The Daily Skunk

Just saw something and it made me wonder what the Fed. Reserve will do next.

The way they conduct business sounds like something straight out of the onion.

Don’t be surprised when we see the feds print up 1 googol edfa thereby completely running our currency into the ground and leaving our dollar with less value than any given 3rd world country.

What’s behind this? Can everyone say multinational currency.

WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!

In the meantime, check this out.

whats a trillion $ look like?

This was written by someone with a college degree.  Enjoy, and don’t try to make corrections as you read. Then you will see what it is like to need counseling.

If you are a label reader like myself, you have definitely come across an ingredient listed as “natural flavor”.

At first glance most wouldn’t even think twice about this, I didn’t, until it dawned on me one day how odd it was to see that listed as an ingredient… I mean doesn’t most anything have a natural flavor?

Well, turns out natural doesn’t mean natural in this case. No it isn’t some concentration of the real thing added to enhance the flavor. It is much more chemically altered than that.

Here is an excerpt from the US federal code on natural flavors:

“the essential oil, oleoresin, essence or extractive, protein hydrolysate, distillate, or any product of roasting, heating or enzymolysis, which contains the flavoring constituents derived from a spice, fruit or fruit juice, vegetable or vegetable juice, edible yeast, herb, bark, bud, root, leaf or any other edible portions of a plant, meat, seafood, poultry, eggs, dairy products, or fermentation products thereof, whose primary function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional. ^[3]“

Now, I realise that there is nothing within that which seems to be sinister… or is there?  That’s the thing, nobody but the manufactorer or owner of the product being natural flavorized really knows and most of them aren’t as simple as that definition implies.

And that is  because the flavors are patented, which also means they do not have to be listed as anything other than natural flavors.

Now I’m not necessarily trying to suggest that all of these are bad for us, but on the same note do you think any of them are actually good for us?

Something tells me that there is no positive benefit to consumption of these flavors and I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that many have some sort of negative health impact if consumed in large amounts over long periods of time.

For example… Coca Cola, how do you think they get that flavor in there - do you think it is a pure concotion of some organic products boiled down into some refreshing syrup and then mixed with water and carbonation?  Or Mountain Dew, Squirt, Pepsi, 7 up, etc. And most people who drink these beverages drink multiple cans per day… even though the amount used is very small, what does that actually mean.

Anyway, on with the conspiracy theories.

Instead of copying the article and being branded a plagarizer, I am leaving you with some thoughts and a link.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0109/suissa_gaza.php3

If this article doesn’t shed some light on the crux of the matter, I don’t think you will ever understand anything, except that your children’s children will also live off the federal teat and steal Yu-Gi-Oh cards from the pedophile-congregation-area at Hastings.

If Israel is to continue concessions to terrorists, they will cease to exist.  If the Muslim world is going to come to the 21st century, they must forgive all centuries previous and live in the current times.  They need not abandon beliefs, but they must stop the terrorists who call themselves Muslim, or risk being devalued by the terrorists’ actions.

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was arrested this morning at his north Chicago home. His chief of staff was also detained by the Fed’s. While details are still coming in, the most common reports seem to imply he finally got caught trying to sell an appointed position at his disposal. The people of Illinois have been waiting to find out who will be appointed to succeed  Senator Obama who is now the President-Elect. Apparently Gov. Blagojevich has been waiting for the highest bidder.

It will be a long drawn out court battle in the least but more likely will lead to swift impeachment hearings in the Illinois General Assembly. It was not long ago that Gov. Blagojevich narrowly survived a recall vote in the Illinois Senate. With former governor George Ryan already in federal prison, it seems we are starting a new tradition of a more taxpayer friendly retirement program for our past governors in Illinois.

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich

 I wonder if Senator Dick Durbin will ask President Bush to commute Gov. Blago’s coming sentence also.

The sky is falling, right? Wrong, that is old news. This time the bottom is dropping out. Everywhere we turn someone has a new bailout request to help sustain our ailing economy. The squeakiest wheels are getting the grease. The taxpayers are getting squeaky about the greasing. We all know  we cannot borrow our way out of debt. What no mainstream media outlet is talking about here is the real problem at hand. Over the last fifty years we have went from a manufacturing and product exporting economy to a service based and product importing economy. Has anyone noticed that America does not really produce and export anything other than money, grain, and a few products here and there.

When I was growing up, there were several factories in my town. We made air conditioners, gloves, and bicycles. We even had a butcher block factory. We had three large printing companies.  Trucks pulled into town empty and left full. Trains brought in huge rolls of paper and hauled finished print products like books and magazines to distribution centers across the country. Today, we are a town full of fast food restaurants and chain stores. Trucks and trains do not load here anymore they just stop for fuel and snacks. Our large printing shops have now become warehouses. Our air conditioner factory moved to China and its building sits vacant. The bicycle factory has been converted into a storage facility. It is full of imported electronic gadgets and bottled tap water.   As a country, how can we come out ahead if we continue to let our manufacturing jobs leave? We can not really expect to lead the world economy by providing service and selling each other foreign made goods. We make money, but it is not new. It is only the same money traded back and forth among us.  A simple example of what I am talking about is found in a bottle of water at a convinience store. We bottle and sell tap water to eachother, drink the water and throw the bottle in a landfil. Money is exchanged, taxes are paid, but nothing new is brought into the country.   We have to manufacture products and sell them to the rest of the world. The only way to help our economy (for real) is to re establish our manufacturing base.

I am sure my town is not alone.  Millions of former factory and assembly workers from all across the country have had to find new ways to earn a living. 

How did this happen? Who is to blame? Some say government bureaucracy and a foolish tax code. Some will say big unions drove up labor costs, so the factories went where labor was cheaper. Still others will blame Wal Mart for driving out the mom and pop shops.  Politicians and trade agreements are easy targets for part of the blame also. If you asked many of our grandparents they would tell you that our generation is not willing to work hard as they had to.

 
The real question should not be who is to blame but how can we get it back. That is what really matters. To play on the analogy of spokes in a wheel, how many of our jobs are really producing something new for our country and how many are simply riding the wheel? I understand that every  job is a spoke that is part of  the wheel turning, but our turning wheel is growing while the axl that spins it is shrinking. All of these bailouts we keep reading about are simply grease easing tension on the squeaky axle. I am afraid that if we do not increase the strength and size of the axle very soon, it will snap.   Manufacturing has traditionally been the axle that turns America’s economic wheels. If we do not make and export more products than we import,  we will soon run out of a means to pay for it all.

Actually “there is  no scientific evidence that supports this”…

Only tests by legitimate third party testing facilities that have been video recorded (but apparently not reproduced enough times to be considered science) and oh yeah, a bunch of people have DIED because of them!

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4826897

William

I had a great idea strike me just moments ago:

Let’s give America’s big three auto makers welfare!  Damn, Pelosi beat me to it. 

Wait, I have another:  Let the auto makers bust the unions and open the positions up to ANYONE who will do it (with the caveat that anyone be LEGALLY in our country).  Now we are on to something. Especially since Ford recently admitted it can’t build small cars to compete with Japanese makers because labor costs are too high.  What a sham. 

I hereby re-nominate Pelosi for Loser of the Year.  Seconds?

Let the slinging begin!

I’ll come out and say it, “I voted for John McCain”.  I’m not afraid to say that as I am very proud of voting Republican and what that vote stands for.  I can stand for a change in government, in fact I am all for it once and a while, but this election was not the time.  This election to me was a bandwagon election.

Thinking back through the months prior to the election and talking with friends and relatives about why they are voting for Barrack Obama brought up many questions.  One question is, do you actually know what his policies are?  Think about it, if you went up to a majority of the Obama supporters out there, do you really think they understand why they are voting for him or is it just because the celebrities are doing it, he’s black or it’s against the norm.  Way to many times I would ask someone, “tell me one reason why you are voting for Barrack” and so many times I would get responses about his character or that he stands for change.  Well, anyone running for President in these times most likely stands for change, duh.  People have no idea why they voted for Obama other than to jump on the bandwagon of what some elite people think is a good idea.

Point proven right here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqAiarOhC2U.  Listen to this clip and this will explain why I am blabbering on about why I think this election was a fraud.  Another example, being Republican, I do watch Fox News and I was watching Hannity and Colmes a couple of weeks before the election and they had on about 20 Obama supporters.  Hannity asked the whole group of people “name one specific accomplishment of Barrack”, not one person out of 20 could name something he has done.  They all named character traits about the man.  Not one person could name something he has done to further this nation other than be a good speaker and that is the man the majority of the country put their support behind.  That makes no sense.

Here are a couple of other links that are very convincing to my argument:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGeu_4Ekx-o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzFOOcEQtP0

take someone for granted:
to not show that you are grateful to someone for helping you or that you are happy they are with you, often because they have helped you or been with you so often.

take something for granted:
to expect something to be available all the time and forget that you are lucky to have it.

take someone for granted:
to fail to appreciate someone.

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Generally, it is the people we love most who we take for granted.
Everything could be gone tomorrow, it’s easy to forget that.