Theo Spark

Thursday, 5 May 2011

Video: Battalion Landing Team 3/8 Marines wrap up deployment

Late News.........from DJ Elliott

New Plan. Let’s Just Tax Drivers by the Mile!

Tornadoes Absolutely Caused by Global Warming. Or Cooling. Or Something.

Priceless

No Time to Second Guess

Fido

USS Michael Murphy

MP warns of “underground” U.S. bases in Iraq after U.S. withdrawal

Report highlights alleged Iran force's Al-Qaeda links

The NYT tries to revive the “crazy vet” meme

And then there were none...

Bottoms Up!

Hottest drink around campus is the OBL - 2 shots and a splash of water!

submitted by those barfly babes at GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD

This week’s contest is dedicated to Navy Seal Team Six – The guys who actually pulled off the mission.

Council News:
This week, The Grouch, Maggie’s Notebook and Capitalist Preservation took advantage of WoW's generous offer of link love and earned honorable mention status.

You can, too. Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

Simply e-mail a link at rmill2k@msn.com with the subject heading ‘Honorable mention’ no later than Monday 6PM PST to be considered for our honorable mention category, and return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week.

It’s a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members. while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?
So, let’s see what we have this week….

Council Submissions

The Colossus of Rhodey – Progressive hypocrisy and the death of bin Laden
New Zeal – Bill Fletcher, Jr. – Leading Socialist Calls for Mass Actions, Law Breaking, to Re-Elect Obama in 2012
Simply Jews – Roger Cohen: a man who rarely misses an opportunity to miss a point
Joshuapundit-Pakistan, A Bridge Too Far
The Political Commentator – Mea maxima culpa! Osama bin Laden, Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter
Rhymes With Right – Why America Cares About The Royal Wedding
GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Sweet!
Right Truth – The Celebrations: What don’t you see?
The Noisy Room – The Move to Undocument the Documented
Snapped Shot – A Profile in Sunset
VA Right - Why Killing Bin Laden Was Obama’s Only Viable Option – and How He Plans to Score Political Points With the Pictures
The Razor – Relief at the Death of Osama Bin Laden
Bookworm Room – A rebuttal to Jesse Kornbluth on the subject of Andrew Sullivan
The Glittering Eye -Not Compromise

Honorable Mentions

The Grouch – Donald Trump – Doing the Job the Mainstream Media and the GOP Establishment Won’t Do!
Maggie’s Notebook – Sharp Shift in Fed – Fundamental Chage – Danger Looming: Blame Fed or Congress?
Capitalist Preservation – I’ve got your damned hope and change. And I’m full up to here with it.

Non-Council Submissions

Foreign Policy – More Than 1 Billion People Are Hungry in the World submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
Atlas Shrugs – Mitch Daniels “Honored” by Notorious Jew-Hating, Supremacist Organization AAI submitted by New Zeal
IsreallyCool – The Chaser’s Take on Green’s BDS BS submitted by Simply Jews
Iowahawk – American Pride is Back Out of the Closet! submitted by Joshuapundit
Big Peace -Pakistan Was Holding Bin-Laden submitted by The Political Commentator
Belmont Club – The End of The Trail? submitted by Rhymes with Right
Danger Room/Wired – Unfollowed: How a (Possible) Social Network Spy Came Undone submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
Big Journalism -MSM Uses Palin’s Own Children as Political Weapons Against Her submitted by Right Truth
Big Government/Pamela Geller –Killing Yesterday’s Man submitted by The Noisy Room
Atlas Shrugs – Would Bush Have Washed Bin Laden’s Body? submitted by Snapped Shot
The Mental Recession – Liberal Policies Lose on a Day America Wins submitted by VA Right
SocyBerty.com –White House Insider: Obama Hesitated – Panetta Issued Order to Kill Osama Bin Laden submitted by The Razor
Ace of Spades HQ-Howard Fineman: Obama Watched A TV Show So He’s Pretty Awesome submitted by Bookworm Room
BlackFive – Squandering Our Victory submitted by The Glittering Eye
Christopher Hitchens – Death of a Madman submitted by The Watcher
Melanie Phillips – A Marriage Made In Hell submitted by The Watcher

Enjoy!

Cartoon Round Up....

Photo of Bin Laden's body........

H/T Filippo

Bonus Babe........

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

Video: Red Sox Fan Gets Blindsided While Running On Field

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News........

Emirati wife suing husband for £7 million for failing to fulfil her needs

Bell hell

JFK is A-OK, But Nix Osama's Pics?

Most Wanted Terrorist List Crisis Escalates!

Bin Laden’s daughter: He was taken alive, then shot in front of the family

Bin Laden had 500 Euros, two phone numbers sewn into his clothing

When "the good idea fairy" strikes

Froggy's seal of disapproval

Iraq’s Shiite Sadr Trend expresses fear that America might exploit Bin Laden’s killing for terrorist acts.

Photos from the Bin Laden Compound

Last veteran of WW1 Claude Choules dies

Commandos told to kill Osama bin Laden because of fears he was wearing suicide vest

Osama bin Laden dead: Blackout during raid on bin Laden compound

Muammar Gaddafi facing war crimes arrest warrant

Giant asteroid heading close to Earth

Top 10 'inventions' that changed the world

Haiti cholera outbreak linked to peacekeepers, UN admits

Russian man steals half a kilometre of railway track

Benjamin Netanyahu: Palestinian pact 'a great victory for terrorism'

Libya: Col Gaddafi's forces adopt tactics of mass terror

Few Facts, Lots of Imagination: Bin Laden's Death Fuels Conspiracy Theories

History.........from Rico

History does not exactly repeat itself.
That said, it DOES rhyme pretty well.

Video: Ultimate Dog Tease

H/T Rico

Thursday Totty........

Osama's Last Facebook Post

Wednesday, 4 May 2011

First Photos From Bin Laden Raid Released!

This is real, as best as I can tell: "Reuters Releases Pictures From Osama Bin Laden Raid!"

Check the link for updates. It can't be long now until Osama Bin Laden's death pictures are released. The demand (and pressure) is just too great.

Obama Will Not Release bin Laden Photos

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

President Barack Obama said in a taped interview with “60 Minutes” correspondent Steve Kroft that he has decided not to release photos of Osama bin Laden taken after he was killed, CBS News reports.
-- Politico.com

Of course he won't do that. He WANTS the speculation to continue regarding whether bin Laden was "really" killed or not. He does NOT WANT to give Americans any closure, to know that the perpetrator of 9/11 is truly dead.

Though unconfirmed, Special Operations insiders believe that the mission was already under way before Obama was informed of it in order to ensure that this "high value target" was not permitted to get away. True or not, why would Obama, as asserted, have to "sleep on it" to make the decision to proceed? The truth of what occurred will not be known until Obama is long gone out of office and surely not while he is campaigning to be reelected.

Bonus Bedtime Angel............

Alan Dershowitz Tries The Wrong Case..............by Dan Friedman

Alan Dershowitz, Obama supporter and America’s favorite “defender of Israel,” has just issued his ruling on “targeted assassinations” in the wake of Obama’s Osama hit, and uses it to make a point about the Jewish state.

“So let the world stop applying a double standard to Israel and let it start judging the merits and demerits of military tactics such as targeted killing. On balance, targeted killing, when used prudently against proper military targets, can be an effective, lawful, and moral tool in the war against terrorism.”

There’s no problem with that, except Dershowitz, as he does often, is harvesting low hanging fruit while ducking the thorny issue of the propriety of rendition, waterboarding and other “harsh interrogation” techniques which, years after Obama banned them, made the targeted killing in question possible.

In the past, Dershowitz has taken an equivocating position on the matter, creating an improbable, corny Hollywood “ticking-bomb” scenario in which he might condone “torture,” or least understand its use. Of course, even that tentative mumbo jumbo came before Obama was president. In fact, the context was an “advice column” to the Democrats warning his party not be seen as national security wimps in the upcoming 2008 election. Now that Dershowitz’s man has occupied the White House and the President’s first clear-cut political victory is the product of outlawed Bush-era interrogations, I wonder what, if anything, the liberal legal eagle will have to say – leaving Israel aside.

Dan Friedman
NYC

Flooding in Tennessee............

H/T Doverthere who writes. Pics taken 3May over Memphis,TN. Expecting more flooding than the 1934 flood. Moving downstream to Greenville, Vicksburg and Natchez, MS where the worst flooding since 1927 is expected on or about 17May.

Banging.............from Rico

Spot precious metals (bullion) prices USED to be considered a price discovery system of the market. No longer, now it is widely seen as something that can be "gamed."

Take a look at the second consecutive day of "banging the close" in the silver spot markets. When the market is essentially 'asleep' about 6-7 pm Eastern Time, there is almost NO trading volume and trading is very thin.
- A motivated seller with no volume or other traders to deal with can 'take down' the price in very short order.
This used to be 'illegal' and people used to go to jail for it. Not any more. Not with the gangsters running Wall Street and Washington.

Now it is seen as a good way to make quick money (or "doing God's work" as lloyd Blankfein once famously put it...I'd actually phrase it as carrying water for Blythe masters and Jamie Dimon, myself).

So what?

This what.

I see a huge bifurcation coming between the notional (paper) spot bullion prices and the prices of physical bullion.
- Paper spot could be, say $25 for silver while the cost to hold the physical stuff could be $75.

Far fetched?
- As I write this, COMEX (a.k.a. CRIMEX) spot silver is around $40.98/oz, and the retail cost to buy a 1oz Silver Eagle is well over 'spot' at $$48.40. This is why the premium to NAV (net asset value), that is to say the extra you pay to own a unit of Eric Sprott's PSLV (Physical Silver Trust, backed by physical bullion) is running around 14% versus the i-Shares SLV (paper-backed, there is NO physical inventory) that JP Morgue and Blythe are peddling.

Supply-demand.
- Silver, physical silver, is in a classic supply-demand situation right now. There is more demand for it (think industrial, think your flat screen TV or I-phone) than there is supply of it.
- There is an infinite supply of paper.

Pick one. The red pill, or the blue pill.

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