As the stock market continues to react like an untrained one-year-old Cumberland Sheepdog, I keep remembering that the Fed continues to quietly print and infuse nearly worthless digital money into it through several big banking "friends." This will be the umpteenth time I've written about this since 2009. But even then, it wasn't new. John Wrisley, a powerful thinker and one of the finest broadcasting talents in the history of the media, has banged this drum for many years before I even knew such things were a threat. He has his own website which you should visit. If you feel the urge to contact him, tell him I said, "Hey!"

Anyway, there is what the Chinese call a "double dragon" waiting to pounce on Americans - a double dragon of our government's own making. Because the Fed has been artificially inflating the stock market, while artificially inflating the money supply (printing money for which there is no actual fungible backing), when those who have used the system to get all they can out of it, have done so, and begin selling off, the house of cards will collapse.

At that point, all of us who have been warning about this will be vindicated. The problem is that trillions of dollars in American treasure will also be lost. Again. The Democrats will blame Bush. The Republicans will blame Obama and the Democrats. Both will be partially right.

And what happens then? Polite discussion? Arm wrestling? Riots? Martial law? We can posture all we want, but no-one will actually know what will happen until it actually happens. In our State, I'm hoping for reason, some sharing, and a whole lot of nullification of Federal "help." But it will take a will of iron.. Because all around us, things will be awful. AWFUL.
 

I'm Thinking Francis the Ist Should Get Some Respect

Assuming that you've read the article about Lord Acton and his famous axiom about power and corruption (linked at the bottom of this page), let's jump into five good reasons to respect the new Bishop of Rome.

1. He's actually humble.
   This may come as a bit of a surprise, considering he is a prince of the church, but he's not the only one of his breed. There are thousands of Orthodox, Anglican, and Roman prelates, thousands of Protestant ministers and Jewish Rabbanim and Muslim Imamët and Taoist, Buddhist, Hindu, and Sikh holy men whose names we will never know, who daily care for the seeking and lost, the naked and hungry, the sick and dying. Why should Francis I, simply because he is now famous, not also be one, too - can he not also sing the song of the saints of God? The pressure to maintain his humility in the face of all the fawning sycophants will be like Satan's temptation of Christ, but if anybody has a chance to rise above it, surely this guy might just be one.

   
   Even after he was elevated to Pope, Francis I went, himself, to check
   out of his modest hotel diggs. That kind of humility will be hard to hang
   on to - a true challenge for a truly humble man.

2. He's a Christian Capitalist
   And he is genuinely hated for it by the left, even in his own country of Argentina. So much so, that he has been lied about by the leftists and even thrown in jail by them, because he refused to take sides in the endless wars between the godless communists and the godless buddy capitalists (fascists.) He believes that you build it yourself, and THEN you VOLUNTARILY give and give, not steal it in the form of taxation.
    
3. He's a True Biblical Fundamentalist
   That is, he believes that everything in the scriptures is fundamentally true. As a Jesuit, he knows that not EVERYTHING is to be interpreted by mundane standards - Bishop Ussher was a dunce, for instance - but there are undeniable facts which are also historically true, all of this is in the complete Bible.
    
4. He's A Conservative Sacramentalist
   If you're a Protestant, you can move on to number 5, but for those of us who hold to an orthodoxy which includes sacraments, this part is important. No matter how you express them, Communion, Baptism, Confirmation, Marriage, Orders, Confession, and Unction (or healing) are vital expressions of God's love. They are outward and visible signs of inward and spiritual Grace ordained by God as a means of obtaining that grace - not the only way, but A way. Not everyone has the gift of Faith, and so we have these gifts of Grace. Well, Francis I is a big, and I mean BIG, believer in the purity and sanctity of the sacraments. In a time when the Northern Hemisphere Anglicans want to re-write the rules, it's good to know, at least SOMEBODY still believes in them.
    
5. He's An Evangelist
   This could be the most important facet of the new Pope's attributes. St. Francis prayed, in so many words, that the Lord would give him the strength to meet each person at their own level, so that he would be "an instrument" of God's Grace. In the Middle Ages that meant poverty, because most were poor while the Church, which had supplanted the State, was rich. Today, when it is the overbearing state that keeps men poor, the Church can be a powerful tool to stand between the State and the common man to let him be free to earn an honest living. That, in itself, will be a challenge, because the left has tried to destroy the true meaning of Christ since the advent of Marx and Engels. Francis I can be a true Evangelical, bringing people to God by introducing them to His knowable person and the love and wonder that comes with it.

Here's hoping I'm not just seeing what I want to see. But you have to admit, religion-wise, it's been a pretty dismal twenty years or so for us conservative Christians. It would be nice to see a real man of God taking a real direction that isn't off a cliff.
 

The Speech You Didn't Hear Much About on Your Local News Thursday Evening, Because They Depend on Their National News Orgs..

SC Sen. Tim Scott's Inspiring Speech Before CPAC on Thursday Afternoon:
 

Selling Google

Something very interesting has happened. Over the last four months or so, when you use Google.com for an answer, you are directed toward websites providing something to buy. As an example, let's say you want to know what mSATA means. You saw the letters on the side of your laptop, and your girfriend, who thinks the crack of dawn is a joke about a singing group, but whose dad is a microbiologist, has HDMI on the side of hers. You google "mSATA vs HDMI - difference."

Four months ago, you would have gotten an in-depth, pretty good analysis of the two terms from maybe a million blogs, plus a hundred universities, yahoo.com, and the ubiquitous wikipedia.com. This morning, you would have started to get those pages about 15 to 20 pages in, but not before having to endure fifteen to 20 pages of websites trying to sell you motherboards which either convert micro-SATA ports to standard SATA ports of Televisions which connect to laptops which are lucky enough to come equipped with HDMI connections, etc.. Get the picture? (sorry.. it just came out..) [Incidentally, this "new" business paradigm has been in effect since the beginning of Google Scholar and is the major reason very few know about it.]

The point is that someone pointed out to GOOGLE that they're not growing enough to satisfy their shareholders and that the stock is in jeopardy of another destructive decline. They're trying to bring up the P&L sheet by selling undocumented placement.

And they have every right so to do. So far, this is still America. So far.

The problem comes in the decrease in the quality of service. When you don't get your research question answered, you go to a different search engine. Because Google doesn't have a monopoly on search enginizing, like Duke Power or SCE&G (SCANACORP) over electricity, this will hurt their bottom line. As it should.

O, that our Federal Government could be so efficient!
 

Critical Thinking and Black and White Movies

I just came from a fascinating dinner with four young 20-somethings. All four have successful employment in jobs which they either created or enlarged as their ideas and hard work became more valuable to their businesses. The two married couples were also products of the state's school system and were, in no small way, self-taught, when it came to success in their different business fields. In other words, what they learned in high school didn't do them a damn bit of good. And only some of what they learned in college helped them.

What do you think was the thing they learned to do in college that helped them? Was it the basics of business economics, or the history of the caning of certain odious Yankee politicians, or the philosophy of Heideggerian phenomenology?

Actually, it could have been any one or all of the afore-mentioned courses, if, and that's an important if, that course included critical thinking.

See, it's one thing to subject minds to information like radiation, it's quite another to feed a mind information and then nurture that information by inviting that mind to think critically about that information. It's not necessarily an easy thing to do; I've actually had students complain that their heads hurt, after successfully maneuvering a thought experiment.

The topic of conversation, tonight, was Black & White movies and why young people find them boring. My example of a great movie that everybody ought to enjoy was Michael Curtiz's Casablanca. The one truly great film critic of our times, Roger Ebert likes best, Yasujirô Ozu's Tokyo Story. (Although my favorite Japanese movie is either Kurosawa's Rashomon or Seven Samurai (Shichinin'no Samurai).) And what about Fellini's 8⅛, or, Mike Nichols' Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe, and ALL are in black & white. But no matter how great they may be, reasoned observation one young man testified, showed that young people are bored - not because it was truly boring, but because it was in B&W. We also agreed that had they been shot in color, it might have ruined the movies mentioned above, but more young people might have seen them as worthy. It was astounding and it made me think

Critical thinking, while being done by my dinner guests, isn't being done, at least about movies, by many Young South Carolinians. This is disturbing. It's disturbing because if many young adults of today aren't thinking critically about something as simple and surface as black and white movies, we cannot expect them to think critically about something as deep as the concept of the goodness of emptiness of humans in life as seen in Rashomon and how that might apply to moral political decisions.

This editorial is not about dumb students or bad high schools or even poor thinking skills. What I want us all to contemplate is that there is an entire generation who perceive even vital works of cinema art in an entirely different way, simply because it has been presented to them in the wrong way so effective that it would literally take reprogramming worthy of a Scientology detox just to fix one person. When we talk about the "dumbing down of America", we're not just talking about math and history and philosophy and the Constitution. We're talking about the entire function of a thinking society which literally keeps them from asking the question, "How do you know that?"
 

Habent Papa

Congratulations to Francis I, new Bishop of Rome. Just don't get any big ideas about the Church of England giving the Falklands to Argentina. Otherwise everything's off to a great start.
 

The Steel of Dolly Parton Made Real on the Screen

With the country going to hell every ten seconds and half the Party we all thought was there to fight with us actually fighting against us, this editorial is going to sound just plain nuts, or at least out of place, but it's something that I feel important. If you don't like it, please accept my apologies, but I just can't help it.

There is a TV special series showing at various times on Ovation TV Channel called Song by Song. It's a look at all of Dolly Parton's songs, one by one. It's special because it's about the TRUTH about Dolly Parton.

I always knew she was smart - I learned that when I got a chance to interview her way back when. What I didn't know was that she is the reason for her own success. She is a pure, born again Capitalist. Her God is God, but her brain is her own and her ways are pure Friedman. HARD HARD WORK. She does it and she expects it of others. She listens to her fans. I declare to this day that Oprah would be nowhere had she not learned how to be a humn being from Dolly.

And while Dolly Parton is way too smart to be the leader of our new political endeavor, we might just know somebody who knows somebody who can get her to "hep."
 

The 41 Party, Again.

I haven't written anything for a while because I wanted the previous headline to sink in. Now, I want to revisit the idea of starting a third party. Especially, now that it appears that Sen. John McCain has become the enemy of true freedom or any idea that doesn't originate from him.

For some reason, probably, because I have only voted in Republican primaries since 1984, most people think I am a Republican. This is not so. Although you will not find my name on any Democrat role, I never removed my name. I just stopped attending the meetings in the late '70's when the local Democratic leaders started quoting socialists.

I didn't worry about not being understood, or the loss of power, or the inability of being heard. I didn't burn any bridges or cuss anybody - I just picked up, left, and kept talking about what I thought was right. Somewhere along the way, I figured out what I later learned were the major parts of libertarianism - or at least what most people think libertarianism is, mostly.

But even that wasn't libertarianism - not as defined by L. Neil Smith, the wonderful Science Fiction writer. He and I differ on how much small government there should be - I'm for a super-power strength army, good cops, good courts, good schools, good roads, and that's all. He's for an army - maybe - he's still deciding. I believe in the Constitution we've got, even though our side lost the Late Unpleasantness. But we both agree that we must return to the original understanding of the Bill of Rights.

But what does that mean? Most people have no idea what many early Georgian English nouns mean, let alone the Jacobean and Elizabethan English nouns that were still in existence when the first ten amendments were ratified. I'm not going to try to give a tell-all here, but there are a couple of outstanding definitions that will prove my point nicely enough.

A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.

"Well regulated" does not mean, as we would think, today, "properly set about with rules on how to act," but "properly fitted out with appropriate weapons," which is a whole 'nother kettle of fish. In other words, in order to have enough of the right kinds of weapons to properly defend the security of a free state, the people should keep and bear more than a couple of pistols - like bazookas and, maybe, surface-to-air missiles, and, perhaps, the family tank. Whoa there, pony! So we're not talking about "hunting rights" after all, as the Progressives and other misinformed Senators would have it. We're actually talking about the ability to enforce the Constitution by MAKING the Senate and Congress DO ITS JOB! And, by the way, that's NOT overthrowing the government, either, as one low-information Senator said the other day.

THIS is why we need to have a THIRD PARTY. Not because the other two are evil, but because the other two have no intention of returning our country to its basic, self-defending roots. Also, they are IN power, and they want to STAY IN POWER, which is basically what Lord Acton warned against (see Acton's Axiom).

There will be those who think that the task of starting a third party is too daunting, but it's really fairly simple. All you need is someone who's a good fundraiser, and forty-one people of good character who can devote their time and energy to running for congress - six for the Senate and 35 for the Federal Legislature. Hopefully we can convince people - Republicans - who are already in office to come over - it's not as hard as you may think, now that John McCain has arrogantly declared war on the Tea Party members.

It's simple. With 41, the Bill of Rights can control the conversation in Washington, DC. With 41, the conversation returns to the will of the people and away from the avarice of the lazy.

Think about it. We'll talk some more. You can write me at news@swampfoxnews.com and we can continue this discussion.
 

Please Allow Me To Be The First To Call Sen. John McCain A "Douche"

How dare that loser, that posturing shadow of a former hero trade the Constitution for a few more seconds of fleeting fame! What Rand Paul did was heroic. McCain is a silly person for trying to trade on Paul's stand against the Imperator. McCain ought to be embarrassed - if that were only possible! And you people in Arizona look like boobs for having elected that senile has-been, instead of JD..

And Lindsey.. stop being McCain's punch line. That's embarrassing, too. You're suppose to be defending the Constitution, not playing patty-fingers with the Fascists at expensive restaurants. And, yes, you really do need to dump McCain as your date.

You could learn a lot from our Junior Senator, Tim Scott, who was THERE, on the FLOOR of the SENATE, supporting fellow REPUBLICAN Rand Paul, instead of sounding like an illegal mexican chihuahua as you metaphorically stabbed him in the back, the next day. You have been around McCain so long, you have become a friend-waster. Please, please, PLEASE get away from that man before you go down with his ship!
 

.38 Police Special & The Democrats' Idea of Rape Prevention

Really? REALLY?? PEE on an attacking rapist and THAT will save you? Ask him not to do it? Remind him that you know him? Vomit on him? Really?

This isn't about telling women they have to have a gun. And you can't train criminals not to rape - that's equally stupid. Yet every single one of these arguments are being proffered by desperate Democrats and other pathetic liberals and progressives, looking for ways to justify gun control.

The sad truth is that there will never be a safe society. There will never be a life without risk. And, most importantly, there will never be a life without responsibility. Every thoughtful woman should train with and own a .38 police special or bigger sidearm.

Look into a mirror. YOU are responsible for YOU. Not the government, and certainly not a Democrat.

And as far as Lindsey's new gun law is concerned, I'm not sure there should be any federal gun law other than as part of punishment for a federal crime - maybe that's what he's proposing, when it comes to a "not guilty by reason of insanity" finding. I'd like to see it first, before I comment on it.
 

Using the Moms Mabley Rule:

Hugo Chavez of Venezuela is dead. Good.
 

Market High Market Schmigh

No real volume. $mells like 1987. The market is reflecting the inflation which HRH Barry I and the Fed are hiding with pumping and flushing and changing markers every other week.. Otherwise, in an honest administration, which we do not have, we would easily see it's stagflation, which is what we really have. Olay! Olay! The bull is already dead, but nobody knows it!
 

In Belated Praise and Vindication of Glenn Beck

Now that His Royal Highness Barack The 1st, Imperator of America, has been proven to be a liar as well as a bully(see the comparisons covering the most recent foreign policy statements, the debt ceiling, and the effects of the sequestration on youtube.com), those in the mainstream media, or MSM, who have been hiding his lies, are looking pretty vulnerable.

I remember when Fox News Channel dropped Glenn Beck. It was done with a minimum amount of fanfare, but the message was obvious - they thought his message was too radical. He talked about how the President's ideals would eventually force him to lie. How his way of doing things would eventually lead in the same direction as Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals because he had taught the subject as an adjunct professor in Chicago. But those in the know said he had to go. So he was gone.

Well, now the cat is out of the bag, and Beck has been vindicated. No less a personage than Watergate Saint, Bob Woodward, showed up Obama as the cheap liar and bully for what he was. And he didn't even have to call him a bully or a liar - he just reported the facts. Now, all the president's men are attacking him just the way Nixon's men did in the early 70's. Only this time the President's men report for the New York Times and WaPo and MovOn and other wasters of electricity, bandwidth, and paper.

The problem can be found in many of our best colleges' J-schools. ADVOCACY journalism is a poison which pervades and destroys budding minds, looking for meaning and purpose. It is the very personification of wickedness in which propaganda parades as truth, and cowards do not put the word "opinion" or "editorial" at the top of their opinion columns. Students are told that they need to "do good," rather than "to do good is to tell the WHOLE truth, no matter who it hurts." So none of them wind up telling the whole truth, because it doesn't "help" the people THEY think need helping. And that's a sin.

I am happy for Beck's vindication, even if Congress is too cowardly to impeach HRH Barak I. But I am very, very sad for some of our most prestigious journalism schools. How do we ever recover?
 

ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN ARE NOW MSM REPORTERS!

'Nuff said..

Sequestration My Big Fat Butt!

85-Billion dollars is not a lot, and it's not even a cut! It's a slight - that's SLIGHT - reduction in the GROWTH of spending. HRH Obama I has told his people to WITHHOLD funds from various accounts to make it LOOK as if spending has been CUT. If you don't believe me, check back in 4 years, after he's gone, and we'll look at the records... if they haven't all been burned or shredded.

Oh, and the market is starting to act like the market did in 1987, right before it plummeted 50%. Up 100 - down 200 - up 175 - down 150 - etc., etc., etc... Not saying it's going to do that, but it's getting really scary, and our money is $16-TRILLION worth of NOTHING.. Jus' sayin'..
 

- Dick Anderson.

©2013 - 2014 SwampFoxNews.com