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When private equity came for trailer parks
2 hours ago
Thursday, 26 March 2009
The MSM dares not name.......from Rico
Our feckless MSM "dare not name" the true love & passion of the TOTUS (Teleprompter Of The US).
In fact, they barely covered Little Timmy Turbotax's "cash-for-trash plan" for us...
and they certainly did NOT do much justice to the 2nd Press Conference of The Obamessiah last night, SO I WILL!
NO, I did not watch it on the USSA's 'approved' boob-tube/telly, but accidentally heard some of it on the radio while searching for Radio Free America's clandestine broadcast from flyover country.
Apparently Obama's presentation lacked not only substance, but was missing the swimsuit and talent competition of any GOOD beauty pageant! But I MAY have missed the demonstration on how to properly pour catsup, I confess (well the visual would be hard to translate via radio).
There was NO detailed discussion of the Budget Obama proposes except that we "must invest" [translation-wildly spend YOUR money on Liberal Democratic Fantasies & Pipedreams; with no mention of his National Civilian Security Force to be funded and equipped at the same levels as the military...besides, you'll hardly notice them on the streets!]
It would have been kind of 'nice' to hear an explanation of "The One's" plans to overhaul the US Tax Code, too, but I guess we can just expect that the end-product will be to make an already progressive-confiscatory-oppressive tax code even worse.
Executive summary:
1. What was presented (what I caught, anyway) had more laughs than a rerun of a "Beavis & Butthead Moronothon!"
2. Cuba and Venezuela are now the envy of Washington DC.
3. We should accept the unicorn money that magically flows from the Obamessiah's ass
......HEY, LOOK! A BUNNY!!!!!
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
WTF?
Obama Administration Publicly Says Terrorism is An Unfair Word to Use and Scraps 'Global War on Terror' for 'Overseas Contingency Operation'
Published: March 25,2009 Letter to Editor
Barack Obama and his Homeland Security Director have taken political correctness to a frightening and disturbingly Orwellian level.
They now refuse to use the words terrorism or terrorist threats and instead are using the new Obama administration PC phrase "Man-Caused Disasters."
In a memo sent this week from the Defense Department's office of security to Pentagon staffers, members were told, "this administration prefers to avoid using the term 'Global War on Terror'. Please use 'Overseas Contingency Operation and instead of terrorism to use Man-Caused Disasters”
I guess the blowing up of the Twin Towers and thousands or men, women and children in them was only a 'man-made disaster' like a bus crash or an oil spill. I guess we would be using chauvinistic, political fear-mongering if we referred to the bombings of the crowded London subways, the streets of Madrid, a Hotel in India, as acts of terrorism. Heavens we don't want to hurt any feelings.
After all these are many of the same people Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder plans to release very soon out of the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention facility.
A house fire is a "man-caused disaster"; terrorism is pre-mediated, mass murder with malice of forethought. Come on people, let's get real.
H/T Paul N
Brown is a bust.....
U.K. Bond Auction Fails for First Time Since 2002. H/T Mike
Brown denies split over economy. Obamarx and Brown will bankrupt us all.
Sir Fred Goodwin attack: Bank Bosses Are Criminals group claims responsbility. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
News....
UK population must fall to 30m, says Porritt. Probably the first intelligent thing he has said.
The Bank of England and No.10 at war: We can't afford Budget spending spree, Governor tells Brown. Total Meltdown.
Public sector pay goes up as private workers suffer. We must cut the public sector.
Ready, set, blow: British steam car sets out to break 100-year-old land-speed record. Cool.
Car firms find the solution to stalling sales: We'll put up the price by £1,000. Not sure that is going to work.
Facebook could be monitored by the government. Is there anything they are not monitoring?
Barack Obama declares 'signs of progress' for US economy. Based on what?
Time Cameron's Tories tackled the real problem – the state, not the rich. The state must be reduced. It is hugely overstaffed.
Teenager paints 60ft phallus on roof of family home. Ha ha.
US prepared to 'do more' to fight Mexican drug cartels. Before it spills north.
Al Gore announces sequel to 'An Inconvenient Truth'. More fiction and fantasy.
Hugo Chavez calls Barack Obama 'a poor ignoramus'. Definitely the first intelligent thing he has ever said.
Rising threat of dirty bomb attack on UK. Hardly surprising given the government's incompetence.
Hopes of aid from new regime dashed as Robert Mugabe thugs grab land. The only solution is military.
'Great Escape' PoWs remember comrades... and boo 'silly' Steve McQueen. On a British bike.
The trillion dollar question. The mind boggles.
and finally: Some really long legs.....
H/T Liz B
15 Reasons Why Cars Are Better Than Women.....
1. Go means go, stop means stop, left means left, right means right. Nothing is implied.
2. It’s perfectly fine to have more than one.
3. The tyre bill is considerably less than a woman’s shoe bill.
4. Aside from the fuel tank, its weight does not change.
5. If you don’t like it anymore, you can sell it and get another. (Without going through hell)
6. If you take good care of it, it’ll look the same as the day you got it.
7. Too change it, you don’t have to talk to it, you just MODIFY it.
8. Even a LARGE heavy one like the Pontiac G8 GT, can look sexy. You can have fun inside it and no one will think you’re weird.
9. You can redress it with a new body kit for less than the cost of a wedding dress.
10. You can give it accessories whenever you feel like it, irrespective of birthdays, anniversaries, etc.
11. It never asks questions about it’s rear.
12. The airbags are not just for decoration, they save your life.
13. Regardless of the time of day, season, day of the month, it is ready to give you a ride when you want it.
14. Every year, it only asks for new oil, not jewellery.
15. Ever now and then, you’ll be able to drive a friend’s one, without any guilt.
Must See Video: Daniel Hannan MEP: 'The devalued Prime Minister of a devalued Government'
Brown gets trashed by Daniel Hannan in EU Parliament. you won't see this on the BBC.
H/Ts Lola, Old Dude & Casasquirrels
Why God could never get tenure at a university
He had only one major publication.
It was in Hebrew.
It had no references.
It wasn't published in a refereed journal.
Some doubt he even wrote it himself.
It may be true that he created the world, but what has he done since then?
His cooperative efforts have been quite limited.
The scientific community has had a hard time replicating his results.
He never applied to the Ethics Board for permission to use human subjects.
When one experiment went awry he tried to cover it up by drowning the subjects.
When subjects didn't behave as predicted, he deleted them from the sample.
He rarely came to calls, just told students to read the Book.
Some say he had his son teach the class.
He expelled his first two students for learning.
Although there were only ten requirements, most students failed his tests.
His office hours were infrequent and usually held on a mountaintop.
Written By G Schampel
H/T Larry T
The world by numbers....
1 million Britain's population in Roman times
6 million Britain's population around the time of the English civil war
47 million Britain's population in 1945
52,000 The number of tonnes of carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere every minute
267 The average number of births every minute worldwide; the average number of deaths per minute is 118
78 million The planet's annual population increase, a number roughly equivalent to the population of Germany
1 million The number of chimpanzees in Africa in 1900. Today, thanks to habitat loss and hunting, numbers have dropped to around 15,000
38.4 The median age in the UK rose from 34.1 years in 1971 to 38.4 in 2003 and is projected to reach 43.3 in 2031. (The median is the age that separates the oldest half of the population from the youngest.)
10 billion The number of chickens eaten by man worldwide every year
500 million The number of ducks eaten every year
1.3 billion The population of China
1.2 billion India's population
500 million The population of the EU
74 million The number of barrels of oil pumped daily across the planet; 15 million tonnes of coal are dug every day
9 Between 2010 and 2050, nine countries will account for half of the world's projected population increase: India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, the United States, the Democratic Republic of Congo, China, Bangladesh, Tanzania
• Sources: World Clock; Poodwaddle; UN Population Division
H/T DML
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
Missile Balloons for your Car.....
H/T Don
It's from a commercial for CH-9 in Kuala Lumpur but I cannot find the video.
Translating Scientific Reports......
The following list of phrases and their definitions might help you understand the mysterious language of science and medicine. These special phrases are also applicable to anyone reading a PhD dissertation or academic paper.
"IT HAS LONG BEEN KNOWN"... I didn't look up the original reference.
"A DEFINITE TREND IS EVIDENT"... These data are practically meaningless.
"WHILE IT HAS NOT BEEN POSSIBLE TO PROVIDE DEFINITE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS"... An unsuccessful experiment, but I still hope to get it published.
"THREE OF THE SAMPLES WERE CHOSEN FOR DETAILED STUDY"... The other results didn't make any sense.
"TYPICAL RESULTS ARE SHOWN"... This is the prettiest graph.
"THESE RESULTS WILL BE IN A SUBSEQUENT REPORT"... I might get around to this sometime, if pushed/funded.
"IN MY EXPERIENCE"... Once
"IN CASE AFTER CASE"... Twice
"IN A SERIES OF CASES"... Thrice
"IT IS BELIEVED THAT"... I think.sciencebad.jpg
"IT IS GENERALLY BELIEVED THAT"... A couple of others think so, too.
"CORRECT WITHIN AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE"... Wrong.
"ACCORD1NG TO STATISTICAL ANALYSIS"... Rumour has it.
"A STATISTICALLY-ORIENTED PROJECTION OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THESE FINDINGS"... A wild guess.
"A CAREFUL ANALYSIS OF OBTAINABLE DATA"... Three pages of notes were obliterated when I knocked over a glass of Mountain Dew.
"IT IS CLEAR THAT MUCH ADDITIONAL WORK WILL BE REQUIRED BEFORE A COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING OF THIS PHENOMENON OCCURS"... I don't understand it
"AFTER ADDITIONAL STUDY BY MY COLLEAGUES"... They don't understand it either.
"THANKS ARE DUE TO JOE BLOTZ FOR ASSISTANCE WITH THE EXPERIMENT AND TO CINDY ADAMS FOR VALUABLE DISCUSSIONS"... Mr. Blotz did the work and Ms. Adams explained to me what it meant.
"A HIGHLY SIGNIFICANT AREA FOR EXPLORATORY STUDY"... A totally useless topic selected by my committee.
H/T DML
This is not...........from Rico
The Euro has gained 7.7% against the US dollar since February. The weighted Dollar Index (vs. the Euro, Yen, Pound, C$, Swiss Franc and Swedish Krona) posted its biggest 1-day drop since 1971 on 3/18 after Ben Bernanke's announcement. [For quantitative easing read: a flood of dollars]
Some have called this the end of Rome-on-the-Potomac...the start of the debasement of the World's Reserve Currency.
Winston Churchill in Nov 1942 said it best, and might well have said this about the US Dollar today:
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
News....
The Britney Presidency Jules on the media muppet in the White House.
Obama Slams Churchill. A bit more on his insult to us Brits.
Obama Hacks Off France In Latest Foreign Policy Blunder. He is pissing everybody off.
The Big Takeover. And we are powerless.
Help Stop the Scandal at Our Lady's University. Someone else doesn't like Obamadisaster.
Top General: Next-Gen Bomber Ain't a Bomber at All. Sure looks like one.
Give us a £40k pay rise and we'll give up perks! Shameless MPs reveal 'solution' to expenses row. And they wonder why they are held in contempt.
Vulnerable patient left without food for 26 days was one of six who died after appalling NHS failures. Will heads roll? Not a chance.
Political row as top grammar school becomes the first to be placed into special measures despite 95% A-C GCSE results. F**k Ofsted
Stand up for the National Anthem! BBC's 'banal' song for England gets a panning. Which idiot thought this up.
Deflation expected to return to UK for first time in 50 years. Another nail in our economy's coffin.
Neglected Edwardian inventor 'made 1920s death ray'. Cool.
Anti-terror strategy highlights threat of small 'terrorist groups'. No s**t.
Barack Obama woos private investors to buy $1 trillion in toxic assets. They are called toxic for a reason.
Public sector hit as Britain prepares for deflation. It's bloated and needs to be cut back.
British soldiers in Iraq were betrayed by third-rate kit. The MoD should be held to account, but it won't be.
$2m bounty placed on heads of Mexican drug lords. Not high enough.
Kurdish funeral attack raises fear of escalating Iraqi violence. Our enemies know that Obama will cut and run.
Obama insists on Afghan exit strategy as US briefs NATO on new line. That will only encourage the Taleban.
and finally....
Top Gear team revs up for Majorca rally... and it looks like James May has finally pulled. Top Gear Totty.
The reason the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines squabble among themselves is that they don't speak the same language.
For example, take a simple phrase like, "Secure the building."
• The Army will put guards around the place.
• The Navy will turn out the lights and lock the doors.
• The Air Force will take out a 5-year lease with an option to buy.
• The Marines will kill everybody inside and make it a command post.
H/T Red Stick
Who needs a laptop!!
Alfred Sirleaf is an analog blogger. He take runs the “Daily News”, a news hut by the side of a major road in the middle of Monrovia. He started it a number of years ago, stating that he wanted to get news into the hands of those who couldn’t afford newspapers, in the language that they could understand.
Alfred serves as a reminder to the rest of us, that simple is often better, just because it works. The lack of electricity never throws him off. The lack of funding means he’s creative in ways that he recruits people from around the city and country to report news to him. He uses his cell phone as the major point of connection between him and the 10,000 (he says) that read his blackboard daily.
MORE HERE
H/T DML
VERY INTERESTING STUFF..........
In the 1400's a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have "the rule of thumb"
Many years ago in Scotland , a new game was invented. It was ruled "Gentlemen Only..Ladies Forbidden"...and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S . Treasury.
Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% (now get this...)
The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $ 16,400
The average number of people airborne over the U.S. in any given hour: 61,000
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later..
Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
A. Their birthplace
Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?
A. Obsession
Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
A. One thousand
Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?
A. All were invented by women.
Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
A. Honey
Q. Which day are there more collect calls than any other day of the year?
A. Father's Day
In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase......... "goodnight, sleep tight."
It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the honeymoon.
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts... So in old England , when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them "Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down."
It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"
Many years ago in England , pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim, or handle, of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.
At least 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow!
H/T Peter Gunn
Monday, 23 March 2009
Another Stupid Question....
The series 'The Mentalist' starts in the UK this week. Is it worth watching?
Question?
I need a netbook but which one? Am thinking the Samsung NC10 due to cost. I would like the new sony but it is stupidly expensive. Any suggestions?
I don't think a Blackberry will give me the utilities that I need.
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