Saturday, 26 February 2011
WoW Council
Honorable Mentions
- Wolf Howling – Marx & The Communist Manifesto, From Feb. 21, 1848 To Today
- Abu Muqawama - What We Are Reading (And What We Are Not Reading (Updated)
- Center for Security Policy - Regime Change in Libya
Council Winners
- *First place with 3 1/3 votes! – Bookworm Room--Thoughts about the Wisconsin teachers’ union
- Second place with 2 2/3 votes – The Colossus of Rhodey-Students — see the world and keep your head on straight
- third place with 2 votes – Rhymes With Right – A Texas Teacher Looks At Wisconsin
- Fourth place with 1 vote – Joshuapundit – Supporting regime Change In Libya: A Powerful opportunity
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -The Glittering Eye- Fallacies of Composition
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD- Black Veil Brides
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -The Political Commentator- “The Ground Zero Mosque – Second Wave of the 911 Attacks” premiers in New York
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Simply Jews- And your candidate for the Senate is…
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -VA Right- Is Tim Kaine Instigating Wildcat Strikes in Wisconsin?
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – Snapped Shot – Mourning A Man named Jihad
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – Right Truth – Saif al-Islam Qaddafi: Moammar 2.0
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Razor – Let’s Chant: The Future of the Middle East is Impossible to Predict
Non-Council Winners
- First place with 2 1/3 votes! – Pajamas Media/Zombie- Death Channels submitted byBookworm Room
- Second place *t* with 2 votes – Ann Althouse – Madison schools close for the day to allow teachers to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s union-busting budget plan submitted byThe Glittering Eye
- Second place *t* with 2 votes – The Volokh Conspiracy – Words You Can’t Say At The Pentagon submitted byThe Watcher
- Third Place *t* with 1 1/3 votes –Michael Totten – In The Land Of The Brother Leader submitted by Joshuapundit
- Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes -The Hoover Institution -The Persistence of Genocide submitted by the Colossus of Rhodey
- Fourth place *t* with 1 vote -TF Stern’s Rantings -Public Servants and Unions submitted by Rhymes With Right
- Fourth place *t* with 1 vote -Small Wars Journal -The Wrong War: An Interview with Bing West submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- Fourth place *t* with 1 vote -Sultan Knish -5 Reasons Why the Christie Presidential Express is Premature submitted by Right Truth
- Fifth place with 2/3 vote -Isi Leibler – Avoiding Euphoria Over Obama submitted by Simply Jews
- Sixth place with 1/3 vote -Jane Jamison/Uncoverage – Prosecute the Wisconsin Doctors and Teachers Who Colluded on “Sick” Passes submitted by VA Right
THE SAGA OF THE MERCENARY SOLDIER, PART II
Mercenaries are in the headlines again; Qaddafi's personal foreign legion are basically a pack of thugs from Zimbabwe.
Suspected African mercenaries stand in a room in a court in Benghazi as they are held by anti-Qaddafi protesters, February 24, 2011
. . . they are heathen savages, capable of the most horrific atrocities. To call them barbarians is an insult to all barbarians everywhere . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . STORMBRINGER
Iraq: Where's The Gratitude?............by Dan Friedman
The WSJ reports that now Iraq has joined the Arab uprising sweeping the Middle East. That’s right, the people we fought and died for in order to give them a democracy are using their democracy to rise up against it. In turn, Iraq’s democratic” government is employing many of the same repressive techniques that we’ve seen in Libya, Egypt and Iran. The whole thing is almost too much irony for my system to stand. df
Iraqi Crowds Air Grievances
News...........
Arizona Lawmakers May Make Colt Official State Gun
Letter from Kabul: The Afghan Bank Heist
Boeing Wins U.S. Air Force Tanker Battle
Zumba banned after Oz Education Department building shakes violently
Ivory Coast close to civil war
High risk banks likely to fail in US
Average Wall Street bonus falls to $128,530
Predicting the next regime to topple
Now, a password for your vehicle
Wealthiest presidents: Father George, JFK, TR
Forces tech their toll on Taliban
Dunkirk? No, it's more like Carry On Follow That Camel
The foolish cuts that leave us defenceless
British forces would struggle to mount small military intervention, claim officers
Exposed: Gaddaffi Inc.
Russian jailed for selling fighter jets for £3
Russia to build Bangladesh's first nuclear plant
Oppression in Libya: A Peek at the Inner Workings of Gadhafi's Dictatorship
Al-Qaida's Embarrassment: Revolutions Mark Setback for Terror Group
IAEA reports new intelligence on Iranian nuclear weapon
and finally..........
Breasts and Legs: Duck and Goose cooking
Who owns "US?"..............from Rico
WHO owns US debt today?
Congratulations! The privately-owned foreign banking entity a.k.a. "The FED" apparently does, having surpassed China...handily...by achieving ownership of US Treasurys 37% greater than China! Huzzah!
Now, there are very few things that the FED really has direct control over, and the one certain thing you can point to is our Adjusted Monetary Base. This is what it looks like today. Fugly! Almost as fugly as the FED's Balance Sheet.
Let's return to my original question, just from a different prespective. Ask NOT who owns US debt, but who now owns "us" (we the people)?
Friday, 25 February 2011
The Missing Ingredient in Obama’s Witches’ Brew.........by Dan Friedman
I am not one who subscribes to the theory that Obama is creating crises in order to manipulate them. For one thing, Obama is not that smart. And more important, the theory is in the realm of the occult, impossible to prove. And if it’s impossible to prove it’s a diversion and a waste of time - especially when Obama serves up blatant debacles every day that are visible to the naked eye.
Here’s one that’s in the queue working its way to the front of the line now: Hezbollah and/or Hamas start a war with Israel. When you come to think of it, the timing couldn’t be better. The imaginary “peace process” has been sent to the hospice and the Arabs have been unable to gain an inch of Jewish ground. Normally, this in itself should create enough anger for Iran’s proxies to abandon restraint and lose their self-control. But when you add the chaos already in the background and Obama’s clear message that he’s still on the Arab side of the Israeli-Arab conflict, then you’ve created an opportunity that’s too good for Israel’s enemies in Gaza and Lebanon to pass up.
I predicted that the last two years of Obama’s first term would see his mistakes abroad eclipse our concerns about how he is screwing up at home. I’m off to good start. My fervent wish is that the Tea Party will notice, then broaden their myopic agenda to include the mess Obama is making of our “foreign entanglements.”
