HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- China adopted a tough stance against the U.S. over the weekend for selling arms to Taiwan, announcing it will suspend military exchanges with Washington, and warning of sanctions against U.S. companies involved, according to reports Monday.
I cannot get over how both, republicans and democrats, with their idiotic policies, will not stop till this country is brought to it's knees.
Not only are we picking on our #1 banker, but also the one we need for our "Save Money.....Live Better" lifestyle. If China won't supply us with an endless amount of cheap dollars and inexpensive Mao-Mart products to make us feel good, who will?
We must be careful, for we are no longer in the drivers seat. Our empire is collapsing while China's is just beginning. They are hungry for growth and are not afraid to work, we are fat and lazy and bitch if we don't get 5 weeks paid vacation a year, health club membership and a dental plan......oh and 10 sick days a month.
The opening ceremony to the 08 Olympics said it all.
Our show would be a performance by Beyonce and Lil Wayne.
I feel the dispute between the communist party of mainland China, and the nationalist party of the Republic of China (Taiwan) is none of our business and will only escalate any tensions between the two.
But what do I know........our elected officials must know what they are doing.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Flashback Friday
For this Flashback Friday I would like to take you back to a time not that long ago.
A period when a great ruler, a man of vision, intelligence, compassion, controlled what many considered the most powerful nation on planet Earth.
This man......was George W. Bush .......better known as Dubya.
Bud Light presents: Real Men of Genius
Mr. Premature Mission Accomplished guy
I love the Bud Light adds
"See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction." -George W. Bush, Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003
"Wow! Brazil is big." --George W. Bush, after being shown a map of Brazil by Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brasilia, Brazil, Nov. 6, 2005
"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures." --George W. Bush, Jan. 3, 2000
It's amazing, but there are still many out there that believe Dubya ran this country.
And whats just as amazing is there are many who believe BananaHead Obama is running it now.
A period when a great ruler, a man of vision, intelligence, compassion, controlled what many considered the most powerful nation on planet Earth.
This man......was George W. Bush .......better known as Dubya.
Bud Light presents: Real Men of Genius
Real Men of Genius!
Today we salute you, Mr. "Premature Mission Accomplished" guy.
Mr. Premature Mission Accomplished Guy
All men wipe their ass after they take a shit, but you, you started shit and then said you were finished, while the shit was still piling up.
My fingers smell.......
So crack open a nice, cold Bud Light, dumb-ass, because despite a few thousand body bags already on your conscience, you had no problem saying "Bring Em On"
Mr. Premature Mission Accomplished guy
I love the Bud Light adds
"See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction." -George W. Bush, Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003
"Wow! Brazil is big." --George W. Bush, after being shown a map of Brazil by Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brasilia, Brazil, Nov. 6, 2005
"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures." --George W. Bush, Jan. 3, 2000
It's amazing, but there are still many out there that believe Dubya ran this country.
And whats just as amazing is there are many who believe BananaHead Obama is running it now.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
iPad
Apple announces a tablet called the iPad
The great minds over at Apple are already working on the next item that is sure to be a huge hit for many Americans........the iJob.
A device that will have apps designed for searching, applying, and locating jobs.
Don't like what the iJob found for you? Turn the device sideways or upside down and the iJob will give you the location of the nearest unemployment office, shelter or food bank.
Plus 10 hours of battery life so you can search all day or light your tent up for hours without recharging.
I'm sorry, but don't we already have enough gadgets? Now a tablet !!
Folks will need a gadget, just to keep track of their gadgets.
The great minds over at Apple are already working on the next item that is sure to be a huge hit for many Americans........the iJob.
A device that will have apps designed for searching, applying, and locating jobs.
Don't like what the iJob found for you? Turn the device sideways or upside down and the iJob will give you the location of the nearest unemployment office, shelter or food bank.
Plus 10 hours of battery life so you can search all day or light your tent up for hours without recharging.
I'm sorry, but don't we already have enough gadgets? Now a tablet !!
Folks will need a gadget, just to keep track of their gadgets.
What Do Oregon And Hawaii Have In Common?
An 11% income tax.
If that's not bad enough already, the City of Portland is talking about massive tax increases. If you're a business in the city limits, the tax/business license fee has been 2.2%. They now want to increase it to 8%, a 400% increase. In that case, a business in the city limits of Portland will pay 11% income tax to the state and 8% income tax to the city: 19% city/state income tax, on top of the Federal 35% income tax.
Instead of cutting state employees, their wages and pensions, cutting services, they decide raise taxes instead.
Smart.
Oregon's Death Spiral
If that's not bad enough already, the City of Portland is talking about massive tax increases. If you're a business in the city limits, the tax/business license fee has been 2.2%. They now want to increase it to 8%, a 400% increase. In that case, a business in the city limits of Portland will pay 11% income tax to the state and 8% income tax to the city: 19% city/state income tax, on top of the Federal 35% income tax.
Instead of cutting state employees, their wages and pensions, cutting services, they decide raise taxes instead.
Smart.
Oregon's Death Spiral
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Bullshit
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The U.S. budget deficit will hit $1.3 trillion in 2010, congressional budget analysts estimated Tuesday, in a fresh piece of grim news for President Barack Obama.
The federal government recorded a staggering deficit of $1.4 trillion in fiscal 2009 -- more than three times as much as in 2008.
Bullshit......
The deficit for fiscal year 2009 was $1,785,603,936,384.00 or nearly $1.8 trillion.
The WH and CBO use the "on-budget" "off- budget" accounting trick that has worked for them for many decades.
The Clintons never had a budget surplus they used surpluses such as the Social Security trust fund to make it look like they were not spending as much.
Bush did it and so is BananaHead.
They use the surplus from programs like SS ....... put it in the income column but don't count the little IOU's (called intra-governmental bonds) they put in it's place in the trust fund. Someday (in a couple of years) when there are more taking out of SS, then putting in, they will need to cash in those IOU's only to find out they ain't worth shit.
It's like taking a $100 from under your mattress and replacing it with a scrap piece of paper with $100 written on it..........where can you use that scrap piece of paper when you need it? Nowhere. You must replace it with a real $100 bill by either working (tax revenue), borrow it (deficit) or don't go out to eat (cut spending).
That's what our gov will have to do someday in order to pay Social Security recipients once more is going out than coming in.
Easy way to find out...... Debt to the Penny
Fiscal year is Oct 1st to Sept 30th
The federal government recorded a staggering deficit of $1.4 trillion in fiscal 2009 -- more than three times as much as in 2008.
Bullshit......
The deficit for fiscal year 2009 was $1,785,603,936,384.00 or nearly $1.8 trillion.
The WH and CBO use the "on-budget" "off- budget" accounting trick that has worked for them for many decades.
The Clintons never had a budget surplus they used surpluses such as the Social Security trust fund to make it look like they were not spending as much.
Bush did it and so is BananaHead.
They use the surplus from programs like SS ....... put it in the income column but don't count the little IOU's (called intra-governmental bonds) they put in it's place in the trust fund. Someday (in a couple of years) when there are more taking out of SS, then putting in, they will need to cash in those IOU's only to find out they ain't worth shit.
It's like taking a $100 from under your mattress and replacing it with a scrap piece of paper with $100 written on it..........where can you use that scrap piece of paper when you need it? Nowhere. You must replace it with a real $100 bill by either working (tax revenue), borrow it (deficit) or don't go out to eat (cut spending).
That's what our gov will have to do someday in order to pay Social Security recipients once more is going out than coming in.
Easy way to find out...... Debt to the Penny
Fiscal year is Oct 1st to Sept 30th
Monday, January 25, 2010
BananaHead: The Deficit Buster
Obama got real tough on reducing the deficit today by announcing that he intends to purpose a three year freeze on discretionary spending. Boy sure sounds good, don't it.
That should bring the deficit from $1.4 trillion to like.......uhm like.....oh $1.375 trillion. Yup the WH predicts the freeze will save $250 billion over 10 years. But is it a three year freeze or a ten year freeze? This kinda shit cracks me up. I don't know how they get away with it.
Wait it gets better.
To attack the $1.4 trillion deficit, the White House will propose a three-year freeze on discretionary spending unrelated to the military, veterans, homeland security and international affairs, according to senior administration officials. Also untouched are big entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
The article in WSJ went on to say.....
Among the areas that may be potentially subject to cuts: The departments of Housing and Urban Development, Justice, Energy, Transportation, Agriculture, and Health and Human Services.
And here comes the punchline.....
The freeze would affect $447 billion in spending, or 17% of the total federal budget, and would likely be overtaken by growth in the untouched areas of discretionary spending
ROLMFAO
The bottom line is this........if we think we will ever get the deficit under control, it won't come from freezing 17% of our spending but rather a 100%. Across the board cuts and freezes are needed.
If we want to attack another nation or send troops somewhere, raise taxes or cut spending first. If you want to bring someone over from another country and give them food and shelter, raise taxes or cut spending first.......etc....
We need to think before we spend.
How many would have voted for the Iraq or Afghan wars if we had to raise taxes or cut spending first? Would we really care to send someone to the moon if we had to pay for it?
Every service our government supplies us with, has a price tag.
Now we have to pay by raising taxes and cutting spending for all the years of government wasteful spending.
Unfortunately our $12.5 trillion in debt won't go away. It costs us $382 billion last year just in interest costs, that's more than what we spent on welfare and the pensions for civilian and military personnel combined.
Now........the scary shit.
Let's take a 3 month treasury bill.
December 2009 it had a yield of 0.05%
January 1982.......... 12.82%
And throughout the mid 80's and 90's it averaged around the 5% to 7% range.
Link to rates at the Federal Reserve .....very interesting.
So to make a long story short, when interest rates go up, and they will go up do to the fact that it will eventually get harder and harder for us to finance our spending habits, the interest costs on our debt will then outweigh not only what we spend on welfare and pensions but also defense and Social Security and will consume a major portion of all taxes collected.
We will no longer be able to service our debt.
The ponzi scheme has popped.
Arnold has to make cuts.............Schwarzenegger's proposals would cut the size of the union workforce, reduce pay, shrink future pensions and roll back job protections won through collective bargaining
That should bring the deficit from $1.4 trillion to like.......uhm like.....oh $1.375 trillion. Yup the WH predicts the freeze will save $250 billion over 10 years. But is it a three year freeze or a ten year freeze? This kinda shit cracks me up. I don't know how they get away with it.
Wait it gets better.
To attack the $1.4 trillion deficit, the White House will propose a three-year freeze on discretionary spending unrelated to the military, veterans, homeland security and international affairs, according to senior administration officials. Also untouched are big entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
The article in WSJ went on to say.....
Among the areas that may be potentially subject to cuts: The departments of Housing and Urban Development, Justice, Energy, Transportation, Agriculture, and Health and Human Services.
And here comes the punchline.....
The freeze would affect $447 billion in spending, or 17% of the total federal budget, and would likely be overtaken by growth in the untouched areas of discretionary spending
ROLMFAO
The bottom line is this........if we think we will ever get the deficit under control, it won't come from freezing 17% of our spending but rather a 100%. Across the board cuts and freezes are needed.
If we want to attack another nation or send troops somewhere, raise taxes or cut spending first. If you want to bring someone over from another country and give them food and shelter, raise taxes or cut spending first.......etc....
We need to think before we spend.
How many would have voted for the Iraq or Afghan wars if we had to raise taxes or cut spending first? Would we really care to send someone to the moon if we had to pay for it?
Every service our government supplies us with, has a price tag.
Now we have to pay by raising taxes and cutting spending for all the years of government wasteful spending.
Unfortunately our $12.5 trillion in debt won't go away. It costs us $382 billion last year just in interest costs, that's more than what we spent on welfare and the pensions for civilian and military personnel combined.
Now........the scary shit.
Let's take a 3 month treasury bill.
December 2009 it had a yield of 0.05%
January 1982.......... 12.82%
And throughout the mid 80's and 90's it averaged around the 5% to 7% range.
Link to rates at the Federal Reserve .....very interesting.
So to make a long story short, when interest rates go up, and they will go up do to the fact that it will eventually get harder and harder for us to finance our spending habits, the interest costs on our debt will then outweigh not only what we spend on welfare and pensions but also defense and Social Security and will consume a major portion of all taxes collected.
We will no longer be able to service our debt.
The ponzi scheme has popped.
Arnold has to make cuts.............Schwarzenegger's proposals would cut the size of the union workforce, reduce pay, shrink future pensions and roll back job protections won through collective bargaining
Busy Weekend
Just got back from a busy weekend.
Bono called me and asked if I would join him for the Hope for Haiti thingy..........
Rihanna was putttin the moves on me. She wanted me big time.......
Jay-Z wanted me to like do a rap with him but I had way too many drinks on the plane.
Then off to help with the rescue effort
Not sure but I think I saw dubya do a fly by while down there.
Kinda reminds me of when he flew over the Katrina mess........boy was he pissed when they made him put his Gameboy down so they could get a pic of him with an expression of concern as he looked out the window.
Bono called me and asked if I would join him for the Hope for Haiti thingy..........
Rihanna was putttin the moves on me. She wanted me big time.......
Jay-Z wanted me to like do a rap with him but I had way too many drinks on the plane.
Then off to help with the rescue effort
Not sure but I think I saw dubya do a fly by while down there.
Kinda reminds me of when he flew over the Katrina mess........boy was he pissed when they made him put his Gameboy down so they could get a pic of him with an expression of concern as he looked out the window.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Coyote
This coyote made a couple of visits Saturday.
Very skidish... every time I would try to get into position to get a good shot of him he would book.
Very big dog, never seen a coyote this big before, size of a German Shepherd. Beautiful. Made my day.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Flashback Friday
Seeing as this is my first Friday since the Marching Morons debut,(clapping, balloons, confetti, dancing girls who have wardrobe malfunctions) Friday's will include a post that will take us back in time. It may refer to a personal experience or just a song or video clip.
So for this weeks topic, it will be on a personal note, and I will take us back to the early 70's when my oldest brother Norm took me down to a commune in Warwick, Massachusetts called "The Brotherhood Of The Spirit". I'm not sure of the exact year that I visited all I know is my mother was bullshit that her oldest son Norm, took her youngest son, me, down to a hippie place right after my brother Bob, turned into a hippie, quit high school to live on a hippie bus with hippie Norm. So this didn't fit well with Mom.....and can anyone blame her.
Being 11 or 12 years old I don't recall a whole heck of a lot about how long we stayed or how many times we went. Norm was a very adventurist type of person and he always found some off the wall, out of the norm you could say, trip for us to take. This was one.
They had a band called "Spirit In The Flesh" and played free concerts where ever they could and Norm and I tagged along from place to place for most of that summer. They did play at the JFK in ManchVegas and I got to be a stage hand......farout man.
So a few months ago, don't know why but Spirit In The Flesh popped in my head so I decided to google it.
Farfuckinout man. What memories that stirred up. The bus, the buildings......the hippies......man, it really was cool cuz it was a part of my life that I kinda forgot about.
More Pics
More Info about The Brotherhood
Oh the memories.........
So for this weeks topic, it will be on a personal note, and I will take us back to the early 70's when my oldest brother Norm took me down to a commune in Warwick, Massachusetts called "The Brotherhood Of The Spirit". I'm not sure of the exact year that I visited all I know is my mother was bullshit that her oldest son Norm, took her youngest son, me, down to a hippie place right after my brother Bob, turned into a hippie, quit high school to live on a hippie bus with hippie Norm. So this didn't fit well with Mom.....and can anyone blame her.
Being 11 or 12 years old I don't recall a whole heck of a lot about how long we stayed or how many times we went. Norm was a very adventurist type of person and he always found some off the wall, out of the norm you could say, trip for us to take. This was one.
They had a band called "Spirit In The Flesh" and played free concerts where ever they could and Norm and I tagged along from place to place for most of that summer. They did play at the JFK in ManchVegas and I got to be a stage hand......farout man.
So a few months ago, don't know why but Spirit In The Flesh popped in my head so I decided to google it.
Farfuckinout man. What memories that stirred up. The bus, the buildings......the hippies......man, it really was cool cuz it was a part of my life that I kinda forgot about.
More Pics
More Info about The Brotherhood
Oh the memories.........
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