Samhuin 2011

Samhuin 2011. The end of the Celtic year as everything wraps up in an agrarian society. Harvest, slaughter and the closing of deals. Man in balance with nature as it waxes and wanes in the solar cycle. A measure of creation and destruction, not too much nor too little. Tis best to keep the ravenous cat-witch in her cave lest the Maeve destroy it all. But give her her due.

Man needs magic. Without magic man is trapped in a dreary existence. He needs to know that a deity looks out for him, that love can blossom and shine and that dreams can come true if one works at them. Cold rationality isn't enough, man needs to see that the impossible can happen. At least occasionally.

Man needs dreams. Dreams of finding one's place in the world, finding The One Love of his life, raising fine children who live their dreams and, finally, living a full life with meaning then going to God. Attaining our dreams is not easy and often they come with mixed, and even surprising results. But reaching out for them is the fuel that drives us forward and gives our life meaning.

As I grow older both magic and dreams grow dimmer. I still look for both everyday. But both become more elusive. The world has become colder and it's nearly impossible to find your place in it. Love is rare and becoming impossible for far too many. And there is no meaning in most work, and many lives today. The ravenous Maeve is loose on the land tearing place, love and meaning to shreds.

It breaks my heart to see my grandsons without fathers and daughters without husbands in their lives, men without work and so many disconnected lives without meaning. It sickens me to watch divorce, outsourcing and foreclosure as the value of civilization collapses. It robs me of my full life and meaning as I helplessly watch everything fall into ruin.

The Maeve has been loose on the land for more than a decade spreading havoc. Her hell-spawn increase by the minute tearing at the natural order, seeking to destroy everything. Sinews ripped from bone, man from woman, father from son, man from work and meaning from life until we wander like the dead on the lifeless land.

Perhaps this Samhuin some unblemished, noble wise men can banish the Maeve to that cave in Connaught and seal her up. Ask the Tuatha da Danaan to render their magic to help make a dream that restores the Good God to His place.

What "Deal" in Europe?

What "deal"? There is no deal in Europe over the looming Greek bankruptcy. Greece, France, Germany and China have agreed to nothing. So this is just talk-talk leading to more talking as Italy falls into crisis. Halligan is right. The latest "deal" will fail within weeks.

Global markets rallied on...nothing. Of course everyone wants economies to improve. But improvement has to be based upon reality rather than hope/talk. Then again, the markets are all emotion so no surprise when rumors spark exuberance. Some will earn a tidy sum selling into the rally if their timing is right. Most will just get kicked in the balls when the market falls again.

Europe at War?

Europe at war? That's laughable. It wouldn't be much of a war anyway. Maybe a week of serious combat before all sides ran out of munitions. Not to mention troops. Most European nations would be pressed to field four Combat Brigade Teams let alone transport them any distance.

About the only war that Europeans could fight would be a civil war and even that would be problematic since the governments have mostly banned firearms. So mostly there would be acts of terror by criminal gangs who knew where and how to acquire munitions. And lots of Molotov cocktails.

Third World immigrants would have the advantage in any European civil wars. They already have little to lose and much to gain. They'd be far more comfortable wielding a knife, machete or axe than a native. The mob could leisurely go door to door to hack up natives cowering in the bathroom. Only the Swiss would have a chance as they demand an armed citizenry.

Sandbrook is no Tom Clancy. He starts out with EU troops deployed in Greece and Italy, then has them surrounding and capturing a British force in Belgium. Oh my. Why would Britain and France fight over Belgium? And in the middle of global economic collapse, wouldn't every national security force be busy trying to keep order locally?

Merkel threatening Europeans with war is just pathetic. Threatening them with the slavery of poverty? Now that's realistic. Threatening them with racial and cultural minority in Europe? A certainty with their breeding habits relative to immigrants. But the retarded population of Europe just might fall for the war claims to turn over the last vestige of their freedom to TPTB. They are psychologically spent.

The Plan

Back and forth, across the Atlantic, the crisis cycles. Too much debt, not enough money. The Europeans make a deal to get through this round of crisis, the DOW rallys, the dollar declines and oil goes up correspondingly. The Greek default is blocked for awhile as the crisis moves to where? Italy, the US?

Don't count on that 5% year end stock appreciation, the 2.5% 2nd quarter GDP or a Congressional Supercommittee debt solution. There's just too much debt and not enough money. Or more specifically, too much money in too few hands and way too much debt in too many hands. And even if Joe Blow is paying down debt, the governments are piling it up in his behalf.

Round and round the Merry-go-Round spins. Some bad news here, a lie there, the story changing constantly. Do you believe anything you hear or read? Or do you just trust your eyes as you watch your ever shrinking paycheck disappear as you pay the ever larger bills?

It's all sleight of hand now. Keep the money moving if you have it and keep everyone else's money moving if they don't. Global GDP maybe $65T and derivatives at $1400T! Make believe leveraged at 22 times reality. If the money stops for even a millisecond the entire Ponzi will come crashing to the ground.

TPTB will keep up the pressure, not pushing too hard, too fast. They have to keep you in the game, keep you from giving up. You must remain vested in the system otherwise you just quit and it collapses. The pressure relief valves must be functioning; OWS, drugs, sex, wars, crime all must be tolerated lest the system explode under "austerity". So we have managed chaos brought to you by TPTB.

Back and forth, round and round, the sleight of hand. The Plan.

Week and a Day

A week and a day until Samhuin. Most of the maple tree leaves are still colorful and on the trees. A cool and wet week ahead but a lonely cicada still  chirps his mating call tonight.  I've stowed the summer, stocked the winter firewood and await the leaf fall to come. The natural world will die in a week and a day only to be reborn in eight weeks on the Solstice.

A Little Light in the Dark

Ambrose thinks that world power will swing back to the US soon due to energy developments, US wage competitiveness and re-sourcing, and demographics. A bright story in an otherwise gloomy time. 800,000 new manufacturing jobs would be wonderful news. But the US has 30 million un/under-employed! And wages are down. Does competitiveness help if the middle class continues to shrink as all profits flow to the crony capitalist elite? How many of those manufacturing jobs will go to Mexicans?

The Same Bullet in the Head

Libyan rebels, Navy Seals. It makes no difference, the same bullet in the head. The US has joined the world and has become part of the savage, uncivilized mob. Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, claims, like a Roman Counsel, "We came, we saw, he died". I'm shocked that Osama and Muammar's heads aren't mounted on pikes outside the door at the Whitehouse.

Silliness

This afternoon Paul Farrell channels Martin Weiss projecting Greek default, EU bank collapses, US bank contagion, global depression and OWS revolution. One man, one vote, one dollar democracy. Democracy? Really? I thought this was a Constitutional Republic. And do you see one man, once vote, one dollar, once? OWS protesters seem to think that government is the answer to all problems, including the greed that they cite as their principle beef. Can government control all human behavior? Perhaps total power can exercise total control. But is that the desire?

OWS might spark chaos but not revolution. Can any of them think or shoot or organize? I don't think so. And those who could, wouldn't let those creepy OWS freaks anywhere near them. Tea Parties would meet, quietly chat and feel. That's all. No revolutions there.

Greece will default, global banks will fail and an even deeper global depression may come. Chaos will follow. Maybe civil war. But revolution? Not until the vested have all lost everything (or passed from the mortal coil).

History is instructive. As Roman money ran out, government failed and those who could fled Rome. There was no revolution, just chaos for centuries. Instead of democracy expect strongmen. That's the future of mankind.

Furious

A mid-October AP-GfK Roper poll says that 58% of americans are "furious about politics" and 70% of americans "believe the country is heading in the wrong direction." And what choices do americans get from the Derivative gambling elites who run the country by purchasing politicians? Obama and Romney.

So what are americans doing about their anger? Well, 37% support the few OWS protesters shitting in parks and calling for america to become a Marxist planned economy. Meanwhile the competing Tea Party quietly talks amongst themselves as their candidate, Sarah Palin, quietly withdraws from the race.

So furious americans will choose between Stalinist Obama and Obama-lite Romney next year. Those are the choices that the ruling elites will allow. So America isn't so different from Saudi Arabia after all. The only difference is the american facade of "elections". The american "Allegiance Council" of a few hundred elites will decide who americans get to vote for.

Tyler Durden thinks that the Arab Spring should give elites pause as furious people depose and kill leaders. I'm gonna call bullshit because americans are vested in the system and will endure almost anything rather than risk losing anything. So furious americans are basically just bitchy americans as their lifestyles decline, their sons become jobless derelicts, their daughters become lumpen sluts and the US degrades into a Third World shithole.

Whose to blame? Not politicians or elites, who are the evil criminals that they are, but ordinary americans whose fear of risk allow this system to stand. If OWS protesters and Tea Party protesters pulled Soros or Immelt out of a limousine and hung them from a lamp post things would eventually get better. Instead, they shit on doorsteps in Manhattan or bitch at the Moose Lodge. Ordinary furious americans just sit on the couch and watch Dancing With The Stars or Monday Night Football (a.k.a the Excuse to Get Drunk) rather than risk losing the 52" LCD TV in the revolution.

The argument is no longer about free markets vs. communism. It's about elite power vs. peasant slavery. A few hundred elites control everything by handing out vesting rights to overseers of the mass of peasants who mostly own nothing, including their "rights and freedoms". The whole system is corrupt to it's smallest component, the individual american.

The 2008 economic collapse was a demonstration by the ruling elites that they can take everything away from you and they can thrive ... and there is nothing you can do about it! Your work, your job, your house, your savings, your pension, your future...everything...gone. Here's 99 weeks of survival unemployment before you must go compete with Mexicans for work. Those of you who kept your job...look, watch and learn. You could be next. Now, let's arrange for the peasants to borrow some money from us to restore our losses and pay for the welfare of the peasant-slaves that we just robbed.

Furious about politics and the future? Getthefuckouttahere!

Biden 2016

Biden is thinking about running for President in 2016? Sure. Why not have a fucking clown as the leader of america? I've had the distinct displeasure of having to listen to this imbecile publicly speak in person. Joe couldn't mop a floor if his life depended on it. That's what this country needs. Honk! Honk!

Tuesday

The average DC compensation is $126,000? Reid says that the Jobs Bill needs to focus on creating more government jobs? Biden says "Don't screw with me" or there will be more rapes and murders?

Really?

Somebody please drop a nuclear weapon on DC before it's too late.

But ... on a lighter note ... Reese Witherspoon enjoys Manicure-and-Makeout Saturdays with pal Jennifer Anniston.

Got pictures?

Teach your grandchildren how to do cold, brutish and nasty.

BoA moves $53T derivative backstop from a holding company to the retail bank. Getthefuckouttahere. $53T? What the fuck is that? Who the hell could even comprehend that amount of...well anything? I'll never earn a million bucks in a lifetime. WTF is a billion or a trillion dollars?

Meanwhile the Eurotards are still waging the battle against the inevitable. Tonight Sarkozy said...

“Allowing the destruction of the euro is to take the risk of the destruction of Europe. Those who destroy Europe and the euro will bear responsiblity for resurgence of conflict and division on our continent.”

The Eurotards will fight? Bullshit. They don't have enough men, guns or ammo. Many will just live a cold, brutish, nasty life until they die. And who "bears responsibility" but the Eurotards themselves. EuroSuicide is on pace to put the civilization out of it's misery soon. I'll watch as america follows.

Teach your grandchildren how to do cold, brutish and nasty.

Want to Sleep in the Street

“The most important thing we can do right now is those of us in leadership letting people know that we understand their struggles and we are on their side, and that we want to set up a system in which hard work, responsibility, doing what you’re supposed to do, is rewarded,” Obama tells ABC News. “And that people who are irresponsible, who are reckless, who don’t feel a sense of obligation to their communities and their companies and their workers that those folks aren’t rewarded.”

Listen up Obamafucktard and creepy protesters, I've carried your goddamned asses for 42 years. Gone to work every day, did my job, paid my taxes, provided for my family and done the right thing. Every day! Do not presume to lecture me about setting up your fucking system, rewards and punishments, obligations and what I'm supposed to do. While you shit in the park, lie, steal from and rape each other, in between your demands for an October Revolution, I still go to work and carry your Leninist asses every day. Fuck you! Mess with me and get a goddamned war, a Black Flag war of Havoc, that will clean up 40 years of ruin in this country. Want to sleep in the street?

Galdiator 2011

Almost dead...

Dead or mortally wounded.

Our lives, our world. Just snapshots taken seconds apart. Some know what's coming but live their lives with passion while most of us just stumble along ignoring the truth. Few of us have our end recorded on film. Which is the best end? The exciting, passionate filmed death or the dreary, boring passing in obscurity?

His sons will never know him, his wife will sling and grind under another man and, in a year, only his parents will remember and mourn him until they too pass. All for his exciting passion and the amusement of  "fans" of the gladiator spectacle in 2011.

Mid October State of the US

Economists say american's income won't come back for ten years. On average, incomes have dropped 7% since 2000. Mine has fallen 14%, effectively taking my salary back to 1994. But it's even worse as inflation has eroded 42.67% since 1994. In reality, I'm making about half of what I made back then. With income flat over the next decade and my retirement coming in 273 weeks, I'll never recover.

Even so, I'm lucky. I'm working and was able to acquire enough stuff to live a decent yet modest lifestyle. What about the younger folks, especially my children. Can they ever make enough to have a decent but modest lifestyle?

The media has focused on the hippies, communists and whackos in the Occupy Wall Street protests. But there are serious people with legitimate complaints about the system that seems to cheat working people out of their life's work. This really isn't a Republican/Democrat, capitalist/communist or sane/insane issue. It's a trust and life issue at the core.

Is it fair for people to work for decades to live a modest  lifestyle then lose a chunk of it so a few can make fortunes? Should the 1% be able to manipulate everything to ruin the lives of the 99%? That's the real story in the Arab Spring and the OWS protests.

Brian Rogers wrote a fair and balanced piece on the OWS protests that was posted on ZH today. It's well worth the few minutes it takes to read. But then read Spengler's People's Ponzi Scheme to get some perspective. Then consider Soros and Buffett, Bush and Obama, GE and Exxon as well as you and your children. What's fair and who do you trust?

The future belongs to those who evolve and adapt...unless the 1% rig the game.

Wretchard's Harbinger

Great discussion on Wretchard's Harbinger piece tonight. Democrats increasingly seem to want to suspend the Constitution and have Obama rule by decree. As far as I'm concerned, if that happened it would be a declaration of war on me. The czarist policy implementations have already pushed me to the edge. There is a line, and a step too far. Like many commenters, I find GOP silence deafening.

Three Peas in a Pod

Three Peas in a Pod with their index fingers in the air, lecturing their lessers about their superior ideas. Drudge captured something important tonight. Three destructive egomaniacal tyrants destroying mankind....one lie at a time.

Mick Jagama

Lame Cherry was on fire today! Read it!

I'm Pissed!

The creepy, stupid foreigner occupying the White House and his clown posse that has taken over the US government is finally starting to really piss me off.

It came out today that Obama wanted to apologize to Japan for nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end WW2. Seriously? Who started the war and who wouldn't surrender to prevent an even bigger bloodbath if the US and Russia had to invade Japan. There may not even be any Japanese alive had the invasion occurred. Obama is a fucking imbecile!

Then there's Biden claiming that without Obama's $447B Jobs Bill union payoff there will be more murders and rapes. It's Obama and Biden supporters who are committing 95% of the murders and rapes. What dumbass thinks more cops will prevent crime? They only cleanup the mess created by Democrat Socialist's Great Society welfare state that breeds the criminal class.

And the best for last. Goddamned Obamoid multiculturists want more Latino themed National Parks and monuments. WTF would that be? Turn the Alamo into a Mexican Memorial? As for other minorities, how about Little Big Horn battlefield as an Indian National Park, Pearl Harbor as a Japanese Park and Compton as a Negro Park. How about a park for queers to suck each other off? Oh...that's right. That's every freakin park in the country. The possibilities for racist jackassery are endless with Obama's clown posse racists.

It's time for sane adults to impeach these crooks and nutcases before they destroy what's left of this goddamned country. I'm pissed!

Where are the wood chippers?

Faber says "Listen you lazy bugger, now you have to tighten your belts, you have to save more, work more for lower salaries and only through that will we get out of the current dilemma that essentially prevents the economy from growing." Um Ok dickhead. I'm pretty thin these days and since I'm making 33% less, I can't save shit. And what's the point of saving with 0% return OR losing your savings in this inflationary/deflationary Depression. May as well spend it before it disappears.


And Faber expects "social cohesion" in modern america? Right. Like the chanting 99er protesters, blacks, whites, hispanics and the collapsed american families? I'm sure the coming crash, poverty and violence will bring america together. Maybe in the open graves of american streets.


The chanting communist hippie 99ers are creeping me out. Sure, the elites have fucked us all but communism ain't the cure. How about we toss the 99ers AND the elites in wood chippers?


Like the rest of the Republican presidential field, Cain is a no-starter for me. Godfather pizza sucks and so does his 9-9-9 tax plan. Income, corporate and sales taxes at 9%? Oh, that would stomp the shit out of me. I don't buy much of anything now. Increasing my 7% state sales tax with a 9% federal sales tax would put me out of the phone, cable and internet business and I'll be wearing the clothes I have now until I die. Just fuckin shoot me, it would be less painful. Besides, I've had enough of black presidents to last me forever.


Less than half of US veterans think the wars in the Middle East were "worth it". What do we have to show for it? Nothing but trillions in debt and a bunch of dead and wounded vets. Iranians want to kill the Saudi ambassador? Who cares? America won't do shit until they nuke NYC and/or DC. Then it will be handled wrong again. America doesn't do war anymore.


The EU is kicking the goddamned can down the road some more and stocks have maxed again before they tank again. Slovakia said no to the EFSF before it says yes later. Merkozy can't stop a Greek default and the EFSF can't provide sufficient liquidity to mitigate contagion. Best case, I don't lose more 2010 stock earnings, worst case, maybe I lose everything, at least I lose more. Will I have to work until I die? Will I even be able to work at all as the world slides deeper into Depression? Who goddamned knows?

A half dozen visitors came to check out my normal distribution curve posting today. They all had to be pissed cause it's all about value not price. And no one cares about value anymore. All of us "buggers" are just peasant blockheads whose price is near zero and whose value incomprehensible. Elites like Faber consider us all to be worthless, lazy peasants.


The whole world is nuts and collapsing. Where are the wood chippers?

A Few Precious Minutes

Grandpa, grandson and the dog enjoyed a cool evening under a full moon with a fire outdoors this evening. Scary stories about Indians, bears and campers as ash tree leaves softly fell about us for a few precious minutes.

We'll both remember this evening for as long as we live.

Going Greek

Venture capital has dried up. The crappy economy, uncertainty and maybe the Obama led inquisition against the wealthy has resulted in only $1.7B in new investment. That's an 8 year low! No new jobs or technology will come from this sorry change.

Meanwhile communists, unions, hippies and weirdos are protesting against the wealthy while crony capitalist Obama winks. Not because he agrees with the freaks but just to buy votes. Going Greek won't help the US.

Go Ugly Early

Having expressed an opinion that the american middle class is being gutted by corrupt leadership AND that this is a result of ordinary americans weakness because of their addiction to stuff, I'm dropping out of the culture. I'm going ugly early.

Most americans display their position in the culture by their organizational memberships, their car and their house. The Unitarian, manager at XYZ Corporation, late model Lexus driver who lives in Oak Lake Estates in a 4000 sq ft, 4 car garage home. A bought in, paid in full american prick.

Me? No affiliation, worker at Any Corporation, old Buick driver who lives in an aging middle class suburb in a 1600 sq ft, no car garage home. A financially gutted, cynical former american asshole.

Many of my neighbors are HUD renters who rarely, poorly tend their weed patches, strew garbage throughout the weed patches and abandon their old wrecks in the drive when they conk out. All of the homes have lost half their value, which is still falling, and no one has money to fix normal wear. By degree, the neighborhood is going ghetto.

All over town it's the same, a few High Culture homes while most neighborhoods go ghetto as the ghetto moves to suburbia on the taxpayer's dime. Meanwhile the former middle class taxpayers can't afford to maintain their own home anymore. We're mostly going ugly as a country.

I keep my home and cars working and sound. But I don't make them pretty and don't care anymore. I don't have weed patches but I don't mow weekly. I don't wash and wax the cars monthly, semi-annually is enough to protect the finish. I don't participate in the community because it isn't. I do my job, mostly what I want to do but don't care about the company any more than they care about me. Which is not at all. I've dropped out of the culture.

Unlike my father, I don't believe that what I do will give my descendants a better future. What I do makes no difference at all anymore. In fact, what I think is irrelevant to the present and future. My upbringing is obsolete and I'm a dinosaur in an age of mammals, a dying breed exiting the stage.

There's nothing I can say or do to help the young coworker with the ass snake tattoo crawling out of her jeans that she shows me every day. I'm just an old overlord who "doesn't understand". And I don't. I never will understand and I don't want to. I don't care about her three multi-hued bastards, her recent bisexuality or her plans for a new skull and crossbones tattoo. She thinks that I'm old and weird because I've been married for 38 years and don't find her irresistible AND that I shower and put on clean clothes EVERY DAY!

So, I'm going ugly early. I'll do what I can for my grandsons but I'm done pretending that I'm part of this culture. In fact, fuck this culture. It can just die. I don't want to do anything to extend it. I'll keep my immediate world sound but that's it. I won't even try to "pretty it up". It is ugly, getting uglier and frankly, I don't care anymore.

Corrupt America

Obama and his people are corrupt. Solyndra and Fast and Furious are just the tip of the iceberg. I suspect that the leaders of all american institutions are crooks who game the system for personal wealth and power. So by degree, america has become a corrupt institution.

The car companies and the UAW are a perfect example. The US government borrows money to bail out GM and Chrysler, hands a chunk of the company to the UAW while stealing bondholders and salary pensioners money then gives executives and UAW bonuses and raises. Sound fair?

National and local media is excited about the UAW members windfalls. In Bruigville, only 10% of the population works in car plants. The other 90% won't get raises in Depression america. How will they feel about UAW raises and bonuses? But Obama is happy and the UAW is happy because he delivered for his supporters. Corruption works!

I haven't had a raise in three years but food, fuel, utilities and health care have all gone up. It's the same for 90% of americans who can't pay off Obama for a chance to maintain their position in american society. And the President head crook wants us to give up more, our fair share as he puts it, to his supporters.

Business leaders and welfare queens, executives and union members are on the same side in this redistribution of america's wealth. Obama may chide the wealthy in public but they are on the gravy train, getting richer every day. It's the middle class that's getting gutted.

America is as corrupt as the late Roman empire and since ordinary americans won't stand up to the corruption, it will suffer the same fate. Instead of Germanic barbarians overrunning the country it will be South and Central American barbarians. And like the Germans 2000 years ago in Rome, Juan doesn't want the civilization, he wants the stuff. A new Dark Age awaits our descendants.

Crooks and weaklings addicted to their stuff. That's the lay of the land in modern america. That's the way I see it.

Where's Anya?

Where is Anya? We haven't heard from her since last December when she became a Russian Youth leader. Whatever that means. At 29 she's not a youth but a young woman, so she's not a youth who's a leader BUT, apparently a leader of youth. A role model I suppose.

She's probably busy at the bank or the studio or the Kosmodrome or the youth center. Whatever she does, it will be hot, even wearing a Jetsons outfit to a youth meeting last December. But she needs to be more in the public eye.

I miss Anya.

Words Matter

Rosenberg and Ferguson call it Depression, not recession.

Stuff

It's "the worst financial crisis the world has ever faced"! Ever! So says the Governor of the BOE. No savings earnings for old people to live on, no jobs for the young, higher prices for basics for everyone and a life style worse than the Great Depression for most everyone...forever.

"Global financial meltdown in two weeks" says an IMF adviser. "More serious than 2008" says Shapiro. 

Thank God that hippie communists are protesting at banks. That should fix the problem.

Nobody is listening anymore. It's "whatever". DOW down then up then down after lying bastards open their mouths, speak then scurry away. Most people are just sick of the story.

Recent hits on this blog of late are the normal distribution curve, Sarah Palin's ass, Jennifer Anniston sucking a banana and Fukashima radiation. I have nothing on Sarah's ass, no story or photos but visitors still come for a peek at her backside. Go here if you want to get some hate filled, leftist garbage on a woman that terrifies them.

Apple technology sucks, always has, always will. Over-priced hippie gear from the Cult of Apple. I never owned any and never will. Jobs died? So what. He moved Apple to China and killed US jobs. Jobs killed american jobs. He dines with Ted Kennedy in hell tonight.

Semen Swirly Yogurt

Ever take food samples in public? You might want to rethink it. Western yuppies recently got samples of Tony Garcia's personal creation of Semen Swirly Yogurt. The sampler recognized the secret flavor and spit it out then wiped the spoon on her clothes!? A later DNA analysis of the clothing revealed Tony's special ingredient. He was arrested and faces three years in prison (where he might get to sample other prisoner's concoctions).

Even more interesting than this increasingly frequent dating technique is the response of a Houston web editor.

Brittanie Shey writes:

"Because, believe it or not, most women have given at least one blow job in their life. It's a pretty distinctive taste."

 Now we know.

Let's Roll

Sarah's out, Jobs is dead, 3/5 of the world is nuttier than this guy (although he is better equipped than most of the "men" on the planet).

Destroy it all kids, burn it all to the ground. I won't even advise you against it anymore. Just don't touch my shit until I'm gone. I will get surly.

This guy's descendants will piss on your unmarked graves (or your unburied corpses) since you're either childless or never cared about your kids at all. He makes babies and watches over them, unlike you. God's go forth and multiply directive and all.

Now I see why old men chose war for their kids. Bored young people are a pain in the ass. They need something to keep them occupied and out of trouble. Conscription, a big land war and domestic mobilization would solve all of of problems in this country. Even the world.

Let's roll.

Cool Evening Air Thoughts

I'm slowly preparing the bruig for Winter. This evening I took advantage of the warm, dry weather to clean one set of gutters and install the Gutter Guard. That will save me from some cold, crappy work when the leaves really start coming down. All nine cubic yards of them!

Afterwards as I sat in the backyard enjoying the weather and an O'Douls I thought about the "value" of my home. In my mind it's value is high, as it is the home that I built and want to live in. Despite what the market says. And the market is only sales demand. I don't want to sell it and no one wants to buy it. So WTF! I guess it's only an issue to me if I want to borrow against it. But I don't want to borrow anything at all. So it's a moot point.

The 42 year old bruig sits on a quiet court in town with a city park in the backyard. The house is solid, well maintained with modern features. Deer, squirrels, rabbits and birds abound in the wooded space. It's as close as one gets to living in the country yet with the convenience of the city nearby. I'm lucky to have found the place. Home to three generations of people and four generations of dogs, so far.

The Jack Russell terrier hopped on my lap and sniffed the cool evening air as cicadas croaked their mating calls. Yes, I'm a lucky man to live at my bruig with my dog-friend. Let the world know the price of everything...and the value of nothing.

I'm just along for the ride

Well, the DOW is pricing in bank liquidity issues as Greece totters on the edge. It seems that the EU financial wizards couldn't invoke the magic to save the day. DOW 10655? I doubt it can hold 10K and since nothing has been fixed since 2008, maybe it can't hold 6626. Rumor has it that hedge funds are in trouble and the rulers of the universe have been acting odd today. What do they know that us mere mortals don't?

I've lost 17% for the year, including  8% of last years earnings. Do I sell into the fall or sit on my diminishing equities? Oh, I'll sit. But this time might be different. Sure, IBM, GE, AT&T and so on have real value. But what the hell is it? They're all priced in dollars and what's a dollar worth with US debt at 100% GDP?

As I drove home from work today I watched a bunch of turkey buzzards circling the wealthy suburb that I drive through on my way home. The gated community homes start at $400,000 and Mexican slaves mowed the yards as far as the eye could see. I asked myself if the scavenger birds knew something that I didn't. Does america have the smell of death even at the pinnacle of society? Or are the birds just waiting for the wetbacks to drop dead? We'll see.

I'm just along for the ride.

Sad Sunday Tidbits

Interesting take on the global economy assembled by Evans-Pritchard. No one knows what to believe and some folks have some bizarre solutions to the elite's power grab. Useful idiots abound! Goldman thinks risks of a shallow dip are high with unemployment rising to 12%. Greece will default as it has missed all targets. Some propose a debt jubilee to restart the US economy.

All of my three daughter's relationships have now fallen into ruin. It breaks my heart and there's nothing that I can do about it. We're a nation of broken dreams raising grandchildren that will only know destruction. My God! What will this country be like in 25 years?

Germans Say 211B Euros is Enough

Germany's Finance Minister said that Germany will not provide more than the 211B Euros already committed to bailing out the PIIGS. That's it! No more. Germans don't work their asses off so Portugese, Italians, Irish, Greeks and Spaniards can lay around and borrow their living. Apparently the Germans are only willing to give up 6.4% of their GDP for lazy, thieving bastards. Good for them!

Clinton Wants More Credit?

I'll give the lying prick more credit. Let's start with credit for crashing the US economy with his program of giving mortgages to people who never could pay them. And I'll give him credit for the HUD programs that put welfare ghetto rats in suburban rentals so I could raise their little ghetto rats. Oh, and credit for his whorish leadership that made teenage blow jobs mainstream (as well as all the other self-centered, sluttish behavior in modern america).

And it gets personal. I had to go to my daughter's middle school to have a desk removed from service that had "Amanda sucks Bill Clinton's cock" carved in the seat. I'd seen "Jane sucks cock" written and carved in desks before. But never saw "Jane sucks Abraham Lincoln's cock" carved anywhere. Why would a kid choose that combination? I'll give Bill Clinton credit for that.

The lying motherfucker can eat shit and die as far as I'm concerned...and get all the credit for his worthless fucking life. Spit.

Tetravon Closes

September is gone and with it went FermiLab's Tetravon particle accelerator in Batavia, People's Republic of Illinois. The US is out of the particle collider business with the closure of Tetravon. Europe has become the center of high energy particle science with their Hadron machine.