The REAL Issue This Election
Gay marriage, abortion, energy policy and so many other talking points fall in this category. Yes each are important in their own right, however they have been used as a distraction from the more important issues this election. The biggest of which, as evident by the recent Wall Street crisis is monetary policy.
Americans are in debt slavery, and not to China. If the term "debt slavery" new to you, lets put it this way: no matter how hard we try Americans will always have a federal debt to the Federal Reserve, the private bank which controls our money.
Whenever the U.S. Mint prints money, which it does fairly often, the money is borrowed - with interest - from the Fed. So even if we used every dollar currently in existence we would still owe the interest on the loan used to print the money. Yet, even as both candidates claim to be fiscally responsible, they have not acknowledged the scary reality about our "money."
Americans are also suffering from the worst tax we have ever faced. Though income tax, death tax, and property taxes are all terrible, they all pale in comparison this dreadful tax: the inflation tax.
It doesn't take a genius to know inflation is rampant, even though the Fed will only admit to 4% or so on the Consumer Price Index. In reality, as you go to the grocery store or the gas station you're paying more; a lot more than 4% more.
Even though the Bush regime likes to blame Iran for the oil spike, that simply isn't the case. The real cause: Iraq. The cost for Iraq is $3,000,000,000,000. That's $3trillion, with a 't'. To pay for this war the U.S. Treasury simply printed more money, lowering the overall value of the dollar.
Since Bush took office the dollar has lost half its value, due to overspending and under-taxing. THAT ladies and gentlemen are why prices are so high. We spend more than we have in the treasury, its that simple. Yet neither candidate even discusses monetary policy, just about the programs and 'investments' they will make.
If you have the chance, ask them how they intend to pay for their presidency - and how much they want us to pay to eat.
HostLaunch.net Alexa Debuts Under 1,000,000
HostLaunch.net debuted on the traffic ranking web site Alexa.com at 775,788. This is the highest ranking any associated web site has achieved.
HostLaunch.net is a webhosting directory which allows for companies to freely add their plans.
Esther Termens, you’re creepy.
In Brief:
Spanish hockey star Esther Termens looks like one of my former classmates at BYU-Idaho. See picture below. If you see her on campus, post a comment below.
So like everyone did a last month I was glued to the television watching the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing. Of course I took this obsession on step further by watching a lot of the games online at NBCOlympics, I even have some of the games downloaded on my computer (I watch them when bored at school).
Unfortunately at the late hours I would watch there wasn't much on besides things like field hockey and handball. Which in the end is what I watched; field hockey and handball. Handball was actually pretty fun to watch and field hockey wasn't bad, just not something I'm really into.
Anyway, late one night I was watching the USA/España game and on player on the Spanish side stood out. Esther Termens. As the title would suggest, she creeped me out a little bit, and not just because she got ejected from the Spain/USA game when she went crazy either!
Not even joking, she looks IDENTICAL to one of my fellow classmates in my Fall 2006 volleyball class! I'm not naming names, partly because I don't remember her name as I haven't thought about this girl since the class ended. At the time I felt bad for her since she was on the verge of crying on the first day thanks to Ms. Crazy-teacher.
Anyway, here is a picture of Termens (on the right):
If you see someone who looks like this on campus, let them know a Spanish field hockey player looks like them. Also, tell me her name, I don't like forgetting things.
GregVernon.com Alexa Rank Skyrockets
(Rochester, NY) GregVernon.com has skyrocketed up some 9.4million spots on the traffic ranking website Alexa.com. The 'three months average' for GregVernon.com started at 14,047,924 this past weeks ranking was 4,658,997. This is the highest its been in almost a year when the traffic ranking was in the 2million range.
Elsewhere on the network, CampaignDynamics.info's ranking has set records of it's own on the ranking site. Starting three months ago at 18,146,384 it's rank for the week is now at 3,886,024. This is the first time any associated site has had a higher ranking than GregVernon.com.
GregVernon.com is the personal blog of Greg Vernon. CampaignDynamics, Inc. is a consultation firm specializing in promotion. Traffic Data from Alexa.com.
Grocery Market Shrink Ray @ Consumerist
Hey everyone, quick little update after my long post below, I got a picture featured on the consumerist!
On the consumerist's latest post about the grocery market shrink ray you will see a picture of Wegman's Marshmallow Treasures cereal (which is the generic form of Lucky Charm's, I know, I'm cheap) appearing next to the shelf price tag.
That's mine!
Awesome! Well, not really since they're reducing the amount of cereal you get per box, but I can deal.
Get out of stocks, NOW!
I'm sure most of my not-so-loyal readers have noticed the Dow Jones Industrial Index has dropped some 1000points almost this week. On Friday it closed at 11.4k, while at the moment its value is 10.6k.
That is 1 troy ounce worth of gold at the current market price of $850/ounce. Wow.
What we are seeing is a major market correction, one that has been in the making for a long period of time. Many fantastic politicians and investors, such as Ron Paul and Peter Schiff, have seen this coming and have advised their followers to move to gold - or at least to different markets such as Asia or Europe. I've stayed out of the game up until now since I haven't had any money invested, period, I'm a college student so I don't have that kind of leeway.
This terrific dive is caused by Federal Reserve simply creating more money to pay for things such as the Iraq War, Aid to Israel, and this whole Fannie/Freddie bailout thing, throwing huge inflation into the market, which you are now feeling at the gas pumps or whenever you feel like "eating."
The inflation we are seeing on gold in the past 8 years (the length of time the neo-cons have been in office) is 290%, or some 36% a year on average. I use gold because that is a "stable" medium, as inflation occurs it is more expensive to buy gold, likewise, as deflation occurs it is cheaper to get gold. This stability is actually why gold and silver are the only true legal currencies in the United States, as opposed to the FIAT system in place now.
Back to the topic at hand, if the DOW had kept up with "gold-flation" we would have seen the DOW in the 29,000 range, perhaps even in the 30,000 point range. At this point I'm really hoping little alarm bells start going off in your head. Why? Because the DOW has lost value, a considerable amount of value. Like, more than half its value in just a short amount of time.
And as you might be able to guess, this catastrophic decline in value is going to continue for a good amount of time. You still have time to get out, but do so quickly.
For the time being silver is cheap, though it doesn't fluctuate as much as gold, which went up more than $60 so far today, it has a lot to gain, its paper value is below $12/ounce. If you can manage to find a broker willing to sell you silver for that price, do it. The only direction your investment can go is up.
Welcome, HostLaunch.net
I have worked almost non-stop for the past 36 hours and came up with this: hostlaunch.net. It is a site for all the web hosts of the world and get their site listed, no questions asked. Bad companies just have to put up with being publicly called out on their crappy services.
On the topic of crappy services, the code the site uses is pretty crappy (I spent maybe 3 hours on it total... Most of my time was watching the simpsons or futurama or something). So I still have some work to do, but the site is officially OPEN FOR BUSINESS!
Once again, the site is hostlaunch.net.
By the way, to the hostlaunch.com guys, I win!
For all the camp staff out there
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DOG - CAT - MOUSE!
FROGGY!
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TEENIE...
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Ladies & Gentlemen: I am Half-Way There
Since monatizing my website some 11 months ago I have earned a whole $51.15 from Google adSense. I crossed the $50 barrier earlier today. That ladies and gentlemen is half of the required $100 to actually get a check from Google.
Because of your clicks you are keeping this website going, so keep clicking to insure this website continues to provide the near useless information it does now!
AmericanExpress, You Rock!
So, its not very often you'll here me say anything nice about Customer Relations - people. Let alone the "fine" folks over at credit card company, but AmEx (which, according to The Consumerist won JD Power & Associates satisfaction survey) really pulled through earlier today for me.
I misplaced my wallet. I swear its just in my room under some clothes or something, but either way its gone. In it, my drivers license, 1100¥, some business cards, my AmEx, and well that's about it.
Here is where things get tricky. I need to buy books for school, and well those aren't cheap. The only way for me to get them is *sigh* to pay for them with credit.
Thanks to AmEx, I'll have my new card sometime tomorrow, which in turn means, I can have all of my books when I need them!
So AmEx, I may hate the philosophy of your business, making money off of people with late fees, interest, and everything else credit card companies do, but you helped me in a jam, and the 0% introductory rate is pretty nice also!