Wednesday, 5 December 2012
USA Jews Don't Have Israel's Back....................from Dan Friedman
Cheering U.N. Palestine Vote, Synagogue Tests Its Members
This time around, Obama won 70% of the Jewish vote, down somewhat from 78% in 2008. Pundits infer that shows Israel isn’t a priority for American Jews. Alas, if only that were true, Israel and America would both be better off.
Further reading: For a true Jewish perspective on the meaning of Israel’s outsider status, have a look at The Blessing of Isolation, a blog post from a Rabbi worthy of the honorific. (Hint: Isolation is a blessing and it’s part of Hashem’s plan.)
Dan Friedman
NYC
NYC
H/T Jared Silverman, Esq.
California teachers create an animated video depicting the rich peeing all over the "not rich"!...from Mike Haltman at TPC
Animated video created by the California Federation of Teachers that appears to seek to ignite class warfare by depicting the rich as law breakers who pee all over the not rich for the sole purpose of getting richer. Disgusting!
Watch at The Political Commentator here.
Iran: Biological warheads aimed at Israel...from Mike Haltman at TPC
In this article from WND an Iranian defector reveals what most of us have feared which is Iran possessing ballistic missiles armed with biological or nuclear warheads aimed at Israel that can also reach Europe.
At The Political Commentator here.
News............
Marine Females and Their Tattoos
Amid Syrian Violence, School Is Hit and U.N. Says Food Shortages Worsen
Swiss spy agency suffers massive counterterrorism data leak
Obama's Global Makeover by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.
Best Idea Ever-Female Frontline Soldiers
CDR Salamander: Why we Need Plan Salamander for GOFO Now
Change on veterans' gun rights lights fire
Obama's Department of Homeland Security Stops Deportation of Obama's Illegal Alien Uncle
Call to establish 3 confederations in Iraq, Kurdish Party
Bipartisan govs to WH: Don't stick the states with the fiscal-cliff costs
Wisconsin Judge Orders Deadbeat Dad Of Nine (With Six Women) To Stop Procreating
Bob Costas addresses 'mistake' and gun control
Plastic bulb development promises better quality light
Supreme Court sides with private property against the federal government
Basketball Bandits 'Blindside' Hofstra University
New mobilisation plan reflects defence budget cuts
Fiscal Cliff Notes by Thomas Sowell
Reminder: US carbon emissions down by 2 percent, largely due to fracking
Who’s the Ideologue? Obama or the GOP?
What Baghdad Told The KRG Delegation Last Week
Federal government's biggest marijuana concern is.workplace use?
British Army's fleet of Apache helicopters 'could be scrapped'
Morsi leaves through back door as Egypt protesters surround palace
Syria: Nato agrees to deploy Patriot missiles in Turkey
Israel accuses US of inciting protests
Kim Jong-Il personality cult costs North Korea £62m
Iran tells US to 'recount' drones
North Korea 'completes rocket installation'
Crisis in Egypt Rift Widens Between Morsi and Opposition
Obama: The Communist Candidate
Department of Homeland Pork
Assad’s chemical weapons units head out of Damascus toward Aleppo
Fool’s Errand: America’s Pivot to Asia
Merging Canada’s provinces: From Pacific Columbia to East Saskitoba
Chemical weapons reports in Syria, exactly as warned
Obama Already Busy Grabbing New Powers
In Aleppo, jihadists take on greater role with Syrian rebel army
'US ready to act militarily in Syria in days if WMDs used'
Apollo space vehicle replica lands at museum
Holiday songs for Marxists!...from Mike Haltman at TPC
Political satire using holiday songs re-styled for socialists who believe in nothing beyond the fact that we must rely on government for everything we have and that no one citizen should have more than any other citizen!
Doing Their Best to Kill Christmas Cheer
By Alan
Caruba
The one thing you can count on during
the Christmas season is an avalanche of media-driven scare campaigns by
environmental and self-appointed consumer protection groups that are intended to
ruin it with claims that everything you eat or do has the potential of killing
you and your loved ones.
Here’s an example; in December 2011
GreenLivingIdeas.com posted an article by Sanya Kanelstran to let everyone know
that, during the Christmas season, “A heart attack can strike at any time in a
person with coronary artery disease, but heart attacks are more likely during
the festive season and especially between the Christmas and New Year period
because of the change in diet and lifestyle around the holidays.” So, happy
holidays and try not to die.
The folks at Naturalnews.com posted
an item on December 17, 2010 that warned that “Those Christmas-colored snack
chips and store-bought cookies, but watch out. Eating them may cause side
effects such as hyperactivity, especially in children. That’s because nearly all
Christmas-colored foods achieve their colors through the use of artificial
coloring chemicals, including Red #40.”
ItsMyHealth.com issued a warning in
November by Julie Robotham. “Traditionalists love their roast turkey with all
the trimmings on Christmas day, but with food poisoning from poultry more
prevalent than ever, it pays to take care with the preparation of raw meat.”
Properly cooking turkey or any other meat is sufficient to kill most, if not
all, bacteria.
The Internet is filled with these
posts and, during the holiday season, you can count on the media to repeat them
because scaring people is the stock-in-trade of most reporting. A welcome change
from this is Fox News channel’s John Stossel who has devoted his career to
debunking food and other claims that do not stand up to the scrutiny of
fact-checking.
On a November 29, 2012 program, aired
on Fox Business and Fox News, Stossel revisited the lies about finely textured,
95% lean beef. As I wrote in a commentary debunking the lies about “pink slime”,
a term applied to this, “This lean beef is routinely added to lower quality
hamburger to increase its protein content and its production has long been
approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It actually improves the
nutritional quality of a lot of cheaper hamburger.”
Stossel reported that “What some
media outlets call ‘pink slime’ is perfectly safe because it’s just meat. It’s
made from the meat that clings to the bones—the parts that the meat cutters
missed. An added safety factor to kill any bacteria is its treatment with a tiny
ammonium hydroxide gas.” There have been no reports of illness from the
consumption of finely textured lean beef. Moreover, the process is also used to
protect processed cheese, chocolate, and soda. And it exists naturally in beef!
In May, the Washington Times
published a commentary by J. Justin Wilson, a senior research analyst at the Center for
Consumer Freedom, a group devoted to debunking food and other product
scares. In “Funny Food Hypocrisy” Wilson examined the ‘pink slime” campaign
waged against finely textured lean meet. Along with a “bug juice” scare
campaign, he identified them as “clever hooks adopted by activist food snobs who
raised ill-conceived firestorms about lean beef trimmings and cochineal red food
dye.”
Wilson wrote, “Contrary to the
overhyped reports, lean beef trimmings make meals healthier, safer,
cost-efficient and less animal-intensive. Cochineal food dyes, while derived
from bugs, are actually all-natural replacements for artificial
colors.”
At this time of the year and all year
long consumers have to be skeptical of “fashionable prejudices against
‘processed food’”, said Wilson. “These people hoped to turn the ‘yuck factor’
into an irrational boycott.” As for finely textured lean meat, Wilson noted
that, “As any butcher will tell you, people have used and eating trimmings in
sausages and hamburger for centuries.”
If finely textured lean meat was
removed from use “one estimate says we’ll need to slaughter an additional 1.5
million cows a year.” That’s a lot of cows!
Every year at this time I receive
dozens of catalogs from food vending companies offering all manner of delicious
items from steaks to nuts. These companies, food producers, as well as your
local supermarket are not in the business of killing consumers, nor is there any
evidence of widespread food poisoning. The government has an army of inspectors
at work to ensure that any reports are swiftly acted upon and, yes, they do
track down and close facilities where any conditions warrant
it.
Those Christmas cookies are not death
traps for the kids and the Christmas turkey is not a mine field of bacteria.
That hamburger you eat is as safe as modern technology and processing can make
it and that’s very safe. Proper handling and cooking is the key to enjoying
Christmas dinner.
My late Mother taught the art of
gourmet cooking for over three decades, in addition to writing two cookbooks.
She taught me and thousands of her students of the importance of keeping all
kitchen surfaces on which food is prepared clean at all times. It’s very good
advice and, along with the vast amount of food, meat, chicken, turkeys, and
baked goods, you can expect to enjoy a very merry
Christmas.
Don’t let the Christmas food killjoys
kill your holiday with false food claims.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Bill Bailey performs live on the Royal Variety Show 2012 | Match Of The ...
Trust me the cycle horn bit is a piece of genius
America's Heartland: Episode 811
Saddle up to see how Florida ranchers are saving a historic breed of cattle. Make your choices of popular produce at Alabama's oldest farmers market. Test a new recipe for sweet and spicy corn fritters and discover how a farm school in New Mexico is helping residents in one economically disadvantaged community.
The #VRWC Report, I can see Doomsday from my cliff
John Boehner has a Doomsday Plan. It's practically guaranteed to spell doom for the GOP. Grow a pair Johnny. And stop yer cryin'.
The only thing we have to fear is fearful Republicans. And it's probably time to man the lifeboats.
Here's a fun fact. As taxes go up, birth rates go down.
Tis the season for the War On Christmas. Also, to check if you're on Obama's naughty or nice list.
Then, join a Christmas flash mob. You'll be glad you did.
The Pope joined Twitter. Yes, there was a clown in the audience.
Responsibility? Surely it's racist, or something. Far better to be domesticated by our Washington Overlords, right?
Poster child for Obamacare: Dr. Barbarian, M.D.
Women in combat? Why not go for an all-female army!
Speaking of combative women, Michelle Obama bought a new dress. From NASA.
Teacher locks kid in closet, leaves for the day. Wait, I thought Publik Skoolz were encouraging kids to come out of the closet? No child left behind? Bah!
For no good reason.......................from Rico
Yesterday I marked my calendar for a "raid" in the precious metals paper-mrkets today.
- Not working for the SEC or CFTC does have certain advantages, one of them is paying attention to what is actually 'going on' (which is most difficult if you are a 'regulator' with a cranial-rectal inversion).
So, at the usual hour this morning the precious metals are being monkey-hammered FOR NO GOOD REASON.*
- It's not anything in the news; nothing has been 'fixed' in EUrope or with the fairy-tale 'fiscal cliff'; and it is certainly NOT the fundamentals.
*Well, maybe there IS a pretty 'good' reason:
- A rising Gold and Silver price is a statement about the truly crummy returns on other investments as well as the shabby behavior of Central Banks. This is the truth that MUST be suppressed, and this is why the paper games continue to be played as long as there are any players that haven't yet been shorn of any wealth. J.S. is absolutely spot-on with his observation that the manipulators will 'flip' to the other side once they have made their ill-gotten money from the 'short' side and see a new 'opportunity' to play the 'long' side. Holding physical (in your hand, or in the ground) never seemed like a better idea than it does today.
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