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Wednesday, 8 September 2010
Tuesday, 7 September 2010
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News...........
Day 60 – 7th September 1940
The Czar's Lost Gold: Russian Submarine Hunts Clues to Century-Old Mystery
German banker hits nerve with anti-immigration book
“Labor Day”: Obama Used Illegal Aliens to Clean The “Other” Oil Spill
USA Today - Gone Tomorrow?
Naked owner scares away car thief
EU budget commissioner calls for UK rebate to end
Browser security warning lookalike pushes malware
Iran on brink of nuclear weapon, warns watchdog
Dresden mayor 'to lobby against building of Bomber Command memorial’
North Korean successor could make public debut
China to build $2bn railway for Iran
and finally.......
Largest Model Railroad In The World
The V8 Hotel in pictures: sleep in a car at a motoring-themed hotel in Stuttgart, Germany
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Student debt.............from Rico
Student debt.
I had NO idea of the magnitude.
It's there. It's obviously REAL...and a problem.
- Federal Student Loans are a problem. A form of debt slavery. Thanks Sammy.
Housing, mortgages, unemployment, blah-blah-blah ad nauseum in the MSM...but little is said about this.
I was "lucky" years ago.
- I had the GI Bill and about four jobs, so minimal-to-none student loans.
I'd hate to have to "owe" five-figures in student loans today only to find NO JOBS waiting for me.
- Bailing-out our educated future is possibly the ONLY "bailout" I could consider as sensible and a good investment. Screw Wall Street and the TBTF Bank shmucks that sank the economy. The taxpayer-funded "perks" our Congress-critters enjoy would fund a lotta scholarships!!!! Just the jet fuel Nancy Pelosi uses (or the inflight bar tab) weekly to 'commute' from San Fransicko to D.C. and back would help a whole lot of bright students. And I won't get started on her Botox budget.....
Our priorities and values...excuse me, the 'present' priorities and values are inverted pyramids and contravene common-sense.
- Ah..."Common Sense" seems like someone else used the phrase several hundred years ago, eh Sam, Patrick, et. al.?
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Monday, 6 September 2010
Antiwar Groups Battle for Survival?
Actually, no.
See, "The Myth of the Struggling Antiwar Movement."
The old-fashioned understanding of the "antiwar" movement hardly explains the left's anti-everything protest agenda nowadays. But wouldn't you know it, the folks at Politico played right into the sweaty palms of America's domestic enemies with its whitewash of a report: "Anti-war groups battle for survival" (at Memeorandum). As longtime readers of this blog will recall, the hardline anti-American cadres are on the front lines of virtually every leftist protest rally in recent years. From the Stalinist backlash against Prop 8 supporters in 2008, to the Phoenix anti-SB 1070 march last May, the ANSWER Coalition and an assorted bunch of ragtag anarchists, reconquistas, 9/11 truthers, and gay rights ayatollahs have been at the forefront of the barricades. And of course we'll continue to have antiwar protests on every anniversary of our continued deployments, in March and October, for example, to mark the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I've covered some of the recent protests in Los Angeles, and it's always the same: An antiwar industry with nothing new to say. For background, be sure to read "The Politics of Peace: What's Behind the Anti-War Movement?" And especially this:
The irony of the modern “peace” movement is that it has very little to do with peace — either as a moral concept or as a political ideal. Peace is a tactical ideal for movement organizers: it serves as political leverage against U.S. policymakers, and it is an ideological response to the perceived failures of American society. The leaders of anti-war groups are modern-day Leninists. As Lenin used Russian war-weariness in 1917 to overthrow the Czar, so American street revolutionaries use reactions to the war on Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein as a way to foment radical political change at home ... Their aim is a “struggle” against “oppression” and “imperialism,” code words in the lexicon of revolutionary socialism. Not In Our Name (NION), a satellite of the Revolutionary Communist Party, decries the War on Terror as a Bush Administration ploy: “We will not stop until all of us are free from your bloodthirsty domination.”
More pictures at American Power.
Labor Day Greetings From the Reb
Woody Guthrie, Union Burial Ground
Hello, Theo Sparkians!
We're thinking about you. And writing stuff you might like:
Our friend Morgan Freeberg posted On Palin, Obama and Leadership
TL Davis knocks one out of the park with One Life to Give
Houston Misanthrope has an instructive conversation with his Son on Facebook
and wonders if Secession Can be Far Behind?
Saving the best for last:
Good to see ya!
Was it Mr. T?................from Rico
I think it was the iconic "Mr. T" who made a commercial to the effect "Don't be a FOOL, stay in school. Fool!"
The BLS data comparing unemployment rates to education-levels by pay would seem to indicate the wisdom of Mr. T.
Remembering the Yom Kippur War
The Yom Kippur War was fought from October 6 to 26, 1973, between Israel and a massive coalition of Arab states backing Egypt and Syria. The war began with a joint surprise attack on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism. The obvious reason for choosing the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur to stage a surprise attack on Israel was that on this specific holiday (unlike any other) the country comes to a complete standstill. Yom Kippur is the holiest day in the Jewish calendar; both religiously observant Jews and most of the secular majority fast, abstain from any use of electricity, engines, communications, etc., and all road traffic ceases. Many soldiers also went home from military facilities for the holiday, and Israel was more vulnerable with much of its military on leave.
Due to a massive blunder on the part of Israel's intelligence apparatus there was no real prior warning and Israel's strategy of using a preemptive strike was not...
Read the rest, watch the movie at DoubleTapper
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