tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26300252630258702422024-02-07T04:41:12.690-08:00Pirate Morgan's Innermost ThoughtsAnything that crosses my little mind. Warning! Catholic Dogma Onboard, Leave Now if this offends you. By the Way, I'm not Catholic, they were smart enough to keep me out. Probably too much trouble, can't blame them. Email Me At pirate.morgan@yahoo.comPirate Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515993185869391335noreply@blogger.comBlogger575125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2630025263025870242.post-57670826507554306442014-11-23T19:27:00.000-08:002014-11-23T19:27:02.157-08:00When it comes time to lay blame I blame the press firstBob achiever George fuckalotofus and others can they feel our breath on their backs?Pirate Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515993185869391335noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2630025263025870242.post-70718001985061512872014-11-23T19:19:00.002-08:002014-11-23T19:19:48.004-08:00Now our president is outwardly breaking the lawwhat can we do? Iii is waiting ferguson is churning does anyone care? Is anyone out there? What can we do?<br />
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Keep your powder dryPirate Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515993185869391335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2630025263025870242.post-48380367932125967962014-05-18T16:35:00.002-07:002014-05-18T16:39:53.698-07:00On the Free Ferry To Ocracoke North Carolina, My Favorite Stretch of NC Route 12You pull up to the docks and you're already there<br />
With that famous Ocean Breeze blowing through your hair.<br />
You spend time at other places but you don't know why.<br />
Because of that beautiful Ocracoke sky<br />
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One old man takes down your name and you wait for a while<br />
then the captain of the Ferry waves all aboard and vehicles are loaded<br />
Cars with boats, trucks, and the Lays potato chip man, scooters and bicycles<br />
all looking to see that beautiful Ocracoke sky<br />
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Packed in like sardines the straps and harnesses are snapped, all eyes are on the ocean<br />
Sea Gulls hover waiting for treats, when your lucky you will see Dolphins Swimming in unison next to the ferry.<br />
People jump from their cars to catch all the sights <br />
that is the prelude to that beautiful Ocracoke sky<br />
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One hour and 15 minutes you will ride as the North Carolina Ferry Taxi's you to the dock<br />
but you weren't paying attention and never bothered with a clock<br />
you knew that the Ocean was requiring it's dues<br />
before it released you to that beautiful Ocracoke sky<br />
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the Ferry pulls to the dock and then the car ramp is lowered<br />
and the engines of all the vehicles that came on board are started.<br />
one by one they pull off in a certain order<br />
as the Seagoing Opossum releases it's children to that Beautiful Ocracoke sky<br />
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You race the 12 miles to get to the town with a myriad of views to excite your senses<br />
the speed limit 25 says you are there and a stop to Howards Pub refreshes after your Ferry ride<br />
you park your car in the municipal parking lot and find your way<br />
to your favorite spot to see the Beautiful Ocracoke sky<br />
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Thanks to the state of North Carolina and the Ferry System for taking my family and me safely to Ocracoke Island every year! <br />
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<li><strong>Passenger Capacity:</strong> 149</li>
<li><strong>Weight & Dimensions:</strong> 248 Gross Tons, 150' Length, 42' Breadth, 4' Draft</li>
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<br />Pirate Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515993185869391335noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2630025263025870242.post-38674638164080733632014-05-18T16:01:00.002-07:002014-05-18T16:01:37.265-07:00I'm Still Waiting?!?!?!what will it finally take to get the citizens of the United States to get off their asses and do something about what's going on?<br />
Do they have to take your kids first?<br />
Do they have to kill your Mother in cold blood?<br />
Do they have to pull over your Dad and Shoot him just for fun?<br />
Do they have to raid your church and steal all the kids and arrest the parents?<br />
Do they have to raid your house in the middle of the night searching for "drugs"?<br />
Do they have to steal all you money?<br />
Do they have to steal your property?<br />
Do they have to outlaw your guns?<br />
Does the USDA have to buy sub-machine guns with 30 round clips?<br />
Does the US Postal Service have to buy a million rounds of ammunition?<br />
Does the Bureau of Land Management have to declare your property off limits because of a turtle?<br />
The Federal Government now has the right to look up your ass....literally?<br />
The Federal Government now has the right to disrobe you at all public transportation harbors.<br />
The Federal Government now has the right to listen in on your phone calls<br />
The Federal Government now has the right to take your children, any time any reason.<br />
this list is endless it goes on and on<br />
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and you sit and play video games and drink beer and let the government feel up your wife.....<br />
and that's ok<br />
really? <br />
what if it's not ok with me? does that make me a terrorist? or just aware.<br />
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please answer me? I'm still waiting. <br />
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<br />Pirate Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515993185869391335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2630025263025870242.post-58385356628075748402014-05-17T13:41:00.001-07:002014-05-17T13:41:33.289-07:00Non GMO Beer.<a href="http://viralscape.com/beers-you-should-stop-drinking/">http://viralscape.com/beers-you-should-stop-drinking/</a>Pirate Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515993185869391335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2630025263025870242.post-7171425814992819392014-05-17T12:13:00.001-07:002014-05-17T12:13:23.999-07:00Free North Carolina: GMO producers should be punished as terrorists, Russian MPs say#comment-form#comment-form#comment-form<a href="http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2014/05/gmo-producers-should-be-punished-as.html#comment-form">Free North Carolina: GMO producers should be punished as terrorists, Russian MPs say#comment-form#comment-form#comment-form</a>Pirate Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515993185869391335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2630025263025870242.post-91942952046459154592014-04-27T14:21:00.001-07:002014-04-27T14:21:08.407-07:00The Media Is Turning On President Obama, And All Are Going to Hang Themselves for Treason<a href="http://nypost.com/2014/04/27/the-media-is-turning-on-president-obama/" target="_blank">It's About F**King Time</a><br />
By <a href="http://nypost.com/author/michael-goodwin/">Michael Goodwin</a> of the New York Post<br />
With multiple crises spiraling out of control around the world, stories about the Obama presidency are taking on the air of postmortems. What went wrong, who’s to blame, what next — even The New York Times is starting to recognize that Dear Leader is a global flop.<br />
“Obama Suffers Setbacks in Japan and the Mideast,” the paper declared on Friday’s front page. The double whammy of failure pushed the growing Russian menace in Europe to inside pages, but even they were chock-full of reports about utopia gone wrong.<br />
One story detailed how the White House was facing the “consequences of underestimating” North Korea’s Kim Jong-un. Others recounted the continuing Syrian slaughter and the murder of three Americans in Afghanistan.<br />
The accounts and others like them amount to an autopsy of a failed presidency, but the process won’t be complete unless it is completely honest. To meet that test, the Times, other liberal news organizations and leading Democrats, in and out of office, must come to grips with their own failures, as well.<br />
Obama had a free hand to make a mess because they gave it to him. They cheered him on, supporting him with unprecedented gobs of money and near-unanimous votes. They said “aye” to any cockamamie concept he came up with, echoed his demonization of critics and helped steamroll unpopular and unworkable ideas into reality.<br />
Some of his backers knew better, and said so privately, but publicly they were all in. Whether it was ObamaCare, his anti-Israel position or the soft-shoe shuffle around the Iranian nuke crisis, they lacked the courage to object.<br />
They said nothing as Obama went on foreign apology tours and stood silent as our allies warned of disastrous consequences. Even now, despite protests from a succession of Pentagon leaders, former Democratic defense hawks are helping Obama hollow out our military as Russia and China expand theirs and al Qaeda extends its footprint.<br />
A king is no king without a court, and Obama has not lacked for lackeys. The system of checks and balances is written into the Constitution, but it is the everyday behavior of Americans of good will that makes the system work.<br />
That system broke down under Obama, and the blame starts with the media. By giving the president the benefit of the doubt at every turn, by making excuses to explain away fiascos, by ignoring corruption, by buying the White House line that his critics were motivated by pure politics or racism, the Times and other organizations played the role of bartender to a man on a bender.<br />
Even worse, they joined the party, forgetting the lessons of history as well as their own responsibilities to put a check on power. A purpose of a free press is to hold government accountable, but there is no fallback when the watchdog voluntarily chooses to be a lapdog.<br />
The sycophancy was not lost on other politicians and private citizens. Taking their cue from the media, they, too, bit their tongues and went along as the president led the nation astray and misread foreign threats.<br />
From the start, support for Obama often had a cult-like atmosphere. He sensed it, began to believe it and became comfortable demanding total agreement as the price for the favor of his leadership.<br />
That he is now the imperial president he used to bemoan is no longer in dispute. The milking of perks, from golf trips to Florida to European vacations for the first lady, is shockingly vulgar, but not a peep of protest comes from his supporters.<br />
The IRS becomes a political enforcer, but that, too, is accepted because nobody will risk their access by telling Obama no. You are either with him or you are his enemy.<br />
The evidence is everywhere that his ideas are flawed, that his view of economics, diplomacy, the military, history, science and religion are warped by his own narcissism. He doesn’t even talk a good game anymore.<br />
Yet it remains a fool’s errand to hope he will correct his ways. He is not capable; he looks in the mirror and sees only a savior.<br />
It is equally clear that those who shielded him from facts and their own best judgment did him no favors. Out of fear and favor, they abdicated their duty to the nation, and they must share the burden of history’s verdict. After all, America’s decline happened on their watch, too.<br />
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<br />Pirate Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515993185869391335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2630025263025870242.post-54508204844437740872014-04-27T14:04:00.000-07:002014-04-27T14:04:50.047-07:00Quickly Get Out of the Car and Run Like Hell is on your Heels<img src="http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/980/4046/original.jpg?w=600&h" data-post="c119" /><br />
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<br />Pirate Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515993185869391335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2630025263025870242.post-60098550938101945872014-04-27T08:11:00.001-07:002014-04-27T14:05:02.103-07:00Free North Carolina: Judge Jeanine Pirro Skewers Harry Reid for Lies, Abuse of Power, and Chutzpah#comment-form<a href="http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2014/04/judge-jeanine-pirro-skewers-harry-reid.html#comment-form">Free North Carolina: Judge Jeanine Pirro Skewers Harry Reid for Lies, Abuse of Power, and Chutzpah#comment-form</a>Pirate Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515993185869391335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2630025263025870242.post-25603992674690049232014-04-26T15:35:00.001-07:002014-04-26T15:35:04.042-07:00The Enemy WithinPeople are waking as if from a dream<br />
they are learning and losing from our governments schemes<br />
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We walk through the night of a repressive regime<br />
And pray that God's might will soon steal the scene.<br />
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When the leader of the land deleted "In God We Trust"<br />
He didn't care of the implications or the pain of the just.<br />
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And now we are here fighting government's volley<br />
while the Senate and Congress continues their terrible folly<br />
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Teachers and postmen and police and the Press<br />
have all taken up arms against the new terrorists<br />
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Families and Church's and people who work<br />
are the ones the government have decided to shirk<br />
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Don't think if you "get along" you will avoid the coming mess<br />
Or paying enough taxes will ease the stress<br />
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You know when you look they are coming for you<br />
but you stick you head in the sand and try to placate them too<br />
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but it doesn't matter what you think, do or say<br />
because it's not really about that anyway<br />
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they want to destroy all the things that were created<br />
and make sure the ones to built it are fully sedated<br />
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But we are rising from the ashes not one day late<br />
and looking around at what once was great<br />
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and now we begin to push back this great folly<br />
and it is the govenment who readies to take the next volley<br />
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the power is all on the side of the tyrant<br />
and the press says "all is well" when they know full well different<br />
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but now the destruction is just so pervasive<br />
even the soccer Mom's are starting to see it.<br />
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and slowly but surely we push the evil back<br />
while watching our backs for another attack<br />
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so get down on your knees and pray to God for Mercy<br />
then you are half way down to the prone position when it gets dicey<br />
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On wing and a prayer we fight for our great nation<br />
But all of our lives rest on the Almighty of Creation<br />
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And if at the end it becomes a war of attrition<br />
Just pray for God's blessing and pass the ammunition!<br />
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GOD BLESS AMERICA!<br />
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zombiesPirate Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515993185869391335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2630025263025870242.post-73981401585208273022014-04-06T16:31:00.003-07:002014-04-06T16:31:10.967-07:00The Aliens Amoung Us<img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmsh8WOMFZanUYdvepVt50R5bOiayQv73-Vui4w7OsEyW2ZlTwlV4YVyKyYv0VrJzaT18MD1fdPPIhjMyr5Ov41ZerE8fO_BTcjehFBg2tlJPwbnwm-DcRu2zDZ61vrRBbqiJ2Kvm8uCY/s1600/tumblr_n3hk20Goh21rgg24zo1_500.jpg" width="440" />Pirate Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515993185869391335noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2630025263025870242.post-13034556784048203962014-03-15T21:08:00.004-07:002014-03-15T21:08:16.970-07:00I didn't Go Lookin for Trouble<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbX38g1Wylo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbX38g1Wylo</a><br />Pirate Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515993185869391335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2630025263025870242.post-29477407478072330282014-03-15T15:00:00.002-07:002014-03-15T15:04:10.552-07:00Why do they always send the poor?<span id="goog_205330013">Still they feed us Lies from the Tablecloth</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_ruRSCW7B4" target="_blank">Read it and Weep</a><br />
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Blast off, it's party time<br />
and we don't live in a fascist nation<br />
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Blast off, it's party time<br />
AND WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU!!!!!!Pirate Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515993185869391335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2630025263025870242.post-13506378871465432272014-03-15T14:55:00.002-07:002014-03-15T14:55:34.722-07:00How Serious Is It?<img alt="low-down-dirty-28" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-13201" height="500" src="http://knuckledraggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/low-down-dirty-28.jpg" width="500" /><br />
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Thanks Wirecutter!Pirate Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515993185869391335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2630025263025870242.post-73609132331954008202014-03-15T14:47:00.001-07:002014-03-15T14:49:12.313-07:00I Wish it need not have happened in my time"<img alt="quote" src="http://s.gr-assets.com/assets/quote/quote_tiny-566b7de5e1ac5becd0dd8b2856f59228.jpg" style="float: left; margin: -3px 5px 0px 0px;" /> <br />
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.<br />"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” </h1>
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<br />Pirate Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515993185869391335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2630025263025870242.post-18926056247039837082014-03-15T14:28:00.002-07:002014-03-15T14:28:18.202-07:00Painful Times, Thanks Obama and the Democrats and the RepublicansYou can't get blood out of a rock. Traditionally the United States has had a consumer-driven economy, but now years of declining incomes and rising debts are really starting to catch up with us. In order to have an economy that is dependent on consumer spending, you need to have a large middle class. Unfortunately, the U.S. middle class is <a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/28-signs-that-the-middle-class-is-heading-toward-extinction" title="steadily shrinking"><strong><span style="color: #4f809e;">steadily shrinking</span></strong></a>, and unless that trend is reversed we are going to see massive economic changes in this country. For example, in poor neighborhoods all over America we are seeing bank branches, car dealerships and retail stores close down at an alarming rate. If you didn't know better, you might be tempted to think that "Space Available" was the hottest new retailer in some areas of the nation. On the other hand, if you live in San Francisco, New York City or Washington D.C., things are pretty good for the moment. But as a whole, the condition of the U.S. consumer continues to decline. Incomes are going down, the cost of living is going up, and debts are skyrocketing. The following are 19 signs that the U.S. consumer is tapped out...<br />
<strong>#1</strong> Real disposable income per capita continues to fall. In the fourth quarter of 2012, it was sitting at <a href="http://www.profitconfidential.com/economic-analysis/untold-story-tapped-u-s-consumer/" target="_blank" title="$37,265"><strong><span style="color: #4f809e;">$37,265</span></strong></a>. By the time that the fourth quarter of 2013 had come around, it had dropped to <a href="http://www.profitconfidential.com/economic-analysis/untold-story-tapped-u-s-consumer/" target="_blank" title="$36,941"><strong><span style="color: #4f809e;">$36,941</span></strong></a>. That means that average Americans have less money to go shopping with than they did previously.<br />
<strong>#2</strong> In January, real disposable income in the U.S. experienced the largest year over year decline that we have seen <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-31/wtf-going-real-disposable-income-plummets-most-40-years" target="_blank" title="since 1974"><strong><span style="color: #4f809e;">since 1974</span></strong></a>.<br />
<strong>#3</strong> As disposable income decreases, major retailers are closing thousands of stores all over the country. Some are even calling this "<a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/20-facts-about-the-great-u-s-retail-apocalypse-that-will-blow-your-mind" title="a retail apocalypse"><strong><span style="color: #4f809e;">a retail apocalypse</span></strong></a>".<br />
<strong>#4</strong> From September 2013 to January 2014, the personal saving rate in the United States dropped by a staggering <a href="http://www.profitconfidential.com/economic-analysis/untold-story-tapped-u-s-consumer/" target="_blank" title="16 percent"><strong><span style="color: #4f809e;">16 percent</span></strong></a>.<br />
<strong>#5</strong> During the fourth quarter of 2013, we witnessed the largest increase in consumer debt in this country that we have seen <a href="http://www.profitconfidential.com/economic-analysis/untold-story-tapped-u-s-consumer/" target="_blank" title="since 2007"><strong><span style="color: #4f809e;">since 2007</span></strong></a>.<br />
<strong>#6</strong> Fewer Americans are applying for mortgages these days. In fact, the MBA Purchase Applications Index is now the lowest that it has been <a href="http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2014/03/mba-mortgage-applications-decrease-in.html" target="_blank" title="since 1995"><strong><span style="color: #4f809e;">since 1995</span></strong></a>.<br />
<strong>#7</strong> Overall, the rate of homeownership in the United States has fallen <a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/USHOWN.txt" target="_blank" title="for eight years in a row"><strong><span style="color: #4f809e;">for eight years in a row</span></strong></a>.<br />
<strong>#8</strong> Many Americans are finding it increasingly difficult to afford a new car or truck. The following comes from a recent <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/101486192/" target="_blank" title="CNBC article"><strong><span style="color: #4f809e;">CNBC article</span></strong></a>...<br />
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A new study shows the average household in 24 of America's 25 largest metropolitan areas cannot afford to pay for the average priced new car or truck.<br />
"Just because you can manage the monthly payment doesn't mean you should let a $30,000 or $40,000 ride gobble up such a huge share of your paycheck," said Mike Sante, managing editor of Interest.com. "Many people are spending money on a car payment that they could be saving."</blockquote>
<strong>#9</strong> Incredibly, <a href="http://business.time.com/2014/01/30/nearly-half-of-america-lives-paycheck-to-paycheck/" target="_blank" title="56 percent"><strong><span style="color: #4f809e;">56 percent</span></strong></a> of all Americans now have "subprime credit" at this point.<br />
<strong>#10</strong> Total consumer credit has risen by a whopping <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/101103819" target="_blank" title="22 percent"><strong><span style="color: #4f809e;">22 percent</span></strong></a> over the past three years.<br />
<strong>#11</strong> In the third quarter of 2007, the student loan delinquency rate was <a href="http://www.testosteronepit.com/home/2014/2/19/the-young-subprime-debt-slave-generation.html" target="_blank" title="7.6 percent"><strong><span style="color: #4f809e;">7.6 percent</span></strong></a>. Today, it is up to <a href="http://www.testosteronepit.com/home/2014/2/19/the-young-subprime-debt-slave-generation.html" target="_blank" title="11.5 percent"><strong><span style="color: #4f809e;">11.5 percent</span></strong></a>.<br />
<strong>#12</strong> Overall, U.S. consumers are <a href="http://www.infowars.com/millions-of-americans-teetering-on-edge-of-financial-ruin/" target="_blank" title="$11,360,000,000,000"><strong><span style="color: #4f809e;">$11,360,000,000,000</span></strong></a> in debt.<br />
<strong>#13</strong> While Barack Obama has been in the White House, median household income in the United States has fallen <a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/median-household-income-has-fallen-for-five-years-in-a-row" target="_blank" title="for five years in a row"><strong><span style="color: #4f809e;">for five years in a row</span></strong></a>.<br />
<strong>#14</strong> U.S. workers are taking home the smallest share of the income pie <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/24/news/economy/middle-class-economy/index.html?iid=HP_River" target="_blank" title="that has ever been recorded"><strong><span style="color: #4f809e;">that has ever been recorded</span></strong></a>.<br />
<strong>#15</strong> One recent study found that about <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/101307964" target="_blank" title="60 percent"><strong><span style="color: #4f809e;">60 percent</span></strong></a> of the jobs that have been "created" since the end of the last recession pay $13.83 or less an hour.<br />
<strong>#16</strong> Middle-wage jobs accounted for <a href="http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/12/06/more-americans-are-working-but-pay-is-still-low/?iid=HP_River" target="_blank" title="60 percent"><strong><span style="color: #4f809e;">60 percent</span></strong></a> of the jobs lost during the last recession, but they have accounted for only <a href="http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/12/06/more-americans-are-working-but-pay-is-still-low/?iid=HP_River" target="_blank" title="22 percent"><strong><span style="color: #4f809e;">22 percent</span></strong></a> of the jobs created since then.<br />
<strong>#17</strong> According to one recent survey, only <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/166850/americans-worse-off-financially-year-ago.aspx" target="_blank" title="35 percent"><strong><span style="color: #4f809e;">35 percent</span></strong></a> of all Americans say that they are better off financially than they were a year ago.<br />
<strong>#18</strong> In 2008, 25 percent of all Americans in the 18 to 29-year-old age bracket considered themselves to be "lower class". In 2014, an astounding <a href="http://economy.money.cnn.com/2014/01/28/middle-class/?iid=HP_LN" target="_blank" title="49 percent"><strong><span style="color: #4f809e;">49 percent</span></strong></a> of them do.<br />
<strong>#19</strong> The poverty rate in America has been at 15 percent or above <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/24/news/economy/middle-class-economy/index.html?iid=HP_River" target="_blank" title="for 3 consecutive years"><strong><span style="color: #4f809e;">for 3 consecutive years</span></strong></a>. That is the first time that has happened since 1965.<br />
Despite what the mainstream media keeps telling them, most Americans know on a gut level that there is something fundamentally wrong with our economy.<br />
According to <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/167873/americans-cite-jobs-economy-gov-top-problems.aspx?utm_source=tagrss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_reader=feedly" target="_blank" title="Gallup"><strong><span style="color: #4f809e;">Gallup</span></strong></a>, "Unemployment/Jobs" is the number one issue that Americans care about these days and the "Economy in general" is the number three issue that Americans care about these days.<br />
Most people just want to work hard, make a decent living and take care of their families.<br />
Sadly, that is becoming increasingly difficult to do.<br />
And the numbers that I have shared above only tell part of the story. For a more personal side to all of this, I encourage you to read my previous article entitled "<a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/10-stories-from-the-cold-hard-streets-of-america-that-will-break-your-heart" title="10 Stories From The Cold, Hard Streets Of America That Will Break Your Heart"><strong><span style="color: #4f809e;">10 Stories From The Cold, Hard Streets Of America That Will Break Your Heart</span></strong></a>" if you have not done so already.<br />
The really bad news is that this is about as good as things are going to get for the U.S. economy. The long-term trends that are eating away at our economy like cancer are intensifying, and our "leaders" just continue to act as if "business as usual" will somehow get the job done.<br />
Most of them don't even realize that time is running out.<br />
As I discussed <a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/is-dr-copper-foreshadowing-a-stock-market-crash-just-like-it-did-in-2008" title="yesterday"><strong><span style="color: #4f809e;">yesterday</span></strong></a>, there is a lot of evidence that the massive financial bubble that the Federal Reserve has inflated is getting ready to burst.<br />
When the next great financial crisis does strike, it is going to be absolutely disastrous. We are in <a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/we-are-in-far-worse-shape-than-we-were-just-prior-to-the-last-great-financial-crisis" title="far worse financial shape"><strong><span style="color: #4f809e;">far worse financial shape</span></strong></a> than we were back then, and this next round of financial trauma could truly be the "knockout blow" for the U.S. economy.<br />
Let us hope for the best, but let us also prepare for the worst<br />
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<br />Pirate Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515993185869391335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2630025263025870242.post-61875781620846953872014-03-02T10:14:00.002-08:002014-03-02T10:14:27.276-08:00Dear Connecticut Read This and Take Heart!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSaKHqjk9EHeQhijjONpoSxCUrjafaOraA5cqAehMBfxyO9fo3mfNlSwa9AP7LIaL7v4r4h5wLmiB_PiTIktDiwiqwMF0DKdmU2RwHXS97HDDUMvP7VxKeOvxrQjZdF4wbD4vHqeZjUVg/s1600/Locke.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSaKHqjk9EHeQhijjONpoSxCUrjafaOraA5cqAehMBfxyO9fo3mfNlSwa9AP7LIaL7v4r4h5wLmiB_PiTIktDiwiqwMF0DKdmU2RwHXS97HDDUMvP7VxKeOvxrQjZdF4wbD4vHqeZjUVg/s1600/Locke.jpg" /></a><i><b>“Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience and are left to the common refuge, which God hath provided for all men, against force and violence.” ~ John Locke, 2nd Treatise on Government.</b></i>Pirate Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515993185869391335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2630025263025870242.post-64371447204849747822014-03-02T10:00:00.001-08:002014-03-02T10:08:53.312-08:00Obama Promises to Tickle Putin To Death If he Doesn't Pull out of Ukraine Secretary of State John Kerry calls Russia's military incursion into Ukraine `an incredible act of aggression" and says President Vladimir Putin has made "a stunning, willful" choice to invade another country.<br />
Kerry says Russia should respect the democratic process through which the Ukrainian people ousted their pro-Russian president and assembled a new government.<br />
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Kerry is raising the possibility of boycotting the June meeting of the Group of Eight leading industrialized countries in Sochi, Russia.<br />
He's also discussing visa bans, asset freezes, and trade and investment penalties.<br />
Kerry said he spoke with foreign ministers for G-8 and other nations on Saturday, and says everyone is prepared `to go to the hilt" to isolate Russia.<br />
Kerry was interviewed Sunday on CBS, ABC and NBC news shows<br />
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<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03/02/kerry-repercussions-for-putin-act-aggression/" target="_blank">More Giggles Here</a><br />
<br />Pirate Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515993185869391335noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2630025263025870242.post-7078802359534662402014-03-02T09:52:00.002-08:002014-03-02T09:52:54.292-08:00Obama Playing Marbles With Putin, Putin Playing for KeepsRepublican Rep. Mike Rogers, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, criticized the U.S.'s <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-putin-phone-call-ukraine-russia-war-2014-3" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">response to Russian aggression in the Crimea region of Ukraine</a>, suggesting that President Barack Obama was being outsmarted by Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.<br />
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<span>"Putin is playing chess, and I think we are playing marbles — and I don't think it's even close," Rogers said on "Fox News Sunday." </span><br />
<span>"They've been running circles around us." </span><br />
<span><br /><br />Read more: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mike-rogers-putin-obama-ukraine-war-2014-3#ixzz2upSSif4B" style="color: #003399;">http://www.businessinsider.com/mike-rogers-putin-obama-ukraine-war-2014-3#ixzz2upSSif4B</a></span>Pirate Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515993185869391335noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2630025263025870242.post-83555137331318733852014-03-02T09:45:00.003-08:002014-03-02T09:45:28.734-08:00Tyranny, there's an App For that<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge1gHfXqYXjipHAxslX4kbBWjaDL0CvI6Qbllibv4yekntJ8TAYuWduq56oJPYSXWqZ5WEdnshWL8YRXD2rOOJdwJZxZ9rhUY0HybGXeqjpRPtIky0yawe1be0YhyphenhyphenSh_Ny7CQXRIzAmUQ/s1600/Copy+of+tyranny+app+noose.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge1gHfXqYXjipHAxslX4kbBWjaDL0CvI6Qbllibv4yekntJ8TAYuWduq56oJPYSXWqZ5WEdnshWL8YRXD2rOOJdwJZxZ9rhUY0HybGXeqjpRPtIky0yawe1be0YhyphenhyphenSh_Ny7CQXRIzAmUQ/s1600/Copy+of+tyranny+app+noose.png" width="340" /></a><br />
thanks Walter Zoomie <a href="http://walterzoomiesworld.blogspot.com/">http://walterzoomiesworld.blogspot.com/</a>Pirate Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515993185869391335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2630025263025870242.post-62151952233536491722014-01-11T20:05:00.000-08:002014-01-11T20:05:45.036-08:00People Starting To Stand No Matter The CostRespected Christian leader and author James Dobson makes it clear his pro-family ministry puts the issue of life first and foremost – even if it means shutting down. - See more at: <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/legal-courts/2014/01/09/dobson-to-govt-you-cant-make-us-comply-with-birth-control-mandate#.UtITp9F3vIW">http://www.onenewsnow.com/legal-courts/2014/01/09/dobson-to-govt-you-cant-make-us-comply-with-birth-control-mandate#.UtITp9F3vIW</a><br />
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Dr. Dobson didn't hold back Thursday during an interview regarding his organization, Family Talk, and its challenge of a federal mandate for employers to cover abortifacients. "We are suing [HHS Secretary] Kathleen Sebelius for forcing or trying to force all of us to give abortifacient medications to our employees," he summarized on American Family Radio, "and I just absolutely refuse to do it. We'll close down before I'll do it." Several other employers are challenging the mandate, including the for-profit Hobby Lobby. "Ours is a Christian non-profit," he explained. "[The government has] exempted churches from having to do this, but they've concluded that other Christian non-profits are not 'Christian enough.'" In a letter last year to his supporters, Dobson vowed he would not comply with the mandate, saying "the killing of babies is something we absolutely cannot do." - See more at: <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/legal-courts/2014/01/09/dobson-to-govt-you-cant-make-us-comply-with-birth-control-mandate#.UtITp9F3vIW">http://www.onenewsnow.com/legal-courts/2014/01/09/dobson-to-govt-you-cant-make-us-comply-with-birth-control-mandate#.UtITp9F3vIW</a><br />
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<br />Pirate Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515993185869391335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2630025263025870242.post-71122397631024920852014-01-11T19:57:00.002-08:002014-01-11T19:57:44.922-08:00With The Stroke of a PenObama Seizes Homes of Americans To Give To Indians in Wyoming<br />
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It appears that Obama’s habitual abuse of his executive action is beginning to rub off on the rest of his administration. His EPA soldiers are now telling a town in Wyoming that they no longer have the right to live there. And what’s worse? They’re giving away that land that the residents rightfully bought to other people.<br />
The town of Riverton, Wyoming has been an issue for quite some time with regards to Indians and the “white man.” According to local Indians, the 1 million acre plot the town sits on should rightfully be added to their reservation.<br /> (See also: Obama Quietly Gave Away $1 Million To Promote Gender Equality In Morocco)<br />
Well, for some strange reason, Obama’s goon squad has obliged the Indian’s request even though the borders were place there in 1905. Now the 10,000 residents of the town are being forced to stick to their guns and stay there, or forfeit their land. The choice here though isn’t quite so simple. If the residents decide to stay, they would not be, “eligible for state or federal services.” Along with this, they may just get tossed off their land they bought anyways because the, “deeds do not have to be recognized by the Indians.”<br />
Sen. Leland Christensen declared in a public statement:<br />
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This is an alarming action when you have a federal agency step in and start to undo congressional acts that has really been our history for 108 years … with the stroke of a pen without talking to the biggest groups impacted, and that would be the city of Riverton and the state of Wyoming.”</blockquote>
And Mead is exactly right. Obama’s administration has proven time and time again that, “if you give a mouse a cookie, he’ll ask for a glass of milk.” So where does it end? When do American’s stand up and say enough is enough? It looks like when the government is ready to throw you off your land that you rightfully bought and paid for, might be a good place to start.<br />
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