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When private equity came for trailer parks
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Friday, 13 August 2010
Thursday, 12 August 2010
ANOTHER PHONY WANNABE
Help spread the word . . . this guy's a MAYOR . . .
. . . and yes you guessed it, he's a DEMOCRAT . . .
Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . STORMBRINGER
This might be "news" to some......from Rico
This actually might be "news" to some folks.
The name was artfully, the trappings and inferences equally misleading, as a result most who do not pay close attention actually think that the "Fed" is part of our Federal Government.
It is NOT.
The Federal Reserve Bank is privately held. Very privately. Few even know who the ultimate beneficial owners of the Fed are (the Rotschild family and a few other hugley wealthy banking families).
While it could be argued today that our Government is a part of the Fed, truth-be-told the FED IS A PRIVATE BANK!
The US Dollar (look at one, it says Federal Reserve Note on the face of it) is the Private Federal Reserve Currency which has become the basis for our current financial system, and much global trade.
Pray along with Benjamin. Pray very hard. This system is fast unraveling...
News...........
Day 34 – August 12th 1940
Rate Obama for CBS!
Biden and The little Guy
Seaside Heights boardwalk Obama is retired
Possible Names For Greg Gutfeld’s Muslim Gay Bar Near Ground Zero
Why we need to let states go broke
The Obsolescence of Barack Obama
Zeus botnet raid on UK bank accounts under the spotlight
Video:3 Things You Should Know About Islam
Dr. Manny: Dear Senator Reid, I’m Not Stupid!
Comrade Crow's 12% pay increase: As millions suffer wage freezes, RMT's militant leader pockets £10,000
US 'on target' to withdraw troops from Iraq despite military misgivings
Barack Obama 'may be prepared to meet Iranian president’
Mother reports topless sunbather on Italian beach to police for 'troubling' sons
China's deadly landslide 'not an accident'
Zimbabwe auctions 900,000 carats of diamonds
British ambassador to Iran hits back after 'thick' jibe
Iran navy produces armed copy of Bladerunner 51 speedboat
Panic rises in Russia over fires in areas contaminated by Chernobyl disaster
Record four out of five jobs going to foreigners between May and June
and finally......
It's high time the supercar syndicate took off by little Jimmy May.
Irony: $26-Billion Bailout To States Helps Pay For Illegal Immigration
Having the WRONG argument...........from Rico
Listening to all the 40# brains argue "inflation" or "deflation" it strikes a few of us that we are having the WRONG argument.
No, it won't even be "stagflation."
All of this wasted breath is like debating financial crop circles. Entertaining at times, but pointless and useless...unless the purpose of the exercise is to serve as a distraction from the REAL problem.
- Now WHO would want that comrades? Who benefits?
You never hear depreciation from the teleprompter readers, do you?
Using the terms inflation and deflation implies that prices are going down or up, and that the 'problem' is with the goods or the producers of the goods which shifts the attention of the naive and gullible away from the fact that the problem is the currency. [read: FED]
It is NOT that prices are going UP, but that the value...the purchasing power of the currency, the Dollar...is going DOWN.
- It takes more-and-more Dollars to buy the same things.
DEFLATION will not be the problem, it is only a "ruse" (a strawman argument) to scare us into allowing bailouts, reckless spending, and the massive creation of funny money.
INFLATION (increasing prices) will be a symptom of the real problem, which is DEPRECIATION (a decrease in purchasing power).
The US debt risk is now so high, the debts can never be paid back (and there are no 'intentions' or 'plans' to pay it back, something our Kommissars, Politburo, and Pravda won't tell us) leaving two options:
DEFAULT or DEPRECIATE
Paying back debt with more Dollars that are worth less has to be an appealing concept to somebody. It kicks the can down the road and delays the inevitable, something our political uber-class does with same consistency and regularity as it is useless and worthless.
It's a long list, but think: Russia, Argentina, Zimbabwe...and we're next.
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Gaza Humanitarian Crisis Revisited
Two thousand families visited Gaza's Crazy Water Park during the first four days that it was open in May of this year.
The water park features 3 swimming pools, a canal 100 meters long, three water slides, ponds with pedal boats, a restaurant, a cafe, and a quiet area shaded by a tent where adults can sit on carpets and listen to music. The atmosphere is secular, with popular secular tunes playing over the loudspeakers and women in international-style clothing. A recent lifting of the government ban on women smoking in public has made it legal for women to smoke the popular nargilas at the Crazy Water Park's cafe. Construction of the park was completed in six months. Admission is 10 shekels, the equivalent of about $2.60 as of mid-2010, but using the water slide costs another 5 shekels, and going into the pool costs an extra 20 shekels.
The park cost $2 million to build. According to Ayman Barawi, the Crazy Water Park's financial manager.
The Crazy Water Park has 106 employees, not counting about 80 vendors supplying services and goods such as food.
The Crazy Water Park is one of a number of seaside tourist resorts constructed in a $20 million building binge. Egyptian journalist Ashraf Abu Al-Houl write in Al-Ahram, that Crazy Water Park is one of a rapidly growing group of Gaza pleasure parks, including Zahrat Al-Madain, the Al-Bustan resort and the Bisan City tourist village.
According to Egyptian journalist Ashraf Abu Al-Houl writing in Al-Ahram, "A sense of absolute prosperity prevails, as manifested by the grand resorts along and near Gaza's coast. Further, the sight of the merchandise and luxuries filling the Gaza shops amazed me. Merchandise is sold more cheaply than in Egypt, although most of it is from the Egyptian market.
The Philosophy of Ambiguity
IF MAN EVOLVED FROM MONKEYS AND APES, WHY DO WE STILL HAVE MONKEYS AND APES?
WHAT IF THERE WERE NO HYPOTHETICAL QUESTIONS?
WHY DO THEY LOCK PETROL STATION LOOS? ARE THEY AFRAID SOMEONE WILL CLEAN THEM?
DO THEY PUT BRAILLE ON THE DRIVE-THROUGH BANK MACHINES?
HOW DO THEY GET DEER TO CROSS THE ROAD ONLY AT THOSE YELLOW ROAD SIGNS?
IF YOU TRY TO FAIL, AND SUCCEED, WHICH HAVE YOU DONE?
WHOSE CRUEL IDEA WAS IT FOR THE WORD 'LISP' TO HAVE 'S' IN IT?
WHY IS IT CALLED TOURIST SEASON IF WE CAN'T SHOOT AT THEM?
H/T Old Dude
Gazni Photos...........
Gazni is Polish battle space, so international traffic signs are required
Polish battle targets. If the Taliban ever goes to fedoras, they are in deep sh*t.
H/T T.A
UPDATE: PHONY WANNABE
Law Enforcement authorities are interested in his whereabouts . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . STORMBRINGER
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H/T An Englishman's Castle
News............
Day 33 – August 11th 1940
Are the American people obsolete?
US State Dept Sends Mosque Imam to Mideast
The village where it takes £8,000 (and three years) to change a lightbulb
USNA Commandant silently claims the Jolly Rogers as his own
White House unloads anger over criticism from 'professional left’
SA journalists fight proposed media laws
Joint forces become chief components in military victories
New superbug could make antibiotics 'redundant'
Al-Qaeda attempts to reassert itself in Iraq
Iran's Revolutionary Guard 'digging mass graves for US soldiers'
Should we really risk ignoring an asteroid?
Giant Mecca clock seeks to call time on GMT
and finally........
7 advancements in technology that may be holding men back
10 Funny Unintentional Sexual Signs
Senior personal ads
LONG-TERM COMMITMENT:
Recent widow who has just buried fourth husband, and am looking for someone to round out a six-unit plot.
Dizziness, fainting, shortness of breath not a problem.
WINNING SMILE:
Active grandmother with original teeth seeking a dedicated flosser to share rare steaks, corn on the cob and caramel candy.
MEMORIES:
I can usually remember Monday through Thursday.
If you can remember Friday, Saturday and Sunday, let's put our two heads together.
MINT CONDITION:
Male, 1932, high mileage, good condition, some hair, many new parts including hip, knee, cornea, valves.
Isn't in running condition, but walks well.
H/T Rico
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
Post-Anti-Americanism?
I'm sure Howard Fineman is a good guy (hardly a netroots freak), but seriously, he should read some of the scholarly literature on hegemony and U.S. power. Signs in Europe of a post-post-9/11 anti-Americanism simply signal that continent's ever increasing irrelevance in great power international politics. See, "Europe can’t even be bothered to hate America any more":
Oh God ... tha's all I can read.I got on a recently completed three-week trip to Italy, Greece, Turkey, and the Black Sea. America is no longer admired, imitated, or feared. We remain—for now—a safe haven for dollars (of which there are too many in the world). But we increasingly are seen less as a model or as an empire than as a cautionary tale of national neglect and decline.
Some Europeans can’t quite hide their schadenfruede. The British—whose publications and personalities are increasingly (and annoyingly) influential in the colony they lost 227 years ago—are global leaders in condescension (think Simon Cowell). But for America they add a special twist of bitter lemon to their analyses. It’s the triumph of the doddering older brother who no longer has to be grateful to his junior. Memories fade, and the Brits no longer feel they have to be kind out of homage to our having saved them from Hitler.
A couple of examples from the genre. Writing in the Guardian, Timothy Garton Ash sees a Third World shabbiness when he visits the United States. “Every time I come back to the United States,” the Oxford don writes, “the airports, the roads, the public spaces look more tattered, battered, old-fashioned. Modernity is no longer self-evidently here.”
Edward Luce, a brilliant and diligent reporter for the Financial Times, surveyed the American landscape and came up with a mournful portrait that echoes, in equal measure, Diane Arbus, Walker Evans, and Robert Altman. Citing incontrovertibly bleak statistics about the struggles of middle-class Americans, and the growing disparity between the really rich and everyone else, he concludes that the U.S. is losing its essential character: it is no longer the land of opportunity and upward mobility; no longer the place where the future will surely be better, and more prosperous, than the past ...
Folks are better off reading Michael Mandelbaum, "The Downsizing of American Foreign Policy." And Mandelbaum's no declinist, by the way. Let's get this economy pumping (ahem, President Obama), and we'll get America back on top in world public opinion (hope and change ain't doin' the trick).
RELATED: "Do States Ally Against the Leading Global Power?"
Cross-posted from American Power.
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