Tuesday, 26 October 2010
News...........
Day 109 – 26th October 1940
Cities Weigh Letting Noncitizens Vote
Snubbed RI Democrat Says Obama Can Take His Endorsement and "Shove It"
The Hayseed Rebellion
Iran to prohibit its universities from teaching 'Western' disciplines
Europe's anti-Islam backlash is an expression of loss of confidence
Texas Sends Amazon a $269 Million Sales Tax Bill
Health insurers raise rates, while increasing reserves and salaries
'The Emperor' is dead: Fury as giant red stag that was Britain's biggest wild animal is gunned down
Police trained by SAS to prepare for Mumbai-style attacks
US to build £8bn super base on Pacific island of Guam
Spanish prostitutes ordered to wear reflective vests for their own safety
and finally.......
30 super awesome pumpkin carvings
8-Bit Wood Art of Classic Video Games
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Monday, 25 October 2010
Daniel Ellsberg Works to Give Radical Imprimatur to Latest WikiLeaks Disclosures
I've been following the latest WikiLeaks document dump, but haven't had a chance to comment. Certainly the truth about the morally bankrupt Julian Assange is starting to go mainstream, "WikiLeaks Founder on the Run, Trailed by Notoriety." And it's no surprise that when under some real journalistic questioning the dude can't take the heat:
But the latest buzz over WikiLeaks has mostly bypassed the criminal corruption of the top leadership. And of course most MFM reporting, as well as leftist blog commentary, has gleefully focused on the charges that Iraq forces used torture and the allegedly "grim portrait of civilian deaths." Of course what was most astonishing, and by far much more important, was the latest evidence of massive Iranian intervention in the war, and not to mention the evidence that WMD --- long alleged by the left to have been a Bush administration lie --- were being used by insurgents as recently as 2008. And on top of all this, in one more interesting relationship, the New York Times featured a story on the Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg, "WikiLeaks Founder Gets Support in Rebuking U.S. on Whistle-Blowers." Given how dramatically the MFM has been all over the Wikileaks agenda since we first were lied to with the doctored Apache video early this year, this latest report on the communist Daniel Ellsberg (shown here at an ANSWER protest in March) should be getting more attention than it has:
LONDON — Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, and Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, lashed out together on Saturday at the Obama administration’s aggressive pursuit of whistle-blowers, including those responsible for the release of secret documents on the Iraq war.Cross-posted from American Power.
Mr. Assange also said that WikiLeaks, which released the trove of almost 400,000 Iraq war documents on Friday, would shortly be posting an additional 15,000 remaining secret documents on the Afghan war.
Mr. Assange, speaking at a news conference in a London hotel a stone’s throw from the headquarters of Britain’s foreign intelligence agency, MI6, was joined by Mr. Ellsberg, 79, the former military analyst who leaked a 1,000-page secret history of the Vietnam War in 1971 that became known as the Pentagon Papers.
Mr. Ellsberg, who said he had flown overnight from California to attend, described Mr. Assange admiringly as “the most dangerous man in the world” for challenging governments, particularly the United States. He said the WikiLeaks founder had been “pursued across three continents” by Western intelligence services and compared the Obama administration’s threat to prosecute Mr. Assange to his own treatment under President Richard M. Nixon.
Both men hit out at what they described as the Obama administration’s aggressive pursuit of whistle-blowers, which Mr. Ellsberg said put the United States on a path to the kind of repressive legal framework that Britain has under its broad Official Secrets Act. He said the criminal investigations under President Obama of three Americans accused of leaking government secrets represented a new low.
The three men he was referring to were Pfc. Bradley Manning, a former military intelligence analyst suspected of providing the documents on Afghanistan and Iraq to WikiLeaks; Thomas Drake, an official with the National Security Agency who was indicted this year; and Shamai Kedem Leibowitz, an F.B.I. linguist who pleaded guilty to leaking five classified documents in late 2009.
Mr. Ellsberg said the Pentagon’s demand that Mr. Assange “return” any classified materials in his possession was carefully couched in language similar to that used in the aftermath of the Pentagon Papers release, when he was threatened with criminal prosecution for espionage. “Secrecy,” Mr. Ellsberg said, “is essential to empire.”
Obama Health Care Plan
(10) Your annual breast exam is done at Hooters.
(9) Directions to your doctor’s office include “Take a left when you enter the trailer park.”
(8) The tongue depressors taste faintly of Fudgesicles.
(7) The only proctologist in the plan is “Gus” from Roto-Rooter.
(6) The only item listed under Preventive Care Coverage is “an apple a day…”
5) Your primary care physician is wearing the pants you gave to Goodwill last month.
(4) “The patient is responsible for 200% of out-of-network charges,” is not a typographical error.
(3) The only expense covered 100% is “embalming.”
(2) Your Prozac comes in different colors with little M’s on them.
AND THE NUMBER ONE SIGN YOU’VE JOINED OBAMA’S VERY CHEAP HEALTH CARE PLAN:
(1) You ask for Viagra and they give you a Popsicle stick and Duct tape
H/T DML
Movie Review: 'Secretariat'
Short Review: A true feminist tale. Instead of a wealthy, white man winning, we get to watch a wealthy, white woman win. You've come a long way, baby!
Full Review Here
News...............
Day 108 – 25th October 1940
I liked this letter so well, pimping my post on obama and kindergarten, that i am just gonna publish it, too ...
"Incoming! Incoming! Incoming!"
Is this legal?
All barack obama really ever needed to know, he really did learn in kindergarten ...
3 men posing as ATF agents break into home, kill resident
Republican congressional candidate says violent overthrow of government is 'on the table'
Reports: US, South Korea Cancel Naval Drill
H.R. 5741: Universal National Service Act
Video: Whittle explains wealth creation
You Don't Bring a Praseodymium Knife to a Gunfight
Sunday Night War Porn…
Pics From The Front…
Obama likely to focus on deficit in next 2 years
Unlike a certain submarine, we cannot let Trident run aground
France braces itself for another week of protests
Why the US has turned against Obama
Iran 'handing cash to Karzai's chief of staff for influence in Afghanistan'
75 Ways That The Government And The Financial Elite Will Be Sucking Even More Of The Life Blood Out Of The American People In 2011
and finally.......
A Comedy Of Errors
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Video: How Marines fix the Red Ring of Death
Marines Fix Red Ring Of Death - Watch more Game Trailers
H/T Marc
All your money is belong to us........from Rico
If you believe that the Government only wants the best for us, as does Congress (Pelosi-Reid-Fwank-Dodd et al), and you can trust them with your money and to 'do the right thing' by us little people....then don't go to the link.
On the other hand (to badly paraphrase Mark Twain) no one's life, liberty, or property is safe when Congress is in session.
In my words: Whenever a politician is speaking, no matter what he says or seems to be saying, he is talking about money...YOUR money.
Subject: Is Your IRA or 401K a Target of Government Appropriation?
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:25:21 -0400
Is Your IRA or 401K a Target of Government Appropriation?
Oh yeah! More GRA (Guaranteed Retirement Account) stuff. All your money is belong to us!
The dictator of Burma had a 'dream' one night, and the next day cancelled all circulating currency and issued 'new' currency divisible by "9" (the number in his dream) instead of the decimal-divisible by "10" system they had used.
Inflation finally got so bad [read: uncontrollable] in Zimbabwe they ran out of zero's to put on their dollars, so they just gave up. South African Dollars, Euros, and US Dollars are the only accepted currencies. The people woke up one morning to be told their currency was now worthless and could not be used for anything.
North Korea pulled a similar stunt not long ago. They recalled all of their currency, made people account for how much they had (and how they came by it) and rationed-out 'new' currency.
And my favorite is Argentina. They recently "nationalised" all pensions and retirement accounts. Well, the government was 'broke' and decided they needed the funds more than the people who had saved them did.
And it can't happen here? Repeat after me: Pelosi, Reid, Bawney Fwank...(it's a pretty long list, but you get the idea). Would our elected representatives steal us blind? Lie to us about it? Nawwwww...besides, it's for our own good, the common good, and well, they need the money so they'll just undertake the heavy burden and responsibility of worrying about our money away from us (right along with the money, of course).
Beautiful!
also.....Beware! “Retirement USA” Program Would Be First Step Towards Government Confiscation of Retirement Dollars
Democrats Oversampled in California Survey From Left-Leaning Greenberg Quinlan Rosner
This is getting quite the play on Twitter:
"New Los Angeles Times Poll is Outlier..."See all the latest election blogging at American Power.
Sunday, 24 October 2010
Nice Runabout..........
NORFOLK (Oct. 22, 2010) Sailors assigned to Riverine Group 1 conduct maneuvers aboard Riverine Command Boat (Experimental) (RCB-X) at Naval Station Norfolk. The RCB-X is powered by an alternative fuel blend of 50 percent algae-based and 50 percent NATO F-76 fuels to support the secretary of the Navy's efforts to reduce total energy consumption on naval ships. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Gregory N. Juday)
The Sunday Best..........
Day 107 – 24th October 1940
Green genius: More wind farms in a less windy world
Winning the battle without firing a shot
Real Democrats of Washington
Anne Hathaway, pretty as a picture
50 states, 50 movies that define them
Top scientist is killed in G-Wiz electric car horror smash
Extra £3bn overseas aid would have kept Harrier jets flying for 20 years
Charts on grounded £1.2bn nuclear sub 'were out date'
Ministers plan huge sell-off of Britain's forests
Barack Obama's last throw of the political dice on the campaign trail in Las Vegas
Don't risk your life and liberty in pirate alley off Somalia, yachters told
Afghan warlords prepare to rearm as Taliban arrive for peace talks in Kabul
Marseille close to standstill as worst strikes in 15 years cause French chaos
Teleprompter to make its debut in Parliament when Obama speaks
Barack and Michelle's Mumbai darshan plans
Vatican: Koran encourages 'killing Christians'
Nazi foreign ministry also involved in Holocaust
McAllister: UK troops leaving a 'sad moment'
German firms donate $1.7 million to US election campaign
and finally........
Cycling proficiency with James May
A fine work boat
My First Rule 5 Saturday
NOT the American dream..........from Rico
This is NOT the American dream.
1 of 7 Americans is now on Food Stamps.
- The USG is spending $5.6 billion per month on Food Stamps.
In January of 2007 twenty six million people were receiving Food Stamps.
After spending trillions on stimuless and bailouts, as of October 2010 we have 41,836,000 people on Food Stamps.
- Good job Congress! Thanks Team Obama and Democrats (C) & RINO's!!!
Aren't you glad the recession 'officially' ended the Summer of 2009?
- Double-plus good!
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National Housing Market.........from Rico
Clear Capital has just released a graphic of their National Housing Market survey.
This is not good news, and it sure as Hell does NOT look anything like the "recovery" our Geniuses in Government (GiG) claimed began the summer of 2009.
