Tuesday, 17 August 2010
VBS TV: Oregon Fire Lines
'Whenever someone at our office bitches about being overworked, our stock response is “Beats digging ditches.” While the express intention of the statement is usually not-so-supportive, we think it’s a healthy reminder that at the end of the day, we are all basically professional emailers and should be thankful for such. The wildland firefighters who work for Grayback Forestry in Southern Oregon have no such motivational adages because their job is actually digging ditches. Around active forest fires. On the sides of mountains. You can’t even bitch at these guys for having cushy government pensions to fall back on when they get older, because they’re all private-sector contractors. Which means if they aren’t out fighting forest fires or doing preventative forestry on unburned woods (basically extreme landscaping), they are losing money. They are literally the hardest working men in tree business. We spent a few days following a crew of Grayback forest-firefighters walk up the sides of what most people would consider a cliff to chop down underbrush in preparation for a controlled burn. This is what they like to call “project work,” aka the light stuff in between fires, and yet it was still some of the hardest most least-rewarding work we have ever tried to do in our lives. Unless you consider 12-hour-plus shifts of backbreaking labor, virtually zero outside recognition, and occasional accusations of being shills for the timber industry rewards. Which we do not.'
The Semper Fi Moment
President Obama got off the helicopter in front of the White House, carrying a baby piglet under each arm.
The squared away Marine guard snaps to attention, salutes and says:"Nice pigs, sir."
The President replies: "These are not pigs... these are authentic Arkansas Razorback Hogs. I got one for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and I got one for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi."
The squared away Marine again snaps to attention, salutes and says, "Excellent trade, sir.”
H/T Pete H
Article: Weather or climate? It's a question of time
Recent news stories have raised the temperature of global warming rhetoric, comparing extreme weather events in Russia and Pakistan to Biblical predictions of planet-wide doom and a fear that even if mankind halted all industrial activity today it’d still be too late to save Earth from a fiery death.
The error of mistaking weather for climate might irritate careful scientists but makes for great headlines. Extreme weather events are bad for the people affected, but good for those driving an agenda like global warming.....continue reading
News...........
Day 39 – August 17th 1940
How the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight keeps spitfires and Lancasters in the air
Obama Fumbles Mosque Question
Cheat Sheet: Behind the Afghan Money Scandal
Obama backtracks over Ground Zero mosque after furious 9/11 families label him 'insensitive and uncaring'
History revisited as 20 Shire horses haul 16-ton Titanic anchor through Midlands just as their forebears did 99 years ago
Facebook 'dislike' scam warning
Why Must Our President Apologize for Islam?
Matterhorn Asset Management There Will Be No Double Dip... It Will Be A Lot Worse
Wheel-clamping on private land to be banned
Armed robbers chased by 30 police cars
China increases military advantage over Taiwan
Smokers could breathe life back into pubs
The battle over the mosque at Ground Zero
More than half of Britain's wind farms have been built where there is not enough wind
Race to Provide Aid Emerges Between West and Extremists
and finally......
Facebook in the Mass Effect Universe
The most honest protester ever
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The Great Unwinding.............from Rico
Biden-the-vice-idiot called this "the summer of recovery."
We have already HAD The Great Depression.
Forget about double-dip, v, w, or any recovery whatsoever...what we are about to enjoy is what will be called THE GREAT UNWINDING.
The US CPI was stable for about 200 years. Then, from 1971 to 2010 the CPI increased by almost 500%.
- Virtually ALL growth has come from massive increases in credit [read: debt], rather than real growth in GDP.
- This is why the US debt-to-GDP is now 380% and rising.
Keynesian "Obamanomics" means we will spend the next 100 years 'unwinding' this debt.
- This is NOT the 1930's, but will be more like pre-industrial revolution 1700's soon.
--Real unemployment is about 22%.
--The financial system is bankrupt.
--Federal and State deficits are rising.
So what do YOU think it will be like when things get really bad?
Monday, 16 August 2010
Patriot rider, waterpark fun and 9/12 in St Louis
This column is going to be something a bit different. As summer slowly turns into autumn the tea party movement is rising from its summer slumber. This week we have two events this week that might be of interest.
More @ The Examiner
NB: Their new site is having so teething problems forgive the character anomalies.
Gates!
Hot sticky gossip ala FoPo Online in the Iview with Def Sec Gates.
Sec Gates admits he'll hang til we all "know whether the strategy is working in Afghanistan"
He also brought up 2012 Electile Dysfunction:
"...The point of all of that is I think that by next year I'll be in a position where, you know, we're going to know whether the strategy is working in Afghanistan. We'll have completed the surge. We'll have done the assessment in December. And it seems like somewhere there in 2011 is a logical opportunity to hand off.
"...I think that it would be a mistake to wait until January 2012. First of all, I think we might have trouble getting the kind of person they want if there's a possibility that they might only be in the job for a year. You know, who knows what the election situation will look like. But also I just think this is not the kind of job you want to fill in the spring of a presidential election. So I think sometime in 2011 sounds pretty good.
Surprisingly good Iview - considering the questioner Dr F. Kaplan's penchant for Great Satan hating.
NUKES-R-US
A cool video montage . . . the Ultimate Nuclear Bomb Experience . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . STORMBRINGER
BIRTHER DOC CHARGED: DISOBEYING ORDERS
Disobedience . . . failure to make movement . . . this guy's setting himself up for a LONG stay in the slammer . . .
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Comedy: FASCINATING AIDA - It Isn't Too Late To Be Famous
No apologies for posting 3 of their songs in two days, but they are fantastic.
Trailer: 'The Expendables'
I may just have to go and watch this. The last time I went to the cinema I saw 'Goldeneye'.
Video: Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling
Coxsackie-Athens High School Valedictorian Erica Goldson makes valiant use of her graduation speech to selflessly rip the American educational system a new one.
Full Text Here
H/T DML
Free bowhunt...........
Tree Stand for use - excellent location however YOU have to talk the current user
into giving it up.
H/T Jackie G
Empty..........from Rico
No, it is NOT that the Emporer has no clothes...our First Kommissar is all clothes and no Emporer.
Obama-Soetoro, whatever his name is, is an EMPTY SUIT. Elegantly tailored and carefully presented...but an empty suit.
A hollow man embracing a hollow philosophy, as are his acolytes and devotees.
Empty suits all.
This November is an opportunity to take them to the cleaners.
- It will make a nice "change" I think, from them taking US to the cleaners.
News............
Day 38 – August 16th 1940
"A call to prayer from the world trade center rubble: islamic dawa in the heart of america post 9/11" ... by imam feisal abdul rauf ... and, yes, daily kos are lying bastards about the mosque's location ...
Why is it so Offensive?
Arizona Sheriff: Border Patrol Has Retreated from Parts of Border Because It’s ‘Too Dangerous’
Taliban, al Qaeda forces repel Afghan Army assault in eastern Afghanistan
The Ground Zero Victory Mosque: Obama's Extended Middle Finger to America
Miss Universe 2010 Heats Up
France urged to repay Haiti billions paid for its independence
Mosque flap swirls around Obama
Britain during the time of rationing
Stone Age remains are Britain's earliest house
No Homosexuals at Obama's Ramadan : Why Not?
World War II horrors faced by 'forgotten army' in Asia
It beggars belief: How the fake homeless are raking in more than £20,000 a year
How Many "Top Priority" Issues Does Obama Have?
Gen Petraeus casts doubt on July 2011 deadline for Afghan withdrawal
With no help from the Coaltion, country folk are doing it for themselves
Race is on to make the first 3D porn movie
A leap in the dark for paratroopers
Pakistan does not need western aid, opposition leader claims
The Wild West lives on when Americans go on holiday
Progressive Education: Early August, and Kids Already in School
and finally.......
Milking Cows for Electricity
Past meets future in Battle of Britain village
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