I want some TARP. They're giving money away for free (Video)

The TARP Song by Bill Zucker. He'll have more You Tube hits than the 0bama girl.

Margaret Thatcher quote:

"The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."

Why I Drink

Try the Obama Speech Generator

Write your own 0bama speech by filling in the blanks at the 0bama Speech Generator: http://tinyurl.com/6tc57d

"Ax-Ready" gov't programs vs. 0bama's "Shovel-Ready"

An Open Letter to the United States Congress and President-elect Obama: Instead of "Shovel-Ready" Spending, Focus on "Ax-Ready" Waste

NTU Excerpt:

In the interest of fostering a rational debate over Washington's priorities, both the National Taxpayers Union (NTU) and Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) maintain extensive lists of programs that could be cut and legislation that would reduce spending. We target programs that are either ineffective or duplicative, as well as activities best left to state and local governments or the private sector.

CCAGW's research arm, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), released "Prime Cuts 2009" this week, a database containing 700 spending cut recommendations across the entire federal budget totaling $1.9 trillion over five years. It includes the elimination of duplicative and inefficient ventures such as the Market Access Program, which is funneling $231 million over five years to some of the largest and most profitable American companies for advertising abroad. "Prime Cuts" also makes tough calls, like canceling the NASA Mars Initiative, saving $11.5 billion over five years. It is available from CAGW staff or at www.tinyurl.com/primecuts09.

 

Link to National Taxpayer's Union: http://www.ntu.org/main/letters_detail.php?letter_id=648

 

Big Rattler says, "Let's get a grip on the ax, not the shovel."

Clever number problem to solve

This is a problem, which can be easily solved by children before entering elementary school. If you want to give it a try, please forget everything you have ever studied. Here it comes:

8809 = 6
7111 = 0
2172 = 0
6666 = 4
1111 = 0
3213 = 0
7662 = 2
9312 = 1
0000 = 4
2222 = 0
3333 = 0
5555 = 0
8193 = 3
8096 = 5
7777 = 0
9999 = 4
7756 = 1
6855 = 3
9881 = 5
5531 = 0

2581 = ?

Reply back if you have the solution.

Solution:  I didn't get it but I found it.  It's a head slapper. Check back around 4 pm (MST) today!

Risch porks it up right out of the hog pen for gov't land grab

Twelve US Senate RePORKblicans, including newly suckled Jim Risch voted for Harry Reid's government land grab bill that puts us further away from a decent energy policy.  (Wonder how he and Crapo-rk would have voted when gas was $4.00+ a gallon?)

 

Excellent link to Michelle Malkin's write up and list of other RePORKblicans who voted with Harry Reid:  "Jim DeMint didn't mince any words when calling out the capitulationist Republican 12 who aided Reid and the Dems. Dingy Harry has blocked Republicans from proposing any amendments to the package. The Bend-over GOP Dozen deserve a smack upside the head."

 

More info:  "The bill ... sets aside 200 million acres for public wilderness in nine states. It adds more than 1,000 miles to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System and 2,800 miles of new trails to the federal system."

Cloud Appreciation Society

Something a little different ... The Cloud Appreciation Society.

http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/gallery/

 

Great photographs of clouds from around the world.

 

 

'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years

Wall Street Journal editor Stephen Moore wrote an article (1-9-08) drawing parallels of today's massive debt crisis and Ayn Rand's influential book "Atlas Shrugged."  Below is an excerpt of his article.  Link

 

One memorable moment in "Atlas" occurs near the very end, when the economy has been rendered comatose by all the great economic minds in Washington. Finally, and out of desperation, the politicians come to the heroic businessman John Galt (who has resisted their assault on capitalism) and beg him to help them get the economy back on track. The discussion sounds much like what would happen today:

Galt: "You want me to be Economic Dictator?"

Mr. Thompson: "Yes!"

"And you'll obey any order I give?"

"Implicitly!"

"Then start by abolishing all income taxes."

"Oh no!" screamed Mr. Thompson, leaping to his feet. "We couldn't do that . . . How would we pay government employees?"

"Fire your government employees."

"Oh, no!"

USDA Official Takes Courageous Stand Against Interstate Countercyclical Potato Pricing

USDA Official Takes Courageous Stand Against Interstate Countercyclical Potato Pricing

Blago should rescind Burris and appoint a GOP'er

Now Blagojevich should rescind the Burris nomination since the US Senate has tainted his appointment and postponed the law by not seating him.

 

Blago's next move -- to throw the corrupt fish-headed politicians into full flatulence frenzy -- would be then to appoint a REPUBLICAN to take 0bama's old Senate seat.

 

Frankly, what does Blago have to lose?

 

 

Obama's New Year's Resolution

More on FDR's depression

FDR has been widely hailed as a hero.  He was no such thing.  FDR's policies in fact caused a second wave of depression after the original downdraft that originated in 1929.  This is not commonly reported but it is in fact true - there was a second, nearly 20% contraction in GDP that occurred as a direct consequence of FDR's policies.  Repeating what FDR did to any material degree will not help, and any apparent "relief" will be false.

 

Source:  Market Ticker

How FDR extended the depression

Amity Shleas WoPo article on lessons of FDR's depression: http://tinyurl.com/7o2zxd She takes a poke at Greenspan, too!

Blago's Senate pick Burris has already constructed his terrifying death chamber

See Roland Burris' terrifying death chamber:  http://tinyurl.com/9z84g9

Re: New batteries to store windpower juice

"Right now, they're a little too expensive,"

It might be more economical to build a nuke plant, use the nuke to generate electricity. Use that electricity to run a giant fan sitting right in front of the wind turbine. That way, the turbine can generate consistent wind power cheaply.

Hat tip FreeRepublic  Post #4

Obama Parrots FDR

Obama parrots FDR

With public works both wide and far

By spending us into prosperity

He'll add seven years to our misery.

Merry Christmas from Drunk Free Marketers (You Tube)

Merry Christmas from Free Marketers (You Tube)

Ditka for Illinois Gov.

LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA

LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA -- Hat Tip: Market Ticker

That's the sound of someone with their fingers in their ears making noise so they don't have to listen to the person talking in front of them.

The list includes:

• Congress - warned explicitly in 1991 that repeal of Glass-Steagall was a bad idea and would lead to exactly what we're seeing now.  LALALALALA.
• Congress (again) - warned repeatedly by the SEC in 2000 that removing caps on leverage (Requested by none other than Henry Paulson!) was demonstrably unsound (by the SEC of the time) - LALALALALALA.
• The SEC - warned about Madroff by Harry Markopolos - in writing - that Madroff was the world's largest Ponzi Scheme.  LALALALALALALA.
• Alan Greenpan's fantasies were ignored by Congress and still are.  But he did tell people what he was going to do and was up to in trying to thwart a mathematical long-wave cycle (Kondratieff Winter) and also stated that if he failed, what would occur would make The Depression look like "A Sunday-school picnic."  LALALALALALALALA.
• The FBI and Congress (again) - there were petitions sent to Congress on behalf of thousands of property appraisers as far back as 2001 noting the pressure to falsify numbers.  LALALALALALALA.
• Treasury and The Federal Reserve - the debt-to-GDP numbers are right in their face (hell, they report most of the base data!) but they think they can keep taking on debt to "solve" a solvency problem.  LALALALALALALALA.
• US Consumers - There are only two ways to fix their balance sheets - sell the assets on which the debt is carried and pay it off or spend less than you earn.  There is no third choice.  LALALALALALALALA.
• Congress (again) - Bernanke and Paulson ("Subprime is contained", "We are not and will not go into recession", "The economy is fundamentally sound", etc etc etc.)  Accountability for what are now known to be clear lies?  LALALALALALALALA.
• Regulators in the R/E industry of all stripes - LandAmerica, a big title insurance company, has filed for bankruptcy.  Why?  Because instead of actually performing title searches title companies have been outsourcing the work to foreigners in places like India, where the so-called "search" has turned into nothing more than a quick dig through electronic records.  Of course when there are real claims on the title the company is then on the hook and can't pay; instant boom!  Where is the investigation of this obvious misrepresentation of what the purchaser of that policy bought?  LALALALALALALALALALA.
• Obama still seems to think he can "soften the blow" by spending a trillion more (that we don't have.)  He obviously hasn't bothered paying attention to the debt-to-GDP numbers, or to what happened in the 1930s as GDP fell away.  This plan, if implemented, will give it to us in both holes as GDP will fall at the precise same time that debt increases.  LALALALALALALALALA.
• Californicated is running a monster deficit and threatening to implode.  Republicans are refusing to raise taxes while Democrats are refusing to cut spending.  Neither party pays any attention to the fact that the state has been spending money that doesn't really exist (as a consequence of the housing bubble) on illegal immigrants from various social programs to schooling to jailing illegals instead of shipping them all home.  As with the rest of the states, they spent all of the money during the flush years, and are now in serious trouble.  LA LA LA LA LA LA.
• The Fed, Treasury and Congress all have known for years about the fact that banks were making bad loans that had no chance of being paid.  The warnings were copious and unending.  LALALALALALALALALA.
• Congress (again) still refuses to force financial institutions to state their actual, real, total exposure to bad debt, bring everything back onto balance sheets and stop marking to fantasy.  Yes, that would mean we'd all get to see the bankruptcies in front of us.  Its easier to stick your head in the sand.  LALALALALALALALALA.

There's lots more but I think you get the point.  If you still are having trouble figuring it out, here 'ya go - a picture is worth 1000 words.