Turkey Day

Ah, Thanksgiving, the day we celebrate the raping and pillaging of the last pristine continent on Earth. Please pass the [pumpkin pie] around to all the fat slob turkey butts. This was such beautiful country before the first Europeans arrived, the smartest monkeys to walk out of the jungle as it were. As a result most of the native inhabitants were wiped out and much of the natural beauty and purity was hacked down and paved over. He who gets there firstest with the mostest wins. More gravy anyone?

I could spin off into a rant about the big pigs, but it is pervasive to the entire populace. I watched a show about hoarders last night and I almost threw up. Some of those people should live in a concrete cell which is hosed down three times a week as they obviously can't take care of themselves. We should hose them down too, like zoo animals, it would be cheaper than what they do now, which is pay young people pittances to clean up human filth inside houses which should have been burned to the ground instead.

Most of the people on that show have mental issues, often people issues, and are sometimes compulsive shoppers. That angers me too. The big pigs love pathetic mentally unstable shopaholics, they blow every dime they have on crap that accumulates in piles of garbage inside people's houses. I know, we all contribute to the monuments of waste we call "landfills" which is another way of saying we are going to shit all over this once pretty landscape until the next generation is again paid a pittance to sift through our filth because we flat didn't give a shit.

I would say that I hate to be a downer on Thanksgiving but that would be a lie. I hope you-all have a nice time with family and friends tomorrow, I really do. As for reveling in souper-smart Eurotrash-ape landing at the rock all those years ago, I won't be. Instead I will be giving thanks that I won't be the one who has to deal with the long term detrimental effects the last few generations have inflicted upon freedumb's land for whatever reason. Have a nice holiday. [/edgar]

Mann Bare Pig is Alive!!

It's the oldest trick in the book of dirty politics. Do something wildly umpopular, like bailing out globalist millionaire and billionaire banksters, then threaten to do something even more outrageous to benefit the same maggots, namely worse-than-useless crap and tax legislation, then back off the second outrage via exposed climategate e-mails and everyone breathes a sigh of relief that they aren't going to get Enron-ed up the poop chute. At least we hope that's the case now that we know that Mann-made global warming was a would-be trillion dollar fraud.

We have the worst gubbermint ever. They could have put together a coal plant moratorium and subsidies for nukes and nat gas, but that doesn't steal as much money from the people as an epic scam. Crap and Tax does nothing to change global temperatures, not even one iota. Chemtrails and dirty bombs in the outer gaseous layer would do more. Global warming is easy to stop. Set off a big volcano, a meteor strike, a nuke war, dirty space, chemtrails. Hell, I could cool down the earth and build up the arctic ice cap poste haste, and a helluva lot cheaper than crap and tax thievery. The problem is the ensuing ice age, which would be impossible to reverse with current technology, might last a very long time. Apparently God-playing friend (fiend?) of Goldman Sachs billionaire wannabe Man-Bear-Pig hunting Al Gore would like nothing better than to jet set around the world in a one man 747 while you shiver in the dark. Trust no-one. [/edgar]

Power to the People

It always irks me when I hear someone refer to coal, natural gas, oil, or other combustibles as "energy". The combustibles are just half the equation, the other half is free oxygen in the atmosphere. It goes something like this:

CH4 + 2O2 → CO2 + 2H2O

The process is exothermic, that is, it gives off heat. If only it were so clean and easy. Unfortunately random particulates are also given off, even with the cleanest of fuels. In the case of coal copious amounts of toxic [waste] are produced. Even if it were not so there are still limits on the amount of combustibles available, and even on free oxygen in the air. Limits and waste issues also apply to nuke power.

All of this is really not our problem if we think in terms of eons, and we will certainly have bigger fish to fry between now and the time we run out of shit to burn, like where to hide all the toxic residue from everything we, um, do, burn, bomb, dump, kill, whatever. However, a move in the right direction is long overdue.

I favor clean everything. I am not in favor of fascist crap and trade though, nor global warming soothsayers with questionable motives. What I am in favor of is research like [this]. Lithium-air, whatever-air, I don't care. The fact that we still use lead-acid batteries and that battery technology hasn't advanced much in 100 years shows just how messed up our investment priorities are.

There are two very different worlds I envision in the future, one is semi-utopia, the other is dystopia. In my utopia frame of mind I see light portable power packs which carry enormous amounts of energy which was derived from wind, solar, or hydro. The dystopia usually goes along the lines of bankers, politicians, and oil wars. Either way it goes really isn't my problem, but on my better days I like to think that someday humans will snap out of it. Best of everything. [/edgar]

Cruel Intentions

With the latest bombshell out of the [climate research center] it is clear that climate scientists are anything but objective. All of their data and conclusions are now suspect. It seems they are more concerned about their paychecks and grants than about the earth. This puts them on the same level with the kleptocrat banksters and politicos for whom they work. The asterisk of the Newsweek cover reads:

*Or so claim well-funded naysayers who still reject the overwhelming evidence of climate change...

How ironic. It appears that the well-funded (note hyphen?) bunch is the [GW camp], they all want to get rich like al gore and stagnating [temperatures] definitely do not fit with that program. Never mind that nothing can be done about global warming. The PhD snake oil salesmen want you to pay huge taxes to support their fascist agenda, and they aren't above lying or putting their finger on the scale to get there. In fact, it has been [warmer] than it is now during periods before humans started burning stuff. I for one feel that we should curb the burning of stuff for reasons [other] than global warming, but that is a subject for another day. Bottom line, Crap and Tax legislation will not stop the glaciers from melting, but they won't tell you the truth about that either.

While this blogger deplores pollution and environmental degradation I also learned something about the value of untainted empirical data back in, oh, 8th grade or so. It seems a pity that something as tawdry as plain old usa clownbux corruption has polluted what should be a pure unadulterated science and turned it into a scam and a fraud. Shame on global warming scientists. It used to be said (Mark Twain?) that it is difficult to get a man to understand something if the way he makes his living depends on him not understanding it. I used to think that only applied to loggers, but now I know better. The next time they tell us a killer asteroid is coming our way we'll have to check and see if a rocket or laser manufacturer or is funding their research. [/edgar]

Appearances

From the no sh^t Sherlock files:

The stats show that over the past three years, more than 6 percent of Oregonians reported that they ate less for financial reasons...

But researchers say while unemployment is a factor, the state has had high hunger rates even during boom times.

Mark Edwards is a sociology professor at OSU.

Mark Edwards: "Even ten years ago, we found that Oregon had high hunger rates, even among people who were working – and had full-time, year-round jobs. So there’s something else going on in Oregon that I suspect has to do with the cost of housing compared to the income people are bringing in."... [h/t hbb]

yet the pigs in the WH & CONgreff want to [artificially] (note that the fedgub is deficit-giving the banks $38k free money in the name of helping those people who earn a decent wage but we have to save clownbux the old fashioned way?) and [superficially] keep house prices high.

Then there's [this]:

But that was last year. In 2009, how many more hungry children did we add to the tally? Whatever their number, Obama and his administration chose and choose to ignore them. For Washington, saving Wall Street institutions is much more important. First you save the banks, and if there's anything left afterwards, you may -or may not, depending on what the polls say- look at the 30-some million unemployed and the 20-odd million undernourished children.

The money used to prop up the banks has led to the illusionary notion of actual profits being made. Which in turn is all the excuse that's needed to pay out bonuses, which in 2009 are set to reach new record levels. 20 million hungry children could be greatly helped with $1000 a year each for food. That would cost $20 billion, and still leave more than enough to pay some kind of bonuses. Or even better, dare we say it, pay back the government loans...

"President Barack Obama called the USDA report "unsettling" and vowed to reverse the trend of rising hunger." The trend the report talks about is a year or more old. And still the president had no idea until the report came out? I'd say it's unsettling that he responds the way the does. Isn't it sort of his job to know when 50 million Americans go hungry? Is there anything at all more elementary than that for an elected "leader"?

The president has spent all he can afford, and more, on bailing out campaign donating bankers. He can't afford to feed the children, even if he would want to, which looks doubtful by now...

Illusionary, I like it! That's the mistake some people make. Hopey looks like a liberal, but he's not, he's the maggot's best friend, hell he is a maggot in every way the Bush crime family was and more. Everything he and his criminal cohorts do is [designed] to rob the little people for the benefit of himself and his corporate overlords. Keep a low profile, help those around you when possible. We're on our own. [/edgar]

Pizza Crust #47

Okay, here's the scoop. I have thin crust down pat, you just need to flog it into submission. I googled "airy pizza crust recipe" and came up with a few new twists on the road to hand tossed paradise. I will call this one my "medium" crust:

I left a link in the previous comments to a page where the guy described pizza like [this]:

It's all in the crust. My dough is just water, salt, flour and yeast...

There are 2 ways to ferment the dough: you can use a 'warm rise' or a 'cold rise'. The warm rise is harder...

Autolyse is a fancy word that just means one simple thing. The flour and water should sit together for at least 20 minutes before kneading begins...

Pour all the ingredients into the mixer, except just use 75% of the flour for now. So all of the water, salt, poolish (Video of Poolish), Instant dry Yeast (if used) and 75% of the flour are put into the mixer. Everything should be room temperature or a bit cooler...

One of the best ways to see how your dough is doing is to sprinkle a little flour on in and just feel it. It should feel baby bottom soft. If you don't sprinkle flour it will just feel sticky and not look smooth. But sprinkle a tiny bit of flour and now its soft and smooth. This is what you want. This is a much gentler recipe than most and it shows in the final dough...

How wet should the dough be? I think many will be surprised to see just how wet I have my dough...

Most recipes say that the dough should double in size. This is WAY too much. In total the dough should expand by about 50% in volume. It would seem like the more yeast bubbles in the dough, the lighter the pizza will be. This is the intuitive guess. But it's not true. The yeast starts the bubbles, but it's really steam that blows the bubbles up. If the yeast creates bubbles that are too big, they become weak and simply pop when the steam comes resulting in a flat dense, less springy crust. Think of blowing a bubble with bubble gum. How tight is a 2 inch bubble? It depends: As you start with a small bubble and blow it up to 2 inches it's strong and tight. But at 4 inches it's reached it's peak.. Now if it shrinks back to 2 inches, it'll be very weak. So a 2 inch bubble is strong on the way up and weak on the way down. You want bubbles on the way up. If the dough is risen high, the bubbles are big and the dough will have a weaker structure and will collapse when heat creates steam. The lightest crust will come from a wet dough (wet = a lot of steam), with a modest amount of rise (bubbles formed, but small and strong). Some people start with a warm rise for 6 hours or so, and then move the dough to the fridge. I'm not a huge fan of this method. Once the bubbles are formed, I don't want the dough to get cold and have the bubbles shrink. This weakens their structure. What you want is a steady slow rise, with no reversals. Always expanding, just very, very slowly...

Never use a rolling pin or knead the dough or man handle it. You are just popping the bubbles and will have a flat dough...

Okay, enough of that dude. His pizza crust is ridiculously airy, and I suspect Jeff is quite possibly [insane]. Here's what I did:

(1) heaping cup of flour.
(1) cup of cool water
(1) pkg baker's yeast.

Mix until thoroughly blended (about 1 minute). It should be wet. Cover and let sit for 30 minutes. After that add dry flour slowly and work into a ball with a rubber spatula which is just barely able to be handled. You want the flour fairly wet in the middle but with enough flour that you can dump it out onto the floured counter top and knead for a bit. It should be, as the man said, like a baby's butt, not that I know what a baby's butt feels like, but nevertheless, jiggly and smooth as I imagine one would be were one to, um, feel one. I then placed the jiggly baby's butt dough back in the bowl without working it very much at all (a few minutes). Cover and let sit at room temperature one hour (or 1-2 days in the fridge).

After the one hour sit down I checked my dough and it didn't rise very much, so I cheated because I was getting hungry and put it in the oven for 5 minutes at 120 degrees. It then rose about 50%. (Turn oven on 475 now) I then dumped it back on the floured counter top and rolled it once lightly with a rolling pin until it was about 3/4" thick and 8-10" in diameter. Then I flopped it onto my cool greased pizza sheet. I then worked it to the edges without trying to mash the structure of the dough too much. I lightly oiled the top with olive oil, then poked it with a fork but only about every two inches or so. Then into the oven with the broiler on "high" for 2-3 minutes until it starts to rise more and turns a little golden on top. Back out of the oven, (flip oven from "broil" to bake at 475 now) quickly add sauce, toppings, and cheese. Back in the oven for 10 - 15 minutes at 475. Serve hot. Best. [/edgar]

Lack of Household Liquidity

I'm tired of ranting about the financial system so here's a brief piece on the mundane stuff I did yesterday. Two days ago the toilet tank in our main bathroom was empty. I knew the water line wasn't frozen because in the first place our pipes never freeze and in the second place it never got below freezing outside.

*FREEZE WARNING. DISCONNECT OUTSIDE HOSES, INSULATE OUTSIDE FAUCETS.*

(story continued)

I finally decided the float valve in the tank was somehow clogged. In the old days I would have tried to blow it out first but I hate messing with that plastic crap in general, and toilets in particular, so I trudged on down to Lowe's and bought some stuff, combining trips with three other stops. (cue the 80s commercial: "Don't be Fuelish".)

Change gears. The big box store had sausage on sale $2/lb (they were $2.99, up from $2.50). I bought seven and froze them. I forgot my coupon for another item and these are the spur of the moment decisions that kill me. I decided not to buy that item because I didn't have the 55 cent coupon with me, now if I make a special trip back up there it will cost much more in gasoline and other expenses. Lesson there being keep your coupons with your money at all times.

Back to the toilet. Long story short, the toilet works great even if I did have to rebuild the tank twice because I put some washers in wrong as I refuse to read the instructions or even look at the way the old one was installed. Ah, it's good to be handy around the house [/sarcasm]. If I had called a plumber that operation would have cost $100. :primal roar: [/edgar]

Apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan

Pandit, Blankfein, and Dimon.

Three little maids from school are we,
Pert as a school-girl well can be,
Filled to the brim with girlish glee,
Three little maids from school!

Pandit.

Everything is a source of fun. (chuckle)

Blankfein.

Nobody's safe, for we care for none! (chuckle)

Dimon.

Life is a joke that's just begun! (chuckle)

Pandit, Blankfein, and Dimon. (dancing)

Three little maids from school!
Three little maids who, all unwary,
Come from a ladies' seminary,
Freed from its genius tutelary —
(suddenly demure) Three little maids from school,
Three little maids from school!




Pandit.

One little maid is a bride, Yum-Yum —

Blankfein.

Two little maids in attendance come —

Dimon.

Three little maids is the total sum.

Pandit, Blankfein, and Dimon.

Three little maids from school!

Pandit.

From three little maids take one away.

Blankfein.

Two little maids remain, and they —

Dimon.

Won't have to wait very long, they say —

Pandit, Blankfein, and Dimon.

Three little maids from school!

Chorus.

Three little maids from school!

All. (dancing)

Three little maids who, all unwary,
Come from a ladies' seminary,
Freed from its genius tutelary —

Pandit, Blankfein, and Dimon. (suddenly demure)

Three little maids from school!

All.

Three little maids from school!

Where There are Flies...

Automatic Earth pecked out a piece titled [instant-gratification] recently. I found it to be an interesting read. They even echo similar sentiments to my own:

Now, we have never been, nor pretended to be, a venue aimed at traders or investors, whatever level their involvement in stocks or other investments may be. And sure, we have been surprised too by the extent to which governments dare go, and their citizens are ready to accept, presenting an image that differs to the upside from what underlying numbers suggest. Risking the bankruptcy of entire nations rather than coming clean and thereby risking your careers, it truly is a spectacle worth observing. And at a rate of $1 trillion per month, the US economy can be made to look like a live hog in the eyes of the majority of the population.

And yes, there are plenty people playing the markets who have money on that, and are cashing in. But that's not why we are here, not for pointing out profit opportunities. There are a zillion other joints for that, and if you look sharp and well, you find they all conveniently contradict each other. In the short run, we're all potential tycoons. In the long run, not so much. Stoneleigh and I started The Automatic Earth not to make you make money, but because we are interested in preventing losses for our readers. Which is not the same thing. And while preventing losses may seem less of a priority these days than a year ago, with rising stock markets and all, it will -again- be the prime consideration for everybody other than professional shorts once the downtrend sets in...

Basically the premise is that a market crash is coming but will take awhile longer, so keep the faith. Let me just add a little something. Yes, the market may go down, it may even crash, but one thing is certain, GS and JPM will profit in any event. They will not stop until every nickel is looted out of the usa economy. Even now, at a time of severe local budget problems, they are selling worthless crap to your city, state, and even your pension fund. They are debauching the dollar speculating in commodities for their own profit. Did I forget front-running and no lose high stakes "gambling"?

You haven't begun to see the looting they will do. Crap and Trade legislation will benefit them and them only. The same goes for the health scam. The tax bill (massive stagflation) for the bailouts hasn't been presented yet either. Nothing can stop them and they fear no-one. They have been running variations of the same scam for many years, they are fully entrenched in power now. The funny part is that most in the usa are unaware or else don't care. Until there is a massive effort to kill thousands of maggots in their beds nothing will change. I am not advocating violence, I'm just saying that's what it would take for real change to occur. The world currency is their personal plaything. The day I see Skeletor, Dimon Jim, and Lord Blankcheck, among an host of others, frog-marched to the gallows is the day I'll admit I'm wrong.

They have tens of thousands of operatives within the usa government at all levels. They control the mic, they control the congress, the white house, the bureaucracies, the regulatory bodies. They bribe your local officials and steal with impunity. The whole economy is a fraud, and they are the kingpins. Fundamentals have nothing to do with it. "They" are above the law no matter who they rob and it is one giant club. Yes, the market may go up, and it may go down, but unemployment, or debt levels, or fundamentals of any kind won't have jack squat to do with it. [/edgar]

Waxing Poetic

The Dodds and the Franksters
Gonna regulate the banksters
We all know what that means
'Cause they got the Vaselines

Pandit the Bandit over at Citi
Made cc terms very very shitty
GS alums run the gubberment
Meanwhile Hopey has an Asian [bent]

The fedres is organized crime
They steal money all the time
Anyone on the board can't be beat
Michael Corleone would have loved a seat

Lewis spew us, tell us some lies
You get to be the one who fries
Meanwhile Paulson one and two
Have so much cash they laugh at you

The Bair Witch Project is bitch and moan
Meanwhile the FHA makes another crappy loan
The SEC is prosecuting little smelly cod
Lord Blankcheck thinks he's frikken God

I can't wait to see the next scam unfold
Or how much fake stuff JP Morgan sold
Jefferson County can sure [attest]
That JPM is the kleptocrat's best.

[can't touch this]

Bankster Melody

The Pig Man Speaketh

This [dimon piece] is the worst kind of drivel and propaganda. I could go through his shit line by line and dissect his self-serving word play crap but I'm not going to extensively quote the wapo. Bottom line, they survived the crisis due to preferential treatment and a cozy relationship with (ownership of) the federal reserve which gives them unlimited free money and helps hide their toxic assets. My guess is that their books stink to high heaven and will never be honestly audited. They get free money, free counterparty insurance, basically a monopoly stranglehold on the usa economy and now they want to grow even bigger by gobbling up even more failures, but want to deflect criticism and front run (pervert) any regulatory calls.

F$CK THEM!! NYC globalist banksters sold us out to the Chinese years ago. If they go down, they're taking the rest of us all the way down to serfdom. Assholes like him own the system, own the fed, own the gubbermint. Shame on the wapo for helping ruin this country and ruin the middle class. I hope I live long enough to see him eat those words should the usa ever be lucky enough to get a law abiding and law enforcing gubbermint but that will never happen as long as all those perverts control everything. Ack!! I'm so pissed off. Sure dill weed, self regulate yourself and don't forget the lubrication. Keep bribing all those CONgreffcritters, but let it be known that we the people are watching and getting plenty mad about it. I hope you-all eat a bad taco and die of the shivering shits. [/pissed off edgar]

Little Drop of Sunshine

Comparisons between the great depression and the current period are appropriate. Things are being done by the ptb to change/forestall how it goes but imo things will only get worse over time. Wars, monetary shenanigans (stock and bond props, money pumping), stimuluses, tax cuts, massive spending, unemployment extensions, social security, [food stamps], etc., are being used to temporarily "soften" the immediate financial blow in teh usa but millions are falling through the canyon sized [cracks] anyway. They claim they are trying to create jobs but in reality they aren't doing jack squat besides lining their own pockets. The GD1 had the Golden Gate Bridge, the Empire State Building, and Boulder Dam to show for their bailouts. All we will have to show for the trillions wasted is a bunch of fat walleted cronies, executives, wealthy banksters, and newly minted trillionaire overlords.

Some people write about their concern that the usa cannot afford social security anymore. I marvel at this thinking. All the money the maggots have stolen, the same maggots who wanted to give your ss money to wall street, and you want to give them exactly what they want by giving up your old age pension and lifeline? Most of you have seen George Carlin speak on the subject, but just in case you haven't [watch this]. The man was a true American patriot and was telling it like it is before he died. If it weren't for social security the wealth divide would be worse than it is now and the poverty in this country would be shocking. After watching the last few years consider this, the entire economic system is built on nothing. Don't deny poor old people their daily bread out of a false concern for the budget. Do you really think the [kleptocrats] give a flying [f$ck]?

The great health care debate is too much for me. Many people in the world could be saved with just some clean water, a [shot or pill], and a piece of bread. Meanwhile people over here are killing themselves with self inflicted misery then lining up for intensive medical treatment. I'm not saying that we should do one in favor of the other but if we measured life strictly with a cost/benefit analysis chart things seem out of whack. Of course the million pound gorilla in the room that no-one is talking about is that "some people" are left to die/killed on purpose. Without death and lots of it how will "they" ever get the human population under control? Perhaps the worst part of that thinking is that (aside from being nazi) even if Earth's human population declined 90% the ensuing environmental catastrophe would ensure a lower quality of life for most of those who remained for a very long time. Hopefully "they" don't take it upon themselves to engineer that road for the world.

People who think the GD2 is over are misled (I love that word ever since I mispronounced it "mizzled" years ago). The usa has not taken one step toward energy independence ($4clunkers notwithstanding). Let's say for the sake of argument that the world is going to keep happily busting ass making manufactured goods in exchange for usa clownbux, and further, they only get mad when we don't run huge trade deficits in perpetuity. That still leaves us with all sorts of problems like competition for natural resources, an exploding world population, environmental destruction, and yes, peak oil. Drill baby drill my ass (no, don't, heh heh). With the current and future leadership we will likely have I feel quite certain that we are all fricken doomed. This depression will never end for us, this is as good as it gets. Have a nice weekend. [pic source] [/edgar]

Financial Rant #99

The actions of the ptb concerning the financial crisis are perfectly predictable. All the bigs are insolvent if they did a proper accounting. Decades of theft and malinvestment must now be papered over. As for liquidating say a Citi or Skank of Amurkin we have to learn to think like a maggot. It took mountains of mortgage fraud money to keep the "full employment" scam (lie) going from '03-'07. The FHA is doing their best to [fill the gap] but they can't handle trillions more, they don't have the manpower, the authority, nor the "talent". The fed has its hands full with agency paper, treasuries (to keep rates low and finance the gub), alphabet soup repos, and crap of various ilk, they don't want to play resolution trust right now. No-one else has the cash except the Chinese and the usa ptb damn sure aren't going to sell a hollowed out major usa bank to [them] for pennies on the dollar. Besides, the executive bonuses must flow from the dead carcasses in order to finance the nyc profligate spending.

It all makes sense, all the job cuts are at the lower levels, the kleptocrats still rule the roost, nothing has changed. The fedres and fedgub still work for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many, that's why they allow the parasitic investment banks to blow useless bubbles with free money in lieu of a real economy. That's why they allow derivatives gambling and insurance swaps among entities that have no intention nor ability to pay in the event of an epic failure. Basically we the people are insuring all this "big casino" gambling crap and there's really not much we can do short of pitchforks and torches. If the skim goes well bonuses all around, if it doesn't go well the ptb will rig the game in favor of the home team to make it go well. The rest of us would like to make billions selling trillions worth of interest rates swaps we know we'll never have to pay, hell yeah, that's as close to free money as you can get but somehow I think that it would be illegal for us to do it unless GS or JPM said it was okay.

So where does that leave us? Waiting... There will be a strange paradigm. The usa dollar will be debauched among the high level maggots and around the world but the squeeze will be upon most of us who have very little. The federal reserve note is the province of assholes, yes, but it is also the currency of the land so we need it to conduct our personal business. Prices are going up, and they will continue to go up for everyday stuff as long as we have a madman with his hand on the money lever giving it all he's got. The gub isn't any better with all the pointless wasted spending. More mis-investment, it's insanity unless you look at who is on the receiving end and who isn't. Sure we would have had a deflationary sucking vortex without totally changing the rules and spewing out copious maggotbux but damn the solution is worse than the disease. Now the same old maggots get richer and more powerful from the very shitstorm they created.

I try to be careful with my money even though it will eventually become worthless. The scam could continue for alot longer than we think. Do not expect deliverance from outside, the world elite all "play ball" except for the lunatics who are just as bad as the bank grifter scum running the usa. As for inflation/deflation ask yourself a question, is there any financial [crime] the high level maggots are afraid to commit? Do you really think they won't change the laws of physics if need be to make everything appear to be normal in the capital markets, the [stock] markets, the corporate balance sheets? There is nothing they won't/can't do, they will be rich, and they will be in charge. The stupid peon wannabes in the CONgreff will do their bidding now and forever. There is hardly a man in government who wouldn't lick the shoe of the banksters if told to do so. I wish it were not so but the truth is plain. There will be lawlessness in high places for the foreseeable future so I suggest you try to protect yourself the best way you know how. [/edgar]

Making Do, Woodpecker Style

This woodpecker could easily have given up, I can hear it now: "Oh man, those bankster woodpecker assholes stole all the good acorns and drove up the price of the few remaining. Good thing I was able to hide a few beforehand. Waa 4 me, I don't even have a decent tree in which to live. The noise, and the smog, cough, cough, ick, I hate it. Oh well, the place is clean, and it's paid for, I'll try to make the best of it." Here's hoping you're able to make the best with what you have too. [/edgar]

Edgar, the Uber-Moral

I could rant about the recent spate of violence here in freedumb's land, I certainly abhor violence, but I won't. People in general are dorked up in the head, throw in some perceived injustice real or imagined and the ground is fertile for all sorts of inhumanity. I expect things to get worse not better as our evil overlords turn the screws ever tighter.

We did small amount of xmas shopping today. Made in usa hand tools can still be found at a premium price, but they last longer and make the job easier. In short, buy stuff like that when you feel the need because the good stuff is getting hard to find. I can just imagine what it will be like in a few years trying to find quality merchandise. It has only been a few years since the kleptocrat debasement began in earnest and already I am seeing a shocking lack of quality in many items. There was a four bit shnickers bar by the checkout lane that wasn't much bigger than my pinky finger. Frikken bastidges.

I was talking with some people yesterday about some over-priced pig sty I saw on house hunters international from eastern europe and wow. What's worse is that you couldn't get very much "good" crap with which to fix the place at a decent price, even if you wanted to. I would have razed most of those structures, good grief! This is what happens when the banksters and kleptocrats are allowed to run [roughshod] over an economy, everything turns to crap eventually and people just quit trying. It seems like we're at different stages of grief with different people over here at the moment, but the end result is inevitable.

The fire in the belly may be gone but the disgruntlement remains. The latter may still qualify me as a concerned citizen but the former makes for a terribly pathetic blogger. I haven't much to say lately other than the usual rants and any of you could probably postulate (in other words, the #7) what raw seething spittle spewing steam out of the ears diatribe I would be pounding out with great sound and fury about anything and everything if only I hadn't passed from anger to acceptance without resorting to senseless violence some time ago. Does this make me a better person than those who inflict needless suffering upon animals &/or fellow human beings? I would like to flatter myself by thinking so sometimes but then again it could just be a matter of circumstance so I won't boast about my moral superiority because I doubt that has much to do with jack squat other than my own ego. I hope everyone has a nice weekend and give a hug to someone you love. [/edgar]

Whatever

There is a nice piece [here] about a meeting between some bloggers and the usa [treasury]. My comment?: "Why bother? Let them fail."

The usa gubbermint doesn't care what the people want or think, and they don't care about the bloggers either. They damn sure aren't going to change a thing they are doing. All they want is for the bloggers to sign on with team "Epic Fail" because people are increasingly reading the blogs instead of the msm news in print or on cable, and those they already control. Let them go down in flames. They tell nothing but lies and spin and anyone who gets close to them is instantly corrupted. Do not taint the juicy truthiness reputation of the webbies, nor lend them your credibility by talking with them, they are only using you, or trying to intimidate, for their own nefarious and unwholesome purposes.

Eventually when they realize that the truth despises the msm and the ptb and the fascist freaks in 100% control of everything they will shut us down. Until then they should just stfu and leave us alone because we (I) don't want to hear it. Actions speak louder than words and right now they are speaking volumes and volumes with deafening volume.

Here is another [blog about] an [article], everyone should read it for it foretells the future of the usa in spades. It is not so much the looming failure, or the efforts by the Japanese ptb to forestall the inevitable, but rather the description of the people I found remarkable:

The difference between Japan currently and the rest of the West is probably one of time and perhaps of culture. The population seems very hard working and not prone to disorderly bursts of insurrection. The Japanese tolerate a great deal, in other words, and their culture discourages discord. In a fiat money economy, a lack of opposition to the central banking power structure makes the inevitable decay that much more likely and deeper ... sooner rather than later.

The Telegraph calls for Japan to cut back its social spending and open the floodgates of cheap money. This is indeed probably all that can be done when fiat money has worked its black magic and wreaked its havoc. But the West generally is well down the road toward this solution (the wildly cheap-money part, anyway) and the result will only be more tears. It is impossible to grow a stable world by applying this treatment because the booms only get wilder and the busts only get deeper.

Conclusion: There is a real solution, of course, one that would not be hard to implement. A private market-based gold and silver standard would provide a platform for real and sustainable growth. Asia (Japan and China) will learn this along with the rest of the world when the current global fiat money regime achieves the finality of the collapse it so richly, inevitably, deserves.

That's right, sooner and deeper. My fellow bloggers do not help the maggots prolong their reign, nor the agony it inflicts upon everyone. Resistance only gives them an enemy to fight. A bogus monetary experiment ending in looting and colossal failure is exactly what they richly deserve. The longer we cling to it as a nation and a world the longer the 2% top dog maggots will own everything and we will own nothing. The mice survived the last extinction event, not the dinos, remember that when you are planning for the (bleak) future. [/edgar]

Squashkin From the Garden

We grew all three of these ourselves and spent zero money this year on Halloween. The pumpkin was a volunteer from a pumpkin that was purchased last year then composted. The butternut squash is the latest of a whole bunch of those we got from the fall planting. The green squashkin came off a squash vine don't ask me where the pollen came from maybe a bee from the neighbor's? I planted garlic this morning and stashed some leaves for the spring too.

One of my readers is making up gifts from home-made and local stuff, I think that is a wonderful idea. I used to do xmas projects for people in lieu of store bought gifts in years past and you can do other stuff all year round. As things get more difficult try to help friends and neighbors because those are the people who make up your world when the SHTF. I have been mowing and edging my neighbor's easement for free for awhile, and I mow a friend's yard for a small amount of cash too.

Many times we make our reality and it matters not what is going on fifty miles away so much as fifty feet away. If your neighbor is an asshole try to win them over or stop being an asshole to them because we can help each other be more secure if we can get over the natural tendency toward assholiness. Sometimes I get into the hunker in the bunker mentality a little too strongly and I am working on that and you should too. Go shovel someone's driveway or offer to pay someone who wants to do the job and needs the money. Give someone a sandwich who looks hungry. Who knows what good (or bad averted) may come of it. Best. [/edgar]

Liar Liar

Owebama quote:

And although there are a lot of Americans who understandably think that government money would be better spent going directly to families and businesses instead of banks – “where’s our bailout?,” they ask – the truth is that a dollar of capital in a bank can actually result in eight or ten dollars of loans to families and businesses, a multiplier effect that can ultimately lead to a faster pace of economic growth... [link]

Big banks lend to hedge fund and private equity maggots, they front run equities buyers, they swap [derivatives] contracts, they don't lend to the public, at least not anymore. All the mortgages are going through the gubbermint, so we don't need the banks for mortgages either. Credit cards and small business credit lines are being cancelled, so we don't need them for that. The only thing we need big banks for is so they can feed off society, pervert the government, and exploit the poor, while keeping billionaires fat and sassy while destroying the dollar abroad. Obama is a liar and he makes me sick. I held my nose and [voted] for that scumbag because Ron Paul wasn't on the ballot. Wasted time. [/edgar]

West Texas Insult

Da [boyz] at the nymex were just de-livered a slap in the face. It Appears that [Saudi Aramco] is going to let a London based company set [oil prices] for awhile. Personally I don't feel that the likes of Goldman Sachs should be allowed to set the price of chewing gum, much less allocate investment capital for the world based upon maximizing their own personal enrichment. They jerk everyone around with their games, even the Saudis. Look at the [oil price chart], it's all over the map. How the hell is anyone supposed to plan a business for next week much less ten years from now? The CFTC is a joke. I hope the London boyz are honest because I suspect widespread [manipulation] has been going on for a very long time on this side of the pond but everyone here just [winks and nods]. It sickens me to think that the [speculators] will profit from this change too. They love the churn and win every time because they play both ends against the [middle]. Nevertheless, they won't be able to play the WTI [scam] anymore, and it's about time.

I am so very tired of [insider trading], corruption, nationwide shakedowns, billionaire maggots holding a gun to the head of uncle sam and demanding bailouts, usury, and fascism. Let hard times come, dish it out boyz, let's see who ends up swinging from a rope outside the mansion gates. I wish the hell NYC & DC didn't pervert every single market in this country in the name of capitalism, call it what it really is, state sponsored crony crapitalism where the rich make the rules and everyone [but them] is expected to obey.

I hope the rest of the world takes their [marbles] and goes home. Let's see how smug Helicopter Ben, Skeletor, Dimon Jim, and Lord Blankcheck are when the world says no mas, your [cash] is trash. They thought they were pretty funny when they were laying everyone off and stealing tens of trillions of dollars. Let's have some real chaos and see how they like it when the lumpen are dragging their asses down off crapital hill and roasting them on a spit like the fat pigs they are.

One health care for us, another for them. Scarcity of money for us, a free plethora for them. I'm damn sick of it, and I hope everyone else is too, except for the brain dead usa sheeple who haven't a clue wtf is going on in this country but they will pretty soon I'm guessing. Let's see the pig men keep stealing, lying, warring, go ahead boyz, little by little you maggots are going to be pointed out for the larcenous vermin you are, and that day is already upon us. You can't hide decades worth of thievery, no matter how much you steal at this late date. The world is getting pissy, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Saudis, the Russians, and I say bravo, bravo. Somebody has to call those pigs out on the carpet and it sure isn't going to be the usa citizens so you better take the bull by the balls and do it yourself. Sure everyone over here will be bitching, but keep in mind that you have at least one fan, and I say it's well past time to put an end to this crap. Let the adults make the decisions for awhile, we're toast. Best [/edgar]