THE NEWEST CIGARETTE TAX HIKE

In the name of full disclosure, I am cigarette vendor. Having said that, Cigarette tax is about the most regressive tax that we have, as most smokers today are less well educated and poorer. Although it says here that the intentions of the tax hike have good intentions, they fail to mention there is already a hidden tax of six hundred billion plus on cigarettes that the state(politicians) have manged to steal and divert to their own pet causes, and the poor pay for this tax (settlement). As the incomes are in decline and the unemployment rates are higher for the less well educated already, that from what I have observed, many people will pay for cigarettes and will have no money left for a treat or even food for their kids, so how are we helping the poor kids, by exposing them to more neglect, if not out right abuse.  yes, I have seen kids treated harshly by  many a frustrated parent that has no money left after paying for their smokes.  What will be more fair is to increase the tax on alcohol ( beer, wine and liquors) by say thirty percent  to replace the tax loss, and snag you  some money from those who can afford it.

RUSH LIMBAUGH AND POLITICS

02/28/2009

RUSH LIMBAUGH AND POLITICS

Rush Limbaugh is to politics what Bernie Madoff is to investing

CONNECTING THE DOTS

02/27/2009

CONNECTING THE DOTS

Item, the drug cartel wars in Mexico

Item, the mutiny of border guards in BenglaDesh

Item, take over of Swat Valley in Pakistan by the fundamentalists

Item, coca production in Columbia, Bolivia, poppy production in Afghanistan

So what do all these have in common? everything, actually they are all the same one problem, though some may see one or another angle to the problems, many, however, fail to see the common threads. But first we need to remember that ALL humans are mostly the same, even the educated and the rich have the same basic human traits of the rest, the uneducated and the poor, And the second, if the first is true, which it is, what can happen over there can also happen here, we are not immune because we are white, black, educated or or richer or Americans, what is happening over there can also happen here.

As I had mentioned in my radio interview, back in march 2005, the problem with Mexico is not that they don't have money, especially with all the oil revenues, it was that the rich were hoarding money and corrupting the politics and justice systems. Previously I have also said that if you corrupt the system for your gain, then you, yourself, also suffer the consequences of a corrupt system. In poor countries it is easy to bribe someone, but when bribery becomes the norm then more and more monies are required to corrupt someone, unless, the people are so poor that they can still be bought off cheaply. Mexican rich and the middle class are no longer safe.

Safe heavens for the rich become smaller as the poverty and the corruption rises.

Unless you have been living in a bubble, you know what is happening in these various countries I have used in my example above, and just in case you do live in a bubble, here is some information. In Mexico drug lords have a war going on , not just between themselves, but also against the police and the army, kidnappings, murders, torture, assassinations are becoming the norm and no one is safe. Columbia and Bolivia have insurgencies tied to the drug trade, they have the same problems with corruption. In Bengla Desh, the border guards had a mutiny and they killed or kidnapped one hundred forty of their own officers, over seventy corpses have been discovered, seventy are still missing, And in Pakistan the government relinquished the control of the Swat Valley to the radical Islamists. Sway Valley used to be a summer heaven for the rich, where the poor population was used as virtual slaves for the summer months by the rich vacationers. Well ok, not as virtual slaves , but the poor people of Swat were just very happy to serve the vacationing for what ever money they could earn.

READING ASSIGNMENT

02/26/2009

READING ASSIGNMENT

mANY OF US WATCH THE NEWS EVERYDAY, ALL DAY, thinking that there are new things in what they are watching, anticipating every new word for a newer thrill, while most of the news people feed us is garbage, and yet we are hooked on it.

NO, th e news is not really new, nor is the entertainment program, ( name your favorite program here please) has anything new to inform you off. so here is a link to what I posted on here back in April of 2007, see if you see in the news of what i said back then.






http://tombstone001.blogspot.com/2007/04/eyes-wide-shut_24.html

NADEYA SULEMAN

02/26/2009



NADEYA SULEMAN


CALL THE POOR GIRL BY HER PROPER NAME PLEASE,

calling Nadeya Suleman, the Octomom, is just horrendous, her name was revealed "prophetically" back in 1983, the James Bond movie named her what she is, the "OCTOPUSSY", get it right, she is the real thing.

YOUR COMMENTS

02/25/2009

YOUR COMMENTS

OK, I have reset the comment settings on this page, you can leave your comments, anonymously at any time, I would like to know what you think, anytime, good and bad are all welcome

I PICKED A BAD DAY, OBAMA SPEAKS

02/25/2009

I PICKED A BAD DAY, OBAMA SPEAKS

IN HIS 1980 MOVIE "AIRPLANE " Lloyd Bridges starts out by saying "I think I picked the wrong day to quit smoking." Then he says he picked the wrong day to quit drinking. ...,,,,,,,,

Some days I wonder about the mindset or our leaders and of our own selves.

Nadya Suleman thinks it is ok what she did, she will go back to college and get a degree and will be able to support her brood, all fourteen of them, may be it is time we looked in to irresponsible people making babies they can not afford, yes I have talked about it for years also.

Why is it that the nation is upset about her irresponsible behavior, but we keep quiet about tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of similar idiots having kids all over the country.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/24/pf/Lost_decade.moneymag/index.htm

plim@moneymail.com

Dear sir,

your article is misleading and confused, As you laud the stock market return of 4.5 percent and S&P return of 3.4 percent per annum over the last twenty years, you did not compare these to to the housing prices jumping by three hundred percent, college education and medicine up by five hundred percent in the same period. Of course we all know that the government figures have been a total lie, stating the inflation rate of under three percent, over the same period, thus anyone invested in the market was losing money.

Now then, getting back to Nadya Suleman, and her expertise on child rearing, her desire to become a psychologist and a counselor, she is not that far off the main stream , is she. We are a nation given to listening to idiots and following their advice as experts, be it Jerry Springer, Rush Limbaugh or Neal Boortz. We listen to Dr. Phil, Leeza and the crew of post menopausal out of work has beens of "The View".

http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/25/news/economy/bernanke_house_hearing/index.htm?postversion=2009022513


Federal Reserve chief says mortgage market woes must be solved to fix financial markets, even if it means helping irresponsible borrowers.

Why not Nadya Suleman, should she not expect to be bailed out also?

In the real world some one would say, where is the fix in all of this, why IS Ben Bernake still around? Why does anyone give a shi''' about what he thinks, was he not on the fed when all this crap broke loose? Why do we need to bail out the banks that caused the problem in the first place?

The truth being , that the "prosperity" of the last many years WAS in fact due to the bad loans, isn't this ironic, the "wealth" was being created due the irresponsible behavior, so what is the fix? Will we go back to the same bad habits that got us in to this mess in the first place? And if not then why are we spending " giving" money to the banks that should be losing their "assets".


So then, in other words, I am right again, we are going in to a deprression of biblical proprotions, the world has changed and it is not for good, you want to send your daughter out to suck dick , may be that is the only freedom you have left.

A MARCH TOWARDS SOCIALISM

02/23/2009

A MARCH TOWARDS SOCIALISM ( AND IT WILL BE CALLED A "NEW SOCIAL SYSTEM")

Previously I have advised about a government owned bank, now CITI is about to be taken over. Why is the government not calling it a government owned bank? Yet the march to socialism continues. Over the years I have written about this danger of "untold wealth", about the "creation of wealth" and our adoration of , if not out right worship of money.

Sooner or later, we all will have to change our lifestyles, willing or not our lives HAVE already changed, at least for the foreseeable future. Only problem is that ninety percent of the people still have no idea what has happened, or are unwilling to accept this new reality, the paradigm shift.

As we keep digging the hole of the deficits deeper, and the rich refuse to create jobs to feed the poor, which only proves I have been right all along, housing the banks and the industries are being taken over -helped- by the feds, the illusion of free market economy dims.

On individual and moral basis, we have failed to prove we are capable of taking care of ourselves, to take care of our responsibilities. While many in the nation looked down upon the Katrina victims for waiting for someone else to come to their aid and feeling that it was the responsibility of the government to take care of them, today everyone, from bankers to automotive executives to average laid off worker to a home owner who took on too much debt are looking for the government to bail us out, are we all not just like those Katrina "victims"? Of course we are all victims, and uncle Sam is the only sugar daddy.

RHETORIC WILL NOT SAVE AFGHANISTAN

02/20/2000

RHETORIC WILL NOT SAVE AFGHANISTAN

The "Arab News" always amazes me, they write article that sound as if they were written by a schizophrenic, with a total dissociation from reality. They talk about an Islam that only exists in there imaginations but is never put in to practice by its followers. This recent article is an example,

http://arabnews.com/?page=7&section=0&article=119445&d=21&m=2&y=2009&pix=opinion.jpg&category=Opinion


In a perfect world, one would expect that Muslims, who make up about a fifth or more of the world population, would have been opening schools for boys and girls to educate their Afghani cousins. That the "Islamic" governments would have been telling the Afghans that the ways of the "Mujahedeen and Taliban and the insurgents are all wrong and unIslamic. They would have propaganda machines telling the Afghans that the way to get the foreigner troops out is to get together and unite in the development of their country. That corruption and bribery are against Islamic values, That Islam has nothing against education of girls, or even modern sciences. That Islam does not condone the oppression of the people by the government, it does not tolerate and considers prejudices, all to be equal. But then we don't really want anyone to know the real Islam now , do we?

AUDACITY OF HOPELESSNESS III

02/19/2009

AUDACITY OF HOPELESSNESS III


The bailout package will help some home owners not all, is what the head lines tell us. So what else is new, we knew this all along. Then there is the audacity of the new green jobs. Like I told, well wrote to Mr. Bush, that ethanol was a stupid idea, - that was at least six months to a year before the US NEWS and World report and the National Geographic exposed the flaws_. The new green jobs is the new stupid idea, a total waste of money, but we will find out only after the money is spent.

Building of wind turbines, have you heard from Boone Pickens lately? Having individual wind turbines on individual homes makes sense. Having solar panels on homes makes sense. But when you are taking about square miles of wind turbines and solar panels, you are overlooking the one, most important item in your theory of global warming.

If it is true , as advertised, that the global warming will change the weather patterns, then how do you predict what the weather will be, within a few years, at your chosen location, what if there are long term wind shift patterns, what if the tornadoes in Texas become stronger and tear up your turbines, and California and New Mexico and Arizona become tropical wonderlands with more rains, floods and vegetation?

Oil prices have dropped by seventy percent, as the global recession takes hold, the oil consumption is decreasing, if the economy stay in doldrums, which it will, the need for an alternate energy source becomes less and less important. At the time when we are going to commit untold billions to energy development and conservation.

If we succeed in developing an economy that is not dependent on oil, oil prices go down, the income of oil producing countries goes down, from Russia to Iran to the gulf countries, poverty as well as instability of their regimes increases, not to say anything of the decrease in their arms purchases, and buying of luxury goods. Islamic fundamentalism in the gulf increases. And our friends from the house of Saud are thrown out on their kiesters.

BAILING OUT THE BAILOUT

02/18/2009

BAILING OUT THE BAILOUT

Let me tell you I am not for Obama, I did not vote for Obama, do not believe he the greatest thing since Abrham Lincoln, he has a long way to go to prove or disprove a danm thing.

I am not for the bailout either, I believe it is a damn waste of money aand only differs the inevitable collapse of the economy and the social order.

The Republicans who are up in arms need to shut the heck up and sit the f'''' down now. Because first you did not do a damn thing when Bush was screwing up the country and set the economy up for a fall, ( read below how for years I have detailed the economic crisis and explained step by step how Bush policies were going to take the country down) .


And secondly, if Obama was doing what you say he should, that is to do nothing you would have accused him of being callous and uncaring, like Bush was during Katarina.

AUDACITY OF HOPELESSNESS II

02/17/2009

AUDACITY OF HOPELESSNESS II

Once again, like the fools that we are we want to increase spending, what did we learn in school?
Wealth is increased by saving, and investing , not spending.

As long as the United States was saving money, we were advancing, but for the last thirty years since Reagan, we have tried to get rich by spending money, it has not worked, it will not work. Even now the best we can hope for is to delay the day of reckoning, even that hope is slim, may be none.

Founder of Islamic TV station accused of beheading wife

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/16/buffalo.beheading/index.html

AUDACITY OF HOPELESSNESS

02/17/2009

AUDACITY OF HOPELESSNESS

http://http//cnnmoneytalkback.blogs.cnnmoney.cnn.com/2009/02/13/the-audacity-of-hopelesness/


The plan set in motion by Reagan is complete, we are a tax free and a broke third world country, where the rich don’t pay taxes, and the poor fend for themselves, any questions?


http://http//cnnmoneytalkback.blogs.cnnmoney.cnn.com/2009/02/16/the-stock-market-isnt-as-bad-as-you-think/


Simply put, the global unemployment rate is about fifty percent, poverty rate around sixty may be? Half the people in the world would do anything to have three meals a day, Most of the people have no health care, no clean drinking water, no minimum wage, workers rights, or even human rights. Then tell me how great it is to be in a global economy, and explain to me how I compete with these people for a job, and what I can sell them. Also tell me what I must give up to stay competitive, and tell me how we are helping the people in Tibet and Darfur.


Like I have been saying it for years that human beings are made obsolete by the modern technology. Recently a news item said that there were doctors and lawyers in Miami looking for work. Computer engineers and auto workers are laid off by hundreds of thousands, while an unemployed mother of six conceives eight more, and this from one of the smartest people on earth, then where is hope, what is the reason for being hopeful.

Humanity is at a crossroads, we either quit breeding or we will have to separate ourselves among the needed and those for whom there is no possible useful function, then take care of those who are needed and leave the ones that are excess to their own devices, be it in Darfur, Tibet, Pakistan, Afghanistan or wherever.

I had proposed this in my writing of the " A NEW WORLD ORDER, 2003" which is posted on this blog elsewhere, you have to follow the url


http://tombstone001.blogspot.com/2006/09/new-world-order-2003.html


With all the pretensions and pronouncements to the contrary, the end of the world as we know it, as you know it is near.

DISCUSSING MONEY AND POLITICS

02/13/2009

DISCUSSING MONEY AND POLITICS

FOR SOME IT IS DIFFICULT TO SEE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE MONEY MESS WE ARE IN AND THE POLICIES OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. TIME AND AGAIN I HAVE TRIED TO GET THE PEOPLE TO SEE HOW THE TWO ARE INTER -RELATED, HERE AGAIN I TRY TO EXPLAIN.

The discussion started on the blog of Teagan Goddard's political wire, about how Dodd will write a book, about the financial crisis

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/02/12/dodd_will_write_book_on_financial_crisis.html#comment-6228944

here is what i had written

Will he explain how the politicians were bought off, How the SEC turned a blind eye to an obvious and on going scam, will he say how free trade and real jobs being lost to slave labor in Chinese and Indian factories made US workers useless. How cheap debt, (lower interest rates) made available to the federal government to make deficits low (lower interest on the cumulative national debt), created the housing bubble. How so called democrats, representing the workers fell in bed with the bankers on Wall Street? '''

And to this a mr jiriskin replied

slave labor in Chinese and Indian factories" To the extent that slave labor does or does not exist in these places, it is not a factor in the loss of US jobs. In India for a long time and in China in the last decade there has been a more-or-less free market in labor at wages that are better than the subsistence wages of the countryside. We lost jobs because enough others CHOSE to work for wages sufficiently lower that the cost of shipping finished goods back here did not make up the difference.There are enough legitimate arguments around free trade that you don't need to bring up this (now very old) red herring."cheap debt, (lower interest rates) made available to the federal government" This is really confusing to me. You want the government to offer to pay a HIGHER interest rate to its lenders?"(lower interest on the cumulative national debt), created the housing bubble" I'm no economist, but my understanding is that the real interest rate on ARMs and other weird instruments was actually quite high, that the teaser rates were loss leaders that had nothing to do with what the government pays for its debt, that a lot of investors engaging in wishful thinking bought these now-securitized instruments without doing due diligence. How does your theory fit with all this?"so called democrats, representing the workers fell in bed with the bankers" well, yes and Republicans and workers' pension funds and the workers themselves, and just about everybody else".

There is a phenomenon, called "the inter-connectedness of things", also some times called "the butterfly effect".

Thus" "slave labor in Chinese and Indian factories"

""To the extent that slave labor does or does not exist in these places, it is not a factor in the loss of US jobs. In India for a long time and in China in the last decade there has been a more-or-less free market in labor at wages that are better than the subsistence wages of the countryside. We lost jobs because enough others CHOSE to work for wages sufficiently lower that the cost of shipping finished goods back here did not make up the difference.""

Do we forget that these places are over populated, As related to the number of jobs available, thus people there will work for extremely low wages as per required by the free market standards? And that when we move some of "our" jobs overseas because of low wages the number ob jobs in this country is reduced thus the pressure on wages here is eliminated and the people on the lower end of scales have actually a lower wage growth. The numbers here prove it everyday.


Mr Jirisken writes ""cheap debt, (lower interest rates) made available to the federal government" This is really confusing to me. You want the government to offer to pay a HIGHER interest rate to its lenders?

No I do not want the federal government to pay high interest rates, but,

1/ the extremely low interest rates have reduced the incentive to save,

2/ extremely low interest rates have allowed the government to borrow more and more and not to raise taxes, but if and when ( and it will) inflation starts to rise and there is a need to to raise the interest rates, the interest on the cumulative federal debt will increase in such a manner that the government could not even pay the interest on the debt with the current tax income and will have to reduce services and benefits and will go in default.

3/ the extreme money growth along with the artificially lower interest rates under the
Greenspan FED did allow Mr. Bush to finance his two wars with borrowed monies, but it also allowed the bankers and hedge funds and speculators to finance the housing bubble as well as allowed the American consumer to live beyond its means.

ABOUT THE MOTHER OF EIGHT

02/13. 2009

ABOUT THE MOTHER OF EIGHT

is it not against the law to take advantage of the mentally challenged? Then why the media are allowed to abuse these folks in the name of freedom of information or the pretense of helping the poor. The side show has expanded from the magazines like the "Star and the Enquirer", to shows like Springer, to the Idol and other reality shows all over the air waves, Get the freaks off the air. Please ! It only encourages the mentally challenged and the dysfunctional! YOU DO NOT ENCOURAGE PATHOLOGY!

THE REAL WORLD, ,, AGAIN

02/11/2009
THE REAL WORLD,, AGAIN!

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=cqmidday-000002992666

FORD PLANS RESTRUCTURING



December 02, 2008 2:50 PM

Washington's efforts at reforming, stabilizing, boosting the economy may work in the short run yet, but they are doomed. The fact remains as the population keeps increasing, fewer and fewer people are needed to perform the actual "work". That is the problem today with the social security and Medicare already. It is not that we only have two workers to support each retiree, it is that more workers are not needed to perform any gainful "functions" and thus have reasonable income to base the tax on. You can see the problem, if you can relate one to the other, in the auto industry. As the leaders of the three auto makers are in Washington again, hats in hand, their problem is not that they flew in on private jets, (the whole idea is a created distraction form the real problems) the problem is that they need fewer workers ( read automation and technology) and pay them less now , and to make less in profits, ( TO COMPETE IN THE GLOBAL MARKET), and thus the contributions to support the retiree's pensions and health care have fallen. It is the same problem in social security, fewer workers, lower wages, and more beneficiaries. At the same time, it would be funny, were it not so ironic that the congress and the senate are accusing the auto makers of mismanagement and poor planning, is it not the kettle calling the pot black!

TARP EXPLAINED (financial assets reevaluation and transfer system)

02/09/2009

TARP EXPLAINED it is really a financial assets reevaluation and transfer system

Now why would a smart man like Hank Paulson go and name his plan TARP, Troubled Assets Relief Program. Now any one knows there can be no such thing as an asset that is suicidal or suffers from a adjustment disorder, even though we know many of the assets of the American are suffering from just such an episode. But words can be deceiving and TARP by its name sounds like you are trying to hide something, by covering over it with a tarp. So here I go out on a limb and propose a new name for the plan. I think we should call Mr. Paulson's plan "Financial Assets Reevaluation and Transfer System", here now, it explains everything. That the financial assets of the bank are being reevaluated and are being transferred to the government, and the acronym "FARTS" can be clearly understood by any lay person in the country. At least we Americans will know what we have got.

A GOVERNMENT BANK

02/09/2009

A GOVERNMENT BANK


The time has come for the government to start its own bank. Not the Treasury or the federal reserve, but a regular bank owned and operated by the government. Put away the bail out, the stimulus, and take the money as a reserve to start the bank, writing loans, mortgages, even issuing credit cards with regular strict lending standards, just cut out the bull crap of the SBA that takes six months and more to issues a small business loan. Since we have seen that the banks taking money from the federal government are only keeping it or paying bonuses to their executives while the average American suffers, and the small business can not get any money, the best option now would be for the government to get in to banking and hire bureaucrats on the cheap as opposed to high dollar bankers.


The current banking system has failed and it has failed the country, we surely don't need to hand the same more money, I wrote about this before that the government is throwing good money after bad, that the TARP was a farce and a failure, I have been proven right. The government should not be in the business of creating jobs, it should concern itself with collecting taxes on incomes. The jobs will again be created as the small businesses and individuals can borrow money and start new ventures, thus the jobs will be created like they should be.

Handing out money to states and counties and cities does not make much sense either as the money will be lost to corruption and diverted to the friends and families of the politicians. in contracts.

THE WEAKEST LINK

02/03/2009

THE WEAKEST LINK

Time and again I have said, "Life is a game of connect the dots, if you don't connect all the dots, and don't connect them in the right order, you don't see the whole picture".

So it is when one wonders about Tom Daschle, or Timothy Geithner, or Larry Craig, Elliot Spitzer, Bill Bakker, Bill Clinton, Rudi Guillaini, Casey Anthony, Nadya Suleman, the Jonesboro Arkansas School shootings, Jonesboro, Georgia middle School 11 year old being tasered, or Jonesboro Georgia High school dance teams performance, one must realise these are not isolated incidents, this IS who we are, who we have become, this is US, the U.S.

These stories and the people in them may be unrelated, but over all they representative of the current state of our country, where anything goes is the rule of the day. Even as we face the greatest fiscal crisis of our times, if not of all times, the Washington is still refusing to reform its ways. People are still trying to get rich quick, connections and nepotism are still the rule.

What difference is there among these people, Nadya Suleman getting impregnated with eight kids, or the CitiBank giving its employees bonuses, or a father putting his daughter naked on the web, it is all the same, no morals, no boundaries, and pure unadulterated greed.

We are waiting for a bailout from a situation of our making. We believe it will be fixed, so no one is talking about the upcoming civil unrest, the world wide starvation, ( yes, including here), wars over resources, and cannibalism.

It is all a part of the new world order, if here in the United States you have not heard about the Chinese being worried about civil unrest, or Iran and Pakistan being unstable, have not heard of the French and the English workers striking for jobs and job security it does not mean it is not happening.

We live in the age of information, so it is said, then why are we dumber than ever?
There are a few reasons, in general we Americans, are too important to worry about the rest of the world, Vietnam and Iraq not withstanding , our interest in the foreign lands is minimal at best.

But then again, the media were not out here warning us of the impending doom, of banking collapse, or the unscrupulous loans, of the real estate mess, of the coming jobs crisis, not that we were interested any way , but someone should have been raising cane! Surely I was not the only one talking, warning, getting on talk shows, writing to the White House, to my senator about our ruinous fiscal policies.

The truth is that the news and information media, including the networks, the newspapers and magazines and even the "right wing" talk radio never wanted the people to know the truth, for their own reasons, actually their lively hood was dependent on your remaining ignorant and uninformed, even misinformed.
The question was asked on the Anderson 360 blog, that Is Media partly to blame

http://business.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/26/is-the-media-partly-to-blame/

and here is what i had said



October 27th, 2008 350 GMT

It is just like the right wing conservatives, blame all their screw ups on the media so they can wash their hands from all blame. On the other hand the media have been a bunch of dopes not investigating diligently and reporting and being caught up in the “AMAZING BOOM”. For over ten years, I have , myself, blogged about the ridiculous appreciation of assets, of creating money from thin air, the dangers of very low interests rates that promote spending and reduce the incentive to save. Of inability to save for anything with a very low interest rate on savings thus the need for zero down loans. And have been called crazy for complaining about the building of a house of cards. I am afraid that we are in for a world wide depression, that will change the face of governments the world over.
But in the end we must look to see who really owns the media? Are they not going to benefit from even a depression once again?

Not all the blame can be laid at the feet of the media though, surely if someone wanted to eat just poop, there would be vendors galore to provide the substance, and so it has been. And what better proof of this can be found that we have MTV, Spike, Bravo, Nickelodeon and Disney, We have Leeza, Springer, Martha Stewart and the View.

ONLY LITTLE PEOPLE PAY TAXES

02/03/2009

ONLY LITTLE PEOPLE PAY TAXES

So it is that "only little people pay taxes" said Leona Helmsley. If an average person is behind in taxes, the IRS goes crazy, we are considered scoff laws and threatened with prison and leins are placed on our properties. But now first it was Timothy Geithner and now Tom Daschle, both nominated for cabinet positions and we find out that both had been making " minor" oversights. To me it reeks of corruption of the priviliged. Don't tell me they did not know the law, and if they did not how are they being placed in positions of Authority in matters financial.

Does the senate have any back bone? Are they all so corrupt? Sadly yes, in The united States of America the government is becoming as corrupt as in any third world country. It is no longer enough to just scam and lie and cheat, if you are rich and powereful you can thumb your nose at the laws and when caught just say I was using Turbo Tax, I wonder how many indviduals could get away with it.

MAHATIR BLASTS ISRAELI TERROR

Mahathir blasts Israeli terror
Ghazanfar Ali Khan | Arab News



http://arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=118664&d=29&m=1&y=2009&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom


It is sad that we don not find the same moral courage in Muslim leaders when these same crimes are committed by Muslim leaders against their own people, Sudan would be an example, Egypt would be another. And how about trying Islamic terrorists who commit crimes against Muslims and non-Muslims, in Islamic lands and other places. How many Muslim countries have denounced the killing of the Dutch film maker's killer? How many did speak out when Iran released a fatwa against Suleman Rushdi? How many are speaking out against the Taliban and Al Qaeda attacks in Pakistan, where are the Muslim leaders who condemn the honor killings of MUslim girls, and their stonings, If Mr Mahatir were an honest man , may be the West would listen.

This comment will be published on my blog

STIMULUS PLAN IV

01/28/2009


STIMULUS PLAN IV

Where are we? What happened to the "CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN"? With the confirmation of Timothy Geithner to the Treasury Mr. Obama has shown that he himself does not believe in change.

And what is with this spending, may I spell it out again for the umpteenth time?

We are here because of the spending, and no matter how many jobs are to be created, they will by design all be temporary, infra -structure spending, education spending tax cuts, all increasing the budget deficit will also increase the trade deficits, if as planned the Americans go on a shopping spree, the real jobs will all be created overseas , in manufacturing. What we need is to revive our manufacturing base, not hiring more people to change diapers of the elderly, or for making coffee. WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO PRODUCE WHAT WE CONSUME!

But lest we forget, our problems of pollution, of obesity, of disease are directly related to our consumption. The bigger houses, cars, longevity are all contributors to the pollution of the air and water and the seas. Our crime rates, drug abuse, murder, suicide, child abuse, teen pregnancy, aids, are all related to the exponential growth in population over the past fifty years or so. The increase in population itself is the main if not the sole cause of global warming.

STIMULUS PLAN III

01/27/2009

STIMULUS PLAN III

President Obama says that he will spend eight hundred twenty five billion dollars to create four million new jobs. I have an idea that will actually work, and may be even increase the income of the government. Before everyone goes crazy and jumps in my "stuff" please think this thru. Congress should immediately pass the law and the president should sign the law rescinding the last increase on the minimum wage to seven dollars and twenty five cents.

It sounds crazy, since I had propsed a rise in minimum wage to eight fifty back in two thousand and six, but the times have changed, the economy is changed and the world has changed. This small increase will save many jobs with the businesses that are already on the brink.

HONOR AMONG THIEVES

01/27/2009

HONOR AMONG THIEVES

Here is one for the history books! Unless you believe that the senators of the United States are all so pure and innocent that they just could not believe Timothy Geithner is a crook and a liar, you must believe that they are just as crooked. Timothy Geithner has been caught cheating on his taxes people, are you stupid?

Well you can say only a scammer will know how the scam is working ala "Catch Me If You Can", then Timothy Geithner is the only one for the job of the treasurer of the United States cause the SOB has been in on the scam from the get go, then just say it . Why else he is the only one among the three hundred million plus Americans who is qualified? Or is it that Mr. Obama already finds himself over his head in the den of thieves called "Washington".

STIMULUS PLAN

STIMULUS PLAN

01/26/2009

Can not say one again, as the debate is continuous. No one cares where the eight hundred billion is coming from, and how it will be spent. The Democrats want to give the money away, in needless jobs being created, and the Republicans want to give tax breaks both are lying.

I f we spend money on health care, or education or on roads to no where , what will happen when the money is spent? Will be richer for it? Will the economy take off? The answer is NO! We need to have a new model of the economy, not based on consumerism. We need to recognize the FACT that spending money does not make you rich, especially if the money is created by the government (deficit spending). Do we not recognize the fact that our dream of being the richest nation on earth, ever, was a hallucination based on the money government was spending, money that was created from thin air.

When do we ever learn, how will this spending plan take us out of the economic quagmire.
I have always argued that we have too many toys, we reward people for stupidity, and not just on reality shows. We rewarded, handsomely the fools on the Wall Street, for years! We rewarded incompetence by bankers and politicians and lobbyists. And we rewarded our goofy screw up kids by showering them with gizmos that made them even stupider. We rewarded nincompoops writing sitcoms, and rewarded Howard Stern and Madonna Snoop Dog etc. for destroying the culture and the society. And the list could go on.
May be it is time to reinstitute the "Fear of Flying".

We are at the verge of the depression that I have been warning about for many years, how do you bail out auto industry when people have no many to buy cars, or work in health care when everyone is losing their job and insurance?

ABOUT GAZA

01/23-2009

ABOUT GAZA



Tragedy is not that this has happened, or that this could happen, the tragedy is that this will happen again, and again and again. And that the Islamic countries, the US, the Europeans and the UN will all be shedding crocodile tears once more. No one can control Hammas ( the Palestinians) and its "uncivilized" terrorists, and no one wants to control the "civilized" Israeli response. I don't claim to know that if the conditions in Gaza were any better there won't be any " terrorists, but I do know that so long as Israel continues to run her concentration camps for the Islamists there will not be any peace.

WE ARE ALL VICTIMS NOW

01/21/2009

WE ARE ALL VICTIMS NOW


One thing we are not short of, in this society, is off those who are a victim. Victims of bad education, of bad parents, of bad parenting, of bad children, of bad government. We are victims bad loans, bad credit card debts, bad student loans, and bad politicians. We are victims of lousy jobs and sorry bosses and bad relationships.

I have listended to the talk radio, Neal Boortz, Rush Limbaugh and their ilk railing about how the left is pandering to this "victim hood" mentality, while the right, or more specifically the Republicans such a mind set.

But wait, listen and read between the lines, if you happen to be a Republican and please don't feel left out now. What Neal and Rush don't want you to notice is that they are telling you how YOU in your own pittyful little sleves are being victimized by the "great wild left".

You my friends of the right ward persuations, are victims of the biased media, of the Holywood lefties who come around force you to turn on your TV sets, teach your daughters bad things. You are victims of unions and the ACLU and NPR, and the liberal news papers.

You my friends, the listeners of the talk radio, and making less than seventy thousand dollars a year are paying high taxes, while the rich liberals making less than seventy thousand a year pay no taxes atall. And if Obama passes a tax cut for the middle class, making less than two hundred grand a year, you will be left out of the largesse, since it will all go to the people on welfare.

And if you bought a house within last couple of years that you are unable to pay for, the Republican party will disown you since you are a welfare scum and most likely live in a ghetto, and should not have been able to get a loan in the first place. And did you know that if you make less than fifty thousand a year and by definition don't pay any federal income taxes in the first place Republican party wants you to send back your membership card too.

BACK TO POLITICS

01/22/2009

BACK TO POLITICS

No I did not give up writing, but you have been busy too, watching too much BS. Did you not know that Obama is black? Or was it the news lately that he had won the presidency? Or that Martin Luther King was one of the great leader of his community and of this country, and that Dr King had paved the way for Obama to become president. So what was this over doing of the same old hash and rehash.
Oh yes, you are brain dead, and the media knows this.

Nothing else was going on in the world, but that since the first of the year we were going to have a black president, and the world stood still, even poor ole Martin did not matter any more.

Did we not already congratulate ourselves enough? Can we just move on along please?

AN APOCALYPSE, LATER! II

01/14/2009

AN APOCALYPSE, LATER! II

When will it happen, the Apocalypse, the people would ask the prophets. But the prophets would not say, (so the stories go).

And I have warned, for years, of the coming economic collapse, the ruin of society and culture, and how one and the others are intertwined. The destruction of morals, the destruction of education, the enslaving of females in the name of freedom, and the destruction of the planet and the life there on by science and technology.

The economic collapse that will be followed by the collapse of society, the collapse of the rule of law, as greedy and or hungry masses roam out of control of a government too broke to function. The money that is to be spent on the infra structure is bound to be looted by the corrupt system of government and the so called contractors, who have been feeding at the trough of the government for years, at all levels, leaving little for the masses. And soon enough the government will be out of money, unable to repay her loans and then unable to borrow, printing new money will not be an option as the new money will be as worthless as the old one it will be trying to replace or to add to.

So when will be this day of judgement? The day that civilization collapses. Have you ever heard of a date called, 21 Dercmeber 2012? Could this date have a real meaning?

AN APOCALYPSE, LATER!

01/12/2009

AN APOCALYPSE , LATER!

I am not person that has given up on hope. And that is the reason that I still keep writing here. Over years , you would have thought someone would have come along and really paid attention, and would have read through some of this material , available here, free of charge or even an expectation of recognition, yet I keep writing , hoping someone will come across this and read it and may be even counter what I say.

When Mr. Bush proposed his first bail out package, I had mentioned that the effort would be futile and we should not borrow any more money to pay for the so called stimulus as the money would just be transferred to the The Chinese and the gulf states. I was proven correct.

I had left the post below, "why am I the prophet", up for a few days, hoping to get some one's attention, but for naught. The idea is that the government is fooling us as they are fooling their selves in believing that there is a possible solution to the mess we have created. If throwing money at the problem was any solution then why the seven trillion dollars ( off the books mind you!) have made not a difference? Here is one more, http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/13/news/economy/treasury_budget_deficit_Dec08/index.htm?postversion=2009011314
are we there yet?

We want to believe in lies, watching the so called "Reality Shows" has made us believe that lies are the truths and we will countenance the consequences of our own inaction, our own failures, soon.

In 2003, in the article titles "The New World Order" I had brought up the point that we can not afford to give everyone a home, a job, provide electricity and food without destroying the planet, it is true even today, only now it includes YOU in the EVERYONE. get it?

In my post here, on 09/04/2008, "What McCain Needs To Say", I predicted that Obama could not implement his universal health care plan , because there is no money, now you have seen Obama backing off on his promise, even before he has taken the office.

It is not that the current crisis could not have been foreseen, it is that you were not told that this is where you were being led, by design!

The budget deficit for fiscal 2009 is now projected to be 1.2 trillion dollars, it will, as I told you long time ago, actually be two trillion dollars when you add in the proposed 700 billion dollar fiscal stimulus. And as we are told it will be like this for the foreseeable future.

How will it be paid back? Is there a plan? When will the economy recover? Does anyone know?

Actually there is none, and we know that, and the consequence will be as Obama told you that everyone will have to make sacrifices, Do you know what that means? It means, and as i said to you before that you will have a much lower standard of living from now on. Like I told you that the computer you are sitting in front of may be the last computer you will ever own, (Death of a Civilization , posted 11/16/2008)

http://tombstone001.blogspot.com/2008_11_01_archive.html

that the car you are driving may be the last car you ever bought. That is what Obama said.

why am I the prophet

http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/08/news/economy/bush/index.htm


Bush: U.S. economy is thriving
The president credits tax cuts with helping the U.S. economy grow.

August 8 2007: 2:35 PM EDT

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- President Bush said Wednesday the U.S. economy is thriving and he is doing what it takes to keep it strong.
The president spoke with economic advisors at the Department of Treasury and discussed how the United States' economy has flourished and played an important role globally.

"My administration follows a simple philosophy: Our economy prospers when we trust the American people with their own paychecks," Bush said.
In his remarks, Bush said tax cuts let Americans keep their own money and he would veto Congress' choice to raise taxes because it has helped the economy grow.

Bush quoted Paulson as saying, "This is far and away the strongest global economy I've seen in my business lifetime."

WE WILL MAKE SOME MORE III

01/09/2009

WE WILL MAKE SOME MORE III

In the ancient texts, the people of nations were punished for their vile acts by "gods". They were visited upon by plagues, and calamities, and natural disasters.

Even today, nature has a way to exact revenge upon people for their transgressions. If African, or Asian countries become immoral, they are ruled upon by dictators, they are visited upon by disease and civil wars. Are we far from reaching the same ending?

WE WILL MAKE SOME MORE II

01/09/2009


WE WILL MAKE SOME MORE II

"We will make some more", the phrase actually comes from an old "Doritos" commercial that said, " eat all you want, we will make some more". Today the phrase seems to apply to our fiscal policies, the fiscal stimulus plans, last but not in the least to the humanity's urges to make more babies.

What are the consequences of such, we keep increasing the deficit, of course it will be all paid back, right? I think not, we already know that people are losing jobs, not paying taxes, thus not paying into social security, and living longer. What will happen in the real world, as opposed to wishful thinking is the debt will keep increasing till no one will loan us any money, and the countries and people who are "loaning" us money will no longer want us to live high on the hog.

Money, as we are spending in the way we want to eat "Doritos" has consequences, as eating too many "Doritos" may well give you a stomach ache, or even diarreah, the consequences of this spending will be much more severe.

WE WILL MAKE MORE

01/06/2009

WE WILL MAKE MORE!

I know, I know, I should write more, tell you more, ask you to think some more, listen to you some more and write to the politicians some more.

Here we are, in a brand new year, two weeks from the new president taking the office, economy in a mess, Middle East on fire, again!, Iraqis killing each other, as well the Pakistanis and the Afghans. The Africans committing genocide, of their own, and the Jews and the Arabs. Stuff is getting so boring! A new year, the year for "change" and nothing HAS changed! It is ever harder to find the motivation, to write something new that is not a repetition of what I have already written about and therefore predicted. The cancer spreads.

If you have been waiting for, searching for or looking for a miracle, it is not coming, Obama or not, we are doomed as a civilization.

Here is a thought, just to show you how stupid humanity has become.We talk of the modern society, everyone communicating with everyone else, we are closer than ever before, right? Then why does a family need four TVs? Why we have three hundred channels on TV? and why would three people sitting down to a dinner in a restaurant be talking to people that are not there on their cell phones. The point here is that we fail to see our own reality and have started to believe the crap we are being fed.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009

01/01/2009

A HAPPY NEW YEAR IN 2009?

DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION X

12/16/2008


DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION X

"THE CASE OF A PARADIGM SHIT"


So then in what else is new, "news". The name of a Bernie Madoff is grabbing the headlines. But look deeper and you find that the whole Wall Street, wealth creation, get rich at all cost, get richer than everybody else, screw the worker culture of greed is the same., and has been on going since Mr. Reagan corrupted the investment system, OK, he allowed it to be corrupted because he did not understand what his handlers sold him on.

If we are now naming names of the crooks, then why not list the boards of directors of the NYSE, the top twenty employees of the treasury department, the Board of AIG, Lehman Brothers, and a hundred top corporations, all the day traders, the options traders, and the international bankers, who created wealth.

If you are old enough and remember it started out with hostile takeovers of companies and laying off workers, you could borrow money on the cheap and buy a company , fire the workers and call it increasing productivity, and then sell the company back to the public.

Then came the globalization, the NAFTA, and the workers lost their jobs and in manufacturing. But we had a new class of the "rich" that could could hire the laid off workers to cut grass, and make five dollar cups of coffee. And of course you could go to build houses for the people who had no money.

The whole system is, and has been nothing but a fraud, from an average worker who believes that after eight hours of showing up at a job, any job, he deserves the ultimate in rest, big screen TV, cable, airconditioning and a twelve pack of beer and kids who feed and clothe and educate themsleves, to the B school graduate who thinks that he is the GOD's gift to mankind in more ways than he can count, to a whole society that believes that they deserve more than they have because they are born in AMERICA and hardships ar for the other people who happen to be not so lucky.

I have argued for years that we are on the wrong path, our expectations are way out of touch with reality. We consume more than our fair share.

As millions more lose their jobs, and join the ranks of the home less, the poor and hungry we need to name names, name the process by which we got here, I have a suggestion. Since we are so anamored of calling old things by new names like "barristas", and "human resouces", and "facilities engineers", I ahve a new name for the situation we are in , it should be called a
"Paradigm Shit", yeah that s right.

BAILING OUT THE HOUSING

12/14/2008


POSTED ON CNN/FORTUNE

http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/12/news/newsmakers/morris_bair.fortune/index.htm

No. First of all it is a punishment to those who remained sensible and stayed within their budget. People who bought over priced homes also caused the price inflation and kept reasonable people out of better homes. Now we will reward these at the expense of the ones who stayed within their budgets and means, and are still making payments and have been making payments.

Two, in the markets where the foreclosures are the highest, the jobs are also disappearing fast, there is no guarantee that the people who are refinanced will be able to keep up the new payments.

Three, if and when the prices may go up, these people will be rewarded with price appreciation, while the tax payers are shouldering the burden of bailing them out, they should not be allowed to gain ANY benefits from price appreciation, it should all be payed to the treasury.

It will be best to bring the jobs back permanently, that is in manufacturing, free trade and globalization have failed, and damage the country immensely, The foolishness must be stopped.

Comments on food

12/11/2008


http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/12/11/the-battle-comes-down-to-food-on-the-table/


Global warming, lack of food, polution of land and waters are all being caused by over population and the need for “some” to use way too much of the limited resuorces of the earth at the expense of the others.
It is time that we decided who gets to continue populating the earth and who must be taken out of the gene pool. Humanity can not advance and become more evolved if we allow people of the lower intelligence levels to out breed the smart ones.
Far as eating animals, who will we eat when we run out of those, may be we will be hunting each other down for a meal.We have already fished the seas dry. We must make smart and logical choices NOW.
Paying females for not having kids willbe a good start.

DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION IX

12/12/2008


DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION IX

It is not a surprise, not to me, for years I have foretold of the collapse of this economy of ours, of the world economy. I have told you step by step, what was wrong with the picture, where the money was coming from, where it was going and how the system was doomed.

I also told you how the lack of morals, values and ethics was contributing to eventual failure. Our economy has been based on the idea that everyone is buying, always buying and always spending money. Money was created by the Federal Reserve, we could have as much as we wanted.

That system failed, as you have seen. So where to next?

Looking back, the buying to run the economy, buying to bring prosperity, buying with money you don't have system failed. What is the next shoe to drop.

Remember when I told you , at the start of this series, that the computer you are reading this on may be the last computer you will ever own. The next shoe to drop will be this web based economy, the Internet age is about to go under. "Face book", "YouTube", "Google", "Yahoo", whatever, these websites are based on the income from advertising, on selling you stuff. As the economy is tanking and no one has money to buy anything these sites generate no revenue. They can no longer be free, they have to become subscription services. Meaning you have to pay to be on face book or have a g-mail address., or you poor schmuck, you have to get a real life in the "rt".
Oh you don't know how to live in the "rt".

So here it is how it goes, as you become poorer, the access to the web becomes more costly, as you need more access to the web the web becomes more inaccessible. No more free lunches. Once again , the whole model of living on the web becomes out of reach of the average person, web that was supposed to create equality and openness will kill the equality and openness.
At the same time, businesses that are providing free information content, TV channels, news papers and the news organizations, are losing money in advertising, they will also find it difficult to make money on the web and start to charge for access to their websites.

The other business model of late, volume merchendising, big box stores, where little profit on each sale make up for a larger profit on fewer sales will also fail as the sales go down and people have less money to spend. this will cause the Wal-Marts, Sam's club like businesses to increase prices, just when people have less money. It will take a while, like the slow death, people will sell assests, take money from their retirement funds, sell their insurance polices, second homes, rental properties, etc to pay for day to day expenses till there is nothing more left to sell.

AN OPEN DIALOGUE IN ISLAM

12/10/2008


AN OPEN DIALOGUE IN ISLAM



http://arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=117115&d=10&m=12&y=2008

ALSO PLEASE READ MY COMMENTS THAT FOLLOW




"""""""“Today, we need a dialogue of the Ummah within itself. It is because sedition, ignorance and fanaticism are threatening the hopes of Muslims. The terrorism that threatens the entire world is attributed to Muslims alone because of the acts of a few extremists who represent none but themselves. Though they put on the guise of Islam, the religion has nothing to do with them. This is what makes the dialogue of the Ummah with itself imperative for achieving a unified stand, elimination of the causes of their disputes, strengthening their moderate middle path, and to stamp out extremism,” King Abdullah told his guests.

The guests included Sudanese President Omar Bashir, Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas, Chechen President Ramadan Kadirov and Secretary-General of the Muslim World League Abdullah Al-Turki.

“During the last Haj season, I spoke to you about the significance of interfaith dialogue. The Kingdom organized the Makkah conference for Muslim scholars and thinkers to discuss the idea of dialogue, and was welcomed by them... It was followed by the Madrid conference in which representatives of various religions and cultures endorsed the outcome of the Makkah conference. The high level meeting of the United Nations’ General Assembly on the interfaith dialogue, in which prominent international personalities participated, upheld the concept of dialogue,” King Abdullah said.

“The Kingdom with this program aims to uphold the glory of Islam and service to humanity,” the king added. King Abdullah left Mina yesterday evening and later arrived in Jeddah."""""""

MY COMMENTARY

How are we talking about an open dialogue here? Where in an Islamic country is there a freedom of thought and the freedom of press. Whose ideas are we willing to accept? Look at Iraq, look at Palestine it self, and can we say Egypt? Pakistan, and how about Saudi Arabia her self.

An open dialogue implies that anyone can have an opinion without the fear of oppression. As things stand, I can say something here from the safety of my home in the United States, but with the knowledge that my opinion in matters Islamic or political can subject me to sanctions by an Islamic government, or even a fatwa of death by some mullah or imam in an Islamic country or even a local mosque locally.

Ironically this call for an open dialogue comes from the leader of the most conservative country, not only in Islam, but in the world.

DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION VIII

12/10/2008


DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION VIII

I am not a pessimist, I have stated this before. The truth is a bitter pill to swallow. Today we have experts predicting doom, I have been predicting doom, and explaining its roots in the destruction of society. What made us, or makes us humans in the first place.

We went for the riches, money became the most important thing in out lives. Money it self would not have been so bad, but we decided that we did not need any boundaries, no morals, no ethical, no religious, not even family cohesion, money became the only God.

Go back in this blog, ( there are copies of my blog entries from Salon.com, and articles I submitted to the local papers over the past ten years, to CNN, and to the USA Today).

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, we were pursuing happiness and became lost. Divorce is for the rich only, middle class loses all in a divorce, no one wanted to listen. HIV, genital herpes, cervical cancers, nothing would scare us away from a romp. We had money, we were rich, we had three million millionaires did we not.

I have been predicting a depression for ten years, asking people to reduce spending, not to take large risks, large loans. I even went thru hell, with my wife, trying to stay in the same house for the last twenty three years, I could have bought a larger house. The depression was only deferred because of the dot.com spending , and then later with the spending after 9/11 and the two wars we created. Only now it will be longer and deeper, have we not been asking for a longer and deeper for a few years, now we are about to find out what a longer and deeper really means.

I don't wish bad on anyone, but with no morals, no family, and no savings to fall back on , the catastrophe facing our nation , and the people world wide could be biblical in scope. But look at the positive side, the population will be reduced, food consumption decline, no more threat of global warming, we won't be driving cars anymore, reduced consumption will lead to cleaning up of the environment, we won't need more refineries, and power plants. No more deforestation, and threats of off shore drilling or in the ANWAR( have you even heard anyone talking about drilling lately?).

May be I am too optimistic.

HAJJ 2008

12/07/2008

HAJJ 2008

Alhamadulillah, now Hajj is comfortable and safe, today as opposed to fourteen hundred years ago , we have five star hotels, air-conditioned tents, snack bars, cell phone towers, "crowd control?" Police and the National Guard to make sure we all do as we are told. Saai in air conditioned walk ways, and jamarat from four levels.

People in AL Haram need to be protected from each other? We buy souvenirs, and other stuff to smuggle back to our home countries, and bribe the customs officials to let us through. It makes the trip worthwhile to get some shopping and sight seeing. What experience, and what sacrifice?

What great lessons learned? ask me!

TERROR IN INDIA, 2

Also see my comment above

This blog here is a proof that owning a computer or having access to the inter net, does not make one smarter or more educated.

Personally, I do not believe that Sonya is a REAL person but some jack ass, commenting here to agitate but then see how many of you (us) have fallen in to her trap. What should have been an enlightened discussion of the problems at hand has easily disintegrated in to a shouting match among the neighbors of any slum like street. Whether India is a second world country or better than any other country has nothing to with the fact that she was attacked, neither it has been proven that the attack was supported by the government or the general public of Pakistan. As I mentioned before, and was subsequently restated by Ms Rice, any conflict between Pakistan and India has a real possibility of turning in to a nuclear conflict. Cooler heads must prevail. The agitators and the ignorant must not be allowed to hijack, no pun intended, the discourse. If you are a proud Pakistani, or a proud Indian, bless you. You have serious problems in your own country. Focus your energies on the problems at hand in your home town, in your own home country. Blogging on here does not make life better in your country or change the facts of your country as you know them.

If your god wants to fix the problems or wants to favor one over the other let him do it on his own, surely he does not need your help, he is a BIG BOY now, you know.

DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION VII

12/04/2008

DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION VII

So who do we want to help really? There are many talking about how banks can not be allowed to fail, or the insurance companies or auto companies. So far it is estimated that already the government has spent or taken on debts to the tune of seven trillion dollars, that is 7,000,000,000,000. So where is that money, and where did it go?

The old adage is that the money always goes to the top, have we not heard, time and again, that if some one took all the money and distributed it all equally, soon some Will be richer than the others, and the rich will again be getting richer. Then why are we talking about a tax cut for the rich , but we are against helping the poor. The money spent, borrowed, distributed so far has not shown up in the economy and on the main street is because what the government has done is to buy off the worthless papers from the ultra rich and hedge funds, and they in turn are not loaning it out again to the people with poor or no credit at all.

As the government anticipates another bailout, or a stimulus package, we should realize that that money will also end up with the rich, or overseas, if the marginal tax rates are not also increased, may be even to the seventy and ninety percent range so that the money can be recycled through the economy again and again. If not then the money will evaporate fast and the resulting benefits to the economy will be short lived.

I am not for giving money to the poor, I am not for giving money to idiots for making more idiots, I am for abortions, forced or coerced, I am for paying stupid people money for NOT having children. As long as we give money away we can tie strings to it, higher taxes for the rich and social responsibility for the poor,( it is hopeless to expect the rich to be socially responsible too)

DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION VI

12/02/2008

DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION VI


It is not something I have not discussed before, we are doomed, at least the life and the life style as we know it today. We failed to see how the economic crisis was developing. Even those who saw it coming did not foresee the whole picture, and the consequence and causes there off remained unexplained. I tried bit no one wanted to listen to the bad news.

When I stated that the computer in front of you may be last one you will ever own, it is not hyperbole. It is the fact that you are just not aware off, not yet.

Washington’s efforts at reforming, stabilizing, boosting the economy may work in the short run yet, but they are doomed. The fact remains as the population keeps increasing, fewer and fewer people are needed to perform the actual “work”. That is the problem today with the social security and Medicare already. It is not that we only have two workers to support each retiree, it is that more workers are not needed to perform any gainful “functions” and thus have reasonable income to base the tax on.

You can see the problem, if you can relate one to the other, in the auto industry. As the leaders of the three auto makers are in Washington again, hats in hand, their problem is not that they flew in on private jets, (the whole idea is a created distraction form the real problems) the problem is that they need fewer workers ( read automation and technology) and pay them less now , and to make less in profits, ( TO COMPETE IN THE GLOBAL MARKET), and thus the contributions to support the retiree’s pensions and health care have fallen. It is the same problem in social security, fewer workers, lower wages, and more beneficiaries. At the same time, it would be funny, were it not so ironic that the congress and the senate are accusing the auto makers of mismanagement and poor planning, is it not the kettle calling the pot black!

Their are others on the right, who want to blame the unions for all that is wrong with the American industry, auto or other wise. For one I would like to have a look in the congressional parking grages and see how many are driving small electric cars or Austin Coopers. And two I would ask them as to how much they had predicted the rise of health care costs and how much they had tried to control these or the housing costs or the education inflation. Was not Bush pushing for a social security monies to be invested in stocks? How well did any of us plan for the future, indvidually or as a nation. Of course the auto business is in the dumps, but not all of it on its own. It wonders me to hear those with perfect health benefits provided by some one else to be talking about the health care costs of the auto workers. Do we not live in a society where we want eighty year olds to be treated for cancer at a cost of millions so they can live a few months longer? Do we not want to keep those in permanent vegitative state to "live" for ever on machines? Why not advocater mercy killings. Why not shoot a few wokers a day after their shift is over, we could even have lottery, (may be Neal Boortz will agree). Or we could pay more for workers, even the useless ones, or we could vote to control population growth.

Blame it all on the advances in health care and advances in computers and robotics. What makes you live longer, and even supposedly healthier is what is killing you !

TERROR IN INDIA

11/30/2008

TERROR IN INDIA

The problem of terrorism is not going to end, so long as there is real or perceived in justice in the world. Fundamentalist Islamic education, media and indoctrination does not cause terrorism, but it is certainly at the root cause of world wide terror. Before the world can do anything about the Islamic terrorism, it must unite against those who are speaking out against terror to the world, on the face of it, but behind the scenes are the universal sponsors of the fundamentalist and radical ideology of Islam and promoters of the Sharia.

Secondly the unbridled capitalism is also causing hardships for masses, capitalism needs reformed and economic justice for masses must be true around the world, not just for the upper middle classes of the whites.

Problem between India and Pakistan (over Kashmir) is no more solvable than the ever lasting problem of Palestine, between the Arabs and the Jews (and Christians). Even If India were to be able to prove that the attacks were carried out by Pakistani elements, India can not retaliate militarily, without of course leaving herself open to a nuclear retaliation by Pakistan. The United States can only give lip service to problem, sending FBI, the Interpol or anyone else to find out who the culprits might be, big deal! Then What? United States is wanted Musharraf removed, wanted to bring democracy to Pakistan, now we have no one there we can hold responsible. Zardari's pronouncements to the contrary not withstanding, an Indian attack on Pakistan will cause a nuclear conflict, WE ALL KNOW THAT!

It is about time for the US (and the Indian)foreign policy to grow up, to face up to the truth, to the reality, that to support democracy and freedom and justice in Islamic lands, to reduce the threat of terrorism, they must break their ties to Islamic regimes that are promoting fundamentalism and sharia laws, within their borders and without. To do otherwise gives credence to the conspiracy theorists that the US benefits from both the terror and the so called war on terror.

DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION V

11/26/2008

DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION V

So it may be that you don't give much credence to my misanthropic musings, still all that I say here is not bunk. Human nature has not followed the human technical advances, the society and the individuals are still bound by our primitive instincts. As you see in the current upheavals in the world wide markets, the human greed has ruled the human mind. Is it not ironic that when Moses returned from Mt Sinai he found his people worshiping a golden calf, and three thousand or so years later, the Wall Street has a symbol of the same golden calf , now grown in to a bull.

I have said it again and again that the cause of corruption of Wall Street has been the deficit spending, of course along with lower taxes, day trading, lower taxes on capital gains etc. Now combine that with lobbying, campaign financing, political contributions, political campaigning etc, it is not hard to see how the "government money" corrupts the system it is supposed to protect.

Ancient religions were formed to protect society from common "sins". To save the family, and to keep the social order. Simple boundaries, no lying, cheating, stealing, covetousness and fornication. Today we call the lying cheating and stealing, "investments, business proposals, and financial instruments". And greed and covetousness are business savvy and innovation. With all the money being given away to save the economy will you be surprised if there are no new "innovations"?

Corruption breeds corruption, as more money is thrown at the system, more and more people will try to get as much of it as they can get, and not just the bankers. It will soon trickle down to your local governments as money comes down the pipe to states counties and the cities and towns. Government officials giving contracts to their buddies and relatives, or out right embezzling. The cops and the courts needing money will abuse the citizenry and so on, it is not a prophecy, it happens in every third world country. Human nature has not kept up with the advancing financial markets.

DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION IV

11/24/2008

DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION IV

May be that I am too harsh, but the truth is a bitter pill to swallow. Had it not been so I believe many more would have listen to me and followed my advice, or at least given consideration to my word. But people today, as always, do not wish to here the truth, especially if and when you are warning them of the impending doom.

Here is some good news and some bad news, the problem is that the bad news is really, really awful and depressing, as the bad news is the real truth.

The president elect announced that his fiscal policy will create two and a half million new jobs by the end of 2010. That is all the good news, now for the truth or as we call it the bad news, at the current rate of half a million jobs lost per month we would have lost nine million jobs by the start of 2010, and that on top of a hundred thousand jobs a month that are already not being created currently. Can you say an unemployment rate of forty percent or more?

How do I arrive at the forty percent figure, when at the depth of the great depression the unemployment rate was only twenty five percent they say.

First you must realize that back the economy needed many more people to function. Most work was physical and labor intensive, to day we don't need many workers to perform jobs, in factories and in offices or the fields. Even as the government creates more jobs in whatever manner, it is hard to imagine that this job creation will of itself create more jobs and thus have an exponential effect. Since more and more jobs are lost in services and in sales the government can not recreate these jobs. It is hard to imagine that people who will be placed in these "new jobs" will automatically go out and spend everything like we have been doing for thirty years, or that they will be w willing to have their lawns mowed, or pay someone to do their house cleaning and such. Thus the jobless rate will keep going up and up.

Secondly, during the depression era women were not among the unemployed, now with sixty percent of the women working and their jobs being mainly in services and sales, and the jobs in services and sales declining, women will suffer the most from the declining job numbers.

This may be a good time to search this blog for items on "slavery" "slaves" and "legalizing prostitution"

DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION III

11/20/2008

DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION III

May be it is too harsh to say that it is just like betting on a man dying as to when he will be dead, but it is at least in the same moral realm of stealing a dead man's wallet.

What I am talking about is the stock market. Like I have said before it is no longer a place to "Invest" in companies and their future, no, since deregulation and Mr. Reagan, it is advertised as such, and has become a place to make a quick buck and to see how you can scam monies from others.

For the past thirty years, the government money, "deficit spending" has been channeled to the rich thru stock market. However you slice it, my theory is the only right. As the government spends money and does not collect taxes, the money flows thru the economy ending up with the richest. Now the scam was as to how to get that money in "your" pockets. Since the money has to be spent somehow, corporations end up getting their hands on it, and with lower taxes, the richest get to keep most of what they make. So how you can get the most, is thru the stock trading, day trading, options, and then margins. As more and more money was needed the leverage.

Stupidity is contagious. Back in June and July when I was complaining that the economy is not designed for a four dollar a gallon gas, many had called me out. At that time I had proposed, among other things, an increase in margin requirements on oil trades, and an increase in the capital gains tax of up to ninety percent on short term trades of investments held for less than twelve months.

No matter what the bail out plans proposed and implemented by the governments, the economy can not improve unless the stock market i s brought under control, we can not allow the vultures to scam the country. The stock market should be brought back to the real function of the "MARKET" to buy and invest in company shares of your choice, not a casino to make a quick buck, if not then the country is doomed.

DEATH OF CIVILIZATION II

11/19/2008

DEATH OF CIVILIZATION II

I am not a pessimist, I have said this before. The propensity of the human mind to deny the truth is unlimited, also called faith, hope and having a positive out look or some other garbage. And why not, In "1984" the government invents a new language, a "Double Speak", today we have new names and titles permeating the language. Wall street bail out, to put money in banks that don't have any, is being called "Troubled Asset Rescue Plan", how do the assets get in trouble? Do the go out and jump in front of Mack trucks? Become suicidal?
What is a freaking barissta? And hydrating ones self? And was not a "serial monogamy" the name for prostitution? What the hell is a "serial monogamy"?

No wonder we as humanity are on pathway to destruction.

Today is my son's birthday, he is 11, what world is this that I have brought him in to. As the congress discusses the bailout of the auto companies, the auto companies are bailing out on their retirees, with the economic down turn and the companies failing the health and pension plans of millions are in jeopardy, will health care industry failure be the next shoe that drops, because more and more people lose health care insurance? How about the insurance company collapse because people who can not afford to pay mortgages and buy cars can not [pay the premiums or don't need to pay insurance premiums?

Like I said in the article below, " A Cruel Analogy", the whole house of cards collapses, like the Twin Towers, no central support.

How long will or can the government keep putting money down the rat hole.

And then what? Hunger and starvation is already on the rise, here as well as around the globe.
With millions of acres, chicken farms, cattle ranches, processing plants etc owned by large corporations, and the corporation having no incentive to grow , raise food due to lack of buying power of the average citizen, we could see massive starvation , or the taking over of food production by the governments.

TO "ON POINT" ON NPR

I am surprised that “On Point” decided to take my comments (in reference to retirement) off their site yesterday. All I was trying to say was that the population is to large for the world to sustain, and to provide for all the ammenities of modern life, given all the complications of the same. The situation with the Nebraska law is in the same vain. Too many people are having kids that they are not ready to care for and can not afford. The corporation, the employer, can not, in this global market, provide a living wage let alone health care for the average worker. Thus at each step the government has to step in, food stamps, medicaid are steps towards socialism. If you listen to the right wing commentaries, they want the worker to pay for his or her own retirement and health care while the wages are lowered, the left wants to let everyone do what ever they want to, blow their money , buy garbage, make babies without having any consequnces. The both policies are doomed, or they will doom us all. Is that too much to say out loud? Can “On Point” handle the truth?

THE DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION

11/16/2008

THE DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION

I have not been away, not been busy, I did not want to say what I have been thinking, then again I have been saying it for years, have I not?

The G20 summit is over, the elections are over, the government is on the ball, on the case, and soon the problem with the economy will be over too, right?

It a new paradigm they say, a new horizon, a new humanity, right! And who am I but a poet, a dreamer, a philosopher, who has limited touch with reality, yet I dare harken to the masses, ye the end is near.

Ever walk thru the great pyramids? Or the Stonehenge, looked at the pyramids of the South America? Twenty years ago I started to worry, one day someone will be walking through the Manhattan, looking at the ruins of sky scrapers and wondering, what were these people doing, thinking, I did not know it will be in my own lifetime.

Can you understand that the computer that you are reading this on may be the last computer you will ever own? The car that you drive will be your last car. I know it is really real hard to imagine this, but twenty years ago it was hard to imagine that we will have computers in our homes, and we will have homes bigger we will ever need or that our thirteen year old daughters will be sexually active and know about oral sex and anal sex be going to rainbow parties,and require birth control and "Gardasil". Goodness, isn't progress something!

Yes, progress IS something, and hope is something, and may be Jesus will show up just in time.

Barring a return of Jesus, what are the odds that the "problem" we have can be and will be resolved?

We live in a world where are just too many people, smart people, and dumb people and stupid people, so what are the chances that you, "YOU" are needed to keep the human gene pool alive and thriving. Let me break it to you , you are a nobody, you are nothing, you are not needed, no matter your looks, your degrees, your job status, you are excess garbage. Yeah it sucks, I know!

Over the world, millions of jobs are being lost as we speak,( as you read this). So once again you must disabuse your self of the idea that the "rich" create jobs. If that were true then we should have jobs a plenty, so where are they?

And if tax cuts increase tax revenues then why are countries/ governments broke all over the world.

So what did G20 summit resolve? anything? No, not a damn thing, the circus was only to appease the average person , by making him/her think that there was something being done.

Where are all the rich , creating jobs and passing their money around??? The truth is that the ones who became rich in the recent "economy" are trying to save their own behinds. Which means that they are trying to protect the "money"- it is called capital preservation- they made in their favorite scam of late, be it hedge funds, real estate flipping, commodities, whatever, and they are not going to blow that money if that preservation can be accomplished.

The monies ( although imaginary) that are being committed to resurrect the fallen economy are not enough, since the collapse the real estate values are sinking, stocks, bonds and commodities are all losing value, businesses world wide are going under, the net losses in paper values may be down by somewhere between fifty to a hundred trillion dollars, then what is few trillion of salvage money that is being committed?

As I explained in, " Braking the Banks",

http://tombstone001.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html


the money was being created out of thin air, just for the asking, then that money was being leveraged forty to a hundred times, the newer and newer scams called "financial products" were being created in all corners of the world. Now everyone knows that the fix is in, all they bought and sold was nothing but a wet dream, now everyone knows that everyone else is a crook also, so how can there be any honor among the thieves, thus the reason why the credit markets are frozen.

Can the markets thaw? Do we once again believe that the Chinese or the Saudis will like us to have a higher standard of living than their own people? Should the Europeans finance our way of life while they break down their own social and safety networks. Did the Saudis not lose their ass already in likes of CITI bank? and Disney? And the Japanese in our real estate.

Read the, "A NEW WORLD ORDER 2003"

http://tombstone001.blogspot.com/2006/09/new-world-order-2003.html

OBAMA, MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE

So you did not vote for Obama, and I kept my word too, i did not vote for him either. But he will be the next president, mine and yours, and that means a lot.

We elect presidents to represent us, and in that we tell the world who we are through that person, his face becomes the face of the United States, his persona becomes the persona of United States. We also see ourselves through that person and his persona, we feel bad when presidents get sick, or die, even years after leaving the office, we celebrate their triumphs and their failures too become our own personal loss.

Of course, the next president will hear from me, that goes without saying. I am anti authority, and suspicious of any and all claims made by such persons. You can look in this blog about Obama's message of change and read my entry, "We are all Shrecks now", and you can also read my article on too many promises from both camps,titled, "It Can't Happen Here".

MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE, just as in using her adaptation of the lipstick on a pig adage, Sarah Palin did not see the irony that she was herself being used as a lipstick on the pig of John McCain campaign, the pig of a GOP, we forget that Obama is not a black American, not an African American as we call them these days, Obama is a son of a foreign student who happened to be black and from the continent of Africa, yes Palin, Africa is not a country. Still his election speaks volumes about the United States, yet we must get past the appearances and look deeper.


What Is is IS, Clinton asked famously, so what does it mean to say i never heard, as in Obama's claim that he never heard Reverend Wright make anti American pronouncements? Did he mean that those sermons never meant anything to him or that he did not pay any attention to them, did not take them to heart? I never heard can mean many things.


"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." The words or MLK were never so true, if Obama was elected on the basis of his character and not on the basis of his color. But what does it say for the average person in the Untied States today where character is rendered meaningless, where Princess Di and Paris Hilton are idolized by millions, where "Sex in the City" and the "Desperate Housewives" define the moral standards. Where greed is not only good but it is God. Where black children and white children are raised up to be thugs and sluts and lazy.

Some may celebrate that we have the first black American as president, another question should be that, WHY? Why did the White Establishment let Obama be elected?
Not only Obama beat Hillary Clinton, she with her resume and credentials and sixteen plus years of experience and organization, why did Hillary lose. And as Cliff May redcorded in his editorial, "John McCain did not win the Republican primary- he did not defeat Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Fred Thompson et al. Rather each of those campaigns imploded or eroded- and McCain was the last man left standing."

So what did happen? Could it possibly be related to the economic mess the country is in. Could it be that the people like Giuliani and Romney and Thompson et al realize that the country was headed for the economic abyss and thought that they did not want to do anything with it? Could it be that the establishment saw that with the coming total collapse of the economy we will have chaos unrest and increase in crime and saw best to let Obama handle it? Could it be that they saw that best way to handle the upcoming problems will be totalitarian and socialist type government?
Is there a message?

THANKS MR. BUSH

11/04/2008

THANK BUSH


If Obama is the next president, the credit will go to one man and one man only, that is the current president of the United States, George W. Bush.

There is no other possible method or a reason where by Obama could have won the presidency, but for the two losing wars, an economy on the life support, and pandering to the religious right.

Thus it also follows that everyone who voted for Bush the first time and then again the second time, without regards to the failure of Bush, also deserves credit for the Obama win.

HOPE

11/03/2008
HOPE

Hope is the expectation of a desirable result in face of odds and the evidence to the contrary.

The voters for Obama and McCain must “believe” that their candidate will make a difference that will be to their own personal benefit, regardless of the current economic situation and the reality of the country being broke already.

No one from the followers of either side wants to believe that they must now make personal sacrifices, not only in financial sense, but also in limits in their so called personal expectations and choices.

For instance the social costs of divorce, teen pregnancy, health care, child raising, crime, justice, gay rights, disappearing morality all have costs that can be translated in to dollars.

Free trade may get us more stuff, but it is also the cause of lower wages, lack of health care provided to workers, lack of full time permanent employment and more.

The excess spending on the military where billions nay trillions of dollars are wasted and stolen and misspent, (yes I know this personally).

The United States today is becoming more and more like a third world country. Is there a Plan?