They just kept kicking him. Bobby Tillman was 5-foot-6 and 124 pounds, not big enough to defend himself against four bigger teenagers, now charged in his death. Nor was Tillman the sort to have started a fight. He was in a crowd of kids leaving a house party in Douglasville Saturday night. He provoked no one, and he must have been stunned when another teenager stalked across the street and hit him hard in the head. He fell to the street, his head striking the curb. Then three others were there, and they all fell upon him, police and witnesses said. Jourdan Ferguson, 19, said she tried to stop the beating. “It was unfair. It was pointless,” Ferguson said. She said she yelled at the teenagers, "Stop stomping him!" Then she leaped in, tried to pull the attackers away. But she's only 5 feet tall. She couldn't stop it.
Witnesses said the beating was over in a minute.
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Sarah Palin on QE2
"I’m deeply concerned about the Federal Reserve’s plans to buy up anywhere from $600 billion to as much as $1 trillion of government securities. The technical term for it is “quantitative easing.” It means our government is pumping money into the banking system by buying up treasury bonds. And where, you may ask, are we getting the money to pay for all this? We’re printing it out of thin air.
The Fed hopes doing this may buy us a little temporary economic growth by supplying banks with extra cash which they could then lend out to businesses. But it’s far from certain this will even work. After all, the problem isn’t that banks don’t have enough cash on hand – it’s that they don’t want to lend it out, because they don’t trust the current economic climate.
And if it doesn’t work, what do we do then? Print even more money? What’s the end game here? Where will all this money printing on an unprecedented scale take us? Do we have any guarantees that QE2 won’t be followed by QE3, 4, and 5, until eventually – inevitably – no one will want to buy our debt anymore? What happens if the Fed becomes not just the buyer of last resort, but the buyer of only resort?
All this pump priming will come at a serious price. And I mean that literally: everyone who ever goes out shopping for groceries knows that prices have risen significantly over the past year or so. Pump priming would push them even higher. And it’s not just groceries. Oil recently hit a six month high, at more than $87 a barrel. The weak dollar – a direct result of the Fed’s decision to dump more dollars onto the market – is pushing oil prices upwards. That’s like an extra tax on earnings. And the worst part of it: because the Obama White House refuses to open up our offshore and onshore oil reserves for exploration, most of that money will go directly to foreign regimes who don’t have America’s best interests at heart.
We shouldn’t be playing around with inflation. It’s not for nothing Reagan called it “as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber, and as deadly as a hit man.” The Fed’s pump priming addiction has got our small businesses running scared, and our allies worried. The German finance minister called the Fed’s proposals “clueless.” When Germany, a country that knows a thing or two about the dangers of inflation, warns us to think again, maybe it’s time for Chairman Bernanke to cease and desist. We don’t want temporary, artificial economic growth bought at the expense of permanently higher inflation which will erode the value of our incomes and our savings."
The Fed hopes doing this may buy us a little temporary economic growth by supplying banks with extra cash which they could then lend out to businesses. But it’s far from certain this will even work. After all, the problem isn’t that banks don’t have enough cash on hand – it’s that they don’t want to lend it out, because they don’t trust the current economic climate.
And if it doesn’t work, what do we do then? Print even more money? What’s the end game here? Where will all this money printing on an unprecedented scale take us? Do we have any guarantees that QE2 won’t be followed by QE3, 4, and 5, until eventually – inevitably – no one will want to buy our debt anymore? What happens if the Fed becomes not just the buyer of last resort, but the buyer of only resort?
All this pump priming will come at a serious price. And I mean that literally: everyone who ever goes out shopping for groceries knows that prices have risen significantly over the past year or so. Pump priming would push them even higher. And it’s not just groceries. Oil recently hit a six month high, at more than $87 a barrel. The weak dollar – a direct result of the Fed’s decision to dump more dollars onto the market – is pushing oil prices upwards. That’s like an extra tax on earnings. And the worst part of it: because the Obama White House refuses to open up our offshore and onshore oil reserves for exploration, most of that money will go directly to foreign regimes who don’t have America’s best interests at heart.
We shouldn’t be playing around with inflation. It’s not for nothing Reagan called it “as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber, and as deadly as a hit man.” The Fed’s pump priming addiction has got our small businesses running scared, and our allies worried. The German finance minister called the Fed’s proposals “clueless.” When Germany, a country that knows a thing or two about the dangers of inflation, warns us to think again, maybe it’s time for Chairman Bernanke to cease and desist. We don’t want temporary, artificial economic growth bought at the expense of permanently higher inflation which will erode the value of our incomes and our savings."
Monday, November 08, 2010
Montana, 2010
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These hunters are clients of Chippewa Partners and we are proud to represent their interests in the financial markets. This Montana bull was taken last week Congratulations Jon on some fine shooting and to Scott for providing the strategic thinking to harvest this fine bull!
Sunday, November 07, 2010
Dean Parisian's analysis of the 11/2 election...........
The agenda that works for the Democrats doesn't work for the country.
That's why the country fired them.
That's why the country fired them.
Wednesday, November 03, 2010
The only things I want ......
from our politicians are tax reform, immigration reform/enforcement, to discontinue the puppet wars in the Middle East, social security reform and above all, some fiscal sanity.
Asking too much?
Probably but a man can still dream can't he?
Asking too much?
Probably but a man can still dream can't he?
Wisconsin voters.......
Okay, I admit it.......... they drink too much beer, they eat too much cheese, they carry their love for the beloved Packers a bit too far. But they dam well know a political candidate when they hear one.
Congratulations to America and the State of Wisconsin for booting Feingold and putting in Mr. Johnson.
That cowboy is a winner for all of us .
Congratulations to America and the State of Wisconsin for booting Feingold and putting in Mr. Johnson.
That cowboy is a winner for all of us .
MSNBC filth..........
A finer bunch of goons on one TV set would be hard to find.
Last night the MSNBC shills were crying about potential impeachments for Obama and Bachman subpeonas for the financial criminals.
And to hear that Harry Reid outgunned the "Massive tea party" donations by a 5% margin.
What the hell is wrong with the gaming crowd in Nevada? Oh, I get it. No one is working and their real estate market has folded.
Last night the MSNBC shills were crying about potential impeachments for Obama and Bachman subpeonas for the financial criminals.
And to hear that Harry Reid outgunned the "Massive tea party" donations by a 5% margin.
What the hell is wrong with the gaming crowd in Nevada? Oh, I get it. No one is working and their real estate market has folded.
Kristi Noem of South Dakota
Congratulations to Ms. Noem, her family and the fine people of South Dakota.
You are the epitome of what Tom Daschle wasn't.
Good luck with the fight ahead.
Ms. Noem, you have the ability to do more for Indian Country in South Dakota than anyone before you.
May you hit the D.C. ground running.
You are the epitome of what Tom Daschle wasn't.
Good luck with the fight ahead.
Ms. Noem, you have the ability to do more for Indian Country in South Dakota than anyone before you.
May you hit the D.C. ground running.
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