SIG P938 9mm Sub Compact

On January 26, 2012, in Shooting, by Mike

Nifty gun! And hundreds of dollars cheaper than the Springfield EMP!

SIG P938 9mm Sub Compact | The Firearm Blog.

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Because your cash will be worth 18% less in 10 years, and gold will be worth at least 18% more.

Nothing else can guarantee that rate of return.

For years, it was an unwritten rule. As of yesterday, it’s official policy: The dollars in your wallet are destined to lose at least 18% of their purchasing power during the next 10 years.

Lost in the noise of countless Federal Reserve announcements yesterday was a formal target of 2% annual inflation.

Actually, it’s worse than 18% over 10 years. For the Fed’s favored measure of inflation is not the heavily gamed consumer price index — CPI — or the even-more-gamed “core” CPI that assumes your cost of living isn’t really affected by food and energy.

After all, CPI is currently running 3.0% year over year. Whoops, too high. Core CPI is 2.2%. Still too high.

The Fed prefers something called “core personal consumption expenditures.”

That number is currently running 1.7%.

Voila! Applying the logic only central bankers are capable of divining, there’s not enough inflation!

via Government-Guaranteed Losses | 5 Min. Forecast.

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Yet another car-kit reminder

On January 25, 2012, in Emergency Preparedness, by Mike

If you happen to go off the road and get stuck in a ditch, how long could you live in your car before you get out and walk up the street for help?

CASSIA COUNTY — The Cassia County undersheriff says it’s one of the more bizarre cases they’ve ever investigated. A Texas woman lost her way and ended up stuck in a dairy drainage pond for about five days.

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Keesler ate Peanut Butter M&M’s and drank bottled water for an estimated five days.

via Texas woman stranded for five days in Idaho wastewater pond | KTVB.COM Boise.

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How do you know when a politician is lying?

On January 25, 2012, in Freedom, by Mike

And what do you know, his lips were moving!

State of the Union 2012 – YouTube.

First: a pack of bald-faced lies about corporate taxes: Fact Checking the SOTU: Corporate Taxes | Cato @ Liberty.

On saving the auto industry unions: The President’s Heroics and Other Tall Tales about the Auto Industry | Cato @ Liberty.

And on his stupid assertion that the Senate should vote on nominations within 90 days, just weeks after he bypassed the Senate entirely with his pseudo-”recess” appointment of some schmuck to an unconstitutional office: Was Obama Even Paying Attention during His Time in the Senate? | Cato @ Liberty.

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It makes me all kinds of happy to see that a mere 3 days into his Kickstarter, Rich Burlew is already $80,847 over his starter goal, with 2,898 backers.

Well, let’s just make that 2,899 backers right now, OK?

via The Order of the Stick Reprint Drive by Rich Burlew — Kickstarter.

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