A Declaration

And on lead guitar... BEN FRANKLIN!

This is the best thing I've seen on the internet all day long!

Found it at Big Hollywood.

Random Fact: Land Rover

I have no way to back this up, but I was told many years ago by a PBS program (I think) that the following commercial was the first one to show a car getting dirty.



Who knew?

Signs of the Times: We're Doomed

I would just like remind people that no where is it written that the United States is a "chosen land" that will live on to a glorious eternity.  People thought Rome was invincible--catch my drift?  With the current financial insanity in our land, I just don't see this going on much longer.  Forget the Zombie Uprising, or solar storms that wipe out the electrical grid (just two visions of the future I've heard about in the past week).  What is going to kill this country is the out of control spenders who are in control of our country.

Greed, and elected representatives who are toadies to special interests, are decimating the American economy. Consider President Obama’s budgets for 2010 and 2011. The combined red ink is $2.9 trillion. No one anywhere in the world has this kind of money to lend to Washington. How will these massive deficits, never before experienced on earth, be financed?

--Paul Craig Roberts

 My friends ask me why I am so pessimistic about the future.  Unless these are truly signs of the second coming of Christ, I just don't see it ending well.  I am pessimistic about the future because I've been trying to pay attention.  I hope you are too.

Today, lacking in motivation, I made motivational posters

 

  

 

So I was bored today, and the blogosphere seemed a little slow, so I decided to make some motivational posters.

Other possible subjects include 1911's, old Winchesters, black powder, etc, with captions along the lines of "HOPE in something less like a hot air balloon," "WHY CHANGE it if it ain't broken," and so on and so forth.  I just used .22 rounds because they were handy.

Any other ideas?

Firearm Freedom

Well, a post over at monster hunter nation (see sidebar) got me back to paying attention to the firearm freedom act.  This is a movement in the states that basically tells the Fedral Guvment to go... uh... yeah.  Check out http://firearmsfreedomact.com/ for more information.  However, at the aforementioned link, there is another link to an article entitled, "Feds claim authority to regulate in-state commerce."  Interesting read.  I also remember that Montana is the state that said during some gun rights flap a while back (was it Heller? I don't remember) that if D.C. declared that the second amendment wasn't an individual right, then the state charter was no longer in effect.

Ah well, nice to know that our political system is looking out for us.

And now for the News

The bald and bearded Ben Bernanke has been voted in for a second go as chairman of the Fed.  I will just leave it with an ambiguous "meh."

Also, somehow, the economy grew the fastest in 6 years while at the same time the GDP shrank in "the worst performance since 1946."

I don't know what those economists think, but to me, that's worrying.  What it tells me is that no one knows what the heck is going on.  Which is what I see in most areas of the economy, politics, and the news in general.  It's like the talking heads don't want us to worry, so they just nod and smile.  But you can see the confusion in their eyes.

And more:  Obama let loose his 3.8 trillion dollar budget while at the same time saying "We cannot continue to spend as if deficits do not matter."

Ayeyeye... I'm going to go back to something that I [don't] understand better... like thermodynamics.  At least it has equations I can look up.