August 29, 2008
August 27, 2008
August 26, 2008
Voila! Kraft Macaroni and Cheese!
Alyssa was telling Violet that they need to grow something new in the garden. Alyssa asked her what she wanted to grow. Violet said, "Macaroni and cheese." She proceeded, "Dig hole, macaroni in."
August 24, 2008
Police state, USA
Bush is trying to permanently widen FBI prerogatives in opening investigations of US citizens before leaving office. The new guidelines would allow the F.B.I. to open an investigation of an American, conduct surveillance, pry into private records and take other investigative steps “without any basis for suspicion.” The plan “might permit an innocent American to be subjected to such intrusive surveillance based in part on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, or on protected First Amendment activities.”
August 22, 2008
The landlord saga continues....
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It has been 21 days and Tavia was supposed to have received her security deposit check from her landlord yesterday. Nothing.
Well, today she did receive something. But, it was not a refund check. It was multiple pages itemizing the damages to the house. The landlord says Tavia owes her $15,000!
It has been 21 days and Tavia was supposed to have received her security deposit check from her landlord yesterday. Nothing.
Well, today she did receive something. But, it was not a refund check. It was multiple pages itemizing the damages to the house. The landlord says Tavia owes her $15,000!
August 21, 2008
August 19, 2008
Violet has it covered
Alyssa, Leo, Alyssa and Ledge went out to eat. When the waitress brought the check, Violet said, "No, me. No, me." She grabbed the check, then said, "Pen?"
August 18, 2008
How to Distract the Public from the Economic Calamity
What to do? War and threats of war have been used historically to distract the population and deflect public scrutiny from economic calamity.
Perhaps that explains the sudden breakout of war in Georgia on August 8, just 3 months before the November elections. August 8 was the day the Olympic Games began in Beijing, a distraction that may have been timed to keep China from intervening on Russia’s behalf. The mainstream media version of events is that Russia, the bully on the block, invaded its tiny neighbor Georgia; but not all commentators agree. Mikhail Gorbachev, writing in The Washington Post on August 12, observed:
“What happened on the night of Aug. 7 is beyond comprehension. The Georgian military attacked the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali with multiple rocket launchers designed to devastate large areas. Russia had to respond. To accuse it of aggression against ‘small, defenseless Georgia’ is not just hypocritical but shows a lack of humanity. . . . The Georgian leadership could do this only with the perceived support and encouragement of a much more powerful force.”
Part of that careful planning may have been the unprecedented propping up of the dollar and bombing of gold and oil the week before the curtain opened on the scene. Gold and oil had to be pushed down hard to give them room to rise before anyone shouted “hyperinflation!” As we watch the curtain rise on war in Eurasia, it is well to remember that things are not always as they seem. Markets are manipulated and wars are staged by Grand Chessmen behind the scenes.
Perhaps that explains the sudden breakout of war in Georgia on August 8, just 3 months before the November elections. August 8 was the day the Olympic Games began in Beijing, a distraction that may have been timed to keep China from intervening on Russia’s behalf. The mainstream media version of events is that Russia, the bully on the block, invaded its tiny neighbor Georgia; but not all commentators agree. Mikhail Gorbachev, writing in The Washington Post on August 12, observed:
“What happened on the night of Aug. 7 is beyond comprehension. The Georgian military attacked the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali with multiple rocket launchers designed to devastate large areas. Russia had to respond. To accuse it of aggression against ‘small, defenseless Georgia’ is not just hypocritical but shows a lack of humanity. . . . The Georgian leadership could do this only with the perceived support and encouragement of a much more powerful force.”
Part of that careful planning may have been the unprecedented propping up of the dollar and bombing of gold and oil the week before the curtain opened on the scene. Gold and oil had to be pushed down hard to give them room to rise before anyone shouted “hyperinflation!” As we watch the curtain rise on war in Eurasia, it is well to remember that things are not always as they seem. Markets are manipulated and wars are staged by Grand Chessmen behind the scenes.
August 17, 2008
August 15, 2008
Since when?
"In the twenty-first century, nations don't invade other nations." Mr. McCain, didn't you support the Bush Administration's invasion of Iraq?
Watch how they laugh at him at the end of the video
This video from 2006, Peter Schiff predicting drop in housing prices, while the others are saying that they will go up ten percent. Was Peter Schiff right?
