...on this Harvest Moon!

Good morning, all!

Nice temps out, and a full moon for the rising tonight! It's a beautiful time of year! I'm on the road again, today. An interesting post below about "mandatory" flu vaccines! UGH! (and btw, just a note - comments can be posted under each post in the blog, not just at the bottom).

Thanks, all, for your participation and the many nice emails, calls, blogs and the many nice comments. I appreciate it, muchly!

Have a nice day! :)

Get vaccinated or get fired!

Mandatory flu vaccination splits workers

Despite a planned rally in Albany Tuesday to protest a state regulation requiring health care workers be vaccinated against influenza — both seasonal and swine flu — New York’s top public health official predicts dissenters will ultimately extinguish their anger and roll up their sleeves.

The regulation, which was approved in August, comes with a stinging addendum: Get vaccinated or get fired. READ MORE.

15-year-old freshman in Missouri has the run of his life

Freshman and JV sports don't get much attention in our world. Covering the hundreds of varsity programs in the area is certainly enough.

But a great story from St. Joseph, Missouri, caught my attention and I wanted to pass it along.

The setting takes place at freshman football game between St. Joseph Benton and Maryville. Benton coach Dan McCamy, like each game and practice, had been hearing the familiar calls from Matt Ziesel on the sideline.

"I'm ready, Coach," said Ziesel, 15, who has Down's syndrome.

This time McCamy chose not to ignore the eager plea.

With 10 seconds left in the fourth quarter and Marysville comfortably ahead 46-0, McCamy called timeout and asked the opposing defensive coach David McEnaney if they would let Ziesel score on the next play.

The team agreed and moments later the 5-foot-3, 110-pounder took a handoff and ran 60 yards down the sideline all the way to the endzone, capping his scoring run with a triumphant leap.

"It's just amazing how one play can mean so much to one kid and then to a team and then to a community," McCamy said [last] Thursday after practice. "And now it's spread not just to the community of St. Joseph, but now it's spread across the region. How something so simple can impact so many -- to me, that's the amazing part about it."
And now it has spread across the country.

If that doesn't warm your heart, I'm not sure much will.

Forgetful Lucy

The vid is from 50 First Dates - not a great movie, but was fun. Had this song in my head this morning! Go figure! I'm in and out today, mostly out. Thanks for all the visits. Some interesting things happening. Catch up later.

Have a GR8 day! :)

FED to confiscate gold through massive tax in the future?

Given that the price of gold is roughly $1,000 an ounce, it goes to show that governments are not bigger than the market, and that such manipulation (even if it does still exist) can never work in the long run.

The fear should not be of government to government agreements that can never work in practice, but rather a fear that governments may tax gold sales profits at some phenomenal rate, thereby effectively confiscating gold a second time. LINK

Day After Disaster on TV now on the History Channel

Yes, that's was definitely an interesting piece. But, I suspect that if such did happen that it would be even worse than depicted.

Follow the LINK in the title for show times on the History Channel.

How to post a link in comments

Follow the link in the title to find the code that shows how to post links in comments. Like this one:

Saturday Evening Post

Is the SWINE FLU & Low Birth rates adding jobs? Or is this just more "manipulation" of jobs to make things seem better?

Birth/Death Numbers Revisited

Inquiring minds are asking "What Birth/Death numbers for 2007 and 2008 did the BLS report?"

Jobs Flashback January 4, 2008
Unemployment Soars as Private Sector Jobs Contract

Average Birth Death Adjustment for 2007 is 94,000 jobs per month due to presumed net business job creation.

Jobs Flashback January 9, 2009
Jobs Contract 12th Straight Month; Unemployment Rate Soars to 7.2%

Average Birth Death Adjustment for 2008 is 57,000 jobs per month due to presumed net business job creation.

That does reflect a dip, but remember that birth/death adjustments are net figures. The article did not provide a chart of businesses that went out of business in during the recession.

In the third quarter of 2008 the the 187,000 businesses launched were the fewest in a quarter since 1995 and the number of jobs per startup had collapsed, yet the BLS still had positive net numbers for the year.

Presumably the net number of business startup jobs rose during the entire recession even though the number of startups and the number of jobs created per startup were both declining,

I do not buy it. Can we see the data on business deaths please?

Jobs Flashback September 4, 2009
Jobs Contract 20th Straight Month; Unemployment Rate Hits 9.7%

Anyone believe that preposterous set of numbers?

So far in 2009, The Birth Death adjustment is adding 84,000 jobs per month due to presumed net business job creation.

(from Mish's Trend Analysis - link at left of page)

Support for Health Care Plan Hits New Low

Just 41% of voters nationwide now favor the health care reform proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s down two points from a week ago and the lowest level of support yet measured.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 56% are opposed to the plan.

Senior citizens are less supportive of the plan than younger voters. In the latest survey, just 33% of seniors favor the plan while 59% are opposed. The intensity gap among seniors is significant. Only 16% of the over-65 crowd Strongly Favors the legislation while 46% are Strongly Opposed.
For the first time ever, a slight plurality of voters now express doubt that the legislation will become law this year. Forty-six percent (46%) say passage is likely while 47% say it is not. Those figures include 18% who say passage is Very Likely and 15% who say it is Not at All Likely. Sixty percent (60%) are less certain.

Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Democrats say the plan is at least somewhat likely to become law. Sixty-one percent (61%) of Republicans disagree. Among those not affiliated with either major party, 34% say passage is at least somewhat likely while 58% say it is not.

Debt is down everywhere but at the FED

Click on the chart to make it larger.

Protectionism has a long ways to go

U.S. goods exports to China in 2008 were only $69.7 billion, while imports were $337.8 billion, a 5-1 imbalance in Beijing’s favor. READ MORE

5% VAT would give lethargic liberals HCR

Funding for HCR must be coming from the back of the liberal brain!

It really amazes me that the country’s lethargic liberals who want to hurl the race card and the kitchen sink can't come up with one solid solution to fund all these things for which they continuously whine.

This blog has repeatedly said we have got to take strong measures to regrow our own wealth. Without that, any pet program or essential program is going to be in danger. PERIOD. That's it. Even borrowing catches up with us - eventually it has to be repaid. I'm not sure which part of "repaying" borrowed money these folks don't understand! LOL. Maybe it's in their nature to expect something for nothing. It doesn't work that way, not even in the liberal fantasy world. And, we are borrowing so much, so fast that we are headed exponentially soon towards unsustainability. Now, that's not a hard word - it's in the dictionary. Look it up if you don't know it or understand it. That's where we're headed and dayumed near where we already are now! But, these folks want to tack on another $1,000,000,000,000 to the deficit for another government program that deserves no less scrutiny of the federal government's ability to run existing programs. These programs have cost more and more and have produced less and less! Pick anyone you like! Any one! Government, at best, is ineffective and inefficient!

Right now, China, is basically funding defense, social security, medicare and 100's of other programs - why? Because we can't pay for them ourselves, that's why! It shouldn't take a smart person to understand this.

So, what do we do about it?

Sure, it's not an easy thing. Barack and Bush were simply in over their heads, and they suffer, like all the Washington bureaucrats, from having to return favors to the lobbyists who helped get them elected. That prevents the very "will" to really do something productive, if there was ever any "real" will. Personally, I doubt it. We've seen too many career politicians get powerful and rich while the country goes down the tubes fiscally. So, you know if there were any real salts (from either party), things would be better than they are. Again, it shouldn't take brain surgeons to realize this.

Alright, so, we create jobs here by creating incentives (or even pass laws) that foster growth on our own soil. We've been offshoring and outsourcing our wealth and it is because of corporate greed and massive foreign lobby. We've been torpedoed and didn't know it. We've been on self-destruct and didn't even know it. It's like we just gave them a blank check and said "here, write it for whatever you like, we'll cash it!" Well, that's exactly what we've done! Only, except now, those checks we've been kiting are bouncing because we're B R O K E!

If we eliminate the corporate income tax and replace it with a 5% value added tax. A 3% VAT replaces the revenues from corporate tax, 1% more pays $1.3 trillion for health care, and 1% more brings in enough revenue to start paying down the debt.

This is not new, lethargics. It's been here before and it's in the header again now. And, you pundits will say, "oh, prices will go up" - they may; but, I can assure you they are eventually going to go up anyways in hyperinflation if we keep printing fony money, and not paying our bills. China is fast trying to unload all the profits they've made from manufacturing stuff for us and selling it back to us because they know our money is becoming worthless, just like our checks!

A VAT helps level the global-trading field. If there is going to be a global economy, and there is, then at some point the melting of labor and consumptions have to blend or otherwise, we get what we've got now - a huge, gargantuan trade imbalance. In other words, they make money and we lose money. It really is just that simple.

Think they are not taxing our exports? Think again! Think they are not manipulating their currency? Think again! Think they are not doing a better job of lobbying our own Congress than we are? Think again several times, until it finally sinks into your heads!

I've no problem whatsoever with a HCR bill passing. I don't like seeing people hurt, losing their hard-earned savings from illness - not at all. My problem is "how do we pay for it!" Think up any program you want - study the color of dust on Pluto, I don't care! We'll do it, if you can find a way to pay for it! Find a plan - one that really works! And, I'm not talking about a plan that includes borrowing money!

If I want or need something, I have to pay for it! No government program should be any different!

A 5 percent VAT will give you a HCR bill that is funded. Think the Chinese will get mad? Sure they will. Think they will want to stop selling us goods? No, they won't. They have mouths to feed; and, if we don't do something like this fairly soon we're going to be dependent on them feeding us as well - that is if they are not already "technically" doing that even now, too.

So long WU, hello blogworld!

Hello, Friends!

I want to say thanks for the emails and comments in my departure from Weatherunderground. One said that "I would miss the WU folks" and that would be true - I will. There are many good people there, no doubt. My problem is not with the folks I have the usual or occasional disagreement - those differences are largely healthy dialog and generally a communicable, civil reasoning of issues. But, the site continues to prove themselves a base for liberal troublemakers, a bent duty to stir up trouble and grief for others that differ with conservative views. And at last, I have finally transcended the juvenile antics of the bad apples there. They're beneath me and I will not partake in their foolish, immature, ill-mannered behavior and caustic mentality any further. I simply won't participate at a site that lets personal attack slander go unfettered, continuously repeated and rewarded. And, that's one thing; but, it's entirely another and unacceptable to me when that malevolence is accepted and rewarded by WU administration. Certainly, I've not been a "model" blogger, but I have refrained from the malicious name-calling (except for politicians) and I have been respectful of other bloggers and their opinions.

WU is a great weather site and it has the potential to be so much more, but it has always been a liberal-minded site and dilutes its primary, desireable presence by capitulating the man-made global warming theories and discounting the associated politics. It has become a bastion for liberal perspective and actively sqaushes free speech by censoring conservative opinion. However, it has helped create friendships, helped those in bad weather situations and ultimately helped support relief efforts of disaster-related victims. That is the WU one can't help but love and want to associate. I did enjoy and appreciate that aspect. I've made some friends - you folks know who you are and we'll stay in touch. I'd come to respect many here. Their members include some very sharp people - sharp weatherwise and otherwise, a ton of talent and a heap of heart! Your character and wisdom I hold fondly and admirably.

If you've kept up with my blog it's no secret that I've a passion for this country and I am greatly concerned and disturbed with the erosion of our liberty, our sovereignty over the past 30-40 years. Lately, it's been more like a massive mud-slide than an erosion. And, here's where the "bad apple" comes back to mind again. Most of us do not remember a time when things were bad, really bad - no jobs, no money, no food - not much. The thing is everyone was alike really - one really didn't know any differently. Today, that's different, very different. If this country continues to slide down into the economic abyss we're in trouble, possibly irrevocable trouble!

We've lost our wealth-making machinery, our manufacturing. Additionally, we're presently outsourcing jobs from the service industry at the rate of 20,000 jobs per month. We've lost millions of jobs, sold thousands of whole industries to foreign interest. Our debt has sky-rocketed exponentially and we no longer generate enough revenue from our own tax base to even pay for the outlay on Social Security or Medicare. We're borrowing trillions instead of billions now and there is no real ray of hope in sight to reverse this dismal course unless Obama sticks to his original campaign promises of renegotiating our trade agreements. We, too, must create some protectionisms like our trading partners and set a straight course for regrowing our wealth through manufacturing.

It's time to restore the core values and principles on which this country was founded. We're at the prespecise of losing our sovereignty whether one realizes this yet or not. And, that is what the blog intends to promote and become an element of the larger cornerstone in taking this country back from corrupt, unrepresentative, ineffecient and ineffective big government.

I look forward to your comments. Thanks.



Unhappy Anniversary: NAFTA Fifteen Years Later
“NAFTA is really less about trade than it is about investment. Its principal goal is to protect US companies and investors operating in Mexico. The text of the agreement is contained in two volumes covering more than 1,100 pages. Buried in the fine print are provisions that will give away American jobs and radically reduce the sovereignty of the US.” -- Ross Perot


What CANADIANS are saying about NAFTA after 15 years.
U.S. multinational corporations (including the financial industry) and their CEO's have profited greatly from international trade thanks to increasing use of low-wage labor and trade agreements guaranteeing them tariff-free access to U.S. consumer markets for their foreign-made merchandise.