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Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction.

Thomas Jefferson

Announcement Announcement Announcement

Stocks are declining and will continue downward for the foreseeable future.

As always, in all nations and all economic systems, stocks decline on the prospect of increased taxes and socialist takeover.

The day has arrived when the United States has no more to give. The USA has given all she had that might be extracted. There is no more that even the overly-empowered unworthy will be able to take from her.

The potential takers are too low class to perceive that the America they steal is a less wealthy America because of their decades of taking. But America's weakened condition matters not.

They dirty and depreciate everything everywhere they go anyway. Check out the houses they abandon if you doubt this.

Name any nation where most people enjoy a high standard of living, whether qualified or not, can find a good job, receive near-free educations, have reasonably affordable housing, can start any business, have access to luxuries from cars to foods, and have a steady supply of consumer staples from toothpaste to toilet paper.

ONLY in America does that exist. It is due to the Constitution, free-enterprise capitalism, & guaranteed individual rights.

Absolute Final Confirmation

President Reagan has moved on to a cleaner, more peaceful existence. However, today's political and market activities completely confirm Reaganomics as being the tool to elevate all people who choose to work and improve a nation's standard of living.

The election of an inadequate person could reverse all that President Ronald Reagan worked to change.

Stock and credit markets are today reacting to the promised dismantling of Reaganomics.

That is clear. That is as clear as any market activity might ever be, that is.

Serious financial problems have been visible for over one year. Each crisis has been and continues to be handled either by bank and investment house mergers and absorptions, Federal Reserve intervention, capital infusion from sovereign funds of oil and trade-enriched nations, moving CDSs to open exchange trading, and other clever capitalistic mechanisms yet to engineered.

In a normal period, stock and credit markets would recognize that problems are being resolved. Then, as markets always do because participants want to make profits, markets would be reversing the decline of the last year and trending upward by now.

The fact that stock markets have not started trending upward after a year of decline when all signs are that every nation from the US to Iceland have guaranteed almost everything to be secure in one way or another, demonstrates that markets are reacting to another force. That force is perceived to be poisonous, potent and negative.

That poisonous, potent, negative force is the promise of increased taxation, implementation of socialism, and restriction of liberty, decreased business opportunity due to increased taxation, each with diminution of individual rights if the wrong person were to be elected.

Markets are declining in anticipation of the dismantling of Reaganomics.

Therefore, the major bull market that started in August, 1982, around a year-and-one-half into President Reagan's first term is ending today. It is being undone.

The entire world owes the widespread trade and manufacturing booming successes that have raised billions of people from China to Poland and nearly everywhere else to capitalism. Capitalism was freed and restrictions were minimized by President Ronald Reagan.

Considering the juvenile, narcissistic, self-involved, poorly-educated electorate that is allowed to vote in the US, it is easily observed why it welcomes a person having little experience and devoid of substance and experience to control their destiny. People today seemingly only want to exercise, eat their veggies, worry about global warming, and prevent others from freely enjoying their lives.

A question remains: When might today's voters select a person so lacking in experience to be their doctor, lawyer, accountant, resolve global warming, invent the next technological breakthrough, design their new hybrid vehicle, provide investment advice, guard against foreign and internal threats, and decide which veggies are most healthful?

To answer your question yourself, elevate your thinking.
View the economy from a higher plane.
You are smart.
You will see major opportunities.

On Opportunities:

How many times have you thought, "If only I had bought that stock, that property, that house"?

Today's correction is answer to our prayers. Prices for quality assets are declining. Someday quality assets may be purchased at years-ago prices.

You will have opportunities in the future. These days you are conserving your cash and preparing to acquire bargains so that when the correction ends -- or you guess that it is ending -- you will be buying depressed high quality assets. You will purchase primarily high quality because your buy decisions may be early and you may have to ride valuations down further thereby holding them longer than you expected to or would want to.

On Today's Correction:

Now that you are thinking on a higher plane than politicians and other losers, you can see clearly. You can relax in your new vision. You can see that after you understand people, their frailties, and their frequent inability to meet commitments, it is fruitless to place blame on factions. That activity wastes your resources.

Do not misunderstand me. The causes of today's financial problems must be identified. The individuals should be punished. The groups such as ACORN should be broken by jailing their leadership for sedition, intimidation, fraud, and extortion. This work is not your responsibility. Your responsibility is to observe, learn enough to avoid those people and situations, and identify opportunities for your future.

Once we see clearly from the top view, we should expend our resources searching for opportunities to short or go long in whatever asset classes we are cleverest in maneuvering.

On Bubbles & Corrections:

Capitalism is the most high-potential activity ever devised by man. Its objects may be simple, such as buying and selling candy (that may or may not be simple), or complex such as buying and selling real estate (that may or may not be simpler than candy). Capitalism is rarely simple or easy to operate successfully within over the long-term while also being honest and ethical.

That is why so many people choose socialism over capitalism. Socialism appears simple and its proponents make it seem that anyone -- actually everyone if you can believe that drek -- can be successful by doing nothing.

There was no one group or faction that caused the real estate bubble of the last decades. It required a confluence of forces just as anything big and meaningful does. The bubble got out control when government forces were coerced by greedy forces including Countrywide's founder and ACORN. They took advantage of the government-distorted system to make money and build power.

They are bad, culpable, and need severe punishment. They need to be examples for other potential violators of capitalism and its markets.

Bubbles and corrections are very, very good forces. These good forces should never be fought. Instead they should be studied, learned, calculated, and acted upon in concert with their natural directions.

Capitalism offers its greatest opportunities when outside forces manipulate it into bubbles and force it to make corrections. Bubbles and corrections are only large aberrations from a market's natural upward or downward trend. Bubbles and corrections occurring in supply, price, and demand go to extreme. A bubble will over-shoot; a correction will over-shoot. After some over-shooting, there will always be a strong force that causes a return to normalcy. After all, most forces want to be at equilibrium. Equilibrium is the confluence of forces wherein most forces are most comfortable at a given point in time.

Some Markets Appear Local:

We operate from where we are. At best we try to operate very smartly by assimilating all sorts of related data. We are rarely operationally so smart as to understand the total market, its impact upon our market partition, nor our asset slice within the market.

There are areas in the nation where ACORN has never sent a worker to extort form a bank, sign a document for a moron, or threatened a bank loan officer. However its impact came from the federal level and thereby impacted real estate laws and regulations in every state. How many questions on each state's real estate licensing examination had to do with Fair Housing and related requirements? Too many, of course.

ACORN's impact has infiltrated from the top down to all real estate participants for decades. Construction guys, brokers, buyers, sellers, renters, speculators, investors, bankers, financing businesses, major investment banking institutions, and derivative players around the world practiced their hands in the markets. As real estate obligations morphed into financial derivatives, were packaged and sold and resold around the world, real estate became monetized into a popular game-like activity. For a long period everyone made money.

Greed was good. It allowed the US government to create Fannie, legislators received cheap mortgages, Fannie's executives stole hundreds-of-millions of dollars, ACORN extorted, both worthy and unworthy people came to own a home and its associated debt instrument.

When one or more of the fundamental building blocks of a market become disproportionately outsized, a bubble is built, speculation increases, greed becomes nasty -- "greedy" -- and eventually the bubble, as all bubbles always do, bursts. And the last guy holding the inflated asset screams and whines and cries.

Today's America is filled with genuine losers. In response to the mass of genuine losers, there has grown an industry of demagogue crowd pleasers. These are people who have little more than the gift of gab and some superficial comforting aspect -- sometimes as superficial as skin color -- that appeals to and soothes the loser crowd. These charlatans gather, or rather community organize, the masses of losers into a cohesive groups of losers who willingly follow they know not where and care less. They are easily pacified. In numbers is power. Sometimes that power can be turned into votes.

Some markets appear local, but are impacted by peripheral and direct forces that are not given adequate credence by local market participants.

Opportunities:

Whatever market aspect a wise and paused person operates in, there are times when corrections provide incredible opportunities. Even if most opportunities are missed, even when money has been lost, even when assets are purchased no where near the bottom, money can be made.

The over-powering rule of all organisms is that the fittest stand the better chance to survive. The crooked stand the better chance to reap the largest financial reward at the heavy cost of ethical decay and self-respect. But those people never spend any money to buy mirrors so how they look is of no importance. They can always rent a sycophant to adore them. And sometimes they collect enough to run for public office. Don't worry, when they over-reach, they lose.

For over thirty years some on this site have emphatically stated:

"There will come a day when even the United States of America has no more to give. Or, more correctly put, she has no more that even the overly-empowered unworthy can take from her."

As some of us have proclaimed for over five years, the correction that started in 2000, never reached fruition. It failed to provide the full cleansing that genuine corrections must provide. When corrections fail to correct they are followed by even grander bubble phases.

The failure to squelch the bubble in 2000, permitted a birth of the next bubble. That bubble enveloped non-tech stocks, real estate, commodities, and those newly-contrived derivatives that helped fuel the next bubble phase.

Today's correction needs to correct excesses. If this correction fails in its primary mission, it will fuel another bubble phase that will then correct with an even greater correction.

A full, widespread, cleansing will come to pass eventually. They always have.

Financial Institutional Failure: The Process

Today's financial problems originated with the misconception that basic laws of economics can be violated by politicians intent upon redistributing wealth from those who earn it to those who are not able to earn enough to justify their reaping rewards as if they had earned it. And those politicians -- using the powers we, the voters, gave them -- dictate how much of our money we may keep... and how much we must pass along to those minorities earning less than they want. This debacle did not start on Wall Street. It was born in Congress, in the Carter administration, and, when it started to fail, it was given new life during the early years of the Clinton administration.

Most taxpayer are justifiably disgusted with the US government's $700 billion wall street bailout package. The root causes of this unseemly solution are buried in the Carter years with enactment of its Community Reinvestment Act in 1977, and were continued with enthusiasm by the Clinton administration, Representative Barney Frank, Senator Chris Dodd, Chuck Schumer, other Democrat lawmakers and -- most especially -- by groups like ACORN. As mortgages and loans to the unworthy became less attainable ACORN lobbied these same legislators and other Democrats in Congress to expand the implicit government guarantees provided by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

ACORN's leadership strong-armed its Washington lawmakers into forcing banks and mortgage lenders to lend mortgage money to financially unqualified minorities and others who everyone knew would never continue to pay their mortgage payments over time. Because these lender institutions were forced to lend to unqualified home buyers, they did what any business would do under similar circumstances: They found a way to sell off those likely bad loans to other investors.

Since no one in their right mind would buy a package of bad loans, the only way to sell them to investors was to mix them in with good loans and sell pre-packaged goodies that had both good and bad in them. Thus was invented specialized derivatives. These loan derivatives are the CDOs and other instruments that today have no value to the marketplace, are therefore causing huge bank writedowns, and in turn, bank defaults.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac using its implicit government guarantee, purchased packages of bad and good mortgages known as Mortgage Backed Securities, MBSs. Banks also packaged bad and good mortgages into other forms known as Collateralized Debt Obligations, CDOs. These huge debt obligations were then resold to Wall Street investment banking houses, including Lehman, Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs, and others, as well as investors around the world. Once the financial house of cards began to fail, banks refused to do business with other banks and investment banking institutions. That refusal shut down and locked up the short-term interbank credit and lending markets. It is today these final purchasers -- those left holding the bag of derivatives -- that are having to writedown and write off tens-of-billions of dollars of debt.

Hence the government (taxpayers) has to step in to fill the holes caused by Democrat government do-gooders who told banks to lend to minorities no matter what their credit qualifications.

Handing out housing loans and mortgages to financially-unqualified minorities that did not make good economic sense might have made you feel good during boom times. How does it feel today? How does it feel after your stock portfolio where you carefully placed your "buy-and-hold-sure-thing investments" has decreased significantly in value... and in many cases investments have become more worthless than those mortgage holders?

Remember, only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you: Jesus Christ and the American Soldier.

-- Anonymous

"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy."

-- Winston Churchill

Quiz

Name a group whose members too often cannot live by rules, regulations, procedures, laws, and principled guidelines.

Hint: It is the same group whose members too often commit crimes, use violence, lie, cheat, steal, and deceive.

Prize: To know the answer is to prevent mistakes.

Money can be used to buy stuff. Tomorrow more stuff... and nicer stuff!

Commodities are raw materials, not financial instruments alone.
The commodity bubble has burst and continues to deflate. This was a relatively immediate, quickly-inflated bubble so it may re-inflate -- but only partially. Commodities that are deflating include soft, grains, industrial metals, precious metals, and energy. All commodities are supplied by many nations. Even though many are critical and cannot be replaced by others, pricing of these commodities will return to supply-demand based levels. All commodity bubbles going back to 1953 have returned to supply-demand equilibrium pricing.
Housing provides comfort and safety for those deserving it, not high-returns alone.
The housing bubble has burst and continues to deflate. This was a multi-generational bubble and therefore ingrained a psychology into tens-of-millions of Americans with now unrealizable expectations. The housing bubble was also a long-inflating bubble. It was engineered and promoted by artificial and non-economic forces. Those forces include laws promulgated by the US Congress starting with the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 and given further illegitimate potency and false market release by inclusion of Fannie Mae. Moreover, banking regulations were decisively impacted, mandated the near-ignoring of credit worthiness, and emphasized the minority status of unworthy people in order to provide loans and mortgages at teaser, then ever-escalating rates.
Those long-inflating forces were given further appearance of legitimacy by financial institutions' use of derivatives, CDSs, CDOs, multi-traunching, and deceptive packaging, often disguising their contents to sell these products around the world to buyers enticed by promises of high interest returns and implicit too-big-to-fail psychologies of the underlying contents and promoting institutions.
Everyone has lost money and many will lose more.
Billions -- actually trillions -- of dollars have been lost by nearly all entities involved in finance, including banks, brokers, funds, holders of assets, both individual and professional. Near all forms of assets have declined in value, including contrived financial instruments and tangible assets.
Assets of nearly all types are continuing to decline in value. They will stop declining in value when they stop declining in value.
Housing is declining in cost. Land is declining in cost. Commodities are declining in cost. Financial assets are declining in cost. Durable goods are declining in cost. Relative valuations are beginning to increase.
Positive contra forces are at work.
Technology is improving the capabilities, quality, and durability of durable goods. Today's cars are significantly better than yesterday's cars. Tomorrow's cars will be better in all respects than today's cars. Therefore the cost per value increment received by the purchaser will be greater tomorrow than today. A dollar will buy more car value tomorrow than it can today.
Money is increasingly able to purchase more value; there will be more money in circulation.
A dollar will potentially acquire products having more value, higher quality, and greater efficiencies tomorrow than it can today.
However a byproduct of repairing the financial system will be an increase in the amount of money in circulation. That is inflationary. Therefore it will be necessary to balance for each purchase the deflated price involved in a potential asset purchase versus its price inflated monetary factors.
A wise person with a moderate or long-term horizon outlook will today collect dollars for future deployment into top quality assets at lower costs. Unimaginable bargains will become available for those holding cash. A wise person will not dilly-dally over specific interest rates returned on today's cash over the short-term. Safety is preeminent. How about Singapore sovereign debt denominated in Singapore dollars?
However, since life is for the living, I strongly recommend buying a new you-know-what now without delay.

The Referendum That Will Judge The American People's Character

War is an ugly thing, but it is not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by better men than himself.

John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873

Do the American people understand all that they have inherited so easily? Do the American people care about America... or themselves?

In me there dwells
No greatness, save it be some far-off touch
Of greatness to know well I am not great.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson,
"Lancelot and Elaine"

Ours is a time when a man's concern for principles displays his character.

Where will you be employed after capitalism has been murdered?

LEH... The One-time Lehman Brothers

September 15, 2008 -- LEH filed for bankruptcy. It has debt of $613 billion and assets of $639 billion.

LEH has shut down after 158 years. It survived the railroad bankruptcies of the late 1800s. It survived the 1930's Great Depression.

LEH was killed by uncontrolled, juvenile cowboy traders who wildly traded contrived derivatives of derivatives of derivatives mislabeled financial instruments that they passed along in hot-potato-style to the next Greatest Fool who believed that he would find a next Greatest Fool somewhere across the global economy who could be talked into buying these implicitly worthy debt obligations.

Home owner debt obligations -- often varying greatly in underlying elemental quality -- were bundled into packages. These packages were given the seemingly innocuous label "derivative". These derivatives were virtually deconstructed into obfuscatory tranche arrays. These packaged derivatives -- and derivatives of these derivatives -- were then sold by tranche, tranche groups, as well as, in total to customers around the world. Many of these packaged derivatives carried an implicit worthiness because they were being sold by reputable investment banking names. Some of these no longer exist: LEH, BSC. Others are fading and being absorbed into surviving larger banking organizations.

The final straw that broke the computerized Ponzi scheme of derived derivatives was the myriad of so-called home owners whom were given loans and mortgages that they did not qualify for on paper nor on any moral or ethical level of responsibility. Worry not about them for they will return to "buy" their next home whining about unfairness and racism.

In the end, this debacle proves that home ownership is NOT a right. It is no more a right than is possession of the Office Of The President Of The United States Of America.

Attention All Spoiled, Whining, Complaining Juveniles: Demanding something -- whether a mortgage, a job in a company, or the US presidency -- does not qualify you for that position.

The US is just about out of Equal Opportunity jobs for the unworthy. Are there any worthy people remaining anywhere?

NOTE: To you who are so willing to hand the US Presidency off to a socialist and unworthy person -- who if he were white would be nothing more than another socialist radical on the fringe: You may have had LEH in your retirement account. It is today worthless.

BEWARE -- Societies as arrogant as the USA have failed and fallen into disarray under socialism:
Are you educated well enough to have heard of the USSR, East Germany, North Korea, several South American banana republics, and many African tribal nations? Why does communism work in Asian cultures???

Some group of today's so-called Americans cannot follow rules, regulations, laws, procedures, guidelines, & have no desire to. And why should they? They demand and good-hearted Americans provide.

End of story... and the United States.

Successful societies require the rule of law to be respected, enforced, and taken as gospel... or they will eventually fail.

"War is an ugly thing, but it is not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by better men than himself."

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

"One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain."

Thomas Sowell

Pause

A Question

Why does socialism appeal to so many regardless of much empirical evidence of its many failures over generations?

Concise. Precise. Accurate

Because some people fear the unpredictability inherent in capitalism and are seeking what they think will provide them with more security. The fact that it has been proven a failure does not discourage them because they take the this-time-it-is-different approach to life. And they really don't care anyway.

Few people realize that their strongest ally against life's difficulties is their own strong character.

How fortunate for them since most have weak characters. It is no wonder that most achieve little blame others, and are so nasty.

Why?

Real estate, stock, and commodity markets are trending downward. Assets are declining in value. The downward trend has been in place for several months in most investment categories. The downward trend shows no sign of relenting in rate of decline nor turning into an uptrend.

The person who has cash naturally wants to make it work and grow.

This person has only two choices at the highest level of investment consideration. One choice is to put money into a secure short-term account and earn somewhat over the rate of inflation. The other choice is to invest the money in real estate, stocks, or commodities.

In the secure bank account, if planned properly, money will be available as soon as the trends reverse... that is, as soon as a rational person can identify, decide and execute his investment.

When he perceives that the trend has reversed, the person -- even if incorrect -- can initiate long positions incrementally in any investment and in multiple categories. He will have retained all his principle plus earned some interest, but he will not have lost any money!

Why would a person need to buy into a declining market when even a forty-year-old knows -- or should know -- that trends reverse thereby creating great buying opportunities.

Only a fool, an ego-constrained person, or someone soon to be less wealthy in all respects except possessing a large tax write off would attempt to buy into downtrends as multifarious and powerful as today's.

The USA was founded & built by Heroes, Optimists, & Doers.

Successful Americans do not appreciate -- nor want -- their leaders to be fear-mongering socialists, pessimists, takers, or liars... and certainly not the combination of all of these traits.

Colonel John R. Boyd, USAF

The following is Colonel Boyd's insightful challenge: "To be or to do?" Although Boyd associated with many junior officers during his Air Force career, there were a few, perhaps half a dozen, that he had such respect for that he invited them to join him on his quest for change. Each one would be offered the choice: Be someone -- be recognized by the system and promoted -- or do something that would last for the Air Force and the country. It was unfortunate, and says something about the state of American's armed forces, that it was rarely possible to do both.

Boyd's biographer, Robert Coram, collected the invitation from an officer who got it and selected the "to do" option, and he confirmed its essence from several others.

"Tiger, one day you will come to a fork in the road. And you�re going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go." He raised his hand and pointed. "If you go that way you can be somebody. You will have to make compromises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and you will get good assignments."

Then Boyd raised his other hand and pointed another direction. "Or you can go that way and you can do something - something for your country and for your Air Force and for yourself. If you decide you want to do something, you may not get promoted and you may not get the good assignments and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors. But you won�t have to compromise yourself. You will be true to your friends and to yourself. And your work might make a difference."

He paused and stared into the officer�s eyes and heart.

"To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That�s when you will have to make a decision. To be or to do. Which way will you go?"

Getting It... Finally... But Continuing To Observe & Learn

Today, after observing how tens-of-millions of Americans are actively choosing to appoint an insufferable phony, vain, self-aggrandizing, pretentious, ignorant, egocentric, entitlement-focused, nasty, vindictive, selfish snob as their ultimate leader who will implement a proven painful, deplorable, self-destructive system --Socialism -- upon them, I finally get it.

Finally. After oh so many years... After oh so much talk... After oh so many attempts after attempt to reason and assemble my team... After oh so much contemplation... After oh so much confidence in you... After oh so much attempt to reason with you.

Finally, even I get it.

It was not ever about me. It was always about you all, the others whom I failed to believe would actually choose to be so much less than you could become. How could you, whom I had bumped into amidst the random chaos of daily existence while questing for coworkers, actually choose to live your lives to anything but the fullest? How might you choose to not make yourselves into your best, to not be the most productive, to not attain more, but, especially, to not meet your voluntary commitments???

Because. Just because. Simply because!

Because they passively chose to be less than they could have been. They chose to not apply themselves to achieve more. They chose to settle for being less than they might have easily become by simply trying.

Today I finally get it. If only these losers had simply identified themselves as themselves and disabused me of my mistaken application of my higher goals upon them. If only they had identified -- perhaps by wearing a large badge that even I might comprehend -- their chosen preference to not achieve all that their parents had wanted them to achieve. But did their parents actually want more for their children? Likely not.

I now know... and finally even understand. I thank you, each and every one of you under-achievers who are totally successful at achieving only what you passively chose to achieve.

I regret wasting time -- mine & yours -- attempting to arouse the impossible in you.

Comprehend & Appreciate The USA Or Leave My Site Now

This two-year-long election "season" has me as upset as any event in my life has. I feel -- and objectively comprehend -- that the the most fundamental and meaningful substance of our existence is about to be taken, perverted and destroyed. Americans may not continue be able to live in this most beautiful nation. We may each and all lose this nation that none of us should ever have accepted without sincere appreciation during every day of our existences.

Personally, throughout my existence, all of my deepest desire to achieve has been for my dearest friends as well as for my country. My long-range objective has been to re-pay the United States of America for having provided -- at no cost to me -- the rights and liberty to do what I want when I want and to achieve the most per my abilities.

If the sinister, malevolent beings who have minuscule intellectual capabilities and are without appreciation for how the United States of America became all that it is, if these demanders, grabbers and takers of benefits do gain control, we will lose our Constitution, our rights, and our freedom to live as we have been so fortunate to have lived. Personal responsibility will be trampled into oblivion beyond its failing status of today.

The irony of their grabbing hold of Constitutional rights, cultural freedoms, and giveaways and using these elements to pervert and destroy the very forces that they use to take control should be beyond frustrating for each of us. It is beyond maddening. It is beyond imagination. For today's unworthies to be so close to gaining control and perverting the massive accomplishments of 250 years of development and progress demonstrates how pure and good our system is. Our Constitution is so hopeful of man, positively-oriented, and intrinsically believes that all men are rational and good, it is so justice-demanding and fairness-filled, it is so open, that it is nearly defenseless against the liar, perverted, self-promoting malevolence that motivate the Obaminites.

When this civil political struggle concludes -- regardless of its outcome -- those few of remaining of integrity must answer the questions for the ages:
How could it come to pass that inside the most free, liberty-filled, productive nation, wherein the majority of citizens live in comforts beyond imagination almost anywhere else in the world, nearly one-half came to overlook the wrong person's religious, personal, business, and political associates, his easily observed plan, his lack of experience in any positively productive endeavor? How is it that these same self-satisfied citizens might even consider selecting such a creature to lead them? How is it that among us there are so many beneficiaries of the USA who may follow the wrong person down the same socialistic, demagogic, miserable dictatorial pathway that has failed, but failed after it has destroyed hundreds-of-millions of people and prevented progress?

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If you fail to comprehend, appreciate, or want to participate according our Constitution, man's innate rights & freedoms, or if you simply do not want to observe the potential downfall of the greatest experiment in history, exit this site now.

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Thoreau Was Incorrect...

When he said, "Most men live lives of quiet desperation".

Thoreau made the mistake of imparting his desires and intellectualism upon others. Most others do not want much more than they have, will take all that is provided, and expect little accomplishment of themselves.

Most men -- and most women -- live lives of semi-literate, passive interest and acceptance of less where more requires effort.

We Live In A World Of Pussy-ified Things

Everywhere exist pussies: Young men, men, cars, computer software such as Windows XP -- which is graphically a thin, fragile pussy.

And don't forget about everyone's fragile, effeminate egos and characters with so many hyper-sensitivities that a word can make them squeal like pigs.

All everything other than those who are genuine pussies are pussies. Today's genuine pussies are hard-edged & tough, or so they think... and look... and try to act.

Cruising Lost

The ancient Greeks and Romans knew. The philosophically observant thinkers of the 17th, 18th, 19th centuries, including Jonathan Swift, Hans Christian Andersen, & John Stewart Mill knew. The creators of South Park know. These thinkers know about human nature and its frailties.

Something happened when we entered the 20th century. All wisdom and insight was lost. Western Civilization had to fight each demagogue, tyrant, social deviant, and economic crack pot. And Western Civilization always went to extremes to use reason before force.

In the 21st century, mankind is living empirically from one economic, political, social crisis to the next with no institutionalized historic memory of lessons learned, whether from the great thinkers or from the fall of the USSR.

Man appears to be dancing carelessly through the early 21st century. He appears to have little regard for substance. He is -- and certainly all known as "she" are angry at anyone who is clean, well-dressed, civil, or reaches a different conclusion through thought and reason.

To date, the 21st century is dead on track to be crowned The 2nd Dark Age. ...So dark that it may be black.

Rebukes are easy from our betters,
From men of quality and letters;
But when low dunces will affront,
What man alive can stand the brunt?

Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745

Some people are like a Slinky... not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs.

Remember, if the women don't find you handsome they should at least find you handy.

Scoff At P/E Multiples, Benchmarks, Norms, & Historic Lows

Lack Of Confidence is the force that will ultimately bring down financial & real estate markets.

The United States economy has always -- over centuries -- been propelled by optimism tightly coupled with confidence in the integrity of US market mechanisms and financial institutions.

Institutions -- government, government agencies, and corporations -- have been exposed as being impotent and are now weakened beyond the ability of US agility and resources to bolster. Their only salvation is to be sold at discount to foreign nations and their wealthy, under-educated ruling elites.

Markets, including stock markets, commodity markets, and commercial and residential real estate will decline further.

Real estate assets will register further significant loses.

Can a completed merger be un-done by the courts?

And why not? Justice should prevail in the long-run.

Just because some action -- any action or actions by any party or parties -- is required to allow justice to prevail, should not be reason to allow an injustice to stand.

A man does what he can and endures what he must until he can end the test.

The Fed's Beige Book

This most-watched-for tome is often touted as being a very recent compilation of important judgments and opinions from serious economists and erudite thinkers from within the hallowed walls of the twelve Federal Reserve Branch Banks and some nearby laboratories.

In actuality, Bloomberg News reports that the Fed's Beige Book is:

"The Beige Book's regional anecdotes are gathered through hundreds of telephone calls, news clippings and personal contact by the staff of the 12 Fed banks, whose districts cover all 50 U.S. states. The anecdotes are designed to supplement quantitative forecasts of the Board of Governors staff."

It appears -- very plausibly -- that the Fed's Beige Book is merely more talk coupled with chatter smattered with anecdotes... likely talked-up between all those silly people driving SUVs while endlessly talking on their cell phones between slugs of bottled water.

And you thought they were making plans for lunch.

Yes Confounded

When organisms -- today's people raised over the recent few decades -- who are themselves products of the self-involved, narcissistic generation get confounded, they retreat from the pain of reality's important (thinking required) stuff and shuffle over to personal, simple, comfy stuff.

We are going to see much more asset value collapsing as a result of this psychology over the next months. The political environment is the last straw. NO ONE feels safe. EVERYONE knows he is standing on quicksand.

But -- as always -- why try to correlate a market move to a specific?

If the correlation is positive, it has taken place on this day, at this time, in these micro circumstances, in these macro circumstances. This set of circumstances will not occur again.

If the correlation is negative, it has taken place on this day, at this time, in these micro circumstances, in these macro circumstances This set of circumstances will not occur again.

Correlating based upon several confluent circumstances leads to long-term false impressions that unfavorably impact future decisions.

Financial Wars

World War III is a financial war. The old-fashioned military wars being waged are distractions consisting of people doing what simply comes naturally.

The weaponry of WWIII includes commodities, corporate assets, and real estate often in the form of civilian national assets. Examples include commodities such as oil, corn, rice; corporate assets such as the Rolls-Royce automobile company, Lenovo Computer Corporation; real estate such as the Chrysler Building, Sears Tower, the Panama Canal, the New York Port Authority. There is a myriad of examples in all industries crossing all industrialized borders and several primitive nations.

The ammunition of WWIII is money.

Today's form of war is a globalized manifestation of old-style nationalization of foreign assets on domestic soil.

The WWIII end objective is to disrupt enemy commerce, industry, domestic stability, & daily civilian life.

Continuation

There are several momentous changes taking place during the first decade of the 21st century. These changes are gaining momentum and developed as a result of the psychologically disruptive impact of the new millennium along with some attendant aspects. Even though it sounds silly, people are silly, psychologically frail, and fearful.

Today's stock market and financial asset correction is a continuation of the corrections that began in 2000. This may be the final down-leg of the correction. The meaningful question is of course, "Where and when will asset valuations come to rest?"

One Rule

Two factors control the broad trend of financial markets.

1.) Interest rates: As rates -- and the perception of their direction -- rise, markets decline.

2.) Taxes: As rates -- and the perception of their direction -- rise, markets decline.

The Democrats have stated that if they gain power -- especially the US presidency -- tax rates will rise. The Federal Reserve Bank has stated that it is vigilant and operating with a bias toward controlling inflation by raising rates to stave off inflationary trends.

It is not wise to buy financial assets when interest rates and tax rates are poised to rise. It can be wise to sell holdings and go short.

One rule to avoid losing money: Do not go long when interest & tax rates are rising.

Today's Politeness

People today are too often excessively polite.

Today people's politeness often masks genuine phoniness.

Never be fooled by people's politeness.

Never be fooled in any way that may cost money, inordinate time, or difficulty.

Today politeness is often superficial. Today politeness is rarely sincere. Today politeness is merely a tool used to extract something without working and earning it.

Fail to fall for their politeness or be prepared for the consequences -- often betrayal.

When To Buy & When Not

Stock buys are made in the immediate term. The immediate term is encased within specific psychologies that are often different from the psychology that will cause stocks to rise.

Therefore, buy a stock when the psychology has turned positive. That is, when the stock is on the rise. Bottom-fishing is a losing proposition.

For example, GM today, is still a short... especially over 12. I would rather wait and buy it when I perceive a changed psychology and when it is around 16.

When a stock is rising, opinion is shifting toward buying. Other investors of various sorts are of a positive opinion.

I do not need -- nor does my ego need -- to buy at the bottom. I do want to make money.

William Durant started GM 100 years ago and went through extremely difficult times for several years.

GM and the USA have been through tougher times than these.

There is a new world opening up to buy and sell everything. Global trade will save GM and America.

Tough times force companies to be more efficient. Tough times also force people to consider, re-evaluate, and shape up.

No Experience

Never before in several recent decades has there been a market marked by such apparent desperation, ignorance,& arrogance.

Experienced market watchers do not recall a market with so much unjustifiable knee-jerk reacting. Examples include YHOO and GM moves that occur within seconds of some made-up, so-called news report.

How many times -- and who is -- reacting to these "people say" CNBC-type stories???

These stock moves represent more than wild trading. They represent chaos amongst desperate under-40ish people who trade like they drive -- without stopping for red lights or stop signs. They have never experienced a Genuine BEAR MARKET such as that of the 1970s. They have only witnessed UP markets with corrections that come shortly after down-moves, are quick, and yield big profits. That identifies the environment since 1982.

Those markets are the result of Reaganomics. . . not leadership-less financial policies within a weak-charactered culture.

That is why these markets have been so long in correcting... since 2001. Wait -- if these same market players elect the empty suit president... they will then experience what a Genuine Bear Market, long-term correction is.

Such grand ignorance and arrogance are unbelievable.

No Trust Anywhere

It is as though we must entrust our lives to Mr. Wheeler, the Disney cartoon character of the 1940s. He is the average, normal gentleman-family man. He is normal and decent... until he gets into his car. Once behind the wheel, he becomes a madman driven only to drive madly with disregard for pedestrians, traffic laws, regulations, safety, common sense, stop signs, and traffic signals.

People everywhere today are dishonest and untrustworthy and incompetent on their jobs. They operate with abandon and do not care for consequences. They understand that nearly everyone else operates similarly on his job. Therefore, few people have much trust in other's institutions -- including government and industry.

This awareness applies to financial institutions as well as most other industries.

Therefore, there is eroding, diminishing, shrinking confidence in financials. And markets will erode until trust returns. People will tend to not invest in what they distrust.

And politicians -- those individuals always known to be criminal and incompetent? I will save my ink and let you answer this question.

I don't mind the meek, but why -- and how -- the unworthy, incompetent???

Our Acquaintances -- Pathetic They Are Not

Their fear, dislike, and distrust of doctors and other manifestations are phony. Those are only talking points. Those are a base from which they stand upon and attempt to move forth.

That manifestation so oft spoken of is trumped by their narcissistic, unending, uncontrollable, self-examination. They do not understand actual medical or scientific aspects inherent in much of anything they encounter and therefore may always pervert the results of their self-examining into more self-examining.

They have too much time and too much unearned money. They do not have nearly enough mental substance to occupy either.

Regardless of what they say, they are somewhere inside themselves when alone late in the dark of night able to recognize the simple fact that they have no lives, for -- even to them -- a life, to be worthy, must be productive.

And, so, they travel to now-dead, primitive lands, rush to visit the grandchildren, buy needless objects to soon discard, and talk endlessly on their cell phones to anyone out there in Cellphone Land.

I Am Being Passed By

No. Actually as one ages the chances of meeting a mate of a more perfect fit increases. As we age there tend to be more people who have been released from unpopular relationships and thus become -- through oft difficult trials -- more prepared to accede into more perfect unions with each of another.

Moreover, as one ages, he (and even a she of so arrogant an ilk as exists today) oft becomes more mature in his knowledge of himself and his recognition of the more perfect mate. We oft learn more about ourselves and learn how to recognize traits -- both faults and advantages -- in others before committing to a life-long relation.

Or, as we transverse through our existences, we as well as others become through experience more equipped to handle and accept others.

Ye be wise beyond your years to pause while waiting to locate the perfect mate for it is for LIFE!

Sincerely,
P.T.H.

He who has a why to live, can bear almost any how.
-- Fredrich Nietzsche

Clear Vision Into Today's Market Pricing

Larger-than-functionally-tolerable market spreads with resultant lock-ups describe today's real estate markets. And they are the defining element in several of today's credit markets. This lack of operational price discovery potential also applies to commodity markets.

In commodity markets, product absolutely must be transferred from sellers to buyers. Therefore the spread is not the issue, but price unidirectionality forced upon prices. Many of these prices are not "discovered" in the markets, but are virtual-mandates of demand.

Observe long-term price / volume charts for oil, industrial & precious metals, softs, & grains.

We are living in an advanced variance of the Age Of Betrayal.

It was born within humans & will not evolve.

How To Lose Money -- The Easy Way

Bottom fishing is an easy and nearly guaranteed method to lose money in today's markets.

This technique is also known as "catching a falling knife".

Check out the charts of most financial stocks over recent months.

Ignore Your Rights & They Will Go Away

On Name Calling

When you are called a derogatory name, you are being provided the opportunity to disprove that you are such.

Wise people use the spotlight to stand up for themselves and prove that they are fine, honest, good people.

Unwise people attempt to silence the name caller. By doing so, the unwise are inhibiting their own right to free speech.

I would rather fail trying than fail to have tried.

Faith

Faith in this market and the moves made within it requires faith in the majority of the individual participants.

I do not have faith in the wisdom, financial backing, nor investment knowledge to trust today's majority.

Faith in today's market moves will likely damage my net worth.

Recall a guy named Lewis who repeatedly invested in BSC all the way down.

Why Is Retirement A Series Of Doctor Appointments Followed By Death?

He is bored, has nothing productive to do, and is too comfortable financially due to being handed too much through no effort of his own. Therefore, he feels intrinsic guilt for not doing anything or accomplishing anything day after day. These are negative feelings that violate the work ethic people such as we were raised to expect of ourselves.

These negative feelings cause constant guilt -- daily everyday. They also generate through endocrine secretions and derivative chemicals a poisonous environment in the body. These poisons disrupt the bodily functions that are most vulnerable. These bodily functions vary by individual.

In his case, the mix of chemicals including hormones disrupt and damage his digestive tract functions. Therefore he has digestive tract problems, pains, and ill-functioning parts and activities.

This is a high price to pay for retirement.

NOTE: The reason does not matter here, but it is a straightforward variable combination related to whatever might be the person's Achilles heel and whatever may be the person's specific poisonous chemicals. When those chemicals infiltrate the Achilles heel via distribution throughout the body, the result is one or more disrupted processes.

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When he retired, he should have had activities -- productive activities -- planned. The list of productive activities does not include visiting children, grandchildren, or other relatives as the frequent pastime. Nor does it include multiple vacations just to get away. That stuff, if allowed as he has allowed it vacuously by default, turns into the primary activity and will lead to an early death with diseases scattered along the last years. Money is expended on doctors and medicines, time is expended on medical visits with days wasted analyzing and having tests that reveal null situations. The retirement is wasted.

Doing and producing is healthy!

Yes often -- very frequently & too frequently -- he announces how much he is enjoying retirement. Of course he enjoys retirement. He has no responsibility and enough money so there is little direct discomfort.

But he intrinsically feels a need to not be a sloth.

Of course he would not go back to work on his old job. He disliked that work. But he does want to do something productive.

Just because he disliked his job, it does not follow that he does not need to be productive.

His refutations only apply to the work he did, not working. He actually means only that he would not return to his specific past job. However now he feels guilty for not producing and wants to do something productive.

He will be ill until he feels fulfilled... or dies.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Competent In What?

Forget the silliness, juvenile behavior, and frenzied movements. We must understand again & again that it is impossible to effectively communicate with nearly all people most of the time. We must always take as fact that, in most interactions, we are less than half understood by other people. That is regardless of the other person's age, gender, intellect, education, or any other factor. And this includes anyone whom we know to be intelligent as judged by his accomplishments, such as brain surgeon, teacher, real estate mogul, or any other profession or activity.

These days try in a very stern fashion to speak slowly and clearly. Observe the person to whom we are attempting to communicate with. Attempt to identify the degree of comprehension. Do this with stock boys in grocery stores, bank staff, car salesmen, relatives of friends, and everywhere.

This applies especially on the telephone where there is no visual and little audible feedback to assess comprehension.

We may think or feel that we are effectively communicating, but we are not -- not ever -- being fully understood. This is true with nearly all people. They are either confused, not processing, lost, or do not understand how to retrieve messages from a cell phone or answering machine.

Nearly all people including your coworkers -- nearly ALL -- fail to comprehend enough to be deemed competent.

When the unworthy become overly-empowered they operate from unbounded ignorance.

Realize, Prioritize, Act Rationally

Uncoiling Capitalism Is Unleashing Itself Around The Globe

Understanding & Accepting Without Fear

The credit clutch is only one aspect of the globalizing economy. It was first visible in early 2007. It is nothing more that a large-scale, all-encompassing, complexly intertwined financial adjustment. It is a consequence of the natural globalization that started evolving in the last quarter of the 20th century.

The only way to comprehend the new world economic and cultural orders is to view today's global economic situation from the highest level perspective. That will -- to an informed, educated, experienced, clear-thinking mind -- provide understanding.

The year 2008 will be recorded in history as the year wherein globalization widely impacted all major economies. Over the next years all major economies will continue to adjust to the implementation of capitalism within the evolving global structure.

Some people are short-sighted. Some people are envious. Some people are angry. Many people in each of these inferior groups of people manifest their emotions as hatred of the United States.

If the United States manages to gain leadership during 2008, the USA will arise stronger and better positioned within a broadly globalizing economic structure. The USA will be the focalizing force that lifts up more people than any other phenomenon in mankind's history.

People today are open to doing anything regardless of its filth, low-class nature, or potentially damaging impacts.

This is because:

1.) People have no leaders whom they trust or respect;

2.) People have lost respect for institutions of all sorts;

3.) People have been given too much too easily through too little work;

3.) People have lost most semblance of self-respect;

4.) People just want to do it in the sense of doing something to change their circumstance;

5.) People do not evaluate and consider alternative relative and absolute methods available to change their circumstances;

6.) People have little regard for potential consequences regardless of how dire and long-lasting those consequences may be;

7.) People don't care. They actually care less than Stan of South Park, Colorado. At least Stan reacts by turning away and repeating "Don't care". People truly have no regard for the future consequences and do not care what might happen to them because they are spoiled into believing there are no hard consequences. People believe that they are immune to all consequences.

8.) People do not believe that permanent records are kept regarding the behavior, progress, and accomplishments they make during their lives.

As of today, many visible, wealthy people continue to escape long-term negative consequences for their anti-cultural actions. These include criminals from Martha Stewart and O.J. Simpson to top level business executives. People often go to court and after paying a fine walk away with expunged records.

Until painful, substantive consequences surpass the rewards of the unethical and amoral actions, our culture will continue to decay.

Never under-estimate the confused ignorance of most people most of the time about most things.

Why It Matters To You

"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn�t speak up because I wasn�t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn�t speak up because I wasn�t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn�t speak up because I wasn�t a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up."

The bible has it wrong. Correctly stated, "The stupid, uneducable, and lazy shall inherit the earth".

A rich man is not the one with the most, but the one who needs the least.

Pause To Assess Where Our Culture Has Devolved To

A straying husband is bad. But a home wrecker is worse - at least when it comes to who should end up in the White House.

That seems to be the judgment of women polled by the New York Daily News. More were likely to punish Judith Giuliani for trysting with the then-married mayor when she was Judith Nathan than Bill Clinton for cheating on his wife in the Oval Office.

Economic Reports

That's the beauty part of the whole puzzle. Nearly everyone is confused and the rest of the self-proclaimed geniuses hold wrong opinions.

And that explains why markets move the way markets move.

And that you should see by now.

Jihadists Scare Me?

No, they are not scary. We know who they are and precisely what their objectives are. They are a difficult enemy only because we fail to think as they do: With no civilized boundaries.

The war against them is as simplistic as our resolution to our need for oil: Just dig in our front and back yards.

If we did the second, we would be simultaneously be defeating them in their war against us.

Vegetarians & Dieters Are Morons

Never whine, complain, nor be unhappy with the intensity, power, strength, desire of your appetite. Never whine about being somewhat fattyish.

Eating is fun, good, healthy, fortifying, and allows a person to go about his business and life satisfied and healthy.

Now I will sit here, moving my fingers, trying to work up an appetite.

It seems more and more that some folks sole purpose in life is to take up space and waste oxygen.

The So-Beautiful Manner Of How Markets Work

As prices decline, additional buyers enter. They buy... at declining prices. Supply is used up. Additional buyers come in. More supply is used at lower prices. Relative shortages result in price stabilization. Additional supply enters the market. More buyers enter. Increasing demand relative to past price/supply relations result in increasing prices. More buyers enter not wanting to miss out on bargains & supply which increases relatively reluctantly.

Prices rise. Supply rises. More buyers enter.

Prices are high relatively. Supply is used up. Buyers enter driving prices up further.

Some degree of the miss and over-applied term bubble develops.

Something happens to the smooth flow of the buy-sell market organism.

Buyers disappear relatively, supply increases relatively, prices fall.

And....

Something happens: Orderly price decline, orderly supply increase, orderly demand increase join and there are no headlines.

If the relative and the absolute fall out of limits relative to each other, there are headlines. There may be panic among any or each: buyers, sellers, suppliers, and others who fail to comprehend market processes.

In all cases, massive amounts of money may be made.

NOTE: The magnitudes of supply, price, quantity, buyer psychology, macro economic conditions, and more vary and shift during the processing. This is why smart people tend to make more money than less-smart people. But how can that be if we are all equal?

Throughout my life I've spent most of my money on cars, women, and a few good friends. The rest I just wasted.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist.

Considering the other side of economics, the real world where consumers buy stuff, speculators have inordinately driven some commodity prices upward beyond speculative reasonableness. They are piling in excessively over too long a period. Are they hedging in the true meaning of hedging? They are likely to pay for over-speculating some day during a NASDAQ-type collapse where prices drop incrementally and, in practical terms, never recover in anyone's lifetime.
Vulnerable markets include real estate, oil, many stocks, and corn. The equilibrium adjustment (return to normalcy) we are currently witnessing in financial stocks is typical and part of this equilibrium quest.

Pause To Consider

We are living through a macro economic deflationary phase that will continue for the foreseeable future. This deflationary phase is impacting all industrial and agrarian economies.

This deflationary phase is demonstrated ubiquitously. Very few products and services have been rising in price over recent years. In the intermediate and long term more products and services will decline in price.

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Do you recall when, in 1971, the US ended the remnants of the 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement and the gold standard? That marked the start of a global long-term inflationary phase which was kicked into 6th gear by the OPEC cartel's taking control over the price of oil.

In the 1970s and very early 1980s we saw draconian inflation. Relevantly, some in-demand automobiles were rising in price roughly 5% to 10% year over year due to government mandates and general inflationary trends. Grocery prices rose so fast that people learned to buy extra food items each time they shopped. That behavior artificially decreased supply and artificially increased demand resulting in sellers raising prices beyond what they needed to due their increased raw material costs. The price spiral was self fulfilling.

That macro inflationary phase was broken when US Treasury instruments were allowed to rise to 22.5% in 1981.

Inflation was beginning to be throttled back during the 1980s. Over the next 20 years inflation was slowed and stopped by technology, globalization, and the spread of democracy with its resultant free-spirited consumerism. The final and most significant factor that stopped inflation is the free flow of information. Information flow fuels and greases economies.

We live in a world where global free markets are taking over by supplying raw materials, products, services, and labor. These globalized free markets operate in an expanding world population that is now able to buy, sell, and manufacture all products and services in areas that just decades ago were barely functioning as agrarian. Consider the global markets -- that is, buying & selling capabilities -- in finance (stocks, bonds, forex, manufacturing (autos, electronics, heavy & light machinery), services (labor, both specialized and unskilled), and more.

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Our automobiles are getting better and costing relatively less due to globalization which cuts costs of producing components, increases engineering and manufacturing labor capabilities offering more skills and more workers, and decreases the cost of materials. The auto we own today is an example of a product that can now be sold worldwide. This is an example of expanded demand for a product, its servicing, and related sales and service labor.

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The auto we own is a higher-quality product, more feature-rich, and, to summarize, has more horses per cube & nearly totally clean exhaust thanks to manufacturing technology, globalization, each of which is supported by capabilities inherent in our Age of Information.

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Automobiles will survive and be sold at whatever the local and global markets will bear. We see our old-ish autos decrease in resale value because we are living through a deflationary phase.

We should be very pleased that while prices are declining, features, capabilities, and quality are increasing -- at a more rapid relative rate.

None of us is wholly immune in this financial, cultural and political down-drafting void.

The global credit clutch is not about Merrill's O'Neal, Citigroup's Prince or even its prince shareholder. It is not about the current incarnation of the Florida real estate debacle. Nor is it about the upper managements of institutions responsible for hoards of money managers who created, packaged, sold, and bought derivatives embedded with instruments of all sorts. Today's credit clutch is about a culture bereft of leadership. Today, those thrust into leadership roles have little understanding of operations and functions that they are responsible for, in charge of, and should be competently directing.
Today's leadership cares not for consequences that can and do damage their institutions. Today's leaders too often operate as though they are insulated financially and personally from any negative consequences of their incompetent, unconcerned methods.
Today's leaders are not leaders. They simply occupy leadership positions. Not until leaders fill leadership positions and lead with competent integrity will their staffs operate with integrity.
It appears unlikely, but leaders must arise to fill the leadership voids in finance, industry, politics, and throughout our culture. These new leaders must operate with competent integrity along with personal and institutional respect and concern for long-term consequences. If they fail to emerge, we will each follow the incompetent, unconcerned, sloppy figures we appear to adore directly down to our ultimate demise.
None of us is wholly immune in this financial, cultural and political down-drafting void.

Waking up makes it a great day.

Yes & No

There are 10 types of people in the world. Those that understand binary and those that don't.

Global Markets

Consistently on most financial market trading days, Asian markets are up or down meaningfully more than are European markets.

This differential is due to intrinsic psychological and cultural behavioral patterns of the dominant peoples trading within the two groups of markets. Often a potentially profitable arbitrage trade exists across the two continents.

Two Precipitating Characteristics Of Financial Crises Are Leverage & Complexity

These two elements are the top level from which one may view today's ultra-high risk, super-entwined, non-decipherable complexity that is not manageable by the tens-of-thousands of keyboard jockeys around the world each of whom is operating in unenlightened self-interest within a parochial sphere he is not capable of comprehending nor able to react properly to in order to do much other than sell.

In historic relative and absolute senses, two components have not existed before: 1.) Huge contingencies of multi-national, inexperienced Oriental minds interacting frenetically and chaotically in quickly shifting markets, &, 2.) Massive derivative chains vertically embedded within various levels of horizontally connected derivative loops, spirals, and pyramids.

Additional credit dislocations are inevitable. It will be surprising if no further global devolvement of credits markets, currency markets, and derivatives clog conduits thus forcing major financial entities into reconciliation.

Conceivably the next global credit clog debacle could be triggered by a suddenly disrupted foreign currency market involving multiple nation's currencies. The US economy likely will remain strong with high employment, low inflation, and relatively high consumption levels. Subprime borrowers are a culturally significant portion of the home-owning public, but they are not meaningful beyond the short term in today's massive credits markets once mature, analytical people return.

Bravery is doing a dangerous thing without thinking about it.
Courage is knowing the immense risk and doing it anyway.

Krauthammer�s razor broadened: In explaining any puzzling phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else usually gives the perpetrators too much credit.

Anyone who displays anything less is to be held apart and in perspective.

It's good to be smart, but much better to be stupid. It is funny how so many stupid people by chance fall into the optimal position -- that of being stupid.

All that you fail to comprehend is only surpassed by your ignorance.

Evolution � It�s just a theory like General Relativity and Newtonian Mechanics.

People rushing to go no where each day often fail to perceive & appreciate the presence of their most wonderful fortune, their Good Health.

Swirling Decay

It makes perfect sense that the Ford Motor Company would sell Land Rover & Jaguar late in 2007, little over a year after the latest CEO was imported having no auto industry experience from his failing Boeing career to stand in for Bill Ford and the Ford Foundation.

It -- Ford Motor Company under a previous regime -- spent hundreds of millions of dollars and invested a decade building and preparing premium product lines for the global market that is now emerging.

However, that investment was planned and executed by the previous regime.

The current regime -- not Ford Motor Company -- needs money to buy itself the next few years' survival. It can acquire needed dollars and future years buy stamping previous work developing Land Rover & Jaguar as not having succeeded and thus selling those marques.

Thus the current regime survives for a few years, pays itself well, plans anew, and after having failed to show improvement, will move on or be replaced by the Foundation, the actual inept manager of Ford Motor Company.

Then a new regime will enter, collect money for itself, scrap the previous (today's) regime's plan, and so on, ad infinitum until Ford is taken private or acquired by a foreign company.

Today's New-age Phonies Use An Old Trick To Make Their Stuff Appear New

They employ Blurred Obfuscationary Confusion.

After all, how much of all of today's drek is genuinely new? Most is simple re-jiggering of existing functional models.

You don't understand this one. Don't even try to. You're not up to it.

The Urge Toward Excess Is Positive

The natural urge toward excess is empowered when organisms of all varieties that instinctively want to survive and better themselves exhibit aggressive behavior in frequent executed operations. Often the more aggressive of most varieties eventually take too much power.

The urge toward additional -- and sometimes excessive -- success is natural amongst alert, reaching, acquisitive organisms. This urge is what differentiates surviving organisms from those that become extinct.

Some organisms that fall into the category include:
-- Special unit big city cops;
-- Upper level businessmen managing and operating organizations' growth. This model is exemplified by Enron and MCI;
-- Specialy trained military units exemplified by Special Forces and Navy Seals;
-- Military units on special duties such as soldiers in Iraq;
-- Entrepreneurs operating their own business operations and involved in daily operations who operate businesses and constantly adjust prices and quality constantly conducting live limit tests on real customers.

These models are manifestations of organisms' survival instincts endeavoring to earn improvement.

On Running & Marathons

Wow! Such a large crowd of derriere orifices.

More bothersome than the sweat generated is the concept of so many people wasting so much time preparing for, executing the event, and oscillating afterwards, telling and retelling stories in grand detail inside Starbucks over the next months about just how they tripped, caught up to, passed, and gloriously finished the event.

So much self-importance and pseudo achievement likely overwhelms their pea brains.

Oft consequences unintended, result from plans ill comprehended.

Pause, relax, evaluate, consider, and realize....

Irrational Apathy

The 2007 real estate, credit, interest rate, asset valuation problems are far, far, far from over... weekend absorptions of banks and lending institutions illustrate that anything may happen at anytime anywhere.

Batten down all hatches.

Irrational apathy has replaced the expert's phrase. That so-called expert, Greenspan, allowed and held rates too low for too long in a culture of arrogance.

So, just in time for the presidential election....

People we know will be out of work.

Thanking God

His name was Fleming and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog.

There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.

The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.

"I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved my son's life."

"No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the Scottish farmer replied waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel.

"Is that your son?" the nobleman asked.

"Yes," the farmer replied proudly.

"I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy. If the lad is anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of." And that he did.

Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in time, graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.

Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia.

What saved his life this time? Penicillin.

The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill. His son's name?

Sir Winston Churchill.

Someone once said: What goes around comes around. Sometimes even with good people.

If energy and enthusiasm were a substitute for experience and expertise, then I could hire a 12 year old to do my job.

Power

Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing so gentle as genuine strength.

Correlation Trading:
Correlate price changes and patterns against corporate, geo-political, and economic news and fundamentals with constantly overlaying re-interpretive modifications.

Question:
Do any of the sources of forces causing price changes matter?

Answer:
No. Net results - the price changes - are constantly being analyzed with fundamentals factored in to anticipate potential impacts.

A black box, financial debacle, a 9/11, & more are weighted and normalized by the market every millisecond. The net impact and meaning may be observed as the current price, the instantaneously changing price, and the open and closing prices.

People who fail to appreciate all they have & strive to make life difficult for others should burn forever.

Most people fail to comprehend how delicate and fragile good living is.

William Graham Sumner, 1840- 1910, Yale University Historian

"Society needs first of all to be freed from these meddlers-that is, to be let alone. Here we are, then, once more back at the old doctrine-Laissez faire. Let us translate it into blunt English, and it will read, Mind your own business. It is nothing but the doctrine of liberty. Let every man be happy in his own way. If his sphere of action and interest impinges on that of any other man, there will have to be compromise and adjustment. Wait for the occasion. Do not attempt to generalize those interferences or to plan for them a priori. We have a body of laws and institutions which have grown up as occasion has occurred for adjusting rights. Let the same process go on. Practice the utmost reserve possible in your interferences even of this kind, and by no means seize occasion for interfering with natural adjustments. Try first long and patiently whether the natural adjustment will not come about through the play of interests and the voluntary concessions of the parties."

Peter The Hermit: Those 20th Century Born, During The 21st Century Will Die Appalled

Memo:
Many thoughts light up as I review stuff from my ventures of the last quarter century. Making a fortune while being honest and productive requires much insight, thought, analysis, effort, and some good fortune. It genuinely does require a large magnitude of effort... but not really too much considering the satisfaction. Perseverance is mandatory. Also required is an appropriate degree of toughness. What is appropriate at a specific time requires wisdom and application of judgment.

Fortunately most of my adventures are enjoyable and potentially profitable.

I just looked out over the lake and I can see one of my ships is coming in. It is zigzagging.

PTH

Just because everyone is out to get you is no reason to be paranoid.

Everything Has Already Been Said
	Plato, Locke, Aquinas, Hume, Burke, Cicero, Machiavelli, Spinoza, Bastiat, Confucius, Hobbes, Descartes, Adam Smith, von Mises, Mill, Hegel, Aristotle, Hayek, Kant, Rousseau, Luther, and many others have spoken. Some eloquently, some less eloquently, but each espousing wisdom that, if applied to all human being's psychology, economics, and lifestyles, could cure all ills. Curing all ills could release people's mental, physical, and other resources leaving them free to create, be happy, and not annoy, disrupt and control others.
Everything that ever needed to be identified, defined, analyzed, explained, and re-explained has already been so and totally machinated. Enough already! All that is best and worst, correct and wrong, economically productive and economically fails has been covered!
Now all human beings, as well as those creatures lumped in and referred to as human beings must choose their side. Then, after everyone has chosen his position, each must separate into widely-dispersed geographic locations and go on about their lives as they have chosen. They must each and every one leave all other groups of people alone to go about their lives.
Many reading this will choose North America, Europe, and the Middle East. Other people may choose South America, Africa, Asia and the Asian subcontinent. Some deserve to be relegated to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean... and even that is too good for them.
OK, on the count of 3, everyone shift to his chosen region... and stop meddling with other people... -- 3.

Gasoline Costs Less In Dubai
	The price of gasoline, health care quality & availability, Automobiless, Dubai, taxes, politicians, roads in England, and all else is subordinate and irrelevant to all of our lives without the most meaningful element. That most meaningful element is that any person who is rational wants to live in liberty, be free to choose his lifestyle, and be part of a heritage of success, accomplishment, and decency can achieve it in the USA.
There is no other nation in mankind's history other than the United States of America where any individual can achieve all that is inherently desirable. The USA has created and makes available to all, the gold standard of lifestyles. Anyone can work and achieve much, and sometimes all, that he dreams of by following the rules in the USA.
People have died for centuries fighting to build a nation as great as the USA is today. The French Revolution, several wars amongst the English people, wars across the European continent and Asia have been about liberty and lifestyle choices over the centuries.
The Automobiles is a product of the USA. It was possible only because men were educated, civilized, free to invent, worked cooperatively, and took relatively unencumbered risks within a US corporation in which others had achieved success before them. No other nation has produced any technologically advanced product such as the Automobiles that is available to a large portion of its population. Only in the USA was this possible.
Certainly the USA is not perfect. We have, as all nations have, human beings who -- with all the same nastiness, strengths, frailties, and weaknesses -- become politicians, crooked businessmen, and criminals. However, these obstructions to progress are just that -- obstructions that get pushed aside and worked around by the creative, honest, hard-working Americans who know achievement with honor and integrity is the their goal.
Certainly taxes are always too high, health care is not perfect, and there are other problem sectors. However, the sum of all that is good and all that is not perfect yields a net fantastic lifestyle for the majority of people in the USA.
I would like to pay $1.70 for gasoline as they do in Dubai, but will not surrender liberty and justice for all Americans in exchange for cheaper gasoline and living in nations such as those in the Middle East. I would like better health care, but no where in the world does that exist -- not under socialism or any plan other than the US regulated capitalistic system.
Our Automobiless are a product of the USA. We should not miss the very complex, hard won, difficult events that had to be conquered before those GM employees could dream of, and bring to fruition, the Automobiles in 1953. Never forget nor overlook the thousands of people who fought so hard to keep the USA free so that others could design, engineer, build, manufacture, and place Automobiless in showrooms across the the USA so that we -- the so very fortunate -- might just walk in and buy as many as we want and can afford.
And if we want more of them but cannot afford more, we simply get ourselves in gear, work hard, and there is a good chance we will be able to afford more.
Never overlook all that we have been provided by our ancestors, the goodness of the universe, and that which each of us has personally earned and transformed into our Automobiles.
No, this is not a rant. It is a simple statement of irrefutable fact.

That's why God invented money... to spend... and the quicker we spend it, the more he approves.

And so it is written... here.

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No, really...! The stupidity, vindictive actions, low-caliber behavior, unwarranted arrogance, unkempt appearance, lawless actions, vast ignorance, rudeness, and ill-tempered nature of many people today is more than enough to push the few remaining civil people into the Land Where Everyone Else Is, that place with the air that turns all inhabitants into Dontcairites.

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Life is short. At any given moment your last tomorrow may have been yesterday.

Suckling
	There was once an age when people outgrew their natural need to suckle several months after birth. People adapted and learned to drink from a glass. Over the years they actually matured, became adults, and drank from glasses when thirsty or partying.
Today, in our age of widespread multiple fears many people cannot drive, walk, run, or sit without being comforted by a nearby liquid. It is often coffee or bottled water that now provides the ongoing suckling comforts that today's non-maturing, juvenile generations need to suck.
In the less self-involved, less demanding and more fearless age of recent decades, contented, psychologically well-adapted people simply lit up a cigarette and relaxed.

What Is Not

We live in an ever-increasingly impersonal world thanks to fear of terrorism and other real dangers, as well as, the Internet's depersonalization of relationships. Further obfuscating the concept of "relationship" is that people misinterpret the surrealism of Internet-based relationship "communities" as being substantive relationships.

However Internet communal relationships are not substantive and do not warrant people building trusting, involved, and personal relationships. Moreover, the abuse and over-use of hugging, hand shakes, and words such as "friends" and "love", have also perverted people's concept of what a personal relationship is.

Right Can Be Left

	Around 1960 the Civil Rights Movement usurped the concept of "What Is A Right".
The movement identified individual rights as "the right to do anything the individual wants to do".
The movement discarded the attached phrasing which identifies a caveat. That caveat is "... as long as what is done by one person does not infringe upon the rights of another".
As the decades passed, people and groups demanding their rights were led by unworthy demagogues who pushed with abandon for ubiquitous rights. The demagogues taught their followers to push without regard for the caveat. Over time, people have come to act and believe that they have unlimited rights to go as far in any direction as they care to go -- often with little thought of consequences while acting in uncouth ways.
Today many followers of demagogues who often have little education and often are not as smart know that they can do, say, and act in any manner with impunity.
Finally, we are entering an age wherein some individuals are pushing the envelope of their rights forcefully into the personal rights of others and causing serious damage. There have now been enough school shootings, rude drivers, and mean acts perpetrated upon enough of the more civilized people to aggravate and scare the innocent law-abiding.
In retaliation against the unbounded rights infringers, the law-abiding are being forced to use institutions of government and civility to constrict the application of all our rights.
Tomorrow it will be illegal to openly express yourself by word or deed without fearing punishment.
No? You doubt this statement? What is that word that you are not allowed to say? What is that term that you dare not express for fear of reprisals? How old was that student who was arrested for writing an essay about violence? Where are you not allowed to smoke a cigarette while others use illegal hard drugs?
Wake up. It is now several years past 1984.

What I know, is dwarfed by what I pretend to know.

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Micro-managing
	Do you know some of those people who must micro-manage everything? They are on auto-pilot. They are not capable of pausing, considering, and seeing that they cannot -- and need not -- micro-manage every aspect of their lives.
They are enamored with their belief that they have the power and ability to micro-analyze and then impact and control minor aspects of everything. How ignorant, arrogant, and pointless.
For example, which night -- Friday or Saturday -- may a restaurant be more busy? Pause.... How much difference might there be between Friday and Saturday nights? And so will that impact your enjoyment?
If it makes so much difference, go any other night -- not definitely the two most busy nights. Are these people looking for discomfort or do they just instinctively need go through the analysis process?
If a difference were to be miscalculated, would panic set in and the evening is less fun? This is only pathetic behavior of narcissistic, self-involved, petty minds.

Pause, relax, evaluate, consider, and realize....

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Most people don't really care much about anything... even about themselves except in an instinctive, self-preservationist way.
Observe how most people dress, maintain their appearance, keep themselves groomed, interact with friends, relatives, & coworkers, and drive.

Never lose a good deal over a detail.

You Cannot Get Through?
	Most people are incapable of making decisions even when it seems obvious that they should be able to decide an issue based upon the facts. Instead, a person may make a decision and take an action that you consider odd. Or, she may take no action at all whereupon you consider that unusual.
Sometimes we who are rational, contemplative types, interpret those apparently odd actions and inactions as personal affronts. They are not. People simply cannot understand the facts of many situations well enough to make a decision... regardless of how well you explain.
I mention this not for any specific situation. Rather it is intended to enhance your understanding and perhaps prevent your incorrect perceptions and misinterpretation of people's actions in the future.

Here's The Best 1 Yet...

	Do you recall waiting in line for gasoline during the 1973 Arab oil embargo?
If you don't, recall what it is like to wait in line anywhere today. Consider waiting at McDonalds, a grocery store, or just about anywhere these days.
Can you imagine waiting in line for gasoline today under the tensions of today with those same self-involved jerks, idiots, oh-so-nervous, hyperactive morons that you encounter these days?
Gee whiz, maybe it is better to wage war than to have the Arabs embargo oil again and therefore have to wait in line for gas with today's "neighbors and friends"!

Confidence Born In Ignorance

	Stay calm, relax, and just roll when subjected to ignorant people's unsolicited advice.
There are many people who are overly empowered today.
Too often they allow their massive fixations upon the trivial to mandate and control their lives. They often allow their focus upon the trivial to form their opinions of the macro. Then, believing that they know all about everything, they feel empowered in their ill-conceived thoughts to lecture us about how to live our lives.
This includes lecturing us about what to not eat, what kind of car to drive, and what the President of the United States does wrong. These often uneducated people then pass judgment upon us.
The funny thing is that they are often obsessed with narcissistic dieting, exercising, and self-involvement.
In actuality, they only truly know one thing -- how to be offensive.
You know some of these people. You likely work with some of them.

There are so very many extremely unhappy people who have grandly excessive amounts of money that, given a choice of one lifestyle over the other, a wise man would opt for poverty over wealth. He would likely eliminate the potential burden of unhappiness and low self-worth. Then, if healthy, he could always make money.

What our culture needs is a traditional rendition of Stephen Foster songs. You don't know what this means, do you?

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Not No Way
	Have you noticed how often people say, "Oh, I apologize. I was going to, but I am so very, very busy"? They are not being lazy nor are they at all busy.
They are rude, nasty, and attempting to make something difficult for you.

Priced To Perfection

People today believe that everything will happen just as they imagine. They do not even put much effort into the imaging step.

The term in market operations is "everything is priced to perfection".

These people plan little and leave no room for error, problems, or trouble.

Imagine when taxis start blowing up on Main Street, USA. These same people will surely be running around wildly, lost, and demanding help... from each other... selfish creatures that they are.

Purposeful
	Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an unscathed, well preserved body. A wise person plans to skid in broadside, thoroughly used and worn out, loudly proclaiming, "WOW!!! WHAT A RIDE!!!

The Cure
	So many people running around, busy, busy, busy. Many of them too busy to be effective at completing the tasks they start with efficiency. So busy that they are frustrated, chaotic, and unhappy in life and at work.
Many people have sustained periods -- even years -- of psychological hang-ups. These include depression, laziness, hyperactivity and other falsely-exotic-labeled syndromes. Read the story.

There is a juvenile-behavior mode present today that permeates all aspects of daily life.

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Today

The manifest absurdity of it is too obvious to require explanation.

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Infiltration Is Not Integration

Chinese Merchants Protest In Milan's Streets

A battle of cultures, business and lifestyles is being waged in Milan's Chinatown. This battle has been escalating for months.

The symbol of the war is the metal pushcart that the many Chinese wholesale clothing merchants have used to shuttle large volumes of inexpensive shirts, shoes and jeans to the idling vans and cars of waiting local buyers.

This Chinese market story verifies that the same thing is happening everywhere in this Age Of Migration. Peoples are migrating from their ancestral homelands to new -- but well established -- homelands. The destination homelands have their own peculiar cultural aspects and traditions that work well.

Migrants from all cultures should recall the reason they migrated. It was to upgrade themselves, not downgrade their new homeland. See the globalized future.

Ah... women in management. >>>

"I think it would look better over there."

This cartoon was published in 1979, proving that some people see problems coming before they evolve into catastrophes.

The Blackberry outage that caused a massive email problem crippling millions of users was "triggered by "the introduction of a new, non-critical system routine" designed to optimize the cache...". The company said the fix had not been thoroughly tested.
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This is totally consistent with the way most people work today in most industries.
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They fail to see complex interactions, understand intertwining components, have no respect for their production, have little concern for their jobs, and have a total disregard for consequences.
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Today's workers are bound to have more Blackberry devices fail and to cause more space shuttles to fall from the sky -- if they can even get them off the ground.

Do You Comprehend?

Unconstitutional? No !
The US Constitution Has Been Erased

Don Imus, the TV and radio talkster, has been fired by CBS. Whether or not you know who he is, did or did not listen to his daily nonsense, and even if you never heard of him before reading this sentence, is not relevant.

However, the Don Imus situation is now significant to you and to all Americans. The Don Imus case sets a high-profile pseudo-standard which will likely be adhered to by today's many weak-charactered lame leaders who have garnered most of the powerful media and political positions.

Your US Constitutionally-guaranteed freedom of speech has been erased and nullified. The Don Imus case proves in a broad implicit and pop-quasi-legal manner that your unqualified freedom of speech has been usurped. You may now be censured by any institution, group, and many individuals who may -- at their whimsical, self-serving notion -- choose to whine, shout, and picket long and loud enough. The Imus example is a high-profile proof. The long-time creeping restriction of your speech has now solidly arrived.

You no longer have the right to say whatever nonsense you choose to say. Your right to openly make a complete jackass of yourself, your right to verbally prove that you are a moron, your right to jabber any nonsense at any time no longer exists.

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The good aspect of the Imus event is that his low-class nonsense is off the airwaves. The bad aspect is that his low-class nonsense will likely be replaced by a lower caliber of low-class nonsense.

Beyond Feelings

Do you recall a day when you were a victim of some sort of name-calling in the schoolyard? You may have been hurt, been angered, or have been unconcerned. Regardless of your level of maturity, if you were fortunate, you had teachers, parents, and friends who reminded you that, "Sticks and stones may break your bones, but names will never hurt you".

Obviously the same axiom holds true today. However today we have been overrun by many unworthy individuals who have few skills and little ability to achieve in an organized society through work. The only way they may ever hope to achieve is to congeal into special interest groups and work to diminish others who are more successful and empowered. That is how they ascend. Importantly, their ascension is only relative -- that is, gained by pulling others downward.

The long-term result is that our society, culture, intellect, creative potential and futures are diminished by the unworthy.

Many people confuse politeness with weakness. That is because they are rude and weak themselves.

For some people, destruction is production.

"Rudy & Hillary Clowning In The NY Subway"

Photo Banned

The photo of Rudolph Giuliani and Hillary Clinton that had been displayed here distracted and sullied the wisdom pursued across this site. Neither of these miscreant, self-serving, morally weak, intellectually inadequate, genuinely unskilled people is worthy of being president of the USA.

They are both fortunate to have fooled enough of the people enough of the time to have undeservedly gained the notoriety and positions they now enjoy.

Fruitless Dilution Pollution
	You work to ensure the well-being of those boys who are filled with potential. Covet your relationship, your friends and close family members. Comprehend the genuinely great value of your relationship. Understand how fragile personal relationships are and how easily they may be irrevocably damaged. Get the wisdom.
In several instances of great import to my personal well-being, I often considered that most people were about equal in some vague, gelatinous way and would surely respond to goodness and opportunity. Obviously.
These distorted, ill-conceived, poorly analyzed concepts I took as absolute truths.
I was wrong. I was wrong for decades. I was wrong repeatedly over decades.
Most people are not similar to you and me. Our actions and performance testify to that. Most people actually are very pleased to subsist one day at a time. Most people tend to migrate downward culturally. Most people have very little desire to apply themselves and reach for grander plateaus. Most people do not concern themselves with achieving long term success.
Those are facts. Ignoring these facts will be detrimental to those who make naive applications of limited resources in order to assist the unworthy.
Do not over-extend your resources by allowing yourself to bear the burden of others who are destined to fail. It is unlikely that you and your friends can or will elevate others. It is more likely that others will dissolve into your universe, pollute it, and inhibit your abilities to build a good life. Get the wisdom.
Sincerely, Peter The Hermit

America's Illegal Immigration Problem Will Resolve Itself
	If the US continues to be passive and accept illegal immigrants, and if Americans continue to argue amongst themselves, the illegal immigration problem will end of its own weight.
Immigrants who have little regard for lawful behavior determine in their ignorant, uneducated minds that they need to get into America. They persevere in their illegal acts. It is shameful that they do not persevere in their determination to gain educations.
There will be a point when the American economy no longer has the extra capacity and resilience to absorb workers with lower skill levels and work ethics.
If situations continue, someday illegal immigrants will see more opportunities in Asian and European cultures than in America. America may even lose some of those who have been complaining for so long and hating her.
There may come a time when some leave, fewer break in, and America experiences a net loss of the unappreciative and unworthy !
However the immigration tide flows, American politicians will claim victory. The politicians' victory will be that they permitted the American decline. Read the tea leaves.

A Product Of American Ingenuity & Dreams

English
	The United States of America is the greatest nation ever devised by man. OK, it's not perfect. Are you? Immigrants come to America to achieve. ...apparently... in many cases.
The greatest accomplishments of Western civilization have been made by people who speak English. That includes progress in science, literature, life style, medicine, and much more.
Not speaking English in America while working in American businesses and not genuinely trying to achieve and acclimate to successful American ideals and standards is antithetical to the assumed primary purpose immigrants emigrated to America.
Americans should not be expected to accept immigrants who fail to speak English.
Immigrants should not expect to succeed unless they speak the language of proven success. That language is English.

Tattered
	Is the Good Old United States of America dying? Is she already dead? Did she ever exist?
Today Democrats and Republicans fight bloody battles against each other. The President of the United States of America stands daily under assault from over half of his fellow Americans. Many self-involved, narcissistic Americans fight over political issues that they understand little and cannot influence.
Americans have no respect for America. They fail to comprehend what it took to build the homeland they inherited with little effort. How did we get here?

Not Obvious
	If you wanted to attract a group to implement a cause, how might you gain the largest number of followers?
Politicians who become known as either demagogues or great leaders have a choice of two pathways.
They may select a cause that is negative, destructive and inflicts pain upon others as it gains power. Or, they may select a cause that is productive, constructive, and brings people together to make further gains.
Using your meager knowledge and understanding of history, review the world's success stories. Who has had the greatest success? The answer is the Hitler, Saddam, and Stalin-types have more success. They may not win for more than a few decades. However toppling them requires a massive force of good gathered over a long period, powered by a mass of individuals who eventually perceive personal danger. They reluctantly become motivated by fear.
This fact is not a testimonial to the skills of destructive demagogues. Instead it is verification of the innate nature of most individuals. Most people prefer to let someone else do hard work, are innately reluctant and negative, and are best motivated by fear.

Times Are Nasty & People Are Ignorant
	When the US reluctantly entered WWI, Irving Berlin wrote the song "Over There". This song celebrated the positive approach to deadly war. This song acknowledged the obvious pain and death, but stated affirmatively that we are going over there, going to win, and going to end WWI.
When the US was forced into WWII following Pearl Harbor, seeing no other way, the American people banded together, built a war machine, and defeated Hitler, Mussolini, the Japanese, and fascism, thereby ending WWII.
When the US was attacked on 9/11, it retaliated upon the enemy's homeland to demonstrate strength and destroy an enemy sworn to kill Americans and all humans' right to be free.
When the US continued the necessary offensive against terrorism, dictators, and Islamo-fascism by forcing regime change in Iraq, it was working to stop and prevent a global takeover by forces more despicable than Hitler, Mussolini, and the Japanese combined.
When the people of Iraq demonstrate their inability to live democratically and peacefully, when today's Americans sitting fat and safe at home hear that war brings death, many beg to "just quit". They do not know that over 7,400 Americans died on South Pacific beaches in just four weeks. Americans and Europeans seem ignorant of the millions of soldiers who died in WWII to provide us with today's safe homelands.
When the quitters who fail to see that everything in life has a cost and important issues must be won, when the US quits and runs, then Americans may realize how soft their lives were before 9/11. Pathetically for them, their lives may never again be as soft and they may never again have the luxury of being so lazy.

Earning Your Gold Star
	Always be aware of the rare and magnificent skills, the high risks, the intolerable pain, discomfort, suffering, anxiety, concern, worry, and uncertainties you were forced to tolerate while achieving success.
Do not dwell negatively upon all that you experienced while working toward achievement.
Few if any observers can accurately comprehend the several and varied difficulties you experienced so frequently along your pathway to success.
Never forget all that you have gone through while working to achieve. Appreciate your success.
Allow your experiences to provide a rationally-based perspective for the rest of your life.
When something or someone goes bad and attempts to impact you negatively, you should reflexively and quickly ignore and dismiss it. No one and nothing is worth allowing yourself to get upset.
Life is too precious. Life is potentially too much fun.
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Those of you who never have and never will achieve any significance should go on about your business of damaging and taking from others.
Genuine accomplishers will be little deterred by the frictions you apply, but you will never succeed.
Genuine accomplishers achieve more due to the Negative Nasties who insist upon wasting their energies inflicting damage upon real winners.

Disgrace

Congressman John Murtha	<<< Undermining In Arrogant, Dogmatic Comfort & Safety	You know who.

	Defending & Protecting In Grave Personal Danger >>>

Age-Free
	Wise people are sure to eat all the entrees, snacks and candy that they want anytime they want them.
Food is healthy only when ingested.
Food desired but not ingested adds anguish and frustration to daily life. That can promote aging. At a minimum, it inhibits happiness.

Self-involved Squared
	The news is bad for you. *You* have been selected as Time magazine's "'Person of the Year." Imagine, You, with all your frailties, shortcomings, inadequacies, and ineptitudes!!!
Using what was once a respected honor, Time Magazine demonstrated its failing and flailing missteps and lost ways by anointing each of us its 2006 Man Of The Year... Person Of The Year... Entity Of The Year.
The award has had to be conceptually renamed to "Person of the Year" and then assigned to some other entity. That is because there are few Men of either gender around these days. A pitiful read.

Go Away

Why should I have to press 1 to speak English?

Why would anyone having any semblance of reasonable intelligence refuse to speak English in the United States -- the land of opportunity? Why would anyone having any semblance of reasonable intelligence insist upon speaking Spanish after being fortunate enough to be allowed to live in the United States?

English is the language of science, industry, business, literature -- of Western Civilization's accomplishments. Spanish is the language of cultures with limited potential. Many of their people fight to enter the USA in pursuit of its abundant opportunities.

What Spanish-speaking nation has achieved anything close to all that Americans have achieved while speaking English?

Who could fail to see that he can achieve everything up to his full potential by speaking English in the USA? The answer is, only a person who has little reasonable intelligence.

Fact

There is low class, uncaring, anti-social behavior everywhere. People are not concerned with tomorrow or what they may genuinely achieve in life, or their obligations to the culture that has provided them with everything they are and may ever possess. People's rudeness and arrogance goes beyond the irrational. It is obvious that they have been given too much too easily. It is obvious that they do not truly appreciate the value of anything from their houses, cars, friends, and including their lives. They cherish nothing.

The people I am speaking of live in comfortable and secure surroundings. Yet they are homogeneous in their ill-tempered manners and mannerisms.

These include the hard-edged 30-something moms stridently striding along sidewalks with their young daughters with their sweaters tied around their waists. This includes dads -- today's frail version of the father stripped of masculinity.... Consider the end.

Lame
	President George W. Bush requested that Democrats and Republicans work together to develop a new strategy for the war in Iraq. The day of this debilitated request, December 9, 2006, will someday be seen as when the United States ceded the win to its enemy and anointed the loss of the Iraqi war front of World War III to itself. Read the pitiful story.

Unhappy New Year

The Iraq War does not exist. World War III does exist. Today's fighting in Iraq is only one front in several within the long war known as WWIII, the War Against Terrorism.
Any fool can quit today and exit tomorrow thereby escaping the fight in Iraq. Our self-proclaimed enemies will continue to fight amongst themselves in multiple civil wars throughout the Middle East killing their own civilians and making no economic or social progress. During their infighting they will blame the US and Western Civilization for most of their troubles. Factions of militants, failures, losers, insurgents, fanatical young men breed only to fight and now, having nothing else to do, will seep into Western Civilization. They will wreak chaos, destruction and death upon the quitters and losers who failed and quit Iraq before the job was done.
History will make this clear to you also if you are alive and able to see.

Dark Outlook

Money is flowing into evil, not-worthy, despicable hands. Uninvolved in science, medicine, history, or philosophy, these evil-minded, massively-populated groups have applied little effort and accepted too many resources from misguided liberals who fail to see and have no regard for the future.

Consider what organizations are acquiring others across the globe if you doubt this trend. Review mergers and acquisitions completed in recent years. Analyze where the tax breaks are positioned.

The empowered dark forces are composed of peoples who are uneducable, have little intrinsic skill, inventiveness, or desire to do worldly good.

Empowerment of these dark forces will return to severely damage Western Civilization. The damage will be from without and from within.

Some people are consumed by the trite & trivial.

They display hatred and anger toward the United States & any institution or individual representing it.

Some people... An amazingly large number of people's cars continue to sport "Kerry - Edwards" bumper stickers. These people do not know when to stop fighting and join the team. They fail to see that actually it is only bad sportsmanship that they display. These losers have no pride in themselves or in the United States of America.

There are angry, nasty people who intend to fight appointments to the Supreme Court and depose President Bush. Too many people are focused on tragedies and the whiners such as those who got wet in the hurricanes. Many of them have barely yet have even started to pick themselves up, dry off, and get to work building better lives. They want the government -- or anyone else -- to pay them for having been victims. They are victims of their own weaknesses.

These are a pathetic times. We are surrounded by weaklings and whiners. Angry, unfulfilled spoilers care nothing about destroying the USA. They care only that they might prevent Alito's appointment and depose GWB. They fail to see that they are unraveling the fabric and destroying the substance of their own lives.

There is no American alive today who has earned more than he was given at no cost the day he was born a US citizen. People do not realize how much they were given by so many who sacrificed so we might have so very much.

These trivial creatures can only use dollars to measure their worth. They fail to comprehend that they are worth very little no matter how many dollars are handed them.

Merry Christmas. Yes, especially today !

Peter T. Hermit

Our Grandest Mistake In Life

Over-estimating other people's skills, abilities, ambitions, dreams, and long-term plans and desires. And then allowing those lesser minds with no dreams into my life to share in my accomplishments.

The result is frustration for all involved. Their frustration at being unable to perceive the goals and plans and, then to be unable to share in the progress. My frustration at being weighed down by albatross anchored around my life weighing upon potential progress.

It was natural for Western Civilization to transition from the Great Depression into World War II. People knew hardship. They treasured life & liberty and knew it was worth fighting for.

Today it appears impossible for people of our most self-involved, self-adoring euphoric era, to transition from self-aggrandizement into World War III. People know little history, fail to appreciate their comforts, and have diminished into weaklings.

How we react when we finally perceive ourselves as losers will determine our fate.

6,825 Dead Americans -- 36 Days
	The battle for Iwo Jima was fought from February 19 to March 26, 1945. Massive defensive shelling made an organized landing of US forces impossible. Beaches were red and confused.
During the 36-day battle, Iwo Jima was the most populous 7.5 square miles on earth. Over 100,000 men fought for this island that is one-third the size of Manhattan.
More US Marines earned the Medal of Honor on Iwo Jima than in any other battle in US History. Over the 36 day battle there were 25,851 US casualties. One in three were killed or wounded. Of those, 6,825 Americans were killed. Read of the event.

Fame & Fortune
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Much Longer?

How's That?

How Much Longer?

Some Westerners feel that Western civilization can simply exit Iraq before civilized Iraqis have built Iraq. These believers feel that when left on their own, the schoolyard bully will simply stop killing & get civilized and productive.

Until then, some peace-loving Westerners wage intra-cultural and political war against their countrymen and fellow Westerners with unyielding sadistic violence.

These so-called peace-loving Westerners are unwisely arrogant & ignorant of human actions. Read about the fact.

From the LibertyFund.org with no changes.

Intellectual hubris leads to pretensions of certainty about the nature of the world and to preposterous and dangerous "solutions." This abuse of reason leads to restrictive institutional arrangements that concentrate political economic power. Such concentrations invariably erode liberty and moral values.

Necessity

This subject is: The importance of accepting difficulties, illness, and other stresses passively and realistically.

The grandest and ultimate danger is that concerns will negatively impact your well-being mechanism.

That can send your system into an overall accelerated aging mode. Read about it.

This Is Why

This subject is: Why do some people use so many filler phrases? The common filler phrases include "go ahead", "sit down", "if you will", "like", "um", and the long time popular, "ya know".

Why are so many people terrified, lonesome, and starved for friendship... true friendship? Learn.

Perspective Solidified

This subject is: Why do some people conserve and preserve and under-utilize inanimate objects that they acquire for enjoyment and utilization.

Relevant objects include cars, furniture, special "toys" such as computers and gadgets, and clothing. Often these are acquired but not fully utilized. They tend to be "saved" for sunny days... when the weather will not upset a Automobiles. Read how silly we are.

Exhausted

Exhaustion has hit.

It has reached the limit of all reasonable tolerances.

It used to be -- in grade and high school and even in college, we could simply avoid those stupid, lazy, destined to remain forever and always ignorant fools. We could not tolerate them and saw no reason to accept them.

They were black-balled from the fraternity, shunned from parties, and simply avoided when getting together with friends. They certainly were not smart enough to be in our study groups.

About the only time we were forced to experience them was during sporting events -- often as the best players enjoying their 15 minutes of sunshine.

Forced

However, these days, outside and inside the cave, we are instructed, lectured to, and warned that we must accept everyone. Never mind that we accurately perceive that some people are incompetent, unworthy, and not up to our standards... and we just don't care for them.

We must accept them.

They may be stupid, ignorant, lazy, ugly or anything else in any combination that we dislike and do not want to accept. But our personal tastes, preferences, and sensibilities are not relevant to the command givers of today.

We must take orders as good passive accepting schlubs.

Enough Already

Some day it will end.

The lecturing will cease. It is not likely that the lecturers will stop lecturing because they derive much pleasure from lecturing and accepting those they know to be inferior. Accepting the inferior is the only way that lecturers may elevate themselves. It's a relative thing. It is certainly not an absolute methodology.

The lecturing will someday cease only when we finally state that our tastes and sensibilities are important to us. It is our right to make personal decisions for ourselves. It is our right to associate with whomever we choose. It is our right to not associate with whomever we choose to avoid.

It is our right to passively, without inflicting pain upon others, de-select them from our existences.

The command givers will someday accede to our command to cease and undo their commandments ordering us to accept anything from everyone regardless of everything.

It is enough that often we must hire some people who our sensibilities advice us against. But they are willing to do the work. It would seem that the straightforward task they are hired to do might be the one task that they have become proficient in. Pitifully, that is an incorrect assumption.

Oh yes it is.

Too

There is much not worth talking about, yet most people insist upon talking about most of it way too much.

Benjamin's Wisdom

Intelligent, experienced, chastened, wise people are often able to earn larger profits in down markets than in rising markets.

The key is to remain calm, always prepared to pause, and liquid enough to pragmatically seize opportunities. If you are able, gain some wisdom.

Chaos Theory -- Chaos Fact

Living In The Age Of Chaos Aggrandizement

The purpose of planning a project is to list tasks, sequence the list, allocate resources to major tasks, develop the plan that will handle exceptions, and guide the project to successful completion.

Given this fundamental theory of planning is valid, it follows that chaos can be eliminated by implementing a good plan. How to do more than survive.

Going Out Of Your Way To Be Mean & Destructive

Do you ever pause to ask yourself why? In our existence pain, suffering, and unhappiness are a constant threat for most people during most of their lives.

Why do so many people apply so much of their energy toward inflicting pain and making other people suffer and feel unhappy?

Are you capable of pausing to contemplate this? Or are you too busy applying your energy toward the negative?

How

I have always looked forward to the future, endeavored to enjoy the present, and tried to not regret too much of the past.

How well I have implemented this approach has directly determined how happy I have been at any time.

Today I add a message to all spoilers --- those who work to destroy and minimize others' enjoyment. That message is: Go your own way, enjoy little, but remain far away from those of us who endeavor to find happiness.

Before opening your big mouth to offer your philosophy, get this clearly in your mind.

Most people do not understand what philosophy is. Therefore they are unable to place your wisdom in perspective. The best they may do is to misinterpret your philosophically-oriented wisdom, get confused, and resent you for confusing them and meddling.

Most people do not live their existences guided by their own or anyone's philosophy. Most people just get carried along by emotionalized indifference, vagaries, and short-sighted self interest.

Generation

The Generation Motivated By Its Fear Of The Outside World, Is Driven Inward To An Existence of Chaos, Confusion, & Dissatisfaction

Observe people driving, shopping, playing sports, and doing other trivial and entertaining pastimes. Watch people tolerating bad service while dining in noisy, barren, harsh, restaurants... and over paying for the privilege.

People who are having a good time don't have time to meddle with other people. Briefly is too long to consider them in anything beyond academic terms.

Notions & Belief Structures

Sometimes a vague subtlety strikes a person's fancy... and it resonates. Don't just say, "So what?"

Our Times

"Never before in the history of mankind have so many low-caliber, rude, offensive, lazy, arrogant, under-educated people populated earth."

This may be easily observed while driving, while shopping, observing personal interactions depicted in the news, and in global events. Relatively doesn't make them any more tolerable.

Hindsight
	The Iraqi War. Going well or not going well? It is nearly impossible for military experts to assess accurately. That is because war is the ultimate confusion. Most people cannot even pronounce "Iraq" correctly.
Speaking of judgment, what are your credentials to judge how well it's going? Do you want to learn from your mistakes?

Each of us has good and evil within.

We are unable to freely, or even voluntarily, determine which force governs us. We must each apply ourselves to determine which will govern us at any decision point. What governs you?

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Peter The Hermit Contemplates Experience

On Being A Hermit

Work is one of the few satisfying endeavors that cultured, educated, thinking people possess. Do some people dislike their jobs so much that they regret an extra contact regarding an important task? What if the organization that pays them and thus provides the basis for their survival judges their input essential and of value?

Our desires to take time off from work, to be private, and to do trivial things is healthy when kept in perspective. But being private and sharing thoughts with one person that we care for and need should not be taken to extreme. We should not deny ourselves the companionship, intellectual stimulation, and friendship that may come from joining with carefully selected newcomers and reliable old friends.

If we know ourselves, are introspective, analytical, and carefully select the right people to associate with in our personal and business lives, we will enhance all that we individually might otherwise not achieve.

However, in this universe, we must always be cautious and highly selective. We must ensure that we do not pick up unworthy associates on our travels. When we are too needy, when we rush, when we set artificial deadlines, we are vulnerable to lowering standards and thus allowing the unworthy to share. This can destroy, or at least distract, inhibit, waste time and critical resources. Worst, it may set a cynical perspective upon us. Avoid this behavior.

It is healthy to lookout for worthy, high caliber, stimulating people with whom to share intellects. The quest can be gratifying. The key is vigilance. When encountering a newcomer, study every reaction to events, difficulties, and conversations. Never lower standards. If lowered, we risk providing an active or passive invitation to the unworthy to share our lives. When we discover their destructive, distracting, nonproductive natures we may become disenchanted with individuals and groups. The result can be a false desire to withdraw and become a hermit.

To become a hermit is to unjustly accuse all people of being unworthy because we have incorrectly generalized from the specific to the group. Only a person who has evaluated first hand all people everywhere and deemed each and every one unworthy can justify becoming a hermit. Since it is not possible to meet everyone everywhere in a lifetime, no one can logically justify becoming a hermit. We risk depriving ourselves of future worthy people by inappropriately closing doors.

It is very difficult. We may never meet many other people we judge worthy and substantive, but we should accept that. It is certainly unfortunate. But if we remain open to meeting and carefully selecting people, it may be just as satisfying as tough, honest, productive work.

Peter The Hermit, Observing, Analyzing & Evolving... Are you? Can you?

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Are you capable of pausing to learn? Or are you, with your usual lazy, yet passive intensity, focusing your meager energy toward nonsensical, negative nothings?

Fact

The people I am speaking of live in comfortable and secure surroundings. Yet they are homogeneous in their ill-tempered manners and mannerisms.

These include the hard-edged 30-something moms stridently striding along sidewalks with their young daughters with their sweaters tied around their waists. And then there are the moms pushing shopping carts aggressively shoving quickly through aisles while their kids straggle behind appearing dismayed, forlorn and forgotten.

We have all seen the dads -- today's frail version of the father -- whom our culture has stripped of all masculinity. Today's dads may only use their ability to not shave on the weekends to display a sham semblance of their fathers' manliness. (This has been going on so long now that I must recall grandfathers rather than fathers.) Today's dads schlep caringly while holding the hands of their children in a gentle manner guiding them into the store or ice cream shop to violate their moms' lecturing mandate "No ice cream. Ice cream is bad." The caring exhibited by today's dads is rarely displayed by today's moms.

Then there are the obsessive ones -- those who have discovered exercise. They are not naturally athletic, but have been indoctrinated into workout mode. Their workouts provide the dosing of adrenaline and doping chemicals that entice them into believing that they actually are athletes, as tough as Chuck Norris, and capable of defeating all. But consciously they know they are not. This internal conflict keeps them on the edge. They instinctively rush through red lights, stop signs, grocery stores -- all trivial tasks -- at high speed. They are so confused. They want to give the appearance of being in charge and executing all tasks in multitasking mode.

The remnants of the types of people -- whomever you know those to be -- who built Western Civilization, are frayed, peeling and weak. They are terrified and cannot assert themselves for fear of being subpoenaed, losing their jobs, or feeling guilty for having been not fair. But they subliminally know that they are violating their natural responsibilities by abdicating their potential abilities. Therefore they feel guilty for having failed in life. And for accepting this subjugation, they are failing in life!

It is not simply academic to ask, "How long may our failing culture of arrogant, uneducated, rude, classless, undeserving takers continue?" And further, "How much longer might the shrinking breed of builders carry this two-generations-plus, massive clump of takers?"

Sincerely,

Peter T. Hermit

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Specious Betrayal

This Time It's Not Laughable

Former Senator Bob Dole was propped up to play candidate for the Republicans in the phony presidential election of 1996. Republicans, needing a candidate who would not squander his real run for the presidency, propped up Dole to face off with the invincible Bill Clinton. Being too old anyway, Dole was rewarded for his years of party loyalty as the place-holder for 1996.

Clinton was going to win anyway, so why not let Dole play candidate? He would have fun. He satisfied campaign needs and did little harm. The electorate, being disdained by politicians, was known to be too stupid to notice the sham. The electorate was satisfied that there had actually been a campaign and it could feel good that Clinton won another hard-fought election.

Today Dole has performed another duty. Dole is a registered lobbyist. He and his law firm of Alston & Bird were hired in 2005 by Dubai Ports World to facilitate its takeover of shipping operations in six US ports. Dubai officials were planning for their purchase of the British company P & O and knew it could be controversial and negatively charged politically.

This deal has been perpetrated upon the United States of America for several months. The juvenile media, only vigilant in its quest for anti-Bushisms, totally missed this national security story. The secretive planning and execution of this Dubai plan smells as insidious and specious as the plan that brought buildings down and killed nearly 3,000 people on 9/11/2001. That plan involved dozens of fanatics and some Middle Eastern nations including the UAE.

Bob Dole, why? This is quite a way to end your career as a US soldier in WWII, a US senator, and a candidate for US president. It turns out that you are just another lobbying lawyer working for any cause whatsoever, regardless of the consequences to the United States of America.

Bob Dole, everything you are you owe to the United States of America. You are repaying her in a despicable manner.

Note: Bob Dole's wife, US Senator Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina, claims to be surprised and dismayed at this startling recent revelation. She wrote to Senator John Warner, Chairman of the not always adequately vigilant Armed Services Committee, saying, "I am deeply concerned that the proposed transfer of seaport operations to a company controlled by the United Arab Emirates government might compromise our ability to effectively control our ports and harbors".

Is it possible that Mr. & Mrs. Bob Dole -- that includes Senator Elizabeth Dole -- ever attended a party, a dinner, a meeting, or bar-b-que over the last year with her husband where she met any representatives of Dubai? Perhaps Elizabeth might have wondered why they were there at that time in that crowd. Perhaps they discussed something about ports or shipping or takeover deals. Perhaps not. Bob and Elizabeth's relationship may be that they are only close during Viagra moments.