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Me and My Guns


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So you are an NRA member.

You proclaim and support your right to bear arms under the constitution. Why not? Like religion and press, you have your own constitutional amendment in the Bill of Rights.

Currently, your amendment ranks #2. So why not be proud and celebrate it.

Bearing arms is useful. With real unemployment, U6...

Not that phony U3 where you are only unemployed as long as you are collecting unemployment insurance payments... once you run out of unemployment insurance you are no longer counted as unemployed by U3... are you any less unemployed?

I thought so.

What if you are an unemployed construction worker and there are no construction jobs in your area for you to apply for? You are then marginally attached according to U3 and therefore not unemployed...are you any less unemployed?

I thought so.

So real unemployment, U6 is closer to 16% and will probably rise close to 20% by that fine election year of 2010.

With millions of people running out of unemployment insurance and no new jobs under the Bush implosion and Obama no plan/ no recovery team of Save Wall Street Bankers Summers and Save Wall Street Bankers Geithner, the food budgets of Americans may get a little meager during record Wall Street bonus season.

That is when it may pay to have a shotgun and a hunting rifle. Deer and pheasant. Many of us may need to put some food on the table.

So you 2nd amendment fans have a practical side as well.

But I have to ask you something:

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    Zero Hedge- Tyler Durden

    CounterPunch- Mr. Alexander Cockburn

    The Automatic Earth- Ilargi and Stoneleigh

    Jesse's Cafe American- Jesse

    Calculated Risk- Bill the Brain

    On the Edge- Mad Max Keiser

    Washington's Blog

    Clusterfuck Nation- Jim Kunstler

    Market Ticker- Karl Denninger

    Truthdig- Robert Scheer

    Seeking Alpha- Jeff Neilson's Blog

    Shadow Gov't Stats- John Williams

    Across the Curve- John Jansen

  • Favorite Books

    "Taking the Risk Out of Democracy" Professor Alex Carey.

    "Collapse of Complex Societies"
    Professor Joseph Tainter

    "Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press"
    by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.

    "The Politics of Heroin"
    Professor Alfred McCoy.

    "The Invention of the White Race (Volume One: Racial Oppression and Social Control)"
    by Theodore W. Allen.

    "When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management"
    by Roger Lowenstein.

    "Wall Street & the Rise of Hitler"
    by Antony C. Sutton.

    "The Day the Presses Stopped: A History of the Pentagon Papers Case"
    by David Rudenstine.

    "Blowback: The Consequence of American Empire"
    by Professor Chalmers Johnson.

    "The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States"
    Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall

    "Loud Hawk: The United States Versus the American Indian Movement"
    by Kenneth Stern.

    "Writing and Difference"
    by Jacques Derrida.

    "Speech and Phenomena, Of Grammatology"
    by Jacques Derrida.

  • Favorite Quotes

    "... no man, no problem."
    Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili.

    "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
    Mahatma Gandhi

    "Entropy is a harsh mistress."
    James Howard Kunstler

    "The dissolution of the corporation is the sine qua non of democracy."
    Rob Newman

    "BE ALERT. We need more LERTS"
    Bumper sticker. VW Bus with the VW logo altered to look like a Peace sign circa 1975.

    "To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."
    Thomas Paine
    (me: So why waste your time?)

    "The best way to rob a bank, is to own one."
    Professor William K. Black

    "Wall Street is not the answer, Wall Street IS the problem!"
    Alzheimer's Puppet Ronald Reagan kicking off his 1980 presidential campaign, celebrating state's rights with his white knight pals at the county fair in Meridian, Mississippi.

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