The Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 is generally blamed for kicking off the global depression that followed it. However, the crash was the direct result of inflated stock values not just in the US but everywhere. That balloon was so overinflated that it took very little for it to pop.
Holland went through a depression starting in 1637 resulting from over-speculation in the tulip market. Tulip bulbs were selling as high as $60,000 a bulb before reality settled in, and people all over Europe lost fortunes they’d invested.

Without going into detail, here’s a list of our nations worst times over “recent” history:

1819, 1832, 1836, Six Year Depression 1837-1843, the Panic of 1857, depression of 1869-1871, panic of 1873, the Depression of 1893, which was one of the worst in American history with the unemployment rate exceeding ten percent for half a decade, the panic of 1901 and the stock market crash of 1929.

Then we have minor and major recessions that fell short, some just barely, of being called depressions in every single decade since 1945, with the one under George Bush Sr. being the worst, in the early ’90’s, until this latest one under his son, George W. Bush. Economies NEVER remain static, they always cycle like seasons or phases of the Moon.

Wars are the same way. Because economies rise, standards of living rise too, and populations boom. Everyone’s heard the expression “Babyboomers”, the surplus of children born during boom times. Then along come the bust times, the economic fires die back down and many of those “Boomers” find themselves standing in bread lines.

Governments intent on dominating their neighbors seize on these bust times to draft all those unemployed men into military service and then go to war. A prime example of this is the “Axis” that formed between Germany, Italy and Japan in 1938 at the height of the Great Depression and the great World War that followed as these nations set out to conquer the world.

Once again, unemployment worldwide is growing rapidly after a long period of prosperity during which world populations have massively increased. Today we have Boomers who are the parents of Boomers who are parents themselves, and the world’s economy is tanking at the same time that violent Islamist movements are proliferating, backed by Islamist nations such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Iran.

Islamism is a worse form of Fascism than Hitlers Naziism or the Fascism practiced by Mussolini and the Japanese, and is possibly even more fanatical. There seems to be no way of stopping it from spreading and the violence increasing, and they’re aggressively pursuing nuclear weapons. War with these Islamist nations is inevitable as their goal is the same old goal as the Axis, to conquer the world.

The stage is getting well set and most of the props are in place. Wars have always been used to use up excess population and gain territory at the same time. Wars can bring some nations out of poverty while making paupers of rich ones. It all depends on who wins and how much damage is incurred.

We’ve entered into another down cycle that will eventually upcycle again. We’ve entered into another war cycle also. Both are just beginning. Prudent people will do well to make appropriate preparations.

After searching for some time through the various news media for something humorous or just plain interesting and having no luck at all, I finally found this little gem, which is about the UN finally taking on the issue of Chinas’ Human Rights record.

Now, before I give you the details of their findings, bear in mind that the rulers of China have committed forced abortions on hundreds of thousands of women, literally cutting them open, Ceasarian Section, removing the baby and killing it, to enforce the 2-child only law. It was them who had protesters run over by tanks in Tianamen Square for wanting democracy. They are the ones who have prisons filled with political prisoners who endure forced labor, slavery, for voicing discontent with the system.

The list goes on, but that should suffice. Now for the findings of the UN:

“Opinion was definitely in China’s favor as country after country took the floor to praise China’s achievements.”

“During the course of the three-hour debate, China was praised for its astounding economic feats and promotion of human rights. A long list of speakers supported China’s use of the death penalty and Internet censorship.”

Most of those in support of China are Middle Eastern nations, which is no surprise. Birds of a feather. A few Western diplomats spoke up about Chinas’ abuses, but not much fuss was made. “The Canadian representative, Louis-Martin Aumais questioned China about its alleged use of evidence obtained under torture and its treatment of political prisoners.

“Canada is deeply concerned about reports of arbitrary detention of ethnic minority members, including Tibetans, Uighurs, and Mongols, as well as religious believers including Falun Gong practitioners without information about their charges, their location and well being,” he said.

This is our wonderful United Nations in action. At the end of the session, a parade of Chinese experts answered questions regarding its treatment of ethnic minorities, Tibetans, and human rights defenders. They assured the delegates at the Council that their rights, as well as the right to religious freedom and assembly were well protected.

Why, hey, good enough then. I mean, if you say so, then it must be true. (Ha ha ha, snicker.)

In another humorous display of Chinese good naturedness, as a huge new and incredibly expensive building in downtown Beijing burned from bottom to top during Chinese New Years celebrations, area residents continued to shoot off fireworks nearby, ignoring the towering, flaming catastrophe that was probably caused by the stuff they were igniting.

Now, that’s what I call partying.

Since everyone else is second-guessing the Israeli plan of action in Gaza, I’d be remiss in not joining in.

It seems to me to be simple logic that Israel will reoccupy Gaza on a pretty much permanent basis. The fact is, the only way to defeat Hamas and ensure no more rocket attacks is to be right in the middle of them. The leaders of Hamas are proven cowards, as they use women and children, non-combatants, as human shields, and their cowardice is the weak point that will enable the Israelis to eventually win out.

The Muslim way of controlling the people has always been through fear and Hamas is no different. The majority of Gazans are afraid of them regardless of how much they may hate the Jews, and they’re all tired of the years of hardship and deprivation because of Hamas’ impossible goal. Hamas can never defeat Israel and the people know it.

People follow leaders best when their leaders are in the forefront of battle. At least, standing on some hypothetical promontory overlooking the battle and directing it. The Hamas leaders are nowhere to be found right now. They’re all issuing orders from hiding and letting their recruits do their fighting for them. This tells me that if the leaders are disposed of, there will be no more Hamas, so the obvious thing for Israel to do is establish a strong occupation of the Gaza Strip and then seek out and kill those Hamas leaders as rapidly as possible.

I know exactly what will happen, too. They’ll run to Jordan and Syria and hide, which won’t do them any good at all if they continue to instigate, as the Israelis will find them and take them out no matter where they run.

Meanwhile, with Israel back in control of Gaza, and with the Hamas leadership either dead or on the run, the rocket attacks will cease and eventually some sort of accord can be reached for peaceful coexistence, as the general population would welcome peace with Israel whether they’d ever admit that or not.

The key to solving this problem is the occupation of Gaza. When Israel controlled the Gaza Strip, things were relatively peaceful. It was international pressure that convinced Israel to withdraw, and the results of listening to those who have only Israels worst interests at heart has perhaps finally show Israel the light.

So my guess is that this will end with a long-term occupation by Israel of Gaza. Sure hope I’m right.

As surely as flies flock to dog crap, Ban Ki Moon and all his commiserators and sycophants around the globe are swarming around the fight between Israel and the Palestinian thugs, screeching STOP, STOP.

Don’t these people understand that they’re only preaching to their own choir anymore? For a long time they were able to exert pressure and make Israel look like the aggressors in this ongoing conflict, but after 60 years of Israeli suffering and patience as the rockets continued to rain in and the insane Muslims continued to explode themselves in crowded areas of Israel, at weddings and funerals, in theaters and crowded cafes and celebrations for children, on buses and any place they could find a large number of innocent victims, the world is finally weary of their lies.

No nation in the entire history of Planet Earth has ever shown more patience in dealing with an implacable enemy than the people of the nation of Israel. No nation has suffered more attacks, more injury to life, limb and property, than Israel, and this time, they need to finish the job they have now started once again, and put an end to Hamas and the rocket attacks and homicide bombers once and for all.

The United States has been the strongest voice of all in exhorting the Israelis to refrain from attacking, to stop once they started, to give up their gains and give up their own territory and shrink away to a smaller and smaller nation. Now it seems that this voice has finally relented and given approval to this new effort to put a stop to the constant attacks, and even whether it has or hasn’t, the Israelis need to stop listening the demands of other nations and focus only on their own needs now.

They’ve run out of time, is the simple truth of it. Not only has Hamas been growing in strength, but so have all their other enemies who surround them. If Israel doesn’t start hammering back the encroaching forces now, the nation is doomed and I’m sure they’re aware of it. If they stop this time as they did in Lebanon, before accomplishing victory, it’s all over.

Illegal aliens could wreck Obamas plans. President-elect Barack Obama has promised a vast jobs program that will prove tempting to laborers in neighboring countries. And the surest way to wreck Obama’s economic recovery plans would be to allow illegal immigrants to take the government-funded jobs intended for Americans. So I guess this means that he’ll have to either push through the completion of the Border Fence or beef up the Border Patrol, or both. That won’t make a lot of Democrats happy, especially all those Hispanic Democrats who helped vote him in.

Spindoctoring the truth to make it more edible for Americans, the following excerpt uses terms such as “immigrants” and “illegal immigrants” to obscure reality. They’re all illegal aliens.

“Competing for jobs against native Americans, immigrants are not only using valuable government resources from welfare and other programs, but they are also increasing the rate of unemployment. True, the jobs immigrants are taking are undesirable ones, but the fact still remains that American citizens have the right to these jobs. By taking jobs, illegal immigrants are placing a strain on the unemployment benefits which non-working Americans would not have to collect if there were more jobs. Another fact to consider, by taking the money illegal immigrants earn back to their own country, they cause a reduction of secondary profit. This means that money earned will be spent on products outside the United States, thereby decreasing tax profits for the government. One thing is clear, the United States cannot afford this influx of low-skilled, low paid people if it wants to remain a welfare state.”

But this article doesn’t try hiding the fact that all these Hispanics, mostly Mexicans, are a bad thing for America. The part about “taking mostly undesirable jobs” is pure crap. Illegal aliens have been taking away high paying jobs from hard-working Americans doing quality work, and turning them into low paying, poor quality jobs, for at least the past 25 years. I’m talking explicitly of virtually all jobs connected with the auto repair industry, where the Mexicans have turned body shops into Bondo smearers, the housing industry where construction quality has collapsed along with a lot of the buildings themselves, the food handling industry and the resultant outbreaks of salmonella, and on and on.

The illegal aliens don’t want the crappy, low paying jobs any more than anyone else does. They want the money just like you and me and they’ll take your job in a hot second if they can get away with it.

Illegal immigrants going home, and local labor market at risk. Isn’t that a hoot? I think the article meant illegal aliens, not immigrants, and the thought that local labor markets might suffer because of this is idiotic. The labor market has no jobs for them, that’s why they’re going home. What’s to suffer? Goodbye, good riddance! Criminals!

No matter where you look, virtually every report on the exodus of so-called “immigrants” back to their own countries soft-pedals the ugly nature of this criminal invasion with baloney about them just wanting the low grade jobs that Americans won’t do. You mean to tell me that we had enough unwanted jobs to support 40 million Mexicans? When we never had that many grapes to pick ever before? Man, we must be the new wine capital of the Universe! Why is it that I haven’t seen farmers fields virtually carpeted with Mexicans armed with hoes? I mean, 40 million. Do they work at night?

So far, only about half a million of them have left, if the surveys are accurate, but it’s a start. Now if our economy will just collapse to the point where we do our own damn grape and apple picking and lettuce hoeing again, the way we did before, maybe we can get our economy going, our cities emptied of Mexican gang-bangers, our population back down to a reasonable level, our welfare system shaved back to a semblance of reality and all those fucking bi-lingual signs OUT of Lowes and Home Depot.

Southern California was at one time the finest part of the finest state in the Union, a true Paradise, before all the Mexicans flooded in over the border, brought along their gang warfare, murderers, rapists and so on, and turned the cities into barrios full of trash, crime and poverty. Now over half the population is from Mexico or Guatemala or some other trashy, corrupt, squalid little dictatorship and California, once the wealthiest state, is now on the edge of financial collapse. All because of them.

Taking our economy back to the days of The Great Depression won’t get rid of all the Mexicans, but it sure will help. Face it, we caused this disease by letting them in, and now we have to endure the cure if we want to get rid of them.

This is the comment I left in response to a whine on another blog asking “Why do we insist on humanizing terrorists?”

We insist on humanizing terrorists because we have yet to catch them in their pre-morphed condition as giant African wart toads and their cousins, the spiny desert sand striders. Terrorists are actually not real humans, they’re clever animal kingdom imitators of humans. If any of you ever saw the movie “Mimic” where giant insects mimicked humans in order to snatch them up and eat them, then you know what I mean.

Only by humanizing them can we get a grasp on methods of dealing with them, but I think we’re on the wrong track. If we used really BIG “have-a-heart” traps with automatic cyanide injectors, and monster oversized rat traps, we would probably do a lot better. One good way would be to disguise the traps as caves and scatter them around Pakistan and Afghanistan. We would likely wipe out most of the critters in the first few days.

We’re not in a war with terrorism. We never have been. We’re in a theological battle between Islam and all other theologies and philosophies. Terrorists aren’t the enemy. Whining about why do we treat them them this way or that way and getting our knickers in a wad over waterboarding and all that is just useless bullshit. Where do terrorists come from? From Islam. What is the enemy? The enemy is Islam.

The above pic shows the Quran hanging from a wire in my outhouse, “The Mosque”, and already well used as toilet paper. Quran pages are excellent for wiping away residual feces even if they aren’t any good for anything else except as a terrorist training manual.

Bad times are riding an express train, and for many they’re already here. Unemployment is rapidly rising, inflation is just around that next curve and yet the availability of money is steadily diminishing as jobs become scarcer and wages decrease. Wages are decreasing because the demand for jobs is becoming greater than the supply and employers can get more for less… and they know it.

Obamas Socialist Welfare State will only make things worse because he’s going to take from the rich and give to the poor. It happens to be the rich who provide jobs in this country, not the poor, and the rich won’t stand for it. The rich are already planning their exodus from American investment and by the time his tax plan goes into action, most of the rich will have done so ahead of him.

So you can imagine without effort why unemployment is rapidly rising.

Even if you have a secure job now that you’re able to keep, a lot of people around you won’t be so fortunate. So NOW…

is a good time to look carefully at your friends and acquaintances. Which of them are most likely to be camping on your doorstep begging to stay on your couch and eat from your table? You need to weed out the slackers and the deadwood now, not later.

Do any of your friends smoke dope or do an occasional line? Get drunk on Saturday nights? Those are the ones most likely to resort to theft to feed themselves when things get tough for them, and your party friends are the first ones you need to cut off contact with and not let into your home anymore.

But let’s say that you’re one of the party friends, yourself, and one of the first your employer lets go. What should you do? Well, now is a good time to stop partying and get serious, don’t you think? Start searching for a place where you’d be welcome in hard times, where you could pitch in and help with the chores, and be valued. There’s going to be a glut on the market of non-valued people soon, so you’d better start making yourself valued, right now. It’s time to mend those fences.

Then there’s always the military if you fit into the age and physical condition categories. You get 3 hots and a cot, get into good physical condition and even learn new trades. The downside is that you may get shot up and/or killed in a conflict, but things aren’t going to be all that nice at home, either, and at least you’ll be clothed and fed.

Being able to repair things is a great survival skill. Anything. Washers and dryers, appliances, things made of wood or plastic, car engines, broken tools, whatever. People aren’t going to have the money to buy things to replace what breaks down, so if you can fix it, you eat for another day. So have a good supply of tools on hand if you’re one of those mechanical types, along with all the nails, screws and etcetera that you can stash away. You’ll be needing them.

Are you a skilled hunter living in or near an area with plentiful game? Meat can be traded for home-canned veggies and other items. Stock up on ammo.

There will be more posts on this as time goes by but this is a good starter. None of the things I’ve listed are hard to do, they all just require a little thought and effort. All of them can save your life and give you a better chance at getting through the bad days ahead.

You can put lipstick on Obama, but he’s still a pig.

UPDATE: His poor aunt! What a jerk this guy is! She came over here from Kenya 4 years ago, yet he claims to have only seen her once, two years ago, during all this time, and she lives in poverty and has overstayed her visa, while this stingy rich prick hasn’t given her a dime nor any help. Just the opposite, she’s sent him money, $260 total, a little at a time, for his campaign.

This is the same woman who ran up and kissed him on both cheeks when he went to Kenya. She was the first person to greet him there, and this is how he treats her. Now he says “No help from me, deport her!”. What a warm, feeling, human being, huh? His own aunt, who loves him. Read the story, she attended Mr Obama’s swearing-in to the US Senate in 2004 and “Obama had last heard from her about two years ago when she called saying she was in Boston, but he did not see her there.” I guess going to that neighborhood of Boston was beneath this scumbags dignity.

Family means nothing to Obama, especially poor, black family. Especially female members from Kenya when you have Muslim attitudes toward women, which is really why he refused to take on Hillary as his V.P. running mate.

It’s striking that even though Obama has twice the money of McCain, he and McCain are running an extremely close race.

In our presidential elections, the most money is what usually wins, and Obama has had $millions pour in from illegal foreign, Islamic, contributors, all under the $200 reporting limit, which means that he doesn’t have to reveal the names of any of the contributors. Considering that so many have names like ;lk; and qklqr, and of course op8′;l, revealing all those names could prove embarassing. John McCain, on the other hand, has revealed the names of ALL contributors to his campaign and none of them are k;[pi, qad;alj or vqe3r.

The L.A. Times has a tape of Obama celebrating with his good friend Rashid Khalidi, another Muslim terrorist type, and they refuse to release it.

McCain reveals anything that’s asked of him. Obama hides everything about himself. Who should we trust? Such a hard question. At least it seems to be, with so many people slavering at the mouth to run and vote for the Muslim. Even Google is openly promoting Obama. So much for their motto “Do no evil”.

Rupert Murdoch, the Australian billionaire who’s bought up most of the worlds MSM, is behind Obama and this is why so many newspapers and cable stations are so one-sided in their favorable reporting of Obama. Murdoch owns them all. Why he supports this miserable two-faced liar is a mystery, and he’s not telling.

Personally, I think the old bastard just wants to have the glory of getting a president elected before he dies. OR it’s possible that he just wants to screw the world up as much as possible. At 77, with truly vast wealth, you’d think this guy would be out having the time of his life, but no, he’s totally obsessed with gaining more wealth and more wealth, more power, more power, and getting that horrible man elected would certainly give him something to gloat about.

So here we are, with only 1 day to go before we find out if the world gets a reprieve or if the Islamic onslaught will turn our planet upside down.

I never really concerned myself much about who was president, before. I was for Al Gore against George Bush, and history has proven me right on that, in spades, but even then I didn’t consider the choice of candidates to be particularly vital. It’s vital now. It’s more vital than any other election in the history of America or the world.

The point no one seems to get is that by choosing a woman for his running mate, John McCain has laid bare the stark reality of the massive split in the Democratic party, that was directly caused by Obama when he passed over Hillary Clinton and chose instead a true political, old school, No Change hack like Joe Biden, a man who loves to hear himself talk and won’t shut up once he gets on a roll.

It’s not just that McCain did the unusual, or that he had the courage to give the first woman in Republican history a chance at being vice president, or that he very openly had capturing the disenchanted Democrat womens vote in mind when he made this choice. Most of those women don’t care about the reason. They cared like Hell about being shoved out of the race by men and they’re plenty angry at Obama for doing it to them once again. What Obama didn’t see and what McCain did, is that politics steps aside for principle on this issue. Women finally saw their chance at the White House and they want it. They’re hot for it. Does anyone really think that they care which party fields the first female candidate?

When Democrat Walter Mondale ran against the incumbent and extremely popular Republican Ronald Reagan in 1984, he chose as his running mate Geraldine Ferraro, a woman with limited political experience, like Alaska governor Palin.

Geraldine Ferraro also declared her candidacy to be a sign of “Change”, just as Obama does now. Unfortunately for the two of them, Mondale was not well known or popular and Ferraro proved to be very poor at campaigning. Pitted against the huge popularity of Ronald Reagan, the Democrats suffered their worst defeat in electoral history.

Times have changed. I note with wry humor how our media points at this or that mistake made by the Clinton campaign as being the cause of her loss to Obama. Passing the buck seems to be a media specialty, since they are the cause of her loss to Obama, by constantly parading his wonders and glories before America as their darling, and ignoring and soft-pedalling Clinton. The plain truth is that Obama is where he is now directly because of media influence and for no other reason.

Even though close scrutiny of Barack Hussein Obama is anathema to the press, the emptiness of his “change” rhetoric is becoming more obvious with the passage of time and the inevitable comparison that we all have to make between him and John McCain. John McCain has true cojones. He really is a maverick, but a brilliant one. The man has savvy. Barack Hussein Obama has brilliant oratory that is totally empty. I keep listening to him, waiting for him to actually say something with substance and meaning, but he never does. It sure sounds good, though.

Choosing Hillary Clinton as his running mate would have assured Obama of the win. By snubbing her and picking a hack, he snubbed 18 million Clinton voters and a lot of them aren’t real happy about it. Obama, the supposed man of change, the self-proclaimed uniter of the Democratic party, has instead split it asunder and John McCains choice of running mates has made this far plainer than any words, any speech could ever do. Our media can ignore what he says but they can’t ignore what he did.