My take on Social Security

If you think by giving politicians money to save for you later in your life, that you will have some semblance of "retirement", one might look no farther than the US debt.   At nearly $16 TRILLION we are all idiots to expect to get any or all of Social Security promised.

All bets are off..........

My "favorite" didn't win the rose garland on the finest day in a beautiful, May, Kentucky run but it got me to thinking about some odds.

I think the day will come when the government will no longer print the amount of debt our country owes.

When interest rates move up, the debt clock will be moving far faster than the current $3,000,000 per minute it is moving now.  Will it matter to you?  Does it matter to you now?

Do you even care?

Conservative Native American here

I had some great conservative teachers back in the day.  Native American conservative thinkers like Billy Mills, Bill Lawrence and Robert Yellow Tail gave me enough fodder in my early years and later  to last a lifetime.   You don't find many conservatives across Indian Country today.  I have met maybe a gaggle of Indian men and women who believe in the merits of conservative thought and living.

Across Indian Country the faces of life are easy to see.  The collisions are enormous.   The sovereign to sovereign status between Indian tribes and the US Government is the most valuable right Indian tribes hold today.  Though tribes can not print money and can not represent themselves to foreigners (the UN excluded) the tribes have the ability to make their own laws and to "help" their people.  But what does this word "sovereign" mean?  What does it mean to be a sovereign nation with the political bounds of American society?  It seems like the government speaks with a forked tongue because making human beings into wards of the government under a BIA trusteeship like on so many reservations today is a human rights violation of the worst kind.  On one hand you have the "our treaties, our sovereignty are paramount, you, Big Government  owe us so turn on the spigot of U.S. taxpayer funds and let us spend as we please" and on the other you have the "these casino's are in our best interests and we pay no tax so don't let anyone else build a casino".   Then there are the liberal Democrats (just about all Natives)  who believe that only a Democratic President and Congress can pull people out of the quagmire of reservation life and bring about change, whatever the hell change is on a reservation because on most if not the majority of reservations, change is about all you will find.

Billy Mills in the spring of 1972, a mere 40 years ago this month presented to me in Pierre, SD the 1972 Outstanding Indian Athlete Award.  His message was as clear that day as it is today.  Stressing personal responsibility and leading a drug-free lifestyle, his message was and is for Native youth to become warriors in their quest to better themselves.   Maybe Billy is the reason that to this day I have never even smoked a cigarette.

Bill Lawrence, beholden to no tribal council believed in the freedom of the press.  With a law degree in hand he took on the thieves across Minnesota with the printed word and was instrumental in helping law enforcement bring some justice to thugs like Chip Wadena who ripped millions from the coffers of my tribe.

Robert Yellow Tail, the man who at age 80 was hunting elk with me on the Crow reservation high in the Big Horn Mountains.  Robbie was a man among men and truly the first conservative thinker across Indian Country.   My Dad loved that guy and the compassion for his people he wore on his chest.

There are others out there today.  In the shadows, not wanting to upset the gravy train of life on reservations.   They are the ones that need to be the warriors and bring forth the message of the early icons of conservative thinking in Indian Country.   Join me.

Is this for target practice? If so who are they coming for?

Why did Department of Homeland Security order 450 million rounds of 40 caliber Hollow points?

 ........wait for it!

Because it's Standard Issue For DHS, Border Patrol, ICE and Countless others in the Glock .40 caliber.

Does that help any?

Feeling like selling your gold today?

Charlie Munger: "gold is a great thing to sew onto your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939 but civilized people don't buy gold"

...and yet:

David Einhorn: "I will keep a substantial long exposure to gold -- which serves as a Jelly Donut antidote for my portfolio. While I'd love for our leaders to adopt sensible policies that would reduce the tail risks so that I could sell our gold, one nice thing about gold is that it doesn't even have quarterly conference calls

Kyle Bass: "Buying Gold Is Just Buying A Put Against The Idiocy Of The Political Cycle. It's That Simple!"

and Howard Buffett: "I warn you that politicians of both parties will oppose the restoration of gold, although they may outwardly seemingly favor it. Also those elements here and abroad who are getting rich from the continued American inflation will oppose a return to sound money. There is no more important challenge facing us than the restoration of your freedom to secure gold in exchange for the fruits of your labors."

The uncivilized people have spoken, and the winner is...

Will I ever hunt New Mexico?

New Mexico Department of Game & Fish

2012 Applications on file for DEAN T PARISIAN

						Status	Draw Result
						PAID	unsuccessful

Nobody does it better than Boortz

Over the weekend we learned that the Obama campaign has settled on a slogan for the 2012 campaign. It was one word …. Forward. Was it focus groups at work here? Did campaign officials discover that people like that word. Everyone wants to move forward, right? You don’t want to move backwards, do you? Well …. If you’re standing at the edge of a cliff, forward is the last direction you want to go. Financially … we’re at the edge of that cliff.
There’s another explanation for the word though. “Forward” has long been associated with the socialist and communist movement --- dating back to 1844. I absolutely and completely believe that Obama is a Marxist – so why not the name of a publication Marx and Engels published that year in Paris?
So yesterday I gave you a laundry list of different political philosophers, publications and propaganda that all used the phrase “forward” to embody and promote their socialist or communist causes. Considering the historical use of the word “forward,” it is no surprise that our Marxist in Chief would select this phrase as his new campaign slogan. But one of the many examples I referenced was a Wikipedia entry under “Forward” that Cristina found entitled “Forward (generic name of socialist publications).” Yesterday morning if you went to this link you found a long history of socialist and communist publications published in many languages, principally German, Russian and French, using that name as their title. That Wikipedia entry began with this:
The name Forward carries a special meaning in socialist political terminology. It has been frequently used as a name for socialist, communist and other leftwing newspapers and publications, denoting an urge for progress.
By yesterday afternoon Obama sycophants and myrmidons were busy. They were demanding that Wikipedia remove that reference to the word “forward” being a generic name of socialist publications. Toward the middle of the afternoon if you clicked on that link it would say “This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policy.” By the end of the day, if you searched the word “Forward” in Wikipedia, the link to that entry had been removed from the website. Instead, now a section labeled “Publications” has appeared, listing some of the various examples. Here’s the original Wikipedia search. We’ve cached it. If you click on it here’s what you see:

Politics

• Forward (generic name of socialist publications)
• Forward (Greenland), a social democratic political party in Greenland
• Kadima (Hebrew for forward), an Israeli political party
• Socialist league VPERED, a Russian political party
• Forward (Obama-Biden Campaign Slogan)

This morning, here’s what you see:

Politics

• Forward (Greenland), a social democratic political party in Greenland
• Kadima (Hebrew for forward), an Israeli political party
• Socialist league VPERED, a Russian political party
• Forward (Obama-Biden Campaign Slogan)

The reference to “generic name of socialist publications” is gone. The little excerpt I included above … gone. You certainly don’t want that in the same listing as “Obama-Biden Campaign Slogan.” But wait! What about that reference to “Forward” being the slogan of the Obama campaign? Well click on it. Here’s what you’ll find:

Forward (Obama-Biden Campaign Slogan)

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Yes ma’am. Now the Obama supporters are trying to have the reference to their campaign moved away --- eliminated, in fact --- from any proximity to that reference to socialist publications.
Let’s watch this folks. Clearly Obama has an official or unofficial Wikipedia team ready to cleanse postings that might not play well with voters still on the edge. Control the message. Always control the message.

John Arnold retires.......

The whiz who would absolutely light up the ICE (InterContinental Exchange) with his size and speed in the oil and gas markets is finishing up.   To a stellar career and outsized returns it was a job well done.

Make the next chapter be as satisfying as the first.