Obama, Bush? All I know is that my eyesocket is sore and I can't stop the bleeding.

Seriously, Obama isn't doing anything different from Bush save calling the same actions different words. Sometimes.

Yet the pacman people (mouth opens and closes and all hope is eaten up never ending) keep spouting crap about him being either an evil socialist or a great statist. SAME SHIT.

Egads! I don't even have the ability to scream out WHY ARE THESE PEOPLE SO FUCKING MINDLESS!!!!
Cause I know why.
They identify with a group. They feel more powerful as part of a group. They have less personal responsibility for their words and actions as long as they are in line with the groups words and actions. They feel safe in the confines of the group.

Nevermind the group may be flowing like a flock of birds rapidly ramming into a cliffside and all the squawking is underscored by the constant sickening sounds of impacts and crushing bones and organs.

Never you mind. Because Obama is the Savior/Satan unlike the previous Satan/Savior and all your prayers will be answered and condemned.

With bullshit like this, it only makes me wonder how long until this administration tries to fan the flames of race war to produce enough smoke to hide their crime. Oh wait, fanning is already under way. You gotta watch out for those militia groups!

I'm going to put up a constant bright blinking sign screaming in lights and sound "BE AFRAID BE AFRAID BE AFRAID TRUST ME AND BE AFRAID" I might just develop a following of sycophants who will do my every stupid whim.

What? It works for the State.

Oh, and on a final note.

Fuck taxes. Fuck them. Fuck the fucking stupid shit who portends to validate them. For you people who think we "need" taxation, I'm going to dress up like I'm from Best Buy, hold you at gun point. Take 10000 dollars from you and leave you with a computer that still runs Windows 95. You do not get "service" for taxation, you get fucked. Not in the good way. Nay, you get skullfucked, and your money will go to teach your children to enjoy the same.
Huzzah your cowardice and evil!

Complex Answers

"I pledge not to initiate force for any reason." Or something like that.

Pretty simple. Don't strike first no matter how many people are telling you to. You are yourself, not a cog in their machine.

How do you reconcile with people who are so accustomed to theft and murder that to defend yourself from their assault entails public hatred, imprisonment and death?

Is it striking first to fight back when they are aggressive to you 24/7/365?

Does it break your code of ethics to undermine their machinations, to burn down their temples, and to kill their lies?

When the Bubble pops, DePauw will have no place to stay.

Any more realistic description of evolution would emphasize the importance of niches. Adaptation is the key to continual survival. Even more so with the similar but much faster pace social evolution we are all a part of.

In this instance let us view the American university system. It is complex, bloated and absolutely fails at its actual purpose. Anyone not in complete self-denial knows that students leaving our universities on average are dumber than when they entered.

All this aside, the obvious reason why our universities are perfect examples of people under socialist constructs lies in the immense allure of student loans. Subsidized on every level, this in conjunction with government grants and an extreme propaganda push in our secondary compulsive education, caused a "university bubble".
Tuition keeps rising and yet more and more students think they have to get in. Lack of any semblance of responsibilities on the part of administrations and professors has caused a massive trend to the idiotic and the oppressive. Simply because those schools already established, can not fail.

And so they fill their niche.

Which means that when this unstable social environment changes, their niche will disappear. As the economy worsens, among other sectors that have grown thanks to government theft and redirection of funds from more efficient areas to universities, universities will finally see a fall in the oncoming classes.

This is already in the beginning stages.

Now, state schools and Ivy leagues will be hurt, and will shrink in size. They will still remain afloat, or, more likely, completely nationalized instead of just constantly kissing the boot. (That's fascism by the way. Nationalization. You live in a fascist state, thought you should know.)

Some schools won't fair so well. In particular all of the small "liberal arts" schools that aren't in the blessed ivy league.
Let's put it this way. They don't teach anything useful, they're small and so will be hardest hit in a student population drop and, let's face it, their administrations are too large, too stupid, too lazy, and far too arrogant to adapt.
Poof! There goes your niche.
Providing that some miracle doesn't come blazing out of the wild blue yonder I state this proudly and sincerely.
DePauw University, you will be extinct by your own hand within the next couple decades, praise be to the Good.

Oh, and I would also at the time like to purchase East College. Though my predictions are more general and I can't tell what your insidious mindless destruction is going to harm next, I hope it's not that building. I have plans to start a new school in that building on your ashes.

This is a Tough One

So, I babble on and on about liberty, voluntary interaction and the roads we're being lead by the nose down.

And I must say,
I'm not sorry.

I hear parables of how evil comes into the world because good men do nothing to stop it and I know it to be tragic truth.
I also see what happens to the lonely few who stand up to the organizations of evil men and earn little more than steel in their backside.
I see too the way of going along to get along. Trying to to use those very organizations to do more good than evil. It means a life of constantly conceding ground to insanity and destruction.
Courage is to know fear and face it. That too I know.
As this present collapse continues to grow and spread and the actions of our stupid and evil drive the world to the shattering point, I can't help but to be comforted to know that humanity will do better next time around.

College. I should of titled this college

WTF?

I tried to be sold on chrome. Don't get me wrong. It is damn pretty. Perhaps if it didn't seem to be in a perpetual struggle with the info I'm trying to get it to import from my firefox I would like it better. That and if it was compatible with everything. Instead it seems to be keen on switching off functions on me randomly like, my saved passwords. My iGoogle apps and last but not least Tor. Mother fucker.

Parable

Frankly my dear, I wish I did not give a damn.

I am going to reiterate an example of what is going on for those of you...Including my relatives and friends. Who have no idea what's going on.

Imagine an island with 20 islanders. To survive each day they need 20 fish "platters" to feast upon. 5 make and repair nets, 5 make and repair boats, 5 do the fishing, and 5 prepare the meal.
Along comes a shipwrecked Harvard graduate, who feels the benevolent urge to bestow his gift of intelligence upon these wretches.
They listen to him for some God awful reason and thusly, at his behest, they move 3 from repairing/making boats and 3 from repairing/making nets to fishing.
Lo and behold! Much more fish are coming in and now the island is making an incredible 50 fish "platters" per day!
The kind hearted Harvard grad takes his tithe of ten percent and eats 5 of the "platters
leaving the other 20 people still 45! A whole 2.5x their normal "consumption"!
However, over time, the remaining repairers of boats and nets begin to fall behind. This decline in the functionality of equipment has a correlation with a decline in number of fish being caught per day which the Harvard grad routinely denies.
Regardless, the max of 50 becomes 45 then 35 and so forth. The Harvard grad meanwhile takes increasingly larger percentages of the share w/o giving any net benefit as he grows fatter and fatter. So his tithing of 5 becomes a demand for 10 and so on.
This continues until the people realize that they cannot sustain this and hope to survive. For some God Awful reason, perhaps because the Harvard grad spends all his time taking the roll of the island's "media", the islanders beseech the now fairly rotund Harvard grad once more for guidance.
His answer: We need more fish, so more shall go into fishing. Thusly the problem is compounded as more island people are fishing and even less are repairing and preparing.

This is a parable for our current state of affairs. Notice that even a "correction" in which the Harvard grad was ousted (hopefully eaten) and removed from the equation, a return to a balance would require a complete shift in the opposite direction. For now things are in such disrepair that not even the original 5 per occupation would be enough to return the islanders to a state of normality.
Some degree of starvation is inevitable as they fix to repair the damage they had done TO THEMSELVES at the behest of the now consumed Harvard grad (who's public sacrifice will help ease).

This is our fate in lite. Most of your economics professors should be eaten.

Solution! To ease the recovery I say we do like those islanders and dismiss and consume this State.

AIG Feint & the Route the Gun Ban Will Take

It looks like the number of times I see "AIG" in the news is beginning to simmer down a bit, and though I am sure the dipshits at my old alma mater are still vocally masturbating themselves at how this show "capitalism" to be evil, NEVER focusing on where all the money came from.

Hint Boys and Girls: Redistribution of wealth is exactly what you got and AIG is EXACTLY what you get.

But now it looks to be that our beloved old media and thusly government is beginning to move beyond this project of shifting blame and destroying liberty/prosperity.

The DRUG WAR!
People have been grabbing more guns since Obama has been in office with the
fear, and rightly so, that under his purview guns will be banned, in part or in all.

Personally I know that the libel that is thrown against those who choose to take some control of their own destiny is in a minute manner, true.

I was needing a gun back when Bush was in office.

So the question becomes, not if guns will be banned, but how?

Politics is the art of legitimizing murder and theft, so how are they going to legitimize this in Amerika?

Roll out the Drug War!

They've been trying many routes for a while to see how they can effectively remove arms from the people for a long while. Katrina, and every disaster since.
This time though, our beatific leaders are going to be using the conflict, they instigated, on our southern border as an excuse to put us all into a cozy, safe casket.

Will you fall for the ploy?

--We are all just stars on your burning flag
Point your gun at me and hope i'll go away
If god was alive, he would hate you anyway

Funny Ages

Heaping Gobfuls of Change

Sadly. There has been change. Obama IS doing everything Bush did wrong, BIGGER!

By the way, now that I am on a terrorist watch list. For those of you bureaucrats reading this, when will you stop? When they tell you they're loading people on the trains, or when they decide to load you? Will you ever?

Follow Follow Follow

Is it not interesting that people start complaining about the bailout as a whole and suddenly mainstream media focuses its stories of the day on two main topics. How Obama needs to go further with stimulus and on the AIG bonuses and the evil business men who are receiving your money.

It couldn't possibly have been the fault of congress. No. Of course not, they just take and gave corporations our money.

Man, it's almost as if congress and the executive branch are trying to destroy small businesses in favor of larger, inefficient but easier to control mass corporations.

But, that would be the epitome of fascism. And Amerika is the Land of the Free!

Right?

I would like to thank the academy for this award. Also I would like to thank the Sandman.

Actually, this is the 2nd highest optimal state for a bureaucrat, right after quitting. After this, it's straight to petty, to cruel, to stupid (good intentioned), to evil, to stupid and evil. Yes, you can be "good intentioned" and evil. Usually you'll find this particular brand of asshat in positions of power saying things like "You gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet" or something else that is usually followed by tyranny.

IR8H@

This will unnecessarily piss someone off

Fatalistic? Maybe.

Oh, the great "Lengths" people will go to

As an aside, put this on a T-Shirt (upcoming comic)

Socialism: All Fluff and Snuff, but no Stuff

All is fair in The EnvironMENTAL Movement.

Direct quote from me in high school. "Believe me, government will go far enough to tax the air you breathe, and by the time they do it you'll be indoctrinated and dumb enough to be sure it's a necessity."

Carbon Tax....'Nuff fucking said.

Let me spell it out for you. YOU CAN NOT SAVE THE EARTH WITH GOVERNMENT!

Those advocating eradication of mankind to "save the earth" are dipshits. What do you think is going to spread life to the far reaches of space? Hopes and dreams?

"Yes they deserve to die, And I hope they burn in Hell!"

Until authorities pluck out my eyes.

Ever been to the point where you are so tired it hurts but you can't go to sleep? Not very pleasant.

I went on an adventure today

I thought I would check out a news source that is constantly being referenced by blogs and other news sources, and you know what? I realized that this nation is doomed. This nation is doomed because people can look at the front page of the huffington post website and not rend their fucking eyeballs asunder.

I was feeling like adventure. I know feel fairly vomity. I've had my quota of cowardly evil violent little bigots for the day. Thank you.

Hey Kids! It's Funny Hat Epoch! YAAAAAY!

This Funny Hat can Fool People, This Funny Hat can Kill People, and This Funny Hat isn't really Funny at All

The Audacity of Your Hope

Eureka!

So as I typed away working on the rough draft of my book, I sat back, sore of wrist arm and fingers and realized I had just put to bytes 24 pages of effort. The Amazement was short lived however when I realized I hadn't move the plot forward yet. "Oh, SONUVA....!"

Democracy Epic Fail One

This Is the first of Many of my Epic Fail series. To me Democracy is a joke. So I'll pull a Woodrow and spread it all around. Tee hee. Yeah, I know "Epic fail" is a long used internet meme. But then Democracy is a long used social meme. So there.

Plus as I work on my book more (that's right I said book). I might just start making a dent in all the comics I've already drawn up. Though it does give me something to post everyday. It's nice to have material for most of the days when I'm too busy.

By the mother luvin' by, I'll start actually giving out hints and info about the book I'm working on as it progresses. I say this because I NEED, for my own sanity's sake, to have at least a whole rough draft by May. I'm giving myself two months because I've spent all Feb writing on notepad after notepad and I now have an annoying stack of seven of them chock full of story plot and development and ideas. Not only is putting it all in order a rat bitch but the damn story keeps growing under my fingertips as I type it up.

I only hope that when all is said and done, this story will be a good one and really make people look forward to the next...I shouldn't of told you that.

Refusing to Keep The Sabbath Holy Since 2000

As a wise man once said, "Jesus Saves! And Mohammed Goes in for the Rebound!"

The Seen and the Unseen: End Game

The cops, the politicians, the bureaucrats, all those who aspire to manipulate and harm their neighbor. They will not stop. They will decimate all. Everything they can touch they will happily destroy. All the wealth, all the happiness, all the opportunity, all the future we have they will assail without provocation and without mercy. They will lie to defame us. They claim all of our achievements as their own. And when we are dead they will rot away for lack of a host.

I will never stop hating them with a smile.

We Need More Government Intervention Like Women Need Another Hole in their Uterus

"Stay STILL, I Say! Damn, it is almost as if you don't want to be helped!"

Of Chimps And Men

Ladies and gentlemen introducing a room full of monkeys! That's right folks I speaking about a full cornucopia of debacles that really demonstrate the full blown idiocy of our times steaming directly from one event. This is not just stupidity, nor even stupidity squared, this is stupidity squared to the x where x is a continuous increasing integer that increases every second! All of this lunacy in particular concerns a bunch of apes. From attacks to cartoons, this has been a perfect example in lite of all that is wrong with our current society.

First, so as to keep things orderly, let us list the stupid and then tackle each on of their failures one by one in the order they failed.
The Owners of the chimpanzee, Travis.
Al Sharpton and the whole race card playing cadre
News media, in particular, Washington Post example.
Legislature

To begin with, I start with the owners of Travis because their story is truly tragic and despite the extremely visible and horrible reminders of their folly, these folks easily take the place of being the least foolish members of this entire situation. They should have the ability to raise a chimpanzee and it is completely understandable to begin to trust a pet, a very intelligent one at that, when it has been such a wonderful companion for so long. What the owners seemed to lose sight of is that they essentially had a 200 pd immensely strong 6 year old. If a six year old gets extremely frightened and lashes out ( don't bullshit me, remember any playground, they do) they do not act like most adult humans and restrain themselves. However, they also can not do much damage, so it is pretty much inconsequential. Story changes quite a bit when that 6 year old is strong enough to tear the arms off of a full fledged adult human.

Now, I'm not going to say that "Wild animals act Wild". This is pure ignorant drivel, for every creature acts "wild" from time to time. ESPECIALLY humans. Good God it does not take much more than a glance at the current news to realize this truth. The fact is, when people or animals are frightened, the potential for bad shit to happen increases exponentially.

So in effect, the owners of Travis only folly was that they had become entirely too complacent and did not have an effective plan in case their stead became violent. That's it and for their folly they will feel the effects for the rest of their lives. My heart goes out to them. But really, aside from the fact that it was a chimpanzee and not a human, there is not much of a difference here than between the also tragically common domestic violence that occurs from children, particularly teens who lash out because their environment, for absolute need for perfect understanding, sucks complete unwashed stanky balls.

Now though marches in, like the platoon of pompous dipshits, they are the legion of observers and press releases spewing retardation to the ever so mind numbingly barely attentive masses, which leads to the 2nd part of this debacle, a cartoon. If you have not heard, Robert Murdoch put to paper a cartoon showing a shot to death chimp and a cop uttering "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill." This has been decided by Al Sharpton, and other individuals who stand only to personally gain from inciting racial tension and hatred, that the chimp is Obama and this is a racist cartoon.

I would also like to mention at this point that it seems that other news outlets like to inflate this issues, tremendously. Partly because of indoctrination, and partly because they love to wound their competitors. I also view Al Sharpton and his ilk as but symptoms of a particular type of social meme plague, much like having your face rot off in a few days might signify that you have Ebola and should be checked.

Murdoch, understandably so, has apologized quick and stepped back, not wanting to come under any more public fire. I do not blame him, for reason simply ceases to exist when one can exact social and perhaps legal punishment just because they feel offended.

Regardless, it has been thus decreed that this cartoon is racist by the Revered Al Sharpton because obviously the chimp is Obama. Since the cartoon is referring to the stimulus and only Obama has EVER pushed for stimulus and being referred to as monkeys was a common racist tactic against ONLY African-Americans (never you mind the Irish, Asians, bona fide mentally handicapped, and car mechanics) .

Never mind that the chimp could represent the actual writers of the bill, or represent members of congress as a whole, or could possibly be a throwback to the old canard "565 monkeys typing away will eventually create the works of Shakespeare, or the current stimulus package."

Never mind that the artist, editors and who knows how many other people saw this before it went to print and if they had noticed anything racist about it then they would of stopped it from printing faster than I can say, (I called the election back in April '08, bitches). All major media outlets and the vast majority of smaller media outlets avoid that which can be perceived as racist like the plague. It is only bad news to be construed as being racist.

The third and final clencher of this idiocy comes straight to us from the Washington Post where it is stated, and I paraphrase, that the intention was not racism, but "no one should be dehumanized" in such a manner. So, racism aside, and assuming the chimp is Obama, because obviously only he has ever pushed a stimulus (please see one fucking year ago) Heaven FORBID Obama be smeared in such a way. Because that IS truly what she (the writer of the Washington Post article) is saying. How do I know that? How could I possibly know that her plea to stop dehumanizing humans is pure trash and is really a defense of Obama? Oh, that's because I happen to not have the memory of a goldfish and recall a certain other president who was CONSTANTLY portrayed as a chimp and also passed a stimulus package that was just as retarded! In fact, it became a joke for eight years running! Hmmm? Now who the Hell could that be?

To say that I don't like Bush would be like saying that a bullet to the face could have adverse side affects, but do you know what I really hate? Hypocrisy. Blatant, balls to the wall, hypocrisy. As far as I am concerned, and as far as all their actions have ever really told, they are both, Bush and Obama, stupid, socialist tyrants. But I'll step right up and say, do NOT bullshit me or anyone else that "people should not be dehumanized" now that OBAMA might be caught being made the butt of someone's joke. Bush was dehumanized for eight years running in the eyes of all but imperialists and rednecks, and you said NOTHING. Now that something can maybe, kind of, possibly, perhaps be linked to making fun of Obama and suddenly you pitch a bitch. Grow some damn principles you contemptible guttersnipes.

As an aside, I also did not find the cartoon funny. I feel like the travesty of Travis's death is far more heart wrenching than the sick joke that is our government doing the same exact actions that have gutted every single other nation that has attempted them in the past and clapping each other on the back for their insight and genius.

All of this though, no matter how stupid, and how damaging the effects of it can be, do not compare to the final act in all this. The greatest and most far reaching idiocy of this whole debacle. Congress has now passed law that limits people from keeping Chimpanzees as pets. You may be confused by this choice, but it requires the long view, so bear with me for a second.

First, do not look me in the web page and state that this does not completely ban chimp ownership, just regulates them more. I do not even have to look up the specifics to know without a shadow of a doubt that Chimpanzee ownership is already regulated by at least the Feds, if not the states. Those so called regulators FAILED, and they will be the same people exacting now more onerous and arbitrary rules in the future. They will continue to FAIL, just in whole new ways in addition to the old. That's what bureaucrats are good for. FAILING, and then getting a raise.

2nd, Despite the tragedy of it all, one lady getting mauled by a chimp is not cause for a law that keeps people from keeping them as pets. Sorry, not even close. If a hurt person was all it took for a ban or extreme regulation then sit back and do nothing because EVERYTHING IN YOUR HOUSE CAN KILL YOU RIGHT NOW. What? It has to others before. You should petition your Congress to ban it right now. Right away in fact. Here?s why Congress passed this law, and it has nothing to do with wanting to keep people from being harmed, laws do not stop that. Politicians suffer from an innate desire to jump to the front of a parade and make as if they were leading the whole time. This was big news and it makes them look like they are doing something, and to top it off the only people this law will visibly harm are an extremely small minority who no one is going to listen to when they complain about the inevitable unjustifiable actions that will be carried out in the name of this law.

The third reason why this is brainless beyond all belief for American society (I?ll admit it can be seen as smart as a political maneuver, which should indicate to you about the real benefit of all this politicking) is that it serves to limit entrepreneurs in but one more way. Instead of being able to take from this the lesson of carry a tranquilizer gun next time, or come up with an even better way of stopping such events, people will now be inhibited to the point of uselessness when it comes to owning a chimpanzee. Good bye to innovation, intelligence, and actual effective regulation while also achieving goals in this minor market. Nope, consider this market dead, but it?s ok because it doesn?t affect that many people, right?

Keep saying that next time as you grill some hamburgers, or sizzle some bacon. There was a time in our history, relatively recent in the scheme of things, when eaten by a pig was one of the most likely reasons for infant mortality. Long before that, Cattle are largely believed to be derived from Aurochs; great giant beasts that would flatten whole villages. It is because of the efforts of many people, some who made good decisions, and some who made bad ones resulting in themselves or loved ones being harmed or even killed that we have most of the products that we have today. The world is about trial and error at every step and is the only way as whole to actually make progress. To remove the opportunity because you do not think others should take on the danger is not safety, it is stagnation. Stagnation in a world as dynamic as ours equals impoverishment and often death, which is not really safe at all.

"To Protect Fools from their Folly is to Fill the World with Fools"

This is just one more step in that direction, and we?re already quite a ways down that road. So in conclusion, I reiterate my previous statement in fuller context. Washington is comprised of little more than a legion of monkeys throwing shit all over Amerika. Now I'm going to go play with my parrot and hope he refrains from biting my face off. Whilst consuming a homemade cheeseburger. Delicious.

Communication Meltdown: They Started IT!

Economic Destruction-----------Stimulus!

Whew! Thank God IT PASSED! We Really Put Our Heads in the Path of the Bullet that Time Guys!

A Wordy Title for a Wordy Comic

The Tenor of The Times

Of the most aggravating portions of the socialist mindset I find is the "rebel" mentality many socialistic minded numbskulls have. As if corporate America did not steam directly from socialist directives. As if these viewpoints weren't the same drivel that we were inundated with continuously throughout our schooling. Some how these people are completely blind to the actual outcomes, time and time again of the views they espouse. They are violent in their defense of what is no more than pure belligerence.

Let me spell is out for you. The current troubles of today: the economic collapse, endless wars, corporations destroying small business and hurting consumers, rights infringement, every single major issue out there steams directly from previous political action that was adherent to the tenants of socialism.

YOU ARE NOT REBELS. It is not rebellious to espouse the same shit you were taught constantly at government controlled or sanctioned schooling. YOU ARE, however, RETARDED.

The reason why I find this particularly aggravating is because this is the first step down the long road to 50 years in the future when some asshat goes "Well, Socialism could work, America just did it wrong".

New Goal In Life: Live to 2050, Carry Wrench. A really big wrench. Wait Patiently for Asshat Anon.

History With Death

Let your inner nerd shine through. I love it.

This Is How The Cookie Crumbles Draft 1

I really Like where this is going. So I redid it again while working 3rd shift. the new one is clearer...because it's bigger. Dur.

Myopic News!!!!

So, I was reading some articles and found this http://news.newspaperproject.org/2009/02/death-of-news.html
To Which I attempted to reply thusly, and really amused myself. Hope you get a laugh out of it, too. Though the writer has to approve comments and I have a sneaky suspicion that he will neglect to do so in this case.



Congratulations on your mental deficiency!

You have now acquired ___MYOPIA___!

Certain symptoms of this disease involve reflexive desires to have other people commit extortion in your pet projects name simply because you are incapable of seeing what wonderful possibilities the future may hold.

Characteristic of Myopia are such phrases as, "Well we can't pay for this the old way, so it's doomed" and "Just because people are turning to what they deem superior alternatives doesn't mean we can't steal from people and give some of the gains to failing industries!"

Myopia can cause major complications in late stages including, but not limited to: total mental paralysis, death, premature ejaculation, death, slavery, and a smart punch in the nose.

Known Cures Include: Getting off your high horse, do something productive instead of whining for the destructive, and death!

Silly Games

Take this as metaphor, carnivore, or perhaps even semaphore, I'm just damn happy to have at home internet access.

After An Extended Hiatus

INTERFUCKINGNET!!!!!!

Please, don't excuse the language, I am now connected to the world wide web AT HOME!!! It's set me back a bit, but now I now longer need to spend countless hours at coffee shops not interacting with people there like I like to and spending all my time in public on a desperate search for bandwidth!

THE GREAT LIBERTY MUSIC COMPENDIUM

So one of the many current projects I currently have going is on bureaucrash.com' social website. I'm pushing it to have a future right along with this blog.

Basic Principle: We all know truly liberty oriented music artists are few and far between and there have been efforts to discover all them by those interested.

However, as is the nature of the market, the best liberty oriented songs tend to come from all corners of the musical and politically oriented spectrum.

SO, I have set out to collect songs that speak of liberty. Either out right or through metaphor, or just to you. There's always a bit of action in the group and I'm letting out my personal list out bit by bit. As with many things, impact is not from a singular giant action, but from a continuous stream of small actions. Bullshit aside, I just need to keep refreshing the group to grab more people's attention and, with hope, their own contributions to the giant library. When it gets to a point, I will be creating an individual website devoted exclusively to the project. Beyond that, if by some stroke of god awful luck it actually brings in some money for me, I promise to distribute it to those bands who share the same viewpoints as myself.

But THAT is probably FAR into the future.

Until then share and come together, find music ideas from the group and put in your own.

Intellectual Property In A Nutshell

Free Free Positively Free

This Is one of the 1st drawings I did in this batch. Do note the lack of bodies and eyes. You shall witness my progression from sticks to rectangles! Huzzah! Not hilarious per se, so to compensate, next post will be funny.

Personal Property

They infect our society in a thousand ways. Stupid stupid stupid ideas. You'll become someone else's personal property too if you don't watch it. Of course this is an example of the extreme, most people believe in personal property to the point, unless a large group of other people with funny hats, badges, and papers with letters on them, decide to take it. Then all of a sudden they don't believe in personal property anymore.

Some may call this keeping your head down to avoid trouble, I call it extremely short term thinking.

The Process in Lite

I hope it speaks for itself.

God Watches You Diddle Yourself Every Night

You know it to be true.

Ha! See? I don't Always Go on and on ad infinitum about Government

News From That NATO Strategic Point in the Atlantic!

This was a week ago when I heard some rumors about Iceland's gov't giving up and going home. I googled the place to see what was current and the first article was all about how the gov't had pushed their central bank too much and couldn't afford itself. The place has a horrendous unemployment rate and thanks be to Marx the people were thinking about putting in to place a central-left leaning gov't. Then the next article is about how Icelanders heard stories about freezing gov't pensioners in Great Britain and sent over a ship full of woolen good.

I want to know who is putting two and two together for these people and why they haven't been fired. Yes, I would agree that Iceland shot itself in the knee by investing heavily in becoming a massive bank nation in the middle of the sea with only a central bank. Fiat currency couldn't possibly fail....right? However, this focus on downturns in one place and a complete grey out in news on the down right craptastic standard of living of the UK, that pinnacle of socialism that we all aspire to reach and it's destruction of liberty, economy, and, in time, life itself, leaves me with a massive feeling of chagrin.

I'm going to go slap my forhead, I'll be back with the next post in a second.

THE FUTURE COMING SOON!

Oh snap! You just missed it!

Ok, so I'm trying to post comics most of the time. Current problem, I'm working with too low of bandwidth to post pics and no money to go to coffee shops every day...

The effect of this however is that I have already built up a good number of my special SeatodaPants Comics: They're Cheap as Free! which is good. But a few are kind of time sensitive, which is bad because I would like to post them....about now.

SIDE NOTE!!!!
Next comic won't be about Obama. I promise. The one after that I can't promise about. The one after THAT will definitely not be about Obama...I only made three.

Come on, he's only so-so interesting. I mean do they cookie cut demagogues or what? I guess if the formula works why fix it, but the predictability starts to wear on my funny bone.

King Me!!!

Sure it was Last Week's News...Tough titty.

Obama Takes On Gitmo

No, I'm not complaining that he's doing it and I'm not mad at him for taking his blessed time about it, I just know double speak when I hear and read it and that is it. Check out the news whenever Obama speaks about Guantanamo, there's always a 'but' in there. It's also been plastered enough on the news that the general public will assume it has happened after a time even if it hasn't or--FAR MORE LIKELY-- When he creates his own version.
Remember, this kind of inhumane treatment has been going on long before Gitmo and will continue as long as we have group entities like the CIA and a world policing military, they'll just go somewhere else. They've admitted it on numerous occasions from a plethora of sources. All Gitmo is is a symbol. They'll be happy to get rid of the symbol in order to keep their system.

I hope you were paying attention

Change in Heaping Gobfuls

If you read the long and somewhat rambling two part post earlier in this blog, you'll understand the future.
Obama has stopped the regular increase in salary of those making over 100,000 in D.C. He hasn't decreased their salary, only stopped the increase, for this year. This is a great PR stunt but does NOTHING to curb the coming calamity.
However he does spend 170 million on his inauguration address and we foot most of that bill, he is pushing another 350 billion "stimulus" that we also foot the bill for, and people will ignore these and 'hope' that he does bring change.
You will get your change, heaping gobfuls of change. You will sadly all get your change. Don't cry to me or try to extort me when that 'change' puts you starving on the street. Any such attempts of force will only get you a smart punch in the mouth and a bullet in your knee.

Look, there is no Hope here, this is the darkest hour that liberty and prosperity have had since FDR held the cockles of the nation in his palm. The only Hope I have is in a small but exponentially growing movement in New Hampshire. I will be joining them with in the year and I call for you to do the same. While the masses are held enthralled with Obama, the economy will continue to crumble, war will continue to wage, and you will continue to lose both liberty and wealth.

While Bush was lampooned for the atrocities and stupidity of his actions and his administration's, the majority of people were closer to a realistic view of their government than ever before. Obama represents nothing more than massive coup for the PR campaign for Statist action. Obama's actions will be the same actions but BIGGER, with far greater approval from the masses and far greater impact on the the nation.

I fear this dark era we have begun, but am also optimistic for the future, because it is only in the when much is rapidly lost that revolutions occur. Let us work to make them peaceful revolutions instead of violent upheavals. Remember the government is at it's very core a simple monopoly on force. A great massive social hammer. When there's a hammer as big as this Empire, billions will be nailed.

Working with the unemployed....

Greetings Interweb!

I am currently in a job as a call center agent. Though I service calls for cards of all kinds I primarily deal with unemployment /child support cards. As you can imagine, for 8 hours a day I deal with the most enlightened individuals of our society. I do not say this with sarcasm, I say this with TOTAL TERRIBLE SINCERITY. Why?

Because I’m dealing with people who seek to live at the expense of others 24/7 without ever doing a thing! Many of whom are receiving more than minimum wage and a few of whom make more than I do a week! This begs the question why should I work?

Especially if, should I be unemployed, I can defer the payments to my student loans and in some ways have the feds pay for the very loans that they forced to be issued to me.

So that’s the crux of the proposition. If I am a chump for working for less money than I would receive if I were not to work, then those who chose the other path and subsist off the State’s largess must be enlightened.

They couldn’t possibly be living precarious lives that depend on the continuing existence of ultimately destructive policies….

There is the trade off. Subsist with little to no energy used, or subsist by striving hard and trying to grab as many work hours in a week as humanly possible. The future for the first is bleak at best. The future for the latter has massive amounts of potential. Still, frustration does exist all too well in the present.

Current Conditions: Part 2 of Massive Email I sent to a friend who asked

This would mean it’s going to get nasty regardless with only the impending hyperinflation and the unimpeded gov’t grab for power which always entails a lot of death and destruction. But there is one more issue. Our standard of living as a whole and all the markets that support it have been over all in their own boom period (consumer goods being the “last in line” in the economy get hit after all the construction and industrial) this is on the cusp of ending.
It is my belief that Obama and his advisors realize some of this to some degree and are planning to use the powers given to the president unconstitutionally by congress to make America his own massive socialist kingdom decreeing that only through his leadership will we all be saved. The masses will follow and times will get worse. We will see an extreme rise in the police state, people like your parents will probably be arrested for crimes against society and such lovely state institutions like concentration camps will begin to arise once more.
Before I get too dark, let me remind you that ALL revolutions stem from two main factors. A tireless minority willing to strive for their ideals AND a sudden, perceived change in the wealth/ living of the populace at large.
As the crackdown occurs and the life of the people quickly becomes what Hobbes called “nasty, brutish, and short” there will be many uprisings across the nation against the federal government. Now these can be by and large peaceful, as what happened when the Soviet’s collapsed, well…mostly. Or it can be much more violent, which has also been seen. America is much too large and diverse for there to be a single gov’t for long in such times. It also has the benefit of a liberty movement. Russia, when faced initially with such, murdered 20 million Ukrainians. I hope this does not happen here, but if you really think it can’t then you haven’t been paying attention to history and what we have been doing for the past century.
This will all begin within the next 5 years. I said 20, 2 years ago, so pray that I’m right this time and it’s not less. Hell, if things go badly enough, maybe the Mayans would have been right. Humanity might only have less than 4 years. I doubt that highly though. For one, why try if there is not hope? And for a big fucking two people have been predicting the apocalypse since they could think of such a thing, and it’s always just been another turn in the cycle for humanity’s growth.
I think there is a damn good chance that we can come out of this with an even better future than what we went into it with. Thanks to technology and liberty. A group of people just need to survive and retain some of the advances and liberty long enough to become the beacon to the world that America once was while the empires crumble around them.
There you go, some short view, some long view. There is MUCH more. But I’ve been at this for a while, so I’ll go over more later.

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back to my explanation. Shit, I’m sorry I ran out of time, anything I missed just ask.

So, here we stopped with the beginning of the crash, or the bust part of the cycle, when reality intervenes and puts the economy back in its place. Business ventures, that were only profitable due to an illusion caused by inflationary practices, cease to be profitable and the economy has to rearrange itself causing the brief unemployment and drop in prices. The banks realize that their money is not coming back to them as people begin to default on loans and industries cease to be able to pay back their debt, and they begin to tighten the restrictions to credit. They do this by increasing interest rates and by increasing the requirements for credit issue, this is y you didn’t get a card…the first time. Given a small amount of time, the economy works itself out, people are back to work, and banks begin loosening the restrictions on credit again. Thus beginning the next boom and subsequently setting up for the next bust.
Now if the bust part was a return to reality, where growth is a lower constant than the boom but continuous nonetheless, then what harm is it to society as a whole if we enjoy periods of seemingly extreme prosperity followed by sobering reality followed by another period of extreme prosperity? Wouldn’t the economy be growing at an even faster pace because of these periodic “bursts” of growth?
With a fairly nondetailed look at recent history it may be said to be so, and it is the inevitable conclusion to the arguments of a couple other schools of economic thought. However, if one were to predict using such a model, one would fall short in no time at all (and they constantly do). As an aside, isn’t one definition of insanity is repeating the same thing over and over again and expecting different results? This falls into the category of what is seen and what is not seen. Or in other words, goddamn propaganda is what is “seen” causing reality to go more or less under the radar of popular purview.
As noted before each time these booms irrevocably place scarce resources into areas where they would not have gone had there not been the boom in the first place. Those resources either cannot be recovered without using additional resources, or at all. Since all laws of economics are derived from the effect of differing levels of scarcity, this is a BIG issue. Perhaps the biggest. Simply put if you do X, then you can’t do Y. In the boom, X is wasting resources on projects that would never have gotten funding because it would have been throwing away money in more realistic economic conditions. When the bust inevitably hits those resources for that time are gone. For good.
So all the good that Y could have been, and with it being based on actual savings and realistic wealth assumptions it would have been a permanent step forward, will have to happen with different resources, if it happens at all.
Now imagine that this has been pushed so far that what actual wealth exists pales in comparison with what people believe exists.


Perhaps a good example would be to mention the whole male/female work wage disparity. It is stated that on average women earn 70 cents for every dollar a man receives. The reality of this is that this is an extremely disingenuous manipulation of numbers. No crap it’s true that women, as a group, which is what an average does, do not earn the money that men do. What could it possibly be that would remove a woman from the work force? What group, men or women, have a larger number stay at home during able bodied adult working years? And if you’re doing X, can you be doing Y? Not really. In fact, if you remove from the study all women that had anything to do with marriage then the disparity disappears. So empirically, this is shown not to support a supposed sexism in businesses. It also does logically, which is why I point it out, because common sense by ITSELF debunks most everything the gov’t does. If businesses could get away with giving away a position to women for 70% of the cost to the business as they would incur hiring a man, who the hell do you think would ALWAYS get the position?


Another side effect of a boom is the amplification of bureaucracy. Truly competitive business tends to have a fairly low ratio of administrators to actual workers/producers. DePauw, and universities in general are a good example of this. Easy credit has flooded the education market directly from the federal gov’t. This has both enabled many people who really didn’t need further education access, which seems great at first. But now the job market is flooded with people with degrees to the point that it is almost useless to have a bachelor’s, and it definitely is to have an associate’s. It also has lead to the universities fearing bankruptcy, and thusly having to cater to their consumers, students and their families. Instead they cater to where the money really coming from…the State. Also, higher demand, higher prices. So universities and the government are in an upward spiral just like the price of housing was. The gov’t gives them money directly and indirectly through student loans, they ask for more, the gov’t ups what they give them and so on. The point where this will stop is, once again, when students aren’t buying anymore. Once students, and in reality families who fund them, reach the point where they cannot or will no longer buy, then you will see a major bust in the higher education industry. I am positive that this will happen, but not for some time. It has been a staple of the mid to upper class public indoctrination centers that college is the end all and be all, so much so that people literally will give up an extremely large portion of their life savings for little hope of any return. It’s insane!!! Some stats try to state that college degrees earn more than non over time…well, no crap. Those going to college tend to be middle class which tends to be a bit more motivated section of the population and so will go towards better paying jobs, or upper class and they’ll just get a degree because they can and then move on to inherit positions. I would say this skews the crap out of those numbers. You know
This bureaucracy creation is also caused by gov’t regulation as well. The effect is that people are employed in the work force but waste time, resources, their very lives away doing tasks that do not need to be done. For example I’m pushing papers right now in a department that only came into existence in the early 90’s because of the growing bureaucracy of Children’s Hospital in direct response to gov’t regulation to all sides of the health system. All these resources could be going to furthering medical technology, or working in other currently existing and nonexistent industries (both flying cars and cell phones have been around for 50 years…guess why we don’t have flying cars and cell phones didn’t come out till late 80’s. Yep, special interests lobbying for laws and regulations inhibiting competition. So, someone can create the tech, but they can’t make a business out of it.


EXAMPLES)
What caused the Great Depression was not the Stock Market crash of 1929, but actually the government’s response to the stock market crash. Schools outright lie to their kids and say that things like Hoover (president at the time) was a proponent of the free market and it was because of this he kept his hands off the economy and “let it” slide into a deep Depression. This is pure bull. Most of the socialist programs that flourished under Roosevelt were actually started by Hoover. It is this further gov’t intervention that kept the economy from recovering, and it wasn’t until AFTER World War 2, when Truman disbanded some of the programs that the economy began to recover.
Before I go into some of those policies and their effects, let’s begin at the beginning of the crash.
When banks suddenly find themselves no longer able to issue “easy” credit, they quickly move to hold onto everything what they have left. They do this by increasing the interest rates of loans and credit issue requirements. So that people with lower credit (you for a bit) have a hard time getting a loan/cred card and the people with good credit are less likely to borrow due to the higher interest rates. This sudden change from easy credit to harder to come by credit (though not impossible) causes people to conserve more themselves as well, not spending beyond their direct means. Less demand means prices drop. (deflation) Those price drops cause businesses that benefited from the excess credit to lose an equivalent portion of their business, destroying some industries entirely that were not based on realistic assumptions but rather faulty assumptions caused by the belief in the validity and continuance in the easy credit. (malinvestments) THIS IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW. Those malinvestments represent resources lost that could have been (and would of if not for the boom) spent on increasing the scope and breadth of sound entrepreneurial ventures. Basically what we see is the end of businesses that were seemingly EXTREMELY profitable before, the steep rise in unemployment, and an overall drop in prices as the economy adjusts back to reality. This theory is further validated by the fact that the industries hardest and first hit are the capital goods sector (construction, industrial) before consumer goods. This is because banks and similar institutions are doing MASSIVE amounts of “investing” in such projects. When the easy flow stops, the “bigger they are, the harder they fall”, so these companies have grown very large without the savings that are required for normal growth, and when they suddenly find themselves in the red, they have to cut costs. All other economic “theories” (I’m using this term because proponents of Austrian economics are nice enough to do so. I, however, know most proponents to be shills for the state or just outright parroting idiots. No offense to squeaker, she’d bite these people too.). But yes, all other economic “theories” cannot account for this phenomenon and try their damnedest to ignore it, which is a small portion of the entire reason why the intellectuals and pundits tend to be very confused at the present as to what’s happening.

Now, when the market is allowed to mend itself (1923, and many other examples) and work around the malinvestments and gov’t involvements that cause the problem in the first place, those unemployed are reemployed fairly quickly and the economy moves on. When the banks feel like it’s safe to venture out credit again they “open their doors” again and the inflationary spiral starts anew. Remember again, this is under the effects of having a central bank. Without such an institution there is no boom or bust cycle and thusly…none of this would be happening.
So why was, eventually, 1/3 of all able body Americans unable to find employment during an entire decade? Well, many factors, but chief among them are price controls pushed by Hoover, and later FDR, and as always, Unions. Individuals don’t like it when prices drop. Farmers complain that their not making as much when their milk is bringing in less money per jug. Oil producers complain when the value of a barrel drops. And so on, and so forth. Normally, reality would indicate to these people that they should either change their practices, “suffer” quietly, or move into an entire different business.
But, gov’t is here to solve our problems and so in our name it placed “price floors” or levels where producers are NOT allowed to sell goods below on pain of imprisonment and/or death. Many of these still exist today. To sell milk below a certain value, despite whether or not it is economically feasible to do so, would land the seller in jail, ensuring no profit made and no milk sold.
Another similar tactic would be to cut out a portion of the supply in order to drive up prices. This insanity was started under Hoover and further increased by FDR in such telling instances as the mandated and executed slaughter of hundreds of thousands of livestock which were left to rot in the fields. There is still some vestiges of this program around today. The farmers were sometimes paid in newly issued paper money, if they were lucky.
Trade unions caused similar catastrophe. When the prices drop, so do wages. The overall purchasing power doesn’t actually differ much. But trade unions used the threat, and sometimes used outright, the gun of the gov’t to keep employers from necessarily decreasing wages. Because a business cannot operate constantly at a loss, many people who should not of been became unemployed and most of the unemployed could not find a job.
So unemployment went up and so a bunch of business went belly up because they couldn’t do the necessary firing to balance their books due to, once again, threats by trade unions.
Unemployment at that high of a rate means that there are far fewer producers of goods and the same damn amount of demand, food shelter, etc. Which causes massive unrest.
In order to stave off civil unrest, the gov’t, headed by FDR, hired millions to do random pointless work, “I have three million men hard at work Mr. President, just for God’s sake don’t ask me what the hell they’re doing”, Secretary of State. This was also perfect for keeping FDR in power, when you can threaten a giant portion of the population with unemployment if they don’t vote for you and have one of the most extensive propaganda campaigns ever seen in the history of mankind. Hitler openly showed his respect and admiration for FDR and what he was doing. Like likes like.
How does the gov’t fund this? Taxes, and printed money. Since the creation of the income tax the rich had been targeted for fleecing and this period saw massive increases in their burden. But you can only tax a society so much before being very visibly counter productive, so the more insidious printing press was put to use. The gov’t paid all their debts in effect by spreading the debt around through inflation. Everyone’s dollar was worth less in order to fund a solution to a problem caused by the same people.
So what did all this effort amount to? Well, besides for making a good chunk of society complete and total state worshipers, nothing. Worse than nothing, the Depression was worse just before World War 2 than before. So two and a half terms of FDR had put this country in an even worse position, and because of this fact actually gaining acceptance in the general populace, people now say that it was World War 2 that got us out of the great depression, which is logically, and proven false. How the hell is a war ever going to get a nation out of a depression? It does on an even larger scale what a central bank did to the economy. And not only is the entire war industry one big waste of resources, but most of those are consumed/destroyed in the effort to destroy another nation and their economy. Plus, you don’t take a MAJORITY of young men and put them in the armed forces without having some way to fund them. If the entire cost of the war was to be taken directly from citizens in taxes, there would not of been enough wealth in the nation at that time. SAME WITH TODAY. They had to print and borrow money in order to fund all this misallocation of capital. It wasn’t until 1947, two years later and after many of the PRE war laws had been ended that the economy started to recover.

This example has been given for an important reason. It illustrates the damage that was done to the people of America, both their freedom and prosperity, within a couple decades of the creation of a central bank. For a good analogy let’s use the infinity room at house on the rock. Say the vertical rock face is the level of economic growth that would of normally happened, the room sticking out is the malinvestment growth caused by the boom. An infinity room representing America circa 1929 would be about 20 feet long and 10 feet off the ground. So when the bolts break and the room “crashes” (get it?) It’s bad and noticeable, but not by much.
Today, we are now close to a mile off the ground in comparison and the amount of malinvestment in the economy causes the length of the room to be twice that of the rock face…and those bolts are popping off one by one.
Once again, the crash would stabilize in a relatively small amount of time if the gov’t NOT intercede with its type of “patching”. However we now have a president-elect who thinks FDR “didn’t go far enough”. He plans to save the economy with tons and tons of government action.
All the propaganda, INCLUDING THAT OF BUSH, is saying that the free market failed, and now gov’t planners need to take the reins of the economy to save us from ourselves. The vast majority of people are too damn vapid or distracted to realize the utter fallacy of this and thusly doom everyone to repeating history.

I must tell you that one of the many defining traits of the Austrian school of economics is a adherence to the idea that it is capital, not money that denotes actual wealth in an economy. It is from this that all the rest of the theory was derived BEFORE the great depression by Mises. It is from savings and actual goods that real wealth is derived. This may sound reasonable enough, but you will find quickly that no other school of economics does so, and so they have all been caught with their pants down, so to speak, whenever the economy changes, while the Austrian economist is left saying I told you so years ago, for example, check out the books on the “housing bubble” printed back in 2003 and earlier. Or the dot com before that. Hell, I could even tell you the several reasons why for a while there American jobs were going overseas faster than you could say holy f-bomb. Austrian economists are sidelined and ignored despite the fact they have been the best economic prophets that have ever existed because of the solution they preach. Remove gov’t intervention COMPLETELY. No other school of thought on economics does this as consistently. Mostly other schools believe that wealth is derived FROM gov’t (Keynes) or from the control of the money by a centralized authority (Monetarists like Milton Friedman). Basically, both sets of ideas would have been long been dismantled by society if they weren’t so damn useful to men with guns and a lust for power. Hopefully this gives you an idea of the hold statist ideas have on the society as a whole and makes you wonder…why?



If you remember what we have gone over so far, it would do you good to notice that the impetus for every single person’s action spoken of thus far has been self-interest. In a free-market that self-interest is kept in line, regulated so to speak, by the natural forces of human interaction, i.e. competition. Uninhibited competition actually has a few very beneficial effects, consistent improvement over time and keeping people directly responsible for their actions. If a business or individual fails it fails, no protection from its own folly through welfare and anti-competition laws, a much less gruesome survival of the fit. Fit in a free market means ability to cater to the consumer demands. We see some of these effects even in today’s very much state regulated economy due to the drive people have to voluntarily interact with each other. Despite the constantly growing invasiveness of the gov’t into our lives, most of the people live most of their lives in relative anarchy. Voluntary interaction is the glue that holds all of society together, and gov’t is doing its damnedest to destroy it from all sides.

Hail to the Chief....

Today, the first African-American man to be president started his term and as the millions rejoice across this nation, I cannot help to wonder what they will do when they realize this "hope" is a farce.

Let's put this in simple terms for you; Bush is hated for massively increasing military spending and engaging in war, Obama aims to triple the size of the military. Bush's admin recently pushed for bailouts of companies that will cause massive economic problems in the near future. Obama wants to make that amount look like nickels to his benjamins. I could go on and on, but the point is that a man who is going to do exactly what Bush did, just far more in amplitude is running the show now. If you believe that Bush messed us up, how can you believe Obama won't be worse? I don't care what quibbles the party lines and talking heads might throw at you, there is nothing that seperates Obama from Bush in the political scheme of things save this. He will get away with far more. On this day my heart weeps, because Obama is a piss poor human being to have the honor to be the first African-American in the White House. There are far better, more capable, and aware African-Americans who really would of been both a triumph over racism and a realistic hope for a better America....
What will people do when they discover Obama is more of the same evils that plagued us with Bush?

Partial I Told You So

But since I started this blog long, long after I first told people so I'll give the kudos to the Mises Institute. Because they sure as hell told you so, years ago to boot.

Monetary union has left half of Europe trapped in depression :
http://www.thedailybell.com/index.asp

Current Conditions: Part One of Massive Email I wrote to a friend

In order to understand the present and the coming future, it is of paramount importance to accurately understand the past, and once you do, you’ll understand how much your so called education has been little more than indoctrination and adherence to ignorance.
That aside I’ll start with the existence of the central bank and its effect of causing booms and busts in the economic cycle. The reason that it does this I would like to go into but have not the time, suffice to say that it causes what has become known as the business cycle.
Our economy has been on the bust part of the cycle for the last 18-24 months. It, of course, started long before the main stream media ever took notice.
What is a bust? A bust is the correction of the economy or a sector there of to reality. Think of it this way, the boom happens when a flood of money printed by the Fed enters into a market. The market responds by the value of the goods increasing. With increasing value in a good, more people want to produce that good, so the market increases in size tremendously. However this is all based upon what is really no more than funny money. There is no capital, nothing of any substantial worth, backing it up.
What is supposed to happen is that people and businesses build up savings and then make investments with what savings they have. This causes a continuous positive growth. What all this Fed cred does is make people skip the savings part and just begin investing willy nilly, so to speak. Money, and subsequently, goods flow into areas of the economy where they would not of if there wasn’t a perceived sudden increase in wealth. For example, when housing prices were so high, more producers made houses which are now standing empty because the market was grown not by normal means but because of the introduction of people getting mortgages below what the market rate, because of the gov’t directly, and also the high prices causing people to view houses more as a large commodity that is to be bought and sold, driving the prices up more. More houses means that more goods, lumber, metal, glass, went into these houses which means that more jobs opened up in all the supporting industries.
All these companies grew because they received the benefit of the higher prices and put them to work in more materials, more employees, etc.
But with the induction of unbacked currency, the market ALWAYS eventually has to adjust to what reality dictates. Sellers of houses suddenly found that no one wanted to buy, housing prices began to plummet. Many people were left with what cheaper and cheaper homes, no good if you ;were looking to sell for more than you bought or looking to use the value of your home to finance the mortgage. REALLY no good since gov’ts (state and local) across the nation are greedy mofos and are still pricing the property at previous inflated values so they can get more out of the property taxes.
Also, all those jobs in all those industries that were increased in size or created outright are now impossible to finance and a wave of unemployment strikes momentarily in the system.
If let alone this whole thing culminates in a recession that’ll last 1-2 years MAX while the economy reallocates through market forces where those unemployed and those wasted resources go. Praise Entrepreneurs. This all is literally happening time and time again since recorded history (kings used to debased their kingdom’s currency with similar results, boom and bust, I tell you how if you want to know)
BUT, the same intervening fuckers that caused the damn issue in the first place can cause all sorts of other problems….ENTER SOCIALISM!!!

Say, for instance, that instead of allowing the economy to recuperate we feed it more and more doses of funny money in ever increasing quantities. If done to everyone at once this would cause hyperinflation. Since this is all given to banks, (at first, but this will change), the banks will try and save their money. This happened the past couple months when interest rates shot up and credit was “frozen” (it wasn’t, it was just harder to get, as you found out). This means that all that money that would cause massive inflation in all sectors is kept mostly in banks. Imagine what would happen to the price of diamonds if Debeer’s released their massive inventories, now imagine the value of the dollar bill. Now imagine paying 10,000 dollars for a milkshake. This staving off of the hyperinflation is further helped by the fact that almost the entirety of the world is right now retreating to the dollar because they ALL have the same damn issue, fiat (unbacked) currency, and because they’re smaller economies, this shit is happening faster to them. So right now, despite the fact that our gov’t is an extremely egregious offender against the markets, we’re so damn big that it takes a fuck ton to do any noticeable damage, we’re seeing the value of our dollar stop falling for a second (back in Oct) and prices drop a bit.
However, the gov’t through the Fed has decreed that all interest rates must be lowered and has taken over many of the insurance companies and banks (nationalizing them making them no more than gov’t beaucracies, which they were regulated enough before that they already pretty much that way) with this the banks are issuing massive amounts of credit again, without allowing the economy to recuperate and releasing the massive amounts of funds they’re receiving into the markets.
At the same time, gov’t is trying to stir up anti-free market sentiments by out right lying and saying all the problems stem from the free market and not the constant intervention made by the gov’t. This is aided by the public indoctrination that so many have received and believe in. So when shit is hitting the fan, the saviors are blamed and called devils while the satanic cult keeps on taking more and more.

.....TO BE CONTINUED

Thought Exercise

Imagine for a second that your neighborhood has been bombed for months on end. You have seen both family and friends die before your very eyes. The culprits are now driving tanks through your streets, raiding homes and murdering in plain sight. What do you do?

Even more interesting to know is this, who do you think the better people? Those that resist or those that seek the favor of the conquerors? The rebels or the sycophants?

Of course, most people will just keep their heads down and pray that misfortune doesn’t come their way even when death is whispering in their ears. Of the two options I mentioned above I know which side I would be on.

Final question for the day: Who is more efficient? An extremely high tech massive army founded with billions of dollars and failing at holding down a small country or a small ragtag band of various enraged people bleeding the conquerors dry?

First Cartoon Attempt.....

Late Night Outside Coffee Shop

Greetings,
Though I planned on bestowing upon you a first cartoon of mine, I have run afoul file type translation problems. Egads!!! I am currently hiding in a car outside a closed coffee shop because they don't turn off their wireless. It is 0 outside. Do you realize how cold 0 is? It's damn cold that's what it is. However, I am burning a greater amount of calories in this cold...that is, providing I don't die. Then I won't be burning much of anything at all. Calories, Carbs, Buildings. Nope, not much at all.
Suffice to say, I will be attempting something better later on, but first to a warmer location with a power source to create, and then I shall hunt for unsecured wireless so I can post. See you tomorrow.

Peace