Monday, 15 August 2011
News........
Pawlenty Shaken When Iowans Not Stirred
Assad Shells Alawite Stronghold
The Syrian Navy « Neptunus Lex
SETI is back on the air
Syria's navy 'shells port town of Latakia'
Video: Syria: Tanks roll into Latakia
The (polar) bear facts
Obama urges citizen rebellion against Congress
Photo of Obama saluting fallen troops questioned
Rick Perry's Immigration Policy...
Obama's 'one term' comments seen in new light
Iran to start Bushehr nuclear power plant by Aug. 30 "if tests completed"
Experts warn of China's rising imported oil dependence
Miss Hong Kong ladies visit USS Ronald Reagan Aircraft Carrier
Small banks say new mortgage regulations too onerous
The Reagan stimulus vs. the Obama one
Air Force Staff Sergeant Refusing Orders Until Obama's Eligibility Dealt With
Did media cover up Sen. Durbin's confrontation with reporter?
This time, U.S. fears a financial crisis from abroad
HUCKABY: Get your checkups so you can win the fight
UK loan goes sour for two banks
Tax fraud suspected in Obama land deal
Obamamandias
Libyan rebels strike crucial blow as they enter Zawiyah
Pakistan 'gave China access to bin Laden raid helicopter'
Libya: Tripoli braces for Gaddafi’s final curtain
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: nuclear weapons 'a waste of money'
Indian Navy captures hijacked vessel off Mumbai coast
Weekend Reading - The Glory of the Human Individual
Useful Aphorism..........from Rico
I sometimes 'reflect' upon this.
"We ARE what we repeatedly DO."
The thought belongs to Aristotle, the emphasis is mine.
Sunday, 14 August 2011
Political Pinball, One Day Later
In the primaries, politics is a lot like pinball as it moves in unexpected ways, lifting one candidate’s chances of getting the nomination, bypassing others. In the national election, it’s more like a bowling bowl, rolling down a straight and narrow stretch headed either to the gutter or a strike.
For Republicans, we’re in the pinball phase of the blood sport of politics. For Democrats, they have but one choice and that’s Barack Obama. Watch now as many Democrats re-register as either independents or Republicans.
How can you tell who the White House fears more as an opposing candidate? Just watch how many times David Axelrod, the public relations guy behind Obama’s win in 2008 gets on television to attack Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry who announced his candidacy on Saturday, the day of the Iowa straw vote. Then try to keep count of the number of lies he will tell about either.
In 2008, Axelrod had a totally unknown, charismatic Obama to sell who ran more against George W. Bush than John McCain. In 2011-2012, he has the most unpopular President since Jimmy Carter.
Axelrod honed his skills in Chicago politics. On August 9, Politico revealed that “Barack Obama’s aides and advisors are preparing to center the president’s re-election campaign on a ferocious personal assault on Mitt Romney’s character and business background, a strategy grounded in the early stage expectation that the former Massachusetts governor is the likely GOP nominee.” (Emphasis added)
Five days later Obama’s advisors had Gov. Rick Perry in the crosshairs. Romney had skipped the Iowa straw vote, but none of them believe the straw poll winner, Rep. Michelle Bachmann, has any chance of securing the GOP nomination. And they are right.
Like some pit bull chained up in the basement of the White House, Axelrod came charging out on Friday to attack Gov. Perry even before the straw vote made news. As Jeffrey Folks said in an August 14 commentary posted on AmericanThinker.com, Perry is “the most successful American governor in living memory.”
The political pinball has bounced away from Romney, Bachmann, and other GOP candidates and found its home in the Perry campaign. The longer it stays there, the more it will transform into a great, big bowling bowl headed straight down the lane and into the White House.
On one hand it will be fun to watch Axelrod and other Obama lapdogs foam at the mouth and spout all manner of lies about Perry, but it’s 2011, the economy is in the tank, the nation’s credit rating was downgraded for the first time in its history on Obama’s watch, the unemployment rate is officially at 9.1, and the dreaded “double dip” recession is in full bloom.
Moreover, Obama has lost his mojo. He is in the worst of all political positions; he is an object of ridicule.
Folks compared the Texas economy to California’s. Given that California is one of the most liberal States and Texas is comfortably conservative when it comes to policy, Folks noted that “What California lacks in the kind of political leadership that will attract new business. Economic growth in California—one can hardly call it ‘growth’—has been stagnant or worse over the past decade.”
“In April 2011, California ranked last among the 50 states in job creation” said Folks, noting it had an unemployment rate of 11.8% while in the same month, the unemployment rate in Texas was 8.2%.
“As Governor of Texas,” Folks pointed out, “Rick Perry helped to create a tax and regulatory environment that would attract new business to the state and allow businesses already there to flourish.” And Texas has a zero income tax!
Within twelve hours, former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty had dropped out of the GOP race and we can expect the others to follow suit with the likely exception of Mitt Romney, but Perry will demolish him in the primaries to come.
Republicans can already smell a winner and with good reason. Perry is the longest serving Texas governor and he has never lost an election. The Reagan Democrats of the 1980s put him in the White House and it will be the turn of the Perry Democrats this time around.
There’s a reason Obama is franticly trying to raise as much money as he can at this point, 14 months out from Election Day. In the months and weeks ahead, the smart money will no longer be there.
Only one thing is predictable, Axelrod and the Chicago political thugs that form the inner circle of Obama’s team will engage in every dirty trick, every slander, and every lie possible in a desperate effort to stave off the juggernaut of Gov. Rick Perry.
© Alan Caruba, 2011
Video: Through The Eyes Of A Paratrooper
Courtesy: U.S. Army Europe Public Affairs Video: Staff Sgt. Travis Surber
Skin in the game...............from Rico
Our current TIC (teleprompter-in-chief) recently used the expression "skin in the game" which I recalled upon seeing this pie chart.
It made me ask "who give's a flying fart?" and "why?" concerning the US equities market.
Main Street does NOT own a significant portion of the DJIA.
- So exactly WHY should they even care what happens to it? Yet, they are constantly 'told' by the MSM and FTV that this is a reliable barometer of our nation's economic health. [read: Dow Jones - Good = Economy - Good] WTF?
So WHO cares if the equity markets take a huge dump?
- The owners, that's who. The TOP few % who actually own it. The "too big to fail" owners, not Joe mainstreet.
So WHY care?
- Apart from the obvious 'who owns the markets' point, we should ALL care very much because it is OUR tax dollars and sweat that is being hijacked by the nazis in Government (as directed by their masters in the financial industry/banks) to subsidize this game of three-card Monty and they do NOT want us to consider it too carefully or scrutinize it too closely! Go back to sleep now; nothing to see here. Move along. Nice sheeple, it was all a bad, skeery old dream! There, there. Shhhhhhh. [while removing our watch and wallet - snooze 'ya lose!]
Gadfly!
Pic - "bay bee"
THE CHINOOK CRASH - DISPELLING THE MYTHS
This was so predictable - it wasn't even twenty-four hours after we got the terrible news of the Chinook tragedy SEAL Team 6, other US and Afghani military personnel in a non-SpecOps bird shot down by the Taliban, that the rumor mill started churning out speculation and outright misinformation. A reader emailed me asking if there was anything to a spectacular conspiracy theory making the rounds, and he included the base document: essentially, the SEALs had been set up for ambush by an individual within the Obama Administration in an attempt to silence them about the truth of who was or was not in that compound they entered during the Osama hit. Somehow of course this is all tied in to the Birth Certificate nonsense.
I sent a reply discrediting the conspiracy, why and how it could not possibly be, but had no intention of taking it any further.
STORMBRINGER is dedicated to honoring our warrior class and there is no honor in re-transmitting this kind of horse hockey. I strive to present a legitimate military blog, not a forum for the MoonBats of the Tinfoil Hat Brigade that populate every nook and cranny of both sides of the aisle.
Then early this morning Blogmeister Theo - mentor of STORMBRINGER and Enfant Terrible of this worthy site Last of the Few - emailed me and asked, "Is this bullshit or is there some thing in it?" Attached was the same email that I'd seen a week earlier. I include the text with my analysis only so that I may dismantle this outrageous theory by the numbers, and in doing so see that our warrior's honor may remain intact and that their spirits may rest in the Hall of Heroes in Valhalla, which no doubt is where they are now.
(WARNING: This stuff is straight out of the Bush-did-9/11-to-start-an-illegal-war-for-oil-New-World-Order-Illuminati-Bohemian-Grove School of Philosophy and I included as much of Part 1 and Part 2 as I could stand - poor grammar, spelling errors and all - but I'm not including the link to the video because my Bullshit Meter is pegging out enough already as it is. For the same reason I'm not including the link to this Ann Barnhardt chick's website - I'll not be a party to propagating her garbage. - S.L.)
"The Truth, the Whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth" - read how a Special Forces Operator knocks down this Double-Extra-Stupid MoonBat bird point-by-point on STORMBRINGER
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEAN LINNANE SENDS
Pawlenty Drops Out of Republican Race
In a way, a kinda predicted this earlier, or at least implied it by suggesting that Bachmann would get a huge boost from her straw poll win in Ames, Iowa. I just didn't realize it might happen so fast. See: "Tim Pawlenty Ends Presidential Campaign."
A Thought..............from Rico
This simple picture nicely illustrates why our vote has become merely a 'suggestion'...and is usually ignored.
Our legislators have all been bought-and-paid for by big corporate donors.
- It's obvious WHO is being represented these days, and it's not the dummies who bother to vote for these corrupticrats.
It's been often said that he who had the gold, made the rules.
- Small wonder all that bailout money went to Wallstreet and the Banksters...the too big to fail guys, who just 'happen' to fund the likes of Dodd, Frank, Reid, Pelosi and Soetoro (not to forget the RINO's since both sides of the aisle have sold out) while Mainstreet got nothing but a swift kick in the ass.
Israelis Lash Out at Their Country's Success..............by Dan Friedman
Accustomed to thousands of years of failure and oppression, confused Jews in Israel have now taken to the streets not knowing how to blunt their country’s overwhelming military, economic and technological achievements. No, it wasn’t supposed to this way. The objective called for capitulation or collapse, and it has not been met. So here, as a last resort, is how the confused Jews of Israel propose to deal with Israel’s unexpected, nay, unwanted success.
Estimated 70,000 attend periphery social justice protests
Dan Friedman
NYC
Advice from Curtis & Leroy:
Limit all US politicians to two terms..
One in office
One in prison......
Illinois already does this and it appears it's starting to work for them.
H/T Shelly
The Sunday Best.............
Politicians create the right wing because they are too chickenshit to address the legitimate concerns of their constituencies created by governmental policies of "multiculturalism" ...
What Happened? « Neptunus Lex
Some AFL-CIO unions boycotting 2012 Democratic convention?
Meanwhile, At A Geneva Apple Store
A Surfer, a Man, and a Marine
RAN ship to be named after last WWI veteran Claude Choules
Good Story « Neptunus Lex
Navy Prepares To Cut 2800 Petty Officers
Federal judge throws out Obama drilling rules
Study finds marked rise in intensely sexualized images of women, not men
Tough going in US for world's largest brewer
Plan to build giant solar farm in Calif. comes before judge
Riots, wild markets: Did space storms drive us mad?
10th DUI lands man in prison
Education affects Americans' religiosity -- but not how you might think
A SERIOUS LIBERTARIAN QUIZ...
Michele Bachmann Rule 5
David Cameron: It's time for a zero tolerance approach to street crime
Assad defies US as crackdown continues
Somali Islamists thrive as children die in the dust
Afghanistan's former spy chief: 'Never trust the Taliban'
Concorde was so good I even took a job on it
Mexican smugglers dig tunnel under US border
Navies seek "pirate cultural adviser"
Washington sets out to slay its debt monster
Libyan rebels battle for Zawiyah
US halts humanitarian assistance to Gaza Strip
Pakistan allows political parties in tribal badlands
American aid worker Warren Weinstein kidnapped in Pakistan
London riots: Americans would have known how to respond to the violence and looting
and finally...........
Steve Jobs, worth re-posting: "Stay hungry, stay foolish."
Al-Maliki backs Syrian regime
The New Britannia
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