Easy Company, 2nd Batt, 7th Reg, 1st Marine Division
H/T Scotty
Thursday, 15 October 2009
Random Thoughts...........from Marshall
> The Duke lacrosse case is still active; you just don't hear a lot about it anymore since the media lost interest. The hoax no longer fit the media template of what is important, mainly a lot of white-bashing, and beating up on nice kids from good families. The big media left walked away long ago but they can't get rid of it.
I read a while back that the insurance company does not want to pay the damage suits to the players, contending (correctly) that the school administrators deliberately slandered the lacrosse players and that the school, not the insurance company, should have to pay the players. I'm no fan of insurance companies but I agree with them on this one. They are generally ahead of the Duke faculty. We have the medialeft and the faculty left, don't we.
> Democrats never admit tax cuts produce more tax revenue. Stimulated growth does the trick every time. Democrats claim to care about balancing budgets and say they have to raise taxes to do so. They won't admit that spending (THEIR spending), not tax cuts, ran up the 1980s budget deficit.
> " Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right." - Joseph Sobran sobran.com
If they ever created a Hall of Fame for writers, Joe Sobran should be among the first inductees. one more :
" Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized." - Joseph Sobran
> Have you ever heard of a town having its zip code revoked by the U.S. Postal Service ? It happened to Centralia, Pennsylvania in 1992.
Zip Code 17927 was revoked because of a coal mine fire underground, smoldering since 1962, causing the town to be abandoned, a modern day ghost town.
By 2005 the town was down to 11 residents, having contained a population of more than 1,000 as recently as 1981. Centralia, once a prosperous coal town, is now a ghost town, a dangerous place to even walk around. Cave-ins now occur there and grass grows all winter in super cold Pennsylvania because of the always warm-to hot ground surface in Centralia. See offroaders.com and damninteresting.com for more details.
> Bumper sticker of the day : Downsize D.C.
> " As regards providing medical insurance for illegal immigrants, I doubt that the president will do that. More likely, he will legalize them first and then give them medical insurance."- Thomas Sowell
And in so doing, the president will have a bunch of new Democrats ready to vote themselves more government goodies, paid for by you and me. - MM
> " The plain fact is that the Obama administration has very shallow roots in historic America. It is, to put it brutally, a minority occupation government. Government and governed have very little real contact or mutual understanding. It's a recipe for continuous clashes." - Peter Brimelow on VDare.com 10-7-09
> Tax withholding was designed by Milton Friedman, then a young economist, just to get us through World War II. I believe he later regretted it. It became a government con game, a deception still conning us years later.
> " Who gets to decide what constitutes 'reasonable gun control' ? Diane Feinstein or Ted Nugent ? "- libertybelles.org
Now we know why........
A long time ago, the British and French were at war.
During one battle, the French captured an English major.
They took the major to their headquarters and a French general began to question him.
The French general asked: 'Why do you English officers all wear red coats?
Don't you know the red material makes you easy targets for us to shoot?'
In his debonair English way, the major informed the general that the reason English officers wear red coats is so that if they are shot, the blood won't show, and the men they are leading won't panic.
And that is why from that day to now, all French army officers wear brown pants.
News......
London home 'needs £93,000 wage'.
The Rush Limbaugh media lynch mob.
Warm Fuzzy Liberals.
U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division protecting Chinese copper mine in Afghanistan.
Seven steps to a secure Afghanistan.
United States to send 'up to 45,000 more troops to Afghanistan'.
More than one billion go hungry in world recession.
Christopher Columbus writings prove he was Spanish, claims study.
US man gets 50 jobs in 50 states in 50 weeks.
Zimbabwe judge jails MDC treasurer Roy Bennett.
Dutch team 'designed Australia's Americas Cup winning winged keel'.
A year after the crunch, it's boom time again for bankers.
French troops were killed after Italy hushed up ‘bribes’ to Taleban.
Half of hospitals do not fully meet core care standards, says regulator.
Japan to withdraw ships from Afghanistan support role.
and finally......
Winter in New England #4: Wood and Pellet Stoves
MATA HARI
How the British would've handled her, if they had gotten their hands on the girl . . .
Lurid details . . . STORMBRINGER
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Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Let me get this straight.....
We're going to pass a health care plan written by a committee whose head says he
doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts
themselves from it, signed by a president that also hasn't read it, and who smokes,
with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by
a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke.
What possibly could go wrong?
H/T Nebraska Bob
A breathtaking "say what?"............from Rico
The rumours last week of a possible $3,000 tax credit for hiring employees made me pause and think a minute.
Exactly WHAT does it say about our Congress that they are willing to pay me $8,000 to buy a house, and $4,500 to buy a car...but only $3,000 to hire someone?
The stupidity of Congress (both sides of the aisle) is breathtaking.
BO Gets the CME Award!
NASHVILLE - President Barack Obama stunned the country music world today
by picking up its highest honor, Country Music Entertainer of the Year.
Mr. Obama was chosen unanimously, according to the Country Music
Association, beating out such favorite as Carrie Underwood and Toby Keith.
In Nashville, country music insiders were shocked by Mr. Obama's
selection, given that he has only been in office for eight months and
during that time has yet to record a single country song.
But Mr. Obama was gracious in receiving the honor, saying that he was
"honored and humbled" by the award before excusing himself to accept
this year's Heisman Trophy after having watched two football games.
H/T Rico
Quote..........
"If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion." - George Bernard Shaw
H/T DML
News......
Facebook Fun with Doubletapper.
Gordon Brown's authority in crisis as Labour MPs defy him on expenses.
Extra 500 British troops to be sent to Afghanistan.
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini 'was recruited by MI5'.
Al-Qaeda in crisis amid cash shortage.
Stockholm's rabbits burned to keep Sweden heated.
Iraq approves return of British troops to protect oil ports.
Ship built of World Trade Centre wreckage sets sail for New York.
Bizarre 'Independence Day' cloud spotted over Moscow.
Maybe we can buy our way to victory in Afghanistan, says general.
Barack Obama’s Pakistan policy in disarray after opposition to $7.5bn aid conditions.
Iran starts criminal inquiry into defeated candidate Mehdi Karroubi.
and finally.......
Rush Limbaugh and Miss America
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Worse than the 70's?..............from Rico
Oh yeah, it WILL be worse than the 70's!
Right now, the problem is deflation. It may remain the problem for years. Whenever it stops, the NEXT problem will be inflation...and it WILL be worse than the 1970's.
Jim Rogers [a really smart fella, smart enough to once be Soros's business partner and even smarter to be his ex-business partner] opines that given the Fed's extremely "easy" policies, runaway Gov't spending, looming shortages of commodities, etc...there will be some serious future inflation. We will be paying more for everything in the future (and paying with dollars that are worth less).
Way cool. Just like Obama won "Firearms Salesman of the Year" so will he 'win' the economic "Darwin Award" for the "Change" he was able to wreak upon both the US and the Global economy.
I remember stagflation, disco, the 'misery index'...and even worse, Jimmy Carter. Our "Dear Reader" Obama has them ALL beat for being worthless, dismal, and abjectly depressing.
SECRET SERVICE HATED JIMMY CARTER
Remember this guy?
The Secret Service didn't like him then . . . 
. . . forty years later they still can't stand him . . .
STORMBRINGER SENDS
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
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