Monday, 23 January 2012
News...........
Joe Paterno is dead ...
Caroline Wozniacki + Rory McIlroy = Wozzilroy
Handcuffed, blindfolded and shot in the back of the head: Taliban releases horrific video of executions of 15 Pakistani soldiers
Obama to Draw an Economic Line in State of the Union
U.S. won't cut carrier fleet to fix budget, Panetta says
Iraq has contracted with the United States for the purchase of communication devices and sophisticated radars
Video: Arizona to open investigation of Operation Fast & Furious
"The South Lebanon is subjected to Iran," says an official of the IRGC
U.S. aircraft carrier enters Gulf without incident
Costs Soar For New War Supply Routes
Joe Paterno and NAMBLA: The "Gay" Agenda
Obama's Phony War on the Rich
Remember that Rashid Khalidi video?
Costa Concordia: operation complicated by unregistered passengers
America overcomes the debt crisis as Britain sinks deeper into the swamp
Britain, US and France send warships through Strait of Hormuz
Barack Obama attacked Hillary Clinton in negative campaign leaked memos show
Male sex drive 'to blame for world's conflicts'
Syria: Bashar al-Assad given ultimatum to oversee transition to democracy
We're being sent the bill for the euro crisis again – this time by the IMF
Ali Abdullah Saleh flies out of Yemen 'to get treatment in US'
US drone strike in Somalia kills Britain-linked al-Qaeda agent
'Humiliating' work as Victoria station porter helped Michael Sata become Zambia's president
Four patients die each day from hunger in hospital
HMS Westminster sails to Middle East to add security
Ministry of Defence faces £2 billion more cuts
'Assassinate Obama' column triggers secret service investigation
'It's amazing, a miracle': man unknowingly shoots nail into his skull
EU envoys agree on Iran oil sanctions for July 1
and finally..........
Well, what a surprise (not)
Obama outsources defense jobs to Brazil
CDR Salamander: Sunday Funnies
Non-Event « Neptunus Lex
A Screen That Won’t Scratch « Neptunus Lex
'American Idol' Fans Send Websites Crashing in Frantic Hunt for Brittany Kerr Bikini Pics
Well, the lady's definitely got it going on!
See: "Smokin' Brittany Kerr Melts the Internet!"
And check the hot video at the link.
Sunday, 22 January 2012
Video: Level Zero Heroes
Level Zero Heroes chronicles the battles and losses of U.S. Marine Special Operations Team 8222 (MSOT 8222) in the remote and isolated Bala Morghab River Valley, Afghanistan from October 2009 through June 2010.
"Everything changed when two 82nd Airborne Paratroopers tragically drowned in the mudding Bala Morghab River while trying to retrieve vital supplies from an air drop that had gone terribly wrong. In this one moment, the focus and purpose of the friendly forces at Forward Operating Base Todd was forever altered. With the assist of U.S. Marine Special Operations Team 8222 a massive clearing operation was initiated to break the Taliban's stranglehold on the valley. It took over 6 months..."
More at Level Zero Heroes
Egypt's Brotherhood: "We're in Charge Now"..............by Dan Friedman
In the Islamic world, nature fills a power vacuum with...you guessed it...Islam. And so it came to pass. How can America ever thank you, Mr. Obama? Will four more years in office betraying our allies and empowering our enemies do it for you, sir?
abcnews.go.com, January 20, 2012
Egypt's Islamists Win 75 Percent of Parliament
Final results on Saturday showed that Islamist parties won nearly three-quarters of the seats in parliament in Egypt's first elections since the ouster of authoritarian president Hosni Mubarak, according to election officials and political groups.
chicagotribune.com, January 20, 2012
Egypt Islamists: military will not escape scrutiny
CAIRO (Reuters) - The head of the Muslim Brotherhood, set to be the biggest party in Egypt's new freely elected parliament, said Friday interim military rulers would be held accountable after handing power to civilians for any mistakes made during their time at the helm.
WoW!!
Every week these cats hook up each other with hot hits and big phazed cookies to peruse and then vote on their individual fancy catchers.
Without further adieu - (or a don't) here are this weeks winners
Council Winners
- *First place with 3 2/3 votes! The Right Planet – The Talking Points Meme
- Second place with 2 2/3 votes – Joshuapundit- “I Got Bin Laden” – And Why Obama’s Big Boast Might Have Been A Huge Mistake
- Third place with 1 2/3 votes – The Political Commentator-Achtung! Antisemitismus, immer präsent doch in der Regel unter dem Radar, ist jetzt immer häufiger offene und ist in das Licht der Welt erscheinen!
- Fourth place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – The Razor-In the Belly of the Swan
- Fourth place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – The Mellow Jihadi- Move, Vets Coming Through!
- Fourth place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – The Noisy Room-Don’t Worry… Nuthin’ Bad’s Gonna Happen…
- Fifth Place with 1 vote – Right Truth-Handcuffed, arrested, and now faces three and a half years in jail for firearms possession – for the crime of being unaware that the Second Amendment does not apply in New York City
- Sixth place with 2/3 vote – The Glittering Eye – Citizenship Skills
- Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote – Bookworm Room –San Francisco Chronicle columnist warns city’s rational thinkers not to roll in the mud with one specific fringe group
- Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote – New Zeal – DSA Marxists Take Over the Occupy Movement: Plan “Spring Offensive,” With Widespread Occupations of State Capitols, Schools and Workplaces
- Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote– Simply Jews–De Nada Ilse
- Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote – VA Right! – Ron Paul Flying First Class on Taxpayer Dime
Non-Council Winners
- First place with 2 2/3 votes! – Allen West - Mr. President, please don’t play the race card in 2012… submitted by Joshuapundit
- Second place with 2 votes – Defining Ideas – The Death Of Honestystrong> submitted byThe Colossus of Rhodey
- Third place with 1 2/3 votes – Melanie Phillips-The West’s Useful Idiots submitted by The Political Commentator
- Fourth place *t* with 1 1/3 votes - Mark Steyn –Ron Paul beckons GOP to Fortress America submitted by The Noisy Room
- Fourth place *t* with 1 1/3 votes - Maggie’s Farm – Understanding The Wuterich Haditha Court Martial submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
- Fifth place with 1 vote - Wings Over Iraq–Let’s Review submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- Fifth place *t* with 1 vote -Inside Higher Ed – Price of Success submitted by The Glittering Eye
- Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote -IsraellyCool –There’s Something About Perry submitted by Simply Jews
- Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Big Government –EXCLUSIVE:Former Bush Counternarcotics Advisor: We’re Losing the Drug War Because of Government Bureaucracy submitted by Right Truth
- Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote -SE Cupp – Newt Gingrich, Natural Woman submitted by The Watcher
- Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote -Rush Limbaugh –Washington, DC, Law Forces Exterminators to Capture and Relocate Rats submitted by The Right Planet
- Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote -GodFather Politics – Urinating on the Dead: Marine Performance Art? submitted by Bookworm Room
- Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote -Nile Gardiner – Why are Barack Obama’s critics so smart? submitted by The Razor
- Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote -Liberty’s Spirit – The Real Story of the Lebanese Civil War submitted by The Watcher
- Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote -Accuracy In Media – AIM Interview with Craig Shirley on Pearl Harbor, Ronald Reagan and Today’s Politics submitted by New Zeal
- Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote -The Blaze –More ‘Embarrassing’ Ron Paul Newsletters Emerge on Race, Israel, & More submitted by Rhymes With Right
How to Murder a Superpower
It is the crime of the century that America, home to some of the world’s greatest reserves of coal, natural gas and oil, is being deliberately destroyed by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior as they do everything in their power to restrict access and drive energy producers out of business.
It is common sense that a nation that cannot produce sufficient electricity to turn on its lights and power its manufacturing sector will be destroyed if current Obama administration regulations and actions continue. Our vital transportation sector and all others that utilize petroleum-based products will suffer, too.
While President Obama babbles about millionaires and billionaires, everyone will be impoverished by the loss of jobs and revenue our energy sector produces now and can produce in the future.
This isn’t an “energy policy.” It’s a “no-energy policy” and it is a guarantee of economic disaster.
Obama’s decision to reject a permit for Canada’s XL Keystone pipeline is just one example. It is a job-killer and a revenue-killer. There are thousands of pipelines serving America’s energy needs and the XL Keystone pipeline would ensure that Canada’s own vast energy reserves would flow to America. It is one of our key trade partners and Obama has slapped it in the face.
In early January, Ken Salazar, the Secretary of the Interior, announced a new 20-year, million-acre ban on uranium mining for federal lands in Arizona, despite the fact that these lands hold the highest-grade of known uranium deposits in the United States. It is an outrage that a new GOP-Congress will have to overturn if the nation is to be assured of sufficient uranium to power its nuclear plants and for weapons development. If the ban remains, these uranium resources would be inaccessible until 2023!
Tom Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research said that Salazar’s announcement “further compounds a man-made energy crisis that has been planned and executed in Washington, D.C.”
At the same time we are learning of enormous natural gas discoveries that can reduce our energy bills and turn sleeping little towns into boomtowns, environmental organizations have launched a vast propaganda campaign against “fracking”, a technology that has been safely used for more than fifty years. Their claims about dangers to the nation’s supply of fresh water are baseless. Their claims that fracking has caused earthquakes in Ohio are absurd.
Need it be said that the Environmental Protection Agency has turned its eyes on fracking and is working on a report due later this year that will likely call for harsh crackdowns on its use and more regulations to throttle the expansion of natural gas extraction?
The EPA has just released a report of those power plants that top the list of its regulation of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. There is no basis in science to justify the reduction of CO2. Indeed, since it is a gas on which all vegetation depends, much as oxygen is vital to all animal life, reducing it would impair great crop yields and healthier forests.
These regulations are based on the global warming hoax that blamed CO2 for warming the earth. That is utterly false. The Earth is currently in a perfectly natural cooling cycle and the climate of the Earth is almost entirely based on the Sun—solar radiation—along with the actions of oceans, clouds, and even volcanic activity that spews tons of particulates into the atmosphere.
Coal-fired power plants account for fifty percent of all the electricity generated in the United States. Fifty percent! And yet the EPA is determined to shut down dozens of them providing that vital factor in the lives of all Americans and the economy, nor does this take into account the billions that energy producers have spent to upgrade their technology to reduce emissions.
The Obama administration fuel economy agenda, a call for 54.5 miles per gallon ignores simple physics. There is a finite amount of energy a gallon of gas can generate. If you dilute it with ethanol as is currently required, you get even less mileage. The administration is trying to circumvent Congress by issuing standards based on regulating “greenhouse gas emissions”, but there is no need for this. It is a false argument. The Center for Automotive Research says that the proposed new standards would cause the retail price of average motor vehicles to increase by more than $11,000.
Americans and the nation’s future are being victimized by Obama administration policies. The 18th annual Index of Economic Freedom, was released on January 12th by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal, measures the many factors that contribute to the economic health of a nation—things like property rights, regulatory efficiency, open markets, free trade and labor policies.
Economic freedom is declining worldwide as governments try to spend their way out of the global recession. The United States fell to 10th place. In 2009 it ranked 6th, in 2010 it was 8th, and in 2011, it was 9th.
We are witnessing the deliberate murder of a superpower.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
Not 'failed' but.............from Rico
It's extremely 'telling' to filter out all the media 'noise' and seriously observe the insane clown posse of American politicians today.
There is not a significant difference between 'establishment' Republicans or Democrats these days, except the Republicans haven't been as aggressive in accumulation power (but neither have they shown any interest in relinquishing it once gained, either).
- Romney. Soetoro. Newt. Ad nauseum...
Vote all you want, and the course of the nation will remain unchanged. A totalitarian police state, or in simpler terms for "progressives" no future.
What IS plan? It's NOT good....not for Joe Sixpack anyway.
- Barry, while inarguably the #1 most pretentious pResident in history is certainly NOT a "failed" one, and to think of him in those terms is to completely miss the point. He has been incredibly successful in implementing his radical agenda. No, he is not a failure' (from his perspective) but to any reasonably sane person he has been a hugely MALEVOLENT and wittingly destructive force, and quite effective in a short amount of time.
I think Joe and Jane Sixpack understand this very clearly, and this is why (a) they now regard their own Government as the biggest threat to their liberty, and (b) why Congress plumbs new depths of single-digit approval ratings.
Instead of voting for essentially identical 'choices' it may take pitchforks and some tar-and-feathers to correct matters. I am no longer optimistic that the ballot box is going to do the job.
Wise Political Sayings...
* The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~Henry Cate, VII
* We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~Aesop
* If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven. ~Will Rogers
* Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato
* Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ~Nikita Khrushchev
* When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ~Clarence Darrow
* Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. ~Author Unknown
* If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. ~Jay Leno
* Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. ~John Quinton
* Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. ~Oscar Ameringer
* The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. ~P.J. O'Rourke
* I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. ~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952
* A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. ~Texas Guinan
* Any American who is prepared to run for President should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ~Gore Vidal
* I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ~Charles de Gaulle
* Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ~Doug Larson
* Don't vote, it only encourages them. ~Author Unknown
* There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. ~Will Rogers
H/T Shelly
The Sunday Best..............
South Carolina Primary Observations
American Idol in San Diego on the Navy’s USS Midway
Rule 5: Cowgirls, Cowboys and a Couple of Six Packs
Iran says U.S. presence in Gulf "not new issue"
Iraq Sadr Movement rebukes Suleimani statements
South Sudan to unveil pipeline plans next week: minister
Hawker requests GAO review of Air Force deal
Who wants war with Iran?
Iraq Sadr Movement rebukes Suleimani statements
Pilot with terror links deemed a security risk accuses airline of racism after losing his job
Terror attacks in Kano, Nigeria, kill at least 162
Britain in the midst of first double dip since the 1970s
Telescope to be built in depths of Mediterranean sea
Iran's economic troubles mount as new sanctions are made ready
Syrian opposition want Assad referred to UN
Croatian nationalists try to take down EU flag hours before referendum
Offshore oil drilling in South Atlantic could lead to North Sea-style boom
Red sky in Kenya, Scotland's delight: how the weather in Africa can change conditions above Shetland
The EU ignored years of expert warnings on cruise ship safety
and finally......
How the 1% get a heart attack
Check Out the Damage This Bird Did When it Crashed Into a Plane in Mid-Air
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