31 December 2011
DEC 2011
03 October 2011
OCT 2011
(24 OCT 2011)
The kids loved them....the smiles say it all.
(14 OCT 2011)
bit of a hazy day....but really cool up top. A great ride.
(06 OCT 2011)
"CORPORATE ZOMBIES OCCUPY WALL STREET"
This is our next generation of leadership. Our fore fathers are weeping at our complete and utter audacity in our outward demands while offering NO alternatives or suggestions or efforts to fix the issues...just disruption and bitching. Very good assholes. No solutions...just bitching. Terrific.
When asked by CNN's Anderson Cooper: "We understand that you are fed up with rich people...but may I ask what exactly is your alternative or suggested plan? What exactly are you seeking as an alternative?"
Here is the reply:
"...when people have to work two or three jobs...and we college students have little or no hope for even getting a job...and corporate CEOs get huge bonuses, then something is fundamentally wrong in this country."
"...when people have to work two or three jobs...and we college students have little or no hope for even getting a job...and corporate CEOs get huge bonuses, then something is fundamentally wrong in this country."
Anderson Cooper asks the question again:
"Yes, we understand that part, but what I am asking is what alternative your group suggests to put in place of the current system?"
Here's the reply:
"...even the most basic items to simply sustain life have sky rocketed in price over the last four years...the merchants, vendors, banks, and corporate thieves are taking advantage of the poor and middle class. We are here to say loud and clear that we have had enough.."
Anderson looks blankly at the camera and re-states:
"so, you really don't have a suggestion or alternative correct?...and you are angry about inflation of prices, is that right? "
Reply:
"...hell yes we are angry!...and we are going to create a living hell for all people until we are heard...this country has been hijacked and we will not stand for it. We are the 99%!!! "
COMMENTS:
(1) No plan. No suggested alternative. No fucking clue as to WHY prices rise due to currency devaluation + fed printing presses + fractionalized lending + trade deficits. Just bitching and pointing blame elsewhere. Wonderful.
(2) This is a great example of the entitlement mentality in its truest form. "I am being held down by the man." Yes, of course that must be the cause of all this, because, as we know, all those first generation banana boat immigrants who came over here with zero and busted their asses to create a good life, did so by under handed and illegal means I'm sure of it. Same as all those other people who own businesses right!? They must have obtained their wealth by stealing from you and I....lets loot these bastards! (absolute fucking morons)
(3) You cannot separate economics from domestic tranquility. In poor economic times, the domestic tranquility goes right out the window. Yet, NO ONE seems to want to take the time to UNDERSTAND what is going on to CAUSE price increases, inflation, currency devaluation, historical repeating cycles, and or stratification of wealth. It is simply EASIER and more mob mentality to simply point a finger and blame OTHERS rather than get off your ass and go create the results you want. No one is preventing you (or anyone) from obtaining whatever it is you truly want. Reality is you don't TRULY want it. It's easier to simply blame others.
(4) Anyone (and I mean anyone) who earns even minimum wage can thrive...in ANY market and economy...no matter if it's up or down...by simply UNDERSTANDING what is going on to cause these historical patterns. Until you ask questions and get answers yourself, you will ALWAYS be relegated to information provided by those who have ZERO vested interest in your well being....nor do they UNDERSTAND simple economics 101 laws that NO NATION can ever defy. You can choose to follow the normalcy bias ("it can't happen here...we have the highest standard of living in the world!...that's what hundreds of far more successful and time tested civilizations have said for the last 2600 years)...or....you can commit to the reality that:
(a) economics and domestic tranquility go hand in hand...liberal generalities and demands do NOT solve the problem...they just disrupt domestic tranquility...period.
(b) you must understand WHY history repeats and what fuels these patterns over and over and over again.
(c) your current high standard of living was bought with YOUR KIDS' work hours, sweat, effort, and stress (and their kids too)...and we have sheer audacity to enslave our kids (and their kids) due to OUR selfish bullshit.
(d) know the difference between CURRENCY and MONEY....currency (the dollars in your pocket) are mere claim checks except you have nothing to claim now because your checked item was SPENT years ago by people who are either dead or near dead. Last I checked they never sent any of us a thank you card.
(e) your house is LOSING value at 4% annually. (actually, everywhere I say "4%" read "8%" because people don't know how to extract TRUE inflation #'s...they blindly believe the BS #'s the govt. hands them...that's your first sign you are in trouble) Your paycheck is losing value at 4% annually. If the Dow Jones side ways for 10 years (like it has for the last 10 years)...that means it has actually LOST 40%...it's CRASHING and you don't even notice it.
(f) lastly, do NOT benchmark the value of your assets in DOLLARS....value them benchmarked against OTHER STUFF. Example: 1 median price home = 10 oz. of gold today. 50 years ago 1 median price home = 10 oz. gold. No inflation. Start stacking STUFF = STUFF and you see just how much you have LOST by using dollars.
....remember this..."CASH IS TRASH"....accept that part and you will do well.
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(05 OCT 2011)
George gets a new home....
Glenn, Kyoko, and Colleen.
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In 1988 I signed on the dotted line to "defend and protect the Constitution of the United States of America, from all enemies, foreign and domestic."
Since then I had (not by choice) three classes pertaining to the Constitution (two military and one civilian college). What I found was more questions that I needed to answer...and I didn't feel it to be too important at the time. The questions lead to other historical documents, which lead to other books, which lead to news archives....etc etc. It got way too involved thus I dropped it for many years. Until 2001, when the Patriot Act emerged....and the Fed cranked up the printing presses to try and stave off recession. Since then it's been a truly remarkable journey indeed, as I became aware of repeating cycles in history....over and over and over again....by nations just like us for the last 2600 years.
None of these below charts are a surprise. They are all manifestations of one law that NO COUNTRY can evade...
THE FREE MARKETS WILL ALWAYS SEEK EQUILIBRIUM...NO MATTER WHAT MAN MADE DEVISE YOU INTERJECT OR INSERT. IN THE END, THE MARKETS WILL OBTAIN FAIR VALUES BASED ON
THE LAWS OF ECONOMICS...NOT THE WHIMS OF A POPULATION ADDICTED TO CREDIT AND ENTITLEMENTS.
I am not a Republican nor a Democrat. Both those parties front candidates that merely pander to the masses. Promise people free shit and you will get elected. This is how we elect people today...pander and promise free crap at the expense of YOUR KIDS, and your KIDS' KIDS.
I have been searching for a candidate with the following resume:
> Does not pander to crowds...says the SAME thing and doesn't change over many years.
> Committed to protect the Constitution. Like I swore to do so in 1988.
> Preferably a veteran...but not mandatory.
> Stands by his ideals and never changes his tune over the years...NOT afraid to speak UNPOPULAR.
> Has the balls to speak outwardly OUTSIDE the politically correct acceptable margins.
> Has the balls to tell people what they DON'T want to hear
> Has a plan to fix our debt issues, out of control military industrial complex, and stop the entitlement mentality.
....I don't care who you vote for....frankly it doesn't matter...but I do ask you start to think for yourself, ask questions, and at least have the balls to have an opinion that is possibly politically incorrect. Do not allow others to skew your values or principles...ever. If you believe our spending is out of control...say so. If you believe we have become a population of Microsoft, Google, beer, football, Nascar, iPhone, Oprah, reality tv, facebook, induced coma patients...then say so. Vote for a candidate that doesn't pander, has been literally unchanged for 35 years, has always sought to preserve the Constitution, and has a plan to kill the military industrial complex + get our fiscal overspent asses back on track.
http://youtu.be/9FFhSr1A1do
http://youtu.be/1gollke8hlM
http://youtu.be/sJTaw0GhY_s
This chart is not by accident. This is history repeating and playing out over and over again...like it has done hundreds of times for the last 2600 years.
So lately we see more and more uprisings across the world...and now here in the U.S. The sentiment is the same most of the time....an entitlement mentality which seeks to blame others or demand transfer of wealth from one person to another person just because THEY think that's the right thing to do....regardless of what the Constitution says.
We have been turning our backs on the Constitution with no remorse for a long time now. Finally, we are starting to see some people PUSH BACK and start to tell the left that there will be no more free lunches...and no matter what system you try to impose, you CANNOT and WILL NOT save everyone.
Here is what gets me truly enraged. I have family members who continually point at "our standard of living" as if we created it because we are geniuses compared to rest of the world. No. Wrong. We used debt. We printed money and CREATED this standard of living. Get it right.
You must have some set of balls to put YOUR KIDS in debt (and THEIR KIDS too) and then congratulate yourself for a job well done.
Someone is going to have to pay this bill. Take responsibility for once in your life. Start thinking outside the politically correct margins.
Here's an example. You go to the cleaners and submit your shirt for cleaning. In return you get a claim check. Well, the DOLLAR BILL in your pocket is a claim check...except THERE IS NO SHIRT AT THE CLEANERS ANYMORE. You have an IOU backed by NOTHING. There is no underlying VALUE to the debt we are creating. Now the world knows we are over our heads and China, Japan, UK, France, and Russia have been getting rid of treasuries since 2009 as FAST as they can. Why? Because they are not stupid. The ONLY people buying our debt now is ....US!.....via Quantitative Easing (QE as it's called). So now we are backing up our IOU's with more IOUs that have no value. Yes, that will work just fine....let's do that. Brilliant.
Yet we all walk around as if our standard of living and social entitlement programs are FREE and expected.
Bullshit. Take responsibility for your actions...and STOP spending our next generations' money. Fix it. Fix it now.
This is exactly what I was fore warning about two months ago (see earlier blog). I will say it again...this is only the beginning for a recurring series of events that have been recurring over, and over, and over (like "Ground Hog Day") since 401 BC (Greeks) to current day.
This is neither a surprise nor an unexpected chain of events in London, Egypt, Syria, and even here in the U.S. (Philadelphia, Chicago, and Milwaukee).
The underlying message is the same:
>"the man is holding us down"
>"food prices are way too expensive" (Egypt erupted over soaring food prices...NOT political unrest)
>"we demand more money, services, and handouts."
(1) THE MAN IS HOLDING US DOWN: That typically means either one of two things...."I am a minority and the man is holding me down...and [he] is also the reason I am not succeeding." .....or..... "we are losing our welfare state programs, because the rich are not paying their fair share... the rich should pay for them, not me."
> NO MORON: If any of that were even remotely true then the huge number of people who step off the boat as immigrants, and proceed to create very successful results out of sheer hard work (using your logic) could only do so by illegal and underhanded means. No one is holding anyone down, nor is anyone stupid enough to risk persecution in this hugely politically correct nation we have become. No one has the balls to fire a minority for poor performance anymore...gee I wonder why? As for the rich paying MORE than what they do now?....did you ever ask yourself WHY WE NEED TO INCREASE TAX REVENUES? (or why we need to ask the rich to pay more?) No. We don't ask. We just demand. We paint a picture of all rich people being selfish pricks that achieved wealth by underhanded, loophole, slick, or illegal means. Have you ever asked yourself how it is we acquired such a high standard of living? Do you honestly think we are all geniuses compared to the rest of the world, and we are just THAT good!? No jack ass. We used debt. We are repeating the exact same cycle that every single fiat currency debt based civilization has done since 403 BC. I come to this argument armed with a 100% accurate historical precedence. With 100% accuracy I can tell you, that the U.S. dollar WILL fail unless a drastic change is executed. It is not a sudden event. There is no nuclear wasteland after a currency dies. It is not the apocalypse. It does, however, occur every single time without fail. If you have not done so, you need to arm yourself with the facts. Do your own homework...then you tell me if every analyst out there is wrong when they say "it is not a matter of if , it's a matter of when." Do your own homework on:
a) how do we create money? (the Fed / Treasuries / Fractionalized reserves / base capital )
b) how much debt do we have? (M1, M2, M3)
c) how will we pay for this? ( http://youtu.be/tj2s6vzErqY )
d) can we sustain our current spending? (same you tube video above)
e) how much income and equity (GDP) does the U.S. produce? (same you tube video above)
....gather your stats, and you tell me if your social entitlement programs are going to cease...shortly. (I couldn't be happier), once again, the free market repeats history, and wins....every time...100% accuracy.
(2) FOOD PRICES SOARING: gee....I can't imagine why!? It must be the greedy merchants and vendors right!? Yes, lets form a mob and protest (and loot while we're at it) their greed. I cannot tell you how absolutely silly that notion is. Here again, just go back and study every single fiat currency civilization since the Greeks (403 BC) to current day...then you tell me WHY food prices soar. (hint: economics 101....remember that class!?....when the teacher was talking about printing too many currency notes?) Tell me this....lets say you are a politician today. You want to get into office. How can you get people to vote for you? Tell them you can't afford to pay for their social entitlement programs? Yeah right...no one will vote for you. No sir...you promise MORE free shit than the next guy. Yes...the votes then come pouring in. That is how you win today. So how can you pay for free shit without raising taxes!?....hmmmmm.....how about we just create money out of thin air!? Brilliant! All are happy right!? The left/welfare/dependency addicts get their free shit....and taxes stay relatively still for a while...case solved....kick the can down the road. Oh, wait....why are prices for life necessary goods going up so fast? Why are people now unable to afford rent, food, gas, retirement, health care, schooling, and utilities? Why isn't this plan working!?
> FIAT CURRENCIES ARE IOU's....nothing more. EXAMPLE: You bring your shirt to the cleaners. The clerk hands you a claim check to get your shirt back. The DOLLAR in your pocket is the claim check...except there is NO SHIRT at the cleaners folks. We don't have the shirt anymore. It was claimed YEARS AGO. If you think I am kidding...go to the above links again and get educated.
> We absolutely believe our current standard of living is due to our elite ability to thrive. Not even close. Each and every family is in such deep debt that your kids...and thiers...will pay for YOUR SPENDING. So, every time I hear someone say "we have such a high standard of living here in the U.S." I weep for the next generations who have to pay the fucking bill for OUR binge spending at THEIR expense. How very thoughtful of us.
(3) WE DEMAND MORE $, SERVICES, AND HANDOUTS: I won't even go there. We have become a nation of DEPENDENT junkies (addicts)...we can't make up our own minds, we can't remember our history as recent as 1933 when we had ZERO entitlement programs....and there were no dead bodies in a ditch, no one was consuming exploding consumer goods, kids were actually disciplined, people retired just fine, and the mortality rate was within 7% of today. For some reason now we think food, shelter, health care, and pensions are entitlements. No. They are not. They NEVER were. It's not in our constitution, laws, or rights. You must earn those things...and THAT part has faded from our family structure since 1933. We are utter dependency addicts.... and we are now unable to fend for ourselves without the Govt. Gee what a great position to be in. The entire "demand" of $, services, and handouts is playing out world wide now...and it WILL become more frequent over time. The only way to break free of this terrible dependency is to take responsibility for your own results. Until you do that, you will continue to drink the coolaid and fall prey to the "normalcy bias" and continue to walk around in your Google, Microsoft, Beer, Football, Reality TV, Oprah, iPhone induced coma while the prices of ALL THAT YOU NEED TO LIVE AND RETIRE ON escalate to the point where you WILL be underwater. It's subtle...it's insidious, but it does occur 100% of the time without fail.
Last point then I'll shut up:
If you bought your house for $100k ten years ago, and it's now worth $130k....did you make money?
(ANSWER): inflation last ten years averaged 4%. You lost $10k. Said in another way....remember years ago when gas was $1 a gallon? Well that 1$ actually meant something back then...now it doesn't. Have you at least ever asked yourself WHY stuff goes up in price so fast? Ask questions at the very least man...don't just sit there in your Google, Microsoft, Beer, Football, Reality TV, Oprah, iPhone induced coma....ask questions and get answers.
and btw...if the Govt. tell you unemployment is 9%...and you don't dig further and ask HOW they got 9%....then I beg you to dig further. What you will find will amaze you. Did you know a person is deemed RE-EMPLOYED upon expiration of unemployment income? Did you know they use HEDONISTIC values to balance their books (if you were a biz using GAAP standards...you would be thrown in jail for doing such a thing). Did you know govt. employees earn 2x that of civilians on average? There are thousands of errors and omissions in Govt. data. GO FURTHER. Real unemployment is approximately 17.8% and here is the food stamps chart (monthly)...we have over 45 million people on them....that's 15% of the population.
I am neither a Republican NOR a Democrat. Both parties have abused the currency to it's current point of no return. We need leadership with balls....that will tell the people "sorry folks....you spent the next two generation's money already...you cannot have anymore." China, France, UK, and Japan have all been getting rid of the USD (treasuries) since 2009 as fast as they can. They are not stupid. They know our debt is way too big. The only country buying Treasuries is...US....via the FED (aka quantitative easing, or QE for short). When Feds do those things...it's an emergency folks. Don't trust me...just look back over the last 2400 years. I speak with 100% accuracy...and historically every single nation has always said "it can't happen here...we have the highest standard of living in history!?"
........on a lighter note....
12 August 2011
AUGUST 2011
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.........and now for something completely different, a man with a tape recorder up his nose...........
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>>>>>>>BEGIN COFFEE INDUCED RANT <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
I am not a Democrat, nor am I a Republican. I am neither. Because there are attributes of both parties I cannot support in principle. Yet, I find (in my conversations with others) that somehow we, as a self governing Republic, lost our ability to think for ourselves.
Today, the only acceptable opinion lies within a very very thin margins between the Pelosi Proletariat and the Republican Romney Review. Any view outside those thin margins and you will (undoubtedly) be labeled "radical" or "extreme."
Further, you can take nearly any argument, run it through today's "media" and skew the facts and data so as to conveniently engineer a bias left or right (aka: Political Engineering). For example, the Liberal left love to refer to "historical employment rate data"....which anyone with two left hemisphere cells remaining knows is complete garbage (unemployment benefits END so that MUST mean the individual is RE-employed, right!?). Yet, as a population, we accept what our "leadership" feeds us without question.
No. Wrong. Not me. Not in my life time. That is why I skew towards a Libertarian stance....which, in short, promotes self reliance, self sufficiency, less Government intervention, less EXCUSES for people to NOT work (or hide under union fuck off rules, or milk social programs fraudulently, or...god forbid...force people to SAVE for their OWN retirement).
Elected officials are supposed to be hired to tell you what you DON'T want to hear. They are SUPPOSED to be the parents telling their kids "no...you can't have chocolate cake until you eat all your veggies first." Yet they pander to the masses by promising FREE CRAP WE DON'T NEED....and the fat ass and free loading masses vote for the moron who promises "something for nothing." We always get the chocolate cake AND don't ever have to eat our veggies. Terrific...just what we needed.
At some point...SOMEONE is going to have to stand up and say "ummmm...excuse me, but we can't afford this free lunch mentality anymore, and, by the way, I cannot name one single Govt. entity that, minus tax subsidies, would be considered efficient, profitable, or worthy of investor capital....so why are we placing MORE fiscal and economic decisions in the hands of those who are obviously the WORST possible stewards of any asset class known to man!?"
REASON: We are being told "you cannot think for yourself...so WE are going to think FOR you." We saw this same cycle of events with the British Sterling (1967 to 1975.... kaput), the former Yugoslavia Dinar (kaput), Greek Drachma (kaput), French Franc, Spanish Peseta....and....my favorite, the Roman empires transition from a Republic, to a Democracy (the beginning of the end), to an Oligarchy, then to ruin. In ALL cases...the debt from social programs demanded Govt. to decide what was right or wrong for the masses. Here we are repeating history.
REALITY: Like an addict...it is difficult to STOP being dependent. It hurts, and it's short term pain. We are dependency addicts. For SOME reason we believe that without Govt. making decisions FOR us, that we would all be babbling idiots, dead in a ditch, consuming goods that explode our lips off our heads, and completely unable to fend for ourselves without the DIVINE guidance of our (thought control) overlords in D.C. Please people. Get a grip. For once in your life, trust yourself. If forced to live without some clown telling YOU how to invest, or save for retirement, or protect yourself, or take care of your own health, or offer your goods to the free market, or hire employees YOU believe are worthy, or (god forbid) demand performance from your employees.....believe me, you will be just fine. Yet, we are told we need someone else to think for us....and we accept it as true because we all know our elected leadership are ALWAYS right, and should never be second guessed, right? (....right?)
No.
Sorry for the rant...as we move farther and farther away from allowing ANYONE with an opinion outside the Pelosi Romney margins to even be entertained....then I can only see our fore fathers weeping at the actions we persist in.
(From the Federalist Papers: an entry by Thomas Jefferson)
Upon leaving Constitution Hall, after ratifying the newly adopted constitution....a woman stopped Ben Franklin and stated:
"What sir, have you given us!?"
Ben Franklin replied:
"...a Republic madam....if you can keep it ! "
CASE IN POINT:
The Bill of Rights....when most are asked "what is the Bill of Rights." Most (if not all) answer it to be list of 10 rights for citizens of the newly formed United States.
Wrong.
Article 1: "Congress shall not......"
Article 2: "Congress shall not......"
Article 3: "Congress shall not......"
.....all the way to Article 10 (my favorite): "anything we didn't add here...Congress shall not do that either."
The bill of rights' SOLE PURPOSE was to INSURE Congress did not stick their fingers into the lives of the citizens. They were to make such decisions ON THEIR OWN.
Consider this example: Say we had no law that says it's illegal for any biz to deny access to someone based on _____ (fill in whatever silly reason you feel fit....creed, credential, race, etc). How long do you think that biz will remain in biz if they were stupid enough to deny someone access just because of religious belief? or skin color? or credential? Not long at all. The Govt. does not need to think FOR us....believe me, the market WILL bitch slap that biz owner...the exchange of info is WAY to good for anyone to get away with such crap today. They won't survive.
FAVORITE LIBERAL (left) BLANKET STATEMENTS:
(1) REPUBLICANS HELD THE COUNTRY CAPTIVE USING TERRORIST TACTICS: Oh yes, that's perfect. God forbid ANYONE should raise their hand and say, "excuse me, but, this whole debt issue thing...it's not going away and we are in deep shit once the other nations start unpegging from the USD." Yes, they must be evil demons to suggest something so absurd. Tell me this, if your spouse went nuts with YOUR credit cards, you are telling me you would RATHER call the credit card company and raise the debt limit INSTEAD of telling your spouse to "cut the crap" !? No. Wrong.
(2)IF YOU ARE AGAINST SOCIAL PROGRAMS YOU ARE ANTI _____(insert any bleeding heart identity here): This one kills me. Yes, it's true....I wish ill fate on the elderly, poor, and all those who earn less than tier 1 tax brackets. Please. Here is another great example of anyone having an opinion outside the Pelosi Romney margins being labeled extreme or radical. No, I'm not against them at all....I do believe though that free market entities would perform FAR better than any bureaucratic entity 8 days a week (twice on Sunday). Again, if it weren't for the divine intervention of our elected overlords in D.C.....we would all be dead in a ditch, consuming exploding goods, unable to think for ourselves, and only able to stand and stare blankly into the distance until someone in Washington gives us direction and instructions. Come on people. Own YOUR results. It's NOT the responsibility of Govt. to manage YOUR retirement. It's NOT the responsibility of the Govt. to tell you WHO you can or can't hire, fire, or demand performance from. It's not the Govt' responsibility to tell you HOW and WHO to use for health decisions.
(3)CONSERVATIVES ARE PRO GUNS AND BIZ: uh...no moron. The right to bear arms has not changed since we created this Republic (we were born a Republic btw...NOT a Democracy....know the difference between the two). I do not agree all of society should walk around armed like the wild west. I DO (however) agree that Liberals and Lefts tend to stand in a circle, talk talk talk talk talk (and give each other titles and accolades) until they all devise a hypothetical world peace plan where everyone will comply with law and guns will not be needed. Wrong. Not reality. If you wipe out the ENTIRE human race, and leave only two humans on Earth...I guarantee you there WILL be war in only a few days. Liberals stand around and hypothesize all kinds of great ideals....none of which take into account that, given the opportunity, mankind WILL do evil things. It's their nature and postulating theories counter to that belief is unrealistic. I own a weapon because it is the ONLY insurance I can guarantee will be there during the :20 minutes it take for the Police to arrive. Liberals would (instead) have me stand there with my thumb up my ass armed only with foul language. Bullshit. Over my dead body will you take away my right to defend my family.
Pro biz? I suppose if you consider half the nation pays taxes...and the top 25% is carrying 90% of the tax revenue weight. Is that pro biz? ***The U.S. biz sector is the highest taxed in the world (actually #2 right now...but after Q4 we will be the highest taxed in the world). Take away that burden and you start to see a WORLD competitive biz force. But nooooooo....we can't decrease biz taxes. No sir....we have to take $ from people who WORK and EMPLOY...and give it to those who have NO ENTICEMENT to work at all. Yes, that's smart. Lets do that.
(4) REPUBLICANS ARE FOR THE RICH: This one kills me. Liberals ALWAYS use examples of biz owners that pay zero taxes...and seek to target them (rob them) to fix the debt issues. Yes, that's brilliant. When did we magically FORGET that each person you are targeting is RESPONSIBLE for the employment of (on average) 39 other people....who generate 39 times more tax revenue than any one person will ever do in a lifetime. Liberals conveniently leave that part out...they focus on the PERSON...and NOT the tax revenues THEY are responsible for CREATING by going out and taking risk and starting a biz that EMPLOYS OTHERS. Yes, lets attack them...after all they MUST be evil...they MUST have obtained their wealth by underhanded and illegal means right?
This is exactly why Thomas Jefferson KNEW Democracy (minus a responsible moral voting population) would fail. The majority just votes in idiots who promise free crap they don't need and the rest is history. Failure is imminent.
Here is a great example of why Govt. should have limited intervention in free markets: Notice the immediate and thereafter steady decline of the dollar...after YOUR GOVT. declared YOU were NOT ALLOWED to hold gold anymore. Ever ask yourself why they deemed it illegal?
...alright...enough rant....so sorry. It's just we were created as a Constitutional Republic for a reason, and I know our fore fathers did NOT fight and die just so we can throw it all the way in the name of spreading the wealth around evenly and trying to impose freebee programs using money we DON'T have.
Cut the military budget in HALF (yesterday). Open up defense contracts to open public bids using NON union candidates. Privatize most social programs, so they at least PERFORM and answer to the MARKET....stop using tax payer debt. Get the U.S. dollar fundamentals back to debt levels where foreign confidence is regained. We must ACCEPT the fact that not ALL people can be saved....there is NO perfect system that saves EVERYONE. Accept it. Health Care and Housing is NOT a right granted under ANY constitution anywhere. Yet we act like these are rights? They are NOT. It's NOT in our constitution, nor in our laws...never was. You must earn them. They are NOT entitlements.
Affirmative action is two wrongs trying to make a right. Have you ever had to explain to a white person that they were NOT hired because someone of equal qualification was hired because they were black or Hispanic or female? I did. It sucked. Is that NOT discrimination? Can you imagine what would occur if anyone launched a magazine called "Ivory"? Melt down. How about a network channel called "White Entertainment Channel"? Melt down. Yet we can't seem to find the courage to talk about it or approach it. Why? Because of that SAME thin margin I mentioned earlier....you will be labeled extreme, radical, or in this case, racist. We have failed to Govern based on principles.....principles that simply say: "You are hired based on your qualifications...and if two are equally qualified, it's the right of the employer to decide as they deem fit." (god forbid...we can't have that!...we must have the thought control in D.C. decide those things FOR US!)
Lastly, unions used to have a key purpose during the periods of Boss Tweeds, and scarce labor laws. Those days are gone. No idiot employer is dumb enough to disregard labor laws in today's litigious society. Unions perpetuate a work ethic that truly sucks. When I finished flying for the Army on active duty I showed up day one to American...and politely declined the union reps offer to join. Here's what he said:
"You might as well join anyway, because the union dues WILL be deducted from your paycheck regardless of whether you join or not."
I asked if I had a choice in the matter. Nope. No choice. Back then...it was the Teamsters, then it went to the Airline Pilots Association (ALPA). During my tenure I was told to slow down, not show up, create maintenance issues that were not true, and walk a picket line. I did none of these because I did not support the reasons behind them. I was threatened several times. This is exactly the entitlement mentality that brought down Detroit...and exactly the mentality that is causing the riots in London, Chicago, and now Philly.
These riots are only the beginning folks...the Liberal entitlement mentality WILL cause a huge number of people to revolt and lash out. You can sit there under the normalcy bias (inaction due to disbelief), stand around in Liberal circles and postulate theories on how to achieve world peace, or you can do something about it. Start with electing people who have the BALLS to tell you what you DON'T want to hear.
Lastly, I could (right now) take ALL the liquid wealth in the U.S....spread it around evenly to all people and match the end result the Liberals are striving to achieve. I guarantee you that within days or weeks, the exact same results and stratification will result over time. No matter what Govt. intervention you impose...the MARKET will win over time...guaranteed. You cannot intervene with a free capital market model and expect free capital model RESULTS. You screwed with the equation on ONE side...that WILL affect the other side of the equation.
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20 July 2011
JULY 2011
06 June 2011
JUNE 2011
"60 is the new 40".....yeah right....if that's true my gut, butt, waist, grey hairs, and face wrinkles never got THAT email message. I look back on what I was doing in my 20's and feel tired just thinking about it.
All this typing is tiresome....I need a nap. :-)
15 May 2011
MAY 2011
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MAY 2011
on a different note...Colleen completed her first run race.....
Santa Monica Classic (annual beach coastal 10k/5k)
Pre race start line
Finish line
cutting off the GPS tracker
....I am proud of her.
Cancer, cancer treatment meds nausea, botched mastectomy surgery injury, migraines almost daily, botched eye surgery pain, etc etc. With every opportunity to stop working and go on disability...she refuses to act or think like a "victim." This is exactly the type citizen this country needs...and exactly what JFK was eluding to in his inaugural address to the nation.
28 April 2011
APRIL 2011
Year round rose bushes in front yard.
Highly resilient...they just keep sprouting more regardless of date or weather.
I wish the other shrubs looked as nice.
15 March 2011
MARCH 2011
George' one year anniversary service at the temple (Los Angeles)
Kody revealed to us that he is a cross dresser....he was ashamed but proudly declared he has always felt like a woman trapped in a man's body.
02 January 2011
JAN 2011
what a motley looking bunch....these are my bike club groupies...we normally target a lunch spot along each route we take. 
Today we did a vertical of 1900 feet....total distance today 40 miles. 
way out in the distance is down town L.A.here's a video of the view from the top of the mountain...
01 JANUARY 2011....at Kyoko's house.
11 December 2010
DECEMBER 2010
Christmas eve party at auntie Michiko's house... Colleen made this quilt to hang up.
Aunti Michiko, Kyoko, Colleen, and Cindy
Colleen, and some homeless dude who wandered in off the street (we felt sorry for him)
Kyoko and Colleen. 
needless to say...we all left with zero remaining stomach capacity. 
Carbon Canyon state park mountain bike ride...Left to Right Mike, Shun, Kevin, me, and Myang.
Mike and Myang at "four corners" rest area.
Cool ride...5000' elevation...tough climbs...took 4.5 hours.
view looking East toward mountains.
pretty bike friendly trails...thank goodness for me.
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