Archive for September, 2008

So who do you want to listen to about how to “do something” about it?

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Schiff or the Laughers?
Peter Schiff – CNBC – Kudlow & Company – 7/2/2007


Peter Schiff- Bulls & Bears – 12/16/2006

What’s amazing about this is that these people actually sound more ignorant than Republicans in Congress who tried to fix Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Another question: Are [...]

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Financial Apocalypse?

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Dow
10,730.71
+365.26
(3.52%)

Nasdaq
2,069.48
+85.75
(4.32%)

S&P 500
1,155.55
+49.16
(4.44%)

Bailout failure ‘will cause US crash’
The US stock market could suffer a devastating crash with shares losing a third of their value this week if Hank Paulson’s financial bailout plan fails, US Treasury officials have warned.

Wow, the President can’t even start a real financial panic. That’s got [...]

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The War Street Journal is worthless trash

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Exhibit… the only exhibit needed.
America has survived a feckless political class in the past, and it will again after this week. But Monday’s crash and burn of the Paulson plan on Capitol Hill reveals a Washington elite that has earned every bit of the disdain that Americans have for it. This crowd can’t even make [...]

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We will tell you what the bill really meant and we will prosecute you for saying otherwise! We’re the Obama Goon Squad!

Monday, September 29th, 2008

More descent into Banana Republic.
Here is the legislation.  It is explicitly comprehensive sex education and it is explicitly aimed at kindergartners as well as older children.  Obama voted for comprehensive sex education for kindergartners.  If it was only due to the predator issue, that’s fine.  But the legislation is not limited to that at all.
See [...]

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So do you think Laffer has sent Peter that penny he owes?

Monday, September 29th, 2008


The PC objection to Peter’s observation about two-income households is a hoot.
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Does anyone else get a sci-fi vibe?

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Governor candidate’s debate from Alaska
Putting election politics aside, does anyone else feel like this is a scene from a story about a moon-colony under the dominion of an earth empire?

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ObaMinTru continues to promote the Gateway Banana Republic

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Follow up on this post.
The Gateway Pundit has news here and here.  The “McCain did it too” defense is insane.  By definition I would know about it because it would have been a big news push to intimidate the other side.  That was “The Obama Truth Squads” unique deed.  And even th ought they clean [...]

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Don’t have time to embed the video

Monday, September 29th, 2008

but go here and watch Republicans beg for the creation of a new regulator and get spit on by Democrats.
Follow up to this post.

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Not the the Ministry of Truth (MiniTru) but the OBAMA Ministry of Truth (ObaMinTru)

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

I live in an aspiring banana republic. They actually call themselves the Barack Obama Truth Squad, just in case you thought this was a non-partisan threat.


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But hey. I hear Sarah Palin once asked about removing some offensive books from a public library. So she’s dangerous.
UPDATE: Maybe I [...]

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Instead of a Blog post on the financial crisis

Friday, September 26th, 2008


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New flash: Congress has agreed to a modest proposal!

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

This is the news.  And this is the modest proposal.  Main Street and everyone in it exists to serve the Wall Street money machine.  The ants only win in animated kids movies.

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Just for reference: Couric with Palin/Couric with Obama

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Katie Couric interviews Barack Obama.
Katie Couric interviews Sarah Palin.

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Palin and Obama and the accusations of corruption and/or questionable association

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

I don’t think the word double-standard is large enough.  The accusations people struggle to make about Palin don’t even compare.  I wonder how many dead Chicagoans will be voting for Obama in November?

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Obama as Daniel’s 3 friends/”conservatives” as idolatrous Nebuchadnezzar and proud of it

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

I won’t vote for Obama, but this makes me want to:


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Do you find this video shocking? I do. I am shocked to learn there is still a statute that requires ruitual obeisance to the American flag. Didn’t the Supreme Court settle this in the flag burning controversy [...]

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Problems I think I see in the logic of third parties

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

When you are trudging along as a member of one of the two major parties, you pretty much expect to be less than fully enchanted by who the party selects to run for the Presidency or any other office. You are realistic and figure that the guy is probably better than the other one.
So, [...]

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The Gods of the Copybook Headings – Rudyard Kipling

Friday, September 19th, 2008

As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in [...]

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Some cool hand made pens

Friday, September 19th, 2008

I just discovered this site.  I spoke with the craft’s person and was quite impressed.

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Proof that Thomas Jefferson was an atheist

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

He didn’t believe in the magic money god:
We are now taught to believe that legerdemain tricks upon paper can produce as solid wealth as hard labor in the earth. It is vain for common sense to urge that nothing can produce but nothing; that it is an idle dream to believe in a philosopher’s stone [...]

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Ron Paul in 2003

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Perhaps the Federal Reserve can stave off the day of reckoning by purchasing GSE debt and pumping liquidity into the housing [...]

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Not kidding about “the virtue of selfishness”

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

I guess if the Nazis had allowed the killing of the unfit individually, without coercive taxation and government mandates, then it would have been defensible according to the arbitrary bloodlust articulated by the alleged “Center for the Advancement of Capitalism”:
So in the anti-abortion advocate’s eyes, a parent’s desire to raise healthy children by squelching unhealthy [...]

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