Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Thursday, March 20, 2014

FOR FANS OF BILL CLINTON, SOMETHING TO CHEW ON:

Bill & Hillary got about $12 million for their to-be-written memoirs.
Here's some help for them since their memories are getting old.


BILL CLINTONS MILITARY    CAREER

Bill Clinton registers for the draft on September 08,    1964,
accepting all contractual    conditions of registering for the draft.
Selective Service Number is 326    46 228.

Bill Clinton classified 2-S on November 17, 1964.

Bill    Clinton reclassified 1-A on March 20, 1968.

Bill Clinton ordered to    report for induction on July 28, 1969.

Bill Clinton refuses to report    and is not inducted into the military.

Bill Clinton reclassified 1-D    after enlisting in the United States
Army Reserves on August 07,    1969,  under authority
of COL. E. Holmes.

Clinton    signs enlistment papers and takes oath of enlistment.

Bill Clinton    fails to report to his duty station at
the University of Arkansas ROTC,    September 1969.

Bill Clinton reclassified 1-A on October 30,    1969,
as enlistment with Army Reserves    is revoked by
Colonel E. Holmes and Clinton now    AWOL and
subject to arrest under Public    Law 90-40 (2)  (a) -
registrant who has failed to    report...
remain liable for    induction.

Bill Clinton's birth date lottery number is    311,
drawn December 1, 1969, but    anyone who has
already been ordered to report    for induction is INELIGIBLE!

Bill Clinton runs for    Congress (1974), while a fugitive
from justice under Public Law    90-40.

Bill Clinton runs for Arkansas Attorney General
(1976), while a fugitive from    justice.

Bill Clinton receives pardon on January 21,    1977,
from President Carter.

Bill Clinton becomes the FIRST    PARDONED FEDERAL FELON
ever to serve as President of the    United States .

All these facts come    from Freedom of Information requests,
public laws, and various books    that have been published,
and have not been refuted    by Clinton .

After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, President    Clinton
promised that those responsible    would be hunted down and punished.

After the 1995 bombing in Saudi    Arabia ,which killed five U.S.
military    personnel,
Clinton promised that those    responsible would be hunted down and punished.

After the 1996 Khobar    Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia ,
which killed 19 and injured 200    U.S. military personnel,
Clinton promised that those    responsible would be hunted down and punished.

After the 1998 bombing    of U.S. embassies in Africa ,
which killed 224 and injured    5,000,
Clinton promised that those    responsible would be hunted down and punished.

After the 2000 bombing    of the USS Cole,
which killed 17 and injured 39    U.S. sailors,
Clinton promised that those    responsible be hunted down and punished.

Maybe if Clinton had kept    those promises, an estimated 3,000 people
in New York and Washington , DC ,    who are now dead
would be alive    today.

THINK ABOUT IT!  
It is a strange turn of    events.
Hillary gets $8 Million for her    forthcoming memoir.
Bill gets about $12 Million for    his memoir yet to be written.
This from two people who spent 8    years being unable to recall
anything about past events while    under oath.

Sincerely,
Cdr. Hamilton McWhorter USN    (ret)

LET'S FACE IT, THE CPI IS ONE BIG JOKE!


How Are You Going to Afford Food Glorious Food?

Inflation is starting to really mean something when it comes to food and energy.  The government stats on inflation conveniently omit food and energy when reporting things like the Consumer Price Index (CPI).  Let’s see what Janet Yellen has to say this week.  I bet she isn’t worried about inflation in the least.
US Consumer Price Index Chart
Whenever economic reports are released, the headline number is “without the volatile food and energy sector”. Food and energy are very volatile. As quick as prices can go up, they can come down. But, over the past several years there is one reason the price of energy isn’t going down-government regulation and policy.
For evidence, all you need to do is look at the arduous debate over things like the Keystone Pipeline ($CL_F). Environmentalists, who mostly caucus with Democrats have held it up. The EPA, OSHA and other government agencies are writing all kinds of expensive rules and regulations to make exploration, refining, and distribution of energy products cost more. That gets passed on to consumers.
Thank goodness for things like fracking ($NG_F), without it we might see even higher prices.  If you are thinking of replacing your water heater, now is the time to look at new innovations like Intellihot.  Prices aren’t going down.
The food industry has seen both the supply and demand curves get hit by multiple shocks. The rise of the middle class in places like China have driven them to demand higher quality food and vegetables. This has been a windfall for US exports.
At the same time, the US has been hit with drought, both real and artificial. The real drought is just because it has rained less. The fake drought is government mandated in southern California.   The reason for the fake drought, global warming.  Government is using junk science to impose its will on the people.
The recent farm bill that passed was chock full of subsidies for corporate farmers.  A goody bag of money from the government that influences what farmers plant, and how much of each crop gets produced.  An economist once told me that every jar of peanut butter we buy is .50 higher than it should be because of farm subsidies.
Grain crop prices ($ZC_F$ZW_F$ZS_F)  have gone higher in past years because of rising demand, but also because of drought.  No rain, no grain.  Farmers are planting fencepost to fencepost.  Still, a lot of land is idle because of CRP.  The cost to farm has gone up with the cost of energy.  Successful farmers look at cost/benefit analysis just like a factory.  Innovations like Farmlogs help them manage their cropland better.
Meat ($LC_F) has seen a tremendous upsurge in prices.  Part of that has been scare.  Remember the pink slime scare over a year ago?  Because of it, beef prices have to go up because not using pink slime decreases supply.   The cost of feed has gone up too (drought) so cattle ranchers thinned their herds.   Animal gestation isn’t automatic, and the cost to bring a steer to market hasn’t gone down, so the nation’s cattle herd isn’t being rebuilt on higher prices.
Hogs ($HE_F) have seen an exponential price move higher in recent weeks.  A virus, PEDv hit the nation’s hog herd last May.  At first, it was controlled.   Since the spread, US pig farmers have seen 5,000,000 pigs die, mostly piglets.  The crisis is so severe, the largest hog processing plant in the country, Tarheel in North Carolina, is shutting down a few days during the week because it cannot source enough pork to butcher.  Oh, and yes, the price of bacon is going to skyrocket.
It would be interesting to see if we could eliminate all the government subsidies and bad policy.  What would our food really cost if the unfettered free market set the price? One thing is for sure, on our current path, prices aren’t going down.



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