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Barnhardt Estate Sale: 3 More Spoons

Many, many thanks to the Australian chap who bought the glass firebowl last night. He wanted to pay exactly $732 for it in homage to Charles the Hammer, but $610 was the bid. The market has spoken.

I can’t get the “buy-it-now” fixed-price listings up tonight because as a new seller on Ebay, I have to call tomorrow and be enabled for that.

BUT, I have three more spoons up in an open auction format, and yes, everything comes with a signed thank-you note.

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Pic of Epiphany Blessing, By Request

Taken about 90 seconds ago, my front door, with Epiphany Blessing. HOA fine: $50 per month. And there is NO WAY IN HECK I am removing it. NO. WAY.

Exit question: Could this be construed as a Jizya Tax, much less a blatant violation of the First Amendment’s Free Exercise clause? Discuss.

Yes or No?

Michael Voris has hit the nail on the head and has come up with a question of extreme simplicity that will allow anyone to instantly discern the orthodoxy of any clergy, religious or layperson. The question is:

“Do you desire that everyone in the world be Catholic? Yes or no.”

If the answer you get is anything other than an instantaneous, emphatic, and unqualified YES, then there is a massive, massive problem and all future dealings with that person should be addressed and parsed with the full knowledge that the person is NOT properly catechized at best, or a heretic or apostate at worst.

No matter who it is.

NO.
MATTER.
WHO.
IT.
IS.

I would encourage one and all to start asking this question. Frequently.

Spes Unica.

Spoon Auction Result

I’ll be brief as it feels very crass to even discuss this after today’s events, but the auction of Wooden Spoon A concluded at $610.00 and payment has already been made.

I am humbled at the generosity and munificence of all of the bidders.

I’ll not put up any auction items tomorrow, again out of a sense respect for the dead, the maimed, and their families, but will add more items later this week.

As you go to bed tonight, think about what plans, dreams and expectations you have, and then imagine those same plans if you suddenly no longer had legs.

That happened to people today.

We are a nation under Judgment. May God have mercy on us, even though we in no way deserve it.

Reposts II: The Econ Presentation

Next, people are asking why I’m not saying much about Cyprus and all of that.

Um, because I already did. Back in November of 2012. I made a 2.5 hour economics presentation that “called” and explained exactly what has and is happening in Cyprus, Europe, and eventually here. And, big props to Karl Denninger and Warren Pollock who were all over these ideas before I was. Warren, in particular, was warning of bank holidays and “bail-ins” two years ago.

Part 3 beginning at the 6:00 mark is where I discuss the sweeping confiscations of bank deposits.

I explain repos and CDS in the context of MF Global, but you can just substitute “Cyprus” for MF Global and it is the exact same thing. Cyprus was basically forced by the Troika (European Commission, European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund) to lever up on Greek junk bonds. The Troika, through various “regulatory” arms were “fake auditing” the Cypriot banks (just as MF Global was being “fake audited” by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Chicago Mercantile exchange) and were valuing the worthless Greek bonds as having essentially full, “par” value. Then, when the Troika wanted to collapse the Cypriot banking industry and begin the process of seizing customer deposits, they did an about face and declared that the Greek paper that the Cypriot banks were holding – at the urging of and enabled by the Troika all along, remember – was worthless. Acknowledging this reality and marking the Cypriot banks’ balance sheets to REALITY is what instantly collapsed the Cypriot banks. So, just making sure you understand, the Troika forced and enabled the Cypriot banks to load up on junk, and then when the Troika olgarchs, led by Obama Chicago crony Christine Legarde, wanted Cyprus dead and the accounts swept, they just dropped the sword of damocles. And, of course, we now know that the Russians and the Continental “elites” were given weeks of warning, and slithered out of the Cypriot banks, mostly via London. It’s basically the mom-and-pop accounts that lost their funds in Cyprus – again, just like MF Global.

Guys, exactly the same condition exists in the U.S. banking system. If the U.S. banks were suddenly forced to mark their mortgages and credit cards to REALITY, and not full par, peak-of-the-bubble values, the entire U.S. banking system would instantly implode. And that doesn’t even take into consideration the hundreds of TRILLIONS of dollars in derivatives on European junk bonds that all of the U.S. banks are holding, too. I lay all of that out in lurid, lurid detail.

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