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Obama's economic advisor, Christina Roemer, has resigned and is hightailing it back to Berkeley so she can teach others all about economics, even though she is completely, totally clueless herself. Go academia! I have to say, she seems like a good-natured person and doesn't come off as a sociopathic, oikophobic Marxist the way everyone else in the Obama regime does. I can see why she is getting out of there. I doubt that she fit in with that group. I think she is just clueless in a sincere kind of way.

In her parting remarks delivered last night, she admitted that the regime's economic policies have been an abject failure, and that she just can't figure out why things aren't getting better. Well, I can help with that. Allow me to explain it. And be warned, this is the raw, unvarnished truth. No punch-pulling. No tip-toeing. No corcerns about what can and cannot be said in "polite company". In other words, standard operating procedure around here.

I think it would be easiest for me to address this in terms of myself, as a person who owns and operates three small businesses. I WILL NOT hire anyone into a steady, salaried position at this time. I am expanding in terms of by-the-hour freelance and "hired man" work, but I can not and will not commit to anything beyond that. This isn't so much a matter of money. As you all know, I just unloaded my big house, so my cash flow has just realized a big shot in the arm. This brings us to point number one:

1. I want to clean up every cent of debt as fast as I possibly can. Even though most of my debt is locked-in at a fixed rate, if and when hyperinflation kicks in I fully anticipate that the Obama regime will seize the banking and lending industry and "renegotiate" the interest rates on almost all outstanding debt. Excluded from this will be all Sharia-compliant debt (natch) and debt directly tied to or under the influence of members of the Obama regime and/or members of Congress that are allied with the regime. I believe the technical term for this is "cronyism". What this boils down to is the recognition of the fact that the rule of law, specifically with regards to contracts, has been voided by the Obama regime. Whether or not contracts are enforceable is now purely a function of who you are and/or who you know. We are no longer a nation of laws, but a nation of men.

2. Hyperinflation leads to point number two. I fear that it is almost a certainty that if the Obama regime is not peacefully removed and their attacks on our economy are allowed to persist, that I will walk in one morning to find that the US dollar has collapsed, and that all of my cash reserves are effectively worthless. While I am carrying and building reserves in cash metals, my focus is on carrying reserves to support myself and my current commitments, NOT to support additional families. My feeling is that if I have someone in my employment, I have made a commitment to that person AND THAT PERSON'S FAMILY. I could not, in good conscience, make a hiring commitment to another family or families, knowing full well that my ability to fulfill that commitment may become impossible in a matter of months or even weeks.

3. So far, the Obama regime has implemented or supported regulations that make running a business all but impossible. They are also paving the way for radicals to implement their various agendas via government regulation. For example, am I going to walk in one morning and find myself served with a lawsuit from some animal rights wacko who has acquired custodial staus over my cattle and is suing me, on their behalf, for false imprisonment or cruelty? Am I going to be sued by the EPA for "dust pollution"? Am I going to be sued by GIPSA because someone who happened to sell cattle at the same salebarn I sold cattle at received a lower price than I received?

4. Two of my three businesses are directly tied to the internet and the ability to transfer and move money and data electronically. If we experience a full economic collapse, it is likely that the futures markets will necessarily cease to function. It is also safe to assume that the electronic movement of money will cease, AND that the internet will cease to function, either by government decree, or simply because the companies that support and maintain the infrastructure of the internet will also cease to function. Routers have to be meticulously maintained, you know. And I'm working off the assumption that electricty will still be flowing, which is a VERY big assumption indeed. If this happens, my businesses shut down immediately. Cash flow effectively ceases. How can I in good conscience hire someone while staring down that barrel on a daily basis?

5. If we get to the point where the currency and economy have completely collapsed and that the internet is no longer functioning, and electricity may or may not be flowing, it would be the height of delusion to think that people would not begin to form militias and try to defend themselves and their communities and eventually re-establish the rule of law and sound government under the Constitution of 1787. Needless to say, I will be one of the first to enjoin that effort. I want to be the first man off of the first Higgins Boat that storms the proverbial beach. Again, how could I in good conscience hire someone, move them to Denver, get them all set up, knowing full well that I may have to drop everything, pack up my vehicle, and go to war at any moment?

Stop and consider this last point. Consider the enormity of what I just said. I'm not a crazy person. Really. I'm a 33 year old chick who was living the dream. I have three businesses. I'm at the top of my field. I should be just now entering my prime. I like exercising, eating out, reading, listening to music, watching old TV shows and movies on iTunes, and just generally thinking about stuff. I used to have plans for recreational travel to Europe, Australia, etc. and was looking forward to that. I have a material weakness for shoes and hot cars. I weigh myself every morning and worry about "getting fat". I go to a tanning salon about twice per month just because I like to keep a little bit of a tan because I think it looks nice. Fairly standard, American girl stuff, right? Yes, except for the fact that I am honest-to-goodness preparing myself for the possibility of having to fight and die in a war for my country.

So why are people not hiring? Why are people not taking advantage of interest rates that are as close to zero as you can get and investing? It's very simple. Because people are scared sh**less of the Obama regime and the full-blown insanity of the ruling class, including congress. We The People feel genuinely and fundamentally UNSAFE, both financially and in our physical persons, so long as the Marxist-Obamaist cabal retains power. This economy is not going to recover unless and until the Obama regime is removed, completely and peacefully, and the congress and bureaucracy are purged of the traitors that now infest it. If a person is diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, they don't start making long-term plans and investments. They start planning and hunkering down for an expensive and painful course of treatment with the full understanding that they may not survive - and they plan for that contingency too. That is where We The People are right now. There is no stimulus, no Fed manipulation that can solve this problem. The only solution is the successful removal of the cancer that is the Obama regime. Once that is accomplished and We The People once again feel genuine SAFETY and SECURITY, then and only then will the recovery begin.

Somehow I doubt that Christina Roemer is going to take this reality back to Berkeley with her.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

I don't know what her name is, but I think I'll just call her "HOPE", because she is the walking, talking embodiment of hope for this country, and especially for the black inner-city. She is informed, she is a critical thinker, and she is moral. The trifecta.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

. . . because the look on the soldier's face says it ALL.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius yesterday said that

“Unfortunately, there still is a great deal of confusion about what is in [the reform law] and what isn’t,” Sebelius told ABC News Radio in an interview Monday.

“So, we have a lot of reeducation to do,” Sebelius said.

Reeducation. You know what would be awesome, Kathy? If you guys set up some centers, or retreats, or, or . . . oh the right word is escaping me. Ummmm. Hmmmm.

I KNOW!! CAMPS! Yes! The government could set up some super-fun reeducation CAMPS! These would be places that people who don't "properly understand" the ObamaCare Mass Rape and Forced Cult of Child Sacrifice, oh excuse me, ObamaCare LAW, could go to be reeducated. They would be very efficient and effective because while in these camps, American citizens wouldn't have to worry about their jobs or their families, or any of the distractions or stresses of life, liberty and pursuing happiness. The government would provide sleeping quarters, one hot meal per day, complimentary lice powder, and even FREE EXPERIMENTAL HEALTHCARE! And there would be no rush. A person could stay as long as needed to fully grasp and comprehend the new order of things. Reeducation is a process. THESE THINGS TAKE TIME. If it only takes one year for a person to be "reeducated", hey, that's great! Or maybe it might take 10, 15 or even 20 years. No problem! The government will HAPPILY pick up the tab for all of this. Once a person is properly and thoroughly brainwashed, ahem, excuse me, I mean REEDUCATED, they could then return to their communities and help to identify other citizens who could also benefit from an open-ended stay at a super-fun reeducation camp.

Yes. I think this has a LOT of potential. You go, Kathleen Sebelius, you godless, baby-killing, communist harpy, you.

1. The EPA has backed off on the ammo ban. In other words, they realized we were all on to them and have called a temporary retreat. This situation is the perfect example of why I am doing what I am doing here on the Barnhardt.biz blog (and many other folks are doing the same thing on their blogs). If we don't do this, if we don't disseminate information and act as citizen journalists, then crap like this EPA ammo ban would sail right through, because the actual "journalists" in this country are actually a treasonous Marxist-Obamaist cabal that have volunteered themselves and are now the outright propaganda wing of the Obama regime. The whole "Journolist" of 450+ journalists, commentators and government bureaucrats who are all coordinating via an email listserv to decide what gets reported (anything to do with Levi Johnson), what doesn't (anything even remotely important), who's character to assassinate, who to propagandize as a messiah, etc., is proof positive of this unprecedented treason. And now we can say that the root of this treason is oikophobia. But it is still treason. And we'll keep reporting these things via blogs, emails and word-of-mouth. Well done to one and all!

2. The NRA just finally figured out that they shouldn't endorse Harry Reid for re-election. Gee, that was a tough one, huh NRA? Harry Reid, along with Obama, Pelosi, Dodd, Frank, Schumer and several hundred others, should be arrested and tried for treason post haste. And the NRA JUST NOW came to the conclusion that they probably shouldn't endorse him? In related news, the American Association of Pediatricians just announced that you probably shouldn't let wild dingos babysit your infant children while vacationing in the Australian Outback. Sorry, NRA, but you have already shown yourselves to be a sleazy political hacks, and this country has had it with sleazy political hacks. Don't let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya!

3. We had to re-do the Deuce billboard because the picture of Barry sucking on the joint wasn't available in a high enough resolution to handle to EXTREMELY large format of the billboard printing process. But, I think this is a total blessing in disguise because A.) I received numerous calls and emails from people who asked, "Who is that? Is that BARRY?" Since he had his hand over his face in the pic, people had to really look to see who it was. That's no good for a billboard. Everything must be clear and absorbable in a GLANCE. B.) The revised artwork is WAY better. We're getting it pinned down this afternoon. Just tweaking the font right now. As soon as it is finalized, I'll post it. It is ferocious. Just like the "nasty, diseased hooker" who paid for it. Grrr.

4. What up Canada! The Ministry of Ag in Saskatchewan is going to sponsor a Marketing School! It is probably going to be in Yorkton (and thus I expect everyone in Manitoba to show up, too), most likely in January. It will be colder than the dickens, so you all should be tickled to spend a weekend toasty in town, and calving will not have started yet, except for the clinically insane. I haven't done a school in Canada since March of 2009, so I'm expecting a big crowd! Yay!

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

New word, y'all: OIKOPHOBIA

"Oiko" is a Greek root, meaning "home" or "household". It is the same root that gives us the term "economics". If you have read any of Scott Hahn's work, you already knew that. So, an "oikophobe" is one who has a revulsion toward his own home, his own people, his own country. Sound familiar? This term has hit the mainstream thanks to James Taranto over at the Wall Street Journal. He has a rare full-length editorial on this word today, and he hits the ball out of the park. CLICK HERE TO READ. Oikophobia describes to a "t" the ruling Marxist-Obamaist elitist class that is trying to take over and destroy this nation, followed by Western Civilization in total.

Identifying and naming oikophobia is a great step forward, but what we need to understand in order to truly combat it is its root cause. The root cause of oikophobia is the same root cause of 99% of the human-caused suffering in the world. Give me a problem, any problem, that has to do with human beings, and I can almost guarantee you that if you dig deep enough you're going to find one core evil, one core sin. That sin is the grave sin of SELF-LOATHING.

Why did Hitler do what he did? Self-loathing. Napoleon? Self-loathing. Why do Paris Hilton and Lindsey Lohan keep themselves perpetually drugged with cocaine and sex? Because they can't stand themselves and need to be constantly distracted from dealing with their own brokenness. Why does Bubba beat his wife? Because someone called him a sissy once, and he kinda believed it, so he has spent his entire life beating up women to prove that he is a "man". Why do homosexuals lust after people who have all the same bits and pieces that they themselves already have? Because they hate themselves and want to become the same ("homo") as the other person. Why are most teenaged girls such vicious little wenches? Because most teenaged girls in this culture hate themselves. I could go on and on and on. And so could you, I'll bet.

Here's where this gets a little tricky. Self-loathing is actually an acute form of narcissism. At first blush, that sounds like a total contradiction. Isn't narcissim being in love with yourself? I wouldn't say that it is being IN LOVE with one's self, but rather being OBSESSED with one's self - either positively or negatively. Do you see the distinction? If a person is completely absorbed with the act of self-loathing, where is 100% of his focus? On himself. Exactly. The self-loathing narcissist is incapable of love. He can't love himself because that would screw up the self-loathing pity party, and he can't love anyone else because to truly love is to give yourself to another person as a GIFT. The self-loathing makes that whole "gift-giving" dynamic impossible. All the self-loathing narcissist can enjoy is shallow adoration of their false, "projected self" by strangers or near-strangers. Hence these people tend to have no close friends - only arms-length acquaintances. Think about Hitler. Hitler crafted an image of himself as a genius-savior-god to the German people, and they would line the streets and cheer him in droves. But when he got back to the Eagle's Nest and was alone in bed, in his mind he was still the homosexual prostitute from Vienna. The further things went, the more stark the contrast between the projection and the loathed self became. It's like when you come in out of the sun and you can't see in the dark, or vice versa. The shifting between these psychological extremes causes the pain to intensify. Eventually, Hitler was so full of self-loathing rage that he began to hate the very people who loved and adored him, PRECISELY BECAUSE THEY LOVED HIM. This explains why he drove Germany into the ground as much as he possibly could in the end.

This is where we are in the U.S. today. We have an entire CLASS of people running the government, church, media and universities that have been trained from the cradle to self-loathe. OIKOPHOBIA. These people are being "led" by a man, Obama, who is personally, deeply saturated with this self-loathing narcissism, due to his insecurity as a child about being foreign and biracial in Indonesia, being repeatedly abandoned by his parents, being sexually abused by Frank Marshall Davis as a teen, and finally manifesting itself in promiscuous homosexual activity as an adult, which just feeds the self-loathing even more. This situation is EXTREMELY dangerous because Obama already despises this country, and could turn the psychological corner wherein he begins to despise the very people who voted for him and continue to support him - PRECISELY BECAUSE THEY LOVE AND ADORE HIM, at any time. When he gets to the point that he hates EVERYONE, that's when the real destruction will be unleashed. Who knows? He may have crossed that psychological bridge already.

Another tricky point. You may be thinking that the antidote to self-loathing is the strong bolstering of self-esteem, both in schools, in churches, and in the workplace. WRONG. Counter-intuitively, the whole "self-esteem" bandwagon actually fosters and encourages self-loathing. Why? Because in this culture, the easiest way to get people to fawn all over you is to badmouth yourself. Think about it. If someone starts in with the "I'm no good" line, don't people practically jump out of their skin to say, "Oh no, no, no. You're wonderful! You're the best! Blah, blah, blah." So, what children (who turn into adults) learn is that the fastest way to get praise and "love" from others is to self-loathe. What starts as a means of manipulating others eventually takes deep root in the mind (satan helps with that).

So all of these school curricula and churches that are all about self-esteem and self-love are actually accomplishing exactly the opposite. They are driving children and adults INWARD into an endless self-absorption and quasi-manipulative positive reinforcement feedback loop for self-loathing. These people then start to believe that GOOD PEOPLE hate themselves, hate their community, hate their country. Up until now, there has always been someone there to jump in and say, "No, no no! You're wonderful!" But not now. We're at the endgame of all of this RIGHT NOW. The seeds have been carefully sown and tended. Now satan will have his harvest. While these oikophobic "elites" are saying "We suck, we're awful. We are the prime force of evil in the world", satan, occupying the Two Towers of Marxism and islam, is now answering with,

"Yes. That's right. You are awful. You do suck. You are the worst thing in the world, and you must be destroyed. In fact, you must destroy YOURSELVES in order to atone. You must willingly surrender yourselves to me in order to make this right. If you fight or resist your own destruction in any way, there will be no collective atonement. In fact, you should actively HELP me destroy you. It's the only way."

People, this is EXACTLY what is going on right here, right now. And we have to fight it with every fiber of our beings.

Finally, what is the proper mix of self-esteem and self-loathing in a healthy, orthodox Christian mind? I think it can be summed up in one simple sentence, that acknowledges BOTH our innate goodness as human beings, created by God in His image, and acknowledges our own profound brokenness at the same time. Let's call this our little sub-motto, and repeat it often. I know I do.

"I'm supposed to be better than this."

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

I have promised some of the golf-loving readers that I would get this posted. The first clip is Barry on the pratice tee. I have not touched a golf club in over 8 years, but I can promise you that I could, right now, demonstrate a better, smoother, more technically proficient swing than Barry, who has played FORTY-EIGHT 18-hole rounds since January 2009. And I have a spine that would engender pity from the Elephant Man. This almost forces the question: is he REALLY playing golf when he says he's playing golf? With that much sheer repetition, you would think that the old swing would smooth out just a bit. Hmmm.

The next clip is an instructional video courtesy of Carl Spackler. "You might as well be playing off the ladies' tee." I think that's good advice for Barry, in general.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

One of my all-time favorite songs . . .

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

These were sent to me by a reader. Good stuff.

So I still get these daily emails from AgNetwork.com, which, as far as I can tell, appears to be run by the KGB. Just a LITTLE communist propaganda coming from these cats. I can't bypass today's email about the EPA's proposed dust regulations without comment.

Here is the article in question.

Let's go through this.

1. This columnist, Dan Murphy, starts out by telling all of us who are worried about this that we're just a bunch of sillies and there is no way that the government would EVER do anything to hurt us.

Hey, Dan. Newsflash. The Obama regime is consciously and willfully doing everything it possibly can to collapse and destroy this country, both economically and defensively. Dude, are you in a coma or something? Wake up. Look around. Use your brain.

2. Mr. Murphy then goes on to reassuringly quote an EPA spokesman, who says, and I'm not kidding here:

"This will be an open and transparent process that will provide Americans with many opportunities to offer their comments and thoughts.”

Yeah. Transparent and open - just like the ObamaCare rape, and just like the Dodd Financial bill. For anyone in the Obama regime to use the words "open" and "transparent" ceased being funny or even farcical months ago. Now it is just insulting. Don't piss on me and tell me it's raining.

3. Next paragraph:

"There are legitimate concerns over the impact of the limits on greenhouse gas emissions proposed in that bill—amped up by less legitimate complaints that climate change is a crock"

Yeah, Dan. Don't think that we didn't catch your little backhanded insult there. Climate change is a crock. In fact, it is the second biggest crock ever perpetrated in human history - second only to Barack Obama, but only because Obama is the commander-in-chief of the most powerful military and nuclear arsenal in human history. There is absolutely, positively NO SUCH THING as anthropogenic climate change. It is a scam, and a scam that has been exposed REPEATEDLY. What is it like to be so addicted to money that you are willing to sell out to your employers, who stand to make billions off of "climate change" scams, so that your salary keeps being direct deposited into your bank account every month? What exactly is a man's integrity going for these days? About $7500 per month or so?

4. Next two paragraphs, blathering about "green jobs" and "green technology". Let me fill you in on something. Xcel Energy just announced that after spending $45 million (triple the expected cost) on installing a "smart grid" in Boulder, Colorado, that they will never do anything like that again because it yielded no benefit. In other words, this crap is just burning money. Actually, it is redistributing wealth from consumers and taxpayers to political cronies who own the scam "green technology" companies. Wake up, Dan.

5. Agriculture shouldn't be burdened with these regulations not because food is essential, but because there is NO PROBLEM TO REGULATE AWAY IN THE FIRST PLACE. Ever hear of a FALSE PREMISE, Dan?

6. People will mitigate their own dust in as much as it is economically feasible and in their own best interest to do so. I'm pretty sure that water sprayer trucks and sprinklers have already been invented and utilized WITHOUT any EPA jackboot thuggery.

7. Dan then goes on to list an assortment of the people on this EPA panel, and assures us that we're safe as kittens because, lookit! They all have Ph.D.'s and come from prestigious universities - and two are from HARVARD! They would NEVER do anything stupid, or detrimental. Oh my goodness. This is exactly the kind of utter cluelessness that keeps me up at night. Not only does Danny not understand that it is EXACTLY these types of "academic elites" that have brought this country to the edge of the abyss, but he STILL thinks that these are the people that we should trust completely. Should we also trust the likes of Regulatory Czar Cass Sunstein (Harvard), who thinks that animals should be able to sue people and that all meat should be illegal, or Science Czar John Holdren (Harvard) who thinks that humans are an infestation and that forced sterilization would be a great idea? Well, they're from Harvard, so they must be right. They're smarter than all of us, so we should just do whatever they say. If this country survives, one positive outcome will be the end of the Ph.D. / Harvard mystique. In all seriousness, I would hire someone with an associates certificate from DeVry before I hired anyone out of an Ivy League school. Heck, I'd hire someone who was a high school dropout with a little bit of experience before I hired anyone out of flipping Harvard. I think that most people in this country are waking up to the fact that these universities are complete jokes, and that the people coming out of them are incompetent to the point of being extremely dangerous.

8. Dan then goes on to tell us that we're ALL dying from particulate inhalation. Yes. People with heart and lung disease are having trouble breathing because of our dust. The fact that they have FRICKING HEART AND LUNG DISEASE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. It's the dust. WE have to do SOMETHING, and who better than our kind, benevolent, caring, wicked-smart government to take care of us? Don't fear the reaper, man.

Red alert.

We have all known for a long time that the way they are going to try to effectively ban guns is through the AMMUNITION. Well, here it is. They're moving to do it through the Environmental Protection Agency. Lead is a pollutant, don't you know.

Citation Here with lots of links beneath.

BUY AMMO NOW. RIGHT NOW. I have a horrible feeling about the next ten weeks. The Obama regime is doing everything they possibly can to antagonize We The People. I fear that they are setting up something very big and very bad. I'm afraid we won't even recognize the world by the time Thanksgiving rolls around.

On a side note, the Pope is going to visit England in three weeks. I'm not a person who has ever claimed to have premonitions, but I will say that I have had a very bad, gnawing feeling in my gut about this. England is basically a muslim country, and I fear GREATLY for his safety. I hope I'm wrong, as I hope I'm wrong about most everything I post nowadays.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

People are having a heckuva time getting their heads around this whole Obama religion thing. And, it is no wonder. There is a lot of subtlety here that I have yet to see anyone adequately comprehend and explain. Subtlety and nuance is the stock and trade of satan. We are told this explicitly in Genesis 3:1. So, I'll give it a go, because I think I see the big picture reasonably well.

The first thing we all have to understand is that islam is NOT a religion. Now you might be thinking, "That's nuts, Ann. Of course it is a religion. They're always talking about "allah" and the koran, and praying and going to mosques. Of course it is a religion."

No. Islam is a theo-political system. Islam is all about this world, specifically, the conquering and running of this world. Islam, can not, by definition, co-exist with any non-islamic governments or people. The entire world and all of its inhabitants MUST be converted to islam or be killed. "Jihad", which means "struggle" will NEVER END until this total world domination is achieved. Heck, do you know what the word "islam" means? It means "submission".

Now compare that to Christianity, and even the other major religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism. These religions can ALL exist and operate under various systems of government, from monarchy to representative republic. They have in common the fact that they look BEYOND the world and attempt to lead man on a path to heaven in some form. Only the Christian path is the true path, but the others are striving for the same human comsummation of mind, body and spirit with God, albeit in a flawed pagan way. (Buddhism doesn't believe in a Creator per se, and seeks "nirvana" in total nothingness, but I don't want to get into too much detail.) These religions seek only to INFORM government, not BE government. The words of Christ Himself confirming this are, "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's. Render unto the Lord that which is the Lord's." These religions also understand that humans, in order to have a genuine conversion experience (or "enlightenment") must come to any religion freely. There isn't much forced proselytizing going on. Think Hare Krishnas passing out flowers, Buddhist monks going on tours and doing sand drawings, or your various Christian missionary programs. None involve death threats. Only an open invitation to learn more. Again, Christ specifically tells us in Luke 10 that we aren't going to convert everyone. Islam says that you MUST convert or we will kill you, and that the only acceptable form of government, which rules every facet of human life, is Sharia.

And what is the muslim idea of heaven? Well, women are animals, so there really isn't a concept of heaven for them. For men, heaven, which is for eternity (right?) consists of 72 virgins which the man can rape at his pleasure. Five things. 1.) Quantity 72 isn't going to last very long in eternity. Just sayin'. You're going to burn through that pretty quick and still have . . . eternity left to go. 2.) Do you REALLY believe that you're going to have sex when you're dead? Really? It seems to me that forcibly deflowering girls is a very PHYSICAL, earthy experience. There's nothing more transcendent to the human soul than physical copulation? Really? Hmmm. 3.) What kind of sick piece of crap do you have to be to think of raping virgins as being the end-all be-all of human existence? 4.) What about the virgins themselves? Are they in heaven too, or are they just objects? Do they feel loved? Happy? Does it hurt? Do they cry? Where do they go when you're done with them? 5.) Where in this heaven, exactly, is allah? Is he raping virgins too? It's funny how there is never any mention of him. Islamic heaven is just the person, alone and completely consumed with his lusts. Funny. I always thought that being left alone with your lusts for all eternity was what hell was. Huh. Isn't that odd.

What I want you to see from the previous paragraph is how utterly STUPID and SHALLOW muslim "theology" is. In 1400 years, the whole laughable "theology" of it is just as imbicilic and phony as it was on day one. You know why? Because it isn't about THEOLOGY at all. It is about earthly, global domination. Any talk of heaven or god is just window dressing. It is all a scam to advance a political system. In order to get men to join and die in his army, mohammed promised them . . . sex. Yeah, it really is that simple. And pathetic.

Now here is where Barry comes in. Barry is an athiest. The only worshipping Barry does is of . . . Barry. He is a malignant narcissist and a sociopath. It is all about him. In a 2004 interview with the Chicago Tribune, when asked, "What is sin?", Barry replied, "Being out of alignment with my values." MY VALUES.

So is it possible for Barry to be both an athiest and a muslim? HELL YES. In fact, I would postulate that the majority of muslims are EXACTLY that. How can that be? Because islam is not a religion - it is a political system. Belief in god is not required. What is required is a belief in the SYSTEM. The "allah" talk is window dressing for the sophistocates and a tool to incite fear into the non-sophistocates. When have you ever heard ANY muslim speak about their deep, personal RELATIONSHIP with allah? Never. When have you ever heard a muslim refer to allah as a friend, or even as a father? Never. And what about mohammed? Mohammed isn't anyone's friend, or loving brother. Mohammed was a military and political leader, like Hitler or Stalin. Nazis had a religious belief in the SYSTEM, with Hitler as a secular "prophet". Same with Stalin. Same with Mao. Islam is a religion in the same sense that Nazism and Communism were "religions" in the 20th century.

So we have to re-frame the question. Does Barry subscribe to, advocate and wish to advance the islamic political system? Yes. And God has NOTHING to do with it.

Barry's father (Obama Sr. - assuming he is Barry's father) was ethnically muslim. Barry's step-father, Lolo Soetoro, was muslim. Barry was educated for a time in muslim school in Jakarta, and was listed as a muslim at the Catholic school he attended for a time in Jakarta. Now, let's look at the signals Barry has thrown to the muslim world:

-He declared that the muslim call to prayer was "the prettiest sound on earth" and even recited it in arabic to Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times. This is extremely important because the words of the muslim call to prayer are the words that one must recite in order to "convert" to islam. In making this statement to the New York Times, which is read globally, and even going to the extreme of reciting it for the reporter, Barry was sending a signal to muslims everywhere that he was one of them. And it sailed right over the heads of almost everyone outside the muslim culture.

-Barry has only attended a handful of Christian worship services since exiting Jeremiah Wright's "church". He is the only President to EVER not attend any Christmas service (2009). However, he makes huge points out of celebrating the commencement of Ramadan and other muslim occasions.

-Jeremiah Wright's "church" in Chicago admits to having many muslims as members, and DOES NOT REQUIRE BAPTISM of muslim converts as a specific selling point. Baptism is an incredibly powerful sacrament, which can be conferred by ANYONE, any time, so long as the form is correct (water, with the words, "I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.) Muslims looking to infiltrate a Christian culture (remember taqiyyah and kithman?) would be especially keen to avoid being baptized.

-Obama, when speaking at Georgetown University (founded as a Jesuit institution) in 2009 demanded that all of the Christian statuary and symbols be cloaked and covered. The dais in the hall in which he spoke had the "IHS" emblem in the canopy above the lectern. "IHS" is the Greek monogram of the Name of Christ. White House staffers came in and fitted a piece of plywood, spray painted black, over the IHS monogram. Just think about that for a moment.

-Michelle Obama recently took a vacation, without her husband, to Marbella, Spain. Why Spain? Why Marbella? Why spend all of that money and take the enormous public relations hit to go to an obscure resort town in SPAIN? The actual name of the Ground Zero Mosque, which Obama approved, is "Cordoba House". Cordoba, Spain is the site of the muslim conquest of Christian Spain in 711 A.D. The muslims, to show the world that they had conquered Spain, immediately built the Cordoba Mosque directly atop and using the materials from the destroyed Christian church. The GZM people have requested that a piece of the WTC wreckage be integrated into the construction of the mosque - as a "tribute", of course. Michelle Obama took her awkward vacation a few miles from Cordoba, Spain at the same time her husband was approving the Ground Zero "Cordoba House" mosque. She then made a secret evening trip to The Great Mosque at Alhambra, which the press was told NOT to report, which is the first new mosque to be opened in Granada, Spain since the Christians reconquered Spain in 1492 (yes, as in the year Columbus sailed the ocean blue). It is regarded by muslims as the beginning of the reconquering of Spain, and eventually all of Europe. CITATION HERE This was yet another clear signal to the muslim world that flew right over the heads of almost all westerners and Americans.

So what is the endgame? As I have said before, I think the Obama regime sees themselves as the core of a global Marxist dictatorship, which is in a strong alliance with the very similar political system of islam, with islam serving primarily as the military/enforcement wing. Just as none of the high-up "elites" in islam actually believe in the theology of islam and hold themselves to a totally different standard than the masses, so too Marxists preach "sacrifice" and "economic justice" to the masses while living in decadent luxury themselves. These two political systems are VERY similar and EXTREMELY complimentary. And since neither have ANYTHING to do with God, Barry can absolutely be BOTH an athiest and a muslim.

1. Everyone outside of Phillips County now thinks that I'm running with lushes. Comedy, folks. Profound irony. The only drunkeness was bacon-drunkeness. And the drunkeness associated with good conversation. It is always a pleasure to sit and solve the world's problems over food and drink with like-minded friends. Especially those who you only get to see once per year when they come to town for their checkup with their oncologist. Skoal!!

2. FUN WITH MATH!!!

This is one of those trades that exemplifies everything that is so wonderful about the cash cattle markets, and is also the dynamic that the Marxists in concert with the blood-sucking lawyers (pardon the redundancy) will jump all over and destroy.

Oklahoma City, yesterday:

SELL 731# Med-Lrg 2 steers @ $114.87

BUY 575# Med-Lrg 1 cutting bulls @ $110.73

Return on the gain = $1.30 per pound

Profit per head with a $0.90 cost of gain = $62.40

They guy who sold the #2 steers is going to sue the guy who sold the #1 steers because his #2 steers weren't REALLY #2's, they were #1's too! It's all part of a plot to discriminate against him because everyone is out to get him. Or something. And the guy who sold the cutting bulls is going to sue everyone because the price spread between steers and bulls was "wider" than what he deemed to be "fair", and thus the world owes him a living. Or something.

Marxists seize and retain power by ginning up suspicion, animosity and eventually hatred between the people in as many different ways as possible. Eventually, in Marxist states, people become "informants" and "spies" to the regime in order to curry favor and procure favors from the ruling class. If the people are all worried about the enemy next door (or heck, even within their own families), they tend to not focus as much on the REAL enemy, the Marxist slavemasters. Marxism not only reduces people to non-human economic units in the eyes of the state, but it also isolates people from one another. The whole thing is satanic from top to bottom, and most people in this country are still buying the line that it is about "justice".

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Just got home from a drunken dinner with Jim and Margaret Morris. We ate at Denver's only all-pork restaurant and Jim got plastered on the sweet meat of the swine and Pabst Blue Ribbon (on tap). Jim is what is referred to as a "naked drunk". Get two PBR's in the man, and the shirt is coming off and staying off. Period. Thankfully, we were able to convince him to put his pants back on, but only after he had shown me, God, and everyone else in the restaurant his scar.

And for the record, Elvis was right. Fried peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwiches are THE BOMB.

There is a lot of chatter and discussion right now about Obama and whether or not he is muslim since he declared his support for the Ground Zero victory mosque last week. With that has come another surge in the viral spreading of my "Dhimmitude" essay from March. Yes, I am the original author. Here is the original, in full, with the citation from the ObamaCare bill (now law).

Here is the full PDF of the law. This paragraph is on the bottom of page 107

Here is the paragraph itself:
"(5) EXEMPTIONS FROM INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY REQUIREMENTS.—In the case of an individual who is seeking an exemption certificate under section 1311(d)(4)(H) from any requirement or penalty imposed by section 5000A, the following information: 24 (A) In the case of an individual seeking exemption based on the individual’s status as a member of an exempt religious sect or division, as a member of a health care sharing ministry.

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Dhimmitude is the muslim system of controlling non-muslim populations conquered through jihad. Specifically, it is the TAXING of non-muslims in exchange for tolerating their presence AND as a coercive means of converting conquered remnants to islam.

The ObamaCare bill is the establishment of Dhimmitude and Sharia muslim diktat in the United States. Muslims are specifically exempted from the government mandate to purchase insurance, and also from the penalty tax for being uninsured. Islam considers insurance to be "gambling", "risk-taking" and "usury" and is thus banned. Muslims are specifically granted exemption based on this. How convenient. So I, Ann Barnhardt, a Christian, will have crippling IRS liens placed against all of my assets, including real estate, cattle, and even accounts receivables, and will face hard prison time because I refuse to buy insurance or pay the penalty tax. Meanwhile, Louis Farrakhan will have no such penalty and will have 100% of his health needs paid for by the de facto government insurance. Non-muslims will be paying a tax to subsidize muslims. Period. This is Dhimmitude.

Dhimmitude serves two purposes: it enriches the muslim masters AND serves to drive conversions to islam. In this case, the incentive to convert to islam will be taken up by those in the inner-cities as well as the godless Generation X, Y and Z types who have no moral anchor. If you don't believe in Christ to begin with, it is no problem whatsoever to sell Him for 30 pieces of silver. "Sure, I'll be a muslim if it means free health insurance and no taxes. Where do I sign, bro?"

If you are a Christian and you acquiesce to this, you will be bending your knee to islam, and denying Christ. How many of the early Christians went to horrific deaths rather than offer a mere pinch of incense to a statue of Caesar? Every single one of us has a BIG decision to make right now, in this moment. The choice is to either offer a pinch of incense to islam and Marxism, or take up our cross and follow Christ. I've made my decision. I choose Christ. I choose the Cross.

I recommend sending this post to your contacts. This is desperately important and people need to know about it - quickly.

Ann

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

So I'm reading the Jukebox post and totally cracked myself up. Maybe some of you likewise caught the hilarity. Don't you just LOVE being lectured to about reognizing appropriateness of context by a chick who uses her agricultural commodity futures and options brokerage website to pontificate on theology, counter-Marxist-Obamaist politics and pop music? Oh yeah. That's some delicious irony, right there. And yes, it is IRONY. You see, when I do it, it is IRONIC. When other people do it, it is called HYPOCRISY. You betcha. Hee hee.

By the way, this in no way nullifies the 100% spot-on correctness of my original point. It just makes me personally look like an enormous @$$, which is good for me. Puts hair on my chest. Ha!

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Tying several ends together this week. First, answering the question of the week, "Who is Jason Wade?" He is the lead singer of the group Lifehouse. I earnestly follow only TWO modern acts. The first and foremost is Alison Krauss and Union Station. Alison Krauss can Do. No. Wrong. The other is the band Lifehouse. I was introduced to their catalog a couple of years ago, and now eagerly await new material. They seem to be a bunch of fine young men with a Christian background. And young Master Wade is very . . . talented. This week's selection is a track off of their latest album, "Smoke and Mirrors" which everyone should go to Amazon or iTunes and buy right now. It is a track called "By Your Side". This is one of those wonderful secular boy-girl songs that could TOTALLY be a dialog between a person and God. Lyrics below, with the person in standard font, and Our Lord in bold.

Now, some might be confused after my railing against "rockband church". I have no problem with quality, wholesome music that involves percussion, bass and electric guitar. Those instruments in combination are not intrinsically evil. BUT, that genre has its place, and that place is rocking out in the car, at the gym, at the office or at home. It is NOT appropriate during the Sacred Liturgy. If your best friend was in the hospital dying a painful death after taking a bullet for you and saving your life, would you say, "HEY! Let's rock out! Somebody turn on some MUSIC up in here! All of this silence is totally BOOORING and bumming me out." No. How undignified. What an insult to your friend. Some moments are so important that the ONLY appropriate sound is the sound of silence. If any music is played at such a moment, it should be music that is specifically designed to lead us deeper into the solemnity of the death of our friend, NOT tear us away and distract us from it. This song, which I like very much, is NOT appropriate in that context. Just because I like something in the car doesn't mean that it is appropriate for all occasions. See how that works? It's all about context, and appropriateness within context, and being able to recognize that. Rockband church is totally disordered and contextually inappropriate, and whether or not we "like it" is, frankly, irrelevant.

Now, back to our wonderful song. Remember, it's a dialog with God in bold.

All I want now is to be with You
Cause You know I have been everywhere else
Looking back at what You got me through
You knew me better than I knew myself
When I feel lost and I can't find my way
When words are at a loss I can hear You say

I WILL be by your side, when all hope has died
I WILL still be around oh and I, I'M still on your side
When everything's wrong, I WILL still be around
By your side

Finding my way back to where You are
The only place I ever felt at home
Stumbling backwards through the dark
I know how it feels to be alone
And where we go is where I wanna be
And in the silence I hear You say to me

I WILL be by your side, when all hope has died
I WILL still be around, oh and I, I'M still on your side
When everything's wrong, I WILL still be around

I can't wait another day there's so much space between
Your Heart and mine, and You're all that I need
You say

I WILL be by your side, when all hope has died
I WILL still be around, oh and I, I'M still on your side
When everything's wrong, I WILL still be around
By your side, by your side, by your side, by your side, by your side

I just learned that if you hold down the "Alt" key on your keyboard and then press 0134 on the number keys on the right side of your keyboard, it will insert the Cross into whatever you are composing. Here's mine:

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Click on over and watch this local news piece out of Florida.

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A High School sponsored a congressional candidate forum in Panama City. The Repulican candidate Ron McNeil (with his thick Florida drawl - love it) was asked about the Ground Zero victory mosque. His answer was awesome. Then listen to the second kid, Doug Reed, who asks the follow-up question:

"Where is it our place to tell them that they're wrong and that their religion is bad? It's not our place as Christians, I believe," said Reed.

Man, that's some EXCELLENT catechesis young Doug has received there, huh? Too bad it wasn't CHRISTIAN catechesis. As you have probably figured out, not much scares me. Fear is something that I really don't feel much anymore. Doug Reed, and the "Christian" milieu he represents, scares me. As in hair-standing-up-on-arms scared.

Hey, Doug. If you google your own name and come upon this, let me give you a little lesson in what it means to be a Christian. Being a Christian means that you actually believe something. It isn't a flavor of ice cream that you pick out at Baskin Robbins which is neither true nor false, neither superior nor inferior - just today's choice or preference. Christianity is Truth. Your Savior is Truth. If you think Christ, and His suffering and death on the Cross is just a "flavor" and has no real meaning or superiority over anything else, then guess what, Douggie, you're not REALLY a Christian. Harsh? Yes. Nice? No. Charitable? Infinitely. You're on the wrong track, son, and where your logic leads is straight into the hands of satan. It is people like you who, more than any muslim, more than any Hollywood smut-peddler, more than any athiest, are KILLING the Church. It is your smug, condescending, self-righteous ignorance of orthodox Christianity, all in the name of "tolerance" that is killing the Church, this country, liberty, freedom and western civilization. That's a hell of a lot of blood for a sixteen year old boy to have on his hands, but kid, you're drenched.

One more little thing, Doug. I'd like to introduce you to the Spiritual Works of Mercy, which used to be taught to Christians until approximately 40 years ago. That's when the Marxists infiltrated the Church and replaced Christianity with secular humanism, relativism and "tolerance" of objective evil. Please take particular note of the first three:

The spiritual works of mercy are:

•To instruct the ignorant;
•To counsel the doubtful;
•To admonish sinners;
•To bear wrongs patiently;
•To forgive offences willingly;
•To comfort the afflicted;
•To pray for the living and the dead.

So, you see, Doug, not only is it your "place" to tell muslims that they are wrong and their theo-political system is bad, it is your DUTY as a Christian. Your failure to stand up for the Truth and to proclaim Christ as THE way, THE truth and THE life is a sin of omission.

Sorry, kid, but Pastor Jason at your super-cool rockband church, who presumably taught you this crap, is not an authoritative source of Christian doctrine. He's just making all of that "tolerance" crap up because it makes him feel good about himself and lets him fit in with the other insipid wanna-bes at the rockband church conventions he attends in Orlando. Oh, and one more reason. Pastor Jason talks "tolerance" because if you tolerate evil, you never have to fight against it. And Pastor Jason is a ginormous, yellow, sniveling coward, so he's ALL ABOUT dodging the battle. That's why he needs the rockband. Because cowards, by themselves, can't inspire anything. Brave men can inspire with complete silence. Kinda like this:

They're trading $100 fats in Kansas, Oklahomka and Texas. Discipline, children. Discipline. $100 money does no no good at all if you just blow it all out the other side. Remember, this is a margin business. Fixate at all times on the MARGIN, not the sell price.

SELL 1325# fat steers @ $100

If you have a $0.78 cost of gain and buy back . . .

. . . 829# steers @ $114.50 (South Dakota) you lose ($9.92) per head

. . . 650# steers @ $127.00 (Iowa) you lose ($27.00) per head

. . . 470# steers @ $118.25 (Oklahoma) you make $102.60 per head

. . . 625# steers @ $121.00 (Misssouri) you make $21.00 per head

These buy prices precede the $100 fat money by a couple of days. It is probably safe to assume that feeder prices today forward will advance to some degree with the fat market. Just remember, it isn't the $100 fats that are determining your P&L. It is what you BUY BACK. So the fats could go arbitrarily high or arbitrarily low, and there would still be profitable buy-backs and unprofitable buy-backs. It is completely on you to be sure that you are always, always, always making profitable buy-backs. There is no excuse whatsoever for buying a loss - especially euphoria-buying after receiving $100 money.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen

It's time to have a serious talk, friends. We all know what the deal is. We all know what is happening. We all agree that is must not be allowed to happen. The question that no one will address or answer aloud is, "How can we stop it?" Being that my purpose in life is to say the things that are breathtakingly obvious but that everyone else is too terrified to say, I will now publically answer that question.

If these various and sundry attacks on us by the regime are passed and/or allowed to stand, and are not repealed in full, we must, en masse, refuse to comply. I am sending out the clarion call, here and now, for organized disobedience and strike against these evil, destructive and hostile "laws" being forced upon us by this treacherous, treasonous, Marxist regime.

These include:

The ObamaCare mandate. I will not buy health insurance and I will not pay any excise tax for not carrying insurance. I am sovereign, and will not be taxed on my existence.

ObamaCare 1099 form rule. I will not issue any 1099s to anyone outside of the previous 1099 rules. I will not 1099 customers or vendors, and will not cooperate with any such 1099s issued to me. I am sovereign and will not allow the government to cripple and destroy my ability to run my businesses (my pursuit of happiness).

GIPSA regulations. I will not comply with the proposed GIPSA rule changes under any circumstances. The prices at which I sell and buy cattle will be determined by a combination of two discreet factors: the market and my sovereign intellect. And the regime can go straight to hell. No documentation or price "justification" will be provided. Ever.

EPA regulations. I will not comply with any so-called "carbon" or "methane" regulations. Carbon and methane are the divinely engineered byproducts of all life on this planet. There is no such thing as man-made climate change. The entire concept is the second biggest fraud ever perpetrated in human history - with Barack Obama being the first. Nor will I comply with any so-called "dust" regulations. The earth is not killing . . . the earth. These regulations are specifically and consciously designed to destroy agriculture in the United States and thus drive control of the food supply into the hands of the regime.

That's a start. I now solemnly commit to these statements. The only question is, will I be alone? If I am alone and we do not act in solidarity on this, I will most likely lose everything and may even face imprisonment. Additionally, the collapse of the Republic and the snuffing out of freedom and liberty as we know it will be inevitable. If, however, we hold the line in solidarity and collectively refuse to comply with the demands of the regime, we will either force them to fold, or we will force them to play their cards. Either way, this score will be settled on THIS HAND. We have spent the last 50+ years backing up and backing up, yielding inches, then feet, then yards at a time to these Marxist degenerates. Now, we are standing on the cliff's edge. If we give up even one more inch, it will be the end of the Republic. It is our own fault for allowing it to come to this, but there is nothing we can do about that now. What's done is done. The issue is how we choose to live our lives from here forward, and we have exactly TWO choices: as free Americans or as slaves to the regime.

I, for one, have drawn my sword, and it will not feel its scabbard again until this Republic is safe and intact under the Constitution of 1787, or I am dead. This may be a matter of months, or it may be a matter of years. It makes no difference to me. Truth and integrity have infinite endurance, and those are the two war horses upon which I ride. Jump on. There's room for 6.5 billion-plus.

1. I have had several inquiries about donations for the second billboard. Yes, I am absolutely still accepting donations. Every little bit helps, and I am delighted to facilitate YOUR flexing of your First Amendment right to free speech while shielding you from any government or Marxist-Obamaist persecution. If you want to preserve your privacy, you can pop cash in the mail with no return address (so I won't even know who sent it) to me here at the office:

Ann Barnhardt
9175 Kornbrust Circle
Lone Tree, CO 80124

Make a note of the serial numbers on the bills and as they arrive I will post them here on the blog. You can also send a check (if you wish) made out to "Ann Barnhardt". All funds received will be deposited into my personal checking account for the purpose of funding the billboards. This is a purely private endeavor on my part and has nothing to do with Barnhardt Capital Management or any of my other corporations.

2. Yes, that is a joint Barry is sucking on in the picture. I could say something else, but I'll refrain.

3. A reader sent in this point on Sharia finance:

Ann,

What is forgotten I believe is that the U.S. has set up Sharia law and Islam as the national religion in the countries which were supposedly being liberated. The U.S. advisors under Bush setup the governments in Iraq and Afghanistan and helped draft the constitutions which now have a state religion which is to dictate legislative decisions, every American taxpayer and every soldier involved is complicit whether they know it or not. AIG is so far a drop in the bucket compared to the money spent in Iraq and Afghanistan.

There used to be a small but viable Christian population in Iraq, through the destruction of war and now state dictated religion and religous laws that community has virtually disappeared.

But as long as war equates to peace in Washington and nation building is a priority it seems people will overlook the fact that the democracy supposedly created looks a lot like an Islamic Theocracy.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen

Lexington, NE
Friday, Aug 13, AD 2010

SELL 807# top-quality steers @ $114.66
BUY 524# top-quality steers @ $122.00

Return on the Gain = $1.01 per pound

Profit per head with an $0.83 cost of gain = $50.94

Or this little bit of upgrading joy from OKC yesterday:

SELL 722# Med-Lrg 2 steers @ $113.22
BUY 670# top-quality bawling steers @ $111.21

Return on the gain = $1.39 per pound

Profit per head with an $0.84 cost of gain = $28.60 per head AND you have gone from #2s to #1s. Bring it.

What I simply can't fathom is why the guy selling the six-weight calves doesn't just wean them himself. He's knocking himself down into second-cut money because he won't wean. Weaning can be done with next-to-no additional infrastructure, too. So he really doesn't even have that argument to fall back on. Oh well. I shouldn't complain. More for us, right? Well, until the government starts suing us for "price discrimination", that is.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen

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This is from Andrew McCarthy who wrote the book of the year, "The Grand Jihad". If you haven't bought it and read it yet, get busy. This cat knows what he is talking about. This piece revists the topic of Sharia finance, which we have discussed here before.

The Obama regime, in direct defiance of the First Amendment, has established islam as the state religion by aggressively funding sharia finance and zakat (muslim tithing for jihad) through AIG, the finance and insurance company that the Obama regime seized and controls, to the tune of several billion dollars.

Your tax dollars are being used to establish and spread Sharia banking, which in turn funnels money to muslim jihadists who are actively plotting your death and/or conversion to islam. Look at your baby daughter or granddaughter. If you pay federal taxes, you are funding people whose plan it is is to murder you, take your daughter, saw off her clitoris, put a sheet over her head and marry her off at age seven to a filthy, devil-worshipping muslim who will keep her illiterate, enslaved and imprisoned for the rest of her life with the rest of his "wives". No friends. No adventures. No dreams. No love. No hope.

Look at your baby son or grandson. These same wretches want to take him, put him in a madrassa "school" where he will be forced to mindlessly memorize the satanic bible, also called the "koran". He will be anally raped by his teachers on a daily basis, and taught to loathe women with such a visceral hatred that he will not want to have sex with them when he matures, and will thus perpetuate the cycle of abuse by raping the next generation of boys, because "women are for sons, boys are for pleasure". He will be so angry, hopeless, miserable and self-loathing as a result of this that he will happily volunteer to commit suicide while murdering others.

You want to know who is funding this? Take a look in the mirror. YOU ARE.

How much more of this crap are you going to sit there and take?

It is done. Billboard #2 is locked-in. My sincerest thanks to Barton County Community College for vacating the space so I could advance my crusade. And I use the word "crusade" very thoughtfully.

Here is the art work:

Those three words are the most accurate, concise description of the Obama regime and the current situation in the United States. They are in no way exaggeration. Exaggeration is not credible, thus I do not engage in it in serious contexts such as this.

Obama himself is a malignant narcissist and sociopath who has delusions of grandeur and intelligence and truly believes that he (through his Marxist apparat) needs to control our lives, because we are too stupid and backward to be trusted to our own personal sovereignity. That, and the fact that he is a racist and views non-Marxist white Americans as "the enemy" and "the oppressor" causes him to view democracy and the representative republic system in the United States with complete contempt. It is for this reason that he is (again, through his apparat) attempting to punish and subjugate the United States, both economically and defensively. Here is a laundry list of traits that display his Marxist and/or dictatorial intentions:

- Unprecedented concentration of power in the Executive branch (Czars)
- The repeated bypassing of Congress and the courts
- Utter contempt for the Rule of Law (GM & Chrysler bondholders, Black Panther case, chastising and end-running the Supreme Court, BP slush fund, etc.)
- Contempt for the Constitution (ObamaCare passage via reconciliation, ObamaCare insurance mandate, threats of "deem and pass", threats of egregious use of Executive Orders to "enact law" that Congress will not pass)
- Admitted and repeated "redistribution of wealth" schemes (ObamaCare, Porkulus, Fannie/Freddie, etc.)
- Attempting to centrally control the economy from the White House (GM, ObamaCare, Dodd Financial Bill, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, etc.)
- Voter Fraud (ACORN, SEIU and other unions, systemic cheating during 2008 democratic primaries/caucuses against Clinton, etc.)
- Voter intimidation (Black Panthers, SEIU thuggery)
- Pathological liar (ObamaCare debate on C-SPAN, no government funding of abortion, "man-caused global climate change", no tax increases, "pay-go", jobs "saved or created", "I will not rest until . . . "
- Intense propagandizing, largely at taxpayers' expense
- Attempts to control media (FCC Fairness Doctrine, attempted control of internet via "net neutrality", lapdog mainstream pravda-media)
- Intentionally stirring both class warfare and race baiting (Fat-cat bankers, the Cambridge police "acted stupidly", etc.)
- Decadent personal living at taxpayers' expense

This is a very, very short list and is in no way all-inclusive. At some point in the future, hundreds and hundreds of books will be written about Obama, the apparat behind him, and the fallout, which is yet to be determined. That's where I come in.

I view this time as an historical analogue to 1930's Germany, but there are many other analogues throughout history. I always wondered, "Why didn't anyone SPEAK UP in Germany? They all saw what was going on and how nuts the people running the country were. Why did an entire nation just sit and watch (and eventually cooperate) as their country was demolished?" And as a corollary to that question is this question:

"How might things have been different if ONE PERSON had stood up and very publically ridiculed and alerted the people to the danger of the National Socialists, the Schutzstaffel, the Third Reich movement, and especially the Reichskanzler himself? Would one initial act of courage and principle have led to a wave of resistance among the German people? If so, how many lives would have been saved? How much suffering could have been avoided partially or completely?"

These are the questions that haunt my soul. This is why I am doing this. Let it never, ever be said that out of 310 million people, there wasn't ONE who was willing to sacrifice money, security or life to avert national and global disaster. I do this openly and without hiding my identity, name or anything else, and, by God, one hundred years from now NO ONE will be asking the same questions about America that I ask about Germany. No matter how this turns out, I will have TRIED. Someone will have tried.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen

Many folks have requested that KFRM post my interviews on their website so that they can be listened to at any time, not just live. That isn't up to me, but I do have an idea. Would anyone be interested in placing ads on that page if KFRM builds it? If I come at them with 3 or 4 page sponsors ready to go, it might stimulate things.

Remember, I'm on between 11:45 and noon Central Time every Friday. I recorded yesterday, and even managed to slide a GIPSA-communist reference in there. I hope Ol' Duane doesn't edit that out! It's pretty funny, but the conversations Duane and I have AFTER the recordings are WAY better than the recorded stuff. Ah, well. The super-hardcore stuff is what this blog is for, I reckon.

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FUN WITH MATH!!

OKC, Monday, August 9, AD 2010

SELL 729# top-quality steers @ $115.64
BUY 519# top-quality steers @ $117.79
Return on the gain = $1.10 per pound
Profit per head with a $0.90 cost of gain = $42.00

I'll be merciful because I know you all are unable to stop singing "he's climbin' in your windows, he's snatchin' yo people up . . . " Uh-huh. I know, baby. I know.

I have the antidote, and the antidote is POSSUM. Possum on Hee-Haw. Possum on Hee-Haw in the '60s. One dose of this and you won't even remember who Antoine is.

You know I'll always take care of you. I'll never leave you hanging. For long.

Dude. Remember the doctor who wrote in about Medicare and Medicaid? Yeah, Dr. McAwesome sent me 200 rounds of Winchester Ranger 9mm. Shut. Up. I could empty my 33 round mag SIX TIMES and still have two left over. That's what I'm talkin' about.

I doff my cap to you, sir. You are too, too kind.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen

LTC West is bringing the "Molon Labe" and talking about the smell of fear and desperation.

Dude. Oh my. It is SO ON.

West/Palin 2012

UPDATE 3:
Ann,

I agree with you almost completely. Our company hedges 100’s of thousands of bushels per week and pays (sometimes) millions of dollars DAILY in margin calls so basis and convergence mean something to us.

The inability to deliver against short futures IS PRIMARILY A WAREHOUSE PLAY and not necessarily the fault of the contract. The CFTC and other industry groups are pushing for the KCBT contracts to be modified along the lines of VSR (variable storage rate) like CME Group is trying with its wheat contract. That may be totally uncalled for as that still doesn’t solve the problem of a BONA FIDE HEDGER not being able to make physical delivery.

The delivery houses don’t want to lose control of the stocks in their house so they resort to warehouse receipt shenanigans as you’ve described….that way they can be the only party to make delivery. However, there is always the hesitation on their part to make delivery because the TAKER of the wheat can just leave the wheat sit there, tying up space, while only paying 4.5 cents per bu per month. Ideas are being floated around some of which are:

1) Forced Load-Out: The LONG (taker) has “x” days to load out the wheat

2) VSR scheme (being tried in Chicago contracts)…if the wheat contract nearby spreads are like greater than 80% of full carry the last 3 days or so of the spot contracts life, then the storage rate is DOUBLED on the Long.

3) Cash settled futures versus an index. (my favorite)

I’M A FAN OF THE MINNEAPOLIS HRW INDEX METHODOLOGY. In fact, I traded it when it first came out and it worked as advertised. MGEX is not a large player in the exchange world, they couldn’t keep a market maker in the contract, they use DTN quotes as the source of the cash bids, and the grain industry like it or not, likes a sloppy basis ……once in awhile. So the contract died on the vine. It’s still listed I believe, but no followers at the moment.

This is not a new problem….it’s just that the HRW guys are now feeling the pinch that the SRW guys (in Missouri etc) felt two years ago when SRW was trading at -250 in Missouri, Kentucky and the like. CME Group was prompted by the CFTC to “fix it”. Gary Gensler from the CFTC at the time mentioned that cash settlement might be a possible solution, but I guess that solution was too simple for the Chicago crowd.

That’s a major downfall of the futures crowd……….over-complicate things so confusion is created. Then “experts” can be hired to help.

Anyway….I would propose a few fixes depending on the type of futures contract the industry promotes.

If it’s a deliverable contract explore things like a) track delivery b) forced load-out c) warehouse receipt tactics and rules/regs tightened up on deliverable warehouses.

If some exchange wants to list cash index futures:

a) define how the bids will be gathered...Maybe DTN is fine….but maybe it should be USDA price reporters or something like that….with a lottery system at times used on which bids are pulled to lessen the effect of manipulation.
b) don’t list every calendar month like MGEX did….match the contract months that are used in Chicago and KC….. Dec, March, May, July, and Sept.
c) a market that has “x” available bids or less cannot be used for possible collusive manipulation.

Overall this there is one major thing that the brokerage industry does not want to address but is another major factor in the wide basis levels we are experiencing…..Index funds are nothing more than a Bunker Hunt in different clothes. They are not HEDGERS, they are passive investment allocation vehicles that are only buying commodities as an asset allocation ploy. They only truly “get out” if their customers dump positions. They are not directionally based and get this they routinely carry 40 to 50% of the open interest in grains. Now I don’t think they should be “banned” from the marketplace like some are touting, but I do believe they should not be classified as hedgers and exempt from position limits. Like any other speculative participant, I believe they should adhere to position limits. My goodness, spec funds for years have been living within the guidelines of spec position limits, why should they be any different. Yes the ETF craze has brought liquidity to the grains and we welcome that, but the grain markets are simply too small for the amount of money that lurks out there and is causing some massive disruptions to physical commodity markets as this convergence issue demonstrates.

Signed,
Carlos the cash grain broker

A client wanted the lowdown on the possibility of delivering KC wheat because the basis is so utterly absurd. $1.50 under is tame, with some guys staring down $1.80 under. So I called the Kansas City Board with Trade and talked to the delivery guy. Here's the deal. There are 4 delivery points for KC wheat: Salina, Hutchinson and Wichita, KS and Kansas City. None of these 4 elevators will issue warehouse certificates, which are required to make delivery. They say they're "too full". There certainly is a lot of wheat around, but bumper crops really haven't been a problem up until now. Hmmm. So, if no one can deliver, then the contract won't converge because without delivery, or even a cash-settling mechanism tied to the price in the country, there is no converging force whatsoever. If there is no connection to the underlying cash market, then WHAT EXACTLY is the KC wheat contract besides a speculative paper game? Yeah, I dunno either.

So, my client asks me what would happen if a guy sold the Sep KC board and then just stayed in and demanded to tender delivery? Oh, this is rich. Unless the seller has a warehouse receipt stating that one of these 4 elevators had his wheat in place, he would be considered to be in default of contract. The clearing firm would then have the legal right to blow him out of his contracts on the last trading day without his permission, which they absolutely would to cover their own butts. So you literally CAN NOT deliver right now. It gets worse. These 4 elevators CAN receive wheat as they have empty space which they say must be kept open for corn harvest. But they are not legally obliged to facilitate the delivery process. So what they can do is issue warehouse receipts in increments other than 5000 bushels. Let's say you have 30,000 bushels (6 contracts) that you want to deliver. The elevators can take it and issue your warehouse receipts, but if they issue you three 10,000 bushel receipts, you still can't deliver against the KC contract because the receipts HAVE to be in 5000 bushel increments. How sleazy is that?

Unless something is done to tie these contracts to the cash market and re-establish contract integrity and the rule of law, I can no longer recommend using these contracts in a hedge capacity. They currently have no intrinsic integrity and are merely speculative playthings. You all know how I feel about lawyers and litigation, but if ever there was a time for a class action lawsuit, this would be it. The other thing that might actually be a FASTER solution is if someone started an all-new electronic exchange that cash settled to an average basket of elevator prices throughout the hard red winter wheat production area. That way the KCBOT wouldn't have to be bothered with any of us backward, religion-clinging, gun-toting, FOOD PRODUCING peasants anymore. Everyone would win.

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UPDATE: A reader just emailed in pointing out that Minneapolis is cash settled. So, why don't we all cross-hedge into Minneapolis? Let's reward their superior contract integrity with our volume.

Please read the last paragraph in the post immediately below. THIS IS WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT.

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UPDATE 2: (This comes from a fellow broker)
Ann,
I totally agree with your recap of KCBOT. The index funds and large commercials (Cargill and ADM) own that place, the guys there are just puppets. But I did catch one thing in your write up that isn’t 100% correct. Minneapolis wheat futures are NOT cash settled. MGEX does have a wheat index contract (totally different than spring wheat futures contract) that does in fact cash settle. This wheat index however has zero liquidity.

FYI: KCBOT could solve the problem by allowing Track Delivery, which they did prior to 1999, which would allow any elevator to deliver loaded rail cars against their short futures. This track delivery eliminates the need to have delivery receipts from the delivery warehouse. The longs would have to accept the rail cars on a freight spread to KC and then bill them wherever in the country they wanted to unload them. This would force convergence because if basis was less than +0 dlvd KC you would just load the cars and deliver them. Right now dlvd KC for ordinary pro wheat is appx 90 cents under the Sep KC contract. The commercials and the funds don’t want track delivery, cause then they might actually have to take the wheat!! What a joke.

Signed,
Timmy the Broker

The Obama regime has declared war on FUN WITH MATH through this GIPSA rule change Marxist monstrosity. They are going to demand written revenue and cost justification on pricing of cattle that is above the "government mandated justifiable price". If that last sentence doesn't scare the living crap out of you, then I don't know what will short of "the cable's out".

Check this out: Monday at Oklahoma City, 632# Med-Lrg 1-2 steers traded at $116.66. Great. At the same sale, 638# Med-Lrg 1-2 steers that were flagged "FLESHY" traded at $106.25.

(For my non-cattle people, the prices above are quoted per hundred pounds. That's how we do things so we don't have 4 decimal places. 2 decimal places are much easier to verbalize and think about. So the 632# steers at $116.66 per hundred = $737.29 per head. See how that works? If not, seek out someone educated either in a private Christian school or homeschooled and they'll explain decimals to you.

The reason why the "fleshy" cattle trade at a discount is because they are not going to gain weight as quickly and efficiently as a thin, hard animal. In fact, very fleshy animals might actually lose weight in the first few weeks that you own them as they lean out and normalize their body composition. That is inefficient and increases the animal's cost structure, hence the lower price.)

What this GIPSA garbage is going to do is open the door for the guy who sold the discounted "fleshy" calves to start suing people. It is further going to open the door for government bureaucrats to start demanding written justification for this price spread. And it isn't just this criteria. ALL price spreads will be attacked. This includes the spread between steers and heifers, steers and bulls, black cattle vs. colored cattle (RAAAACIST!), English breed cattle vs. Continental and exotic breed cattle (RAAACIST again!), uniform, sorted cattle vs. mixed lots, large lots vs. small lots, weaned calves vs. bawling calves, horned cattle vs. dehorned and polled cattle, gentle, bunk-broke cattle vs. wild cattle, and I could go on and on. Now every one of these class differences can be justified and the premium-discount structure is 100% justified, but that isn't really the issue. The issue is the COST of having to get a lawyer to write up formal justifications every time this happens, and the submit the written justification along with private profit and loss data to a government bureaucrat. In case you aren't aware of it, the going rate for lawyers is roughly $200 per hour, give or take. Paralegals are about half that. As you can see, what this will do is A.) drive all pricing variation out of the market. It will drive ALL production toward the lowest common denominator, which is CRAP. This will take all of the robustness out of the market and destroy what are now the greatest cash commodity markets in the world. After that is done, when no one can make any money and everything is crap, this will drive the cattle business out of the country and into South America. And really, this is EXACTLY what they want. If you want to control a population it is a two-step process: the first step is to destroy the economy and currency. Once that is done, take complete control of the food supply. Once those two things are accomplished, you have a nation of slaves. Welcome to sub-Saharan Africa or North Korea. Don't think it can't happen here. It IS happening here.

One more point. I have had quite the lesson in this over the past two years, and so you're just going to have to trust me on this. The people who are running this country, most especially in the regulatory bureaucracies, are terrifyingly incompetent. We all like to think that if you get high enough in a government or even a non-government regulatory agency that you will eventually encounter people who understand the industry that they are regulating and thus there is a level of protection against these kinds of asinine, destructive policies. People, this is NOT the case. These regulatory bureaucracies are incompetent all the way up. In fact, I would even argue that the higher you go, the more incompetent the people become. Think about it. Who makes a career out of being a regulatory bureaucrat? Yeah, the people who couldn't hack it in the performance-based real world. Lots of youngsters START OUT in these bureaucracies, but the sharp ones are looking to get out into the real world ASAP. So if you think that there are people in the government who see and understand the cattle markets and those people will "save us" from this, you are sorely, sorely mistaken. Not only do they not understand even the rudimentary BASICS of market dynamics, but more importantly, they don't CARE. All that matters is that their salary gets direct deposited into their bank account on the 15th of the month. Reality, truth, integrity and practicality are all trivial concerns to these people. Combine this with an inflated sense of importance and a love for power, and you can see why I lay awake at night.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen

Oh, what these kids can do with the computers nowadays. My nefarious objective with this post is to have as many cattlemen as possible humming this tune for the next week. You're not going to be able to get this out of your head. It possesses a certain sublime quality, in its own truly bizarre way. Watch the first YouTube clip for context, and then ENTER IN TO THE SECOND.

Hide your kids.
Hide your wife.

This is now #3 on the iTunes download chart. Wow. Just wow.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen

This hits the nail on the head for all Christians (and observant Jews, too). Don't kid yourselves. This is going to get very, very bad and at some point, between the Marxists and the muslims, there will be active persecution of Christians that involves imprisonment and execution. We need to start praying earnestly that if and when WE are the ones in the dock that we have the strength to NOT FOLD, NOT COMPROMISE, NOT CAPITULATE. We have to pray for the fortitude to die for the Truth if called to do so, because the Truth died for us, naked, skinned and nailed to a Cross.

I love his line that this is NOT "springtime in the Church" or the "new Pentecost". Amen. It is the opposite of those things. We are just now entering the valley of the shadow of death. But we shall FEAR NO EVIL, because He is with us.

Oh, yeah, Baby. I just bought the billboard beneath mine that is being vacated by Barton County Community College. I've got a FEE-VAH, and the ONLY cure is MORE BILLBOARD!!!

I have an idea for the second billboard, but I'm open to suggestions if anyone out there has any. It needs to be SUCCINCT. 12 words or less, because the font has to be huge AND people need to be able to read it and fully grasp it in one glance. Email me your ideas quickly, because I'm going to get the deuce up ASAP.

ANOTHER backgrounding yard is hiring, kids. (Are we seeing a pattern here, cattle people? Not only are my friends in Camp Awesome NOT going broke, they are expanding and hiring. That's how we roll. Come join us.)

They are taking resumes for a head stockman (or stockbabe). Responsibilities include: walking/riding pens, exercising cattle, sorting, receiving/processing cattle, and light maintenance. Work must be performed using low stress cattle handling techniques. Opportunities for advancement.

If you're interested, call or email me (Ann) and I'll give you their full contact info so you can send them your resume.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen

This is getting syndicated all over the place. Rock on.

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Barton County Community College is moving its billboard (which is just beneath ours) because it doesn't want to be associated with such "politically charged" rhetoric. Fair enough. They are 100% free to feel that way and execute accordingly. That's what freedom is all about. Cheers.

For me, the BEST part of all of this so far has been reading the comments left after these news articles and blog posts. My absolute favorite so far was the guy that called me a "nasty, diseased hooker". Oh, yes. That is so choice. But, I'm hopeful that someone else somewhere will raise (or is that lower?) the bar and surpass the NDH line. There is a WORLD of profanity out there that has yet to be tapped. Come on, people. In fact, let me give you some ammunition to help you along:

1. I pick my nose in the shower.

2. I think that mayonaisse a food group.

3. My colorist says that I should have my roots done every 6 weeks, but I ROUTINELY wait ten.

4. I have a corn on the inside of the pinkie toe of my left foot.

5. My two lower ribs on my left anterior side are fused.

6. I have scoliosis.

7. This one time, I kissed a boy . . . with my mouth open. Yeah. Seriously.

8. I have lingered in thought about how "talented" Jason Wade is . . . even though he is married. It's shameful. I know.

9. I always spell the word "seize" wrong, and then have to look it up and correct it.

10. Two years ago I took credit for birthing a baby which was REALLY the love child of my 17 year old daughter and her hockey-jockey boyfriend. You betcha.

That should get you guys off to a good start, anyway. Hey man, anything I can do to help. Always.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen

It's Faron Young singing "Hello Walls". Is this not the visual definition of "wholesomeness"? Sigh.

DF had these T-shirts made up for himself and his wife. This kid is going to be order buying by age four. Guaranteed.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen

Here's the full story on Nye County, Nevada Sheriff Tony DeMeo.

Good stuff. I don't think anything NEW has happened in NV, but this guy seems ultra-cool.

I'm the new regular Friday Feature on KFRM radio out of Salina, KS with Duane Toews. That's 550 on your AM dial. I'll be on tomorrow between 11:45 and noon Central Time. KFRM streams HERE at www.KFRM.com

I'm looking forward to pissing a lot of people off, and boosting KFRM ratings in the process. YAY!

Well, my big house sold just in the nick of time, it appears. Obama is going to start "forgiving" PRINCIPAL on underwater mortgages to the tune of many hundreds of billions of dollars. In other words, he is attempting to buy the November elections. Literally.

This is going to be a complete disaster and will absolutely PUMMEL the real estate market. Let's say you're a homeowner who is underwater in their mortgage and have your house on the market, but can't get out because the current market price is $100k below your breakeven asking price, so the cheapest thing for you to do is just stay in the house and make payments as best you can, staving off foreclosure for as long as possible.

Now, imagine Obama swoops in and forgives $150k of principal on your house with a snap of his finger. What you do is immediately drop your asking price $125K, sell the house, and walk away with $25k in cash.

Meanwhile, your responsible neighbor watches the value of his home PLUMMET because all of the distressed homes in the neighborhood are selling at a lower price level equal to the amount of the Obama bailout.

Now you can see why I'm so tickled to have unloaded the big house. I could EASILY see this resulting in an instant $200k or more equity reduction in that neighborhood based on the size of the houses and the number of distressed mortgages in that price bracket. (For those of you who had been in my big house, the new buyers are putting in an aquarium underneath the grand staircase. Mmm. Classy. Somehow, I don't think that they fully appreciate what is going on. Enormous custom aquariums aren't exactly the best way to allocate money in the run-up to a collapse and possible hot war. Eyeroll.)

This vote-buying scheme PUNISHES the responsible citizens, and REWARDS the irresponsible. The government is now going to be paying cash bribes to the financially insolvent in order to buy their votes. The hope is that the number of votes they buy will exceed the number of people they piss off.

Not to sound like a broken record, but no economy can survive this level of bastardization. The whole system is 100% backwards. Good is bad. Up is down. Failure is success. If you don't pay your mortgage, you get a cash bonus. Do pay your mortgage and you have massive amounts of equity confiscated by the government.

This nation is going to collapse. We don't have long.

Citation Here

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen

Yes, the wheat is going completely berserk again. The excuse being given is Russian drought and fire, but the truth is that this is just the best-sounding story. Between the U.S., Australia and Russia, there are ALWAYS going to be adverse conditions present which can be spun as a bullish fundamental case. The fact is that commodity funds are buying, and all of the other market players, particularly small speculators, small hedgers and large hedgers (grain elevators) are still totally snake-bit from the rally in 2008. Everyone still remembers having their bank cut them off and forcing them to blow out of short hedges two years ago, and thus no one wants to step in and sell the wheat. When there is more buying than selling, the market goes up. Deep, huh?

Here is where I am. I have no interest in ANY fundamental analysis. I don't care about Russia. I don't care about the U.S. crop. I don't care about barge basis bids in China (I heard some guy talking about that on the squawk box a couple of weeks ago - no kidding). None of it matters. If huge commodity funds are going to buy and no one steps in to match their volume on the sell side, then this market is going to go up. Period. All I watch anymore are CHARTS. So long as the uptrend is intact, I'm bullish. "The trend is your friend." When the uptrend is finally broken, then I'll be bearish. Simple, huh? I'm not going to sell the high tick, but you know what? NEITHER ARE YOU, CHA-CHA. So there you go.

I received a great email from an internist in Michigan today. He said that MANY doctors agree that Medicare and Medicaid MUST GO. They're killing the entire system. He then related two anecdotes. The first regarded a very elderly patient with dementia whose family told him, "Do EVERYTHING, regardless of cost or outcome." His second anecdote regarded a 30 year old crack addict with diabetes who is in a revolving cycle of doing crack, getting sick, checking into the hospital, going home, doing crack, etc. And she never pays for any of this. These are two VERY challenging questions. The doctor is understandably frustrated by both scenarios. But, we have to probe deeper here.

With regards to end-of-life care, we CAN NOT allow those decisions to be taken out of the hands of the individual or the individual's family. As I told the good doctor, life is precious, and sometimes suffering at the end of life is part of God’s plan for that person. Also, end-of-life suffering can be a life-altering witness to the family, friends and even physicians and nurses. Life must end NATURALLY and with dignity. We can't have disinterested parties deciding which lives are worth living and which aren't. Every life is worth living so long as God sees fit to sustain it. Further, we can't have a culture that permits outright suicide. This is not the same as "do not resussitate" orders. DNR kicks in only after a naturally occurring event. What I'm talking about is a lucid person or family deciding that "enough is enough" and actively bringing on death via external acts or mechanisms.

With regards to true EMERGENCY care, yes, we do need to provide it, no matter how much it may be abused. I know it is hard to swollow that, but there it is. Can you imagine calling 911 after finding a stricken homeless person and being grilled on payment method BEFORE the ambulance is dispatched? Or staggering into an ER with chest pains or a terrible injury and having to prove financial solvency before a doctor will help you? No. And that is what is so great about this country. I don't care who you are or where you are, if you need honest-to-goodness emergency care, you're going to get it, and we'll figure out the money part later. This is what makes me so mad about these Marxists claiming that tens of millions of people go without healthcare in this country. BULL. S***. What an insult to all of the ER physicians and nurses, as well as paramedics who help people EVERY DAY regardless of income, race, or citizenship status. This is one of the top reasons why we truly have the best healthcare system in the world.

With regards to the diabetic crack addict, we have to remember that she is a human being, with the same infinite dignity as you and me. She has the potential to straighten out and become who she was meant to be. She could end up being someone's mother, or just someone's friend. We can not know what the plan for her is. We can't deny her EMERGENCY treatment. I know. It seems unfair, but the other alternative of effectively executing her in a passive way leads to very, very dark places. We can't go there.

Here's where the economics kicks in. If we abolish Medicare and Medicaid, and make serious malpractice reforms, prices for medical services will become competitive again and it won't be nearly as expensive to A.) take care of granny in her last days or B.) provide emergency treatment to the diabetic crack woman. So right off the bat, we're reducing costs for all of this. Dynamic two is the fact that at some point, we won't have to pay Medicare taxes. Reducing taxation will stimulate the economy and increase the disposable incomes of the people. Disposable incomes will also rise as free-market health insurance costs fall. When disposable incomes increase, so does tithing and charitable giving. Through voluntary charity, we can provide things like low-cost hospice and care for the indigent. Guys, THAT'S EXACTLY HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE. This is the true Christian model. Why do you think most hospitals are "St. So-and-so" or "Presbyterian" or "Methodist". Christianity is NOT about forced redistribution of wealth. It is about free individuals CHOOSING to redistribute their own wealth on their own terms. The only love that is REAL is love that is FREELY GIVEN. This, right here, is the crux of why Marxism, Socialism and Communism can never and will never work. These things aren't about LOVE. They are about FORCE.

What is truly sad is that almost no one in this country will say these things out loud. People have become convinced that SocSec and Medicare are God-given rights, and I think many people would gladly watch the country collapse than surrender these entitlements. Any politician who dared bring this up would be immediately destroyed in the media. Again, that's the Group One dynamic. That is the real problem that we face - the inability of the broad populace to deal with reality. Scary.

Finally, as I told the good doctor, if we as a culture always choose LIFE, all of the other stuff WILL take care of itself. Promise.

(I have been asked for this essay from Eastertide several times, so I'll just repost it for everyone.)

Here's your theology lesson for the day, and I have the feeling that more than a few of you are not going to like this one. If there is one thing you should have figured out about me by now, it is that I DO NOT PULL PUNCHES. Looking at the events of the last few weeks and the sheer speed with which the national and global situation is being pushed towards the cliff's edge by the Obama regime, I want to get this on the record so that there is still time for people to sit and calmly think about it.

The entire notion of a "rapture" of Christians at the end of time is a dirty, satanic lie that imperils human souls.

1. Are these the "End Times"? I have no idea. And neither does anyone else. When it does happen, there will be no way that anyone will miss it. Don't worry about that. Here is what I do know. The western world is emerging from 60+ years of peace, progress and prosperity unparalleled in human history. This era from the end of WWII until the election of Obama is already being labeled by historians as the "Pax Americana". The Pax Americana is coming to an end. Does this necessarily imply the Second Coming is near? No. The last 2000 years have seen wall-to-wall wars, genocides, plagues and every imaginable type of human cruelty and suffering all over the world. Our little cocoon in time here in the U.S. and Canada since the mid-1940s has been off-the-charts in terms of peace, safety and human happiness. In other words, our happy, free lives have been the miniscule exception in the continuum of human history. This point CAN NOT be overemphasized. So, the rocky, frightening current events MUST be placed into that perspective. Having one's bank accounts seized by the IRS, or even being thrown in prison is pretty much a non-event compared to what happened in the Vendee genocide in France, or the rape of Nanking by the Japanese. I'll not go into detail here. Google either of those terms if you want to see what human beings are capable of doing to one another - but don't say I didn't warn you. My point is that terrible, terrible things have happened since 33 AD that surely felt like the "End Times" to the people that suffered through them, but they were not the End Times. They were just horrific episodes in human history. We must humbly accept that this very well could be the case now. Are we so full of ourselves that we think that even the slightest hint of suffering DEMANDS Christ's return? Uh, no. Let's get over ourselves, shall we?

2. The concept of the “Rapture” is less than 300 years old. The very first hint of anything even close to the concept of Rapture was put forth by a Puritan by the name of Increase Mather in Boston in the early 1700s. This idea was identified as a money-making scheme that was exciting and sensational to people and that would fill the pews and collection plates. Early drivers of the Rapture bandwagon included Darby, Moody, and Scofield who were the direct antecedents to Lindsey, LaHaye and Jenkins today. So, we have over 1700 years of Christian history and scholarship and Christ has exactly TWO comings – the first from 1 AD to 33 AD, and the second “in glory to judge the living and the dead” which is yet to occur. One. Two. Period. Then, all of a sudden, a shoe salesman (Moody) and a lawyer (Scofield) discover that there is a THIRD coming, between the two – a SECRET coming that only THEIR FOLLOWERS will benefit from. Do I need to go any further? Seriously. Because NO ONE had read the Bible up until Moody and Scofield. Nope. Not a soul. The first two people to ever read the Bible were a shoe salesman and a lawyer back east, who happened to discover an “obvious” doctrine that radically alters Christian theology, and purely as a side note would make them very, very rich men. YOU BETCHA. I’ll take a side of global warming with my Rapture, please.

3. Here is why this is so important. People who subscribe to the Rapture trap think that they will be spared any suffering in the End Times. All of the “good” people will be raptured away before the tribulation period, and all of the “bad” people will be “Left Behind” to suffer. Hmmm. So let me get this straight. Good people don’t suffer. So, your grandpa that was eaten alive by cancer – he must have deserved it. The people in northeast France who were raped and mutilated by the revolutionary mercenaries, they must have deserved it. The US soldiers that were eviscerated and died holding their guts in their arms on Omaha Beach – they must have deserved it. Not only did they deserve it, but their families deserved it, too. So when Jesus said, “Take up your cross and follow me,” He must have been CONFUSED, because Christians don’t suffer. As we can see, not only do Christians suffer, but they should EXPECT to suffer. Read the Beatitudes. Blessed are those who MOURN. Blessed are you when you are PERSECUTED. And on and on. There is an old quote: God has one Son without sin, but He has no sons without suffering.

4. What satan has done with this Rapture lie is completely break down Christians’ ability to bear and persevere in their faith through periods of suffering. What are all of the “Left Behind” fans going to do IF the End Times actually do begin and they aren’t whisked away? Oh, there are several things they will think. They will think that God doesn’t love them and has abandoned them, and thus lose their faith. They will think that the Bible is untrue and untrustworthy (because the rapture is so clearly Biblical, and Hal Lindsey just CAN’T be wrong) and thus lose their faith. They will think that they must not be saved, and the fact that they are still on the earth is proof that they are already damned, and thus lose their faith. What is the common operator? That they will LOSE THEIR FAITH. People, that is satan’s sole objective. He will do anything and everything in his enormous power to get you, me and every possible person to LOSE THEIR FAITH. And of course, one of the most effective methods to get people to lose their faith is to pervert and twist the Bible and doctrine into traps like this. The raising up of false prophets also is a highly effective means of breaking peoples' spirits.

5. What this Rapture trap also does is cause Christian Soldiers to go AWOL from the fight. How many times have I heard people say, “Oh well, I don’t need to worry about any of this. The Lord is going to Rapture me home, and I won’t be around to see any of this happen. I just have to remember that none of this has anything to do with me.” This really gets my dander up. Look, every single one of us is going to be JUDGED. And what will we be judged upon? OUR ACTIONS AND DECISIONS IN THIS WORLD. Don’t tell me that the world doesn’t matter. The world and my interaction with it will be the foundation of my personal judgment before Christ. I am baptized and have confessed Christ. What do I do with that? Do I follow Christ’s command to go out into the world and make Him manifest (imperfectly!) in the world? Or do I take my salvation, smugly tuck it into my pocket and promptly retire to my room to engage in a life of self-absorbed self-satisfaction? “I’m going to heaven. I’m going to be Raptured. And to hell with the rest of you.” Literally. I think I remember St. Paul saying something about working out one’s salvation “in fear and trembling.” Pompous, selfrighteous disengagement is about as far from that as you can get. The Lord’s Prayer says, “Thy will be done ON EARTH as it is in heaven.” Are we going to cooperate in God’s will on earth, or just surrender that bit to satan? Satan is definitely trying to deceive you into surrendering the earth to him. The Rapture trap is a big tool on his belt for that.

So there you go. Whether we are leading up to just another period of human suffering, or to the Glorious Coming of Christ, we have to have our heads on straight and be steeled and prepared for battle, physically but ESPECIALLY spiritually. Either way, satan is going to be using the situation to rip as many of us from the arms of Christ as he possibly can. DON’T LET HIM DO IT. Cling to the Cross.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen

GREAT feedback on the first GIPSA piece. The whole Nash analogy really struck a chord, huh?

The first thing I want to focus on is the whole "Camp One, Camp Two and Camp Awesome" dynamic. I'm sure that more than a few people were surprised to see me get after the "Camp One" crowd as hard as I did. "Wait, Ann. You're kinda insulting your own new customer pool. Why are you calling Camp One people inept and incompetent? Isn't that just Camp Two?"

Oh no. No, no, no. Camp One is every bit as inept and incompetent as Camp Two, the difference is in how they handle it. Camp One doesn't start demanding that other people bail them out. They just fail quietly, which is dignified, but still very bad. Camp Two people try to drag everyone else down with them in an angry, jealous rage.

But isn't this a very, very good analogy for the broad culture? If you think about it, what do we have in this country? We have THREE groups of people. Group One is the largest. It consists of largely decent people who work for a living, raise their families and live their lives. This USED to encompass both Democrats and Republicans. There were some relatively subtle differences in political theory - which is good, by the way. It is GOOD to have a multi-party system, no question. Ideally, what should come from a multi-party system is that the best ideas from both parties would be enacted, and so there would be a good balance and a healthy culture. Praise the Lord. Unfortunately, the whole spectrum has skewed so far left that the so-called "Republicans" of today are to the left of the "Democrats" of 50 years ago. GWB = or to the left of JFK, roughly. Minus the whoring and Peter Lawford. So now, most people fall into one, big, apathetic, uninformed, uneducated, sports-addicted, American Idol-addicted, quivering blob of humanity that has not the slightest CLUE what is going on, and probably wouldn't do anything to defend the Constitutional Republic, much less their own state, city or even home. Just go with the flow and do what you're told and keep your mouth shut and don't rock the boat. Or they simply despair that nothing can be done, so why bother? That's Group One.

Group Two is the relatively tiny cabal of uber-leftists who control government, education, the church and media. There are literally only a few thousand of these people, but they are so deeply entrenched in key areas that they're running the show. They're like an inoperable brain tumor. It is there, and it only weighs a few ounces, but you can't get at it and it is going to kill you.

Group Awesome is us, if you don't mind my saying so. We are the remnant of the true conservative right, that has by some miracle of grace managed to sidestep or overcome our horrific education (the younger you are, the more Marxism you were fed in school), apalling Christian catechesis and liturgy, and siren's song of the media. (Who besides me has dropped broadcast TV from their lives? Raise your hands, please.) There are a few million of us. In fact, it is estimated that we are roughly 3% of the population. I was somewhat surprised to learn that only 3% of the Colonial population actually enjoined the fight against the British in the first American Revolution. So, be heartened. We have exactly the same demographic as General Washington had, and he sure got it done.

So, the point is that our real enemy is not so much the Obama regime. We could take them pretty darn easily if it came down to it. We outnumber and outarm them handily. The real concern is the mindless, self-absorbed masses in Group One. If we can't develop some positive inertia among these people, then the long-term problems will NOT be solved. All that will happen is deferring the inevitable for another decade or so. BIG changes need to be made if this civilization is going to survive. What are those big changes?

1. Striking down Roe vs. Wade and ending the cult of child sacrifice. No nation can or should survive if it insists upon slaughtering its own children. And I don't care if this makes you uncomfortable, or if you think we need to be more "centrist" on this point. WE HAVE TO STOP KILLING BABIES. If we don't do that, nothing else matters. NOTHING.

2. Social Security and Medicare MUST END. These are Ponzi schemes, pure and simple. No Ponzi scheme is viable. It will always end with utter collapse. No one looked at the Bernie Madoff scheme and said, "Well, this is bad, but we need to keep it going." HELLS NO. They shut it down instantly. It was a horrible fraud. Some lucky people came out of it early on smelling like roses. Many people lost a lot of money. That's how the cookie crumbles. It is exactly the same with Social Security and Medicare. The government needs to say, "Look, anyone born on or after January 1, 1970 is NOT going to get any Social Security or Medicare. That's just how it is. You have plenty of time, so start planning for this reality now." Yes, we are going to get screwed on all of the SocSec and Medicare taxes that we have paid and will continue to pay, but you know what? That's life. It isn't always fair. Sometimes you get screwed. Royally. Deal with it. Because the stark reality is this: We're not going to be getting any Social Security or Medicare anyway. If we don't bite the bullet and sunset these schemes now, the entire nation will implode and cease to exist. The Ponzi scheme is unsustainable and will collapse long before we reach retirement age. So either we can be fricking adults and acknowledge the obvious reality of the situation and voluntarily lift this burden off of the nation by sunsetting it ourselves, thus laying the foundation for not only recovery but prosperity, OR we can be the selfish, small-minded little brats that we have been up until now and force the entire system to collapse under the weight of our own self-delusion and self-absorption.

A generation of people 60 years ago got SocSec and Medicare without ever having to pay into it. They made the decision to screw us. And we are indeed screwed. Are we going to lay down and die, or are we going to stand up, dust ourselves off, and keep going? Are we victims or are we survivors? Are we Americans or aren't we? We are the generation that is going to pay into it our whole lives and get nothing out of it. THIS IS REALITY. The question is, what is more important to you? Your precious SocSec checks and horrible "free" government healthcare 35 years from now or the survival of your country? CHOOSE NOW, BECAUSE YOU CAN NOT HAVE BOTH.

3. Term limits. My brother said something very wise a few months ago. "We have got to put a stop to this situation of people running the country who have NEVER DONE ANYTHING IN THEIR LIVES." Exactly. Obama is the poster child of this. This guy has literally never done an honest day's work in his entire life. He has never been responsible for ANYTHING, including his own education, or even writing his "books". He didn't write those books. Bill Ayers wrote the first one and Jon Favreau wrote the second one. And, I'm not making this up, the only thing anyone can say he did in college was organize the coffee and pastries at the meetings of the Harvard Law Review. He has never run a business, met a payroll, or even had to perform in the fake jobs he has had. And it isn't just Obama. Look at how many examples of stunning, terrifying stupidity I have posted here on the blog out of members of Congress. Many of these people literally could not answer a phone, mop a floor or hold down any sort of real-world job. So what do they do? They run for office. And then lo and behold, people like Charlie Rangel and Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters and Louise Slaughter and Joe Biden end up multi-millionaires. How do we solve this problem? Term Limits. One and you're done. Yes, ONE. If you're going to do something in Washington, better get about it, because you're not going to be there very long. And no pension. You should not become a millionaire by serving in government. If you want to be a millionaire, work hard and earn it. Then, if you're feeling patriotic, go ahead and run for office and serve a term. And then go home, resume your place in your business if you so choose and let someone else do their patriotic duty. Amazingly, that's how it used to be. Politics wasn't a career. It was a "service hiatus" and a burden that people voluntarily took on out of love for country and neighbor. Hmmm. That's so crazy, it just might work!

More later . . .

There is going to be a rally in Leavenworth, Kansas (where I was born and lived and worked until age 17) for the "Leavenworth 10" on Labor Day. The L10 are 10 outstanding young soldiers who are currently imprisoned at Ft. Leavenworth serving 15+ year sentences for killing Al-Qaeda scum in the Iraq theater. Unreal. They deserve our support.

The clincher is that LTC Allen West is going to be the keynote speaker. DUDE. How could I not attend this fine event? The event website is below. If you can do it and are within a reasonable travel radius, come on out to this. We'll hang out and shake LTC West's hand. If you want to go, let me know and if we get enough of a group put together, maybe we could book a party room somewhere and have our own casual soiree Saturday night.

(Word to the wise: DO NOT book lodging in Leavenworth. Trust me. Stay in one of the nice, new, safe properties just across the river over by the airport (KCI).)

Event Website and Registration ($35)

As if any more was needed.

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The head child-raper, I mean Ayatollah, over in Iran has issued a decree that music is evil and should not be practiced or taught. And not just Lady Gaga or acid metal or rap. No, all music. Human beings, when left to their own devices, can really screw things up royally, but the standard symptoms of human godlessness usually don't involve nihilism. Most godless people still have the urge to chase beauty and pleasure and happiness in the world around them. These intrinsically good appetites then spin out of control and the next thing you know you're Paris Hilton. But Paris Hilton is merely misguided in her chase for "the good life". Islam is so completely contrary to anything good or beautiful or authentically HUMAN that it is impossible to believe that it is the result of a human mind. Islam drives humans into such a twisted state that they end up rejecting BEAUTY, HAPPINESS and LIFE ITSELF. Now who do you think could be the author of such a system? Don't kid yourself. It is satan himself. "allah" = satan. "allah" is NOT God. Islam is not a continuance of nor related to Judeo-Christianity. Islam is the ultimate bastardization of the Abrahamic faith and is the biggest lie ever told, by The Liar himself.

Now, please enjoy a large group of individuals, all with their own talents and gifts, coming together in perfect coordination, to create five minutes of aching, heavenly beauty.