Saturday, 5 February 2011
ARABIAN SEA (Feb. 2, 2011) A Sailor stands watch on the fantail of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) as bioluminescent organisms and aircraft on final approach light the night around her. The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group is deployed supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class James R. Evans)
H/T Marc
Scientific Discovery........
Queens University researchers have discovered the heaviest element yet known to science: Governmentium.
The new element, Governmentium (symbol=Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called pillocks. Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact.
A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete. Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2 to 6 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.
In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass. When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium (symbol=Ad), an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium, since it has half as many pillocks but twice as many morons.
H/T Rodney
SIGNS ON SYNAGOGUE BULLETIN BOARDS:
1. Under same management for over 5,763 years.
2. Don't give up. Moses was once a basket case.
3. What part of "Thou shalt not" don't you understand?
4 . Shul committees should be made up of three members, two of whom should be absent at every meeting.
5. Sign over the urinal in a bathroom at Hebrew University: "The future of the Jewish people is in your hands."
6. My mother is a typical Jewish mother. Once she was on jury duty. They sent her home. She insisted SHE was guilty.
7. Any time a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.
8. It was mealtime during a flight on El Al. "Would you like dinner?," the flight attendant asked Moshe, seated in front. "What are my choices?," Moshe asked. "Yes or no," she replied.
9. An elderly Jewish man is knocked down by a car and is brought to the local hospital. A pretty nurse tucks him into bed and says, "Mr. Gevarter, are you comfortable?"
Gevarter replies, "I make a nice living...."
10. A rabbi was opening his mail one morning. Taking a single sheet of paper from an envelope he found written on it only one word: "shmuck." At the next Friday night service, the Rabbi announced, "I have known many people who
have written letters and forgot to sign their names, but this week I received a letter from someone who signed his name .. and forgot to write a letter. "
H/T Amnon
News.............
GOP Poised to Win Senate
Is happiness a reasonable or worthy life goal?
Obama's Blocking Of New Power Plants Triggers Nationwide Blackouts
American Universities and the Fate of the Middle East
Hollywood’s Top 40
Hold the Applause: Revolutions like Egypt's most often end badly.
Britain facing 'unstoppable wave of home-grown suicide bombers' warns MI6
Named and shamed: The European human rights judges wrecking British law
Axing speed cameras has caused road deaths to FALL
Underground world hints at China's coming crisis
Japan 'should develop nuclear weapons to defend itself'
Burma names career soldier as president
Mubarak's Hired Thugs: Rural Poor Paid to Attack Opposition Supporters
Firemen called to rescue beer
German freighter sinks Indian frigate
Four arrested after Bangladesh girl 'lashed to death'
Column One: Israel and Arab democracy
and finally........
When Putin met Reagan H/T DML
"If Only The Islamists Hadn't Lied To Me"............from Dan Friedman
There are times when some conservatives exhibit the same willful intellectual naiveté as liberals, and sound just as thumb-sucking dumb. For a classic example, I urge you to have a look at today’s Wall St. Journal editorial, “Hamas, the Brotherhood and Egypt.” At once a tortured whitewash of Bush’s costly (costly to Israel) mistakes in Gaza and a downright funny plan for Egypt’s transition to “a viable democratic future” that could be taken for satire. It is not to be missed.
Can't. Won't.............from Rico
Read the following in this context:
"What can't be paid back, won't."
You can safely ignore the National Debt. It is reported on a cash-basis, and it is only $1.4 trillion Dollars.
What you should NOT ignore are the unreported unfunded National obligations that are more tha $100 trillion Dollars!
This is exactly WHY the US has been debasing its currency...it beats defaulting [for Democrats (C) read: we can't pay this back, so we won't]. Better to 'pay back' loans on nickels or pennies on the Dollar.
In two years we'll be 'celebrating' 100 years of the Federal Reserve (the FED). Yippee! Let's ignore the dabate over 'policy' this or 'policy' that for a moment, and consider not what has been SAID but rather what has been DONE!
The monetary rate of decay under the FED since 1913 looks like this (you debate and decide if this is arithmetic or geometric; the end result is the same):
- The Dollar lost 50% of its value in the first 33 years of the FED from 1913 to 1946,
- That 1946 Dollar lost 50% of its value in the following 24 years.
- By 1970, the value of the 1970 dollar halved again (yes, it dropped another 50%) in the following 9 years.
- The 1979 Dollar took 14 years to decline-drop-tank another 50% (give due credit to Volcker).
Before terminal MEGO sets in (my eyes glaze over) let's illustrate this in a simpler way. In a tangible way. Let's call this "A Tale of Two $50's."
- Once upon a time, there were two men. It was 1914 and they were both rich.
-- One had ten freshly printed $50 Dollar bills...the 'new' Federal Reserve Notes. They were pretty, but redeemable for nothing. He hid the notes under the floor of his house.
-- The other man had ten $50 Dollar bills...gold notes. They were also pretty, but they were redeemable for roughly 2.5 ounces of gold. He redeemed them and hid the gold under the floor of his house.
- Skipping the whole nightmare of FDR and Soetoro-Obama and fast forwarding to today. It is 2011.
-- The heirs to the first man's house find ten $50 Dollar bills. They are still redeemable for nothing. They are 'worth' less than a nickel-on-the-dollar from 1914 to 2011. They all celebrate by eating from the Dollar Menu at MacDonald's. Whee.
-- The heirs to the second man's house find 2.5 ounces of gold. That gold is worth over $3,000 present-day Dollars. They decide to keep the gold. It might be worth a lot one day.
This is devaluation. The death of fiat (paper) money.
What would YOU do?
Friday, 4 February 2011
Updates on Egypt Protests
A theoretical essay, with video from Cairo: "Democratic Realpolitik and Egypt."
And previously: "Egypt Crisis Intensifies — Suleiman Could Take Power as Washington Plans for Mubarak Exit," and "Christiane Amanpour Interviews Hosni Mubarak."
Also, at the link, video footage from yesterday, with a content warning, since it's quite graphic: "Police Van Running Over Protesters in Cairo."
News.........
Attention recruiters ...
Eco-bulbs linked to breast cancer
Useful Idiot and Racist Meghan McCain
I Have Attained Civility...
Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Feb. 3rd
How inflation is turning breakfast into a luxury item
US seizes sports piracy websites before Super Bowl
Public servant sacked for Googling 'knockers' at home
Extraterrestrials now live among us in China and in U.S.A., newspapers report
Who Tossed Egypt (to the Wolves)?
Solar Thermal Energy Development: BrightSource Israel
Why wine drinking and monogamy go together
Get Internet Access When Your Government Shuts It Down
Muslim Brotherhoods Penetration of the Obama Administration
What About Global Warming?
U.S. Forest Service takes political correctness to a new level-Only in America
No Easy Fixes as Internet Runs Out of Addresses
Reliable forecast under the weather
Egypt: The American Debate Has Gone Stark, Raving Crazy
House Republicans move to slash domestic programs
Kennedy link to the Cape's wild turkey?
Obama Theatens Climate Veto
British Police Afraid of Local Kids, Soon to Come to the USA?
Apple iPad enters the House of Lords
Defence Minister Liam Fox slams Germany and Italy for failing to do their bit in war in Afghanistan
Barack Obama may rue the day he decided to abandon Mubarak
Amazon rainforest 'could start contributing to global warming after droughts'
Cyber attacks: from Facebook to nuclear weapons
Iran could produce two nuclear bombs within two years
Revolution Is Bad for Business: No Quick Fix for Arab Youth's Economic Woes
Myanmar picks junta's PM as new president
and finally......
An obvious answer to our electric dreams
by little Jimmy May
The Part They Never Show You in Cartoons
The 10 biggest degenerate Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks
An Egyptian Writes.........by Dan Friedman
“It is quite remarkable for people to be talking about the prospect for a democratic transition at this moment. A population that was convinced just two months ago that sharks in the Red Sea were implanted by the Israeli Intelligence Services is hardly at a stage of creating a liberal democracy in Egypt. ... Until someone actually starts addressing the real issues and stop the chatterbox of clichés on democracy, things will not get better at all. It will only get worse.”
I would normally find unexpected Middle East events like the Egyptian uprising stimulating and clarifying, but frankly, I can’t make heads or tails of this one and haven’t drawn any meaningful conclusions yet. Both as an American and a Zionist, I’ve been rendered speechless. However, I’ve been reading a lot stuff from people who aren't and I found a piece in The American Thinker written by an Egyptian student that’s very useful.
Thursday, 3 February 2011
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