Friday, 25 June 2010
Bethany Dempsey Sports Illustrated Photo-Shoot
Americans are fired up with Team USA's advance to Saturday's game against Ghana.
And since it's Friday, let's celebrate with some babe blogging. Here's Bethany Dempsey, wife of U.S. soccer player Clint Dempsey, at Sports Illustrated.
And for mind-blowing video hotness, see "Bethany Dempsey Body Painting (Probably NSFW)."
Greenpeace Fights for Last Blue Fin Tuna
I never trust the estimates of impending fish population collapse, considering how little respect for truth environmentalists so eminently demonstrate. Still, this article's pretty interesting. At NYT, "Tuna's End":
THERE ARE TWO reasons that a mere fish should have inspired such a high-strung confrontation reminiscent of Greenpeace’s early days as a defender of whales. The first stems from fish enthusiasts who have for many years recognized the particular qualities of bluefin tuna — qualities that were they land-based creatures would establish them indisputably as “wildlife” and not just another “seafood” we eat without remorse. Not only is the bluefin’s dense, distinctly beefy musculature supremely appropriate for traversing the ocean’s breadth, but the animal also has attributes that make its evolutionary appearance seem almost deus ex machina, or rather machina ex deo — a machine from God. How else could a fish develop a sextantlike “pineal window” in the top of its head that scientists say enables it to navigate over thousands of miles? How else could a fish develop a propulsion system whereby a whip-thin crescent tail vibrates at fantastic speeds, shooting the bluefin forward at speeds that can reach 40 miles an hour? And how else would a fish appear within a mostly coldblooded phylum that can use its metabolic heat to raise its body temperature far above that of the surrounding water, allowing it to traverse the frigid seas of the subarctic?And, well, while we're on the subject of fishing ... See, "Expired Fishing License Disqualifies $1 Million Big Rock Tournament Winners."
Cross-posted from American Power.
I remember, do you?.............from Rico
I remember the "stink" made by our Congresscritters during hearings held on Gen. Petreus...including the way Sen. Obama handled himself at the time.
I also clearly recall the MoveOn.org Gen "BetrayUs" advertisement and campaign.
- It remained on their website until...shocka...Obama selected Petreus [shades of Truman, MacArthur and Korea, which didn't turn out all that well for us or the Koreans] to be headwaiter in his desultory attempts at losing yet another war. You can look now, but it's been gone. Erased. Never happened. Never mind.
- History rewritten a la Orwell's "1984."
The perfidy, ignomy and irony displayed by our Marxist 'Left' seems to know no bounds.
- Prepare to be treated like Poland was by Hitler and Stalin.
So much for "dissent is patriotic" or "speaking truth to power"....or winning wars.
Patton and Eisenhower could NOT have prevailed in WWII if our (ahem) "leadership" had been a bunch of thin-skinned pansies like they are today.
Video: Landon Donovan Goal vs Algeria at American Outlaws HQ, Lincoln Nebraska.
Sadly FIFA are blocking every attempt to post the goal on YouTube.
H/T I Suck at Golf
The World's Most Ridiculous Roadsign
London, England
Just click on this link.
(For those of you reading this in the United States, the signpost in located in SE England).
News.............
Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Jun. 25th
I. b. totally insane's private army ... updated and revisited ... and, yes, he means to oppress us, who oppose him ...
Blagojevich on tape: Get Obama to fund-raise from Warren Buffett, Bill Gates
The Gore complaint
Harris: Obama knew of Blagojevich plot
Olympics 2012: Fans must use Visa for tickets
48% See Government Today As A Threat to Individual Rights
Immigrant baby boom drives up British population by double the rate of previous decade
David Cameron: G8 must live up to the hype
'Ten Pound Pom' becomes Australia's prime minister
Al Gore behaved like 'crazed sex poodle' with masseuse
Man run over buy truck 'driven' by his dog
New Zealand mountain village for sale for £470,000
Russia plans second military base in Kyrgyzstan
Canada's chief spy: foreign powers control country's politicians.
Barack Obama is refusing to listen to reason on economic policy
and finally......
Seven minutes 'is the optimum length for sex'
10 Awesome Electricity Scenes in Movies
Drunk driver trapped in his overturned car opened another beer
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Shelter from the storm...............from RIco
Squaring the circle of falling bond yields and rising gold.
When 'real' interest rates are stuck at zero, and when 'risk-free' cash pays a guaranteed loss, gold (and silver) are monetized.
It is (was) never inflation alone that drives people to buy or sell a lump of rare, indestructible metal. It is the rate of return offered by cash and bonds (which are better stores of wealth - all things being equal - over and above inflation).
Today's Fed non-event/decision (and beyond) means that:
- Holding cash-on-deposit guarantees a loss of real value.
- The opportunity cost of holding gold (or silver)...the interest you'd otherwise receive on cash...is absent.
Take shelter from the coming storm.
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Governor Jan Brewer Letter to President Barack Obama on Border Security
I've posted this viddy before, but considering the ongoing debate, it's even more hilarious.
Check KOLD News 13 Phoenix, "Brewer to Obama: Let's See Specifics on Border Plan":
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is telling President Barack Obama that she's anxious for details on how his administration's plans to tighten border security will apply toThe letter's at the link above, and from the Governor's office, "Letter from Governor Janice K. Brewer to President Barack Obama."
Arizona.
Brewer tells Obama in a letter released Thursday that she'd like specifics on National Guard deployments and other steps to be taken in Arizona before a planned Monday visit to Phoenix by Obama administration officials to discuss his plans.
The meeting is an outgrowth of Brewer's June 3 visit to the White House where she and Obama discussed border security and immigration.
The Republican governor also renews her invitation to have the Democratic president visit the U.S.-Mexico border to get a firsthand look at conditions. And she says lunch would be on her.
Cross-posted from American Power.
Thomas Ricks on the Tradition of Firing Generals Who Get Out of Line
At NYT, "Lose a General, Win a War." Not enough heads roll at the top level of the military, apparently:
Back in World War II, the Army had no qualms about letting officers go; at least 16 of the 155 generals who commanded divisions in combat during the war were relieved while in combat. George Marshall, the nation’s top general, felt that a willingness to fire subordinates was a requirement of leadership. He once described Gen. Hap Arnold, chief of the Army Air Forces, as a fine man, but one who “didn’t have the nerve to get rid of men not worth a damn.”Cross-posted from American Power.
Marshall had plenty of nerve: in 1940 and ’41, as war loomed, he forced into retirement several hundred officers he deemed too old and slow to be effective. When the commandant at Leavenworth, Brig. Gen. Charles Bundel, told him that updating the complete set of Army training manuals would take 18 months, Marshall offered him three months, and then four months, to do the job. It can’t be done, Bundel twice responded.
“You be very careful about that,” Marshall told him in a telephone conversation.
“No, it can’t be done,” Bundel repeated.
“I’m sorry, then you are relieved,” Marshall said.
Thursday, 24 June 2010
'Tax and Trade' and the fall of Kevin Rudd
Its been a tough week for Kevin Rudd. First his country’s soccer side was bounced unceremoniously out of the world cup. At the same time the non-soccer loving nation of the US not only went through, but topped their group. But for Rudd this was not the worst of the week.
Via: The Examiner
Obama's Statement on McChrystal and Afghanistan
As promised yesterday, here's the clip of the Rose Garden announcement:
Cross-posted from American Power.
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