My New TV Reality Show - "The Last Man Standing"

Going to pitch this show to Mark Burnett the creator of Survivor. The premise of the show is quite simple:

(1) We take every president, vice president, prime minister, king, queen, dictator, despot, general, jihadist etc., ... in other words every head of state and the leaders of terrorist organizations around the globe who are in the business of causing wars, conflicts, and tortures in our world ... and drop them off on a deserted island somewhere in the South Pacific ... preferably on an island that has been previously used for nuclear testing.

(2) We arm each and everyone with as many weapons as they want. They can be conventional weapons, bacteriological, chemical, nuclear, laser ... in other words every single weapon which these Bozo's of Death have ever caused to be created.

(3) These leaders can create their own armies, if they wish, by recruiting their own family members to help them do battle. Can't remember if any high ranking politician's sons or daughters have ever served their country on the field of battle, or just served cold ones in their mansions in the Hampton's.

(4) They will have 7 days to fight each other, face to face, for what they "supposedly believe in" instead of giving orders for others to fight and die for reasons which have clearly been fabricated. Can you imagine president Bush slugging it out with the president of Iran. Or Prime Minister Harper of Canada kicking the stuffing out of Osama bin Laden? Damn, that would be twice as exciting as Ultimate Fighting. Let's get Vince McMahon involved!

(5) The last man standing will be declared the winner and his prize will be that he will own and control the world.

We already have Haliburton and the usual military defense contractors as sponsors.

Kaboooooom ..... Let the games begin!

Planet Earth to: Clinton, Obama and McCain

It's time that the three presidential hopefuls stopped shoveling-out the back of their manure trucks.

Enough already with the tripe, fluff, platitudes, accusations and mud that the 3 amigos have been slinging.

Enough already with the dreams, the experience, the phone calls at 3 in the morning .... blah, blah, blah, blah!

America is in very deep trouble and she needs a PRESIDENT WITH STONES who will tell American's just how deep the pile is that they are currently standing in and how America will get out of it.

I haven't heard any one of the presidential candidates offer specific solutions to;

• putting the brakes on the price of oil which is skyrocketing to levels that will inflate everything out of sight.
• putting a stop to price fixing amongst the big oil companies.
• increasing refinery capacity to reduce prices at the pumps.
• food prices which continue to skyrocket thus putting a huge damper on family spending. Between 2006 - 2007, food prices have soared 40%. That's just plain criminal.
• the bio-fuel scam.
• speaking about scams, when is a future President going to shut down that privately owned corporation known as the Fed - see my series on the Fed.
• this year's accelerating inflation rate.
• medical insurance and health care costs which are heading for the stratosphere.
• no new home equity lines of credit being offered.
• existing lines of credit being shut down.
• 2.5 trillion in losses to U.S. home values so far.
• the destruction of the U.S. dollar around the globe.
• the trillions in losses which are about to hit the U.S. economy from the imminent collapse of prime mortgage-backed bonds and derivitives.
• to prevent taxpayers from being taken to the cleaners by having to pay for the bailouts of investment banks, failed financial institutions and the bankruptcy of government mortgage-insuring, deposit-insuring and pension-insuring agencies.
• to prevent hyperinflation.
• to prevent the national debt from doubling and tripling over the next decade.
• to stop the off-shoring of American jobs
• to call out Bush and Cheney on their plan to start yet another war this time in Iran. Heaven help us all. After 5 years, billions of dollars and over 4,000 lives, the United States of America can't even control the city of Baghdad ... one single solitary city... never mind the country of Iraq. How incompetent is that?

This list could be much longer but the hour is late and I'm becoming more agitated and cantankerous. Let me just end this blog by saying that when it comes to any one of the 3 presidential hopefuls intelligently addressing any one of these few issues and presenting a viable solution, the silence has been quite deafening!

America you deserve better than Obama, Clinton or McCain.

Mr. Bush and Mr. Harper ... What in the Tarnation is This All About?

On February 14th, Canada and the United States signed a military agreement which allows the armed forces of one country to support the armed forces of the other country during domestic civil emergency even if that emergency does not involve a cross-border crisis.

The bottom-line on this agreement (Civil Assistance Plan) is that the U.S. military and the Canadian military can cross each others borders to fight domestic emergencies. My question is what possible "domestic emergency" could Stephen Harper be possibly expecting that would prompt him to enter into an agreement that would provide for American troops to be on Canadian soil? Riddle me that Batman.

Conversely, what domestic emergency is George Bush anticipating that he would need Canadian troops on American soil? It just doesn't make any sense on the surface. Are we looking at another WMD (weapons of mass deception) scenario.

This agreement has not been announced either by Mr. Harper's government or by the Canadian military. WHY NOT MR. HARPER? Why are Canadians being purposely left in the dark on this agreement?

In the U.S. this plan has not been submitted to Congress for approval, nor did Congress pass any law or treaty specifically authorizing this military agreement to combine the armed forces of the U.S. and Canada in the event of a "wide range of domestic CIVIL disturbances." Does this not violate the U.S. Constitution?

Once again, what do both countries know or think that they know which would cause them to take this seemingly pre-emptive action. What civil disturbances are they afraid might occur?

This agreement was signed at U.S. Army North Headquarters, Fort Sam Houston, Texas by U.S. Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, Commander of Norad and U.S. Northern Command, or USNORTHCOM, and by Canadian Air Force Lt. Gen. Marc Dumais, Commander of Canada Command.

Let me throw in this bit of information as it may pertain to this agreement. In May 2007, President Bush, on his own authority, signed National Security Presidential Directive 51, also known as Homeland Security Presidential Directive 20, authorizing the President to declare a national emergency and take over all functions of federal, state, local, territorial and tribal governments, without necessarily obtaining the approval of Congress to do so.

I would urge people on both sides of the border to seriously begin connecting the dots on this one and determine for yourselves what sort of picture is slowly being painted by Mr. Bush and Mr. Harper.

What Exactly is President Bush's Stimulation Package Stimulating?

President Bush signed a multibillion-dollar economic rescue package that means $300 -$1,200 rebates for many American households.

Most taxpayers will receive a check of up to $600 for individuals and $1,200 for couples, with an additional $300 per child.

Economic analysts generally believe that the $168 billion package will help prevent the current downturn from ballooning into a crisis. NEWSFLASH for the Economists .... America is already in a crisis!!!!

Bush called the measure "a booster shot for our economy to stave-off a recession." Stave-off is an interesting choice of words for it means to "hold-off, or put-off, as by force, guile, etc." So what Bush is saying is that he will spend $168 billion to hold-off a recession that we are almost already in.

Will this so called stimulation package work? Hell no!!!!

The only way that this package could possibly have even a minimal positive impact on the American economy, which is now totally broken, is if every penny of this package was spent by consumers .... and that is not likely to be a "happening thing." Why?

Many American's are so overloaded with debt that they will have to use the rebate to pay down their credit card debts. So in other words, for those Americans, the rebate is tantamount to a partial bail-out of heavily indebted consumers and credit card companies. Hardly a net gain to the U.S. economy.

For others, the amount of dollars that are left over after debt reduction are drained-off because of America's dependency on imports.

Consider that approximately 70% of the goods on China-Mart ... ooops sorry ... on Wal-Mart shelves are made in China, and not in the good old USA., (why are you still shopping there) and 23% of total personal consumption expenditures are currently spent on imports and off-shored goods .... that's $1,870,000,000,000 directly stimulating FOREIGN ECONOMIES!

If the "Dance of the Dunces" in Washington were not so sad it would almost be laughable. The question still remains ... what exactly is this economic stimulation package really stimulating?

Jan.21/08 - Black Monday Meltdown - Here are the Stats.

A worldwide sell-off today sent stocks into a nose dive with a global meltdown in markets from Hong Kong to Europe. Today was the single largest one-day loss since 9/11. Here are the numbers.

• In Japan the Nikkei Index was down 535.35 points ending at 13,325.94
• The Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong plunged 1,838.01 points (5.49%) to 23,818.86
• The Chinese Shanghai Composite Index fell 5.1%
• The Bombay Exchange in India lost 7.41%
• Germany's DAX 30 tumbled 7.2%
• France's CAC-40 was down by 6.8%
• Britain's FTSE-100 lost 323.5 points closing at 5,578.2 representing a loss of nearly 60 million pounds in share values on the exchange.

In today's worldwide market plunge, equity investors lost hundreds of billions of dollars.

It's obvious that today's meltdown clearly demonstrates that investors are deeply concerned about the U.S. economy and its housing and credit crisis. Investors have rejected President Bush's economic stimulus plan for $145 billion worth of tax relef to encourage consumer spending, as they have also rejected Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's totally lame argument that equity strength in global markets would be sufficient to withstand a downturn in U.S. equities experienced by the bursting real estate bubble.

How naively arrogant on the part of Secretary Paulson.

It's also painfully apparent that the investors have given a thumbs-down to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's assurances that the U.S. central bank will repond with a big interest rate cut.

Fasten your seat belts! We're about to go for a ride on a rollercoaster that we shouldn't even have to be on in the first place.

America: 1988 - 2008 BC

• 1988 - President Bush
• 1992 - President Clinton
• 1996 - President Clinton
• 2000 - President Bush
• 2004 - President Bush

Will Billary Clinton make it America: 1988-2012 BC (Bush, Clinton)? Oh my!

Someone once said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.