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SOCIALISM:

Proof that the teacher's sick-out in Wisconsin was really a strike. Duh. Anybody who thought public sector unions wouldn't strike was a fool.

RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS:

Sometimes it's hard to believe how effective brainwashing is. In this case, survivor of the Virginia Tech massacre, a situation in which all the victims had been disarmed by government so only the criminal had guns, calls for gun control. He's oblivious to the fact that gun control is what allowed this massacre to happen in he first place. The more powerful the gun control, the more power criminals have over the law-abiding.

ECONOMY:

Recommendation to not just buy gold, but buy gold coins and physically hold them.

Here's the fundamental truth about this market:

"The major, natural tendency of this market is towards contraction. The market wants to correct. No kidding. After a half-century of credit expansion, it’s time to pay up…to settle debts…to recognize bad investments and to write off mistakes. That’s what’s happening in the housing sector. That’s why about 12 million Americans don’t have jobs"

The problem is the government and the Fed won't let it correct. These two conflicting forces create tremendous uncertainty.

TAX AND SPEND:

Right after Obama was elected he he said he wanted to have a transformational presidency like FDR or Lincoln. That's code for wanting to kill a bunch of Americans, because that's what those two did more of than any other presidents in history. Obama again invokes Lincoln as an excuse for big, murdering government.

Yet another Republicans pledge broken as predicted. How are Republicans going to screw us next? By raising the debt ceiling. The CBO provides a more honest insight into the so-called record-breaking budget cuts than the media.

"Congressional Budget Office data, posted Wednesday morning, shows that total non-emergency appropriations will fall to $1.0498 trillion, a nearly $38 billion reduction from their level at the beginning of this year. But the impact on outlays or direct spending before the 2011 fiscal year ends Sept. 30 will be just $352 million compared to prior CBO reports reviewed by POLITICO."

$38 million from the level estimated at the beginning of the year. Not lower than the previous year which is what most people think of when they hear the term "budget cut". But remember, not matter how bad it is, it can always get worse, and it does:

"In fact, once overseas contingency funds related to Afghanistan and Pakistan are counted, the news gets worse: CBO now says that total discretionary outlays for 2011 are higher –not lower—by about $3.3 billion than it had estimated in December."

So after the historic budget cuts, the budget is actually bigger than at the beginning of the year. Imagine that. It would be funny if it wasn't so evil.

REGULATION:

I've often explained how government regulation costs us productivity and wealth, but a new study has quantified the cost, and it's fantastic.

"A new study by the Phoenix Center for the Advanced Study for Legal and Economic Policy Studies found that federal regulators cost taxpayers more than $200,000 each, but cost the economy over $6 million in jobs and productivity."

Each regulator makes us over $6 million poorer. Wow. Get rid of all of them.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Bernanke and company bailed out the wives of some Wall Street fat cats when their personal investment scheme went south. This is one of the many scams Bernanke tried so hard to keep secret. It must be nice to be a member of the ruling class.

"Now, following an act of Congress that has forced the Fed to open its books from the bailout era, this unofficial budget is for the first time becoming at least partially a matter of public record. Staffers in the Senate and the House, whose queries about Fed spending have been rebuffed for nearly a century, are now poring over 21,000 transactions and discovering a host of outrages and lunacies in the "other" budget. It is as though someone sat down and made a list of every individual on earth who actually did not need emergency financial assistance from the United States government, and then handed them the keys to the public treasure. The Fed sent billions in bailout aid to banks in places like Mexico, Bahrain and Bavaria, billions more to a spate of Japanese car companies, more than $2 trillion in loans each to Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, and billions more to a string of lesser millionaires and billionaires with Cayman Islands addresses. "Our jaws are literally dropping as we're reading this," says Warren Gunnels, an aide to Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. "Every one of these transactions is outrageous.""

This is exactly what the Austrians have been telling us for a century. The Fed exists to print money and give it to its cronies. It exists to line the pockets of the ruling class at the expense of the people. It exists to inflate the currency, not control inflation as it pretends. And because that's why it exists, that's what it's done for a century. It's a private slush fund of unlimited funds for the ruling class, including these two wives.

"The technical name of the program that Mack and Karches took advantage of is TALF, short for Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility. But the federal aid they received actually falls under a broader category of bailout initiatives, designed and perfected by Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, called "giving already stinking rich people gobs of money for no fucking reason at all." If you want to learn how the shadow budget works, follow along. This is what welfare for the rich looks like."

We're witnessing history. The Fed has never been this exposed before. The funniest thing about this article is the author keeps attacking Republicans as if Obama didn't just renominate Bernanke and Geithner wasn't one of the architects of these bailouts.

The Fed not only wipes out savings, it erases the savings ethic from the people, and undermines many other ethics in the process.

"Impetuous, high-time-preference behavior displayed by the young appears rational in an inflationary period, while prudence and conservatism appear to be not even quaint but downright silly."

And undermines the family by driving a wedge between generations.

If you use the same methodology to measure CPI as they used in the 1970s, CPI is around ten percent as it was in the 1970s.

HEALTH CARE:

In addition to all the great benefits of eating blueberries we already know about, apparently they get rid of fat cells too.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

The push to release oil from the strategic reserve is another example of a government non-solution to a government-created problem. The real solution is to get government out of the marketplace.

I don't even know where to start.

WAR ON DRUGS:

The war on drugs claims Barry Bonds as another victim on the phony crime of obstruction of justice.

"Jeff Novitzky, the federal agent who started the BALCO probe, had been hoping the Bonds case would be part of a wider investigation of doping in baseball. Last year, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Novitzky and his team of investigators illegally seized urine samples and records from 104 players in 2004.Separately, Novitzky has helped develop the case against former star pitcher Roger Clemens, who is scheduled to stand trial in July for lying to Congress by denying he used performance-enhancing drugs. Novitzky also is a key player in the federal doping investigation of pro cyclists, including seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. Rep. Jack Kingston, a Georgia Republican, recently suggested that the federal agent is motivated by a desire to bring down a celebrity."

And wouldn't he be? What's his motive to do otherwise? A little insight into the agent who targeted Bonds.

"Barry Bonds may be headed for prison because he piqued the malevolent interest of a squalid little person named Jeff Novitzky, described by reporter Matt Welch as “an ex-jock IRS agent who didn’t appreciate Bonds’s famously surly attitude.”"

This is an example of how the law is a weapon of aggression against the people and is applied by personal whim. That's not the rule of law. Also, this is another conflict that couldn't exist in a free society. In a free society, Bonds wouldn't hide that he did steroids. Neither would Clemens, who just as obviously did them as Bonds. If Armstrong did them, how come he didn't show any physical signs?

The link between inflation and war.

POLICE STATE:

This video of a cop afraid of a baby squirrel he subsequently pepper sprays is amazing.

I keep saying our government is conquering us, and this case shows what I mean.

WAR:

Calls for the US to escalate the war in Libya. I prefer to end it. Pat Buchanan reports that the rebels are on the verge of defeat unless the US re-engages Qaddafi's troops. Apparently we will be blamed if they lose. Of course.

POLITICS:

My contentions that big-government lover Paul Ryan is the most dangerous man in Washington because he's fooled people into thinking he supports small government and that the tea party is a fraud comprised of angry Republicans, not small government supporters, just got a big boost with the revelation that Paul Ryan is the number one favorite presidential hopeful for the tea party despite his grotesquely huge new budget proposal that doesn't even manage to balance the budget in a decade. You have to hand it to both Ryan and the tea party. They've fooled just about everybody. And we're all going to keep paying through the nose because of it.


Accusation that Bill Buckley split conservatives from libertarians by supporting intervention to defeat communism which actually allowed it to survive for decades longer than it would have otherwise. It also invited the neoconservatives to become the dominant force on the right. But I can't tell the difference between the policies of neoconservatives and progressives. All this makes perfect sense for a CIA agent because the CIA profits from bigger, more aggressive government.


LOCAL:

Perpetual construction in interstates is one of the great looting programs of modern America.

"The project is one of 74 new and continuous construction projects in the area announced Monday by the Ohio Department of Transportation for the 2011 construction season."

Construction season? Now we have construction seasons. Maybe they have a construction funding season, but every season is construction season from decades ago until government goes broke on I-75.

"All of the projects promote economic development and safer driving conditions, officials said."

That gave me a good belly laugh. Stealing money from people and using it to tear up roads, cause wrecks and kill people promotes economic development and safer driving conditions. Give me a break.

"“Even if it is minor inconvenience for the time being, down the road it is going to make a much smoother commute,” Abner said."

Another good belly laugh. I doubt the families of all the people who have been killed in these never-ending construction zones consider it a minor inconvenience. And this article is about one specific project that took four years. Four years. A woman could have three babies in that time. And I live right by malfunction junction. That's my exit. I drive or walk through some of that construction every day. Nobody is ever working on it.

"Transportation officials warn that construction zones can prove tricky for drivers because of the barrels, lane shifts and congestion problems. Last year, there were 5,038 work zone crashes in Ohio, resulting in 1,262 injuries and 10 fatalities, said Kurt Bailar, District 7 safety manager."

That's what government considers a minor inconvenience that never ends.

Note to Ohio politicians: I know how NASA determined the locations which would receive space shuttles. They did it by deciding what would best loot the people.

MISC:

It looks like Facebook and Zuckerburg, after finally winning against the Harvard twins, might be facing a bigger legal challenge as a man produces emails as evidence Zuckerburg promised him fifty percent of the company in return for funding which he seemingly provided.

Not too long ago I wrote that Kinect was the final piece of technology necessary to bring about Orwell's Big Brother watching through the TV system. Tell me this doesn't sound like Big Brother.

""Microsoft has given more information on the Kinect SDK to be released later in the year. It will include the body tracking software that is used by the Xbox version of the Kinect, allowing it to track up to two people at the same time and stay locked on to them even if they leave and re-enter the frame. In addition, they promise to allow the microphone array to be used with the PC's speech recognition API. So, not only will future Kinect projects be able to track you — they can listen to what you say.""

You know government will create an app to monitor every system. I'd unplug it when not in use. They'll require us all to buy one and make unplugging it illegal soon. They'll use safety of the children and infirm as an excuse. Let's hope the individual mandate to buy health care is struck down.