Tuesday, June 21, 2011

And Now For Something Completely Different.

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Nine moths ago my wife and I suffered the loss of our 10-year-old Chocolate Lab, Scooter, after a long fight with cancer. He passed away in ...
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Thursday, June 16, 2011

Greece is the Word, the Final Act or Beware of Europeans Baring the Gift of Default.

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To say that the markets and the rating agencies were not impressed with Wednesday’s chaos in Athens would be an understatement. The DJIA clo...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Greece is the Word Part Three Rev. 1 or Go long on Popcorn as this is going to get very interesting.

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Update: June 15th 2011 First a correction to yesterday’s post. The story reported by a small Greek television station about a tunnel lead...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Greece is the Word, Part Three: Sacrificing the Dollar to Save the Euro or the Greek Revolution Will be Televised.

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The most prominent speculation on the monetary front (if one listens to the talking heads) is whether or not the FED will institute a QE3 pr...

Unless of Course, we Lose………..

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In order to understand the status of the conflict between Jihadist Islam and the West in general, one must first define the term enemy and h...
Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Greece is the Word, Part Two.

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I’d like to think that for those of us who have spent the better part of the last few years trying to prepare ourselves and our families for...
Monday, June 6, 2011

Will the Democratic Process Remain Relevant?

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Over the weekend the size of the crowds protesting in Athens against any new bailout package and its attendant austerity programs swelled to...
Saturday, June 4, 2011

Greece is the Word! (With all due respect to the recently departed Jeff Conaway.)

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Well folks it would appear that the Greek situation will be coming to a head very soon. Sooner than expected by some and not soon enough fo...
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Thursday, June 2, 2011

More Half Truths from Mr. Glenn Beck

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Firstly, as I have said before, I am all in favor of the defense of Israel from those neo-Nazi forces around it that seek it destruction. W...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

A Growing Sense of Ill Ease.

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Upon returning from the long holiday weekend I was confronted with a couple of stories that I found most disconcerting and not at all coinci...
Friday, May 20, 2011

Obama and the Middle East or Doubling Down with Br’er Rabbit.

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Seems it was not that long ago that I warned that our involvement in “liberating” Libya was going to become a tar-baby for Obama’s foreign p...

Growing Weary of the 9-11 Truthers.

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It seems like about once a month or so we get another article somewhere either raising questions if not making nefarious accusations about t...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Tyranny at the Treasury Department or How I Learned to Love the Debt Bomb.

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It would be my guess that both the two headed beast of Repulicrats in Congress and Tiny Tim the tax cheat at Treasury are breathing a collec...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Gold & Silver, Good vs. Evil, and the Triumph of Insanity Principle

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Anyone who knows me and/or has read what I have written previously knows that: 1. I am a lifelong student of history. 2. I am a strong advoc...
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

The Psychological Disconnect of the Petro-Dollar

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Whether you are among those that consider the jihadists to be “terrorists,” or are among those who consider US foreign policy to be “terrori...
Monday, May 9, 2011

The Strange Case of Gold, Oil and Mummar Kaddafi.

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What with the world’s attention diverted with demise of Osama Bin Laden and dubious controversies over whether or not to release any photogr...
Thursday, May 5, 2011

The Death of Osama and the Lack of Political Will

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The announcement that US Special Forces had found and killed Osama Bin Laden has brought out a variety of reactions to the event and reactio...
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

So What's Another Trillion or two?

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As the debate on the debt ceiling begins to move closer to its inexorable place on the front burner we are beginning to see what some of the...
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

My Silver Dreams of Cheap Gas and Bread and Circuses

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So now we have a new distraction to keep our attention focused away from the pickpockets of Wall Street. Our military and intelligence teams...
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Friday, April 29, 2011

When O'Reilly and Obama are on the same page, you know you're being had.

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So now our would-be “master of all things energy related” has decided it’s time to take on the “corrupt speculators” in the oil market. I’d...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

The Suckers Bet.

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Far too many Americans are confusing high inflation and hyperinflation. The most frequently sited example of hyperinflation is Weimar Germa...
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Friday, April 8, 2011

Why I Buy Gold and Silver.

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Gold and silver values (not prices) are only a reflection of the rapidly evolving new reality. There will always be those who will deny that...