Theo Spark

Saturday, 1 January 2011

2010 Statistics re Airport Screening Results

2010 statistics on Airport screening from the Department of Homeland Security

Terrorist Plots Discovered 0

Transvestites 133

Hernias 1,485

Hemorrhoid Cases 3,172

Enlarged Prostates 8,249

Breast Implants 59,350

Natural Blondes 3

Can Sarah Palin Win the 2012 Republican Nomination?

The 2012 presidential election begins today, whether folks admit it or not. Will Sarah Palin be the GOP's presidential nominee? It's one of the biggest questions of the year. A full analysis here: "Can Palin Win the 2012 GOP Nomination? — A Reassessment."

More commentary and analysis at American Power.

IRANIAN SPY:IRAN PLANS TO NUKE EUROPEAN CAPITALS AND ISRAEL

Original post at: MyNewsLinx

Saturday Night is Bath Night.........

WERE THE FOUNDING FATHERS LIBERTARIANS?

STORMBRINGER presents David Frum's excellent three-part series on the political philosophies and sentiments of the Founding Fathers.

Let me toss in my 5 cents worth on the question of whether the Founders were “libertarians.”

This seems to me a question approximately as meaningful as asking whether the Founders would have preferred Macs or PCs: it exports back into the past an entirely alien mental category.

Libertarianism fuses two ideas, one political, one psychological. The political idea is that the central state should be confined within the narrowest possible limits. The psychological idea is that each person should enjoy the widest possible scope to live as he or she thinks best.

Libertarians see these two ideas as very consistent. But . . .

. . . back in the 18th century, each on its own would have been inaccessible, never mind both together.

Read the rest of this incredible piece in its entirety HERE

Bonus Babe........

Video: Trebuchet Fun

H/T Marc

Song: Obummer! by Christina Houston

H/T Warning Signs

Video: Voyeur FLIR In Iraqi Palm Grove

H/T Marc

H/T Paul B

Video: How to save someone from drowning

Cartoon Round Up....

News.........

From the pope, the patriarch, the arch bishop and the other whining hanky wringers who run the christian churches ....

Haha, MoveOn.org created a WheresChristie.com web site to track Chris Christie

A Passage to Israel

Big Gas Find Sparks a Frenzy in Israel .

Definitions of 'had sex' not consistent

Forecasters keep eye on looming 'Solar Max'

Aerovironment, Textron Systems, IAT to Deliver Lethal Mini-Drone Prototypes in Four Months

Tom Selleck's scary accurate tech predictions from '90s AT&T ads

Argentina's UN jibe over Falklands as ambassador says Britain winning war 60 years ago is no reason for seat on security council

Car bomb in Egypt kills at least 21 outside Christian church

Ivory Coast in 'civil war situation'

North Korea's heir-apparent launches luxury villa construction spree

New Year's Totty........

MMXI

Happy New Year!

Think 2010 was uncalled for?

Just wait til ebberdobby gets all dosed up on MMXI - It's gonna be off the hook ya'll!

A few predictions:

Tom Ricks' "Best Defense" scores a 2nd consec win as 'best blog on earth'

Professor James S Robbins earns a Pulitzer for "This Time We Win"

Former General McChrystal's memoirs will be nom d'guerr'd "Super Ninja"

AmPow will score the 2 millionth hit in 2011

Professer Steven Metz will finish up a book about Offshoring Power that makes a way more stronger case for Interventions Gone Wild than Perle and Frum ever could.

Jay at Armchair Generalist will author an impressive work about enabling Great Satan with neutronic weaponry - earning a top gig at States's International Security and Nonproliferation Bureau

Arab League will come out publicly with a plea for Great Satan to attack Iran’s new clear chicanery facilities, and do it in a way that implicitly gives the green light for Little Satan to do it if 44 is too timid. A delightful diversion, it will totally queer the mix for West Bank-settlements issue and Palestinian negotiations.

Fidel Castro will pass on to the great collectivist ash heap in the sky, Gov Christie will either get some skinny going on and or grow a stash as he and Ambassador Bolton detonate a ground swell of support for rotundency and moustaches.

Crisis in Pyramidland — What's worse, the 82-year-old Undying Pharoh For Life Hosni jacking the presidential election for the umpteenth time, or pushing junior into office?

Stuxnet!

Captain Burke at WoI and Climb To Glory fame will become field grader Major Burke. His contribution to the new FM 3 -23 v2.0 will defy conventions with hot techniques for hooking up COIN and Drones Gone Wild.

Spoiler Alert! Wargaming vids go viral at Milblog 2011 - featuring Wings Over Iraq and Rethinking Security reenacting Kursk (complete with the ancient Axis and Allies pieces on 'somebodies' sleek flat belly sexed up with lipstick demarcation of Prokharovka's terrain). Narrated by Render.

Pakistan will outpace Grafenwöhr as the world's largest impact area as Great Satan literally rains heckfire missiles - with zero civie casualities - that makes last September's Drone Month look like down time.

The Pakistani Intervention of 2011 will be fully crunk with funintended consequences as Special Forces, Rangers, Seals, Marine Recon and finally, the Screaming Eagles, violently storm terrorist sanctuaries in a blitz of Writ of State sexercises.

An especial hunter killer team led by Army Major Few will capture aQ's #2, the evil Dr Z (who will appear to have bladder detonated his manjammies at 1st contact).

CNAS' Panzer/Surge Expert Col Dr John Nagl will be on the short list to move over to the Pentagon when Def Sec Gates splits.

Small Wars Foundation (it's hot!) breaks all the rules - debuting 'COIN Action Figures' - inexplicably, the Colonel Gentile (with SOSH diorama/playset) becomes the most collectible.

The Ex at Abu Muqawama will start distillation and distribution of an especial brand of potently smoooooth sluggin' "Surgin' Whiskey"

Palestine becomes a nationstate and in a wild LOL celebratory celebration, the Strip accidentally on purpose launches several errant SCUD D's - that errantly vaporize the Dome of the Rock thingy in a Nakbah redux of histrionic proportions - sparking Imperial m"Hammedism to strike something something Palestine from any future lists of grievances.

Covert dogcatchers will storm the Playboy Mansion

Silvio Berlusconi will continue to be Europe’s most entertaining sugar daddy/prime minister. Belgium will continue to be Europe’s most unnecessary country. Great Satan will continue to be the most indispensable country.

Spencer Ackerman's hot new improved "Attackerman" will begin undressing the COIN versus Hyper Puss debate - essentially saying "Hey! Let's do both ya'll!"

Lauren - the "Soft Power" girl - will outstrip all competition again, retaining her tiara (now at an amazing 32K) as the most downloaded pic of all time at GsGf

Unassing Iraq will be disregarded in hot new SOFA agreements, ensuring the ME's 1st probable Arab democrazy continues to experiment with not killing anyone who politically disagrees with each other.

Pic - "Take a chance - and don't ever look back"and auld lang syne with the staff of GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLFRiEnD

Friday, 31 December 2010

Katy Perry and Jimmy Stewart Like You've Never Seen Them!

See, "Katy Perry Hottest Woman of 2010 — Or, Well, On Second Thought..."

And double delicious bonus: "Jimmy Stewart? Who knew!"

Via American Power.

Almost 750,000 Welfare Claimants Refused Work or Gave Up Jobs to Claim Benefits

Report: "Working the System: 750,000 British Welfare Recipients Refuse Employment."

Updates throughout the day at American Power.

Bedtime Totty............

ART OF THE AMERICAN SOLDIER

More than 15,000 paintings and sketches created by over 1,300 American soldiers in the line of duty - in curatorial storage in Washington, D.C. for decades - these powerful works of art will be on display at the National Constitution Center from September 24, 2010 through March 31, 2011. The exhibition, featuring a never-before-seen collection, was created by the Center in partnership with the U.S. Army Center of Military History and the National Museum of the United States Army. Following its world debut at the Center, the exhibition will begin a national tour.

Official site: Art of the American Soldier.

Big Country, Heather C. Englehart - Iraq, 2004

Prairie Ski Resort..........

H/T Pete H

Video: Dennis Miller - The Big Speech

H/T Canis 61

Video: Extreme Russian Vacation in Chernobyl

H/T Marc

Pale ALE................from Rico

Our 'new' normal will be BIFLATION:
- Debt-based assets (like homes) will continue to lose value.* The 'bottom' has not yet been reached. Some are saying we have 30-50% to fall yet. Look at the attached chart and decide for yourself...
- Essential goods (like food and energy) will continue to rise.

*In Japan over the last twenty years, real estate has lost 70% of its value (inflation-adjusted).

Pale ALE.
- No, not the kind where "time, gentlemen" is called, but Assets-Liabilities=Equity. Students of accounting know this well.- Home ownership for many has become a liability and not an asset. The same is becoming the case for Federal Reserve Notes (aka Dollars). They are NOT a 'safe haven' when you look at the attached chart showing the downward movement of the Dollar over time. Is Alexander Hamilton smiling from his grave? John Maynard Keynes surely must be spinning in his.

Take away?
- Real estate and Dollars may actually not be the best assets to hold. Think hard commodities, and skills. The new reality is that farmers and gold miners are more of a natural aristocracy....let's say meritocracy than the paper-pushers on Wall Street or in the FED or Treasury.