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Monday, 19 July 2010

Monday Mopsies...........

The "summer of recovery".............from Rico

The "summer of recovery" could ONLY have been the brainchild of one of our '60's-hippy-wannabe Boomers currently hard at work destroying the economy of this country.
- I can say this because Benyamin Bernanke and I are both the same age and remember the days when Nancy P and company were dropping acid in Haight-Ashbury and coined the "summer of love."

This past week of the "summer of recovery" has seen a busy-busy-busy Federal Reserve reporting and commenting upon the levels of credit in our economy. Not as much fun perhaps as a Jimi Hendrix concert, but exactly LIKE one of Jimi's concerts completely failing to mention:
- consumer credit has contracted for 15 of the past 16 months.
- the $14.9 bn in credit "lost" during April is the SECOND HIGHEST monthly amount in history...second only to the $23.4 bn "lost" in Nov 2009.
- the 6% reduction in consumer credit ($148 bn) is the largest for any 16-month period since Sep 1944 [that was WWII when FDR was President for recent graduates of government-run public schools].

Credit contraction for both the consumer and small business continues at 'historic' rates.

Consumers paying-down their credit balances OR banks writing credit balances off (taking losses)? You tell me. The FED either does not know, or is not saying. Either way we should be plenty concerned...

Video: The Stunning Vulcan Bomber XH558 At RIAT 2010.

Video: Tiffytastic Typhoon Display. RIAT 2010.

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SITUATION: OAKLAND

A citizen of Oakland, California practicing his time-honored Constitutional right to loot . . . uh . . . "peaceably assemble and protest" . . . after Johannes Mehserle was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Oscar Grant . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . STORMBRINGER

Sunday, 18 July 2010

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

Sunday Marisa Miller Diversions

At American Power!

"Sports Illustrated Marisa Miller Body Painting (Probably NSFW)."

And previously: "'Best Hitting Supermodel' Marisa Miller at All Star Celebrity Softball Game at Angels Stadium."

And Linkmaster Smith's weekend roundup is live.

Plus, at MAinfo, "Brooke Shields - Beauty Through the Years."

Keep up with all your hot weekend blogging at American Power!

Muslims Riot in France

The background story is here, "France fears widespread rioting as youths rampage after police shoot robber."

Other than that it's mainly bloggers reporting on this, surprise. See Jihad Watch, "Muslims rioting in France, burning cars over killing of Muslim casino robber who shot at cops," and Gateway Pundit, "Disgruntled Muslim Youths Now Using Automatic Weapons on Police in France (Video)" (via Memeorandum).

Cross-posted from American Power.

Cartoon Round Up....

Pasta Totty..............

Video: Train that builds it's own track..........

H/T Canis 61

H/T Airship DC

The Sunday Best............

Day 9 – July 18th 1940

Competition launched to design national memorial for the Spitfire

I Love The Smell Of Stupid In The Morning.

The Fall of Obama

GITMO complies with Muslim demand that faces be shaved off the Foosball players

Grim Sleepers? MSM And Hollywood Shut Eyes To Black Serial Killers

Four servicemen killed in Afghanistan in 24 hours

BP cap on Gulf of Mexico oil well shows no signs of leakage

Chinese oil pipeline explodes

Rhino poaching on the rise in South Africa

The 'bewildering' council road signs

CIA suspects Iranian nuclear defector who returned to Tehran was a double agent

Indonesian Muslims told to change prayer direction

BP oil spill: failed safety device on Deepwater Horizon rig was modified in China

and finally.........

Good things come in small packages by little Jimmy May

Proof we are a centrist website

Brooke Shields - Beauty Through the Years

Sunday Totty............

What "Financial Reform" means..........from Rico

Before getting into the details of "Financial Reform" and what it really means, please look at these faces. Look at the obvious and obscene delight of these predatory socialists at 'sticking it' to us once again!!!!!
- One picture says it all.

So, WHAT does the Dodd-Fwank "Financial Reform Bill" do, other than being completely and utterly WORTHLESS?

The so-fresh-it's-steaming legislative Dodd-Fwank turd is being hailed as "the biggest rewrite of Wall Street rules since the Great Depression"...but the truth is,after the lobbyists had their way with it, the loopholes made it look like Swiss cheese, and the useless paperwork and bureaucracy added made it smell like Limburger cheese on a very hot day!

Just ASK any one of our "thrilled" legislators (or ANY similar deep-thinker) exactly what the reform bill does and you will get three things:
- a blank look
- drooling
- stammering

Besides, never having read the law they just passed (which frequently happens), I question whether any of these Botox and/or A.D.D.-addled 40# brains have the attention span OR ability to comprehend what is actually in it.
- They only 'know' that once again they have poked their finger into the eye of "da man" and are pleased with themselves, as is a not-yet-toilet trained child who has proudly just pooped its pants without the foresight that they will (a) have to live with the unpleasant consequences, or (b) an adult will have to clean their mess up pretty soon. [Reagan's alimentary canal/responsibility quote does come to mind here, among other things.]

Video: Amazing F-22 Raptor Display RIAT 2010. RAF Fairford.

RAID ON THE REACTOR

The incredible saga of Operation Opera, the 1981 Israeli air raid on the Iraqi nuclear reactor OSIRAK . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . STORMBRINGER

Hot Protest Blogging! — Support Arizona!!

More great immigration blogging at American Power!

See, "South O.C. Patriots Rally for Arizona!"

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And as always, get smokin' with American Power!

Saturday, 17 July 2010

Saturday Night is Bath Night..........

Border Invasion: Arizona's Fight – America's Fight

At American Power:

* "Arizona's Fight – America's Fight."

* "U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton Hears First Arguments in Court Challenges to SB 1070; GOP Steps Up Effort to Fight Federal Lawsuit."

* "Sheriff Joe Arpaio Launches Human Smuggling and Crime Suppression Sweep in Arizona Desert: .50-Caliber Machine Gun 'Sends Message to Mexico'."

* "U.S. Born Majority Backs SB 1070 in New California Field Poll, 54 to 41 Percent."

* "Center for Immigration Studies: 'Hidden Cameras on the Arizona Border 2'."

And don't miss all the hottest border invasion updates at American Power!

Video: Obama Bumper Sticker Removal Kit (feat. Brad Stine)

H/T Infidel Joe

BADASS

British Soldier Shot in the Face by the Taliban . . . Spits Out Bullet . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . STORMBRINGER

Cartoon Round Up....

Just what I need...........

H/T DML

He's slippery without the oil.

From Airship DC

The Onion: Soccer Officially Announces It Is Gay

Soccer Officially Announces It Is Gay

H/T JMH

More Casa D' Ice, He's back again

H/T Nebraska Bob

News............

Day 8 – July 17th 1940

The blasphemous book of the jau jau is at it again ...

Former DOJ Colleagues Confirm Whistleblower Adams’ Accusations

Licence fee for 'wasteful' BBC will be cut

Tony Blair met Colonel Gaddafi in Libya last month

Mystery trader buys all Europe's cocoa

US-born radical Muslim cleric added to American terrorism blacklist

British spy drone sets new flying record

British are 'sickie' champions of Europe

Panthers

Saturday Totty..........

Reason TV: A Drug Raid Goes Viral: Radley Balko on the Missouri SWAT Raid

Economics: Not 'getting it' or...?..........from Rico

Some will debate whether or NOT our First Comrade and his Poliburo "get it" or NOT. Are they truly so clueless?

OR...

Maybe they know exactly what they are doing and understand perfectly well what they are about, acting with calculated intention.

Either way, we may ALL be eating lumps of boiled paper money before long (except for the inner-Party members, of course, they have taken care of themselves...as is always the case). Keep printing those debt-backed greenbacks Benny!!!