Saturday, 1 August 2009
Comes the Joker
"Liberals" are almost always the people who believe in hugging trees, saving whales, and no more war. At the same time, they don't seem very inclined to engage in actual thinking. It's so easy to be nice; so hard to be real. That's a "liberal." And now the price of nice: Power in this country goes to the faceless cyphers who produce the best ads. The name out front is a soup can, not a man. We are consumers, not citizens.
Yes, I Know.
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V-22 OSPREY
"Yesterday I watched eight of these babies land at Camp MacKall Airfield, NC - it was like a scene out of a science fiction movie . . ."
V-22 Osprey facts explained and myths debunked with video footage at STORMBRINGER
Body Language....
Obama's revealing body language
H/Ts Hamden & Shelly
also Michelle Obama's toxic veggie nightmare:
In absentia, in memorium.......from Rico
When I am not busy 'missing' the America I remember so well, knew and loved so unreservedly, I do often take the time to 'miss' that noble old lion Britain...as it ONCE was. Sigh.
Both now seemingly 'gone' (ref. the in absentia, in memorium subj. line).
Damn and blast the communists-socialists!
YOU! All free men!
Bloodied and out of ammunition, but unbowed?...form a square and fix bayonets!
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The Marine Drill Sergeant noticed a new recruit and barked at him, 'Get your rear over here !
What's your name?"
"Paul," the new recruit replied.
"Look, I don't know what kind of bleeding-heart pansy wansy they're teaching in boot camp today, but I don't call anyone by his first name," the sergeant scowled. "It breeds familiarity, and that leads to a breakdown in authority. I refer to my recruits by their last names only --- Smith, Jones, Baker. I am to be referred to only as 'Sergeant.' Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes, sir, Sergeant!"
"Now that we've got that straight, what's your last name?"
The recruit sighed "Darling, My name is Paul Darling."
"Okay, Paul, here's what I want you to do ....."
H/T Shelly
Friday, 31 July 2009
NORKORCOM UPDATE
North Korea naval forces seized four South Korean fishermen and their boat Thursday after the fishermen apparently drifted into North Korean waters.
Full report: STORMBRINGER
Boring v Normal......by Toshiba Laptops
To prove how everyday people can achieve extraordinary things, Toshiba decided to bring their laptops to a couple places that needed some excitement for their latest campaign: Boring, Oregon and Normal, Illinois. The Boring vs. Normal campaign from Toshiba, tracks a cast of characters to do everything from start an online business to record music, and lets users vote on which town is more interesting.
Starting today, Monday, July 27, 2009 you can follow the competition and cast your vote at BoringvsNormal.com. Watch as a bit of friendly competition emerges between two seemingly regular towns as they compete to go from “Boring” or “Normal” to exciting.
In connection to the competition, Toshiba has released several videos which gives a playful homage to what we normally find boring and normal.
Larger Than LARP (Boring vs. Normal) from ToshibaLaptops on Vimeo.
MORE HERE
H/T M 80 who have all the contest videos.
Blogpost: The Idiocy Of The Media, Fed And Government
Let's cut the crap here and now and talk macro economics and debt.
I'm going to go back to this chart again: continue reading
H/T Jeff H who writes 'Very simply the easiest explanation for what is going on with the markets, employment and the macro-economy as a whole.
Karl Denninger is very interesting, I recommend his blog as a weekly read...'
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While we've been distracted........from Rico
While everyone has been 'distracted' by the waste of taxpayer time and money on the "Bud Light" PR fiesta, several more important things are looming (more than the ones mentioned here, actually).
The U.S. is having an increasingly difficult time laying-off it's growing debt onto foreign buyers via securities/bond sales. I know you're as surprised as I am. What this potentially means has to be causing somebody sleepless nights.
But it gets even better! If we thought the popping of the housing bubble was jolly great fun, just wait for the coming commercial real estate bust! The Treasury and the Fed are already trying to figure out how to deal with what could be a truly legendary crash coming our way, expecting a $3 trillion dollar bust!
- The deep damage done to the American economy is better reflected by the tanking of demand for office space than the grisly unemployment figures.
Rebel Rising
"A spectre is haunting the world, just as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote in the Communist Manifesto of 1848. This time, however, it is not the spectre of communism but that of neoliberalism. Just as Marx and Engels reported of ‘a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre,’ there is once again an alliance, whether holy or unholy, that has formed to chase the ghost of neoliberalism from the world stage.
"It is a curious alliance that has committed to fighting neoliberalism: Religious leaders and artists, environmental activists and globalisation critics, politicians of the left and the right as well as trade unionists, commentators and academics. They all share a passion to unmask neoliberalism as an inhuman, anti-social, and potentially misanthropic ideology or as a cynical exercise by strangely anonymous forces that wish to exploit the world to their own advantage." Marc Oliver Hartwich, A Ghost Story
As I listen to Rush Limbaugh's CPAC speech, my mind wanders back to the old question: why do so many people with wealth and education vote for a more powerful state? Frederich Hayek knew the answer:
It's about control.
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