The trillion-dollar coin

These idiots think that the President has the constitutional right, nay duty, to create money out of thin air if he can't get Congress to approve his spending plans.

THE TRILLION DOLLAR COIN--OR, MORE SENSIBLY, 1000 BILLION-DOLLAR COINS--IS THE ONLY WAY FOR OBAMA TO FULFILL HIS OATH OF OFFICE

BREATHE EASY: Even If The Government Is Shut Down, We Can Still Mint The Coin

How The White House Should Bring Back The Platinum Coin: Secretly

Why stop at $1 trillion?  How about $1 quadrillion?  And abolish Congress while you are at it, and the IRS.

See also:  A bad idea that won't die

Gallium

Transnistria

The unrecognised country of Transnistria is a post-Soviet "frozen conflict" zone, situated between Moldova and Ukraine in Eastern Europe. Formally known as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (or 'PMR'), this breakaway state proudly celebrates its Soviet heritage - statues of Lenin line the streets, while the Transnistrian flag is the only flag in the world to still feature the hammer and sickle emblem.

http://www.thebohemianblog.com/2013/09/dark-tourism-last-of-ussr-transnistria.html

Dow closes above 15500

Here are the last few closing figures:

Sep 17, 2013 15,529.73
Sep 16, 2013 15,494.78
Sep 13, 2013 15,376.06
Sep 12, 2013 15,300.64
Sep 11, 2013 15,326.60
Sep 10, 2013 15,191.06
Sep 9, 2013 15,063.12
Sep 6, 2013 14,922.50 

It looks like it will soon exceed the all-time high of 15,658 reached on Aug 2, 2013.

Update:  It closed at 15676.94 on Sept 18 in reaction to a Fed statement that it will not taper yet.

Long-Term Budget Outlook: the Federal Debt is unsustainable after 2038

http://cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/44521-LTBO_0.pdf

"CBO projects that, under current law, debt held by the public would rise slightly relative to GDP in 2014 and then, because of smaller deficits, decrease to 68 percent of GDP by 2018. Around 2020, with deficits growing again, debt would begin to rise faster than GDP. By 2038, under the extended baseline, federal debt held by the public would reach 100 percent of GDP (see Table 1-2 on page 11)—nearly equal to the percentage just after World War II and almost triple the percentage in 2007— and would be on an upward path. That trajectory for federal debt would ultimately be unsustainable."

Update from Mannarino

"The system cannot survive without borrowing cash into existence in perpetuity."

Nigel slams Barroso

Mixed Messages

Hengqin is the Orlando of China

Orlando


Hengqin

Floating not far off Macau’s Cotai casino strip, and connected by the Lotus bridge, is Hengqin. This thinly populated island, three times the size of Macau, belongs to Guangdong. But mainland officials have designated it a special economic zone, complete with tax breaks and subsidies. They are keen to develop it in ways that support Macau’s aspirations for mass-market tourism.

Cheap land and labour are already luring developers to build facilities on Hengqin, such as cheap hotel rooms, that will boost Macau’s gambling business. Galaxy Entertainment, a local casino firm, is looking into buying a tract there. Chimelong Group, a Chinese firm that runs the country’s largest amusement park, is spending $2 billion on an ocean theme park, to open later this year. This is the first of ten such parks planned in an effort to turn the isle into "the Orlando of China".

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/macau-the-rise-of-the-low-roller-2013-9

See also: Hengqin
Macau is the Las Vegas of China

Cielito Lindo

Collapse

Michael C. Ruppert (born Feb. 3 1951) is an American author, a former Los Angeles Police Department officer, and investigative journalist and peak oil advocate.

Until 2006, he published and edited From The Wilderness, a newsletter and website covering a range of topics including (international) politics, the C.I.A., peak oil, civil liberties, drugs, economics, corruption and 9/11 conspiracy theories. He is also the author of Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil and was the subject of the 2009 documentary film Collapse.

Fenugreek

Tribulus

Suavemente

Suavemente, bésame 
Que yo quiero sentir tus labios 
Besándome otra vez 

Suavemente, bésame 
Que yo quiero sentir tus labios 
Besándome otra vez 

(Suave) bésame, bésame 
(Suave) bésame otra vez 
(Suave) que yo quiero sentir tus labios 
(Suave) besándome otra vez 
(Suave) besa, besa 
(Suave) bésame un poquito 
(Suave) besa, besa, besa, 
(Suave) bésame otro ratito 

(Pequeña, hechate pa' 'ca) 

Cuando tu me besas 
Me siento en el aire 
Por eso cuando te veo 
Comienzo a besarte 
Y si te despegas, 
Yo me despierto 
De ese rico sueño, 
Que me dan tus besos 
Suavemente 
(Bésame, que yo quiero sentir tus labios) 
Besando me otra vez 
Suavemente ese coro! 
(Bésame) 
Es la cosa (que yo quiero sentir tus labios) 
Besando me otra vez 
Bésame suavecito, 
Sin prisa y con calma 
Dame un beso bien profundo, que me llegue al alma 
Dame un beso mas, que en mi boca cabe 
Dame un beso despacito, dame un beso suave 

Suavemente 
(Bésame, que yo quiero sentir tus labios) 
Besándome otra vez 
Suavemente ese coro 
(Bésame) es la cosa (que yo quiero sentir tus labios) 
Besando me otra vez 

(Suave) tus labios tienen 
(Suave) ese secreto 
(Suave) yo beso y beso 
(Suave) y no lo encuentro 
(Suave) un beso suave 
(Suave) es lo que anhelo 
(Suave) un beso tuyo 
(Suave) es lo que quiero 
Dámelo 

(Suave) yo me pregunto 
(Suave) que tienen tus besos 
(Suave) trato de escaparme 
(Suave) y me siento preso 
(Suave) besa, besa, bésame un poquito 
(Suave) besa, besa, besa, bésame otro ratito 
Dámelo 

(Suave) bésame, bésame 
(Suave) bésame otra vez 
(Suave) que yo quiero sentir tus labios 
(Suave) besándome suavemente, 
(Suave) tiernamente 
(Suave) cariñosamente 
(Suave) dulcemente, 
(Suave) bésame mucho 
Sin prisa y con calma 
Dame un beso hondo que me llegue al alma 
Acércate, acércate no tengas miedo 
Solamente yo te digo, una cosa quiero 
(Suave) bésame 
Pequeña, cógelo (suave)

Pam Pam

Pycnogenol

Proanthocyanidins found in French maritime pine bark and grape seed extract work directly to help strengthen all the blood vessels and improve the delivery of oxygen to the cells. Proanthocyanidins also have an affinity for cell membranes, providing nutritional support to reduce capillary permeability and fragility. Although flavonoids are widespread in nature, the powerful proanthocyanidin compound is most abundant and available from the bark of the maritime pine and in grape seeds, or pips. In addition, the particular proanthocyanidins found in the proprietary extract of maritime pine bark called Pycnogenol have been shown to optimize the production of nitric oxide in the artery walls so as to relax them and allow greater blood flow and reduced pressure. Additionally, this same preparation, Pycnogenol, has been found to normalize platelet adhesion (aggregation) so as to facilitate normal blood flow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proanthocyanidin

Lo Que Paso, Paso