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Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Beard or not............................from Rico
With a beard or not, Janet is just as good a 'merkin' for the wise guys.
Perfectly timed for the very first semi-annual Humphrey-Hawkins appearance before Congress by the new Fed Chair Janet Yellen, the Cartel pulled-off one of their trademark drive-by raids on paper bullion spot prices. Again.
The former 'invisible hand' thus demonstrates that it is now a very 'visible fist' and shows that while Barry LNU might 'talk the talk' while trying to impress the President of the Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys by asserting that he "can do whatever I want" ...the ones REALLY running things just 'walk the walk' and actually DO whatever they want.
West Side Story....................from Dan Friedman
[Another left-wing bastion on the Upper West Side. The Congregation in question has a long history of supporting anti-Zionist elements in the Jewish community here in NYC. Indeed, its spiritual leaders spread the left-wing narrative from their pulpit every week. I suppose it's a form of progress that a few lucid congregants finally "hit back." But the Upper West Side offers many alternatives for Jews seeking a liberal synagogue that has better things to do than undermine Israel. If I were a member of the disgruntled flock, I'd search around and find one. df]
Commentary, 02.10.2014
By Jonathan S. Tobin
It has become a commonplace observation in some portions of the organized Jewish community to complain that American rabbis are afraid to discuss Israel with their congregations. The assumption underlying this claim is that to criticize the State of Israel is the kiss of death for Jewish clergy who live in fear of offending wealthy donors. It’s all very sad but, in fact, completely untrue. Critics of Israel aren’t shunned in American Jewish life. If anything, they have a much better chance of being heard in the secular media—and given space on the opinion pages of major newspapers such as the New York Times—than those who attempt to defend the Jewish state against the slanders that are hurled at it by both its Arab foes and Jews who adopt a “more in sorrow than in anger” pose.
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Zo's Take On the Nye-Ham Debate....................
Zo weighs in on, and takes issue with, the notion that Christians are anti science and technology. Acknowledging God as being responsible for the orchestration of the universe doesn't void us of the curiosity of how His orchestrations work. And to make such discoveries takes advancement in technology. Technology and innovations help us to better serve one another sometimes too. So being a Bible believer, doesn't equal a science and technology rejecter.
Bacon-Molasses Cookies.......................from Rico
This is a very "old school" cookie recipe.
- While I do not bake cookies, at least I haven't ever yet, but never say never.
This looked so good with the bacon, that I may have to make an exception. Aloha snackbar!!!
- And with some alteration, it might make a pretty good 'treat' for Louie-the-dog too.
3/4# bacon, fried crisp, chopped coarsely
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup molasses
1/2 cup rendered lard
1 tsp salt
2 tsp soda
1 tsp ginger
2/3 cup water (cold for soft cookies, boiling for crisp)...I never knew that.
+ enough flour to make dough
What Happens When We Raise the Debt Ceiling?
Washington wants to raise the debt ceiling again - but what is the debt ceiling? Does it really fix anything?
Safety in Paradise #airnzsafetyvideo
Air New Zealand has partnered with Sports Illustrated® Swimsuit to celebrate 50 knockout years with their latest in-flight safety video.
Bitcoin: The end of the line or a bump in the road?...from TPC/HAS
With customers of two of the largest Bitcoin exchanges being prevented from withdrawing their money, is the future of this de-centralized form of currency now in jeopardy as confidence in the marketplace has been severely damaged?
And will, as some in the real estate industry have predicted, Bitcoin become an accepted form of payment in transactions anytime in the near future?
Read the article at HAS here.
Tuesday, 11 February 2014
Obama is Becoming Public Enemy Number One
By Alan Caruba
America has arrived at a point at which it has never been in its 226 years of existence since the Constitution became effective in 1788. It has a President for whom that Constitution is routinely ignored in his quest to “fundamentally transform” America into a nation it has never been despite the slide into progressive policies that began early in the last century.
His namesake legacy legislation, Obamacare, is wreaking havoc on the lives of millions of Americans who have lost or will lose their healthcare plans that have been replaced with those whose cost is far higher. It is costing the nation jobs, reducing further the income of millions. The Congressional Budget Office just released a report predicting it will cost 2.3 million jobs and add $1 trillion in projected deficits.
As reported by CNSnews on February 6, “The debt of the U.S. government has increased $6.666 trillion since President Barack Obama took office on Jan. 20, 2009, according to the latest numbers released by the Treasury Department. It stands at $17,293,019,654, 981.61. The total debt of the nation did not exceed $6.666 trillion until 2003. The U.S. has accumulated as much debt as it did since its founding.
While in office in his first term, the U.S. credit rating was reduced for the first time in its history.
Among Obama’s Constitutional violations in 2013 were:
Delay of Obamacare’s out-of-pocket capsDelay of Obamacare’s employer mandate
Delay of Obamacare’s insurance requirements
Exemption of Congress from Obamacare
Expansion of the employer mandate penalty through IRS regulation
Political profiling by the IRS
Recess appointments when Congress was not officially in recess
Between January 2012 and June 2013, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected the Obama Justice Department’s extreme positions on criminal procedure to property rights, religious liberty to immigration, security regulation to tax law, nine times.
In January CNSnews reported that 1,687,000 fewer Americans were holding fulltime jobs than held jobs in December 2007—the month the last recession began. The current number of jobless Americans is more than 92 million Americans. Simply stated, Obama has failed to restore the economy during his five years in office, having spent the first four years blaming George W. Bush for this failure.
As 2013 came to an end, Fred Barnes, writing in The Weekly Standard, noted that “On the five most important polling questions that measure a president’s success, he not only dropped significantly, but he’s now regarded negatively overall. The five yardsticks are presidential job approval, honesty, handling of the economy, strong leadership, and the public’s impression of him personally. Being under water on all five is extraordinary, if not unprecedented.”
For a growing majority of Americans, Obama has become public enemy number one.
At the heart of the disapproval of Obama is the realization that he lies about everything all the time. Nothing he says can be trusted and this is a definition of pathological dishonesty. In a recent interview before the Super Bowl with Bill O’Reilly, he lied about every issue raised. Increasingly, guests on the channel’s news shows are beginning to regularly use the word “lie” to describe what he says, where before they used euphemisms such as “untruths.”
Because the Senate is controlled by the Democratic Party, a deluge of legislation passed by the Republican-controlled House to respond to Obamacare and other aspects of the economy have been killed before any debate or vote can be taken. The Democratic Party is now wholly owned by progressives, more resembling the Communist Party USA than its former self. It engages in denouncing any critic of Obama as being a racist.
Obama’s January State of the Union address reflected his dishonesty and his agenda. It reflected the progressive belief in the “collective” rather than the value of the individual. Obama has pursued a policy of class warfare, seeking to divide Americans over the issue of economic inequality. He declared climate change—the new name for “global warming”—as “settled” science at a time when the U.S. and the rest of the world has been in a cooling cycle for the past seventeen years and can expect to remain in it for many decades to come.
At a time when many Americans cannot find work, Obama has urged an immigration amnesty that would add an estimated eleven million illegal aliens to the population along with their families which would also qualify. The only reform Americans want is stronger border security.
Reflecting barely three percent of the population, Obama reversed himself to endorse same-sex marriage, has altered the U.S. military’s policy on gays and pursued a policy to integrate women into combat units. He has forced several hundred flag officers, generals and admirals, to retire, has expanded Homeland Security’s enforcement corps, and endorsed the vastly expanded ability of the National Security Agency to secure data on every phone call Americans make or receive.
At the same time, he has sought restrictions on the Second Amendment right to own and bear arms.
It is essential to understand that no President has had the power to issue an executive order that does not have constitutional or regulatory empowerment. Failing this, any President acting in this manner is doing so as a king or despot. The Constitution was written to avoid such usurpation of power.
These and other actions have endangered the Bill of Rights on which Americans depend for justice and freedom.
I have thought that it would be unlikely the first black President will be impeached. I am beginning to think that a momentum is building toward impeachment in a Congress that no longer trusts Obama.
Obama took an oath to “faithfully execute the Office of the President of the United States” which includes the enforcement of its laws. He has not only directed that laws with which he disagrees not be enforced, but he has unilaterally and unconstitutionally made changes to laws. Only Congress has that right.
The November midterm elections hold forth the opportunity to give the Republican Party the opportunity to take control of the Senate and increase members in the House. Given the trends in the polls, this appears to be the outcome. It is all that stands between Americans and a President whose contempt for their welfare and intelligence is on display every day.
© Alan Caruba, 2014
Send in the clowns, don't bother they're here! (Debt limit video satire)...from TPC
Great video satire of the debt limit dance that has been going on for years only instead of the clowns in Washington having to pay the fiddler it is the taxpayers of the United States left holding the bag!
News...............
Christians Killing Muslims In Central Africa - Outraged World Government To Act
Helo squadron prepares to retire helicopter
The Truth About Che Guevara
AIPAC and Iran’s war against America by Caroline Glick
Strykers arrive at Fort Carson
US Suspect Possibly Targeted for Drone Attack
Hundreds gather to welcome home a wounded hero
Game developer crashes, takes down soaring 'Flappy Bird'
Suicide Bomb Instructor Accidentally Kills 22 of His Students Ooooops
Hypocrite Mark Kelly Testifies in Favor of Gun Control, Then Goes Shooting
Sochi Olympics: More female athletes in lingerie than ever before
U.S. Air Force reveals modified gunship makes first flight
Palestinian Authority Human Rights Violations Ignored by Media, West
PayPal President's credit card hacked for shopping spree
The Risible ObamaCare Counterattacks
Toyota to end car manufacturing in Australia by 2017, spelling end of car making in Australia
Starbucks Bans Amputee Veteran’s Service Dog
The Agenda of Racially Sensitive ‘White Guys’
Another part of the Affordable Care Act delayed for a year
Major Winter Storm to Target Northeast Late Week
White House Draws Red Line on Iranian Ballistic Missile Program
China Shows New Mobile ICBM on Internet
Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over
17-Year-Old Fired From Walmart Scams Store Out Of $39,000, Police Say
Possible to ban guns by repealing Second Amendment?
Police Puppycide in a Tiny Idaho Town
Satya Nadella's secret to management success: Why, cricket, of course!
Another Obamacare Mandate Delayed
The Value of Putin: Putin ends up existing to warn us in the West of what we are not.
The Unheralded Return of Michelle, The Activist
Hillary Clinton dismissed Monica Lewinsky as a ‘narcissistic loony toon’ after she learned of affair
India's Indigenous Nuclear Submarine, Agni-V ICBM Set To Launch In 2015
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ObamaCare: BHO Making it up as He Goes Along.......................from Dan Friedman
h/t Jared Silverman Esq.
[Gee, I thought Congress had the sole authority to make laws – and to amend them. My bad. Just goes to show you we haven’t reached the bottom of Obama’s bag o’ tricks yet. Makes one wonder if the Emperor will go quietly at the end of his second term. df]
WaPo, February 10
By Juliet Eilperin and Amy Goldstein
The Obama administration announced Monday it would give medium-sized employers an extra year, until 2016, before they must offer health insurance to their full-time workers.
Firms with at least 100 employees will have to start offering this coverage in 2015.
Classic........................from Rico
This is CLASSIC.
JPM hammered the paper price of Gold down and covered its shorts, while sitting net long in Gold.
I guess that's why Jamie's annual salary was recently increased from $11 million to $20 million, and Blythe was appointed to the CFTC by the Obama crew.
- JPM made a LOT more money than they have had to pay for the last decade's-worth of wrist slaps for criminal activity.
The Tea Teams Difference - Wild Bill
Tea Teams takes the Tea Party to a whole new level, one of which is restoring God and Country to our culture!
Comfort Food: "Containing" Iran......................from Dan Friedman
h/t RuthfullyYours
[Outside of Jihadi savages, no one wants war. But some comforting “alternatives” make it inevitable. df]
weeklystandard.com, February 17, 2014
Don’t count on containing Iran.
By Elliott Abrams
Jerusalem
The Israeli debate over Iran’s nuclear program is, perhaps oddly, not yet heated. For now, the action is with the Americans: Israelis watch the negotiations nervously and without confidence, but there is little sense of impending doom—or impending war.
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GoPro: Lindsey Vonn - Moving Forward
Lindsey Vonn went through one of the most traumatic injuries of her career last year and has been working to come back and defend her title.
"Impeachment" Not Farfetched Anymore..............................from Dan Friedman
This just received from a patriot, Dennis Sevakis. Another “phony” scandal. Learn how Obama is abusing the Constitution, and his power, to attack individuals and organizations he deems a threat to his regime.
Watch this 7-minute video dammit! And help it go viral.
More Executive Brilliance.......................from Rico
Communism.
- Ideas SO good, they have to be made mandatory.
The latest "executive order" seems to have made this thenew 'official' drink of Barry LNU's (Last Name Unknown) regime.
- The Kool-aid has been mandatorily replaced.
This would be 'funny' if it were not so true.
Monday, 10 February 2014
There is No Global Warming and Will Be None for Decades
By Alan Caruba
I recently received an unsigned email about my Sierra Club commentary in which I pointed out that it opposes traditional forms of energy and made a passing reference to Obama’s lie that “climate change”, the new name for global warming, was now "settled science.”
Global warming was never based on real science. It was conjured up using dubious computer models and we were supposed to believe that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change could actually predict what the climate would be twenty, fifty, or a hundred years from now.
The writer of the email disagreed with me. “lol you are a f**king idiot. you don’t believe there is global warming going on? you need to let your prejudices go and stop basing your views on what your political stance is…do you research you f**king faggot.”
Now, not everyone who believes in global warming is as rude as this individual and certainly not as ignorant, but his message suggests that those who do not believe in it do so as the result of “a political stance” when, in fact, our views are based on science.
Anyone familiar with my writings knows that a lot of research is involved. In my case, it dates back to the late 1980s when the global warming hoax began to be embraced by politicians like Al Gore who made millions selling worthless “carbon credits” while warning that “Earth has a fever.”
A small army of scientists lined their pockets with government grants to produce data that supported the utterly baseless charge that carbon dioxide was causing the Earth to warm. They castigated other scientists or people like myself as “deniers” while we proffered to call ourselves sceptics. They were joined by most of the media that ignored the real science. And the curriculums in our schools were likewise corrupted with the hoax.
Then, about 17 years ago the Earth began to cool. It had nothing to do with carbon dioxide—which the Environmental Protection Agency deems a “pollutant” despite the fact that all life on Earth would die without it—and everything to do with the SUN.
A few days after the email arrived, two-thirds of the contiguous U.S.A. was covered by snow. As this is being written, Lake Superior is 92% frozen, setting a new record. As of February 5, the entire Great Lakes system was, according to the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, 77% covered with ice.
On February 1st, NOAA and NASA held a joint press conference in which they released data about 2013’s global surface temperature. They made reference to a “pause” in the temperature that began in 1997. Dr. David Whitehouse, science editor for the BBC, noted that “When asked for an explanation for the ‘pause’ by reporters, Dr. Gavin Schmidt of NASA and Dr. Thomas Karl of NOAA spoke of contributions from volcanoes, pollution, a quiet Sun, and natural variability. In other words, they don’t know.”
Both of these government agencies, along with others like the EPA and the Department of the Interior are staffed by people who understand that their employers are deeply committed to the global warming hoax. One should assume that almost anything they have to say about the “pause” is based entirely on politics, not science.
Then, too, despite the many measuring stations from which data is extracted to determine the Earth’s climate, there is a paucity of such stations in COLD places like Siberia. Stations here in the U.S. are often placed in “heat islands” otherwise known as cities. If you put enough of them close to sources of heat, you get thermometer readings that produce, well, heat.
People in the U.S., England, Europe and other areas of the world who do not possess Ph.ds in meteorology, climatology, geology, astronomy, and chemistry have begun to suspect that everything they have been told about global warming is false. Between 1300 and 1850 the northern hemisphere went through a mini-ice age. After that it began to warm up again. So, yes, there was global warming, but it was a natural cycle, not something caused by human beings.
Nature doesn’t care what we do. It is far more powerful than most of us can comprehend.
This brings us back to the Sun which determines, depending on where you are on planet Earth, how warm or cold you feel. The Sun, too, goes through cycles, generally about eleven years long. When it is generating a lot of heat, its surface is filled with sunspots, magnetic storms.
When there are few sunspots, solar radiation diminishes and we get cold. Scientists who study the Sun believe it may encounter another “Maunder minimum”, named after astronomer Edward Maunder, in which the last “Little Ice Age”, between 1645 and 1715, occurred. The Thames in England froze over as did the canals of Holland froze solid.
There is no global warming and scientists like Henrik Svensmark, the director of the Center for Sun-Climate Research at Denmark’s National Space Institute, believes that “World temperatures may end up a lot cooler than now for 50 years or more.” I agree.
© Alan Caruba, 2014
Just how stupid is Joe Biden? (Video)...from TPC
We all know that Joe Biden is dumb, but just how dumb is he?
I believe that this video helps answer that question!
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