Tuesday, 14 December 2010
PACIFIC OCEAN (Dec. 10, 2010) The Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Houston (SSN 713) leads a formation of ships from USS George Washington (CVN 73) Carrier Strike Group and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) for a photo exercise during the final day of Exercise Keen Sword 2011. The exercise enhances the Japan-U.S. alliance which remains a key strategic relationship in the Northeast Asia Pacific region. Keen Sword caps the 50th anniversary of the Japan - U.S. alliance as an "alliance of equals." (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Adam K. Thomas)
H/T Marc
News...........
Cracked China
Afghan police crisis threatens British withdrawal as thousands quit force
Scandal of great-grandfather left to die of dehydration by 'neglectful' hospital staff
The Theft of Ground Zero
Israel's Secret War
Federal judge in Va. strikes down health care law
Calls to end Private Finance Initiative (PFI) deals
Obama vows to fight Republicans -- next year
Sleepy bees slur their waggle dance moves
The internet and the 'end of privacy'
Jesus' Great-Grandmother Identified
MoD 'wasting £6 billion a year'
German man castrates teenage daughter's 57-year-old boyfriend
Olympic security spending could be down by a fifth
Sudan probes 'whipping video of woman by police'
Europe threatens to recognise Palestinian state
Ahmadinejad sacks Iran's foreign minister
and finally......
The 12 hottest female sports uniforms
Video of the Metrodome Roof Collapsing
Stockholm Suicide Bomber Explosion Captured on Security Video
Plus more details at Jawa Report:
Cross-posted from American Power.
And previously, "Taimur Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, Stockholm Suicide Bomber, Was Living in Britain."
Facebook Wrestles With Free Speech and Civility
You think?
The story's at New York Times.
Turns out that Mark Zuckerberg and Co. are developing a "hate and harassment team" ...
...charged with taking down content that is illegal or violates Facebook’s terms of service. That puts them on the front line of the debate over free speech on the Internet.Right.
Free speech on the Internet?
What a quaint notion. Progressives can't have that, as my comment threads indicate, repeatedly.
See, "Homocide," and "Why Progressives Read Boing Boing." And follow the links there to Boing Boing's demonic Cthulhu sex-toys and sundry other objects of nihilistic abandon.
Cross-posted from American Power.
Monday, 13 December 2010
Log-rolling-Socialism-Flat Tax........from Rico
Printing fiat paper money = log-rolling debt that cannot ever be "paid off" even at zero-interest!
- If you stopp the log-rolling, you "splash."
By 2008 the USG and Corporate debt exceeded Global GDP. Even IF the US could DOUBLE it's GDP now (under current circumstances, just figure the odds of that happening), this "ponzi" scheme cannot be kept from "splashing."
BUT, thanks to the wonders of Socialism, Obama HAS a PLAN.
The Obama Flat Tax solves all of our problems. No more money, no more problems. Gee, thanks....I guess.
- Trust him, he's the Government and he's here to help!
The Most Boring Celebrities of the Year
Most Boring Celebrities of the Year
The Boring Institute Revives List After a Long Hiatus
After a hiatus following 9/11, The Boring Institute is back with its annual list of “The Most Boring Celebrities of the Year.” Founded in 1984 by Alan Caruba, a public relations counselor, the Institute was active for nearly two decades spoofing celebrities, films, and television shows.
This year’s list is filled with familiar show business names. In reverse order, it is:
10. Kanye West. Or is that Kanye Pest?
9. Mel Gibson. Mel is giving bigotry and misogyny a bad name.
8. Betty White. Older than dirt, but she keeps escaping from the Actor’s Home.
7. Keith Olberman. He and the five other people watching MSNBC need a personality transplant.
6. Joy Behar. She is proof that having an opinion is not the same as having an IQ that’s lower than room temperature.
5. Justin Bieber. He’s cute and the little girls adore him. An earlier generation felt the same way about Paul McCartney and now they’re all grandmothers.
4. Miley Cyrus. It’s painful watching Miley navigate her teenage years. We wonder what it will be like to go through menopause with her.
3. Lady GaGa. Take away the weird fashion statements plus weird makeup and what do you have? Boy George.
2. Snookie. Cute nickname and not much else. The rumor that people from New Jersey
1. Lindsay Lohan. Fresh from rehab, let’s hope America’s most famous drug and alcohol addict stays clean so Charlie Sheen can regain the title.
“We’re not saying that these celebrities are themselves boring people,” says Caruba, “but that the overwhelming media coverage and exposure gets very boring, very fast.”
Caruba is widely known as a daily commentator via his popular blog, “Warning Signs” where he casts a wary eye on politics, popular culture, and other topics. The Boring Institute maintains a blog at http://theboringinstitute.blogspot.com.
Sunday, 12 December 2010
Progressives Cheer Mark Madoff Suicide as 'Revolutionary Justice'
At DownWithTyranny!, "At This Point Do We Have to Be Hoping for a Revolution?" (And Memeorandum.)
From Howie Klein in the comments: On the other hand, more rich people and the criminal spawn can hang themselves, the way Mark Madoff did. That's justice served -- and revolutionary enough.
Amazing.
Folks may have heard. Mark Madoff hanged himself exactly two years after his father Bernard was arrested in the financial Ponzi scheme indictment. See NYT, "Madoff’s Elder Son Found Dead in Suicide." (And at Legal Insurrection and Memeorandum.)
But read DownWithTyranny! Howie Klein is actually a top activist with the Firedoglake Act Blue coalition, but these folks make no qualms about calling for revolution. Clearly the death of Mark Madoff is fulfilment in miniature of leftist demands for decapitation of the Old Regime, on the order of the French and Russian Revolutions. The context is this student's "fight back" speech, below, announcing revolutionary solidarity with Britain's fight-the-cuts uprising from last week's Coalition of Resistance Conference in Britain. DownWithTyranny! then links to a revolutionary manifesto from Ian Welsh, "An American Future." The commentary reflects less an explicit agenda than a prediction for the pivotal crisis of capitalism in the near term. While Welsh is ambiguous on the ripeness for proletarian agitation, cleary Howie Klein and his progressive comrades are welcoming an epic confrontation with the capitalist state. The death of Mark Madoff is not a sad family tragedy but a symbol of state crisis, and, ominously, of the murderous reckoning awaiting the forces of reaction. This is, most of all, completely in keeping with the violent sensiblities of the left, which have been on display all week long at this blog. All I can say is hold your most cherished values close, and your loved ones even closer. The proletarian crisis needs a revolutionary vanguard to bring class consciousness to the contented and under-mobillized masses. Britain is gripped right now by an austerity crisis, and at home we've had some of our own anarcho-socialist violence. I hope I'm wrong, as I always say. But one of these days a new Weatherman-style organization will break out again with a campaign of domestic terrorism. And that's just the beginning. It's a dreadful thought, but these folks are simply not going wait for more suicides. I'm convinced, in due time, they'll work to accelerate the forces of "revolutionary justice" for thousands of Mark Madoffs. Cross-posted from American Power.
RELATED: "The Powerful Corpse of Radical Progressivism."
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