Are you Tea Party but don't know it? Bill helps you discover your standing.
Tuesday, 31 December 2013
It's all "fixed'.......................from Rico
Just like with LIBOR, the FX markets, and everything else you can think of ad nauseum (every market today is 'rigged' [read: fixed] by the central banks and their wise-guy cronies), the operating directive being "never give a sucker an even break" so it has been with precious metals market manipulation.
- Yes, rigging. Fixing.
This is now out of the realm of tinfoil hat 'conspiracy theory' and a cold, hard fact. Take a look at what Bloomberg has come up with!
- Gold, on average, over 20 years, has been 'smashed' into the (pm) London fix.
- Silver, on average, over 15 years, has been 'smashed' into the (am) London fix.
Ann Barnhardt,to her eternal credit, was first to comment to the effect that if you were still in these markets you were either stupid, or on drugs in the wake of the MF Global/JPM-enabled heist of segregated customer funds. The system is now so completely and thoroughly rotten and corrupt, you have a better chance of 'winning' shooting craps against a guy who is using loaded dice.
- Both she and none other than Jim Sinclair have long been warning the Muppets to GOTS (get out of the system) most ricky-tick [read: if not yesterday, NOW].
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What is the quenelle salute and why are Barack Obama and Tony Parker using it?...from TPC
This article explains what the quenelle salute is and why it might be used by famous athletes and politicians from Tony Parker to Barack Obama. Is it ant-Semitism, hate or something else?
I am Jewish! I hate Pajama Boy!...from TPC
In two short sentences I have disproved the liberal argument that conservatives hate Pajama Boy because Pajama Boy is Jewish!
Fabulous Kennedy Summers Pictorial: Climax to the Year!
Great stuff.
A real beauty.
See, "Miss Kennedy Summers."
Smokin'! A real climax boys!
Critics Call for Boycott of Rose Parade Over Homosexual Wedding on AIDS Float
This is no joke and no hoax.
You can't make this sh*t up with the depraved regressive leftists.
See, "Homosexuals to Marry on Rose Parade Float — DURING THE ROSE PARADE!"
A San Diego woman is leading the call for a boycott, saying:
...the [homo] wedding is a slap to those that don't support it and the 30 states that haven't approved it.
"My stand is mainly to support the voters of California who have said no to this," said [Ms.] Grube.
Monday, 30 December 2013
Education [none], ObamaCare [doesn't care]..................from Rico
America's last Socialist President Jimmy Carter established the federal Department of Education, which has been either a huge failure (if you think kids should actually be educated) or a gigantic success (if you believe that an illiterate mouth-breathing populace is a good idea).
I cannot tell exactly what Billy BJ was as a President, since he kept getting 'distracted' by....ahem, matters unrelated to politics....but suspect that if he had been able to control his urges may have been somewhere between Carter's Socialism and Barry's Communism.
This segues neatly to Barry Whatever-his-real-name-is, the current pResident who is a flaming Marxist, make no mistake. Elected twice courtesy of an illiterate majority (thanks Jimmuh), his major 'achievement' in the namesake ObamaCare looks like it will accomplish what is advertised in this signage which was doubtless made by a burger-flipping graduate of government-run skools.
Life does imitate art sometimes, as ObamaCare promises to be a real anus pounder for America.
Late News.................
In response to "28decexsum" at "guerrilla america" ...
A little reminder for my leftist friends who contemplate civil war .... we feed you .... and, we may choose not to ....
Mindset ....
$0.60 for cake: Al-Qaida records every expense
Kurdistan Peshmerga forces ready to move towards Iraq's Anbar desert
Crashing and Burning in 2013
A History of the Navy in 100 Objects #28: Medal of Honor from the Corean Incident of 1871
Russian city hit by suicide bombing for second straight day
Person of the year in the Syrian crisis: Israeli health care professionals
Kerry reportedly says he will consider freeing Jonathan Pollard as part of prisoner swap
Black teens brutally beat Minneapolis mayor candidate...for his iPhone!
The New York Times whitewashes Benghazi
Union Leader Tweet: Wishes Disabled Vet Would Have Died, Lost All Limbs
Jenny's final flyover: World War I-era biplane ends flights
More Benghazi Whitewashing To Clean Up A Dirt-Covered Administration
Read the rest of this PolitiChicks.tv article here: http://politichicks.tv/column/benghazi-whitewashing-clean-dirt-covered-administration/#52Go82l3AfQAIXvc.99
The NSA Is Watching You Masturbate Right Now
Was Mysterious Attack on Calif. Power Station a ‘Dress Rehearsal’ for Much Larger Assault on U.S. Electrical Grid?
US and Iran’s First Joint Military Venture: Fighting al Qaeda in Iraq
America’s Real Crisis: The Question of Who, or What—is our Authority
Where Do we go From Here America…Will There be Anything left?
The Islamization of Britain in 2013
Four Flashpoints to Watch in 2014
Benghazi primer for Libs and The New York Times! (Photoshops)...from TPC
34 posters that point out the true Hillary Clinton story in Benghazi and not the whitewashed version being provided by the recent article in The New York Times!
Another Grim Year with Obama
By Alan Caruba
The fifth year in the political marriage between Barack Obama and the rest of America has the look of a divorce in which a lot of Americans are wondering how we can rid ourselves of the worst President in the history of the nation. That’s not just my opinion.
As 2013 comes to a close it is abundantly clear that even the starry-eyed journalists and political pundits who thought Obama was as close to the Second Coming as American politics had ever known were having, not just doubts, but serious regrets. The White House press corps is now in a state of rebellion.
As the year began, Victor David Hanson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and respected conservative commentator, took a look back at George W. Bush, the predecessor that Obama blamed for everything so often it became a joke.
“George W. Bush left office in January 2009 with one of the lowest job-approval ratings for a president (34%) since Gallup started compiling them—as compared to Harry Truman’s low of 32%, Richard Nixon’s of 24%, and Jimmy Carter’s of 34%--and to the general derision of the media,” wrote Hanson. Obama is likely to achieve a rating less than these predecessors.
Bush has distinguished himself by never publicly commenting on Obama while he has held office. When his presidential library was opened in April, Bush’s approval rating was 47%, but it is worth noting that Bush was in office when 9/11 occurred, followed by combat action in Afghanistan and in Iraq. Just before Bush left office, a financial crisis struck the nation.
The signs of dissatisfaction with Obama and his policies were evident as 2013 began. A January Gallup poll found that American opinion of the country’s state of affairs was at its lowest point since 1979. Fewer than four-in-ten Americans (39%) rated the U.S. in a positive manner. By February, the national debt during Obama’s presidency had increased $5.9 trillion, more than it had increased under all presidents from George Washington to Bill Clinton combined.
By April the New York Times columnist, Maureen Dowd, was continuing to put distance between Obama and herself. “Unfortunately, he still has not learned how to govern” wrote Dowd, adding “No one on Capitol Hill his scared of him.” Obama had devoted so much time to fund-raising and non-stop campaigning, that governing was obviously not a priority, but that is exactly why Presidents are elected.
By May, Politico.com reporters, Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei noted that Republicans in the House had one-third of its committees investigating scandals and wrong-doing by the Obama administration. “Establishment Democrats, never big fans of this President to begin with, are starting to speak out. And reporters are tripping over themselves to condemn lies, bullying and shadiness in the Obama administration.”
By July, a Washington Times editorial, “Obama’s Feats of Weakness” observed that “Since Mr. Obama took office, the opinion of the United States generally has declined in every country surveyed by the Pew Global Attitudes Project…Despite the vaunted White House effort to reach out to Muslim-majority countries, U.S. favorability ratings in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Pakistan are below where they were in 2008 when George W. Bush was at the helm.”
As 2013 comes to a close, longtime former allies such as Saudi Arabia are openly berating Obama for the secret deal negotiated with Iran. Egypt, a former ally, feels betrayed by Obama for his support of the Muslim Brotherhood and, Israel was being visited by Secretary John Kerry to express his opposition to new housing in Jerusalem, but he has put Israel at great risk of annihilation by Iranian nuclear weapon. The Washington Times opined that “There’s a reason Mr. Obama has not been a strong leader internationally. He never set out to be one because he has never believed in the exceptional mission of the United States.”
During the October government shutdown, Fred Barnes, executive editor of the Weekly Standards, noted that Obama “won’t negotiate with Republicans, though the fate of Obamacare, funding of the government, and the future of the economic recovery are at stake.” A veteran observer of the White House, Barnes said, “His approach—dealing with a deadlock by not dealing with it—is unprecedented. He has gone where no president has gone before.”
Earlier, in June, Barnes said “the Obama administration is in an unexpected and sharp state of decline. Mr. Obama has little influence on Congress. His presidency has no theme. He pivots nervously from issue to issue.”
When the Obamacare website debuted on October 1st, it was such a disaster that it was a perfect reflection of a horrendous piece of legislation that is causing widespread dismay and disruption affecting millions of Americans.
When you add in the residue from first term scandals such as Fast and Furious, Benghazi, and the use of the IRS to harass conservative groups seeing non-profit tax status, it was obvious to all but mindless Obama devotees that we face three years of further decline at home and internationally.
There is still massive unemployment. There are still massive numbers on government welfare programs and the nation’s health care system and insurance industry is being massively disrupted. The economy is improving incrementally, almost despite the administration’s policies.
To say that 2013 has been a bad year for Obama is also to say it has been a bad year for over three hundred million Americans. As Obamacare kicks in, 2014 will be a year its hidden taxes take effect. In November, voters will have the midterm elections to begin ending the a record of failed domestic and foreign affairs.
© Alan Caruba, 2013
Interesting........................
During the 3-1/2 years of World War 2 that started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and ended with the Surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945, America produced:
22 aircraft carriers
8 battleships
48 cruisers
349 destroyers
420 destroyer escorts
203 submarines
34 million tons of merchant ships
100,000 fighter aircraft
98,000 bombers
24,000 transport aircraft
58,000 training aircraft
93,000 tanks
257,000 artillery pieces
105,000 mortars
3,000,000 machine guns AND
2,500,000 military trucks
We put 16.1 million men in uniform in the various armed services, invaded Africa, invaded Sicily and Italy , won the battle for the Atlantic, planned and executed D-Day, marched across the Pacific and Europe, developed the atomic bomb and ultimately conquered Japan and Germany .
It should be noted that during a similar amount of time the current Federal bureaucracy couldn't build a functioning web site.
H/T Doverthere
Two 'ideas'...one a bad one....................from Rico
I just read that some advocacy group for fat women is suggesting that Mattel make a plus-sized Barbie to be a role model for little girls.
Anyone suggesting a fat, double-chinned, Barbie has obviously never been to Walmart.
- There is no shortage of grossly obese role models.
A much better idea would be to suggest having a SALAD sometimes, instead of lifting up those chins and shoveling-in junk food.
Shamu does NOT work at Hooters.
Such a 'Deal'.....................from Rico
Whenever you hear "such a DEAL I've got for you" it usually precedes a fleecing by a used car salesman, or a mortgage banker, or an investment advisor....well, you get the idea.
Congress reached a much-lauded "Budget Deal" recently, a true bipartisan screwing of the shnooks....I mean voters who foolishly put these clowns into office.
Rick Santelli (who is the ONLY entity on FTV with any credibility, integrity, or honesty) said of it "...the budget deal is a betrayal and a joke."
- That he usually speaks from the trading floor of the CME is itself ironic, the markets having become a joke.
The collective skidmarks in Congress have gone beyond mere kicking the can down the road this time. They have kicked the can clear into orbit.
- You don't have to be a NASA scientist to understand what happens once something drops back from orbit into the atmosphere, but it appears the concept is beyond the grasp of the room-temperature IQ's of America's politicians.
Dershowitz on Life Support....................from Rico
Just when you thought Dersh would snap out of his self-induced coma, he blurts out his hackneyed, pre-recorded spiel and slips back under. As much as we admire him, we need to acknowledge that the midget, and legal giant, has succumbed to a massive attack of logorrhea. Remember, the man is 75. No time to learn new tricks. So for Heaven’s sake (and ours), let’s leave the little schlemiel alone and allow nature to take its course – without employing “heroic measures.” It’s the least we can do to honor a great Israel defender and stalwart Obama supporter.
The note below inspired this message.
Dan Friedman
NYC
Dershowitz encourages deal with Palestinians
Good News. Bad News...................from Rico
Most would agree, for different reasons, that 2013 sucked.
But there is some GOOD news. 2013 made 2012 look good by comprison, and Congress made every High School Student Council wannabe look good...also in comparison.
- And there was even a bright side to the ressurrecton of Anthony 'Carlos Danger' Weiner's weiner and that other weiner, Client #9....both having failed in their efforts to return to public office.
There was a lot of offsetting BAD news too. The FED felt compelled to compete with Miley Cyrus by "twerking" the markets with taper talk, and Dennis Rodman came back from North Korea.
- And ObamaCare will remain the poster child of "progressive"
Democrat (C) stupidity for a very long time to come...
Parris Island's Friendly Faces
Watch as recruits step off the bus to Parris Island and are greeted by their receiving drill instructors.
Barack Obama: Nobody would be a better President than he is!...from TPC
The fact of the matter is that the political cartoon in this article speaks the absolute truth about the fact that nobody would be a better Commander-in-Chief than Barack Obama is!
The New York Times endorses Hillary for President! (NSFW photo) ...from TPC
It's a little bit too soon you say? The 2014 mid-term elections have yet to even take place you say?
For The New York Times it's apparently never too early to hop on the Hillary Clinton bandwagon, this time by attempting to exonerate her for the massacre at the US embassy in Benghazi!
Read the story at The Political Commentator here.
New Year's Prediction......................from Dan Friedman
[In 2014, the “knockout game” will really get rolling in NYC and nationwide. It already has a new variant: flash mobs of black youth terrorizing malls and other public spaces en masse. Look for the phenomena to gain traction this New Year’s eve. Among other things, it will be an early indicator of our new mayor, “Red Bill” De Blasio. Let’s see if he reacts like his predecessors, Dinkins, Bloomberg or Giuliani. df]
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Rachel #Rule5
This smokin' post-Christmas Rule 5 starts off with some hot Rachel McDonald and just heats up from there.
Boys, get your fill of some post-Christmas ta-tas.
Smoking babes.
Whoo!
GRAPHIC: Anderson Silva Breaks Leg in UFC Bout Against Chris Weidman
See, "Unreal: UFC's Anderson Silva Breaks Leg." (GIFs)
More from Bleacher Report, "Anderson Silva Should Retire Following Broken Leg."
Sunday, 29 December 2013
"The Atheists of Christmas" - Wild Bill
Atheists cannot help but send Bill nasty notes for Christmas. Bill answers a couple here.
Impoverishing the Middle Class....................from Rico
Remember Joe the Plumber? He understood exactly what the socialist "spread the wealth around" crap REALLY meant.
- That is why he was bureaucratically bullied, audited, abused, and made to STFU by the apparatchiks.
Six years ago...before the annual 'in-your-face' Hawaiian Vacations became a holiday tradition of the Red Shed...the median net worth of the Middle Class was $120,000.
- Today it is $66,000, having dropped 45%.
That's before 1/3 of earnings is taken by Federal-State-Local taxes and 'fees.'
Thanks to ObamaCare, now their health insurance is 'gone' or going to be gone, and another 15% of annual income will be needed to replace it. - But as the Supremes said, it's a tax so it's OK.
Then there is the not insignificant matter of wealth cnfiscaton by inflation and lower purchasing power.
- The inflation that isn't 'officially' there has eaten about 30% of the Dollar's worth over the last ten years...or roughly 3% per year for six years,,,so ~18%.
Figuring out the math yet? The system of 'fundamental transformation' isn't working for the benefit ofthe Middle Class, but to its detriment.
- The Middle Class is sinking beneath the financial waves as a matter of intentional policy, and the latest (and ongoing) 'funeral selfie' is of Middle Class Americans who are already in the hole...Requiem Im Pacem.
Looking Into My 2014 Crystal Ball
Pundits are expected to make predictions for the year ahead and far be it for me to avoid what, generally speaking, depends on who is making them. Major trends are already in place and easy to predict as they proceed, but it is always unknown events that upend predictions. Mother Nature and perpetrators of evil can always be counted upon to provide them.
Since the Earth has been in a seventeen-year cooling cycle, I can safely predict there will be no “global warming” in 2014 and, given the other science-based factors, the likelihood is that 2014 will experience more colder weather and may even be an earlier predictor of a mini-ice age much the same as the one that occurred from 1300 to 1850.
As mentioned, it is the unpredictable events that will affect 2014. The good news is that the U.S. has seen far fewer hurricanes, tornadoes, and forest fires in recent years. The global cooling trend, however, is likely to cause more and larger blizzards.
“Climate change”? This is now the basis of all the lies we shall hear from the President to justify his five-year delay of the Keystone oil pipeline, his continued war on coal—affordable electricity—and other Environmental Protection Agency efforts to control our lives while denying the creation of the thousands of jobs the pipeline and other energy-related development would provide. Environmentalism is the enemy of the technologies that have transformed and enhanced our lives.
The November mid-term elections hold the promise of ridding Congress of some of the Democrats who unanimously voted for Obamacare in 2009. It will also replace those Republicans-in-name-only, RINOs, who have joined Democrats in voting for legislation that advanced the socialism that is strangling the nation by expanding the federal government. I predict the ranks of “independent” voters will increase in 2014.
The erosion of the Democratic Party base will continue as Obamacare afflicts millions of Americans who will lose their healthcare insurance plans, be deprived of using their personal physician, and see their costs increase. It is the essence of communism, providing the government with control over one’s life and, in too many cases, causing many to die for the lack of plans they previously had or the costs of those they are required to purchase. Those leaving the party will include women and the younger generation leaving college to discover there aren’t any jobs to help them cope with the debt they incurred to attend. Hispanics, too, show signs of leaving.
It is hard to predict what will occur within the Republican Party whose leadership has engaged in denunciations of the Tea Party movement. However, when the Tea Party movement elects more committed conservative GOP candidates, it will save the nation and the party. Suffice to say that Obamacare will be the gift that keeps on giving in 2014. It will, in time, be repealed.
Obama’s failed foreign policy will ensure that former allies will cease to trust the U.S. to support their need to deal with the rising threat of Islamic jihad in the Middle East and Africa. Obama has lost Egypt and Saudi Arabia as long-time allies. Israel is in a particularly perilous situation and the outcome of the Syrian civil war does not bode well for it or its neighbor Jordan.
Iran will be the greatest threat of war since the 1930s. And, yes, the U.S.-led “deal” will fail.
Polls reveal a growing unhappiness with the U.S. Congress. The President’s performance ratings have been falling and will continue to do so in 2014. The problem is the growth of socialism that began during and in the wake of the Great Depression of the 1930s. The pension debt and other benefits resulting from government worker unions has forced Detroit into bankruptcy and other American cities will follow.
By executive order the President just raised government salaries by 1%. Can he do that? Not really. Only the House can authorize such expenditures. Can he change Obamacare without consulting Congress? Not really.
The mainstream media will continue to lose its credibility as the Internet affords Americans alternative means of finding out what is really occurring as opposed to the deceptive and manipulative efforts of the Obama administration. Having raised voter’s expectations of Obama, his fall will be dramatic in 2014. The mainstream media is largely composed of liberals who are the result of the transformation of education into socialist indoctrination that began in the 1960s. By contrast, conservative print and broadcast media will thrive. Fox News has more viewers than the networks and CNN, combined.
Events such as the current attack on Southern Sudan, and the on-going slaughter in Syria will continue. Christians throughout the Middle East and Africa will find themselves under continued attack. Muslim-on-Muslim violence will continue. Islamists are devoted to its “holy” war, including its own schism.
In America, privacy, an essential element of the Constitution, will continue to be diminished if Congress does not address the vast collection of information of all of our communications. Read the Fourth Amendment. It says in part that “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…”
We may see more states enact laws to defy Obamacare. South Carolina is currently the only one. The Tenth Amendment says “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Read the Constitution, you will not find the words “health” in it, nor “education”, nor ‘environment.” The federal government should get out of these aspects of our lives.
My most positive prediction is that historians will look back at 2014 as the year in which Americans woke to the threat of socialism-communism and, like the Tea Party movement, began to fight back.
© Alan Caruba, 2013
Your Sunday Political Funnies!...from TPC
Political humor including nominees for the Puk Awards that run the gamut from Obama administration scandals to Obamacare. When you have seen them all there are links to go vote for your favorites.
The Sunday Best................
St James's Piccadilly: A church of hate by Melanie Phillips
Drug runner to the mexican cartels .... more dirt emerges on obama and holder about "fast & furious" .... obama subsidized some cartels as others less favored were pursued ....
Palestinians: Is Abbas Being Asked to Sign His Death Warrant?
CDR Salamander: USMC Asks God for a Training Time Out
VETERAN SLAMS PAUL RYAN FOR ASKING FOR DONATION
Prosecutors: Teen Cut Off Man’s Head As Christmas ‘Present’ To Aunt
Rescue of icebound Antarctic ship faces setback
Palestinians: Is Abbas Being Asked to Sign His Death Warrant?
and finally...........
Ye Olde New England Farmhouse
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Impeached former US President to swear in socialist NYC Mayor!...from TPC
Who would have ever thought that on January 1, 2014 an impeached former president of the United States would be swearing in a socialist Mayor of New York City?
All while a former Secretary of State, ensconced in a scandal in which four American were slaughtered and a likely 2016 presidential candidate, looks on!
Read at The Political Commentator here.
Saturday, 28 December 2013
Requiem for the Reform?.......................from Dan Friedman
[Anyone who knows anything about the internal Jewish struggle knows that the seeds of our conflict were bred into our DNA during the Exodus and at the foot of Mt. Sinai. The deviationists, the idol worshippers, the deceivers, and misleaders who have always longed to return to Egypt have been a thorn in our side from Day One. If they appear on the wane today, it doesn’t mean they are suddenly on their last legs. Seeing their numbers (and dollars) dwindle in the Diaspora, they’re making a tactical retreat (one of many) and moving their “brand” to Israel - setting their sights on sowing confusion and weakening the foundation of the Jewish people. It’s much too early for schadenfreude, dear friends. This is our tragedy and our burden. The fight is still in its early rounds. df]
JPost, 12/26/2013
By Jonathan Rosenblum
"In the recent Pew study of American Jewry, the fastest growing segment consisted of those responding “None” when asked their religious identity."
The Obama Claus Poster...from TPC
Great poster of Barack Obama and Santa Claus although, to tell you the truth, it is difficult to tell which one is which!
OWNED . . .
In a whatwazzat head jerk that has put America's Liberal intelligentsia's collective necks out of joint, the New York media giant known as the Arts & Entertainment has been intellectually and spiritually donkey punched by a redneck hillbilly philosopher named Phil, appropriately enough . . .
. . . anyone who's ever spent any time in the South out in the woods will tell you - never EVER underestimate a hillbilly, especially one as intense as the Duck Commander . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . S.L.
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