Friday, 17 August 2012
Michelle Obama should check this map out and get back to work! (Video)...from Mike Haltman at TPC
The obesity rate among adults in the United States as reported by the CDC is over 33%.
Maybe the First Lady needs to get off of the campaign trail and attend to her chosen mission of fighting the weight problem in this country.
Includes a video of Michelle Obama giving Olympic Gold medalist Gabby Douglas eating tips on Leno!
See the map and the video at The Political Commentator here.
UN News...........
UN to close Syria observer mission
From Roger Who Writes:
'These aren't the only ones, I came across a UN contingent at EBB Uganda in June on their way to South Sudan.
The uniformed (uninformed?) were all clutching their expensive work backpacks in which no doubt resided their expensive notebooks/laptops.
In the final security queue before boarding (I was going to a different destination) I got into conversation with a bevy of mainly female UN civilians displaying ostentatiously their blue and white UN cards dangling from their necks. They really are an arrogant bunch, they consider themselves above nations, they are on the top of the world.
One tried to push in at the front of the security queue at the scanner, I blocked her way and told her to wait her turn like everyone else and while she was about it, to get a new boss to replace the ineffectual and oxygen-thieving Kofi Annan (CV includes Rwanda, Darfur and now Syria).
Here's a question: when did a UN Peace-Keeping Farce last open fire on good or bad guys to restore order? I can't recall it, however I do recall one contingent in the Congo who were feeding confiscated weapons back to the rebels, probably in return for some sexual favours with underage locals.'
Photo shows UN troops roughing it.
Gold: Retail investors vs. Central Banks................from Rico
Proving that the sobriquet "dumb money" is well earned, retail investors apparently still have not figured-out gold.
- They are not buying gold or gold miners, even at fire sale/bargain prices.
This is dumb.
Central Banks, however, are accumulating gold like crazy. Say what you will about them, these guys aren't dumb.
- They may also know exactly what is coming down the pike...
Ignore the words. Pay attention to the actions.
News...............
Julian Assange Wears a Poppy Pin?
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
NBC Cancels Series, Entire Cast Of 'Stars Earn Stripes' Killed In Afghanistan
Carbon emissions are at a twenty-year low, due to.
All this gnashing of teeth over FedGov ammo purchases...
Lebanon Militia Kidnaps Syrians
Lebanese Shiite clan vows to abduct more Syrians
Obama Says He Should Pay More Taxes
PART 2 Washington Times: Media More Interested In Vetting Arpaio Than Obama's Identity Fraud
Marine Aviation Tower Arrives In Escambia County
Finland prepares for break-up of eurozone
Israel's trigger finger grows itchy over the nuclear threat from Iran
India is heading for Mars: it doesn’t need British aid money to pay the bills
Jeremy Clarkson: Britain is a nation of 62 million complete and utter b*****ds
Japan to deport Chinese island activists in attempt to defuse row
Mitt Romney: 'I've never paid less than 13 per cent tax in last ten years'
The End of Reason - What Potatoes Say about the State of US Democracy
Iran General: Syria ‘Red Line of the Resistance’
Saudi Cleric Questions Holocaust
Canadian twist in Pussy Riot case sparks call for Ottawa to intervene
Biden Aides Censoring the Press
Open Carry vs. Concealed Carry
Afterburner with Bill Whittle: A Great Way to Win and Lose
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has energized the 2012 race for the White House since Mitt Romney tapped him as his pick for vice president. Bill Whittle wants to know why Ryan is the only public servant in America to propose a serious plan to save the nation from certain fiscal ruin. He is also, win or lose, the best man on the ticket this year. Hear why.
Swoon-Worthy: Penélope Cruz Remade as Super Mario in New Nintendo Advertisement
She's one of the most beautiful women in the world, hands down.
Even as Super Mario she's freakin' astounding: "Penélope Cruz Looks Awesome in New 'Super Mario Bros. 2' Advertisement (Video)."
And for good measure I've linked my previous Penélope blogging at the post, including the topless love scene from "Broken Embraces."
What a woman!
Thursday, 16 August 2012
About that "housing recovery".................from Rico
Have you been noticing all the chatter about a "housing recovery" lately?
Look at the chart, then consider that 'this' is what is being called a "housing recovery" by the FTV and MSM shills. Few have the wit to ask
"WHAT housing recovery?"
- Propaganda is too often accepted as the truth, while facts are ignored.
Well, it IS an election year after all and we can't disturb the sheeple with anything remotely close to the facts or the truth.
- Better to lead them through an imaginary magic forest of unicorns under a rainbow sky lest they discover their financial slavery or figure-out that perception is NOT reality.
The Pursuit of Happiness
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…”
Countless Americans and others have read this sentence from Declaration of Independence and no doubt most have simply nodded in agreement, but I always wondered where its author, Thomas Jefferson, came up with the unique concept that the pursuit of happiness was a self-evident truth.
That phrase from the Declaration reveals Jefferson’s philosophical turn of mind while the rest of the document is a legal argument for severing relations with England in order to establish a separate and sovereign nation.
It was not until I read a new softcover edition of Stephen Greenblatt’s Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern” ($16.95, W.W. Norton) that I finally found the answer to my question.
Greenblatt’s book is devoted to the discovery in 1417 of a book thought to have been lost, De rerum natura, On the Nature of Things, a philosophical epic written around 50 BCE by the Roman poet and philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus, believed to have been born around 99 BCE and died around 55 BCE.
The man who discovered the book in a remote German monastery was Poggio Bracciolini, the apostolic secretary to Pope John XXIII, the highest position someone who was not a prelate could hold in the Church. He was famed in his time for his extraordinary handwriting skills as well as his knowledge of Latin, the official language of the Church.
Poggio was the quintessential intellectual and like the relative handful of others, he was a book-collecting enthusiast in an era when books where all copied out by hand, highly prized among the literate wealthy when few were either literate or wealthy. Books were kept in the libraries of monasteries or the homes of the ruling classes.
It would not be until Johannes Gutenberg’a invention of the printing press in the 1440s that books became more widely accessible. In addition to the Bible, it also made available Lucretius lengthy philosophical, thoroughly atheistic, and remarkably ahead of its time for its views about atoms and the universe.
The extraordinary thing about Lucretius’ long poem was how radical it was for its own time when the world in which he lived was filled with pagan gods. His poem promoted the teachings of Epicurus (341 to 270 BCE) a Greek philosopher who had died two centuries earlier. Both advocated the pursuit of all forms of pleasure as the highest goal of life.
Picking up where Epicurus left off, Lucretius said that everything is composed of atoms, ceaselessly moving, combining, and separating. The result of this was an evolving natural order rather than the decrees of the gods. In Poggio’s time the Church had an iron grip on the minds of men whose lives were to be devoted to work, prayer, and the fear of an afterlife in which punishment for sin awaited.
It is noteworthy that the notion that everything was made of invisible particles, that the universe is not the product of a divine creator, and that there was no afterlife had been in circulation among philosophers for centuries. It is a reminder that many in our “modern” world still subscribe to much different interpretations.
Lucretius’ book would have a great influence on the great minds that initiated the Renaissance.
That life should be lived in a pursuit of happiness is thus a very ancient philosophy, but there in America’s Declaration of Independence it resurfaces as the belief is an unalienable right.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
Papering Over Jihad: The Wall St. Journal's Blind Spot...................from Dan Friedman
[From the beginning in Tehrir Square on through yesterday’s call to “amend” the peace treaty with Israel, clear-eyed people among us have warned about the Islamification of Egypt – and were ignored. If there is any surprise, it’s how fast the Muslim Brotherhood has moved and how faithfully they have followed the Islamist script. df]
www.nationalreview.com, 8/16/2012
General el-Sissi’s Ties
By Andrew C. McCarthy
Late News.............
Voters 'Go Missing' after Russian Elections
Taliban attack on Pakistani Air Force base linked to country's nuclear program, 1 dead
Broadside Blog - "I was there."
Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. - Teh Doomba
Fort Hood trial on hold after Hasan refuses military's orders to shave beard
When will Obama crack in public?
Gaffe-tastic week for Biden fuels speculation of Hillary swap
BLACKFIVE: Obama throws Biden under bus, picks Hillary?
Syria rebels 'to turn to Qaeda if West fails them'
Pentagon Denies Reports of Russian Sub near U.S.
Iran in earthquake relief crackdown
UK, Ecuador in stand-off after Quito OKs Assange
OIC suspension of Syria sparks renewed call to expel Assad from U.N. human rights committee
Obama's Shared Prosperity: A Euphemism Wrapped in a Lie
Obama 'Intellectually Exhausted, Out of Ideas, and Out of Energy'
Inside the mind of Joe Biden
See No Jihad: U.S. Still Treating Fort Hood Jihadis as Criminals
Doddering Biden in Virginia
VA Bakery Owner Won't Host Biden Thanks to 'You Didn't Build That' Remarks
The Biggest D.C. Spy Scandal You Haven't Heard About (Part Two)
Assad Rejected Iran Entreaty
Corzine, MF Global Will Face No Criminal Charges
The Ghost of Solyndra: Still Haunting Taxpayers
The GOP Now Owns the Medicare Issue
Royal Waivers from Passed Law
Navy's new 'Precision Kill' system adds laser-guided accuracy to ordinary rockets
Harry Reid's Cow and Joe Biden's Parrot
South African police shoot dead striking miners as union turf war intensifies
Joe Biden suffers from Foot In Mouth disease. Give generously to keep this man off our front pages
Obama Skips Chicago Parade; Sends Video Instead -- Doesn't Get Played
How Obama and the Media Lost Egypt
IRS plagued by ID Theft
Mullah Omar addresses green-on-blue attacks
Is Bibi Bluffing on Iran Strike?
Obama Poses as Uniter While Biden Smears
and finally...........
Norwegian driver avoids moose only to hit bear
Promises and pinky swears?.................from Rico
Taking a look at how QE has affected equities, you would think that the Fed's inflating the S&P was a good thing.
- Just marvel at the headline numbers, the nominal numbers.
It is not, if you look at how the Dollar has dropped.
- The nominal S&P does not reflect the decreasing actual value of the Dollar. Inflated share prices in deflated Dollars is a losing deal. [For Democrats and Socialists (I know I'm being redundant here) read: losing a little but making it up in volume is a bad plan and does NOT make you better off.]
The equities have not 'gone anywhere' for a decade, but the hucksters are still trying to convince the Muppets to put their money into a rigged casino.
- The dumb ones are.
Look at the 12-year performance of Precious Metals in contrast to the "lost decade" in equities, and bear in mind that paper fiat is a "promise and pinky swear" that it has value, but it is no longer a promise to 'pay' you back in anything but more paper.
- Wimpy said it best with "I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today" with his fingers crossed behind his back, just like the Fed does.
Must Reads!!
- Israeli leaders could be dissuaded from attacking Iran by US
- Lebanon militia kidnaps 40 Syrians as regime continues air strikes
- Return of the U Boat
- Pakistani air force base with nuclear ties is attacked
- World Updates and Daily Defense Briefing
- Beijing considers stronger foreign ties to advance interests
- WaPo: US is right to assail Beijing on S. China Sea claims
- Congressmen to Sec. Clinton: Please do something on Tibet
- Mitt Romney’s plan would add few new troops to military
- Russian opposition feels the heat from Putin
- Europe lets Hezbollah operate openly despite alarm by US
Rock the Red 2012 - Charlotte, NC - SEPTEMBER 5TH, 2012
Help us Charlie Daniels, Travis Tritt, Lee Brice and some of the nation's other leading entertainers and political speakers.
Make President Barack Obama a One Term President!
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Gold News............
Soros Bets Big on Gold as Prices Fall Most Since 2008
Rico Writes: I've seen this in a few places, another hedge fund giant (Paulson, I think) has put 44% into gold as well.
- Several years ago when Soros called gold the 'ultimate bubble' I figured he was 'talking his book' like many traders do....trying to jawbone the market down so he could move in the background to acquire more gold. He did so several times since.
Both of them hold what I call 'paper' gold, since they bought GLD which has no beneficial bullion to cover the paper shares they have sold.
- This makes GLD a lot like carbon credits IMO, there is nothing tangible/no substance to the shares...although they can be redeemed for paper fiat currency.
It wouldn't surprise me if both these fellows had acquired some physical bullion and have it safely tucked away and parked for security and the long-haul.
- The GLD is a convenient and easy trading vehicle for many, easy to get into/out of and is a shorter-term play.
Did you see that China has acquired quite a bit of bullion tonnage and has quietly climbed the ladder of sovereigns holding a lot of gold?
- The Chinese are smart folks and bear watching.
Cheers,
R
H/T DJ Elliott
This is bragging you WON'T hear from ObamaBiden2012!...from Mike Haltman at TPC
Article from Mychal Massie that looks at the fact that the American public needs to look past the lies and distortions that they are being force-fed by the ObamaBiden2012 campaign.
Voters need to ask themselves why an incumbent President has nothing in his own record to point to and instead can only attack his opponent!
Read more at The Political Commentator here.
National Security Airspace Explained With Trolls.....
A brief review and explanation of national security airspace policy and practice in the Washington DC NCR:
H/T Jeff
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