Anyone that watched the Maryland-FSU game last night knows that FSU defensive back Myron Rolle was selected as a Rhodes Scholar. I maybe wrong here but it appears to me that you have to espouse pretty liberal views to be selected. I base this assumption on people like Bill Clinton and former Senator Bill Bradley having been Rhodes Scholars. Didn't Cecil Rhodes pretty much hold to one world government? I may be way off base. If so please straighten me out. It is just my perception of the Rhodes Scholarship and Oxford Unversity in general.

YOU CAN KEEP "THE CHANGE" PALIN 2012

It'll be like a Road Runner cartoon.  Somehow the coyote (the economy) will run off the edge of a cliff, then screech to a halt in midair, looking confused.  The Road Runner (the Dems) will hand him an anvil, and the coyote will begin his long, slow fall to the canyon floor.

Welcome to the era of unity, you racist!

Folks,

I must say that I get a kick out of the dollar perma-bears -- the folks who no matter what is going on in the global economy, and no matter what is happening in the currency markets, believe the dollar will go lower.

After all, the dollar index is currently at its highest level since 2005, and is up more than 20 percent since July:

Isn't it interesting that as the financial crisis worsened, and markets all over the world collapsed, our dollar rallied AND RALLIED BIG!

Why? Because international investors, bankers, hedge fund managers, and traders came to the conclusion that the dollar and U.S. treasuries are the ONLY SAFE INVESTMENT IN THE WORLD. Take a look at what's been happening in U.S. treasuries:

Demand for U.S. Treasury bonds remained robust Thursday, with the yield on the benchmark note falling to an all-time low, as investors continue to flock to the safety of government debt.

With the global economy in turmoil and world financial markets in free fall, risky assets have fallen out of favor and investors appear to be mainly focused on preserving capital. [...]

In a sign of the market's jitters, the benchmark 10-year note jumped 2-29/32 to 106-14/32, and its yield slipped to 3.15% from 3.33% late Wednesday. The yield on the 10-year bond fell to 3%, its lowest level since the Treasury began offering the bond in 1962.

Meanwhile, the yield on the 3-month bill fell to 0.02% down from 0.07% on Wednesday. The last time the yield fell to this level was in September, at the height of the financial crisis, when it hit 0%. [...]

The 2-year note rose 5/32 to 101-1/32, and its yield fell to 0.97% from 1.07%, the first time the yield ever fell below 1%. [...]

The 30-year bond rallied 8-17/32 to 118-24/32, and its yield fell to an all-time low of 3.48% from 3.92%.

Yeah, folks: everybody hates the dollar -- that's why it and our treasuries are rallying while virtually every other asset on the planet including stocks, corporate bonds, real estate, commodities, gold and silver -- is plummeting.

Let's understand something: one of the reasons for the dollar's decline since 2002 was the reduction in investment fears globally. As the economies of emerging markets improved, money flocked out of America into riskier asset plays. Now that everyone is unwinding out of such things, the only safe asset is right here.

As a result, the only reason the dollar will sell off at some point in the future is because the recession is believed to be ending, and fear in the markets is waning. At that point, people will feel comfortable investing in something other than our dollar and our treasuries, and they will both decline.

Until that point comes, our dollar and our treasuries will continue to be the investment of choice all around the world, and those shorting both will get killed.   ns

I really don't understand most of what drives the value of the dollar and such. But I can tell you that oil prices have made a bad situation worse. The cost of filling my 10 gallon gas tank quadrupled to over 40 dollars. The cost of food has risen over the last 2 years far more than it should have. Deliveries for meds and such have added extra "gas fees." The cost to heat my home has also quadrupled in the past 2 years. 400 hundred gallon oil tank cost over a thousand dollars to fill the last time.

Meanwhile our income has gone down with pay freezes and lack of jobs. We started living on credit more and more. Now, the credit is maxed out. We have defaulted on credit cards to pay regular bills. BK laws have made filing very difficult and lawyer cost are very high.

The reason people aren't buying anything is because we don't have any money to spend. Manufacturing is nearly dead in the USA. Good paying jobs are in the health care fields and schools. I nor my hubby are "nurse" material. I know a working family that relies on Wal-mart as the main source of income.

The job market is gone because our jobs have gone overseas and to Mexico. On top of that we have illegal immigrants that come to NYS and take more jobs away from the apple harvest. Matter of fact the farmers don't bother to advertise jobs or hire white people because there is such a huge illegal network. One illegal gets sent away and 2 more are there to take his place.

People aren't hording money. People like me, are barely getting buy and defaulting on credit cards to pay their mortgage. Because there is no jobs there is no money to buy things in the store. Unless we find away to bring back good paying jobs this cycle will continue.

If you want our economy to turn around the first thing we need to do is sell manufactured good overseas. Bring manufacturing jobs and industry back to the US. Stop using slave labor from china and Mexico.

It's not a case of saving for a rainy day. We, people living pay check to pay check like me, have been immersed in a flood. There is no way out. Even if gas prices stay down there is still the job loss to think about. The lack of manufacturing sales abroad and at home.

Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Go to http://www.chevrolet.com/. What's the most prominant thing you see? A "news" link that urges you to "support the auto industry". And what's that, you ask? A whole bunch of stuff about contacting your representative because it's "time to save the US Auto Industry". A whole bunch of stuff about how the auto industry is vital to our nation. And warnings on the devastating effects of an industry collapse.

What's missing, you might ask? That's right -- there is no information at all on what the auto industry is doing to curtail costs and become more competitive. It's all about bailout money -- nothing at all about what GM has done the past 30 years to get into this position.

I say -- let them sink.

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If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it is in English, thank a Soldier. - My barber

RINO PURGE CHAT

You guys know where it is . . .   ;-)

"Gov. Palin has been subjected to one of the most massive and dishonest pile-on smear attacks in the history of liberal media."  -- Lowell Ponte

eHarmony is being sued by queers in California. Seems like a private business can't sell a specific product anymore. eHarmony's product is matching men and women -- not men and men, not women and women. Yet, the twisted logic people say -- "that isn't fair (snif, snif). You have to change your product line to suit us and our perverted ways".

What's worse is that the courts agree, and the msm is too lazy to point out the real problem with the complaint. eHarmony is not preventing queers from seeking out the opposite sex -- i.e., paying for the product-line that's eHarmony's business. But that doesn't matter anymore. A little complaint, and all hell breaks loose, and society continues to go down the rat-hole of political correctness.

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If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it is in English, thank a Soldier. - My barber

Watch/listen for an announcement tomorrow of Citi and our wonderful gov creating a 'new bad bank'. 

JDW

DAILY WAVE

• GOP: A new start with a new team
• Who will the libs attack after inauguration?

I figure you could apply this to the economy somewhere, besides we need a little humor, and besides, i despise dst, i call it "communist time" and our regular old time "Gods Time". I reckon dst and cuttin of the top of the blanket and sewin it back on the bottom in the economy will fit right in with the o-Dumb-uh-uh regime.!!!!!!!!!

(GRINS) kilrod

Daylight Saving Time Explained

As the rest of the country changed their clocks
once again on November 2nd in accordance with the laws of
daylight saving time, folks in Arizona do not change their
clocks at any time. Perhaps it is better explained this way,
as a wise old Arizona Indian chief once said when daylight
saving was explained to him:

"Only a white man would believe that you could cut a
foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a
blanket and have a longer blanket."

Remember, only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ and the American Soldier