I fart in your general direction

In this undated photo released by the South Central Regional Jail, Jose A. Cruz is shown. Cruz, 34, who police said passed gas and fanned it toward a patrolman has been charged with battery on a police officer. Cruz, of Clarksburg, W.Va., was pulled over early Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008, for driving without headlights, police said.

What the $[insert_expletive]

"I have great, great confidence in our capital markets and in our financial institutions. Our financial institutions, banks and investment banks, are strong. Our capital markets are resilient. They're efficient. They're flexible."

-- Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, March 16, 2008

"Our policy in this administration -- laws shouldn't bail out lenders, laws shouldn't help speculators."

-- President Bush, May 19, 2008

"Our economy has continued growing, consumers are spending, business are investing, exports continue increasing and American productivity remains strong. We can have confidence in the long-term foundation of our economy...I think the system basically is sound. I truly do."

-- President Bush, July 15, 2008

Gently Murdered?

So, the headlines over at Sports Illustrated say that a soccer player was brutally murdered.

I know this is awful to say, but aren't most murders brutal? I wonder what percentage of murders are not brutal.

I guess the people at Sports Illustrated consider most murders to be non-brutal. If I shoot you in the head, so that you die quickly, is that a non-brutal murder?

Do we need a public education program to encourage more gentle murdering?

I just find the term "brutal murder" to be a silly and inaccurate term.

He tried to get away, so they shot him three times. That's the facts. Now, if they had shot him once in the head, would that earn a different headline?

DC Heist - Wall Street Gang Hijacks Washington

Sep-22-2008 20:38

Gerald Celente Special to Salem-News.com
On the evening of September 18th 2008, the American democratic system was replaced by a financial dictatorship.

(RHINEBECK, NY) - What was billed as a "Federal Bailout" was nothing less than a bloodless coup. The Wall Street Gang had taken over the White House and control of Washington. Congress promised not to resist, and pledged to pass legislation as demanded.

Warning that America's financial system was perilously close to collapse unless immediate action was taken, economic martial law was declared.

The American people were told that from this day forward, they would be responsible for paying off the bad debt from any failing private financial enterprise deemed "too big to fail."

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, spearheading the coup, sought unrestricted authority to spend the nation's money as he saw fit. The first order of business by the Economic Czar was to take trillions of dollars of bad debt from crumbling investment banks and insurance companies and transfer it to the backs of already debt-burdened citizens.

"We're talking hundreds of billions," said Paulson, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, one of the "too-big-to-fails." Within days of the takeover, the number jumped into the trillions. This will put a "significant amount of taxpayers' money on the line," he said.

Quick & Clean

In simple language, with cameras rolling, in broad daylight, the American public was robbed blind. This wasn't a magic show. There were no hidden tricks or sleights of hand. "We want this to be clean, we want this to be quick," demanded the Economic Czar. "We need to get this done quickly, and the cleaner the better," intoned President Bush, with the urgency of his "smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud" logic he used as a pretext to invade Iraq.

"The risk of not acting would be far higher," Bush said, promising to "work with Congress to get a bill done quickly."

Having accurately forecast the current financial debacle, we confidently now forecast that taking swift action will prove - as it did in Iraq - far more catastrophic than allowing Wall Street to suffer the consequences of its greed and mismanagement.

Presidential candidate Barack Obama promised to "fully support" the plan and called on Congress to take "immediate action.." Republican challenger John McCain said he would further review the proposal before passing judgment while Congressional leaders from both parties have signed on with their support.

Americans were told they would have to pay to rescue the very companies whose unregulated greed, fraud and recklessness had created the crisis in the first place. Considered nobodies by the authorities, the people had no voice and had no choice.

"I know of nobody who is arguing over the amount of money or even about that the secretary ought to have the authority to purchase these toxic instruments, these bad debts,'' bowed Senator Christopher Dodd, the Democratic chairman of the Banking Committee.

Author's Note: If you are a "nobody" who cares about "the amount of money," and does not believe "the secretary ought to have the authority to purchase these toxic instruments," take action NOW. While signing petitions or calling the White House or Washington representatives often proves fruitless, in this emergency we suggest you call, write, pester, hound, and protest.

Call your newspaper, radio and TV stations. Talk to reporters covering the "DC Heist." Tell them what you think and what you want. Write editorials. Use the Internet as a call to action. Use your imagination, wits and common sense to have your voice heard and make your will known. Until Congress votes on the plan, it is not yet a fait accompli. Tell them if they vote "yes," you'll vote "no."

Trendpost: While the transfer of "toxic instruments" from private firms to the national debt will enrich those companies that once had owned them, the measures taken will do nothing to keep the sinking US economy from going under.

The biggest casualty, besides indentured American servants held responsible for paying off the debt, is the US dollar. The greenback's getting slaughtered on the foreign exchanges and gold prices, the safe-haven commodity, are once again soaring. As we previously forecast, we are still predicting "Gold $2000."

Gerald Celente is the Founder/Director of The Trends Research Institute; Publisher, The Trends Journal. To contact the author, E-mail: gcelente@trendsresearch.com

Bailout Sucks!

Why do we privatize profits and socialize the resulting debt?

$700 billion to buy bad debt?

Doesn't sound like a good deal, and the principle is so wrong. The FBI is investigating 26 financial firms for fraud. Why don't we just have their CEOs and other managers pay back their compensation packages over the last three years? Just the big five investment banks paid themselves $39 billion in bonuses last year. Doesn't that just make your blood boil? These bastards always pay themselves huge multi-million dollar bonuses and then complain about the economy when they the firms go under. Sounds to me like the experiment where they put a mother and baby monkey on an increasingly hot surface, and eventually the mother monkey would stand on top of the baby monkey. These guys are like the robber barons of yore. If you're "expertise" has led us to this, why are you giving yourself 15 million in annual compensation, or $50 million. I think what we need instead of a bailout is a witch hunt. I want another Enron payback where the management are indicted, humiliated and held accountable.



Or give that money to the average person. I want a bailout for myself. If you divide $700 billion by the 300 million people in the US, you get $2300 per person. If you exclude all the millionaires, that goes up a little more. Let's give this money to the people. Don't grease the economy, because the fat cats who control the economy are skimming it with impunity. Give the money to the people. Or better yet, just stop spending money we don't have!

Woman who lost 160 pounds talks about "juice feasting"

Wall Street Robber Barrons

$39 billion: The Wall Street bonuses for the big five investment banks last year.

ABC News reports:

In 2007, Wall Street’s five biggest firms — Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley — paid a record $39 billion in bonuses to themselves.

That’s $10 billion more than the $29 billion loan taxpayers are making to J.P. Morgan to save Bear Stearns.

Those 2007 bonuses were paid even though the shareholders in those firms last year collectively lost about $74 billion in stock declines — their worst year since 2002.

These company executives are still fiercely fighting to protect their pay. Politico notes that the Bush Treasury Department is “resisting efforts” by House Democrats “to impose pay limits on Wall Street executives and bankers.”


I think the real answer, is they can pay themselves whatever they want, but people should take all their money out of these companies and never invest in them again. We keep rewarding their selfishness.

That's why the rich keep getting richer and the rest of us suffer.

Can you figure out who this celebrity is?

How to type MARILYN MONROE with Word by Martin Missfeldt

Bass Clef Study Quiz

I've been developing a bass clef sight reading tool in flash. If you want to learn bass clef, this tool is great. It doesn't just tell you you're wrong, but teaches how to fix your thinking about finding the notes.

musical road

Honda is doing a promotion where they created grooves on a road to play "The William Tell Overture":



Pretty funny.

But it would sound better if it were on CD.

List of piano chords written in PHP

So I've been teaching myself the programming language PHP -- the result of which is a new website http://www.list-of-chords.com/. This is very exciting since I was able to take the logic in my flash chord finders and expand it to the site.

For those of you who know PHP, I used PHP's output buffer to create static html files, so that the site is more search engine friendly.

function MakeARowofFour($startNum, $endNum) {
global $Roots;
global $NiceNameArray;
global $ShortNameArray;
global $URLNameArray;
global $default_names;
print "<tr>";
for ($table=$startNum; $table<=$endNum; $table++)
{
print "<td>\n";
print"<h2><b>" . $Roots[$table] . " Chords</h2>\n";

//Produce 12 lines for each table
for($counter=0; $counter<6; $counter++)
{

print "&lt;h3><a href=\"$Roots[$table]-$URLNameArray[$counter].htm\">$Roots[$table] $NiceNameArray[$counter] <b>({$Roots[$table]}$ShortNameArray[$counter])</b></a></h3>\n";


ob_start(); //start the PHP output buffer

//Do some PHP stuff to make a page then
$type_short_name = $ShortNameArray[$counter];
$current_root_name = $Roots[$table];
//
//

$piano_chord_type = $NiceNameArray[$counter];
include 'page_generator.php';

//write buffer to file


$myFile = "$Roots[$table]-$URLNameArray[$counter].htm";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");


$data = ob_get_contents(); //puts the content of the output buffer into the $data variable


fwrite($fh, $data);


//$stringData = "Tracy Tanner\n";
//fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);
ob_end_clean();

}

print "</td>";
}
print "</tr>";




}
MakeARowofFour(1, 4);
MakeARowofFour(5, 8);
MakeARowofFour(9, 12);
?>

Given What's happening with the economy these days, the Treasury Department has issued a new dollar bill.........

This is insane -- starvation diet!

It's amazing what some people will do to themselves. I've been doing two days of juice cleansing a week, so I was surfing the net looking at pictures and stories of people who've done fasting. I found this woman who put her health at risk by doing a water-only fast for three weeks! In the last video she can barely form a sentence without effort. It's fascinating and scary.

Here's here first day of fasting:



Here's day 21:


Here's day 30: She seems very happy to be able to eat again!


My own experience with juice fasting has been great. So far I have done a juice fast (approx. 300-500 calories per day) two days a week, for five weeks now. I've dropped about 10 pounds, and I look and feel great. But this is a very moderate regime, that allows five days of rest and preparation between. This woman has done something risky. Did she really go 30 days without any food, only water? What about the occasional vitamin?

This can't be good for you. Can it?

Here's another unhappy person who has been starving herself. Check out this woman's story:


For some reason, the men on youtube don't seem as willing to suffer. Check out this guy's amazing story:


Wow, this guy lost 400 pounds, very heart-breaking, heart-warming:

How to Play from a Fake Book

Here's a new article I wrote on "How to Play from a Fake Book".