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Post Tiananmen Wrong Direction; China Reading Upside down and Backwards

Lucky — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:15:27 +0000

It is unbelievable that 20 years ago today thousands (perhaps even higher by some accounts) of Chinese citizens were shot down in the streets in their protests for democracy and freedom… Now for the sake of their 401k Tim Geithner and company go crawling back to Kowtow in fun and frolic dancing upon their knees before our new Chinese masters. “Yes, yes of course we will give up General Motors, our commitment to human rights, our Constitution, and shed any sense of shame… Just please keep buying our debt!” For those of you who may have wondered just where in the world that bridge in New York disappeared to… Well now you know.
Now according to some of the currency experts all is fine in the world as long as there remains a scarcity of those precious dollars.

Georgia Anderson – Daily Financial News – Daily Financial News

by Georgia Anderson on Jun.03, 2009, under Daily Financial News

China is being considerate enough in saying that US is capable of repaying its debts. In his recent trip to China the US Treasury Secretary has tried to assure the Chinese counterparts about US’s capabilities and commitments. When reports last came in it was confirmed by him after meeting top leaders in Beijing.

China has invested nearly $800 billion in U.S. government securities and has been lecturing both in private and public to Washington on its spendthrift fiscal policy. So it came as no surprise that US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner in his maiden China trip had to deal with some of the heat. In fact only yesterday Chinese students laughed it away as Geithner was trying to reassure a questioner about china’s investments in the US as “very safe.”

However, when the Treasury Secretary met the President and the Prime minister of the nation, the mood was more of an appeasing in nature. Surprisingly the issue was not even discussed when Geithner met President Hu Jinato. Geithner later said that their Chinese counterparts have a sophisticated understanding about the things that were going on and that US is committed to walk back to good times in the finance sector very soon.

Two decades past Tiananmen | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal | Spartanburg SC

It’s wonderful that the Chinese have the money and the freedom to enjoy Twitter and Flickr and thousands of other Web sites. It’s a travesty, though, that in preparation for the Tiananmen Square anniversary, Chinese citizens were blocked from accessing those sites, along with about 6,000 others.

Tiananmen Square itself was closed, Chinese media made no mention of the anniversary, and martial law descended on anyone considered likely to raise a fuss.

This should have been a week when, spurred by the anniversary, the United States was pressing China to increase freedoms. Instead, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was in that nation trying to reassure the Chinese that their investments, $1.5 trillion in U.S. dollars and the $800 billion in U.S. debt, are safe.

Most have also figured by now where they’ve been hiding that big statue, looks like the most likely place is where they’ve been blowing all that smoke… Gonna need a Doctor with a huge crane to extract this enema that has been so far shoved up the assets of the American people, everyone’s eyes are crossed and seeing double trouble. Suppose it could be worse… Cheney could still be in office (you mean he’s not

See McCain Run! Welcome to Ground Zero.

Lucky — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:04:12 +0000

Senator John McCain was at Spartanburg’s Beacon Drive-in yesterday to enjoy one of the World Famous Chile Cheese Burgers and to discuss his position on the war and number of issues that the partisan conservative crowd was interested to discuss… Oddly enough he did not draw a crowd any larger than Congressman and Presidential hopeful Ron Paul… And in a manner he may have fared worse because he did little to change the minds of those who felt betrayed that he had flipped flopped on the Confederate flag issue yet held firm on the war. He made no comment on the issue of global warming (Though much of England is experiencing its worst flooding in modern history). And gave no explanation as to why we are losing the war on terrorism.

MPs warn over air security checks
by BBC Reports–
Heightened security checks at airports could create a potential new target for terrorists, MPs have warned.
A report by the Commons transport select committee said queues of hundreds of passengers in cramped spaces could become a security hazard.

The committee recommended that reducing queues at security and speeding up check-in times should be a priority.

The Department for Transport (DfT) said baggage security rules introduced last August met “a very real threat”.

The reasons why we are losing the war on terror are clear to all but the most menial of minds… The administration has lost popular support on all fronts because of ham fisted half measures and a policy enforced upon the flying public by an army of minions.

One would not venture to say how airport security has affected the flying public in the UK… (I dare say that, at least in the UK, only the cream of the crop is selected for security services). But here in the US flying has become a nightmare to the public. We find that an army of the mentally challenged have taken station over our most important municipal centers (our airports) in addition the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is compiling secret databases on the flying public despite repeated warnings by the United States Congress to stop in this illegal action. The ones who are in charge of operations have little more than a high school diploma and some even have criminal records. They make a mockery to all who are associated with security services and become a hazard to the flying public more than any terrorist possibly could, and are loath and despised by any who must endure fools…

Those who’s duty its is to secure areas such as Iraq and Afghanistan must know that the incompetent actions of those few left in charge of our most important urban security assets are a direct reflection upon public sentiment on our war effort abroad. The TSA has been a catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina proportions and should be disbanded immediately if our foreign policy efforts are to enjoy any measure of success. It is obvious to any who understands the workings of a modern democracy that a war effort will NEVER succeed unless it maintains the popular support of the people (at least in the government houses). As to the war on terror, the TSA remains the terrorist greatest ally more than even Osama Bin Laden. The only prudent move is to abolish the TSA as soon as funding expires.

Run, Ron Paul! Run!!!

Lucky — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:38:27 +0000

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Run, Ron Pau! Run!!!

Kicked off a great stump meeting at The Events Summit Pointe Hotel in Spartanburg South Carolina yesterday as Ron Paul makes his bid for the Republican nomination for President in one of the first of the Southern primary states amid a surprisingly receptive crowd.

Paul stands tall with talk on freedom by The Herald Journal‘s JASON SPENCER reports– A little-known Texas congressman seeking the Republican nomination for president visited Spartanburg Saturday and seemed to arrive with all the makings of rock-star candidate for his party – despite low polling, little name recognition and a relatively small campaign staff.

“The Ron Paul Revolution.”

(Constitutional Government… Hey what a concept!)

“We have lost our faith and confidence that freedom really works!” as Ron Paul quips as he whips up the crowd into a frenzy with his messianic message “In most countries, tyranny reigns. Freedom is under attack. It’s under attack in this country, as well.”

stronger adherence to the Second Amendment over the past decade could have thwarted the 9/11 terror attacks – and that this country has gone in the wrong direction with “government bureaucrats taking away our toothpaste at the airport.” He said America can’t afford to continue to support its military presence abroad, which he called a “world empire.” He accused the government of “creating money out of thin air,” straying from the constitutional monetary standards of gold and silver. And he said he’s against abortion because a fetus has the same rights as an adult human.

It was not a large crowd, as far as crowds go, but they were vocal and as much as could fit and in fact people over flowed into the halls from the allotted space at the “Summit Pointe Meeting and Events Center” it was standing room only.

The most thunderous applause came when Dr. Paul talked about the abused of Habeas corpus and the abandonment of this important principals effects upon our Constitution. And how we should go about the serious business of conducting and winning a war without the incompetent interference from those at the TSA’s army of morons and other government bureaucrats of this ilk.

Spencer notes—Thunderous applause also followed when he decried the Patriot Act (ovation No. 4), when he said America should never go to war without a declaration from Congress or because of a United Nations resolution (ovations No. 8 and 9), and when he attacked President Bush’s foreign policy and handling of the war in Iraq (ovations No. 11, 12 and 13).

Notably absent from the discussion was what kind of government we should expect lacking of public funding and what was his plan to confront global warming.

As a populace “candidate” he has found no shortage of support from the “mainstream” party but as far as how he would preform as an actual President is still far enough in left field as to remain in the realm of theoretical conjuncture but its safe to assume he would have not found himself in the political arena at all if the current administration had demonstrated the slightest degree of repentance on any number of issues. The fact that the TSA is still finds a permanent encampment of tards, in control at our nation’s airports… Its a good indicator as any as why this administration’s oblivion remains clueless… They just do not get it. There is a cure for ignorance but not much can be done for just plain and simple stupid… Of course unless its “stupid by design”… Now there’s a scary thought but at the ends of the day remains the only rational explanation.

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One Path to Victory “Only in America!”

Lucky — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:24:54 +0000

Over at ZDNet Mitch Ratcliff announced the infusion of his new company (Buzz Logic NOT to be confused or construed with my small psychic informational portal “Doctor Buzzard Tasteless Tonic and Medicine Show!) with a real spiritual injection from the business venture captial Bankers of hard assets… It’s not so unusual or unexpected that Mitch’s efforts would eventually pay off no matter how often his wrong headed liberal politics may have steered him off into the dark abyss. Because a lot of times these insticts proved right on the money. He is someone with whom that you can hold a consistent and honest disagreement without holding a grudge. He is no doubt laughing all the way to the bank because the proof of success is found in a happy and productive life. Should, perhaps, say break a leg but there are those who might take this literally been there and done that and so did they so I’ll just say best of lucky.

BuzzLogic reaches a milestone by ZDNet‘s Mitch Ratcliffe — You’ll have to forgive my indulging in writing about a company I helped to start, but today’s a good day. It was almost three years ago that Todd Parsons and I sat in a sushi place on Chestnut Street in San Francisco and talked about how the measurement of social media would require many more [...]

Still we have to make our choices where then to sleep in our bed that we have prepared. I would hate as much to see the Internet lost to the lawyers almost as much as I do with entire ATT thing. Both serve only those needs which only money can buy and so are in their own rights pose dangers from a kind of technological tyrants. I wish Mitch the best but can help but be a bit concerned to see that army of corporate attorneys that seem to be necessary to keep an ongoing concern upon the increasing litigious Internet. This cannot be a good development when you add all the political correctness that is already all too pervasive in our over litigious nation. Perhaps he feels he has no choice, I mean if he wants to fly without being harassed by the moron army of the TSA. You either have to fly Air force One or own a corporate jet.
On thing for sure, if President Bush is serious about winning the war on terror, the first step (IMHO) is the disbanding of the TSA because it is counter productive and does not serve the stated goal of winning the war on terror. Unless of course that is not the goal but rather the distruction of the Constitution of the United States of America is the true objective, then “Way to go” … Sir, give it over to the Air Marshall, frankly they would be hard pressed at putting this country’s war efforts into greater ruin. You have to have home support as well as home security if we are to mantain a sustained effort on the part of this nation in order to pervail over the long haul. The TSA must go.

Weird Weather and Star Trek Replicators may affect Stephen Hawking Astronaut Plans

Lucky — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:00:40 +0000

Now I’m not concerned about the Star Trek Replicator you guys are building (or planning to build). Just don’t try and leave it in your carry on baggage (if you know what’s good for you). Actually this is a bit of wonderful news that I hear Steve is booking a flight on one of the Vigin Shuttle. Let’s just hope the TSA has been banned by then or else he may never get off the ground.

On The Ether Podcast: Discussing nanotechnology and the economics of the Star Trek replicator by ZDNet‘s Mitch Ratcliffe — Tune in to a talk I had this afternoon with the founders of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, Mike Treder and Chris Phoenix, about my recent Star Trek replicator posting on the future of nanomanufacturing systems. Mike and Chris addressed a variety of questions about how to make nanomanufacturing, from how to deal with dangerous nanotechnology [...]

In the meantime, back on the ranch, Andy Serwer over at Fortune Magazine seemed concerned about the Apaches lurking in our lives… You know those things that just “Google up” in or lives that could end civilization before we know it or even cost us a Nation Championship (G-d forbid!). I mean you have talk on some blogs with worries about the Star Trek’s Replicators (Personally I’m thinking Smell-O-Vision will be the next big thing on the desktop PC… “Smells like Victory” maybe:), But the the Star Trek discussion concerns seem more centered in the form of a device that produces some sort of protein that turns us all into some kind of Swamp blob blog creature of the black lagoon.

Not to worry the swamp beastie beauties are covered in their own eBay reserve just in case anyone has any doubt. These are from the orginal line in the 1996 National Champion “Old Al” Steve Spurrier era Florida Gators “Win Sock!”. The “Original” Swamp monster. Been waiting a longtime for this day to arrive… didn’t think it would take over a decade to return to the National Championship. These are the “Original Win Sock” in mint condition with a new reinforced pole nylon pole and wind strap (Should read “Tornado Strap”) . Made in the USA (when that used to mean something to people). I only have a few of these little beastie beauties left. Make an offer. Fly them proudly on your car or truck or on your Game room wall, suitable for framing! These have sold at recent games for as much as $40 dollars a piece. Now online priced to sell 13 Old Al flags as a bundel package deal for everyone one on the honor team including the coach (or dad) Make an offer! SEC Proud. Go Gators!!!

Something like the weird weather tornado and hurricanes we’ve been having stranger things can still happen. Not to be confused with the TostitoFiesta Bowl (National Championship Storm of our own making but a Play-off season would be nice for the summer:).. Well since I really like the Swamp Creature, I think maybe this is some kind of plan hatched by Ohio State to do the swamp beastie in before they get a beautiful black buckeye… Hummm, very clever, allow the devils over at the TSA do the dirty work (Must have the Dan Quayle Speechwriter Robert Grady on the payroll)… No doubt they’ll impound the entire team at the airport if they get listed by the “Not so Friendly Skies” agency over at the TSA, which will no doubt make them as some kind of WMD. Well we have all had to endure or share of weird tornadoes and hurricanes weather to be bothered by a little hot air blowing in from Ohio State!

Despite the fact the TSA has been, up to this point, allowed to build their own secret data base on and steal the property of law abiding citizens in the flying public my money is still a bigger ballgame. I’m confident we will win in the end. God Bless America!

Go Gators!!!

The TSA Catastrophe

Lucky — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:13:13 +0000

The TSA catastrophe is the worst disaster to hit US since Katrina and among the worst man made ever! The Washington Post has reported that the TSA has cost the US almost a billion dollars in wasted money and looting of the nation treasury… Not to mention hundred of thousands of law abiding citizens that have had their property stolen and their constitutional rights violated as well as their lives interrupted in this wholesale grab for money and power. You have got ask if we have not put the fox in charge of the hen house with people’s luggage gone missing and not to mention hundreds of millions of dollars looted from the national treasury and no can account for anything, not even luggage stolen by the TSA. No one seems to know why or account for how these people and machines (that are suppose to protect our nations) simply do not work Post-9/11 Rush Mixed Politics With Security
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Airline Security by Spartanburg Herald Journal Reports– I’ve heard a lot about flight restrictions and the problems the Transportation Security Administration has had with notorious criminals such as actress Celia Weston trying to “smuggle” pimento cheese onto a plane. I recently encountered problems with flight security at Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport concerning my National Rifle Association silver bullet key chain — a key chain that had already made the same trip through half a dozen security checkpoints. The only difference this time was that I was in a bit of a hurry and forgot to place my keys in the tray, which triggered the alarm when I went through the gate. One security guard rifled through my pockets and pulled out my keys. As if he had stumbled across King Tut’s treasure, he gasped and said it looked like a 50-caliber bullet! You would have thought he had just captured Osama bin Laden. No matter that it had “NRA” and “Charlton Heston” inscribed on the side and had a quarter-inch hole drilled through the middle of the clearly single die cast. “We are just like the FBI,” he said to me — which I doubt, but in the event that they are, this would go a long way in explaining why we have yet to capture the elusive Osama. From the looks of things, it’s obvious to me that they’re never going to catch the real terrorists. Instead, they seem content with harassing and haranguing the citizens of this nation, and the only thing they are likely to succeed in is destroying the Constitution of the United States of America. It begs the question: Just whose side are these guys on, anyway?

The news is spreading fast and WSPA TV 7 is suppose to do a local report on luggage gone missing as a serious problem with the TSA apparently running some kind of racket with at least one of the carriers involved in what appears to be an “inside job” of setting up unsuspecting travlers and stealing their personal property!The Spartanburg County’s Community Emergency Response Team or CERT.is preparing for disaster… Looks like their training should come in handy at the local airport with the TSA mobsters in charge where it’s clear catastrophe has already struck! Story at six.

American Airlines Shows the Promise of Profit (Or How We May Yet Still Win the War on Terror)

Lucky — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 21:01:01 +0000

American Airlines made headlines the other day for posting a profit for the first time in many years and only the second airline in the country to post any kind of profit this year. The friendly skies have been turbulent with most if not all the major carriers in some form of bankruptcy in one form or another. Although earnings at American are good for the moment with fuel prices on the rise and idiots in charge at TSA, their time spent in the black is expected to be brief.

Certainly their rise from the depths of an ocean of red ink has been impressive the manner was found in the application of common sense a vanishing and rare commodity in the dark clouds of the not so friendly American skies. This was no small feat by any measure, actually Box Car Earl is a cheesecake cake walk when compared to having passengers brave the gauntlet of barely literate morons in charge of this nations “First line of defense” as was pointed out to me recently in the local GSP International jetport as they also screamed they were “Just like the FBI!”… Lord save us from all those who cannot clearly read plain English or differentiate between a liquid gel and pimento cheese. Is there any wonder why we are losing the critical war on terrorism with morons in charge of this nation’s security? Surely it is not all the high school dropouts that are sent to Iraq or imbeciles called to serve as United States Senators in Massachusetts… No I don’t believe that for one moment as the small army of morons are mandatory as FEMA in protecting this nation’s skies from the steely determination of those set on doing us harm… Now that’s a scary thought! Think about it before booking your next airline ticket. You are a 1000 times safer riding the train with Box Car Willie and his Cheesy friend Earl And that you can take to the bank… And I’ll tell you why.

First of all Box Car and his buddies are not as likely to steal your personal belongings, strip search and inflict public humiliation or add insult to injury by an arrest that creates a terrorist record that can never be expunged from your record even if you are found innocent in a court of law. In addition when you compare “hitting the ground rolling” with that to smashing into a skyscraper or plunging from forty thousand feet from the skies (40,000 ft)… Well just try rolling away from that one. Not to mention if you survive the gauntlet of imbeciles after being subjected to every form of public humiliation that the diabolical and twisted moronic mind might connive then there is the second test one must endure, no doubt in part seemly conceived by the producers from the same good people that brought us Abu Ghraib atrocities… Where first you are expected to place all your belongings into a stall not much larger than the glove compartment of a luxury VW. Then you are to squeeze yourself into a seat the size to comfortably accommodate a NAZI death camp survivor and hold the pose of a contortionists for at least a couple of hours. During which you’re force fed a cardboard boxed meal in the area the size of a large match box, which some might call the Auschwitz lunchbox Special , if not for the fear of being sued by the guest of NAZI atrocities for giving those who suffered such death camp fire hospitality a bad name…

Trust me you’re light years safer taking the train. Still we might take a lesson from American Airlines and apply a little common sense to winning the war on terror… (Yeah right, like how likely is the Tooth Fairy to shallow that one.:)

An Odd Synchronicity (Or Why We Really Lost the War on Terrorism)

Lucky — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:40:18 +0000

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Now I know many of you may not see a pattern in the Stock Market with the all time record setting high on the heels, in fact to the day of the most recent crash in 1987… But these things do work in almost exactly the same manner except reversed… Like the difference between the Lunar and Solar Eclipse. 19 years to the day we experienced the Crash of 1987, at that time I had been working as an advisor at one of the local brokerage houses “Interstate Securities”, where I had warned just about everyone this was coming. I saw patterns in many things both large and small… Historical (remarkably similar pattern to the 1929 Crash) and also in the technical analysis (The Elliott Wave)…. And other things but all of which pointed, at least in my mind, that clearly a major correction or disruption in the markets was about to transpire. I was not the only one who saw these patterns and was alarmed by these striking patterns… There was Marty Zweig of Louis Rukeyser’s Wall Street Week who tried to warn investors to step back but to no avail. I knew that no one would believe me later so I booked a trip out of the country certain in the knowledge that the records from TRW would be hard to deny or explain.   When I got to Canada I also tried to contact Rudy Cox one of the main trading brokers at Interstate Securities but he was out on the golf course trying to salvage his game which was almost as catastrophic as the Cash in the Market (maybe even a few points lower:)

Now 19 years later even as I see the stock market reach new highs but see an even more treacherous pattern in things which could be just as disastrous as the Crash of 87 perhaps even more dire if corrections are not made. I might be tempted to call these series of unfortunate events the reasons “Why We lost the War on Terrorism.” … “The TSA Effect”.   If you wish you can blame it on the morons that have seized control over Homeland security…Maybe they’re should be given some sort of test before being handed a gun and a badge. Like maybe basic remedial reading skills (Not really expecting them to read the to read the constitution but maybe just recognize letters like NRA or a name like Charlton Heston. You might think this is too much to ask but believe they can’t but should cause it does make a difference… It would at the very least be helpful)..

   Yeppers for most of you by all means take the train do not even attempt to fly unless absolutely necessary… Besides you really do not want to deal with the morons at the TSA … I’m thinking about writing about “How and Why We Lost the War on Terrorism” If you wish and to be fair it is not due to the incompetence of the weary American Solider who has sacrificed life and limb to protect this nation rather you can blame it on the morons that have seized control over Homeland Security (“We are like the FBI! One screamed at me in the local GSP Airport as my flight on NorthWestern Airlines was about to disenbark 10 minutes early)…

After reading about what happened to the actress Celia Weston of Kiss My Grits! fame its clear ignorance has been given equal opportunity with these guys. Believe it or not the TSA at the GSP Airport, stripped searched her of her pimento cheese because “it could be a Gel” and after having experienced their moronic methods up close and personal (still pending a court trial so I can’t really talk about it at the moment but believe me I will)… If I ever had plans to come in this direction that included plans on ANY stop overs at the GSP Airport… Maybe a better idea just to take a train. When all is said and done it will be clear we lost the war on Terrorism (if we do God forbid) will be because we lost the last moniker of common sense and allowed Idiots to convince us that we no longer had a constitution… We forgot who we were and where we came from. We lost our reason to fight because we had already lost our reason for freedom.

My advice for the moment is to wait for the train, I hear that whistle blowing, it will be back around… Besides the food is much better, the people conducting the train polite, and the scenery is beautiful this time of year… Get out and see the country and enjoy your trip! Send me a postcard:)