Science fiction writer Ben Bova wrote:
The most prescient — and chilling — of all the science fiction stories ever written, though, is “The Marching Morons,” by Cyril M. Kornbluth, first published in 1951. It should be required reading in every school on Earth.

The point that Kornbluth makes is simple, and scary: dumbbells have more children than geniuses. In “The Marching Morons” he carries that idea to its extreme, but logical, conclusion.

Kornbluth tells of a future world that is overrun with dummies: men and women who don’t know anything beyond their own shallow personal interests. They don’t know how their society works, or who is running it. All they care about is their personal — and immediate — gratification.

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Thursday, May 20, 2010

FDIC Still As Bankrupt As Ever, DIF-to-Deposit Ratio At -0.38%

The FDIC's quarterly banking profile has been released. Inbetween all the fluff we find that the deposit "insurance" agency has exactly negative $20.7 billion to satisfy any upcoming bank runs and liquidations.
Zero Hedge has more.

What's funny is watchin those dipshits like Cramer and the rest of the clowns on CNBC, FoxBusiness ..... etc.
yak about how we are ok...... it's them...... it's the rest of the world that is in trouble...... not us, we are the USA, nothin hurts us cuz we have a "God Mode" cheat code so we don't have to worry.
Cramer was blaming our gov and not the banksters and wall street for our problems. Too frickin funny.

Bankers confirm Wall Street's barbarianism

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

US death toll in Afghanistan tops 1,000

Has someone figured out what we are doing in Afghanistan yet?
Oh ya still lookin for that old dude with a beard and cane carting around a dialysis machine livin in a cave dishin out orders to terrorists around the world via his donkey.
Ya and the dude that did the Times Square thing traveled to Pakistan for training on how to make bombs......
I almost had to change my Depends when I heard that one.
His internet must have been down cuz on YouTube you can find instructions on how to make a pile of dog shit explode.

And no one questions our war lords motives. Move along, nothing to see here folks.

WMD LIES - Bush Cheney Rumsfeld etc. - THE ULTIMATE CLIP

Congressmen urge Obama to take personal interest in Israel

Some 37 Jewish members of the Democratic caucuses meet with US president, urge him to increase his personal involvement in the administration's Israel-related policies

Jewish religion makes up 1.7% in the U.S.

Would we raise eyebrows if lets say 37 Catholics met with Shitz4Brains in support for Venezuela?
How about if 37 Muslims were looking for support for our good buds in U.A.E. or Saudi Arabia?
Muslims make up 100% in Saudi Arabia and our fuckin leaders dance and kiss the hands of that nations dictator. But we are told Muslims are bad.

If Muslims are so bad why do all our oil companies and defense contractors do business with them? What country did the majority of the 9/11 hijackers come from? If you answered Saudi Arabia then pat yourself on the back.
So again what would happen if we had 37 Muslim Congressmen and they wanted support and give $4 billion a year to lets say Iran ......... would you complain? You shouldn't. What has Iran ever done to us? And we tell our companies they can't do business with them.
Why is it we feel the need to give a nation that has attacked us, a nation the size of NJ over $4 billion a year and cannot ask questions about that support?




Why?
When you get a zit...... do you keep it? Do you want it to stay? No you get rid of it.
Rush Limbaugh had a boil removed from is ass, unfortunately he couldn't go to Vietnam and defend his country cuz of it, but he had it removed cuz it caused him pain. He had a pain in the ass, now he's a pain in the ass.
Why do we need Israel?
Please someone explain to me why we need Israel.

US Economy So Healthy One In Ten Mortgages Delinquent (New Record), One In Twenty In Foreclosure


That's one in ten that are spending the money that would normally go towards housing, is instead being spent at the mall, vacation, restaurants, new car..... etc.
Just think how much more mullah you would have to spend if ya didn't have to pay rent, mortgage, or property taxes.
Recovery my ass.

And our fuckin dumbass republican senators block amendment after amendment that would restrict the banksters from driving us deeper in the hole. 
Yet they criticize Germany for banning naked derivatives and other casino style banking that is destroying capitalism as we know it.
Unreal.
As I have said over and over Republicans and Democrats are one of the same. They no longer represent us, but rather they represent the special interest groups........ the financial thugs and the war lords.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Party On

US More Bankrupt Than Ever - $83 Billion April Deficit Is Record For The Month, $30 Billion Worse Than Expected As Tax Receipts Plunge

 

Well, if nothing else, we now know officially just how great those tax receipts were. , and yes. We were right. April's tax deficit of $83 billion was the highest April deficit on record. America is now more bankrupt than ever. Income was $245.3 billion, 8% below the total recorded last April. Spending was $328.0 billion, up 14% year-over-year. A year ago in April the deficit was $20.9 billion. And here is the data: tax receipts down 7.9% YoY, Individual Income Tax down 21.5% YoY, and more importantly, spending: Total spending up 14.2%, National defense up 17%, Medicare up 39.4%, Social Security up 4.2% and General Government up 5.6%. At least interest payments were down 9.5%.
And now back to your regularly scheduled bankrupt country market melt up.
Please don't laugh and criticize the problems PIIGS are going through ........ we sure as hell aren't far behind.
Update:
As Karl reminds us, what our trusted friends in DC show us is the Unified Budget and not what we really borrow. Also our friends do not include the costs associated with Fannie & Freddie......... how convenient.
$82 billion my butt.  The real number is $175.6 billion, more than double the reported amount, and the cumulative year-to-date (calendar years) is $637.4 billion, or a run rate (annualized) of $1.912 trillion.
If you're wondering why the "stock market" has been generally supported (even though it's not up much from the first of the year) this is the reason - the government is spending roughly 13% of GDP beyond what it collects in taxes!
National Debt:
4/1/2010    $12,773,123,096,139.43
4/30/2010  $12,948,738,915,856.86
That's a $175 billion difference not $83b
The unified budget totals are often divided into two parts, those from off-budget and on-budget items. Currently, Social Security and the Postal Service are off-budget. However, reports on the budget (both official and in the mass media) often include both on- and off-budget items. This makes the current budget picture rosier, as Social Security is running large surpluses. On the other hand, the budget does not reflect future liabilities of Social Security, Medicare, or pension insurance; these potential liabilities, together, are in the trillions of dollars.
Government-sponsored entities are private entities established and implicitly backed by the government, such as the Federal National Mortgate Association (FNMA, or Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC, or Freddie Mac); they are excluded from the budget. The budget does, however, reflect liabilities of government-owned enterprises.

 

Misplaced Burrito Triggers SF Bomb Squad Response

A suspicious package containing a burrito disrupted San Francisco Municipal Railway Service in the city's Sunset District early Tuesday and prompted a response by the bomb squad. Transit officials called the police after the package was discovered at 35th Avenue and Judah Street at around 8:48 a.m. Light rail service on the N-Judah line was disrupted during the investigation and bus shuttles were set up, Muni spokeswoman Kristen Holland said. Police concluded their investigation at 10:30 a.m. after determining there was no risk to the public and light rail service resumed, Officer Boaz Mariles said.A witness on the scene reported the package was found to contain a burrito.
Police gathered up other suspicious packages found throughout the city and had lunch.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

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Monday, May 10, 2010

Fannie Mae Needs $8.4 Billion More

It has gone from scary to hysterical. Fannie doesn't even generate enough revenue to cover the interest payment on the money it has borrowed. Do ya think they will ever be able to?  Doesn't matter cuz we have the tea party and they will make sure the gov don't raise taxes to pay for all this stuff. Ya they will demonstrate and pay Palin to speak at the rallys and  that, oh ya, that will send Washington a message. Oh ya.

When Treasury provides the requested funds, the aggregate liquidation preference on the senior preferred stock will be $84.6billion, which will require an annualized dividend of approximately $8.5 billion. This amount exceeds our reported annual net income for each of the last eight fiscal years, in most cases by a significant margin.
Karl sums it up.....


David Walker, the former US Comptroller General (accountant) who resigned  after, I believe 8 years, trying to convince our dumbass leaders that the US is headed for bankruptcy, and even hit all media outlets like 60 minutes, 20/20.... etc even toured the US with a "Fiscal Wake Up Tour" to alert us folks of why we must change the direction of this country. He is a great speaker and is worth a google or youtube search to see what he has to say.
Anywho David was on MSNBC this morn and he was saying we are worse off than Italy, UK, Spain.....etc. and will be like Greece in 5 to 10 years if we don't start living within our means. Taxes are going up he said, they have to. We have no choice.
Oh and by the way Greece will default, this so called bailout is just kicking the can down the road. Greece, like Fannie and Freddie, can't even generate enough revenue to make the interest payment on the money they owe. But yet they are borrowing more.
Food for thought: If we had to pay the same 10 year yields as we did back in the 90's, the interest on our debt would cost roughly $800B to $1.2T a year. If we had to pay the same yields as we did back in the 80's it would cost us around $1.5 to $2 Trillion. It now costs around $450B.
Can you imagine all the income taxes and corporate taxes we collect going just to pay for the interest on our debt? What a shame.
Think about it.
Someday Americans will have to ask themselves before we invade another country, extend unemployment beni's , add more food stamp recipients, finance more cars and homes, promise more prescription drug or healthcare coverage....... etc........... "Can we afford it"?
Something we haven't had to ask our gov in many moons.
As David Walker said, "There are two kinds of taxes....... current, the kind you pay now, and deferred, the kind you have future taxpayers pay, also called deficits".
 

But Of Course

The government spent $175 million investigating the Challenger space shuttle disaster. 
It spent $152 million on the the Columbia disaster investigation.
 
It spent $30 million investigating the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
The government only authorized $15 million for the 9/11 Commission.

And how much has the government authorized for the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission? You know, the commission charged with getting to the bottom of what caused the financial crisis?
Just $8 million.
 
Well we spent a ton of money cuz we needed to know what caused the shuttles to blow up and those pesky tiles to fall off.
Monica, well we needed to know what a sexual relation meant and what to use to get stains out.

I think we over spent on the 9/11 thingy cuz we all knew it was crazy Arabs that hate America cuz our women wear hardly any clothes and the buildings fell due to kerosene and office supplies. Duh.
 
$8 million wasted when all you have to do is listen to Glenn Beck, Rush or Hannity and they will explain to you the reason we had a finacial crisis was cuz of Barney Frank, Clinton years, ACORN and black people who couldn't afford their mortgages cuz they were out buying drugs, ale and bling bling.

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Stream Runner

One thing Jake loves to do is run in brooks. It's so funny to watch.






Friday, May 7, 2010

Suspicious Package

Exterior Auto Works has been cleared of all personnel due to a suspicious package found in the refrigerator.
Reports indicate the package resembles a 12 pack of Bud Lite Lime but the owner is not taking any chances and is vacating the area of the building where work is preformed.
"It's for every ones safety" said the owner Mark Dufresne, "I have found these type of packages before, but for some reason don't recall what was inside, this time I'm taking no chances".

Hey

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Freddie Mac Falls After Seeking $10.6 Billion From Treasury

LOL........

And there are many out there who think we have nothing in common with Greece.
Lock and load.

BusinessWeek

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Jake

What have we gotten ourselves into.


A big thanks to Ray, Dawn and Trev for giving us first dibs on Jake.
Although we called them after just 36 hrs and said he was too much and that we couldn't do it.......even had all his stuff packed waiting to get picked up.............but the little shit grew on us with every passing moment.
Too many pros and not enough cons to say no.
I mean he even shits in the woods.......... come on...... ya can't get any better than that.



Some fine tuning (chases cats, eats their food) but nothing that can't be solved.