Sunday, July 31, 2011

Paul Krugman Is A Moron

Paul Krugman is an economic moron who is consistently wrong. In an amazing display of stupidity, Paul Krugman agrees that conservatives are to blame for the rising gold price.
It’s also conceivable that a good advertising campaign by gold producers could be enough to move the price of gold. Imagine that an effective, sustained advertising campaign, targeted at wealthy, conservative individuals in the US, is able to persuade 25,000 of them per month to switch a portion of their financial assets into gold.

Ruling Class Hypocrites

While the elite ruling class legislators vote to restrict guns, those same legislators use guns to defend themselves, their families, and their homes. Why does the elite ruling class vote for restrictions for us while hypocritically using the tools they try to deny the common people?

Boswell comes from a long-line of Ruling Class hypocrites who have told the American people that they don’t need guns, even while they rely on their own guns for protection:

* Who can forget columnist Carl Rowan who said that anyone found with a gun “should go to jail, period,” but then he later used his own (illegal) handgun to shoot a non-violent teenager who was skinny-dipping in his pool;

* Or actress Rosie O’Donnell who also thinks people should go to prison for owning guns, but then hired armed security guards to protect her children -- a pricey option which is unavailable for most Americans.

Thursday, July 07, 2011

JPM Pays Small Fine For Long-Running Crimes

J.P. Morgan manipulated the municipal bond market for eight years. JPM paid a small fine and will avoid being banded from the markets or from criminal charges. Apparently the rule of criminal law doesn't apply to most-favored bankers like J.P. Morgan.

SEC Charges J. P. Morgan Securities with Fraudulent Bidding Practices Involving Investment of Municipal Bond Proceeds

“JPMS improperly won bids by entering into secret arrangements with bidding agents to get an illegal 'last look' at competitors’ bids,” said Robert Khuzami, Director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement.

The SEC alleges that from 1997 through 2005, JPMS’s fraudulent practices, misrepresentations and omissions undermined the competitive bidding process, affected the prices that municipalities paid for reinvestment products, and deprived certain municipalities of a conclusive presumption that the reinvestment instruments had been purchased at fair market value. JPMS’s fraudulent conduct also jeopardized the tax-exempt status of billions of dollars in municipal securities because the supposed competitive bidding process that establishes the fair market value of the investment was corrupted.

Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Fluoride Harms Children

Why do we continue to pay extra for municipal water suppliers to purchase toxic flouride?


New Study: Fluoride Can Damage the Brain - Avoid Use in Children

The prolonged ingestion of fluoride may cause significant damage to health and particularly to the nervous system," concludes a review of studies by researchers Valdez-Jimenez, et al. published in Neurologia (June 2011)...

Monday, July 04, 2011

Florida Vote Fraud?

In a recent release, a hacker posted internal data from the Florida voting database. With this much insecurity, the hacker asks if electronic voting should be trusted. "Why trust them at all?"

That is a reasonable question. Why trust electronic voting systems that have their computer code hidden from the public? How many back doors for fraud are in the systems? How can a reliable electronic record be kept by software that is not peer-reviewed?