Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Golf .............
I was three over. One over a house, one over a patio, and one over a swimming pool. ~ George Brett
Actually, the only time I ever took out a one-iron was to kill a tarantula. And I took a 7 to do that. ~ Jim Murray
The only sure rule in golf is - he who has the fastest cart never has to play the bad lie. ~ Mickey Mantle
My favourite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt. The rest can never be mastered. ~ Lord Robertson
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air. ~ Jack Benny
While playing golf today I hit two good balls when I stepped on a rake. ~ Henny Youngman
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. ~ Jack Lemmon
H/T Old Dude
Tell?................from Rico
When I saw this graph, I immediately thought of David Mamet's "House of Games" which has a good discussion of "tells" explained in the context of a poker game by a grifter/swindler/con artist.
- I recommend it to you if you are trying to make sense of the 'markets' today.
The Gold Lease Rates took a sharp 'dive' last Thursday night, then the Big Banks conducted a vicious paper 'raid' on Friday, hoping to manipulate the precious metals markets.
- It didn't have the desired results of shaking the 'longs' from the trees, so another raid was conducted today (Monday following).
In addition to option expiry dates, and the announcement of NFP, perhaps we now have another "tell" of orchestrated Bankster raids on precious metals?
NYT: Attack On Auschwitz Would Aggravate Situation..............by Dan Friedman
The past is prologue. Now as then, the slimy creatures of the Times survive in two inches of brackish water, and their venom remains the same. Whether it's bombing Auschwitz or Iran, minimize the threat to the Jews and oppose any Jewish action to oppose it. It is one of the pillars of that decaying institution that will never change. That's really the only thing you need to know about that rag and the sick whores who work there. Oh, and one more thing: don’t pay it no mind. They like to think they’re influencing history, when the truth is history is leaving them behind.
Ynet, 2/4/2012
NYT: Israeli attack on Iran would aggravate situation
US paper warns against repercussions of military attack, urges to stick to sanctions, diplomacy instead. 'Netanyahu may attack Iran before summer,' it claims
To read some related commentary go here.
Dan Friedman
NYC
News...........
Killer cold
Green pee
Russia, China lose credit in Arab world: League chief
The Taliban on al Qaeda, 1996-97
Musings On Iraq: January 2012 Security Statistics Undermine Case That Iraq Heading Towards New Civil War
Root causes for social upheaval/civil war in the united states ... and, no, it is not money or the disparity in wealth ...
Analysis: Iran economy could limp along under sanctions
When did the middle finger become offensive?
A Bacon Milkshake
Congress Works Around Earmark Moratorium
Just a bluff? Fears grow of Israeli attack on Iran
Subs, silos, UAVs: Rumors cloud Israel's Iran clout
Sheriff Joe sets D-Day on Obama’s eligibility
Police: Man accidentally shoots self at gun show
Who is Mitt Romney's worst enemy?
Will Obama Cave to BP to Avoid Trial?
Withholding Consent from the Khan
Are You 'Them!'?
Gas prices could spike 60 cents or more by May
US and Israel working together on Iran, says Obama
McDonalds pulls ad after pit bull owner outrage
LTC Terry Lakin Denied Kansas Medical License for Challenging Barack Obama's Eligibility
Homeland Security Lexicon: You're All 'Militia Extremists' Now
Advanced Sight Could Double Range for Shooters
Americans Are Better Than Who Obama Thinks We Are
NH Senate voting whether to study softer gun regs
Iran lays out legal case for genocidal attack against 'cancerous tumor'
Army Silences Catholic Chaplains
Thatcher and the Jews
Kirchner to make announcement on Falklands Tuesday
Syrian regime smashes Homs with shells and rockets in unrelenting offensive
Troops could 'control guns with their minds', scientists suggest
Britain had to plead with US to take part in Iran flotilla
What does India want from Britain?
Abu Qatada could be entirely free within two years
Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed resigns in stunning fall from grace
Hugo Chavez says Venezuelan troops would fight with Argentina over Falklands
Clint's Super Bowl ad doesn't make everyone's day
Virus lays low thousands of farm animals
Time to delegitimise the UN
Slow learners?...............from Rico
Slow learners, or just stupid?
American consumers charged $2.5 trillion on their credit cards in 2011, apparently having either 'forgotten' the lessons of 2008 or 'believing' the the 'recovery' drivel being spewed by the MSM and the current crop of politicos...despite employment having very obviously NOT recovered at all.
Banks aren't any better than the consumer. The US banking system is leveraged 13:1, the Japanese system 23:1, the French system 26:1, and the German system 32:1. Remember Lehman? It was leverage that finished them off in 2008.
The US Government? They're the worst of the lot. During the current regime, $150 million was stolen from American children and grandchildren
every single hour in fiscal 2011.
If a small 'burp' in the debt bubble in 2008 caused such havoc, look at debt levels NOW and try to guess what will happen the next time the debt bubble instead of merely 'burping' in an attempt to keep from going blind closes one eye and 'farts?'
Monday, 6 February 2012
Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee
It's fascinating. While the monarchy has lost its luster, Elizabeth is something else.
See: "Diamond Jubilee."
Solar Power Plant in Mojave Will Decimate Large Swaths of the Desert
You have to read it to believe it.
Seriously.
See: "Rare Truth-Telling Piece at L.A. Times Skewers Radical Left's Hypocrisy on Protecting the Environment."
Fiat 500 Abarth
One of the more interesting ads of the game, even if the chick is slapping the dude for visually undressing her.
Whoa.
'It's Halftime in America'
Here's the Chrysler ad from yesterday's game: "Clint Eastwood: 'It's Halftime in America'."
It's posted from the Chrysler YouTube page, but the NFL is pulling some of these ads. I'll update later if it gets yanked.
Must Reads!!
- US calls for international coalition to drive-out Assad
- NYT: Administration will have to risk civil war to oust Assad
- Obama: Israel hasn’t made decision to attack Iran
- GsGf: Syria is in for a bloody civil war
- Debate in Israel over striking Iran a window in govt’s thinking
- US, Europe: IAEA inspection mission in Iran a failure
- Egypt to try 20 Americans and 2 dozen others in NGO case
- Wings Over Iraq: Global Updates and Defense/Security Plus
- US plans shift to Special Operations forces in Afghanistan
- Anti-govt protestors stage major rally in Moscow
- Carothers: US should promote democracy with Mideast autocrats
News.............
BLACKFIVE: Last original SAS member dies
CDR Salamander: Sunday Funnies
MIA: Super Bowl Halftime Show
Israelis face growing threats in Middle East
Paul takes some credit for 'intellectual revolution'
Obama: 'I deserve a second term'
Iran vows to hit any country that stages attack
Obama and Romney camps battling on jobless numbers
Harvard's Middle East Outreach Center: Propaganda for Teachers
Just three inches of snow halts half of all flights at Heathrow
Queen renews her dedication to the nation in jubilee message
Al-Qaeda’s hand in Boko Haram's deadly Nigerian attacks
How much closer can Syria get to tipping point?
Panama ex-dictator Manuel Noriega hospitalised with suspected stroke
Egypt charges 44 NGO workers with illegal activities
Falkland manoeuvres are 'entirely routine'
Sunday, 5 February 2012
Madonna Starring in Super Bowl Halftime - Good Idea?
Well, maybe not.
See: "Super Bowl Viewers Don't Think Madonna's a Good Choice For Halftime Show." (VIDEO)
The Looney Tunes Version of the GOP Campaigns
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| My favorite Looney Tunes Characters (c) Warner Brothers |
I have begun to think of the Republican campaign as a series of Looney Tunes cartoons being replayed again and again. They are filled with a combination of laughs and the fantastical, self-defeating violence of Wily Coyote trying to catch the Roadrunner
As the primary season moves along, I sometimes think that far too many Republicans have temporarily lost their minds. Three years of Barack Obama will do that to you.
My response to the campaign thus far may have something to do with the fact that, like Reagan and others, I was once a Democrat and, to borrow a phrase from Paul, First Corinthians, “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”
These days, a lot of Republicans sound like a kid who sent Santa a list of toys he wanted and, even though he got most of them, he feels compelled to write and ask why he didn’t get all of them.
Granted that Republicans don’t have the most scintillating field of candidates, but most, including Donald Trump, have concluded that a guy that made millions as a successful venture capitalist, gave a couple of million away in charity just last year, has been a Governor, and hasn’t had a single hint of scandal in his life, might not be such a bad choice.
His opponents at this point include a guy who wants to start a Moon colony, is married to his third wife, left the Speaker’s position under a cloud of ethics impropriety, is given to saying genuinely bizarre and extremely nasty things with regularity, and would make the pathological narcissist in the White House look like a Boy Scout. Another opponent—one whom nobody including himself—thinks could get elected seems to be in the race for the purpose of having one last hurrah, beating the drum for a few good ideas and a lot of really bad ones. Ron Paul has been in Congress since shortly after the last Ice Age ended and has sponsored only one bill that passed.
And, finally, there is Rick Santorum who is so infused with religious commitment that he reminds me of someone who was touted in a similar fashion, a former Sunday school teacher named Jimmy Carter. All the religion in the world cannot substitute for the steely-eyed realism a President requires in a world filled with evil counterparts.
It’s the voters, however, about whom I worry. New Hampshire was expected to endorse Romney, but in South Carolina Republicans there gave the nod to Gingrich. The Floridians came through with the unmistakable choice, based I am inclined to think on the many older and wiser citizens that live there though, in fact, he won all the demographic groups.
Ron Paul may be mildly amusing to some, but he cannot win. Santorum is a nice guy and, as the saying goes, nice guys finish last. And Newt Gingrich is like one of the Loony Tunes characters, the Tasmanian devil, going around wrecking the place and throwing bombshells that do nothing to advance the Republican and/or conservative agenda.
Too many Republicans appear to be waiting for a candidate who is perfection in every respect, political and personal, and in the real world few fit that description. America has had its shot at electing a “messiah” and it has turned out very badly.
As the rest of the primaries unwind, I anticipate that Mitt Romney will emerge as the party’s choice. I also expect a lot of pure nonsense about his being a Mormon, about the fact that he has not always hewed perfectly to conservative principles, and that he has—God forbid—actually changed his mind more than once or twice in the past.
Lost in all this blather is the fact that he is ideally prepared for the toughest job in the world and appears to have both feet planted firmly on the ground. I actually like the idea that he occasionally misspeaks, admits it, and then apologizes.
I hope that between now and the convention in Tampa, Republicans will regain their senses, their optimism, and their fighting spirit.
Rolling over for the worst President of the modern era because our candidate is not “perfect” is not an option.
Voting for a third party candidate is not an option.
Staying home on Election Day because “your guy” didn’t get the nomination is not an option.
The Republican compass has to point in only one direction and that is the resounding defeat of Barack Obama.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
Iran: What Would G-d Do?............by Dan Friedman
“What does Judaism mean? It means belief in the Jews. We believe that G‑d reveals Himself to the world through the history of the Jews.”
-- Rabbi Tzvi Freeman, Chabad.org
Quite obviously we are approaching a juncture in history where Jewish action or inaction will have a profound effect on the future of the world.
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