Month: April 2014

April 25, 2014 0

Unelected Regime Begins Killing Spree in Eastern Ukraine

By News Desk

The nature of the regime in Kiev is also being papered over by the Western media, covering up the fact that the two main opposition parties that seized power,  Svoboda and “Fatherland,†are in fact led by a collection of Neo-Nazis, bigots, racists, and anti-Semites . In a desperate attempt to cover up this lack of legitimacy, the West has sent many high level officials  including a leading US Senator and the US Vice President to Kiev  to lend both political and material support. The latest visit by Vice President Joseph Biden appears to have been timed specifically to help coordinate a renewed push into eastern Ukraine, after Ukrainian troops surrendered en masse last week – refusing to carry out operations against their fellow countrymen.

April 25, 2014 0

Japan CPI +2.7%; Tale of Two Headlines

By News Desk

The Wall Street Journal reports Japan CPI Rises Less Than Expected . A closely watched Japanese inflation gauge rose a bit less than expected in April, the government said Friday, creating room for possible doubts among Bank of Japan 8301.TO +0.81% policy makers that the recent increase in the domestic sales tax would stoke strong upward price movements

April 24, 2014 0

Eli Finds a Toothpick

By News Desk

Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette Written by Merle Travis and Tex Williams Now I’m a feller with a heart of goldAnd the ways of a gentleman I’ve been toldThe kind of guy that wouldn’t even harm a fleaBut if me and a certain character metThe guy that invented the cigaretteI’d murder that son-of-a-gun in the first degreeIt ain’t cuz I don’t smoke myselfAnd I don’t reckon that it’ll harm your healthSmoked all my life and I ain’t dead yetBut nicotine slaves are all the sameAt a pettin’ party or a poker gameEverything gotta stop while they have a cigaretteSmoke, smoke, smoke that cigarettePuff, puff, puff and if you smoke yourself to deathTell St. Peter at the Golden GateThat you hate to make him waitBut you just gotta have another cigaretteNow in a game of chance the other nightOld Dame Fortune was a-doin’ me rightThe kings and the queens just kept on comin’ roundAnd I got a full and I bet ’em highBut my bluff didn’t work on a certain guyHe just kept on raisin’ and layin’ that money downNow he’d raise me and I’d raise himI sweated blood, gotta sink or swimHe finally called and didn’t even raise the betSo I said "aces full Pops how ’bout you?"He said "I’ll tell you in a minute or twoBut right now, I gotta have me a cigarette"Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarettePuff, puff, puff and if you smoke yourself to deathTell St. Peter at the Golden GateThat you hates to make him waitBut you just gotta have another cigarette(Ah, smoke it! Hah! Yes! Yes! Yes!)The other night I had a dateWith the cutest little girl in the United StatesA high-bred, uptown, fancy little dameShe loved me and it seemed to meThat things were ’bout like they oughta beSo hand in hand we strolled down lover’s laneShe was oh so far from a cake of iceAnd our smoochin’ party was goin’ niceSo help me cats I believe I’d be there yetBut I give her a kiss and a little squeezeAnd she said, "ah, Marty, excuse me pleaseI just gotta have me another, cigarette"And she said, smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarettePuff, puff, puff and if you smoke yourself to deathTell St