London, UK
Today, November 11th, 2009, was the first Remembrance Day without any World War One survivors.
Last year I posted this at www.jeremyjacobs.com
A Hillbuzz Shocker:
We know absolutely no one in Bush family circles and have never met former President George W. Bush or his wife Laura.
If you have been reading us for any length of time, you know that we used to make fun of “Dubya” nearly every day…parroting the same comedic bits we heard in our Democrat circles, where Bush is still, to this day, lampooned as a chimp, a bumbling idiot, and a poor, clumsy public speaker.
Oh, how we RAILED against Bush in 2000…and how we RAILED against the surge in support Bush received post-9/11 when he went to Ground Zero and stood there with his bullhorn in the ruins on that hideous day.
We were convinced that ANYONE who was president would have done what Bush did, and would have set that right tone of leadership in the wake of that disaster. President Gore, President Perot, President Nader, you name it. ANYONE, we assumed, would have filled that role perfectly.
As both my regular readers at Hitting Metal With A Hammer know I'm a poor student living on noodles and mouldy bread and I have to walk 8 miles through the snow to get to school (which is damned hard in mid summer I can assure you!) My catapulting is entirely funded by what I can find down the back of the cushions and several very generous donations from military types who shamelessly encourage my violent tendencies which I then pass on to the local youth disguised as "history". So once again I’m holding my hand out as I have a pressing need for two particular books:
Greek And Roman Artillery, Technical Treaties
E. W. Marsden
And
Greek and Roman Artillery. Historical Development
E. W. Marsden
For those in the business Marsden is the bible for ancient catapults and you're either a disciple or a heretic, but Marsdens is The Word you're fighting over.
These books are of course quite expensive so if you feel inclined to help out with the cause but don't have the loose change to go about buying books for strangers you can donate through paypal to the 22AD Research Fund. The research fund goes towards building new machines and research material which can include research into the effects of alcohol at post event bbq's.
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
Albert Einstein
I believe beer helps this research process at the "what the hell am I doing" end of the scale. While I don't believe in the something for nothing principle I'm happy to give anyone who donates anything a copy of my tennis ball ballista plan. which you can view here and here.
Just out of interest if everyone who had downloaded my trebuchet plan had donated $1 I could have bought both these books, all the text books (23) for my next year at university... and a car.
In catapult related news I'm working on two books at the moment based on my research and this may well be related to the two books mentioned above. I'm writing a boring academic one and I'm editing a kids version of it written by a friend of mine who is much better at getting to the point and not waffling a load of verbose bollocks. they should be available mid next year. Email me if you're interested in a copy and I’ll put you on a notification list. 22adartillery AT gmail DOT com
The US Dollar dropped against 12 of its 16 counterparts.
So? Ho hum.
When the global recovery REALLY gets underway, oil will be at or above $150/bbl. (Remember 2008?)
...$300/bbl is possible, which would put gasoline over $6/gallon and diesel over $7-8/gallon.
This will hammer trucking! (Now you know why Buffet bought a RR!)
- Long-haul truckers will be out of a job.
The middle-class in suburbia will face commuting costs double what they are paying now.
This does NOT include "Crap...er, Cap and Trade."
Pick one: long dollar OR long oil.
121. The difference between an oral thermometer and a rectal thermometer is in the taste.
122. Girls are like roads, more the curves, more the dangerous they are.
123. Money talks…but all mine ever says is good-bye.
124. It is hard to understand how a cemetery raised its burial cost and blamed it on the cost of living.
125. By the time a man realises that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he’s wrong.
126. By the time you learn the rules of life, you’re too old to play the game.
127. Does time fly when you’re having sex or was it really just one minute?
128. If you’re looking for sympathy, you’ll find it in the dictionary between “shit” and “syphilis”
129. Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?
130. Keep the dream alive: Hit the snooze button.
131. I don’t have a beer gut, I have a protective covering for my rock hard abs.
132. Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
133. Why is it called tourist season if we can’t shoot them?
134. We have all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
135. Who was the first to see a cow and think “I wonder what will happen if I squeeze these dangly things and drink whatever comes out?”
136. Panties not best thing on earth, but next to it.
137. Remember, if you smoke after sex you’re doing it too fast.
138. Why didn’t Noah swat those two mosquitoes?
139. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
140. The difference between in-laws and outlaws? Outlaws are wanted.
H/T DML
To those few who are not brain-dead from reality TV or the government-run education system, the reality that we have been BAMBOOZLED-HOODWINKED-and LIED TO only becomes clearer and harsher.
Unless you are a flaming Marxist radical, (which well describes Team Obama), Team Obama has a failed rePORKcard so far, and His Obamaness's hostile takeover of our Liberty and free markets marches on despite its obvious folly.
To wit, so-called government provided "free" public services almost always cost more than what could be provided by the public sector (which must survive by keeping costs low to compete; gooberment does NOT have this incentive...they have the taxpayer instead, when you can no longer pay your confiscatory taxes there is always the 'forced' labor option...and if you can no longer 'work' for Massa Comrade Government there are always the death panels and denial of care).
- "Progressive" desire to be generous to the 'poor' and the 'victims' is destroying the positive incentive to work, be productive, and save/invest.
PelosiCare is a typical Commucrat disaster. It does NOT 'reform' the health care system, but is instead another trillion-dollar-plus expansion of gooberment power and debt! It raises taxes, penalizes and criminalizes free choice, forces millions of people out of their current health care plans into the 'uncaring' embrace of a rationed-government-controlled system, and surely is an economy KILLER!
For those not inspired by self-flagellation or wearing kick-me signs, Dr. Liberty needs to make a House call and invites you to join him in having a frank discussion with the Senate...before holding a pillow over the face of those who would smother our free choice and freedom!
Where is Dr. Kevorkian when we really need him? These mad-Marxists need to be 'put down' like the rabid anti-American dogs they have become........
In our once free and prosperous country we now have a circus parade of monsters: cunning human beings with oversized egos, with ambitions out of proportion to their ablity, whose ideas are self-serving. They do not possess skills or mental acuity, and have pushed-aside anyone with good sense from our public affairs. Instead of being right about anything, they are always wrong. They are weak, and being weak hate and fear the strong. There is nothing 'new' about them (Marx and Thucydides would recognize them), although they fancy themselves 'original' in all things.
I thought this chart to be a good macro-view of what OIL will be doing in our future.
It is possibly also a template for other commodities. I tend to agree with Jim Rogers that:
- There is another severe equities "crash" looming.
- Commodities and cash are the place to be.
While nothing will be cheaper in future, and taxes WILL be going up...so will the price of OIL.
Muni's and Treasuries? Many cities and states are in worse condition than the Federal gooberment. I wouldn't have a penny placed in them (even the post-1984 pennies that are made of zinc and copper-washed to 'look' like real copper pennies from pre-1984 and are worth multiples of their face value based on their copper content and the copper spot price).
What was that old movie line? Something about fastening your seatbelts because we're in for a bumpy ride.
While discussing the upcoming Universal Health Care Program with my sister-in-law the other day, I think we have found the solution. I am sure you have heard the ideas that if you're a senior you need to suck it up and give up the idea that you need any health care. A new hip? Unheard of. We simply can't afford to take care of you anymore. You don't need any medications for your high blood pressure, diabetes, heart problems, etc. Let's take care of the young people. After all, they will be ruling the world very soon.
So here is the solution. When you turn 70, you get a gun and 3 bullets. You are allowed to shoot one senator and 2 representatives.
Of course, you will be sent to prison where you will get 3 meals a day, a roof over your head and all the health care you need! New teeth, great! Need glasses, no problem! New hip, knee, kidney, lung, heart? Well, bring it on. And who will be paying for all of this? The same government that just told you that you are too old for health care. And, since you are a prisoner, you don't have to pay any income tax.
H/T Shelly
With unemployment UP, incomes DOWN, industrial production DROPPING, credit CONTRACTING
.....where exactly are the "green shoots" of recovery coming from I wonder?
Promises and prettily printed paper do not offer much real substance. Sure, the Fed is printing money as fast as it can, and Congress is spending money as fast as it can...but this is all money we do not have, must borrow, and pay interest on.
With their usual inaccuracy, perhaps the lapdog MSM either:
a. Rewrote reality to curry continued favor with Dear Comrade Reader, or
b. Just got it wrong (shocka, huh?) and instead of saying "green shits" said "green shoots" instead.
- Both are equally plausible.
Meanwhile, people are running away from the dollar.
- One year ago on Friday 06 Nov 2008 the NYMEX gold spot price was $731.20 an ounce. THIS Friday 06 Nov 2009 the NYMEX gold spot price closed at $1,096.60. The dollar has moved inversely to this, and US Treasury instruments sure cannot claim this kind of return nor can the equities markets.
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