H/T Old Dude
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
BOHICA - A cautionary tale...........from Rico
Consider this a cautionary tale for Americans. Let's call it B.O.H.I.C.A.*
Chavez's Venezuela recently "revalued" (downward) its currency.
The Governments of Argentina, Bulgaria, Fwance, Hungary and Ireland have all completed or begun private "pension" grabs, seeing a large pool of untapped funds to help solve their immediate problems (cash-poor and spend-thrift).
"Bbbbbbbbbb-but!" I hear you saying....U.S. Lawmakers regard the personal wealth-money-well being of Americans as sancrosanct (sacred for Democrat supporters)!
Yeah.
Riiiiiiiiiiiight!
Just like they respect and value our thoughts and opinions.
Get ready to grab your ankles and cheerily shout "BOHICA!!!!!!!!"
- If you want some KY, that'll be an extra charge.
*Rumored to have been coined as a term shortly after the first Congress convened, but certainly practiced diligently by Congress-critters upon the voting public ever since then, BOHICA may also have been the first Governmental acronym. It means Bend Over Here It Comes Again.
OH HELL !! ... Let's Offend Everybody !!!!!!
Q. What's the Cuban National Anthem?
A. Row, Row, Row Your Boat.
Q. Where does an Irish family go on vacation ?
A. A different bar.
Q. What do you call it when an Italian has one arm shorter than the other?
A. A speech impediment.
Q. Why aren't there any Puerto Ricans On Star Trek?
A. Because they're not going to work in the future either.
Q. What's the difference between a southern zoo and a northern zoo?
A. The southern zoo has a description of the animal along with a recipe.
Q How do you get a sweet little 80-year-old lady to say the 'F' word?
A. Get another sweet little 80-year-old lady to yell, 'BINGO!'
Q. What's the difference between a northern fairytale and a southern fairytale?
A. A northern fairytale begins, ....'Once upon a time...'
A southern fairytale begins,... 'Y'all ain't gonna believe this shit.'
H/T Shelly
Video: The Perfect Man
Second place and winner of the Audience Choice award in the 2010 Creemore Mocks Film Festival. Best Actress award for Donna Baylis. Best Actor nomination for Herman. This is an Ida Nowe Production.
The Perfect Man from Donna Baylis on Vimeo.
H/T Pete H
News.............
Problems for the green police
Question Socrates: Part I. Back to the Future
F**k You Very Much, Mr. Commander-in-Chief. Sir.
Playing the Violence Card
Scalia: Constitution doesn't protect women, gays
FDA urges consumers to avoid sexual-enhancement drinks
Next Obama chapter: Change coming to White House
14 states may target birthright citizenship
Ex-Lebanon Leader: Christians Target of Genocide
Republican Congressman: Ban Funding of Obamacare in Every Appropriations Bill This Year
Chilling Video: Openly Rooting for Revolution, The Left Calls For American Civil Unrest & Riots
Navy Gets its Holiday Wish and Buys Both LCS Classes
Never Forget The Fed Caused The Economic Downturn
China backs Spain to emerge from crisis: Beijing
European nations begin seizing private pensions
Obamacare Ends Construction of Doctor-Owned Hospitals
UFC Champ Jacob Volkmann Says He Wants To Fight Obama…
Josh Groban Sings Kanye's Tweets!!
Vulture tagged by Israeli scientists flies into Saudi Arabia ... and is arrested for being a spy
USS Enterprise captain relieved of command following lewd videos.
Sudan's president vows to support South after secession
Backlash against perks for EU officials
Chinese truck driver's dramatic escape
Guarding the Pork Barrel: Germany Opposes Attempts to Reform EU Agricultural Subsidies
Diplomat attacked with döner knives
India overtakes China as most attractive market for Japanese firms
Video: Bit O' Lace (1944 - 1945)
This series consists of moving images shot by pilot John H. Bauman in flight on the B-17G "A Bit O' Lace," K identifier, bomber of the 709th Bomb Squadron of the 447th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force, late in World War II.
Tuesday, 4 January 2011
Melanie Phillips on Israel
A re-post from Melanie Phillips
January 3, 2011
The challenge of public diplomacy vis-a-vis the delegitimisation of Israel
Address to Ariel Conference on Law and Mass Media, 30 December 2010
As we all know by now, Israel has lost the battle for public opinion in the west. Even the Israel government is now acknowledging this fact. Israel and its defenders have been outclassed and outmanoeuvred in a war of the mind being waged on a battleground it never even acknowledged it was on.
Calls for more and better hasbara, however, are meaningless if the message or narrative promoted by Israel and its defenders misses the point of the attack being waged upon it. And it does miss that point, by a mile.
You cannot resist or overcome a threat unless you first understand its nature.
The first thing to say is that this phenomenon is characteristic not just of the media animosity or economic or academic boycotts. It goes across the intelligentsia and political class, spreading well beyond the normal suspects on the left into the mainstream middle-classes.
In Britain, the universities, the established church, the theatrical and publishing worlds, the voluntary sector, significant elements within the Foreign Office, members of Parliament across the political spectrum, as well as the media have overwhelmingly signed up to the demonisation and delegitimisation of Israel.
The scale of this phenomenon is nothing short of a multi-layered civilisational crisis.
The west is experiencing a total inversion of truth evidence and reason. A society’s thinking class has overwhelmingly subscribed to an immoral, patently false and in many cases demonstrably absurd account of the Middle East, past and present, which it has uncritically absorbed and assumes to be true.
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Video: British troops fighting in Afghanistan close ups
You will need to turn the volume right up.
H/T Marc
From the pilot's viewpoint, an F-15E Strike Eagle positions under the boom of a KC-135R Stratotanker during a training mission Dec. 17, 2010, over North Carolina. The F-15E is from the 335th Fighter Squadron from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Michael B. Keller)
H/T Marc
News...........
Electric sticker shock
Russian Duma to link missile defense to START limitations
Starting to see the truth come out about ROTC on campus?
Job #1 for Congress
A 1944 Christmas miracle for Gen. Patton
Dave Barry’s 2010 Year in Review
USA’s bumblebee population declining
Council crematorium plans to freeze-dry or dissolve bodies in sci-fi bid to be more environmentally friendly
New RAF helmet allows pilots to shoot down enemy jets by looking at them
Iran invites EU, Russia and China to tour nuclear sites
British consulate employees in Jerusalem linked to terror attack
Sangin insurgents agree to stand up to Taliban
China's next president "redder than the red"
Man who jumped out of window saved by New York garbage
Ivory Coast 'street general' calls off Golf Hotel assault
Escaped Penguin Ends Up in Lion Enclosure
and finally.......
Your 100 favorite women of 2010
Awesome Celebrity Candids of 2010
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