Theo Spark

Tuesday, 16 February 2010

Tuesday Totty.........

Bouncing....or NOT bouncing.............from Rico

Dead cats bounce. Not very well, and it depends upon the height involved, but they DO bounce.
- At least in investing terminology.

Dead 401k's and dead retirement plans, well...they don't bounce all that well.

IF you trust and believe Berry Obama-Soetero, Ben Bernanke, Congress....ad nauseum, then stop reading right here. Do NOT buy any gold or silver. Go very long on Government Debt (aka Bonds).
- Timmy has SUCH a "deal" for you! Or, talk to Ahnold about Kalifohnia bonds. Maybe some nice Greek action? Iceland (real opportunity now I hear)?

Boomer 'retirement plans" aren't doing so well. Not "bouncing" at all so far.
- No job creation
- Decreasing housing values
- No 'gains' in investments
- Higher taxes coming
If you were a typical investor, followed the typical financial advice and were properly "allocated" and long stocks, bonds, and mutual funds for the past decade then you were a LOSER. Your boomer 401k's are now 104k's. Maybe. If you're lucky.
- Don't have one? Pick out a nice dempsey-dumpster before they are all spoken for.

Almost as big a LOSER as the fiddy-two percenters in the last national election.

Yeah, that whole "hopey-changey" thing is REALLY working out just swell!!!!

Iraq Update............by DJ Elliott

Iraqi Army Reorganization

Video: Beer Gloss

Video: Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey! Coming March 15!

The Laws of Reality

Anything is possible . . . . as long as you don't know what you're talking about . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . STORMBRINGER

Monday, 15 February 2010

The Auschwitz Album

From DoubleTapper

Bedtime Totty.........

From our friends at ZOO (NSFW-ish)

Cartoon Round Up....

IDF Women Muddy Monday

Lots More IDF Women at DoubleTapper

Is that a Corvette?

Fore!

Caption Time.......

Mail Call.......

News.......

Well! I've been thrown out of better places than the Bangash Banquet Hall!

UN global warming data skewed by heat from planes and buildings

Squirrel banned from riding rollercoaster

Silvio Berlusconi says immigrants not welcome but 'beautiful girls' can stay

Photo's from Iwo Jima..........

Full Gallery Here

H/T Shelly

Monday Mopsies........

From our friends at ZOO (NSFW-ish)

Video: The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D

H/T Shelly

Video: Global Warming Skeptic: Cool it

H/T Glenwood

Movin' on up!.............from Rico

If you loved what the subprime/housing fiasco did for you, the coming CRE (Commercial Real Estate) bust is going to give you even more to love!

Between now and 2014 $1.4 trn in CRE loans come due.

At peak, CRE was valued at $6.5 trn. Now it is closer to $3.5 trn. Said another way, much closer to the LOAN amounts outstanding.

In the wake of the banking (and other) massive bailouts, no one seems a bit concerned. Hey! Everybody "expects" the Treasury and Fed to solve any future problems. So NO problem, right?
- And even if there is a problem, the shnook taxpayers will make it all better. So, NO PROBLEM! Most of them are unaware that 'solvency' and 'liquidity' are not the same thing...

THEMES

An interim summing up . . .

STORMBRINGER is about philosophy . . . soldiering . . . honor . . . military history . . . theology . . . current affairs and global security . . .

. . . which is to say the current conflict against the Islamofascists . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . STORMBRINGER

Sunday, 14 February 2010

Bedtime Totty.........

Late News..........

An overdue farewell to the Kennedy dynasty

US admits salvaging sunken Soviet submarine

Thriller writer Dick Francis, dies, aged 89

Cartoon Round Up....

THANK YOU, RONALD REAGAN

He saved us from the nuclear threat of the Soviet Union . . .

. . . now the Gipper reaches beyond the grave . . .

. . . to save us from a more lethal threat . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . STORMBRINGER