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TIME WILL CATCH UBL & SADDAM

Everyone on the East coast can now rest. Eric Robert Rudolph has been caught. It is estimated that the U.S. spent over $30,000,000.00 in one of America’s largest ever manhunts searching for Eric over the past five years.

Now that he’s been caught, maybe we can find bin Laden and Saddam. It’s amazing how a person can live right under our noses and we can’t find them; however, maybe finding one person in 5+ billion is really like finding a needle in a haystack.

It’s been reported that Baghdad Bob is alive and well. He’s holding out in his home in Baghdad right under the U.S. 3rd Infantry’s nose. Muhammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, which is his real name, is trying to decide if he should turn himself in. He fears his own countrymen as much as he does the U.S.

Time seems to take care of all things. Eric was able to elude thousands of officials, dogs, helicopters, and the latest heat sensing equipment, but he could not escape the ravages of time. One day UBL will be found or killed as will Saddam. In the meantime, all those who choose to skip out on life find that it’s really not worth it.

Whatever life Eric had before he was caught, was nothing like what it was before he decided to go on a bombing spree. And now he has plenty of time to ask himself, was it worth it?

DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN!

I have a lot of memories of Topeka, Kansas. After all, it’s one of the places that I discovered the world. My family moved to Topeka when I was fourteen. I was a country boy and I heard my first curse word that first summer of 1957. Many more things would be learned quickly.

High school introduced me to the real NFL (National Forensics League) and it was from earning top honors as a debater that I got a scholarship to college. I moved into a house at 1716 Washburn and with a band of buds, we took on college life at Washburn University. Four years later with a BA degree in hand I headed off to Kansas University to work on a Master’s in political Science.

It was in those college years though that I heard the name Karl, as in Menninger. I did some studying at that campus surrounded in the trees off 6th Street. It was the premier psychiatric hospital in America if not the world. I read everything Dr. Karl wrote. I had some interesting experiences with some of the patients (no, I was not a patient).

Two days ago, it became official. The Menninger Foundation has packed up 80 of it’s best and have set up shop in Houston, partnering with Baylor. Some of the most renowned and famous people of the last century have been patients or doctors at Menninger. Houston attorney Jack O’Quinn being one of the latest (patients).

Somehow as I read Friday’s news of the move to Houston, I revisited so many things that not even an eight hundred page book could contain. And it was like a moment in time when life stood still- again!

PS. You can read all about it under the “Houston News Posts”.

LACI PETERSON MANIA!

Fox used to be all that I would watch on TV. It was Fox & Friends as the alarm clock went off. Then there was NEWS throughout the day. I would be home in time for the “no-spin zone”, maybe a little Hannity & Combes, and then sign off with Greta.

That was then (2002) and this is now (the last day of May 2003). I have been able to get past the early morning bragging on how great Fox is. I’ve backed off of most of Bill at seven as there’s only so much swagger that I can take. I have even been able to overlook a lot of Hannity’s condescending statements.

However, I have had it with Greta who seems to have changed her show from “On The Record” to “Another Night With Laci.” I don’t know what it is, but it seems as though we hear about Laci from morning to night and Greta just summarizes ad nauseum.

Fox has assigned Rita and Heraldo to the case for more “in-depth” reporting. Expert after expert, attorney after attorney, and relative after relative is interviewed. The case gets “tried” daily. Every motion by the court gets “NEWS ALERT” status. And then there’s Gloria Allred and her client. I mean I know too many attorney names: Bernie Grimm, Ted Williams, et al.

And I thought 18 months of politics leading up to the election would be hard to take. I wonder if Jacques Chirac or Tony Blair have heard of Laci Peterson?

HOUSTON- YOU HAVE A PROBLEM

The phrase has been used in many ways, but it’s usually with a “WE” in it, not a “YOU”. I am not talking NASA and Houston, Texas though. It’s obvious that “THEY” have a problem. I am talking “WHITNEY”. She used to be one of my favorite singers, actors, people.

Many people will tend to blame “others” for their problems and the press has been quick to look at her hubby, Bobby, and say that he’s the problem. He might be part of it; however, Whitney can’t cop out on her share of the blame.

The latest craziness involves her embracing a group that are known as “Black Hebrews” (a name they don’t like to be called). Whitney showed up in Dimona, Israel yesterday with Bobby to find peace and karma. There’s an African-American community in Dimona that has been developing for about 33 years now.

I looked into some of their beliefs and it baffles me how someone like Whitney can go from one mistake to another. This group certainly would not win me over with their ban on eating meat, dairy products, and sugar. Those would be minor though compared to my objection of having their leadership pick my spouse. Well, since I’m already married, I guess I couldn’t be hurt by that doctrine.

There is this little issue though that I am sure my wife wouldn’t agree to. You see, they believe in polygamy and therein, Houston, “I” have a problem!

HOW ABOUT $1.00 A GALLON?

In this roller-coaster ride of life, you can count on one thing for sure. We’ll find ourselves at one extreme or the other. We’ll be at the top or at the bottom. And as the title above indicates, I’m talking about the area of oil and gasoline.

We briefly came close to touching $40 a barrel for oil in the midst of the Venezuela crisis earlier this year and just prior to the Iraq war. If you were unlucky and lived on the West coast, you would have found yourself paying $3.00 a gallon in some places for premium. But that was THEN, this is NOW, and soon it will be TOMMORROW!

You see, somewhere down the road (aka tomorrow), we will see $12 a barrel oil and $1.00 a gallon for regular unleaded. Say what? Follow my logic for a moment. Since 1950, Iraq has pumped the least amount of oil as a percentage of reserves than any nationon this planet. Instead of producing 3 million barrels a day, as they have, they have the capacity to produce as much as 10 million barrels a day with existing wells and 20 million a day with U.S. expertise and help.

As a comparison, Saudi Arabia has produced 3x as much oil (9 million bpd) as Iraq in the last decade while the potential is for Iraq to do TWICE what Saudi Arabia does. Now you know why the Saudis didn’t want an Iraq invasion? Put American technology to work in Iraq and the Iraqi people can have a lifestyle better than the Saudis.

It’s estimated that Iraq is sitting on more than $10 TRILLION in oil revenues. So, when Iraq starts producing oil in June and ramps up every month after that, just where do you think the price of oil/ gasoline is going? Not up! Not down! WAY DOWN!

So, as Bush signed the tax cut today, the American consumer has another tax cut coming every month for months to come. Watch for it! Enjoy it, unless you make a living in that arena.

BUSH WITH A SUPERMAN CAPE?

On the surface this appears to be an amazing man: human yes, but super-human appearing in energy and grace. He prays every morning, he feels the nation’s prayers, he doesn’t drink, and he runs faster and longer than men half his age. What next?

Did I mention he also pilots airplanes and lands on aircraft carriers? That he has courage was represented when he visited the bombed out World Trade Center Twin Towers and then defied his advisors by throwing out the first pitch in the World Series, in New York.

What next you ask? Well, June 1-3 he attends the G-8 conference in Evian, France where he’ll shake hands with Jacques Chirac. Many have anticipated what that’ll be like. As he heads towards Israel and Jordan where he puts it all on the line to broker a Mideast peace, he’ll stop over in Egypt first to confer with other Arab leaders. He’s doing about all any human can to show compassion for Palestinians, Arabs, and Jews. He might even be giving super human effort.

If he fails in garnering a peace between Israel and Palestine it won’t be because he didn’t try. And, if by some miraculous event, he is successful, well: put a cape on him with a big “S” on it. And while you’re at it pick up nine more capes and put a big “L” on those. They’d be for the nine Democratic presidential candidates: otherwise known as “Losers” when it comes to unseating this president.

SADDAM UNPLUGGED & FREE?

We won the war in Iraq in three weeks, but it’s beginning to look like it’ll take three months to three years to win the peace.

Until Saddam is found, killed, proclaimed dead, or arrested, it’s going to be a very dangerous place for our troops. The most serious opposition and trouble is coming from the Sunni sections of Iraq. Initially, the religious demonstrations were coming from the Shiite South, however, recent fire fights and American deaths are coming from the Fallujah area.

This is a hot-bed of Baath party activity that has turned guerrilla-warfare action. Military intelligence is increasingly seeing organized resistance, not just random incidents. Finding and or killing Saddam won’t end the dangers, but it will go a long way to removing the “spirit” that his existence breathes into this sect.

THE FIRST BOOK-END!

It’s now okay to go in the water- if you live in Topeka, Kansas: to swim. It’s also now fashionable to wear white. The reason for the first two comments is that we are now within the “book-ends” of summer.

If you live in the South, you may not have a clue as to what I’m talking about; however, as a previous Midwesterner, it’s simple. Memorial Day opens the summer and Labor Day closes the summer season.

The first summer book-end though means so much more for us today. With 125,000 service men in Iraq and another 150,000 scattered around the planet, Memorial Day 2003 takes on special significance.

Freedom is bought with blood and usually the blood of the young who have few moments outside of high school graduation. On March 23rd, Marine Pvt Nolen. R. Hutchings of Boiling Springs, South Carolina gave his life for you and I somehwere on the outskirts of Nasiriyah, a city he had no knowledge of months before. He was 19! Spc. Gregory Sanders was also 19: from Indiana. And, then there was Pvt. Devon Jones of San Diego, also 19.

We have to wonder what their lives might have been. And while we’re at it, may we give thought to what our lives might be were it not for those who gave their all for you and I.

More than a book-end to the summer season, Memorial Day was THE END to this life as we know it for the three teens above, but prayerfully, we hope the beginning to an eternal life that’s much better.

IT’S SHOW TIME- AGAIN!

Just when you thought (if you were a Democrat) it was okay to get back into the economic waters, the Bush World Tour is about to begin.

Next weekend Bush heads East with a multi-faceted agenda in his hand. Air Force One and the Secret Service will get a work out shortly. Due to security risks, the complete itenary has not been publicized; however, what is known is energetic to say the least.

Poland will get a lot of attention for their help in the Iraq war and the 7,000 soldiers that they have on the ground policing the North of Iraq. Russia and Putin may get more attention than they wanted if Bush decides to talk about the sale of military equipment that some Russian companies supposedly sold to Saddam.

At the heart of the trip will be some sort of meeting with some group of people who have interests in the infamous “Road Map”. Just who and where isn’t known for security reasons. Also on the agenda are talks with Saudi leaders, China diplomats, and maybe even Jacques Chirac.

Get the picture? Just when the tax plan get’s into the news and passes the Senate only because Cheney broke a 50-50 vote, Bush steals the stage again with a whirl-wind international tour. Can he keep this up for another 18 months? I am sure the Democrats are asking themselves that question.

And you thought LA invented the phrase, “Show Time!”

THE OTHER TRINITY

Could anyone else ever play Trinity than Carrie-Ann Moss? I don’t think so! No, I KNOW so. With that slicked-down hair, muscular shoulders, and determined demeanor, she’s an imposing figure. I am talking about the movie Matrix you know.

But then there’s that “other” trinity. There was a day when they could have changed history. There was a day when they could have stopped the US of A. However, recent events at the U.N. has proven that the trinity of nations couldn’t stop (or start) much of anything. I am talking about France, Germany, and Russia.

Let’s consider what happened three months ago. These three nations basically said wwe’re not going to let the U.S. go to war with Iraq. We will stop you with a veto at the U.N. Well, it takes more than a vote to get things done today.

Twenty years ago this trinity could have formed a coaltion that would have isolated the U.S. from Europe and the East. This trinity could have defined the world. Now that the U.S. has a foothold in the center of the Islamic world, we no longer need Saudi Arabia. We no longer need Russia, Germany, or France. Did we ever need France (in the last 200 years?)

So, the U.N. basically saw the hand-writing on the wall and the U.N. Security council gave the okay to removing sanctions in Iraq, gave the U.S. the authority it needed to do as it pleases, and all three nations must now come, with hat in hand, and ask the U.S. for permission to enforce their many contracts with Iraq.

Did I mention Moss is 35 years old, from Canada, married, and expecting her first child this fall?

ACES & KINGS- AND A BIG SLEEVE?

Thursday morning I was looking at my deck of cards and wondering how long it would take to reel in one of those Aces or Kings. Lo and behold, it was announced that we caught the King of diamonds right after that.

All this war on terror stuff is driving the Democrats crazy. There’s no doubt that the “war” will still be going eighteen months from now and that makes it hard to get other issues center-stage. Even Kerry is running behind Bush in his home state no less.

The King of diamonds was number eight on the list. Seven more of the BIG BOYS to catch. The Democrats are doing all they can to say that we are less protected and safe now than we were in 9-11. The argument isn’t working. And here’s the worst nightmare for all nine of the Democratic presidential candidates.

Bush has eighteen months to catch the rest of the Aces and Kings. One a month would be like dripping water torture. Catching Saddam six months before the election would be disasterous. Catching Saddam three months prior to the election would be tantamount to automatic re-election for Bush and maybe a handful of Congressmen too.

The Democrats are careful how they phrase their war rhetoric because it could all come back to haunt them. So, more than just catching the Aces and Kings, it’s that “ace up Bush’s sleeve” that worries most Democrats.

———SPOILED ROTTEN———

Our children are going to inherit one big federal debt! Can they survive our wild life style? Can they handle the buy now, pay later mentality? The Bush administration is setting new historic federal debt ceilings; however, they will point out that as a percentage of GDP, it’s not all that bad.

What is bad though are the grapes you buy at Fiesta that are from Chile, the cantaloupe you buy at Kroger that is from Hondurous, and the watermelon you buy at Food Town that is from Mexico.

America has lost some two million jobs to Asia primarily as one industry after another heads East. But, it’s the farmers in the Bible-belt and those in California that are taking it on the chin. America used to be a major exporter of wheat to China. No more. China will not only soon be producing enough for itself, China is on the way to exporting wheat to other nations as well.

There isn’t enough money in the Treasury, not even Greenspan can print it fast enough to subsidize our farmers. I’m afraid we’re going to see a new side of that Biblical scripture that says, “the first shall be last, and the last shall be first.” Don’t worry about the fruit being spoiled. It’s the American producers of the foodstuffs that are spoiled; however, it’s about to come to an end.

Those $90,000 trash pick-up jobs in California and the $100,000+ sky-cap jobs at the airport will go as well. And of course you know how much we pay our professional athletes. So you see, it’s not the debt I’m so worried that’s being passed on to the next generation as much as it is the “the world owes me…” mindset.

THEY WILL BE PUNISHED!

George came to the presidency with the “let’s all work together” theme. He said that he was a “unifier” and not a “divider”. It’s what he did in Texas. What went unsaid is that he could afford to be a nice guy because he had enough bad guys on the payroll to do the dirty work.

It was nice-guy, Colin Powell, who when asked what would happen to France and Germany as a result of their anti-American stance in regards to the Iraq war who said, “We’ll punish them,”

You might think that going to Madrid instead of Paris would be punishment enough; however, when we found out how much the French had helped Saddam, the punishment had to be worse. Drink Sangria, not French wine. Oh yes, and trash the Dollar! Say what?

It might not have been planned but the crashing of the U.S. Dollar is killing Germany and France. A cheap Dollar isn’t all bad. It would be if it dives faster, but right now it’s making our goods cheaper and their goods more expensive. The Germans wanted an official statement from Treasury Secretary Snow assuring them that this was not “punishment”. Of course Snow said it wasn’t. But both nations are near a recession and this “ain’t helpin!”

There’s one thing that bothers me though about this “retribution” thing. When you live by the sword, you die by it. And there are some fights and situations that you get into that you can’t get out of. If we can halt the slide of the Dollar, the message will have been sent and the punishment meted out. If we can’t, well. Did I mention gold and gold stocks yesterday?

ALLLL ……A- BOOOAARD!

You’ve heard the Wall Street crowd encourage everyone to get on the train before it leaves the station, meaning buy more stocks, from which they make commissions and a living. Yeah, right! You don’t want to miss out. Miss out- on losses?

We’re still in a BEAR market. Yes, there are bear market rallies; however, the TREND is down and I mean way down. Remember one of the oldest Wall Street addages- the TREND is your FRIEND. Or, shall we say that one should GO with the FLOW!

As Richard Russell likes to say, “In a bear market, everyone loses but the one who loses the least wins”. Monday was just a reminder that the BEAR is still on the prowl. After losing 80% of it’s value, many people think that the Nasdaq can’t do anything but go up. My take is that it can easily go down another 50% from it’s current level.

If there’s a train leaving the station is the GOLD train. And again, Monday was a reminder of that. Gold was up $10.20! Gold started it’s BULL market run a little under two years ago at $250 an ounce. Recently it started testing $390 and so the powers that hate gold, increased the margin requirements knocking the props out from under gold, temporarily sending it back down to the $320 range. But where’s it today?

Look at the obvious. The Dollar is tanking big time. The U.S. is looking at a potential HALF TRILLION debt this year. We’re also looking at a HALF TRILLION trade deficit. The consumer is tapped out. Debt is staggering. Bankruptcies are headed into the stratosphere. Where can one find safety?

Safety is found in REAL value. There is a train leaving the station, but it’s the GOLD train. And gold STOCKS will soon join the parade. Stocks lke ABX, AEM, BGO, NEM, ASA, GG, RGLD, HMY and PDG. And then if you’re looking for some cheapies, there’s DROOY, CDE, CALVF, SLGLF, and GPXME. ALLL….A- BOOOAARD!

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