September 2008

Blogs For Borders Video Blogburst

Our weekly vlog/podcast on illegal immigration and border security. In this weeks edition…
Vigilance Dispatch: Everyone is talking about the massive bailouts. How has illegal immigration fed into the financial crisis that Washington plans to fix using our taxpayer dollars?
100% Preventable! Americans continue to pay the bloody price for open borders, when will the madness end?

 

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Bailout Bill Vote Roll Call

The roll call for the vote on the financial bail out has been released, you can find out here if you want to thank (or rail at) your congressman. I was glad to see that my representative, Phil Gingrey, voted against the measure. 

I’ll have to admit that I have NOT read the entirety of the bill but was against it in general because I don’t feel that mortgaging my children’s future to bail out some failed Wall Street businesses was in our best interest. Yes, it IS going to hurt in the short term but it will be worse down the road if any dog shit like this passes as a bill.
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Not Today…

I don’t think I have any posts scheduled for today so it may be a bit slow around here. I worked until 9pm last night and was pretty tired so I didn’t get anything else written. I will have “This Week on America’s Most Wanted” up mid-morning but that’s about it.

My manager at my farthest store was off for the last couple of days and with it being Friday night I went in for shift change. Pulled a few items that I thought they might be running low on and checked with the servers and cooks to make sure they didn’t need anything else. They waited until I had been home for 45 minutes or so and called me back. “We’re out of lettuce”. I said that if they wanted they could drive to the next exit and I would make sure that the folks working would give them enough to get through the night. The woman that called me refused, citing the fact that she wasn’t willing to leave and lose tips. I don’t see how she would unless they are so fucking greedy there that they won’t watch each other’s stations. I told her that I had already been there and asked if they needed anything and wasn’t going to leave the house and spend 45 minutes to get them two or three heads of lettuce when they had the opportunity to tell me about it prior to that. She was not happy in the least.
So then one of my other stores started calling me shortly after 1am this morning. Needless to say I haven’t had much sleep. I am pretty pissy this morning.
The Georgia-Alabama game is tonight and we are supposed to be going to a party at a friend’s house this evening. Being as how the manager that’s off this weekend has left me woefully understaffed I may or may not be going at all. Asshats.
Just needed to rant. This week on AMW will be up in a couple of hours.

I Might Need Some of These in Helen…

I just ran across this sucker last night and thought it was funny as hell. While I can really see the need for a product such as this I couldn’t stop laughing…



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On the Idiocy of our ELECTED Folk

I received a letter via email today. From Ron Paul. Early on I was a supporter of Dr Paul in his run for the Presidency and while I don’t espouse everything he stands for he damn sure made sense to me here:

Dear Friends:
The financial meltdown the economists of the Austrian School predicted has arrived.
We are in this crisis because of an excess of artificially created credit at the hands of the Federal Reserve System. The solution being proposed? More artificial credit by the Federal Reserve. No liquidation of bad debt and malinvestment is to be allowed. By doing more of the same, we will only continue and intensify the distortions in our economy – all the capital misallocation, all the malinvestment – and prevent the market’s attempt to re-establish rational pricing of houses and other assets.
Last night the president addressed the nation about the financial crisis. There is no point in going through his remarks line by line, since I’d only be repeating what I’ve been saying over and over – not just for the past several days, but for years and even decades.
Still, at least a few observations are necessary.
The president assures us that his administration “is working with Congress to address the root cause behind much of the instability in our markets.” Care to take a guess at whether the Federal Reserve and its money creation spree were even mentioned?
We are told that “low interest rates” led to excessive borrowing, but we are not told how these low interest rates came about. They were a deliberate policy of the Federal Reserve. As always, artificially low interest rates distort the market. Entrepreneurs engage in malinvestments – investments that do not make sense in light of current resource availability, that occur in more temporally remote stages of the capital structure than the pattern of consumer demand can support, and that would not have been made at all if the interest rate had been permitted to tell the truth instead of being toyed with by the Fed.
Not a word about any of that, of course, because Americans might then discover how the great wise men in Washington caused this great debacle. Better to keep scapegoating the mortgage industry or “wildcat capitalism” (as if we actually have a pure free market!).
Speaking about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the president said: “Because these companies were chartered by Congress, many believed they were guaranteed by the federal government. This allowed them to borrow enormous sums of money, fuel the market for questionable investments, and put our financial system at risk.”
Doesn’t that prove the foolishness of chartering Fannie and Freddie in the first place? Doesn’t that suggest that maybe, just maybe, government may have contributed to this mess? And of course, by bailing out Fannie and Freddie, hasn’t the federal government shown that the “many” who “believed they were guaranteed by the federal government” were in fact correct?
Then come the scare tactics. If we don’t give dictatorial powers to the Treasury Secretary “the stock market would drop even more, which would reduce the value of your retirement account. The value of your home could plummet.” Left unsaid, naturally, is that with the bailout and all the money and credit that must be produced out of thin air to fund it, the value of your retirement account will drop anyway, because the value of the dollar will suffer a precipitous decline. As for home prices, they are obviously much too high, and supply and demand cannot equilibrate if government insists on propping them up.
It’s the same destructive strategy that government tried during the Great Depression: prop up prices at all costs. The Depression went on for over a decade. On the other hand, when liquidation was allowed to occur in the equally devastating downturn of 1921, the economy recovered within less than a year.
The president also tells us that Senators McCain and Obama will join him at the White House today in order to figure out how to get the bipartisan bailout passed. The two senators would do their country much more good if they stayed on the campaign trail debating who the bigger celebrity is, or whatever it is that occupies their attention these days.
F.A. Hayek won the Nobel Prize for showing how central banks’ manipulation of interest rates creates the boom-bust cycle with which we are sadly familiar. In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, he described the foolish policies being pursued in his day – and which are being proposed, just as destructively, in our own:
Instead of furthering the inevitable liquidation of the maladjustments brought about by the boom during the last three years, all conceivable means have been used to prevent that readjustment from taking place; and one of these means, which has been repeatedly tried though without success, from the earliest to the most recent stages of depression, has been this deliberate policy of credit expansion.
To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about; because we are suffering from a misdirection of production, we want to create further misdirection – a procedure that can only lead to a much more severe crisis as soon as the credit expansion comes to an end… It is probably to this experiment, together with the attempts to prevent liquidation once the crisis had come, that we owe the exceptional severity and duration of the depression.
The only thing we learn from history, I am afraid, is that we do not learn from history.
The very people who have spent the past several years assuring us that the economy is fundamentally sound, and who themselves foolishly cheered the extension of all these novel kinds of mortgages, are the ones who now claim to be the experts who will restore prosperity! Just how spectacularly wrong, how utterly without a clue, does someone have to be before his expert status is called into question?
Oh, and did you notice that the bailout is now being called a “rescue plan”? I guess “bailout” wasn’t sitting too well with the American people.
The very people who with somber faces tell us of their deep concern for the spread of democracy around the world are the ones most insistent on forcing a bill through Congress that the American people overwhelmingly oppose. The very fact that some of you seem to think you’re supposed to have a voice in all this actually seems to annoy them.
I continue to urge you to contact your representatives and give them a piece of your mind. I myself am doing everything I can to promote the correct point of view on the crisis. Be sure also to educate yourselves on these subjects – the Campaign for Liberty blog is an excellent place to start. Read the posts, ask questions in the comment section, and learn.
H.G. Wells once said that civilization was in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.
In liberty,
 
 Ron Paul
Call your congressmen and women and let them know what pieces of crap they are for supporting this abomination and step toward communism. Somewhere around 30% of my wife’s retirement is tied up in one of the companies and I still think that we just need to let them dig their own fucking way out of the mess.
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Wednesday Hero: Yeoman 3rd Class Margret Ueberlauer

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Yeoman 3rd Class Margret Ueberlauer 

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Yeoman 3rd Class Margret Ueberlauer hands out toys to HIV infected children during a community relations project at the Camillian Center in Pattaya, Thailand. The USS Abraham Lincoln Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility.


These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived
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Wordless Wednesday: Tin Toys

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Don’t Ask Me to try the Chocolate Milk…

A baby having milk from a bottle.

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ahh. Mother’s Milk. The drink of life. Children have been drinking from the fountain of wonderment for thousands and thousands of years. It carries nutrients and all the thinks one needs to grow healthy and strong until you are old enough to eat and drink on your own.

Hans Locher is cooking with it in his Swiss restaurant, Storchen.
Yuck. As much as I am a titty man and like nothing better than to suckle the last thing I want whipped into my soup is breast milk. Something about it just gives me a tummy ache.
Hey, how ’bout some swiss cheese!
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T-Mobile Google Powered Phone Available

    Google has finally made it's debut as a cell phone software provider and as of yesterday T-Mobile had the phones running Android available online as well as in some of it's stores.

According to the AP it looks something like Apple’s iPhone. WTF? Except for the fact that it has a large touchscreen it looks nothing whatsoever like the iPhone. It does have a trackball as well as a slide-out keyboard which looks really nice. Not only that but the phone debuted at under $200. That is great! I normally pay between $300-500 for a new phone.

There aren’t really any ‘new’ features in the phone that other ones don’t already have but Google is counting on developers to really extend the phone by writing applications for it. Apple is at at disadvantage here because it keeps such tight control over the stuff you find in it’s app store.

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