She performed to Hava Nagila, a traditional Hebrew song.
See: "U.S. Gymnast Alexandra Raisman: Gold Medal Routine Was Tribute to Israeli Athletes Murdered at 1972 Munich Olympics."
BONUS: "Alexandra Raisman Wins Gold Medal in Floor Exercise."
Friday, 10 August 2012
Aly Raisman Gold Medal-Winning Routine Was Tribute to Victims of 1972 Munich Games Massacre
See: "U.S. Gymnast Alexandra Raisman: Gold Medal Routine Was Tribute to Israeli Athletes Murdered at 1972 Munich Olympics."
BONUS: "Alexandra Raisman Wins Gold Medal in Floor Exercise."
Thursday, 9 August 2012
What I want to use as our new header
The address will still stay the same
I can keep 'Last of the Few' as the tag line
Joke...............
Outside a small town, a fire started inside the local chemical plant.
In the blink of an eye, it exploded into massive flames. The alarm went out to all fire departments for miles around.
When the volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the chemical company president rushed to the fire chief
and said, "All our secret formulas are in the vault in the centre of the plant. They must be saved. I'll give $50,000
to the fire department that brings them out intact."
But the roaring flames held the firefighters off.
Soon more fire departments had to be called in as the situation became desperate. As the firemen arrived, the
president shouted out that the offer was now $100,000 to the fire department who could save the company's
secret files.
From the distance, a lone siren was heard as another fire truck came into sight. It was the nearby Chasidic Jewish
rural township volunteer fire company composed mainly of Jewish, ultra-orthodox men over the age of 65.
To everyone's amazement, that little broken-down fire engine roared right past all the sleek newer engines that
were parked outside the plant.
Without even slowing down, it drove straight into the middle of the inferno. Outside, the other firemen watched in
amazement and disbelief as the Chasidic old timers jumped off right in the middle of the fire and fought it back on
all sides. It was a performance and effort never seen before. Within a short time, the Chasidic old timers had
extinguished the fire and saved the secret formulas.
The grateful chemical company president announced that for such a superhuman feat he was upping the reward
to $200,000, and walked over to thank each of the brave Jewish fire fighters personally.
The local TV news reporter rushed in to capture the event on film, asking their chief, "What are you going to do
with all that money?"
"Vell," said Moishe Epstein, the 70-year-old fire chief, "Da foist ting ve gonna do is fix da brakes on dat f..king truck!!!"
H/T Mercseller
Our $2.5 Billion Mission to a Large Rock
By Alan Caruba
Perhaps because Mars can be seen with the naked eye and is “close” to Earth there has long been a fascination with the fourth planet from the Sun. Earth is the third and the largest of the solar system’s four terrestrial planets. Mars has no life and Earth is teeming with it. Lucky us.
So why did the U.S. which is bleeding billions in all directions and weighed down by some $15 trillion in debt just spend $2.5 billion to send the “Curiousity” lander there to devote at least two years or more exploring Mars’ surface? The short answer is because we can.
The longer answer dates back to the Cold War between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union when a space program was the perfect cover for the development of missiles that could be used to blow each other to smithereens.
There was little practical value in sending men to the Moon beyond the breakthroughs in missile technology that made it happen. There have been no more manned missions there in forty years; probably because there is no other good reason to go there.
Nations, like men, often do things for the prestige involved and to demonstrate their superiority in some respect. What struck me most about the August 6th Mars mission was the way, on August 7th, the story had fallen off, not just the front page of newspapers, but virtually all media coverage, televised and print.
Most of the story focused on the NASA scientists who had burst into shouts of joy and hugs all around. Theirs was, indeed, an engineering triumph. The effort involved a nine-month voyage of 352 million miles. Meanwhile, however, our space shuttles were retired in 2010 and, if we want to visit the space station, we have to pay a lordly sum to the Russians for a ride.
Having been to the Moon, there is even less reason to send men to Mars. The standard reply about such missions is that it expands man’s knowledge of our neighboring planet, but Mars is currently the object of five spacecraft, three in orbit and two on the surface, including a couple of inert landers and rovers. It is, like all other planets in our galaxy a very inhospitable place.
Aside from being a planet, Mars is essentially just a big rock.
Is there water on Mars? No. Liquid water cannot exist on the surface of Mars, but it does have two permanent polar ice caps that appear to be made of water though geologists have concluded liquid water may have existed because of the presence of two minerals, hermatite and geotite, both of which sometime form in water.
Our galaxy is one of what has been estimated to be more than 170 billion galaxies in the observable universe. Galaxies are a collection of star systems and clusters, along with interstellar clouds. In between exists something scientists have dubbed “dark matter”, but it is likely it is just space; lots and lots of space.
Other than accumulating more knowledge about Mars, I fail to see any reason to be spending billions on space missions. Might we not spend more time exploring our planet’s oceans or any of the many other areas of concern that would advance our knowledge such as how to deal with the diseases that afflict mankind or that would enhance the planet’s ability to produce more food?
I suppose part of the interest in Mars is the ancient question of whether there is life on other planets and, with billions of other galaxies, the odds are there is, but it is also probably too far away to ever bother visiting our little planet. Any other life form observing us might well conclude that the humans here are far too violent to merit contact. Not a day goes by without humans killing other humans.
The next time we have the urge to spend $2.5 billion, I hope we build some aircraft carriers and other armament against the crazies bent on killing us and much of the rest of mankind in order to prove that their god is better than our god. Ironically, Mars is named for the Roman god of war.
Why Mars? Why bother?
© Alan Caruba, 2012
Remembering the Heroes of Extortion 17
We should never forget the events of August 6th, 2011, when Navy, Army and Air Force service members were lost in one tragic moment west of Kabul, Afghanistan. But we should also consider and honor the wives, girlfriends, sons and daughters of those heroes — those brave souls who faced the ultimate personal tragedy with dignity, compassion and resolve.
H/T Alyssa
Late News...........
Indonesia Says 'No, Thanks' to More Sukhoi Fighters
Lies, Damned Lies, Obama
Revolutionary Guards in Madras Shorts?
Iraq: After Standoff, Kurds Resume Pumping Oil for Iraq Exports
Taxpayer-Funded A 123 Green Energy Company Handed to Chinese
Liberal Bigotry
Obama Complains Michelle Doesn't Get Salary As First Lady
Next from the EPA: Four-Gallon-Minimum Gas Purchases
'Fiscal gap' grew by $11 trillion last year
Mr. President, who're you foolin'? Oh, there they are
Mitt's Cayman Island Gift
Obama Admin Offers Five Gitmo Prisoners to Taliban in Exchange for Captured US Soldier
Saudis to Muslim Brotherhood: Drop Dead
Romney-Petraeus in 2012?
Time to teach 'have-a-go-heroes' how to street fight or repeal the handgun ban
'I ordered a TV on Amazon but got a semi-automatic assault rifle instead' I need a new 'TV'
Special report: Hundreds of rebel fighters leave Aleppo after two nights of relentless shelling by regime forces
Top Democrat: Obama Must 'Repudiate' 'Disgusting' Ad
Report: New virus linked to makers of Flame detected across Mideast
Sheldon Adelson Punches Back with $60 Million Libel Suit
Drug Trafficker Claims There Is More to Operation Fast and Furious
Steve King: Repeal Every Bill Obama Has Signed
Al Qaeda calls on jihadists to attack NATO supplies, 'secure the back' of the Afghan Taliban
My Speech on the Muslim Brotherhood and ‘Guilt By Association’
A Fitting Answer to the IOC’s Snub
Frontlines with LtCol Oliver North – Kurdistan
NRA Life of Duty correspondents LtCol Oliver North and Chuck Holton report from the frontlines of Kurdistan, a region that is leading the charge for change in the Middle East.
More here
Owe-lympics?......................from Rico
The happy workers used to sing a parody of the Disney tune.."I owe, I owe, so off to work I go..." but this is hard to do if you don't have work to go to and are instead unemployed. The "owe" part doesn't change all that much, however.
Now bear in mind looking at this stimu-less vs. unemplyment chart that the 8.3% unemployment rate is the 'offishul' number that has been cooked. Followers of SGS 'Shadowstats' and the man on the street know the actual unemplyment number is 22-23%.
Just one more example of Barry & Co. over-promising and under-delivering.
Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes
What should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam Warhurst tells at the TEDSalon the story of how she and a growing team of volunteers came together to turn plots of unused land into communal vegetable gardens, and to change the narrative of food in their community.
Where's ?......................from Rico
Everyone with kids has at some point played "Where's Waldo?"
For those of you perhaps wondering why some "TBTF-Too Big To Prosecute" banks seem coated in teflon while the venerable likes of Standard Chartered, HSBC, and Barcleh's are being publicly pilloried by US regulators, try this game:
Locate them on a randomly selected US politician's top donor list.
- Chuckie Schumer is a great specimen, so let's use him as an example of who-owns-who!
Ah, the best government money can buy!
Video Trailer of "Honor Flight": Saluting the men who helped to save the world!...from Mike Haltman at TPC
Video trailer for the soon to be released documentary, "The Story of the Stars & Stripes Honor Flight", that tells the story of Operation Resolve.
With 1,000 WWII veterans dying every day it is this groups mission to take every remaining veteran to Washington, DC to visit the WWII Memorial created in their name!
Watch the trailer at The Political Commentator here.
Romney is Right. It's Their Culture, Stupid....................from Dan Friedman
Think for a minute and answer honestly. Would you get on a jetliner designed by these people? Or choose to have elective surgery in one of their hospitals?
Didn’t think so.
Ramesh Raskar: Imaging at a trillion frames per second
Ramesh Raskar presents femto-photography, a new type of imaging so fast it visualizes the world one trillion frames per second, so detailed it shows light itself in motion. This technology may someday be used to build cameras that can look "around" corners or see inside the body without X-rays.
H/T Canis 61
"Vaporizing" your money....................from Rico
I'm pretty certain that almost everyone is familiar with the "this is your mind on drugs" meme.
Here's one that almost nobody seems to have tumbled to..."this is your money on the Fed!"
Not talked about, usually overlooked, but certainly a fact is that the private bank laughingly known as the Federal Reserve Bank can "vaporize" your money better than Jon Corzine could on his best day!
News.............
Wearing the Muslim Niqab in New York City
Obama campaign's phony jobs numbers
An open letter to Joe Soptic
3D printing may spell the beginning of the end for gun control
Video: Obama campaign now pretending it didn't know details of steelworker's story - after featuring him in two ads
5 Facts We Know About Obama’s College Years
Jimmy Carter to Address DNC
Massachusetts Tries to Register 500K Welfare Recipients
Chicago Values, Revisited: it’s not about chicken!
Planting the Crotch Level Men’s Room Cameras Americans Won’t Plant
Donald Trump: Barry Obama's Records May Reveal One Of The Great Cons Of All Time
Belarus withdraws embassy staff from Sweden as row over teddy bear parachute drop escalates
Nick Clegg’s legacy will be no more than a trail of wreckage
Euro founder admits some nations may be forced to leave
Soldiers' body parts 'kept by Army'
Want to reform government? Start with the Civil Service
70 sect members found living underground in Russia
Syrian rebels withstand Aleppo assault
Argentine official suggests poor children should be fed pigeons
Altruistic Society or Sect? The Shadowy World of the Islamic Gülen Movement
Superpower Denied? Why China’s ‘Rise’ May Have Already Peaked
The deadly impact of President Obama’s economic policies: 59,757 needless deaths and counting
Australian medics fly 6,500 km to Antarctica to rescue American
WH, Obama Campaign Refuse to Disavow Vicious Ad
Iran aims to strengthen “Axis of Resistance,” fans flames of Syrian civil war
'Sinai terrorists supported from Afghanistan, Iraq'
Suspected Kurd militants attack military bus in Turkey
Munchin' Lunch at Chick-fil-A: Same-Sex Smoochin' Hits Chicken Chain
Zo reports on the same-sex kiss-in at Chick-fil-A. Do gay marriage supporters have a legitimate gripe against the chicken chain, or are they being intolerant of people who disagree with their views? Find out.
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
Lying Democrats: CNN's Brianna Keilar Says Ad Linking Romney to Death of Wife of Laid Off Worker is Bunk
The Democrats will do anything to win, the lying sleazeball fascists.
See: "Brianna Keilar Fact Checks the New 'Priorities USA' Ad."
The Ultimate Aliya Mustafina!
Here's the ultimate Aliya Mustafina tribute.
See: "Aliya Mustafina!"
More women's Olympic coverage at the link.
Late News..........
Cornwall 'declares independence'
U-turn as Iran admits its military are among Syria 'pilgrim' hostages
CDR Salamander: Retro Wednesday
The fearful in Damascus
Obama Blames State and Local Governments, Congress for 14.1 Percent Black Unemployment
Arthur Laffer: The Real 'Stimulus' Record
The Romney Hood Fairy Tale
America is turning on British banks in order to protect Wall Street
Targeted killings in Afghanistan up 53%
Australian hotel cannot ban prostitute from taking clients to her room
Russian Military May Receive New Tank for Testing in 2013
BLACKFIVE: Defense spending is not what is breaking the bank
Egypt hails 'complete success' in air strikes against Sinai 'terrorists'
Iranian hostages in Damascus traveled via Revolutionary Guards' travel agency
Justice announces new whistleblower post in wake of 'Furious'
Body Count Rises in Obama's War on Coal
BLACKFIVE: Guns or Butter?
Law Enforcement Instructed to 'Stand Down,' Not Arrest Occupy Lawbreakers
Obama Plays Politics with 'Historic' Drought
Obama Signs Law Requiring Administration To Release Sequester Details
Green Energy Firms Under Scrutiny Get 'We Can't Wait' Projects
To Vet or Not to Vet Huma Abedin
Ominous silence for Obama
Why Team Obama Ran with the Dishonest 'Mitt Killed My Wife!' Ad
Piracy attacks drop to zero for first full month in five years
Egypt president Mohammed Morsi sacks intelligence chief
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