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“I’ve come to admire Michele Bachmann, especially since she nailed Timothy Geithner to the wall while repeatedly asking him what provision in the Constitution gave the Treasury Department the authority to manage markets and the financial services industry.”….

“Five-to-40-year-olds and Canada’s aboriginal communities should be the first to get vaccinated against human swine flu, experts say as Canadian officials decide who gets priority for the flu shots.

 Under Canada’s official pandemic plan, the entire population would ultimately be immunized against the H1N1 swine flu.”

 …..Over 31,478 American scientists signed a petition in the appendix citing “there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate.”

From the “Onion”…..

“With recovery elusive, a population doddering into old age and perhaps a decade of deflation in prospect, Japan may start mulling the most radical monetary policy of all – the abolition of cash.”

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I snagged a copy of the NY Times front section at a Starbucks’ yesterday. Turning to the Op-Ed page, I read an editorial by Nicholas Kristoff on the glorified food fight being waged by the Democratic candidates. Most of the editorial has the usual mind-numbing banality that passes for informed opinion today, but I did find one nugget that shows us yet again there is not a dime’s worth of difference between the two political parties.

“Meanwhile, the big winner of the Democratic fist-fighting is Senator McCain. A Gallup poll released Wednesday found that 19 percent of Mr. Obama’s supporters said they would vote for Mr. McCain in the general election if Mrs. Clinton were the nominee. More startling, 28 percent of Mrs. Clinton’s supporters said they would defect to Mr. McCain if Mr. Obama were the nominee.”

Next I suppose comes the stamping of feet and holding of breath. Sheesh. What a bunch.

Then there is this.

I can assure you all, gentle readers, this is reality in America.

From SilverStockReport.com:

……’Now think:  How can the silver price drop by nearly $2/oz., when all these reports come in saying that the dealers are sold out, or nearly out, of physical silver?  This is the clearest evidence of paper short selling manipulation that I’ve ever seen since I started watching the silver market back in 1999, and I’ve seen a lot of evidence!’…..

Tom Engelhardt:

‘Blowing Them Away Means Never To Having To Say You’re Sorry’

Victoria Hardy at American Chronicle:

‘Sometimes I’m pretty sure I’ve unknowingly fallen into an alternate universe and more and more, I know I am a stranger in a strange land. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when this odd change occurred in our society and when it became acceptable to arrest and handcuff young children, but in this brave new world we are living, it seems to be approaching the norm. I wonder where common sense has gone and I ache for the children growing up under these over-the-top rules that have become so popular these days.’

Ted Sampley at US Veterans Dispatch.

From CNN:

…..”In the 21st century, he said, “You offend God not only by stealing, blaspheming or coveting your neighbor’s wife, but also by ruining the environment, carrying out morally debatable scientific experiments, or allowing genetic manipulations which alter DNA or compromise embryos.” …

James Turk at Kitco.com:

…”In other words, gold is an inflation hedge. But that is only one of gold’s advantages. There is also another valuable reason to own gold, and significantly, this other reason is becoming increasingly important.

Gold is also a catastrophe hedge. Gold enables us to protect our wealth from a financial meltdown because it does not have counterparty risk.”…

From Guardian UK:

…”Barack Obama faced potential damage to his campaign yesterday after television networks aired footage of sermons by the former pastor of Obama’s church likening the Democratic frontrunner to Jesus and declaring: “God damn America.”

 From HeraldSun.au:

‘US President George W Bush says he would fight in Afghanistan if he was younger.’

A 10 minute interview with Mike Wallace and a composed defense of her positions on personal liberty and freedom.

I was always lead to believe, through my government schooling, that Ayn Rand was nuts and dangerous. Like many I did not check my government approved opinion with reality, you know like, actually reading any of her work.

She got some of it right.

‘Rumors are the Paul followers plan to flood the caucuses and will try to overturn the already established rules regarding how Missouri’s delegation will vote at the National Convention in St. Paul this summer.’

The New York Times thinks very little of it’s reader’s intelligence. A lede story most of the day was “Inflation Held Steady In February.” 

The inflation model and numbers used by the Fed are hugely misleading. Their ‘core inflation’ rate excludes food and energy prices. A general inflationary statistic arrived at without those staples factored in defines useless. Unless of course one was also using it to  figure the annual cost of living increases for our seniors. Hmmmm. 

The impunity with which these people both issue and print misinformation is a thing to behold.

Can there still be people who believe this tripe?

Supporter generated video.

Beautiful.

Another robbery of the American people.

From the NY Times:

‘JPMorgan Chase says that in conjunction with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York it will provide temporary funding for Bear Stearns.

The funding will be provided as necessary for up to 28 days. During that time, JPMorgan Chase will also help Bear Stearns find permanent financing.

Bear Stearns says its liquidity significantly deteriorated over the past day and the temporary funding will help it continue operating normally. The investment bank added there is no guarantee any permanent strategic alternatives will be successful.’

Some ‘bad’ language.

From The TimesOnline:

…’The name on most people’s lips was Bear Stearns. Although the Fed billed the co-ordinated rescue as a way of improving liquidity across financial markets, economists and analysts said that the decision appeared to be driven by an urgent need to stave off the collapse of an American bank.’ …

From Mike Adams at Natural News:

‘NaturalNews has also learned that HPV vaccines have been proven to be flatly worthless in clearing the HPV virus from women who have already been exposed to HPV (which includes most sexually active women), calling into question the scientific justification of mandatory “vaccinate everyone” policies.

Furthermore, this story reveals evidence that the vaccine currently being administered for HPV — Gardasil — may increase the risk of precancerous cervical lesions by an alarming 44.6 percent in some women. The vaccine, it turns out, may be far more dangerous to the health of women than doing nothing at all.’

From AP:
‘House Democratic leaders agreed Thursday to a rare closed-door session — the first in 25 years — to debate surveillance legislation.
Republicans requested privacy for what they termed “an honest debate” on the new Democratic eavesdropping bill that is opposed by the White House and most Republicans in Congress.
The closed-door debate was scheduled for late Thursday night, after the House chamber could be cleared and swept by security personnel to make sure there are no listening devices.’

“And we’re f*cked!” says Justin Raimondo at Antiwar.com

From AFP at RawStory:

‘The White House, buffeted by a stronger than expected drop in monthly US retail sales, urged US consumers Thursday to shop and said they should be confident in long-term US economic health.’