This item found by my wife (who lived through the burstig of the Japanese Bubble of the early 1990s) :

At 3:30, note what Mr. Jim Rogers has to say about what Mr. Bernanke should do, and what he should do with the Federal Reserve.

I agree 100% with his assessment that at this point, the FED only serves the interest of corporate welfare, buy shuffling off hundreds of billions of dollars of bad debts and worse securities - pig swill dressed up as investments - and President Bush needs to step in and FIRE Mr. Bernanke, if he will not cease from debasing our currency and ruining our economy.

If this sort of thing is to be the order of the day, it is only a matter of time before the Red Chinese cash out their dollars, and the taxpayers find out that the Butcher’s Bill for all of this will be quite ugly indeed.

Even if you don’t completely agree with the message, this is still a way cool video.

(Kudos to whoever did the production of it, well done).

Ron Paul tries to make a case for his pandering to the LGBT portion of his base on John Lofton’s show The American View.

I can’t say I agree 100% with all of Mr. Lofton’s views, but watching Dr. Paul do the “dodge and weave” here is not surprising… and the thing to be taken away here is that Dr. Paul should not be considered a strict, fundamentalist Christian as he might have us believe.

Tim Russert absolutely destroys Ron Paul in this four-part video capture on YouTube via RealClearPolitics.com…

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video_log/2007/12/paul_on_meet_the_press.html

…and the Ronulans ain’t too happy (if you care to read through most of the blithering idiocy on the YT site).

Lightning in Tokyo 【東京の襲雷】

Too good for words, so here it is:

I think Fred hits it right on the nail-head when he suggests to Mr. Moore that a mental institution may indeed be just the thing he should look into.