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Friday, 31 December 2010

Katy Perry and Jimmy Stewart Like You've Never Seen Them!

See, "Katy Perry Hottest Woman of 2010 — Or, Well, On Second Thought..."

And double delicious bonus: "
Jimmy Stewart? Who knew!"

Via American Power.

Almost 750,000 Welfare Claimants Refused Work or Gave Up Jobs to Claim Benefits

Report: "Working the System: 750,000 British Welfare Recipients Refuse Employment."

Updates throughout the day at American Power.

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

ART OF THE AMERICAN SOLDIER



More than 15,000 paintings and sketches created by over 1,300 American soldiers in the line of duty - in curatorial storage in Washington, D.C. for decades - these powerful works of art will be on display at the National Constitution Center from September 24, 2010 through March 31, 2011. The exhibition, featuring a never-before-seen collection, was created by the Center in partnership with the U.S. Army Center of Military History and the National Museum of the United States Army. Following its world debut at the Center, the exhibition will begin a national tour.


Official site: Art of the American Soldier.

Big Country, Heather C. Englehart - Iraq, 2004

Prairie Ski Resort..........


H/T Pete H

Video: Dennis Miller - The Big Speech



H/T Canis 61

Video: Extreme Russian Vacation in Chernobyl



H/T Marc

Pale ALE................from Rico

Our 'new' normal will be BIFLATION:
- Debt-based assets (like homes) will continue to lose value.* The 'bottom' has not yet been reached. Some are saying we have 30-50% to fall yet. Look at the attached chart and decide for yourself...
- Essential goods (like food and energy) will continue to rise.

*In Japan over the last twenty years, real estate has lost 70% of its value (inflation-adjusted).

Pale ALE.
- No, not the kind where "time, gentlemen" is called, but Assets-Liabilities=Equity. Students of accounting know this well.- Home ownership for many has become a liability and not an asset. The same is becoming the case for Federal Reserve Notes (aka Dollars). They are NOT a 'safe haven' when you look at the attached chart showing the downward movement of the Dollar over time. Is Alexander Hamilton smiling from his grave? John Maynard Keynes surely must be spinning in his.

Take away?
- Real estate and Dollars may actually not be the best assets to hold. Think hard commodities, and skills. The new reality is that farmers and gold miners are more of a natural aristocracy....let's say meritocracy than the paper-pushers on Wall Street or in the FED or Treasury.




Video: Merry Christmas from Bethlehem



H/T DoubleTapper

Video: The story of the evolving B-1 Bomber....



H/T Marc

Pic Dump.........







H/T Paul B

Video: Denise Milani Teenage Dream

Cartoon Round Up....





Photo Gallery........


the BRIGADE: Photos of the Year

News..........

California's Anarcho-Tyranny

The UK inflation genie is out of the bottle

R. Lee Ermey Uses His Toys for Tots Appearance to Unload on “Socialist” Obama…

Croatian daily runs only good news for a day

Iran president auctioning old car for charity

Drive-thru sex toy shop offers privacy in Alabama

Reporting Islam: Fair, Balanced – and Accurate

Vatican sets up watchdog to combat money laundering

All of Earth's Water in a Single Sphere

Eurozone 'has 80% chance of losing the single currency in next decade

Britain on New Year terror alert


Barack Obama's Hawaii holiday 'costs at least £1 million'

Chinese military aircraft more aggressive since September, Japan claims

Ivory Coast president refuses phone call from Barack Obama

Iraqi Christians killed in series of Baghdad attacks

China makes Skype illegal

Chinese mistress posts nude pictures of government official on web

Italy bans shops from handing out plastic bags

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




Video: Landing in Iraq - Top Gear, Middle East Special

Video: Racing Through Iraq - Top Gear, Middle East Special

Video: Roman Rallying - Top Gear, Middle East Special

Thursday, 30 December 2010

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

Feminist Resistance

Just sharing something I found when writing my latest post on the #MooreandMe feminists.

Here's a 1994 flashback from the New York Times, "
Mrs. Bobbitt is Symbol of Feminist Resistance":

To the Editor:

Like most of the American mass media, you have framed the Lorena L. Bobbitt affair as an issue of penile mutilation. You ignore the social context of Lorena Bobbitt's actions.

Prof. Catharine MacKinnon of the University of Michigan and the writer Andrea Dworkin long ago pointed to the institution of marriage as a legal cover for the act of rape and the permanent humiliation of women. Lorena Bobbitt's life has been a poignant instance of that nightmare, which elicited a bold and courageous act of feminist self-defense.

As one who recently returned from a conference of feminist activists in Europe, I can assure readers that the Lorena Bobbitt case has galvanized the women's movement worldwide in a way the Anita Hill case never did. No feminist is advocating emasculation as the weapon of first choice. And some women question the political prudence of "sociosexual vigilantism." But whatever the judgment of America's patriarchal legal system, Lorena Bobbitt is for most feminists no criminal. She is instead a symbol of innovative resistance against gender oppression everywhere ....

STEPHANIE MORRIS

Sydney, Australia, Jan. 12, 1994
Hmm, feminist innovation.

Yeah. Sure.

Syria can do no wrong

...you gotta give BHO credit, he realized that this move was so ludicrous that he did it while the US Congress was in recess (thereby removing the otherwise needed congressional approval for ambassadorship).

The US pulled the ambassador six years ago after Syria killed the Lebanese Premier Rafik Hariri. But that's not all. They are actively aiding Hezbollah in taking over Lebanon and waging war against Israel (smuggling weapons, missiles, and fighters). They imported terrorists into Iraq to kill US troops. They are actively rebuilding and updating their huge, horrible chemical weapon arsenal...



Read the rest at DoubleTapper



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Cartoon Round Up....





Long Live Israel

Chassis Time.........

Video: FAILS WORLD : Electric Train

Video: Snake Robot in motion



H/T Bill


H/T Paul B

Movie Review: Tron: Legacy (2010)



Short Review: Sure it is brainless, plotless eye candy, but it is well done brainless, plotless eye candy.

Full Review Here

Video: SaBo-FX - Alright in 2011

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












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

When the wind sucks

The Four Questions Every Liberal Must Be Asked


How Not to Help Blacks Find Employment

Traver Off Target

The Rule of Sebelius

'Iceberg Cowboy' Finds Archway in Middle of Ocean

Why Nobel laureate Obama will not cry for Binayak Sen

Driving dogs, babies with bongs: Florida tops odd news in 2010

£300,000: Cost of each crime solved by Blunkett's Bobbies

Stuffed! The 30,000-calorie Christmas feast eaten by the world's fattest mum in ONE two-hour sitting

German Inflation hits 1.1 percent in 2010

NASA's new 'smart' foam bra boosts your cleavage if you're 'hot'!

Red meat has a calming effect


Taliban in Pakistan get new start for new year

If Christians Were Treated Like Muslims

Time, gentlemen: An elegy on the British pub, by our obituaries editor

A Salute to a Brave and Modest Nation

Taliban border between Afghanistan and Pakistan 'is impossible to seal'

Entire Australian town evacuated by helicopter after worst rains in a decade

Italy's debt costs approach red zone


Iraq advisers seeks a third of Gulf Keystone oil wealth

Australian man 'discovered missing wife on Antiques Roadshow' after 28 years

China preparing for armed conflict 'in every direction'

South American drug gangs funding al-Qaeda terrorists

Laurent Gbagbo threatens to attack immigrants if troops are sent to Ivory Coast

Iran nuclear weapon is further off, Israel says

The Eve of Secession: What the Future Might Hold for Southern Sudan

A Stockholm Conspiracy: The Underbelly of Ukrainian Gas Dealings

U.S. Congress Asked to Pre-Approve Apache Block III Sale to India

Video: Jeb Corliss flying the crack

Thursday Totty.......




The lamest generation................from Rico

The GREATEST generation was followed by the LAMEST generation. Smug, arrogant, childish and child-like. Irresponsible.
- As Nasty Pelosi once said "it's for the children!" She oughtta know. Irresponsibility on Botox.

Now we have the "boomers" beginning to retire.
- The median retirement account these mental midgets have accumulated is $2,000.
- 1 in 3 Americans has $0 [zero] dollars in a retirement account....not ONE rapidly eroding Dollar! Groovy, man. Far out.

Is it any wonder that this electorate turned over the Nation's purse-strings by electing a Democratic Congress in 2006? Cool, huh? The debt accumulated by the 110th and 111th Congress under Reid-Pelosi has dwarfed that of the 100 previous Congresses. Irresponsibility writ large.

Neither Banks nor Nations are TBTF [too big to fail]. Repeat after me: Weimar, Zimbabwe, Argentina...