Tuesday, 12 July 2011
News...........
The last carbon tax?
Occasioning Hope
U.S. may act unilaterally vs Iran-armed Iraq militias
Germany's controversial Saudi tank deal
AFRICOM Marine task force to help train militaries fighting al-Qaida-linked groups in Somalia, Maghreb region
Iran denies US claims it armed Iraq rebels
Tough Duty!
Panetta makes 9/11 gaffe in Iraq
U.S. Set to Sell Fighter Jets to Iraq
Tyrannus Obama Rex
Taxes Upon Taxes Upon . . .
Obama Administration to Protest Latest Attack on U.S. Embassy in Syria
Iran threatens to attack rebels across Iraq border
How We Balanced the Budget Last Time
Pro-Assad demonstrators attack US, French embassies
Stealth Funding
The Necessity Of U.S. Naval Power
“Iraq’s interest lies in U.S. troops presence in Iraq,” al-Iraqiya Coalition’s member says
Rebound “not happening” in 2011
Mila Kunis Says She'll Accompany U.S. Marine to Corps Ball
CDR Salamander: Obamanomics Update
12 dead as seized Iran munitions detonate in Cyprus naval base
'If we didn't have Beck, we'd invent someone similar'
Japanese Propose Turning Oceans Into…
Panetta to Iraq on asking U.S. troops to stay: 'Dammit, make a decision'
Deception evidence reaches Oval Office?
Desperate Scousewives
CIA 'set up fake vaccination programme to capture Osama bin Laden's DNA'
Syria: Bashar al-Assad not 'indispensable'
Two Americans abducted by gunmen in Philippines
Hamid Karzai's brother killed in Afghanistan
Libya: France risks Nato split over call for Gaddafi talks
The Next Domino?: Italy Suffers from Euro-Zone Contagion Fears
The Great Madness of 2004-10
Syria Spies On American Protesters
Believing.........from Rico
Gee, who to believe?
- Your obviously lying eyes, or the Teleprompter? [I'm starting to associate his press events with market crashes...are you?]
In all fairness, while chart 1 is a meter designed to gauge Obama-Soetoro's level of mendacity, it also works well for the Democratic (C) Party AND for all members of Congress. chart 2 is an offishul Congressional eye test for constituents...it should help explain to YOU Mr. Voter (a.k.a. "sucker") that politicians go to the highest bidder.
After all....would they lie while they bloviating about the Debt ceiling, et al?
- SURE it's safe! While I wouldn't buy a used car from these kleptocrats, YOU Mr. Voter (a.k.a. "mug") obviously did!
Monday, 11 July 2011
Casey Anthony, Miss America
Casey Anthony, the mother of a toddler whose body was stuffed into a bag and tossed into a swamp, will walk free in a day or so. A jury was unable to conclude that the abandoned body, its face covered in duck tape, was murdered. There wasn’t, they insisted, enough “proof” even though the child’s mother did not report her to be either dead or missing, and then lied to family, friends, and law enforcement authorities until the body was recovered.
The case caught the attention of the public because Casey Anthony’s behavior was not just bizarre, it was abhorrent.
The mainstream media has picked the bones of Cayley Anthony clean without telling Americans that the U.S. has the highest rate of child homicide rates, four times as high, as all other Western nations surveyed.
In a March 31, 2000 article, World Net Daily report, Ian Murray, a senior research analyst at the Statistical Assessment Service, a Washington-based non-profit, non-partisan think tank, said “in the rush to reduce America’s high juvenile homicide rates into a gun-control debate, we’re missing the chilling bigger picture of the real and deadly risks our children face, and what it says about our society.”
“For every American child 4 or younger” that is murdered, said Murray, “more than eight others died violently by other means” than guns. They are murdered by blunt objects, strangulation or, most commonly, hands, fists or feet.”
We don’t have a gun problem in America; 80,000,000 Americans own guns. “Even if all the gun homicides were taken out of the equation, America would still have an infant-homicide rate more than 3.5 times as high as the other Western countries”, a phenomenon Murray described as “staggering.”
We live in a society where toddlers are dressed provocatively, adorned with adult makeup, and paraded in contests as objects of desire. We have gone from Shirley Temple to JonBenet Ramsey.
We have gone from a preponderance of traditional two-parent families to a scandal of single-parent “families” and Casey Anthony was just one of many such single mothers. No one knows who the father is.
It is not a stretch to point out that President Obama was the son of a divorced, teen-aged mother, who remarried, divorced again, and abandoned her child to the care of her parents. The President experienced trauma and dislocation throughout all of his formative years. Why should we not conclude that it seriously affected him? To this day, his mother-in-law lives in the White House to provide a measure of care for his two daughters.
Common to both Ms. Anthony and the President is the persistent and blatant telling of lies.
Of the present tragedy and miscarriage of justice, we already know that Casey Anthony has achieved “celebrity” status. We have gone from Hester Prynne of the “Scarlet Letter” to books, made-for-TV movies, and all the other blandishments that will be lavished on this accused and acquitted murderer.
None of this speaks well of our society. Too many toddlers are being murdered by their parents. Too many are being abandoned to the care of their grandparents. Too many are lost in a foster parent system that often leaves them scarred for life.
It does not take much prescience or insight to conclude that Casey Anthony will come to a bad end. It’s just a matter of time.
America is heading in a bad direction, too. Do we have time to turn around a wounded society that allows sexual deviants to parade in our streets and preach their lifestyle in our schoolrooms?
Do we have time to end the practice of same-sex marriages?
Do we have time to put an end to all the calls that any symbol of the Christian and Jewish faiths be removed from public display, any mention of God or any prayer in public meetings be silenced?
The clock is ticking.
© Alan Caruba, 2011
U.S. Electronic Warfare
See: "U.S. Builds Up Electronic Attack Arsenal." From the Los Angeles Times:
EA-18 Growler jets have been deployed to Libya. Instead of bombs, they carry an array of radars, antennas and high-tech gear to thwart enemy air-defense systems.
Murdoch News Scandal Spreads
Things don't look good for Rupert Murdoch.
See: "Murdoch Newspapers Targeted Gordon Brown."
More news and reports at the link. I'll be following this story throughout the day.
Great Sports Quotes..........
I’m working as hard as I can to get my life and my cash to run out at the same time. If I can just die after lunch Tuesday, everything will be perfect.
- Doug Sanders, professional golfer
All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives “See, there’s a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer."
Mickey Lolich, Detroit Tigers Pitcher
Last year we couldn’t win at home and we were losing on the road. My failure as a coach was that I couldn’t think of anyplace else to play.
- Harry Neale, professional hockey coach
When it’s third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers; I’ll take the whiskey drinkers every time.
- Max McGee, Green Bay Packers receiver
I found out that it’s not good to talk about my troubles. Eighty percent of the people who hear them don’t care and the other twenty percent are glad you’re having trouble.
- Tommy LaSorda, LA Dodgers manager
My knees look like they lost a knife fight with a midget.
- E. J. Holub, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker regarding his 12 knee operations
My theory is that if you buy an ice-cream cone and make it hit your mouth, you can learn to play. If you stick it on your forehead, your chances aren't as good.
- Vic Braden, tennis instructor
Blind people come to the ballpark just to listen to him pitch.
- Reggie Jackson commenting on Tom Seaver
When they operated, I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did – but it was Mrs. Koufax’s.
- Tommy John N.Y. Yankees recalling his 1974 arm surgery
I don’t know. I only played there for nine years.
- Walt Garrison, Dallas Cowboys fullback when asked if Coach Tom Landry ever smiles
We were tipping off our plays. Whenever we broke from the huddle, three backs were laughing and one was pale as a ghost.
- John Breen, Houston Oilers
The film looks suspiciously like the game itself.
- Bum Phillips, New Orleans Saints after viewing a lop-sided loss to the Atlanta Falcons
When I’m on the road, my greatest ambition is to get a standing "boo".
- Al Hrabosky, major league relief pitcher
The only difference between me and General Custer is that I have to watch the films on Sunday.
- Rick Venturi, Northwestern football coach
I have discovered, in twenty years of moving around the ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
- Bill Veeck, Chicago White Sox owner
Because if it didn’t work out, I didn’t want to blow the whole day.
- Paul Horning, Green Bay Packers running back on why his marriage ceremony was before noon.
I have a lifetime contract. That means I can’t be fired during the third quarter if we’re ahead and moving the ball.
- Lou Holtz, Arkansas football coach
I won’t know until my barber tells me on Monday.
- Knute Rockne, when asked why Notre Dame had lost a game
I tell him “Attaway to hit, George.”
- Jim Frey, K.C. Royals manager when asked what advice he gives George Brett on hitting
I learned a long time ago that “minor surgery” is when they do the operation on someone else, not you.
- Bill Walton, Portland Trial Blazers
Our biggest concern this season will be diaper rash.
- George MacIntyre, Vanderbilt football coach surveying the team roster that included 26 freshmen and 25 sophomores.
H/T Shelly
Israel Turns The Tables On USA's Jewish Left.........by Dan Friedman
The op-ed below is good news, unless you’re a “Reform” or a liberal Jew, which are too often one and the same. If you do fit the description, the attached has your spiritual failure and political isolation written all over it. Israel and the Jewish community that gave Obama 80% of its vote, and rallied around Tony Kushner, are parting ways. Israel is leaving them in the dust.
To give credit where it’s due, liberal “intellectuals” like nominal Jews Thomas Friedman and Peter Beinhart must have seen this coming. The only explanation for their petulant attacks against Israel and their hysterical rants exhorting Pharaoh Obama to whip Israel harder is an overwhelming inner rage provoked by a Jewish a nation with the gall to reject their “advice” - and is now clearly better off without it.
But it’s too late for the Jewish Left, as well as their farbissen cohorts running the “organizations” and the rabbis and rabbettes preaching the liberal gospel in their “temples.” They placed big bets on bile, egotism and distortions – anything except love of The Land- and came up craps. So in desperation, the spiteful unJews thought to punish Israel by distancing themselves from Zion. But as we see history rapidly unfolding, Zion is growing stronger and “more Jewish” while The Land distances itself from them. df
In praise of rightist Israel
News.............
Rule 5 -- For the Ladeez...!
What happens when Iran kills American soldiers?
Iranian commander: US carriers target if attacked
Iraqi cleric Sadr will not revive anti-US militia
In Baghdad, Panetta warns Iran against arming Iraqi militias
Thank You for Your Service « Neptunus Lex
U.S. backs Lebanon on maritime border dispute with Israel
Obama Rally Held in Dallas Convenience Store
Wisconsin’s Walker signs must-issue carry permits into law
Stuck On "Stupid Liberal" Mode
Farmers more important than badgers
Libya: A campaign built on sand
USA urges Yemen's Ali Abdullah Saleh to go
Syrian dissidents tell government: 'dismantle the police state'
US halting millions in military aid for Pakistan
Blues bring the heat
Video: Ballistic Effects
Sequence of shots of increasing power to show the effects of different weapons. Originally filmed for a medical conference on the treatment of casualties in a 'Major Incident' situation.
H/Ts Old Dude & Martin
Sunday, 10 July 2011
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