Amber’s Blog

Is it just me or does Obama remind you of Xerces from 300? Particularly when he is standing, chin up, savoring a crowd applauding him?

“All I ask is that you kneel before me…”

The Peoples’ Revolt in Iran

The perseverance of the so-called Green Movement is something to behold. Millions of Iranians mobilized against the outcome of June’s fraudulent presidential election, and their protests were violently repressed. But the cause has only grown in scope, with the aim of many becoming nothing less than the death of a hated system.

I am *so* happy that the pro-freedom revolution in Iran is being picked up by mainstream media! Everyone in America needs to be interested in and understand this story. The Iranian people and Americans have a common enemy: the Islamic regime of Iran. There is a revolution happening in Iran of young students who have witnessed the heavy hand of the IRI and want fundamental regime change. Just like under communism, the people most opposed to communism are those under its heavy hand, the people in Iran are the most opposed to the heavy hand of the Islamic regime of Iran. The ***people*** of Iran are not our enemy and are in every way a friend. They do not in anyway implicitly condone their government. They have been vocal and active in opposing it. They DON’T share its ideology. Their noses are not in the Koran–they read the likes of Thomas Paine. This enlightened revolution, from the people up, is exactly what is needed in the Middle East, which will have major, positive effects on the national security of the United States and other countries, such as Israel.

Imagine, instead of having the most anti-enlightened theocracy/dictatorship in the Middle East, we had a government based on enlightenment, freedom, and a separation of religion and state. It IS possible. This revolution is at and in fact over critical mass.

THEY NEED WORLD SUPPORT ESPECIALLY FROM AMERICA!!!

One beef: GW Bush did not do much to show support for the people. However, he was better than Obama as at least he didn’t give legitimacy to the thugs who currently run Iran.

Build-A-Climate-Scare: Why You Should Boycott Build-A-Bear

But when your unsuspecting tot logs on and hops a virtual train to the North Pole…you should know that he or she will be informed — by Santa Claus — that Christmas may be canceled this year due to Global Warming. Below is part two of the 3-part video.

This enrages me! How many children are being scared about everything in the world? How many lessons, which should be just simple, informative lessons, say on animals, are turned into some kind of class warfare lesson? For instance, when children learn about animals, they can’t just learn about animals anymore, they need to be informed that poachers may kill said animal. When they learn about the environment, they have to be told: yes, children, man is destroying it.

And this: to scare children about Santa Claus!!!

Of course the left targets children. And they pair their arguments with emotional topics. Why, global warming is out to attack polar bears and Santa Claus! The left must do this, and they must target children, because their theories, including and especially global warming, are not a vigorous science and, as we have seen, do not have reliable data buoying them.

The result? Other than a bunch of brainwashed children, some (perhaps many) of which will seek facts and see through the rubbish, children become scared of the world. A heavy handed message at every corner telling them the world is out to get them can produce no other result. And they will be bitter and elitist, after all it is dirty, evil human beings who are poaching and destroying the environment. I know many people like this already–all of which subscribe to some type of victim ideology, be it environmentalism or feminism.

Like John Dewey, people with misguided ideas are, well, not that misguided and quite malicious:

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

During the crash of the housing market, starting in 2006, when lots of people were having their houses foreclosed and, of course more drastically (sarcasm) several large financial institutions who were profiting from the interest on these mortgages started to lose the income/interest from those mortgages, *everyone* started blaming “loan shark” bankers.

Even Sarah Palin, during one of the VP debates, responded “Darn tootin’ it’s the bankers” when asked if it was consumers taking out loans they couldn’t bear or if it was overly aggressive bankers to blame for the housing crash.
Now, not but one year and a little later, I keep hearing that “banks need to lend more money.” In particular, I’ve heard it from the one, the only, President Obama. Isn’t this the exact same thing that they argued got us into the mess? Weren’t the bankers just scolded for being loan sharks?
Did anyone ever stop to think about how our financial system has become so unsound that bad loans are made on a national level, instead of just in pockets here or there by shyster bankers?
If I were Sarah Palin, and I got asked if it was the greedy consumers wanting to get a loan bigger than they could afford or shyster loaners, I would have said: neither, it was the government.
Bankers would not be able to become “loan sharks” if it weren’t for the implicit backing of taxpayer money that they get to cushion them from risky investments and the free money created from the Federal Reserves.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, who both enjoy a special status as half private/half government-owned companies, do a lot to create this moral hazard. When a bank makes a loan, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will sometimes buy this loan from the bank. This then allows the bank to have more money to continue to lend out. Necessarily, the loans they will give out will be more risky.
Second, the Federals Reserves keeps the banks flush with money. If we were on some type of precious metal standard, the bank would have scarce resources and could not lend and lend and lend. But if you have the Federal Reserves essentially creating money out of thin air, the bank can continue to lend and lend. And in fact they had ample pressure on them to do so. Both President Clinton and President G W Bush put pressure on banks to get money in the hands of potential home owners. If they treat money as if it grows on trees, instead of being a precious, scarce commodity, of course it lends to “loan shark” behavior–on a nation-wide level.
It just completely blows my mind that in 2008, banks are scolded for lending too much and not one year later, our fearless leaders are pressuring them to do the same thing. Do they really think an endless cash spigot will fix the economy? Apparently. Did they ever wonder what that money can do or represents?

Mandeville on philosophers and industrialists:

They are very seldom the same sort of people, those that invent arts and improvement in them and those that inquire into the reason of things: this latter is most commonly practiced by such as are idle and indolent, that are fond of retirement, hate business and take delight in speculation; whereas none succeed oftener in the first than active, stirring and laborious men, such as will put their hand to the plough, try experiments and give all their attention to what they are about.” Fable of the Bees, 1729

I guess the more things change, the more they stay the same …

I was doing some research and discovered that the 2008 revenue of the Walt Disney Company, which encompasses the Disney Parks, Disney movies, Disney products, Disney media and Disney “interactive media” was nearly $38 billion dollars.

I then thought to myself, “surely the bailout was less than a year’s worth of revenue at Disney.” Then in about 3 seconds, I thought, nope it was $700 billion with a “b.” This is 18 times the annual revenue of Disney.

Think of the hundreds upon thousands of people coming to the parks everyday. Think of all of the stuff they spend just at the park. Now think of all of the movies, all of the merchandise, all of the media they own …. they are a huge cash cow! I just can’t even wrap my head around it.

Requiem for the Dollar

Wowzers:

Section 19 of this country’s founding monetary legislation, the Coinage Act of 1792, prescribed the death penalty for any official who fraudulently debased the people’s money. Was the massive printing of dollar bills to lift Wall Street (and the rest of us, too) off the rocks last year a kind of fraud?

After Brief Uptick, Obama Approval Slips to 47%

This must be awful for the President, after all, he keeps explaining to us how he saved the economy–single-handedly, with one hand tied behind his back even. I mean, the unemployment rate went from 10.2 to 10%. Come one people … can’t you see …. things are better!

Hyperinflations transfer wealth from the general public, which holds money, to the government, which issues money.

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I am finding this to be very true