Michelle Obama's Song: You load sixteen bags what do you get another vacation....

You load sixteen bags what do you get
Another vacation and we're deeper in debt
I go to exotic places every three weeks
I owe my soul to Soros and the sheiks

I was born one morning with a chip on my shoulder
It only got worse as I got older
They loaded sixteen bags of Louis Vuitton
And the one percent said a job well done

You load sixteen bags what do you get
Sixteen vacations and the country in debt
Shopping at Target fools the peons
I owe my soul to Barneys and Bijans

Went to school on affirmative action
Married the president now I'm the attraction
Air Force Two is at my beckon call
16 exotic destinations in all

Does the media report? Not at all.
I owe my soul to Media Matters

Champ Ferguson: Fighter & Killer

I would certainly have wanted him on my side!

'I was a Southern man at the start,' Ferguson said in his final statement. 'I am yet, and will die a Rebel. I believe I was right in all I did.' He reiterated that he had killed only those who had intended to kill him and that he had treated prisoners the way his own men had been treated by the enemy. 'I repeat that I die a Rebel out and out, and my last request is that my body be removed to White County, Tennessee, and be buried in good Rebel soil.'

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Esther Frogg knew well the 20-year-old man standing at her front door on November 1, 1861, asking to see her husband, William. The visitor's name was Champ Ferguson, and he was, like the Froggs, a native of Clinton County, Kentucky. Unlike the Froggs, however, Ferguson supported the Confederacy.

'How do you do,' she said and offered him a seat.

'I don't have time,' he replied.

'Have some apples,' she said, gesturing toward the fruit she had just been peeling.

'I have been eating apples,' he said.

Ferguson did not want to sit. He did not want to eat. He did not want to talk. He wanted only to see William Frogg.

Esther told Ferguson her husband was sick and could not take visitors. But Ferguson was not to be deterred. He walked inside the house, leaving the two men who had come with him outside.

Ferguson approached Frogg's bed, perhaps noticing the crib nearby where the couple's five-month-old baby lay. Frogg told his visitor he had the measles. Indeed, he was on sick leave from his regiment, the 12th Kentucky Infantry (Union), though he no doubt withheld that bit of information from Ferguson.

'I reckon you caught the measles at Camp Dick Robinson,' Ferguson said. Camp Robinson was a sore point for Kentuckians who sided with the Confederacy. They believed that men recruited there into the Home Guard went on to fight for the Union.

Ferguson was through talking. He shot Frogg dead where he lay.

Frogg was not the first or last person to die at Ferguson's hands during the war. There were dozens of others. Some of the killings were legitimate acts of combat, but others were nothing more than cold-blooded murder. Many of the victims were Union supporters whom Ferguson sought out more for personal reasons than political ones. In Frogg's case, Ferguson said he had heard rumors that the pro-Union man was planning to kill him. Ferguson decided on a preemptive strike. 'I told the boys that I would settle the matter by going direct to Frogg's house and killing him,' he later said.

Before the Civil War, Ferguson was known throughout the upper Cumberland Mountains on both sides of the Kentucky-Tennessee border as a 'gambling, rowdyish, drinking, fighting, quarrelsome man.' He ranged throughout the region as a hunter and a horse trader, becoming familiar with the whole region.

When the war began, Ferguson immediately sided with the Confederacy.

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Inflation Everywhere but MSM Says NOT

It seems every chance the mainstream media (MSM) gets, it tells us things really aren’t that bad. For example, the headline from the Associated Press (AP) said, “Consumer prices on the rise, but inflation outlook is benign.” Who approves the headlines at the AP? Prices are rising, but there is no inflation? Aren’t rising prices the main ingredient of inflation? The story goes on to say, “Consumer prices rose modestly in January on higher costs for food, gas, rent and clothing. But economists downplayed the increase, saying inflation will likely ease in the coming months as prices for raw materials level off.” (Click here for the complete AP story.)

I wonder where the people who write for the MSM shop for groceries and buy their gasoline.

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The Most Important History Lesson Of The Last Century

Today, instead of the traditional market observations by the Chairman of the Fermentation Committee, we share with readers a critical historical lesson from Art Cashin, focusing on an event that took place 89 years ago, which as Cashin says is "one of the most devastating economic events in recorded history and an important backdrop to Europe today. It all began with the efforts of a few, well-intentioned government officials." Many will know what we are talking about already...

An Encore Presentation

Originally, on this day (-2) in 1922, the German Central Bank and the German Treasury took an inevitable step in a process which had begun with their previous effort to "jump start" a stagnant economy. Many months earlier they had decided that what was needed was easier money. Their initial efforts brought little response. So, using the governmental "more is better" theory they simply created more and more money.

But economic stagnation continued and so did the money growth. They kept making money more available. No reaction. Then, suddenly prices began to explode unbelievably (but, perversely, not business activity).

So, on this day government officials decided to bring figures in line with market realities. They devalued the mark. The new value would be 2 billion marks to a dollar. At the start of World War I the exchange rate had been a mere 4.2 marks to the dollar. In simple terms you needed 4.2 marks in order to get one dollar. Now it was 2 billion marks to get one dollar. And thirteen months from this date (late November 1923) you would need 4.2 trillion marks to get one dollar. In ten years the amount of money had increased a trillion fold.

Numbers like billions and trillions tend to numb the mind. They are too large to grasp in any “real” sense. Thirty years ago an older member of the NYSE (there were some then) gave me a graphic and memorable (at least for me) example. “Young man,” he said, “would you like a million dollars?” “I sure would, sir!”, I replied anxiously. “Then just put aside $500 every week for the next 40 years.” I have never forgotten that a million dollars is enough to pay you $500 per week for 40 years (and that’s without benefit of interest). To get a billion dollars you would have to set aside $500,000 dollars per week for 40 years. And a…..trillion that would require $500 million every week for 40 years. Even with these examples, the enormity is difficult to grasp.

Let’s take a different tack. To understand the incomprehensible scope of the German inflation maybe it’s best to start with something basic….like a loaf of bread.

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How to Pick Your Way Out of Handcuffs

"The Promise That Became A Punch Line"

Newly posted from the Alan Lomax Archive

A fragment of "Three Nights Drunk" sung and played by Dink Roberts. Shot by Alan Lomax and crew at Dink's home in Haw River, North Carolina, late July, 1983.

A fragment of "Roustabout" sung and played by Dink Roberts. Shot by Alan Lomax and crew at Dink's home in Haw River, North Carolina, late July, 1983.

Lonnie Rogers and his wife Vivian sing the words of "Happy Home," #343 in The Sacred Harp. Shot by Alan Lomax and crew at the Rogers' home in Ephesus, Georgia, of which Mr. Rogers was mayor at the time. Posted in memory of Lonnie Rogers, who died February 15, 2012.

Big Chief Jake Millon and the White Eagles Mardi Gras Indians rehearse "To-Way-Bac-A-Way" (two of two) at Darrell's Lounge, 7th Ward, New Orleans. Shot by Alan Lomax and crew, May 1982.

Video: The Questions They Won’t Let You Ask (Judge Napolitano In the 5 Minute Speech That Got Him Fired)

Asking questions as Judge Andrew Napolitano did in a recent broadcast on his now cancelled daily show may very well be the reason behind his recent dismissal from Fox. Though specific details are hard to come by because the Judge has yet to give any interviews on the matter, it’s believed that his refusal to bow to commonly manufactured media narratives is among one of several key reasons he his no longer with the network.

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Lake 'too deep' for 999 crew

The nanny state.

FIREFIGHTERS refused to help a man floating face-down in a park lake because the water was above "ankle deep", an inquest heard yesterday.

Simon Burgess, 41, drowned after he fell in while feeding swans. He was only taken out of the three-feet-deep lake 28 MINUTES after the alarm was raised.

Gillian Hughes, 53, called 999 but was told by one fireman "we are not allowed" into the lake in Gosport, Hampshire.

She said at the inquest: "I said, 'You're having a laugh'. He said, 'No, that's health and safety'."

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