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

Children of the Climate Scare Growing Up Badly

Which Israeli will Europe and Arabs Target Next?

Law allowing Keystone pipeline in Nebraska struck down

Airlines warned about possible shoe bomb threat

Woman arrested for recording cop stop

Union Members Indicted for Burning Down Quaker Church

Obama’s Syria Policy Fails. Again.

EU Funds 'radical anti-Israel Organisations'

Obama’s Iran policy wins key point: Saudis drop its lead antagonist Prince Bandar

Glow-in-the-dark reindeer: Herders coating antlers in fluorescent paint to prevent deadly car accidents

China, Pakistan Flesh Out New ‘Economic Corridor’

The US has bullied our banks into handing over a billion dollars

The great British garage sale as troops leave Afghanistan

Gibraltar row: Spanish warship disrupts British Navy training

Monkeys hunting Wild Boar................................

H/T Doverthere

Is this the reason behind the rash of banker suicides? (Video)...from TPC

Video interview that speculates on the reason why there has been a rash of banker suicides!

Watch at The Political Commentator here.

Introducing the WAVE concept truck

The Walmart Advanced Vehicle Experience, or WAVE, concept truck is the latest in our fleet efficiency program. The one-of-a-kind prototype offers a whole package of firsts. The tractor has very advanced aerodynamics and is powered by a prototype advanced turbine-powered, range-extending series hybrid powertrain. The trailer is made almost exclusively with carbon fiber, saving around 4,000 pounds which can then be used to carry more freight.




H/T Doverthere

H/T Pete H

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

Confidenti​al -photo from Capitol in Washington D.C.

When she was questioned about this picture, she said:
"WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE"!

H/T Shelly

How to save yourself if you're alone and choking.

H/T Shelly

Bodacious Devin Brugman in a Black Bikini on Miami Beach

She's got a 32dd rack and she ain't shy about showing off those honkers, sheesh!

Here: "'A Bikini A Day' Founder Devin Brugman Blasts Bodacious Bikini in Miami Beach."

Related? Yes, it's ON.........................from Rico

These things (and more) are related, and yes, it's now ON like Donkey Kong.

In 2013 the FED bought 150 percent more US paper (debt) than ALL foreigners combined.

China just DUMPED a bnch of US paper (debt).

Having grossly mishandled its own financial resources, the US Government is launching a "push" to mishandle the remaining financial resources of its subjects...er, citizens and the propaganda machine is going full Goebbels retard pushing MyRA [read: making Your Retirement Account into My Retirement Account by stealing your cash).

Well, te US is insolvent you know [for Keynesians and "progressives" read: broke, el busto] and badly needs more money whether borrowed, begged, or stolen.....

This is NOT going to end well.

"The broken wall, the burning roof and tower

And Agamemnon dead."

W.B. Yeats, Leda and the Swan

Everyman Should Have a Rifle....................

So I sit and write and ponder, while the house is deaf and dumb,
Seeing visions “over yonder” of the war I know must come.
In the corner – not a vision – but a sign for coming days
Stand a box of ammunition and a rifle in green baize.
And in this, the living present, let the word go through the land,
Every tradesman, clerk and peasant should have these two things at hand. 
No – no ranting song is needed, and no meeting, flag or fuss -
In the future, still unheeded, shall the spirit come to us!
Without feathers, drum or riot on the day that is to be,
We shall march down, very quite, to our stations by the sea.
While the bitter parties stifle every voice that warns of war,
Every man should own a rifle and have cartridges in store!
Henry Lawson (1907)

H/T Pete H

The Great American Recovery................................from Rico

The MSM, the Regime, and even Yellanke of the FED still talk about 'recovery' in the very best tradition of Soviet falsehood.

- Bad is Good, Down is Up, Slavery is Freedom, Ignorance is Strength.

Da, tovarisch, this is SOME recovery America is having.

- Let's call it the Great American Recovery why don't we? If the lie is big enough, and repeated often enough, it will be believed if the sheeple are stupid enough.

And, in all fairness to the backwards-minded "progressives" you COULD say these are all indicators of a recovery:

- An UNEMPLOYMENT RECOVERY: Unemployment. 23.2 percent per ShadowStats, not the claimed 'offishul' 6.6 (U.6) percent.

- A FOOD STAMP RECOVERY: With 47,6 million (and climbing) now on Food Stamps, America has more people on Food Stamps than Spain has people. If you are on Food Stamps you win a "free" ObamaPhone with "free" airtime as a bonus.

- A HOUSING RECOVERY: Mortgage applications are now back to pre-bubble 1990's levels and have actually been pretty 'flat' for over three years now.

- A NATIONAL DEBT RECOVERY: We'll talk about how that has doubled under Barry LNU in some other rant.

- A FED RECOVERY: So QEternity hasn't really helped anyone off Wall Street, but the FED deserves honorable mention for making the purchasing power of a 1913 penny the same as that for a 2014 Dollar. Color me impressed!

Apart from claiming that there is a 'recovery' there is only one thing left to seal the deal, and cement America's future [think Chicago, think cement overshoes] and that is for the Liar-in-Chief to say:

"If you LIKE your recovery, you can KEEP your recovery."

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

Obama Will Leave Us a More Dangerous World.......................from Dan Friedman

Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 2/19/2014

 

The Impending Clash between Iran and Saudi Arabia

 

By Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. Halevi      

 

Iran recently marked 35 years since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that brought to power Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The cleric’s radical religious teachings, which are based on government in the hands of mullahs and a foreign policy of exporting the Islamic Revolution, still define Iranian policy today.

 

Khomeini set the tone for Iranian-Saudi relations in the first decade of the Islamic Republic, challenging the legitimacy of the Saudi regime to serve as the protector of the Muslim holy sites in Mecca and Medina. In 1987, Khomeini declared that Mecca was in the hands of a “band of heretics” and characterized the Saudis as “vile and ungodly Wahhabis.” For the current Iranian leadership, Khomeini’s remarks remain authoritative and frame the way Iran views Saudi Arabia.

 

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

What Happens When Irresponsible Scientists Scare Innumerate Policy Makers into Panic Actions

CDR Salamander​: Retro Wednesday

Zimmerman Flees Miami, 'Bounty' on His Head - Killer of Trayvon Martin was chased by angry crowd, says TMZ

Why Dems Are Willing to Flout the Law in Texas 2014 Election

Obama Hires Mideast Advisor Who Quit '08 Campaign over Hamas Meetings

Fourth Georgia hospital closes due to Obamacare payment cuts

Century To Look To China For Local Jobs

EPA bans wood-burni​ng stoves

Navy Official: China Training for 'Short Sharp War' with Japan

2 former Navy SEALs found dead aboard ship at center of 'Captain Phillips' saga

Obama Will Ensure Global Warming Kills You

China’s Military Trains for War Against Japan

The Honest, Plain-Spok​en Jew...........................from Dan Friedman

[You can be sure Obama doesn’t have this man in mind when he speaks of his fondness for Israel and the Jews. df]

Minister Hits Out over Reports US Pushing for Building Freeze

Minister of Housing Uri Ariel says US needs to 'stop and think' about its failures throughout Middle East before pressuring Israel.

By Tova Dvorin

Uri Ariel

Housing and Construction Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) sharply criticized the US Wednesday, over reports that Israel's closest ally is demanding another building freeze in Judea and Samaria (Shomron).

"[A building freeze] is a redundant, deluded idea," Ariel stated to Arutz Sheva. The Minister clarified that his statements are based on past mistakes; Ariel pointed out that the last building freeze - which Netanyahu declared in 2009 - not only did not advance peace with the Palestinian Authority (PA) in any way but may have worsened the situation.

R.I.N.O. Season! - Wild Bill

Tired of Republicans betraying their oath and their constituents? Bill tells how to solve the problem.

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

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

H/T Jeff

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

Venezuela Goes Bust - International Socialists Suddenly Go Quiet

Navy Flexes Muscle, Tows Retired Aircraft Carrier Toward North Korea

CBO report: Minimum wage hike could cost 500,000 jobs

The Long Iran Stall Begins Again

Blow People Up? What a Surprise!

Academia Legitimizes Extremist Speakers

Walmart Tax to help low wage workers

Saberpoint​: Of Course We're Racists -- Deal With It

Administra​tion reportedly seeks prisoner swap with Taliban to free American POW

The other 'loud music shooting' the media won't tell you about

NJ salt shortage continues

Scientists Build a Better Potato - ... or at least one that seems resistant to blight

Fractured Fairy Tales: Democrats Have A Plan To Neutralize Obamacare

Split within Al Qaeda Over Syrian Rebels Grows

Ros-Lehtinen: Nicolas Maduro is Becoming Worse Than Chavez

The Shrinking Imperialist President

Ukraine Chaos Raises Fears of Similar Violence in Russia

The Obama Cult--Will you drink the Kool Aid?

New high-tech IDF Bashan Division on Golan. Syrian mortar shells miss visiting Israel leaders

Iran 'May Send Forces Into Pakistan'

Kim Jong-un out-spending extravagant father

Wednesday Double-Header

Obama on Mount Rushmore! (Photo)...from TPC

Photo showing the rendering for Barack Obama to have his face among some of our greatest Americans at Mt. Rushmore!

At The Political Commentator here.

H/T Jeff

Wednesday Wenches....................

H/T Paul B

Kate Upton Blasting Bazongas in Zero Gravity Conditions Wearing Tiny Gold Bikini for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition

It's all good.

Here: "Kate Upton for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2014."

You've just never seen her honkers like this before, man.

Behind the Scenes of Kate Upton's Zero Gravity Beauty Photo Shoot! | Feb 2014

H/T Doverthere

GoPro: Red Bull Stratos - The Full Story

October 14, 2012, Felix Baumgartner ascended more than 24 miles above Earth's surface to the edge of space in a stratospheric balloon. Millions across the globe watched as he opened the door of the capsule, stepped off the platform, and broke the speed of sound while free falling safely back to Earth. Felix set three world records that day—and inspired us all to reach beyond the limits of our own realities, and reimagine our potential to achieve the incredible.

GoPro was honored to be a part of this epic achievement, with seven HERO2 cameras documenting every moment. From the airless freeze of outer space, to the record-breaking free fall and momentous return to ground—see it all through Felix's eyes as captured by GoPro, and experience this incredible mission like never before. No one gets you closer than this.



H/T HJB

Gets interesting at 1:40 min

Lawsuit - Wild Bill

Bill finally hits back against malicious internet attackers.

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

Overdue News...............

Editors Note: Due to the loss of a good friend last week and my mother being seriously ill I am a bit behind.

Princes William And Harry Get To Work - Socialist Icon Chris Smith Gets To Shirk

Rule 5 in the kitchen

Stryker crews find ways to defeat armored enemy

‘The Monuments Men’ Shows How America Saved Paintings While Letting Jews Die

Monster asteroid whizzes by Earth

Will Supporters of the Benghazi Killers Immigrate to the US?

Barbara Walters talks about her vibrator

Victoria Beckham gets rid of 'purchased​' breasts

Kate Upton did her SI Swimsuit photo shoot in zero gravity

Former U.S. congressma​n arrested in Zimbabwe

Obama rolls out plan for better truck mpg

Food Prices Skyrocketi​ng Since 2011 While Wages Stagnant

Source of Stonehenge​'s Rocks Pinpointed - And it raises questions about how the bluestones got to Stonehenge

Secession movement in New York pushes for Big Apple to split from Upstate

The anti-Zionist challenge to the Jewish estabishment

Rieder: Clinton-Le​winsky story won't go away

Police Beat, Stun Deaf Man After Confusing Sign Language With Threatenin​g Gestures

Flying Bankers?.........................from Rico

The "crash" of 1929 generated stories about a slew of Bankers-Investors jumping from skyscrapers onto Wall Street below, but this was mainly urban myth.

- There may only have been TWO actual jumpers in 1929, despite the <12> drop of the Dow on "Black Tuesday" which was preceeded by a <13> drop on Monday, and a drop of <11> the prior Thursday.

So what does the recent UNRELATED (?) rash of Banker deaths (the number is over 20 now) mean? We already have 'matched' the 1929 number of two flying bankers, but with many more casualties this time around.

- It's just 'coincidence' right? It couldn't have anything at all to do with the rampant fraud and corruption in the western banking system (think LIBOR-rigging, but in the context of the latest 'problems' involving FOREX-rigging).

- The 'connection' of JPM, DB (Deutsche Bank, NOT dead bankers), the financial industry at large or the FOREX manipulations coming to light have nothing to do with anything...so the good Sgt Schulz (aka 'Schulzie') kindly informs me....nor does the fact that some of these people were close colleagues and worked together.

Connect some of these dots:

11 Jan - missing - David Bird, WSJ commodities reporter

26 Jan - dead, cause unknown - Tom Dickerson, Swiss Re AG

- dead - W. Broeksuit, Sr Mgr Deutsche Bank

27 Jan - dead - Karl Slym, Managing Director Tata Motors

28 Jan - dead, 'fell' from roof JPM's london HQ - Gabriel McGee VP

29 Jan - dead - Mike Dueker, Russell Investment

3 Feb - dead, cause unknown - Ryan Crane, Executive Director JPM Global Equities Group

6 Feb - dead, suicide by nail-gun - Richard Talley CEO America Title

18 Feb - dead, jumped from roof JPM's Asia HG - FNU Li Forex trader

Loose ends being 'taken care of' to stymie an investigation and avoid any 'whistle blowing' or 'rolling-over' to provide evidence for a reduced sentence?

- Or merely foreknowledge of a bigger problem ahead than the one faced in 1929?

Warming Us Up to Globalism................

Zo sees through the greenhouse gases that the leftists are pootin' at us. The ongoing agenda to destroy capitalism, and give power to the state, which will lead to people being sold on a One World Government.

Obama Wants to Waste a Billion on "Climate Change"

 

By Alan Caruba

Barack Obama will be remembered for many things during his two terms in office, but high on the list, right after lying to everyone about everything, will be his determination to waste billions of taxpayer dollars on every Green scheme from solar and wind energy to electric cars, and now on “climate change.”

He is calling for a billion-dollar climate change fund in his forthcoming budget, due out next month. As reported in The Wall Street Journal, the fund “would be spent on researching the projected effects of climate change and helping Americans prepare for them, including with new technology and infrastructure, according to the White House.

We don’t need any research and we don’t need any new technology. The National Weather Service has hugely expensive computers that enable it to predict what the weather will be anywhere in the U.S. with some measure of accuracy for up to three or four days. After that, it gets fuzzy. What will the weather be next week? Well, maybe a bit warmer or a bit colder.

As for the effects of weather events, we have centuries of knowledge regarding this. We know what happens after a blizzard or a hurricane, a drought or a flood.

When a huge storm like Sandy hit the East Coast, we had FEMA that was supposed to come in and help the victims. The federal government also came up with a couple of million for the States most affected, but it is still a problem that local first responders and utilities have to address most directly.

Obama was out in California to show his concern for the drought-stricken farmers and the administration is speeding delivery of $100 million of aid to livestock farmers, $15 million for areas hit hardest, and $60 million for California food banks to help the poor. Rep. Kevin McCarthy(R-CA) pointed out that the drought has been “exacerbated by federal and state regulations” including an environmental rule that placed “the well-being of fish…ahead of the well-being” of communities.

Like Rep. McCarthy, those on the scene point out that the drought is in part the result of the failure to restore the water flow from California’s water-heavy north to farmers in the central and south. House Bill 3964 does that, but only if the Senate will stop holding it up. Rep. McCarthy is joined by Rep. Devin Nunes explaining that California’s system of aqueducts and storage tanks was designed long ago to take advantage of rain and mountain runoff from wet years and store it for use in dry years.

As Investors.com pointed out, “Environmental special interests managed to dismantle the system by diverting water meant for farms to pet projects, such as saving delta smelt, a baitfish. That move forced the flushing of three million acre-feet of water originally slated for the Central Valley into the ocean over the past five years.”

Obama made no mention of that, but it is an example of how, in the name of climate change billions are wasted or lost, such as when the outcry over Spotted Owls caused a vast portion of the Northwest’s timber industry was decimated by the false claim that they were “endangered.”

All this traces back to the founding of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988 by two United Nations organizations, the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environmental Program. The IPCC was given a formal blessing by the UN General Assembly through Resolution 43/53.

And what has the IPCC done? It has championed the utterly false claim that carbon dioxide (CO2) is responsible for warming the Earth and that all the industries and other human activities that create CO2 emissions had to reduce them in order to save the Earth. In 2007 the IPCC and Al Gore would share a Nobel Peace Prize. As an organization and as an individual these two have proved to be the among the greatest liars on planet Earth.

Dr. Craig D. Idso, PhD, is the founder and chairman of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change. He is an advisor to The Heartland Institute and, with Dr. Robert M. Carter and Dr. S. Fred Singer, authored the 2011 study, “Climate Change Reconsidered”, for the entertainingly named NIPCC—Not the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Published by The Heartland Institute, a free market think tank that has led the effort to expose the IPCC since 2009, sponsoring eight international conferences, the report was updated in 2013 and a new update is due in March.

Writing in The Hill on January 30, Dr. Idso said “the President’s concerns for the planet are based upon flawed and speculative science; and his policy prescription is a recipe for failure” noting that “literally thousands of scientific studies have produced findings that run counter to his view of future climate.”

“As just one example, and a damning one at that, all of the computer models upon which his vision is based failed to predict the current plateau (the cooling cycle) in global temperature that has continued for the past 16 years. That the Earth has not warmed significantly during this period, despite an 8 percent increase in atmospheric CO2, is a major indictment of the model’s credibility in predicting future climate, as well as the President’s assertion that debate on this topic is ‘settled’.”

“The taxation or regulation of CO2 emissions is an unnecessary and detrimental policy option that should be shunned,” said Dr. Idso. Unfortunately for Americans, that is precisely the policy being driven by Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency, along with the Department of the Interior and other elements of the government.

So the trip to California with its promise of more million spent when, in fact, the Green policies of that State have caused the loss of the Central lands that produce a major portion of the nation’s food stocks, reveals how utterly corrupt Obama’s climate-related policies have been since he took office in 2009.

Billions of taxpayer dollars have been squandered by the crony capitalism that is the driving force behind the IPCC’s and U.S. demands for the reduction of CO2 emissions.

There is climate change and it has been going on for 4.5 billion years on planet Earth. It has everything to do with the Sun, the oceans, volcanic activity and other natural factors. It has nothing to do with the planet’s human population.

What is profoundly disturbing is the deliberate political agenda behind the President’s lies and Secretary of State John Kerry’s irrational belief that climate change is the world’s “most fearsome” weapon of mass destruction.

© Alan Caruba, 2014

Dr. Seuss, George Washington and Barack Obama (Humor)...from TPC

Two political posters that look at the management and leadership style of Barack Obama as he winds his way through the minefield of incompetence, lies, leadership failures and scandal that he and his Democrat cronies have laid for themselves!

At The Political Commentator here.

"Obama's Lust For Control Intensifie​s Daily"..........................from Dan Friedman

h/t Jared Silverman, Esq

 

 

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE             

February 17, 2014

The United States of Decline

America unravels at an increasingly dizzying pace.

By Deroy Murdock

America is unraveling at a stunning speed and to a staggering degree. This decline is breathtaking, and the prognosis is dim.

For starters, Obama now rules by decree. Reportedly for the 27th time, he has changed the rules of Obamacare singlehandedly, with neither congressional approval nor even ceremonial resolutions to limit his actions. Obama needs no such frivolities.

“That’s the good thing about being president,” Obama joked on February 10. “I can do whatever I want.” In an especially bitter irony, Obama uttered these despicable words while guiding French president François Hollande through Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson — a key architect of America’s foundation of limited government.

Tuesday Totty..................

SI Swimsuit 2014-On Sale Feb 18th

The BAFTA's

London, England Coming soon to US television are the Oscar's, but first here's my take on the host of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards which took place in London on Sunday... About half-way through the BAFTA’s last night, Steve Coogan paid homage to the host Stephen Fry, who, he said, “turns the job of an MC into an art form”. This is a sentiment with which I concur wholeheartedly. Stephen Fry gave us a masterclass in running a high profile event and let’s face it, there isn’t anything bigger in the UK film industry. Fry was funny, self-deprecating, humble and gracious. His humour hit a high note when he described one of the female co-presenters as “so Swedish , that she arrived in a flat-pack” and continued when he describing Leonardo Di Caprio as having lupine characteristics, a reference to the American star’s leading role in the Wolf of Wall Street. Doing the rounds on social media is the term “grammar Police”. This refers sarcastically to those who express disapproval of the incorrect usage of conjunctions and words such as “literally”. An American or two, overstepping the mark, incurred his wrath and the audience was suitably amused. Fry’s use of language is unsurpassed. His magnificent outburst about disrobing and stepping in to a bath of asses milk like Cleopatra in Carry On Cleo, was anachronistic on three levels – by epoch, gender and physique and his introduction of a female co-presenter as utterly xxxx, utterly yyyy and utterly zzzz is a case of anaphora. Topping both of these was his opening description of himself as “humbled, honoured and in the best sense of the word, paid” a perfect use of that well-known figure of speech, a paraprosdokian. JJ

The Duke...................

H/T Doverthere

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

The Secret Sex War Against Women - Wild Bill

The liberal perversion of sex is the real war against women. Bill exposes it here.

The Sickle of Liberty.......................................from Rico

Willaim Banzai captures the image of America's "President's Day" perfectly this year, as the current pResident furiously 'hammers' the Sickle of Liberty.

Bloody. damned. communists.

Will Bitcoin survive five years?

This article presents the results of a poll that asked the following question: 'Will Bitcoin Be a Viable Alternative Currency in Five Years?' 

And the survey says...

Find out at HAS here.

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

Meet Missy.......................from Rico

Meet "Missy"...she is a hoarder.

I could not help but laugh when I saw this, for you see...Louie-the-dog is a hoarder too.

- He has bones-chews-toys stashed all over the place. Everywhere except in his toy baskets that I keep for him in the living room, the den, the porch...yes, he is spoiled for choice.

Unlike Missy's 'Mom' I tend NOT to move the furniture, so he can keep hiding his precious stuff and 'saving' it for later...at least until he runs out of room for it under the sofa, futon, cabinets, etc.

What can I say? Louie is a rescue dog, and he often reminds me that when he was a pup on the run he only had one toy...and that was a stick.