| adventure | I'm starting this blog to express some of my thoughts and ideas with the netizens of the world. Rather than post this stuff on some social media or blogging site, I put it here -- where I control it and can say whatever comes to mind. Feel free to link to this site wherever and whenever you want. Remember, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. | |||
| archive | Prison | Due to the recent dropoff in crime, coupled with drug diversion programs have reduced New York prison population. Now there is some talk of closing some of the prisons to help balance the budget. My thought is that there is no way that any prisons will close. There is simply too much money, political power, and corruption for this to ever happen. Additionally, The prison guards have a powerful union that is well connected politialally. I think they will simply find more prisoners to meet the demand for space. | ||
| people | Gold | Gold is real money. Unfortunately There is not enough gold available to make the global economy work. American global hegemony has allowed the dollar to stand as the resrve currancy for the world for almost a hundred years now. The cracks are showing in this ediface. Why do you think there is so much advestising in the media to buy your scraps of gold. They know the dollar is toast. It is no more valuable than the paper and ink that it is made of. Quantitative easing is just a cute word for inflation. The money that the Federal Reserve is using to buy Bonds; bail out their banker friends derivative industry; buy up the auto industy (except Ford); and pay for their colonial wars is going to drain all the value from the dollar. | ||
| snowboard | War in Libya | In the first week of this war, your government
has launched a total of 159 Tomahawk missiles. The average unit cost
of these missiles is $1.4 million. That is $223 million of your hard
earned tax dollars wasted. link to cost
Military spending totaled $715.9 million through June 3, of which more than half of that total is expended munitions. By Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year, that will have grown to $1.1 billion, with an additional $50 million spent on munitions over the final four months. (Washington Times, June 15 2011) |
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| q & a | Infrastructure | President Eisenhower created the United States Interstate Thruway, we have watched it crumble. What made this nation strong falls to pieces. This is just a symptom of the disease. | ||
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