All signs point to........me.

Every now and then I prove how inept I can be. My last post was one of those times, when I tried to use two different microphones on an audio clip. I read about how to do this using an embedded computer program to adjust the 2 different feeds into one file. My thought process ( if you can call it that ) was that if I stripped the wires back on both microphones, bugged them together into one USB connector it would be like one microphone - you know a parallel connection. Well Barb talked me out of that idea because the one headset with microphone I use was really expensive and if I wanted to ruin something I should get a cheaper headset. Now with a cheaper headset I could use both headsets with microphones, plug them into different USB ports and use the computer program to adjust the levels and away we go. It really looked good on the voice level monitors in the program and I adjusted and adjusted and adjusted until the play back sounded pretty good on the headset I was using. The results of all that monkeying around were terrible when I posted the audio file. I have since tried my idea using a USB expansion plug ( essentially a parallel connection ) and the program still splits the signals and the quality really sucks.

I really think getting Barbs opinion on these posts from a first person stand point is a good idea, after all a man is only as good as the woman who stands with him and I've got a really good one. As long as she is willing to do this I will try other things to get this to work. This latest post is with a shared microphone and there is about 2 minutes of video on chicken waters at the beginning. You can check it out by clicking on this link http://youtu.be/6F-nPP_G2fs

Economic Anomaly.

I've been having some real issues with my forecasting model on the economics front. I've always been sure of how things play out for my chosen path in life. Now I am not so sure. I think I have found the problem and my own stupidity has a lot to do with it. Here is a short audio to explain.

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Happy Easter

I hope everyone has a Happy Easter and stays mindful of the reason for the celebration.

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I Guess I Should Know Better.

I guess I should know better than to make remarks and not back them up. So here is the explanation of  how we have destroyed the world monetary system and how this president has devalued the dollar to the point of losing the reserve currency status.

We had a market collapse in real estate caused by greedy bankers and corrupt politicians that allowed them to get away with it. We lost 40% of our wealth but instead of dealing with the resulting deflation by getting behind a national leader that knew something we elected a political novice, almost any other candidate would have done the right thing in dealing with the ensuing market crash. The Fed had to supply dollars to prop up deflating asset values and a monetary stimulus to prevent a depression was on auto pilot. The problem was the actions this new Chief Executive took when spending the stimulus money. Instead of breaking up the big banks that caused the crash he bailed them out, calling them too big to fail. At this point we entered into a depression - in all fairness we would have had the depression either way but it would have been over long ago if he had invested our money into infrastructure instead of fantasy and taken control of the sub prime mortgages and derivatives and sold them off after the now smaller banks minus their executive officers, stabilized. Instead of bailing out a private auto maker and literally giving it to the unions, let the market take it's course. It would have been bad economically for a year or two but the problems would have been solved. Instead we have ended up owning the bad mortgages anyway through quantitative easing, are way far in debt and the banks are going to fail anyway because they are still doing the things that got us in this mess in the first place. What I am saying is that because we have elected a guy who has no clue - twice - all we have done is spend a whole lot of money we didn't have to make the problem worse. I guess a miracle could happen and we only go through a short deflationary period when the stock market corrects and the real estate bubble collapses again, then hyper inflation when the dollar collapses because of all the money printing but that would truly be a miracle. I am afraid we are in for much worse. This administration has mismanaged every aspect of our government so badly that what we have experienced the last 5 years will soon be called the good old days. The Fed has printed so much money and devalued our dollar so much that the entire world has had to do the same to their currencies in order to trade with us and remain competitive in a world dominated by the dollar. The only thing we export these days is inflation. This lunacy has gone on for so long that other nations are now forming their own trade groups to circumvent the dollar. This administrations insistence on imposing sanctions at every turn instead of doing what we are legally bound to do is nails in the coffin of the US dollar as the world reserve currency forcing trade alliances to get away from our influence. Several years ago this administration signed onto an agreement with the International Monetary Fund to replace the dollar with the SDR for reserve currency status but I suppose no one has heard about that. 22 new taxes in Obamacare, 442 new taxes in the last 5 years. It's too late to start paying attention now - the cards have already been dealt, we're all in with a busted flush.

It really is a sad day when an old redneck like me can figure out that what we are doing is unsustainable - the real question is how long can these greedy little bastards drag it out before it all falls apart and how much can they extract from us legally before they confiscate everything.