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Warm weather is limited here in Cedar Grove, Tennessee. No longer can we depend upon the stifling heat of summer to make us sweat when we exit our homes or cars. Temperatures have been dipping into the mid sixties when our side of the globe darkens. Light heats up our side into the low nineties. The soy beans are filling out, growth spurred more by time of daylight than by heat. Corn is kerneling based more on water availability in the soil than heat. And cotton is bowling from water gathered by a deeply sent tap root to suck up the last of the ground water that has not been replenished in any meaningful way for over a month now. The streams are now only sluggish trickles. Fish are holed up in the deeper areas carved out for just such dry times to give our aquatic zoonotics a fighting chance to survive this drought. Melancholia weighs heavy on my shoulders. Another summer of life wasted, and again no great accomplishments to speak of in my 58 misspent years slogging across this ...

Fellow Tennessean, Albert Phineas Gore, Jr, has emerged out of the background noises of Libya, the Virginia Quake Monologues, and the first super-hyped hurricane to hit the east coast of the United States( finally something in the news that matches President Obama's epic failure blows by begging the questions, why Gore, why now and why ever? First, Albert Gore Sr. was a corrupt pol from Tennessee who was courted by Russian partisan Armand Hammer. It was Hammer's Occidental Petroleum company that paid for the seismographic survey of Tennessee and alerted Gore Sr to purchase land in Middle Tennessee, which by chance was one of the few mine able zinc deposits in our state. After Gore, Sr stole the seemingly worthless tracts of land from the landowners, one of whom was a poor widow trying to raise eight children during the depression, Hammer and Occidental Petro leased the mineral rights from the new lucky owners, Al Gore Sr, for a $100,000 dollars a year! Some people ...

The only thing that can stop tyranny is a just and moral people. We must take the necessary steps to slash the size and scope of the federal government now. Our economy is contracting at an alarming rate. The new norms will be at 50% of the post war boom years. Our growth was spurred by the population explosion after WW II. New businesses started up to sell and market to the millions of new consumers in the US. Only serious idiots failed in those population boom times. I am one of the idiots. Businesses I have failed at: When I was 7 my brother was 8 and a half and we were paid by grandfather to mow his lawn. I was too little to push the mower. Failed. When I was 9-14 my grandfather set us up to sell cokes and hot dogs at the Strawberry Festival every May. I was deemed too poor a worker to get a full half share of the profits. Failed. When I was 15 my mother pulled strings at the country club and I was given a job as lifeguard. If you do not count the three children...

Americans clinging to guns and their bibles take homage the Lord is with us. He is sending warnings to the godless ruling class in the form of earthquakes and hurricanes. It would not surprise me to witness a volcano opening up on Pennsylvania Avenue where the street is blocked off in front of the White House. A shimmie-shake and a big blow storm can be written off, but a volcano on Pennsylvania Avenue, definitely a sign, definitely! The quake was felt on Martha's vineyard where our gifted Orator with the deep baritone voice was just teeing up to play a round of golf with his usual threesome, Hugo Chavez, fresh back from Cuba with a radioactive bumho, Willie Jefferson Clinton, with his much maligned trouser snake, and Jeff Immelt, CEO and Chief Solicitor Begger for General Electric, a multi billion dollar company, that paid no income taxes in the US on $10 billions in profits last year. Come on Jeffie, get some skin in da game, man! You are an unpatriotic puke! Corporati...

What happens when the government hates the people as much as the people hate the government? Waco, Ruby Ridge, Tim McVey, Stimulus packages to bail out fat cat bankers and Wall Street trading whores, QE1,2,3?, air travel restricted to those who comply with nudity or fondling by the TSA, and politicians like Representative Maxine Waters, who invited the 46% of Americans who pay her salary via taxes, to take a trip to visit her colleague and master, old Satan himself. From a representative republic to a unrepresentative Kleptocracy in just over 200 years, the fall of the American way of life is now complete. All that is left is for someone to turn out the lights, and Obama's new EPA regulations against cross state pollution has threatened to do just that. His EPA plans to shutter 1/5 of our nation's coal fired generating plants. Electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket! What a fool! The Tea Party must pray for relief to the only One Who keeps Maxine Waters and Satan in ...

Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal are sentenced to 8 years in prison in Iran for doing what any adventurous American 20 somethings would undertake--hike the border between Iran and Iraq. Any of you who have read any of the writings contained within these hallowed bytes know this is something my sister's boy Jakob Maybolt Finkbinder would try but he only got as far as middle Turkey before his antiperspirant got him mistaken for a local and he had to return to America foregoing any chance of unwanted intercourse with Iranian detainees. Seems Shane and Josh were only trying to peer into southern Iran from Northern Iraq to see if they could subvert the ruling mullahs authority and lead a revolt according to the charges placed on the two innocent pilgrims. Aside from the two years at CIA headquarters at Quantico, Virginia, neither of the boys has any formal training in clandestine operations. Their fake passports and the briefcase in their possession filled with Iranian Rials, valued at...

Below is a copy of a letter we at UPLC sent to both Madam Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama. 20 August, 2011 Dear President Obama and Secretary Clinton: We have been watching the unrest in Libya over the past few months with great angst and wish to contribute to the peace process. We have already offered Colonel Gaddafi safe haven here in Cedar Grove, Tn and believe he will accept our offer if we can get over there and present our offer in person. As we see it he has a few details to work out before he can accept our generous offer. His safe departure from Libya being foremost and pressing given the recent downturn in his fortunes. My legal team says we will need a waiver from the State Department. Hillary, you can get this for us, please,so we can travel there during this time of unrest? We will sign all the waivers and releases you require. We need this pronto. President Obama, if you are finished campaigning for the summer in the beautiful and heavil...

Why is the US government harping on the unemployment rate? In a country of 330 million men, women, and children a 9.2% unemployment rate is not so bad. I believe Americans could be soothed if we looked for positives in this number. America is the richest nation in the history of the world! Our GDP, gross domestic product, is 14 trillion dollars even with nearly 10 percent unemployment. A change in the nomenclature would benefit both those employed and those unemployed. Instead of referring to an unemployment rate our leaders must immediately begin to substitute the term "Workforce Temporally Held in Reserve" for the unemployed. The substitution of this term is beneficial as it gives a positive to what otherwise is considered a negative. The Workforce Temporally Held in Reserve will be a moral boost to those who enter its proud ranks. It carries none of the negative connotations connected with the unemployment offices. Instead of measuring the economic health o...

Below is the letter I received from President Obama's Economic Development Czar To Urban America. Her name is Shalal Alziereh. She has a PhD in economics and a minor in governance from Harvard Business School. 16 August, 2011 Jackson D. Maybolt, PhD Urban Poverty Law Center xxxx Poverty Lane Cedar Grove, Tn 38321 Dear Dr. Maybolt: I have been instructed by our president, Barack Hussein Obama, to seek out diverse opinions on how to jump start our economy, especially in our poorer inner cities. Your writings have caught our eye here at the White House and Joe Biden has been instructed to read all your posts and report directly to the president about this and other matters in his quarterly meetings with the President. We find your ideas of allowing each taxpayer to work tax free one year in five for their entire working career to be brilliant! Balancing the budget by cropping each gov issued check by what ever percentage the projected deficit is for the year i...

Only two things in life are certain, death and taxes, and now we can add a third certaintee; Warren Buffett has gone all wobbly in the mind precipitated by years of coddling from an overly indulgent government. Or so the saying goes. Apparently, the elder financial wizard of Wall Street and Berkshire-Hathaway fame feels the government did not asked enough of him. Warren is known for stating he pays a lower effective rate in taxes than his secretary who earns $249,999.99 a year and not one penny more. Seems she is trying to avoid the kind of coddling her boss has had to endure all these years by the kleptocrats in Deficitville, DC. The coddling begins with the super wealthy millionaires who earn more than $250,000 a year. And this minority of about 1.5 million citizens earn 22% of the income and are coddled into paying 37% of the total tax burden. Oh, the coddling, the schmoozing, the treatment these achievers can expect when the Revenuers come a knocking. The SKIT: IRS Agen...

I read the(financial) news today, oh boy, about a lucky man who made the grade he shorts the euro, but says he's not well I just had to laugh I saw the photograph Nobody could tell if If he was from the house of the open society Hey, George D. Soros is writing op ed pieces and giving interviews to der Spiegel today and I think he is up to something big! WARNING, what you are about to read is based on my years watching self-promoters work the public. G.D. Soros is no different from the Carnival barkers who frequented the small southern towns in the 1950's taunting the hayseed planting, clod buster wearing rubes there to play a game they were sure to lose. For these self-promoters must give a person a reason for losing their monies. I am over here but you must look over there. I will try to pull the curtain back on one of these financial mischief makers. Der Spiegel: As an investor would you still bet on the euro? G.D. Soros: I certainly would not short th...

Even George Soros , the billionaire financier who got his start taking from fellow Hungarian Jews during WW II as a Nazi collaborator, can make bad trade decisions from time to time or so it seems. Word from the tabloids released on Mr. Soros' birthday, now 81 years into his pact with demons, states while frolicking in bed with one, Ms. Adriana Ferreyr, now 28 but a mere child of 23 when first this delicate morsel caught the world renoun traders eye, he stupidly blurted out that a flat valued at over $2 million he'd promised her was instead given to his new love interest, Ms. Tamiko Bolton, a pharmacist. We can only guess the timing was anticlimactic for the voluptuous Ms. Ferreyr, a popular Portuguese child star appearing in McDonald's commericals a short decade ago. In the ensuing row, Ms. Ferreyr alleges Geo placed his huge Hungarian hands, which are big, powerful, super-sized mitts which facilitate his tendencies to take things, firmly around her naked, yet innocent, ne...

I am very excited to report the President of the Urban Poverty Law Center, Jackson Delano Maybolt, has been invited to address the newly formed Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. These members of the Super Congress have been selected by the House and Senate leadership to guide our nation back towards financial sobriety. Those of you who have kept up with all 100 plus entertaining and informative UPLC posts know we at UPLC take government over spending quite seriously. We are understandably concerned we have not, as yet, benefited from any grants from a behemoth which spends over $3,700,000,000,000 and 45 cents each year. Where is the parity? We are equally flummoxed when we learned the top 1% of US wage earners pay 37% of the taxes collected. And now Baroke Hussein Obama is asking congress to go back to that well and dig deeper into this tiniest and most helpless minority's pocket and see what more they can pull out. Let's face it, blacks are a minority with 12...

I got an autographed copy of Mark Steyn's latest release for my birthday which astonishingly falls on the same day as our gifted baritone American president who is leading us to third world status making Mark's book not only plausible, but eminent. "After America", by historian and Canadian humorist, Mark Steyn is a great book. Mark's award winning and Canadian Human Rights Commission taunting humor is on display from page one. Mark Steyn takes no prisoners in his look at where America has been and where it is headed. As president of the Urban Poverty Law Center, I heartily recommend this book as a seriously humorous look at our government sponsored ride into the financial abyss. Get the autographed copy from the Mark Steyn Store on line. You can get there on the drudgereport.com. Jackson Delano Maybolt, President Urban Poverty Law Center "Steyn and Twain, are both on the Mark when it comes to political humor." Mother Maybolt, 1922-2008

For those of you unfamiliar with Western Tennessee, it is a largely agricultural economy with Memphis as the nipple on the edge of the Mississippi River. We are fortunate to live in a geographical location which receives almost 60 inches of annual rain fall. Some farmers have placed deep wells to irrigate, but most rely on nature to do the heavy work. We got rain again the past two days, and our crops without heavenly water for 9 days were grateful for the drink. I hope the pastures scorched by the few days of Albert Gore, Jr Memorial 100 degree dog days of August rekindle the green grasses our cattle are fond of eating. My cotton is in full bloom and the boles are soon to develop. We've had enough heat already to make cotton this year. My soy beans are thick, lush and green and are flowering as well and some pods are beginning to make. The corn is over 10 feet high and the cobs are making as this is written. The cows are dropping calves, 7 new ones in a fortnight. We...

As the titular head of the Urban Poverty Law Center I believe it is time to confess to what I believe is a quirky freakish coincidence. I will provide the reader with a clue from a series of lines from Beatles songs people of my generation were privy to hear and study. We looked for the hidden meaning, Paul was dead. Number nine, number nine. you say it is your birthday it is my birthday too yeah black bird singing in the dead of night Michele my belle these are words that go together well Obladee obladah life goes on on, bra la la how their life goes on Help, I need somebody Help, not just anybody Help, you know I need somebody's Heelllppp! Hey Jude, don't take it bad take a sad song and make it better Hey I am the taxman Yeah the taxman and you are working for no one but me You say you want a revolution well you know but if you want money for people with minds that hate all I can tell you brother is you'll have to wait I believe that John Lennon and Paul McCartney were c...

Our researchers at UPLC have carefully combed through the newly crafted Debt Ceiling Bill before congress and found a tiny paragraph that I believe most US taxpayers will find of interest. It is hidden in the language on page 1475, paragraph three: " taxpayers will be offered a one time buyout which will remove them from the tax rolls permanently through a payment of $46,973 on or before 31, December 2011, made to the United States Treasury. This payment represents each citizen's share of the 14.3 trillion dollar debt. The treasury will borrow funds to offset lost tax revenue from the citizens expected to take the offer." Write your congressman and senator's or call them to make sure this language stays in the final version of the bill. This is a great offer. No more taxes for the cost of a well equipped SUV! Then I saw Geithner interviewed by Charlie Rose. I knew this was too good to be true. When Rose asked about the one ...

I refer you to my prior posting on the budget dated 16, July 2011. It is lonely here at the top. Inflation 's just another word For nothing left to lose. Aw nothing baby, nothing If I ain't got you! I suggest you do not put off those purchases of Gold and Silver. Any big purchases will cost more in the next few years when the green machine at the Federal Reserve Bank begins it deafening whirl Gold at $2000 per ounce by labor day, Silver at $50 an ounce oil at $150 per barrel Corn at $10 a bushel soybeans at $20 a bushel cotton at $1.75 a pound Congressional salaries up 30% to keep even with what they have wrought. Our salaries stale. The flight from the US Dollar will begin in earnest this week. So do not be the last one out. Stock up on everything you need for the rest of the year. Good luck, if our power is cut off here in the country I will try to get some postings out from time to time, but I have been seeing some characters who do not fit in well down here driving slowly ...