Rachel Lucas went to Auschwitz....

And nails it.

http://www.rachellucas.com/index.php/2009/08/24/we-have-to-go-into-the-despair-and-go-beyond-it-by-using-for-someone-else/

My effort to use my despair was to adopt two children, when I lost my wife and children to jealousy and the legal system. So I was able to continue, in the hope that someday I could make sense out of it.

I haven't yet, but I have done some good in the mean time.

Everyone loves Magic...

http://sigmundcarlandalfred.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/everyone-loves-magic/

The Stimulus Is Really a Stopulus

http://poorandstupid.com/2009_06_07_chronArchive.asp#7824593798058793193

So the stopulus is doing its work. Unemployment is increasing. Just as FDR intervened unconstitutionally to keep unemployment high to permit him to justify more government intervention. BHO is doing the same.

Last time we paid 300,000 deaths when US weakness prevented our allies from stopping Hitler, and this time who knows.

On the good side, we are now in so much debt to China that they would never use an Electromagnetic Pulse weapon, as that would clear the books of all debts.

Another great post from Don Luskin.

He appears frequently on Kudlow and Company, and is a financial type for Trend Macro. He suggests that the price of gold will go to and past 2000, making today's gold price of 1000 an ounce a bargain.

He recommends GOLD right now. A great deal to recommend gold. It is not denominated by dollars, and so is proof against the inflation we expect as the eventual response to economic slowing. When the government creates money from nothing, they get to spend it first. When the government creates 1 new dollar for every existing dollar, the value of existing dollars is now halved.

I expect the government will make gold illegal to own, just as FDR made it illegal to own gold. Too many people invest there, and thus become proof against the governments scheme to steal the value of their effort.

"Take a look at the chart, below. It shows the daily progress of the S&P 500 in terms of percentage change from the very top. The brown line is the change from the recent all-time highs on October 9, 2007. The blue line is the change from the all-time highs just before the Great Depression, September 6, 1929.
http://poorandstupid.com/2009_03_01_chronArchive.asp#7577755198963279094
As of yesterday's close (Thursday, March 5), the S&P 500 has lost 56.4% from its all-time highs 513 days ago. At the same point in the bear market associated with the Great Depression, that is at the 513 day mark, the S&P 500 had only lost -- only! -- 49%. "

Good luck kids.

401 K

I can only hope that the people who voted for Obama had very big 401 K assets. I had little for him to steal by inflation, or to ruin by his economic policies, so as one who did not vote for Obama, poetic justice is thus less applicable to me. He could, by the twin policies of weakness and fecklessness, draw us into a war, so when he violates his pledged word by keeping us in Iraq to kill terrorists, and provide an alternative to violent Islam, that is for the good.

First Black president

Add 1 to the candidates for the first black president. Condi Rice.

Since the President's term ends at 12:00 noon, and Obama had not yet taken the oath, we would start going down the succession list. Dick Cheney's term also ended. Speaker of the House Pelosi did not resign her position, nor did Dingy Harry Reid. That means the "acting President" prize went to Condi Rice as Secretary of State, for the 6 minutes or so before Joe Biden took his oath. Then Joe Biden held the honors until Senator Obama took the oath properly the next day.

They say that scabs don't heal if you keep picking at them!

Ate dinner with my brother Tom

He was visiting on business, and close counts in this family. He will be moving to Savanah Ga. With luck he will be able to sell his current house. His kids are getting old, the youngest is 16!!!

He is the smarter brother.

I told my Dad's old joke about the French Foreign Legion jail... Well received. I guess I can tell a joke!

So Sorry

Computer crashed back at the end of November. Finally got a new one.

I owed my legions of readers an explanation.

Hillary is disqualified from being Sec. State

Because of the prohibition in the Constitution for a legislator taking office where the pay was raised during the previous session. Though she did not vote for such a raise, still, it is a provision put in to avoid corruption.

Anyone think that isn't important for the Clintons?