAR...?
THEREFORE, STOCKS ARE GOING UP ON A PUNK ECONOMIC FORECAST...THAT DROVE THE BOND MARKET DOWN.
WHAT PART OF THAT DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND...?
WELL FORGET IT...IT WILL ALL BE REVERSED BY 4PM ANYWAY...
RALLIES ABOUT NUTTIN' ARE STRICTLY SOMETHING FOR THE DAYTRADERS, MONEY MANAGERS ...
AND LESS EXPERIENCED RETAIL SUCKERS...WHO GET STUCK WITH "INVESTMENTS" AT THE END OF THE DAY....
WHILE EVERYONE ELSE WAS JUST DOING A DAY TRADE...!
LOL! WHAT DID YOU EXPECT ASSHOLE!
MARKET MOONSHIT!! THE PROBLEM: THE FUEL TANK IS ONLY HALF FULL!!
I LOVE RALLIES ABOUT NOTHING!!
DOLLAR PLUNGE CONTINUES... OK NOW FOR DOW TO RISE...!
A WEAK DOLLAR ONLY MAKES THE DOW NOMINALLY HIGHER...IN REAL TERMS...NOTHING CHANGES...
AND THAT'S REALLY THE GOAL OF SPECULATION ... THE STREET DOES NOT EXIST TO MAKE THE SUCKERS RICH...! JUST THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE...THE STREET IS THE GREATEST SUCKER FLEECING MACHINE EVER INVENTED...
AND THE US GOVERNMENT ENCOURAGES IT'S CITIZENS TO "SPECULATE" FOR THE OLD AGE RETIREMENT!!
CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT FUTURE HISTORIANS WILL THINK ABOUT THAT BIT OF INSANITY...
WELL, THEN AGAIN, WE DID TRY PROHIBITION ONCE TOO...!
MASSIVE RALLY ON PUNK WALMART FORECAST!!
BUT REMEMBER YOU'LL STILL OWN 'EM TOMORROW MORNING...!
UNLESS OF COURSE YOU SELL BEFORE 4PM...TODAY...
BUT CHANCES ARE YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO "BUY LOW" TODAY...THE MARKET MASTERS HAVE ALREADY DONE THAT...
THEY WILL ALLOW YOU TO BUY HIGH...THEN SELL LOW...
THAT'S THE NAME OF THE GAME ON WALL STREET...FOR THE RETAIL SUCKERS AT LEAST...!
Monday, February 18, 2008
LET THE ETHNIC CLEANSING BEGIN IN KOSOVO!
ALTHOUGH ORDINARY AMERICANS AREN'T REAL CLEAR ABOUT WHY THEY HATE THE SERBS...PROBABLY BECAUSE THEY'RE "COUSINS" OF THE RUSSIANS...?
LET OSAMA HAVE A JIHADI BEACH HEAD INTO EUROPE...!
RUSSIA HAS IT'S MUSLIM TERROR STATE IN CHECHNYA...
LET EUROPE HAVE IT'S KOSOVO...! A MUSLIM MAFIA/TERROR STATE INSIDE EUROPE...!
KNOW THIS...ONCE EUROPE KOW-TOWS TO THE ALBANIANS IN KOSOVO...THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY.
THE ALBANIANS WILL NEVER BE SATISFIED...THEY WILL HOLD EUROPE FOR RANSOM.
HIGHER YUAN IN CHINA...MEANS INFLATION IN THE US...
BUT IT REALLY SHOWS THE DISMAL STATE OF AMERICAN MACROECONOMICS...
EVEN OUR SOUGHT AFTER "BEST RESULT " CAN TURN TO SHIT BEFORE OUR EYES...!
EVERYTHING IS A CATCH-22 THESE DAZE... AND THAT WILL BE BITING BERNANKE ON THE ASS LATER THIS YEAR...
WHERE'S THE BEEF...?
BUT AT LEAST WE AREN'T "OVER-REGULATING " THE FOOD INDUSTRY...DUBYA...AND WALL STREET REPUBLICANS AND SPECULATORS...WOULDN'T APPROVE OF THAT...!
AND OH...BY THE WAY...WE HAVE TO STOP "JUNK" LAW SUITS AGAINST NEGLIGENT PRODUCERS OF CONSUMER PRODUCTS...
WHAT FUCKING BULLSHIT...!
HAVE THESE REPUBLICAN ASSHOLES NO SHAME? WELL BAD QUESTION...WE KNOW THEY DON'T...
BUT DOES THE AMERICAN ELECTORATE NOT SEE HOW BADLY THEY ARE BEING SCREWED BY THESE OUT OF CONTROL ELITES...
OR DOES JESUS REALLY WANT IT THIS WAY...WELL ASK A NEOCON!! OR AN AMERICAN LIKUDNIC...AFTER ALL THEY HAVE A PIPE LINE TO GOD'S EAR!!
LIKE WOLFIE OR PERLE...! ARE THEY STILL AMERICAN CITIZENS...OR HAVE THEY FINALLY SPLIT LEAVING THE REST OF US HOLDING THE BAG...?
OK GOD, BUY, SELL OR HOLD...MEAT PACKERS?
WILL THIS UK BANK FAILURE TAKE DOWN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY?
THIS COULD SPREAD WORLDWIDE...
KRUGMAN IGNORES AMERICA'S "INTELLECTUAL POVERTY."
BUT, AMERICA'S INTELLECTUAL POVERTY IS WHAT DOOMS US TO EVENTUAL SECOND CLASS STATUS...
AMERICA ANTI-INTELLECTUAL ATTITUDES ARE RUINING THE NATION...AND IT'S GETTING WORSE FAST!! SIMPLY PUT, AMERICAN "POP CULTURE" IS TOXIC TO AMERICA'S FUTURE...
DUBYA IS JUST THE "SYMPTOM" OF AMERICA'S REAL PROBLEM!! NOT THE CAUSE...
SURE, EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT "EDUCATION" AS THEIR MAIN GOAL...YOU KNOW, FOR THE FUCKING ... "JOBS OF THE FUTURE." WHATEVER THAT IS...NO ONE REALLY ELABORATES...
BUT, AMERICAN POP CULTURE GIVES ABSOLUTELY NO RESPECT TO INTELLECTUAL ACHIEVEMENT... NONE!
BASKETBALL, FOOTBALL, CELEBRITY FLAME OUTS...ALL ARE COVERED BY THE AMERICAN MEDIA IN EXTREME DETAIL...
BUT, WHAT SIGNALS DO WE GIVE TO YOUNG AMERICANS THAT INTELLECTUAL ACHIEVEMENTS ARE WORTHY OF THEIR TIME AND EFFORT...
NONE!! NOTHING...! NO WONDER MOST AMERICAN BOYS WOULD RATHER SHOOT BASKETS....THAN READ OR DO CREATIVE RESEARCH...
OUR POP CULTURE SHOWS THEM...INDEED DIRECTS THEM, TO WHAT IS VALUED AND WHAT IS NOT.
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IS NEVER PRAISED OR TOUTED BY THE US MEDIA...! NAME ONE TIME...ONE TV SHOW...THAT WOULD INFLUENCE THE YOUNG TO PURSUE LEARNING...AMID THE DELUGE ON TRASH CABLE TV...?
DO ANY INTELLIGENT PEOPLE EVER "WATCH" NETWORK OR CABLE TV... OK PERHAPS NEWS, TALK, A FEW SHOWS ON THE BETTER CABLE CHANNELS... BUT THE REST IS A FUCKING WASTELAND...NOT A NEW THOUGHT I KNOW...BECAUSE IT'S SO PERVASIVELY BELIEVED!
"EDUCATION" IS REALLY JUST A "MANTRA" SPOUTED BY POLITICOS AT APPROPRIATE TIMES...LIKE DURING ELECTIONS! BUT NO ONE REALLY BELIEVE IT...
THEN, .....BACK TO THE BALL GAME... OR THE LATEST DISH ON BEN AND JEN ... OR TOM AND BRIT...!
NOW, AMAZINGLY, IN OTHER CULTURES....YOUTH ARE "PUSH" TOWARD ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AS SOMETHING WORTHWHILE.... !
THIS IS CLEARLY SEEN IN PARTS OF ASIA, EASTERN EUROPE, RUSSIA, INDIA...
ONLY AMERICANS NEEDED TO USE "POP CULTURE," AS THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR "GLUE," TO HOLD OUR DESPERATE AND DIVERSE SOCIETY TOGETHER...
"HOW 'BOUT THOSE CUBS...!"
IN THE US SCHOLARLY ACHIEVEMENT IS ACTUALLY CONSIDERED "ELITIST"...OR EVEN "HOMO!"
CONCLUSION:
AMERICANS ARE THE MOST ANTI-INTELLECTUAL SOCIETY ON EARTH...! HOFSTADTER WAS RIGHT...
IS IT ANY WONDER THAT THE AMERICANS CAN'T COMPETE IN THE NEW INTELLECTUAL GLOBAL ECONOMY?
POSTSCRIPT:
BUT WHY ARE AMERICANS SO "ANTI-INTELLECTUAL" COMPARED TO EUROLAND AND ASIA...?
MY HUNCH IS IT'S THE LACK OF AN ARISTOCRATIC TRADITION...
AMERICANS NEVER HAD AN ARISTOCRATIC ELITE AS IN EUROPE AND ASIA...
THE AMERICAN ELITES, FROM THE BEGINNING OF OUR NATIONAL CULTURE, WERE THE MERCHANT CLASS...
THE HUSTLERS...THE SELF MADE MAN...THE PLUNGER AND THE SPECULATOR...
NOT, THE CLOISTERED CLERIC OR ARISTOCRATIC "PLAYER" IN THE ROYAL COURTS OF EUROPE.
YOU HAVE TO GO BACK TO FRANKLIN AND JEFFERSON IN EUROPE TO SEEN THE "CULTURE SHOCK" EARLY AMERICANS HAD TOWARD EUROPEAN SOCIETY AND CULTURE...
BUT IN SOME CASES THEY LIKED WHAT THEY SAW...
THE AMERICAN "POP" CULTURE OF THE SELF MADE MAN AND THE GREEDY HUSTLER...HAS IT'S DOWN SIDE...
AND NOW WE SEE IT EVERYDAY IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
UN GETS COOL FEET ON MUSLIM/MAFIA TERROR STATE IN KOSOVO...?
YA THINK...?
AFTER ALL...WHO GETS SCREWED IN THE LONG RUN... THE EU!! AND PROBABLY THE US!! HAVING A MUSLIM-MAFIA STATE IN THE BELLY OF EUROPE HAS TO BE "PROBLEMATIC"...YA THINK? WHAT THE ALBANIANS DID TO ALBANIA...THEY WILL DO TO KOSOVO...AND THEN SOME...!
THE WAR ON TERRA WILL EXPAND TO KOSOVO WITHIN A FEW YEARS...
AND IS "SERB BASHING" REALLY THAT MUCH FUN...OUTSIDE OF ISRAEL...?
DEMOCRATS ARGUING STYLE NOT SUBSTANCE...
IT'S NOTHING LESS THAN A "HATCHET JOB!"
BUT I SENSE THAT MOST BUBBA DEMOCRATS DON'T WATCH THE SUNDAY TALKS...
AND THEY DON'T LISTEN TO NPR AND PBS...WHERE THE ANTI-HILLARY NOISE IS COMING FROM LOUDEST...
MY HUNCH IS THAT HILLARY WINS TEXAS AND OHIO...BY SUBSTANTIAL MARGINS...BASED ON WORKING CLASS BUBBA DEMOCRATS...
THE INTELLECTUAL ELITES ARE SETTING THEMSELVES UP FOR A FALL...!
BECAUSE "ORDINARY PEOPLE" ARE NOT REALLY IMPRESSED WITH OBAMA... HE SEEMS TO LACK SUBSTANCE AND EXPERIENCE...AND SUBSTITUTES RHETORIC AND STYLE...
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SCREWED TOO MANY TIMES BY "STYLE" AND FALSE PROMISES...
MY HUNCH IS THAT THE RANK AND FILE DEMOCRATS WILL GO FOR HILLARY...BIG TIME...
THEN, THEY WILL MAKE HER PRODUCE WHAT SHE HAS PROMISED... ON HEALTH CARE, PENSION PROTECTIONS, AND JOBS FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE...
AND ASAP...!
THE ORDINARY VOTER IS NOT REALLY COMFORTABLE WITH OBAMA... JUST AS THEY WERE NOT COMFORTABLE WITH KERRY OR HIS BILLIONAIRE EURO-SNOB WIFE
THE PEOPLE WHO ARE LOSSING JOBS, PENSIONS AND HEALTH CARE...ARE NOT THE SAME PEOPLE PONTIFICATING ON NPR AND PBS...OR IN THE OTHER LIBERAL MEDIA OUTLETS...
Saturday, February 16, 2008
MORE BULLSHIT FROM DAVID BROOKS...
BROOKS FINDS OUR "WORKERS" "BETTER EDUCATED" THAN THE PAUPER LABOR OF EUROPE DURING THE 20TH CENTURY...
THUS OUR "SUCCESS..."
NEVER MIND THAT WE NEEDED IMMIGRANTS TO WORK THE MINES AND FACTORIES FOR PEANUTS...AND DIDN'T CARE IF THEY SPOKE ENGLISH...OR NOT.
NEVER MIND THAT MOST OF OUR REALLY HIGH LEVEL SCIENTISTS AND INTELLECTUALS WERE EUROPEANS....OR EAST EUROPEAN JEWS...WHO IMMIGRATED HERE TO ESCAPE EUROPEAN POLITICAL MOVEMENTS.
NEVERMIND THAT AMERICANS ARE THE MOST ANTI-INTELLECTUAL NATION ON EARTH...
NO...BROOKS IS NEVER TROUBLED BY THE TRUTH...OR FLUMMOXED BY THE FACTS...
LIKE A TRUE "CONSERVATIVE"...IF HE IS ONE...
(OR DOES HE JUST PLAY ONE ON TV...?)
WHEN BROOKS GETS A CRACKPOT IDEA.... HE STICKS WITH IT!!
FOSSETT DEAD...? I DON'T THINK SO...
BUT WE CAN'T FIND THE FOSSETT "WRECKAGE"...? SORRY, I DON'T THINK SO...
THIS GUY COULD NOT HAVE "DROPPED OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH"...
OF COURSE, UNLESS HE WANTED TO!
THERE ARE PLENTY OF WAYS TO NARROW THE SEARCH AREA...USING DEDUCTIVE REASONING...
WHEN WAS HE LAST SEEN...WHAT WAS THE AVERAGE SPEED OF THE PLANE...DRAW A CIRCLE...AND SEARCH INSIDE OF IT...AT VARIOUS ALTITUDES AND EVEN USING OUR SPACE RESOURCES...
SOMETHING DOESN'T ADD UP HERE... WHO GAINS...? THAT WOULD TELL YOU A LOT...
KOSOVO "JIHADI" BULLSHIT WEST...!
THE WEST IS STRICTLY DOING THIS TO HUMILIATE RUSSIA...AND BECAUSE ISRAEL WANTS IT...
THE REASONING BEHIND SETTING UP A MUSLIM TERROR STATE IN EUROPE IS NEVER MENTIONED... BUT, EMPOWERING THIS ALBANIAN MAFIA GOVERNMENT WILL COME BACK TO HAUNT THE EU...BEFORE TOO LONG.
ANY MUSLIM INVASION OF EUROPE NOW HAS A BEACHHEAD IN KOSOVO! AGAIN THE WEST PLAYS INTO OSAMA'S HANDS... OSAMA DOESN'T HAVE TO ATTACK THE WEST...THE WEST IS GIVING HIM EVERYTHING HE WANTS...GRATIS!!
Friday, February 15, 2008
NPR LIBERALS DESPERATE FOR OBAMA!!
SUDDENLY HILLARY IS "THE CLINTONS" OR "MRS CLINTON".... INTELLECTUAL LIBERALS...(OF WHICH I AM ONE)...ARE GETTING DESPERATE TO STOP THE "WORKING CLASS SLOBS" FROM EMBRACING HILLARY...
PERHAPS THEY FEAR THAT HILLARY WILL LOSE TO MC CAIN...AND THAT IS VERY POSSIBLE...
PERHAPS THEY LIKE OBAMA'S STYLE AND DON'T WANT FOUR MORE YEARS OF CLINTON IN THE WHITE HOUSE...
WHATEVER THE REASON...THE PUSH FOR OBAMA IN THE "LIBERAL MEDIA" IS OBVIOUS AND GETTING DESPERATE...
HOWEVER, THE FACTS ARE...THAT CLINTON APPEALS TO LOWER CLASS DEMOCRATS... THE RURAL POOR, THE HISPANICS, UNION MEMBERS, AND OLDER VOTERS... THIS IS A HUGE SHARE OF THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE...
AND MANY IN THESE DEMOGRAPHICS COULD SWITCH TO MC CAIN! CAUSING DEMOCRATS TO LOSE!
MY HUNCH IS THAT HILLARY WINS THE BIG STATE PRIMARIES COMING UP... THEN THE DEMOCRATIC ELITE WILL BE IN A FIX....
HOW TO SUPPORT THE CLINTONS...WHAT TO DO WITH OBAMA...
CLEARLY THE PRESSURE ON OBAMA TO TAKE THE VICE PRESIDENCY WILL BE HUGE...
AND WITH HIS YOUTH...THE VICE PRESIDENCY WOULD BE A GREAT STEPPING STONE TO THE WHITE HOUSE IN THE FUTURE...
HILLARY IS TOO OLD TO TAKE THE VICE PRESIDENCY AND WOULD LIKE RATHER SERVE HER REMAINING TIME IN THE SENATE...
OBAMA WOULD HAVE TO GIVE UP A GREAT SENATE SEAT...FOR A MERELY EX OFFICIO STATUS IN THE GOVERNMENT... BUT MY HUNCH IS THAT MANY PROMISES WILL BE MADE TO HIM TO PERSUADE HIM TO TAKE THE VP POSITION....
SEPERATELY ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE...MC CAIN IS A BIT OF A JOKE CANDIDATE... HE'S WAY OFF BASE ON THE WAR...AND ON THE ECONOMY HE'S A "NO SHOW!" ....
IT APPEARS THAT THOSE ARE THE MAIN ISSUES ON VOTERS MINDS THESE DAYS...
ANYWAY...I FEAR FOR THE UNITY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IF HILLARY WINS IN TEXAS AND OHIO....!
HILLARY WILL LIKELY SCARE OFF MANY OLDER VOTERS, LESS EDUCATED VOTERS AND RURAL BUBBAS....LOSING THEM TO MC CAIN...WHO HAS THAT UNIQUE REPUBLICAN ABILITY TO APPEAL TO THE STUPID AND FEARFUL...WHERE THE DEMOCRAT APPEARS SCHOOL MARMY....AND PRONE TO LECTURE...
NICE KID "JUST SNAPS"...BUT WHY...?
OR...WHAT...?
NO NOTE...? NO MULTI-MEDIA PRESENTATION PACKAGE SENT TO THE NETWORKS...? WILL WE EVER KNOW...?
AT 27 THIS KID SHOULD HAVE BEEN WORKING SOMEWHERE...NOT HANGING AROUND GRAD SCHOOL...
BUT IS THERE REALLY ROOM FOR ALL THE AMERICAN COLLEGE GRADS IN AN ECONOMY THAT FAVORS ONLY A FEW SPECIALIZED DEGREES...
AND IS DOMINATED BY "CHEAP LABOR"...AND CORPORATE GREED?
PERHAPS THIS KIDS COLLEGE LOANS PUSHED HIM OVER THE EDGE...?
THE NEWS THAT THE SHOOTER WAS INTO "SELF INJURY" PLAYS INTO THE IDEA THAT HE HAD "EMO" TENDENCIES...
AND COULD THESE DRUGS BE CAUSING PROBLEMS FOR SOME PEOPLE...? IS IT JUST THE PROZAC TALKING FOR SOME...
STILL, THIS GUY HAD A HISTORY OF "MENTAL PROBLEMS" AND THAT IS A SIGN THAT HIS "NORMAL" APPEARANCE WAS NOT QUITE WHAT IT APPEARED...AT LEAST TO THE CASUAL OBSERVER...
AND MY LITMUS TEST FOR DANGEROUS NUTS IS BUYING AN 8MM "GLOCK"...!
ANY ONE WHO SUDDENLY DECIDES THAT THEY NEED AN 8MM GLOCK IS HAVING SOME KIND OF PROBLEM...!
THEY SHOULD ARREST THEM ALL...RIGHT OUTSIDE THE GUNSHOP DOOR!
BECAUSE THERE ARE CERTAIN KINDS OF PSYCHOS THAT ARE VERY GOOD AT "APPEARING" NORMAL...THAT IS ACTING NORMAL...
IN FACT, MANY OF THEM ARE "TOO NORMAL" BY HALF...!
AND THAT'S THE DEAD GIVE AWAY THAT SOMETHING IS NOT QUITE RIGHT...
COLLEGE LOANS AND CREDIT CARDS...THE NEW CREDIT CRISIS!!
THE MORTGAGE COLLAPSE IS LAST YEARS NEWS...
US AND EU SUPPORT MUSLIM "TERRORIST STATE" IN KOSOVO
IF JIHADI TERROR COMES TO EUROPE AND THE WEST IT WILL TRANSIT THROUGH KOSOVO...! ( VERY LIKELY WITH THE AID OF THE SERBIAN MAFIA!)
THE PROBLEM IS THAT ISRAEL SO HATES THE SERBS AND SOUTHERN SLAVS... THAT THEY ARE WILLING TO ENDANGER EUROPE TO GET THEIR REVENGE...
THE WEST WAS A WILLING DUPE IN THIS DISMAL GAME PLAN...BASED ON THE GEOPOLITICAL THEORY OF "FENCING IN" RUSSIA WITH SUPPOSEDLY "PRO WESTERN" ALLIES...
BUT IT'S REALLY LIKE THE SITUATION WHERE SHARON WANTED DUBYA TO "TAKE OUT" SADDAM...AND DUBYA OBEYED...WITHOUT QUESTIONING THE CONSEQUENCES!
SAME IDEA...BUT LESS CONSEQUENCES SO FAR...
WHO'SE GEOPOLITICS ARE WE SUPPORTING...ISRAEL, OR THE AMERICANS...?
APPARENTLY ISRAEL'S GEOPOLITICS TRUMP AMERICAN BEST INTERESTS EVERY TIME!
BECAUSE ANYONE WHO THINKS AN ALBANIAN MUSLIM KOSOVO WILL BE "PRO-WESTERN" IS GEOPOLITICALLY DELUSIONAL!!
IT'S THE SAME STYLE SHALLOW THINKING, ASSISTED BY LIKUDNICS AND NEOCON THINK TANKS, THAT GAVE IRAQ TO THE IRANIAN SHIA AT US TAXPAYERS EXPENSE!!
ANOTHER EMO SCHOOL SHOOTER...?
I'M GETTING TO BE AFRAID OF WALKS ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES THESE DAYS... YOU NEVER KNOW WHO'SE THE NEXT CRACKPOT...
YOUNG MINDS ARE NOT REAL STABLE...THIS IS TRUE EVEN OF INTELLIGENT YOUNG MINDS. THEY LACK THE HUMILITY OF EXPERIENCE...AND OFTEN HAVE UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS.
AMERICAN ECONOMY FUCKED BY GREED
IT MAY BE TIME TO GO "EX PAT"...?
I'M WORKING ON A WEB PAGE FOR AMERICANS WANTING TO LIVE IN MORE "CIVILIZED" SOCIETIES.
PLACES WHERE GREED AND CHEAP LABOR DON'T RULE!
NATIONS THAT RESPECT THEIR PEOPLE AND PRESERVE THEIR ECONOMIC FUTURE...
BOND MARKET DOOMED!!
WELL, LET'S JUST SAY...YOU AIN'T SEEN NUTTIN' YET...!!
IT WILL BE HISTORIC... BUT, GENTLE READER, YOU ARE DESTINED TO LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES...
AND THEY ARE COMING...APACE!
FUTURE AND "FUTURES" LOOK BLEAK...
BEST TO DUMP NOW...AND LET IT RIP...BECAUSE IT SIMPLY MUST RIP TO RELIVE THE INTERNAL TENSIONS IN THE SYSTEM...
ALL THE "TRICKS" HAVE BEEN TRIED BY THE FED...THE BERNANKE TRICK BAG IS EMPTY!
ALL THAT'S LEFT ARE CATCH-22 SITUATIONS...! LOWER RATES...TRASH THE DOLLAR...RISE INFLATION. DON'T LOWER RATES...MARKETS CRASH...
THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE US ECONOMY IS REALLY A HOLLOW SHELL...
AFTER THE RECESSION IS "OVER" ....THERE ARE NO FACTORIES TO REOPEN... WE JUST START OFF AT A LOWER STANDARD OF LIVING!!
IT WILL BECOME THE "NEW NORMAL" ....A POST GREENSPAN AMERICAN ECONOMY!
NO WONDER SOME KIDS ARE SHOOTING UP THEIR COLLEGES!! THEY SEE NO FUTURE FOR THEMSELVES IN THIS ECONOMY... AND THEY ARE RIGHT...THERE IS NO FUTURE FOR AMERICAN KIDS...
EDUCATION IS BULLSHIT...AND EVERYONE KNOWS IT...ONLY CHEAP LABOR COUNTS THESE DAYS.
YES, A LUCKY FEW WILL "MAKE IT"...WITH EXTREME TALENT, LUCK OR CONNECTIONS... BUT THE VAST MAJORITY ARE DOOMED...
GREENSPAN FINANCED INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL'S "GREAT MIGRATION" OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION TO CHINA...!!
THE US ECONOMY IS LIKE A VERY EXPENSIVE CAR...BUT WHEN YOU POP THE HOOD...THERE IS NO ENGINE!!!!
WALL STREET SWIPED IT...AND FENCED IT TO CHINA!!
ALL FOR A FEW FUCKIN' LOUSY SHEKELS!!
THIS DYNAMIC CHART SHOWS THE BUBBLE'S CONSEQUENCES
CLINTON WAS THE BEST FRIEND WALL STREET EVER HAD...AND THE STREET BETTER HOPE THAT HILLARY IS ELECTED IN NOVEMBER...!
THE DOW WILL HAVE TO FALL AT LEAST ANOTHER 40% TO REMOVE THE EXCESS VALUE IF THIS IS JUST A NORMAL RECESSION...
IF IT'S A GREAT RECESSION...ALA THE 1930'S...THE DECLINE WILL HAVE TO BE EVEN GREATER...PERHAPS ANOTHER 70%... THE RULE OF THUMB IS THERE IS AN 80% TO 90% GIVE BACK AFTER GREAT BUBBLES...AND THIS GREAT REPUBLICAN/CLINTON BUBBLE FROM 1995 TO THE PRESENT WAS MASSIVE BY HISTORICAL STANDARDS...
I THINK THE DOW GOES DOWN ANOTHER 60% FROM HERE...
THE GLOOM MOUNTS....
THE HUTZPAH OF THIS GUY IS INCREDIBLE...
Thursday, February 14, 2008
UP 175 THEN DOWN 175...?
VERY ODD MARKET...PROBABLY FIXING FOR A REALLY BIG DROP VERY SOON... THIS THING HAS THE FEEL OF SOMEONE DESPERATELY TREADING WATER... EXHAUSTION SHOULD BE SETTING IN SOON... BUT THEY SAY DROWNING CAN BE "PLEASANT" ONCE YOU QUIT STRUGGLING...!
BUT NO THANKS, I'LL TAKE THEIR WORD FOR IT...
DID THE "NEW" WOLVES EAT THE "OLD" RABBITS...?
BUT CAN THE NEW GREENSPAN-WALLSTREET LOW WAGE ECONOMY DO IT...?
ANOTHER SCHOOL SHOOTER...!
REALLY SAD...
THAT'S WHY WE DESPERATELY NEED OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT...
HE'LL BE ABLE TO SPEAK TO OUR DISAFFECTED YOUTH... THE WALL STREET RICH HAVE GOT TO REALIZE THAT THEY HAVE HAD THEIR FUN...AND NOW IT'S TIME TO RETURN SOME "BALANCE" TO THE SYSTEM...
EITHER THAT OR THE SYSTEM COMPLETELY BREAKS DOWN...AND THAT WILL BE EVEN WORSE FOR THE ELITES...
REMEMBER...FRD SAVED THE SORRY ASSES OF THE AMERICAN ELITES BACK IN THE 1930'S...
AND THE NEXT PRESIDENT WILL HAVE THAT SAME JOB IN 2009...
JUST WHAT PART OF THAT DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND...?
EVERY BILLIONAIRE IN AMERICA SHOULD BE ROOTING FOR OBAMA... OBAMA WILL SAVE THEIR ASSES FROM SOMETHING EVEN WORSE... OF COURSE ALL THE BILLIONAIRES ARE DEMOCRATS!!
IT'S THE FUCKIN' "NICKLE MILLIONAIRES" AND SMALL TIME GREEDY SHIT HEADS THAT ARE RUINING THE COUNTRY WITH THEIR "SMASH AND GRAB" "GREED IS GOOD" CAPITALISM!!
POSTSCRIPT:
The shooting was the fourth at a U.S. school within a week.
On Feb. 8, a woman shot two fellow students to death before committing suicide at Louisiana Technical College in Baton Rouge. In Memphis, Tenn., a 17-year-old is accused of shooting and critically wounding a fellow student Monday during a high school gym class, and the 15-year-old victim of a shooting at an Oxnard, Calif., junior high school has been declared brain dead.
ARE MAJOR BANK AND BROKERAGE FAILURES LOOMING...?
I WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED BY SOME MAJOR FINANCIAL SURPRISES...SOON.
BERANANKE COULD HAVE HAPPY TALKED THE MARKET TODAY...BUT HE DELIBERATELY DIDN'T...
HE KNOWS SOMETHING....
I BET HE KNOWS SOMETHING...
STAY TUNED!
DOLLAR, BONDS AND STOCKS PLUNGE...!
ISRAEL STARTS ANOTHER LIKUDNIC/NEOCON WAR...!
OF COURSE THEIR GOLEM, THE WAR CRIMINAL BUSH, WILL SUPPORT ANYTHING THE ZIONISTS DO...NO MATTER WHAT!
CLEARLY, WE HAVE REACHED ANOTHER ZIONIST INSPIRED CRISIS!!
ALL ON THE CHEAP FOR ISRAEL.... BECAUSE THE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS WILL BE EXPECTED TO PICK UP THE TAB FOR THIS NEW ISRAELI AND WASHINGTON LUKUDNIC INSANITY!!
AND BUSH DESPERATELY WANTS A NEW WAR TO BE RAGING BEFORE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION...TO "SUPPORT" THE REPUBLICAN "NATIONAL SECURITY" CANDIDATE!!
IT'S COMING...COUNT ON IT..!
BOND MARKET TROUBLES GO UNREPORTED!
HANK AND BEN SHOW!! HAPPY TALKING A BIG RALLY!!
THE STREET IS GETTING TO THE TOP OF IT'S "BEAR MARKET" TRADING RANGE...SO THIS "RALLY" MAY NOT LAST TILL 4 O'CLOCK...
BUT, THE STREET LIKES HAPPY TALK...ANY WHICH WAY...
HANK AND BEN WILL NOT DISAPPOINT... ANYWAY IT'S ONLY FOR TODAY SO WHO CARES...?
THEY ALL KNOW THAT BEING CHEER LEADERS FOR ASSET SPECULATION IS JOB NUMBER ONE... NOW!!
TRADE DEFICIT DECLINE SIGNALS A RECESSION HAS STARTED!
EVERYONE KNOWS THAT THE US IS NOT AN "EXPORT" ECONOMY... WE IMPORT NEARLY ALL OF OUR "MANUFACTURED GOODS" FROM CHINA, ETAL...
SO THE DECLINE IN THE TRADE GAP IS DIRECTLY TIED TO THE FALL OFF OF THE AMERICAN CONSUMER... PROBABLY DUE TO HIGH GAS PRICES...WHICH ARE FINALLY STARTING TO BITE FOR REAL...!
THE TRADE DEFICIT DECLINE IS THE FIRST AND BEST SIGNAL THAT WE ARE NOW IN A FULL BLOWN RECESSION...
BUT LET'S SEE HOW THE STREET SPINS IT...
LIKELY THE STREET WILL SEE THE EXPORT INCREASE AS "POSITIVE" BECAUSE OF THE WEAKER DOLLAR...
BUT THE WEAK DOLLAR ONLY MEANS CHINA CAN BUY THEIR RAW MATERIAL FROM US...MAINLY, PULP PAPER AND SCRAP METALS...AT A HUGE DISCOUNT!!
THUS INCREASING THE PROFITS FOR CHINESE COMPANIES EXPORTING TO THE US...!
STREET TRIES FOR "SOLAR ENERGY" BUBBLE...
THAT'S JUST TOO "OFF THE BEAM" FOR EVEN WALL STREET TO HYPE...!
WHOSE GOING TO LEAD THE NEW BUBBLE MANIA...AL "SUN BEAM" GORE!
PLEEEASE...! THE STREET WILL NEVER HAVE A "PRO-LIBERAL" BUBBLE THAT'S JUST NOT THE WAY LIBERALS HANDLE CRISIS...
NOW A GOVERNMENT PROGRAM MAYBE...BUT A BUBBLE FOR THE DAY TRADERS...NO WAY!
FORGET THE "ALTERNATIVE ENERGY" BUBBLE...
IT'S TOO "FEEL GOOD" FOR MOST LIBERALS...AND THEY HATE WALL STREET ANYWAY...
NO ONE WILL BELIEVE IT...OR BUY IT. AND THE NEED FOR MORE JUNK SCIENCE WOULD BE OFF THE CHARTS...!
RECENT RALLIES CONSISTENT WITH BEAR MARKET TREND OVERALL
THEN THE MARKET MASTERS FLUSH THE TOILET....!
UNTIL THERE IS A REAL CHANGE IN THE MACRO ECONOMICS HERE.... THIS IS NOT A MARKET YOU BUY AND HOLD...
SO HANG ON TURDS!! ITS GOING TO BE A BUMPY RIDE!
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
THE CRISIS: IGNORED FOR THE DAY...
AND THE ANOMALOUS RETAIL TRADE NUMBER...WHICH EVERYONE SAYS IS "OFF"...WAS GOOD ENOUGH FOR TODAY...
TOMORROW...WELL THE SHILLS WILL FIND SOMETHING...OR MAYBE NOT...
ONE "SECRET" THAT COULD BE SUPPORTING THE MARKET...IS THE RECENT PLUNGE IN CD RATES AT BANKS...
A LOT OF PEOPLE SIMPLY WILL NOT TAKE LESS THAN SAY...2.5% ON A 6 MONTH CD... SOME OF THAT MONEY COULD BE PLUNGING INTO THE MARKETS NOW...
IT WILL BE A BIG MISTAKE...BUT I SUSPECT THERE IS SOME OF IT GOING ON...
THE LOWER RATES HAVE YET TO BITE ON THE ECONOMY....BUT AT THE BANKS SAVERS ARE FEELING THE HEAT....RIGHT NOW!
MARKET LATHERS UP ON HAPPY TALK...
AT SOME POINT EVENTS THAT ARE OUTSIDE OF THE CONTOL OF ....EVEN!....THE ELITES KICK IN...
WE COULD BE THERE NOW... THIS HAPPENS ABOUT ONCE PER GENERATION... ARGUEABLY THE LAST TIME WAS IN THE LATE 60'S EARLY 70'S....
AT THAT POINT THE ELITES HAVE TO STAND ASIDE AND LET THE "EXPERTS" DO THE CLEAN UP WORK THAT IS NEEDED...
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
DEMOCRATS HEADING FOR BROKERED CONVENTION! or, McADOO'S REVENGE!!
Clinton could sweep the field in the big states to come...
It could come down to the super delegates and a brokered convention... The first since 1924...which took 103 ballots to nominate a candidate...
You do remember President McAdoo....right?
And you thought Huckabee had a funny name..
BUFFETT BULLSHITS BOND MARKET....
AND LEAVE THEM TO SPIN IN THE WIND ON THE TROUBLED PART OF THEIR PORTFOLIO!!
AIN'T THAT THE HIGHEST FORM OF BULLSHIT...! NO WONDER MOST OF THEM ARE SAYING....KISS OFF!
BUT, THE SUCKERS BOUGHT IT ON WALL STREET TODAY... AT LEAST FOR THE THE DAY...
BROOKS SAYS AMERICA IS FUCKED!
BUT THE REAL QUESTION IS HOW FUCKED ARE WE...AND HOW DO WE STOP IT...
CERTAINLY NOT BY LETTING WALL STREET AND ISRAEL CONTINUE TO RUN THE COUNTRY...!
THAT'S HOW WE GOT FUCKED IN THE FIRST PLACE...!
MY HUNCH IS THAT A FEW SELECTIVE TAX HIKES ON THE VERY WELL OFF...WHO PROFITED MOST FROM THE RECENT LOOTING OF THE US ECONOMY...COUPLED WITH SOME CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS OF WALL STREET BROKERS....WILL SHUT THESE PEOPLE UP...
AND LET THE DEEP HEALING OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY BEGIN...
ALSO SOME VERY DEEP CUTS IN THE TOTALLY INSANE AND USELESS "WAR BUDGET" AT THE PENTAGON...
I MEAN WHO ARE WE AFRAID OF...CANADA...MEXICO... MEXICO HAS ALREADY TAKEN BACK THE SOUTHWESTERN USA...!
AND MC CAINS BULLSHIT THAT "ISLAMO-FACISTS" ARE AN "EXISTENTIAL" THREAT TO AMERICA IS PURE CRAP...
I MEAN MOST OF THESE ISLAMO-FACISTS ARE SITTING SHOELESS AND HUNGRY IN CAVES IN PAKISTAN!!
HOW THE FUCK ARE THEY A THREAT TO THE US NAVY...ARMY...AND MARINES...
GET YOUR FUCKIN' STORY STRAIGHT MC CAIN...! YOU'RE AN INSULT TO THE AMERICAN MILITARY WITH YOUR BULLSHIT ON THE ISLAMIC THREAT...
YES, THEY MAY "HIT US AGAIN"....AS THE FEARMONGERS LIKE TO NOTE...
BUT THAT CAN HAPPEN FROM ANYONE...
THESE CRAZY AMERICAN TEENAGE "MALL SHOOTERS" ARE MORE OF A THREAT THAN MOST MIDEAST "JIHADI"...!
GOOD POLICE WORK WILL PROTECT US MORE THAN INVADING ANOTHER MUSLIM COUNTRY...OR OCCUPYING THE ONES WE'VE ALREADY INVADED...!
FUCKED? YES...BY REPUBLICANS AND WALL STREET! NOW THE QUESTION IS HOW TO GET UNFUCKED!! AND THAT WILL BE A PROJECT WORTHY OF THE NEXT "FRD!" OR LIKE KRUGMAN SAYS: A NEW NEW DEAL...
THIS WON'T BE EASY THE DAMAGE IS DEEP...BUT THE REPUBLICAN ASSHOLES AND THEIR SHILLS HAD BEST REFLECT ON THE DAMAGE THEY HAVE DONE...AND HOLD THE BULLSHIT CRITICISM FOR LATER... AFTER WE DECIDE IF ANY CRIMES HAVE BEEN COMMITTED BY THESE PEOPLE WHILE IN OFFICE.
BUFFETT WILL MAKE A "SMALL FORTUNE" ON MUNIS!!
THE NOTION THAT UNCLE WARREN IS GOING TO BAIL OUT THE ENTIRE MUNI BOND INDUSTRY IS A BIT NUTS...
GM SAYS: EVERYBODY OUT!!
ESSENTIALLY CHEAP LABOR RULES THE WORLD NOW...AND CAPITAL FOLLOWS!
THE PROBLEM IS CAPITAL CAN BE "BORDERLESS" BECAUSE IT'S ABSTRACT...
PEOPLE ARE LOCAL...THEY CAN'T BE ABSTRACTED INTO BITS AND BYTES...AND SENT OVER THE INTERNET...TO A HONG KONG BANK OR SOME CASH BOX IN THE CAYMAN ISLANDS!
THIS IS ALL GOING TO HIT THE FAN SOON...
AGAIN...WE HAVE SOME STRAIGHT LINE THINKING GOING ON ON WALL STREET...THAT SIMPLY WILL FAIL IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE...AND AT THE BALLOT BOX...
IT'S COMING... AND VERY SOON...
KNOW THIS, GENTLE READER, ALL ECONOMIES ARE LOCAL...
AND LOCAL ECONOMIES WILL MAKE THEIR OWN RULES SOONER OR LATER...
LOCAL ECONOMIES WILL NOT BE SLAVES TO GLOBAL CAPITAL FOR TOO MUCH LONGER...
PEOPLE ARE SIMPLY FED UP...
THERE NEEDS TO BE A BLEND OF CAPITALISTIC GREED...AND SOCIAL SUPPORTS FOR LOCAL ECONOMIES THAT ARE THE VICTIMS OF INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL...
IT'S COMING... AND SOON...
THE CONTINUATION OF THIS CHEAP LABOR BASED CAPITALISM...IS ABOUT AS CRAZY AS THE NOTION THAT WE'RE GOING TO GET $2000 GOLD AND NO ONE WILL NOTICE THE REAL ECONOMY CONSEQUENCES...
THE MSM IS STILL KNEE DEEP IN RIGHT WING "GREED IS GOOD" BULLSHIT!!
Monday, February 11, 2008
IS $2000 GOLD A "DEATH WISH...?"
BUT NO ONE EVER TALKS ABOUT HOW THAT WILL FEEL IN THE REAL ECONOMY....
IF GOLD GOES TO $2000 YOU 'LL HAVE GAS AT $10 PER GALLON!!
AND I HAVE A HUNCH THAT WE'LL BE IN A WHOLE NEW BALL GAME ....LONG BEFORE THAT HAPPENS...
STRAIGHT LINE EXTRAPOLATIONS ARE THE GREATEST INVESTMENT FALLACY...!!
THINK ABOUT IT...
MY HUNCH IS THAT 20% PRIME RATES ARE MORE LIKELY THAN $2000 GOLD...!
PEAK FOR OIL...NOT FOR GOLD...?
THE NOTION OF ENDLESS BUBBLES IS A BET FAR FETCHED...
AT SOME POINT THE SYSTEM COLLAPSES...AND THE GROW-UPS ARE CALLED IN TO CLEAN UP THE MESS...
THAT IS THE REAL PROBLEM WITH THE DOOMSDAY SCENARIOS....
THE ELITES ARE EVENTUALLY PUSHED ASIDE...SOME ARE JAILED...OTHERS ARE SIMPLY DISCREDITED.... THEN, A RECOVERY PHASE KICKS IN...AND ALL THE BUBBLE BULLSHIT TALK GOES TO THE USED BOOKSTORES FOR THE AMUSMENT OF FUTURE GENERATIONS....
GO TO A GOOD USED BOOKSTORE...IN THE "MARKETS AND FINANCE" SECTION YOU'LL LIKELY FIND BOOKS FROM THE LATE 60'S AND MOST OF THE 70'S ABOUT THE DISASTER THAT IS WALL STREET...
PRIOR TO THAT...? THE 30'S BOOKS ARE OUT THERE BUT THEY ARE GETTING HARDER TO FIND...
BECAUSE YOU SEE...NONE OF THIS IS REALLY NEW...WE'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE... MANY TIMES!!
DIFFERENT NAMES...DIFFERENT BULLSHIT...
BUT IT'S ALL THE SAME OLD CRAP FROM WALL STREET AS IT'S ALWAYS BEEN...
IN FACT A HUGE BOOK COULD BE WRITTEN JUST ON "REAL ESTATE BUBBLES" ALONE!!
WHY DO YOU THINK "GRAMPS" HATED THE BANKS AND THE BROKERS...
HE KNEW... HE KNEW...
WE'RE JUST LEARNING... BUT HE KNEW...
WE ARE VERY EPHEMERAL CREATURES ....AND OUR MEMORIES ARE VERY SHORT...
ESPECIALLY FOR THE "NON-READERS" WHO ARE THE VAST MAJORITY....
WHO WILL TURN OFF THE BUBBLE MACHINE....?
THE REAL ISSUE IS NOT WILL THE BUBBLES CONTINUE...THEY WILL!
BUT WILL THE "END OF THE BUBBLE ERA" BE A COLLAPSE OF CIVILIZATION AS WE KNOW IT...
OR JUST AN ADJUSTMENT TO CHANGED CIRCUMSTANCES...
MY HUNCH IS THAT IT DEPENDS ON WHO IS "DEFINING REALITY" IN THE FUTURE...
IF IT IS THE PROGRESSIVES...AND THE DEMOCRATS...WE WILL TACKLE THE PROBLEMS AS A UNITED SOCIETY...WITH A COMMON PURPOSE...
PERHAPS A MOVE TO PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION WILL BE NEEDED...
IF THE CONSERVATIVES AND THE "HATE MONGERS" ARE RUNNING THE SHOW...LIKELY WAR, HATE, GREED AND ULTIMATELY COLLAPSE....
WE ARE AT THE END OF AN ERA NOW... THE AGE OF GREED IS ENDING....AND ALAS, NOT FAST ENOUGH FOR MOST PEOPLE...
BUT THE REAL QUESTION IS WHO WILL BE DEFINING OUR NEW REALITY....
OBAMA? CLINTON? OR THE HATE MONGER MC CAIN....
LET US HOPE THAT THE PROGRESSIVES WILL BE IN CHARGE...AND THE ROLL OF FEAR AND HATE THAT THE REPUBLICANS HAVE PUSHED FOR SO LONG WILL BE REJECTED!
Sunday, February 10, 2008
WHERE IS THIS....? or, FUN WITH MAPS...! or, I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE!
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IT SEEMS THAT EVERY BUILDING ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH IS NOW VISIBLE ON-LINE WITH A PHOTOGRAPH!
GIVE ME YOUR ADDRESS AND I CAN SEE THE TOP OF YOUR HOUSE...
NOT THAT I CARE...BUT YOU KNOW...IT'S POSSIBLE... ACTUALLY YOU CAN NOW TAKE A VIRTUAL "VACATION" TO PLACES YOU'VE NEVER BEEN...OR PLAN TO VISIT...USING GOOGLE MAPS!... ALSO SEE WIKIMAPIA...!!
FOR INTERACTIVE MAPPING FUN AND GAMES... WHO KNEW THAT GEOGRAPHY COULD BE FUN...
DOW? LET IT RIP...!
LET IT RIP...
WE HAVE OUR "NEW ERA" NOW.... JUST NOT THE ONE THE STOCK TOUTS WERE PUSHING...
AUSSIES HAVE A "REAL ECONOMY" TO DEFEND, UNLIKE THE US...!
SO "FIGHTING INFLATION" JUST ISN'T ON THE FEDS RADAR SCREEN!!
BUT THE EVER WEAKER DOLLAR COULD HAVE BERNANKE SOBERED UP LATER THIS YEAR...
HUCKABEE THE REAL "CHANGE" CANDIDATE...OBAMA A FAKE!
ONLY HUCKABEE SEEMS TO HAVE A REAL GRASP OF THE ISSUES...AND HUCKABEE IS TRULY A "CHANGE" CANDIDATE...!
BUT ALAS, THAT IS NOT WHAT THE PROCESS REWARDS...
OBAMA IS PROBABLY THE MOST OVER-RATED OF ALL THE CHOICES... OBAMA IS JUST GETTING STARTED ON THE REAL ISSUES...LIKE HEALTH CARE AND JOBS....
OBAMA STRIKES ME AS A "CLARENCE THOMAS" TYPE...WHO WILL SELL OUT ONCE HE'S GOT THE KEYS TO THE EXECUTIVE SUITE...
I DON'T TRUST OBAMA...HE SEEMS SHIFTY...TOO TENTATIVE AND UNPREPARED ON THE KEY ISSUES... UNLIKE HILLARY...
I MEAN WHAT THE FUCK IS THE "AUDACITY OF HOPE....?"
IT SURE AS HELL ISN'T UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE...OR JOBS FOR AMERICANS!!
WHAT THE AUDACITY OF HOPE IS IS SIMPLY MORE BULLSHIT FROM AN ANOTHER AMBITIOUS POLITICO...WHO WILL SELL OUT TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER AS SOON AS HE'S IN OFFICE...
OR, MAYBE I JUST DON'T WANT TO "BUY A GRIN AND A PROMISE" YET AGAIN....?
HAVEN'T WE HAD ENOUGH BULLSHIT FROM WASHINGTON...? DO WE NEED YET ANOTHER BULLSHITER LIKE OBAMA IN THE WHITE HOUSE...?
THE CLINTONS ARE BY FAR THE BEST PREPARED...AND WITH THE HELP OF PREZ BILL...HILLARY WILL BE ABLE TO HIT THE GROUND RUNNING IN 2009... HILLARY COULD BE THE MOST EFFECTIVE PRESIDENT SINCE LBJ PUSHED THROUGH THE LAST OF THE FDR NEW DEAL AGENDA BACK IN THE 60'S....
MY HUNCH IS THAT WE ARE GOING TO NEED SOME VERY QUICK ACTION BY JANUARY 2009!!
THINGS ARE REALLY STARTING TO FALL APART NOW IN THE ECONOMY...
MORE BULLSHIT FROM THE BULLSHITERS!!
NATO DUMPS BUSH'S WAR ON "TERRA!"
AND IN A STATE OF SEVERE CRIMINAL SELF DELUSION...
EVANGELICALS FOR HILLARY OR OBAMA!!
MOST EVANGELICALS ARE NOT RICH...THEY HAVE JOB PROBLEMS...AND HEALTH CARE ISSUES...
MANY EVANGELICALS ARE NOW EVIRONMENTALLY AWARE...
MANY EVANGELICALS ARE STARTING TO TIRE OF THE WAR...AFTER ALL THEY ARE THE ONES DOING MOST OF THE KILLING AND DYING!!
FURTHERMORE, THE HUCKABEE CANDIDACY HAS GIVEN THE EVANGELICALS "PERMISSION" TO START THINKING ABOUT THEIR ECONOMIC DISAFFECTION FROM THE WALL STREET BRANCH OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY...
EVANGELICALS FOR A DEMOCRAT.... OVER THE WAR HAWK MC CAIN...WHO OPENLY ADMITS TO NOT CARING ABOUT THE NEEDED ECONOMIC AGENDA...!!
I SAY YES!!
VERY, VERY POSSIBLE INDEED!!
CONSERVATIVES FOR HILLARY OR OBAMA...?
PERHAPS....
BUT LIKELY SOME MAY GO FOR HILLARY OR OBAMA!!
ON THE THEORY THAT A DEMOCRAT WILL BE FORCED TO BE "FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE" ALA...BILL CLINTON!
THIS, OF COURSE, GETS THE ECONOMY BACK ON TRACK...
AND PERHAPS SPREADS THE WEALTH A BIT...WITH MIDDLE CLASS TAX CUTS...AND SLIGHTLY MORE TAXES ON THE EXCESSIVE INCOME OF THE MEGA RICH!
THESE MAIN STREET "BUSINESS CONSERVATIVES" WOULD ACTUALLY PROSPER MORE UNDER A DEMOCRAT.....
THAN THEY WOULD IF A WALL STREET REPUBLICAN WERE ALLOWED TO LET THE CORPORATE AND CEO LOOTING CONTINUE...
CAN A CRANKY OLD FART, A WOMEN OR A BLACK GUY WIN THE PRESIDENCY?
FIRST, THE PARTY REGULARS WILL STAY PUT NO MATTER WHAT...OK?
YOU COULD RUN SATAN HIMSELF, AND THE PARTY REGULARS WOULD VOTE FOR THE PARTY...
THE REAL ISSUE IS THE UNCOMMITTED AND THE INDEPENDENTS...?
WHO DOES BEST WITH UNCOMMITTED AND INDEPENDENT VOTERS...? THAT IS THE KEY VOTE THIS TIME...
BOTH MC CAIN AND OBAMA HAVE APPEAL TO INDEPENDENT VOTERS... BOTH ARE SORT OF "OUTSIDE" THE MAINSTREAM OF THEIR RESPECTIVE PARTIES...
MOST OF THESE INDEPENDENTS HAVE LITTLE COMMITMENT TO OVERARCHING IDEOLOGIES.... THEY ARE AD HOC IN THEIR APPROACH TO POLITICS...
THEY VOTE FOR PEOPLE THEY "LIKE"... OR WHO SEEM OK....
INDEPENDENTS DON'T HAVE A LOT OF IRONS IN THE POLITICAL FIRE... THEY ARE NOT DEPENDENT ON GOVERNMENT FOR SOME ASPECT OF THE LIFE...
THEY LIKE BOTH LOW TAXES...AND GOOD ROADS!!
THEY LIKE SECURITY BUT THEY HATE LONG INCONCLUSIVE WARS...!!
THEY LIKE MORALITY....BUT REALIZE THAT IT'S NOT THE NATURAL STATE OF MANKIND...
MY HUNCH IS THAT OBAMA IS THE INDEPENDENT CHOICE....OVER HILLARY...
BECAUSE INDEPENDENTS LIKELY ALREADY HAVE HEALTH CARE AND PERHAPS SECURE JOBS... SOME COULD EVEN BE ON MEDICARE OR MEDICAIDE! BUT THEY FEEL SECURE IN THOSE PROGRAMS...
OBAMA IS WEAK ON POCKET BOOK ISSUES...HE OFFERS PEOPLE "HOPE" NOT "PROGRAMS" AND IMMEDIATE LEGISLATION TO FIX PROBLEMS....
OBAMA HASN'T EVEN STARTED THINKING SERIOUSLY ABOUT MANY KEY NATIONAL PROBLEMS... RATHER HE TELLS US ABOUT HOW HE "HELPED" THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO!!
WELL, WE AREN'T QUITE THE "SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO" YET...BUT WE ARE GETTING THERE...
OBAMA WILL PASS S-CHIP AND COAST INTO THE NEXT ELECTION CYCLE!!
HILLARY IS FOR PEOPLE WHO FEEL THE ECONOMY IS IN DEEP DEEP TROUBLE...
MC CAIN IS FOR INDEPENDENTS WHO ARE "SET" ECONOMICALLY...HAVE THEIR HEALTH CARE IN PLACE...AND LIKE TO "WIN" NOT JUST START WARS...
THE US WAR RECORD HAS BEEN IFFY OF LATE... BUT MANY MC CAIN VOTERS ARE OLDER FLAG WAVERS...WHO STILL CAN AFFORD TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT "PATRIOTISM" "FLAG BURNING" AND "WAR HEROES"....
MY HUNCH IS THAT THESE MC CAIN INDEPENDENTS MAY ALSO BE TORN BY THE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS IN THE COUNTRY...
NOT NECESSARILY IN THEIR OWN LIVES ...BUT FOR THE LIVES OF THEIR CHILDREN AND GRAND CHILDREN WHO MAY BE STRUGGLING IN A POOR JOB AND WAGE MARKET WITHOUT HEALTH CARE AND HOPE FOR THE FUTURE....
SO WILL THE "MC CAIN INDEPENDENT" BE A MORE LIKELY HILLARY OR OBAMA VOTER...
AMAZINGLY I THINK THEY WOULD SPLIT ALMOST EVENLY....
MOST OF THESE "SHALLOW THINKERS" STILL HARBOR SOME RACIST TENDENCIES....
BUT SHALLOW THINKERS RELATE TO THE SUPPOSED "GOOD TIMES" OF THE CLINTON YEARS..
....AND VERY LIKELY FEAR FOR THE FUTURE OF THEIR KIDS... IF NOT FOR THEMSELVES....
INCIDENTLY, THIS WOULD BE A GOOD "TALKING POINT" FOR EITHER DEMOCRAT...!
ESSENTIALLY SAYING ....
YES, YOU'RE FIXED FOR LIFE...! YOU CAN "AFFORD" A MC CAIN PRESIDENCY...
BUT WHAT ABOUT YOUR KIDS...!!??
YOUR SISTERS KID...?
YOUR GRANDCHILD WHO STILL LIVES AT HOME.... BECAUSE HE OR SHE CAN'T FIND A JOB THAT PAYS A LIVING WAGE...FOR THE RENT AND WHAT ABOUT HEALTH INSURANCE!!
MC CAIN WILL BE A SITTING DUCK ON THE ECONOMY AND HE HAS FORFEITED THAT ISSUE TO THE DEMOCRATS...
NET NET ADVANTAGE....TO THE DEMOCRAT ON INDEPENDENTS...
WITH A BIGGER ADVANTAGE TO OBAMA THAN TO CLINTON ON THIS KEY SEGMENT OF THE ELECTORATE...
Saturday, February 9, 2008
MORE KILLING OF THE INNOCENT...BY THE US IN IRAQ
HILLARY BEATS THE "BLACK GUY"...
AND THE COMMENTARY ABOUT OBAMA HAS BEEN COMING ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY FROM THE BLACK TV PUNDITS...
THIS RAISES A QUESTION .... DO AMERICANS REALLY WANT THE US DEFINED FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS...FROM A "BLACK PERSPECTIVE?"
NOW THAT WOULD BE OK .... BUT FOR THE FACT THAT BOTH BLACK AND WHITE PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING MIGHTILY UNDER THE DEAD WEIGHT OF 20 YEARS OF REPUBLICAN LOOTING OF THE ECONOMY...
BESIDES...OBAMA LOST ME WITH HIS WAFFLE ON HEALTH CARE... WE SIMPLY CAN'T PUT THIS ISSUE OFF ANY LONGER...
THE NEXT PRESIDENT CAN'T AFFORD TO BE "THE BLACK PRESIDENT"... LIKELY PEOPLE REALIZE THIS AND ARE TRENDING TOWARD HILLARY...FOR BETTER OR WORSE...
WE NEED SOMEONE WHO CAN HIT THE GROUND RUNNING...
BECAUSE BY 2009...? THIS COUNTRY IS GOING TO BE SO FAR UP THE CREEK THAT TIME WILL BE OF THE ESSENCE...TIME WILL BE RUNNING OUT REALLY!
I DON'T THINK PEOPLE WILL HAVE THE PATIENCE TO WAIT FOR OBAMA TO "HIT HIS STRIDE" SIX TO EIGHT MONTHS DOWN THE ROAD...
THE FIERCE URGENCY OF NOW...WILL BE THE NAME OF THE GAME IN JANUARY 2009...!
AND "THE CLINTONS" ARE UNIQUELY SUITED FOR THAT JOB...
YAHOO'S BIG MISTAKE...?
THE ANTI-TRUST IMPLICATIONS WOULD KEEP ARMIES OF LAWYERS BUSY FOR YEARS...!!
AND MSN AND YAHOO JUST ARE NOT A GOOD FIT... THEY ARE REALLY DOING THE SAME THING FOR DIFFERENT AUDIENCES... AND VERY LIKELY...THE YAHOO FOLKS WOULD JUST MOVE OVER TO GOOGLE...AND DUMP MSN ANYWAY...
THE ONLY WAY I'D MOVE OVER TO MSN IS IF THEY'D GIVE ME THE EMAIL ADDRESS... "HOTMALE@HOTMAIL.COM"....! BUT ALAS, NOT POSSIBLE...!
I'M A YAHOO PERSON...AND I'VE NEVER REALLY WARMED UP TO MSN.... BUT I DO USED GOOGLE A LOT...
SO PERHAPS IT'S A GOOD THING THAT YAHOO WILL STAY INDEPENDENT...
FRANKLY THIS MERGER MADE ABOUT AS MUCH SENSE AS TIME WARNER--AOL...
THAT MESS IS STILL UNWINDING....
G-7 STRUGGLES WITH PROBLEM OF GLOBAL CHEAP LABOR AND CONSEQUENT EXCESS PRINTING OF MONEY FOR INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL AND THE RICH!
THE PROBLEM IS:
WITH CHEAP LABOR IN CHINA DOING OUR MANUFACTURING.... WESTERN CENTRAL BANKS CAN NOW PRINT MONEY LIKE MAD!!
THEY DID, THEY ARE.... AND THEY WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO!!
KNOWING QUITE WELL... THAT THE EXCESS CASH WILL ONLY "GO FOR" ASSET INFLATION...AND NOT SLOSH INTO THE REAL ECONOMY AS "GOODS INFLATION!"....
IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS...JUST THINK ABOUT THOSE CHEAP SHOES AT TAR-JAY AND WALMART!! PLEASE...
THANK YOU, TO CHINA'S LOW WAGE SLAVES FOR THAT BIT OF MACROECONOMIC BLISS!!
NO...
THE PROBLEM NOW IS LACK OF INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES, CAUSED BY THE GLOBAL DECLINE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS...ESPECIALLY THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS!!
THE EXCESSIVE CASH BEING PRINTED HAS NO WHERE TO GO BUT THE MOST RISKY OF INVESTMENTS AND BIZARRE MONEY SCHEMES...AS WE NOW SEE ALL OVER THE WORLD!!
BUT PLEASE DON'T LOOK FOR THIS KIND OF HORRIBLE "TRUTH TELLING" IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA...YOU WON'T FIND IT THERE!
THAT SAID.... IT IS USEFUL TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THE REAL PROBLEMS ARE NEVERTHELESS!! DON'T YOU THINK...?
BECAUSE, YOU SEE, IT INOCULATES YOU FROM BEING TOTALLY DEPENDANT ON THE BULLSHIT AND BIG LIES OF OUR NOW TROUBLED ELITES!!
THEIR GREED HAS CONSUMED THEM!!
....AND NOW US!!
Friday, February 8, 2008
REPUBLICAN CRACKPOTS MEET UP....DEFEAT IN NOVEMBER ASSURED!
OK, THEY'RE RACISTS, RELIGIOUS NUTS, AND RURAL BUBBAS. THE THREE "R"s OF THE REPUBLICAN BASE...!
AND OTHER IGNORANT SHIT HEADS, AND CRANKY OLD FARTS WHO COULDN'T FIND THEIR ASSES IF YOU LET THEM USE BOTH HANDS!!
AND, OF COURSE THE TWO BIT NICKLE MILLIONAIRES...FROM THE FUCKED UP SUBURBS.
AND THE SCARED SHITLESS "MOMMIES" WORKING DEAD-END JOBS IN THE "OFFICE PARKS." WHO DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON...BUT THINK DIVORCE MAY BE THE ANSWER!
WHY DO THESE PEOPLE INSIST ON TRASHING THE US ECONOMY TO SATISFY THEIR PERSONAL GREED...?
THEN, INSIST ON PUSHING THEIR HALF BAKED, OFTEN BIZZARE, SOCIAL BULLSHIT OPINIONS ON EVERYONE ELSE...?