Blazing Catfur has the key headline: "Wikileaks Diplomatic Cables Released by Times, Der Spiegel."
Here's this at NYT, "Cables Obtained by WikiLeaks Shine Light Into Secret Diplomatic Channels." And I love this at Spiegel: "A Superpower's View of the World." And Doug Mataconis has a report: "Wikileaks Releases Diplomatic Cables, Revealing International Secrets." (Via Memeorandum.) I've commented on WikiLeaks extensively. I won't think twice if Julian Assange meets the cold blade of an assassin, and apparently a significant number of others don't care for the guy. See the WikiLeaks Twitter page and Hot Air: "Wikileaks servers under DOS attack ahead of diplomatic document dump" (with lots of updates). I continue to be amazed at the fawning credibility Assange gets on the progressive left. Anything that tears down the military --- even putting at risk the lives of Americans and our allies --- is totally cool with these freaks. But maybe something good will come of all this, in the end. 
Monday, 29 November 2010
WikiLeaks U.S. Embassy Cables Release
Sunday, 28 November 2010
McCain Wants Regime Change in North Korea
Well it's about time: "John McCain Calls for Regime Change in North Korea." I suggested we topple Pyongyang last week. Does anyone have any backbone these days? I'm not holding my breath, especially with these pantywaists: "Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers."
More throughout the day at American Power.
The Sunday Best..........
Marines act like Marines
Hang Tough
The IPCC mask slips
Exclusive Photo Taken Moments Before President Obama Suffered Major Gash on Lip While Playing Basketball
A loving saint’s legacy turns jolly
Ireland runs out of Condoms after Pope Benny says "Rubbers Rock"
Mystery Surrounds Cyber Missile That Crippled Iran's Nuclear Weapons Ambitions
Navy officer who ran nuclear submarine aground near the Isle of Skye is 'relieved of his command'
SAS commander quits Army amid claims defence cuts have hit morale
South Korea: despach from the frontline of World War Three
North Korea's undercover journalists reveal misery of life in dictatorship
Will release of new Wikileaks secrets blow Obama's nice guy image?
The EU has got too big for its boots
Attacks in Haiti in last hours before election
The Christian woman facing death over a work squabble
Bracing for Bailouts: Which EU Problem Child Will Be Next?
Ye olde mulled wine not for the young, drug commissioner warns
North Korea 'readies missiles', China to help ensure peace
Iran loads fuel in N-plant , ops to begin in Jan
NASA moves X-34s out of storage, considers return to flight status
and finally......
Pillar of Fire: The Founding of Israel
Pay it Forward ....
To all our brothers and sisters far from home:
Video: The Elizabethan Express
A British Transport Film classic showing the Elizabethan non-stop Express train from London to Newcastle and beyond.
H/T Marc
Inflation and Keynesians, NIA..............from Rico
I very well remember when gasoline was 17-cents per gallon, and the local gas stations would have 'price-wars' to attract customers by lowering prices from that level. I could give you a lot of other examples from the 1960's, but this is a pretty good one since we ALL see the price at the pump when we fill-up today...the difference is a perfect illustration of two things, the primary thing is INFLATION and the secondary thing is TAXATION.
- Inflation is the decline in purchasing-power of the Dollar...it takes more of them to buy the same thing.
- Taxation....ptooey! This increases as politicians spend money they do not have, for our own good [read: to buy votes to get re-elected]...I also call this spending your money FOR you because they know better than you do what is best for you. Taxes always go UP, they never go DOWN.
When I was at University, ALL of my Economics professors were raging Keynesians. The very worst of the lot, while by far the most likeable, was Hubert H. Humphrey. I disagreed with everything they said, but at least HHH made me enjoy hearing utter and complete nonsense and drivel!
- Yes, you guessed it, I later came to appreciate Hayek, von Mises, and the Austrian School of Economics.
- BUT one doesn't 'need' University to understand that you cannot get out of debt by going further into debt. Spending money you do not have is sheer lunacy, but that's John Maynard Keynes for you....full-on barking mad.
While I do NOT agree with everything the NIA says or promotes, they have a lot to say and are worth listening to. I give them much more credibility than I do anything I 'see' or hear from MSNBC or CNBC, or the alphabet 'old' media (ABC-CBS-NBC).
Take a look at their site for yourself, and decide for yourself.
Saturday, 27 November 2010
Video: P.J. O'Rourke
P.J. O'Rourke is America's premier political satirist and has more citations in The Penguin Dictionary of Humorous Quotations than any other living writer. In this live appearance for Intelligence Squared he'll be discussing his new book, Don't Vote -- It Just Encourages the Bastards, a brilliant, hilarious and ultimately sobering look at why politics and politicians are a necessary evil—but only just barely necessary.
Full Video Here
Video: Tangled: Count Up to 50th Animated Motion Picture
Disney is about to release it's 50th Animated Movie. Here is a count up of the previous 49.
Video: Decatur Central's Single Ladies Video
An Indiana high school football team have become an internet sensation after spoofing a Beyoncé scene from Glee and putting it on the web.
Desperate for funds, the Decatur Central High School football team in Central Indiana needed a gimmick to raise some money.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1333208/All-single-ladies--meet-football-players-dance-High-school-team-spoofs-Glees-Beyonc-scene.html#ixzz16TXMvMS4
News............
Because it's Friday...and it's Alizee Jacotey
Rocking Obama's World
Inconvenient Truth About Green Agenda: UN Official Admits It’s About “Redistributing Wealth”
THE REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT
VS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
On Color and the Content of Character
€9.5m Donegal property development receives one bid at auction – for €5,000
6 Arrested After New Jersey Anti-Violence March Turns Violent (Video)
Walter Mitty Marine: Ex-wife exposes bogus war hero in Cenotaph march
The Royal entourage: Machine gun-toting convoy escorts Queen Elizabeth through the streets of Muscat during state visit to Oman
Nato mission in Afghanistan as long as Soviet occupation
Paratroopers defeat Taliban in decisive day of battles
Somali teenager 'tried to set off carbomb in US'
EU rescue costs start to threaten Germany itself
US says joint South Korea war games 'not directed' at China
34,000 women paramedics go missing after Pakistan floods
and finally......
VIDEO: House with Slayer Christmas lights is so in your face
I'm game enough to take on anyone by little Jimmy May
The Zimbabwe Phenomenon...............from Rico
Looking at market performance on a nominal basis (unadjusted for inflation) is foolish, but Benny and Timmy and Co could not be happier if the public remained clueless and ignorant of the Zimbabwe Phenomenon (when the market goes up by a billion%, yet purchasing power drops by a trillion%).
We've been officially told there is NO inflation. Riiight.
We've also been told the Fed's new mission with QE2 is to create some inflation. Riiiiiiight.
This will not end well.
Shopper Hospitalized After Stampede at North Buffalo Target Store
I couldn't find a YouTube, so check the link: "Black Friday Mob Tramples Shopper at North Buffalo Target Store."
My wife loves these sales. She'll go out at the most godless early morning hours, and Thursday night, amazingly, Toys “R” Us opened at 10:00pm for the early bird (or late bird) shoppers. The line was already down the parking lot to the Best Buy store, so she said fugetaboutit!! And it's a good thing too: "Black Friday 2010: Woman Arrested, Threatened to Shoot Shoppers at Toys "R" Us."
PREVIOUSLY: "No Deaths Reported So Far as Crowds Mob Stores for Black Friday!"
Friday, 26 November 2010
After Thanksgiving Meal Poem........
I ate too much Turkey, I ate too much corn,
I ate too much pudding and pie.
I'm stuffed up with muffins and too much stuffin'
I'm probably going to die.
I piled up my plate and I ate and I ate.
But I wish I had known when to stop,
For I'm so crammed with yams, sauces, gravies, and jams
That my buttons are starting to pop!
I'm full of tomatoes and french fried potatoes
My stomach is swollen and sore,
But there's still some dessert so I guess it won't hurt if
I eat just a little bit more!
H/T DML
News..............
George roper at "g.m.'s place" says t.s.a. policy on searchs violates the 4th amendment right to be secure from arbitrary search ... and, he is right ...
Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Nov. 25th
German DIY enthusiast walls himself into own cellar
Sarah Palin: A Thanksgiving Message to All 57 States…
Graphic: Anatomy of a stoning
Thanking God for What Makes Us Exceptional
Aviation history, nose to tail!
Mexican Marines Reconstruct the Death of Don Alejo Garza
The Federal Reserve's VISA Card Statement
Teach Your Children Well
Spiralling euro crisis could cost us billions more: Now there are fears for Spain, Portugal and Belgium
Cloned meat and milk is safe, says Food Standards Agency
'Artillery fire' heard near South Korea island
Terrorist threat to Olympic street parties
MI6 'blamed for Taliban impostor'
Brazil: Rio violence forces military intervention
Nigeria charges Iranian over arms cache
