Bits Bucket for December 8, 2015
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Examining the home price boom and its effect on owners, lenders, regulators, realtors and the economy as a whole.
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Do you support the movement afoot to replace the CAC with a DIC?
“CIC with a DIC” (spell check malfunction)
In other news, Caitlyn Jenner bought a new red dress.
DIC = Dictator in Chief
Where does Obama fall on your DIC scale, Prof?
It’s interesting. I haven’t witnessed you discussing the concept of Dictator-In-Chief until only recently.
Dictators circumvent the will of the people.
You’re just now thinking about this in late 2015? Why now? Trump?
What do you now see on the socio-political landscape that wasn’t there during, say, 2010?
No, I support political correctness, even if it kills me.
I support a pause in all immigration until we can get things figured out.
I also support the concept of coming out and saying what you believe and discussing things in the marketplace of ideas with consequences from those disclosed beliefs being enforced through a democratic system instead of keeping my beliefs secret and then enacting unpopulist hidden agendas with the stroke of a pen.
Well said.
We paused all immigration into the USA during the 1960s as we saw the need for time to assimilate.
Is political correctness causing us to miss seeing the need now?
MacBeth, cultural relativism is the greatest lie ever told.
Those on this board who believe that only STEM majors have any smarts need to reconsider.
Sociology analysts and scholars call the shots these days. Not STEM majors. They may be smarter and make more money, but guess what? That doesn’t matter as much as they think it does.
An oversight.
Sociologists are running roughshod over the typical STEM major…who is it that decides for whom what is permissible and what is not? It’s not STEM majors.
We need more womyns’ studies grads to man (so to speak) all the new safe spaces that President Clinton will demand in every public building and school.
Not STEM majors. They may be smarter and make more money,
STEM majors are not necessarily “smarter”. Many are but it’s a different kind of thinking, math and numbers etc. But I’ve met many successful STEM majors who couldn’t think their way out of a paper bag (out of the box etc) let alone contemplate complex philosophical type issues.
Which current candidate proposed pausing all immigration?
Which proposed pausing any immigration at all?
But it is only a teeny tiny small minority of them that is causing the problem, why ban all of them just to get at that teeny tiny miniscule small minority that are the problem? I’m talking about gun owners here though.
I also support the concept of coming out and saying what you believe
Face it. Trump makes America look really, really ugly. But I guess about 15% of America is really ugly.
“(Trump) drew rebukes across the globe, from the leaders of two of America’s most important allies, Britain and France, to Syrian refugees in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. Rarely has a presidential candidate generated such alarm abroad as that now rising around the world aimed at Trump.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/along-with-trumps-rhetoric-the-stakes-for-2016-have-risen-dramatically/2015/12/08/43e64592-9dd8-11e5-a3c5-c77f2cc5a43c_story.html
Yes the Washington post was clearly on his side until he came out saying what many many are thinking. Better to lie about your positions like the oligarchy.
I’m guessing the WaPo editors don’t generally side with crapping on the Constitution or proposing race-based immigration policy on a whim.
“Trump makes America look really, really ugly.”
He exposes your communist and muslim brotherhood trash and you hate it.
Any insights into the Republicans’ plan to gracefully dump Trump before he wins the nomination and assures a Clinton victory?
Oil market conundrum:
Despite a former HBB poster’s correct prediction for a massive drop in US drilling rigs, global production levels continue to remain high against the backdrop of collapsed demand. At this point it is cheaper for producers to cut the price further and sell at a loss in the spot market than to send more to sea on dirty tankers.
Is there any way out of the ever-growing supply-demand imbalance in the oil market?
The Wall Street Journal
Oil Markets
Oil-Rig Count Slides for Third Consecutive Week
Amid ongoing concerns about oversupply, there are 66% fewer rigs from October 2014’s peak
Oil prices have hovered near $40 a barrel in recent weeks on ongoing concerns about the global oversupply of crude.
Photo: Jim Gehrz/TNS/Zuma Press
By Chelsey Dulaney
Dec. 4, 2015 1:19 p.m. ET
The U.S. oil-rig count fell by 10 in the most recent week, according to Baker Hughes Inc., marking the third consecutive week of declines.
The number of U.S. oil-drilling rigs, which is viewed as a proxy for activity in the oil industry, has fallen sharply since oil prices started falling last year. At the count of 545, there are 66% fewer rigs from a peak of 1,609 in October 2014.
A modest increase was reported three weeks ago, snapping a 10-weak decline, though that improvement appears to have been short-lived.
According to Baker Hughes, the number of gas rigs rose by three to 192.
The U.S. offshore-rig count was 25 in the latest week, down 5 from last week and 33 from a year earlier.
For all rigs, including natural gas, the week’s total declined by 7 to 737.
Oil prices recently were down 2.3% to $40.12 a barrel.
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Where did all those rig workers go?
Or, is it a case where they are self-sufficient once pumping and completely unmanned?
Sure. A reboot to China’s economy!
Where have you seen evidence of collapsed demand?
Seems to be more of a supply-glut driven crash based on the data than a demand collapse.
https://www.iea.org/oilmarketreport/omrpublic/
“Global demand growth is forecast to slow to 1.2 mb/d in 2016 after surging to a five-year high of 1.8 mb/d in 2015.”
So, global demand grew by 1.8 million barrels per day in 2015, and is expected to grow by 1.2 million barrels per day in 2016.
Storing oil in tank farms to maintain the appearance of demand isn’t demand Rental_Fraud.
It’s actually a variation on the REIC’s pattern of hiding shadow inventory. In either case, hiding a supply glut from view helps fraudulently inflate the price.
“Where have you seen evidence of collapsed demand?”
I guess you haven’t read much here recently, as we’ve been posting the evidence all year. Quick rehash:
1) Collapsed commodities demand (not just oil)
2) Collapsed dry bulk shipping demand
3) Collapsed junk bond demand, even without Fed liftoff
4) Teetering housing markets in China, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many other corners of the developed world
The list goes on, but I don’t have all night to regurgitate it for you.
Has anybody considered the impact of ISIS dumping oil on the black market and what this may be doing to oil prices?
Good website with the stats for global oil production/demand:
https://www.eia.gov/forecasts/steo/report/global_oil.cfm
Global production: 95.54 bbl/day
Global consumption: 93.82 bbl/day.
Global reserves: 4,100,000,000 bbl
Seagoing tanker storage alone is about ~100 bbl right now.
The global credit bubble is nothing but history now.
Remember…. nothing accelerates the economy like falling prices to dramatically lower and more affordable levels. Nothing.
Nice! if AlbqDan sees your post, he’s sure to have a wet dream tonight.
If your country survives off of selling oil, it seem the lower the price get them more thy need to sell, which lowers the price….
Meanwhile demand drops as cars are more efficient and solar and wind kick in.
people are buying SUV’s
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
And trucks…… check out my buddys duramax.
https://youtu.be/QZgmyNQDRkA
Here’s an article from the NYT that just might help explain a few things:
“Born to Be Conned”
(snip)
“Three-card monte is one of the most persistent and effective cons in history. The games still pop up along city streets. But we tend to dismiss the victims as rubes. Even Ms. Lloyd felt that way, calling herself a fool. “I probably deserved it,” she says. But that’s in retrospect. In the moment, it wasn’t so simple. She was frugal and intelligent (a student in sociology, who would soon go on to get her Ph.D., she was, until recently, the news editor at Scientific American).”
She was frugal, INTELLIGENT (choke), and until recently the news editor … at Scientific American.
(snip)
“Nobody thinks they are joining a cult, David Sullivan explains. “They join a group that’s going to promote peace and freedom throughout the world or that’s going to save animals, or they’re going to help orphans or something. But nobody joins a cult.” We don’t knowingly embraces false beliefs. We embrace something we think is as true as it gets. We don’t set out to be conned. We set out to become, in some way, better than we were before.
“That is the true power of belief. It gives us hope. If we are skeptical, miserly with our trust, unwilling to accept the possibilities of the world, we despair. To live a good life we must, almost by definition, be open to belief. And that is why the confidence game is both the oldest there is and the last one that will still be standing when all other professions have faded away.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/opinion/sunday/born-to-be-conned.html
Was that run on the same day they ran a front page editorial looking to ban guns? Hillary, Hillary, Hillary.
That being said, thanks for posting the article Combo. But I think it’s example of the science editor back when she was in college and without a winter coat is a stretch. Greed still motivates cons, it’s crooked defense lawyer spin that wants to make it otherwise.
“But I think it’s example of the science editor back when she was in college and without a winter coat is a stretch.”
I don’t think my twelve-year old paperboy would fall for a Three-Card Monte scam; It surprises me that anyone does, especially a college grad.
And then what does she do later in life? She discloses to the New York Times (and hence the world) that she got played for a fool.
“But I think it’s example of the science editor back when she was in college and without a winter coat is a stretch.”
Back in college that squeezebox was never cold, hungry or bored on Friday night.
Very much appreciated Combo.
As of late, various thoughts about terrorism have been swirling around my brain. Trying to find links among solid ideas while dismissing that which isn’t productive.
Jihadism = murderous religious fanaticism.
What does one - anyone - do about it? How do you effectively address it? Gun control won’t work - soon, murderous individuals will be able to manufacture their own guns,
A philosophical/sociological war, for sure. One that will last several generations. 100 years plus.
Relative sanity versus clear insanity. What makes people insane?
Women are as susceptible as men.
Is Jihadism a political construct? If so, of which type? Or, is Jihadism strictly a religious concept? If so, how does one combat that?
Does one fight Jihadism via politics? Via religion? Via military? If all three, what’s the balance? How does a society switch gears among those three as the situation warrants?
Are those who are susceptible to fanaticism - of any type -more (or less?) susceptible to conversion? For example, is an environmental fanatic less or more susceptible to convert to Jihadism than an atheist? Or is that question simply moot? Are we sure it’s moot?
Israeli Jews should be allowed to immigrate to the United States, and then the U.S. military pulls every soldier out of and shuts down every base in the Middle East, forever.
Instead of spending $600,000,000,000+ a year to protect a worthless patch of desert deemed sacred because Jesus was born there, protect its population instead, by bringing them here.
Let Europe and Asia deal with Islam, it’s not America’s problem…
It’s our problem now….
On the topic of cultural relativism, name all of the cultural and technological contributions made to America by Jewish people (who are mostly descended from Eastern European immigrants).
Then compare that with what’s coming in from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, who my betters assure will ALL grow up to be doctors and astronauts.
Compare also with Somali muslims imported to Maine and Minneapolis, who circumcise their preteen daughters, because allah told them too.
Cloward-Piven is real. These progressive globalists want to turn America into a third world shithole.
These progressive globalists want to turn America into a third world shithole.
Mission accomplished. We’re pretty much there.
What would YOU like to turn the world into, palmy? Share your vision of antidystopia with us.
On the topic of cultural relativism, name all of the cultural and technological contributions made to America by Jewish people… Then compare it to the average Trump supporter’s cultural and technological contributions.
Donald Trump Supporters Mostly Uneducated, New Poll Finds
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Lola, you’re insulting the Jewish population that overwhelmingly supports Mr. Trump.
Why?
you’re insulting the Jewish population that overwhelmingly supports Mr. Trump.
You just made that up, right?
Just like they overwhelmingly supported Bush.
Why the gyrations SnowFlake?
Just like they overwhelmingly supported Bush.
That’s almost certainly false as well.
Kerry got 74% of the Jewish vote in 2004. So phenomenally out of touch with reality.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/US/P/00/epolls.0.html
That’s almost certainly false as well.
Is HA/Mafia still saying stupid stuff? lol
I’d bet Trump has more Jewish support since he came out with this ban idea.
SnowFlake,
Observant jews voted overwhelmingly for Bush just like they always vote overwhelmingly for the GOP.
Get it right.
You’re backpedaling. You just refuse to admit that you’re mistaken. The facts just don’t matter to you.
Facts my friend facts.
Just get the hell out and let the Jews handle it.
Let the Arabs handle Syria, Iran, etc. with their own forces. Oh, sorry, my mistake - no man over there wants to fight for his own country; except Israel.
Israel is a fake country. Time to evacuate that place like the Allies pulling out of Dunkirk. Then let the muslims rot and feed off of each other.
Not another penny of American taxpayer dollars to the Middle East, ever.
no man over there wants to fight for his own country; except Israel ??
If we want to consider what we do with these terrorists on our own soil I suggest we look at how the Israel’s handle it….They take out the whole family…
Not advocating it just saying….Who amongst us thinks that the mother or the sister of the San bernardino terrorist did not know about their intent and at the minimum where aware of the Cache of weapons…If they knew that their own life may be on the line they likely would have turned them in…
“soon, murderous individuals will be able to manufacture their own guns”
There have been people making rifles around here for hundreds of years. My most accurate hunting rifle was made in a tiny shop in the basement of the smith’s house.
Here’s an interesting explanation of the Sunnis and Shiites secs of Islam. I found this very interesting.
http://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/934
Also
Maajid Nawaz -ex-radical Muslim
Ayaan Hirsi Ali-ran away from Islam, now an Atheist speaker and author
Irshad Manji author and moderate muslim
have all been on Bill Maher. (youtube) Bill Maher and Sam Harris opened my eyes. I thought the Muslim Brotherhood was a conspiracy, but now I think different. The first link was my first awakening. I try and judge individuals on their own merits, and I take it slow. Hate is contagious, no thanks.
Bile Maher the funny neo-con.
We’ve been stomping on people in the Middle East for So long their culture has adopted hating us. The only thing that will fix that is ignoring them for a century until they get over it.
Our giant baby men are incapable of this, so the war will last forever.
That doesn’t make any sense. ISIS was posing for photos with the senator from my state not that long ago. Look at these Syrians; go to the US? Heck yeah!
If you don’t like violent Jihadists, first rule: stop funding them! Stop sending arms to them. Stop using them in your regime change plans. It might be advisable to stop with the regime changing all together.
If we don’t arm them, we’d be bombing unarmed people. Do you seriously want us to bomb unarmed people? What kind of monster are you, Ben?
“We’ve been stomping on people in the Middle East for So long ”
A thousand years, actually.
Who is your “we” (noting that the United States of America is only 239 years old)?
Whitey. I’m a whitey. You’re a whitey. She’s a whitey.
Whitey.
Got curious about 3 card monte and found this on wikipedia:
“A local vigilance committee ruled that Smith should return the gold, but he refused, claiming that Stewart had lost it “fairly.” Smith was killed during a shootout with the committee the next evening.”
Local Vigilance Committee : Not your HOA
Does weak China data incline you to dump your US stock holdings?
Marketwatch dot com
U.S. stocks set to extend slump after weak China data
By Sara Sjolin
Published: Dec 8, 2015 6:21 a.m. ET
Oil futures recover after closing at nearly 6-year low
Getty Images
Job openings are among Tuesday’s data
Wall Street appeared set for another weak trading day on Tuesday, with stock futures pointing firmly lower after weak Chinese trade data reignited fears about global growth.
…
The mood was dented by the latest sign of slowing economic growth in the world’s second-largest economy, as weak global demand continues to weigh on China’s important manufacturing sector. The disappointing trade data showed exports in China fell for a fifth straight month in November, and sent markets lower in both Asia and Europe.
On Monday, U.S. stocks finished sharply lower as plunging oil prices walloped energy and materials stocks and partially undid some of Friday’s big rally. Oil prices recovered somewhat on Tuesday, although analysts noted that the longer-term view on oil remains bleak. Metals dropped across the board.
“Whether or not it’s the calm before the storm remains to be seen but those looking for a Santa rally may be left disappointed,” said Mike McCudden, head of derivatives at stockbroker Interactive Investor, in a note.
“While investors remain concerned over the imminent U.S. rate hike and weakness from China there appears to be little to persuade them back in to equities. Furthermore, with this weighing on commodity prices, equities should remain under pressure in the near term,” he said.
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An imploding Ponzi should impel you to dump your stock holdings, except maybe in Smith & Wesson thanks to the world’s greatest gun salesman in the Oval Office.
It’s not Obama making the sales… It’s throngs of frightened giant babies.
No the low S&P 500 dividend yield compared with high executive pay, low investment, and limited top line growth given that the one percent and Generation Greed have impoverished those coming after, disincline me to become a part owner of American businesses I do not have control over.
u need to support company executives lavish lifestyles by buying equity into their companies.
What stock holdings?
Is the oil market bubble collapse largely over at this point, or will the bubble continue to collapse until it closely resembles a black hole?
I’ll call a bottom at $28.
All I know its a lot cheaper than 150 and seems to have a lot of value right now.
Oil isn’t worth $28 and never has been. Price support in the $15/bbl range, consolidates and chops the $16-$20 interval and stays there for a few decades with the occasional dip below the $15 price support.
The reality? Oil at current bid/ask is overpriced.
The commodities/construction boom was the biggest Ponzi in history. It is rolling over but still has a lot of momentum. The destruction of fake demand has only started.
i know i am driving more at $2 gal than at 4. making more day trips this year to the rockaways and the hamptons
but if the saudis need close to $100 bb to balance their budget, how long will they drain their bank accounts to stop alternative fuels from being profitable?
What alternatives? Compressed natural gas?
Just like the sellers of used houses, the Saudi’s are finding out that no one cares what they “need”. They will accept market price.
Narrative as reported by real journalists at the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/12/07/donald-trump-calls-for-banning-muslims-from-entering-u-s/
im loving this more each day,,,,,,,focusing on the real problem, next up stop harming innocent citizens and go after the mosques and its religious leaders,
where is a national day of prayer for the victims of san bernadino, from the muslims?
NPR is narrating a narrative on this right now.
Listen to your betters.
The reason they’re betters is because they’re better than you.
People can be better than me yet still be wrong.
In fact, it happens all the time.
That I recognize it, does that mean my betters are smarter than I? Or, is it the other way around?
Almost 10am East Coast time, your betters should be arriving at the George Soros internet troll farm soon to log in for the day shift, they may not have an answer to your question, but they sure will have a narrative.
They’re like the 3 stooges. HomeCheapo day laborers can do a better job.
Witless Pineapples.
You cruise the liberal angry channels for an indignation fix? Does the soothing, reasonable baritone of Corey Flintoff fill you with rage in a way Meagan Kelly just can’t touch anymore?
And when Corey Flintoff isn’t enough, what’s next? The Cooking Channel? The complete works of Joan Bayez and Bob Dylan on shuffle?
WHERE DOES IT END MAN?!
One thing that Trump is doing is forcing conversation of real issues.
He is forcing people to consider other perspectives, away from the inanity of a society consumed by political correctness.
When this narrative plays out, I’ll feel better not living in a densely populated East Coast or West Coast city. I might move back to the rural Midwest.
India Bangladesh and Indonesia have a half a billion Muslims. That is 20x the number in Saudi Arabia. Not so race based.
“real issues”
Like race-based immigration policy, for instance?
I don’t think Trump is raising any new issues at all. He is saying things that the average person says among friends when they are not being supervised. It is only shocking because we have become so accustomed to being supervised.
News flash: religion is not a “race.” It’s a choice. Calling out a religion (or a culture) may be stereotyping. It may be painting with a broad brush. But it is not actual racism, as far as I can tell. Evidently the libs can’t figure this out — or are pretending not to.
+1 every group now is claimed to be a race
EX: Jews ,Syrians etc
He is saying things that the average person says among friends when they are not being supervised.
BS. Your friends must be uneducated bigots.
It is only shocking because we have become so accustomed to having some class.
News flash: religion is not a “race.”
Let’s get real. You know darn well most Americans who are anti-Muslim consider most Arabs and Muslims a race. They call them names based on racially charged stereotypes.
They’re not looking into scientific, hair-splitting DNA analysis here. They’re looking at the language, customs, religion and color of skin.
Evidently the defenders of bigots can’t figure this out — or are pretending not to.
Let’s get real. You know darn well most Americans who are anti-Muslim consider most Arabs and Muslims a race.
That may be the case, but it’s probably irrelevant. Back in the 19th century America has some very nasty anti-Catholic bigotry going on. The people who suffered from that were mostly pale-skinned people of Irish and German ancestry.
That may be the case, but it’s probably irrelevant.
It’s not irrelevant because prejudice based on race and/or religion are both abhorrent.
It may be the case that most Muslims on TV have skin that is considerably darker than Donald Trump’s. But it doesn’t matter. Americans are quite capable of being bigoted towards different kinds of people for various reasons.
“prejudice based on race and/or religion are both abhorrent”
That may be the case in principle Dingleberry, but most people have prejudices to some degree. Take your own seething hatred of anyone who does not hold your particular convictions, though you are rather an extreme example.
Unbeknownst to Trump and his mindless followers, Muslim is no more a religion than old, white and angry is a religion.
I saw this:
‘Dick Cheney slams Trump’s Muslim entry ban’
‘Donald Trump’s proposal to bar all Muslims from entering the United States violates U.S. and international law and would never be allowed by the courts, legal scholars said late Monday’
So when it’s unconstitutional to record our phone conversations to protect us (cough) from terrorists, screw the constitution.
This is really interesting; you can’t ban their immigration, but you can blow up their weddings. I want an international law ruling here!
+1 Ben…
US Constitution, Article II, Section 1
Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation: “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
Oaths may not be what they used to be.
I actually do not see the connection of Aliens having constitutional rights to enter the country.
International law is implemented with treaties. Take another look at the constitution. There’s something in there about respecting treaties.
There are treaties against tapping phones too, but that got brushed side.
“but you can blow up their weddings”
You need to see Good Kill. Not only does this happen, but then you hit the first responders. THEN you hit the FUNERAL.
No joke.
“where is a national day of prayer for the victims of san bernadino,”
There isn’t. In this bizarro alternate reality we live in, the news is plastered with photo-ops of Loretty Lynch and Jeh Johnson mugging for the cameras and showing solidarity with groups of Muslims. NOT, mind you, meeting with the victims’ families and offering comfort or sympathy.
George W. Bush spoke from a mosque on Sept 13, 2011 and told the world that Muslims are not our enemy.
He was soft. Only invaded two countries.
Yes, yes, I believe he said “religion of peace”.
House of Bush, House of Saud. I think 9/11 came about to as to give shrub a little nudge to get busy and eviscerate Iraq, at the bidding of his Saudi masters. He wasn’t moving fast enough prior.
Mission accomplished!
Saudi masters is spot on.
So the MSM must be covering up their visits to express their condolences to the families of the victims.
palmetto
That is awful. What the h*ll is wrong with Lynch and Johnson? I have also noticed the amount of coverage about the terrorist couple vs. the victims.
The article about how nice Syed was to his restaurateurs made me want to puke. Nice guy stories. What nerve of the media. Meanwhile the victim stories are few and far apart. Sensationalism at its worst.
where is a national day of prayer for the victims of san bernadino, from the muslims?
Which Muslims are you talking about? And why are you looking for such a thing?
Yes, it’s so radical an idea, have a PAUSE in immigration until things can be figured out. I’d guess like 75 percent of the American people support something like this, but it’s not PC to make any distinction whatsoever that could touch on any religious persuasion, except Christian, so let’s not discuss it.
I assume by religion, you mean Muslimism? Or was it Hispanicism you had in mind? Praise God we have Trump to get the real issues out there for public discussion!
Don’t Spaniards have a Catholic tradition? Or are you talking about the Mayans?
I don’t want virgin sacrifice taught in MY schools!
What is to figure out? The situation is pretty obvious. “Until we figure this out” is the beloved TrumpFather using weasel words.
it makes sense like Perot lets open the hood and see what the problem is…maybe when they figure it out the ban might be a very long one…..
The hood is open, and the engine blew up in our faces. We’re sitting here covered in soot like Wyle Coyote.
Yes, the ban will be a long one. This is a known known.
Yes, it’s so radical an idea, have a PAUSE in immigration until things can be figured out. I’d guess like 75 percent of the American people support something like this, but it’s not PC to make any distinction whatsoever that could touch on any religious persuasion, except Christian, so let’s not discuss it.
Based on your first sentence, I thought you were suggesting pausing all immigration. Trump could have proposed that and avoided singling out any religion. It makes me wonder if he considered it.
Then you go and say “it’s not PC to make any distinction whatsoever that could touch on any religious persuasion, except Christian, so let’s not discuss it.”
At this point the concept of PC is useless for any such discussion. Claims are now being made that good ideas are because they’re not PC. That then leads to the notion that anything not PC would be a good idea.
Huh? Well at least you said more than a “sez you” like you normally do.
muslims-in-america-shattering-misperception
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/08/us/muslims-in-america-shattering-misperception/index.html
If there are approx. 309M people in the US (2010 Census) and about 1%+ of them Muslim, and most are moderates, then that still leaves a pretty sizable list of possible lunatics.
In the article, comparing them to Christians on faith loyalty is an apple to orange comparison.Jesus’ teaching were a hippie dippie love feast, while Mohammad’ teaching weren’t. I am reading “The Secrets Of The Koran” right now. A very Catholic friend gave it to me as a gift. Interesting book.
I have Sam Harris’ books up next. Really smart and I respect his intellect.
Narrative as reported by real journalists at the Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2015/12/07/e56266f6-9d2b-11e5-8728-1af6af208198_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_trump-muslims-5pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
Some tweets from the Don re: Bezos and the Washington Post:
“The @washingtonpost, which loses a fortune, is owned by @JeffBezos for purposes of keeping taxes down at his no profit company, @amazon.”
“The @washingtonpost loses money (a deduction) and gives owner @JeffBezos power to screw public on low taxation of @Amazon! Big tax shelter”
“If @amazon ever had to pay fair taxes, its stock would crash and it would crumble like a paper bag. The @washingtonpost scam is saving it!”
AmaCON. Lol, double down Donald!
I’ll be in Florida next week, buy you a drink if you can make it up to St Pete.
Thanks, we’re gonna be in Jax though, for the next few weeks.
Lol, speaking of Florida, here’s a posthumous nomination for a Darwin Award:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/matthew-riggins-pond-alligator-cops_5666b28ae4b08e945ff0c750
Guy hides from the cops in a pond, and gets eaten by a gator.
What became of the Darwin Awards -
Loved those - esp. the one a few years back when a guy in I think it was Arizona attempted to boost his car with a small jet engine and smashed right into the side of mountain - I had to wonder if that was real or not - still undecided - but still it was good for a laugh.
Fake. But still funny.
We’ve got a lot of excellent Darwin nominees this year.
My favorite
-Guy is warned against jumping into pond/swamp with gators.
-Guy replies “F##K them gators”
-Guy jumps in pond/swamp. Is almost immediately attacked/killed by gator.
The commerical property bubble will burst first.
http://wolfstreet.com/2015/12/07/when-will-the-craziest-ever-commercial-property-boom-implode/
What we saw last bounce down was Harder and Faster.
Narrative as reported by real journalists at the Huffington Post titled “Trump goes full fascist”
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5665f75de4b072e9d1c7252b
And because it’s Twofer Tuesday, “Religious Wars” by the Subhumans:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mFFDpvk_fEM
And speaking of Religious Wars, Google News links to some articles about a severed pig’s head being left at the door of a mosque in Philadelphia.
I love the smell of “Go Time” in the morning
Griss and despicable.
P-Bear, let’s all come together and watch the 2014 Super Bowl Coke commercial about the multicultural utopian America that exists only in the warped minds of your betters.
And I never said they’re smarter than you, just better.
Got severed pig’s heads?
Yes Trump! I’m feeling the hate for all Muslims!
Deport Shaquille O’Neal
Deport Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Deport Dr. Oz
Deport Muhammed Ali
Deport Ahmad Rashad
I feel imminently threatened by these people!
WPA = white people apologizing.
If the country takes a fascist turn, your username will fit right in.
Goon thinks Go-time will be fun.
One hobgoblin after another.
Remember….. Nothing raises everyones standard of living like falling prices to dramatically lower and more affordable levels. Nothing.
Goon thinks
You could have ended the sentence right there.
And I’m one of the only ones around this place who does.
You think about how impressed you are with yourself. So many misunderstood geniuses here.
Yeah, this from a guy who thinks he’s Amazing.
If you are incapable of grokking my amazingness, the deficiency is yours.
^LOL^
A preview of coming attractions: Hitler finds out he’s an FB.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNmcf4Y3lGM&feature=player_embedded
Hitler interviews Donald Trump: http://youtu.be/JD27dteEH9o
Commodity carnage continues.
http://www.businessinsider.com/anglo-american-announces-radical-restructuring-of-its-business-2015-12
Ray K - this……on Anglo American…..
http://www.wyff4.com/money/anglo-american-to-shed-85000-jobs/36852626
Is Kinder Morgan the next Bear Stearns?
http://investmentresearchdynamics.com/is-kinder-morgan-the-next-enronbear-stearns/
Toll Brothers misses on earnings.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/toll-brothers-misses-profit-expectations-2015-12-08?link=MW_latest_news
Quotes of the day.
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2015/12/08/quotes-of-the-day-246/
Is Glencore the next Enron?
http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/glen
Oh, the joys of buying into a housing bubble….
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3346348/Woman-breaks-tears-husband-one-week-buys-dive-smells-damp-fags-home-together.html
Then end result of borrowing a lifetime of earnings for a depreciating asset. (He should have borrowed $30 from his sister for a new pair of pants and give her back her hip huggers.)
If you have to borrow for 15 or 30 years, it’s not affordable nor can you afford it.
Free helicopter money for all!
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/12/bernankes-helicopter-drop-hits-finland.html
Futurer oligarchs in training.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/cambridge-university-turned-me-into-an-arrogant-entitled-brat-so-dont-worry-if-your-interview-went-a6764746.html
I’ll read this later - I love the title.
Oil crashes down to $36.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-08/crude-crashes-36-handle-down-15-opec
This is the end result when you lever up on the trees-grow-to-the-sky fantasy. What goes up always comes down.
“Suicides In Alberta Soar In Wake Of Canada’s Oilpatch Depression”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-07/canadas-oilpatch-depression-suicides-alberta-soar-wake-plunging-oil-prices-and-econo
UNDER CONSUME!
Join the crude crashers.
It is safe to try and catch a falling knife in crude today? Were we being gouged at 150?
Keep your powder dry Poet. Keep your powder dry.
The best return you can get is to pay off your debts, donkey.
Cash is king. Wait until the panic. Oil is better but most everything else is WAY overpriced.
As reported by real journalists at the Christian Science Monitor:
“A state-building manual for Islamic State administrators confirms the complexity and breadth of the group’s efforts to create a functioning state”
http://m.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2015/1207/Understanding-ISIS-Leaked-document-reveals-nation-building-plans
Crater Rage. What it really means is “please stop the losses….please!”
Answer? Nope.
http://goo.gl/Uqiv2H
Warmist Warming Tuesday:
“walking through Beijing was like strolling through a coal mine, and the municipal air quality index read 308, rated “hazardous” by United States standards — a situation in which people should not set foot outdoors.”
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/world/asia/beijing-smog-pollution.html
“This sucker could go down” — George W. Bush
What the heck are the manufacturing over there with such haste?!?!? Don’t they know there is a global slowdown?
Keep in mind that United States standards must mean United States government standards. Those standards were probably written up by the same anti-capitalist bureaucrats pushing the global warming narrative. They’re against Chinese industrialization and want China to go back to the days of Chairman Mao.
Marketwatch: “The Case For $20 Getting Stronger By The Day”
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/brace-yourself-because-20-oil-could-be-next-for-this-market-2015-12-08?dist=beforebell
Nothing lifts all boats like falling prices to dramatically lower and more affordable levels. Nothing.
Gee, weez been overpaying fer oil for quite some time now…!
The Oligopoly-controlled media is howling over the rejection of its puppets in favor of ardent nationalists.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/frances-far-right-front-national-wins-one-in-three-votes-in-regional-elections-following-paris-a6764031.html
Who here seriously believes that Yellen the Felon will raise interest rates on December 16th?
It’s been plugged here before, but anyone interested in the origins of the criminal cartel Federal Reserve should read the book “The Creature From Jekyll Island.”
P.S. all wars are bankers’ wars.
The Zeitgeist segment of the creation of the Federal Reserve and its scams against the public should be required viewing in every high school civics class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTbIu8Zeqp0
for sh@ts and giggles and to save face I could see a 1/4 point hike.
Wont go much further than that cause of the staggering costs to service the national debt.
19 trillion * .05% = 950 billion in interest
You have to sacrifice your interest to keep the checks going out to hilary voters.
Bond market leads the Fed. The 10-year T is up from about 1.8% at the beginning of the year to 2.25% today. The 1-year T is up from 0.2% to 0.6%. The market is pretty much _forcing_ Yellen to raise.
One an done ,a non event
I do.
I’ll elaborate:
The Fed needs to raise at some point, and they tend to try to keep out of the press in election years…that pretty much reduces the probability of them raising in the latter half of 2016, and they’ll probably want to get a hike or two in before that time. I’m guessing one in December, one in spring.
Trump…a toupeed twit with totalitarian tendencies.
And living in your empty skull, rent free.
He’s really getting along great with Hitler and Mussolini up there. They’re like a pack of old friends.
You’re right. There’s alot of people in here.
There’s alot of people in here.
Yep! From Shakespeare and Jesus to you, Trump, and Hitler. And everyone in between.
No Shakespeare and Jesus. Just me, Marx, Stalin and your imagined hobgoblins Lola.
Just me, Marx, Stalin
What happened to Trump? Did you guys eat him?
The Donald is the 800lb monster in your skull.
Hillary Clinton wears adult diapers.
The new sexy ones.
If she didn’t have a net worth of $40+ million, she’d be sitting in the finest nursing home that Medicaid can provide slumped over in her wheelchair with The Price Is Right blaring on the TeeVee and a string of drool down her chest totally unaware that she pissed herself again.
Does The Donald wear adult diapers yet?
Trump is 6 foot 3, with a hot wife.
And a big stack o’ cash.
He’ll be wearing Depends soon enough. And not long after, he’ll be six feet under. It happens to the best of us, no matter how arrogant.
Stay out from under cratering housing or you will be crushed with it.
‘Queen is not a gossipy bio, delineating Hillary’s shallow, belligerent, mendacious, psychopathic character, although such a tome, necessarily massive, would be welcome. These characteristics of Hillary’s necessarily emerge to some degree in Queen of Chaos. but personality portrayalis not the core of the book. Rather the book is historical. Johnstone sees Clinton as both a product of her times – privileged child of the U.S. Empire, white, Wellesley, Yale, a dishonest and ultimately fired operative on the Watergate committee right out of law school – as well as a ruthless actor in a global drama growing ever more deadly. The book is more history than Hillary. But by going this route Johnstone grasps the essential Clinton with crystal clarity.’
‘The book begins with a quote from George Kennan written in 1948 one year after the birth of Hillary, a prototypical boomer. WWII had ended only a few years earlier, leaving the US on top of the heap and the rest of the major powers in ashes. Kennan wrote then, “We have about 50% of the world’s wealth but only about 6.3% of its population….In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. (This resentment is certainly not surprising since the US and its fellow European colonialists and neocolonialists had gained that wealth by disposing of others, for example in the American Indian genocide, or by extracting from the “other” nearly cost free labor of others, for example, the Black slaves brought to the concentration camps of the South. jw) Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain that position of disparity.”
‘After citing this passage of Kennan’s, Johnstone continues, “Since then the United States has failed to develop any great national purpose other than staying on top. In recent years it has become more frequent to speak of the United States as an Empire. Yet it is an Empire like no other. …Its actions are increasingly destructive because the purpose is not in reality to build an Empire but to destroy any real or potential rivals and so maintain the position of superiority gained in World War II…. The destructive nature of these wars is confirmed by the fact that on close examination none of these wars have been “won” in any meaningful sense. … These are essentially ‘spoiler’ wars intended to diminish potential rivals (or those who refuse to obey, jw). They create deepening chaos and bitter enemies, with no real benefit to anyone.” Thus chaos, of which Hillary is Queen.’
‘Perhaps the Clintons’ greatest sin – to date – was initiating the expansion of NATO to the East. This was too much even for Kennan who cried out in old age in a NYT Op-Ed on February 5, 1997, “In late 1996, the impression was allowed, or caused, to become prevalent that it had somehow and somewhere decided to expand NATO up to Russia’s borders. …The timing of this revelation — coinciding with the Presidential election….did not make it easy .. to insert a modest word of comment.”
‘Translation. There is nothing like a dash of Drang nach Osten to bring out the Polish and Baltic Nation vote as well as neocon support for re-election. But this policy was not merely part of electioneering tactics. It has become overwhelmingly evident since then that the policy was also a heartfelt project of Hillary’s. Two birds with one stone.’
‘Kennan continued: “And perhaps it is not too late to advance a view that, I believe, is not only mine but is shared by others with extensive ..experience in Russian matters. The view, bluntly stated is that expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-cold-war era.”
“Such a decision would be expected to inflame the anti-Western and militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion; to have an adverse effect on the development of Russian democracy; to restore the atmosphere of the cold war to East-West relations, and to impel Russian foreign policy in directions decidedly not to our liking. And last, not least, it might make it much more difficult, if not impossible, to secure the Russian Duma’s ratification of the Start II agreement and to achieve further reductions of nuclear weaponry.”
‘Clearly the Clintons had gone too far even for Kennan who surely must have understood that the “unipolar moment” was over, whereas for Hillary it lives on forever. And the “others” cited by Kennan who shared his disgust with the Clintons included Jack Matlock, the last ambassador to the Soviet Union. Matlock, a Democrat, was Reagan’s ambassador to the USSR, and so sickened was he with the Clintons’ actions that he quit the Democratic Party.’
‘The Queen’s dog whistle calls “Vote for me, I’m a woman.” Since the 1990s Hillary has operated solo in public life and has compiled an even bloodier history both in the Senate where she was an ardent supporter of Bush Jr’s War on Iraq and then as Secretary of State. All of this is in service of making her President.’
‘More pertinent for the present moment of crisis is the chapter “Not Understanding Russia,” where Johnstone reminds us of President Vladimir Putin’s comment of March 4, 2014: “I sometimes get the feeling that somewhere across that huge pond, in America, people sit in a lab and conduct experiments, as with rats, without actually understanding he consequences of what they are doing.” Among those to whom he was referring is certainly Victoria Nuland, the wife of Uber-Neocon Robert Kagan and a protégé of Hillary’s, who served as her spokesperson at State and whom she called “Toria Nuland, my intrepid spokesperson.” Nuland also had served as a top advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney, the real Butcher of Baghdad and of so much else. She had also served in the highest reaches of the Clinton administration.’
‘Perhaps the sharpest insight into Hillary’s world view and bloodthirsty ways comes in the chapter, “Libya, A War of Her Own.” For as Rand Paul and many others have remarked, the assault on Libya was certainly Hillary’s war. She was the voice in the Obama regime that pushed hardest for it, and she got her way.’
‘And when he was brutally killed, Clinton gloated on camera, “We came, we saw, he died.” Channeling Julius Caesar was a frightening scene to behold, something that is very telling about her statem of mind, as I have tried to capture elsewhere. As usual with Hillary, her own little war was cloaked in an appeal to human rights. And as a result, Libya today lies in ruins – like Ukraine. Chaos.’
Hillaryous Clinton. An unelectable neo-con.
She is senile, crippled, incontinent. The media is hiding all of it just like they never photographed FDR in his wheelchair.
She could very well be elected. That’s what the two party system is there for; perpetuate the Empire. If the PTB had their way, it would be Bush versus Clinton. They couldn’t lose. If we were a real free country, we’d be asking ourselves, how did we get a neocon driven foreign policy after the disasters of previous neocon policy? Everything going on with these wars is exactly what they wanted. She can be elected because the majority of people don’t know what a neocon is. Heck, the majority of people can’t find DC on a map. Look at some of the posters here; so eager to have a Democrat elected, they don’t have any concern that this woman is a monster.
“monster”- compared to whom? Cruz? Trump?
Wonder less, Think more.
The problem for an atheist is that they have no yardstick for either good or evil aside from their own desires.
The problem for an atheist is that they have no yardstick for either good or evil aside from their own desires.
The Golden Rule exists in all religions including secular humanism. And despite the claims of some Christians, the Golden Rule did not originate in the Bible, it predates the Bible and was lifted from other earlier religions.
Monster is not a relative term.
RE: “there’s going to be a lot of dead people”
Again compared to whom?
The amoral relativist distorts again.
The curse of a two-party system controlled by big money.
Critical thought is lost on most Americans.
OK, given the choice between a full-blown bigoted fascist and a lady monster, I’ll take the lady monster.
‘I’ll take the lady monster’
See how it works? Entire nations destroyed and another one on the way, but she’s almost unopposed in one of the two parties. “I’ll take the monster!” you say with barely concealed glee. There’s gonna be a lot of dead people. And you won’t be able to say you weren’t warned.
And the rationale behind the choice?
She was married to a governor.
She was married to a president.
She is an attorney.
She was a Senator.
She was Secretary of State.
What about, “I really believe in her ideals”, and “I believe her to be a great leader”? I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say those things about her. It’s all about where she came from, not what she can do.
I’m not saying I really like anyone on the other side either, but at least with ex-governors you can point to how they dealt with an opposition party in trying to govern millions of people with disparate interests.
A Trump nomination would make Hillary’s election an inevitability. Why do you think the Republicans are shitting bricks?
investors bought the dollar based on a tightening cycle that is not going to happen.
Go long commodities!
I’m sure commodity prices will get some bear-market bounces but it may be 15 years before they return to past levels.
“I’m sure”
Sure there is another unprecedented global credit in 15 years? Given that a market functions to push prices to lower levels…..
Are you sure?
I’m sure about the bear market bounces- gold is falling like a rock but has bounced 30% or more a few times.
I am not sure about the timing of any sustainable price increase.
Price increase in an environment of collapsing demand and credit destruction and defaults?
DonkeyLogic.
Why do you insist on ad hominem attacks? I never said commodities would come back soon, that they were a good investment- even in the long run, but just as trees don’t grow to the sky, most things find a bottom and I suspect there will, one day, be a mania in commodities again.
That hardly seems far fetched.
The Joshua Tree extension is your friend.
Rightly calling out your anti-market price fixing scam isn’t an attack.
Your game was exposed long ago. You seem to be the only one unaware of it.
She, you nor anyone else has the intestinal fortitude to use it.
The Joshua Tree extension is your friend.
+100
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Thank you, drummininnj.
For the courageous and brave, drumminj’s gift to you.(not that you need it)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/joshua-tree-extension/
For the weak willed? I can’t help you until you help yourself.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/speaker-ryan-house-gop-trump-comments-35644318
So here comes another “Not Who We Are” statement from the Squeaker of the House, Paul Ryan, who is busy growing a beard these days so he doesn’t look so much like a wide-eyed little boy in training pants.
“Not Who We Are”. The vomit phrase from every cheap two bit politician whenever anyone steps off the reservation. Who is “we”?
Joe Pags the eeevil AM talk radio host aired a montage of Obama clips saying “that’s not who we are” that felt like it went on for five minutes.
“We” is just a power pronoun used by globalists.
Did you ever notice that all this al-Qaeda and ISIS guys have beards? Shaving must be contrary to sharia law. So now both the president and the speaker are Muslims!
I tend to peek at this site from day to day -
There are several interesting links re oil and finance therein……
http://wwwtheworldandeverythinginit.blogspot.com/
The best thing about putting a spotlight on “radical Islam” is that some light will inevitably fall on “radical christians.” Once the finger pointing starts over who is crazier, sentiment regarding “people of faith” being a good thing will finally shift.
What do Ben Carson and the Adventists call the day that the world did NOT end? the great disappointment. But people are still supposed to look upon supposedly-religious people as a good thing.
Instead of banning Muslims, we should try admitting only atheists.
Instead of banning Muslims, we should try admitting only atheists.
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Of all the moral precepts instilled in Buddhist monks the promise not to kill comes first, and the principle of non-violence is arguably more central to Buddhism than any other major religion. So why have monks been using hate speech against Muslims and joining mobs that have left dozens dead?
This is happening in two countries separated by well over 1,000 miles of Indian Ocean - Burma and Sri Lanka. It is puzzling because neither country is facing an Islamist militant threat. Muslims in both places are a generally peaceable and small minority.
In Sri Lanka, the issue of halal slaughter has been a flashpoint. Led by monks, members of the Bodu Bala Sena - the Buddhist Brigade - hold rallies, call for direct action and the boycotting of Muslim businesses, and rail against the size of Muslim families.
Curiously, Buddhists could be considered “atheists”. Not so much in that they deny the existence of god(s); but rather that they consider them to be irrelevant. And they do not consider the Buddha (Siddartha Gautama) to be a deity, he was just a mortal who achieved enlightenment.
Organized religion = FAIL
http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-jihadist-veterans-pose-generational-threat-even-if-is-defeated-experts-2015-12?op=1
Instead of banning Muslims, we should just arm more security. Just like they did at the Texas Muhammad Cartoon Convention!
When was the last Extremist Presbyterian attack, again?
Radical Methodist bake sales. Seriously the closest parallel is to Mormons, but the left has no problem hating them.
Forget the DEATH CROSS in stocks (although it did foretell the August mini-crash with uncanny accuracy) — that was small potatoes. Here comes the MEGAPHONE pattern, also known as the JAWS OF DEATH.
It forecasts a multi-year downward grind to Dow 5900 by 2020.
http://s.thestreet.com/files/tsc/v2008/photos/charts/Dow-Megaphone-from-1990-POPUP.jpg
Lower prices for everyone?
Bless your hear.
That’s not important, who’s going to win the next 4 SuperBowls, and will hemlines be rising or falling?
More Forward from the president of hope and change.
The passport provision is now official, as President Obama signed the 5-year infrastructure spending Bill. It adds a new section 7345 to the Internal Revenue Code. It is part of H.R. 22 – Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, the “FAST Act.” Why are passport covered in the tax code, you might ask? The title of the new section is “Revocation or Denial of Passport in Case of Certain Tax Delinquencies.” The idea goes back to 2012, when the Government Accountability Office reported on the potential for using the issuance of passports to collect taxes.
It was controversial then, but this time sailed through, slipped into the massive highway funding bill, passed here. The section on passports begins on page 1,113. The joint explanatory statement is here, beginning on page 38. The law says the State Department can revoke, deny or limit passports for anyone the IRS certifies as having a seriously delinquent tax debt in an amount in excess of $50,000. Administrative details are scant. It could mean no new passport and no renewal. It could even mean the State Department will rescind existing passports.
Got dual citizenship?
Nope.
I wonder if my Scotch Irish roots will allow me to be grandfathered in like that of the Poles and the Italians?
Go to a nearby consulate (UK I presume) and ask. If Uncle Sam were to ever revoke your US passport a UK/EU passport will get you into a lot of countries without a visa, plus you could permanently move to the EU, assuming it’s still around.
Irish citizenship through descent
Any chance Paul Ryan will run?
Great question PB! re: Paul Ryan
I laugh at the notion of voting for the current crop of Republican nutbags, but would give some give some serious consideration to Ryan.
I’m no Hillary-lover, but like with many of her “supporters”, it’s a function of the choices presented.
I hear things like this all the time, but then I ask, did you vote for Romney? Why or Why not?
I did. I felt his experience working with Democrats as governor was valuable, and he has made a nice career of fixing things that were broken.
Yes, many will say he’s just more of the same, but at least he wasn’t divisive.
I find many say they would vote one way or another, but when it comes down to the stark choice, they vote with their political leanings.
I sincerely doubt it this time around.
The collapsing global credit mania feeding through the Canadian economy.
“Canadian Stocks Plunge To 2-Year Lows”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-08/deja-vu-eh-canadian-stocks-plunge-2-year-lows
The best way to win at the debt game is to not play it.
The “fascist” and “Hitler” labels for Trump are sheer hyperbole and completely laughable. Feeble attempts to influence feeble minds.
The “fascist” and “Hitler” labels for Trump are sheer hyperbole and completely laughable.
Your bias is fogging your perception of history and reality. There is nothing about Trump anymore that is normal.
“Nothing in modern politics equates with the kind of rhetoric now coming from Candidate Trump….Trump “is further out there than almost anyone in the annals of [U.S.] history.”
“Donald Trump continues to go where no recent candidate for president has gone before, plunging the Republican Party — and the nation — into another round in the tumultuous debate about immigration, national identity, terrorism and the limits of tolerance.
Trump’s call on Monday for a ban on Muslims entering the United States marked a sudden and sizable escalation — and in this case one that sent shockwaves around the world — in the inflammatory and sometimes demagogic rhetoric of the candidate who continues to lead virtually every national and state poll testing whom Republicans favor for their presidential nomination.
Nothing in modern politics equates with the kind of rhetoric now coming from Candidate Trump. There are no perfect analogies. One must scroll back decades for echoes, however imperfect, of what he is saying, from the populist and racially based appeals of then-Alabama Gov. George Wallace in 1972 to the anti-Semitic diatribes of the radio preacher Charles Coughlin during the 1930s.
Historian David Kennedy of Stanford University said there are few comparisons, adding that, in branding an entire religious class of people as not welcome, Trump “is further out there than almost anyone in the annals of [U.S.] history.””
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/along-with-trumps-rhetoric-the-stakes-for-2016-have-risen-dramatically/2015/12/08/43e64592-9dd8-11e5-a3c5-c77f2cc5a43c_story.html
The left wants to do the same to all gun owners. But they are actually citizens and entitled to explicitly guaranteed constitutional rights.
Trump could do this via executive order. Thanks for the precedent!
Weakening currency or inflating prices via credit is one and the same. It merely results in demand destruction which we’re experiencing. Cratering demand.
“The Fallacy that Weakening Your Currency Generates Prosperity”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-08/fallacy-weakening-your-currency-generates-prosperity
Trump = 57 state for hilery = 2% growth
See EU and Japan for results
If the idea of being debt-free disturbs you.
Just try it.
You can always take out another credit card, car loan or mortgage if you find it doesn’t suit you.
I lived debt free until about 4 years ago…loved it.
Debt is a powerful tool for consumption or investment–to only be used sparingly, and with a plan on how to pay it off the day you borrow.
And then you paid a grossly inflated price for a depreciating asset and doubled down on those losses by financing it.
Yep.
SHY ster
The dollar will crater and commodities will go to the moon.
What dont u get?
Falling prices Poet…. falling prices.
Buy some energy stocks to hedge.
The moon shot is over for this round. You’re about 180 degrees out of synch.
“Hammer to Fall” by Queen
Here we stand or here we fall
History won’t care at all
Make the bed, light the light
Lady Mercy won’t be home tonight.
You don’t waste no time at all
Don’t hear the bell but you answer the call
It comes to you as to us all
We’re just waiting for the hammer to fall
Oh every night, and every day
A little piece of you is falling away
But lift your face the Western Way
Build your muscles as your body decays.
Tow the line and play their game
Let the anaesthetic cover it all
Till one day they call your name
You know it’s time for the hammer to fall.
Rich or poor or famous for
Your truth it’s all the same
(Oh no! Oh no!)
Lock your door but rain is pouring
Through your window pane
(Oh no!)
Baby, now your struggle’s all vain.
For we who grew up tall and proud
In the shadow of the Mushroom Cloud
Convinced our voices can’t be heard
We just wanna scream it louder and louder and louder
What the hell are we fighting for?
Just surrender and it won’t hurt at all
You just got time to say your prayers
While you’re waiting for the hammer to—hammer to fall.
Yeah! Yes.
Let’s get on the floor!
Yeah! Hammer!
You know
Hammer to fall!
Yeah!
I’ve been waiting for the hammer to fall!
While you’re waiting for the hammer to fall.
Queen’s first LP (self-titled) glorious entirety:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VmEXWpvfhc&list=PLEvr99j7ruPza50qQ4MaKVKUTDQGnM8u-
Your boy Mitch (REP) has gone from a 3 million dollar to a 37 million dollar net worth since entering the Senate.
Jeb 2016!
Check out my new plan and chic triangular ‘do:
Dilbert - I have your home address
Shotgun Jesus Sez: Prepare for Armageddon with superior firepower!
Your boy Mitch (REP) has gone from a 3 million dollar to a 37 million dollar net worth since entering the Senate.
Jeb 2016!
I got a call tonight from the local Republican Party HQ. Wanted to know if I could help them as I had in the last election. Ha! Help them? I was there for Ron Paul (and it was a real education.)
I told him that my situation has changed, I care for my Mama full time and, to be polite, left out the more unpleasant details but made it plain to him it was pretty much a full time job. His idiotic response was “are you sure you can’t?” Yeah, I’m pretty sure, even if I really wanted to.
Blocked their number.
Spike in bitcoin in last couple of hours
There you go:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-08/something-snaps-china-bitcoin-takes-out-stops-soars-higher
35 years ago tonight, in New York City
John Lennon - Instant Karma, live at Madison Square Garden 1972:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfBPbFEel5k
Novato, CA Housing Craters; Prices Plunge 15% YoY
http://www.movoto.com/novato-ca/market-trends/
My sister’s territory. She rents and would move back to Petaluma in a heartbeat if the rent prices go down enough.
Short term yields continue to charge upwards. Today the T bills were dumped relative to long term notes. 52 week bills at .76 now. Those of us who keep some assets in bills and recycle them into them, well this is beginning to be nice this festive time of year!
And Bitcoin is charging up. Related post above. What,s not to like?
I want to drain as much money out of the defense spending hat I can. So I avoid the long bonds and focus on short terms.
Those fleeing short terms will chase up the long rates.
Can’t have a 1.6 yielding 5 year note if the three year note yields 1.58 right? Smarter buyers will go for shorter durations and boycott longer durations til the spread makes it worthwhile.
Go short durations! Go!
China buys more gold. Silver coin sales hit record in November
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-08/gold-buying-surges-november-china-buys-21-tonnes-november-alone
CBS News ran this story tonight
A look at Australia’s ban on semi-automatic guns
AUSTRALIA — “I enjoy tinkering around with firearms.” Anthony Winchcombe said he started hunting with his father when he was just five years old.
Anthony Winchcombe gave up his semi-automatic firearms after the Australian government banned them.
But to own a gun in Australia you need a license — which requires background checks that take at least 28 days, sometimes months.
Semi-automatic rifles are banned, and it’s illegal to carry a gun for personal protection.
“I had semi-automatic firearms prior to the laws changing, and I complied with the laws and handed them in. Do I miss them? No, not particularly,” said Winchcombe.
The guns were banned amidst a huge public outcry after 35 people were massacred by a lone gunman in 1996.
http://www.cbsnews.com/evening-news/ - 75k -
Unless his government has a right to snoop on his property Anthony would have given a toon firearm to the thugs and his others would have been “lost” in the river as his boat capsized.
toon / token
Anthony was a paid plant for the CBS evening propaganda piece.
Sounds like a massacre is a good way to initiate a move to ban guns.
Well what good are these massacre guns if you’re not going to massacre? Seriously. They’re heavy. Awkward. They tip over if you lean them against things. You have to keep children away from them. People see you with one and wonder if you’re going to massacre them… but you’re not. You’re just carrying around a 15lb gun that you can’t shoot.
Now a third witness says Sayed what’s name did not do it.
It might be that the outcome of these false flags and islamophobia will backfire on gun grabbers. While it will prolong war and increase blowback and terror in “gun free” Europe, a more armed America is bound to be the outcome. Perhaps a reversal of the anti gun hysteria in California.
Do not register.
OT, but China has cloned the Tesla Model 3, my dream car.
Correction, the Model S. The Model 3 is coming out soon. I just love the Model S.