Some humor for the liberals in Detroit

Bob was sitting on the plane waiting to fly to Detroit, when a guy took the seat beside him. The guy was an emotional wreck, pale, hands shaking, moaning in fear.

"What's the matter?" Bob asked.

"I've been transferred to Detroit - I've heard the people are crazy there. They've got lots of shootings, gangs, race riots, drugs, poor public schools, and the highest crime rate in the nation."

Bob replied, "I've lived in Detroit all my life. It's not as bad as the media says. Find a nice home, go to work, mind your own business, and enroll your kids in a nice private school. It's as safe a place as anywhere in the world."

The guy relaxed and stopped shaking and said, "Oh, thank you. I've been worried to death. But if you live there and say it's OK, I'll take your word for it. What do you do for a living?"

"I'm a tail gunner on a Budweiser truck."

Inside a Grizzly Bears Mouth........

Click on this link to see what the inside of a grizzly bear's mouth looks like without getting bit yourself.  Bit or eaten alive.    One cool video.

http://video.huntingclub.com/video/Inside-A-Grizzly-Bears-Mouth

Not your normal Mule Deer

This enormous mule deer buck was killed by Gilbert Adams III last month in the Arizona Strip. Adams was able to hunt early and take this buck in velvet because he had bought the Arizona Governor's Tag. Here's the inside scoop from Boone and Crockett's Trophy Watch site:     
- Harvested on 7/29/2013 around 5:00 p.m.
- Arizona Strip. Governor's Tag
- 400-yard shot.
- Scores 276" gross with an amazing 241" main frame
"My wife Misty was on the hunt, her first hunt outside of Texas, for mule deer or any western game. Troy Brock and Doyle Moss guided me," Adams wrote on the site.
Governor's tags have always been controversial. They typically allow a wealthy hunter to hunt in prime areas or before the regular season starts. On the other hand, the money raised by these tags (which can amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars) is used to fund wildlife conservation and create more hunting opportunities for the rest of us.

This looks exactly like the truth.............

Montana Game Wardens

Since the first part of the year I have the pleasure to speak with four Law Enforcement agents, game wardens, conservation officers, whatever you care to call them that all work for the people and the wildlife of the great state of Montana.  I asked questions of all of them.   They all gave me solid answers and then some.  Impressive to say the least.   I talk to wardens across many western states and hopefully as a future Montana resident, it is refreshing to know the quality of personnel engaged to protect the states resources.

In no particular let me call them out.

Lee Burroughs
Matt Hagedorn
Kevin Holland
Ezra Schwalm

All well spoken and professional.  In fact I learned a thing or two.

They don't have easy jobs.  The pay isn't great but dang they catch some beautiful sunsets and breathe some clean air.    

The Obama "Recovery" .....

This data really doesn't need much explanation.

Here are the facts: so far in 2013: There have been 246.5K Waiter and Bartender (Food Service and Drinking Places) jobs added.

There have been 24.0K Manufacturing jobs added.

The ratio of waiters and bartenders to manufacturing jobs: 10 to 1.

Simply too good not to share............

Some recent deep and not so deep financial thoughts, as compiled by Edelweiss' Dylan Grice

“…the best way to get interest rates up is to have low interest rates, because that promotes a stronger growing economy and that causes interest rates to rise. In some ways the fact that interest rates have gone up a bit, and it happens on the real not the inflation side, is actually indicative of a stronger economy, which again suggests that maybe this is having some benefit.”

—Fed Chairman Bernanke responding to a Congressional testimony question by California Representative Miller

 “Credibility is an enormous asset. Once earned, it must not be frittered away by yielding to the notion that a little inflation right now is a good thing, a good thing to release animal spirits and to pep up investment. The implicit assumption behind that siren call must be that the inflation rate can be manipulated to reach economic objectives. Up today, maybe a little more tomorrow and then pulled back on command. Good luck in that. All experience demonstrates that inflation, when fairly and deliberately started, is hard to control and reverse.”

—Paul Volcker, 29 May 2013

“When you’re one step ahead of the crowd you’re a genius. When you’re two steps ahead, you’re a crackpot.”

—Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Lincoln Square Synagogue, Feb 1998, cited in Arizona Jewish Post, 18 Sept 1998, B10



“Let’s be clear. We’ve intentionally blown the biggest government bond bubble in history.”

—Andy Haldane, Bank of England director of financial stability

“(As a teenager) I was utopian. I found adults and adulthood fundamentally corrupt, self-serving and unclear. I still do but I now find the utopian even more harmful.”

—Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“We all know it’s going to end badly, but in the meantime we can make some money.”

—Jim Cramer, CNBC

“Thank God for the Fed.”

—Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan

“In money management what sells is the illusion of certainty... a fund manager who tells the truth (the truth being that he may be wrong at any time) is a more difficult sale but a better investment.”

— John Hempton

“Banks need more capital—lots more capital, not minimal provision based on a pseudoscientific calculation of risk-weighted assets. Neither regulators nor management can assess accurately how much a bank really needs. The only safe bank is one with more capital than it could possibly require. Like banks of old.”

—John Kay, cited in the Financial Times, 2 April 2013

“He defeated fascism, this is what matters the most. And life was cheap and affordable too.”

—Ushangi Davitashvili, Georgian admirer of Josef Stalin, explaining the recent rise in popularity of the old Soviet tyrant to Bloomberg (According to a poll referenced in the same article, 45 of Georgians approve of Stalin.)

“What is the foundation for your certainty that as peacetime debt hits new records in coming years, the United States will be able to engage in forceful countercyclical fiscal policy if hit by a large unexpected shock? Furthermore, do you really want to find out the answer to that question the hard way? … we attach, as do many other mainstream economists, a somewhat higher weight on risks than you do, as debts of all measure—including old age liabilities, public debt, private debt and external debt—ascend into record territory.”

—Harvard’s Carmen M. Reinhart responding to Paul Krugman’s recent volley of attacks with significantly more class than the shrill mudslinger from Princeton, 25 May 2013

Open Letter to Pine Ridge on Legalizing Liquor Sales

It's in your ball park now.  The voting booth's will be open soon.   Whiteclay liquor sales can be a distant memory.   They won't have a dog in the fight.  Blame anyone but Whiteclay but remember, capitalism will rear it's head if you vote in Tribal beer sales.   Competition can run very high at the retail level of beer sales.   You think Whiteclay businesses will not cut prices on beer and make it tough for the Tribe to turn a profit? 

Just watch.

Ever since the late 1960's when I went to high school at Oglala Community High School in Pine Ridge, Whiteclay has been a great resource for the alcoholics of the Pine Ridge reservation.   I once walked in the ditch between Whiteclay and Pine Ridge, a distance of near two miles, and was able to take nearly every step on top of an empty beer can.  The litter was astounding.   My Dad who worked for the BIA in Law Enforcement in Pine Ridge as Chief of Police and then as a Special Agent when he was "detailed" to work the Wounded Knee fiasco had some wild stories about Whitclay.   Probably the best stories ever told about Whiteclay could come from the Theis family or the Coombs family.  Randy and Donna Theis ran a successful grocery business in Whiteclay  for many years.   They treated customers fairly and understood how to do business with Pine Ridge residents.    

I hope Pine Ridge can help itself.  I hope Pine Ridge can get back to two-parent households.  I hope addiction treatment centers work for many.    I hope the healing can come.  The Oglala warriors are up against a powerful enemy, alcohol.  

I can only pray.  Here is the Lord's Prayer in the language of the Oglala Lakota.

Ate unyapi Mahpiya ekta nanke cin, Nicaje wakanlapi nunwe. Nitokiconze u nunwe. Mahpiay ekta nitawacin econpi kin, he iyecel maka akanl econpi nunwe. Anpetu ihohi aguyapi kin, anpetu kin le unqu piye. Na tona ecinsniyan ecaunkicinpi wicaunkicicajujupi kin, he iyecel waunhtanipi kin unkiciajujupiye. Na taku wawiyutanye cin ekta unkayapi sni piye; Tka taku sice etanhan eunklaku piye; Wokiconse kin, na wowasake kin, na wowitan kin hena ohinniyan naohinniyan nitawa heon. Amen.