OH! MY! GOD!
Speaking of the administration being Mickey Mouse, George Lucas has just sold his amazing company, Lucasfilm, Ltd., which has given us Indiana Jones, Star Wars, and other wonderful, imaginative adventure film series to DISNEY!! Lucasfilms' best producers and craftsmen go with the deal. They're already planning Star Wars Episodes 7, 8, & 9 (yes, it's true), and at least an Indiana Jones 5 & 6 (Harrison Ford has said he wants to do at least one more with Shia Labeuf), but to SELL IT TO THE MOUSE!?! Huh-Huh, Oh, Pluto!!!! Four Billion Dollars, Huh-Huh!!

ShipWreck!
$39Billion worth of gold has been taken out of the market. A ship carrying 700 metric tons of Gold sank to the bottom of the ocean in stormy Pacific seas, off the coast of eastern Russia. Unfortunately, although it is technically in international waters, the Russians don't see it that way. So, before you get your snorkle out, you better get a discovery agreement with the not-so-reformed commies. It will be interesting to see if this effects the metals market.

SAVE SNOOKIE!
Help from the states pours in to the New Jersey shore to help restore power.

One more reminder that Joe Bastardi had this giant storm nailed, exactly,
LAST WEEK!   Elegant proof of the falsehood of "Global Warming."

Why There's Hope for Marcus
Today, October 29th, was Marcus Lattimore's 21st birthday, and the doctors have some good news. He's getting the best medical help available - all of which is good, but the most important thing is Marcus's will to fight.

This remarakable young man has the ability to beat the numbers - he has before - and with the right amount rehab he just might be back. He's at his peak and that counts for a lot. So don't go counting his pro career over This is, after all Marcus Lattimore.

A Poster for a Lazy Sunday

'nuff said

Lattimore Knee Injured
In a defensive play that used to be illegal, but, apparently, isn't anymore, Gamecock Marcus Lattimore was "scissored" by two Tennessee players and suffered a knee injury that will have him out for the rest of the year.

Lattimore was taken to the hospital, where they operated on his knee. The injury is considered "serious," but we won't know for months whether or not it will be career ending.

Marcus Lattimore

A broken leg, believe it or not, would have actually been better for Lattimore, in the long run. A broken leg, using today's medicine, would have healed completely. Another knee injury will be problematic for his Pro career, and could keep him out of the draft next year.

Carolina gutted it up and beat Tennessee 38 to 35. The Gamecocks get a much-needed bye week, next.

Sandy Info
Remember, we have the best free weather maps and input from Weatherbell.com's Joe Bastardi, the "weather wunderkind." When Sandy shows up, we'll be here. It's all free.

Great Googamooga!
3.6 million State taxpayers have had their private info Jacked and Hacked. SCDR didn't even encrypt 16,000 of them. But no matter. Unless encrypted information is re-encrypted frequently and in a non linear manner, any decent hacker with enough time can and will get into all of the data, which includes every taxpayer's SS#, full name, full street address, Bank Account info, and CC#s.

While I understand the panic and sick feeling over the FUBAR by the SCDR, it's not really their fault, although they are responsible, in the end. No, it's geeks who are supposed to be watching the store. Whoever screwed the pooch - and my sources say there are about four people - should be held accountable and the company sued for recovery. The problem is that some of them think mainframes can't be hacked. Well.. Surprise! Ya sure can, pilgrim..

This could easily bankrupt the entire state, if we were another state.

Whom Do You Trust?
If you are for maintaining a chance for freedom, there are one of two things you must do: You should either vote for Romney or you should have an escape plan to be gone from America by January 1st, 2013.

If Barack Obama is re-elected, states, which have favored someone else, will be treated like redheaded stepsisters. Individuals will suddenly be discovered to be miscreants. Talk Radio will be persecuted, and, probably, prosecuted. Remember that Obama is a dedicated fascist. He does not fear the Constitution. He does not fear anyone with any ethical decency. His henchman, Eric Holder, has blatantly ordered federal officers to ignore not just our immigration laws, but also, the Fourth Amendment in many cases, distorting the Homeland Security Law even beyond its already unconstitutional definition.

He has already invited UN advisors to monitor our elections, which is treason - what else is left, except the infiltration of major US cities by UN troops? Foreign troops by the thousands are already in the US to "observe" our military.

He has already created enclosed areas which resemble nothing so much as concentration camps. These "areas" are already complete with carcass boxes, watchtowers, and police stations. Every quasi and actual federal person with gun-toting permission has been given hundreds of bullets more than the usual annual amount. I know this all sounds nuts, but a simple Google will dissuade you from disbelief.

Even if you discount conspiracy theories, as do I, you have to admit that this last round of outright lies from the administration about Benghazi really makes one stop and question what words from them CAN BE trusted. One thing is sure - we cannot afford to fall asleep. Not now.

Lotsa Stuff
So much has happened over the past 24 hours, it's hard to know where the BS starts and the felgercarb stops.

• CBS released the news that they had Obama on tape, admitting he knew about the Benghazi terrorist attack in real time. So what's with the Rice deal and the movie reaction? Why didn't he just admit it, then? Was it because he want to Vegas instead of being there, in the real war room, in charge?
• Hurricane Sandy was noted by our pal, Joe Bastardi, as a possibility as far back as last month ("Is this 1954 with Hazel & Snow?"). Joe, last week, predicted the possibility of a "perfect storm" for Mid-Atlantic states. It will effect South Carolina, possibly even as far west as Spartanburg. Trick 'r' Treat!
• Romney can afford to lose Ohio if he wins Colorado - sorry, Ohio.
• The swagger is gone from the South Carolina Gamecocks, which may or may not be a good thing.
• Colin Powell is a courageous patriot who is voting for his skin color.
• The NAACP has asked for UN observers for some states - maybe SC, but definitely Texas. Texas has declared they will arrest any UN observers and jail them and charge the NAACP with treason and interfering with a state's constitutional duties. But the pure arrogance of the NAACP, a group whose last usefulness was in the 1960's, invites civil lawsuits.
• Unless we are seeing a false flag, the Democrats have abandoned trying to make Obama look Presidential, depending on voters who want hip over hope.
• In-state newspapers continue to ignore important local budgetary stories of Columbia and Charleston, as the stimulus money runs out. Only Greenville, of the larger state cities, has a budget that doesn't steal from other budgets.
• A Washington DC insider, close to VP Biden, now living in exile in Savannah, has written a tell-all book in which he says that both Biden and Obama are demonstrably "economic illiterates." The sad part about it is that this comes as no surprise.
• Very, very impressive win by Clemson over the Deacs..

Creepy Foreign Policy and Creepy Coverage
Alright, this is just plain creepy. Not only did Obama have a confused and defective foreign policy, he KNEW the Benghazi, Lybia, attack was going on in REAL TIME! You really need to start asking yourself WHY ABC and CBS are not asking the Administration. We know that NBC is already in debt to Obama because of government loans to GE, and ABC is filled with old Clinton people, but at least CBS should be all over this. This is worse than Watergate. This is beyond embarrassing and just plain creepy.

And while we're at it, why aren't The Post and Courier, the State, and the Greenville News covering this (and I'm not talking about a 2" column below the fold on page 3)? Then, again, why are they still publishing on paper?

Oh, and You're Not Wrong
The Leno show was packed with Obama sycophants.

Here, Hear!
I voted today, here, at my county seat, two weeks before election day. It took about 18 minutes from the time I go there until I was able to sit down with an election commission agent. You have to be qualified to be able to vote in advance, but almost any reason will do. My wife, who travels all over the state, did not want to chance not being able to vote. She is also subject to client emergencies. I'm old enough - over 65.

According to our county election commissioner, cities, the size of Columbia, Greenville, and Charleston, have seen as many as 500 or more people per day, since advanced voting began. They expect the number to increase, but plan to add more people to process the increased number.

This means two important things.
  1. There will be fewer people voting at your polling place, although the number of conservatives voting this year is expected to rise dramatically, so expect a long line.
  2. You'll vote quicker, if you vote sooner. And if you live in a county like Greenville, your vote will be counted and counted honestly.

10/23/12 - Market Drops
Jerry Willis of the Fox Business News Channel says the market went down because of poor earnings. I think that's partly true. But many people, who are still in the market, fear that the days of loose money from the Fed will be coming to an end.

If elected, Romney will back an audit of the Fed. One of the reasons the Fed has been able to get away with its profligate paper printing is because nobody knows how much is being printed, what the genuine value of the Dollar is, and to whom the money is being given. When these secrets are given up, the truly sorry state of American economy will force a crash of confidence.

Smart, professionals know this already. Some of them got out, today, and went to cash, which is, in itself, odd, because metals is the proper place to be when money becomes worthless.

Debate III: Foreign Policy - It's the economy, anyway.
 

A matter of perspective..
 

Undecided voters don't see a difference between the two on foreign policy. Does that make Obama the loser on points, or Romney the winner on style? We'll see. We got two weeks. If you haven't voted, do so now!

Deus et Ego
At the end of today, Monday, October 22nd, we will have two more weeks before the election. It will also see the end of the Presidential debates. There is some joy in that news. We don't have to listen to Obama and his minions pontificating on subjects they know nothing about. Yes, I said it - The Democrats and their hand puppet who inhabits the Whitehouse are dumb. Barack Obama is so far from being intellectual, the very thought is at once laughable and filled with irony.

Now, I've said that, in order to say this: If the world does come to an end on December 21st, 2012, as has been predicted, I don't want to meet my Maker, having come from a land that is so dumb as to re-elect a leader even dumber than we are. I can see it, now..

God: hmmm.. Anderson, isn't it? Are you from the USA?
Me: Yes, Lord, we cured many diseases and stopped much pain and suffering, freed the slaves, made good guesses about time and space..
God: Yes, but didn't you elect Barack Obama for a SECOND TIME?
Me: Well.. yes.. there is that, but you have to admit, it's what the majority wanted.. right?
God: But he was a neophyte! Everything he did, except the stuff he borrowed from Bush, failed miserably!
Me: Look, I didn't vote for him, ok? So, don't go blaming me, dangit!
God: You talkin ta me? Hey! You talkin ta me? You can go directly to Hell! That's what you can do! Do not pass GO. Do not collect $200.

See? So, please, Vote for Mitt and save me from eternal damnation, or at least a very unpleasant afterlife listening to Barbara Streisand.

Hugh Munn Passes at 70
As much as I have known anybody in this life, I knew Hugh Munn. I first met him at WNOK when we worked there, together, as Disk Jockeys in the mid 60's. He taught me how to be cool, and not to be so straight-laced when reading the news.

As these things happen, WNOK had lost the CBS radio network when they simply could not abide the Arthur Godfrey Show, which was a prerequisite to getting CBS News. No Godfrey - no CBS NEWS. You may not remember, but by 1967, Arthur Godfrey could turn live people into stone, his show was so boring.

Anyway, that meant that there was no Walter Cronkite at noon. Well, I did a pretty good imitation of Uncle Walter, and so they let me read the news in Walter's distinctive style. It was almost a month before the station manager caught on, but by that time I was filling in for Hugh at the drive-in burger joint when he went on vacation. Man, those were good times!

Hugh had faith and patience in and with me, and though he was four years older than I, he never treated me like an inferior. He was the genuine article. I will miss him very, very much. If there is such a thing as a good man, Hugh Munn was one.

EMOLLIT MORES NEC SINIT ESSE FEROS..
actually does not mean, "Learning humanizes character and does not permit it to be cruel" as the University and Wikipedia would contend. It actually means "You don't have to beat character into someone in order for them to learn." or better, yet, "You can spare the rod without spoiling the child, if you teach them properly." But most people don't know Latin colloquialisms or Publius O. Naso, so, I'm sure the current version will continue to be the accepted one.

Publius Ovidius Naso never said, "Learning humanizes character and does
not permit it to be cruel", but he never played football for Carolina, either.

Even if you disagree, you have to admit that after yesterday's game, you don't have to beat the knowledge into us that we pooched it. 44 to 11. Yipes! There are a lot of excuses you could make, but all them fall hollow on the ears. We just have to play better, if we're going to win the SEC. And no, it's not impossible.

Costello²
We're all used to Old Joe Biden gaffe-ing his way through almost every speech. But because the major media is virtually in Obama's pocket, we very rarely hear about his gaffes from them. Oh, we'll get a story now and then, but, over time, you wouldn't guess that the "savior" of America has had such a rough time when the prompter is removed. In reality, Barack Obama has made more gaffes in his four years than Bush did in eight, as you can see in this Time Magazine article, "Time's Top Ten Obama Bungles".

The worst of these is Obama's calling the death of the four Americans in Lybia, "not very optimal."

Barack Hussein Obama is not British. He's not even a great master of language. So it's a pretty sure bet that he was not using litotes when he made the gaffe. Community organizers are not generally given to understatement - especially not this community organizer. He likes words like "I" and "biggest" and "worst."

Well, this time, his gaffes have gone too far. The grandmother of Slain Ambassador, Chris Stevens, is furious with Obama. Patricia Smith, the Ambassador's 72 year old mother, said "My Son Is Not Very Optimal — He Is Very Dead."

Read the story here, and be amazed. Obama and Biden aren't Abbot & Costello, they're Costello & Costello.

Just So's Ya Know
"The Hottest Year On Record" is heading toward being the Most Average Year On Record. "Pour Quois?," you may ask. Well, since the hot summer broke in August, according to Weatherbell.com, who got their numbers from the Navy, there have been 5,000 LOW temperature records broken in the US of A. We also checked our reliable ASA meter and discovered that the sun's brightness ranger has been trending downward faster than the average downward trend as the Earth tilts away from the Sun.

Will we see a 2011 winter?

Unfortunately, for the "Climate Change" nuttorooskies, their hottest year has vanished. Joe Bastardi, of Weatherbell.com and my brother from another mother, is looking at the charts, and it looks like a cooler than average winter for South Carolina. Big Snow? May be.

Top Ten Energy Bankrupts & More
I am often challenged by people on the left to produce evidence of things I report. When I do, they usually go away, or wait until someone at a left-leaning publication repeats another canard, and I'm invited to dance, again. Luckily, there are other journalists who keep lists on their blogs, so that I don't have to. Ashe Schow, of the Heritage Foundation, is just such a person who has just such a list. Here is a sample from Schow's list of 36 failing and bankrupt "Green" Power companies and how much of your tax money has been wasted on them. Read the full list here.

1. LSP Energy ($2.1 billion)
2. Solyndra ($535 million)
3. Abound Solar ($374 million)
4. A123 Systems ($279 million)
5. Azure Dynamics ($120 million)
6. EnerDel’s subsidiary Ener1 ($118.5 million)
7. UniSolar ($100 million)
8. Range Fuels ($80 million)
9. Beacon Power ($69 million)
10. Raser Technologies ($33 million)

All of them, before going bankrupt made substantial contribution to Obama's campaign purse. Even MY favorite electric car company, Tesla, who got a $465 million loan from the DOE, and has yet to pay it all back, has yet to make an electric car that non-"millionaires'n'billionaires" could afford - it's still a rich bureaucrat's toy.

And still, the left and their heralds in the media claim that the right is lying about this.

Debate #2
Apparently, Democrats think being rude and calling your opponent a liar without proof is the way for them to go. Dems did get what thry wanted. And Republican and Conservative wonks got what they wanted too. But the most important response came from Frank Luntz's focus group. - 90% of them converted to Romney.

Quick note. The buck stops at the desk of a President. Apparently, Obama isn't the President, because he always leaves the buck on sombeody else's desk. Right now, Hillary has tire tracks all over her back. Sen Graham has sent a letter to Obama requesting an explanation of all the hanky-panky. Candy Crowley was as wrong about Obama in the Rose Garden as Obama was, in the debate.

Look for a lot of "Transference" in the coming week as Democrats display their psychosis as they discuss who won the debate. Handle them with care. Give them a glass of milk and find them a nice sunny spot in your garden. They're very, very confused right now, and will need your charity and pity.

While you're watching or not watching the debate, remember that someone, VERY high up in the Obama administration, is guilty of malfeasance in office. Our ambassador to Lybia is dead and SOMEONE is lying about what they knew and when they knew it.

Global Warming Ended 16 years ago
Believe in global warming? Feeling dumb? Well, you should. REMEMEBER: Sun wants to be hot, Earth wants to be cold.

Sixteen Years of NOT Global Warming

A Short History Lesson
In a breathtaking assertion made this weekend, Ed Klien, author of The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House, says Bill Clinton is thinking that Obama will throw Mrs. Clinton under the bus over the Lybian murders and subsequent Obama/Biden screwup. The assertion made me think about all the steps that the current administration has taken over the past four years.

1. Betrayal and bullying in foreign policy and accompanying dodging of the truth in front of the entire country.
2. Manifestly inaccurate Unemployment numbers - even the Department of Labor had to admit that there are six different ways to count unemployment, U1 - U6.
3. Making speeches containing what people want to hear and, then, taking actions, often in direct contradiction to those speeches.
4. Governmental takeover of GM and takeover and resale of Chrysler to FIAT to the benefit of their Unions, stiffing their bondholders and stockholders.
5. Spiking the ball after the Bush plan to assassinate is finally put in place - some sources say he refused to do it, until Axelrod explained to him what a big thing the application of jingoism could be for his re-election.
6. Using drones to make it appear that America had superiority in the Middle East, when, in fact, al-Qaeda was regrouping and growing.
7. Increasingly ignoring immigration laws and fostering increase in Homeland security's ability to subvert civil liberties at the ballot box and an increase in non-military national police.
8. Progressives have corrupted many learning institutions, especially journalism schools - their graduates believe they should be filters of news, instead of reporters. Most of their lips are stained with Administration Kool-aide®
9. He's scaring the poop out of entrepreneurs such as Thomas Peterffy. So much so that he is paying millions to make and disseminate his own commercial, begging Americans not to let fear and jealousy destroy the freedom that America has so far meant to the world.

Obama & Mussolini - a veritable verisimilitude.

And then, I got to thinking about Benito Mussolini, the Fascist leader and bosom buddy of Adolf Hitler. The similarities to Obama are amazingly similar.

According to progressive author, Joy Hakim, in her book, A History of Us: War, Peace and all that Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press. (1995). ISBN 0-19-509514-6 - Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was Capo del Governo (Dictator), Duce del Fascismo (Sweetheart of Fascism), e Fondatore dell'Impero (and founder of the Empire). Hakim notes that Mussolini wasn't just one of the fathers of Italian Fascism, he was the "Sweetheart."

For those who don't know what fascism is, it is an economic and philosophical socialist ideology which stresses favoritism to large corporations, selective governmental takeover of important industries, jingoism, imperialism, government encroachment on civil liberties (progressivism), and anti-communism (although Socialism is also a Big Government idea), in combination with censorship and state propaganda. Go back and look at the numbered list above.

See all the similarities with the current resident of the Whitehouse? See why Peterffy is so scared of Obama's brand of Fascist Socialism?

LSU Beats Carolina
I could say a lot of things about the officiating, but I won't. When you play at LSU you have to play everybody. Carolina knew that. And even though it was an "L" in the column, it was only by two points. LSU is not "better" than Carolina - just had a lot of help. I will say, however, that ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit needs a chastity belt for his mouth.

Wanting Things To Be Political
Buried under all the media debate hype is one very important and true thing: The current administration is not listening to their ambassadors, or they are, and they're ignoring them. In either case, Occam's razor demands that either Obama, Biden, and their thugs, are dangerously dishonest, or their dangerously naïve.

But don't be misled, on the other hand, by people saying things are "too political." EVERYTHING is political. From the Church, to the courts, to the bedroom, everything is political. As you read this, you're either on your deathbed, zonking out, or you're thinking about your next negotiation. Well, the thinking part is politics.

Are you a minister? You already know that every day is either a negotiation or "being nice" to stay in the pulpit, or one day closer to being kicked out of it. A businessman? In your office, the secretaries, male and female, are engaged in what is called a "pecking order" - that's politics. Of course there are always higher reasons and purposes for our actions, but the actions themselves are political. Even a good salesperson, for instance, is always looking for the next job - how he or she gets there is politics.

Too cynical? Maybe. But maybe it's the truth, too. If we are wise, we need to want our politicians to be political. Just as we are.

The Debate
I told you Joe would lie. He's an embarrassment to the Irish. He had no facts, so he smirked and pounded the table. Whatever else happened, Ryan came off as the winner on substance.

ap public photo: "My debate coach made me act this way!"

If you like yelling, rudeness, and childish behavior, Joe Biden won on personality. Read Jamie Dupree's tweets (@jamiedupree) to get the details. Biden actually said, "My religion defines who I am." All I can say is, "What a terrible thing to say about Roman Catholics!"

Bureaufibberooskie
You have to wonder if the Whitehouse ever feels embarrassed about the lies they make their appointed bureaucrats make. So far as we can tell, from our sources and sources for economists we can trust, California did not report their re-figured unemployment numbers. Naturally, it looked as if the unemployment figures were less, today. As the market was closing, the administration trotted out a director of the Employment Commission who vowed that the numbers were good, and that California, indeed, ALL of the states, had reported their numbers. Anybody believe it? Nah.. Well, there are the Kool Aide® drinkers..

Cheating the Military and America
Don't kid yourself - Obama and his Chicago thugs are cheating our military out of their votes. You must not doubt any of us, harping on this point. Your Military is NOT going to get to vote, in any meaningful numbers. The MOVE law is being flauted in Afghanistan and on several military bases.

Realizing that, in South Carolina, we will not be able to find out whether dead Democrats are voting or not, this year, when you add the dirty trick on the military, it means that people who want Obama out will have work twice as hard to do so.

Vice Presidential Debate Prediction:
Biden will lie.

Aprés Coverup
Distilled from all of the coverup, and all of the administration's actions in the Middle East, one thing is clear: Obama acts as if this is pre-9/11.

Look at our story, one day after the murders of our servicemen and ambassador. Our sources KNEW it wasn't a film which caused their murders. It WAS al-Qaeda. Why didn't Obama know it? Congressman Issa said it best,"Someone, high up, knew from the start."

If you're looking for something to help you persuade a friend to vote for Romney, you have it. We cannot return to to pre-9/11. We have to present a strong military image. We can't do that with a Chief Executive who lies to the media, foreign countries, and the people of his own country. You know it's politics. You know it's ego. You know it's incompetence.

Obama's "Mad Scene"
I swear, I do believe Obama is coming apart at the seams. No, really. Whoever suggested he talk about Big Bird as the major pivoting point in his stump speeches, should be shot. He looks just plain silly.

In comedy, usually right before the happy ending, there is a point where everything goes crazy. It's called a "mad scene." This is what Obama's campaign looks like.

In the wonderful comedy, Zorro The Gay Blade, there are two mad scenes. In the first one, the Alcalde confronts Don Diego, who, as Zorro, has just sprained his foot, and forces him to walk back and forth to prove he isn't Zorro.

"..and now walking and jumping and running in place, and now
walking and jumping and running in place, and now walking
and jumping and running in place.."

The absurdity of this mad scene is exactly like what's happening to Obama. He has gone completely nuts, hiding away from his job in Washington, speaking before children who either don't vote or have been brainwashed about Big Bird and not talking about all of his administrative failures and bribes to friends in big business and big banking. The only problem is that it's not funny, it's tragedy.

A Few Factoids

• More Greek men have jobs, as a percentage of work force, than American men.
• The Managing Editor of Fortune Magazine, long known as a lover of Keynes, was so angry with Billionaire Jack Welch, when he pointed out that the new Unemployment numbers were bunk, that they decided to part company. Minus one for Fortune Magazine.
• Look at Fox News' time line of the lies the Obama administration has told about the killing of the American Representative in Lybia. The revelation last night of what really happened now completely contradicts what Obama and his gang were saying.
• Many pollsters, who were loudly declaring that Obama was in the lead have had an "oh crap" moment, realizing that their little fifth-column scheme has failed and the majority of the populace don't trust them.
• Even so, polls are like predicting the weather, they're only exactly right about 30% of the time - too many variables.
• Lara Logan of CBS's 60 Minutes reports that Obama has failed to decrease the size of al-Qaeda as he is bragging he has. She says their numbers have doubled, and Obama is creating a world full of lies.
• That video hitting Mitt Romney over Big Bird may have ricocheted.
  
  $444,000,000 in your taxes will go to Public Broadcasting, including Big Bird
  A new website has gone up, which counts the number of times Obama mentions Big Bird in his stump speaches, versus the number of times he mentions the economy and his failed Middle Eastern policy.
  
  Sesame Street made a profit of over $370,000,000 in revenues and royalties - do they need tax money?
  
• Big Bird, when contacted by SwampfoxNews.com, said he's "non-political," but he does like Oscar, the grouch, muppet. He also admitted that he has traded lines of cinnamon with Snuffleupagus, and revealed that Cookie Monster hates it when the producers make him eat arugula and fruit, causing him to throw up.
• Medicare cuts, under the Obama administration, are planned to take effect in March of 2013. It will not take an act of congress to make it happen, because the authority to do it is in the bill, already.

Web We Weave
Have you heard? Obama is getting millions in donations from foreign countries. According to an investigation by Fox News and Fox Business News, The Obama re-election memorabilia site is being inundated by persons from foreign countries, buying items in large numbers. Because the campaign fundraising site is technically a mercantile site, they don't have to report their sales numbers. Who would have thought the Socialist in Chief would stoop to Capitalism to sidestep the dumb political fundraising laws!

What's In Your Account?
The market is hanging by a thread. This column has already pointed to friends of the current administration who have been reported to be artificially inflating the New York market for some time, now. The VIX, an index of Market volatility, is the lowest it's been in years - when it's high, people think the market will go down, but, in fact it actually works in reverse. No-one trusts the market at this level, but no-one will admit it, except a pitiful few. An almost surreal aura hangs over the New York Stock Exchange, and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange is jumpier that it's been in years.

A good deal of cash is tied up in a bond market which must go down in value as the economy gets stronger and interest rates go up, creating another crash. Our debt is hitting that hockey leg that all the doomsayers warned about - that's going to hit the money markets a final blow. Whichever government gets in will have to deal with welfare - not social security or medicare, but medicaid, free housing, and free food stamps - some to real people in real need, but most to people who are just gaming the system. Children having children - their welfare baby. And we will all pay and pay and pay.

They'll start taking more from the very wealthy until that's not enough and then it will be our turn. We'll be the rich, then. It's already happened in Japan where taxes have absorbed all hope of anything but snail-pace growth. The economy will grow just enough to keep from seeing the total failure that government run economy causes.

I'm in cash and metal commodities - one is deflation insurance, the other inflation insurance. I'm out of the stock market and carry no bonds forward. Because something big is going to happen, soon.

I will say that the last time I warned people about the coming crash in 1987, nobody, and I mean NO BODY, believed me.

Bad Dog! Bad Dog! Roll Over!
OK, why did Georgia turn dirty in the fourth quarter? Yes, they were slugging as they tackled all through the game, but in the Q4, there was real power behind their fists. But you know what? South Carolina players are not exactly nancy-boys - they took the blows and beat Georgia like, well, a bad dog..

The South Carolina front lines, offense and defense, were the heroes of the game. Yes, Connor Shaw is awesome, Lattimore will need no paltry Heisman to get into the pros, Ace.. oh, what a player, Clowney will have a job, playing on Sundays for years to come, and Steve Spurrier has led the team to three consecutive victories over Georgia, ten consecutive victories, and the current national consecutive-win leader - for the first time in the history of Gamecock Football - but the front lines made all of this wonderment possible.

• Clemson played beautifully today, squshing Ga Tech. Big Saturday is going to be one heck of a game! (Update: The AP poll dropped Clemson by one to 16th)
• Wasn't South Carolina nice to let Georgia score..
• Florida showed Carolina how to beat LSU. Hope the coaches were watching.
• Bless Lou Holtz - he picked Carolina while they were laughing at him on the set.
• Carolina has to win in order to get the ESPN announcers to like them.
• Gamecocks B squad looks good.
• Motivation does not beat size and speed.
• By the way, where is Corso? - he called it right..
• Sunday's team polls will probably move Florida into 3rd place and USC into 5th... (Update: Turns out the result was reversed in the AP poll and Florida moved to 4th) In any case, the only person who needs a big head, ever, is Cocky.
• EMOLIT MORES NEC SINIT ESSE FEROS

I Dreamed I Overheard a Conversation
Unnamed Source: "Hey, ____________, it's ____________."
Young, Unnamed Columbia City Official: "____________! How are ya?"
Unnamed Source: "I'm good.. good.. listen.. I got people breathing down my neck about this Posse Comitatus thing.."
Young, Unnamed Columbia City Official: (interrupting) "Don't tell me you're gonna complain, too, are ya?"
US: "Well, maybe.. I mean, it IS illegal, right?"
YUCCO: "Naw, it's only TECHNICALLY illegal. Hell, man, that law is over a hundred and something years old.. nobody cares about that thing"
US: "So, y'all got a ruling from the Attorney General?"
YUCCO: "..(silence).. uh.. yeah.."
US: "From Alan Wilson? Really?"
YUCCO: "No, no.. from the federal attorney.. what's his name.."
US: "So he's telling you it isn't against the law.."
YUCCO: "Yes.."
US: "Now, you know me - you know I'm gonna call that fella as soon as I put the phone down.."
YUCCO: Wellllll.. he led us to believe that the Justice department won't prosecute"
US: "So, he didn't really say that, directly, either.."
YUCCO: "Naw, naw.. but, we got the idea it WAS ok to do it.. And, anyway, we can't afford to put more cops on the street.. You KNOW we're practically broke as it is. And the University is gonna help, and so is the Highway Patrol.."
US: "Well, why not just use the State Militia? You know.. the National Guard. I'm sure the Governor would help out, if it was an emergency.. hell, man, it's only a ballgame."
YUCCO: "Now, you KNOW we're not going to ask that woman to help us out.. She'd just say we've wasted our money so we can't 'blah, blah, blah..'"
US: "Yeah, man, but ya'll HAVE run out'a money. You're already paying for all those bums, and ya'll have that big public housing thing in your budget.. and your downtown is hurting - not to mention your public transportation..."
YUCCO: "Course there is that one little uniform thing. Ya know, if they help out and don't wear their uniforms, it's not really the same thing."
US: "So, the MP's are gonna participate in a police action out of uniform - they'll be deputized while under federal military orders?" YUCCO: "Yeah.. well.. look, I gotta go. Next time you're in town, c'm'on by, and let's get some coffee."
US: "OK, man.. 'bye."

Columbia Chooses Treason
It is against the Constitution of the United States of America for ANY military service person to be used for police purposes within the confines of any state, without a declaration of martial law or a state of emergency. It's call Posse Comitatus, and, anyone who breaks it is committing treason against America and the state of South Carolina.

The Chief of the Columbia Police, with the express knowledge of the Mayor of Columbia has requested the use of Federal Military Police from Fort Jackson, to help with traffic control for the Georgia - South Carolina game, of all things - and it's strictly forbidden by law and the Constitution. If martial law or a state of emergency has been declared, we have all missed the biggest event in our era.

In order to save a few bucks, because they have wasted it on social programs, Columbia is willing to violate the sanctity of the very thing which keeps us free. Please read this article to understand WHY this will, technically, turn the City of Columbia into a traitor.

These are not empty charges. The law will be broken. This is not a small thing. This is not some clever thought experiment. This is NOT a complaint against the South Carolina National Guard, nor the Highway Patrol. What the City of Columbia is doing isn't just slippery slope, stuff, it is a clear violation of the IVth Amendment and the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, and it will happen this Saturday. Someone needs to bring a federal suit against the city, the Mayor and the Chief of Police. But, in the mean time.. Governor Haley could stop it.

The Day After
Honestly, I did not expect Obama to be this childish. But you have to remember that he is getting his advice from himself and a political advisor who looks like an older Htiler. Obama actually said, today, that what America saw last night was not the "real" Romney.

I told you, years ago, that Democrats have a psychosis called "Transference." THEY do something and then accuse someone else of having done it. They are now accusing Romney of not being honest. 'Nuff said.

Remember, though, that Democrats have nothing to run on. The only things that worked for them were Bush's policies - those were few. They will HAVE to lie. And be assured, they will.

Lord Bless You, Lou Dobbs!
He showed today that Senator Obama lied in 2007 when he said in a speech that New Orleans didn't get enough money because there were black people there. Lou showed that N'awlins got TEN TIMES the money the victims of Hurricane Andrew got. Never mind the fact that Obama plowed the fertile imaginary racism field, deep and hard - he just lied like a cheap, Chicago prostitute.

Romney 1 - Obama 0
Really? Obama had debate training? Who told him to smirk his way through the debate?

Just so's you know, I was very impressed with the very Presidential Mitt Romney. He makes Obama look like a freshman at a two year community college - superfluous and self-important.

I know, I know.. I'm expected to be for the conservative. But, dangit! Even if I were not already for a conservative President, I think, now that I've seen him wipe the floor with the Amateur in Chief, I am even more in favor of Romney. He may ACTUALLY do something about the sucky fascist Obama economy.

It's not that Obama was weak, he just wasn't nearly as strong as Romney.

Judgments - Dead to Rights
Curious.. A judge ruled Pennsylvania's voting ID law isn't to be enforced, while South Carolina's ID law is completely legal.

Of course, both laws are perfectly fine and constitutional. What's curious is that nobody but Fox and local South Carolina news outlets carried the news about South Carolina's law being upheld. If you are a Democrat and need dead people to vote for you, you need them in the Palmetto State as well as the home of the Steelers and Eagles.

A prospective Obama supporter

Dead people, criminals, and illegals are the focus of several recent Democrat recruiting programs - of course, they were called voting rights cases, but there has never been a more obvious head-fake.

Two words of advice for the elephant brothers in PA - FAST TRACK. You may yet keep November 6th from becoming the Return of the Living Dead.

And While I'm Being Ironic
Kocin is not the first person with the idea to name monster snow storms, a la The Weather Channel. It was.. you guessed it.. that pattern averaging genius, my bud, Joe Bastardi, in a 1996 scientific article.

Operation Confuse-a-cat coming to an end
Now that we have come to the end of Operation Confuse-a-cat, wherein we all decided to fib to or otherwise confuse political polsters, it's time to buckle up, spit out the fire, and call in the dogs. Invite your neighbor over for an intense intervention. Then take them to the place to get them either registered or an absentee ballot. Make sure he or she votes for Romney/Ryan. You will have done your best to save America.

And here's another reminder - that almost everything that will be said by a Democrat - stright quote or commercial will be false - Those Democrats used to telling the truth are taking a pass on this years national elections.

Chilly, Con Carney & Rice
The NSIDC (National Snow and Ice Data Center) just reported that Antarctica (that's the South Pole) had record-breaking cold and ice buildup. Now, understand, they didn't announce it. They just released it and hoped nobody would read it.

The Antarctic - more ice than ever recorded

Instead, according to NEWSMAX.COM, they reported on penguins! And you know, the White House will deny it's true until somebody calls them on it. I'm expecting White House Spox, James Carney, and UN Sec., Susan Rice, to announce, any minute that the South Pole is completely devoid of ice.

Your Rights, Your Drugs, Their Law
The headline read, "Cops around SC rounding up prescription drugs." Said the reporter, "Authorities around South Carolina are helping prevent prescription drug abuse by rounding up unwanted medicines.." and, "Local agencies are partnering with the Drug Enforcement Administration in the effort."

This seemingly harmless story hides, under its skin, a much greater danger than the drugs from which we are supposed to be protected. That danger is the surrender of freedom to choose what we do with our legal drugs.

Old drugs are harmful? Perhaps, for the very ill or very old.. but they should be visited daily by their families. And in any case, did you hear about the old woman who was persuaded to throw away her old drugs and died because she had thrown them out?

This is just another phase in the push for total control of the government over what drugs we take, and when we take them, and - shouldn't we all just die in order to make the proposed health system work a little better?!? Locally, we already have one of the most repressive set of drug laws of any state in the union.

This is where conservatives and I part company. The very fact that we have surrendered the freedom to take whatever drug we see fit, thinking someone other than ourselves should police our private behavior, is appalling.

There are many of us, who do not have a medical degree, who know far more about pharmacology and anatomical interaction than all legislators and most doctors. Why do we need some clown, with a piece of paper on the wall, telling our pharmacists what we need to take, when they know less than we do?

We don't need a doctor to prescribe a glass of wine. We certainly don't need a doctor to prescribe zolpidem tartrate or pseudoephedrine HCl, except that the legislature still thinks they can legislate morality. And I'm not even talking about "recreational drugs."

Our "health" laws are obscene to all those who are smart enough to choose for themselves. It does not matter that there are those who chose not to know, or do not wish to know such things, or believe fairy tales about the achievability of a perfect society. They are wrong, and free persons should not have to put up with such lame intellects.

Some Sports Truth
Clemson proved to all but the faithless that they are a competitor. Carolina needs more "come to Jesus" motivation in the first half. Nevertheless it seems that both teams, who are both solid organizations, have to play against schools which choose THAT Saturday to play their best.

- Dick Anderson.

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