The Tactical Mind

I want to take some time to give some down to earth practical advice. Lots of us carry. If you carry to... this is for you.

The most important thing in a fire fight is not the type of weapons involved... its the minds of the collective participants. You fight more with your head than your hands. So just like you prepare your hands by drilling at the range... you also need to prepare your head.

You need to develop a tactical mind.

The first step to this is accepting the reality that this is a dangerous world, and combat is not only possible... at some point... its probable. Once you've accepted that you can take the necessary steps to insure the proper response... which is to kill the sorry son-of-a-bitch that tries to bring harm to you or your loved ones.

The next logical step once you've accepted reality is situational awareness. Now we humans have been conditioned to shut our brains off and wonder around on auto pilot. If you've ever seen zombie kids with ear buds walking down the street you know exactly what I'm talking about. You don't have that option. Your brain is on... and going thousand miles an hour... every second of the day.

This doesn't mean you're paranoid. It means you're awake. You should find yourself thinking about questions. "Where is my gun?" "If someone broke through that door just now... would I be able to respond?" "What would I do?"

Now on to step two... what happens when you find yourself in a fight? For all of psychology's faults... and there are many... it has provided us with some useful information about human emotion. So we actually know a lot about what you're going to feel when a confrontation starts. Obviously everyone is going to react differently... but we can speak in general terms and can certainly give you a starting point.

You may think you'll be afraid, but that's not likely. Fear actually takes a while to build up. Fear is the accumulation of negative thoughts. You won't have much time to be thinking negative thoughts. The first thing you'll feel is most accurately described as astonishment. You'll be utterly amazed that someone has suddenly attacked you or your loved ones. Its extremely important that you are able to recognize this and act accordingly. Another important thing to remember is what to do if you actually do have time for fear to well up. I'll give you the best advice I've ever been given when it comes to dealing with fear: Get. Pissed. Off. Yes... you read it correctly. You must make a conscience effort to convert that fear to anger. Humans function very well when angry. Not at all well when afraid... and yet the two are closely related. Its remarkably easy to convert fear to anger... so do it. After all... that son-of-a-bitch is trying to take everything from you.

These next seconds are critical. Seconds is all you have. Chances are the whole fight will be over in 30 seconds... especially if you keep your head. During the fight... it will be easy to get lost in a million different thoughts... and thus to just shut down and start squeezing the trigger. It happens to cops a lot. I know cops that have sworn they only fired 4 shots in a fire fight... but had actually emptied their 9mm's mag and stuffed the weapon back in its holster with the slide still locked back.

People that shut down like that don't do very well in a fire fight.

I'm going to keep this as simple as possible. You must allow yourself to think only this:

"DRAW. FRONT SIGHT. PRESS. FRONT SIGHT. PRESS. FRONT SIGHT. PRESS."

You must see the front sight. Make yourself see it. If you see it.... you'll hit the bad guy. One drill I do is firing as quickly as possible by relying on muscle memory to let my pistol fall back to the exact same position after recoil... and trying to locate the front sight before I can double tap. If I'm not able... I slow down a little.

Now...

Its all over. The bad guy is laying dead at your feet... where he belongs. Now what? Well do you want the PC 21st century version or do you want the truth? The PC 21st century says you're going to be terrified... shaken... upset... and traumatized because you had to shoot some one.

The truth?

The truth is you're going to be elated... exhilarated...and positively pumped. Food will taste better... Beds will feel softer... and you'll be at least an inch taller. Winning a fight, and that's what you've just done, doesn't traumatize us. It fires us up.

Winning a fight didn't become traumatizing until the lawyers got involved.

So lets sum up the Tactical Mind:

1) Situational Awareness. Be vigilant. Understand that fighting is a distinct possibility and make up your mind to be ready for it.

2) During the fight... concentrate on technique. FRONT SIGHT. PRESS. FRONT SIGHT. PRESS. If you find yourself being afraid... try to convert that fear to anger.

3) After the action... try not to strut around to much.

I Hate Being Right

This is getting old. For weeks now we've been hearing that the recovery was right around the corner... and for weeks now we've (me, vox, several others) have been telling you that the worst is yet to come.

And here we are... its almost May... The administration has fired every bullet in its gun. The Fed hasn't started shooting yet... because it knows if it does it risks something far worse than a mere depression.

So here we sit... waiting. And I'm getting really sick of it.

The other day I stopped by a little pool business here in town. Its run by two hardworking people... a man and his wife. They've made money their whole lives by the sweat of their backs. Now?

Now they're on food stamps... and 10 grand behind on their rent.

I know industrial mechanics... tool and dye... electricians... all out of work. Been out of work for months. No jobs in sight... and to many government obstacles to start their own businesses. I don't see how this ends well.

And all the while the jackasses on TV tell us the recovery is right around the corner... What do you think their gonna do when fall rolls around and things are still on the decline?

Well I'll tell ya one thing... if you've managed to recover some of your losses in your 401k you better get out soon. We're not gonna be flirtin' around with 8000 to much longer. We're at or near the peak right now. You may be able to wait a little while... but just remember... when it drops this time... its gonna drop big.

Keep your powder dry boys... if ya have any.

License to Reload?

Go Time approaches.

It seems like every few days I'm reading about some new attack on the Second Amendment. Clinton wasn't this aggressive in his wettest of dreams. The fact is all these tactics are indeed having their effect.

Yesterday I was over at Bass Pro. The boys there at the gun counter told me they'd been averaging 120 handgun sales per week since December. That's a lot of firearms boys. But get this... the last 2 days? Practically none.

Why?

No ammo. People ain't paying 700 bucks for a fancy new firearm they can't shoot. It'd just be an expensive, extremely well engineered paper weight. For the first time ever... a shortage of ammo is negatively affecting firearm sales. Not good.

I also took the time to talk to them about their Primers. Seems like you boys that like to poopoo rumors better start perkin' up. When a company as big as Bass Pro can't get CCI small rifle primers... there's a problem.

And yes... I'm well aware that Cabellas "appears" to have them... but if you'll take the time to add those primers to your cart you'll see that they are on backorder. You can't get them.

Bass Pro has no idea when they are gonna get some. Neither does anyone else.

The good news is... I have a line on .223... but no... I ain't sharing.

The Leading Economic Indicator

So whenever you hear some talking head rambling about how the decline is all but over and the light is clearly at the end of the tunnel. Do take a moment to point this out to them.

Nothing says recovery like CFO's offing themselves.

Of course if you note the wording of the article there are at least some suspicious aspects of the death. But then again, its not like the murder of Freddie Mac executives would bode well.

Well... I suppose that depends on the goal doesn't it?

Flip Floppery

See? Change ain't always so easy to deal with. You get quite a bit of chaos and even a few shenanigans. But in the end... it all works out for the better.

Or not.

Change...

Definately... but I don't know about hope. Feel free to rant about all the changes in the comments... assuming you get them to work. I didn't want to do it. I really didn't... but it was time folks.

Out with the old... as they say.

On Secession

Enough is enough. It is time for the People of the South to declare once and for all that they will decide their own fate... for better or worse.

We have the right... no... we have the duty to chart our own course. We have our own distinct culture. We have our own distinct art. We have our own distinct literature and music. We share political and economic views that are incompatible with those of the United States. A Democrat from Georgia is more conservative than a Republican from New York. That's just a plain fact.

Right now... state legislators are fretting over secession... is it constitutional... is it not? What idiots. While they do so... the Federal Government continues to violate the contract with impunity.

Tell me friends... what exactly happens to a contract once its terms are violated?

That contract is null and void.

Allow to ask one question... this is to you folks that believe secession is illegal...

Does the United States have the right to leave the United Nations? More over... if the United States did leave the United Nations... would the UN have the right to invade the US to force its various views upon us?

Of course not. Its ridiculous.

Well... its no more ridiculous than the so-called American Civil War.

The Smartest People in the Room

The Gray Ghost

John Singleton Mosby was a Virginian with a penchant for violence. To be remembered as such would probably do him proud. See Mosby was practicing law when the war broke out... and immediately joined up with J.E.B. Stewart's cavalry. Mosby quickly rose through the ranks and soon became J.E.B.'s trusted right hand man. In fact... it was John Mosby that facilitated the Stewart's famous ride around McClellon.

It wasn't long before John was asked to go off on his own. He was given permission to recruit some partisan rangers and take them to war. He started out initially with one battalion of rangers.

With those few men... he managed to raise all manner of hell throughout northern Virginia. Mosby, like his contemporary in the west Nathaniel Bedford Forrest, was a gorilla fighter. He was a hit and run specialist... and the yankees loathed him for it. Large forces were frequently sent to destroy his little band... and every one of them failed. Most of them failed spectacularly.

In one such instance... Mosby and 29 of his men road into Fairfax Virginia one night where Union General Edwin H. Stoughton slept. Mosby woke him up with a slap on the ass. The general shouted, "do you know who I am?"

Mosby just replied, "Do you know John Mosby?"

It was dark and the general was apparently a little slow that night. He said, "Why? Do you have the scoundrel?"

I'm certain Mosby smiled as he put his pistol to the general's head and said, "No. But he has you."

Things got so bad that Lincoln ordered that if any of Mosby's men were captured, they should be killed. George Custer actually executed several himself.

Mosby made a terrible problem of himself throughout the war... until Lee surrendered. Rather than surrender himself... he simply disbanded his unit and moved to San Fransisco. He settled in well out west. He eventually befriended a young boy that lived nearby. He and the boy would draw up battle plans in the dirt and re-enact battles. Mosby spend years teaching the little boy everything he knew about tactics, leadership, and battlefield management.

That little boy? You've probably heard about him to...

His name was George S. Patton.

Meeting the Lord in Assless Leather Pants

All show and no go. If you've ever been around the motorcycle culture you've heard that. The loathesome Harly Davidson Motorcycle Company embodies the statement more than any other. Fitting then that a company could go so far as design its whole business plan around carting old dead people on them.

After extensive research on the company's website I learned they actually have an environmental policy which requires an escort to go along behind the processions for oil cleanup. After all... you can't have a couple hundred hogs rolling through town without leavin' a helluva mess. The clean up crew no doubt ride Hondas.... which look better... go faster... turn better... are more comfortable... more reliable... and don't leak oil all over the road.

Then again...

Playing dress up isn't as fun when you aren't part of a whole club of grown ups playing along with you.

Thanks Be to God

1Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
2And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
3And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.
4And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:
5And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?

-Luke 24

Oh Death... Where is thy sting?

It is Done

And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost. -Luke 44-46

Today we remember the day Death died... and we remember the cost.

Bolt on... As such

One should be aware that an accessory claiming to be "bolt on" ain't necessarily... and even if it is... there the possibility that there is a great deal more to the story. I found this out today.

See I wanted to install new handguards on the KLX. What it had deflected the wind and bugs... but that's about it. I wanted somthing that could take a lick... save my levers... and maybe even my fingers.

Now... these guards came with mounting hardware. The process seems simple. You put what amounts to a glorified concrete anchor into your handlebars... and put a screw through the end of the guard into that hardware.. which expands and presses up against the inside of the bars. Fair enough.

One problem... My bars are full of steal. Seems Kawi decided the KLX could benefit from some weight in the bars to keep vibes down.

Ah... but never fear... What does a good redneck do when he sees a hole?

He taps it... so he can screw it whenever he pleases.

For the record that's an 8M X 1.25 I knew ya'll be wonderin'.

We Apologize

I realize we've been slackin' around here. See my Grandmother... my dad's mom... died friday morning. We've been runnin' around like chickens without heads ever since. At any rate.... we've been to Cincinnatti and back... and we now resume some semblence of our regular schedule.

Rest assured... just after we crossed the border back into Kentucky we changed the tires on the vehicles and threw away our boots so as to prevent any transfer of tainted yankee soil into our beloved Dixie. I speak for not only myself but can also vouch for JAC.

We also have a couple tales... though I'm a little to tired to relate them all tonight. I'll tell ya about one though...

See Jeb's favorite book is an encyclopedia of fighter planes. Literally ever aircraft ever built for the purposes of air-to-air combat is included. It starts in 1914 with the Fokker E1 and goes all the way through to present with the F-35. It tells the history, cost, design process, and specifications of every fighter built anywhere on the planet.

We read it. Every day.

Now some of you may know that my cousin Bryan happens to be an honest-to-God-no-shit Fighter Pilot. He flies an F-16. And also as you can certainly guess... I was very excited about introducing Jeb to him.

Upon said introduction... Jeb had one question. He looked Bryan in the eye and said.. skeptically I might add, "How fast does an F-16 go?"

This is where the trouble started.

"Well... it goes a lot faster than I'm willing to fly it."

Jeb was not impressed. Bryan realized this and tried to recover...

"It goes about 600mph buddy."

Jeb looked at Brian... Looked at me... and shook his head. That was that.

Later on we all went to the steak house and Bryan and I were recalling the little conversation... I had to point out how badly he'd screwed up. Bryan's a bright one though... he knew it.

"Yeah... I realized he knew he ment top speed when I said 600mph and he looked at me like I was a dumbass."

See... Jeb knows full well that the F-16's top speed exceeds 1,320mph. He examines it every day.

See? This is what happens when you talk to one of my boys like you're talkin' to a kid.

Don't let none of this fool ya though. I've been lookin' forward to seeing Brian and finally meeting his wife and beautiful little girl for a long time. A classier group you'll not run across. We got to meet another cousin's fiance'... that'd be Amy... Brian's little sister... a doll in every sense who's found herself a fine husband. Though I cannot imagine what possessed her to bring him to family fuctions before she had secured the deal with contractually.

I just wish we could've gotten together under better circumstances.

Drinkin' Back When

I'm gonna tell ya the plain truth boys... we're a damned bunch of teatottlin' do-gooders compared to our glorious ancestors. In this regard... I shall tell a tale... and a true one at that.

Way back in 1812 the USS Constitution left Boston. The ship had a crew of 475 officers and sailors. It was outfitted for war with 74,000 pounds of shot, and 11,500 pounds of powder. For drinking there were 48,600 gallons of water, and 79,000 gallons of rum.

Six weeks later the ship made Jamaica where she took on 68,300 gallons of rum. Three weeks after that she provisioned at the Azores where she shipped 64,300 gals of portugese wine. After shooting up the sea lanes around England, she made a raid on the Firth of Clyde where she captured, among other things a distillery. They loaded up 40,000 gallons of Scotch whiskey and headed for home.

The Constitution arrived home with its ammunition gone. So was all the rum, wine, and whiskey. But so the story goes... still in the hold were those original 48,600 gallons of water.

In honour of those fine men... and that fine tale... I will also share a recipe...

Chatham Artillery Punch

Three Gallons Catawba Wine
1 Gallon Rum
1 Gallon Brandy
1 Gallon Rye Whiskey
5 pounds brown sugar
2 qts of cherries
Juice from 3 dozen lemons

Smooth with 1 gallon of gin... just before serving add 3 gallons of champagne.

Time for an Investigation


So the other day I got this email... it was from a fella that claimed he'd heard about a supposed Islamic compound near Dover TN. He said he took a drive out to the place himself just to check it out.

These are some pictures he took while he was there. As you can see they've erected a sign at the entrance to the place. I don't know what Muslims of the Americas is... but I can assure you I intend to find out.

Apparently after speaking to some neighbors around the compound the emailer learned that there is a power line easement, and the compound is on either side of it. They have erected fences and barriers to discourage any traffic down that easement. Something tells me TVA won't be to happy about that.

He also included a pictures showing a satellite view of the compound, and the easement.

I cannot help but notice the convenient location of this compound... very close to Fort Campbell.



If you're interested... It is west of Carlisle, TN off of Eden Way, which is off of Dreamwood Lane. A quick search on mapquest will confirm the satellite view.

Wisdom

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

-Robert A. Heinlein

The Black Flag of Christianity

We write this day for one reason and one reason alone. We right to declare once and for all that the message of the Gospel must not be lost. We accept no compromise. We accept nothing less than the Truth.

Christianity is not an inclusive religion.

Christianity is not a unifying religion.

Christianity is divisive.. subversive.. and dangerous.

Christianity pits brother against brother.. and Father against Son.

Christianity is not a religion of Peace... at least not until the Victory.

We will no longer tolerate the pathetic trade off.. we will not sacrifice the Truth for mere peace within the church. We will not compromise. Black is black. White is white. This is the end.

Paul did not barter the Truth for peace.

Jesus did not barter the Truth for peace.

Neither shall we.

It is time for Christians to shake off their cowardice and insecurity. It is time for Christians to speak the truth regardless of the consequences.

The time is now.


Hoist the Colors.

The Grub Eaters, They Bitch

So apparently Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has blamed the economic crisis on everyones favorite villain... "White People with Blue Eyes". Thankfully I have brown eyes so apparently I'm not accountable... unfortunately my beautiful wife can't say the same. For the life of me I can't imagine how she found the time to wreck the global markets... but I digress.

We at the Bloggerblaster would like to share a little bit of information with President da Silva... If it weren't for white people with blue eyes... his country would still be populated with prehistoric neanderthals incapable of comprehending the need for a wheel. I can't help but notice that da Silva spoke while wearing a nice suit... as opposed to a loin cloth. For that, we should all thank white men. He also spoke into a microphone. which was invented by a white man... and his words were broadcast over TV, Radio, and the internet... which again... were all invented by white men. He also happens to be president of a democratic country... democracy... again... invented by white men.

The plain truth is most international bankers are white europeans because international banking was invented by white europeans. Mr da Silva's country has benefited immeasurably from the labor of that system... and the many other advances created by the white europeans that he is railing against.

We sincerely invite the Brazilian president to kiss our ass. And we're thankful to white europeans... who have civilized his country to the point that we can safely offer up our faultless hindquarters for such kissing without fear the brazilian reverting to the cannibalistic tendencies of his native ancestors.

Citified Stupid

Apparently more and more cities are adopting daytime curfew laws that single out teens. I can't imagine that anyone would ever submit to a curfew. Allowing some moron politician to tell me when I can or can't leave my own house?

How you city folks tolerate that crap...I'll never understand.

So anyway... just so I'm clear... if I was homeschooling in Dallas... I couldn't let my kids ride their bikes around during the day. They would be arrested... and I would be fined. Brilliant.

I also get a kick out of the statistics used to justify the new law. So because half of the kids arrested for burglary were "picked up during daytime hours" that means a curfew will help. Umm... what difference does that make?

Notice it does not say the crimes were committed during the day... only that more than half of the kids that were actually picked up were picked up during the day. Wow. Do you think that's because they simply went to the schools and got the kids there? or talked to people at the school and found out where to find them? I'll got out on a limb here and say that the majority of all arrests take place in the daylight hours.

But see it doesn't matter what the stats are. Most folks can't understand them, and don't care anyway. They'll make a knee jerk emotional reaction to the story and formulate an opinion based solely on that.

Daniel Hannan MEP: The devalued Prime Minister of a devalued Government

Beat down. Someone find me an american politician that has the balls to stare down the powerful morons running this country, the way this man confronted the Prime Minister.

Just a Quickie:

Isn't entertaining that the lefty morons continually shouted "fascism" at the Bush administration, yet they fully support their man he when actually practices it.

Now.. please forgive my lack of blogging. It seems that preparing for a family vacation in central america is more taxing than one would otherwise suspect. Costa Rica in early may! Woo Hoo!

Eyes On The Ball

Hey morons... how about instead of throwing temper tantrums over tempestuous teakettles you pay attention to the maelstrom about to suck the whole damned ship down?

While you've been busy wadding up your panties over bonuses paid to AIG big shots... the House snuck of and passed HR 1833.

What's that?

You don't know what HR 1833 is?

Oh its no big deal... its nothing really... its just a little bill that gives Obama the authority to create the civilian defense force he's been secretly masturbating over in the Oval Office.

But hey... keep worrying about those bonuses... never mind that your kids are going to be forced to go through a government boot camp of brainwashing. Good thing you've got your priorities in order.

The Audacity of Stupid

I feel the need to remind you that I don't like people. Nor do I particularly care for going into public... because they are so commonly found there. Occasionally... though.. I am forced to.

Like today... in an effort of good will I took my mother-in-law's trash to the local dump.

Now I have to think that for most folks this is a routine errand... and should be utterly uneventful. Of course... its just these type of things that invariably gets me into trouble.

But I knew that's just what would happen as soon as I saw the so-called dump. See... dumps don't exist anymore... now you have Recycling Temples.. were the worthy come to give their offerings to the Goddess.

Anyway... so... clearly I'm to approachable. I say that with confidence... because in spite of wearing tactical boots and pants, complete with a steyr in a shoulder rig and a backup on my hip... I still find myself addressed by inferiors.

I got out of the escalade... carried the trash bags through the maze of depositories and the hippies milling about... and threw the bags down into the compactor... when I heard...

"Young man were there any recyclables in those bags?"

I turned to see a damned dirty hippie... a wretched old man with a long white beard and ridiculous ponytale... He wore a ratty t-shirt... skin tight... short shorts... black socks and tennis shoes.

I wanted to shoot him. I against my better judgement... I did not. I paused... thought.. and said..

"Well... old man... if I say no will that keep you from diving into that compactor after them in a wild last ditch effort to save the planet?"

He blinked several times at me... and finally I said, "Yes. Yes I believe there were." And walked off.

How Convenient...

So.. everyone who knew this cat in Alabama said he was quiet and easy going. No one could believe he'd do something like this.

But the cops say he did. So he did.

And isn't it funny that right around the time Obama is talking about banning "assault weaposn" a regular Joe shoots up two towns with weapons that just happen to fit the exact cosmetic details of the old assault weapons ban.

There is more to this story people.

Repost: Oklahoma City Bombing

It Wasn't Just fertilizer.

The first thing I am going to do here is destroy the government's story. Actually... It's been done a hundred times before. So it isn't really that tough for me. What you will find here was compiled from several sources in a book by David Hoffman. The information is easily verifiable, should you choose to distrust Mr Hoffman's word or his extensive bibliography. I've actually looked up some of the numbers myself, just to check.

Buckle up kids. Here we go:

- In a letter hand-delivered to each member of Congress U.S. Air Force Brigadier General, Benton K. Partin stated:"When I first saw the pictures of the truck-bomb's asymmetrical damage to the Federal Building, my immediate reaction was that the pattern of damage would have been technically impossible without supplementing demolition charges at some of the reinforcing concrete column bases. For a simplistic blast truck-bomb, of the size and composition reported, to be able to reach out on the order of 60 feet and collapse a reinforced column base the size of column A-7 is beyond credulity." When it comes to things like this, we should listen to General Partin. He was personally responsible for practically every non-nuclear test the Air Force ran on this sort of thing... meaning... when it comes to blowing up buildings with bombs, particularly pattern damage... he's one of the brightest guys on the planet.

- Dr Samuel Cohen also knows a little about explosives... considering he invented the Neutron Bomb. In a letter sent to Representative Charles Key he states: "It would have been absolutely impossible and against the laws of nature for a truck full of fertilizer and fuel oil, no matter how much was used, to bring the building down."

- Dr. Roger Raubach, a Professor of Chemistry, who served on the research faculty of Stanford University says: "General Partin's assessment is absolutely correct. I don't care if they pulled up a semi-trailer truck with 20 tons of ammonium-nitrate; it wouldn't do the damage we saw there." He goes on to say, in an interview with The New American magazine: "The detonation velocity of the shock wave from an ANFO (ammonium-nitrate/fuel-oil) explosion is on the order of 3,500 meters per second. In comparison, military explosives generally have detonation velocities that hit 7,000 to 8,000-plus meters per second. The most energetic single-component explosive of this type, C-4--which is also known as Cyclonite or RDX--is about 8,000 meters per second and above. You don't start doing big-time damage to heavy structures until you get into those ranges, which is why the military uses those explosives."

- Blasters agree: Sam Gronning has been blowing things up professionally for over 30 years. He also told New American: "I set off a 5,000 lb ANFO charge. I was standing 1,000 feet from it, and all it did was muss my hair, take out the mud in the creek that we were trying to get rid of, and shatter a few leaves off the trees around it. It didn't cause any collateral damage to any of the deeply set trees that were within 20 feet of it."

- ANFO just isn't a very good explosive for big work. A publication from the Atlas Powder company states: "agricultural fertilizer prills when made into ANFO had very poor explosive characteristics. They would not detonate efficiently because of their high density, lack of porosity and heavy inert coatings of anti-setting agents. The ability of an oiled prill to be detonated depends greatly upon the density of the prill. Dense prills, such as agricultural grade, often are not detonable at all; or if initiated, perform at a very low rate of detonation and may die out in the bore hole performing no useful work.-- Army demolition manuals clearly state, ANFO is not good for destroying concrete or steel, as stated in Army Manual TM 31-210: Improvised Munitions Handbook.

- 4800 pounds of ANFO mixed with racing fuel (the 4th and final report the government gave on the explosive McVeigh used) would produce a pressure wave of roughly 300lbs per square inch at the blast point, and the force would dissipate quickly with distance. In other words, 30 to 40 feet away, it wouldn't have even scratched the paint off the Murrah Building, which, contrary to Soldier of Fortune's hit piece, was actually designed to withstand earth-quakes, and explosive attack.

- According to the engineers and architects who designed the Murrah building, the concrete used was designed to withstand pressures of 2000 to 4000 pounds per square inch.

- According to concrete manufacturers that estimate is very low, and doesn't account for steel reinforcement, which would put the numbers closer to 10,000 psi.

- Several otherwise intelligent people who would like to refute this evidence like to site several other ANFO bombings that produced substantial damage, such as the Marine Bunker that got trashed in Beirut in 1982. They neglect to consider that the bomb in that case was detonated from inside the building, and the building was smaller, and infinitely lighter than the Murrah building. Some other examples:

In the summer of 1996, an IRA truck-bomb detonated in the heart of Manchester's financial district. The device, constructed of ANFO and 3,500 pounds of Semtex, a high-velocity, military-grade plastic explosive, caused considerable damage to the surrounding buildings, but left them relatively intact. Although the device managed to break a lot of windows and injure 206 people, no one was killed.

On June 25, 1996, a tanker-trailer packed with RD-X plastic explosives blew up outside the Khobar Towers apartment complex at King Abdul Aziz Air Base in Saudi Arabia, killing 19 American servicemen and injuring hundreds more. While the blast produced a crater 35 feet deep and 85 feet across (the crater in Oklahoma was approximately 6 feet deep and 16 feet across, although the government claimed it was 30 feet), it didn't do the same amount of damage done to the Murrah Building--a building constructed to much more rigorous codes and specifications.

Enough of that silliness. So what did happen? I've not heard any credible talk that denies that there was fertilizer, and probably a fertilizer bomb present. Most likely it was a diversion.
Smoke and Mirrors for the real thing, or more specificly things, inside the building. And speaking of that...

- Strategic Investment newsletter reported that a Pentagon study had been leaked which backed up General Partin's analysis: A classified report prepared by two independent Pentagon experts has concluded that the destruction of the federal building in Oklahoma City last April was caused by five separate bombs. The two experts reached the same conclusion for the same technical reasons. Sources close to the Pentagon study say Timothy McVeigh did play a role in the bombing but peripherally, as a "useful idiot." The multiple bombings have a Middle Eastern "signature," pointing to either Iraqi or Syrian involvement.

- David Hall, general manager of KPOC-TV in Ponca City, Oklahoma, who has investigated the ATF's role in the bombing. He gave us some tastey quotes relating to deliveries to the Murrah Building: "We do know that explosives were delivered there without a doubt. We know there were six boxes of 25 to 35 pounds marked 'high explosives' delivered to the building two weeks prior to the explosion. We had contact with the truck driver who was involved in that delivery. The name of the trucking company is Tri-State, located in Joplin, Missouri."

- Tri-State is an explosives carrier.- Mr Hall also says: "We also know that the ATF had a magazine inside the building, which was illegal. But the floor was blown out of that magazine. And there's some question about what was in there too that created that damage, because that was a foot of concrete that was blown out of that magazine."

- Mr Hall stopped investigating the matter in 1995 when the IRS audited him.

- Oklahoma City Fire Marshal Dick Miller reported that a bomb was found on the third floor of the building (in the ATF office actually) that had timer. The timer was set to 9:10am. The bomb had malfunctioned. Other witnesses at the scene saw the bomb squad carry it away, and local news casters mentioned it on air.

- Investigator Phil O'Halloran has Bill Martin of the Oklahoma City Police Department on tape stating that one of the bombs found in the building was two to three five-gallon containers of Mercury Fulminate--a powerful explosive--one not easily obtainable except to military sources.- According to the CIA Mercury Fulminate residue was found on the roof-tops of several buildings near-by.

- Governor Frank Keating told reporters: "The reports I have is that one device was deactivated, and there's another device, and obviously whatever did the damage to the Murrah Building was a tremendous, very sophisticated explosive device."

- During live coverage KFOR announced: "The second explosive was found and defused. The third explosive was found--and they are working on it right now as we speak. I understand that both the second and the third explosives were larger than the first."

-Channel 4 interviewed terrorism expert Dr. Randall Heather. Dr. Heather stated: "We should find out an awful lot, when these bombs are taken apart. We got lucky today, if you can consider anything about this tragedy lucky. It's actually a great stroke of luck, that we've got defused bombs. It's through the bomb material that we'll be able to track down who committed this atrocity."

To sum up... The Government would have you believe that a couple guys got together... bought fertilizer, rented a truck, mixed up 1000.. I mean... 2000... no.. 4000.... wait... 4800 pound bomb... parked the truck 40 feet from the Murrah Building... and created an explosion that did so much damage to the building that it had to be demolished.

As you can see, this is not possible. ANFO cannot be used to make a shaped charge. Any dynamic engineer or blaster will confirm this. If it were even possible, it would require the same type of electronics used in our nukes.

I reckon at this point you've either been convinced that a truck full of ANFO couldn't have possibly done what they say it did. Either that, or you're gonna head of on a fact finding mission. If you choose the latter, I am confident you will eventually conclude the same thing I did.

Legends and Ghosts

The following story is true.

"Funny how the inexplicable always seems to show up in times of desperation."

It was a strange think to hear... sitting at a little hole in the wall bar in God's no where West Virginia. The man that had said it was sitting next to me... talking to himself... or maybe to no one at all... but his buddy gave a knowing nod.

I didn't give the matter much thought. I wasn't there for a philosophy lecture... I wanted a beer. By that time I'd had four.

By the time I'd had six me and those two ol' boys were becoming drinkin' buddies. Turns out they were regulars... and I wasn't... but tonight I was... at least that's how they put it. It was good enough for them anyway.

After a long while I asked Charlie what he ment... about things happening in desperate times.

What follows... the the story he and Al told me.

"Not the best name for a Ranger in Vietnam is it? Charlie... You can't imagine how sick I was of hearin' the same 3 jokes. Shut up Al... no one asked you."

Al laughed. "See... Charlie here... he and I were Rangers... and well... we saw a lot of things. Oh I'm not talking about plain ol' killing... or man's cruelty to man or any of that college boy shit. I'm talkin'... we saw some strange shit."

"I got this Al." Charlie began.

"There's legends Nate... and ghosts... and that's all Vietnam is... Legends and Ghosts. " He paused... sipped a little whiskey... then he continued.

"It was the start of the dry season... and the little man in the black pajamas had a hard on for his annual offensive. The little pricks had manuevered a whole damned brigade out... and some of our boys had gotten stuck behind them. I tell ya... it weren't no damned good. Thats when they called us. Airlift in there... bust 'em out. Impossible? Of course it was impossible. They were sending two platoons in up against God knows what kind of blocking force... probably at least two companies. But hell... we're Rangers. That's what we do."

Al shook his head a chuckled a bit to himself.

Charlie continued.

"We were probing for weak spots... some place we could break through... oh... the truth is we could've hammered our way through anywhere we wanted.. but we wanted it clean and neat. Quiet. Fear is important in war... Anyway... I don't want you to believe me and Al were big time players in this deal... we were just scouts... running along picking out victims. Anyway... we were creepin' through the thickest damned jungle on God's earth... not far from the Cambodia border... when we found what we were lookin' for. "

At this point... Al interupted... "Sorta."

"Yeah... sorta. See Nate... there weren't two companies.... there was a whole damned brigade. Dug in. Ready for a fight. Like they knew we were comin'... Like they'd been there a while. But Nate..."

He turned and looked me in the eye.

"Nate they were all dead. Every damned one of them.... "

"Shit man", all said, "I looked at 15 bodies.. not one bullet wound.... just... dead."

We didn't know what happened.. and we didn't care to find out. We radio'd back... we rushed in and got our boys out... and left the NVA to figure out."

Charlie sat there a moment... sipped his whiskey... and shook his head.

Al spoke up..

"See... Nate... when we got to our men... turned out it was an ARVN unit... yeah... don't ask... anyway... man... they were white... terrified... kept mumbling some shit about a... spirit protector. The god Gio'ng or some shit..."

"I need more whiskey" said Charlie.

and I simply replied...

"So do I."

When I got home that night... I did a little research on Gio'ng. Ghosts and Legends indeed.

The End of Hope

From Bondage to Spiritual Awakening
From Spiritual Awakening to Great Courage
From Great Courage to Liberty
From Liberty to Prosperity
From Prosperity to Complacency
From Complacency to Apathy
From Apathy to Dependence
From Dependence to Bondage

Nation after nation has been damned to the same cycle. I ask you... what stage is America in today?

Believe me... I am well aware of the states rights talk. I note that in even the most feminized work places... secession is no longer a curse word... or a word muttered only by crazy Lost Causers. Its a word being thrown around on talk radio. This is a welcome change.

But answer the question... what stage are we in? Are we seeing Spiritual Awakening? or are we seeing a dependent's temper tantrum? And do we think for a moment that the man who was sworn into office with the personal Bible that the Bastard Lincoln used to mock will react with anything but supreme violence? Do we yet have Great Courage?

Who will profit... besides the undertakers?

Oh certainly we have the revolutionary right to destroy or dismember our government... but do we have the will to exercise that right?

What about 2 years of depression from now? Now that a different question. See suffering has a way of bringing about Spiritual Renewal. People become self reliant when the economy has been down as long as ours is going to be down... and when consumerism is no longer there to distract them... their priorities often work themselves back to the proper order. God and family rise back to the top... and when God rises back to the top... Great Courage follows soon after.

Nevada and Louisiana passed Sovereignty bills in the late 90s. Both actually spelled out specific conditions under which they would secede. Given how much communication has spead up the process... and the rate at which these Sovereignty bills are being passed... its tough to guage where we are in comparison. Are we in 1850? Or are we in 1840? Or... are we in 1859?

And what if it is a Spiritual Awakening? What if the unPresidented power grab has indeed splashed cold water on the face of a slumbering giant? What then?

Why not Freedom?

Indeed someone does profit... not just the undertakers... but the whole world. The world needs a strong free nation. The world needs a lighthouse... a gleaming fire that burns clear and bright... showing the way not to power... but to prosperity. But the world is not our concern. Our concern is our posterity.

This is not a call to arms friends.

This is an alter call.

Piss on NYC

The Big Apple my ass. I've called 10 different resturaunts today... and out of the 9 people that answered the phone... only one of them spoke english. Well, that may not be entirely accurate... I mean they may be speaking some kind of english... I just know I could understand a word they were saying. Apparently in New York you're only allowed 1 syllable... so all your words have to be condensed into one constant sound with no breaks at all. Combine that with a revolting yankee accent spliced over some random middle eastern accent.

Seriously... appart from the guests at the hotel... I have no seen a single white person.

Not one.

I'm certain that there are in fact white people in New York... I know two of them quite well... But I am begining to wonder if they are the only ones. And ya know... now that I think about it... its not that I haven't seen any white people.. I mean.. I haven't seen any black people either! I mean ok... our cabbie was a black dude... that's it. That's the only black or white person I've laid eyes on.

Ok... enough bitching... the place is miserable and discusting and there is nothing here to justify its existence.... other than the fact that it thins out the asshole population east of the mississippi by attracting so many to one spot.

You know...

Like California does out west.

Someone nuke this place.

Please?

ATF

Boys... a friend is havin' a hard time findin' himself a sidearm. He's apparently got some big ol' meat hooks.. such that even Glocks don't feel right. We could take the easy way out and advize him to get a Desert Eagle.

My initial thought goes to Ol' Reliable...my Taurus PT-101. Its a double stack .40. It fills up your hand.

Now before you go gettin' your panties wadded up about it being a beretta clone.. I would caution you... because its not. Its a superior weapon to the Beretta. You can carry this cocked and locked. Its got a lot of steal where the Beretta has a lot of aluminum... its more accurate and more reliable. Those are the facts.

On the Tobacco front I would like to like to complain about NYC... which apparently has out lawed the products to the point that they simply are not available for purchase. May the whole city burn... after we're gone.

Ah well... that leaves booze.... Tonight I'm reduced to heading down to the hotel bar for over priced bourbon. Oh yes... Ask me how much a liter of Makers Mark is...

103 dollars.

I guess the Hyper-Inflationists were right.

Mel Brooks does Foreign Policy

Thanks to Bill for this heads up. You have to see this to believe it.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton opened her first extended talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov by giving him a present meant to symbolize the Obama administration’s vow to “press the reset button” on U.S.-Russia relations.

She handed a palm-sized box wrapped with a bow. Lavrov opened it and pulled out the gift: a red button on a black base with a Russian word peregruzka printed on top.

“We worked hard to get the right Russian word. Do you think we got it?” Clinton asked.

“You got it wrong,” Lavrov said. Instead of “reset,” Lavrov said the word on the box meant “overcharge.”

Gaff after Gaff after Gaff. Putin and the boys are laughing at the US the same way we laughed at them in the mid 80s.

End Game: Hyper-Inflation vs. Hyper-Deflation

When it comes to predicting doom... Those Who Read the Bones are divide into two camps... there are those who believe there will be hyper-inflation... and those who believe just the opposite... hyper-deflation.

I'm going to explain the two catastrophes in extremely simplified terms... and yes... some accuracy will be lost in the translation but bear with me. Lets start with the Hyper-Deflationists.. whom we'll call the Downers... for the sake of brevity.

Now... first of all I need to state the position of the Downers isn't nearly as clear cut as the Uppers (hyper-inflationists). What the Downers fear, and among them you can count the Fed, is another a decline in the value of treasuries held by... you guessed it... the Fed. Look.. the Fed is out to make money... and make money they do. So if the market for US Treasuries starts to dry up then you can bet they won't hesitate to raise rates. That's why Hillary is out there begging at the feet of the Chinese. The administration has been told clearly... if the treasury market turns down... the Fed will raise rates... maybe dramaticly. That would result in a perfect storm. Banks, already terrified of even the slightest risk (because of their insane leveraged positions), would be forced to pay even more for money. Credit card interest rates go up. Mortgage rates go up... and that drives home prices even lower. The economy shuts down. Full Stop. Now Maggie Thatcher could handle that... How do thing Barak Obama will do?

Ok... that sounds pretty scary... and pretty reasonable... what's the other side say?

Well... the Upper position is a little more clear. We've been staving off economic collapse for decades by inflating one bubble after another. Think of the tech bubble in the 90s. We had a soft landing because at the same time it was popping, we were inflating a new real estate bubble. That's all good and fine... but its just ducktape on a dyke. We've been printing money and printing money... So much so that the Fed won't even release M3 anymore. Now.. the End Game for the Uppers is when everyone wakes up and realizes one day that the emperor has no clothes. And when I say that... I'm talking about not just dollar inflation... but everything inflation. The dollar is more leveraged than any bank ever was. Why? Because the currencies that are being used to prop the dollar up are also incredibly inflated. We have inflated a dollar bubble with a Euro bubble with a Yen bubble so to speak. Virtually every currency is inflated... So its very similar to a bank run. Its the true downside to globalization. Once one currency falls, they all start falling... then all those dollars start coming home to roost and the value of the dollar hits the floor. Its Germany in 1923. The dollar is losing its value so fast that literally people are leaving work to go shopping before their money is completely worthless. Also scary. Also not good.

The problem I have is... and maybe someone can clear it up for me... Why can't both happen?

Why can't China stop buying our debt... at the same time the dollar crashes? Sure.. the Fed raises rates through the roof... but it doesn't matter because the US government is spending money that doesn't exist like there is no tomarrow... because well... they honestly believe there isn't. So home prices crash because the dollar is worthless... and crash further because the rates are so high... and crash further because even at the high rates very few banks will lend. But even that deflationary influence isn't enough because the government is spending so much.

What you have is something akin to the Great Depression... where money was worthless... but you still can't get any of it, because the government controlled institutions were simultenously limiting supply to the people, while the government itself was choking the life out of the currency by spending the hell out of it. Of course buy spending it, what I mean is, printing it up from no where and giving it away to people or banks that gladly take it... then run like hell.

Its a big bloody damned mess people. And all I know is... you better buy gold. Ya know why? Becuase if the Downers are right... you aren't gonna be able to get ahold of any currency at all. But if you have gold... you can spend it. Dig? You'll have something to use to trade.... something with a known market value.

On the other hand... if the Uppers are right... well... your gold will be invaluable for the same reason.

The moral?

It doesn't matter who's right. They may both be right. All you need to know is... buy gold.

My biggest hope is actually tied to my biggest fear. The globalisation that leads to the crash could be the saving grace of the dollar... because when the fed does crank up the rates... the demand that disappeared could easily come back... lifting up the dollar inspite of the inflationary pressure of government gone wild.

In other words... if the government would just do nothing... we'd be fine in a few months. But the government will not do nothing... and it will drag out this whole thing for several years before the international demand finally catches up with us and brings us back to normalcy.

On Inflation

Von Mises says it well:

"Inflation, as this term was always used everywhere and especially in this country, means increasing the quantity of money and bank notes in circulation and the quantity of bank deposits subject to check. But people today use the term `inflation' to refer to the phenomenon that is an inevitable consequence of inflation, that is the tendency of all prices and wage rates to rise. The result of this deplorable confusion is that there is no term left to signify the cause of this rise in prices and wages. There is no longer any word available to signify the phenomenon that has been, up to now, called inflation. . . . As you cannot talk about something that has no name, you cannot fight it. Those who pretend to fight inflation are in fact only fighting what is the inevitable consequence of inflation, rising prices. Their ventures are doomed to failure because they do not attack the root of the evil. They try to keep prices low while firmly committed to a policy of increasing the quantity of money that must necessarily make them soar. As long as this terminological confusion is not entirely wiped out, there cannot be any question of stopping inflation."

Very Interesting...

I would like to point out two articles of interest... though seemingly unrelated.

Note this one first.. where-in we learn of inflation in Belize. Here's the money quote from the Statistical Bureau of Belize:

"It concludes that the rate of inflation in 6 other Caribbean countries is expected to vary from 7% and 14%."

Now... lets be honest... such a figure doesn't seem particularly interesting at all does it? I mean.. these backwater countries are all the time devaluing their currencies to try to mask their insane expenditures.

Oh wait... I said two articles didn't I? Sorry... here's the other... Note that bit where it says the currency of Belize is pegged to the US dollar.

Let that sink in for a minute.

Got it yet?

The Belize dollar is pegged to the US dollar. That means it cannot be inflated by Belize. It can only be inflated by...

Math Is Hard

One of the infuriating things about life in America is the predictablility of media ignorance. All day I've been hearing that the Dow has now lost 48% of its value.

Umm...

The Dow Jones all time high was on October 9 of 2007. It was 14164. Today.. the Dow closed at 6763.

Does that sound like 48% to you?

No. In fact... 6763 is almost exactly 48% of 14164. Therefore the Dow has not lost 48% of its value... it has lost 52% of its value. And just in case you're one of those types that likes to talk about how this is just like the 70's.. and no where near as bad as the depression... I suggest you consider this...

We're 16 months into this shindig... and we've lost 52%. 16 months into the Great Depression... we'd lost a grand total of... 55%. As for the 70s... we've already surpassed that percentage loss and show no signs of recovering.

See... we're not really in uncharted territory here... we're just in territory that hasn't been charted since 1930.

No Really... its Go Time

Now its just starting to get silly. These psycho liberals are literally going to try to ram everything through. In case you missed it... Obama will try to renew the assault weapons ban.

Go Time

The bill that will start the shooting is already in congress. And what type of bill is it? Well... here's the description:

"To provide for the implementation of a system of licensing for purchasers of certain firearms and for a record of sale system for those firearms, and for other purposes."

Will this get rammed through? If it does get rammed through... will it stand up in court? Veryily I say unto thee... It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if SCOTUS will overturn it. If congress passes the Bill, its time to excersize our revolutionary right to free ourselves of this pathetic tyrany of incompetence.

Every problem American citizens face today has been created, or exaserbated by government.

The line is officially drawn in the sand.

Obama Speaks... Dow Dives...

So... The Muloto Messiah struts out before congress and the nation... He's gonna save us all. He's gonna cure cancer... he's gonna get us universal health care... he's gonna get us birth to cubical education... he's promising every woman her very own obsessed sparkly vampire. You boys hoping for owls and wands are shit out of luck. I mean that would just be irresponsible spending.

Imagine my suprise this morning when the Dow dropped 150 points at the opening bell. Ok well.. you're right.. I wasn't suprised. I was chuckling to myself all day yesterday about how bad the market was going to tank after Obama's excersize.

Obama has attempted to mimic Lincoln in as many ways as possible. I'm starting to think I may not be suprised if his presidency follows Lincolns far more closely than he imagines.

If your ears are open... you've heard what I've heard. Things are stirring folks. I haven't heard this kind of talk since the mid 90's... and this time... there's a crappy economy and a nation of desperate people to feed the anger.

I am inclined to wonder if america's awkward stage is not coming to an end.

I Would Love to Take Credit For This

but alas... I did not write it. What follows is the work of another... a fantabulous fellow who has in the past authored a gloriously entertaining and insightful blog. He's not written in a while and thinks himself rusty. I can't say that I agree with that assesment. I'll let you decide:

What's check kiting and who does this heinous and illegal thing?

Just about everyone. It's Thursday night and you're out of diapers. You don't get paid until tomorrow but you know the check won't clear until later, so you go ahead and right a check that's hot *right now*even though you'll be good for it by time it clears your bank in a few days.

You just kited a check.

In the jargon that time between when you produced a promise to pay, and the time it will be paid is knownas the "float." And it is the float that makes it all work. It's that time that allows you to get your house in order and produce the money that you said would be there.

When you get really nifty with check kiting you don't trouble yourself with diapers. You simply write yourself checks across two different accounts and deposit them in the opposite bank. Each bank credit's your account *right now* even though the check won't clear for awhile. And that allows you to grow your money. Just keep writing ever larger checks to yourself across both accounts ahead of when the checks have begun clearing and you'll see your bank balance soar.

Just one little catch. If each account started with $100, then when you get tired of writing checks for no reason and call it quits... the accounts will end with $100. No matter if you got their balance up toa cool million or so; there's still only $100 and a boatload of accounting fraud. And if you dare to pull money out of this scheme it will collapse. It is a Ponzi scheme and it's growth is strictly self-generated. Pull any money out and the series will stall or collapse outright. Yank $40 out? Wreck your apparent net worth and come out the other side with 60 bucks.

Not withstanding that it's a auto-Ponzi, it's illegal because you may have a net worth of a $100,000 that is only $100 in reality. That doesn't prevent you from cashing out and making off with the proceeds of the accounting error. With good reason this kind of fraud is often a felony. So the next question is: Is there any way you could legitimately makemoney off this deal? Can you wind it up and utilize your net worthfor a gain without screwing you or the bank?

In fact there is. Roll that thing up nice and tight so you have a large balance going. Then finance someone else's mortgage. You buy the deed outright and collect payments for the mortgage from the new lucky homeowner. Now quick! Sell the deed to someone else to service the mortgage.

Deposit the proceeds fast enough and you can cover all the checks that haven't cleared yet. If you were quick and deadly you'll get it done in time and make some coin as a bonus. Now you're not a criminal. Now you're a bank. Unless you're not quick and deadly enough; then you're just Citibank.

Lies and Damned Lies

"Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valueable, a most sacred right, a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world."

"This country with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing governemnt, they can exercize their contstitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right, to dismember or overthrow it."

Who said these things? What brilliant proponant of self determination said these things? Why none other than Honest Abraham Lincoln.

Wife Worship

Its an odd topic for a friday night... but I want to talk about one of the cancers in our society. It goes down to the very core of what makes human civilization go... the family... and even beyond that to the core of the family... the relationship between man and woman.

I want you to think back to all the stupid romance scenes you've been exposed to. I want you to think about the love songs you've heard. All to often... virtually every single time.. the climax of these angles is a male finally professing his undieing love for a female. The male, always completely humbled... comes to the female and tells her how he would treat her if he had her. He tells how he'd make her breakfast in bed every day... and lists off some specifics about how she would like it. He says how he'd spend every minute trying to show her how much he loves her... in short... he tells her he would worship her.

That is what females grow up hearing that love is. When a man worships a woman... that's love. When a woman worships a man... that's abuse... but lets not get side tracked just yet...

Let's examine just how destructive this model is. Setting aside the fact that it reduces men to useless castrati... it also destroys the family.

How?

Simple. Because if a man is busy worshipping a woman... its impossible for him to worship the Lord. I want you to think back now to the Bible. How exactly do husbands treat their wives there? Its a far cry from what we pound into mushy brains of teenagers in our society.

OOOOPS

So.. according to the "experts" inflation would rise .1% in January. It actually rose .8%... according to them. Of course 6 months from now they'll revise those numbers again... and their initial prediction will even be more wrong.

The point is... for the first time... they are admiting something is happening on the inflationary front. That doesn't mean its time to panic... but it is the sign a lot of us were looking for.

You can bet when a Keynesian economic group starts releasing info about increasing inflation they are scared. Very scared indeed.

And while we're talking about it... can someone explain why we should trust anyone that is off by 800% to even measure inflation.. much less predict it?

Keynesians Are Morons

You must understand that the vast majority of the talking heads are keynesian. That is.. they subscribe the few remaining theories postulated by John Maynard Keynes that have not quite been 100% proven incorrect just yet.

Now the keynesians describe a recession like this... "demand no longer equals productive capacity because people have started storing up large cash reserves."

So... recessions are bad... and they are what happens when companies are making stuff that people aren't buying.. because those bad people have decided to save some of their money.

Out of curiousity... Do you remember any massive rash of unified saving among your friends and family recently? Did the whole world recently decide to start saving money all at the same time? Of course not. The very idea is assinine. Never the less...

Since that is what they believe the problem is... they believe someone has to step in and buy the stuff that the public isn't buying... lest the capacity go to waste and companies start laying people off.

Ok... lets put it in common terms.

Lets say GM decides that what people really want are not cars at all... but motorized unicycles. They invest millions in retooling.. and produce thousands of motorized unicycles... which no one buys... because nobody wants motorized unicycles.

All of that capital investment was wasted by GM.. and now there is a deficit between what GM has produced.. and what people actually buy.

To the Keynesian... or as they are more commonly referred.. morons... this is a horror. The Government MUST step in and buy all the excess unicycles. That is the only thing that will prevent a recession. So tax money is taken out of the private sector where it was going to good competetive companies making good competetive products... and given to GM... so GM can keep making crap that no one wants.

Compare this to the Austrian view... which is... GM did something stupid. GM dies... and the productive capacity is replaced by a company that's not nearly as stupid. Meanwhile the money that would've otherwise been spent on GM cars... go saved.. and therefore can be spent on the products of the new competitive company.

Now you tell me... which view makes sense... and which view is the one championed by Harvard Business School?

Fire Every Teacher. Hang Every Bureacrat.

So... remember when you were at school... and someone would do something against the rules... do you remember how it was handled? Ya know.. the teacher comes over and gives someone a talking to... and if they press the matter.. they are sent to the principle's office right? Usually the offenders were made to write lines... or swatted with a paddle in severe cases... and in the worst cases.... they were suspended.

But no... that's not now they handle it now. No now... if you're caught texting in class... and lie about it.. the cops come and arrest you for disorderly conduct.

I say this in all seriuosness... If you have a young child.. and you are considering surrendering him or her to these people... then you are either evil... or ignorant.

And Now For Something Completely Different

But fret not... we're still talking about hoaxes on a grand scale. In fact... this one is far more relevant to most of you than any ridiculous claims of moon walking... and its a claim that has been foisted on millions... no... billions is a far more accurate term.

Today we're going to talk about the biggest hoax ever pulled... Tithing.

Christian Tithing is completely and totally unbiblical. Its arguably the biggest practical difference between the Eastern and Western churches. The Eastern Church does not tithe.

I'm going to share some very pointed facts:

1) Jesus didn't tithe.
2) None of Jesus' followers tithed.
3) Paul wrote 10 books to the gentiles. He never tells them to give money to anyone.
4) The only law outside the 10 commandments retained by the modern church is the Tithe
5) Money was not tithed in the Bible. Only livestock and crops.
6) The modern tithe doesn't even remotely resemble the law moses laid out in any fashion.
7) The church knows all of this.

I have always been skeptical of the tithe. For one.. you have a group of people claiming to be the sole authority on translating the law... and that law just happens to tell us to give them 10% of our money. See where I'm going? It sounds a lot like a scam to me.

Of course, back when it was first started the Bible was not available to the public. Copies were beyond rare... and precious. Now? Not so much. Now anyone with half a brain can take the time to read the relevant verses.. and its plain as day that there is no biblical basis for christians tithing 10% of their monetary income.

Lets look at some examples of tithing in the Bible... how about Deuteronomy for starters?

Deut. 14:22-29, "Thou shall truly TITHE all the INCREASE of thy SEED, that the field brings forth year by year."
"And you shall eat before the lord your God, in the place which He shall choose to place His name there, the TITHE of thy CORN, of thy WINE, and of your OIL, and the FIRSTLINGS OF THY HERDS and of thy FLOCKS: that thou may learn to fear the Lord thy God always.

And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the Lord thy God shall choose to set His name there, when the Lord thy God hath blessed thee:

Then shall thou turn it into MONEY, and bind up the MONEY in your hand, and shall go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose:

And thou shall BESTOW THAT MONEY FOR WHATSOEVER YOUR SOUL LUSTETH AFTER, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for WHATSOEVER YOUR SOUL DESIRES: and YOU shall eat there before the Lord thy God, and THOU shall rejoice, THOU, AND THINE HOUSEHOLD.

And the Levite that is within thy gates, thou shall not forsake him; for he has no part, nor inheritance with thee.
At the end of three years thou shall bring forth all the TITHE of thine INCREASE the same year, and shall lay it up within thy gates:

And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the STRANGER, and the FATHERLESS, and the WIDOW, which are within thy gates, shall come, and SHALL EAT AND BE SATISFIED; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of your hand which thou doest."

Now... do you see anything in that requires anyone to give anyone money? No. Food? Yes. Of course you need to give food... because the tithe is to a be a feast! Its given to everyone... to strangers... to the poor... the needy... and to YOU. And if you cannot attend the appointed place of the feast... what does it say you are to do? It says you are to sell it... and go buy what you want! Strong drink people! It says to sell the food you were going to tithe, and go buy booze!!!

The baptists among us are now officially pissed off.

See? This is why the Bible is so awesome... because it almost never says what you think it says... and what it actually says is always far better than what you've been told. And no.. that is not the only example. The tithe is described in verse after verse as increase from the land. Oils from trees.. nuts from trees.. crops... livestock... but not fish.. and certainly not money.

Jewish fishermen paid no tithe. Neither did Jewish Carpenters. Neither did jewish bankers... unless they happened to also own farm land.

But hey... I'm not against tithing completely... if a levite priest ever shows up I'll be glad to give him 10% of the tomatoes in the garden.

In closing I would also point out that the Eastern Church never adopted this insane practice... in fact.. they mock it... and rightly so.

Now for the fun part... ya wanna know what the real kicker is? The Catholic Church KNOWS this is incorrect. From the Catholic Encyclopedia:

"As the Church expanded and various institutions arose, it became necessary to make laws which would insure the proper and permanent support of the clergy. The payment of tithes was adopted from the Old Law... The earliest positive legislation on the subject seems to be contained in the letter of the bishops assembled at Tours in 567 and the [canons] of the Council of Macon in 585."

There you have it. They needed money to support their bureacracy and decided to dust off an old law that could be suitably reworked to meet all their needs and then some. The lie has been thoroughly entrenched ever since.

So have some fun... go ask you're minister to preach on the truth on tithing. See how well he takes it when you ask him to show you where Paul advised the gentiles to tithe.

Hey Y'all... Watch This!

Take a good look at this picture. That is an illustration of the Apollo missions. NASA apparently drempt this up... and presented it as a reasonable and realistic plan... without snickering to much.

Launch the rocket... get into orbit.. then at precisely the right time.. refire the engines... again.. for just the right time... and slingshot around the earth to gain speed... then its off to the moon.

With slide rules...

Seriously the Apollo space craft had less computing power than a 1990s casio watch. But you expect me to believe... that these same people in this same agency still manage to kill 14 people so far... with today's technology? Doing far less complex missions?

The space shuttle can't reliably go into EARTH'S orbit and back... but you want me to believe that a 1960's barn metal jalopee... built with all the precision HAND TOOLS can possibly provide... made it to the moon... several times?

People... it was an honest to God miracle they ever got one of these things into orbit at all. I mean seriously... do you know what these things were made of? Aluminum. Lots of aluminum... with rivets! Rivets I shit you not.

Today... we could built one of these bad boys... brand new for probly... oh what... hundred grand? 2 hundred grand?

Well?

Why hasn't anyone else done it?

There isn't a 2nd world country on the planet that doesn't have the resources to recreate the apollo program. Why hasn't brazil taken a tiny fraction of their budget and sent a couple soccer players to the moon?

I'll tell ya why...

Because its never been done before... and no one... no one has figured out how to actually do it yet.

The Forcast for 2009

Its shitty... very very shitty indeed... and I shall explain why.

Right now as we speak the 2009 federal budget deficit is at 500 billion... and that does not include anything from TARP... or the soon to be past "stimulus". It doesn't include all manner of costs of the current war which are funded on the fly.

What I'm saying is... in 2009 the federal government is going to spend 2 trillion dollars more... at least... than it collects. That 2 trillion dollars will have to be borrowed... and since we already owe 5 trillion... and the rest of the world is in the same pathetic state we are... its quite clear that the "lending" will be done by the Federal Reserve Bank.

It will "lend" this money to the federal government by "monetizing" the debt. That's what they call it when they print money from thin air. The government wants to spend it... so they literally print up how ever much they need and call it a day.

This is new money. 2 trillion dollars of new money.

I want you to ask yourself... what would happen to the price of gold if 2 trillion ounces of the stuff suddenly found their way into the market? You're right. It would drop like a stone. Gold would be worth less than silver.

Now... what do you expect is going to happen to your dollar when they print up 2 trillion new ones?

This is compounded by the fact that GDP is actually shrinking. We're producing less. So the money supply should also be shrinking... in order to maintain the value of the dollar. But no.. we're doing the opposite. We're literally destroying the dollar.

This is how a big recession turns into a Great Depression.

This is how financial systems die.

How will it effect you specificly though? Prices on everything will go up. Way up. They'll double. They'll more than double... because each of your dollars will only buy what .50 cents will buy today.

There is no getting around this. There is no stopping it. This is not a prediction. This is fact.

If you have cash assets... get rid of them. Convert them to something tangible. Gold or silver will go up in price as the dollar's value goes down. You will be protected to a point. The time is now people. You should be planning for the bad times to come with your family. Very few of us are going to be able to make it on our own during these times... fewer still will thrive.

Most will be forced to pool resources... to improvise... to do without.

Buy a pressure cooker.. learn to can... start as large a garden as you can.

If you know nothing about any of this... there is a book called Country Wisdom and Know-how. Go buy it and start doing for yourself. For a few months it may be a fun hobby. A few months later than that... you'll be damned glad you learned from the experience and made all your mistakes when they didn't matter so much.

Time to get to work folks.

Calling for the Bones

The question is at hand... Where will America be in 2015? In the old days... in the old country... the viking kings would summon the Angel of Death... a prophet of sorts... who would consult the bones... and read the future in them.

These days we're not quite so creative... these days... we can simply look back to history and see what's happened before.

So lets see... In 1929 there was a huge stock market crash... and in response the Hoover admistration passed a bailout bill... then FDR came along... and ramped up spending to never seen before levels... in an all-out effort to create jobs and stimulate the economy.

In 2008 we saw a stockmarted crash... we saw an everything crash... and Dubya's administration passed the TARP bailout bill... and now... Obama's adminstration is about to ramp up spending to never seen before levels... in an all-out effort to create jobs and stimulate the economy?

Let me offer a quote for your consideration... Franklin Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, Henry Morgenthau, addressed Congressional Democrats in May of 1939:

"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong ... somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises ... I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started ... And an enormous debt to boot!"

So Much for the Back Alley Argument

Once again we're faced with a story about an abortionist about to be tried for murder... because he couldn't even competently kill an infant in the prescribed legal manner.

I can't help but notice that the abortionist in question had a restricted medical license...which was being ignored.

Aren't we reliably told that Roe v Wade prevents this kind of thing? Roe supposedly has resulted in clean utopian murder facilities where women can sing Spice Girls songs while murdering infants without uncomfortable emotional entanglements... you know.. like thinking about the fact that its actually a baby.. and not a frog.

Remember as you read the story... the baby that was murdered was 23 weeks old. That's 14 weeks from being term... and kids are born at that gestation every day in hospitals all over the United States. They are growing up to lead normal lives with no complications what-so-ever.

That's not a tadpole. That's a fully formed... still maturing baby.

These murders should hang. All of them.

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no... no seriously...

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Ok sorry.. I'm going to blog about this... no really I am... I just..

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VOX DAY...

This is for you.

Huge shiney things are notoriously difficult to photograph... so I suppose these will have to do. Huge is really not an accurate term... the thing is so stupifyingly large that typing while wearing it is quite nearly impossible.

Of course... I will not be taking it off.

Ever.