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None Of This Was A Mistake from our friends over at Market-Ticker.
Do we have the tar heated up yet?!!!

You’re going to be unhappy reading this.

You’ve been warned.

I said - very unhappy.

Dateline August 2nd, 2002:

The basic point is that the recession of 2001 wasn’t a typical postwar slump, brought on when an inflation-fighting Fed raises interest rates and easily ended by a snapback in housing and consumer spending when the Fed brings rates back down again. This was a prewar-style recession, a morning after brought on by irrational exuberance. To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble.

Judging by Mr. Greenspan’s remarkably cheerful recent testimony, he still thinks he can pull that off. But the Fed chairman’s crystal ball has been cloudy lately; remember how he urged Congress to cut taxes to head off the risk of excessive budget surpluses? And a sober look at recent data is not encouraging.

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Bear in mind also that government officials have a stake in accentuating the positive. The administration needs a recovery because, with deficits exploding, the only way it can justify that tax cut is by pretending that it was just what the economy needed. Mr. Greenspan needs one to avoid awkward questions about his own role in creating the stock market bubble.

Any more questions folks? (Hattip Grf on the forum for the “get” on the article)

Unintentional eh Mr. Ben and Mr. Greenspan?

This is the same Pimco who’s Bill Gross said this earlier this year:

PIMCO’s view is simple: [u]shake hands with the government[/u]; make them your partner by acknowledging that their checkbook represents the largest and most potent source of buying power in 2009 and beyond.

Yeah.

This mess was intentional, as I have said all along.

Where was Ben Bernanke when Alan was out playing?

In the snakepit up to his neck:

Dr. Bernanke has already served the Federal Reserve System in several roles. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 2002 to 2005; a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Banks of Philadelphia (1987-89), Boston (1989-90), and New York (1990-91, 1994-96); and a member of the Academic Advisory Panel at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1990-2002).

So there you have it folks.

A raw statement of intent. Essentially a claim that PIMCO, who has said their strategy is to “shake the hand of government”, made the statement at the time that Greenspan “needed” to create a housing bubble in the aftermath of the Nasdaq blowup - the prior bubble that he engineered, to keep the heat off him.

Well, what does history tell us folks?

Greenspan did blow the Nasdaq and Housing bubbles.

His extreme “Randian” view toward regulation (that none was ever necessary) might have been a good idea in a world where everyone bore the consequence of their own fraud and malfeasance, but he wasn’t willing to do that either, as shown by refusing to accept his culpability for the Nadsaq mess, instead forcing the costs on others, hiding furtively in the shadows and claiming that “nobody could see it coming.”

This sort of Machiavellian approach to “regulation” - allow everyone to pillage, rape and burn and then run like hell before you get caught, was in fact Greenspan’s legacy in 2002. We had all the evidence we needed then, and what’s worse, Ben Bernanke, the current protagonist, was standing right there next to Greenspan during the housing bubble’s creation as a member of the Board of Governors!

These clowns - every one of them - must go.

Both Greenspan and Bernanke have been caught lying one too many times, and our nation and its economy have suffered mightily due to their malfeasance and intentional misdirection.

You’re caught Ben.

You should resign, then commit Seppuku.

Its the honorable thing to do for destroying the wealth, hopes and dreams of millions of Americans.

But you don’t have any honor, do you Ben?

And for that reason I call upon Congress to force you from office here and now, today, along with every other Board of Governor’s member who served with Alan Greenspan and said nothing, confirming and approving of what he did by both action and inaction, along with what you have done since.

If you should refuse to leave office, then Congress must revoke The Federal Reserve Act.

You’ve been caught and the time for excuses has expired.

As for the mess we are now in, there is only one way out, and that’s the same way we’ve had all along:

Force the bad debt back onto the balance sheets of those who are responsible for it (e.g. “conduits” and the like) and then force the defaults to be recognized. For those institutions this renders insolvent, shut them down and pay creditors in strict priority order.

We need a banking system, but we don’t need any specific bank itself.

Such a move would allow those banking institutions who have done the right thing through all these years to capitalize on the business opportunity, it would force housing prices to immediately contract to sustainable levels, and it would force GDP to a sustainable level based on consumption not to exceed earnings power less a savings reserve. Force the US Federal and State Governments to live within their means - that’s right, austerity, not audacity.

This path would be excruciatiating painful for our nation but fast - and then be over.

We can either take this path or we will suffer the consequences of continuing to try to re-inflate yet another bubble.

THE LATTER ATTEMPT WILL NOT WORK.

You saw what happened with Greenspan’s and Bernanke’s idiocy blowing a housing bubble to cover their own butt.

Do you want something MUCH WORSE if we try that again, or would you prefer that what must, mathematically occur, be over and done with?

IT IS TIME TO PAY THE CHECK.

A few years ago, I stumbled upon a way to build highway pegs for a certain type of motorcycle. It was relatively simple, requiring just basic welding and machining tools to complete the hardest part. I started selling them.

The process was improved by the purchase of a powder coating gun and oven. Much nicer finish, much faster process with much better durability than Rustoleum Gloss Black. I started selling more.

My price was about half of what the closest competition was charging. While I wasn’t in the same ballpark as to quality (I had the Yugo, they had the Cadillac version…and still do) it still got the job done. I sold even more.

Over time, the pegs showed that they had other uses, as several tip-overs seemed to prove. Not only did they give you an extra position where you could stretch out while riding, but they also offered some protection when the bike decided to take a nap…whether intentional or accidental. They weren’t designed for it, but they offered themselves up as a partial sacrifice instead of your fairing/footpegs and mirrors. If you lost all of those, you were looking at $1000 worth of damage and an unwanted addition to the “Hall of Shame” known as the “CDA”, or Concours Droppers Anonymous club. Now for a small investment of under $70, you had a good chance of surviving relatively intact. Not what I’d intended them to do, but I sure as hell wasn’t going to argue. I’d sold just a hair over 200 sets, literally all over the globe.

At the time I started, I had a great job, lots of time off and a 3.5mi commute. Someone dangled the golden carrot in front of me, in the tune of an extra $20K per year, and I bit. That job, while I loved it, required a 56mi commute one way, and I didn’t see many more 8hr days. 2hrs a day was driving, 8-12hrs a day was work, and that just didn’t leave much time for building pegs. I tried for a while, but then someone helped with my decision.

I got a certified/registered letter in the mail one day, through an un-named law firm, from an un-named person in an un-named state. (they did something stupid, and wanted me to pay) I consulted a friend who convinced me that I had no legal liability for their stupidity. I replied telling them to “pound sand”, in so many words, some I barely remember how to spell without using (*^$$#*#!@^%$ in their place on the internet. That, so far, has never re-surfaced.

That pushed me to consider stopping peg sales. It wasn’t until I started 12-14hr days before the commute that I’d really decided to stop. I just didn’t have the time to build them any more. So I stopped after a very promising start.

Well, I’m, for the lack of a better term…back. I’ve got a relatively secure job again, 7.5mi from home with lots of time off if I want it. I’m no longer on call, which is a change after 10+ years being tethered to work by a cell phone. (I don’t even own a cell now, and it’s kinda nice.) While I don’t seem to have the excess of time I once did (being on call 24/7 gives you lots of overtime and comp time) I still have enough to hopefully build pegs without lots of wait time. It will cut a bit into other things, but several improvements in my thought process during my absence will assist with construction speed. Price had to go up, since the cost of steel, chrome ends, electricity, powdercoat and postage have all gone up. I still don’t make much money on these, but I still really don’t need to.

So, that said, I guess I’m back. Today is Friday the 5th, I figure I’ll have everything on hand to re-start by the 10th. After that, you can start placing your orders. Use the link on the right, just under the Domestic Terrorists link. (no, I’m not featured there….yet)

Thanks for the support, and eventually your money.

(Oh, and if someone wants to try the legal approach again….lets just say I have a new way of dealing with that kind of incident now, that won’t cost me much at all, but will break whoever tries it. If you want free money, vote Democrat and quit your job.)

Written by John Bowman it gives in a very clear reason, the reason that the founders put the 2nd Amendment into the US Constitution. An armed populace are citizens, and unarmed populace are slaves….and disposable ones at that. Having the means to resist, and even remove a tyranical and oppressive ruling body remains the foremost reason that the 2nd Amendment is such a thorn in the side of most present day administrations. They know that the Amendment is first and foremost a reset button for our form of government….that reset button, once pushed, well….they won’t fare well in the procedure and that’s what scares them. Get rid of that button, through piss poor legislation or unsurping tiny bits of freedom at a time, and a slave ye shall become without the means to resist.

“Guns don’t kill people, Governments kill people” would make a better title, but I’ll leave it alone.
Anyway….the article is below:

When Guns Are Outlawed, Only Governments Will Have Guns

Author R.J. Rummel has produced a significant body of work including numerous essays and several books that deal with the subject of democide, a term he coined to describe a widely-accepted legal definition of murder that applies when perpetrated by government upon its own people. After examining about 10,000 sources over many years, Rummel estimates that governments of the world have murdered (i.e., committed democide on) approximately 262 million people in the 20th century alone. That shocking figure is no joke and, as Rummel points out, is about 7 times higher than the combat death toll from all wars fought over the same period combined. 20th Century wars were the worst in man’s history and killed almost twice as many people as “ordinary” civilian criminal murders across the globe over the same one-hundred-year span. Yet, even though “the 20th century is noted for its absolute and bloody wars,” war was not the 20th Century’s biggest killer. Democide was. Or rather government was. And the comparison was not even close.

It should come as no surprise that the hallmark of democide according to Rummel is authoritarian government. It should also be no surprise that virtually every monstrous genocide or democide event in modern history was conducted by collectivist or socialist-style dictatorships, with the lion’s share of atrocity garnered by the Marxist variety – those great saints who do everything “for the good of the people” and who without any sense or shame hold offices and/or comprise significant political parties in most “civilized” nations today. In fact, the results of various flavors of socialism are what prompted other historians to invent the word “genocide” in the first place.

To put the 262 million murders in more conceptual terms, consider that if one takes a random walk through the entire set of murdered men, women, and children, more than 9 out of 10 murders across all times and all nations, were perpetrated, not by civilian criminals, but by criminal thugs operating under the auspice or directive of government to murder its own people, generally those who oppose the government or who oppose the politically well-connected or who own what the government covets for itself. If deaths due to war – what many currently believe is the greatest threat to life and limb – are included in the set, then still over 4 out of 5 violent deaths (83%) are the result of murder by the host government with the remaining 17% comprised by 11% war casualties and 6% civilian murder1. Yet, while totalitarianism, foreign invasion, and civilian crime – the primary historic threats to everyone’s safety – all arise for a vast array of reasons, there is, fortunately, at least one thing that is proven to prevent or mitigate all of these to a very high degree: widespread gun ownership by the civilian population.

Therefore, if one cares about one’s own personal safety or that for one’s children, family, and neighbors, then there is no substitute for a well-armed society. This is not rocket surgery. A well-armed society is a civil society. A well-armed society is also a serious deterrent to foreign invaders and modern technology such as satellites, planes, missiles, and tanks has not changed that. And finally, most importantly, a well-armed society has never yet, not once, been the helpless victim of democide to any significant degree, and it takes no great imaginative leap to understand why. When guns are outlawed, only government will have them, and look at their sorry record. The figure would be supremely monstrous and unacceptable if it were a mere 1 out of 100, yet more than 9 out of 10 murders committed on planet Earth were orchestrated by the victim’s own government. In fact, major events of democide unilaterally occur to people who are disarmed, usually (ludicrously) within months of disarmament of the population, which of course was promoted and ordered for their own good and safety, and often made possible by government-maintained registration or licensing records.

Today, we are continually bombarded with propaganda relating to the dangers of gun ownership. This propaganda shamelessly claims stiffer and stiffer gun control is necessary to “protect the children” or some other nonsense about personal safety. At the same time, depending on age range, children are more likely to die from drowning in their own toilet or bathtub, from falling off a ladder or heights, or from bee stings than they are from intentional or accidental death from a gun wound. And lest we forget, these same gun control advocates think nothing of putting their children in cars, which kills tens of thousands every year. Why? Because it is clear the great utility of vehicles justify the small yet deadly risks. Yet, wide proliferation of guns (with zero controls) also has great utility, namely prevention of the worst crimes in history as well as the run-o-the-mill variety. Furthermore, guns have a lower risk factor to law abiders than do cars, so where is all the clamoring from the “I-want-my-children-to-be-safe” crowd for bans on automobiles? There ain’t any because this brand of stupidity is emotional, not rational.

On the other hand, democide appears to expressly target children. Children whose parents if not unarmed would have long ago overthrown the tyrants who impoverish them to retain or regain their own property and means of feeding and rearing their children. That is why gun control advocates horrify me, especially those who are well-meaning and passionate about the issue. They genuinely believe removing guns from law abiders will solve social ills, while ignoring the consequences. To remove guns from the hands of law abiders is the tyrant’s dream, the criminal’s dream, the warmonger’s dream. And it is the law abider’s nightmare. To remove guns from the hands of law abiders unleashes every horror conceivable, and some that are inconceivable. And for what? To prevent some perceived threat that, even if realistic, is 5 or 6 orders of magnitude less likely to cause harm than the nightmare with a long and distinguished pedigree that may ensue if they get their wish?

It is as though gun control advocates seriously believe it is desirable to rip up the parachute, use the material to sew a windbreaker, then proudly proclaim they’ve prevented the skydiver from catching a cold on his trip down. It would be comical if not so deadly serious. To be fair, yes, many die from gun wounds. Yes, that is tragic and senseless. Without a doubt, guns can be quite dangerous, but the same can be said of cars. Of electricity. And even of love, a major player in crimes of passion and suicide, the latter of which takes more US lives every year than all reported gun violence and is in fact responsible for over 70% (higher in many other countries) of what is included in the gun-related death figures – a component that heavily skews these figures, yet is rarely considered by gun control advocates as if these suicides would not have occurred but for the availability of guns. Are there not consequences to banning any of these things: cars, electricity, love? Or of banning guns? Consequences that apparently go well beyond the narrow horizons and lack of historical knowledge of the typical ban advocate.

On the lighter side, one beauty of widespread gun ownership is that members of the adamant “I’ll-never-touch-the-things” crowd do not have to own one. They need only pray that their neighbors do, because those law abiding, gun-toting neighbors will protect them from the true heinous threats to their existence and livelihood, even if they are unwilling or unable to do so themselves or even oblivious to the dangers. And consider further, that the protection afforded by widespread gun ownership by law abiders can extend across national borders as well as neighborhoods. For example, while Canada does have a relatively significant number of guns, many Canadian gun enthusiasts have noted that much of their personal safety can be attributed to the fact that the populace of their closest neighbor maintains so many firearms.

As a final, more mundane thought, basically everyone knows or has heard that there is a correlation between gun control and crime. In fact, areas in the US with virtual gun bans, like DC, have not only the highest crime rates, but also a disproportionately higher amount of violent crime, whereas areas with few gun regulations tend to show much lower crime overall, with most of it of a non-violent nature such as property crime like theft, instead of violent crime like assault, rape, or murder. Gun advocates tout these statistics, while gun-grabbers are completely mystified and so go in search of some rationale to explain it away, or they focus on other issues, usually something like the safety of children.

I earnestly desire that everyone in the world becomes or remains a staunch advocate of widespread, unregulated gun ownership. There are few, if any, paradigms one could adopt to better ensure personal safety and peaceful pursuits. Such a paradigm would mitigate crime, reduce warfare, and, by far the most important, provide the ultimate backstop – when unalienable rights and Constitutions fail – against the most heinous danger all inhabitants of the world face: democide. It is neither a joke nor the subversive tripe you have come to expect from the phrase to say, support gun ownership! If not for yourself, do it for the children.

Note

Please note, I understand this is a contentious subject, and mere statistics or numbers can never sum up these atrocities. Moreover, the figures I use are 35 million casualties of war in the 20th century and 20 million (probably too high) 20th century civilian-perpetrated murders worldwide, which appear to be widely accepted figures. Again, these are estimates, believed to be accurate, so please do not write me to suggest these figures are either too liberal or too conservative or otherwise incorrect unless any are off by one or two orders of magnitude or more because unless that is the case, it does not change in any way the thesis of this note – that widespread gun ownership by a civilian population will significantly improve the safety of said civilian population from every colossal threat, especially the most serious of all: democide.

June 1, 2009
John Bowman lives in Washington State.

From our friends across the big pond in Russia. You want to see what’s actually happening in your world, look at it from someplace other than in your own house, or see what the rest of the intelligent world has to say. Biased? Yep, probably, but still a truthfullness that you won’t find on anything you can tune into on that idiot box in your living room. You wanted change? You wanted hope? You’re getting neither. You’re getting hosed, and I hope you bought lots of KY.
Anyway, here’s the view from their front porch:

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their “right” to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our “democracy”. Pride blind the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and denominations” were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the “winning” side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the “winning” side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?

These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters.

Then came Barack Obama’s command that GM’s (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of “pure” free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.

So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a “bold” move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK’s Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our “wise” Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.

Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper…but a “freeman” whimper.

So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set “fair” maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.

The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.

The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.

Stanislav Mishin

Nope, not dead, dismembered or departed. Just busy with the summer projects. Waiting on a good weekend to pour the concrete foundation for the greenhouse/garage. Then comes the block, gravel and eventually concrete floor. Got so many projects going right now, it’s a wonder I’m sleeping (I’m not, but one could wish for sleep).

While I haven’t stopped writing “stuff”, I have slowed down quite a bit. My evening TV time (when I usually wrote most of my “work”) has been cut down with the projects and daylight lasting until 8-9PM (yeah baby!!!). I have started a song, or at least that’s what I hope to have it become. So far, it’s “Choose Today”, but one never knows. I’ve also got a few paragraphs written, or at least started on 3 different subjects. Just a matter of time before I finish something.

One good thing, while I don’t use any of my mechanical skills at my current job (insert unhappy face here) I did manage to take a $50 riding lawnmower and $150 in parts and turn it into a $425 cash in hand sale. That money has funded the prettifying of the landscaping at the house. It also bought 8 boxes of clearance shelf Vinyl Composite Tile ($16 bucks a box for Armstrong commercial tile ain’t bad!) for the garage. 3 boxes of Cayenne red, 3 of purple brown and 2 of teal should make an interesting pattern on the garage floor.

So, while I’m not dead or dying, I will be a bit scarce for a while. Instead of my twice a week rants, maybe twice a month?

Now go enjoy the outside world before it becomes choked with radioactive or volcanic ash*!

(*coming soon to a city near you….)

Ugly, just plain ugly. Worst case scenario it is, but daaaaaamn. Personally, I think the author is pulling a few punches. But, I’ve always had a bit more of a fatalistic view of the cesspool around me.

Anyway, from over at SeekingAlpha.com

Since the economy began sliding downhill in late 2007, mainstream economic and market experts have consistently erred on the sunny side.

As late as June 2008, mainstream consensus held that the U.S. was heading for a “soft landing” and would avoid recession. Several months later, the slump was acknowledged to have started in January 2008, but we were supposed to see renewed growth by mid-2009, with unemployment peaking in the eight-to-nine percent range. A quick “shovel-ready” stimulus bag was supposed to set us back on the road to prosperity.

In January, recovery projections were pushed forward to late 2009. Today, the consensus is for a mid-2010 recovery, with unemployment peaking at just over 10 percent. Clearly, the mainstream has struggled to catch up to reality for well over one year. What are the chances that they finally have it right this time?

Moreover, the mainstream continues to see what is going on as a plain-vanilla recession that will be quelled with some on-the-fly monetary and fiscal tinkering. Washington, we are told, will pull us out of this slump—as soon as the masses can be enticed back to the shopping malls. Then things will return to how they were before. But what if the experts and politicians are wrong not only on their ever-changing recovery timeline, but also on the nature—nay, the very existence—of a recovery?

America’s reigning political-economic ideology has demonstrably failed. Given that its government is obviously fumbling along without a clue, its foreign and domestic credit is tapped out, and its 300 million people are discovering that their hopes for continuous material improvement will never be met, could the U.S. be headed the way of the USSR?

Instead of a recovery as the mainstream envisions it, what if America permanently bankrupts, impoverishes, and marginalizes itself? What if its cherished institutions fail across the board? For example, what happens when the police realize that their under-funded pension plans cannot support a decent retirement? Will they stay honest, or will they opt to survive by any means necessary? These are questions that the mainstream does not even begin to contemplate.

In the interests of providing you with an alternate vision—something outside the mainstream—below are ten predictions for America through the year 2012. This is not boilerplate doom-saying. Rather, I am laying out in highly specific terms what will happen over the next three-odd years. Others have thrown around the term “Depression”, but I am going to tell you precisely what it means for you, your investments, and your community.

When these predictions come true, I expect to be rewarded with a seven-figure consulting gig, a book contract, or a high-level position in whatever administration succeeds the doomed Obama team—that is, if anyone succeeds it at all.

Prediction one. The twenty-five-year equities bubble pops in 2009. U.S. and foreign equities markets will stop treading water and realign with economic reality. Stock prices will cease to reflect the “greater fool” mentality and will return to being a function of dividend yields, which have long been miserable. The S&P 500 will sink below 500. In a bid to stem the panic, the government will enforce periodic “stock market holidays”, and will vastly expand the scope of its short-selling prohibitions—eventually banning short-selling altogether.

Prediction two. With public pension systems and tens of millions of 401k holders virtually wiped out—and with the Baby Boomers retiring en masse—there will be tremendous pressure on the government to get into the stock market in order to bid up prices.

Therefore, sometime in 2010, the Federal Reserve will create and loan out hundreds of billions of fresh dollars to the usual well-connected suspects, instructing them to buy up stocks on the public’s behalf. This scheme will have a fancy but meaningless name—something like the “Taxpayer Assurance Equities Facility”. It will have no effect other than to serve as buyer of last resort for capitulating smart-money types who want to get out of stocks entirely.

Prediction three. Millions of new retirees—including white-collar people with high expectations for a Golden Retirement—will be left virtually penniless. Thousands will starve or freeze to death in their own homes. Hundreds of thousands will find themselves evicted and homeless, or will have to move in with their less-than-enthusiastic children. Already strained by the rising tide of the working-age unemployed, state and local welfare services will be overwhelmed, and by 2012 will have largely collapsed and ceased to function in many parts of the country.

Prediction four. “Quantitative easing” will fail to restart previous patterns of lending and consumption. As the government sends out additional “rebate” checks and takes ever-more drastic measures to force banks to lend, hyperinflation could take hold. However, comprehensive debt relief via a devaluation of the dollar is even more likely. This would entail the government issuing one “new” dollar for some greater number of “old” dollars—thus reducing both debts and savings simultaneously. This would make for a clean slate a la Fight Club.

As there are many more debtors than savers in the U.S., the vast majority would support devaluation. The Chinese and other foreign holders of our bonds would be screaming mad, but unable to do anything. Every country that has not found a way out of dollar-denominated reserve assets by 2012 will see its reserves eliminated.

Prediction five. The government will stop pretending that it can finance continuous multi-trillion-dollar deficits on the private market. By late 2010, the sole buyers of new U.S. Treasury and agency bonds will be the Federal Reserve and a few derelict financial institutions under government control. This may or may not lead to hyperinflation. (See prediction four).

Prediction six. As the need for financial industry paper-pushers declines and people have less money to spend on lawyers and Starbucks (SBUX), unemployment will rise until the private sector has eliminated all of its excess capacity and superfluous or socially needless jobs. The government’s narrow unemployment figure (U3) will rise into the high teens by late 2010. The government’s broader unemployment figure (U6) will cease to be reported when it reaches 25 percent—it will simply be too embarrassing. Ultimately, one in three work-eligible Americans will be unemployed, underemployed, or never-employed (e.g. college grads permanently unable to find suitable work).

Prediction seven. With their pension dreams squashed, and their salaries frozen or cut, police and other local government workers will turn to wholesale corruption in order to survive. America’s ideal of honest, courteous, and impartial cops, teachers, and small-time local functionaries will have come to an end.

Prediction eight. Commercial overcapacity will strike with a vengeance. By 2012, thousands of enclosed malls, strip malls, unfinished residential developments, motels, truck stops, distribution centers, middle-of-nowhere resorts and casinos, and small-city airports across America will turn into dilapidated, unwanted, and dangerous ghost towns. With no economic incentive for their maintenance or repair, they will crumble into overgrown, plywood-and-sheet-rock ruins.

Prediction nine. By the end of 2010, tens of millions of households will have fallen behind on their mortgages or stopped paying altogether. Many banks will be unable to process the massive volume of foreclosure paperwork, much less actually seize and resell the homes.

Devaluation (as mentioned in prediction four) could ease the situation for those mortgage holders still afloat, but it would also eliminate any incentive for most banks to stay in the mortgage business. In any case, the housing market in many parts of the country will lock up completely—nothing bought or sold.

With virtually no loans being made, even the government will finally acknowledge that most banks are fundamentally insolvent. A general bank run will only be averted through a roughly one trillion-dollar recapitalization of the FDIC, courtesy of new money from the Federal Reserve.

Prediction ten. As an economy is never independent of the society within which it functions, the next few paragraphs will focus on social and political factors. These factors will have as much of an impact on market and consumer confidence as any developments in the financial sector.

Whether rightly or not, President Obama, having come to power at the dawn of this crisis, will be blamed for it by over 50 percent of the population. He will be a one-term president. In response to his perceived socialization of America, there will be a swarm of secessionist and extremist activity, much of it violent. Militias and armed sects will be more prominent than in the early 1990s. Stand-off dramas, violent score-settlings, and going-out-with-a-bang attacks by laid-off workers and bankrupted investors—already a national plague—will become an everyday occurrence.

For both economic and social reasons, millions of immigrants and guest workers will return to their home countries, taking their assets and skills with them. The flow of skilled immigrants will slow to a trickle. Birth rates will plummet as families struggle with uncertainty and reduced (or no) income.

Property crime will explode as citizens bitter over their own shattered dreams attempt to comfort themselves by taking what is not theirs. Mutinies and desertions will proliferate in an increasingly demoralized, over-stretched military, especially when states can no longer provide the educational and other benefits promised to their National Guard troops.

There will be widespread tax collection issues, and a huge backlash against Federal and state bureaucrats who demand three-percent annual pay raises while private sector wages remain frozen or worse. In short, the “Tea Parties” of tomorrow will likely not be so restrained.

Finally, between now and 2012, we are likely to see another earth-shaking national embarrassment on the scale of the 9/11 attacks or Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. This will demonstrate conclusively to all Americans that their government, even under a savior-figure like Obama, cannot, in fact, save them.

By 2012, there will be a general feeling that the nation is in immediate danger of blowing up or coming apart at the seams. This fear will be justified, given that the U.S. has always been held together by the promise of a continuously rising material standard of living—the famous “pursuit of happiness”—rather than any ethnic or religious ties. If that goes, so could everything else. We were lucky in the 1930s—we may not be so lucky again.

Homeopathy, or as it’s translated: like cures like. For lack of a better description, giving a patient a tiny bit of say, bee sting venom after a bee sting and makes the immune system attack from the inside, treating the whole body, rather than just the site of the bite acting against the poison. Making the entire body do the work instead of just the surrounding tissues, start with the big organs and the head, and filter out to the smaller stuff. Outside of the big organs and the head…it’s all smaller stuff.

Homeopathic medicine says that if you have a stomach ache, take something that gives you a stomach ache. If you get a headache, then a small pill made out of a highly diluted dose of something that would give you a headache will cure said headache. Yeah, sounds like a stretch, but it does work.

Not saying that if you’re deathly allergic to bee stings use this and only this, but it has been shown to help for minor reactions. If you’re going to try this, do so under a Homeopathic doctor’s supervision…..or in the parking lot of your local hospital. I’m not advocating trying anything you’ve never done before without the OK from a “licensed” medical professional. You have been warned!!!!

Anyhoo….Homeopathy, for some, has the ability to “cure” anything from constipation to warts. A lot of it was backed with medical science and literally centuries of practice, until doctors decided that they could make more money treating the symptoms and not the cause. (I’ll save the medical conspiracy theorist stuff for a later date) Colloidal Silver was used for many decades until commercially available antibiotics came available. Colloidal silver is just tiny silver molecules in a solution of de-ionized water. Not homeopathy per se, but it’s a good description. Dilute that silver down even further, until there are possibly none of the original silver molecules left, and you get into the realm of homeopathy.

Homeopathic medicines, or remedies, are produced by diluting a substance in water or other solvent. Homeopathic medicines are not simply diluted. They are also shaken vigorously, or “potentized.” To make a 12x dilution, one drop of the mother tincture (or the stuff you start with) is added to 99 drops of the alcohol or water mix and the mixture is shaken vigorously. Then one drop from this mixture is mixed with 99 drops of another batch of pure alcohol or water and the mixture is again shaken vigorously. The resultant mixture has a dilution of 1 in 10,000 (or 4x). The process is repeated a total of 6 times to get a potency of 12x. Finally, these drops are added to tiny lactose (milk sugar tablets, pillules, granules, or powder and stored in dark colored bottle.

Homeopaths believe that shaking transfers the medicine’s essence to the water used to dilute it. This concept is important because solutions diluted beyond 24x (or 12c) may not contain even a single molecule of the original solution. Homeopaths believe that medicines become stronger as they become more dilute and that even when enormously diluted, the medicine’s “essence” or “energy” remains.

Most Homeopaths can’t agree on how this actually works, but watching the results, they can agree that it does. Most patients, while skeptical going in, are rarely skeptical going out of the practitioner’s office. Some treatments work so fast, you’d better be on a toilet if you take a constipation remedy. Others, much like modern medicine, take a while to kick in. But all without the 12 pages of side effects like most modern medicines. Sorry, if you were into anal leakage and sudden heart stoppage, best look elsewhere.

So, now you know the how’s and the why’s, let’s explore the what’s.

What things can be used in Homeopathic remedies? Onion, mercury, salt, cuttlefish, deadly nightshade, willow bark, crushed bees…many things have been diluted to the point that the chances of the original stuff still being there are slim to none…and slim just left town. But, when given or applied, the results are there. From abdominal pain to warts, clinical/double-blind/control groups/ have proven that homeopathy works as well as if not better than commercially produced pharmaceuticals….without any side effects. Even in massive doses, worst you will probably do is eat a lot of little pills. But, these are medicine and we don’t down a handful of pills just cause….DO WE??!!!

From bumps and bruises, to bee stings and hemorrhoids, from chicken pox to insomnia, the “cure” might just be as close as your neighborhood health food store. Hobble on over to Amazon and check out their selection from Homeopathic first aid kits to a huge book selection.

Tune in tomorrow when we find out what homeopathic remedies can be used to treat the flu. Yeah, just in time ain’t it.

OK! Before we start, while these remedies are recommended by Homeopaths worldwide, they’re to be taken under the advice of a Homeopath, not millerized. I’m not a doctor; I don’t purport to be one and what works for me might not work for you. Doctors are there for you to use, and you’ll pay them. Best case scenario what you read here saves your life. While you’re not going to die from the remedies listed below, if you’re still sick because they didn’t work for, you need to see a doctor. NOW! If you’re sick and needed to get to a doctor and you died because you didn’t go….just let me know where you keep the combination to the safe and your daughters phone number. I promise to feel bad later.

This isn’t a complete listing, but a quick and dirty primer. You want specifics, consult a Homeopathic practitioner, read a few dozen books or take a few classes.

OK, learnin’ time!

There are several homeopathic remedies available to combat flu effectively. At the very first sign that flu is developing, take 1/2 tube of Anas barbariae (duck hearts and livers) (marketed under various brand names, including Oscillococcinum) every two hours, for a total of five doses. Combination flu remedies work in majority of cases if you take one in the first 4 to 12 hours after you start having symptoms. Follow the dosage recommendations on the label of the remedy you choose. If it’s going to work, you should feel relief with a single dose.

If the flu persists, you’ll probably need a more specific remedy, such as a 12C or 30C dose of Eupatorium perfoliatum (thoroughwort or boneset), which is good for a flu that causes aches and chills in your back and bones, fatigue, thirst and bad headaches. If you feel dizzy, drowsy and weak but momentarily better after urinating, try a 12C or 30C dose of Gelsemium (yellow jasmine). Take up to four doses of one of these flu remedies in 24 hours. Then if you don’t feel better, see a professional.

Below listed are several specific homeopathic remedies that are useful for flu.

If you are feeling chilly, restless, and weak, choose Arsenicum album (yep, arsenic). This is for the person who feels worse in a cold room, but wants something cold to drink. You probably have a red nose with runny nasal secretions that burn the nose and upper lip. You also prefer to sit in bed with books, magazines, and a television, and be left alone, but would like a bit of attention every once in a while. Take one dose of Arsenicum album 30Xx or 9C, as directed on the product label, three to four times a day for up to eight doses.

Specific Remedies
Aconitum napellus: This remedy is useful for a flu that comes on suddenly and intensely accompanied by fever, anxiety, constricted pupils, and strong thirst. The person may feel fearful or agitated, and the fever can alternate with chills. Symptoms are often worst around midnight. Exposure to cold wind or a shock of some kind often precedes the illness.

Apis mellifica: If a person has dry fever that alternates with sweating, facial flushing, and a very sore throat with swollen tonsils , then this homeopathic remedy may be prescribed. Pain may extend to the ears, and the eyelids may be swollen. Exposure to cool air and cold applications may bring relief. Despite the fever, thirst usually is low. The person can be very irritable, disliking interference.

Arsenicum album: The person feels chilly and exhausted. Exhibits an anxious restlessness. He/she may be thirsty, but often only takes small sips. May experience nausea with burning pain, or vomiting and acrid diarrhea. If the flu is respiratory, a watery, runny nose with sneezing paroxysms and a dry or wheezing cough are often seen. The person’s head usually feels hot, while the rest of the body is chilly.

Belladonna: This remedy is indicated when there is sudden, intense symptoms including fever, red face, hot skin, and extreme sensitivity to light and jarring. Other symptoms include a very red sore throat, a pounding headache, a nagging cough, or other throbbing and inflammatory symptoms. The person’s hands and feet may feel cold despite high fever. Chills and heat may alternate.

Bryonia: Bryonia is good if symptoms include a headache, cough, constipation, thirst, and irritability. Take one dose of Bryonia 3OX or 9C three to four times a day for up to three days.
Symptoms: This remedy is often prescribed when a person feels very hot and dry, is thirsty for cold drinks, and experience aching all over.
Grumpy and feels miserable with the flu
Wanting only to lie still and be left alone
Headache, muscle aches, and cough or stomach pain
Everything feels worse from even the slightest motion.
Dry mouth, with a thirst for long cold drinks.

Eupatorium perforliatum: Eupatorium is helpful for severe aching deep in the bones that makes you feel sore allover. Take one dose of Eupatorium 12x or 6c three to four times a day for up to ten doses.
General Characteristics:
Great thirst for cold drinks
Specific symptoms:
Deep ache in the bones and muscles
Eyeballs hurt
Exhaustion
Desires cold food and drinks, which are vomited as soon as they warm in the stomach
Painful cough
Yellow tongue
Tremendous aching, as if bones are broken
Fever preceded by chills, especially from 7:00 to 9:00 A.M.

Ferrum phosphoricum: This remedy may be helpful during flu associated with the following symptoms:
Fever
Headache
Rosy cheeks
A feeling of weariness
Sensitive eyes
A short hard cough
Strong thirst
Vomiting after eating
This remedy is also prescribed in early stages of flu or fever, even if symptoms are not especially clear.

Gelsemium: Take Gelsemium if you have heavy, droopy eyes; feel weak and tired, with aches and chills up and down your back; and want to be alone. Take one dose of Gelsemium 12x or 6c three to four times a day for up to eight doses.
Symptoms: A hot head and face, but with chills that go up and down the back; burning headache without any real sense of thirst, etc. are symptoms for which this remedy is often prescribed.
Other symptoms:
Fatigue and achiness that come on gradually, increasing over several days
The face feels heavy, with droopy eyes and aching.
A headache may begin at the back of the neck and skull
Chills and heat running up and down the spine.
Anxiety
Dizziness
Moderate fever
Trembling
Perspiration

Mercurius solubilis: Mercurius solubilis is useful when you suffer from a lingering flu that just doesn’t seem to go away. You may have a sore throat, bad breath, and tender, swollen glands. Take one dose of Mercurius solubilis 12x or 6c three times a day for up to three days.

Nux vomica: Nux Vomica is often prescribed for flu associated with thoroughly chilled feelings, cannot get warm at all, limbs and back are aching, stomach upset. Other indications are:
high fever
violent chills
strong nausea
cramping in the digestive tract (or a painful cough and constricted breathing if the flu is respiratory)
headache
oversensitivity to sound, bright light, and odors
often very irritable
feels worse from exertion
Feels worse from being cold in any way

Oscillococcinum (also called Anas barbariae): Oscillococcinum is one of the common names used for a remedy that is widely used for prevention and treatment of flu in the United States and Europe. It has strong antiviral effects.

Phosphorus: This remedy is indicated for flu when it is accompanied by:
fever with an easily-flushing face
feels very weak and dizzy
headache
hoarseness
sore throat
cough
stomach pain and nausea or vomiting
strong anxiety
wanting others to be around to offer company and reassurance
strong thirst, with a tendency to vomit when liquids warm up in the stomach

Rhus toxicodendron: A person who needs this remedy during flu feels extremely restless and complain of achy, stiff muscles. Other indications:
fever is often accompanied by bone and muscle aches
teasing cough
sore throat
red tongue
nausea and bloating
soreness and stiffness may be felt all over,
feels better from hot showers or from getting up and pacing.
feels worse when waking up, after lying in bed, or from keeping still too long.
symptoms are often relieved by rubbing and stretching, but especially warmth and movement.
Take one dose of Rhus toxicodendron 30x or 9c three times a day for up to three days.

Sulphur: This remedy is often prescribed if a flu is very long-lasting or has some lingering symptoms such as the case when people have neglected to take good care of themselves. The person may feel hot and sweaty, with low fever and reddish mucous membranes. Symptoms, either digestive or respiratory, will often have a hot or burning quality. Heat aggravates the symptoms, and the person often feels worse after bathing.

“Mark My Words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”

(BOLD text above…….remember that while you’re reading this)

This was Big Brother Joe (Biden) spouting off at a fundraiser in Seattle Washington…waaaaaaay back in October of last year. Fast forward…say 6mo or a bit longer….”here’s JOHNNY!!!” Swine Flu. If you wait until the coronation of King Barack to start the clock, it’s only a few short months. But, well within the “it will not be six months” period.

Amazing, Mexico “health authorities” start noticing flu-like symptoms in mid March (18th, give or take) first “reported” death is the 12th of April, King Hussein, er, I mean President Obama still shows up in Mahy-he-ko on the 16th of April. (not like there weren’t any security pre-visits to this violent third world cesspool so why go to a place that you know is infected unless…..you’ve already been innoculated?) Top it with “the one guy who shook his hand died a week later”…….of symptoms that resemble swine flu. Story here. Yeah…about that. [rollseyes]

You know damn well he knew of the outbreak….it was reported to the PAHO, who reports to WHO….who I’m sure somehow might have mentioned it to one of the Obama-nation staff folks…like the folks that scope out his travel locations….., I know, just for shits and giggles stay with me here. Unless of course they’re trying to kill him off….and we all know the messiah would just rise from the dead. Unlike all of those “Universal health care” recipients that wouldn’t even make it through this simple illness. (don’t get me started on Universal Health Care…but I’ll tell you this: “you think health care is expensive now, just wait until it’s free”.

Anyhoo….or any WHO SO, we all know that there’s supposed to be a “crisis” within 6mo, and since they’re poo-pooing the financial crisis now that they’ve managed to inflate the money supply to a unsustainable level, control the news that most ARM loan resets, 75%+ of derivatives, CDS and hedge funds are still unaccounted for, and commercial real estate “haven’t yet begun to fight” in the battle yet. Hell, add that to Global COOLING (or climate “change” as I like to call it) and the fact that my yard needs mowed….uh, um…hold that thought. Oh, the crisis, sorry (must be something in the air-cough-cough-wheeze).

SO, all these “other” things seem to be under control, bank big wigs have stuffed their personal off-shore accounts with TARP money, .gov teat suckers have all their “stimulus” packages on their desks, the CRAP money is successfully being used as the TP it was originally designed for. (What? You hadn’t heard of the CRAP money? Consolidation and Recycling of Agricultural Products, feeding the BS produced by the TARP and “stimulus” to you and I) CRAP money is worth exactly that: CRAP. The dollar bill is worth less than a sheet of squeezably soft Charmin, but feels more like 80 grit after all the screwing we’d gotten from the TARP and “stimulus”….sorry, I digress….

So….what else can we do to toss out the last little bit of freedom those damn ‘mericans are so bitterly holding onto. Hmmm….health crisis, not health CARE crisis, health crisis…little pandemic here, few deaths portrayed by the media as “OH MY GOD, THE SKY IS FALLING” there. So far, “States of Emergency” are coming into effect, the alert color codes rising into the “reds” and the sheep are starting to panic. What happens when the sheep panic? They’ll ask Little “O” and Big Brother Joe to save them. No matter to freedoms, save us from certain peril and deliver us into slavery…..a task they’re more than willing to undertake.

Hey, might just be me, but I put nothing past the .gov’s of the world. And if they just happen to have to kill several million to do it……just the price of business. Call me crazy, but that price of doing business is just in the “operation and expenses” column….and when your bottom line is in the trillions of dollars, what’s a few million.

We all know (unfortunately) President Obama. The most anti-gun president ever. The putz who supported the handgun ban in Washington, D.C., before it was spanked into submission by US. vs. Heller. Since his coronation, we’ve watched various proposals to ban “assault” weapons, require handgun owners to submit to mental health evaluations, serial numbered bullets and ammo registration that sparked a rush on ammunition purchases. His (attempted?) acts of treason raised sales of firearms and accessories far enough that some retailers decided to name him their salesman of the year. That new title must have pi$$ed him off something fierce, cause now he apparently is going after those to reload their ammunition. Will miracles never cease?
{sarcasm}I’m just shocked he’d try something like this.{/sarcasm}

It was during an official “visit” earlier this month to that southern cesspool Mexico (one of the many places all our jobs…and even more of our cash goes) that he affirmed his support for a proposed international treaty that addresses “firearms trafficking.”

According to a blogger who follows such issues, B.A. Lawson, (oligogracy.blogspot.com), the treaty was adopted by President Clinton years ago (danger, danger, danger Will Robinson), but never ratified (….yet) by the U.S. Senate, a goal Obama now has adopted. Hurray for us! More of our freedoms down the $h!tt3r in the guise of “International Relations”

The writer, B.A. Lawson, says, “If you reload your own ammo you may find yourself engaged in ‘Illicit Manufacturing’ of ammunition under an arms control treaty that President Obama started pushing last week in Mexico.”

“Virtually everyone who supports the 2nd Amendment or has an interest in firearms has heard the numerous recent reports of ammunition shortages. The shortages have extended to reloading supplies that many folks rely on to keep their shooting costs down or to assemble exotic or hard to find ammunition. Many shooters have considered reloading their own ammo as insurance against limited supplies should legislation be enacted that would make ammo more scarce or dramatically more expensive,” the blogger continued.

“Those thoughts may be in vain if the current administration is successful in getting the ‘INTER-AMERICAN CONVENTION AGAINST THE ILLICIT MANUFACTURING OF AND TRAFFICKING IN FIREARMS, AMMUNITION, EXPLOSIVES, AND OTHER RELATED MATERIALS’ treaty passed.”

According to the treaty, it defines “Illicit manufacturing” as “the manufacture or assembly of firearms, ammunition, explosives, and other related materials.” In other words, manufacturing of ammunition, that means reloading to you and I.

It then gives authority (do I smell the $$ formation $$ of $$ another $$ acronymic .gov agency?) for that activity only with “a license from a competent governmental authority of the State Party where the manufacture or assembly takes place.” Oh, happy days. Another “license” to apply for and be denied issue of. Maybe we’ll call that New agency C.R.A.P. for “Can’t Reload Ammunition Pal!”

“The section … clearly identifies ammo reloaders that are not licensed by the government as ‘Illicit Manufacturers’ of ammunition. Now that we have reloaders properly labeled, lets move down to Article IV to see what we should do with them,” the commentary said.

He then quotes Article IV, which states, “State Parties that have not yet done so shall adopt the necessary legislative or other measures to establish as criminal offenses under their domestic law the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, ammunition, explosives, and other related materials.”

“This is pretty straightforward. If you reload ammunition without a license after the treaty is signed you will be a criminal,” Lawson wrote.

The National Rifle Association said the treaty, while it does include language suggesting that it is not intended to restrict ‘lawful ownership and use’ of firearms, the NRA knows that anti-gun advocates will still try to use this treaty to attack gun ownership in the U.S.

The treaty is available online. You can also print it out and use it as the toilet paper it was penned to be. (Of course, it may just be me, but I wouldn’t want this anywhere close to my body for fear I might catch something from it.)

At the SnowflakesinHell blog, the writer said there’s no mistaking the language.

Even accessories “which can be attached to a firearm” are targeted. So that pretty little pink forward grip you’re thinking of making…..if you ain’t licensed, you ain’t legal. That cute “Hello Kitty” sticker you’re putting on your daughters pink Crickett 22lr….maybe even that will be illegal.

“It would presumably also ban home manufacture of these items without a government license. Do you own trigger jobs? Reload your own ammunition? Not any more, not without a government license!”
Lesseehere…..trigger jobs….check…..reloading…..check…..sick and tired of this crap…..damn skippy, uh, I mean check!!

John Velleco, director of federal affairs for Gun Owners of America, notes the “benefits” (not for us, but for the Obama-nation) for Obama of having such rules in treaties, not legislation.

“If ratified and the U.S. is found not to be in compliance with any provisions of the treaty – such as a provision that would outlaw reloading ammunition without a government license – President Obama would be empowered to implement regulations without congressional approval,” he wrote.

“If the kind of ‘change’ that Obama wants is for the United States to take its marching orders from third world countries regarding our gun rights, we’re in big trouble!” “Big trouble” is the gentle translation. Deep Kimchi is another. Complete destruction of the freedoms our ancestors fought to build…….. In other words: we’re in deep $h!t.

Face it folks, we’re all criminals before this presidency is over, if we weren’t before. Whether it’s not showing up for formal indoctrination in his new Obamacoats SS/Obama Youth under the guise as Federal Volunteer Service to the simple act of storing food for you and your family…..we’re all going to be criminals. Truthfully, I’m kinda happy with the folks I’ve come to be lumped together with.

To paraphrase Trooper M. Padgett* :
“You may find me dead one day, surrounded by my guns, ammo and food stores. But by God, you’ll also find me surrounded by a pile of spent brass and an even bigger pile of spent .gov agents.”~~

(*and no, I have no idea who he is, but the closest I can come is Trooper First Class Markael O. Padgett, Post 14 - Ashland, KY.)