Worse than the last time....................from Rico

Despite all the propaganda and lies, many are figuring out that US inflation is running about 10% and unemployment about 23%.
- Food stamps make the breadlines invisible.

The US economy, that of the UK, and of Europe are actually in WORSE shape today than back in the Great Depression.
- The central bankers and politicians are at great pains to avoid saying this.

Look for yourself at the accomplishment of the FED for example...they have reduced the volume of money to a level BELOW that of the Great Depression.
- So much for the economic wisdom emanating from the halls of macadamia or the Eccles building.

Politicians, bankers, and bureauRats who produce nothing of value parasitically choke the productive through taxation and regulation.
- In the end, bankrupt systems feed off their hosts and all perish.

It might be a good idea to have a plan for "the day after"......

NewsBusted 12/12/14...................

Cartoon Round Up....

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The rap sheet......................from Rico

Ferguson. False narrative promoted rioting.
- Aided and abetted by a racist pResident and Attorney General.

A good cop, an innocent cop, forced to resign.
- He should have been decorated and given a bonus for saving the taxpayer what would have been Brown's lifetime of repeated incarceration and associated legal costs.

WHY?

Look at the ADULT rap sheet of the "gentle giant" Michael Brown and figure it out for yourself.
- Then ponder why this information wasn't put forward earlier.

Sh*t-for-brains was a criminal thug, and his JUVENILE rap sheet is just a prelude to his adult criminality.
- But, as is usual for this regime, the public was Grubered once again

GOP Joins Team Obama

The merger of the RNC with the DNC has begun. Led by John Boehner 162 House Republicans voted to join Team Obama and become part of the problem. Conservatives across the nation are fuming over the betrayal handed to them by the Republican Party and are left wondering if the GOP is worth saving. For years we have contemplated the possibility of leaving the GOP and forming a new political party that would be more to our liking, and now that the GOP has responded to an overwhelming mandate to end Obama’s amnesty by totally surrendering to his wishes, it appears we may now have no other choice.     (continue reading)

Zo: Hand's Up, Can't Breathe................

Zo speaks common sense about the Mike Brown and Eric Garner incidents. He wants more people in his community to peacefully deal with law enforcement, and be less violent in general

What does THIS tell you?.....................from Rico

That the GOP leadership and Obama have JOINED FORCES to try and get the 'cromnibus' budget bill passed is a big clue.
- Yes, the bill that funds everything Obama wants (amnesty, ObamaCare, ad nauseum).

A fat lot of good it did for the voters to thoroughly reject Obamunist policies in the midterms by throwing Democrats (C) out of every office they could.
- The Republicans (D) have completely ignored the people yet again and happily sold them down the river.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
- Spineless, worthless, useless bastards the entire lot of them....they should ALL be thrown out.

The first 535 people in any phone book would do a better, more responsible job for America than these bloated mandarins.

Christmas Jeer

The Lost Pleasure of Junk Food...................

Can one put a dollar figure on the lost pleasure of delicious fatty foods? Trifecta tries to as it discusses the Food and Drug Administration's recent cost estimate relating to menu calorie counts. The FDA estimates that America will suffer billions in "lost pleasure" if it avoids unhealthy foods. Is the misery of President Obama's menu agenda worth the health that one has towards the end of life? Find out as Scott, Bill and Stephen examine the high cost of government regulation and micromanagement

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

Day 11 - Isabeli Fontana by Sam Faulkner (LOVE Advent 2014)

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

Turkey "Improves" Education

Will Sweden Soon Reverse Recognition of Palestine as a State?

'Smart' fabric made to smell like whisky-- permanentl​y

Dianne Feinstein'​s Travesty

State Department 'stonewall​ing' requests for Hillary Clinton's files

Senator Udall Reveals Classified Info in Blasting CIA

Lying about the CIA lying?

Hillary Clinton Got The Benghazi Talking Points BEFORE Rest Of Obama Administra​tion

Former Dem Senator: 'Partisan Torture Report Fails America'

Jeb Bush Has a Mitt Romney Problem

Why Did GOP Rep. Pete Sessions Refuse to Allow a Vote on the Mulvaney Amendment?

GOP Leadership Allied with Obama on Spending Bill Dems Oppose

The euro is heading for disaster - what luck for David Cameron!

ISIS releases horrifying sex slave pamphlet, justifies child rape

The "gift" of ObamaCare.....................from Rico

ObamaCare...the "gift" that keeps on giving.*

The premium increases for 2014 are just the tip of a big iceberg.
- The serious pain has been 'delayed' until after the next screwing...er, election by the same party (C) that lost every Senator that voted for this steaming pile of excrement in the last election.

Thanks Barry

*I use "gift" in the German sense of the word here. It means "poison" in German

"Religion of Peace" Body Count........................from Dan Friedman

[Your scorecard for November. df]

 

www.ibtimes.com, December 11 2014

 

Jihadist Attacks Claimed Over 5,000 Lives In November Alone In 664 Attacks: Report

Dudette You're Half Naked And Screwed (Episode 2)................

The second part to our new series Dudette You're Half Naked And Screwed. We decided to do a very primitive survival test to see just how well Heather would do against the elements wearing next to nothing like they do on the hit show Naked And Afraid

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

Political Expediency: Score one for the constituents!

Thanks to political expediency, it appears that a huge revenue raising experiment in Nassau County, New York will soon come to an end!

Score one for the good guys!

Read at HAS here.

Victoria's Secret Lingerie - Emancipation Or Exploitation?

It didn't come as much of a surprise that the resounding success of Victoria's Secret Fashion Show London 2014 brought out the usual band of critics, spoil sports and dreary curmudgeons that disapprove of everything and anything that can be enjoyed by people whatever it may be.

These critics are so wrapped up in themselves and their so called 'progressive' opinions they must lead lives that are utterly devoid of any form of enjoyment, fun or pleasure.

They disapprove of, and campaign against, any source of enjoyment including sugar, salt, fizzy drinks, booze, the food of your choice, smoking ( now including e-cigarettes ) motoring, gambling, horse racing, fishing, contact sports, competitive sports and now modelling lingerie.

An article by Sarah Vine in the Daily Mail sums up the attitude of the 'progressive' establishment toward a show that was nothing more than group young ladies striding down a catwalk wearing a popular line in underwear.

According to the obviously envious Vine this "fashion show suggests trashy costumes, strippers, nudity and lecherousness are the most natural things in the world".

According to the more unbiased, casual observer like myself, the lingerie was far from trashy, there were no strippers or nudity and admiring the well toned form of beautiful women modelling clothes is perfectly natural as opposed to lecherous.

Sarah Vine also laments that a show such as this is undoing fifty years of feminism. Its a matter of opinion whether fifty years of feminism means women are free to make personal choices about their femininity as opposed to being forced into adopting more gender neutral persona's as epitomised by herself or ultra feminist Germain Greer.

While the interfering busy bodies of the nanny state are hectoring the public and organising bans on foods they disapprove of to combat the so called obesity epidemic, Sarah Vines is sneering at the diet the girls employ to keep their bodies in prime condition.

While the government and busy bodies like Vine bemoan the sedentary lifestyle that contributes to the poor health of the nations young people, she criticises and sneers at exercise regimes used by the girls to keep fit and healthy.

As she herself admits the girls, like top class athletes, have a limited career and earning capacity, therefore cashing in on their personal assets while they can should be perfectly understandable.

These ladies would be fools not to, or maybe they should pass up the chance to make the millions they do in order to stay true to the feminist cause as espoused by Sarah Vine.

Sarah Vine and the rest of the overt feminist movement have made their stash so they really shouldn't sneer or deny these young ladies the opportunity to set themselves up for life.

It might be difficult for feminist bigots like Vine to understand but women making the personal choice to make a fortune by modelling lingerie is an example of female emancipation as opposed to the degrading exploitation she makes it out to be.

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

Andrew Klavan: Black Leader Al Sharpton...................

In which our politically correct host, Andrew Klavan, takes a look at the disturbing history of the Reverend Al Sharpton - called reverend because he is revered, by Al Sharpton

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Andrew Klavan's 4 minute history lesson of the real Al Sharpton!...from TPC

New Yorkers know Reverend Al Sharpton very well beginning with the Tawana Brawley hoax from the 1980's. 

For those who may be unfamiliar, this short video by Andrew Klavan explains!

Watch at The Political Commentator here.

Where's the toast?....................from Rico

Looks like the ONLY thing missing from this 'journalist's firearms guide' is the piece of toast shaped like a firearm.

I'm sure our comrades in the Ministry of Truth will issue a correction soon.

Can't be too safe....or accurate.

Boehner Has To Go

Democrats will lie to you, and some of them will even lie and tell you they’re Republicans. Apparently John Boehner has switched parties without telling anyone; either that, or someone forgot to tell him the winners aren’t the ones that are supposed to surrender. Despite an overwhelming victory in November giving Republicans a clear and definitive mandate to stop Obama’s plans to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, John Boehner is determined to abdicate the power of the majority and provide funding for the President’s plan. Rank and file Republican members of the House who campaigned on the promise of stopping amnesty are expected to default on those promises just a few weeks later. House Republicans have a traitor in their midst, and his name is John Boehner. It is time for John Boehner to be removed as Speaker of the House.   (continue reading)

Thursday Totty..................

An Expert Option on Enhanced Interrogation versus torture versus being killed -- Osama bin Laden's Last Words were: "I'd Rather be Waterb ..."

Regarding the "enhanced interrogation" and "waterboarding" debate over Sen. Diane Feinstein's release of the so-called "Torture Report," we know there are many people who prefer waterboarding over the alternative-- Indeed, Osama bin Laden's last words were "I'd rather be waterb ..."



 

 

http://polisat.com/OsamaShop.htm

Warning to Women: Beware these two Bills! (Cartoon)...from TPC

 The cartoon in this article depicts two Bills that women might want to steer clear of.

At The Political Commentator here.

Season's Greetings.......................from Rico

Who would NOT want to do business with the likes of HSBC after a "Merry Christmas" card like this?
- Why it would positively warm the heart of old Ebeneezer, it would!

Makes me wonder what kind of "Season's Greetings" are on the way from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
- Maybe something along the lines of Bertold Brecht's "Mackie Messer*?"

*Mac the knife

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

Ben Edelman, Harvard Business School Professor, Goes to War Over $4 Worth of Chinese Food

Former CIA Official Jose Rodriguez: Obama Prefers to Kill From Afar, Using Drones

Hillary’s Bad Politics and Worse Ideas

Ed Henry Grills Earnest: How Does W.H. 'Have Moral Authority When Innocent Civilians Are Killed By Drones?'

Anti-Walke​r forces in Wisconsin may have broken the law and altered documents in cover-up

What Did the President Learn?

Transparen​cy! There's Far Less Than Meets the Eye in November's Jobs Report

When Jew-hatred comes to America

Uriah Heep Comes Before Congress

China Holds Air-and-Sea Exercise Near Okinawa

Man they called 'the Crocodile' is Robert Mugabe's favoured successor

NATO cooperation must be resumed to prevent chaos in Afghanistan – Russia's chief of General Staff

New York City’s most expensive lease ever: Apartment overlooking Central Park rents for US$500,000 a month

ISIS posts a new forward command group to Egyptian Sinai - at Israel’s back door

Obama’s 2014 Christmas Card to the CIA

The PA's Martyr Industry..................from Dan Friedman

[Two excellent items by Daniel Greenfield (a.k.a Sultan Knish) commenting on the death of a PA "official" during a confrontation with Israeli police today in Judea and Samaria. df]

 

 

How the Palestinian Authority Manufactures its Own Martyrs

 

 

Ziad Abu Ein: Latest “Palestinian” Martyr is Murderer of Two

 

 

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GOP goes full weasel.....................from Rico

In a brilliant masterstroke, the GOP manages to break every single mid-term election campaign promise made by passing a $1.1 trillion bill funding ALL of Barry Marxist-boy's demands.

So WHAT is the difference between Boehner and Pelosi except for the botox (and John crying more easily)?

And WHAT difference did it make to replace Democrats (C) with Republicans (D)?

Weasels. All of them.

A Dangerous Woman...................from Dan Friedman

[See why Brandeis and other liberal institutions are so afraid of this woman they won’t let her speak. df]

 

 

Ayaan Hirsi Ali fights radical Islam's real war on women

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

The New Congress Must Save the USA from the EPA

EPA headquarters in Washington, DC

 

By Alan Caruba

When the Republican Party takes over majority control of Congress in January, it will face a number of battles that must be fought with the Obama administration ranging from its amnesty intentions to the repeal of ObamaCare, but high among the battles is the need to rein in the metastasizing power of the Environmental Protection Agency.

In many ways, it is the most essential battle because it involves the provision of sufficient electrical energy to the nation to keep its lights on. EPA “interpretations” of the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts have become an outrageous usurpation of power that the Constitution says belongs exclusively to the Congress.

As a policy advisor to The Heartland Institute, a free market think tank, I recall how in 2012 its president, Joe Bast, submitted 16,000 signed petitions to Congress calling on it to “rein in the EPA.” At the time he noted that “Today’s EPA spends billions of dollars (approximately $9 billion in 2012) imposing senseless regulations. Compliance with its unnecessary rules costs hundreds of billions of dollars more.”

Heartland’s Science Director, Dr. Jay Lehr, said “EPA’s budget could safely be cut by 80 percent or more without endangering the environment or human health. Most of what EPA does today could be done better by state government agencies, many of which didn’t exist or had much less expertise back in 1970 when EPA was created.”

The EPA has declared virtually everything a pollutant including the carbon dioxide (CO2) that 320 million Americans exhale with every breath. It has pursued President Obama’s “war on coal” for six years with a disastrous effect on coal miners, those who work for coal-fired plants that produce electricity, and on consumers who are seeing their energy bills soar.

As Edwin D. Hill, the president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, noted in August, “The EPA’s plan, according to its own estimates, will require closing coal-fired plants over the next five years that generate between 41 and 49 gigawatts (49,000 megawatts) of electricity” and its plan would “result in the loss of some 52,000 permanent direct jobs in utilities, mining and rail, and at least another 100,000 jobs in related industries. High skill, middle-class jobs would be lost, falling heavily in rural communities that have few comparable employment opportunities.”

“The United States cannot lose more than 100 gigawatts of power in five years without severely compromising the reliability and safety of the electrical grid,” warned Hill.

In October the Institute for Energy Research criticized the EPA’s war on coal based on its Mercury and Air Toxics Rule and its Cross State Air Pollution Rule, noting that 72.7 gigawatts of electrical generating capacity have already, or are scheduled to retire. “That’s enough to reliably power 44.7 million homes, or every home in every state west of the Mississippi river, excluding Texas.” How widespread are the closures? There are now 37 states with projected power plant closures, up from 30 in 2011. The five hardest hit states are Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky, and Georgia.

If a foreign nation had attacked the U.S. in this fashion, we would be at war with it.

The EPA is engaged in a full-scale war on the U.S. economy as it ruthlessly forces coal-fired plants out of operation. This form of electricity production has been around since the industry began to serve the public in 1882 when Edison installed the world’s first generating plants on Pearl Street in New York City’s financial district. Moreover, the U.S. has huge reserves of coal making it an extremely affordable source of energy, available for centuries to come.

The EPA’s actions have been criticized by one of the nation’s leading liberal attorneys, Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, who has joined with Peabody Energy, the world’s largest private coal company, to criticize the “executive overreach” of the EPA’s proposed rule to regulate carbon emissions from existing power plants. He accused the agency of abusing statutory law, violating the Constitution’s Article I, Article II, the separations of powers, the Tenth and Fifth Amendments, and the agency’s general contempt for the law.

It is this contempt that can be found in virtually all of its efforts to exert power over every aspect of life in America from the air we breathe, the water we use, property rights, all forms of manufacturing, and, in general, everything that contributes to the economic security and strength of the nation.

That contempt is also revealed in the way the EPA spends its taxpayer funding. Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) released a report, “The Science of Splurging”, on December 2 in which he pointed to the $1,100,000 spent to pay the salaries of eight employees who were not working due to being placed on administrative leave, the $3,500,000 spent to fund “Planning for Economic and Fiscal Health” workshops around the nation, $1,500,000 annually to store out-of-date and unwanted publicans at an Ohio warehouse, and $700,000 to attempt to reduce methane emitted from pig flatulence in Thailand!  “After years of handing out blank checks in the form of omnibus appropriations bills and continuing resolutions,” said Sen. Flake, “it’s time for Congress to return to regular order and restore accountability at the EPA.”

Whether it is its alleged protection of the air or water, the only limits that have been placed on the EPA have been by the courts. Time and again the EPA has been admonished for over-stating or deliberately falsifying its justification to control every aspect of life in the nation, often in league with the Army Corps of Engineers.

If the Republican controlled Congress does not launch legislative action to control the EPA the consequences for Americans will continue to mount, putting them at risk of losing electricity, being deprived of implicit property rights, and driving up the cost of transportation by demanding auto manufacturers increase miles-per-gallon requirements at a time when there is now a worldwide glut of oil and the price of gasoline is dropping.

The United States has plenty of enemies in the world that want it to fail. It is insane that we harbor one as a federal agency.

© Alan Caruba, 2014

Say Merry Christmas - Vocal Carrie Rinderer and the American Christian Life United choir.................

H/T Old Dude

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

Where to?............................from Rico

This is what happens when you don't ask "where to" before swallowing the shop-worn Communist slogan "forward."

In America's case, Barry and the Democrats (C) version of "forward" is either 'half' or 'back to the 1960's.'
- At least for the middle class.

And for an entire nation?
- One Big Ass Mistake, America.

Dead Sea Dwarfs................

Travel to an adorable miniaturized version of the Dead Sea in Jordan. See people floating on one of the saltiest bodies of water in the world. The surface and shores are 427 metres below sea level, Earth's lowest elevation on land.

This is what happens........................from Rico

The shills and ignoranuses of the 'financial media' are doing their magic "it's because of falling oil" dance to explain today's global meltdown from Japan to Greece.

It is NOT oil.

Overnight the Bank of China tightened things up a bit. This is what happens when $80 billion of leveraged collateral is removed from the world's carry trade.

Compare the "risk" and the "no risk" assets.

A New Solid South Presents New Opportunities

“With Mary Landrieu’s ignominious exit, the Democrats will have lost their last senator in the Deep South. And that’s a good thing. They should write it off—because they don’t need it” – so says Michael Tomasky of The Daily Beast and I am not inclined to argue with him. As a child of the South I am excited to see the scourge of Liberalism being driven from my homeland creating opportunities for the region, and for the Republican Party.     (continue reading)