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Hourly Action In Gold From Trader Dan /snip After yesterday’s big rush to safety, the bond market promptly puked and gave it all back. This is exactly what I am referring to when I state that today’s markets are broken and that hedge fund lunacy is destroying their integrity. The wild price swings are indicative of ZERO analysis being done by human beings. Rather what we are seeing is the result of a dog walking its master on the leash. Computers are running our markets and that is what scares the hell out of me. How does a bunch of...

Governments and companies should limit the snooping they do on web users. So said Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web, who said that growing oversight of browsing could have a pernicious effect. A greater part of the value of the web lay in the lack of constraints on what people could do with it. He also warned that attempts to censor what people could say or what they could do online were ultimately doomed to failure. Open triumph "When you use the internet it is important that the medium should not be set up with constraints," he...

Republican lawmakers have slammed US President Barack Obama for branding Honduras' political upheaval a "coup," saying he was aligning himself with leftist Latin American leaders. Republican lawmakers said Obama's reaction to President Manuel Zelaya's ouster had placed the US in line with the presidents of Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua. "By calling this a coup and by early statements insisting on the reinstatement of Mr Zelaya, the administration now stands with the likes of (Hugo) Chavez, (Evo) Morales and (Daniel) Ortega, and not with the Honduran people," Republican Connie Mack said during a hearing by a panel of the House Foreign...

In his speech in Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009, President Obama stated: "As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam. It was Islam that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe's Renaissance."

Saturday, July 11, 2009 Unreal. With Unemployment at 9.5% Obama Says Stimulus Is Working Who are you going to believe... Dear Leader or your lying eyes? Barack Obama in his Weekly Address today insisted that the $787 billion record Stimulus boondoggle is working. This is after he earlier promised that unemployment would not go above 8% if the bill passed. It's currently at 9.5%. The Hill reported: President Obama on Saturday defended his $787 billion economic stimulus package as having ended an economic free fall after a week of criticism from both ends of the political spectrum. Obama used his...

The difference between radical Muslims and liberal American Jews is that the former seek to become martyrs, while the latter aspire to become victims. In an ironic twist of fate, radical Muslims and liberal American Jews were made for each other. This ideological symbiosis is sufficient to give pause to the presence of intelligent design. But like all things that seem to emanate from a higher power, there is a paradoxical twist. It is not themselves that liberal American Jews want to sacrifice on the altar of victimhood; it is their Israeli brethren. Barack Hussein Obama received nearly eighty percent...

Sarah Palin did an interview with a prominent newspaper reporter this week while wearing open-toed shoes that exposed her green feet!Palin claims her feet were green from cutting grass, but anyone one with an education higher than an Idaho diploma mill knows that green feet are a genetic defect local to inbreeding in Wasilla, according to the Daily Kos.While I'm at it, has anyone looked at Trig's feet to see if he has green feet like his supposed mother? Sallie Quenn called me this morning in shock over Palin's flagrant display, saying, "Someone who has no shame in being a...

WASHINGTON — With the current chairman under fire for his connections to a lobbying firm under FBI investigation, Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., could be in line to take over the chairmanship of the House panel that oversees Pentagon funding. But even as that possibility looms, Dicks himself faces increased scrutiny for his relationship to the lobbying firm at the heart of the investigation. So far, Dicks hasn't been sucked into the latest earmark-campaign contribution scandal on Capitol Hill, though he and a handful of other lawmakers have skated around the edges. Dicks adamantly denies any wrongdoing and said he hasn't...

Racial killings and heavy-handed policing stir up a repressed and dangerous province IT BEGAN as a protest about a brawl at the other end of the country; it became China’s bloodiest incident of civil unrest since the massacre that ended the Tiananmen Square protests 20 years ago. The ethnic Uighurs in the far western city of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang province, accused Han Chinese factory workers in the southern province of Guangdong of racial violence against Uighur co-workers. By the time Urumqi’s Uighurs had finished venting their anger, more than 150 people were dead and hundreds more injured. Much...

Whew, that’s a lot to say on a Saturday morning. Biden may be an utterly useless, racially insensitive retard, but he is good for a laugh gaffe. Biden’s latest idiocy has further exposed the divide between the press and our current administration … which is fractured. If the LA Times is taking you to task for continuing Bush’s policies of secrecy … you know you’re in trouble with the press. The press is becoming far less likely to cover for our president now days. Think about it … the LA Times is calling the stimulus a failure in pure black...

HELENA - Tax-dollar-dependent General Motors is trying to cancel its contract with the nation's only platinum and palladium mine, the Stillwater Mine in Montana's Beartooth Mountains, even as it evidently retains contracts with foreign mines.

This is one of those articles that I really REALLY hope people will read before just commenting on the headline or the quoted sections. In fact, I think it's one of the best articles I've seen on this subject in half a decade. Yes, it's long, detailed, and forces many readers to question their previously held beliefs about regime ties to the Al Queda terrorist network, but it's not the typical anti-Bush/anti-war piece or a woohoo-Bush-was-right piece either. It is EXACTLY why: members of the 911 Commission, Sen Intel Com, as well as others (and why every investigation into the...

The few fellow conservatives I found in the career ranks of the Justice Department were usually people who would only secretly admit their views. At work, they maintain the fiction that they are liberals or apolitical in order to avoid retribution. Those who are openly conservative usually have given up on ever getting promoted or are in dead-end career slots. Once a conservative is embedded into the civil service, he becomes beholden to careerist middle managers for salary increases, vacation approval, stimulating assignments, and even office location. Conservatives worried about kids, mortgages, good benefits, and glowing performance reviews can be...

The president of the union representing 12,000 Border Patrol agents on Thursday disputed arguments from Obama administration officials that the U.S. and Mexican governments are gaining the upper hand in the battle against drug cartels...

Dear US Congress, Where were you when JFK was murdered? Can you tell us where you were when our astronauts stood on the lunar surface? How about when President Nixon resigned? These are shocking and incredible moments for their power on us all, and for their effect on us all. Now, I ask you this;…Where were you when our country was handed over to treasonous people? Are you paying attention? That’s right; I asked where you were when our country was handed over to treasonous people? Because your empty fill-in-the-blank(check) bill that you passed is about to make our country...

Ah... so little time left to abuse Governor Sarah Palin. After all, after she becomes "citizen" Sarah, the costs of attacks are no longer borne by the taxpayer, but by the complainant. So, predictably, the ethics complaints have stepped up a new notch! And the latest events are proof that these complaints are *not* about driving Palin from office, but to attempt to politically destroy Palin in the elected office battlefield. First of all... if you are not up to date on the Trials and Tribulations of Sarah, and the "Alinsky Perfected" section that is devoted to the ethics complaints...

It'll be on the dopey MSNBC channel. They apparently don't even list it on their website, but I know it will be on at 1PM ET today and again tomorrow (Sunday) at 12 noon ET. In any case, you have got to see it to believe it. "Weird" doesn't begin to describe it.

Whether or not people are driven to denounced the obvious death of Presley because they love his records or movies or any other variation thereof is moot; the point is that some people find themselves predisposed to deny factual evidence (e.g.: death certificate, accounts of people who handled the body, the funeral, the burying of the coffin). Instead, they cling to fantastic, non-realistic, evidence that Elvis still lives, which can be found in reported cryptic songs by Waylon Jennings, crazy theory books, movies, and, of course, the person on the street that swears that Elvis just pumped their gas and...

t happens all the time. Someone cooking on the stove or outdoor grill walks away to do something else, or falls asleep, or forgets about the food. And a fire starts. Cooking was the leading cause of residential fires in Virginia in 2008, according to a new state report that examines fires and responses to them. Cooking, which includes outdoor grilling, accounted for 31 percent of all residential structure fires, up from 28 percent in 2007, according to the 2009 annual report from the Virginia Department of Fire Programs. Heating-related fires were the next-most-common cause, at 16 percent. "Cooking is...

Church of England under pressure to accept gay marriage By STEVE DOUGHTY 11th July 2009 The Fellowship Of Confessing Anglicans, a coalition of clergy and lay people, are unhappy with the liberal agenda of some churches The Church of England warned last night that it is under pressure to accept gay marriage. But two senior bishops - writing on behalf of the CofE - said it is not prepared to abandon its traditional teachings in favour of the idea of 'gender neutral' marriage. They said that the Church of England considers 'it is vital for the Church to maintain a...