Funny how your last "PS" sentence contradicts your first sentence!

So it's really the investors who are insane, right? They will never see any of their money back. The bonds might just as well have been written in Greek. (And probably the Orange county consultant got his money from the bond buyers as commissions.) Ned6 has it right.

Oh yeah, Jacob, people who "bemoan how the value of human life has been degraded by being submissive to tyranny and hypocrisy" should not pass an ideological test. If that's a dangerous idea, there goes the 2nd amendment. The answer is really much simpler: Sikh temples--precisely because anti-Muslim nut jobs go nuts when they see any men in turbans--need to post armed guards when prayers are in session. Just like the public in Aurora, CO was much smarter than the politicians after the movie theater rampage: They went out and bought more guns.

...and as difficult as it was for all those who took the time and effort to wade through the long lines to support Chick-fil-A, remember that it is quicker and easier to vote. This will be what the pundits call a "base election", like 2008 in that respect. But it is the right base--not the left base--whose thunderous roar will be heard on November 6. (Then the real work begins, first, to make sure the gang of thugs in power now leave peaceably, thence to unravel the damage they have done.)

While we're in the mood for aphorisms, how 'bout "No good deed goes unpunished."

"They have nothing to live for, nothing to die for, and nothing to work for" Brilliant! And bearing an uncanny likeness to "Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion, too. Imagine"! Lo, these last 40 years in the wilderness!

You hit the nail on the head, Mona! I was hoping someone would speak this truth in public! Now if only FNC reporters would, as Bill OReilly says, wise up!

I think it was just this last Friday that ECB chief Mario Draghi told reporters emphatically that the Eurozone will not dissolve. Hmmmm... The conventional wisdom I've come to rely on more and more in the grand theater of this slow motion train wreck is "Never believe anything until it is officially denied." Now that the Eurozone breakup has been officially denied...

"It is true that the election results in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco and elsewhere are not Obama's fault" Et tu, Caroline? Did somebody slip you a sip of the Obama Kool-Aid? What is obvious to those with open ears and eyes and minds, is that the world is in the state of a "subclinical" war in which the Communist are allied with the Islamists, and Obama is the lynchpin, and the world's most powerful leader at that. Specific examples: The whole "Arab Spring" was fueled by the steep rise in fuel prices caused by Obama's "green" policies that switched the US crop priorities from food to fuel. Obama directly stoked the revolution Egypt that threw out important Arab ally of the US and Israel. If it looks, quacks and waddles like a duck...

Gold and silver are part of the current commodity bubble which has been slowly but steadily deflating for months. silver is now down just about 50% from it's high last year. Besides, during the Great Depression (I prefer to call the present one the "not so great depression") the feds siezed everybody's gold. And finally, you can't eat gold. One can, however, purchase wholesome food assets that are stable for many years. But in this classic deflation depression, cash (American money and US government obligations) is king.

An eminently reasonable argument. The thing that got me about the circus leading up to the Obamacare SCOTUS decision was the total mystery about it, as if these 9 were making a decision based on a secret document, whose content was to be revealed last Monday for the first time! Who'da thunk that the Constitution was written in plain English? And as for moderation, there is a lot of confusion about that concept. Fox News actually embodies moderation, as in "fair and balanced", a concept which people mistake for objectivity. But objectivity is 100% truth, whereas "fair and balanced" is like our adversary legal system; 50% truth and 50% lies. That's hardly objective!