Sunday, 20 February 2011
Saturday, 19 February 2011
Updates From Madison
Folks are saying this is the tipping point, and let's hope so. Breitbart's on the scene speaking truth to power:
And more from Madison:
* "Teaching Hatred and Profanity in Wisconsin."
* "Rachel Maddow Caught Lying About Wisconsin's Budget Crisis."
* "What's at Stake in Wisconsin's Budget Battle."
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And be sure to view this video: "Doctors Writing 'Doctor's Notes' for Wisconsin Protesters Who Missed Work."
64% of Voters Oppose Government Employee Unions
I'm just briefly going to interrupt Theo's beautiful bodacious totties.
Lots going on in Wisconsin, so check out the massive roundup with video: "Majority of Americans Against Public Employee Unions."
I'll be updating throughout the night.
BIGGEST SHIP EVER FOR AUSTRALIAN NAVY
The hull of the first of the Royal Australian Navy's two new amphibious ships slips into the water at the Navantia dockyards at Ferrol in northern Spain. (Department of Defence photo)
Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . STORMBRINGER
U.S. and Thai Marines storm the beachhead in an amphibious assault raid during Cobra Gold, an annual exercise, in Hat Yao, Thailand, Feb. 10, 2011. Cobra Gold is a multinational training exercise designed to improve partner nation interoperability. The Marines are assigned to the Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Pfc. Mark W. Stroud
H/T Marc
In all fairness...from Rico
I 'pick' on Benyamin of the FED a LOT, but he is not the ONLY Central Banker to recklessly print money these days.
Look at these charts. Do you see a pattern?
- This is clearly a race to the bottom, with more than just the FED madly 'printing' money...
Hmmmmmm.....and these Central Bankers hate and loathe gold & silver like vampires hate the cross & holy water for WHAT reason?
- Because fiat currencies can be thus 'manipulated' [read: devalued/understand: wealth-value stolen from YOU].
The recent upsurge in silver and gold on not just the COMEX and the NYMEX seems to indicate that many are realizing that there is decreasing utility and 'value' in paper contingent 'promises' when compared to hard commodities.
- "Trust me, I'm from the Government" isn't playing very well these days......
Help Beat Back Jihadist Lawfare............from Dan Friedman
This should clear up any doubt that homegrown Jihadists are operating here and trying to use our system to destroy it. And if you’d like to help Americans who are actually in the trenches fighting these marauders, simply click here.
News..........
Final homecoming for HMS Manchester
Green Math: Part 3
Navy Hails Cosby as Honorary Chief
Column One: Lara Logan and media rules
The Strategy to Begin Balancing the Budget
Inflation figures were wrong, says Bank of England
Ireland turns to bankruptcy tourism
Wisconsin Labor Unrest Could Go National
Rush Limbaugh Describes CNN’s Mission: “Getting Obama Re-Elected”
RUSH: Scott Walker Absolutely Nails It, Asking Employees To Pay Half The National Avg. For HealthCare Is Truly A Modest Request
A tipping point for labor in America
8 secrets of Google search box
Judy Garland's Bel Air home for sale
Barclays bank forced to admit it paid just £113m in corporation tax in 2009
Bahrain royal family orders army to turn on the people
Wounded soldiers to be forced out of the Army
An Arabian lesson for Western powers
Rail journeys: Peak performer in Canada
Libya death toll rises to 84 as protesters killed in Benghazi
Criminal probe targets Russian's yachts
Egypt: prison guards killed scores in run-up to fall of Hosni Mubarak
Somali mission: Pirates capture 4 Americans
and finally..........
And they dared call them "toys"
Australian “Today” show anchors discuss “long stabby thing”
Six Awesome Unintentionally Funny Action Movies
You can't touch this!!...........from Rico
C'mon Ben & Barry!
Grab your parachute pants out of the closet and prance a few 'victory laps' around Jimmy Carter's record while singing "You Can't Touch This" to the M.C. Hammer song!!!!!!
Jimmuh HAS to be green with envy! His four years of 'stagflation' simply cannot 'touch' .....er plumb the depths, actually of what you boys have achieved in only TWO years!!!
Inflation? Nawwwwww....say it ain't SO.
- Cotton is UP in price about 1% for every day into 2011 so far, and it's UP 95% from Sept 2010. Annualized, the YTD increase is 1,512%! Nope, no inflation here. Nobody here except us "progressive" Keynesian chickens!
Here are a few more non-inflationary bits for you to consider:
- Unemployment is close to 25%
- Food stamp use is UP 35%
- Gas is UP 69%
- Corn is UP 98% [huzzah ethanol]
- sugar is up 164%
Even the 'dimwitted-but-well-meaning' Peanut Farmer couldn't do THIS....it took an imbecile Marxist Community Organizer!
The best is yet to come though folks, so stick around for what's just ahead. If you 'liked' Carter, you're just gonna 'LOVE' Barry's next act!
Friday, 18 February 2011
Rep. Michele Bachmann: 'This is Outrageous, Beyond Conscionable'
Jeff Poor has the full report at Daily Caller.
Rep. Bachmann hammers both the derelict Wisconsin public unions and the Obama-Democrat-OFA thugs now raping the democracy:
“They have the support of the White House, but I don’t believe they have the support of the people of Wisconsin,” Bachmann said. “Remember what we’re talking about. These are public servants. They serve the people of Wisconsin. In Greece, for instance, we saw beneficiaries of government checks who took to the streets because the retirement age was going to be raised from 61 to 63. In this instance, [Fox Business Network host] Eric Bolling was on earlier, showing this is simply a contribution being asked to pay for part of their health insurance, not even the full part that the private sector counterparts pay for, and part of their pension. This is something that happens every day in the private sector. So now we are at the tipping point. This debate needed to come. It’s good that it came. What’s shocking is that the White House is weighing in, taking sides, and bringing in a campaign apparatus to set this up.Plus, at Hot Air, "Video: Union activist demands Walker “come to the table” on CNN, but …"
PREVIOUSLY: "Socialist Public Employees Call for Revolution in Wisconsin."
CROSS-POSTED from AMERICAN POWER.
Wisconsin's Revolutionary Trotskyites
These folks are from International Socialist Organization, revolutionary Trotskyites committed to global anti-capitalist struggle. What's fascinating is how the lady speaks about how "all of our members" are up every morning organizing for the dictatorship of the proletariat. That's amazing, since I thought we only had imaginary communists in America:
Lots more killer links at the roundup: "Socialist Public Employees Call for Revolution in Wisconsin."And hot updates throughout the night.
'The Strangest Thing You Have to Do Is Bodypainting'
More hot Sports Illustrated bikini babes and body painting, with the lovely Julie Henderson.
VBS TV: Behind the Scenes with Ben Anderson -- The Battle for Marjah
In February 2010, U.S. Marines launched Afghanistan: Operation Moshtarak, the biggest operation since the start of the Afghanistan war, whose main target was the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, a town in Helmand province. Journalist Ben Anderson, who spent two months with the American forces, offers an extraordinarily intimate look at the brutal realities of modern-day warfare in the harrowing documentary The Battle for Marjah.
THE BATTLE FOR MARJAH debuts THURSDAY, FEB. 17 (9:00-10:30 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.
Nir Rosen, From The Penthouse to The Dog House.............by Dan Friedman
It doesn’t matter what they say as long as they talk about you.
--PR adage
Consider yourself lucky if you never heard of an American “journalist” named Nir Rosen. The thirty-something Rosen had a nice career going. In spite of, or because of, his outspoken far-left hatred for “imperialist” America and a “blight” called Israel, Rosen was sought after, and not one of Rosen’s big time media or academic patrons ever complained - until Rosen crossed a liberal redline and lost his immunity. Seems like his flaming-red bile got out of control and boiled over onto sacred ground a few days ago, and it’s Rosen who’s in hot water now.
Rosen’s mortal sin was a few Twitter tweets making light of the brutal sexual assault and beating CBS war correspondent Lara Logan sustained in Cairo during pro-democracy celebrations. That’s already cost him a prestigious fellowship at NYU and The Atlantic, who as recently as last December used Rosen as an authoritative source, has of late dropped a ton of bricks on his head. Of course, rueful Rosen has already hit the apology circuit trying to redeem himself, but the cat is already out of the bag.
How ironic. How cruel. Years of Marxist-Leninist vitriol make you a literati star but just step over the faux feminist line once and they drop you like a hot potato. Well, that’s show biz.
One-trick pony............from Rico
I am getting fed up with numbnuts humping his teleprompter and spouting his half-baked political lunacy.
- This clown is a one-trick pony!
Where is John Bolton when we so badly need him?
Denounce Israel in the UN? Even Jimmuh Carter never achieved a betrayal THAT low....we should all be denouncing and renouncing this pretender Soetoro, Obama, whatever you call him. 
Annoying Game of the Day.............
You have to hit the numbers 1-33 in order with your cursor. Have fun!!!
PLAY HERE
H/T Peter Gunn
Song: The Corrigan Brothers - Saint Patrick's Day Everybody's Irish
Another classic song from our friends The Corrigan Brothers
News..........
Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Feb. 17
States Revise Rules on Driver's Licenses for Illegal Immigrants as National ID Approaches
Lara Logan’s Rape and Egyptian Muslim Jew-Hatred
Wis. lawmakers flee state to block anti-union bill
Ban on Dita Von Teese's Renault ad
Kiwis girls in 'ass cam' YouTube sting
War on thousands of local borough council 'non-jobs'
Bahrain: fears for fresh violence after funerals
New photo of 'English Nessie' hailed as best yet
Iran's Revolutionary Guard pledges to hold fire
Images released of North Korean missile launch tower
Belgians strip in protest over political deadlock
and finally.......
The trouble with old bikes by little Jimmy May
Iraq Update by DJ Elliott.........
Sound familiar? I seem to remember writing about this a few times over the last years...
Iraq war: why US military withdrawal might not happen in 2011
One congressman suggested Thursday that the politically acceptable size of the force that would remain in Iraq “could be 20,000.”
Top Pentagon officials said Thursday that the Iraqi government shares some of their concerns.
“There have been a number of informal conversations with the Iraqis about this,” Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the Senate Armed Services Committee.During these talks, the Iraqi government indicated that it “is very open to a continuing presence that would be larger where we could help the Iraqis for a period of time,” Mr. Gates said.
Three concerns He cited three primary areas of US concern with Iraqi military operations as the Pentagon prepares for the pullout of its troops by the year’s end:
• The Iraqi military's ability to exploit intelligence it collects
• Its capabilities with logistics and maintenance of its vehicles.
• The burgeoning Iraqi Air Force's ability to protect its own air space.
“I’m not actually concerned about the stability of the country,” Gates told the committee. “But I am concerned about their ability to address these issues in particular.”
Congress on board, probablyFor its part, Congress seems increasingly braced for the request to extend US troop presence in Iraq. “I think it's also obvious that the Iraqi military doesn't have a lot of the technological capability that they need to combat to this kind of insurgency that is still out there,” Sen. John McCain, the committee's top Republican, said in Thursday’s hearing.
On this matter, there seems to be some bipartisan consensus. In a breakfast with the Center for Media and Security earlier in the day, Rep. Adam Smith, the House Armed Services Committee’s top Democrat, said it is “highly likely” that the Iraqi government will request US troops to stay.
“I’d be very surprised” if that didn’t happen,” he added. Congressman Smith estimated that the number of US troops likely to be requested to stay in the country “is not going to be” as high as 50,000 – the current US troop level – but “could be 20,000.” He said that these US troops “could just be trainers” for the Iraqi military.
Whether Congress will back such a request “depends” on how many troops senior US defense officials request stay in the country. Congress is likely open to a number in range of 20,000 US troops, but if the Pentagon asks for as many as 50,000 troops to remain, Smith said, “We might have a problem with that.”
Spreading it around?..............from Rico
These charts are openly available, but outside the government (which surely is aware of the data) not commonly discussed or noted in the public domain.
Why? Well, LOOK at them for a minute. This is exacgtly what inflation looks like, and the conclusions that can be drawn are not only NOT good, but that "we the people" have been conned. Snookered. Hoodwinked. Sold some very expensive snake oil.
- In a word: screwed.
Take away this thought (remember Obama-Soetoro's exchange with Joe the plumber about spreading the wealth around?):
- Inflation itself IS a transfer of wealth.
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