Monday, 4 June 2012
News.................
Romney’s Syria Problem
BLACKFIVE: The Mad Medic serves up a dose of whoop ass
Religious edict seen as aiding embattled Iraq PM
IDF admits to using cyber space to attack enemy
Access to Pacific harbors key to U.S. strategy: Panetta
A few thoughts on converts, faith, and politics
Fla Dems hold convention in Tampa - and it was sorta sad
Jeb Bush bashes Grover Norquist's anti-tax pledge
US drones kill 15 in North Waziristan strike
Suicide bomber kills 15 at Nigerian church
New Islamist group emerges in Nigeria, vows to defend all Muslims in Africa
CDR Salamander: Sunday Funnies
Tokyo stocks hit 28-yr low as investors flee risky assets
Iraq oil exports surging
Obama wants to avoid the sequester?
CDR Salamander: Ummmm ..... what "land-based platforms?"
Elizabeth Warren, crusader against greedy banks, turned a profit 'flipping' homes
Japan arrests fugitive for 1995 Tokyo subway attack
Did the CDC really need to reassure Americans there is no zombie apolcalypse?
Obama's tough guy persona may hurt him after all
DOJ suddenly interested in FLA voter rolls
Some want states to regulate red snapper instead of federal government
Fiesta of Five Flags: DeLuna arrives to settle again
These Nazi Propaganda Leaflets Dropped on American Soldiers Are Horrible
Where's Dimbleby when you need him? How the BBC's coverage of Queen's Thames pageant sank under a tide of inanity
150 feared dead as passenger plane crashes into building in Lagos
War in the White House: attorney general Eric Holder and top Obama adviser David Axelrod 'had to be separated'
Weapons stash uncovered at Venezuelan prison
North Korea threatens to blow up media offices over critical coverage
Seinfeld star Jason Alexander apologises for calling cricket 'gay' sport
Iran warns Israel attack would trigger a thunderous blow
The drink giants aiming to smash Africa's 'moonshine' tradition
No Country for Old Incumbents
and finally.......
Gun Manual For Nearly EVERY Firearm On The Planet ebooks pdf free download links
Sunday, 3 June 2012
COMBAT footage in Afghanistan "Attack on the Fourth of July"
Documentary telling the story of soldiers from the 4th Brigade Combat Team 25th Infantry Division (Airborne) defending a combat outpost from a massive Taliban attack that took place on July 4th, 2009. This documentary is part of an EMMY nominated series that is currently airing on the Pentagon Channel. This "redux" version is in full HD and has actual footage taken by the Taliban on the day of the attack and was procured by U.S. soldiers after the battle. Produced and Shot by SSG Robert Ham.
The Sunday Best..............
MTLB version for Iraq?
Amelia Earhart found?
Why can't the White House keep a secret?
Is ethanol now the "biofuels Solyndra?"
Barack Pinocchio Obama
Enviro-blackmailers spoof conservative pitch
My View of the World - Economic Freedom
Why Is This Not Treason?
Nebraska lawmakers question EPA's aerial livestock surveillance
Animal Rights Legislation Would Make Eggs a Luxury Food
Non-Zombie Arrested for Beating Man to Death With Prosthetic Arm
There Need to Be More Miniature Police Chases Created With Pico Projectors
SAS frees all four hostages in daring Afghanistan raid
Spain is in 'total emergency’, the EU in total denial
The Shabiha: Inside Assad's death squads
Israel Deploys Nuclear Weapons on German Submarines
'Warzone' in Hamburg after Nazi demo
Russia savours its chance to play superpower
Bilderbergers' secret agenda - Conclave with Global Consequences
Plane ploughs into bus after overshooting runway
Syrian rebels abduct 5 top Hizballah officers, including Nasrallah’s nephew
Eglin, Hurlburt vie for new tanker planes
and finally..........
“Existential Defeatism” Abroad and at Home
Obama's Black Friday
Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, marked the beginning of the Great Depression, but for Barack Obama, last Friday was Black Friday because the U.S. Department of Labor announced that only 69,000 jobs were added in May, well below expectations that it might reach 150,000. The official unemployment rate ticked up to 8.2 percent, but it is actually far closer to 15 percent.
The news means that Obama’s hope of being reelected ranges between slim to none. Beyond the current numbers, on Friday CNS News reported that 766,000 more women are unemployed than when he took office in 2009.
Also on Friday, Generation Opportunity, a non-profit, non-partisan organization devoted to younger Americans reported that unemployment among young adults, ages 18 to 29, was 12.1 percent in May. “The declining labor participation has created an additional 1.7 million young adults that are not counted as ‘unemployed’ by the Bureau of Labor Statistics because they are not in the labor force, having given up looking for work.” If their numbers were factored in, “the actual 18-29 unemployment rate would rise to 16.9 percent.”
On Thursday, Obama got more bad news. Former President Bill Clinton told CNN that Mitt Romney’s business record at Bain Capital was “sterling.” Clinton said, “I don’t think that we ought to get into the position where we say ‘This is bad work. This is good work.’ The man who has been governor and had a sterling business career crosses the qualification threshold.”
Clinton’s appraisal came at the end of the third week that Team Obama had been trying to demonize Romney for having been a successful venture capitalist. Clinton isn’t the only prominent Democrat to jump off the SS Obama. Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick also refused to press the Obama attack on Bain.
“GM employed roughly 252,000 workers in 2008. Now it has 207,000, with 131,000 of them working in foreign nations.” Citing data from the National Automobile Dealers Association, Rove estimated that “as many as 100,000 Americans lost jobs at the companies’ dealerships.”
GM and Chrysler creditors were left without compensation while Obama ensured that the United Auto Workers Union gained ownership equity in both companies. Then he stood by “as the UAW forced the closure of a plant in Moraine, Ohio, where workers had joined a rival union.”
By almost any economic measurement the nation is experiencing, if not a Depression, at least a very serious Recession, despite the official pronouncement that it had ended in 2010. The Recession hitting European nations is having global repercussions as well.
Obama has had nothing to say about the pending “Taxamageddon” that will kick in on January 2013 bringing the largest tax hike in the history of the nation. He never mentions the “stimulus”, nor Obamacare. The latter is likely to be ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in June.
Even members of the mainstream press that were largely responsible for Obama’s election in 2008 are beginning to have second thoughts. Dana Milbank of the reliably liberal Washington Post in April wrote that Obama “is making me queasy because his nonstop campaigning is looking, well, sleazy—and his ad suggesting that Mitt Romney wouldn’t have killed Osama bin Laden is just the beginning of it.”
The polls are all trending away from Obama. On almost every issue, Romney has either tied or surpassed him. Obama looks weak because he is weak.
There’s just over five months to go before November 6, Election Day. They are going to be the worst five months of Obama’s life, but for millions of Americans out of work and unable to find work they will be just as bad or worse. Many of them are women. Many of them are young adults. Many of them represent a dwindling base of African-Americans and Latinos.
Many of them are voters.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
Saturday, 2 June 2012
Late News............
Let the sun shine in
U.S. defense secretary announces new strategy with Asia
Community Difference Maker: Baptist Healthcare LifeFlight
Poland To Pensacola Bike Ride Hits North Escambia
Mitt Romney campaign ramping up in Florida to enthusiasm of Republicans
Hurricane prediction team raises forecast
First non-test pilot for F35 gets certified
Crossing swords with a 175-pound mako
Iraqi figures show slight increase in the monthly death toll after 9-year low
WoW!!
Thusly sans further adieu (or a don"t)
Council Winners
- *First place with 3 1/3 votes! Joshuapundit – Memorial Day: An Honest Man Versus A Liar
- Second place with 2 2/3 votes – The Independent Sentinel – Obama’s Truth Team Engaging In Deceptive Propaganda
- Third place *t* with 2 votes – The Right Planet- BlogBurst Friday: Blog About #BrettKimberlin Day
- Third place *t* with 2 votes – The Razor- Media Bias and the Sin of Omission
- Fourth place with 1 1/3 votes – Bookworm Room- Book review: Marcus Luttrell’s “Service: A Navy SEAL at War”
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Gay Patriot-Richard Grenell, gay conservatives & the GOP
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Political Commentator - The IPO: Did Facebook “Jump the Shark”?
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Colossus of Rhodey – This Is Even Funnier Because Of Her Obstinance
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – Rhymes With Right – Religious Freedom Alert – South Carolina Jailer Declares No Mass For Catholic Prisoners
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Glittering Eye – I’d Really Like to Know How They Think Things Should Work
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – Simply Jews – Viktor Dvorakovsky: an undermartyred Russian Islamist
Non-Council Winners
- First place with 3 votes! – Mark Steyn - The Facebook Caliphate submitted by The Noisy Room
- Second place *t* with 2 votes – Azizonomics –Keynesianism & Eugenics submitted by The Glittering Eye
- Second place *t* with 2 votes –Adam Garfinkle –Look Before You Leap submitted by Joshuapundit
- Third place with 1 1/3 votes -The American Spectator Terror by Any Other Name submitted by The Right Planet
- Fourth place *t* with 1 vote – Breitbart.Com -Former DOJ Attorney: Eric Holder Could Stop SWATings ‘in 48 Hours’ submitted by Rhymes With Right
- Fourth place *t* with 1 vote - Victor Davis Hanson –The Power of Cool submitted by The Razor
- Fourth place *t* with 1 vote - Security Clearance – Inside Jordan, Worries About Iran And Syria submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -The Warped Mirror –Think Progress On Preconditions For Negotiations submitted by Simply Jews
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Jim Treacher Jay Carney explains the difference between Solyndra and Bain Capital, so try to keep up– submitted by The Watcher
- Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote -Hugh Hewitt –The Chicago Gang Goes After Romney submitted by The Watcher
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote -Nice Deb –Aaron Worthing Arrested After Kimberlin Peace Order Hearing submitted by Gay Patriot
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote -Omri Ceren/Commentary Magazine –The Consequences of Obama’s Conceit submitted by Bookworm Room
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