Saturday, 22 January 2011
Weekend WoW!
Council Winners
- *First place with 2 1/3 votes! – The Noisy Room --The Herding of America – Enlightened Despotism
- Second place *t* with 2 votes – VA Right-As Obama Reaches the Halfway Mark
- Second place *t* with 2 votes – Bookworm Room-Selling atheism — and why it’s a fundamentally nonexistent product at the end of the day
- Third place with 1 vote – Joshuapundit – Palestinians Put The Squeeze On Obama
- Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote -The Razor- The Final lesson of Tucson
- Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote -GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD- Tunisian Squeeze!
- Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote -The Glittering Eye- What Is To Be Done? (Federal)
- Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Rhymes With Right- What A Stupid Poll Question!
- Fifth place with 1/3 vote – Simply Jews – On two kinds of drones
- Fifth place with 1/3 vote – Right Truth – Dark Cloud Over Chris Christie?
- Fifth place with 1/3 vote – Colossus of Rhodey – Speaking of Garbage…
Non-Council Winners
- First place with 3 1/3 votes! – Sense of Events- Seahawks Fall To Climate Of Hate In Chicago submitted by Joshuapundit
- Second place with 2 votes – New Zeal – Mark Rudd Repents Army Targeted Bombs – Now Supports Peaceful Destruction of the Military submitted by The Noisy Room
- Third Place *t* with 1 2/3 vote –Atlas Shrugs – Governor Christie’s Hamas Pick for Superior Judgeship submitted by Bookworm Room
- Third place *t* with 1 2/3 vote –Thought Catalog – 20 Ways To Be Popular At An Expensive Liberal Arts School s submitted by The Watcher
- Fourth place *t* with 2/3 votes -Yaacov Lozowick’s Ruminations -Guardian Regrets Killing of “Palestinian” Man submitted by Simply Jews
- Fourth place *t* with 2/3 votes -Elder of Ziyon -Statistics fun: Freedom House vs. HRW submitted by The Watcher
- Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote -The Political Commentator – I went to a fight, and a State of the Union address broke out! submitted by Rhymes With Right
- Fifth place *t* with 1/3 votes -Day By Day -The Shadow Knows submitted by The Watcher
- Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote -Laigle’s Forum – We Are All Loonies Now submitted by VA Right
- Not Placing - Ink Spots – Is It Time To Reconsider The Taiwan Delusion? submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy launches with a National Reconnaissance Office payload at Space Launch Complex-6 at 1:10 p.m. PST. The Delta IV Heavy is the largest rocket ever launched from the west coast of the United States, standing 235 feet tall and producing nearly two million pounds of thrust at liftoff. The Delta IV Heavy is AmericaÂ’s most powerful liquid-fueled rocket. This was the fifth launch of a Delta IV heavy in program history. (Photo by: Pat Corkery)
H/T Marc
News............
Old Folk's Texting Codes
Obama's Enemies List
Bikini barista says she chased thief onto bus
Israel's Critical Security Needs for a Viable Peace
Jonathan Pollard - ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!
Reclaiming the Constitution (Part 1)
Human Rights Rogues Are UN-fit to Serve
The Perils of Palin
In Pictures: The World's 10 Happiest Countries
Huge Delta rocket flies from Vandenberg, California
Scots Tell London, Hands Off Our Clocks
Alien Hand Syndrome sees woman attacked by her own hand
Egypt clerics condemn suicide as un-Islamic after recent spate
18 Common Work E-mail Mistakes
Dying star Betelgeuse won't explode in 2012
Ron Paul keeps eye on 2012 White House bid
First PC virus created in Pakistan
The Arctic freeze leaves behind TWO MILLION potholes
Left-wing bias? It's written through the BBC's very DNA
Champion rooster slashes its owner's throat for being asked to fight once too often
South Korean commando raid kills eight Somali pirates
One quarter of names on Zimbabwe electoral role are dead
Stuxnet: Cyber attack on Iran 'was carried out by Western powers and Israel'
Islamist movement at forefront of Tunisia's protests
Baby Doc was in Haiti 'trying to unlock Swiss bank accounts'
and finally........
A Little Shack In Paradise Is All That You May Need
Brisbane floods: before and after
Olbermann Out at MSNBC
Was he fired?
No confirmation yet, but check for updates: "Keith Olbermann Quits Countdown — The Left's Chickens Coming Home to Roost?"
Giffords Smiled Inside Ambulance as She Heard Applause During Dramatic Send-Off
Here's the video from the presss conference:
PREVIOUSLY: "Doctors in Houston Report Gabrielle Giffords Aware of Surroundings."
Cross-posted from American Power.
Friday, 21 January 2011
Transcript of Glenn Beck's 'Shoot Them in the Head' Comments
Part of the initial explanation for leftist's jumping the gun (metaphor) on the news of the Tucson shooting is that the Democrat-Socialists have been so thoroughly repudiated at the polls. Daniel Henninger argued at the Wall Street Journal that last November "was no ordinary election. What voters did has the potential to change the content and direction of the U.S. political system, possibly for a generation."
This reality will be the driving fact of life in politics over the next couple of years, and as William Jacobson pointed out --- and Rush Limbaugh reiterated on the air --- we now have a foretaste of the kinds of progressive delegitimation campaigns that will be deployed for Obama's reelection efforts. And recall, a majority of Democrats continue to believe that Sarah Palin was at least partially responsible for the shooting. So it pays to remember that the left is working on a program of lies, disinformation, and propaganda.
The latest example is the next iteration of the left's campaign to destroy Glenn Beck. Patterico decimated Charles Johnson's anti-Beck smears yesterday, "No, Charles Johnson, Glenn Beck Did Not Tell His Viewers to Shoot Anyone in the Head." But the story's still trending at Memeorandum. And even though the full transcript proves that Beck's segment was pure commentary on the left's neo-communism --- and the buyer's remorse of the Democrats' progressive base --- dishonest leftist bloggers continue to allege that right-wing rhetoric is causing outbreaks of violence. But a simple perusal of the transcript reveals perfectly that Beck was warning elected Democrats that the violent progressive proletariat had them in the crosshairs:
I want to warn you now, Democrats, your party is over. And I don't mean — all tea parties and Republicans are going to beat you in November. I mean the Democrats, as we used to know them, the Democrats that were in my family growing up, are over.I'm going to show you the civil war, the video evidence in the civil war in the Democratic Party that's happening right now. And no one in the media is exposing it. And it is dangerous, what is happening.
The radicals have infected the party. They have been brought in by politicians who don't really care about anything. They just want to win. They've been tolerating the revolutionaries — the Democrats have.
But more importantly, the revolutionaries have been tolerating those politicians. For the moment, the radical fringe of the party is now. Just today, Van Jones was speaking at America's Future Now conference.
He is speaking to a group of progressives. I find this extraordinarily disturbing, because I believe this man is sending a message. Listen.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
VAN JONES, FORMER WHITE HOUSE ADVISER FOR GREEN JOBS: I think that when we look back to the history of the Obama administration and look back at the history of our progressive movement, that this week will mark a historic inflection point when progressives decided to be progressive again in this country. I think something shifted this week.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BECK: Yes, it has. It has. This is an ominous statement coming from a revolutionary. Please go to GlennBeck.com and look up "STORM: Reclaiming Revolution." This is his organization. He is in this. From a revolutionary.
I'm sorry but when did the Obama administration not be progressive? Excuse me? They were normal? We have seen progressives. We haven't seen the actual spooky progressives yet. I think you are about to. Something has changed this week. He's right.
But what the politicians don't understand, the ones who have co-opted these revolutionaries and brought them in the process, is they are dangerous. Why? Why? Well, because a lot of them have called for violent revolution in the past and they never distanced themselves from it.
You cannot co-opt and lie to people who believe in something. Why is Ahmadinejad dangerous? Well, because he says he wants to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth, OK? The press and the politicians — "Oh, he's just saying that."
Why do they say that? Because nobody in the press and nobody in Washington actually believes a damn thing, except their own image. That's it. This man is a twelver. Look it up. Do you know what it is? It's a revolutionary so dangerous that the Ayatollah Khomeini banned twelvers.
OK. Here's the Ayatollah Khomeini, who is a revolutionary — he says stay away from these guys. They're spooky. He didn't co-opt them because he understood they believed in the 12th Imam coming back, and the way to bring the 12th Imam back is wash the world in blood.
There are politicians like the Ayatollah Khomeini who will do revolution for power. And then there are people like this who are mad men. I never thought I'd say we better learn something from the Ayatollah Khomeini, but here it is.
The media and the politician have all of this wrong. In every single walk of life — you want to know why TV doesn't reflect you? You want to know why Washington doesn't reflect you? Because they don't understand, from the radical revolutionaries to the Islamic extremists — and yes, DOJ, they do exist — to the Tea Party movements.
Just because you in Washington and you who are so out of touch with life in the media, just because you don't believe in anything doesn't mean nobody else does. We do. You know why you're confused by this show? It's because I believe in something. You don't.
Tea parties believe in small government. We believe in returning to the principles of our Founding Fathers. We respect them. We revere them. Shoot me in the head before I stop talking about the Founders. Shoot me in the head if you try to change our government.
I will stand against you and so will millions of others. We believe in something. You in the media and most in Washington don't. The radicals that you and Washington have co-opted and brought in wearing sheep's clothing — change the pose. You will get the ends.
You've been using them? They believe in communism. They believe and have called for a revolution. You're going to have to shoot them in the head. But warning, they may shoot you.
They are dangerous because they believe. Karl Marx is their George Washington. You will never change their mind. And if they feel you have lied to them — they're revolutionaries. Nancy Pelosi, those are the people you should be worried about.
Here is my advice when you're dealing with people who believe in something that strongly — you take them seriously. You listen to their words and you believe that they will follow up with what they say.
Didn't we learn that lesson from Usama bin Laden? I heard his warning in 1998. I said on the air at the time, listen to him. We didn't listen. We didn't listen to the revolutionaries in Germany, the revolutionaries in Russia or Venezuela or Cuba — no, no, no. They all have one thing in common. They have all called for revolution.
They want to overthrow our entire system of government, and their words say it. Why won't you believe it?
The passage at the video is highlighted in bold italics at the fifth paragraph from the end of the blockquote.
Glenn Beck isn't inciting violence. He's warning, quite powerfully, of the growing and potentially violent unrest that's brewing among the announced revolutionaries of the progressive base.
Cross-posted from American Power.
Video: How to blow up a frozen lake
Here is 150 kg exlosives blown up to make a hole from the lake at 410 m. over sea level to a tunnel leading to a Hydro powerstation at sea level.
H/Ts JMH & Marc
News.........
NTM-I DCOM visits Iraqi Air Force College
Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Jan 20th
Sharia Law Gains Foothold in US—Federal Judge Upholds Government Funding of Islam
Climate change study had 'significant error': experts
Concerns Raised About Combat Troops Using Psychotropic Drugs
A Nation of Wimps
Supreme Court Upholds Intrusive Government Background Checks
Tucson restaurant to offer African lion tacos
Hackers steal 2 million tonnes of EU carbon credits
Here Comes $4 Gas, $5 Cups of Coffee
IMF investigates strength of banks in UK and other EU countries
Love bite partially paralyses woman
Looters forklift Ferrari
Water fall: texting woman who stumbled into mall fountain threatens to sue
The World is sinking: Dubai islands 'falling into the sea'
George Lucas says world will end in 2012
FBI arrests 127 'mobsters' in biggest ever crackdown in New York
Why do Aussies not give a XXXX for beer anymore?
The Spectre of Inflation: Rising Prices Lurk in Europe's Immediate Future
and finally........
Top Gear US: why I hate the presenters already by little Jimmy May
Dependence Day.............from Rico
I read this yesterday (Mark Steyn is one of the few who make any sense to me these days) and decided to watch the old film "Zulu" and chew this over...
I conclude that the end of the Anglosphere is not something to desire or look forward to.
- No, not because of the film ref'd infra...but because human history is what it is, and the reversion to the mean from the idealistic heights of liberty will result in massive human misery and slavery.
Mark squarely hits the nail on the head here, as did YOU by noting it's significance and import. What WOULD the world look like today if Canada instead of China or Fwance had taken a seat on the UN [read: today's Useless Nitwits] Security Council instead?
U.S. Army soldiers Spc. Jamus Grandstrom of Reading, Pa., (right) and Spc. Daniel Collazo of Newport News, Va., both assigned to 4th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, wire communications equipment from a sandbag bunker in the Daymirdad District Center, Wardak province, Jan. 9. (Photo by U.S. Army Sgt. Sean P. Casey, 982nd Combat Camera)
H/T Marc
Thursday, 20 January 2011
Retirement? Meet Reality...................from Rico
Retirement? I'd like to introduce you to Reality.
The median amount in American IRA's (Individual Retirement Accounts) according to the BLS (see chart) is $2,000.
- No big surprise since half of Americans earn $25,000 per year (or less). Many look at Social Security as their 'retirement account.' BIG mistake, but that's an economic rant for another time (the one about how Congress spent all the Soc.Sec. cash and left a pile of IOU's to itself instead. [Hint: don't try this at home!]).
REALITY? Even more dismal than the above: 1 in 3 have ZERO savings.
Gee, it's sure a good thing there is NO inflation (well, according to the Government...the rest of us that need energy and food HAVE TO PAY FOR SAME unlike the tax-spenders who have us to pay their way)!!!!!
Blood Libels a Dime a Dozen............by Dan Friedman
'I have no problem with Sarah Palin’s use of “blood libel.” The cockamie idea concocted by the Left that an image or an expression Palin used could have inspired the massacre in Tucson certainly fits the description. But I don’t know about you, a blood libel is just not the same unless Jews are the target accused.
So for blood libel purists out there, here’s a classic – the real thing – that originated with Israel’s “peace partner” and was shot out of the water debunked by the IDF.'
It's Proven: Bilin Woman Died of Overdose, not IDF Gas
Quote of the Day..........
'Most of Gateshead council's staff are as bright as a blackout.' found in a Council Tax forum
