Visiting the1972 Munich Olympic Massacre site

Placing a stone on the Memorial Plaque as a sign of respect to the Massacred Israeli Athletes

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."

 

All the rest at DoubleTapper

Meet our new Caddy.........

MORE HERE


From I suck at golf

Flyover On Band Day University of Nebraska. 1951

H/T Nebraska Bob

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!)

Video: Abercrombie Admits There Are No Obama Birth Records In Hawaii

H/T Nebraska Bob

Bonus Babe.........

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

Wise Guys TV: We Pick The Winners 2011 NFL Conference Championships

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?

Pic Dump.......

Thursday Totty.............

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.

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.

Bedtime Totty...........

Reason TV: Obama's State of the Union: Still Unfocused on Jobs

SOTU (the State of the Union). So WHAT?.............from Rico

The political party that calls the 'other' party "the Party of NO" should itself be named "the Party of we're NOT telling you."

I wrote this yesterday, but instead of sending it waited until after the SOTU address to see if my 'guesstimation' of the current crop of low-lifes would be proven wrong. It wasn't. The lying thieving bastards just can't speak plainly or talk straight, but I understand completely...if they did there would not be enough tar & feathers or enough rope & trees, so it's clearly in their self-interest to NOT tell us the truth.

Here are some things UNSAID which some politely call 'spin' and others call 'lying by omission' (just NOT telling us):
- QE-1 didn't work and spending $1.75 trillion dollars did not accomplish a thing.
- The $12.3 trillion dollars the FED spent or loaned since the 2008 meltdown accomplished nothing (unless you're Citi, B of A, or Goldman, Morgan et. al.).
- QE-2 (continuing monetization of US debt) never identified a maximum but only a minimum of $600 billion in additional FED purchases of Treasurys, and it never identified June 2011 as the end of QE-2...it was only said that a target of $600 billion would be spent BY that date, not that this was an end date or they would stop buying/spending.

...............are you starting to catch on yet? Get it? Here is some more:

Shadow Stats (John Williams is the real deal and a mensch) calculates the REAL numbers the way they were done by the USG in the 1980's-1990's before O.D.D.I. (official data distortion and intervention) and M.O.P.E. (management of perception economics) became Government Policy and practice. [for kool-aid drinkers read: BOGUS numbers, lies]

BOGUS REAL
1.5% 8.91% annual Consumer Price Index
9.4% 22.4% unemployment (only 47% of working-age Americans have a full-time job today)
3.25% <1.44%> GDP annual (shown as 'growth' when it is in 'decline' ....negative)

George Orwell was a genius ahead of his time.
Both U.S. political parties amply demonstrate Orwellian double-speak (freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, etc.) and the sheeple continue to be told everything is getting better and going to get better. Double-plus GOOD!
The populi thus convinced, the rape of the common tax-payer by the taxs-penders on behalf of the tax-eaters merrily continues unabated.
More Government and more freeloaders will NOT solve this problem. Having spent all of our money, we are now spending OPM (other people's money) at a parabolic rate which cannot be sustained.
- Maragaret Thatcher had it absolutely correct when she commented that the only problem with Socialism was that eventually you run out of other people's money. Uncle Sam is broke and borrowing heavily, what happens when 'other people' quit loaning this deadbeat their money?

Riots in the Middle East

There are some significant riots currently in Israel's neighbor Egypt. These riots are a spillover from Tunisia's recent riots and ousting of their evit dictator. Tunisia's success has gotten Arabs worldwide thinking, hey, why not us?". Well, riots are going strong in Egypt, and while Tunisia has been a unprecedented success, there is less hope for a similar outcome in Egypt. As an aside, why aren't the Arabs rioting in Israel? Shouldn't they take this unique opportunity to revolt against the evil, warmongering, apartheid, baby-killing, illegal Zionist Entity?

Read the entire article at DoubleTapper


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Cartoon Round Up....

Australia Day Totty..............

Video: Cat vs Printer - The Translation

Caution Language but very funny.



H/T Chris

AWWWWwwwwwwwwwwwwwww............

H/T Peter Gunn

H/T DML

Blog of the Day.........

Send Stephen to Swaziland

from our good friend Paddy Anglican who writes
'Friends - If I could ask you to read the posting below. I am looking for support for a forthcoming Mission/Aid Trip I am participating in to Swaziland with USPG. If you would like to assist by making a donation and or praying for the work of USPG in Swaziland and their mission partners Rev'd Andrew and Rosemary Symonds I would be very grateful.'

H/T Paul N

Video: Lockheed Martin’s Hybrid Air Vehicle

H/T Shelly

Why gas cost so much in 1955

A service station owner explains why gas is so expensive on a sign at his station.


H/T DML

Interactive Thingy: Enola Gay Cockpit.........

View It Here


H/T Doverthere

Pic Dump.........

Video: Two New Roadrunner Cartoons.........

Road Runner - Coyote Falls 2010 from Animation-HD on Vimeo.

Road Runner - Fur Of Flying from Animation-HD on Vimeo.

News........

How to become a typical Australian

One of the advantages of getting old is...

Browner squished like a bed bug


AESA Equipped Strike Eagle Begins Flight Testing at Eglin

The “Resistance” in Lebanon

The SOTU on Truth Serum

Adoption: 'We don't need white couples'

Obama's State of The Union Address Word Cloud

Europe's Muslim Lobby


Targeting the Taliban? There's an iPhone App For That

Nimrod Jets Dismantled To Save Money

Jordan's Trillions

Reading Shelf, part ??

Obama: Liar


Beware the Jabberwock

Congress will give Obama a civil reception — for one night

America is where the money is, global investors now feel

Commodity markets head for biggest 3-week loss after India rate hike

Hamas accuses Fatah rivals of betraying their own people

Bank of England chief Mervyn King: standard of living to plunge at fastest rate since 1920s


Tax errors put millions of pensions in jeopardy

Global warming will freeze Britain

South Korea seeks to restart talks with North Korea within weeks

Plans for Nato withdrawal could be hit by base construction delays

UN calls for Somali pirate chief hunt

Sea no evil: the life of a modern sailor

Tunisia's Worrying Precedent: Arab Rulers Fear Spread of Democracy Fever


Greenpeace Founder Questions Manmade Global Warming


Federal Government Unions Looting American Taxpayers

Civility, Seating, and Substance By Sen. Tom Coburn

and finally......

Troops First Foundation H/T Shelly

U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Jeffery Laubaugh, left, administers the oath of enlistment to Chief Petty Officer Jared Pringle during an underwater re-enlistment ceremony in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Jan. 14, 2011. Pringle is an intelligence specialist. U.S. Navy photo by Lt. j.g. Matthew Gray

H/T Marc

Video: Cucumber Abuse

H/T Paul B

Video: One way to advertise........

Liveleaker launches 100 paper planes from space



H/T Marc

H/T Paul B

Video: Day at the Beach (starring Frenchy)

What could POSSIBLY ruin the perfect day at the beach?





Written & Directed by Travis Kurtz
Starring Matin Atrushi
Director of Photography Ignatius Fischer
Edited by David Conner


www.zekemahogany.com

Wednesday Wenches........

UN's Israel Lunacy Spilling Over to Other Areas by Dan Friedman

Who would have thought it was possible to ruin the UN’s reputation? But one of their own employees is trying his best to do just that. At the enormous bureaucracy a special section has been created known as (no irony intended) The Human Rights Council where UN personnel most afflicted with anti-Semitism can find a home and, presumably, be confined. But as this story and this editorial about a UN loose canon so vividly demonstrate, Jew-hatred is a powerful obsession that often drives the Jew-hater off the deep end, making it not so easy to quarantine.

Reason TV: iPhone and oBama: Two Expensive New Models (Reason.tv SOTU response!)