Steve's barking at history

History!
The wise guys tell us that we study history so we don't repeat the mistakes of the past.
The really wise guys will tell you that most history is really fiction.
Now I know that Willie Mays had a career batting average of 302 and Mickey Mantle had 299 batting average. Now what kind of mistake will we not repeat by knowing those statistic.
Now I'm assuming that 99 percent of those who study world history will tell you that the free printing of  the German Mark during the Wiemar Republic  caused the greatest inflation known to man. The truth of the mater was the other way around because the German government couldn't buy anything because they owed the rest of the world respiration for World War I. They had no real money and had to print money to pay for the inflated prices of goods and services. The reason I'm bring this up because we think we know history i stating that Europe is going to have high inflation along with high unemployment, the reason is they believed the fiction that is mistaken for history.
We in the United States can't be to smug at the Europeans we believe in fiction for history too.
Lets take the economic history that Paul Volcker stop inflation and ended high unemployment because of his stubbornest.
We seem to forget that the Iran, Iraq War was going on, forcing those two forces to flood the market with oil. We also secretly were selling arms to both sides. These arms were made in the good old US of A.
( I do believe that we are an oil society and the best thing we can do is get oil from a stone).
 My other problem with history is some of the fools who teach it. I don't know about other countries but in this country we have people like Newt Gingrich who either doesn't know much about our history or knows about but twists it for his own twisted purposes. Every times I hear him speak I keep telling myself I didn't learn it that way.
Every time I decide to torture myself and put on Fox news, I hear there commentators talk about history that is more like Grimms fairy tales then history. The only thing I have to say about this predicament is that the word education system is failing the world.



 

     

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Steve's barking about Times Square Bombing

Over this past weekend some fool decided that it would be a good idea to have an explosion in Time Square. Now it's been reported that the bomb was kind of amateurish, but if it had worked which according to news reports would have had a devastating effect killing and maiming many people.It's also been reported that the would be bomber got his training in Pakistan by the Taliban. If I'm understanding this correctly the Pakistan Taliban are amateurish.
 Now we have many heroes in this attempted bombing, but we would have had a even greater hero if some one had stop this would be terrorist when he was getting out of his truck( or what ever it was that he was driving) for if the bomb wasn't a  dud there wouldn't be any heroes. What's with our cameras in the area. Didn't they pick up that something was strange that some dude gets out of his vehicle in the middle of of the crossroad to the world and just leaves it there. I tried to drop my daughter at the port authority and a policeman shooed me on.
 As far as Muslim terrorist are concern, I just don't get it, there actions make it harder for them to convert non-Muslims. Also they are killing devout Muslims at a far greater number then us so called infidels. These so called jihadest seem to care more about the image of a profit then that of Allah (God as we infidels call him). For isn't it a fact that he made man in his own image.





   

Steve's barking run don't walk the US economy

 Here we go again, I'm barking that the economy is going down the tubes just when you hear on the telly that the US economy is going great guns. You hear it that Ford and GM made money this past quarter. (It just goes to show that you don't pay interest nor having to pay bond holders what is do them you too can make money.) US Steel has made more money then it's made in years, that there's a possibility that it may go from being the 5th biggest steel maker to being 4th or maybe even 3rd.
 Now the big bad news the European Union is so damn conservative in there economic out look and there solution the dept crisis is so draconian that Europe will bring a much harsher recession then they faced in 09.
It's kind of like what happened after World War II on Germany. My gut feeling is that the selling to Europe will slow down to a crawl.
 Speaking of a crawl, the BP Gulf oil spill will hurt the fishing industry. The non Gorton fisherman is not going to be able to buy new cars, will have trouble with their mortgages, etc.
 Speaking Of etc New York State will suffer great hardship because of the fur lows to state workers, at least 10,000 workers will default on their mortgages, rent and car payments credit cards ect. Having a ripple effect that will go down the whole economy of New York State. Those state that issued furlows had the smart to do it once a month not once a week. And even then that rate their economies suffered.
 Gee maybe one day we'll learn the lessons of economic history, until that time we will be ruled by economic fools.