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Duffy & Daley

If you're looking for your brokerage account, it's in the trunk.

http://rt.com/usa/news/us-drones-border-patrol-489/

(FOX19) - The latest poll out of Bloomberg news has a virtual 4 way tie for first place in Iowa among GOP candidates.

Herman Cain, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and surprisingly Ron Paul.

This is the first time Congressman Paul has polled in a first place slot in this race.

So we are asking tonight, why is that?  And what is so wrong with Ron Paul?

Ben has the Reality Check you won't see anywhere else.

http://www.fox19.com/story/16071213/reality-check-an-endorsement-for-fairness-in-dealing-with-ron-paul#.TsX0v9WC-n8.twitter

I've been saying that they (the ones that really call the shots) don't. 

Karen Kwiatkowski states the same, and does a great job of detailing why.

http://lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski278.html

and I wouldn't have to stutter like Porky Pig to do so.

http://www.allgov.com/Departments

Gerald Celente gets burned by MF Global collapse.

Note, not only did they close out his position, they even took his cash.

Now, watch some perma-defender of the Crimex spout that everyone will eventually get their money.
Yeah. Eventually. Maybe.

As soon as the technology & costs fully catch up with the idea ...

It sounds so "proper": USE OF BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
TO REDUCE FRAUD IN THE FOOD STAMP PROGRAM (1999)

If they really wanted to reduce fraud, they'd get rid of the "program" and quit hassling people trying to grow their own. BTW, the biggest fraudsters are behind the scenes running it, not the people you see at the stores. No more shopping for your old, sick auntie. She'll just have to get better and do her own ... or starve.

http://www.fns.usda.gov/ora/menu/Published/snap/FILES/ProgramIntegrity/biomeval.pdf

But, of course, it was never really about the food, was it?

http://www.ice.gov/doclib/secure-communities/pdf/sc-dep.pdf

Because we all know food is always and only safe when it has a USDA (I could come up with some colorful names, there) seal of approval on it.

(NaturalNews) It is the latest case of extreme government food tyranny, and one that is sure to have you reeling in anger and disgust. Health department officials recently conducted a raid of Quail Hollow Farm, an organic community supported agriculture (CSA) farm in southern Nevada, during its special "farm to fork" picnic dinner put on for guests -- and the agent who arrived on the scene ordered that all the fresh, local produce and pasture-based meat that was intended for the meal be destroyed with bleach.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/034125_food_freedom_picnic.html

videos: www.reallyvegasphoto.com/Events/CSA-Farm-Government-Inspection/19707296_v2zFML

As an aside, this and other stories have me wondering if someone, somewhere, decided that having people on food stamps is "preferable" to having them learn how to grow their own food.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/9733-holder-cites-lack-of-gun-control-on-mexican-drug-cartel-problem

According to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the United States is “losing the battle” to stem the flow of illegal guns into Mexico. Holder contends that Congress is partially to blame for the fact that American guns are landing in the hands of Mexican drug cartels which are responsible for murdering tens of thousands of people because Congress refuses to pass stringent gun control. The irony of Holder’s assertions given the recent revelations regarding the ATF’s and DOJ’s botched Project Gunrunner scandal has not gone unnoticed.

Holder indicates that attempts on the part of Congress to stop the flow of American guns to Mexican drug cartels has been “flawed” and places much of the blame on what he views as congressional contempt toward gun control.

The Guardian reports,

Holder described as "flawed" American attempts to break the cycle, in which the profits from selling illegal drugs in the United States are used to buy guns that are shipped across the Mexican border to the cartels which use them to protect their operations — and conduct a small scale war in which 40,000 Mexicans have been killed over the past five years — in order to send more drugs to the US. He noted that of 94,000 weapons captured from drug traffickers by the Mexican authorities, more than 64,000 originated in the U.S.

“We are losing the battle to stop the flow of illegal guns to Mexico,” said Holder, who claims that the federal authorities are grappling with a “lack of effective enforcement tools,” which he contends include tough legislation to prosecute gun traffickers.

The biggest "battle" the United States is losing is against the selection and election of lying, pinche sacks of dog merde to high office.

It's "hoarding" when you try to protect yourself against price increases.

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Metra-to-Vote-on-Fare-Hike-133681613.html

Metra wants to prevent commuters from buying reams of 10-ride tickets at the existing lower fares

Metra officials on Friday [11/11/11] approved a 25 percent fare increase that would start in February.

The biggest jump in nearly four years is meant to offset an anticipated $53.6 million budget deficit in 2012. Metra officials believe the hikes are better than cutting services, and riders seem to agree according to an online survey.

Board member Arlene Mulder said riders overwhelmingly told her they didn't want to see service cuts and that fare hikes would be more palatable if the trains were equipped with wi-fi.

Under the plan, one-way tickets would go up an average of 15.7 percent, 10-ride tickets an average of 30 percent and monthly passes 29.4 percent.

In anticipation of the board's approval, Metra proposed steps to prevent commuters from buying reams of 10-ride tickets at the existing lower fares.

Traditionally, 10-ride tickets were good for one year. But signage is proposed for Metra stations, warning riders that effective Saturday through January 31, 10-rides will expire next Feb. 29, 2012.

Metra says when fares were last raised in 2008, they saw a sudden, 67 percent increase in 10-ride sales. The agency estimates the ticket-hoarders cost them as much as $2.7 million in lost revenue.

Money that remains in the citizen/consumer's pocket is "lost revenue".

http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/176_214/customers-flee-for-credit-unions-1043783-1.html

WASHINGTON — An estimated 650,000 consumers have closed their bank accounts and opted for credit union membership over the past four weeks, according to CUNA, bringing the approach to Saturday’s Bank Transfer Day to a crescendo.

In a survey of 5,000 of its credit union members CUNA estimates that at least 650,000 consumers across the nation have joined credit unions since Sept. 29, the day Bank of America unveiled its now-rescinded $5 monthly debit card fee. Also during that time, CUNA estimates that credit unions have added $4.5 billion in new savings accounts, likely from the new members and existing members shifting their funds.

(audio, 3 parts)

OWS, Obamacare, bailouts, taxes & regs., etc.

One wonders if they understand the irony of their stance.
And the guy at 0:50 -- ugh.