That’s why I track other indicators, including commodity prices, Department of Agriculture supply-and-demand reports and several others, as well as a few informal indicators. Other signs also bear watching when it comes to inflation. One example is the Bacon Cheeseburger Inflation Index, which shows a very different picture. The average bacon cheeseburger costs 7.9% more now than it did at the same point in 2013. Lest you think the cheeseburger index is, well, full of it, a quick scan of Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data confirms its findings. BLS data show bacon prices up 16.4% from a year ago, while ground beef is up 10.5% and American cheese prices are up nearly 10%.

Read more: http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/chrisversace/2014/06/21/forget-government-data-watch-the-bacon-cheeseburger-inflation-index-n1854153?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

betty-I wonder if the American people know or even care that out of 535 members of Congress (Senate and House of Representatives) only one man has ever submitted a balanced budget and that man is Paul Ryan. Of course that budget was passed in the House but it was dead on arrival in the Harry Reid democrat controlled senate and not even debated but it does make one wonder what the other 534 members are actively engaged in besides controlling the Oceans and renaming the Redskins !! Good Luck America !!!

I had a very interesting conversation with the owner of a liquid manure fertilizer company today.

He was adamant that we are on the verge of a serious food shortage crisis right here in the US. That gov regulations on fertilization, environmental, water contaminants, price controls, set aside tillable land, ethanol, GMO restrictions and global demand has pushed the US to the brink of serious food shortage. That our reserve levels of corn and other grains such as oats, wheat and rice are at critical levels.

I am pointing fingers at government intrusion as the primary cause but I have added a huffingtonpost article to add liberal medias are warming of the same perils as the conservatives are.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/news/food-shortage/

This is interesting not just because the contents provide proof that Obama did in fact set out to shift support to the Muslim Brotherhood, but because of the source of the revelation.



The Obama administration conducted an assessment of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2010 and 2011, beginning even before the events known as the “Arab Spring” erupted in Tunisia and in Egypt.

The President personally issued P**********l Study Directive 11 (PSD-11) in 2010, ordering an assessment of the Muslim Brotherhood and other “political Islamist” movements, including the ruling AKP in Turkey, ultimately concluding that the United States should shift from its longstanding policy of supporting “stability” in the Middle East and North Africa (that is, support for “stable regimes” even if they were authoritarian), to a policy of backing “moderate” Islamic political movements.

To this day, PSD-11 remains classified, in part because it reveals an embarrassingly naïve and uninformed view of trends in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region.

The revelations were made by Al Hewar centre in Washington, DC, which obtained the documents in question.

Through an ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, thousands of pages of documentation of the US State Department’s dealings with the Muslim Brotherhood are in the process of being declassified and released to the public.

A State Department Cable classified “Confidential” report says the following: “B******i Meeting With Libyan Muslim Brotherhood: On April 2 [2012] Mission B******i met with a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood steering committee, who will speak at the April 5 Carnegie Endowment `Islamist in Power’ conference in Washington, D.C.

Another State Department paper marked “Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU)” contained talking points for Deputy Secretary of State William Burns’ scheduled July 14, 2012 meeting with Mohammad Sawan, the Muslim Brotherhood leader who was also head of the Brotherhood’s Justice and Construction Party. The document is heavily redacted, but nevertheless provides clear indication of Washington’s sympathies for the emergence of the Muslim Brotherhood as a major political force in the post-Gaddafi Libya

The story is from the Gulf News, which operates out of the Anti-Brotherhood UAE. Al-Hewar, which actually got hold of the documents, is linked to the International Institute of Islamic Thought… which is a Muslim Brotherhood front group.

Figures in the Muslim Brotherhood had threatened to leak understandings with Obama Inc. This is the next best thing. It warns Obama that if he tries to forget about them, they can prove that the relationship was official policy.

Saddam era WMDs captured in Iraq by ISIS and old Iraq Generals knew exactly where they were hidden and the America News Media did not report it. I wonder Why????

Jihadists hits mother lode with WMD stash.

The British newspaper, The Telegraph reported this stunning little nugget yesterday, on June 19th:

Chemical weapons produced at the Al Muthanna facility, which Isis today seized, are believed to have included mustard gas, Sarin, Tabun, and VX.
Wait……WHAT?

I thought there were no WMD’s in Iraq, of any kind? Whatsoever!

http://americanthinker.com/blog/2014/06/saddam_era_wmds_captured_in_iraq_by_isiswaitwhat.html

You can't force democracy on people.

Democracy has to be a desire.

If a majority celebrate and embrace a theocracy or any other ideology, let them have it.

We can support threats of aggression on an established democracy that is truly the will of the people. However, we can not fight their battles as we tried in Vietnam. Democratic leaders have to understand why regions in their territory celebrate and embrace theocracy or in the case of Vietnam, c*******m. They need to decide if democracy can be sustained there or not. In the case of Vietnam, democracy was a façade and not real but rather a dictatorship that oppressed Buddhists and was used to get the US to sympathize and fight their war. It exploited a paranoia that c*******m would spread just as there is a paranoia that theocracy will spread today.

If a nation's leaders cannot convince a majority in a region that democracy is something worth fighting for, then any military action we take, as outsiders, to force democracy, will not be sustained.

The argument of forcing democracy as a deterrent to attacks on the homeland is not valid. When an enemy has political power in their region, they risk losing it with an attack on us. They have less to lose by attacking us when they are struggling to survive.

Asking Nouri Al-Maliki to step down due to the fighting and chaos in Iraq is simply like picking the white tip off a pimple, but leaving the core to fester.

The sunni militants and insurgents ravaging Iraq are Saddam Hussein's old Baathist Party, hoping to overtake and rule Iraq again.
They have taken over Saddams old chemical plant, and look to take Iraq's largest oil well to cause further and broader problems.

It does not matter how fair, equal, or compromising Maliki's Government is with the Sunni's, they were toppled from their supreme rule under Saddam. They want that rule back and have been discontent with anything and everything just due to that- from the beginning of Iraq's Liberty.

I doubt that these sunni insurgents called Maliki, or sent him a letter telling him that they were in the planning to kick his Shi'ite party out of Government.
This was a surprise mass attack, like most are.

Maliki faces a war, all on his own. A brand new government. His parliament is panicking and freaking out- can't you imagine? The 'Threat" of sunni brutal, tyrannical, dictator rule once again.
America says: figure it out on your own.
OH Boy! There goes Kerry with America's Wallet!

Any other President would look at the great loss of life involved, the economic crises in the way of Oil to the World, and Act.

President Obama, just wants to know whose who in the Islamic way of things. Doesn't want to offend anyone.
Even though Obama came in terribly inexperience to his job, and has caused more scandals then 10 American Presidents put together, he tells this whole new young Government; figure it out.

Should Maliki step down? Hell No~ He needs to continue to learn and grow, using the experience and sk**ls he has already obtained in his position. Has Maliki ordered, or even suggested slaughter on any Christian sects?

I mean, half of America has been asking Obama to step down for 6 years. He remains.

Thank you Just Chris; you and kattmanduu support everything I said and feel. We have no business there. The only reason we ever got involved with the Arabs is to protect out gluttonous use of oil. The Arabs all h**e us because we are not Muslims; we are the decadent west. They will not be happy and peaceful until we are all converted to Islam or dead. But we must help Israel, the number one target of Islam. Muslims vow openly, loudly, and often to wipe Israel off the planet. I don't understand how you misconscrewed (intentional misspelling) the things I said. Obama is being played like a puppet. He loves Islam and is giving them everything they want. If Obama was smart, he would approve the Keystone Pipeline, and find ways to increase fracking. We need to get our oil companies and our soldiers out of the middle east.