Saturday, 4 August 2012
Video: Beauty in the form of Snežana Rodić and the Beast courtesy of the religion of peace!...from Mike Haltman at TPC
Video showing the beauty in the world in the form of Slovenian olympic athlete Snezana Rodic and the darker side in a story about a Muslim owner of a Santa Monica hotel who threw guests out who just happened to be Jewish.
Watch the video and read about the events in Santa Monica at The Political Commentator here.
Caroline Glick's Star Keeps Rising................from Dan Friedman
Here’s an address Caroline delivered at the Inaugural Henry M. (Scoop) Jackson and Jon Kyl Lecture on National Security.
Senator Kyl’s remarks are here.
Quantity or quality?................from Rico
Setting-aside serious issues with the quality of 'facts' from known prevaricators also called BLS statisticians, government bureaucrats, the MSM or Politicians it's worth looking beyond the purported QUANTITY of jobs claimed by the latest NFP report but the QUALITY of those alleged jobs.
Full time-jobs are down <197,000> while part-time jobs are up +31,000
Now THAT'S some "change" you can 'believe in'...oh, wait, Barry's new slogan is "forward" (as in "dis here unemployment line is hardly moving forward").
John Keegan - R.I.P.
London, England
A re-post from No Pasaran
Good-Bye, Friend: RIP John Keegan; Keegan's Perspective on the Iraq War
posted by Erik @ 13:16
John Keegan has died (cheers to Instapundit), the military historian who is best known for The Face of Battle (I still treasure my college course book copy), although my own favorite is Warpaths: Travels of a Military Historian in North America:
Military history and geography explain each other in North America as nowhere else in the world. Award-winning historian John Keegan explores their relationship and examines the battles fought over three centuries between Frenchman and Indian, Royalist and colonist, Union and Confederacy.
Highly recommended. Keegan has been mentioned half a dozen times on No Pasarán. Back in June 2004, we quoted from his Daily Telegraph column:
What monopolises the headlines and prime time television at the moment is news from Iraq on the activity of small, localised minorities struggling to entrench themselves before full peace is imposed and an effective state structure is restored. The news is, in fact, very repetitive: disorder in Najaf and Fallujah, misbehaviour by a tiny handful of US Army reservists — not properly trained regular soldiers — in one prison. There is nothing from Iraq's other 8,000 towns and villages, nothing from Kurdistan, where complete peace prevails, very little from Basra, where British forces are on good terms with the residents.
A day earlier, I wrote a post mentioning his book, The Iraq War, and linking that year's D-Day commemorations to another anniversary from 2004:
… it turns out that there is another 60th birthday this year. That of the Ba'ath party. Yes. It was founded by a Syrian (a Christian, incidentally) in 1944.
I am currently reading a book by an author variously described as "our greatest modern military historian" and "the most readable and most original of living military historians". In The Iraq War, John Keegan does not only describe the military operations from March to April 2003, but gives the context and background of the Iraq conflict, from the history of Mesopotamia to the historic break between Sunnis and Shi'ites, from the fall of the Ottoman empire to the contemporary rivalries. What caught my attention (and what, if truth be told, got a flame of anger burning inside me) was the information on the last page of chapter 3 relating to the origin of the Ba'ath party.
Speaking of Saddam Hussein : "The nature of his régime owed more to twentieth-century ideologies of intolerance and systems of repression than to anything derived from the more distant past."
Speaking of Saddam's Ba'ath party: "Michel Aflaq, the founder of Ba'athism, had modelled the organization of his party on Hitler's Nazi movement, of which he was an admirer."
Let us remember the Iraqi citizens quoted in Steven Vincent's Reason article: "European and Arab journalists talk to us, but they don’t care about our happiness in being liberated. They only want us to make anti-American comments."
Week in Blogs: Reid, Prove That You Are Not a Transvestite! Plus, Dems I...
Is Obama going to start a hot dog chain called Pup-Fil-A? Find out. The Democrats think that millionaires should pay more taxes to help us be more like the People's Republic of China. Hear the details. Did Senator Reid have a Swiss-Miss weekend replete with lederhosen? Did the American media show disrespect for Poland's unknown soldiers?
News.............
Khalil K Abir Abdelrahman and the Terrible, Horrible, No
Good, Very Bad Day
Why There's Nothing Illegal about CIA Drone Pilots
The Great Islamist Comeback
Risks of Allowing Remote Access to Your PC
Expiration of tax cuts would push economy over the cliff
Israel -- Obama's wedge issue
Long Island: Drunk-Driving Illegal Alien Killer of Two Is Sentenced in Plea Deal
July Jobs: Immigrants Take American Jobs At a Record Rate
Barack Obama’s Calculated Deception
Panetta Attempts to Reassure and Restrain Israel on the Iran Nuclear Issue
Muslim Brotherhood establishes militia inside Syria
Los Angeles police solve 30-year-old murders
I'm starting to warm to Mitt Romney By Daniel Hannan
G4S under fire after nun breaks into US nuclear facility
Half a million Congolese flee in face of Rwanda-backed rebellion
Romney tax returns: Could Reid’s unsubstantiated attack hurt Democrats?
‘The clock is ticking’: ‘Megathrust’ West coast earthquake could resemble Japan’s, studies say
Reid: Credible Source Says Romney Owns a Pet Elephant
Two forces, no victor in Syrian struggle
Iran: New version of 'Conqueror' missile successfully tested
Who Should Bibi Trust, Obama or Ahmadinejad?.....................from Dan Friedman
[Who should Bibi trust, Obama or Ahmadinejad? Simple. All depends who he reckons is a man of his word. df]
Ahmadinejad: World goal must be to ‘annihilate” Israel
Obama: U.S. will "always have Israel's back"
Spending money.................from Rico
OK, I admit it...the "spending money" subj line was to get your attention.
- The topic is near and dear to every American's heart.
From my favorite collection of fakes, frauds and liars....er, statisticians at BLS, courtesy of yet another collection of fakes, frauds and liars at NPR is this infographic of how Americans spend money. The data is 'sliced' into three groups:
- poor
- middle class
- rich
There aren't really many surprises here. If you're poor you'll spend more on food and healthcare for example. Otherwise things are pretty level across the categories....except for one. Retirement savings.
- Saving for retirement is something worth looking at.
Chick-fil-A in Torrance, CA, Vandalized With Message 'Tastes Like Hate'
They can't help themselves.
That's really helping the cause.
Those "tolerant" progressives. Such nice people.
Expect updates...
Friday, 3 August 2012
Smokin' Argentinian Model Luisana Lopilato Supports Team Great Britain in Sizzling New Ultimo Lingerie Ensemble
I've posted on this lady a couple of times, and man, she's impressive.
See: "Yowsa! New Luisana Lopilato Ultimo Lingerie Pics!"
She admits to working out every day to maintain her gold-standard figure.
Well, yeah. I say go baby! Don't quit that hot bod, Luisana!
Chris Hayes, the Jacobin at MSNBC
Here's the inside scoop on the f-king radical cable news host, Chris Hayes.
Amazingly, Hayes claims that his network is "objective" and "mainstream," in contrast to Fox News, which he argues is ideologically conservative, essentially Republican in its partisan agenda. And that tells you something: Progressives like Hayes live in a rarefied intellectual milieu in which all other media phenomena are biased or extreme, outside of the appropriate centrist meme. That's an illusion, of course, and it's fueled by a foundation of the hard-left intellectualism that Hayes cites as teeth-cutting ideological fodder --- the ideological Gatorade of the academy. And his agenda is obviously marketable to large numbers of people who question the historic model of mobility in America, and the constitutional priority of limited government that favors the individual. Yet Hayes is too smart to come out hitting like a revolutionary firebrand and vanguard of the proletariat. But that doesn't mean he's not actualizing that role in his perch at the far-left network MSNBC.
Blake Lively Shows Fabulously Slender Figure in New Gucci Perfume Advertisement (VIDEO)
When I saw her Fourth of July bathing suit pics, I thought maybe she was a little flabby.
But she's looking shapely and shimmering here: "New Blake Lively Advertisement for Gucci."
Check the link for the video. A guy could fall for a woman like that!
The Chicken Inquisition
See: "Chick-fil-A: The Left's Ominous Attack On Religious Liberty."
And developing today: "Today: 'National Same-Sex Kiss Day at Chick Fil A'."
RELATED: "Nancy Pelosi, San Francisco Democrat: 'I'm a Kentucky Fried Chicken Fan' (VIDEO)."
Updates on Chick-fil-A throughout the day.
Statistical jobs aren't real jobs....................from Rico
There are a lot of things that sound pretty good in theory, but absolutely do not work in practice.
Statistics may be a good case in point.
The NFP aka "jobs report" sounded pretty good, yet unemployment slightly rose from 8.2% to 8.3%....how is that possible?
- Easy. LIE.
Unemployment.
Let's get the phoney 'headline' unemployment number out of the way first.
- The U3 number of 8.x% does NOT include everyone that is unemployed. It sounds better, actually MUCH better than the 'real' unemployment number...the U6 number...which is in reality running just over 20%/just under 25%.
NFP (jobs report).
The 'happy headlines' today say the US added 163K jobs in July. Up from 133K last month.
Hooray? No, horse-hooey!
- The non-seasonally adjusted July number was a 1.248 million jobs drop from June.
- BLS 'added' 377K statistical jobs for "seasonal" purposes...the largest such seasonal addition in the past ten years.
- The Birth/Death (BD) adjustment then gets us to today's 'headline' number...but the BD adjustment was 1,000% higher than last month's BD adjustment.
In short: it was ALL statistical fakery [read: a LIE].
'Statistical' jobs simply are NOT 'real' jobs...unless it's a Presidential election year.
- The lies won't be of any help to you, happy voter, as you try to acquire that coveted MacDonald's cap in today's job market.
Late News...........
Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. - War at Sea
BLACKFIVE: Obama campaign moves to restrict military voting in Ohio (update)
Reid: My source on Romney's taxes is so incredibly credible that I won't say who he is
Bombshell: Obama chief of staff Daley briefed on Solyndra concerns six months before bankruptcy
DCCC to Sheldon Adelson: Hey, sorry for calling you a pimp
Months after Americans leave, an Afghan base in disrepair
Obama, Democrats suing to block military voting in Ohio?
16 Firms Bid to Build $412m Grand Faw Breakwater
Debunking the myth of Obama's regulatory record
Former Obama economic adviser on jobs report: What did you expect from our measly growth rate?
Maj. Gen. Donohue takes command of US Army Africa
ICE Agent Faces Suspension For Arresting Illegal Alien
White House: Unemployment Rate Not 8.3%, It's 8.254%!
Media Spins Rise In Unemployment Rate as Good News
Oil Prices Jump on US Jobs Data
And So It Begins: Chick-Fil-A Vandalized
Demands for ICE to Explain Why
My Black Dad and Chick-fil-A
The Return of TOTUS
Here Comes the 'Hispanic Obama'
USDA draws the line on food stamps, rules against medical marijuana deductions
Assad's regime pleads Moscow for economic aid as Russian navy ships approach Syrian shores
I will vote for Barack Obama because... and the case of Chick-Fil-Fast-and-Furious...from Mike Haltman at TPC
Two great political cartoons with the first listing all of the reason for someone to vote for Barack Obama in November (not including the 8.3% unemployment rate from today's July jobs report) while the other examines the outrage from the Left over Chick-Fil-A while it sits silent over the Fast and Furious scandal!
Read the article at The Political Commentator here.
Links to stories you NEED to read!...from Mike Haltman at TPC
These are links to articles from around the world that provide insight and information into some of the stories that are making news.
These include the Aurora, Colorado shooter and what and when the University knew about the problem, the net worth of members of Congress, political humor video from NewsBusted, China buying the U.S. and the Watcher's Council!
Read them at The Political Commentator here.
Obama's "Buyer's Remorse"...................by Dan Friedman
[In a twist of fate (and an old anecdote) Obama will soon be crying “if only I hadn’t disrespected Bibi.” The president, filled with himself, thought he could bring Israel to heel by showing it the back door in 2010. But how swiftly the tables have turned. On the eve of our elections Obama needs Israel more than they need Obama. That old bond of trust between the two “allies” has gone and, as long as Obama’s occupying the White House, that’s the way it’s going to stay. But for Israel it’s all a blessing in disguise. Now they know what they need to do, when they need to do it, and that their fate is in their own hands. By virtue of Islamophilia, hubris and animus, Pharaoh Obama has lost his ability to control the Jewish state. df]
JPOST, 08/02/2012
Ahmadinejad: World forces must strive to annihilate Israel
In Ramadan speech to ambassadors from Islamic countries, Iranian president says "horrible Zionist current" has been managing world affairs for 400 years, adds that liberating Palestine would solve all world problems.
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JPOST, 08/02/2012
'If I were Iranian, I'd be fearful of the next 12 weeks'
Former Mossad chief's statement to 'NY Times' comes as Netanyahu and Barak both warn time for sanctions, diplomacy is running out, amid speculation that an attack may take place before US elections in November.
F22 Refueling - 128th Air Refueling Wing
Video by Tech. Sgt. James Michaels 128th Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs
128th Air Refueling Wing, F22 Refueling. Produced by TSgt. James Michaels - 128 ARW Public Affairs.
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