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Monday, 10 February 2014
News..................
U.S. Embassy warns of possible Guyana threat
Landscape looks 'less frightening' for 2016 race
Wise Doctor Summarizes Obamacare Disaster in One Sentence
Sheriff: Wife, friend killed Dacusville man for life insurance
OUTRAGE OF THE DAY: WHY ONLY TEN YEARS?
Large fire breaks out at Savannah Port
Black Hawk helicopter finds safety in residential area
Dolphins wash up on Northeast Florida shores due to spreading virus
Naval Hospital Jacksonville saved its reputation while saving lives
Good Samaritans help Alabama Brickhouse replace stolen hot dog carts
India’s Rising Regional Military Engagement
Slouching Toward Offshore Balancing
The End of Sex: The “Porn Oscars” and the pornification of America
Low Tech Terror on the Grid: Why the terror attack in Silicon Valley?
It Sucks to Be an American: Welcome to the New Normal, comrades
Chubby and ‘The Twist’—Clinging to Racism in the Age of Obama
Waiting to Be Executed in Iran
Swiss tight ‘yes’ vote on EU immigration ends free movement within bloc
UK floods: Welcome to rural Britain: The drowning out of farmers’ concerns in Westminster by environmental and wildlife groups has led to disaster
The Hillary Papers
and finally.............
How Jihadis Decide Who Becomes the Suicide Bomber - This is very funny
Sucking Sounds............................from Rico
By now it's no secret that corrupt governments use fake economic data (and the FTV media complex) as a political tool, not as a reflection of reality, and to keep the "debt rattle" of the now failing progressive Keynesian economic experiment from being heard by the sheeple.
- This is part of the reason that the 'official' numbers simply beggar belief and do not match what we are seeing actually happen in the real world, and when even the faked numbers begin to look bad you just have to figure the end game approaches.
Have you wondered why the wild 'swings' and 'unusual' trading patterns in the paper bullion markets (Gold and Silver) have grown more erratic and severe?
- You are NOT supposed to (a) notice, or (b) ask what that* sucking sound is, unless you want to become a candidate for self-inflicted nail gun suicide or attempt unassisted flight from a roof top.
*The current financial environment of corruption, fraud. manipulation, and theft is a somewhat touchy subject these days.
Against this backdrop, and over the HUGE sucking sound of Western Gold disapearing into Eastern vaults [read: China], consider connecting a few dots:
- From Apr 2013 to end-Jan 2014 the bullion banks (Scotia, HSBC, and JPM) have seen 88% of their registered Gold inventory removed from the COMEX.
- The GLD has seen one-third of it's Gold inventory removed.
- Futures contracts are being settled in fiat cash because there isn't enough physical bullion to deliver for settlement.
- China just bought JPM's bullion vault in NYC, adjacent to the FED's.
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WELFARE ABUSE: 32 years old Austin, TX welfare recipient says working is stupid.
An Austin welfare recipient tells Austin's Morning News she gets a lot of welfare money and can stay home and smoke weed. Listen to her phone call earlier today on the show with Mark, Ed and Sam...
Lucy is 32 with three kids. She is on welfare just like her parents and admits her kids will do the same. She says taxpayers are the fools...she gets to lay up all day and smoke weed while you go to work.
H/T Bob C
Adult Entertainment Company Asks Amanda Knox to Star in PORN Flick for $20,000
They mentioned that it might help her cover her legal expenses, wink, wink.
See, "'The general consensus is you are absolutely smoking hot...'"
Anger Erupts After Danish Zoo Puts Down Healthy Giraffe
This really bothers me, and clearly the depravity of killing a lovely healthy giraffe has hit a nerve in global public opinion.
And remember, these are leftists pushing these policies, "Copenhagen Zoo Puts Down 'Surplus' Giraffe to Prevent 'Inbreeding'."
Sunday, 9 February 2014
Here's Kelly Brook's Valentine Lingerie for 'New Look'
I meant to post this earlier. Great photos. Her tits are bigger than ever.
See, "Kelly Brook Reveals VERY Racy Valentine's Lingerie Collection for New Look."
BONUS FLASHBACK: "Phenomenal New Kelly Brook FULL FRONTAL Sunbathing Pics From Cancun."
Late News.....................
The Most Corrupt Village in America
The Hardest Part Of Sobriety Is Waking Up Having To Remember The Transsexual You Accidentally Banged
Scarborough: Obama's hands-off approach is a disaster
Derrick Brooks shapes Pensacola
RON HART: The real snow job?
Rebuilt WW II fighter is one man's tribute to veterans' service
BR/ORYR Blog Safe And Back Up; Will Still Be Moving ASAP
Iranian Navy Commander Vows to Sink U.S. Warships
Peacekeepers struggle to control escalating violence in Central African Republic
Four-Ring Circus: The Olympics’ opening ceremony plays fast and loose with Russian history.
Barack's Assault on Work Merely His Latest Stupid Insult Against Common Sense
Look behind the Iran warships headed to U.S. borders
White House destroys François Hollande state dinner invitations
Vigilantes enter Mexican drug cartel's stronghold in Apatzingan
Israel targets Gaza terror operative linked to Sinai-based Ansar Jerusalem
Obama Democrats' troubling view on work
Olga Graf: Russian speed skater unzips suit for accidental striptease
In the War on Terror BHO is Anti-War.........................from Dan Friedman
[The new mantra from the polite right: Criticize Obama's (or Kerry's) policies but not their motives. But after a five-year track record of making the US (and Israel) more vulnerable, why the hell not? df]
2/9/2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has eased the rules for would-be asylum-seekers, refugees and others who hope to come to the United States or stay here and who gave "limited" support to terrorists or terrorist groups.
Right Back At 'Ya..........................from Rico
This says a LOT about the US idiots and clowns who are busy spying on their own citizens, then lying about and making excuses for spying on their own citizens, and are consumed with persecuting those who dare to speak out and expose their despicable Kollectivist unconstitutional behavior, than it does about anything else.
And they are angrily "surprised" when they are 'saluted' with a hearty RIGHT BACK AT 'YA by anyone left with a shred of common sense or decency.
God.damned.Marxists.
Sunday Armageddon Quiz..............................from Dan Friedman
[Extrapolate. Judging by Iran’s military progress to date, how many more years will it take before Iranian ships show up on American shores carrying sea-to-ground nuclear weapons? Barack Hussein Obama (and Benjamin Netanyahu), how can we ever thank you? df]
FoxNews.com, February 08, 2014
In 2012, Iran said it aims to put warships in international waters off the U.S. coast within the next few years, and extend its reach as far as Antarctica.
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A Princely Offer............................from Rico
I have an offer from a Kenyan Prince who wants to give me healthcare for life!
All I have to do is give him all my bank account numbers, my Social Security details, health history, and income tax information...plus PROMISE to make payments of an unspecified amount that will increase annually.
And if I do not, he has threatened to punish me with a BIG fine.
- But, he PROMISES that this is a really-really-really "good deal" for me, and I should have some nice hot chocolate and think about it. 'He would not LIE to me, and I can trust him' he says.
'Ya think?
I think I'll have a Bourbon and Branch and then tell this clown to go pound some Nigerian sand.
Are you on top of a sinkhole?...HAS/TPC
A website that will show you whether the property you live in, or are thinking about buying, is in an area with the risk of disasters ranging from sinkholes to tsunamis.
The U.S. is Going Bankrupt One City at a Time
By Alan Caruba
Time to start watching U.S. cities go bankrupt. Prior to Detroit, there was Stockton, California, and, according to Stephen Moore, now the chief economist with the Heritage Foundation, there are more than sixty of the largest cities that “are plagued with the same kinds of retirement legacy costs that sent Detroit in Chapter 9 bankruptcy” last year.
“Keep an eye on ‘too big to fail’ cities like Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York,” he warned. Among the twenty cities he listed in an August 2013 Newsmax article, he cited Compton and Oakland, CA, Harrisburg, PA, and Providence, RI. What these and other cities have in common is that “the vast majority are located in states with forced unions, non-right-to-work states.”
As Steve Stanek, a research fellow with the Heartland Institute, reported, when a federal judge, Stephen Rhodes, cleared the way for Detroit’s bankruptcy filing, in December, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFCCME) immediately filed a notice of appeal, but Detroit has more than 100,000 creditors. As its emergency financial manager, Kevyn Orr, said, “The reality is the city has no cash on hand to pay the magnitude of the debt we have, which is $12 billion--$5.7 billion of which has to do with health care obligations, $3.5 billion has to do with pensions, and $2 billion has to do with bondholders.”
At the time it declared bankruptcy, Detroit had 47 different public employee unions. The Detroit Water & Sewer Department had a farrier (a horse-shoer) who received $56,000 in pay and benefits every year even though the city had no horses in the department.
As Moore points out, “For at least the last 20 years major U.S. cities have been playgrounds for left-wing experiments—high taxes on the rich; sanctuaries for illegal immigrants; super-minimum wage rules; strict gun-control laws; regulations and paperwork that makes it onerous o open a business or develop on your own property; crony capitalism with contracts going to political donors and friends; and failing schools ruled by teacher unions, with little competition or productivity.”
The legacy costs of pensions and health benefits to retired teachers and municipal retirees force “city managers and mayors are forced to lay off firefighters, police and teachers. Detroit,” Moore noted, “has three retired city workers collecting a pension for every two currently working.”
Recently published, “The Great Withdrawal” by Craig R. Smith with Lowell Ponte examines the damage that progressive programs and policies have done to cities and to the nation. A nation with a $17 trillion debt who’s President has only one answer, raise the debt limit, will encounter a financial Armageddon if the spending and borrowing is not sharply curtailed.
Craig and Ponte point to 1913 as the year progressive, collectivist ideas “took control of the United States government and began a ‘fundamental transformation’ of our economy, politics, culture and beliefs that continues today.”
Citing Detroit as an example of the result of liberal, progressive policies, Smith said that “by 2013 (it) had become a war zone of urban strife, poverty, decay and government profligacy.”
Recall that President Obama claimed he had “saved” General Motors and Chrysler with bailouts that cost taxpayers “at least $25 billion that will never be paid back. At least a billion of these tax dollars went to improve GM facilities in Brazil, and at least $550 million went to GM facilities in Mexico.” Chrysler is now owned by the Italian automaker, Fiat.
Bond holders are major investors in cities and corporations, but the GM bailout denied payment to secured bondholders and redistributed their rightful share to the United Auto Workers. “As a result, today’s bonds are viewed as an investment with uncertain risk,” says Smith. In 2013, investors withdrew $80 billion from bond funds.”
As Smith points out, “The progressive method of operation was, and is, that when the economy is good, they raise taxes and expand government. When the economic cycle turns negative, the politicians blame others, refuse to reduce government—and, increasingly, use the bad economy as a reason for expanding government and spending even more.”
This describes what President has been doing since first elected in 2008. For the entirety of his first term, he blamed everything on President George W. Bush.
“Put simply,” says Smith, “most progressive cities are welfare city-states in which a large percentage of the population lives on government money, either as government dependents or government employees.” This description fits the nation as well.
How bad are the present times? “27 percent of Americans have no savings at all, 46 percent have savings of less than $800, and 76% of Americans now live paycheck to paycheck.”
With the passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act—Obamacare—the Congressional Budget Office released a report predicting that, over the next decade, it will cost the nation about 2.3 million jobs and contribute to a $1 trillion increase in projected deficits.
Hans Bader, a senior attorney at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, notes that it contains massive marriage penalties that discriminate against married people, huge work disincentives for some older workers, has slashed hiring, cut economic growth, and induced employers to replace full-time workers with part-time employees. In the process, millions have seen their healthcare policies canceled or replaced with policies with higher premiums and deductibles.
There are already 92 million Americans who are unemployed or ceased looking for work. There are 47 million on food stamps.
The ultimate progressive, President Obama, is impoverishing millions of Americans. Unlike Detroit, America cannot declare bankruptcy. It can only collapse if voters do not replace those Senators and Representatives that voted for Obamacare and who refuse to take the steps to reduce government spending and borrowing. We have three years in which to survive Obama.
© Alan Caruba, 2014
The Sunday Best...................
Now a witness to Breitbart's death vanishes
Geraldo Attacks O’Reilly Over Racist Obama Interview: “What You Did Was Strip Him of His Majesty”
Birther Report.com Site Taken Down, Amid Phony Excuses
GOOGLE AKA OBAMA SYCOPHANTS AND MINIONS SHUTS DOWN THE BIRTHER REPORT!
Mystery Disease Strikes Just One Family on the Planet - Joselin, Hilary Linder determined to wipe out strange genetic ailment
Camp Pendleton-based unit assumes command in Southwest Afghanistan
Whiting Field secures 490 new acres
By way of Louisiana, England in 1819 comes to Pensacola
Oh, say can you hear? Ranking the national anthems you might encounter during the Winter Olympics
Stolen hot dog carts were more than woman's livelihood, they were her salvation
Birmingham beats out volcano for 'better places than Sochi to host the Olympics' list
Hearing loud booms in northern Alabama? It's 'the sound of freedom'
Monuments Man: Birmingham Museum of Art's founding director Richard Howard helped restitute Nazi-plundered art
CIA can do what it can do, can't do what it can't do, can't say what it can't do, it says
Vulnerable Democrats try straddle on 'Obamacare'
Iranian Warships Headed Toward U.S. Maritime Borders to Send 'A Message'
Obama Job Approval Falls to 39 Percent
Does America Still Want To Prosper?
Russian anti-terror drive around Sochi leaves 10 dead. Female suicide suspects detained in W. Europe
IAF strikes suspected Palestinian terrorist in central Gaza Strip
The Left’s long march will be hard to stop
Mexico drug war: dish washers v drug lords
Obama economy continues to shed jobs
TSA Doubles Down: “Freeze” in Place: Sir, We Need to Test Your Departure Gate Starbucks for Explosives
The Patrol: a British look at modern warfare
Violence rocks Syrian city during another civilian evacuation attempt
US stops adding al Qaeda leaders to 'kill list'
Ben Carson: Obama officials 'acting like Gestapo'
and finally..........
Life in the USA: Happy wife, happy life
$500,000: The apparent starting bid for an Obama administration ambassadorship! (Video)...from TPC
Video of a report from ABC News discussing the price to become an ambassador under the Obama administration.
Yet another glaring indication of the fact the the mainstream media has FINALLY caught on to the empty suit in the White House!
Watch at The Political Commentator here.
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Gettng it straight...
A man sees his wife is busy in the kitchen and says: "Can I help?"
She says, "Sure, take this bag of potatoes, peel half of them and put them in a pot to boil."
No matter what men do, somehow, they still get yelled at...
H/T Shelly
Smokin' Hottest Women at #Sochi
Freakin' hot women out there. Sheesh.
See, "30 Hottest Babes of the #Sochi Olympics."
How'd you like to curl up with this curler, Anna Sidorova? Heh.
Saturday, 8 February 2014
Chicken = meow...............................from Rico
Fried Rice sounded pretty good to me today. An Asian favorite, it's made in a wide variety of ways by locality and country.
- You can actually tell whether you are in Singapore or Indonesia, for example, from the flavor and ingredients for example.
This is why this menu caught my eye....'chicken' and 'real chicken.'
- I'm guessing this was Chinese-style fried rice, since I could 'hear' the 'chicken' going meow.
Now in my youth I never had very much use for cats, but a Chinese friend cured me of the wickedness of my ways.
- Why, with a very hot wok and some ginger and garlic they are quite delicious.
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