Mrcauser’s Weblog

I was about to change my mind about retiring to the Sun shine State, but thankfully my animals will be safe. After all You never know about the people who hang out there.

Hell my brother even drinks occasionally and you know what that means.  And nobody needs to add to the crime down there by dragging extra cats along.

Unless we take them to a vet. And you know what that means.

Florida to outlaw sex with animals!

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Having sex with animals could soon be outlawed in Florida.

The Senate unanimously passed a bill (SB 448) Tuesday that would make it a third degree felony for anyone to have sex with an animal. A similar bill in the House has not been debated on the floor.

Florida is one of 16 states without a law banning bestiality.

The bill sponsored by Sen. Nan Rich, D-Weston, D-Weston, would make the offense a third-degree felony, punishable by up to five years in prison. The Florida law would not apply to veterinary practices.

According to the national Humane Society, several studies highlight a link between sexual assault of animals and sex crimes against humans.

My new pad for Florida……

I really like the diving platform which comes complete with rickety ladder.

Makes me nostalgic for my place in California (not!!).

Need a ride?

15 (More!) Extreme Houseboats and Houseboat Designs [PICS]

Does have a nice ring to it (Heh heh).

Oh yea  Sars is back.Or is ozone hole. No bird flu. No wait global warning, Alar on your apples, killer peanuts, Pistachios -are-out-to-get-you or maybe …..?

We’re dead eventually, just don’t tell about me on TV to take attention away from government criminals inducing disasters in the economy , OK ?

charles hugh smith-Obama’s Secret Plan

Does anyone seriously believe an obstructionist opposition which supported Bush’s giveaways and staggering deficits for eight long years has any credibility? The moment to do something about deficits was 2003, and the moment to vote down bailouts was last Fall (hmm, now there’s an appropriate season) when the TARP debacle was shoved down the nation’s throat by the Financial Aristocracy.

Does anyone seriously believe the Democrats who cheerily absorbed millions in donations from scalawags and crooks in Fannie Mae, Goldman Sachs et al. while obstructing regulations which might have limited the damage have a lick of credibility? To be a partisan in this age is to be either blind or brainwashed.

So let’s face it: any President who sought to destroy the political power of the Investment Banker Aristocracy in a frontal assault would be defeated if not destroyed. Any president of either party who dares even mess around the edges of the real power structure gets “the treatment.”

Is there any strategy would might actually work? How about “give them enough rope to hang themselves”? President Dwight Eisenhower has long been dismissed as a do-nothing who “got lucky” in his two terms. Perhaps–but he was also a canny politico who didn’t say much because he preferred to give his opponents plenty of stout rope. And sure enough, most of the time they promptly hanged themselves with their own excesses.

Now I’m agreeing with Paul Krugman, for Christ’s sake.

We have run out of suckers. The ones we have are borrowing and printing to save themselves. Their all praying that a couple of trillion a year pumped into the world economy collectively will save our sorry asses.

For awhile they are right. Expect a series of W shaped collapses and you can’t go wrong.

As an aside, the Government is becoming more afraid of us. Ask Napalitano.

Got to grab them guns. We need a crisis to save the Fed’s sorry asses.

Swine flu maybe. Yea, some exotic disease maybe.

Not only do we need another planet to save us, we need a galaxy!

Japan’s recovery, again – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com

For what it’s worth, a key conclusion from the IMF’s new World Economic Outlook is that recessions caused by financial crisis typically end with export booms, with the trade balance improving, on average, by more than 3 percent of GDP. I find this a disturbing result: we’re now suffering from a global financial crisis, which means that the usual driver of recovery will only be available if we can find another planet to export to.

If it ain’t one piece of irrelevant bullshit it’s another.

I guess we’ll just have to die before the planet does. (Sigh).

Uh, duh!!

Ozone Layer Faces Bumpy Return to Health : Discovery News

April 23, 2009 — The Earth’s ailing ozone layer will probably recover, but it will never look exactly like it used to.

That is the conclusion of a new study, which found that greenhouse gasses are interfering with ozone’s rebound in complicated ways. The study predicts a patchy future for the ozone layer, with some sections becoming even thicker than they were before bans on ozone-damaging chemicals kicked in. Other sections, meanwhile, may remain sparse.

“This shows that greenhouse gas increases could have some surprising effects on ozone,” said Feng Li, an atmosheric scientist at NASA’s Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center in Greenbelt, Md.

The ozone layer lies in the stratosphere, the region of the atmosphere that stretches from about 10 miles to 30 miles above the planet’s surface.

I remember the 70’s. Compared to today they were pretty good.

You could actually support a family on “blue collar” wages. However, about this time changes were in the making: the wholesale moving our industry offshore.

The 70’s started out with us carpet bombing little brown people from the stone age into the 20th century.

 Boy that worked out good.

Then we pissed off a bunch of people with towels on their head because we like to make war on religious nuts who disagree with our religious nuts by moving religious nuts into their neighborhood.So they decided to quit selling us oil.

Boy that worked out good.

After that we turned our money into play dough to pay for all these different wars and dictators we owned by borrowing and spending ourselves into a series of  inflationary depressions that have finally now caught up with us.

Boy that worked out good.

Until today we have to hire a black guy as president who’s main asset is having no real discernible qualifications for the job to kiss and make up with everyone on the planet we have abused for all our empire building by his  clueless predecessors.

Boy is that working.

Now we have to pay the piper. Every dime we borrow or print will come home to bite us in the ass.

Until the empire dies and we start over.

Inflation Tsunami

A few days ago, in a bold move, the Federal Reserve announced that it would buy US$1 trillion worth of U.S. Treasuries and mortgage-backed agency debt. Apparently, the idea behind this measure is to subdue long-term interest rates in the United States, thereby assisting homeowners. However, any serious investor should realize that this line of thinking is totally flawed. Allow me to explain:

By announcing to the entire world that the Federal Reserve is ready and willing to buy U.S. Treasuries and other agency debt, the Federal Reserve is hoping to support the U.S. bond market and suppress long-term interest-rates. Unfortunately, in order to buy these assets, the Federal Reserve will end up creating even more dollars and the result will be the exact opposite of what the officials set out to do! As the Federal Reserve steps up its buying of U.S. government debt, it would have to create money out of thin air. When this occurs, inflationary expectations will rise and nervous bond investors will automatically demand higher interest-rates in order to protect themselves from inflation. So, as an inflation-premium sets in the market, bond investors will reset interest-rates at a much higher level. It is worth noting that the U.S. establishment engaged in the same misguided policy roughly 60 years ago and the result was much higher interest-rates…and that saga morphed into the inflationary holocaust of the late 1970s.

Why not?

We could sell tickets and put it on CNN.

Worldwide.

Here’s my credit card. Sign me up!

As long as we can find enough suckers we can continue. Period. We’ve been doing it since the 1930’s.

However, shipping our middle class jobs overseas and retiring millions of us will put an end to it.

It’s only a matter of time. I’m still betting between 5 and 10 more years. My generation leaves the work force and collectively by then we will have bankrupted our creditors of federal debt.

In the mean time, we’d be better off worrying about banks taking our tax dollars at 0% and lending it out at 30% on your credit cards.

Guaranteeing, counting all the future taxes, fees, and “fines”, we have nothing left for our future.

Of course,  we still have enough firepower to take over anyone we want to pay for our shit.

And we will! Just give it time.

It Can Happen Here.  It Might Be Happening Now.

The best sign at my hometown “tea party” was a giant banner that spelled out in huge letters: $12,000,000,000,000. It took at least ten people standing in a long line along the highway to hold it.

The 12 trillion number is new federal obligations assumed since the economy began to unravel in 2008. It’s enough money to pay off nearly every home mortgage in America .

Here’s another number for you: $101 trillion.

That’s the amount of unfunded Medicare and Social Security liabilities going forward through the end of the boomer retirement (1).

Well before the economic crisis was in full swing, Russian blogger Dmitri Davydov put together a presentation about the similarities between the USA now and the USSR as it neared its end. Here were three distinct similarities he cited:

What torture?

We sprinkled water on these guys foreheads and now we call it torture?

Hell the Catholics do it everyday to babies and I don’t hear them bitching!

If a nuke goes off in Washington do you think we should play nice?

A medal maybe, but nice? (Heh heh. Yes, I’m bad)

OK.

Survivalists 2.0: Regular People Get Ready for the Worst

Spirko, 36, considers himself an average guy with a normal life.

But for the past few years, Spirko has been stockpiling food, water, gas, guns and ammunition. He also has a load of red wine, Starbucks coffee and deodorant stashed away.

“I refer to myself as a modern survivalist, which means I don’t do without,” Spirko explained. “I have a nice TV; I have nice furniture. We are not living in the sticks, but I take all of these things very seriously.”

Spirko, an Army veteran and self-described “stark-raving-mad Libertarian,” is part of a growing movement of people who are preparing for a disaster natural, economic or man-made. Referred to as “modern survivalists” or “preppers,” they are taking steps to protect and provide for their families should something bad happen.