H/T Nebraska Bob
Thursday, 1 October 2009
News.....
Rule Five Sunday — The Bo Derek Edition.
Military Coup Would Take Care Of "Obama Problem".
Another Mumbai? Qaeda-Taliban-Lashkar Ready to Strike Again.
Supreme Court opens with secrecy order in new era of transparency.
West gives Iran three months to prove it does not want nuclear weapons.
Labour to freeze pay and sell assets in dash for cash.
Black Watch soldiers destroy Taleban stronghold in dramatic raid.
France and Germany unite to push Britain to EU sidelines.
UK broadband 'not fit' for future
Time to Prank Congress
Lord Mandelson blames a bad line for 'swearing' at the Sun
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Bullion................from Rico
Political hot air will not reinflate your savings or 401k accounts. Nor will printing more paper fiat money which will devalue due to excessive supply and excessive public debt.
To quote the Bard "All that glisters is not gold."
For some of my friends who are "silver" bugs......
Supply and demand for silver bullion (both as a store of value and as an industrial commodity) suggests a future silver shortage. When? No one knows for sure.
- I'll be watching the "shorts" to see if they can cover their positions over time.
Silver prices will eventually explode...but in a gradual, slow-motion upside move as investors and users slowly eat up the world's visible supply of silver bullion (about 500 million ounces).
- The 1st 100mn oz's (mostly privately held) will be the first to take profits and disappear between $60 and $100 per oz.
- The 2nd 100mn oz's will disappear by $250 per oz.
- The 3rd 100mn oz's will disappear somewhere between $250 and the current spot price for gold.
The owners of the remaining 200mn oz's of silver will not "take profits" at any price.
Bullion (silver or gold), stubbornly, will survive as the last and best store of wealth compared to most fiat (paper only) currencies like, let's say...the Zimbabwe Dollar* or the Obama Dollar.
*Of course, I could be horribly wrong about this despite toilet tissue currently being more valuable than Bobby Mugabe's Z$ while both items are useful for the same purpose thanks to Marxist-socialist economic brilliance.
BREAD AND CIRCUSES
We have a hot shooting war on our hands, our enemies are emboldened, and our Commander-in-Chief is heading off to Copenhagen to try to . . . win the Olympics for Chicago in 2016!?!?! 
Circus Maximus, site of ancient Roman gladiatorial combat, games and chariot races.
STORMBRINGER tells it like it is . . .
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
Tusnami update
For those of you following our little drama yesterday you'll know that we were fortunate in New Zealand and Australia. Although the perception is that nothing actually happened here the reality is that we did get it with a very strong tide surge that tested a lot morings and made a good effort at pulling a few boats under. We were very lucky.
Western Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga were not so lucky. Rather than give you numbers I'm going to put it into a context for you. The devasation would be similar to London having 5,250 dead and 60,000 homeless. For those of you on the other side of the pond that would mean 13,650 dead and 156,000 homeless in New York.
For the Samoa's and Tonga they just got hit with with about three nine elevens and a fistfull of Katrinas. They are not having a happy time of it. I've asked my brother, who is an ABC journalist who covered the Papua New Guinea tidal wave in 1998, what would be the best way to give them support and I'll be posting that information once he's woken up. For those that wish you can make a direct donation to the New Zealand Red Cross's Samoan Red Coss Campaign here.
At present New Zealand and Asutralia are giving direct assistance to Western Samoa and Tonga while I'm assuming the massive resources the pacifuic fleet are heading in the direction of American Samoa.
PSA: For UK Readers....
30 September Freeview Retune - list of manuals
Also you can watch Freeview on your PC HERE
H/T DML
Don Rickles Roasts the Dems…
Hello, dummies! Oh my God, look at you. Anyone else hurt in the accident? Seriously, Senator Reid has a face of a Saint – A Saint Bernard. Now I know why they call you the arithmetic man. You add partisanship, subtract pleasure, divide attention, and multiply ignorance. Reid is so physically unimposing, he makes Pee Wee Herman look like Mr. T. and Reid’s so dumb, he makes Speaker Pelosi look like an intellectual. Nevada is soooo screwed! If I were less polite, I’d say Reid makes Kevin Federline look successful.
Speaking of the Speaker… Nancy Pelosi, hubba, hubba! Hey baby, you must’ve been something before electricity. Seriously, the Speaker may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don’t let that fool you. She really is an idiot. Madame Speaker… want to make twelve bucks the hard way? Pelosi says she’s not partisan, but her constituents call her Madame Pelossilini.
Charlie Rangel… still alive and still robbing the taxpayers blind. What does that make, six decades of theft? Rangel’s the only man with a rent-controlled mansion. He’s the guy who writes our tax laws but forgot to pay taxes on $75 grand in rental income! So why isn’t he the Treasury Secretary? Rangel runs more scams than a Nigerian Banker.
Barney Frank – he’s a better actor than Fred Flintstone. Consider… he and Dodd caused the whole financial meltdown and they’re not only not serving time with Bubba and Rodney, they’re still heading up the financial system!
Let’s all admit it… Barney Frank slobbers more than a sheepdog on novocain. How did this guy get elected? Oh, that’s right…. he’s from Massachusetts . That’s the state that elects Mr. Charisma, John Kerry — man of the people!
You know, if Senator Dodd were any more crooked, you could open wine bottles with him. Here’s a news flash, Dodd: when your local newspaper calls you a “lying weasel”, it may be time to retire. Dodd’s involved in more shady deals than the Clintons . Even Rangel looks up to him!
Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, I really respect you… especially given your upbringing. All you’ve overcome…. I heard your birth certificate is an apology from the condom factory. I don’t know what makes you so dumb, but it really works for you. Personally, I don’t think you’re a fool, but what’s my opinion compared to that of thousands of others?
As for President Obama, what can I say? They say President Obama’s arrogant and aloof, but I don’t agree. Now it’s true when you enter the room, you have to kiss his ring. I don’t mind, but he has it in his back pocket. His mind is open to new ideas — so open that ideas simply pass through it.
Obama lies so much, I was actually surprised to find out his first name really was Barack. Just don’t ask about his middle name! But Obama was able to set a record… he actually lied more in 60 days than Bill Clinton. As far as his administration — what with the tax cheat and lobbyists — well, in the words of Patches O’Houlihan, “It’s like watching a bunch of retards trying to hump a doorknob out there.”
With all due respect.
FOR THOSE THAT VOTED FOR “HOPE AND CHANGE”… BEND OVER AND PREPARE.
H/T DML
Stock Market advice:
I called my stockbroker today and asked, “what are you buying?"
His answer: "Canned goods and ammunition."
H/T DML
Soldiers from Charlie Battery, 1st Battalion, 321st Airborne Field Artillery Regiment fire 155 Howitzer rounds using an M777 weapons system on Forward Operating Base Bostick, Afghanistan, July 6, 2009. The Soldiers were registering targets so they will have a more accurate and faster response time when providing fire support. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Evan D. Marcy/Released) Date Posted: 9/25/2009
H/T DML
News......
The Daley Gator has drawn the ire of….
ACORN's Man in the White House.
U.S. commander in Afghanistan talked with Obama only once.
Obama Calls For a Contiguous Palestinian State? Split Israel in Half?
More doubts on BoE's rescue efforts.
Gordon Brown: the clunking fist thumps its last tub.
Make Friday a night of protest.
Hey Ladies! Hope you like being confined to a tent, cause that's your lot in Allah's Paradise.
Online advertising overtakes television for the first time.
Republican Trent Franks calls Barack Obama an 'enemy of humanity'.
Iran dashes hopes of talks on secret nuclear plant.
Supermarkets killing the traditional British village, warns Duke of Edinburgh.
German men are 'world's worst lovers' with English men in second place.
Andy Williams accuses Barack Obama of following Marxist theory.
China's 60th anniversary of Communism: public barred from parade.
China 'expanding' African oil reserves.
Farmer's daughter disarms terrorist and shoots him dead with AK47.
Young girl is killed by RAF leaflet drop in Afghanistan.
Three pressure points to make Iran crumble.
US under Obama could slide into military dictatorship, says Gore Vidal.
MoD pays quadruple in money + blood for Afghan helicopters.
and finally...
Poe the Clydesdale: world's tallest horse?
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History repeating itself?...............from Rico
Some of us remember Japan's "lost decade" and real estate/economic experiences, having actually been eyewitness to the events as they unfolded.
When I ran across this graph, it gave me a shiver as I recalled what happened to them...and considered how similar things are for us here, today.
- No, this was NOT the same as the infamous Chris Matthews 'tingly leg' feeling.
History repeating itself?
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Fun and games down under.
For those of you unfamilier with things here towards the bottom of the world, we live on the active end of the ring of fire (not associated with Taco Bell). Earthquakes are frequent and usually too deep to worry about.
Well not this morning, a big one has hit Samoa and is being followed up with 3 metre swell, prnounced tsunami warning taking in both New Zealand and Australia. Australia a reef barrier, cunningly names great barrier while we in New Zealand have a honking big trench designed to act as a channel for any large bodies of water that want to come for a visit.
We're dure to have it arrive in avout 50 minutes or so and people on the east coast are gennerally fleeing away from the the blue bit for the handy vantage points on the high bits. high bits which are currently located between me and the splash zone.
Samoa has already been badly hit and tidal waves in that area can be extremly bad with a lot of casualties. I'll update you as we go on my own site.
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