Pic Dump...................

A New Form of Blackmail.........................from Dan Friedman

[Never fails. It always happens when Israel's foolish leaders drag their country into "peace talks." Keeping the talks going becomes an end in itself, which in turn becomes a blunt instrument the Nations use to lord over Israel. In the interim, saving the "talks" becomes a much higher priority than "peace." Is it any wonder many Israelis are suspicious of Netanyahu and his motives? Or, for that matter, experience déjà vu with respect to Sharon's debacle in Gaza? df]

The Times of Israel, January 13, 2014

Ashton to Israel: Stop settlement building now

After Israel announced 1,400 new homes last week, EU foreign policy chief says construction is illegal, threatens peace talks

(more..)

Arutz 7, 11/12/2013

Abbas: Cancel Building or Peace Talks Over

Abbas delivers ultimatum: cancel 20,000 new Judea Samaria home tenders or else peace talks over. US criticizes buildings as 'illegitimate.'

(more...)

JPOST.COM, 12/27/2013

Erekat: New Israeli settlement building would 'destroy peace process'

Chief PLO negotiator warns PA would apply for membership in 63 int'l organizations, including the ICC, if Israel makes move.

(more..)

EU - Jan '14

Well it's January 13th and I must admit I haven't seen one Bulgarian yet...

but in all fairness I have only been in Bulgaria for eight days!




H/T Old Dude

Not a coincidence...................from Rico

The "usual" 8:00amET precious metals smash began another week.
- Note how the metals rose in Asian trading, then were monkey-hammered in the West about the time of the morning "London fix."

This is not a coincidence, since it happens nine times out of ten.

Having heard the debate ad nauseum about whether it is better to be lucky, or good I am inclined to think our Banker friends have firmly come down on the side that it is better to cheat.
- It is not a coincidence that JPM lost money on ZERO trading days in 2013.

What do you think? Lucky or good?

Mrs Brown's sticky situation - Mrs Brown's Boys

Agnes mistakes a spray can of glue for her air freshner...




H/T Shelly

LFL AUSTRALIA | WEEK 5 | QUEENSLAND BRIGADE vs. WESTERN AUSTRALIA ANGELS

Teatime Totty......................

News......................

Obama's Apocryphal Kenya Trip

Canadian Warning: After Registering Guns, Comes Confiscation

Welfare Exceeds Minimum Wage In 35 States

What are the chances? The mysterious death of Loretta Fuddy

China Conducts First Test of New Ultra-High Speed Missile Vehicle

Welcome to ‘The Year of the Happy Hacker’

US and Iran “insulate” nuclear negotiations from “tensions” over Iran’s regional policy

The Islamization of Belgium and the Netherlands in 2013

Why Is Hamas Courting Iran and the Palestinian Authority?

Al-Qaeda Syria branch executes dozens of rival Islamists - activists

How the discovery of a 460-year-old English shilling in B.C. could help rewrite the early history of Canada

John McCain Censured by Arizona Republicans in Landslide Vote

Pensacola NAS celebrates 100 years

Picture of change: New headquarters embodies Pensacola NAS

RON HART: Fearless predictions for 2014

Iraq Update.....................by DJ Elliott

Iraqi Security Force Update January 2014

Is this woman Obama's America? (Video)...from TPC

Video of a woman with 20 kids and another in the oven! 

Is this the entitlement society with a lack of personal responsibility that Barack Obama envisioned?

Watch at The Political Commentator here.

Stand Up Guy

Modern parenting......................

H/T Roger

2014 Sochi Olympics Update: Yankee Go Home!...from TPC

With the potential for terrorist attacks a major concern for the Sochi 2014 Olympics, the US State Department has issued a Russia Federation travel warning!

At The Political Commentator here.

Monday Mopsies.................

Jake Tapper's 'Intense' Interview with Former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell

Here's the background to the movie. It's a must-see, and I mean it: "Former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell Didn't Want to Write 'Lone Survivor'."

I plan to write more on this, but I already knew of the controversy as I was heading out to the movies last night. So here it is now, "'They Died for Nothing?' #LoneSurvivor Marcus Luttrell Takes Jake Tapper to SEAL School."

Tapper's Twitter exchange defense is at the link.

Watch it:

Jake Tapper: One of the emotions I felt while watching was, first of all, the hopelessness of the situation, how horrific it was. And I was torn about the message of the film in the same way that I think I am about the war in Afghanistan itself. I don’t want any more senseless American death.

Marcus Luttrell: I don’t know what part of the film you were watching, but hopelessness never really came into it. Where did you see that? We never felt like we were hopelessly lost or anything like that. We never gave up. We never felt like we were losing until we were actually dead.

Tapper: It seemed senseless. I don’t mean to disrespect in any way, but it seemed senseless — all of these wonderful people who were killed for an op that went wrong.

Luttrell: We spend our whole lives training to defending this country, and then we were sent over there by this country. So you’re telling me because we were over there doing what we were told by our country, that it was senseless? And my guys, what? They died for nothing?

Tapper: No.

Luttrell: That’s what you said. So, let me just say, it went bad for us over there, but that was our job. That’s what we did. We didn’t complain about it.

Intense.

Quick Links for Hot Sunday Roundups

I'm just getting started. And it's time to get hot!

Here, "Sunday Roundup of the Roundups."

And see, "Ax-Grinding Kook Roger Shuler and 'First Amendment Questions'."

Also, "C'mon Get Happy? 'Partridge Family' Star David Cassidy Arrested for DUI — Again."

An update on this story, "UNC Professor Mary Willingham Receives Death Threats After Bombshell Research on College Athlete Illiteracy."

And in case we've got any patriot stoners reading, "Let's Not Kid Ourselves About Marijuana."

Finally, ICYMI, "Crestfallen Repsac3 Fails Miserably in Gambit to Flip Conservatives Against the Target of His Obsessions." (The biggest left-wing loser ever, smacked down like the buttfreak troll he is.)

And check back for hot babes and blogging throughout the night!

NY Times Clears Hitler of Wrongdoing..................from Dan Friedman

Still crazy after all these years.

Making the rounds this morning.

Dan Friedman
NYC

Bedtime Totty....................

Two comedies. One of them funny....................from Rico

Who does NOT know Sgt Schulz (Schulzie) from the TV show "Hogan's Heroes?"
- He was famous for saying "I know NOTHING! I hear nothing. I see nothing."

Of course, the show was a televison comedy about a Nazi prison camp and Schulzie was a Nazi prison guard.

Whoever did this rendition of Gov Krispy Kreme of NJ is a genius.
- You can bet it wasn't a RINO, since they are all teary-eyed at the prospect of losing their favorite candidate slated to 'lose' in 2016 against whatever foul political creature the Democrats (C) select to replace Comrade Barry.

Of course, New Jersey is a real life comedy about a Soviet gulag, and the Gov is a RINO prison guard.

Paying Their Last Respects?...................from Dan Friedman

[Media reports from Israel, along with eyewitness accounts from my friends over there, indicate there is a very light turnout for the state ceremony honoring Ariel Sharon today. These same sources tell me that things could changetomorrow. Look for a larger crowd. That’s when dignitaries from around the world arrive to see Sharon buried in his last resting place, and my contacts say it is an old custom in the Middle East to pay “mourners” (like extras) just for showing up. df]

 

 

JERUSALEM (AP) — Hundreds of Israelis lined up outside Israel's parliament building on Sunday to pay their last respects to Ariel Sharon, the hard-charging former prime minister and general who died over the weekend.

 

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Bonus Totty.................

Golf joke with an Obamacare twist!...from TPC

This golf joke combines the Obama's Hawaiian vacation, a golf course accident and Obamacare all in one. 

It is the equivalent of a political humor triple play! 

At The Political Commentator here.

SpaceShipTwo's 3rd Powered Flight Soars To New Heights

Virgin Galactic successfully tested its vehicle again on January 10th, 2014 and reached 71,000 feet (21,641 meters) and a top speed of Mach 1.4. They are still on track to start commercial service later this year.

America's Unemployment Sinkhole

By Alan Caruba

A President who thinks that extending unemployment compensation “creates jobs” is so out of touch with reality that it should come as no surprise that Obama has the worst record of unemployment rates since the days of the Great Depression in the 1930s.

The latest employment figures for December showed that the economy only added 74,000 non-farm jobs, the fewest in three years! The government claims that the unemployment rate dropped 0.3%—the first time in 60 months that it dropped below 7%. And the official rate is bogus. The government only counts people as unemployed only if they are actively looking for work.

As of October 2013, The Wall Street Journal reported that “The U.S. now has 90.6 million ‘non-institutionalized’ men and women over the age of 16 not working—an all-time high. That’s 10 million above the 80.5 million when President Obama took office. With total unemployment at 144.3 million, for every three Americans over the age of 16 earning a paycheck there are two who aren’t even looking for a job. That’s an ugly portent for American prosperity.”

In a September 2013 edition of Investor’s Business Daily, Betsey McCaughey, a former lieutenant governor of New York and author of “Beating Obama-Care”, wrote that “After 4-1/2 years of the Obama presidency, an unprecedented number of Americans have given up looking for work, wages are stagnating, low-wage earners are suffering most and the U.S. is fast becoming a nation of part-time workers.”

You can thank Obamacare for the rise in part-time workers as it increased the cost of hiring full-time workers and many businesses have reduced the hours of workers to avoid incurring it. Obamacare is a job killer. From Jan 1 through July 31, 2013, 77% of jobs created were part-time. Fewer than one out of four people got hired for full-time jobs. This is the opposite of a normal economy.

The official Labor Department figure of seven percent (7%) unemployment is a fiction as it does not include the millions who have given up looking for work. Mort Zuckerman, the chairman and editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report, writing in a July 2013 edition of The Wall Street Journal, said “The unemployment figure so common in headlines these days is utterly misleading. An estimated 22 million Americans are unemployed or underemployed. That puts the real unemployment rate for June at 14.3%, up from 13.8% in May.”

McCaughey noted that since 2008 Congress has extended jobless benefits from a maximum of 26 weeks to as many as 99 weeks every year, but failed to do so for 2014. While benefits ended for more than 1.9 million unemployed, the President and Congress went on vacation.

Now the most important piece of legislation according to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is a three-month extension of benefits. In an election year, this is likely to be extended repeatedly as Republicans are being described as heartless and indifferent, but the facts reveal a President who has been responsible for the millions of unemployed.

According to Paul Harrington, the director of Drexel University’s Center for Labor Markets and Policy, “Back in 2007, 7% unemployment would seem disastrously high, but now it’s more like a humble brag.” For those that are working, the “fiscal cliff” agreement with Congress included an increase of the Social Security payroll tax that raised it from 4.2% to 6.2% which translates for a worker earning $30,000 a year to a loss of $50 a week less in take-home pay.

The percentage of Americans who have a job or are seeking one plunged to a 34-year-low in the spring of 2013 to 63%. Little wonder that a record number of Americans households saw their real income drop by $2,627 and the number of people in poverty increased by approximately 6,667,000 according to the Census Bureau.

A record 46,496,000 are now poor by government standards. This represents an increase of 16.73% from 2008 to 2012.

Obama’s policies have created a nation of millions on some form of government dole. By June 2013, a record 23,116,928 American households were enrolled in the federal government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program—AKA food stamps—according to data released by the Department of Agriculture. That outnumbers the population of the entire Northeastern United States or those living in the entire Western U.S.

By December 2013, the total number of people now receiving federal disability benefits hit a record 10,988,269, up from the previous record of 10,982,920 set in November, according to the Social Security Administration. The average monthly benefit was $1,146.43, an increase from the previous December. CNSNews.com reported that the number of Americans getting disability benefits exceeded the entire population of Greece. The number has increased every month for 202 straight months.

The poverty level has broken a 50-year record.

The poverty rate has stood at 15% for three consecutive years, the first time that has happened since the mid-1960s, famed for LBJ’s “war on poverty.” More than $20 trillion has been spent on poverty since then. Today the government spends nearly $1 trillion annually on 80 federal means-tested programs providing cash, food, housing, medical care, and targeted social services for the poor and low-income Americans.

The poverty level is defined by the government as an annual income of $23,492 for a family of four. The poverty is directly attributable in part to Obama’s failed efforts to improve the nation’s economy.

To put it in other terms, the U.S. spent $3.7 trillion on welfare over the past five years that Obama has been in office.

New research from the Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee, reported in October 2013, noted that “The enormous sum spent on means-tested assistance is nearly five times greater than the combined amount spent on NASA, education, and all federal transportation projects.

It isn’t even the entire amount because states contribute more than $200 billion each year, primarily in the form of low-income health care. And, of course, Obamacare has already produced an increase of those enrolling in Medicaid.

The statistics all add up to a nation in which Americans are worse off since the election and reelection of President Obama and we have another three years in which to endure his historic failure to turn around the economy. What can we expect from a President who thinks that unemployment compensation “creates jobs”?

The government does not “create jobs”; the private sector does that and, under Obama, it has been under attack with a vast increase in government regulations and policies that produce unemployment.

Is there “income inequality” in America? Yes, there always has been, but what Obama does not talk about is the “income mobility” that permits low income Americans to secure employment and higher wages when the economy is improving. It is another Big Lie from a President who is wedded to Marxist “solutions” that have never worked.

© Alan Caruba, 2014

Politically incorrect and in bad taste: Was this baby born in Fukushima? (Video)...from TPC

Has anyone ever wondered how the baby in this commercial grew so big?

It may be politically incorrect and in bad taste to ask but could he have been born in Fukushima as a result of the massive amounts of radiation being released there?

At The Political Commentator here.

The Sunday Best................

Ariel Sharon, Larger than life by Caroline Glick

Hillary's skeleton stampede

The Forgotten Man

The White Ghetto

Obama's Kenyan Trip; Great Literary Scandal Of The Century

Defining the Tea Party (and Why the Beltway Is Frightened Of Them)

FBI: Four gunmen in Kenya mall terrorist attack believed dead

CNN to Republicans: Drop Dead

‘Systematic torture’: Dossier accusing UK politicians of Iraq war crimes goes to ICC

US has deployed military advisers to Somalia, officials say

Does America Have Any Naval Strategists Anymore?

Lessons from the US on mass immigration

Libya's deputy industry minister shot dead

Massacre in Syria as al-Qaeda fighters flee rebel backlash

Breaking: Obama Suffers An Obstruction

The Perfectly Said Indictment on Fallujah

Hero of Helmand: Paratrooper’s final hours made into big screen film

and finally.............

Prosecco

Sunday Totty.................

The real deal.................from Rico

What a Deal!....I got an email the other day from a Nigerian prince.  

 

He’s got a MILLION DOLLARS  

and he wants to give it to me for FREE! 

All I have to do is give him all my bank account  

numbers so he can make it happen! 

 

 

I was about to do it, but then I got ANOTHER email, 

this time from a KENYAN prince.

He wants to give me FREE healthcare for life!…

All I have to do is give him all my bank account

numbers so he can make it happen!

 

 

 

Sounds like a familiar scam....huh ??

Israel-Hating Scumbags Launch Vicious Anti-Semitic Attacks Against Ariel Sharon

I'm just posting one tweet to give you an example of how vile these people are.

But check the whole thing, "Typical: Leftists Erupt With Anti-Semitism at Death of Ariel Sharon."

A good Jew is a dead Jew. Burn in hell Ariel Sharon.

— Ignashevich Polya (@Innat0) January 11, 2014

It gets even worse.

RTWT.

And see the obituary as well, "Ariel Sharon, 1928-2014."

VIDEO: Clare Richards Topless Teaser for Zoo Magzine

Check it out.

She's a little hottie with nice bouncing breasts!

See, "Clare Richards for Zoo Magazine."

Great tits.

More hot babe-blogging throughout the night!

Hannah Davis Up Close - 2013 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit

Photos Catch French President Francois Hollande in Affair with Hot Actress Julie Gayet

She's almost 20 years younger, and goes topless in all these seductive French films.

And Hollande doesn't deny it, the lucky old coot!

See, "Closer Magazine Publishes Photos of French President Francois Hollande Visiting Apartment of Actress Julie Gayet."

That's safe for work, but she's hot!

Saturday Night is Bath Night.................

Late News...........

Ariel Sharon, brilliant general, divisive politician, is dead

Meet al-Qaeda's new poster boy for the Middle East

Violence and reports of 'cannibalism' in CAR after president quits

The Business of Korean Reconciliation

Incandescent with rage

A dog had followed his owner to school. His owner was a fourth grader at a public elementary school.

However, when the bell rang, the dog sidled inside the building and made it all the way to the child's classroom before a teacher noticed and shooed him outside, closing the door behind him.

The dog sat down, whimpered and stared at the closed doors.

Then God appeared beside the dog, patted his head, and said,

'Don't feel bad fella'...they won't let ME in either'.

H/T Marshall

Bonus Totty.....

Government and Great Commercials vs Terrible Commercials (Video)...from TPC

Not to bring politics into advertising but government and government entities obviously don't have to worry about commercials generating bottom-line results while the private sector does. 

These videos make the differences in philosophy crystal clear!

Watch at The Political Commentator here.

Pic Dump..............

News.............

Little bullets versus littler bullets ....

Syrians accuse al-Qaeda of hijacking revolution

Gun Auction Site GunBroker.com Marks Industry Milestone with $3 Billion in Sales

America’s expanding police state

Huge Russian-Iranian oil-for-goods deal worth $18bn p.a. nullifies sanctions

Iranian military official: Hezbollah capable of pinpoint missile strikes throughout Israel

Nearly 500 killed in fighting between Syrian rebels and Al-Qaeda

US To Deploy More Troops To South Korea

Why The US Will Not Sell Advanced Fighters To Taiwan

"No Confidence" - Wild Bill

What do we do when our system of checks and balances fail? We find a new way....Bill explains here.

Two US Presidents, a little old lady and a blonde with large breasts are on a train...from TPC

Great political humor that has two US Presidents, Barack Obama and former President George W. 

Bush, sitting on a train with a little old lady and a beautiful blonde with large breasts.

At The Political Commentator here.

Saturday Totty...............

Jessica Simpson 'So Proud' of Her Weight Loss, Shows Off in Super Tight Dress on GMA

A super tight black dress in fact, and her breasts look bigger and bustier than ever!

Looking good, lady!

Gonna be sporting those daisy dukes in no time!

See, "Smokin' Jessica Simpson Shows Off Post-Baby Figure in Super Tight Dress on GMA."

That is one hot baby mama! See all the hot photos, breasts and all, at the click through.

Ultra-Creepy Old Spice Ad

Man, a bit much no doubt.

There'll be more of these for the Super Bowl

See, "Here's That Creepy New Old Spice 'Mom Song 60' Advertisement."

Kansas 10th Amendment Dinner - Wild Bill

NFP. Lambchops....................from Rico

The NFP (non farm payroll) today was a huge 'whiff'...even after baking the books, the dismal state of affairs could not be concealed.
- They're not just smoking dope in Colorado, but at the BLS and the White House.

With a population over 300 million, 91.8 million working-age Americans do not have jobs.
- So tell me again about how the 'offishul' unemployment rate dropped from 7.0% to 6.7%. Choom, choom, choom...what a great recovery, man.

The Labor Force Participation Rate has hit a fresh 35-year LOW, but if you believe te official story you must be HIGH.
- And, the next thing to get 'baked' will be you lamb chop.

For the sober adults, 92 over 300 (dropping the zeros) gives you a much bigger number than 6.7%, but thanks to Jimmuh Carter and the Dept of Education most Americans arenow unable to (a) do that math, or (b) even think through the concept for themselves and consider some math needs to be done.
- "Hey, things must be getting better. Unemployment dropped from 7 to 6.7%. Way to go barry and team! What's on TV tonite?"

The Strange Metamorphosis of Avigdor Lieberman....................from Dan Friedman

NB: i24 News is Israel's first International News Network, broadcasting to 800 million households in English, French and Arabic. Urge your cable provider to carry it. Tell them it’s the antidote for al Jazeera. In the interim, visit their website for all the latest news and opinion directly from Israel.

[What’s come over Israeli “hardliner” Avigdor Lieberman? Someone must have made him  an offer he couldn’t refuse. I wonder who. df]

i24 News,  January 07th 2014

Lieberman may be crowned as the left's next national hero

By Emmanuel Navon

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman surprised many recently by declaring that John Kerry’s proposal was the best deal Israel could get, provided that the land swaps with the purported Palestinian state be over populated areas instead of empty ones. His statement was immediately condemned by the Israeli left, which endorses the idea of Jewish population transfer (from Gaza in the past, from Judea and Samaria in the future) but abhors that idea when applied to Arabs (even though, in Lieberman’s plan, there would be no population transfers but only a redrawing of borders). And yet, the very same Left will very likely end-up canonizing Lieberman as a national hero. After all, it did just that with Ariel Sharon eight years ago, transforming him overnight from demon to angel.

Obama's Potemkin Recovery..................from Dan Friedman

[Obama and the Obama-run media would rather you didn’t see this. Screw ‘em! Read it - including the links - and you’ll understand what lies behind Obama’s “recovery.” df]

 

 

PJ Media, 1/10/14

 

Who Needs Ayn Rand? America Has Already Gone John Galt

By Roger L. Simon

Tell all your “Objectivist” friends and the libertarian gang at Reason magazine to break out the champagne. Americans may have skipped the movie of Atlas Shrugged, nor have many read any of Ayn Rand’s works, but they have taken the author’s advice anyway and gone John Galt, quitting the work force in record numbers. According to Zero Hedge, the latest figures show the labor participation rate at 35 year low.

Realistically, it’s even more than 35  because that figure reflects an employment bump when larger numbers of women joined the work force in the seventies and eighties.  (They’re gone now, with or without Gloria Steinem.)

Currently a record 91.8 million Americans are no longer looking for work. That’s almost one and a half times the entire population [...]

Read the rest of this story here.

Hey Jew! Had Enough of Kumbaya Yet?...................from Dan Friedman

"It is incredible what political simpletons Jews are.  They shut their eyes to one of the most elementary rules of life, that you must not "meet halfway" those who do not want to meet you."

--The great Ze'ev Jabotinsky, 1923

 

 

[They say a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged. For some Jewish idiots once is not nearly enough. df]

 

 

Peace meeting in Ramallah broken up by [Arab] stone throwers

 

Dozens of Israeli participants rushed from hotel by Palestinian security forces

 

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Red Friday Bedtime Totty....................