Krugman Kraps on 9/11

Good Monday morning, y'all.

Maybe you read this yesterday, but the New York Times "economist" Paul Krugman, former Enron financial advisor, was nice enough to get up early on the tenth anniversary of the worst attack on American soil to type this little screed: The Years of Shame. Click at your peril, as it contains the very worst of Krugman's leftie pomposity.

Here's a taste...

Te atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.

Needless to say, Krugman's vile little piece of red journalism wasn't well received by about, oh, 98% of the public who were busy yesterday recalling the senseless murder of nearly 3000 innocent Americans and the countless acts of bravery by first responders and ordinary people who found themselves in the most extraordinary circumstance we've ever seen.

Um, Pauline, just what would you have had us do in response? Issue a sternly worded letter of condemnation, ala some weak, European, socialist country?

My boy, you're forgetting where you live.

Here's another little turd of "thought" from the link...

A lot of other people behaved badly.

Like the terrorists? How about them, Pauline? Did they not go out of their way to draw up their elaborate plans to kill as many Americans as possible, cripple both our economy and government, only to have their well-thought-out (to them) plans foiled by the passengers on Flight 93?

Oh, no, Pauline couldn't blame the actual perpetrators of the crimes that day. Tell me, you simpering little self-important idiot, how GW Bush, Mayor Guliani and Police Chief Kerik "cash in" on the tragedy? By penning a best-selling book six months later while the ruins of the World Trade buildings were still smoldering?

The little lefty ended with this...

The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.



I’m not going to allow comments on this post, for obvious reasons.

Maybe to you the memory of 9/11 has been poisioned. The rest of the country, the patriotic 98%, the ones you look down your little nose at, certainly doesn't think that. No, Pauline, we are able to see the truth of that day.

Your cowardice is evidence of your intellectual and moral vapidity, which is foisted upon the nation weekly along with your failed economic theories. You are a despicable excuse for a man and undeserving of the title of American. You should be fired and shunned by the rest of the country. Your outdated, radically leftist opinions are the stuff of insanity.

I'd really like to hear you say the words you bravely typed to me in person, you little socialist wimp.

This is what you'd get, and would rightly deserve.



Have a nice day.

Osama bin Laden Achieves Room Temperature

All Mondays should start this way, with a murderous madman's death.

Just in case you haven't heard, the bastard's dead. Good riddance. Rot in hell where you belong, you POS.

I could post a bunch of links to the details, but you can click anywhere on this Internet thingy and find out all the wondrous details of the Navy Seal's strike that got that piece of human debris. In fact, I changed that last sentence because the words human and OBL don't belong in the same sentence together. Oops, crap, I did it anyway.

It should be noted that we found him inside Pakistan. Some ally, huh? I want plenty of answers as to why they were giving that goat-lover cover?

Did I mention that I'm a very happy Boy this morning? There aren't enough good things to say or write about this. It's an  important turning point in the War on Terror. We now have the momentum, as we knew we would one day.

AQ and the Taliban say they'll retaliate. I only have one thing to say to them.

Bring. It. On.

And you just know that someone else will rush to fill OBL's place. Good. We'll find him and kill him too. And the next one, and the next one.

I don't have any pangs of conscience about celebrating the death of one of the devil's henchmen. He was an evil man whose every breath was an insult to peace-loving people everywhere. I'm very glad he's dead. I don't mourn the death of evil, I revel in it.

Now, I think I'll go ride around a while and join in the celebrations that are sure to pop up where I live. However you choose to enjoy this day, do so. We needed it.

It's a good day.

Paper Blood – The Global Economic War Against the US

I admit there are days when I wish I weren’t interested in politics. I could just boot up my computer, kick back with a cup of coffee, and entertain myself with Oscar results, the travails of Lindsey Lohan, or the latest buzz on American Idol contestants. But due to some curse, I find myself drawn to all things political, mesmerized by the efforts of mankind to rule himself. The juxtaposition of human nature and the machinations of government draw me in just as surely as a well-crafted song. High points, low points, counterpoint, tension and release, all played out on the stage of life.

This song came to mind as the soundtrack for today’s act…



While perusing the Interwebs this morning, I ran across a link at the Blogfather’s site, Instapundit.com. With his usual understatement, it goes like this:

ECONOMIC WARFARE: Was the U.S. a victim of an economic 9/11 in 2008? Unclassified DoD report at the link.

What I found at that link was cause for concern. Great concern. A lot of great concern. A metric shit-ton of it in fact.

Contained in that report, aside from a great deal of financial information that I was unaware of (being the layman economist that I am), were the details of a global effort to bring down the US market. The breadth and depth of the effort took me by surprise, as it will you if you’re brave enough to read it.

I must warn you, it isn’t for the squeamish.

The average American, upon reading this, would be quite rightly befuddled at the concept of anyone else in the world going to such lengths to harm us. The overwhelming majority of us want nothing more than to have a good job so we can provide for our families. We haven’t personally done anything to warrant such a reaction from anyone in any other country. We don’t want to subjugate anyone else, in fact the opposite is true. We are more than willing to share our freedom and prosperity with others. However, as we are slowly finding out, the rest of the world would rather destroy us than to have their own people live in peace and freedom. Such is power of corruption and the corruption of power.

Since this report is over 100 pages, it’s a thick read. Just my own notes were enough for a week’s worth of posts, but since I know you guys don’t care for that much detail here, I’ll try to limit this post to just the highlights. Take note of this: there is little in the way of conspiracy theories in it. All the evidence of a global financial jihad against us has already occurred.

The report points to the obvious enemies of radical Islam but also includes other well-known enemies who are working behind the scenes to topple our government, and with that, destroy our way of life. We’ll start with Osama bin Laden’s remarks in his 21 December 2001 message:

“… The economic bleeding is continuing to date, but it requires further strikes. The young people should make an effort to look for the key pillars of the US economy. The key pillars of the enemy should be struck, God willing... Thanks to Almighty God, those blessed attacks, as they themselves admitted, have inflicted on the New York and other markets more than a trillion dollars in losses. …hitting the economic structure…is basic for the military power... It is very important to concentrate on hitting the US economy through all possible means.”

We’ve heard these statements before from him, what we haven’t heard is how he plans to carry out his goal of our economic destruction. It’s here that this report details the financial instruments through which our enemies can wage an economic war on American interests and institutions. And just so you know, it’s pretty much everybody: Iran, OPEC, Russia, North Korea, Hugo Chavez, and George Soros all have a hand in this.

You’ll learn about Sovereign Wealth Funds and how they financed “bear raids.” You’ll also discover the curious differences between two similar raids of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. You’ll find out why Credit Default Swaps are dangerous to companies that aren’t in the housing market. Ditto for hedge funds and short selling.

Especially enlightening is the section that chronicles the running up of oil prices in 2007 despite any drastic disruptions to the world supply.

Although replete with references to the financial hows and whys that cause most people’s eyes to glaze over, the author does a good job of defining them and giving short explanations of how they work. If you don’t yet know how short selling works or what a “bear raid” is and the damage it can cause, you’ll know when you finish reading the report.

You’ll also be scared shitless.

Friday Bits of Tid - 9/11 Edition

A Prayer

Heavenly Father, we humbly seek Your wisdom and guidance, Your Grace, Loving Kindness and Your continued Blessing upon our land as we recall the souls lost on September 11, 2001. We ask that you fill our hearts with forgiveness. We ask also that you open the hearts of our enemies that they might know Your love and that peace may reign over Your Creation. That we, your children, may one day join together in harmony and good will, seeking no longer war nor destruction. Let your Light show us the path to righteousness that we may not stumble, but find at journeys' end the peace which you promise in Everlasting Life. Grant us these humble wishes, O Lord, that we may know Heaven on Earth.

Amen