Friday, 28 January 2011
Air Force pararescuemen from 103rd Rescue Squadron, 106th Rescue Wing, New York Air National Guard, and West Coast-based Navy SEALs leap from the ramp of an Air Force C-17 transport aircraft during free-fall parachute training over Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Jan. 21. The pararescuemen and SEALs parachuted from an Air Force C-17 transport aircraft over Marine Corps Base Hawaii to fulfill specialty-based sustainment training requirements. They were joined by Marines from 4th Force Reconnaissance Company, 4th Marine Division. Photo by Lance Cpl. Reece Lodder
H/T Marc
News..........
Sadr's return short-lived after threats from Asaib al Haq
Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Jan 27th
Captain America Loses "America"
It all started with the letters "bcd" on the receiver ring of a model k-98 mauser my brother gave me a couple years back ... a little reminder of the reality of wwii ...
World Muslim Population Grows Twice as Fast as Others
Rabbis Spend $100K to Slam Beck for Slamming Soros
Racists Attack: Media Silent
Japanese pensioners' shoplifting hits record high
Iranian Book Celebrating Suicide Bombers Found in Arizona Desert
The police who are afraid of the dark: Park plagued by young yobs won't be patrolled after 8pm 'because the officers can't see what's going on'
Airport bans toy soldier's three-inch rifle from plane... because it's a safety threat
Treasury will adjust borrowing as debt limit nears
A Long Island tax cut backfires on the Tea Party
Brother can you spare $647,000?
Hey, Democrats: How Many Years Before All of the Outrageous Bills You Slammed Down Our Throats Become 'Living and Breathing'?
10 states now developing eligibility proof-demands
This Raises a Serious Question: Does our government really hate us?
The Purpose of Science Fiction
How it teaches governments—and citizens—how to understand the future of technology.
Florida boy drops loaded handgun inside pre-kindergarten class
Hunt on for lovestruck soldier who rang wrong number to propose
Fresh protests could leave Egypt on brink of revolution
Brazil approves clearing of Amazon forest to make way for controversial dam
Loss of Nimrods 'puts special forces at risk'
The rise and fall of the British pub
Nimrod: a sorry saga with a messy ending
Pakistan threatens nuclear arms race over India deal
American embassy official in Pakistan kills suspected armed robbers
US Defence Secretary faults Congress for weakening military
US fugitive planned 'suicide by bear'
'Europe Has to Stop Appearing Like a Headless Chicken'
Man asks for police protection from sex-crazed wife
Nazis Up the Mississippi, And Other Axis Invasion Scenarios
and finally.......
Morgan needs to be modern not maudlin
by little Jimmy May
7 ways to get a girl to dump you
Things That Always Happen in Movies, But Never Ever in Real Life
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Horrific Video of Couple Stoned to Death in Northern Afghanistan
It's disturbing. This could be upsetting to some viewers: "Taliban Stone Couple to Death for Alleged Adultery in Northern Afghanistan."
The background at Daily Mail, "Stoned to death with her lover: Horrific video of execution of girl, 19, killed by Afghan Taliban for running away from arranged marriage."
Anyone notice....from Rico
After all the sleep-inducing platitudes being read from the teleprompter last night and the following media blatherings and bloviating, I have a question for everyone. Anyone.
Did ANYONE at all "notice" that at NO point during the SOTU address was the state of the union addressed or even mentioned?
After all the hot air has cleared, no one in America has ANY idea of the state of the union thanks to Barry's glib performance (at least nothing other than the ideas we have already formed on our own by now).
The man spoke much while saying nothing.
Nothing.
I guess Pappy was right....an empty wagon does make the most noise.
Visiting the1972 Munich Olympic Massacre site
The Memorial Plaque reads in both German and Hebrew
"In this building lived the team of the state of Israel during the 20th Olympic Summer Games from August 21 through September 5, 1972. On September 5, 1972, David Berger, Seew Friedman, Josef Gutfreund, Elieser Halfin, Josef Romano, Amizur Shapira, Kehat Shorr, Mark Slavin, Andre Spitzer, Jaakow Springer, and Mosche Weinberger died a violent death. Honor to their memory."
Pilots will understand..........from Rico
Hmmmm....in honor of the famous pilot "Wrong Way Corrigan" seems appropriate here.
Pilots will understand the following, as will many others.
Our body politic, explicitly Joe Everyman, is painfully figuring out that Barry & Friends are not only "fly by sight" but by the seat of theur pants, too.
And NOT very well at that.
Night is falling. Many of us were already doubtful that any of them had bothered to learn 'landing' after having taken off. I do not think any of them is qualified to "fly by instruments" and, well...to be frank, any landing by them will be on the seat of OUR pants since I will not make the leap of faith that they can manage anything other than a crash. I can not believe anything else.
Rhetoric, the ability to 'talk' (deliver a convincing reading from a teleprompter) is NOT the ability to DO.
- Unless a qualified grownup takes the stick, WFD (we're freaking doomed)!!!!
So thanks, pilot Barry!!!
(pssst...don't look now, but all the pilots friends have taken the 'chutes' for themselves!)
SOUTH CHINA SEA (Nov. 20, 2010) Sailors prepare an AV-8B Harrier jet aircraft assigned to Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 542 for take-off from the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2). Essex is part of the forward-deployed Essex Amphibious Ready Group and is underway in the western Pacific Ocean. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Casey H. Kyhl)
H/T Marc
Movie Review: The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009)
Short Review: It never fails to amaze me how much talent and effort is expended to create miserable, bitter pieces of drama intent on explain to the audience how crappy life can be.
Full Review Here
News.........
Wind power's dirty little secrets
Let me get this straight - You sent the Jewish Guy to the "Iowa Chops"?
Brief Reviews of the SOTU, Oil Prices, Latest CBO Report and More
The Vast Right Wing Complacency
Hot news anchors distract, prevent men from learning about news
Analysis: What is Plan B if China dumps its U.S. debt?
CROUSE: Obama: Big government is back, baby
Solar shingles won't save America
Newlywed files for divorce after husband brings mother on honeymoon
Woman nabbed with 44 iPhones in stockings at Ben-Gurion Airport
More about the Beast - RQ-170 Sentinel Show Again at Kandahar
Scrapping the RAF's £4bn Nimrod fleet 'risks UK security'
Moscow airport bomb: suicide bombers were part of squad trained in Pakistan
Utah plan to adopt official gun condemned by anti-firearms groups
Prince Charles says 'Pommy' insults were character building
Sectarian rage there, heightened clarity here
and finally.........
Will Amazon let me put this on my Wish List?
Palin on Obama's WTF Moment in SOTU
The full clip is at Right Scoop, "Sarah Palin Talks Obama’s WTF Moments in SOTU."
And see Gateway Pundit, "Whoa!… Sarah Palin on Obama’s SOTU Speech: “WTF Was Spot-On… There Were a Lot of WTF Moments In That Speech”."
RELATED: A killer lead editorial from Wall Street Journal, "The Great Misallocators: What Barack Obama and General Electric Have in Common":
President Obama on Tuesday night stressed U.S. economic competitiveness as a new policy theme, accentuating the point he made last week by naming General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt to lead his new jobs council. This is welcome, though not solely because it may signal less Administration hostility to business. The pairing is also instructive because both Mr. Obama and GE symbolize a major reason the U.S. has become less competitive—the misallocation of resources.
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Step back for a minute from the day to day policy fights and consider how an economy can grow faster. One way is to get people to work harder or longer. The government can contribute here with policies that reward work and investment, such as lower taxes.
A second route to faster growth is innovation, which means inventions or new processes that increase productivity. Government can help with money for basic research, but private investment, human ingenuity and luck are the main drivers.
The third way is through the more efficient use of capital, both human and monetary. These resources are scarce in any economy, and growth will be fastest if they are allowed to find their highest return. If resources are allocated to less productive uses or create asset bubbles due to bad policy, then overall growth will be slower than it should be.
In our view, this third point has been the largest but least appreciated problem in the U.S. economy in recent years. First the Federal Reserve's subsidy for credit and other policies pushed resources into the financial industry, and especially into real estate. When that bubble burst, triggering the 2008 financial panic and recession, the U.S. responded over two years with a huge expansion of the federal government.
Both periods were marked by the misallocation of trillions of dollars into wasted investments. One reason the current recovery has been so lackluster is that it takes time for an economy to retool from these mistakes. Money that went to build now-empty condos on the Vegas Strip—or to government transfer payments—can't be reclaimed to rebuild American manufacturing and technology.
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No company illustrates this great misallocation better than the General Electric Co. For decades it was a symbol of U.S. manufacturing and export prowess, building jet engines, gas turbines, consumer appliances and more ...
More at the link.
Folks can't stop laughing at American Glob, iOWNTHEWORLD, and Protein Wisdom (via Memeorandum).
CROSS-POSTED from AMERICAN POWER.
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
VIDEO: Progressives Slobber Over Obama's SOTU Address
Look, I only watched parts of it, but I'm agreeing with Jennifer Rubin: The president "phoned it in."
Here's the full video clip: "State of the Union, 2011."
A bare majority at CNN's poll (52 percent) report a positive reaction to the address, and a third said "they had a somewhat positive response and 15 percent with a negative response."
More at Memeorandum.
I'll be reading over some of the left's reactions and will have more in an update.
CROSS-POSTED from AMERICAN POWER.
