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H/T JMH
Wednesday, 1 December 2010
Book of the Day: 'Winged Victory'
At last the book of the Blog has arrived! “Winged Victory, 1940” is a 420 page book with illustrations of planes and people. The cover price is £12.95 plus postage.
Buy the Book!
4th Amendment..........from Rico
Part of das Hopenchange consists of ignoring reality, and 'inconvenient' portions of the US Constitution.
- Second Amendment? The right to protect your life isn't your right, it is a privilege to be granted or taken away by our political uberclass.
- Fourth Amendment? Hahahahahaha....our current regime wiped their asses with that one via an over-reaching bureaucracy laughingly known as TSA. And now TSA wants to unionize. That'll be a great boon to our safety.....just like Detroit's UAW was for GM and Chrysler!
Fixing the economy with TARP, QE-1, and now QE-2. That'll sure work! When QE-2 is through, the U.S. money supply will have tripled in three years! The results? Not good, and they'll get worse.
Fixing our Healthcare system via Obamacare was another idiotic big-gooberment scheme. Yeah, nationalize medical care....that'll work well! Doctors are so thrilled we 'fixed' Medicare with this plan, that they are 'celebrating' not seeing Medicare patients and instead choosing private-paying patients thanks to the Obamacare mechanism reducing medicare payments to physicians 23% effective Dec 1st. Yay!
- Central government solves yet another problem!!!
Obama-Soetoro is well on his way to eclipse James Earl Carter as the absolute worst President evah!!!! This is no small task, mind you:
- After Jimmy Carter nationalized energy policy under the Department of Energy (which was publicly promoted to 'fix' our dependence on foreign energy sources), pretty much ensuring our increased dependence upon foreign oil, he similarly 'fixed' the education system by creating the Department of Education, and our teachers unionized (NEA? anybody...anybody...) the public is now too dumbed-down to even 'know' they have any rights beyond the kollective.
News........
Warmist wishes
Boycott Amazon.com! They're now hosting WikiLeaks
Democrat Response to the Elections: We Just Need More Illegal Voters
Crossing Guard Beaten: Mexifornia
Passengers can bring guns on Amtrak starting in December
Video: Why Keynesian policies fail
Judge Napolitano: It’s hard for me to believe that WTC7 came down by itself
Listening to Obama
The Brink of War: Unstable Pakistan Has US on Edge
Anchor Babies and Demographic War
Rep. Steve King on Pigford Settlement #2: “We’re Not Going to Pay Slavery Reparations”
Could the Marines Get F-35Cs?
Masterplan Fails to Calm Markets: Europe's New Debt Mechanism Has Come too Late for Euro Crisis
Gaddafi demands £4 billion from EU or Europe will turn 'black'
German snowball fight turns violent
Sharp rise in illegal immigrants entering Europe through Greece
Dmitry Medvedev warns of Cold War-style arms race
Gen Petraeus hails Paras for precision attack
US rebukes Egypt for 'flawed' election
Kim Jong-un 'collecting pedigree dogs'
and finally.......
The scout hut GP surgery: Patients treated in 'tin shed' while fully-equipped surgery nearby lies empty
DaleyGator DaleyThought: The Left's deluded definition of equality
PJTV: Shakedown Socialism in America
Google Maps Directions!!
1. Go to Google Maps.
2. Go to "Get Directions."
3. Type "Japan" as start location.
4. Type "China" as end location.
5. Go to direction number 43.
6. Laugh.
H/T Niall
Whose money is it?...........from Rico
There is a recurring theme among ALL Governments. In hillbilly it goes like this: "All your money is belong to us!"
- Or, as our IRS is fond of saying: "Just try not to think of it as YOUR money."
HUNGARY, following ARGENTINA's example, is clawing-back private pension funds into the State system.
IRELAND announced last week that it would use the country's National Pensions Reserve Fund "to support the exchequer's funding programme."
The FRENCH Parliament passed a law last week to use the assets of the FFR (the French Reserve Pension Fund) to pay off the current debts of France's welfare system. These funds have already been transferred into the State's social debt fund.
The U.S. Congress has been discussing ways to nationalise (confiscate) private 401K's and IRA's.
See a pattern here? There is an increasing willingness by insolvent Governments to use your (long term) assets to fill their (short term) deficits.
- If you are looking forward to a State pension (Social Security) you may be disappointed. The State will take care of itself before it will take care of you. You can absolutely trust Government to "mug" you for your money before it does without.
So many politicians, so few lamp posts.....
How London's Airport Copes With Snow
London, England
Could do with these on the North Circular Road! (You need to be a Londoner to understand that one!)
Video courtesy of the BBC
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Video: "Blizzard of AAHs" Opening Credits - Greg Stump
When I was a ski-tech in Canada a while back this was my favorite ski-film. By the way I still have two pairs of Hexcels (including Splittail FR 205s), sadly I have lost my Hanson boots and Allsopp shock absorber poles.
Whack WikiLeaks
William Kristol seconds that emotion.
At the video, Julian Assange's communist enablers at Democracy Now!
And see John Hawkins, "5 Reasons The CIA Should Have Already Killed Julian Assange."
RELATED: "The Classical Liberal: Israel Bashing Paleocon?"
Cross-posted from American Power.
Israel To Send Aid Flotilla To Ireland
Approximately 800 foreign correspondents currently based in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem who are horrified by the developing humanitarian crisis in Ireland will be offered accommodation on board at special rates, tips included, for the cruise. The ship will be renamed “Danny Boy” for the trip. A 10 year-old Druze girl from Daliyat el-Carmel has said she hacked the ship’s IT system with a virus she calls “Sucksnet” and programmed the ship’s siren to play “When Irish Eyes are Smiling” in an effort to cheer the Irish up when the ship pulls into Dublin Harbour.
Read the full story here
Prospects for Regime Change in North Korea
At the clip below, with Donald Kirk of the Christian Science Monitor. He speaks toward the end on the extreme dangers of a military overthrow in North Korea, especially a refugee crisis. Interesting how these dangers are raised primarily in the context of outside intervention, and not in the case of an implosion of the dictatorship in Pyongyang. Most problematic is the size of the North Korean forces, with nearly 1,000,000 troops under arms. A military incursion from the south would only be feasible with a combined contingent of American and South Korean units. The U.S. would provide air support off shore through carrier battle groups. Tokyo has indicated its support for military retaliation --- and Japanese military forces were deployed to Iraq in the first outside operations since WWII --- so perhaps the operation could be multilateralized. And then there's China. We can only speculate, but it's unlikely any force options would be available without some kind of support from Beijing. Regime change North Korea would require buy-in from all the major actors, and so far I don't see much realistic discussion of it on the Chinese side. (But see, "Is China About to Throw North Korea Under The Bus?") Certainly China relishes the regional prestige from propping up its NoKo client. But should the Kim dynasty continue its bellicose actions, perhaps leading to the additional loss of life, the situation will be an increasing reminder of the false peace of 1930s Europe. A huge blowout of historic proportions could be expected.
Kirk's got a report from yesterday: "Disillusioned South Korea Weighs Response to North Korean Flare-Up."
And New York Times has another installment on the diplomatic cables: "Leaked Cables Depict a World Guessing About North Korea." And related news at Memeorandum.
Cross-posted from American Power.
RELATED: "Axis of Evil: One Down Two to Go," and "Sarah Palin Blasts Obama's WikiLeaks 'Fiasco'."
Korea Update ..................from DJ Elliott
US Deploys Carrier Strike Group, US Air Force to Western Pacific
Accelerated deployment for Vinny, they were supposed to deploy after the holidays...
Information Dissemination write........
So if I am some North Korean intel analyst looking at this - what am I looking at?
I see this rather enormous George Washington (CVN 73) Carrier Strike Group escorted by a rather large and capable number of US and South Korean Navy warships exercising in my front lawn. I am also observing this ultra modern Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group deploying from the US west coast, heading my way under what looks to be a completely unique deployment schedule that just might be coming quickly specifically because of me.
Oh btw, more than half the Japanese fleet is either at sea or on high readiness, and the US Air Force is quietly positioning capabilities that will really hurt if the shooting happens. In the context of the South Korean Presidents speech, I might be a little concerned.
As I look at this, I see an opportunity for the US and allies to increase the pressure and make moves that put a bit of fear back into the North Koreans for a change. I do not think it would be a bad thing for the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) to go dark and start heading towards the strait. I can think of some interesting places for that Carrier Strike Group to pop up all of a sudden to make a strategic announcement of presence. It seems to me that the more pressure the North Koreans feel right now, the more China is empowered in influencing North Korea. China has let editorials critical of North Korea run in the daily papers all week - something we never saw following the Cheonan incident.
There is an opportunity here - one that makes China a partner while also allowing us to stand strong with South Korea. How does it come together? I see many possibilities, and if I was writing the script I would start writing it with this deployment of the Carl Vinson CSG - with its unique ships and unique deployment pattern, and perhaps a bit of unique strategic communication to go a long with it aimed at the North Koreans.
A rocket carrying the Air Force Academy's FalconSAT-5 satellite lifts off Nov. 19, 2010, from the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska. FalconSAT is a capstone program that allows Academy cadets to design, build, test and operate a satellite. FalconSAT-5 carried Space Test Program payloads to measure measure the ionosphere and its effects on radio frequency signals. (U.S. Air Force photo/Col. Marty France)
H/T Marc
Watch Ireland.........from Rico
It is worth keeping an eye on Ireland.
Dec 7th the voters there have the chance to refuse the IMF 'deal' or 'bail out' or 'sell out'...
I did rather like the Irish protest sign regarding the IMF. Interfering, Meddling, F.....
EXACTLY.
- Their ruling elite may not 'get it' but the man in the street surely does!
News..........
Are we all going nuts?
Unfinished Legacy: President Reagan and the Socrates Project
Baghdad needs $100 billion for new homes: mayor
Illegals to Get Taxpayer Funded Debit Cards
But, Your Royal Highness...
Israel Innovation
Jews are only 0.3% of the world's population
Tales of 57 States: While His Obamaness Dribbled The Wikis Leaked
Carter's Razor
WikiLeaks latest... the Pope may be Catholic
Almost half of all Britons believe in aliens
Cancun climate change summit: UN considers putting mirrors in space
Fears of a Euro Demise The Disastrous Consequences of a Return to the Deutsche Mark
Paying the price for profligacy
and finally......
The 7 worst things about the holiday season
RIP Leslie Nielsen
Video: Firefight in Marjah (Real Time) Bad Ass!!
"The former commander of United States forces in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McCrystal, once described the fight in Marjah as a bleeding ulcer. Situated to the East of the Helmand River valley, this fertile network of farm lands has long been a key stronghold of the Taliban. But that control is now being challenged. US Marines from Echo Company, 2nd Battalion 9th Marines, have been in Marjah since June and are waging and winning a fight that is not unfamiliar to them; a fight the soldiers of 1st Platoon describe as a "good old fashioned turf war". This video clip filmed on the morning of the 28th September 2010 is a real time, multi-camera view of one such fire-fight where elements of 1st Platoon are ambushed by Taliban fighters in the eastern sector of their area of operations."
H/T Marc
Poor Ireland...........from Rico
First it was the Greeks abused and bloodied by the bond-raiders and the IMF. Their "bailout" only made their governmental malfeasance worse, and will prolong their inevitable default. Saw today that they have been 'rescheduled' to 2021 or some farcical date in future. Keynesians and Politicians doing what they do best (after screwing-over their followers)...kicking the can down the road.
Now it's Irelands 'turn' to be sold down the river and treated like the proverbial little Greek boy who ran away from home because he didn't like the way he was being "reared" [excuse me, I just could not help that one]!
Having the IMF for a partner is much like having a sexual predator for a guardian.
- Ireland's "gift" is indeed a modern Trojan [don't go there] Horse. They are screwed.
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