October 27, 2011
Time to Dump Barry?
You can't name a child what you want.     A dishonest organization is behind the Occupy movement.     It's OK for the Justice Department to lie to you.

Had enough Hope & Change, yet?

October 26, 2011
Flat (Head) Tax
One of the biggest fibs behind a Flat Tax on income (NOT the Fair Tax) is the assertion that it is somehow more fair than any other type of tax. This is patently not so.

For our purposes, I'm defining a Flat Tax as a tax on income which is the same, regardless of the earned amount. And, therein is the problem: How do we define "income?" If you are a business, your "income" is what you have left after expenses. But if you are an individual, your income can only be adjusted by what the government allows you to deduct.

Now every home has a "cost of doing business," that is, it costs money from income of individuals to live somewhere, to eat, to buy clothes, transportation, education, etc. These are ALL "costs of doing business." To tax individuals without taking into consideration these "costs of doing business," is not only unfair, it is unreasonable, especially, if we are to allow businesses and corporations to make adjustments in income based on expenses.

I am NOT advocating not allowing companies to deduct expenses. Neither am I advocating allowing the same for individuals. As all of you who read this column already know, I advocate a different way of collecting taxes - The Fair Tax.

But, if the people who run this country cannot see the common sense in the Fair Tax, then they should allow individuals to claim the "cost of doing business" on their "income" taxes, the way businesses do, and quit talking about flat taxes!

October 25, 2011
Habemus Fossam
OK, nobody has ever accused the Papacy of being economic savants. Most of what we know about the bishops of Rome is that, when it comes to banks, they have a pathetic reputation. What with the sins of the Papacy's selling indulgences and all that messy Martin Luther thing, one wouldn't expect to hear from them about money, ever again.

Benedict XVI, Bishop of Rome, banking expert

October 24, 2011
Nevada Poll: Romney Leads Cain
Magellan Strategies has come out with a new poll showing Romney ahead of Cain in Nevada. Considering Romney's base, this makes sense. He NEEDS Nevada to stay in the race. Cain, however, will probably take Nevada, eventually as people, there, get to know him, and, even more importantly, get to know Romney. I'd like to see what a Mason-Dixon poll would show, in a week or so.

As I've said before, Herman Cain is not perfect, and there is, now, a nationwide push by big-money "cocktail" Republicans to get him out of the race, but he's better than any of the others and my money's still on him.

October 23, 2011
Sources: Really Big Money Scare MAY Be Coming
"The best things in life are free
But you can keep 'em for the birds and bees.
Now gimme money (that's what I want)
That's what I want (that's what I want)
That's what I want (that's what I want), oh-yeh,
That's what I want."
      - Lennon/McCartney

Once again, I find myself quoting Obiwan Kenobi, Jedi Master, "I have a really bad feeling about this."

My sources keep reminding me that I haven't written about the possibility of a crash on Wall Street. I keep reminding them that I have talked about a retracement, and it happened, already. Silver and gold backed off along with the price of oil, and stocks as well. But they want me to go further - to tell you what I've been told.

So here it is - from one source overseas, two at the Chicago Merc, and a couple in NYC. They say that we are far deeper into the European debt crisis than the Fed and their big bank buddies are telling us.. over $4Trillion (one source puts it higher than that.) Frankly, I don't know whether to believe them or not. It's not that they have ever lied to me, they haven't, but the disparity between what we're being told and what these guys say is almost unbelievable. Except for one thing. This administration has stonewalled every effort to make the Federal Reserve - and their dealings with the big banks - transparent.

You really have to ask yourself why this is so. Why would an institution, with this much importance, not want the world to see that they were honest? The big reason is that things are happening to the currency that, if discovered, would undermine the very currency, itself.

And the next question is, "How porous is the international monetary trading system?" - or in other words, "Whose money is dependent on Greek and French and Spanish and Irish and Italian debt?" After that, you have to ask, "Can you spell U. S.?"

Unfortunately, the answer to life, the universe, and everything is not 42.. it may be 4-Trillion - the number of dollars American banks hold, either directly or collaterally, of bad European debt. Maybe.

I say, "Maybe," because all we know is that we can't trust this administration to give us the straight skinny on the economy. They're too busy running for another term in office. It may be that we only hold a trillion or so, which we can absorb, even if with difficulty. Heck, we can't even trust them to admit we've got 4.5%-7% inflation because they dropped the three most important indicators from their "basket."

But if we are 4-Trillion Dollars into the pockets of bad European debt, it won't be enough to own gold and silver. But it will have to be enough. And, yes, I'm still buying silver under $35.00/oz.

October 22, 2011
Not New
For some time, now Herman Cain has been talking about opportunity zones. But you woldn't know that to hear the info-babes on Fox News. Cain told Boortz almost three months ago, when he first discussed his 9-9-9 plan, that there would be areas or zones of opportunity. (And don't you just love the Union bullies, running scared over their possible further loss of power over helpless workers?)

To repeat. Herman Cain's opportunity zones are not new. Or did Fox report it hoping we wouldn't remember? But then, Cain has never been their candidate, has he?

Cain on Abortion
Herman Cain believes that abortion should be illegal. I don't. I believe that I have the right to kill anybody who threatens my life, even if it's a 90-year-old, a 4-year-old, or a minus-3-month-old. Also, Herman can want there not to be abortions all day long, and he'll never get it past congress. But whoever the radio clown in Iowa was that said Herman is FOR abortions, is a loony. He is against abortions, but he also understands the pain an unwanted pregnancy can cause. That won't keep the pro-Perry people from trying to resurrect their candidate, or the Romney people from gloating over this faux issue.

As for me, what IS important about Herman Cain's belief against abortion is that he thinks government has no business telling ANYBODY what to do in these matters. And government sure as heck shouldn't be paying for such.

Just heard Herman on the Bob McClain show via the internet and I was happy to hear him say everything I have just written (above). Dad was right - stick to the truth and you don't have to remember what you said.

October 21, 2011
Why Your Computer May Be Slowing Down
It's happening. And if you're one of the millions of people who get their high-speed internet through one of the seven big internet providers, you have already been hacked - by the Sun.

Over the past three months, all the satellites which whiz above the Earth have been bombarded by a Sun which has awakened and become very angry. Tons of radioactive microscopic particles have assailed these communications satellites to the point that they are becoming overwrought. If these coronal mass ejections do not recede, soon, all but the hardiest will be fried.

As far as danger to us Earthlings, there isn't any, as long as we stay on the ground. But it DOES effect the speed of the internet. Space radiation effects not only satellites, but can disrupt the Binary In-Out System of the servers which receive the satellite signals by slowing down processing by corrupting the signals. Think: Jerry Lewis acting up on the sideline, while the QB is trying to get the play change from the Offensive Coach.

The operating systems of several major colleges in the US have been affected so far, as well as the servers in several major cities around the country.

If you've been cursing your slow computer, it's not your computer's fault. It's also not the fault of your server or your university, either. It's not even Barack Obama's fault.. this time.. It's that mean old Mr. Sun.

October 20, 2011
A Matter of Trust
Over 26 million dollars of your tax money have been given to Oregon State University, half of which has been given THIS year. Half of 26 million is 13 million.

All of this comes down to the fact that many, MANY colleges and universities have NOT received ANY appreciable federal funds - Oh, a few mil here and there, but not 13 million a year GENERAL FUNDS!

Oregon State University does have one very important federal treasure - the brother of Michelle Robinson Obama - their basketball coach, Craig Robinson.

The question is not - as a recent circulating email suggests - was Robinson's job saved by the infusion of federal funds, but rather, did Oregon State get the funds simply BECAUSE HE WAS THERE? There has been a lot of obfuscation on this matter by dragging the "job-saving" red herring over the path. It doesn't matter that Craig Robinson was or was not going to be canned. He wasn't. But he WAS there, and he IS the brother of Michelle, and OSU got lots 'o' bucks that some others did not.

Nothing I have asserted is untrue. The matter is one of trust. Considering that Obama's Aunt and Uncle - both illegal aliens - are STILL in the country, do you trust that this matter is innocent?

October 19, 2011
Old, But Good News
Art Laffer, famous for the architecture of the Reagan economic victory of the 1980's, said earlier this month that Herman Cain's 9-9-9 not only will work, but people who can afford to pay taxes and aren't currently doing so, will pay a little bit. But the most important thing is that, unless you're cheating, you won't pay a cent MORE. You may pay the SAME amount to different people, but you WON'T pay any MORE. And yes, Cain, himself says it is a medium step towards the Fair Tax.

Read all about it at Money News dot Com.

Debate Number Eight
I have a feeling that the majority of Americans, who watched the debate, want Santorum and Perry to go suck an egg. Americans most probably got an entire year's worth of Ron Paul and are done with his foreign policy. Bachmann was a cypher and Romney was Mr. Milquetoast. There should be a place for Newt in Cain's Cabinet.. SecState, I'm thinking. But the cool cucumber who staid on message, answered the border question admirably, and showed he would be the man to make the decisions under terrible pressure, remains the man who will show up Obama just by showing up, is Herman Cain.

I am very much impressed with both men, but I believe Cain has the robust ability to publicly withstand the stupidity of the Progressive Lying Machine.

There was a lot to lose in last night's debate, and I believe all but Newt and Herman lost lost it.

Saving Us From Our Selves-Again
Somebody's busy-body wife has been busy, again, keeping us from harming ourselves. Again. Imagine the chutzpah! County councils from Anderson to Greenville have decided that we can no longer have bath salts. BATH SALTS!

These pathetic puppets simply don't get that it's not their job to keep us from harming ourselves. Period. Listen, if I want to inject mayonnaise into my arm, its MY BUSINESS. Not yours, not some bored rich man's wife, not some county councilputz. MY BUSINESS. If I drive intoxicated, arrest me for driving intoxicated, but get the heck out of my personal life. Enough is enough. It's time to vote these clowns out of office.

I'm also seriously thinking about going to one of these counties, finding, buying, and bathing in bath salts. Heck, I may even sponsor a bathe-in!

October 18, 2011
Some Interesting Numbers
It must be very disheartening to be one of the many pundits at the various news outlets, including Fox News. Here is Herman Cain, seemingly under-funded by their standards, seemingly under-staffed by their standards, seemingly seemingly under-bureaucratic for their purposes, outperforming even the politically "hip" on the insiders' list of politicians. How can this be?

Well, life isn't fair. There are too many TEA Partiers, for the politicians' case, who are for Herman Cain's common sense economics and foreign policy. But even if TEA Partiers didn't support him, when Cain speaks, you believe him. You know where Herman Cain stands and that his stance makes sense. Can you say ANYTHING like that about ANY of the others, except Dr. Ron Paul? [The problem with Paul, however, is that we don't immediately see the common sense in his arguments - the world has instantaneous mass communication, nearly instantaneous mass weapons, and there are really, really bad people running dangerous countries with brain-washed masses. We need a STRONG, MODERN, VOLUNTEER ARMY.]

All this is in aid of something that, nevertheless, I have a problem with - Polling now favors Herman Cain vs Obama, according to Rasmussen.

You all know with what great disdain I hold polling - if it's not strictly

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Still Not Racist, But Some Are
Andrew Breitbart is still offering a cool hundred thou to anyone who can come up with any kind of recording which proves that TEA Partiers are in any way racist. My source tells me that there have been some faked audio tapes submitted, but either the audio file time-stamp doesn't match or the edit is so obvious, it defies credibility. There have been no videos submitted.

The point is that there is no proof. I know, I know, Congressman Lewis says he heard something and that he was spit on. But even the most honest of politicians can make mistakes, and the imagination, under stress, can be a powerful controller of memory. He expected to get spit on, and his imagination did not let him down.

Still, the anti-semites, economic fascists, and anarchists want people to think that their sewer-on-Wall Street-dump is an equivalent to the TEA Party. That could only be possible if the tea they're drinking contains LSD. No, the racists are on the left, and that can never be right.

October 17, 2011
9-9-9
The only economists who do not like Herman Cain's 9-9-9 economics plan can be sighted afar off, and identified easier than a hunter sighting a deer through a rifle scope. More and more college-tenured professors in economics seem to like it. The nice part is that small businesses do not get taxed twice, the way they are now. Seniors don't have to pay taxes on savings or Social Security - they will have already paid taxes on it.

And in any case, it is a transitional set of taxes to make do while the Congress and the People get used to the idea of a constitutional amendment which would end the income tax and institute, for all time, just the Fair Tax.

It's not the best plan - the Fair Tax is the best tax plan - but it will give people who pay NO tax a way to help the America they are living off of.

October 16, 2011
OCCUPACHNIKS
When you realize that government can create only government jobs, and you realize that your support of big government has been a worthless endeavor, you change your focus of support to something else that has a better chance of succeeding. That's only logical, right? Apparently not.

The OCCUPIED (as in "Public Rest Room Toilet") movement, which admits that government is the problem with the economy, thinks the answer is more of the same - that is, when they bother to actually think. So don't allow yourself to be fooled into thinking that anybody in these tiny crowds of OCCUPACHNIKS has any real answer to the problem, except anarchy. (Yes, in comparison to the TEA Party, these paid-for crowds are tiny)

And while the TEA Party movement is anything but a cooptable group, the OCCUPIED movement was created as a cooptation by Unions and rich Liberals from the very beginning. The OCCUPACHNIKS are, with rare exceptions, Union members, socialist community organizers, anarchists, and brainless college students. Again, with rare exceptions, they are being PAID to be there [see Frankie Fox cartoons all the back in 2009].

About the European mobs; People who are too young to remember make excellent puppets for the never-dead European socialists. Europeans also have a European mind-set of dictatorship at any price. This why their malcontents can recruit more people. They also have the baggage of French revolutionary thinking, which is why they are so violent. They always wind up being coopted by a strong leader, because, deep down, they are Hobbesians and do not even trust themselves.

To be true to a Constitutional America, one must believe in the same principles espoused by John Locke, Adam Smith, and Henry David Thoreau. But that means one must first READ the principles espoused by John Locke, Adam Smith, and Henry David Thoreau. The OCCUPACHNIKS have wasted their time, reading comic books, global warming pamphlets, and summaries of Marx, if they have read, at all.

But don't fool yourself - just because these people are stupid, does not mean that they are not mean, vicious, and violent, and must be avoided at all costs. That is, don't try to confront them - let sleeping dogs lie and barking dogs pass. They will have their surprise and deep disappointment in November of 2012, as you TEA Partiers outnumber the OCCUPACHNIKS 20 to 1, at the polls.

October 15, 2011
Foobaw
South Carolina stumbled to another win. Clemson wasn't perfect either. but dominated their game, too. Is South Carolina so good that they win when they play poorly? And one other question - does anybody know when the Gamecocks will stop being the victim of affirmative action officiating in the SEC?

October 13, 2011
Greenspan-like
No, Herman Cain does not have to apologize for wanting someone like Alan Greenspan as the person in charge of the Federal Reserve.

Alan Greenspan may have had ideas contrary to Herman Cain's, but Herman Cain knows a fact about Greenspan that has been overlooked in all the hooplah. Alan Greenspan, with all of his faults, was and is an HONEST PERSON.

This single fact cannot be said of either Timothy Geithner or Lawrence Summers. And while Ben Bernanke may not be dishonest, he is pathetically wrong-headed, and so is no-one to pattern oneself after, either.

October 12, 2011
Christie Is To Romney As Scoop Jackson Was To Jimmy Carter
I make no bones about being an avid Herman Cain Supporter. But, even if I were not, I would still be saying good things about Chris Christie. He would have made a great President. He may yet, in eight years. But one thing I have learned over the years is that my choices may not choose my other choices.

An example of this principle is Jimmy Carter. What in the heck was Scoop Jackson thinking when he endorsed Carter?

   

October 11, 2011
The Cain Revolution
Drudge is reporting this morning that Herman Cain is leading both Perry and Romney, here, in the Palmetto State. The American Research Group out of Manchester, New Hampshire, is the company doing the polling. The poll can be seen on it's main page, along with polls for other states, as well.

Said it before and say it again.. Cain is talking solutions and has the resume to make them work. And, yes, Barry Obama is scared to death of being on a stage with Herman Cain. Cain's positive do-it-yourself story and attitude is resonating with every person who works for a living, regardless of how much that labor garners. This, I believe, is why Cain is raising expectations and hopes in America and, specifically, South Carolina.

October 10, 2011
A Lesson in Straw Polling
Our source close to the Values Summit in DC this weekend tells me that the straw vote won by Ron Paul is more a tribute to Paul's organization than a true picture of the Summit's actual participants.

October 9, 2011
Really Odd Atlanta Crowd
It was like something out of Monty Python's Life of Brian.

If you think that the groups of anti-semites, union thugs, and anarchists, paid for by George Soros through Move0n.org - the ones grouping in our major cities this weekend - are a group of intelligently spontaneous, un-led people, then, watch this video from the Atlanta "be-in." These people really are, as Rush Limbaugh calls them, "..a bunch of mind-numbed robots."

Now. watch the Monty Python bit from Life of Brian.

Frankly, I didn't know whether to laugh or gasp for their embarrassment. I'm not sure these people understood how much like puppets they looked. It was a lot like seeing your trusted acquaintance of 20 years strip himself naked and then go running around, shouting, "I'm Robin Williams!! I'm Robin Williams!!"

Not Yet Time To Crow..
Bragging.. just yet.. would be unseemly. But today's win over Kentucky is a good indicator of just how good Steve Spurrier's play plans could be.

October 8, 2011
How the Mighty Hath Fallen
I have now lost faith in the Wharton School of Business. Saw a woman who teaches there actually stating, on Fox Business News, that extended unemployment payments were a stimulus to the economy. She even said she had numbers that proved that. So I called up and asked what those figures were. As expected, they referred me to HER text book! Ouch!

Wharton School, apparently, is teaching broken window theory, rather than showing that it is a myth which has never worked, in the long run. They also seem wedded to John Maynard Keynes, and his outdated 19th Century Mumbo-Jumbo, which they would never have done 30 years ago. Apparently, they also don't recognize that Unions are preserving work for people who manufacture things that are outdated (buggy-whip industries), forcing businesses, which need to shut, to stay open, eventually going into receivership.

Well, heck! No wonder so many fools are running around DC in positions of power. Worse, this kind of economic fascism (crony capitalism) is dangerous to any country's monetary system, devaluing currency and ruining trade, tax collection, and charity.

October 7, 2011
A Thrill Down His Leg
It's now been three weeks. Has Warren Buffett written a check, yet, to the US Treasury? No? How can this be? Didn't he admonish all us non-trillionaires about how we should assume the position and thankyew-sir-may-I-have-another?

October 6, 2011
Jobs
Steve Jobs made me a better writer. But he also made me a better publisher. And he saved my eyesight.

He forced IBM and Microsoft to follow. And all the others could do was imitate and go cheaper. I'm writing this on a hybrid computer that benefits from the genius of Steve Jobs. Are you reading a Kindle or an iPad or a Droid technology? You owe that readability, even the layout, to Steve Jobs.

No syrup here, today. Steve Jobs is dead and he expected to be there. But the world will never be the same because of him. In fact, the world is still hurrying to catch up.

Clowns on Parade
To begin with, the organized rent-a-mob is growing. And it's costing the fat-cat Progressives behind it, like Union bosses and George Soros, a pretty penny. My source tells me the Hungarian-born billionaire was whining, yesterday, about how much he was already shelling out for the "cause." There is no way for me to check out the truth of this assertion, but he has been overheard saying something similar this past year.

Ann Coulter says that her study of mobs indicates this group is as phony as it can be. Whether she is right or not, now that some unions are joining in, just as the numbers are beginning to falter (bet you hadn't heard that!), it will appear that they are "miraculously" and "spontaneously" the voice of America shouting to Wall Street.

But rubbish is rubbish, and eventually, it will poison the people who deposited it.

Remember the 1968 election? The streets were filled with hippies, protesting the war. The Progs tried to control them, then, but they were inconsolable. They caused the fall of the Progressive party and the rise of Richard Nixon.

I predict that, after the race riots in the North and West have scared the poop out of middle America this next Summer, these reborn-hippies will do to the existin Progressive party what they did to the one in 1968. Only this time, they won't just shoot themselves in the foot.

So, be my guest, rent-a-mob cum Wall Street Occupiers. We welcome you to destroy the people who are funding you.

October 5, 2011
Progressive's Anti-Cain Plan
If I were a Progressive and I wanted to get rid of the most effective candidate against me, I would try to convince the people around him that he was not a serious candidate. You hear it everywhere - "oh, he's VERY likeable, but he can't win...." REALLY?

Look, the only way that Herman Cain can't win is if we don't vote for him. And that's not going to happen.

It appears that this is precisely what the Progressives are doing, not with Perry or Romney, or even Bachman, but with Herman Cain. You may not know this, but disinformation is a vital part of Progressiveic politics. One of their biggest targets (according to our insider at Fox) are producers of news shows like Shepherd Smith's and Brett Baier's. You know if THEY are targets, the producers of CBS are certainly targets and the producers for NBC and ABC are probably stenographers for the disinfo campaign.

SO what can you do to help? Go to Cain's website and offer your time and your money. You TEA Party people need to get behind him with all your energy.

No, he's not perfect, but he has BETTER experience, better ideas, and real answers to America's real problems. You know he's right.

October 4, 2011
Reid Obstructs Obama's Bill Over Politics
This afternoon, Sen. Minority Leader McConnell called Obama's bluff and asked Harry Reid to bring O's Jobs Bill to the Senate floor. Majority Leader Reid obstructed Obama's bill, ignoring the request. Even if it was a stunt, the political cowardice of the Progressives is virulently obvious. Reid doesn't have the votes he bragged he'd have, either.

Market Stumbles, But..
No-one knows where the market is going from here. Gold has retraced to $1,600/oz., as I thought it would. Silver, however, has retraced further than I thought it would - to $29.50 - but that may be a plus.

Since most of us missed the gold rush, silver may have hit a technical low - that is, people who buy on emotion, only, won't sell below a certain level and that level has probably been hit. Now, this DOESN'T mean that silver will go up dramatically from here, in the short run, but silver DOES HAVE VALUE at this level. So, unless silver traders get lemming fever, this is about as low as silver will go.

I'll be buying tomorrow.

Another Stupid Nobel Prize Award
The Universe Isn't Speeding up. The so-called "evidence" supplied by this year's Nobel Prize recipients that it is, is tenuous at best. It is more probable that LIGHT SLOWS DOWN at the edge of the Universe, due to inertia, causing it to appear that the universe is speeding up. Maybe if I claim to have found the evidence that God is a Progressive, maybe they'll give me a Nobel Prize. I won't have to really prove it. Good Grief!

October 3, 2011
Cain Is Now Officially Important
Does anybody actually think ANYTHING that Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton has to say is important, anymore? These days, when Jessie Jackson calls you a racist, it's a badge of non-racist honor. Same for Sharpton. They have wrongly played their race cards for so long, they are like the young man who cried wolf.

But what we learn from this is that Herman Cain is now important enough for the midgets on the left to start their dance of dirt.

Nobody is perfect, but Herman Cain has the the humor, the gravitas, and the substance to BE PRESIDENT. AND he has the knowledge to fix things that the others do not. Herman is my man.

C'est Phillippe, Maintenant
Let's all keep an eye on Phillipe. Right now, it's a Tropical Storm, and the ocean MAY be too cool now to support a hurricane, but long range forecasting is anybody's guess.

October 2, 2011
The Inherent Stupidity of Tax Increases
Progressives just don't stop. And they won't stop until they are defeated so soundly, they will be afraid to run for fear of the humiliation. Today's example - there will be one tomorrow, you can be sure - is the word from the Progressives that they won't budge until small business taxes are increased. Oh, they didn't say that, but that is precisely what they plan for.

They call it a "tax on the rich," but in fact it will affect almost every single working person in America. Here's how: Even if all they do is increase corporate taxes on the most successful corporations, we will all pay for it by the increased prices they will charge everybody to make up for their losses to the increased taxes. But that's not all the Progressives propose.

Anyone who has a successful corporation - a farm, a business with high cash flow but small profits, an investor who invests money on which he has already paid taxes - all of these people will be taxed at a higher rate.

You may have noted that we have a recession going on. That's where people don't make as much money and so they don't spend as much. Often, in a recession, people with more resources are the only people who do spend. Often, we call those people "rich" or "well off." Now, the Progressives want to take away more of those people's money.

What do think will happen then?

Please tell me you see the inherent stupidity of the Progressives' plan to tax the only people who may be keeping this economy alive? Please?

October 1, 2011
Phooey!
Being an alumnus of Carolina, I am very disappointed in the way we have been playing. But we can still pull it together for the rest of the season, if we all focus.