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15 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Dollar tumbles, gold h... · 0 replies · +2 points

When stocks and gold go up simultaneously, it means the dollar has gone down... the change is not in intrinsic value, but in the value of the currency in which that value is denominated.
The media always cheers a rising stock market, without regard as to the true meaning of the rise. Inflation is coming.... I am reminded of the old "good news, bad news" joke from the Carter days: the guy shipwrecked on an island is rescued and calls his broker. good news... your account is valued now at $3M... band news... (ding) please deposit $1M for 3 more minutes on this call.

15 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Thick pools of oil was... · 1 reply · +4 points

Obvious Answer:

1) there are 33 deep water drilling rigs on the coast..... assign a government safety inspector 24/7 to each one and CONTINUE DRILLING on all wells where all safety requirements are followed. The oil industry would gladly pay any costs involved in this greater level of oversight.... because it is VASTLY cheaper to drill than to not drill given the cost of the equipment and the degredation of the wells and equipment when they are left idle.

2) open up the government lands to drilling!!!!! ...it is OBVIOUS that any spill would be easier to contain ON LAND! When comparing the downside risks, it makes far more sense to suffer the loss of a small valley than the loss of the entire Gulf of Mexico!

15 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Salazar seeks to reimp... · 2 replies · +37 points

33000 successful wells drilled in Gulf, one failure for reasons that ARE increasingly clear and unique to BP... and that is why you want to put well over 100,000 people on unemployment?

Drill on LAND where it is safe, IN THE ROCKIES like the Canadians do, on GOVERNMENT land so we can earn the royaltees! ...the only reason not to is so Soros can make a lot of money by forcing us to buy oil from his Brazilian company!

15 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Analysis: Gen.\'s rema... · 0 replies · +29 points

The General IS the expert to tell Obama who's A** needs kicking!

15 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Analysis: Gen.\'s rema... · 13 replies · +14 points

Unfortunately, it is just the end of the beginning.

We are on our way to a world no "progressive" would love: one in which half the world is dedicated to killing the other half on religious grounds..... now, THAT is a war a "progressive" would be ill equiped to fight!

Seriously.... we will not escape terror by running away. We will simply invite them to follow us and try and finish the job by killing us off.

16 years ago @ Breitbart.com - LA cardinal: Nazism in... · 0 replies · +3 points

I wonder if this Cardinal also felt that it was offensive to be judgemental about Priests accused of abusing children? ....I guess he would have been in favor of granting them the broad "benefit of the doubt" and not reportng them to the police until forced to do so by publicity!

Compassion for the poor, downtrodden and weak is important, but not to the point of promoting injustice against others who are innocent and following the rules.

Want to be compassionate about illegal immigrants? ...help them get home safely and then help them go through the process of applying for legal immigration. Any more than that is harming legal immigrants and the poor and downtrodden (unemployed) citizens and welfare recipients we already have.

16 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Homebuyers scramble as... · 0 replies · +4 points

Bad news.... I am afraid our financial leaders are repeating the 1920's... the crash of '29 was followed by a rebound and then the "Great Depression" solved only by World War II, death to a significant fraction of the industrialized world, leaving us largely untouched.... able to export to everyone. We may not be so lucky this time around.... the oceans are not the great buffers they were back then. ....bad news.

It is going to be VERY hard to avoid severe inflation ... oil going up, China now being the dominant manufacturing nation....

16 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Asia pollution circles... · 0 replies · +2 points

There was a Nova show back a decade or two ago that talked about how polution was causing global cooling... seriously! ...talked about how the particulates caused clouds to form, reflecting heat back into space and cooling the earth underneath. Israeli agrecultural scientists had been tracking the evaporation rates in their desert fields for decades, in recent times, evap slowed, total sunshine lessened world-wide and Nova tracted the problem world wide as due to particulate polution.

Remember when LA was covered with smog? Back then global cooling was the rage. We cut down on particulate polution by scrubbing all our coal fired power plants, cut down on Nitrogen oxides with catalytic converters, and what happened?

Skys cleared and 'global warming' became the rage.

India and China replace the particulates we got rid of and global cooling returns.... sure seems like we may have finally found the problem! It is not CO2, it is particulate polution rearing its ugly head again!

Ah what idiots we all are.... HUMILITY is the key attribute every good scientist should have.

16 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Obama says health care... · 0 replies · +1 points

I'd roll back many of the intrusions into state authority that the Federal Government made since they started interpreting the "Interstate Commerce" clause too broadly over 100 years ago.

For example, we badly need national standards for education and a great deal of work learning how to make the best of all our talent and resources at the state and local level. I'd suggest reducing the role of the Education Department to overseeing a National Convention of State Educators who would manage state-wise experiments and promote adoption across state lines of those ideas that work successfully.

The same with medical regulation, product labeling, nursing homes, infrastructure maintenance, building codes, etc.

These are all things that benefit from good national standards AND experimentation at the state and local level on the technical details that work. Asking general purpose legislators to handle this stuff is insane. Asking them to oversee the activities of specialized boards is reasonable.

16 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Obama says health care... · 0 replies · +1 points

I would recommend a new layer of specialized government to handle domestic policy between states, based on the model of the constitutional convention.

Representatives of all the states would meet to determine a uniform set of rules for the administration of "insurance" products. This would be a national board of state insurance regulators and representatives of the people and industry appointed by the states and federal government to investigate the costs and negotiate compromises.

If this works, we could have additional national boards or conventions meet to unify regulation and learn from the experiences of the varied states in regulating, enforcing, financing all the various specialized areas in which states have authority.

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