Reid's priority is amnesty, not jobs
Column: Hamas Loves Obama
Rangel 'raided' PACs for 393G
If there are so many unemployed Britons, why is it so hard to find one to do a job?
Stopped at the altar, Nigerian groom and his gay rent-a-bride
Ireland fights to stave off £77 billion bail-out
Police seize £143 million of cocaine in international operation
Australian politician claims Britain is 'overrun with immigrants and refugees’
Warning over anti-virus cold calls to UK internet users
Monday, 15 November 2010
News...........
TSA molesters...............from Rico
This is too much like life imitating 'art.'
I'm told there was once a running cartoon in a popular men's magazine entitled "Chester the Molester."
- Maybe you'll recall it.
Maybe you are also aware that Obama-Soetoro's Head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Janet Napolitano, a few years back declared American veterans (especially combat veterans) a terrorist threat and issued a bulletin to national law enforcement agencies to that effect. Not that she is in favor of 'profiling' mind you: if you are a Middle-eastern-looking young male, you are NOT profiled and are instead given a free upgrade to the seat nearest the cockpit; if you are an average, typical, white Iowan Grandmother...you get strip-searched before boarding the flight.
- Never mind that she recently made the Homeland 'safer' by appointing two Muslims to high positons in that agency.
- And, since I am still trying to figure THIS one out, never mind that she is the only Lesbian I have ever heard of to have had an abortion. [?]
The latest attempt to make us all 'safer' involves nude (possibly cancer-causing) x-ray body scanners. This should generate a lot of extra revenue for TSA (thousands standing around) since they can 'sell' and/or trade the scans they choose to save.....having already lied about NOT saving scans.
Until road-blocks are established, I have decided that late departure-late arrivals were already annoying enough, but having my genitals revenge-groped by a fugly male TSA moron because I 'opted out' of the scan just isn't appealing to me (as it might be to any number of Nancy Pelosi's constituents in Fran San Sicko). Knowing the Gov't is involved, I understand that the likelihood of a Monica Belluci doing the job is just not an option, even with a Fist-class ticket! I will drive in future, and avoid ALL air travel. The minimum wage, low IQ, hobby cop, perverts that they are have convinced me it's simply not worth it.
- I bet a lot of folks will feel the same way. Just what a struggling economy and travel industy 'need' right now is a travel boycott caused by the Groperment!
In case you missed it, I have obtained a cover-sheet of a new publication DHS Janet-from-another-planet and her TSA are currently printing.
Some of you wanted HOPE and CHANGE? This is what you get for being too 'dim' to ask what exactly was meant by that.
WARNING ! ! ! THIS IS NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT ! ! !
This was from a parade in La Grange, Texas .
Hope you city folks know what they are sitting in or it won't be funny to you . . .
(It's a MANURE SPREADER) !
THE STATE FAIR
We went to the State Fair and one of the first exhibits we stopped at was the breeding bulls. We went up to the first pen and there was a sign attached that said, "THIS BULL MATED 50 TIMES LAST YEAR"
My wife playfully nudged me in the ribs, smiled and said, "He mated 50 times last year."
We walked to the second pen which had a sign attached that said, "THIS BULL MATED 150 TIMES LAST YEAR"
My wife gave me a healthy jab and said, "WOW! That's more than TWICE A WEEK ! ! ! . . . . You could learn a lot from him!"
We walked to the third pen and it had a sign attached that said, in capital letters, "THIS BULL MATED 365 TIMES LAST YEAR"
My wife was so excited that her elbow nearly broke my ribs, and she said, "That's ONCE A DAY ! ! ! You could REALLY learn something from this one."
I looked at her and said, "Go over and ask him if it was with the same old cow every time."
My condition has been upgraded from critical to stable, and I should eventually make a full recovery.
China Challenges United States for Aerospace Leadership
Cross-posted from American Power.
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I mentioned earlier some of my quibbles with Professor Joseph Nye on the likelihood of continued American preponderance. Actually, my quibbles are even smaller than quibbles, if quibbles can be quantified. Mostly, our massive fiscal deficits are upsetting, and I'm hoping to have something to say on "American Profligacy and American Power," by Roger Altman and Richard Haass. But I have to admit I was caught off guard by this report at LAT, "China to Unveil Its Own Large Jetliner":
China is aiming to reshape the global aviation industry with a home-grown jetliner, a direct challenge to the supremacy of Boeing and Airbus, the world's only manufacturers of large commercial aircraft.Actually, we've dealt with such scenarios before, when Americans were concerned with growing Japanese industrial competitiveness in the late-1980s (see, "Beyond Mutual Recrimination: Building a Solid U.S.-Japan Relationship in the. 1990s," and "Do Relative Gains Matter? America's Response to Japanese Industrial Policy"). Back then, the U.S. response was to place export controls on sensitive industrial sectors, especially in aerospace. I can't imagine in just twenty years that kind of realpolitik in economic policy (neo-mercantilism) has been completely repudiated at the top levels of strategic planning. Perhaps Japan was more brazenly competitive, or China's more stealthy now. Either way, concerns for relative gains contributed to restrictions on sensitive technologies, and limits on private sector exports and cooperation in strategic technologies.
The communist government has staked billions of dollars and national pride on the effort. What may surprise some Americans worried about slipping U.S. competitiveness is that some well-known U.S. companies are aiding China in its quest.
That partnership will be on display next week at an air show in southern China with the unveiling of a full-scale mockup of the C919. Slated for production by 2016, the 156-seat, single-aisle passenger plane would have its fuselage emblazoned with Comac, short for the state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China. But inside, the most crucial systems would bear the trademarks of some of the biggest names in Western aviation.
Honeywell International Inc. will supply power units, on-board computing systems, wheels and brakes; Rockwell Collins Inc. will handle navigation systems; GE Aviation is building the avionics; Eaton Corp. is involved with fuel and hydraulics; and Parker Aerospace of Irvine is responsible for flight controls. Powering the aircraft will be two fuel-efficient engines built by CFM International, a company co-owned by GE and French conglomerate Safran.
Global supply chains are common in the aviation industry: Chicago-based Boeing and Europe's Airbus rely on parts makers and assembly operations around the world. But China isn't content just to buy sophisticated gear for the C919; the government has required foreign suppliers to set up joint ventures with Chinese companies.
That has put U.S. and European suppliers in a tough spot: Be willing to hand over advanced technology to Chinese firms that could one day be rivals or miss out on what's likely to be the biggest aviation bonanza of the next half a century. Honeywell alone has snagged contracts worth more than $11 billion for the project.
"You're faced with either being part of it or not," said Billy Lay, a Dubai-based partner at PRTM, an international consulting firm with expertise in aerospace. "I don't know what the alternatives are."
Maybe we're complacent. But we're still on top, at least for now. See, "Asia and Europe Giving U.S. Science a Run for the Money":
I'll be back to this topic soon. President Obama was just in the news last week with the statement that America's best days were behind us: "Obama Acknowledges Decline of U.S. Dominance." The president is post-American anyway, but the matter's worth paying attention to. As noted, I'm mostly with Joseph Nye above. But extreme levels of deficit and debt, and now with new signs of threatening international economic competition, look to be putting tremendous pressure on the continuation of American world leadership.The United States still leads the world with its scientific clout, armed with highly respected universities and a big war chest of funding, but Europe and Asia are catching up, according to a Thomson Reuters report released on Friday.
The U.S. emphasis on biological and medical sciences leaves the fields of physical sciences and engineering open to the competition, the report finds.
"The United States is no longer the Colossus of Science, dominating the research landscape in its production of scientific papers, that it was 30 years ago," the report reads.
"It now shares this realm, on an increasingly equal basis, with the EU27 (the 27 European Union members) and Asia-Pacific," adds the report, available at http://researchanalytics.thomsonreuters.com/grr/.
More later ...
Sunday, 14 November 2010
Top Oxymorons............
45. Act naturally
44. Found missing
43. Resident alien
42. Advanced BASIC
41. Genuine imitation
40. Airline Food
39. Good grief
38. Same difference
37. Almost exactly
36. Government organization
35. Sanitary landfill
34. Alone together
33. Legally drunk
32. Silent scream
31. Living dead
30. Small crowd
29. Business ethics
28. Soft rock
27. Butt Head
26. Military Intelligence
25. Software documentation
24. New classic
23. Sweet sorrow
22. Childproof
21. “Now, then …”
20. Synthetic natural gas
19. Passive aggression
18. Taped live
17. Clearly misunderstood
16. Peace force
15. Extinct Life
14. Temporary tax increase
13. Computer jock
12. Plastic glasses
11. Terribly pleased
10. Computer security
9. Political science
8. Tight slacks
7. Definite maybe
6. Pretty ugly
5. Twelve-ounce pound cake
4. Diet ice cream
3. Working vacation
2. Exact estimate
1. Microsoft Works
H/T Shelly
USMC Quote of the Day............from Rico
I will always love our Marines.
I will never forget the lesson to ALWAYS listen to the Gunny.
- You cannot always do what he advises, but you can be certain tht an inordinate amount of blood will be shed when you do not.
A 'shout-out' to der Teufel Hunden (the Devil Dogs).....Oooooooo-RAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
"When I joined the military it was illegal to be homosexual, then it became optional. I'm getting out before Obama makes it mandatory." -GySgt Harry Berres, USMC
The Sunday Best........
Your Tax Dollars At Prayer: The "Oldest Hate" in one of Canada's oldest Mosques
More Election Shenanigans
Taxpayer Dollars Fund Luxury Detention Centers for Illegal Immigrants
CAIR tells Muslims how to limit TSA inspection
Obama's Gifts to the GOP
China: 64.5-million Homes Register No Electricity Use?
EU demands new tax raid against Britain
Alternate Explanation for Google's Veterans Day Logo
Britain's top soldier says al-Qaeda cannot be beaten
The climate change scare is dying, but do our MPs notice?
How the Tea Party is brewing up trouble for the world’s currencies
Sacrifices past and present
Prince William: I am humbled by respect for Armed Forces
Dutch soldiers accused of blowing up their own vehicle
The Decider returns to haunt Mr Nuance as George W. Bush eclipses Barack Obama
Gaza aide ship captain "went mental"
Circumcision Ban May End Up on S.F. Ballot
Rethinking Palestinian Aid
and finally...........
Remembrance Day: Where they fell
"Reform" I could have done without..........from Rico
Does anyone 'remember' how, when "Health Care Reform" was rammed up.....er, down our throats, we were told this 'reform' would not increase, but rather decrease the costs of health care? Hahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahaaa!! [I just LOVE the way these clowns say the opposite of what they mean, and of what is really going on! Think of Obama-Soetoro's "no tax increases if I am elected" April 15th next! ]
I'm one of the 'lucky' ones. I have health insurance. My 2011 premium is ONLY increasing by 20%. I can always HOPE they drop me so I can get some of this "free" stuff instead of having to pay for it.
- Bloody good thing we currently have no inflation to contend with, so we don't need more money to EAT or drive our cars/heat our homes. At least according to the 'offishul' government numbers, but I never seem to see any 'offishuls' when I am at the fuel pump or in line to pay for my groceries. Damned odd, that.
Oh, yay.
- Thanks for THIS reform you lying-thieving Democrat rat-bastids!!!!!! Whaever would we DO without them and Obama-Reid-Pelosi? I cannot wait to find out.
Saturday, 13 November 2010
One and Done? WaPo Columnists Call for Obama to Step Aside
Cross-posted from American Power: "Obama 'Has Largely Lost the Consent of the Governed'."
*****
I don't take these calls all that seriously, mainly because I don't believe that Obama's a cut-and-run president, and while I disagree with him profoundly, that's a good quality to have. He just needs to find a new tack, perhaps become more humble, and more attuned to a centrist style that's genuinely appreciated by Republicans. I don't know if there's a way for that after two years of thinking you know what's best for the country and screw everyone else, but if Bill Clinton showed us anything in 1994 it's that you can be a colossal screw up and still be reelected to a second term. And folks shouldn't get me wrong --- I want Obama to fail, the way Rush Limbaugh wants Obama to fail. It's just that there's no office like the presidency, an institution that's an engine of history. Announcing he'd not seek reelection in 2012 would make him even weaker than is now. He'd be transformed into a lame duck immediately, instead of after 2013 or so, after he'd expended his capital from reelection to a second term. And for what? Lyndon Johnson got a shellacking in the 1968 Democratic primaries. He stepped aside to "devote full attention" to the war in Vietnam. The president who signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is rarely referred to as one of the nation's greatest presidents. Obama not only wants to be remembered as the first black president. He wants to be remembered as the black Lincoln. That's probably out of reach, but he won't even be the black Truman if he announces he won't seek a second term.
Read the rest at American Power: "Obama 'Has Largely Lost the Consent of the Governed'."
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