Legislation proposes Utah adopt a gold-based system
Splodey vids- B-52 edition, part one…
Want One
UK Preppers - preparing for the economic and societal breakdown.
Massive Silver Withdrawals From The Comex
Muslim Inbreeding produces disasterous results
Latest on shooting of Congresswoman Giffords...motivation: anti Semitic and she was the target
Best of Left-Wing Hate From 2010
Imagining the Commander in Chief Anywhere Near a Combat Zone
Don't raise your middle finger in Dubai, court says
Canada ranks last in freedom of information: study
Is older always better when it comes to whisky?
Controversy as the n-word is removed from Twain classics
Megyn Kelly Confronts AZ Sheriff Over ‘Political Spin’ on Shooting
Boy's toys the new frontier for erotica industry
The lion and tiger cubs that herd sheep
Firms get powers to sack the slackers
Device ends whine of dentist's drill
Portugal facing €80bn EU bail-out
US will respond to Chinese military build-up
Two French hostages killed by al-Qaeda kidnappers during failed rescue attempt
Russia 'terrified' over Viktor Bout trial, lawyer claims
The Slow-Motion Exodus of European Jews
Monday, 10 January 2011
News........
A train............from Rico
If you have never ridden the tube, the metro, rapid transit, etc then this 'map' of the FaRT won't mean much to you without some study.
Then again, it may also depend upon how you view a train.....
Six Truths in Life............
1. You cannot stick your tongue out and look up at the ceiling at the same time, a physical impossibility.
2. All idiots, after reading #1 will try it.
3. And discover #1 is a lie.
4. You are smiling now because you are an idiot.
5. You soon will forward this to another idiot, or perhaps, to many idiots.
6. There is still a stupid smile on your face.
I sincerely apologize about this but I'm an idiot and I needed company.
H/T Shelly
Clueless.............from Rico
These four charts should tell you everything you need to know about our situation. Where we were vs. where we are, with a visual of where we go from here.
They should also explain why the MSM and FTV cheerleaders and many "economists" of the Keynesian-Marxian variety are clueless about our situation.
- Our politicians? Well, they're clueless by definition I'd say...with the rare exception that proves the rule like Ron Paul.
Hey, this isn't "rocket science" and you do NOT have to be an Ivy League professor to grasp the concept that borrowing your way out of debt doesn't work.
- In fact, it is quite an advantage being outside the Halls of Macademia and in the real world. It gives those of us who actually know HOW make things work a perspective quite removed from ivory tower bloviations of how things SHOULD work....in 'theory' of course.
Here is a one-question "pop quiz" for Prof. Bernanke, Timmy Geithner, Berry Soetoro and their delusional ilk:
- Name ONE example from the entirity of human history where "getting out of debt by getting into debt" actually worked?
Bonus essay question for extra credit:
- When has this economic theory EVER ended well, and exactly why are things different THIS time?
Video: Harriers Low Level Training " Mach Loop CAD WEST "
The idiot at the MOD thought getting rid of our Harrier squadrons is a bloody moron.
Sunday, 9 January 2011
The Lone Gunman
In 1247, the Bethlem Royal Hospital was established at Bishopsgate, just outside the London wall. It was better known as Bedlam and was the first asylum for the mentally ill in England. By 1403 it had some prominent guests. Bedlam had become the generic name for psychiatric hospitals and, more colloquially for a disturbance of the peace.
There was such a disturbance on Saturday when Jared Loughner shot U.S Representative Gabrielle Giffords in the brain at point blank range. He then shot others including a Federal judge and a nine-year-old child.
There is something like 25,000 laws on the books concerning the purchase and ownership of guns and not one single one of them could have prevented what happened.
This is not a defense of guns. The U.S. Revolution began at Concord and Lexington when a group of farmers picked up their guns and shot at British soldiers. No one is going to un-invent guns and everywhere they were banned, tyrannies of every description occurred.
This is about the Jared Loughner’s who, in my lifetime, assassinated men like John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Some nine U.S. presidents have either been killed or attacked by assassins. In 1981, John Hinkley Jr., in an effort to impress the actress, Jodie Foster, nearly succeeded in assassinating Ronald Reagan. Earlier Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Gerald Ford were shot at.
Anyone who has been a reporter as I have been will tell you that every American city has a section that local residents fear to travel to or through. Murder occurs in every American city, large and small, every day. Usually it is a drug deal or robbery gone bad or a gambling dispute.
For reporters, the killing of someone prominent is a news bonanza. It overrides the usual buzz in a newsroom devoted to the more commonplace stories. There’s a reason the news channels are into full coverage mode and why, by the end of the week, when they have exhausted the few known facts of the Tucson shooting, they will return to a normal coverage of the news.
Here’s what you need to keep in mind. It’s not about gun laws. It’s not about Tucson. It’s not about Arizona. It’s not about political analysis and dialogue, so you can ignore the hypocritical ravings of MSNBC’s Keith Olberman and others eager to blame Rush Limbaugh or the Fox News Channel.
Loughner is Hinkley redux. Described by all who know him as “a loner” and rejected for military service, invited to leave the campus of a local college, more than a few people understood that Jared had a screw loose.
The closest you can get to understanding what happened is to rent Martin Scorsese’s brilliant film, “Taxi Driver.” There you will see Robert DeNiro’s portrayal of Travis Bickle, the archetype of every lone gunman. And yes, also in the film, you will find Jodie Foster.
The shooting was about mental illness. It was about paranoia. It was about schizophrenia. It was about all the other killings where innocent people were gunned down by someone hearing voices in his head.
Say a prayer for Rep. Giffords, but remember, they walk among us.
© Alan Caruba, 2011
Keith Olbermann on Arizona Shooting: 'Violence Has No Place in Democracy'
From Olby: "Violence, or the threat of violence, has no place in our Democracy, and I apologize for and repudiate any act or any thing in my past that may have even inadvertently encouraged violence. Because for whatever else each of us may be, we all are Americans."
Good try, I must say, although the overwhelming bulk of the "special comment" blamed the right, despite the fact that the shooter was a conspiracy theorist and atheist progressive and that Giffords was targeted by Democrats and Daily Kos fanatics. See, "IS DAILY KOS INVOLVED IN ARIZONA MURDERS?"
PREVIOUSLY: "Rachel Maddow Crestfallen — Giffords Shooter ID’d as Crazed Conspiracy Theorist and Marx-Reading Progressive Atheist."
Also, "Bloodshed Puts New Focus on Vitriol in Politics," and "Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Shot by Gunman at Townhall Event in Tucson — Progressives Blame Sarah Palin 'Hit List'."
Cross-posted from American Power.
WORD IS HE's DATING KATIE COURIC
Sean Linnane reports on the Homeless Dude and the Cougar . . .
Talk about your Beauty and the Beast . . .
. . . of course it's hard to tell which one's which . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . STORMBRINGER SENDS
Darn scary article on global warming.............
The Washington Post
The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in
some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a
report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulafft, at
Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers
all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto
unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions
report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees
29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf
stream still very warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced by
moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many
points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.
Very few seals and no white fish are found in the Eastern Arctic,
while vast shoals of herring and smelts which have never before
ventured so far North, are being encountered in the old seal fishing
grounds. Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt
the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.
See Below:
Oops! Never mind. This report was from November 2, 1922, as
reported by the Associated Press and published in the Washington Post
- 88 years ago!
H/T Shelly
An olde favourite....from Rico
This has long been a favorite joke of mine.
It's old, but I have never 'seen' it framed on a wall like this before now.
The PC-thenthitive will doubtless be 'offended' but they have no sense of humour anyway,
and as long as it was well-received by my old pals in the British Army of the Rhein and the SAS
...well, I could care less what the less-mentally endowed think.
Hey! It's a joke!!
And I still like this olde joke.
- It makes me wax nostalgic for my youger European days...
Jeepin in the Dez.
Truckhaven, north Ocotillo Wells, just west of Salton Sea, in Sunny Southern California
From Airship DC
PACIFIC OCEAN (Jan. 7, 2011) An EA-6B Prowler assigned to Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 134 and an F/A-18E Super Hornet assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 81 launch simultaneously from the bow and waist catapults on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). Carl Vinson and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 17 are on a deployment to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class James R. Evans)
H/T Marc
The Sunday Best..............
Cry the children in the agony of their deaths an eloquent assertion of their faith in christ ... nicolas sarkozy understands
Politics & the shooting of congresswoman gabrielle giffords ....
Iran has produced 40 kg of 20% enriched uranium
'Wobbling Earth' will turn all your zodiac predictions for 2011 wrong
South Korea says North is boosting special forces
Dambisa Moyo: without change US will almost certainly become a socialist nation
Beach sex scandal after copulating couples filmed
Toy collection could fetch more than $40 million
Clinton seeks stronger ties with Arab allies
Obama Eyeing Internet ID for Americans
Somalia's al-Shabab bans mixed-sex handshakes
Daley, Emanuel, Obama: Chicago on the Potomac
Bloodbath as 14 decapitated bodies of young men are found in Acapulco
Nasa probe DID find organic material on Mars... but it took scientists 34 years to notice
China builds world's longest bridge
Laser canons to defend ships from pirates
A clue to CIA mystery that has defeated the world's codebreakers
Aflockalypse now: on a wing and a prayer
Sudan Referendum: birth of a failed state?
Australian floods: Rockhampton residents are 'whacking' Queensland's venomous snakes to keep themselves safe
Moqtada al-Sadr calls for Iraqis to 'resist occupiers' by peaceful means
Heidi, the Cross-Eyed Opossum, Charms Germany
Uncertainty Reigns as Baghdad Enters New Era
Policeman claims trauma from porn email
Serious Problems ahead for the British Pound
and finally..........
Fun random image dump
Attention Linkwhoring
When you figure in inflation...........by Rico
OK, I know I know I know that 'officially' there is no inflation and hasn't been for several years.
Well, at least according to our Government.
Would THEY cook-the-books and LIE to us to avoid making any cost-of-living [COLA] adjustments to Social Security recipients, et al?
Nawwwwwwwww.
- And, I gotta agree with the USG (which doesn't figure-in energy or food when calculating inflation). As long as I don't need fuel for my vehicle to drive to the grocery store, hey....no problemo! There is NO inflation.
Inflation is a sneaky blighter though.
Look at the last decade of the US Equity market.
- Adjusted for inflation, you could call this chart "how to lose 24% and still have to pay capital gains taxes."
Gee! Uncle Sammy wins again by collecting taxes on money lost!
- Heads he wins, tails you lose.
Whoopee!
Happy days are here again!
Video: Marines Fight Through Enemy Ambush To Build New Patrol Base
1/3/2011 By Cpl. Daniel Blatter, Regimental Combat Team 2
H/T Marc
Saturday, 8 January 2011
Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Shot by Gunman: Breaking Updates
I'm praying for everyone involved.
See the full report: "Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Shot by Gunman at Townhall Event in Tucson — Progressives Blame Sarah Palin 'Hit List'."
Updates throughout the evening: "Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Shot by Gunman at Townhall Event in Tucson — Progressives Blame Sarah Palin 'Hit List'."
Blair Hitch Project
Hitch gave up behind the scene deets with a screensaver money shot:
"...When Tony Blair took office, Slobodan Milošević was cleansing and raping the republics of the former Yugoslavia. Mullah Omar was lending Osama bin Laden the hinterland of a failed and rogue state. Charles Taylor of Liberia was leading a hand-lopping militia of enslaved children across the frontier of Sierra Leone, threatening a blood-diamond version of Rwanda in West Africa. And the wealth and people of Iraq were the abused private property of Saddam Hussein and his crime family.
"...Today, all of these Caligula figures are at least out of power, and at the best either dead or on trial. How can anybody with a sense of history not grant Blair some portion of credit for this? And how can anybody with a tincture of moral sense go into a paroxysm and yell that it is he who is the war criminal? It is as if all the civilians murdered by al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Iraq and Afghanistan are to be charged to his account.
"...This is the chaotic mentality of Julian Assange and his groupies.
Pic - "Bosnia. That's what did it for me, Courtney. I kept seeing the same names on petitions for action I wanted to sign. Oh, look - there's Perle, and here's Wolfowitz - these people wanted to act." with Hail Darling Leader from GrEaT sAtAn"s gIrLfRiEnD
News..........
Cornbread fresh from the oven ...
Did the U.S. Invade Iraq to Contain China?
Israel admits Iran incapable of producing nuclear weapon before 2015
Gates Recommends Cancelling the Procurement of USMC's Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle
Obama's Moment of Truth at the UN
Don't pat me says Nader
Palin Says Obama Is “Hell Bent on Weakening America”…
A "must read" for all who would understand how islamic agitprop works ... pamela geller explains "dawa" at atlas shrugs ...
Women's panties get even more sexy!
How Nazis barked up a mocking dog
Fattest man Paul Mason sues the NHS for allegedly 'letting him grow'
Elderly Swedes bloodied in snow shovel brawl
TSA: Living on Borrowed Time?
Magnetic North Pole Shifts, Forces Runway Closures at Florida Airport
The Fifteen Most Hated American Companies Of 2010
Wind farms don't work in the cold: Why it's no use waiting for turbines to keep us warm as the snow returns
HMS Nightclub: Pride of the Fleet may become a Chinese disco
Eating carrots and plums 'makes you more attractive'
Nicolas Sarkozy says Christians in Middle East are victim of 'religious cleansing'
Empty wine bottles sell for £300 in China
Divers claim to have discovered USS Revenge
Argentine pilots arrested in Spain for smuggling cocaine
and finally..........
The journey that left me with an empty feeling by little Jimmy May
Haiti
