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Thursday, 23 April 2009
News.....
Back to the future: Darling gambles on 1970s-style tax raid against the rich. Just watch the money leave Britain.
Recovery next year? It's a fantasy! Scorn at Darling's optimism as he admits £700bn shortfall. Britain is bankrupt.
Dumped: 230,000 tons of rubbish we sort for recycling that ends up clogging landfill sites. So much for the recycling revolution.
Ever felt you're the only one not having constant wild sex? Don't despair, you're more normal than you think. What! No swinging from the chandelier.
Budget 2009: Gordon Brown declares class war with tax on high earners. Socialism at it worst.
Whitehall department spends just £116 on flag to mark St George's Day. Close the Department and save money.
British soldier escapes death when Taliban bullet passes through helmet. Luck favours the brave.
South African elections: ANC headed for victory. And they will continue to wreck South Africa.
Hillary Clinton toughens US stance on Pakistan and Iran. Until Obama overrides her.
Obama intelligence official says interrogation provided 'high value information'. No s**t!
Czechs 'abandoned British soldiers during Afghan fight because it was too dangerous'. And the Brits won't forget.
We've got it all wrong on fishing strategy, says EU. A bit bloody late now.
Met chief: police 'should wear name badges'. So they can remember their own names!
Pakistan Taleban take over towns as they move closer to Islamabad. We have to consider removing their nukes before it is too late.
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Sign of the Day....
Seen at the Wimberley Cafe, Wimberley, Texas, USA
H/T Boomers who had their "7A omelette" with ham, bacon, bell peppers, garlic cheese grits, and toast points.
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
Early Bedtime Totty.....
The spuds are in so normal service will be restored over the next couple of days.
The Real Crisis.....by Rico
Thieves picking our pockets and stealing our freedom. And NO, they will not respect us in the morning, OR call us.
The current financial-crisis "flailex" being hyped* is a ruse and distraction from the REAL crisis. The crisis is the Government and NOT the financial system.
- The government first wrecked Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, then the housing market, then the financial markets, and is going to tank the economy intentionally to "fix" it...while transforming a free-enterprise system operated by free people into a centrally planned ecoonomic and social system...a system that worked so very well indeed in North korea, Cambodia, Cuba, China, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and now is thriving in Venezuela. Yeah. Good business model to follow...if you're a lunatic and a Communist (forgive my redundancy).
TAXES are going to be a bigBIGbig problem as a result of ourgovernment "fixing" things, they just don't want you to understand how badly you're gonna get shafted. Here is the HOW and WHY that you will not get from anyone in elected office [politics], or anyone in unelected office [media]:
MILLIONS of lost jobs.
- From Oct '08 to Apr '09 3.7 million jobs have been cut.
Equals BILLIONS of lost TAX revenue to government.
- Individual tax payments are down <15%> and business tax payments are down <57%> for 2008.
- Add HUGE government deficit spending and the interest on that (borrowed) money, plus the odd 'bailout' here and there, the Porkulus Bill, the list and actual cost continues to grow...
Results in TRILLIONS.
- The deficit was 454.7 billion in 2008. The deficit for 2009 will be four times that by all honest estimates, or 1.819 trillion. Since the cost of anything the government does is never less or lower, you can think at or above 2 TRILLION for a deficit.
Government spending is UP 33% halfway through the fiscal year.
The Treasury has more than quadrupled its "borrowing" already (we're only halfway through the fiscal year) and to finance the current - today - deficit of 956.8 BILLION is going to have to "borrow" [read: sell debt aka bonds, as in laying-off worthless paper onto a buyer...remember SIV's, CDO's, etc?] in 'new' bills-notes-bonds. The government will have to "sell" 2.4 TRILLION in 2009 just to keep from collapsing or defaulting.
This will be a problem for a very long time into our future. It will extend far beyond the normal 'healing' process of the 2008-09 financial 'crisis' we're dealing with in the economy, thanks once again to government intervention to "fix" things.
- And I have to ask, given just how well government does with almost everything it touches, do you REALLY want them taking over your personal health care..and your lives? If you do, tell me what brand of glue you've been huffing. Please, before they break out the "Zyklon B" for anyone having an IQ above that of a pencil [read: non-Democrat (C) party card holders].
Bottom line:
This is the "take away" if you want to skip all of the above = TAXES ARE GOING UP [read: BOHICA - bend over, here it comes again!] there is absolutely no way they are not going to skyrocket because of all this. Of course, I seriously expect a potent cocktail of CURRENCY DEVALUATION, INFLATION, and a massive DEBT-BUST to complete Obama's near perfect disaster trifecta.
- Putting out a financial "fire" with paper only makes sense on the planet Uranus.
*(by a media acting as The Ministry of Propaganda for Team Obama and ALL leftists followers and acolytes to Commissar Zero...Obama himself (piss be upon him) who is pushing-dragging-shoving-bullying and lieing through his teeth about NOT wanting to drag all FREE men into the pit of SLAVERY (known affectionately by them as "utopia" while I stubbornly insist on calling it communism-socialism)
Stormbringer on the Pirates.....
ANALYSIS - ANTI-PIRATEs OPERATIONAL SCUTTLEBUTT
I have been asked to provide analysis on the following story that's been making it's rounds on the Internet, of Obama's decision making with the hostages . . . (Italics mine - STORMBRINGER)
"Internet Scuttlebutt has this report originating from a Marine that 'lives just outside Coronado where the Seals train . . . he uses the Coronado Officers’ club' . . . - the events stated in this report jive with what I was told via other sources . . . OK this guy is in San Diego and the SEALs who pulled off the opn were DEVGRU SEALs from Little Creek - that does not shake the credibility of this report; we live in the Information Age, people. Telephones and emails and secure briefings happen. Get used to it.
I'm going out on a limb here saying I buy the general themes expressed here and I'll tell you why: A) I did two tours in in-extremis units (if you never heard that term I'm not going to explain it) - this anecdote expresses the doctrinally correct sequence of events for how this sort of thing is supposed to play out . . . the National Command Authority states broad guidance regarding Rules of Engagement and the criteria to engage, the ranking man at the situation puts his assets into place and makes the call regarding when to engage the shooters . . . .
Having spoken to some SEAL pals yesterday and asking why this thing dragged out for 4 days, I got the following:
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