Wednesday, 23 June 2010
VBS TV: TOXIC: Gulf 1 of 3
As someone’s hopefully told you, for the last month and a half a 2-foot-wide pipe in the Gulf of Mexico has been ejaculating oil to the tune of half a million gallons a day. They went down to Louisiana over Memorial Day to see some of the damage for themselves.
Who needs a Zamboni............
...the Montreal Canadiens didn't have them when I was living there, I suppose I should become a Blackhawks fan instaed.
H/T Pete H
Puns for those with a high IQ..............
A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.
Dijon vu - the same mustard as before.
Practice safe eating - always use condiments.
Shotgun wedding - A case of wife or death.
A man needs a mistress just to break the monogamy.
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
Dancing cheek-to-cheek is really a form of floor play.
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
Condoms should be used on every conceivable occasion.
Reading while sunbathing makes you well red.
When two egotists meet, it's an I for an I.
A bicycle can't stand un its own because it is two tired.
What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead give away.)
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
In democracy your vote counts. In feudalism your count votes.
She was engaged to a boyfriend with a wooden leg but broke it off.
A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
If you don't pay your exorcist, you get repossessed
With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.
The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.
You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
Local Area Network in Australia - the LAN down under.
Every calendar's days are numbered.
A lot of money is tainted - Taint yours and taint mine.
A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
He had a photographic memory that was never developed.
A midget fortune-teller who escapes from prison is a small medium at large.
Once you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall.
Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead-to-know basis.
Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
Acupuncture is a jab well done.
H/T RIS
Video: Adrenaline Rush.......
HD version here A must see (May need DivX player to watch) H/T Old Dude
News..........
Ted Kennedy's KGB Correspondence
You think the military doesn't despise the white house? ... oh, they do, and it is official ...
Barack Obama's Square Box
Dutch police to use 'decoy Jews' as concerns grow about mounting hate crime in cities
VAT rise: What supermarket food is exempt?
Judge halts Obama's oil-drilling ban
Obama's real McChrystal problem: Afghanistan plan in trouble
Amid crises, Obama declares war -- on Arizona
Mexican Gangs Maintain Permanent Lookout Bases in Hills of Arizona
MOD aircraft 'in 832 near misses'
General Stanley McChrystal has been stitched up by Rolling Stone
Times Square bomb plot: Faisal Shahzad warns of further attacks
Rahm Emanuel 'traded political favours with Rod Blagojevich'
Russia pushing for control of fuel supplies to crucial US airbase
Peru overtakes Colombia as world's leading producer of coca leaf
and finally.......
This town ain't big enough for a naked cowboy and a naked cowgirl
Doug Hagin Radio Show If You are Left You Just ain’t Right #3
Drug Cartels Death Threats Against US Law Inforcement In Arizona
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The Aden sisters............from Rico
I have long been a 'fan' of Jim Rogers and Marc Faber. Yankee Jim forecasts the markets from Singapore, and Swissie Marc from Hong Kong.
They have some competition for my attention however, the Aden sisters who prognosticate from Costa Rica. Like both the above gents, they are right more often than not, and ALL of them are right almost all the time compared to the mentally challenged deep-thinkers in Foggy Bottom [our politico's in DC].
Mary Ann and Pamela Aden write "The Aden Report" from San Jose. From 'afar' I think (1) they see the forest more clearly, and (2) they may very well be on-target with their bullish call on gold [see attached chart]. Are the Aden sisters right?
It is certainly NOT a good time to be long on any sort of Gooberment Bond right now (promises to maybe pay you back), and despite short-term Dollar strength (driven by the flight from the Euro) I am even more pessimistic on the future of the greenback. The Dow at 50,000 wouldn't mean very much if the US Dollar was devalued like the Zimbabwe Dollar has been...and any serious student of economic history knows that the German stock market went parabolic during the Weimar German Mark collapse and hyperinflation. Imaginary paper profits being REALLY taxed by the bloodsuckers in the IRS doesn't much appeal to me either.
So, what DOES appeal to me? Having some of my retirement money in gold bullion outside the US does for one thing, and I always DID like Costa Rica.....
Will Obama Fire McChrystal?
A really good video clip:
And the source of all of this, Rolling Stone's interview, "The Runaway General."
RELATED: James Fallows, "Obama Has to Fire McChrystal." (Via Memeorandum.)
Cross-posted from American Power.
McChrystal and Civil-Military Relations
Eliot Cohen, who is not kind to Obama (and his strategic blunders in Afghanistan), puts the burden on McChrystal's breach of civilian control, "Why McChrystal Has to Go":
It is intolerable for officers to publicly criticize or mock senior political figures, including the vice president or the ambassador (who is, after all, the president's personal representative to a foreign government). It is intolerable for them to publicly ridicule allies. And quite apart from his own indiscretions, it is the job of a commanding general to set a tone that makes such behavior unacceptable on the part of his subordinates.RELATED: Some interesting links at Instapundit, here and here.
Cross-posted from American Power.
Althouse on Gaga
Hey, all the big bloggers blog Lady Gaga, like Ann:
She posed for the cover in a big machine-gun bra and a nearly naked ass and purports to "tell all," yet everyone's talking about McChrystal, whose name isn't even on the cover! Life is so unfair to Lady Gaga!Glenn Reynolds chimes in, "THE REAL VICTIM IN THAT MCCHRYSTAL/OBAMA FIGHT..."
And previously at American Power, "Lady Gaga Goes Double-Barrel at Rolling Stone."
Cross-posted from American Power.
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Runaway General
Fire General McChrystal? Heck - promote the guy!
Quick note - the journalist that wrote this is very, very disingenuous: 44 did not "...immediately ..." set about to do AfPAK, Marjah is not "...a doomed..." offensive (indeed - COIN Ops are a long, slow grind) and the time line seems awful suspect. Almost like the quotes are a year old - or older. Only the bit about Paris seems timely...
NASCAR misfire...
Convincing motor racing fans from around the world the value of NASCAR is rather hard. Most of the time motorsport fans make comments on how boring it is watching them go round and round for hours in a circle. Its understandable if you are used to road racing like Touring Car (German, World, BTCC etc), where the racing is almost exclusively on road courses. There are a few exceptions to the ovals on the NASCAR schedule. One occurred on Sunday in Sonoma California.
At first it was not a bad race, save for Jeff Gordon punting people off the track left and right. One driver vowed revenge at the next race, a driver known for not having outbursts, Martin Truex Jr. There were quite a few lead changes and not much race stoppage due the normal “debris” excuse.
Unfortunately NASCAR endeavoured to do their best to ruin a good day of racing. In doing so they either look like a bunch of inconsistent rule enforcers or at worst the fix is in for Jimmy Johnson. Only the most cynical would think that latter but after Sunday you can’t blame them for broaching the subject.
The day was dominated by Marcos Ambrose, an Aussie driver of V8 Supercar fan and fortune, he outclassed the entire field. The only one close was the bore by the name of Jimmy Johnson. A champion in the mode of personality-free, great but dull to watch, F1 great Michael Schumacher.
There was a wreck near the end. During the yellow flag period, Ambrose's car stalled on an uphill section of the track. NASCAR refused to allow him to go back to the front before the restart. They cited some obscure rule that probably few drivers knew about and it was obvious no one told Ambrose about. As a result NASCAR, due to its pedantic nature, gave the win to Jimmy Johnson. What was pathetic to see was JJ's crew chief, who is also a Speed contributor, rushing off to a NASCAR official to whine.
Why would any road-race fan from across the world want to watch NASCAR again after this pathetic display of rules merchant idiocy? We want to see a fair race won, by the best driver, no some lame stitch-up by a team that knows the rules better than anyone else.
NASCAR used to be about ability, these days it seems to be more about who knows the rules best. If NASCAR wants to attract motor racing fans from throughout the world, which it clearly does, it has to clean up its act.
Jennifer Love Hewitt Looks Fabulous in New People Magazine!
Hey, my wife gets People Magazine, and man this week's issue is fantastic!
See, "Jennifer Love Hewitt Advises Girls to 'Love the Way You Look'":
In a world that's overly focused on body image, Jennifer Love Hewitt is urging young women not to obsess about weight – because it's simply not worth it.Well, she's one to talk!
Plus: "Sneak Peek! PEOPLE's Most Amazing Bodies."
CROSS-POSTED FROM AMERICAN POWER.
Hollywood Walk of Fame
At Father's Day dinner, my wife mentioned that she'd never seen the "stars" on Hollywood Boulevard. I told her that I was just up there in February, when I covered the communist protest against "Obama's wars."
If you're not careful, you'll miss some of the cooler stars on the sidewalk, which are often located where you least expect them. Below, just reading their names was breathtaking. At bottom, the parking attendant took my picture (the ANSWER commie stickers on my shirt are part of my "cover" for my inside reporting). I parked at Hollywood and Vine, across from the Capitol Records building. I think I'll take my family up there one of these weekends. It's much more family friendly than it was in the 1980s, when I used be in Hollywood all the time for punk rock concerts:
Cross-posted from American Power.
If you're not careful, you'll miss some of the cooler stars on the sidewalk, which are often located where you least expect them. Below, just reading their names was breathtaking. At bottom, the parking attendant took my picture (the ANSWER commie stickers on my shirt are part of my "cover" for my inside reporting). I parked at Hollywood and Vine, across from the Capitol Records building. I think I'll take my family up there one of these weekends. It's much more family friendly than it was in the 1980s, when I used be in Hollywood all the time for punk rock concerts:
Video: Brian Blessed's Battle Cry for England
I fear he is wasting his breath........that bunch of semi-literate nancy boys couldn't win if they were the only team on the pitch. (PS I hope I am wrong)
H/T Paul N
We don't "see" it coming.........from Rico
As usual, we do NOT see this one coming. We are not "hearing" it either due to all the noise-chatter from the financial media or the mainstream media who are "cheerleading" the success of Keynesian recovery [read: Mugabenomics socialist-style].
Our sovereign debt problems will play out like what happened in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Indonesia, Peru & Thailand. [Well, you're probably tired of me gassing-on about Weimar and Zimbabwe by now, but we never learn from history do we?]
1. A broad BIG correction is coming in the next several months across the equity markets.
2. The Dow et al will then reinflate on the back of devalued currencies (the Dollar & Euro will be devalued).
- The Dollar is in a long-term decline, down more than 31% from 2001.
3. Natural resources [read: commodities like oil-copper-gold] will outperform equities.
I "HOPE" I'm wrong, but we are going to get a "CHANGE" and we will not like it.....
News.........
The white house ... to become even more hysterically leftist and incompetent after the 2010 mid-terms ... as "moderate voice" raham emanuel quits ...
Obama’s Thuggery Is Useless in Fighting Spill
U.S. eager to replicate Afghan villagers' successful revolt against Taliban
Israel and the Surrender of the West
Pakistan continues to support terror groups, US report finds
French prisoner 'killed cellmate and ate his lung'
US forces sell off equipment in Iraq ahead of pullout
European gas fears as Russia cuts supplies to Belarus
Zimbabwe under fire over 'blood diamonds'
Iran bans two UN nuclear inspectors from country
Ex-Spain PM: If Israel goes down, we all go down
Is U.S. Now On Slippery Slope To Tyranny?
Should Pres. Obama Resign Over Feb. 13?
and finally.......
Invitation to join Friends Of Israel
California is Broke, Wants to Sell Ads on Your License Plate
8 awesome ways for guys to beat the heat this summer
Gas prices got you down? Instead, try natural gas
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