Enjoy the decline!

This video on Quantitative Easing is terrifying even with funny and cute cartoon dolls.

Even the rich are doing it...

More Americans opt to rent than to pay a mortgage.

HT: Captain Capitalism

All hail, Al Gore!!

Here's the kind of news that will have you shaking your head:

Anyone who opposes ethanol subsidies, as these columns have for decades, comes to appreciate the wisdom of St. Jude. But now that a modern-day patron saint—St. Al of Green—has come out against the fuel made from corn and your tax dollars, maybe this isn't such a lost cause.

Welcome to the college of converts, Mr. Vice President. "It is not a good policy to have these massive subsidies for first-generation ethanol," Al Gore told a gathering of clean energy financiers in Greece this week. The benefits of ethanol are "trivial," he added, but "It's hard once such a program is put in place to deal with the lobbies that keep it going."

No kidding, and Mr. Gore said he knows from experience: "One of the reasons I made that mistake is that I paid particular attention to the farmers in my home state of Tennessee, and I had a certain fondness for the farmers in the state of Iowa because I was about to run for President."

Mr. Gore's mea culpa underscores the degree to which ethanol has become a purely political machine: It serves no purpose other than re-electing incumbents and transferring wealth to farm states and ethanol producers. Nothing proves this better than the coincident trajectories of ethanol and Mr. Gore's career.

Oh, how nice. Mr. Gore now sees the light while the American taxpayer gets to foot the bill for years to come for another environmental pipe dream gone sour. Somehow I doubt that this new revelation by Gore will spur Greens to be a little more skeptical about adopting and advocating every earth saving idea that comes down the pike. Environmentalism is a religion that does not tolerate free thought or dissent.

Ben Bernanke's Dollar

Unemployment is now 0%...

...at least for me. I now have a full-time gig after spending two years hustling hard for contract or temp work. I have transitioned into the health-care industry from financial services. There are many things to learn and I am excited at the opportunities. Posting may be light around here for a while. Onward!

Olbermann suspended!

It couldn't happen to a nicer guy--Hahahahahaha!! I remember the vile schadenfrued that Olbermann exhibited when Rick Sanchez was fired from CNN.

Nullification!

I just downloaded Thomas Woods' book "Nullification" onto my Kindle. I'm looking forward to reading it. Here is an interview with Prof. Woods on the subject. (38 minutes long.)

Democrats get a beating!

Democrats got their butts handed to them last night. Here are some of my favorite links:

1) Democrats lose centuries of seniority in the House.

2) Barney Frank won but he lost his powerful financial services seat. Whew!

3) Goodbye, Pelosi.

4) Obama’s former Senate seat goes to a Republican!

5) Chris Matthews and his "tingle."

6) GOP made HUGE gains in state legislatures around the country--This will give them the upper hand in the coming redistricting.

Election Day!

Election Day 2010. Democrats are going to get a well deserved sock in the eye for their hubris. Then we'll have to hear all the wailing from liberals about how "Americans are stupid," "Fox News is evil," "liberals are fleeing to Canada," "The Koch brothers bought the election," blah, blah, blah. Maybe it's BAD LIBERAL POLICY-MAKING without compromise and their feckless attempts to "fix" the economy that has people voting against Democrats. But I guess having Democrats looking at their own faulty political philosophy would be too easy and obvious, I guess. Don't get me wrong, I have no illusions about Republicans grabbing power in the House. They can be as pathetic as Democrats. I'm just hoping for, at the very least, gridlock. Sweet, sweet, slow-down of the giant resource-sucking behemoth in Washington, D.C.

I'm going to have fun watching the results come in tonight. The bubbly is chilled and ready.

The absurdity of the "Sanity" rally

I think it's kinda funny how Stewart, as a liberal satirist, stirs up the venomous public discourse with his nightly mis-characterizations of conservatives (sometimes very funny, I'll admit) but on the eve of Democrats getting ready to get socked in the eye, he all of a sudden wants a rally to "restore sanity?" Hilarious. The joke is on the poor sops who spent money travelling from far away places to be at a rally against something that has made Stewart's show popular in the first place and that will continue to be his tool--the re-enforcement of political prejudices in order to be funny. This Reason.tv video highlights my point nicely.

HT: Small Dead Animals