Our AG Holder has decided that stopping people from praying in front of an abortuary is worthy of limited resources:

A West Palm Beach abortion counselor and prayer warrior is among six being sued nationwide by Attorney General Eric Holder, but a conservative group believes Holder is abusing his power.

Mary Susan Pine, who has been witnessing outside the clinic in West Palm Beach for 20 years, and her group F.A.C.E. Life face an injunction that would prevent Pine from entering any clinic driveway and would prevent her group from keeping women from entering the abortion facility…

Because we’ve just got all the money in the world and we’re not busy tracking terrorists, breaking up drug and human smuggling rings and organized crime has just gone entirely out of business. The crucial government task of preventing someone from praying within a country mile of an abortion clinic must move forward! The American people are demanding it – you’ve seen the polls showing that the economy takes a distant back seat to hammering at those ruthless bastards who try to talk women out of having an abortion, haven’t you?

The power of the US government directed towards protecting people who make money off of murdering children – just disgusting.

Then The Automatic Earth has an entry tailor made for you:

…However this may be, I urge you to take another look at the Consumer Metrics Institute data. Realize that their Growth Index is a leading indicator, and thus both the S&P 500 and the US GDP numbers, if we take the last five years as a measuring stick, will, over the next quarter, follow the Growth Index down. Way down.

As per this morning, the discrepancy between US GDP (official estimate still +2.45%) and CMI Growth Index (-5.25%) is a staggering 7.7%!. And then look at how closely the two are correlated in the graphs…

…If we get anywhere near what the CMI data (seem to) foresee, we’ll have drama, tragedy, mayhem and panic all wrapped in one neat package. The US economy cannot withstand anything even near that sort of fall and pretend the world is still the same…

Indeed. Do read the entire linked article – even if it doesn’t turn out quite that way, the data is still indicating some really rough sledding ahead for us.

As I’ve said before, we can’t avoid the crash. This crash, when it comes, will just be the completion of the crash which started in 2007 and which should have been allowed to continue. The banksters and bureaucrats – taking in former President Bush and President Obama, in turn – didn’t want that to happen because that would risk their own power and wealth. Having lived off (and progressively wrecked) the productive economy for 80 years, they saw now reason to stop now. What they did, however, was just store up a worse problem for the rest of us.

The crash can’t be stopped – prices inflated by fake money and financial wheeling and dealing are unsustainable. They simply must get in line with reality – and that is going to hurt. Its going to hurt worse, now, because the banksters and bureaucrats did what they did (shorthand: the piled more debt on a problem caused by too much debt – gasoline, fire; that sort of thing). All we can do at this point is endure it and then implement policies which will cut the banksters and bureaucrats out of the picture and allow regular Americans to work their way back to wealth.

It can be done and it will be done – it is just a pity the fools who ran us in to the ground got one more shot at it.

I sit here at the moment in profound distress – my brother is dead. When I was a little boy, he was my hero – more than 5 years older than I, he seemed to be the person who could do anything. As time when on and we both aged, estrangement set in – we could no longer reach each other. Our paths were sundered, partially by choice, partially by happenstance. And so it went, year after year, each of us living our own lives – touching only briefly, and usually in some sort of conflict.

You can never tell when will be the last time you see or speak to someone in this world – remember that! You are promised not even the next minute, let alone the next day. Part from those you know and love as if if will the last time until the life of the world to come. Never part in anger, never part in indifference. Embrace those around you, express your love – forgive all injuries, and beg forgiveness for your errors. You may not get another chance to, in this world.

Don’t get caught by surprise – don’t have a phone call come which tells you that you can no longer say or do anything. That all has been said and all has been done – always say the final thing, “I love you”; “please forgive me”; “I forgive you”. Our Lord said that He comes like a thief in the night, and no truer or more apt words were ever spoken to us – you do not know, so always act as if it is just about to happen. Let all petty angers and jealousies subside – they are unimportant, and you’ll regret them, if you don’t let them go.

Don’t let the day go by – it is your last, and one day it surely will be.

Because it doesn’t matter how you win, just as long as you do, as far as our Democrats are concerned – from Fox News:

Sens. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin and Michael Bennet of Colorado are just two incumbents locked in tight re-election races in states where local officials have warned they will likely not be able to ship out general election ballots to overseas military voters by the Sept. 18 deadline.

Both Democrats’ race are listed as “toss-ups” by RealClearPolitics.com, and military ballots could make the difference…

A total of 10 States are seeking a waiver and there simply cannot be a reason for such. This isn’t rocket science – its just a matter of mailing the dratted things out. Given that this is military ballots, failure works out to an un-American act…and no person who knows the history of Democrat electoral corruption will be surprised that a lot of the affected States have Democrats locked in tight battles.

Matt and I over the years have chronicled the Democrats’ endless attempts to disenfranchise military voters – Democrats don’t like military votes because military personnel tend to back candidates with at least some common sense and some willingness to put country first, and this excludes most elected Democrats. It is simply disgusting that Democrats would do this – but also par for the course.

If we are awarded power by the American people in November, it will be our job to investigate all of the corruption which has gone on under Democrat rule. And finding why military votes keep getting spiked by Democrats will be a top priority.

HAT TIP: The American Catholic

It’s not us – its not Republicans and conservatives. From ABC News:

…The Rev. Walter Fauntroy, the non-voting delegate who represented the District of Columbia from 1971 to 1991, called on African-Americans to organize a “new coalition of conscience” to rebut the rally scheduled for Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial featuring Fox News pundit Glenn Beck and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

“We are going to take on the barbarism of war, the decadence of racism, and the scourge of poverty, that the Ku Klux — I meant to say the Tea Party,” Fauntroy told a news conference today at the National Press Club. “You all forgive me, but I — you have to use them interchangeably.”…

Interchangeably? Glenn Beck and the TEA Party are interchangeable with the KKK? If “Reverand” Fauntroy wasn’t quite so aged, the proper response from anyone in the TEA Party is to call him out. Seriously – does this old man realize the magnitude of the insult offered?

Probably not. Because he’s just another liberal – living off government, determined to maintain his place at the trough and merely playing the race card to both gin up the liberal base as well as try to scare people away from the TEA Party.

If we are to have a civil debate, then the first step will have to be taken by liberals. Stop lying about us. Stop making out that any opposition to liberalism is “racism” or “homophobia” or what have you. If you on the left won’t do that, then don’t go around blaming us for the heated level of debate. We’ll argue the merits of our ideas because we know we’re right – but if you prefer a pissing match, we’ll do that, too…there are more of us and we’ll win, either way.

From Bloomberg:

The U.S. economy grew at a 1.6 percent annual rate in the second quarter, less than previously calculated, as companies reined in inventories and the trade deficit widened.

The revised gain in gross domestic product was bigger than the median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News and compares with a 2.4 percent estimate issued last month, figures from the Commerce Department showed today in Washington. Corporate profits grew last quarter at the slowest rate in a year and employee wages in the prior three months were revised lower.

Its all been a waste of time and money – TARP, stimulus, all of it. Only hard work, savings and careful investment do the trick…not Fed Funny Money and manipulation of stocks and bonds to preserve “too big to fail” banks.

Thank goodness November is coming…

Have at it boys and girls – I’ll have something later.

The stupid and the greedy are hoping that Federal Reserve Chairman and all around economic dimwit Ben Bernanke will screw the working poor and middle class one more time to keep asset prices over-inflated:

..Following a slew of downbeat economic indicators, market expectations are growing that there will be more quantitative easing from the Fed before the end of the year. Under the radical scheme, also used in the UK last year, central banks pour money into buying assets such as government bonds from banks and the commercial sector, pumping more cash into the financial system and at the same time cutting market rates…

I understand why the people calling for Quantative Easing 2.0 (ie, print more money) are doing so – because they live off our over-leveraged, usurious, fiat-money-based economy and they know that if asset prices don’t remain inflated, they’re cooked. I know why Ben Bernanke is at least willing to do it – he’s one of them. What I don’t understand is why no one in government – from Obama on down – is out there screaming and even legislating for Bernanke to stop. Sure, Obama believes in that Keynesian economic nonsense, bit it is clear that the last QE didn’t work – so why try it again?

We’re eyeball to eyeball with complete economic collapse while Obama and his Democrats are facing a crushing defeat this November. If the plan is that Obama and his Democrats are hoping to add a 2012 wipe out to their 2010 losses, then letting Bernanke get away with QE2 is the best way to do it. Sure, such a move would delight the sort of idiot investors who got us in to this mess and keep the S&P 500 high for a while – and it might even put another momentary bloom of health on the economy (though very much shorter lived than the previous one) – but the ultimate result of such a move is just more of the same – ie, more economic pain.

Its time we started to realize that we’re broke – no, scratch that. The people do realize we’re broke – its time for our leadership to admit it. We have to get back to work and thus all policies must be geared towards plowing fields, digging mines and opening up factories…if it doesn’t assist in one of those three things, it simply should not be done…and whatever we do, it can’t be done with borrowed or printed money.

Its time to get back to the real world and get back to work – Bernanke thinks its time to bail out his bankster buddies.

Seems that the radio is determined to play all my brother’s favorite songs – so, I’ll share: