I'm gonna be rich!

I've always looked askance at the Federal Reserve and lately at it's new Osama-appointed head, Ben Bernanke, but I guess I have to change my mind. Just got this email:

LIBERTY STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10038

CONTRACT FUND CREDIT FROM BANK FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD NEW YORK,

ATTN: SIR/MADAM,

THIS IS TO LET YOU KNOW THAT WE RECEIVED A PAYMENT CREDIT INSTRUCTION FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA TO CREDIT YOUR ACCOUNT WITH YOUR FULL INHERITANCE FUND OF US$10.5MILLION FROM THE NIGERIAN RESERVE ACCOUNT WITH OUR BANK.

HOWEVER, WHAT WE REQUIRED FROM YOU IS YOUR BANKING PARTICULARS WHERE YOU WANT YOUR FUND TO BE TRANSFERRED.

{1}. YOUR FULL NAME AND ADDRESS:.............

{2}. YOUR TELEPHONE, AND FAX: ..............

{3). YOUR BANK NAME AND ADDRESS:........

{4). YOUR A/C NAME AND NUMBERS:.................

(5). YOUR SWIFT CODE / ROUTING NUMBERS:...........

(6) .YOUR CURRENT OCCUPATION:................

BE INFORMED THAT TRANSFER WILL COMMENCE IMMEDIATELY WE HEAR FROM YOU WITH THE ACCOUNT INFORMATION. ONCE MORE, BANK FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD WILL NOT HESITATE TO CREDIT YOUR ACCOUNT WITHIN 24HOURS IN ACCORDANCE WITH FUND RELEASE ORDER REGULATIONS.

YOUR IMMEDIATE RESPONSE IS HIGHLY NEEDED TO ENABLE US COMMENCE FOR THE TRANSFER.

THANKS FOR BANKING WITH FEDERAL RESERVE BANK WHILE WE LOOKING FORWARD TO SERVING YOU BETTER.

CONGRATULATION TO YOUR INHERITANCE FUND.

THANKS AND GOD BLESS YOU.

REGARDS,

MR. BEN S. BERNANKE

DIRECTOR FEDERAL RESERVE BANK NEW YORK,

You know it's gotta be real - it's in ALL CAPS - and it has Mr. Bernanke's real email address:
bens.bernan@yahoo.cn

So - Osama "released" his birth certificate...

Why the delay?

And - WHY was it a layered PDF file?



Images of a scan of a document do not have layers.

This won't die until the ORIGINAL - if it exists - is examined in the Hawaiian records office by independent researchers.

Original article

Priceless blast from the past!

SEIU paid for this back in 2008. High gas prices - under $2.00 - were all Bush's fault.



Now who should we blame?
H/t Another Gun Blog

Sent to my CONgresscritters

Seeing as the present state of the American economy is the direct result of laws and policies put into effect by you and your colleagues, I think it's time for some real tax reform.

First, let's allow every tax payer with a mortgage to deduct twice the current mortgage payment - not twice the interest, but twice the entire payment. Since Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been complicit, along with the Federal reserve, in ballooning home prices and then bursting that bubble, many Americans now are "underwater" with mortgage balances greater than the value of the property, this is only fair.

Second, since the federal government steadfastly refuses to allow oil companies to search for oil in our own country, allow every taxpayer to deduct the entire cost of fuel for travel to and from a job, medical care, and other normal tasks American families are required to do to stay alive.

In concert with these tax reforms, you must actually cut federal spending, not just propose meaningless smoke and mirror "cuts" that you then complain about as being too big.

We are tired of Congress refusing to do the will of the people. Do what we want. Now. The time is past when you could fool us with speeches and sound bytes. We are watching you.
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Wonder if it will do any good...

The end of America?

The date has been set:

IMF bombshell: Age of America nears end

Commentary: China’s economy will surpass the U.S. in 2016

By Brett Arends, MarketWatch

BOSTON (MarketWatch) — The International Monetary Fund has just dropped a bombshell, and nobody noticed.

For the first time, the international organization has set a date for the moment when the “Age of America” will end and the U.S. economy will be overtaken by that of China.

IMF sees China topping U.S. in 2016

According to the latest IMF official forecasts, China's economy will surpass that of America in real terms in 2016 — just five years from now. Brett Arends looks at the implications for the U.S. dollar and the Treasury market.

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This is the direct result of an over a century and a half experiment with creeping socialism and ever-growing government, kicked into high gear in the 1930's and into overdrive with Osama. The Demonrats are primarily to blame, with the explicit cooperation of the Republicans for most of the time.

From here on in, we MUST elect people dedicated to dismantling Leviathan, and hold them strictly responsible for their actions. We cannot allow any more "bipartisanship", "compromise", or "deal making". Either we cut spending viciously, eliminate un-Constitutional bureaucracies, limit taxation, and generally clean house, we will become a footnote in history.

Got a job!

I just accepted a full-time job doing plant maintenance in a gray iron foundry near here. Second shift.

Got to go piss in a cup and have my hearing and lung function checked, and have an orientation - I start next Monday.

15 months in the ranks of the unemployed comes to an end. Of course, if Osama makes good on his promises to destroy the coal industry - no more coke for the cupola - and make energy costs go through the roof, who knows if the foundry will still be running by November 2012?

FDIC funny business

Sweetheart deals, indeed.

Mail to Kohl

Again, I try to roll the rock uphill...
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Senator Kohl,

As one of your constituents, I insist that you do all in your power to prevent this legislation from reaching a vote in the Senate.

Senator Durbin from Illinois cannot be allowed to attempt to bail out his bankrupt state by spreading the damage throughout the United States.

The "The Main Street Fairness Act" can not be allowed to become law.
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" Main Street Fairness Act" - sounds like Dustbin's read Atlas Shrugged and memorized it.
Go read the article that prompted this at The Rio Norte Line.

Letter to the Editor

I did it again. Now, if they print it...
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There has been much discussion about the definition of "democracy" lately. I think people are missing the larger point.

Our republic is based on the premise that our government is limited by laws - the Constitution being the final arbiter of what is allowed and what is not. Unfortunately, government being a human creation, this ideal is corrupted by people acting in their own self interests rather than following the rules set by the law.

For instance, during the last Great Depression, FDR packed the Supreme Court with his own choices for justices, in order to keep many of his "New Deal" laws from being found un-Constitutional, as they would have been otherwise. We are now seeing the result of these Utopian laws passed with no concern for their ultimate results.

Now, we are coming to realize that we cannot afford all these programs and laws foisted on us by our "leaders". That is why Wisconsin has a Republican governor and majority in Madison, and why many incumbent politicians across the nation were ousted in the 2010 elections. The people are finally waking up to the fact that our "leaders" have been ignoring the rule book and selling our future for the immediate gratification of themselves and special interests they are beholden to.

The recent demonstrations against the new budget are symptomatic of a mortally wounded creature thrashing in a vain attempt to survive. The creature I speak of is socialism in all its guises.
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Osama's most egregrious move yet!

His NLRB has decided Boeing can't create non-union jobs in South Carolina. Job creation is great - when it benefits his supporters.

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In Shot Heard Around Business World, Obama’s Labor Board Issues Complaint Against Boeing

Posted by LaborUnionReport (Profile)

Thursday, April 21st at 8:00AM EDT

20 Comments

On Wednesday, President Obama’s union-controlled National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint against the Boeing Company that, if ruled in the union and NLRB’s favor, may prove to have far-reaching consequences across the American business landscape. Ultimately, the outcome to this case will state whether or not America has, in fact, become entirely hostile to business (and the jobs they provide). The complaint was issued by the NLRB’s Acting General Counsel (the same one who threatened to sue South Carolina and three other states over the states’ secret-ballot initiatives) and is set to go to hearing on June 14th before an administrative law judge in Seattle.

At issue, according to the NLRB, is whether Boeing violated federal labor law by deciding to transfer a second airplane production line from a union facility in the state of Washington to a non-union facility in South Carolina for “discriminatory reasons.”

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Go read the whole thing.

FDR created the NLRB back during the Depression, to prevent businesses from firing people who try to unionize.

Reminds me of that saying - before you pass a law, think of what your worst enemy would do if it WAS law.

Discussion about Islam

Watch:




I would procure my own copy of the Holey Koran, but I don't want to give the publishers any money, for one, and I'm saving my ammo for better uses - like varmint control.

Earth Day!

So, we have been celebrating Man's rape of Mother Gaea now for forty years.

For my contribution, I've got all the lights on in my lab, and if the weather permits, will be fogging the back fields on my Suzuki TS250 oil-injected two-stroke dirt bike. I'll also be releasing the energy trapped in quite a few 9mm, .308, and 7.62x39 rounds, along with whatever greenhouse gases they are holding - not to mention returning a few pounds of that nasty toxic lead back into the Mother's bosom.

More from Kohl

Just got this from him:
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Home     Biography     News     Issues & Legislation     Constituent Services     Contact Senator Kohl     Unsubscribe This Friday, April 22, is Earth Day.  Last year, we celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the first Earth Day and honored our own Senator Gaylord Nelson, the key force behind that first celebration in 1970. On this day of reflection, it’s hard not to think about environmental tragedies of the last year – especially the ongoing nuclear accident in Japan and the oil spill in the Gulf, which occurred one year ago this week.  These serve an important reminder: regardless of the kind of energy we use, we must always take care to protect public health and our environment.  It also reiterates the need to increase our use of energy that will never run out.  Wisconsin has many great natural resources, but deposits of oil, natural gas and coal are not among them.  While there is no doubt that we need these energy sources to fuel our economy, a dollar spent on oil drilling or coal mining undoubtedly benefits other states and other countries.  But a dollar spent on renewable energy can support new jobs for Wisconsin. We don’t have oil, but we do have forest resources that can be turned into biomass for our power plants, and one day into fuel for our cars and trucks.  We don’t have coal, but we do have farmers across the state that are using “cow power” -- anaerobic digesters that turn farm waste into electricity.  We don’t have natural gas, but we have groundbreaking companies creating advanced batteries, solar light pipes and wind turbines.  These new energy technologies aren’t just good for reducing power bills and pollution, but also for growing our state’s economy. While we don’t always agree on how to tackle environmental issues, we all support clean air and water, we all want our children to be healthy, and we all yearn for our economy to grow and get people back to work.  Forty-one years after the first Earth Day, we celebrate the progress we’ve made, rededicate ourselves to the work ahead, and applaud the men and women of Wisconsin who are inventing and implementing homegrown solutions to better our planet. Sincerely, Home |  Biography |  News |  Issues & Legislation |  Constituent Services |  Contact Senator Kohl |  Unsubscribe

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Sent this back:
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Sir,

Are you insane? You speak of money being spent on developing American oil and gas as money that will benefit other states and nations, while "renewable" energy spending will benefit Wisconsinites.

True, creating "green jobs" will have an immediate effect of Wisconsin jobs, but this will be temporary, lasting only until the people of the United States finally put the kibosh to this wasteful and useless "alternative energy". Wind power is at best a niche application, useless for replacing fossil fuels or nuclear baseline power generation. "Biomass" might help, as an engineer I am in favor of using waste to generate power - IF and ONLY IF it can be competitive with existing resources. If it requires one penny of federal aid - see ethanol - I want it stopped. I am a degreed electrical engineer, and think I might know a bit more about this subject than you or most members of Congress. I certainly know more than our President.

Unless we develop our native energy sources - which we have in abundance, but are prohibited from tapping by wrongheaded attempts to return the planet to Garden of Eden conditions, we are doomed to revert to pre-1900 living conditions while countries like China and India continue to burn coal and oil and grow their economies.

Get on board with the majority of your bosses - the people who elected you, and who you have sworn a solemn oath to serve - and get the federal government out of the way of our country developing our own energy sources. If the free market decides that "renewables" will be part of this, so be it.

What will the recount coust us?

Possibly over a million dollars:

Vote recount may cost taxpayers $1 million-plus

April 20th, 2011

 

By Kirsten Adshead   Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON — It's going to cost Wisconsin's taxpayers hundreds of  thousands of dollars to more than $1 million to find out who will be the next state Supreme Court justice.
Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg on Wednesday said she will seek a full, statewide recount of the April 5 election in which she is challenging Justice David Prosser for a 10-year term on the bench.

"There are two reasons for this recount,” she said. “One is to verify the outcome. The other is to restore the public trust in the electoral process."

Actually, I see a third reason - to tie up Wisconsin courts and detract from the lefties' attempts to derail our new budget plan as long as possible. After all, it's not THIER money.

16 tons updated

Another demonstration of how much debt we have generated by not keeping a leash on our government:



Thank Iowahawk for the video!

Shotgun ban?

There's a move to ban importation - and possession - of certain "non-sporting" shotguns. Remember what happened with the "Street Sweeper" a few years ago? Maybe we are facing that again.

The BATFEIEIO is soliciting comments. Here's mine:

Hello,

I would like to make a couple points on the idea of banning certain shotguns.

First, under the Second Amendment of the Constitution, the firearms that are absolutely protected for possession by Americans are those in common use by the military. Both so-called "sawed-off" shotguns and shotguns with large magazines and pistol grips have been and are in common use by the military, so these weapons are explicitly protected by the Second Amendment. Any ban on or taxation of these weapons is therefore illegal.

Second, these weapons are largely in use for home defense by many Americans, and as self-defense is definitely an unalienable right, any ban or taxation of them would again be illegal, not to mention morally wrong.

Finally, the "sporting uses" rule for firearm importation is dead wrong, in the light of my first point. This is especially true when it comes to importing firearms originally sold or delivered by the US Government. Such arms are literally the property of America, and therefore, the property of the people of America. To prevent any such importation is wrong.

Regards,
Chuck Kuecker
Beloit, WI.

Jordan to try Dane Kurt Westergaard for blasphemy

For publishing this cartoon.

So, I thought I would help spread it around. If Jordan wants me, they can find me. I'll be waiting.

Hey Muslims! Don't like these images? Try ignoring them, like Americans ignore all the idiotic stuff published about us. It's cheaper, and doesn't make you look more stupid than you already do.

Snow

The view out my lab window this morning.

I really had hoped we were done with this stuff for a few months.

Stossel on Atlas Shrugged

Multi-part series:













Another tidbit:

What does 14 trillion look like?

This:

http://www.zolkor.com/14trillion/14trillion.htm