Friday, 16 October 2009
News......
U.S. troop funds diverted to pet projects.
High Price of Obamacare.
MoD accused of risky arms-buying spree.
Obama loosens missile technology controls to China.
US spends $1 million per soldier in Afghanistan, government report says.
Taliban Campaign Strikes at Cultural Heart of Pakistan!
Final boarding call: empty bladders only.
Yoga and circus skills replace school rugby.
MEPs call for compulsory 'EU lessons' in schools.
West German spies collected jokes from behind the Berlin Wall.
France will not send any more troops to Afghanistan, says Nicolas Sarkozy.
Michele Bachmann is the new Republican Party pin-up.
Boy asks Barack Obama 'why do people hate you?'.
Pakistan's ISI still supporting the Taliban, say Afghans.
'Ho White and the Seven Dwarves' beer advert angers Disney.
MI5 chief defends 'torture intelligence'.
‘Sufficient evidence’ to charge Libyans over Yvonne Fletcher.
UN row threatens to sink Middle East peace plan.
Italians bribed the Taleban all over Afghanistan, say officials.
Five men convicted of plotting terror attack in Australia.
Shocker! Obama Pentagon to Bury Bush Doctrine.
Paratroopers Learn Battlefield Forensics.
and finally......
British men last longer in bed than foreigners.
Frog Bashing......
What do you call 100,000 Frenchmen with their hands up?
The army.
How can you recognise a French veteran?
Sunburn
Why are there so many tree-lined boulevards in France?
Germans like to march in the shade.
Why did it take Germany three days to conquer France in World War II?
Because it was raining.
Why did the French give America the Statue of Liberty?
Because she has only one arm raised.
Why do the French get more votes in the U.N.?
They vote with both hands.
Why is the French fighter plane called the Mirage?
It doesn't exist.
Why don't they have fireworks at Euro Disney?
Because every time they shoot them off, the French try to surrender.
What does 'Maginot' mean in German?
Welcome!
Why is the French Foreign Legion the only decent fighting force in the whole French Army?
Because it's made up of foreigners.
Why do the French have glass bottom boats in their Navy?
To see all their other ships.
What did the mayor of Paris say to the German army as they entered the city in World War II?
'Table for 100,000, monsieur?'
Why are the French afraid of war?
You would be, too, if you had never won one.
How do you stop a French army on horseback?
Turn off the carousel.
Did you hear about the French admiral who wanted to be buried at sea when he died?
Five sailors died digging his grave.
What's the best thing about being French?
You can surrender at the beginning of the war and somebody else will win it for you.
'I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.'
General George S. Patton.
How do the French advertise surplus World War II rifles for sale?
'Never fired, only dropped once.'
H/T DML
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Mao? WTF?.................from Rico
Insanity.
Er....social justice, wealth redistribution= Marxism.
The strongest castle walls are no defense against enemies within.
Che-Castro-Mao.
- Commies ain't cool.
FYI - The Chinese 'gulags' were known as "the big circle"...are you listening?
This video is worth watching.
American Zombie Support for Obama Remains Strong
Republic of Virtue? 43% of American Electorate are "Functional Zombies"
A Republican Wave? I wouldn't bet on it. Most conservatives I know don't trust the Republican Party much more than Democrats. For most of us, it feels like an oligarchic elite is in control. I would say America is doing some serious soul-searching.
Jay Cost at Real Clear Politics narrows in on something I've been wondering about:
"In the last five years, I have noticed a peculiar phenomenon about the national party committees. Twice in a row the out-party's committee seems to have been "captured" by an ambitious politician who seems more interested in making a name for himself rather than doing the nitty-gritty, unglamorous work of laundering money. I think two factors help explain this." What's Happening to the RNC?
Tony Blankley: This is Nuts
Treat Yourself: Washington Rebel
Thursday, 15 October 2009
Random Thoughts...........from Marshall
> The Duke lacrosse case is still active; you just don't hear a lot about it anymore since the media lost interest. The hoax no longer fit the media template of what is important, mainly a lot of white-bashing, and beating up on nice kids from good families. The big media left walked away long ago but they can't get rid of it.
I read a while back that the insurance company does not want to pay the damage suits to the players, contending (correctly) that the school administrators deliberately slandered the lacrosse players and that the school, not the insurance company, should have to pay the players. I'm no fan of insurance companies but I agree with them on this one. They are generally ahead of the Duke faculty. We have the medialeft and the faculty left, don't we.
> Democrats never admit tax cuts produce more tax revenue. Stimulated growth does the trick every time. Democrats claim to care about balancing budgets and say they have to raise taxes to do so. They won't admit that spending (THEIR spending), not tax cuts, ran up the 1980s budget deficit.
> " Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right." - Joseph Sobran sobran.com
If they ever created a Hall of Fame for writers, Joe Sobran should be among the first inductees. one more :
" Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized." - Joseph Sobran
> Have you ever heard of a town having its zip code revoked by the U.S. Postal Service ? It happened to Centralia, Pennsylvania in 1992.
Zip Code 17927 was revoked because of a coal mine fire underground, smoldering since 1962, causing the town to be abandoned, a modern day ghost town.
By 2005 the town was down to 11 residents, having contained a population of more than 1,000 as recently as 1981. Centralia, once a prosperous coal town, is now a ghost town, a dangerous place to even walk around. Cave-ins now occur there and grass grows all winter in super cold Pennsylvania because of the always warm-to hot ground surface in Centralia. See offroaders.com and damninteresting.com for more details.
> Bumper sticker of the day : Downsize D.C.
> " As regards providing medical insurance for illegal immigrants, I doubt that the president will do that. More likely, he will legalize them first and then give them medical insurance."- Thomas Sowell
And in so doing, the president will have a bunch of new Democrats ready to vote themselves more government goodies, paid for by you and me. - MM
> " The plain fact is that the Obama administration has very shallow roots in historic America. It is, to put it brutally, a minority occupation government. Government and governed have very little real contact or mutual understanding. It's a recipe for continuous clashes." - Peter Brimelow on VDare.com 10-7-09
> Tax withholding was designed by Milton Friedman, then a young economist, just to get us through World War II. I believe he later regretted it. It became a government con game, a deception still conning us years later.
> " Who gets to decide what constitutes 'reasonable gun control' ? Diane Feinstein or Ted Nugent ? "- libertybelles.org
Now we know why........
A long time ago, the British and French were at war.
During one battle, the French captured an English major.
They took the major to their headquarters and a French general began to question him.
The French general asked: 'Why do you English officers all wear red coats?
Don't you know the red material makes you easy targets for us to shoot?'
In his debonair English way, the major informed the general that the reason English officers wear red coats is so that if they are shot, the blood won't show, and the men they are leading won't panic.
And that is why from that day to now, all French army officers wear brown pants.
News......
London home 'needs £93,000 wage'.
The Rush Limbaugh media lynch mob.
Warm Fuzzy Liberals.
U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division protecting Chinese copper mine in Afghanistan.
Seven steps to a secure Afghanistan.
United States to send 'up to 45,000 more troops to Afghanistan'.
More than one billion go hungry in world recession.
Christopher Columbus writings prove he was Spanish, claims study.
US man gets 50 jobs in 50 states in 50 weeks.
Zimbabwe judge jails MDC treasurer Roy Bennett.
Dutch team 'designed Australia's Americas Cup winning winged keel'.
A year after the crunch, it's boom time again for bankers.
French troops were killed after Italy hushed up ‘bribes’ to Taleban.
Half of hospitals do not fully meet core care standards, says regulator.
Japan to withdraw ships from Afghanistan support role.
and finally......
Winter in New England #4: Wood and Pellet Stoves
MATA HARI
How the British would've handled her, if they had gotten their hands on the girl . . .
Lurid details . . . STORMBRINGER
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Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Let me get this straight.....
We're going to pass a health care plan written by a committee whose head says he
doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts
themselves from it, signed by a president that also hasn't read it, and who smokes,
with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by
a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke.
What possibly could go wrong?
H/T Nebraska Bob
