For the second year running, our Government tells us that 'officially' there is NO inflation, and our private bank 'officially' known as the Federal Reserve tells us that we now need MORE inflation.
Sure.
Riiiiiiiight!
And it seems that Nancy Pelosi and fwends have yet to understand that John Q. Public has voted in three straight elections in the last four years to be 'rid' of an abusive and oppressive regime that is looking very much like the French Fourth Republic.
A private 'for profit' (gasp) entity, Casey Research, has assembled a summary of actual year-on-year price increases and compared them to the 'offishul' CPI.
Look at the numbers!
This is what the voters know....at least the ones that do not live in Magic Unicorn Land (a.k.a. Washingtn, D.C.).
Monday, 8 November 2010
NO inflation?..............from Rico
For lexophiles.........
1. A bicycle can’t stand alone; it is two tired.
2. A will is a dead giveaway.
3. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
4. A backward poet writes inverse.
5. A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.
6. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
7. The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.
8. You are stuck with your debt if you can’t budge it.
9. He broke into song because he couldn’t find the key.
10. A calendar’s days are numbered.
11. A boiled egg is hard to beat.
12. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
13. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.
14. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
15. When you’ve seen one shopping centre you’ve seen a mall.
16. If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine.
17. When she saw her first strands of grey hair, she thought she’d dye..
18. Santa’s helpers are subordinate clauses.
19. Acupuncture: a jab well done.
20. Marathon runners with bad shoes suffer the agony of de feet.
21. The roundest knight at king Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
22. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
23. She was only a whisky maker, but he loved her still.
24. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.
25. No matter how much you push the envelope, it’ll still be stationery.
26. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
27. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
28. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
29. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
30. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
31. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab centre said: ‘Keep off the Grass.’
32. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said ‘No change yet’
33. The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
34. Don’t join dangerous cults: practice safe sects.
H/T DML
SEAN LINNANE COVERS STRIPPING
Uh . . . that's supposed to read "FIELD stripping" . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . STORMBRINGER
Weekend Rule 5 Wrap
In case folks missed some of my earlier hotness blogging:
* "Bombshell Fantasy 2010."* "Christina Perri 'Jar of Hearts'."
* "Saturday Rule 5."
* "Halloween Hotties 2010."
* "Explosive Marisa Miller Rule 5 Roundup!"
Sunday, 7 November 2010
Cult of ObamaCare Screams RAAAAACISM!!
It's a been a strange morning on Twitter.
I tweeted this and got back this. That triggered an exchange of tweets around the 'sphere. Turns out that simply opposing ObamaCare gets you attacked as RAAAAACIST, which is no surprise by any means. Here's a roundup:
* "If You Oppose ObamaCare You're RAAAAACIST and UNEDUCATED!!"And I'm currently in an exchange with some guy named F. DaCosta, although, amazingly, he hasn't called me a racist (yet).
* "If You Tweet Your Opposition to ObamaCare You're REALLY RAAAAACIST!!"
* "Opposing ObamaCare is Bigoted Asshattery!!"
It's been interesting, to a point, and there's some other good stuff happening in any case. For example, "GOP: We Owe It to People to Repeal Health Care," and "Report: Olbermann Was Suspended For Refusing To Apologize On Camera." (Via Memeorandum.)
POPPIES..........
When you buy your poppy this year, remember this poem, which is presumed to be anonymous but, in its correct form, was written by John F.Willcocks and was found among his paperwork in 2004. He scarcely knew his father, as he was only 9 months old when his father died as a result of being gassed on The Somme.
POPPIES
Why are they selling poppies, mother? Selling poppies in town today?
The poppy, my child, is the flower of love for the men, who marched away.
Why did they choose a poppy, mother? Why not a beautiful rose?
Because, my child, men fought and died in the fields, where the poppy grows.
But why is the poppy so red?
Red is the colour of blood, my child, the blood that our soldiers shed.
The heart of the poppy is black mother. Why does it have to be black?
Black is the symbol of grief, my child, for the men, who never came back.
But why, mother dear, are you crying so? Your tears are like winter rain.
My tears are my fears for you, my child, for the world is forgetting again.
H/T DML
Video: Give Them Cheese - Corrigan Brothers&Shay Healy
EU are giving free cheese to Ireland to solve their economic woes
Video: Marine Corps Birthday 2010
Great Song.........
H/T Marc
also: USMC Band At Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan
What a Billion Dollars looks like.....
One Billion Dollar is stacked on 12 standard pallets, altogether 10 million 100 USD notes
H/T DML
The Sunday Best.............
Do We Really Have to Defend Keith Olbermann?
Border Patrol to Muzzle Citizens?
Coffee's the secret to long life
Cat scratch delays train
Jessica Alba is back
RBS staff in line to share £2bn
The 'Golden State' Still Doesn't Get It
Neanderthals Were More Promiscuous Than Modern Humans, Fossil Finger Bones Suggest
Top charities give £200,000 to group which supported al-Qaeda cleric
Government goes Down Under for salt as Britain braces itself for big freeze on roads
Winning design chosen for national Spitfire memorial
Inside Yemen's al Qaeda heartland
Nancy Pelosi to run for Democrat minority leader role
Mexican drug lord killed as running battles close border city
'Military Rule with a Civilian Face': Burmese Election Holds Little Hope for Democracy
US military families lose everything in huge fire
Political earthquake in US
and finally.....
Connecticut goes solid blue
UK Lord claims mysterious Foundation wants to give Britain £17B, no strings attached
Quote..............
"Fathom the odd hypocrisy that Obama wants every citizen to prove that he is insured but they don't have to prove that they are a citizen." -Ben Stein
H/T Martin
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The winter of QE.........from Rico
We've all had the "summer of recovery" as coined by Joe "plugs" Biden.
- That sure went well, didn't it?
Next we'll get the "winter of quantitative easing."
- Let me explain.
With actual 22.5% unemployment (John Williams/Shadowstat) and NOT the 9.5% 'and we're adding jobs' manure being ladld out to us by phoney government numbers, and my personal favorite....there is NO inflation (as figured by the government, again after cooking the numbers and NOT including energy or food)!!
- Have you bought any coffee lately? Food? Then you know the 'inflatin' numbers are as fakey as the 'unemployment' numbers.
Quantitative Easing One did not fix anything, and it did not create any jobs.
Quantitative Easing Two will not fix anything, and it will not create any jobs...but since the FED now is on a mission to create inflation, we'll GET inflation. More than they reckon for, or will know what to do with, but count on government policies creating worse problem than the one they are trying to solve.
QE-2 will give us inflation, which is really swell for the bottom 20% of America who ar already spending more than half of their incme on FOOD and ENERGY (you know, those items that aren't counted in the inflation/CPI numbers), and with a good dose of inflation soon mainstreet Americans will b deciding if they want to heat the house, drive the car, or eat.
A "Winter of QE 2" will be cold, lean, and hungry. I guess if no one can afford gas or food, they won't have the "energy" to march on DC and lynch anyone.
- Until then, however, extended 'vacations' by our political elites outside the country seem to be the order of the day. Hmmmmmmmm...........
Movie Review: 'Works in Progress' (2010)
Short Review: A film made by a first-time director, rookie writer, novice crew and newbie actors that is better than many films I've seen by seasoned pros.
Full Review Here
Saturday, 6 November 2010
Who Knew? MSNBC's Lawrence O’Donnell Admits On-Air: 'I Am a Socialist'
Cross-posted from American Power.
*****
Via The Blaze.
This is just part of the larger MSNBC commie catfight bewtween O'Donnell and Glenn Greenwald:
God this is wonderful.
Matt Lewis has the background, "'Morning Joe' Battle: Lawrence O'Donnell vs. Glenn Greenwald," and he notes:
... the larger debate here is over whether Democrats will view the 2010 midterm elections as evidence they misread their mandate and over-reached after 2008 -- or if they will view it as evidence they moderated too much after 2008.And never one to miss having the last word, Rick Ellensburg has more, "Lawrence O'Donnell vehemently denies his own words." In a couple of thousand words, Ellensburg regurgitates the line that "Democrats weren't socialist enough." This is essentially the left's pathology of defeat and denial. For the ace rebuttal, see William Galston, "It's the Ideology, Stupid."
*****
More great commentary and analysis throughout the evening, at American Power.
Keith Olbermann, a Memorial Tribute
Cross-posted from American Power.
*****
From Reason.TV, via Big Government:
RELATED: "The Obligatory Olbermann Suspended Over Donations Post." Plus, "TV Newser: “Insiders” say Olbermann won’t be back."
*****
Check for hot updates throughout the day at American Power.
ADDED: From Ed Morrissey, "Reason TV’s valedictory salute to Olby."
Angels in Stripper Heels
"Casting the Victoria's Secret Show."
Includes 2009 flashback to the mind-blowing Marisa Miller in the bombshell bra: "Marisa Miller at Victoria's Secret Fashion Show!"
More great blogging hotness througout the day at American Power.
QE-2 was our Zimbabwe moment.............from Rico
The FED'S announcement of QE-2 was not exactly a surprise, but as with all official 'announcements' these days, it was a half-truth/half-lie depending upon whether you are a "progressive" or fiscally sane.
QE-2 was our Zimbabwe moment. It amounts to almost $1 trillion and not the mere $600 million we're being told. The ongoing efforts by the FED were....well, too bothersome and pesky to trouble the little people with. It might upset them to know that the 'real' number is at least $900 million.
QE-1 at a nominal price tag of $1.7 trillion didn't work. QE-2 at $0.9 trillion won't work, either. Stupidity is repeating your actions and expecting different results.
Looking at results to date, the US Dollar has lost 50% of it's purchasing power since 1986. It's dropped 11% just since June of this year. Some really smart people are saying there is more ahead....maybe a further 20% decline. Our stock markets may be UP, but with the currency melting DOWN, it's a fool's game to think 'whee, we're getting rich!' when the 'real' value of US-denominated assets is sinking like a rock and we should be realizing 'we're freaking doomed!'
Let's face it. Zimbabwe's stock exchange also soared, up until the Z$ became worthless leaving many Z$-trillionaires broke. I'm looking a the Z$ 100 Trillion Dollar note on my wall now, and wishing I had an eqiually defunct Weimar note to frame with it....along with a Federal Reserve Note. That would complete the visual trifecta of Keynesian folly!
