Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Bird flu coming?
The National Science foundation had to be stopped from publicizing the process of making the bird flu into a 60 to 80 percent lethal worldwide killing virus. The world population is at risk. It is time for our gov to enforce some serious secrecy control.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Dateline: December 4th, 2011
Nikki Haley, South Carolina's Governor seems to have stepped into a proverbial pile of excrement with her action OK'ing the dredging of the Savannah River. The tree huggers and isolationists are coming out of the closets. The tree huggers are saying that the deepening will bring the salt water intrusion further up the river, killing fresh water cypress forests. And what's this about needing to replenish dissolved oxygen levels in some parts of the river with some kind of machine? Well, if they are going to do something to the environment to cause part of it to die if not maintained "unnaturally"...I'd say no. Espescially when we are talking about dissolved oxygen levels. This guy...Nathan Dias...and birdwatching expert and professional tree hugger seems to have a good point. See his editorial in the Post and Courier today..."DHEC dredging decision a dereliction of environmental duty" is the title.
Nikki, Honey, you need to rethink this thing. A woman can change her mind. A smart operson admits when they have made a mistake and fixes it. Dumbasses, bless their hearts, stick with their mistakes and take the damage. Could be that Georgia doesn't really have room for that kind of port there.
Herman Cain is "suspending" his run for President of the US. (Who does he think he is fooling..."suspending". I guess he thinks we are all idiots.) He's been caught with his pants down...13 years of it...screwing around on his wife...and so has been given the boot by his financial supporters. Man, I'm sorry, Herman. All that money and all those women throwing themselves at you and now you've got to go back to being the same old same old...one man show. Life sucks. Why don't you call John Edwards and Bill Clinton and try a threesome. Ahh...all you have to be is a little flexible and you can have all you want, Herman. There. Life is not over. See? I can fix anything.
Here's a life constant for you: Beware of those who think everyone else is an idiot. Isn't that part of the definition of Megalomaniac...and sociopath? I know a sociopath. Pretty neat opportunity to study one. More on that later.
Noteable news: It's gets cold and really windy in Indiana! I was up there last month. They have low horizons up there...meaning all the trees are gone. In their place are thousands of square miles of agricultural land...the world's breadbasket. Miles deep and wide. We don't see things like that here in the lowcountry. When things are growing, Indiana and Ohio are delightful places to be. You really ought to go...in July. Weather is a big deal there. Tornadoes. The word makes those folks naturally and nervously look to the west and north horizons. You can see down to the horizons there...like Texas. Weather. It's a bigger part of life up there.
For those who don't know, I live near Charleston, SC. We have trees. Tall trees...everywhere. WE cannot see weather coming...unless we are in a Wal-Mart parking lot, of course. So we live our days ignorant of the ugly black cloud fronts that scare the living bejesus out of yankees.
Those yankees, by the way, are more country than most of us! Indiana and Ohio have nothing in common with New York City. Glad to say it, too. I always enjoy going up there.
Thanks for reading and have great day.
Nikki, Honey, you need to rethink this thing. A woman can change her mind. A smart operson admits when they have made a mistake and fixes it. Dumbasses, bless their hearts, stick with their mistakes and take the damage. Could be that Georgia doesn't really have room for that kind of port there.
Herman Cain is "suspending" his run for President of the US. (Who does he think he is fooling..."suspending". I guess he thinks we are all idiots.) He's been caught with his pants down...13 years of it...screwing around on his wife...and so has been given the boot by his financial supporters. Man, I'm sorry, Herman. All that money and all those women throwing themselves at you and now you've got to go back to being the same old same old...one man show. Life sucks. Why don't you call John Edwards and Bill Clinton and try a threesome. Ahh...all you have to be is a little flexible and you can have all you want, Herman. There. Life is not over. See? I can fix anything.
Here's a life constant for you: Beware of those who think everyone else is an idiot. Isn't that part of the definition of Megalomaniac...and sociopath? I know a sociopath. Pretty neat opportunity to study one. More on that later.
Noteable news: It's gets cold and really windy in Indiana! I was up there last month. They have low horizons up there...meaning all the trees are gone. In their place are thousands of square miles of agricultural land...the world's breadbasket. Miles deep and wide. We don't see things like that here in the lowcountry. When things are growing, Indiana and Ohio are delightful places to be. You really ought to go...in July. Weather is a big deal there. Tornadoes. The word makes those folks naturally and nervously look to the west and north horizons. You can see down to the horizons there...like Texas. Weather. It's a bigger part of life up there.
For those who don't know, I live near Charleston, SC. We have trees. Tall trees...everywhere. WE cannot see weather coming...unless we are in a Wal-Mart parking lot, of course. So we live our days ignorant of the ugly black cloud fronts that scare the living bejesus out of yankees.
Those yankees, by the way, are more country than most of us! Indiana and Ohio have nothing in common with New York City. Glad to say it, too. I always enjoy going up there.
Thanks for reading and have great day.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Coming Recession
The ECRI (Economic Cycle Research Institute) is predicting that we are in for a second dip of recession. These guys get it right...the Federal agencies get it wrong because they are stuck in the "Wishful Thinking/Politically Clouded" mode. This is an eye opening site for you to read...could be wrong...but I don't think so. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/whos-right-about-recession-wall-street-or-ecri-2011-10-20
So, what can you do to insulate yourself from this downturn? The stock market is going to take another dip and stay down for a while. This economy/stock market depends on growth of business activity...not just maintaining business activity. Somewhere in between growth and contraction is where we will find ourselves and things will slow down for a while. Ben Bernanke is already talking about printing more money. When he prints money, buying our bonds, our money loses value. The Chinese stopped buying our bonds recently. So, WE will buy enough of them with printed money to keep the price up. That's inflation, pure and simple. More to come on that.
For those who haven't figured it out, our government only takes in about 1/2 of the dollars it needs to spend through "taxes". The rest it gets by selling bonds. When Uncle Sam offers 2 Billion dollars worth of bonds and the demand is there...it gets a pretty good price for them. That's a low "yield" for investors. When demand is down, Uncle Sam then has to lower the price, making the interest rate paid on them more attractive to the buyers...that's " higher yield".
Wall Street will finally acknowledge that we are in a recession a year or more after it has begun...after they have adjusted their investments to benefit from the retraction. That's one way they have managed to accumulate the majority of the wealth in this country. They are playing a step or two ahead of us...the people who have placed our money in pensions, insurance funds, and equities/stocks.
If your 401k is in equities at all it may be time now or at least soon to move them into a fund that is not subject to turns in the stock market. You will still make interest on your money...you just won't be in the market. Read the article and make up your own mind. But please, don't let Wall Street and the "what I call the drunken car salesmen in the big (too big to fail) banks" take your retirement gains again. The idea of making a killing in equities is a suckers bet. They want you to believe in them...and they really are not an honest lot. They really are not.
So, what can you do to insulate yourself from this downturn? The stock market is going to take another dip and stay down for a while. This economy/stock market depends on growth of business activity...not just maintaining business activity. Somewhere in between growth and contraction is where we will find ourselves and things will slow down for a while. Ben Bernanke is already talking about printing more money. When he prints money, buying our bonds, our money loses value. The Chinese stopped buying our bonds recently. So, WE will buy enough of them with printed money to keep the price up. That's inflation, pure and simple. More to come on that.
For those who haven't figured it out, our government only takes in about 1/2 of the dollars it needs to spend through "taxes". The rest it gets by selling bonds. When Uncle Sam offers 2 Billion dollars worth of bonds and the demand is there...it gets a pretty good price for them. That's a low "yield" for investors. When demand is down, Uncle Sam then has to lower the price, making the interest rate paid on them more attractive to the buyers...that's " higher yield".
Wall Street will finally acknowledge that we are in a recession a year or more after it has begun...after they have adjusted their investments to benefit from the retraction. That's one way they have managed to accumulate the majority of the wealth in this country. They are playing a step or two ahead of us...the people who have placed our money in pensions, insurance funds, and equities/stocks.
If your 401k is in equities at all it may be time now or at least soon to move them into a fund that is not subject to turns in the stock market. You will still make interest on your money...you just won't be in the market. Read the article and make up your own mind. But please, don't let Wall Street and the "what I call the drunken car salesmen in the big (too big to fail) banks" take your retirement gains again. The idea of making a killing in equities is a suckers bet. They want you to believe in them...and they really are not an honest lot. They really are not.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
US Debt growth
Dave Brumbaugh's editorial in the Post and Courier today points out that the US debt was $5 trillion in 2000, $10 trillion in 2008. Currently it is $14.8 trillion dollars. President Obama's administration has grown the debt by 47% in three years. It took Bush 8 years to spend just a little more than that. The current administration should look within before criticizing the previous administration for it's excesses.
Wrapping my head around 4.8 trillion dollars is not easy..but I'll try. A stack of one thousand million- dollar bills is one billion dollars. 4.8 thousand stacks is 4.8 trillion dollars. Daily... 365 days in a year times 3 is 1095 days. 4.8 trillion divided by 1095 is 4.38 billion dollars a day. In terms of stacks of 1000 million-dollar-bills that is 4.38 stacks of 1000 million dollar bills...in further debt...every day this administration has been in office. The numbers don't lie. Here is Dave's...and now my...question: How long can we afford to spend like this. Thanks, Dave.
Wrapping my head around 4.8 trillion dollars is not easy..but I'll try. A stack of one thousand million- dollar bills is one billion dollars. 4.8 thousand stacks is 4.8 trillion dollars. Daily... 365 days in a year times 3 is 1095 days. 4.8 trillion divided by 1095 is 4.38 billion dollars a day. In terms of stacks of 1000 million-dollar-bills that is 4.38 stacks of 1000 million dollar bills...in further debt...every day this administration has been in office. The numbers don't lie. Here is Dave's...and now my...question: How long can we afford to spend like this. Thanks, Dave.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Elizabeth Warren...Liberal Extraordinaire
I like George Will's editorial in the Post and Courier October 6, 2011. Elizabeth Warren is running for the US Senate. Will says "she clarifies the Liberal Project and the stakes of contemporary politics." I quote, "The project is to dilute the concept of individualism, thereby refuting the individual's zone of sovereignty". That translates to confiscatory tax rates and erosion of individual freedom...Confiscating wealth of the individual. You ought to read the editorial. You can find it at: http://newsok.com/george-f.-will-liberalisms-collectivist-agenda/article/3610575
Liberalism leads us to Socialism. Directly. Those of us who have not educated ourselves about Liberalism ought to do just that. Liberals manipulate people to support their causes. They jump from one single usually popular issue to another without serious regard for unintended consequences like erosion of individual freedoms. We all need to remain vigilant...recognize them for who they are and what they are doing to us as a nation and as individuals. We must keep our politicians focused on the consequences of their actions. For example: 1960's welfare reform, Vietnam war, Getting rid of Glass-Steagall Act and the mindless discarding of credit worthiness standards that almost sunk this country.
Smart people did these things because they were popular causes. But the consequences were ignored or rationalized by a "new economic situation" that was anything but new or different. Washington is not full of geniuses. They are common people just like us who happen, for whatever reasons, to want to be leaders. We cannot afford to sit on our duffs and let them do what they want. We must advise them. We must pay attention and monitor them. The Media won't help us. The Media is busy selling stories for ratings...so they go for the popular themes and miss the common sense consequences. Be vigilant! Get Involved! For your grand children's sake.
Recommended reading:
"Demonics" by Ann Coulter
Liberalism leads us to Socialism. Directly. Those of us who have not educated ourselves about Liberalism ought to do just that. Liberals manipulate people to support their causes. They jump from one single usually popular issue to another without serious regard for unintended consequences like erosion of individual freedoms. We all need to remain vigilant...recognize them for who they are and what they are doing to us as a nation and as individuals. We must keep our politicians focused on the consequences of their actions. For example: 1960's welfare reform, Vietnam war, Getting rid of Glass-Steagall Act and the mindless discarding of credit worthiness standards that almost sunk this country.
Smart people did these things because they were popular causes. But the consequences were ignored or rationalized by a "new economic situation" that was anything but new or different. Washington is not full of geniuses. They are common people just like us who happen, for whatever reasons, to want to be leaders. We cannot afford to sit on our duffs and let them do what they want. We must advise them. We must pay attention and monitor them. The Media won't help us. The Media is busy selling stories for ratings...so they go for the popular themes and miss the common sense consequences. Be vigilant! Get Involved! For your grand children's sake.
Recommended reading:
"Demonics" by Ann Coulter
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