Daily news sites

Ryan Braun

by: Les Carpenter
Rational Nation USA
Liberty -vs- Tyranny

Rev. Al Sharpton speaks during a news conference outside the Department of Justice while discussing Trayvon Martin case. Sharpton called for the federal government to investigate civil rights charges against George Zimmerman. (Win McNamee / Getty Images / July 16, 2013)

The following article from the opinion pages of the liberal Los Angeles Times is without need of  further comment.

By David A. Lehrer and Joe R. Hicks - During the week since the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin, the responses to the tragic event, the trial and the verdict have been predictable.

That an unarmed youth lost his life and the perpetrator of the act walked free catalyzed angry and sometimes violent street protests. However unfortunate, that is hardly surprising. The legal nuances of second-degree murder, manslaughter, evidentiary rules and jurors' decisions don't often penetrate through the fog of the 24/7 news cycle. Many people inevitably respond to headlines and passion. There also have been some reasonable discussions of the propriety and impact of "stand your ground" laws and whether Florida's played a role in the verdict.

What isn't reasonable or appropriate is the hysterical response of some civil rights leaders and advocates who have peddled a dishonest and hyperbolic analysis of the tragedy. Unfortunately, their message has been repeated ad nauseam and has become the settled wisdom for some: Young black males are at physical risk in this country, and it is the bigotry of whites that has put a target on their backs.

Jesse Jackson said last year that blacks were "under attack.… Targeting, arresting, convicting blacks and ultimately killing us is big business." Last week he said, "A wave of nameless fear is gripping our country." The musings of Martin Luther King III and the Rev. Al Sharpton echoing the same theme — America is a dangerous place for young black males — have been widely reported. Benjamin Jealous of the NAACP warned that black youth be advised on how to dress and talk, and talked of how hard it is to tell them to be "timid about asserting" their freedom. Tavis Smiley opined that the verdict was "just another piece of evidence of the incontrovertible contempt that this nation often shows and displays for black men."

We received a newsletter from an African American civil rights lawyer who wrote about walking into a convenience store last Saturday night: "Wow. All these people have heard the verdict. Do they now think that I am fair game? Will someone hurt me now that they know that Zimmerman walked?"

What is so insidious about this message of victimhood and division is its dishonesty. Despite the tragic death of Martin under circumstances that no one will ever know the true nature of, there is no "big business" of killing blacks in America. There is no wave of bigotry directed at blacks. All this talk is demagogic posturing, and it's dangerous. Young people will absorb this message and view the "other" with suspicion and fear.

These leaders know, even if many of their adherents might not, that the biggest threat to the lives of young blacks is other young blacks, not white bigots. Between 2000 and 2010, 4,607 black murder victims 17 or younger were killed by other blacks (4,441 of the killers were 17 or younger), according to the Wall Street Journal. There were 340 black victims 17 or younger killed by (non-Latino) whites. That means black youths were 13 times more likely to be killed by a black person than by a white one. {Read More}

Via: Memeorandun

Joe Frazier mult-image by Art Venti collectable  30"x24 1/4" print in heavy gage color poster taken out from storage vault for public boxing sport fan collection. Only 1,000 were made available, but a few survived in decades.
Now available to you with Frazier's signature for $390.00, with Venti name on poster $490!
Limited enumerated posters available.  

North Korean ship attempted to smuggle missile parts, 2 MiG-21 fighter jets and missile radar equipment in hidden containers through the Panama Canal, Ricardo Martinelli, President of Panama reported.

Gun Owners:  Stand Your Ground!
Tried By 12 Or Carried By Six?
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
****************

"Never let a crisis go to waste."  That is not only the motto of the Obama Regime, it is also their "watchword." 

The dictionary defines watchword as:  "A word or phrase expressing a person's or group's core aim or belief."

The Obama Regime's singular dexterity in creating crises and then employing the confusion and distraction from those crises to advance their Marxist agenda is unmatched in the history of US politics. 

They don't seem to much mind what, exactly, the crisis is ... even the wholesale slaughter of little children.

Obama, still worried that Americans have guns and present a formidable obstacle to a leftist dictatorship in America, remains wed to the idea that those Americans who "cling to guns and God" must be neutralized in one way or another.

Since Congress refused to violate the US Constitution for him, he continues his search for ways, any way, he can -- at least -- reduce the perceived threat from American gun owners.

He thinks he has found one.  The "Stand Your Ground" laws in some 30 states.  If he can get the judiciary to find those laws unconstitutional, he advances his Marxist agenda.

There will be hell to pay overturning those laws in the south. 

We have an expression here in Dixie.  I'll clean it up and paraphrase it for you:  "A burglar may walk into my house, but he, sure as hell, WILL be carried out!"

We call it broadly: The Castle Law or the Castle Doctrine (Defense of Habitation Law). In some states the Castle Law extends to any legally occupied space including one's vehicle and/or one's workplace.   Simply put, it means that every man's home is his castle and he has a God-given right to protect it -- and those within it -- with whatever force may be necessary without fear of repercussions from the law. 

"Stand Your Ground" means you no longer have to turn tail, as a coward, and run from an intruder.  You no longer have the legal obligation to "retreat." You can confront him, like a man, and protect your life, the lives of others, and your possessions.  If lethal force is necessary to subdue the miscreant, then so be it.

Some years ago, a southern state with a democratic party controlled legislature took that right away from it's citizens and installed the "obligation to retreat" as state law.  It lasted only until cases began going before juries in the state and those juries flat-out refused to convict anyone brought before them for defending their homes and possessions.  One jury even refused to deliberate telling the judge, respectfully of course, that they believed the law, itself, was illegal and they would not convict anyone for breaking an illegal law.

It didn't take many months for that same state legislature to overturn their new law and reinstate the Castle Doctrine as law in the state.

Now, Obama wants to overturn the Castle Doctrine/Stand Your Ground laws in the entire country.  See, he can't take our guns, but if he can create a situation in which we gun owners cannot use them without breaking the law, he has, at least partially, attained his goal. 

It's called incrementalism -- a "little bit at a time." That's how America became a socialist nation -- a little bit at a time.

The folks at the Justice Department surely know they have a snowball's chance of bringing a successful case of violation of civil rights against Zimmerman.  In my estimation, that is only the distraction they will use while they burn the midnight oil to find a way to abolish the Castle Doctrine and Stand Your Ground Laws in the US.

Come on, folks!  The concept of a man's home as his castle dates all the way back to the time of the Roman Republic.  We Americans brought it over from England as we borrowed it from the historic English Common Law dictum that "an Englishman's home is his castle." It was established in English Common law in 1628. Originally it was meant to imply a person's absolute right to exclude anyone from his home.  Of course, the modern day version DOES have exceptions.

I found this article to be particularly interesting, as well.  Consider the following: "The American interpretation of this doctrine is largely derived from the English Common Law as it stood in the 18th century. In Book 4, Chapter 16 of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, he states that the laws "leave him (the inhabitant) the natural right of killing the aggressor (the burglar)" and goes on to generalize in the following words:

    And the law of England has so particular and tender a regard to the immunity of a man's house, that it stiles it his castle, and will never suffer it to be violated with immunity: agreeing herein with the sentiments of ancient Rome, as expressed in the works of Tully; quid enim sanctius, quid omni religione munitius, quam domus unusquisque civium? For this reason no doors can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though, in criminal causes, the public safety supersedes the private. Hence also in part arises the animadversion of the law upon eaves-droppers, nusancers, and incendiaries: and to this principle it must be assigned, that a man may assemble people together lawfully without danger of raising a riot, rout, or unlawful assembly, in order to protect and defend his house; which he is not permitted to do in any other case.
    —William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England

Not only was the doctrine considered to justify defense against neighbors and criminals, but any of the crown's agents who attempted to enter without a proper warrant as well. It should be noted that prohibitions of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution share a common background with current castle doctrine laws."  SOURCE:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_doctrine

Each state differs in the way it incorporates the castle doctrine into its laws, what premises are covered (abode only, or other places, too), what degree of retreat or non-deadly resistance is required before deadly force can be used, etc..

Here in North Carolina, the Castle Law is clear as a bell.  "North Carolina's Castle Doctrine protects people in their home, workplace or automobile. It allows a person to use defensive force, including lethal force, if they have a reasonable sense of fear of serious bodily harm in their home, workplace or car. North Carolina law does not require the person to retreat before using deadly force.

The law presumes that "a person who unlawfully and by force enters or attempts to enter a person's home, motor vehicle, or workplace is presumed to be doing so with the intent to commit an unlawful act involving force or violence."

The law goes on to read, "a person is justified in the use of deadly force and does not have the duty to retreat in any place he or she has the lawful right to be if either of the following applies: he or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another." SOURCE: http://www.digtriad.com/news/article/290516/1/Explaining-North-Carolinas-Castle-Doctrine

There are a few states with what is known as "Make My Day Laws."  "The specific conditions of the Make My Day Law are that an invader has made unlawful entry onto the property, that there is a reasonable belief the invader is or intends to commit a crime on the property, and that there is a reasonable belief the invader may use physical force himself. If these conditions are satisfied the immunity applies, and no verbal warning must be issued. Though again, it varies by jurisdiction, in most cases the presumption of innocence rests with the property owner in being justified.

Some states go even further and make it legal for such stand-your-ground laws to apply outside of one's home. Florida is one such state, where an individual may use deadly force when assailed at any location he has a right to be. As of 2010, more than 30 states in the US have some degree of Stand Your Ground Law."  SOURCE:  http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-make-my-day-law.htm

Note:  These are ALL STATE LAWS passed by the people of the states.  And yet, our federal authorities are searching for a way in which the federal government can squash those laws, which reflect the will of the people of those states.  The power grasping of the Obama Regime seems to know no bounds. 

Again, the fall back of American gun owners is the 2nd Amendment.  Each time the government announces, or in anyway demonstrates their desire to infringe upon those 2nd Amendment rights, gun owners "cling" a little tighter to their weapons.  So far, the Obama Regime has been the best salesman for gun dealers in America since,  well, EVER!

As a friend reminded me recently: "The left is relentless."  They're not going away and they are not about to stop their quest for America's guns.   Going after the Castle Doctrine laws, and the Stand Your Ground laws, and the Make My Day laws is simply attacking from another direction.

Regardless of how it all plays out, in the end when one awakens at 3 AM to sounds of uninvited miscreants rummaging through his things, and he quietly takes his 50 caliber Desert Eagle from the drawer of his bedside table, the one question uppermost in his mind will continue to be:  "Is it better to be tried by 12 than carried by six?"

© J. D. Longstreet

Click to enlarge.

The declining trend channel in red shows the annual growth of the money with zero maturity (left scale).

The declining trend channel in blue shows the interest rate on the three-month treasury bill (right scale).



Update:

Here's the same chart with better scaling.


Click to enlarge.

Source Data:
St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart

by: Les Carpenter
Rational Nation USA
Liberty -vs- Tyranny












The headline and the text below is self sufficient. The ball is again in your court liberals.

AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWS -
Cosby, an outspoken voice on cultural issues, says the recent trial did not prove that Zimmerman had racist motives at any point during his confrontation with Martin. That means race shouldn't be a part of the conversation regarding the case.

"Let's not go into a racial discussion unless we really have something there," he told radio hosts Domenick Nati and Nate Foutz.

Cosby also blasted the news media and said that he had stopped paying attention to "high-profile" court cases after the Casey Anthony murder trial because journalists were so convinced she would be found guilty and yet she was not....

Regarding the Zimmerman trial, Cosby said that he did not think the state of Florida was able to prove its case against him. "I found that the prosecution did not tell the story well. And they lost," Cosby said.

Outspoken former NBA superstar Charles Barkley said he agrees with the verdict in the murder trial of George Zimmerman, but blasted the media for giving platforms to racists to "vent" their ignorance.

Barkley, 50, gave his assessment on the high-profile Florida murder trial to CNBC on Thursday, saying jurors simply did not have enough evidence to convict the former neighborhood watch volunteer in the 2012 killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

"Well I agree with the verdict," Barkley said. "I feel sorry that young kid got killed, but they didn't have enough evidence to charge him. Something clearly went wrong that night -- clearly something went wrong -- and I feel bad for anybody who loses a kid, but if you looked at the case and you don't make it -- there was some racial profiling, no question about it -- but something happened that changed the dynamic of that night."

Barkley recognized his take is "probably not a popular opinion among most people," but said the evidence pointed to an acquittal.

"I just feel bad because I don't like when race gets out in the media 'cuz I don't think the media has a 'pure heart,' as I call it," Barkley continued. "There are very few people who have a pure heart when it comes to race. Racism is wrong in any shape [or] form -- there are a lot of black people who are racist, too. I think sometimes when people talk about race, they act like only white people are racist. There are a lot of black people who are racist. And I don't like when it gets out there in the media because I don't think the media has clean hands."

Barkley, originally of Alabama, was named one of the NBA's all-time 50 greatest players in 1993, the same year he won the league's Most Valuable Player award. The 11-time All-Star retired after the 1999-2000 season and then began a successful career as a basketball analyst for Turner Network Television. He has also flirted with the idea of entering politics, announcing in 2008 that he intended to run for governor of Alabama before later changing his mind.

"Like I said, I feel sorry that young kid got killed, but just judging by the evidence, I don't think that guy should've went to jail for the rest of his life," Barkley continued. "Mr. Zimmerman was wrong to pursue, he was racial profiling, but I think Trayvon Martin -- God rest his soul -- I think he did flip the switch and started beating the hell out of Mr. Zimmerman. But it was just a bad situation."

Barkley then took aim at unnamed media personalities who allegedly allowed their own biases to show throughout coverage of the murder trial.

"The main thing I feel bad for is it gives every white person and black person who's racist a platform to vent their ignorance," he said. "That's the thing that bothered me the most. I watched this trail closely and I watched these people on television talking about it. A lot of these people have a hidden agenda. They want to have their racist views, whether they are white or black ... Their biases definitely come out. It was a bad situation. We all lost."

July 3, 2013
Restaurant Stocks to Buy That Have Crushed the S&P 500 in 2013



Click to enlarge.

What could possibly go wrong again?

Source Data:
St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart

by: Les Carpenter
Rational Nation USA
Liberty -vs- Tyranny

(CNN) - Sen. John McCain, who lost in 2008 to the first African-American elected to the White House, said President Barack Obama's speech about race relations was "very impressive" and agreed that "stand your ground" laws should be re-examined, including those in his own state of Arizona.

"The 'stand your ground' law may be something that may needs to be reviewed by the Florida legislature or any other legislature that has passed such legislation," McCain said on CNN's "State of the Union."

Arizona is one of 30 states that have such laws, which give individuals certain legal rights in cases of self-defense. The law in Florida has come under scrutiny recently during the trial of George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who shot and killed teenager Trayvon Martin last year during a confrontation.

Asked if he thinks Arizona should review the law, McCain said: "Yes, I do."

"And I'm confident that the members of the Arizona legislature will, because it is very controversial legislation," he told CNN chief political correspondent Candy Crowley.

McCain said he didn't agree with fellow Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, who argued Friday the Obama administration is calling for a review of "stand your ground" laws as a way to further its agenda against Second Amendment rights.

"Isn't it time for America to come together?" McCain asked. "I'd rather have a message of coming together and discussing these issues rather than condemning.

"I respect (Cruz's) view, but I don't frankly see the connection," he added. {Read More}

Senator John McCain is both right and wrong.

In regard the first issue he is right in acknowledging the need to maintain an open and active mind in an honest dialogue over race relations. This implies (and he said as much) the nation as a whole has a ways to go in embracing racial and cultural diversity.

To the degree the President's press conference earlier in the week stated these sentiments he was spot on and can be considered as a Presidential attempt to facilitate such discussion. It was when he made the decision to play the race card (we all know when that was) that e lost the high ground. And, so it was with the Senator when he choose to pander to race rather than stick to the rational facts and give the President a pass in playing the race card.

With respect to the second issue, "Stand Your Ground" legislation, the Senator is 100% correct. These laws MUST be revisited and either scrapped or preferably rewritten with clear and definitive language with respect to when the use of deadly force is considered justified under the law. In addition, comprehensive gun safety and stand your ground training should be mandatory, at the individuals expense, and retraining and certification should be mandatory every two years to retain your license to carry.

Being the realist (and cynic) that I am I have absolutely zero doubt but what NEITHERthe left loonies or the right loonies will find much of the above acceptable. I mean, it is all about ideology, party loyalty, and gunning (pardon the violent expression, it is only rhetorical liberals) to be the winner take all. Even when it makes NO rational sense to do so.

Via: Memeorandum

Obviously this is the time of the year when I wear lots of dresses. You really don't see me in the cold season wearing dresses and skirts but I guess I'll reconsider that.
Now is all I want to wear. Colorful or white, short or long, I want them all as they are the most easy to pull off on hot days ( and of course the most comfortable)
Here today I have for you a geometric printed little cutie!

P.S. I also have for you a 15%coupon code: BITTERSWEET to use on Lulu's.com.
This is valid for US and Canada. Valid until 7/24/2013



                                                                               Dress: B.P Collection thanks to Lulu's.com/ Here 
                                                               Sandals: Zara/ option Here and Here 
                                                               Bangles bracelets: Joe Fresh/ option Here 
                                                                               Clutch: American Apparel/ similar Here and  Here 
                                                                               Sunglasses: Foster Grant/ similar style Here 




                                                                               

Herón Luciano Sixto López

Coatzacoalco, Veracruz, Mexico - On Wednesday, more than 40 human rights groups, immigrant rights organizations, undocument immigrant refuge shelters, and immigrant rights activists in a letter sent to Mexico's President Enrique Nieto demands for him to take action and to deal with what the groups are now calling a genocide of undocumented Central and South American immigrants travelling through Mexico on their way to the U.S. border. The coalition of Mexican groups, organizations and immigrant refuge shelters claim that President Neito has failed to commit military security forces and federal police along the Bestia (Beast/train of death) route to protect undocumented immigrants in Mexico. 

This Family Blood Feud Can't Be Ended
This Conflict Didn’t Begin In 1948 
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
*******************************

It is frustrating to see a US Secretary of State flitting back and forth between Arab countries and Israel in a non-stop quest for peace.  It is a fool's errand.  So long as the world remains,  that conflict will last until the last day of the last days of the end times.

We hardly ever hear it noted these days, but this is a family feud.  There is no conflict as vicious as a family conflict.  Family members know exactly which buttons to push to hurt their sibling the most.  And they push those buttons gleefully and with gusto.

Two half-brothers, sons of an old fellow from an ancient city of Sumer, called Ur, located on a former channel of the Euphrates River in a place we now call Iraq, began this mess many centuries before Christ. 

Contrary to what we are being and told -- and our young folks are being taught; the Arab/Israeli problem did not have its start in 1948.  Far from it.  The origin of this on-going battle between half-brothers  dates back thousands of years to Abraham, Sarah, (Isaac’s mother), and Hagar (Ishmael’s mother).

I have lifted out some scripture verses below to illustrate the story, as it appears in the story of the Children of Israel in the Bible.   To get the entire story on the origins of this conflict, even to the on-going battles between the half-brothers, Abraham’s children, we recommend you read the two chapters of Genesis… 16 and 17.  Once you have done that, you will have the background on the everlasting war between Abraham’s kids.  You will also see the hopelessness of any country, including the US, reaching a lasting peace agreement between the two.

Just as scripture stated, Ishmael’s children would have their hands raised against every man and every man's hand would be against them.

Don’t believe me?

Look at today’s newspapers.  There it is.  The story starts in the pages of Genesis and continues in the pages of the New York Times.

For the entire story read the 16th and 17th chapters of Genesis in the Old Testament (The Bible.)

Now… the story BEHIND the story:
*****************
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had an Egyptian slave-girl whose name was Hagar, and Sarai said to Abram, "You see that the LORD has prevented me from bearing children; go in to my slave-girl; it may be that I shall obtain children by her. "And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave-girl, and gave her to her husband Abram as a wife. . . . 
                                                                         -0-
Genesis 16:  11-12
And the angel of the LORD said unto her(Hagar), Behold, thou [art] with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.

And he will be a wild man; his hand [will be] against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
                                                                       -0-
Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram named his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.                                                                      -0-
And Abraham said to God, "O that Ishmael might live in your sight!" God said, "No, but your wife Sarah shall bear you a son, and you shall name him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him. As for Ishmael, I have heard you; I will bless him and make him fruitful and exceedingly numerous; he shall be the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation. But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this season next year."

The LORD dealt with Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah as he had promised. Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the time of which God had spoken to him. Abraham gave the name Isaac to his son whom Sarah bore him.
                                                                         -0-
The child grew, and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, playing with her son Isaac. So she said to Abraham, "Cast out this slave woman with her son; for the son of this slave woman shall not inherit along with my son Isaac." The matter was very distressing to Abraham on account of his son. But God said to Abraham, "Do not be distressed because of the boy and because of your slave woman; whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for it is through Isaac that offspring shall be named for you. As for the son of the slave woman, I will make a nation of him also, because he is your offspring." So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
******************                                                 

Allow me to disabuse you of any thought that the conflict between Israel, and her Arab neighbors, will be ended anytime soon.  It isn’t going to happen.  It is a conflict, I am convinced, completely out of the hands of man.

Look.  I know that in our increasingly secular world making pronouncements like that above causes eyes to roll, and smirks to appear on the, faces of the, er, more sophisticated.  I get it. I do.  But, HEY! I know in what I believe and in WHOM I believe.  That, I am assured, is becoming extremely rare these days.

See. The thing is -- the "tiff" (as some see it) between Israel and her sibling is a three way affair.  It's between the Jews, the Arabs, and God.  There is no place for the US, the UN, or anybody else to intervene or interfere.  The sooner we recognize that -- the better understanding we will have of the "blood feud," the conflict, and the driving impetus with which it will continue until earth's last day.
        
© J. D. Longstreet

May 15, 2013
Forbes: America's New Manufacturing Boomtowns



Click to enlarge.

I doubt very much that we will make it to $1,700 per month (inflation adjusted) again. It's just a "conventional wisdom" opinion though.

As a side note, what could possibly go wrong from here? It's not like we're at the very upper edge of a long-term declining trend channel. It's also not like we are stuck there as if unable to punch through. Oh, wait. Never mind.

Source Data:
St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart

Milw., WI - Miguel Garza, owner of MG Oficinas is seen enjoying a family day at the annual Principe de Paz festival at the 2500 block of W. Scott St. MG Oficinas is a co-sponsor of the festival. The two day festival ends on Sunday. 

Velocity of money



Click to enlarge.

The line in black shows the historical velocity of money stock going back to 1869. The line in red shows the velocity of the M2 money stock going back to 1959.

Note the downward trend since the late 1990s. What does this mean? The "poning" of hyperinflation theories will continue until morale improves!

Source Data:
St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart

Click to enlarge.

It's just another panic pun day.



See Also:
Half-life (physics)
Half-life (video game)
Duplex (building)
Half Duplex (communications)

Source Data:
St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart

Click to enlarge.

I'd be last person to argue that 2nd order polynomials can accurately predict our long-term employment future. On the other hand, I'd be the last person to think Ben Bernanke can either.

July 19, 2013
The Market Ticker ®: The Problem With Ivory-Tower "Economists"


That's all right Ben. We may very well solve your conundrum in the decades ahead. Sigh.

See Also:
Trend Line Disclaimer

Source Data:
St. Louis Fed: Employed, Usually Work Part Time

Click to enlarge.



List of premature obituaries


Source Data:
St. Louis Fed: 1-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Rate
U.S. Treasury: Daily Treasury Yield Curve Rates

by: Les Carpenter
Rational Nation USA
Liberty -vs- Tyranny

I listened to the full Presidential news conference this afternoon. Obama said some things that made sense. Then he made the following remarks that IMNHO told the nation in full agenda with respect to said issue. Having a in depth discussion of race relations might very well be appropriate and a general discussion is something that MOST American's would welcome. Using the Zimmerman verdict ks simply the WRONG event at possibly the right time.

However, don't expect the President, the Department of Justice, or the liberal media or ultra liberal populace to understand what this means. If I can find a video of the full and complete news conference it will be posted later.




Via: Memeorandum 


 Update: via You Tube. 

 

Your views and thoughts are most welcome. Left and or Right leaning...

by: Les Carpenter
Rational Nation USA
Liberty -vs-Tyranny

LA Times - At least six people were arrested Thursday night in San Bernardino after rocks and bottles were thrown and officers and pedestrians were attacked in a protest against the George Zimmerman trial verdict.

The incident began about 8 p.m. as marchers moved south along Highland Avenue and were joined by others not initially involved with what was a peaceful protest at that point, according to police.

Protesters ended up at a Jack in the Box restaurant near Waterman Avenue and Baseline Street and began hurling rocks and bottles at passing vehicles and officers who arrived at the scene, said Lt. Mike Madden of the San Bernardino Police Department.

"They just saw the opportunity for civil unrest," Madden told the Los Angeles Times.

Officers gave orders to disperse. At that point, groups of people took off running and began attacking and robbing pedestrians, according to police.

Two of the six people arrested were taken into custody on suspicion of strong-arm robbery, Madden said.

Police late Thursday were still monitoring roving groups of people in the streets. {}

Not doubt the left is proud?

Via: Memeorandum