Mike is a retired stock broker, and now supports his wife's furniture business. He is her warehouseman, deluxer, a.nd marketing guru. In addition, he writes poetry and finds abundance, health and joy in the world around him while pondering life's little mysteries
Back in |July of 2009, a report from Helen Thomas quoted President Obama, “The United States will not torture,” Obama said…. But he has been silent on the question of whether the U.S. would help others do the torturing.” Now the NYT reports that United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circu
Sixty five percent of Americans or higher do not want a mosque built near ground zero and now I read that the building may qualify for up to $70 million of public financing. Was it Marx who said that we would sell the rope for our public hanging?
Is Gold up big at 5:45 PDT this morning because of comments that Ireland is next to go the way of Greece or because of Matterhorn Asset Management Sets Three Gold Price Targets: $6,000 – $7,000 – $10,000 brought to our attention by Zero Hedge? Whatever the reason Gold is almost at new highs. UPDATE: [...]
Mish says, “The state of Illinois is sitting on $4 billion in unpaid bills.” Maybe, we are approaching a time when it’s appropriate to ask, “What would Tony Soprano do?”
Zero Hedge has article about hedge fund billionaire John Paulson who made a killing thanks to the real estate bubble. For years, he warned about the carnage to come… All the while, he personally pocketed $3.5 billion shorting the subprime in 2007. By our latest count, he’s worth $12 billion (almost triple what it was in
In Bernanke Hallucinating Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. points out as a result of massive liquidation of debt in the U.S., we face three major consequences. First, Bernanke’s nearly powerless, second, we face a Double dip, and third, there will be More bank failures! You can click this link to review his list of the Weakest [..
We have our first upset: #15 Pittsburgh 24, Utah 27 in OT
We are on the cusp of food shortages according to agri fund manager Kristof Bulkai. The Thames River Capital manager says ‘The reason (price shock) is happening is because countries haven’t actually invested in this [agriculture] space for the last 20-30 years,’ says Bulkai. ‘The supply and inventory is so tight tha
Chart of the Day writes about this chart: Today’s chart puts the latest data into perspective by comparing job losses following the beginning of the current economic recession (solid red line) to that of the last recession (dashed gold line) and the average recession from 1950-1999 (dashed blue line). As today’s
“Obama’s big government economic solution has failed.” So says the statement from Americans for Limited Government (ALG) regarding the latest unemployment figures. Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today issued the following status on the worsening unemployment situation in the U.S.,
The USGS reports a 2.1 in Portland at 2:13 pm. The quake was centered on SE Oak St between 6th and 7th. map 2.1 2010/09/02 14:13:19 45.520N 122.659W 6.5 2 km ( 1 mi) W of Portland, OR
U.S. Department of Labor will hold joint hearings with the Department of Treasury on September 14-15 to discuss “lifetime income options for retirement plans.” According to Coin Update News “…the unstated agenda of these hearings, as I understand it, is to push for the US government to eventually na
First, he votes for the Obamination called ObamaCare, now he wants to exempt Oregon from the mandate. If it’s so bad, why doesn’t he get Congress to repeal the mandate. “Nearly half of all states, including Virginia, have sued against the individual mandate, questioning the constitutionality of forcing p
What a wonderful message and using “ground zero” in the name which the MSM doesn’t want us to use in relation to the mosque. How do you battle the darkness? With the LIGHT! I watched in disbelief a few weeks ago as they announced the Muslims would be building a $110 million mosque just a few [...]
The Des Moines Register reports that “State and federal health agencies identified an Iowa egg company as a likely source of illnesses at least two weeks before the firm launched a massive egg recall Aug. 13 and the public got its first hint of a growing national salmonella outbreak, health officials said [...]
On July 15th I noted that Corn broke through a three month trading range and I predicted “we will be trading back to the NOV., DEC., 2009 highs of $4.40 before too long.” Today we see Corn trading at $4.41.
About a year ago the story of rare earths was all over the news and one company Avalon Rare Metals moved from $0.25 to $3.99 in nine months to September, 2009. Since then it has flat-lined between $2.00 and $3.00. See Chart You might want to take a look again because rare earths are back in [...]
The man who inspired the movie “Lord of War,” in which Nicolas Cage plays a Russian-American arms dealer who plies his trade all over Africa, is coming to America. The U.S. finally won the right to extradite Viktor Bout (pronounced Boot) from Thailand to face charges of selling war material to FARC, a Colombian
Holy crap! Sixty five percent of Americans or higher do not want a mosque built near ground zero and now I read that the building may qualify for up to $70 million of public financing. Was it Marx who said that we would sell the rope for our public hanging?
My thanks to Instapundit for pointing out this interesting post at First Things by David P. Goldman, A 1600th Anniversary Question: Why Did Rome Fall? In the article when the barbarians sacked Rome they destroyed old symbols of the culture, public buildings and imperial mausoleums in particular, and I would suggest built t
Fall Reading Preview You can now pre-order the new works from Grisham, Connelly, Clancy, Vince Flynn and many others.
Arnaud Mares, an executive director at Morgan Stanley in London said, “… debt as a percentage of gross domestic product is a false indicator of an economy’s health given it doesn’t reflect governments’ available revenue and is “backward- looking. “While the U.S. government’s debt as a percentage
The NYT reports that Britain had a problem with salmonella in eggs. In 1997, there were 14,771 reported cases in England and Wales of the most common type of the bacteria, a strain known as Salmonella Enteritidis PT4. Vaccine trials began that year, and the next year, egg producers began vaccinating [...]
Patently Apple reports that Apple has patented a Mac that doubles as an iPad , but with a 22-inch screen. Imagine having an iMac on your desktop one minute and a gigantic iPad the next. Imagine playing iGames on this dream machine - Wow! Imagine reading a double-page book on this - Unbelievable! Apple [...]
Maybe the unemployed and under-employed should consider moving to Mexico. Mexican Nominal GDP Up 11.5% In Q2 Mexican nominal gross domestic product rose 11.5% annually at current prices in the second quarter, the statistical office INEGI said Wednesday. At the same time, secondary activities, consisting of mining, electrici
In January of 2008 in Peak Helium I posted about a coming shortage of Helium. here we are two and half years later it’s once again in the news. The gas is used not just for balloons but for cooling metals that produce superconductivity or in processes that throw off a lot of [...]
Hat tip to Matt Lewis of Politics Daily. Tags: Pamela Gorman Matt Lewis Conservative Feminist
The Daily Grind and GetLiberty.org reveal that Obama has made several recess appointments that couldn’t get passed through the regular advise and consent method. recess appointment of Mari del Carmen Aponte to be Ambassador to El Salvador - “Aponte’s appointment was mired in questions about her 1986-94 live-i