It is a LONG post, and it will take half an hour or more to read it and follow the links (and you should).

I’ve been preaching this for years, and Peter and I agree on the basics, and most of the details.

Prepare. Plan, Expect things to be less than idyllic in the near future.

Governments can only paper over the cracks for so long.

What Peter doesn’t mention is that when the governments can no longer keep the nanny state going, with the payouts in welfare and other government handouts. THAT is when the real fun will begin.

Better have a plan for that eventuality too.

‘Cause that is when the real ugliness will begin:  less (or no) policing, and a subset of our population who is used to handouts no longer receiving them…who has little or no respect for the social contract, who lives in the moment, who believes in “getting theirs” and who believes in “might makes right”.

That is when the real fun will begin. 

Bet on it.

If only

is making a huge deal about the losses from JPMorganChase’s trading.

$2 billion. Billion, with a B. 2 times ten to the 9th. 2,000,000,000 dollars. Think about how much money that is.

That’s a LOT of scratch. Really, it is. Seriously, a LOT of money. More than you and I (and most of our friends) together will make in our lifetimes…combined.  And I would expect that heads will (continue to) roll over the bad trades/derivative/screwup.

But the fact is that the US runs nearly twice that deficit EVERY DAY.

And no one seems to care about that.

I might. 

If you feel that this represents you, then it is you that has the problem.

Racism is sometimes in the eyes of the beholder.

And if yer dressed like Mr. Obama’s mythical son and in my neighborhood, then I’ll treat you with suspicion too.

But what we really need are some New Black Panther targets.

To my Mom and all the others.

Chances are, if your email to me has FW:FW: FW…3 or more times,

Then I’ve likely already seen it on the internet..

I might even already be on the list of thousands of people whose addresses are there for the reading in all the previous forwards……and for harvesting by the spambots.

Please, at least have the courtesy, if you must forward me another email with an endless chain of FW in front of it, then hide my address from all the other people you are sending it to (BCC)…and all the people that they will send it to…and all those folks that they will send it to…and so on and so on…

I get enough spam already.

Srsly. 

Carroll Shelby goes the the big junkyard in the sky.

When he wasn’t cozying up to big car companies and selling out, he made some pretty cool machines.

So back a few years a go, I TRIED to buy a laser from Wicked Lasers.

Tried.

Waited for 5 months, promised delivery dates missed, then a new one then another.

Then, when I finally got them to cancel my order, it took another 90 days to get my credit card refunded.

And these assholes have the nerve to offer me their newest and best laser….In an email. And I understand that their media push is big. Don’t be fooled. They lie.

Fuck you, Wicked Lasers.

Your service is shit, your promises are not worth anything, and I will never do business with you again, no matter how neat/cool your product may appear to be.

I would strongly advise that if you receive and ad from them, like the one below….Just Say NO.

We need more like this.

Or, get rid of immunity for public officials/police officers altogether.

And then spread it to the feds.

Of course, the downside is we’d have thousands of state local and federal workers being sued into bankruptcy….

It’d make ’em behave better….

See ya, Dick.

Tam says it well

Don’t let your our  (thanks OG) office door hit you on the ass on the way out.

Shoulda happened years ago.

When wielding power becomes more important than actually doing your job for your constituents…then it is time to go.

RNC: Take note.