Here is the bread I made on sunday night.

It is called Challah. Yumm.

A Blast from the Past

Ron Paul on NPR – Sunday September 20, 2009

Ron Paul makes another appearance on NPR, this time talking about the government &  health insurance plans.  Enjoy.

Ron Paul – National Public Radio

It’s a beautiful day in Mountville, PA

Exciting to be alive. Hope everyone is doing great! Time for some pancakes and meeting some more neighbors.

Peter Schiff : Remember I Supported Ron Paul!

Peter Schiff telling the truth.

The Wall Street Journal Agrees with Gerald Celente

Commercial Real Estate Lurks as the Next Potential Mortgage Crisis

Many people, who are not aware of Gerald Celente’s proven track record of predictions, laugh and ridicule Gerald Celente .  Months after Gerald Celente predicted that commercial real estate would be the next shoe to drop, The Wall Street Journal predicts the same.

Time will tell whether this prediction comes true or not.

Afghanistan for Dummies

by Ray McGovern

I’m going to ask for my money back. I’ve seen this Afghanistan movie before. The first time, Vietnam was in the title.

As in an early scene from the Vietnam version, U.S. military officials are surprised to discover that the insurgents in Afghanistan are stronger than previously realized.

And our protagonist, Gen. Westmoreland — sorry, I mean McChrystal — sees the situation as serious but salvageable. As Westmoreland did with President Lyndon Johnson, McChrystal is preparing to tell President Barack Obama that thousands of more troops are needed to achieve the U.S. objective — whatever that happens to be.

As in Vietnam, uncertainty about objectives and how to measure success persist in Afghanistan. Never has this come through more clearly than in the fuzzy remarks of “Af-Pak” super-envoy Richard Holbrooke who has purview over Afghanistan and Pakistan.

On Aug. 12 at the Center for American Progress, a Washington, D.C., think tank, Holbrooke tried to clarify how the Obama administration would gauge success in Afghanistan.

John Podesta, the center’s president who was President Bill Clinton’s chief of staff and served as head of Obama’s transition team, waxed eloquent not only about his friend Holbrooke but Holbrooke’s team; really spectacular, impressive, multidisciplinary, interagency, truly exceptional were some of the bouquets thrown at team members.

Holbrooke said his Af-Pak squad is “the best team” he’d ever worked with, adding that “Hillary” – the Secretary of State whose last name is Clinton – personally approved “every member.”

It may indeed be a good team but that doesn’t change the fact that it appears to be on a fool’s errand. Each member has considerable expertise to offer, but no one knows where they’re headed.

The whole thing reminds me of the old saw: If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there. (Or you might say Holbrooke’s team finds itself in a dark place peering into the distance looking for a light at the end of the tunnel.)

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‘Obama leads America to breakup’ – professor Panarin

Does Government Spending Bring Prosperity?

by Percy L. Greaves, Jr.

Many leaders in high places now [1955] promise us that our government will never again permit poverty and depression to devastate our land. They propose more government spending as a cure for every economic evil. And millions of people believe that such a program will work.

The underlying philosophy behind political spending is not new. Similar ideas have appeared throughout all history. They came to full flower shortly after the economic collapse of 1929, when unbalanced budgets were generally accepted as necessary economic measures for relieving those in distress. You could not let innocent people starve, could you?

People pointed to idle factories, unemployed workers and their unsatisfied wants. All we need to do, they said, is to get the government to start priming the pump. A little government spending would provide the would-be workers with the wherewithal to buy the things they desperately need. This would encourage businessmen to put the unemployed to work in the idle factories. This solution sounded so simple, and its political appeal was apparent. So we tried it.

People just plumb forgot all that economists had ever taught. Many desperate persons reached for whatever share they could get of the apparent prosperity that followed. Until war changed the picture, the price they paid was chronic unemployment by the millions. Are we now asking for a repeat performance?

Most people seem to forget that the government can pay out only what it borrows or collects in taxes. They also forget one of the most elementary facts of a free economy — men who will not accept going wage rates must remain unemployed. Likewise, they fail to understand the real causes of depressions. A logical examination of pertinent data would show them that it was Federal Reserve money manipulation that brought on the depression we all deplore.

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Four Money Lessons from Nature

by Jim Wang

When you get down to the core of money, it’s really just an abstraction of natural resources. You accept money for your labor because, ultimately, it can buy you the things you want. Food and shelter, at the core of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, are just two of the things you can buy when you have money.

That’s why it’s not so much a leap to look towards nature for lessons about money. Is an acorn to a squirrel any different than a dollar to you or me? Nope. Animals deal with natural resources every single day, in such a simple and easy to understand way, so certainly there is something we can learn from our flora and fauna?
Save in Prosperity

A lot of animals hibernate in the winter. They fatten up while the eating is still good, during the summer and fall months, and then live off that fat during the leaner periods of the winter. Squirrels hide their nuts in secret caches, tapping them when the nuts are less plentiful. Bears load up on fat, carve ditches into hills, and sleep the winter away. Almost every animal is aware of when food will be less plentiful so they save up so they can survive during those periods.

We should be doing the same! Our lean periods aren’t quite as predicable as the seasons but they’re there. We’re in a lean period right now! You can’t set your watch to the cycles but no one ever thinks the good times will roll on forever, so we should save up when the saving is easiest in order to survive when money is less plentiful.

Work In Teams

Many animals live in groups, everything from a school of fish to a flock of geese to a pride of lions; animals congregate for protection. They work in teams to achieve a common goal, whether it’s on a hunt or protecting the young. They do this because many realize that going it alone is much harder than working in a team with others.

This applies to people as well, we are most effective when we learn to work in teams towards a common goal. There is only so much one person can do and by working well with others you have the potential to increase the effectiveness of the group. The total is greater the sum of its parts.

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