H/T DML
Friday, 31 July 2009
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While we've been distracted........from Rico
While everyone has been 'distracted' by the waste of taxpayer time and money on the "Bud Light" PR fiesta, several more important things are looming (more than the ones mentioned here, actually).
The U.S. is having an increasingly difficult time laying-off it's growing debt onto foreign buyers via securities/bond sales. I know you're as surprised as I am. What this potentially means has to be causing somebody sleepless nights.
But it gets even better! If we thought the popping of the housing bubble was jolly great fun, just wait for the coming commercial real estate bust! The Treasury and the Fed are already trying to figure out how to deal with what could be a truly legendary crash coming our way, expecting a $3 trillion dollar bust!
- The deep damage done to the American economy is better reflected by the tanking of demand for office space than the grisly unemployment figures.
Rebel Rising
"A spectre is haunting the world, just as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote in the Communist Manifesto of 1848. This time, however, it is not the spectre of communism but that of neoliberalism. Just as Marx and Engels reported of ‘a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre,’ there is once again an alliance, whether holy or unholy, that has formed to chase the ghost of neoliberalism from the world stage.
"It is a curious alliance that has committed to fighting neoliberalism: Religious leaders and artists, environmental activists and globalisation critics, politicians of the left and the right as well as trade unionists, commentators and academics. They all share a passion to unmask neoliberalism as an inhuman, anti-social, and potentially misanthropic ideology or as a cynical exercise by strangely anonymous forces that wish to exploit the world to their own advantage." Marc Oliver Hartwich, A Ghost Story
As I listen to Rush Limbaugh's CPAC speech, my mind wanders back to the old question: why do so many people with wealth and education vote for a more powerful state? Frederich Hayek knew the answer:
It's about control.
Continue reading . . . .
Thursday, 30 July 2009
43 Things Said in Job Interviews
Hiring managers shared these interview responses from 43 memorable job interviews:
"I'm not wanted in this state."
"How many young women work here?"
"I didn't steal it; I just borrowed it."
"You touch somebody and they call it sexual harassment!"
"I've never heard such a stupid question."
Why did you leave your last job?
"I have a problem with authority."
Tell us about a problem you had with a co-worker and how you resolved it
"The resolution was we were both fired."
Read the entire post at STORMBRINGER
Calls Received At The Golf Course
Staff: Golf course, may I help you?
Caller: What are your green fees?
Staff: 38 dollars.
Caller: Does that include golf?
MORE HERE
H/T JMH
Military Warnings....
“Aim towards the Enemy.”
- Instruction printed on US Rocket Launcher
“When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.”
- U.S. Army
“Cluster bombing from B-52s is very, very accurate. The bombs are guaranteed to always hit the ground.”
- U.S.A.F. Ammo Troop
“A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what’s left of your unit.”
- Army’s magazine of preventive maintenance.
“Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo.”
- Infantry Journal
“Tracers work both ways.”
- U.S. Army Ordnance
“No combat-ready unit has ever passed inspection.”
- Joe Gay
“Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do.”
- Unknown Army Recruit
“Don’t draw fire; it irritates the people around you.”
- Your Buddies
(And lastly) “If you see a bomb technician running, try to keep up with him.”
– U.S.A. Ammo
H/T DML
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Hey, Skippy
Democrats, Flying
At last! Americans may be snapping out of their stupor. Let's hope this catches.
“The question was asked back in February was: When does political gravity take hold? The answer is in this survey. It is happening right now.”
Think Lovely Thoughts! As Obama's Ratings Go Down, Down, Down, Republicans Attack, Attack, Attack
Hey, Skippy: "Originally I had thought it was time to move on from the Gates affair and the Harvard professor’s boorish behavior. However, events in our area have made me realize that passing this incident without a defense for police officers is to put them and citizens more in harm’s way."
Newsweek: $60 Billion and Not a Green Job Anywhere. Hmm. Where'd they go?
A Pattern of Coverups: What is Obama Hiding? And Why?
Words Escape Me
WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!
H1N1 VIRUS
. . .remember how a couple of years back the chicken flu was going to take us all out?
A Pandemic Is Declared - Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
. . . and what the Pentagon is going to do about it . . . at STORMBRINGER
Wednesday, 29 July 2009
Finally---The Birth Certificate.......from Rico
NOW IT'S OFFICIAL!
After spending $950,000 on attorneys to fend off releasing ANYTHING to prove
he is a citizen of USA, Obama recently released his Hawaii birth
certificate, and I hope, once and for all the matter will be dropped and I
will not have five or six emails each day from all you ultra-right-wingers
with a different conspiracy angle....
He was elected as our president and we need to get over the fact we
lost.....
SO please stop stirring up things and trying to discredit him with all these
stupid and groundless rumors....
Attached is a copy of his birth certificate and I hope this will put the
matter to rest once and for all!
From the Law Firm of..
MIND OF THE ENEMY
"If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles." - Sun Tzu
The Islamist enemy is determined and committed to Jihad. He is willing to give his life for the cause of martyrdom. How do we fight such an enemy? Or rather, how do we prevail against an enemy that no matter how hard we clobber him, will pop up again and again and again like Whack-A-Mole?
Short of committing ourselves to a Hundred Years War, let us stand back and try to look at the world from the mind of an Afghani or Pathan . . .
. . . continued at STORMBRINGER
Appeal of the Day....
Yomping4Heroes is aiming to raise cash for Help For Heroes by using the terrain of Dartmoor to recreate the infamous Falklands War "yomp" from Port San Carlos to Port Stanley , 56 miles, carrying 80 lbs in 3 days.
Details Here
MICHELE OBAMA'S ATTENDANTS
No, Michele Obama does not get paid to serve as the First Lady and she doesn't perform any official duties. But this hasn't deterred her from hiring an unprecedented number of staffers to cater to her every whim and to satisfy her every request in the midst of the Great Recession. Just think Mary Lincoln was taken to task for purchasing china for the White House during the Civil War. And Mamie Eisenhower had to shell out the salary for her personal secretary.
How things have changed! If you're one of the tens of millions of Americans facing certain destitution, earning less than subsistence wages stocking the shelves at Wal-Mart or serving up McDonald cheeseburgers, prepare to scream and then come to realize that the benefit package for these servants of Miz Michelle are the same as members of the national security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by John Q. Public:
1. $172,2000 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2. $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
3. $113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary)
4. $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
5. Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
6. $90,000 - Medina, David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
7. $84,000 - Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
8. $75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
9. $70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
10. $65,000 - Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
11. Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
12. $62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
13. $60,000 - Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
14. Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
15. $52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)
16. $50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
17. $45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
18. Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
19. $40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
20. $36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
21. Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
22. Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)
There has never been anyone in the White House at any time that has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady's social life. One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense, when even Hillary, only had three; Jackie Kennedy one; Laura Bush one; and prior to Mamie Eisenhower social help came from the President's own pocket.
Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and "First Hairstylist" Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom travelled aboard Air Force One to Europe.
H/T 45 Govt
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He Lost My Vote, Too
Sgt. Crowley has friends. Some of them have changed their minds about Obama.
Well, well. He lost my vote, too. Already. You know, before the election.
Related: Helen Thomas Mentions the Verboten!! Will wonders never cease!
Jules: Total Victory
Irish Cicero
Tuesday, 28 July 2009
WORLD's THIRD LARGEST NAVY . . .
. . . just got a little larger:
INDIA LAUNCHES FIRST DOMESTICALLY BUILT NUKE SUB
- STORMBRINGER SENDS
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