Tuesday - July 14, 2009

Crowder On Health Care

Dammit, I should have had this up yesterday. I’ve got 150 new emails in the inbox, egads. So, a day late, a dollar short, as usual.

This runs about 20:30 ... so it had better be good.

Posted by Drew458     on 07/14/2009 at 10:10 PM   
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Doing poorly

Bowling went to hell tonight. We won the first game handily, and I bowled pretty well. Then my foot gave out, and I went downhill from there. We lost the 2nd game, and the 3rd. By the 3rd game I was barely hobbliing around. Damn it.

I started getting pain in my right heel after bowling around the end of May, beginning of June. By mid June it was lasting for several days afterwords. I figured out that it’s plantar fasciitis. Ok, that’s a self diagnosis, but I have all the symptoms, so I’m pretty sure I’m right. I’m doing the wrap the arch thing, the roll on the ball thing, and for the past week I’ve been using arch support inserts on all my footwear. I thought I had it licked, until tonight. Halfway through the 2nd game it felt like my ankle was grinding around on gravel; I swear I could hear the joint crunching. Not cool. So that’s been keeping me occupied lately, and explains some of the lack of posting. I find I can only sit in front of the PC for maybe 20 minutes at a time. Maybe I need a better computer chair too.

Anyway, tomorrow I have to get out to Pennsylvania first thing to buy a couple pounds of powder. And maybe some primers, although $32 per case (1000) seems awfully expensive. OTOH, $32/K is better than Not Available At Any Price, which has been the situation around here for too long. Now that I’ve got the RCBS lube-a-matic II lubricator/sizer set up for Doc, we’re going to trade components. I’ll help him set up his RL550 press (no, it’s not a RL550B, it’s the original 550), and trade him primers and powder for bullets and brass, and we’ll share the lubing and reloading duties. Part of that estate haul was a 3 gallon bucket full of 145gr cast SWC .38s and more than 1000 empty .38Spl cases, but they need to be lubed and then loaded. 4gr of Hodgdon Universal will push them to around 950fps, and should provide just the right amount of pressure for proper accuracy. So every other box of ammo will be mine, nice plastic box included too, for a money cost of $4.25 per box. Which is about $12 less than commercial .38 ammo goes for, IF you can even find any to buy. Plus we can shoot right in his back yard, so we can load 10, shoot 5 over the chrony and 5 for accuracy, and adjust things as needed.  But all that fun will be on Thursday. Tomorrow, as soon as I get back from the powder shop, I’ve got to go to the dentist for a filling. Double Plus Fun Good.  I am SO looking forward to that.

WTF? I just flipped the TV past the All Star baseball game. And in the booth, between the Play By Play and the Color guy, was Barack Hussein Obama. Crap, now he’s taking over sports narration too? WTF? Sure, first pitch, fine. That’s tradition. Then go away. We will be seeing him out on the boat with Jim Bob catching bass next, on the fishin’ channel? Replacement goalie for the Red Wings?

Posted by Drew458     on 07/14/2009 at 09:44 PM   
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CIA drew up plans to assassinate al-Qaeda leaders, Cheney kept mum, and the F~!!#n libs are PO’d

Well screw the bastards.  God how I HATE some of the dems mentioned in this article. Woo-freeken- hoo.  Someone kept a secret.

Let the Dems know and so does the enemy.

Hey you Trotsky loving ,tree hugging, traitorous swine Liberal left libtard gas bags in power.  I really want you ALL to stop breathing right this minute!

I see NOTHING wrong with what the CIA planned or what Cheney kept from Congress.  Those asswipes might be as great a danger to the USA as the Taliban.

The CIA drew up secret plans for an undercover team to assassinate key al-Qaeda figures around the world, it has been claimed.

By Alex Spillius in Washington
Source is The Telegraph

The agency is said to have spent time planning and possibly training operatives for the mission in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
A small unit examined the potential for killing al-Qaeda members, despite the fact Gerald Ford banned assassinations following CIA abuses in Latin America in the 1970s, according to former intelligence officials.

Advocates of the plan wanted to create co-ordinated teams of CIA agents and special forces troops to hunt down terrorist leaders.
Details of the scheme are said to have been withheld from Congress on the orders of former vice president Dick Cheney.
“It was straight out of the movies,” one ex-official told the Wall Street Journal. “It was like: Let’s kill them all.”

The CIA is said to have been acting on a 2001 presidential legal finding, which authorised the agency to pursue such efforts. The initiative never became fully operational and according to one former official met with scepticism from George W Bush.

But it was not ruled out completely until Leon Panetta, the new CIA director appointed by President Barack Obama, learned of it last month.
“We are not commenting on the substance of the effort,” said George Little, a spokesman for the CIA, adding that “a candid dialogue with Congress is very important to the director… and the agency”.
But Democrats in Congress have expressed fury that the intended programme was never revealed.

Dianne Feinstein, chairman of the senate intelligence committee, said: “We were kept in the dark. That’s something that should never, ever happen again.”
She said that Mr Panetta had informed her committee of the programme at a closed hearing in late June when he also disclosed that Mr Cheney had ordered officials not to brief Congress.
Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate judiciary committee, said: “I think it’s impossible to just leave it lay when you have something like this.”

Oh right. Feinstein and that total phony bastard Leahy. Two absolute paragons of virtue.

But with many Democrats and human right groups maintaining pressure, the controversy has refused to go away.

Eliminate both groups and the controversy will go away.

Charles Schumer, Democratic senator for New York, said: “Where there are egregious violations, you can’t just brush them under the rug.”

Oh YES you can! 

Having trouble making a link to that article above but it comes from The Telegraph.

Now then ....  All that and another article on the CIA brought me to this cartoon. And it’s a good one.

Toon and article are from The Independent.

The Big Question: What’s gone wrong at the CIA, and should it be abolished?

By Rupert Cornwell

Tuesday, 14 July 2009

Almost from its inception in 1947, at the start of the Cold War, the CIA has made news

Why are we asking this now?

The CIA is currently embroiled in two controversies that go to the heart of the problems surrounding the world’s largest intelligence agency. It is accused of keeping Congress in the dark about a secret post-9/11 project, on the orders of the former vice-president Dick Cheney and probably in violation of the law. Meanwhile the Justice Department is moving towards a criminal investigation of whether CIA operatives illegally tortured captured terrorist suspects. A rule of thumb about an intelligence service might be: the less you hear about it, the better it’s probably doing its job. Instead, the CIA seems to be eternally in the headlines.

But hasn’t that always been the case?

Indeed. Almost from its inception in 1947, at the start of the Cold War, the agency has made news. In 1953, it staged the Operation Ajax coup that overthrew the democratically-elected government of Iran (with repercussions that continue to this day). In 1961 came the humiliating failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba, the most spectacular of many unavailing efforts by the CIA to get rid of Fidel Castro.

After other abuses were revealed, including the agency’s tangential involvement in Watergate, the agency’s sins were subjected to an unprecedented public investigation by the Church Committee, under Senator Frank Church of Idaho, in the mid-1970s. But that did not prevent further scandals, notably the 1985/86 Iran-Contra affair, in which the CIA had an important role.

Oh right. Frank Church. That silly looking pile of shit. I was sooooo happy when he croaked his last. I hope it was painful. Him and that fat loud mouthed Bela fat face Abzug.  She was even worse looking then Church. Mealy mouthed bastards both.

So why doesn’t the CIA work better?

One reason is the historic fragmentation of US intelligence operations. At the last count, 16 separate government agencies were involved in intelligence. Of them, the CIA has always been the most important, but formally only primus inter pares. The consequence was bureaucratic infighting that severely strained relations with the Pentagon and with the FBI in particular. The inability of the CIA and the FBI to share information was one reason why 9/11 went undetected, and although the Intelligence Reform Act, passed by Congress in 2004, was supposed to address that, it only did so up to a point.

SEE THE REST HERE

See the link for the rest of the article. It really isn’t bad.

Posted by peiper     on 07/14/2009 at 11:13 AM   
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I did a previous post before receiving another three newspapers, The result of which is this ……

Even the liberal sometimes left , The TIMES of London, has claimed that the forces fighting overseas are not being fully supported and the govt. has shortchanged the military.

All the papers today making the same charge although I haven’t seen the far left Trotsky Guardian, nor do I want to. I’m sure they must have a different take.
OK, maybe I should Google them and see before I make that claim.

Anyway ... this very telling cartoon say as much as words.

THE MAIL

Littlejohn’s lead headline reads;

THEY’RE PAYING THE BLOOD PRICE OF PUTTING WELFARE BEFORE WARFARE.

Here’s an excerpt from his excellent column in today’s Mail.

LITTLEJOHN
The Mail
14 July

Nobody really knows what they’re fighting for any more, other than their fierce loyalty to their mates and their regiment.
Post 9/11, we thought we knew the clear objectives of the invasion of Afghanistan. It was to obliterate the Taliban and smash the Al Qaeda training camps, which were churning out terrorists to attack the West.

That seemed a noble and achievable task, even though anyone who has studied history, or even read the Flashman novels, knew it was fraught with danger and potential disaster.

Now what? The Taliban is back and Al Qaeda flourishes across the border in the badlands of Pakistan, where the coalition fears to tread. We’re told that our troops are there to support Afghanistan’s dubious democracy and defeat the international heroin trade.

We are led to believe that it’s a kind of triumph that Afghan women are free not to wear the burka, their former symbol of oppression, even as the burka becomes a common sight on the streets of Britain - which we are invited to celebrate as a symbol of our liberal democracy.
Go figure.

If that really is what it was all about, it would have been better simply to have let the Americans carpet-bomb the place back to the Stone Age than sacrifice a single British soldier.

Brown has never shown much enthusiasm for the military and has always been reluctant to make proper provision for the defence of the realm - slashing spending; scrapping historic regiments; allowing married quarters to become slums; and condemning wounded servicemen to be treated in civilian hospitals, where they have been abused by Muslim orderlies.

THE REST IS HERE

We Americans just don’t know because it wouldn’t be reported, what the Brits are going through and what an uphill battle their military is fighting in order to get the gear they need and the troops needed to continue. The PM is sending another 700 and that’s ONLY TEMPORARY. They’ve asked for two thousand but nobody is listening. Meanwhile, the body count mounts.

Posted by peiper     on 07/14/2009 at 10:10 AM   
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JOURNAL OF ONE OF MANY VERY BRAVE BATTLING BRITS IN HARMS WAY. THIS ONE DIDN’T MAKE IT.

Greeting us on the front page of the morning Telegraph was an almost full page photo of Lt. Evison, along with a journal he was keeping.

I feel very bad for the casualties they are taking.  True, Americans may have lost more but then we have a larger population to draw on.  Doesn’t lessen the loss most of us feel for all of them. They are ALL TOO YOUNG.

One of the pressing issues over here and it is approaching a scandalous level, is the charge (supported by the late Lt. Evison here) that Brit troops are NOT being given the proper military support in weapons and armour.  In fact, an article only yesterday suggests that British troops have been given vehicles that have already been REJECTED by the US Military as not up to the task.

The suggestion btw, that Brit troops are given short shrift when it comes to equipment is not a new one.
I have been reading that for at least a year.  Returning veterans have spoken with awe in regard to what Americans have to fight with, and have begged for same.

It is further charged that the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has made cuts in the military budget that have brought this sorry state of affairs about.
I’m not close enough to that to know if it’s true or political rhetoric by his opposition.  But the papers do report a budget cut for the army so I would imagine it is true.  Which I personally think put the blood of fallen Brits all over the hands of those responsible.

Obviously I have not posted the journal here in full.  I have just taken cuts from it.
I urge my fellow Americans to take a minute to read it. In fact I urge everyone to do so. 

Lieutenant Mark Evison, who died in May from wounds received in Afghanistan, kept a remarkable journal - published here for the first time - about the harsh realities of fighting in Helmand.

21 April
I have been trying to work out exactly what is and what is not here. This is harder than it seems. Paperwork trails which tend to disappear are commonplace. As it stands I have a lack of radios, water, food and medical equipment. This with manpower is what these missions lack. It is disgraceful to send a platoon into a very dangerous area with two weeks’ water and food and one team medics pack. Injuries will be sustained which I will not be able to treat and deaths could occur which could have been stopped. We are walking on a tightrope and from what it seems here are likely to fall unless drastic measures are undertaken.

The ANA are an interesting bunch. They earn $200 a month, compared to what they could do if they farmed poppies, $4,000 a month. Many of them fight for blood feuds with the Taliban who have killed family members. All they want to do is kill Taliban and it will be interesting how they deal with being contacted on the ground. Currently they seem rather blasé. They will happily leave the PB [patrol base] without helmet or body armour. They came with various weapon types – Ak 47s [assault rifles], M 16s [rifles], etc as well as what looks like a couple of bagfuls of RPGs [rocket propelled grenades] – could be interesting.

The first casualty. Yesterday morning at 10.48 Sgt Fasfous an MFC [mortar fire controller] was on patrol with an OMLT [operational mentor and liaison team] in a joint patrol with an ANA [Afghanistan National Army] North of Gereskh. The call sign was contacted and unfortunately he was killed instantly as well as one interpreter. A captain in the Light Dragoons was seriously injured and extracted by MIRT [medical instant response team] to Bastion.
Life is fragile and out here it feels like it can be removed in an instant. It almost makes life even more valuable and shows the fragility that many in the West I believe do not understand.

There were now just 7 bods plus myself stuck on the wrong side of the canal. We had to make the decision just to go for it. With a rapid fire from the Platoon we sprinted down the bank, through the canal, back up the friendly bank and then tried to push back into the PB. More luck than anything else saw the platoon safely back behind sturdy walls, laughing at the contact we had just been in. For me it is still the fear of making a wrong decision which sits heavily on my mind. I am responsible for every person within this PB and I fear that we will not always be as lucky as we were today. At least today I proved to myself that I will not freeze the next time I get shot at. I do not expect this to be in the distant future.

The flies are uncontrollable. As I write this there are approximately 10 crawling over my legs and an unknown amount swarming over my head. Amazingly once they have disappeared in the early evening they are replaced by another of life’s annoying creatures, the mosquito. They seem to be able to infiltrate any clothing and get into mosquito nets like effective bank robbers. They then spend the next few hours eating their hearts out much to the annoyance of the body lying below.

(Mark was fatally wounded by a single bullet in his shoulder during an early patrol and ambush on 9 May. He commanded his men back to safety, and lost consciousness from bleeding within an hour. He never regained consciousness).
© Margaret Evison 2009

LT. EVISON’S JOURNAL

Posted by peiper     on 07/14/2009 at 06:07 AM   
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A series of idiotic ideas have been detailed in a book, History’s Worst Inventions.

I do not agree that the Beta system was idiotic at all, and don’t think it belongs on this list of bad inventions.
However, the rest are certainly noteworthy and may well deserve that application.

History’s worst inventions listed

Published: 8:25AM BST 14 Jul 2009

The Parachute Jacket, invented in 1912, was demonstrated by Franz Reichelt who jumped from the Eiffel Tower. He fell to his death

They include a wicker chair spaceship and an asbestos tablecloth. Other useless inventions included anti-tank dogs during the Second World War when the Russians attempted to counter the might of the German Army’s tanks.

The dogs, fitted with explosives, would be starved before battles and trained to search for food under vehicles, where they would then explode.

However, dogs often ran towards their own lines, blowing up tanks on their own side, according to the Sun.

The Parachute Jacket, invented in 1912, was demonstrated by Franz Reichelt who jumped from the Eiffel Tower. He fell to his death.

The Wicker Chair Spaceship from 1500 was dreamed up by Chinese official Wan Hoo who tried to fly to the moon using 47 large rockets strapped to his wicker chair. It resulted in a huge explosion.

In the 19th Century Dr Charles-Edouard Brown-Sequard injected himself with the testes of guinea pigs and dogs to stave off old age but it didn’t work.

In the 1970s Sony, the technology giant, lost billions of pounds when their failed Betamax video format was overtaken by the release of VHS a year later.

History’s Worst Inventions by Eric Chaline, published by New Holland

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The rush to arms since President Obama’s election.  Right to carry in TN.

I’m a bit behind on the news from home and only saw this, this very morning.
I also understand a right to carry law was passed in Tennessee.

Guns in Memphis

Jay Hill, owner of the Classic Arms Gun Store in Memphis, Tennessee, explains the rush to arms since President Obama’s election.

SOURCE

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   Monday - July 13, 2009

A different, darker kind of gun porn

Watching Horatio and his Sunglasses Of Justice solve another amazing crime tonight on TV’s CSI Miami.

I’d like to give them a tougher case to solve.



A older man wearing tropical safari clothes is walking his dog by a lake in the calm early morning, a few joggers nearby. It’s in a park, and the nearest Miami high rises are over a quarter mile away. Suddenly he keels over, shot through the heart, dead. People rush to his aid, call 911, the police show up. All the witnesses saw him get shot and fall, but nobody heard the shot. Camera cuts to a color saturated pan & scan of several Miami babes comforting the poor doggy.

Forensics finds no casings at the scene. The bullet went straight through him, and at first they can’t even find that. Back at the morgue lab, they determine that it was a 9mm or .38 caliber bullet, but that’s it. No powder burns, no bullet fragments, nothing. Except his insides are blown to smithereens.

Through some amazing TV cop show technology, they use magic pond sonar and find the bullet in the lake. Woo hoo, problems solved, all they have to do is match the rifling striations to the universal bad guy’s gun database and they’ve got their killer.

Except this bullet has no rifling marks on it at all. And it turns out to be a .357” diameter Speer 180 grain Match TMJ silhouette bullet ... which leads them down the whole handloader / gun competition road ... and they find this bullet is sold by the millions, and that lead goes nowhere. And all the background checks on all the marksmen come up empty; there isn’t a guy amongst them with a criminal past more extensive than a speeding ticket.

Ha! says our gun-wise BMEWS readers. Obviously a sabot round. True, except that there aren’t any sabots made that take .38 pistol bullets.

It was literally a roll-your-own sabot. Back in the late 19th century, bullets were cast from lead. When you shoot soft lead bullets at higher pressures and velocities, the lead tends to smear off inside the barrel. This lowers accuracy and leaves you a mess to clean up. Modern bullets are clad in “gilding metal” which is a kind of brass. This keeps the lead from rubbing off in the barrel no matter how high the pressure or velocity is. But between raw lead and today’s “jacketed” bullets, there was a short era when the lead bullet was hand jacketed, with a wrap of lubricated paper. This was called a paper patch or a paper jacket. It worked then, and it works now. But it’s a very rare thing, as it takes a lot of work, a lot of practice, and some genuine skill to get it right.

Back in those days a paper patched bullet was seated over a charge of black powder. The patch kept the very soft lead from contacting the steel barrel, and also did a decent job of sweeping away the powder fouling. The slower pressure rise of the igniting black powder squeezed the bullet and its patch tightly against the rifling.

To make a paper patch, you cut a small strip of onionskin or cigarette paper, dampen it, and stretch it around the shank of the bullet exactly two wraps. When it dries, the paper shrinks to a very tight fit. When you fire the gun, the paper is engraved and cut by the rifling. It passes on the spin to the bullet, and the paper falls away in toasted shreds at the muzzle as the bullet leaves the gun.

But to be accurate, the bullet had to be a precise bit smaller than the bore diameter, about 0.002”. In a modern firearm using smokeless powder, the bullet doesn’t “bump up” under pressure, so beneath the paper patch it needs to be just a hair larger, equal to or 0.001” larger than bore diameter. This holds true whether that bullet is pure soft lead, any of the harder lead alloys, or even a gilding metal jacketed bullet.

Around 1905 the noted German firearms genius Wilhelm Brenneke designed a rifle cartridge called the 9.3x64. It was a very high performance “beltless magnum”, equal to the .375H&H that the English brought out a few years later, just like the “new" beltless magnums for sale today. [there is nothing really new in the gun world. Everything was actually invented 100 years ago] A 9.3mm bullet is .366” in diameter, but is fired in a rifle that has a .355” bore. This was a “medium” cartridge designed for African safaris. It fits in a standard 98 Mauser bolt action rifle.

50 or more years of use will wear away a thou or two from the bore of a rifle. So this very modern bullet would be a perfect old school paper patch fit in a old school rifle that had very modern performance. To commit an act that is nearly as old as humanity.

The 9.3x64 can push a 286 grain bullet to over 2600 feet per second. It would have no trouble at all pushing a 180 grain bullet to over 3200 feet per second [71gr H322 will do it nicely, with full load density and full combustion], and at that velocity, this particular bullet will have the same remaining velocity at 500 yards as it would if fired from a .357 Magnum pistol at 10 yards. The bullet itself is very tough - it’s designed to shoot iron targets actually - so it can withstand velocities quite a bit greater than other normal pistol bullets can.

Yes, it was his ex-wife. She offed him from her high rise on the other side of the park. He had it coming you know. She gave him the best 30 years of her life, and he dumped her for some Mandingo chippy back on in Africa. Nobody heard the shot from her building because she used a suppressor and waited to take the shot until a jet was coming in for a landing directly over their building. She was born in South Africa, raised on the Veldt [yeah yeah, and her husband was a total boer], no stranger to guns or long range shooting. While the 9.3x64 may have considerable recoil in a 7lb lightweight rifle, in a sturdy old time safari rifle of 9.5lbs the recoil is manageable by just about anyone, being just a couple pounds more than that delivered by a .30-06.

Good luck figuring this one out Horatio.




Maybe I should lay off the late night leftover Thai food. It’s not like I figure out the nearly perfect murder every night!

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Cat out of bag, running

Former Vice President Al Gore declared that the Congressional climate bill will help bring about “global governance.”

“I bring you good news from the U.S., “Gore said on July 7, 2009 in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by UK Times.

“Just two weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed the Waxman-Markey climate bill,” Gore said, noting it was “very much a step in the right direction.” President Obama has pushed for the passage of the bill in the Senate and attended a G8 summit this week where he agreed to attempt to keep the Earth’s temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees C.

Gore touted the Congressional climate bill, claiming it “will dramatically increase the prospects for success” in combating what he sees as the “crisis” of man-made global warming.

“But it is the awareness itself that will drive the change and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global governance and global agreements.” (Editor’s Note: Gore makes the “global governance” comment at the 1min. 10 sec. mark in this UK Times video.)

Gore’s call for “global governance” echoes former French President Jacques Chirac’s call in 2000.

On November 20, 2000, then French President Chirac said during a speech at The Hague that the UN’s Kyoto Protocol represented “the first component of an authentic global governance.”

“For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument of global governance,” Chirac explained. “From the very earliest age, we should make environmental awareness a major theme of education and a major theme of political debate, until respect for the environment comes to be as fundamental as safeguarding our rights and freedoms. By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace,” Chirac added.

Former EU Environment Minister Margot Wallstrom said, “Kyoto is about the economy, about leveling the playing field for big businesses worldwide.” Canadian Prime Minster Stephen Harper once dismissed UN’s Kyoto Protocol as a “socialist scheme.”

Go read the rest, and follow some of the links there:

Canada is in on it. So is the Vatican.

POPE Benedict XVI has proposed a new world political authority “with real teeth”, possibly in place of the United Nations, to enforce an ethical financial order and end the global financial crisis. Calling for more aid, a bigger role for trade unions and an economic system aimed at the common good as well as profit, the Pope said only a moral market could end the crisis and solve world poverty. The proposals were in his long-awaited encyclical - the second-highest level of papal teaching - released in Rome yesterday morning Australian time, before the G8 leaders gathered in Italy today to discuss the global crisis.

The European Union exists. The North American Union is on it’s way. The We Are The World” movement has been going on for at least a decade ... and this is not just a leftist agenda. You noticed how Bush secured the borders and threw out all the illegals, right? Part and parcel. Your children are taught to be mindless “all cultures are equal” Socialists by the school system. Part and parcel. Generations have grown up utterly dependent on Big Government for their every need and want, and all they do is clamor for more. Part and parcel. And the internet is making the process even faster; “we’re all connected”.

Now think it through ... Man Made Global Warming is a hoax, but to “solve” it, to make the Cap & Trade thing work, we need One World Government. So let’s do that as fast as possible. And when people wake up to the chill reality, it will be too late. You think Bernie Madoff pulled the biggest con of all time? He’s a piker, a mere debutant.



PS - nobody in the media will pay any attention to this. None. Nothing to see or hear here, move along.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYGrn0hZlCQ

http://www.infowars.net/articles/october2007/101007Fox.htm



Tinfoil hat conspiracy theory? I kind of doubt it. Bush did his level best to ruin the US dollar and to let in as many illegals as possible. Then he started the Big Socialist Ball rolling. Obama has been doing his best to accelerate it, while socializing the economy and continuing the destruction of our currency.

Will the human race eventually be all one nation? Probably. But I’m not ready for that to happen yet. Not only do I value my own nation, I have yet to see another country worth hooking up with. Until then, sod off.

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Pushing the Limits

Shoe blogging.

It’s what I almost never do. Ever.

But I will write about good engineering. About how form following function sometimes allows for beautiful and simple design; the art of purity. This is not one of those times.

These shoes do not qualify as art in any way, shape, or form. They are remarkably ugly ... and they are just as remarkably effective. This is technology pushed to the edge, where the complex becomes simple because all the rules and the preconceived notions have been done away with. A futuristic design that could have been created 5000 years ago.

However, The Manolo, the ultimate and original shoe blogger, lover of form over function sometimes to the point of unwearability, would never label these things Super Fantastic. He would need a new phrase that was as antithetical to that concept as possible. Ultra Hideux!

And yet these may be the best running shoes ever made. They weigh almost nothing. They are more toe gloves than shoes. Foot condoms. They let you run as if you were barefoot, which is best for your body. Yet they give you better traction than barefoot, and protect you against rough ground, gravel, and little sharp things in the street.

Vibram FiveFingers are little more than flexible plastic soles with just enough cloth to hold them snugly on your feet. They have little individual pockets for each toe, making the FiveFingers into a sort of foot glove. The resulting footwear feel less like shoes and more like tougher, more invulnerable versions of your feet.

Traction is incredibly good, due to the grippy material, the separation of the toes, and the addition of siping, or tiny zigzag cuts etched into the soles that expand into little treads as the sole flexes.

The VFFs are also surprisingly comfortable. Each toe is snuggled inside its own little pocket, which is not only cozy, it also gives your feet a surprising amount of feedback about the ground you’re standing on. Your toes, freed from their typical leather prisons, act like a tiny topography sensor array.

Running in FiveFingers is much like running barefoot, except without the mincing “Ow-ow-ow!” moments as you hit a patch of gravel or sun-baked asphalt. You have to use the same stride (and the same, probably atrophied, calf and arch muscles) as you do when running with naked feet. The end result is good: By forcing me into a more efficient stride, the VFFs helped subtract nearly a minute from my admittedly slow per-mile pace. Also, a growing body of research suggests that minimal or no footwear will result in fewer running injuries. But it takes some getting used to if you’ve never run barefoot before. Start with very short runs, and work up gradually.

They cost about $75. Maybe Michelle Obama could start wearing these and make a new fashion trend? Rebrand them as Gorilla Toes, or Cling-Ons, since they give such a great grip. And who better to push Cling-Ons than the Worfette?

Posted by Drew458     on 07/13/2009 at 11:53 AM   
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An update in lousey news and oh hell. Here we go again. Yeah. Travelers.

OK, let me say it again ... without saying it out loud.

Everyone here knows my solution to this sort of totally unreasonable problem.  No. I just can’t resist.  Kill ALL the bastards! Make no exceptions. The good ones are the dead ones.  Otherwise this will only continue to get worse and worse as more and more find how easy it is to get away with this.

What makes this case (reported on some months ago) even more urgent, is that a group of hapless Navy vets are the ones being booted out after 30 years.
THIRTY FREEKIN YEARS PPL.  And the biggest fault is with the council or whoever approved this outrage. So they need to be greased also, to set a proper example for the rest of the country. 

You folks outside the UK can’t begin to imagine how big this problem is, made all the worse by the politically correct, socialist/ commie scumbags who have forced this on the country.  And those responsible including the legal eagles who pave the way are no less then traitors.

Think of these life forms as land pirates, and maybe my suggestion with regard to their elimination won’t seem quite as harsh or outlandish.

War veterans’ clubhouse faces demolition - to make way for travellers’ caravans

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 4:44 PM on 13th July 2009

A group of war veterans face being evicted from their clubhouse after travellers demanded it be torn down to make way for more caravans.

The 40-strong group of travellers moved on to a plot of land next to the veterans’ clubhouse last week following a council decision to relocate them.

Members of the Royal Naval ex-servicemen’s club are now in talks with Gravesham Council who will decide if the veterans are to be relocated permanently.

The veterans, who have been on the site for more than 30 years, were shocked when the travellers set up home on a disused patch of grass 20 yards away.

But it came as more of a surprise when they discovered the travellers were evicted from a previous site for breaching government greenbelt land planning laws.

Their eight static mobile homes were bulldozed after a four-year wrangle costing £40,000 for numerous court orders and legal fees.

As a result, a concession was made to the small group which allowed them to move to the former allotment land off Springhead Road in Northfleet.

But that brought them into direct contact with the Naval Association club who are fighting to stay.

The move comes just six months after the local council pledged they would ‘not abandon’ the 160 members of the Naval Association of Gravesend.

Association chairman and Korean war veteran John Down said the group would fight to remain where they are.

‘A lot of our members are elderly people who live nearby and don’t want to have to go elsewhere,’ he said.

A council spokesman confirmed it was ‘in talks’ with the veterans to decide whether they will be relocated.

The spokesman said: ‘There is a meeting scheduled with the Naval Association - we are in talks with regards to the gypsy site.

‘The gypsies have a spokesman allocated by them who is liaising with our officers.’

On its website, the council noted it had to be sensitive to the needs of the women and children on the site who were ‘all considered vulnerable’.

It emerged the council even offered to tarmac the new site at taxpayers’ expense - until travellers told them they could do it themselves for free.

Gypsy traveller Anne Scarrott said: ‘The council are going to knock the navy club down so we can have more space.

‘There is not enough space while the navy club is here. We are all too close to each other and can see into each others’ windows.’

The ex-servicemen said the decision could mean the end of the road for their association which was formed 76 years ago.

They admit their scout hall-style building is old but would prefer it to be updated rather than move out of the council-owned property.

Veteran Terry Moore, 56, said: ‘It’s a quaint old place - I don’t see why we should be the ones moving.

‘The hall has memorabilia, old medals and pictures. We definitely don’t want to move - especially to make way for people who don’t pay their taxes.

‘The club is in a great location for many of our members. If we have to go somewhere else they simply won’t be able to make the journey.’

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So it cost it taxpayer £40,000.00 to remove illegals from land after four years, and now they move in and DEMAND this. They DEMAND!

Alright. I can understand perhaps the Brits being a bit civilized might also be a tad squeamish about doing the job themselves.
No Problem.  Hire Russians. No. Even better.  Rent a Chinese regiment. Maybe only a squad and see how fast this problem can go away.

Posted by peiper     on 07/13/2009 at 11:06 AM   
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GORBALL WARMING, CLIMATE CHANGE THE LEFT AND ONE PO’d NEWSMAN SAYS ENOUGH TO BBC NEWS & QUITS

Just a touch of background. Peter Sissions is a newsman of many years and has worked for more then one outlet.

After being shot in both legs in 1968 while covering the Biafran War he was left less mobile and became industrial correspondent then industrial editor, reading headlines part-time. His first role as full-time anchor was for ITN’s News at One in 1978.

Here’s part of what this veteran newscaster wrote in the Sunday Mail.

One of the links on their site unfortunately isn’t working and I’ve spent the better part of an hour and a half trying to gather his stuff together and also copy from the paper some of what he said.  Wasn’t easy for me but it’s well worth the trouble.

Peter Sissons: BBC standards are falling - and bosses are too scared to do anything about it.

By Mail On Sunday Reporter
12 July 2009

Peter Sissons, the veteran newsreader who announced his retirement last month, has launched a withering attack on the BBC - claiming standards have fallen and accusing producers of being too mired in political correctness to do anything about it.

He says: ‘At today’s BBC, a complaint I often heard from senior producers was that they dared not reprimand their subordinates for basic journalistic mistakes - such as getting ages, dates, titles and even football scores wrong - it being politically incorrect to risk offending them.’

The 66-year-old also pinpointed the exact moment he decided to leave BBC News as the day senior producers attempted to stop him asking Labour’s then deputy leader, Harriet Harman, why the Queen had not been invited to the D-Day commemorations in May.
‘The most senior of the producers asked me directly what other issues I would raise with Miss Harman.
No problem, until I mentioned the last question I wanted to get in: why the Queen had not been invited to the 65th anniversary commemoration of D-Day. The response shocked me. It was suggested that it was not a topic worth raising because it was only a campaign being run by the Daily Mail.’
However, the topic had angered veterans and the campaign had gathered huge public support.

The presenter went ahead and asked the ‘obvious and important question’.
‘I drove out of Television Centre for the last time a month later, with not a pang of regret,’ he wrote in the Mail on Sunday.
His withering attack did not stop there. He went on to address the corporation’s view on global warming. He claims

It is ‘effectively BBC policy’ to ignore climate change sceptics.

He also claims it is now ‘effectively BBC policy’ to stifle critics of the consensus view on global warming. He says: ‘I believe I am one of a tiny number of BBC interviewers who have so much as raised the possibility that there is another side to the debate…

‘The Corporation’s most famous interrogators invariably begin by accepting that “the science is settled”, when there are countless reputable scientists and climatologists producing work that says it isn’t.

‘But it is effectively BBC policy… that those views should not be heard.’

The leader of the Green Party, Caroline Lucas, went into the studio at Westminster to be interviewed by me.  She clearly expected what I call a “free hit” to be allowed to voice her views without being challenged on them.

I pointed out to her that the climate didn’t seem to be playing ball at the moment.  We were having a particularly cold winter, even though carbon emissions were increasing. Indeed, there had been no warming for ten years, contradicting all the alarming computer predictions.

Well, she was outraged.  Miss Lucas told me angrily that it was disgraceful that the BBC- the BBC! - should be giving any kind of publicity to those sort of views. 

Politically the argument may be settled, but any inquisitive journalist can find ample evidence that scientifically it is not.

SOURCE

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Global Warming!!

A volcano on Krakatoa is still erupting. Perhaps most famous for the powerfully explosive eruption in 1883 that killed tens of thousands of people, ash from a violent eruption might also have temporarily altered Earth’s climate as long as 1500 years ago. In 1927, eruptions caused smaller Anak Krakatau to rise from the sea, and the emerging volcanic island continues to grow at an average rate of 2 cm per day. The latest eruption of Anak Krakatau started in 2008 April and continues today. In this picture, Anak Krakatau is seen erupting from Rakata, the main island of the Krakatoai group.

Gee whiz, how much CO₂ and ΔH is that thing spewing? Certainly more than my little car and a few hundred thousand just like it!



Maybe we could send Algore down there to host a lecture. That ought to put it out. What the heck, it works everywhere else. And if not ... how long has it been since the last sacrifice to Pele anyway?

Posted by Drew458     on 07/13/2009 at 09:10 AM   
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ONE HELL OF A FLY BY, WOULDN’T YA SAY? NOT TOO CERTAIN I’D WANT TO BE ON THAT BALCONY.

Wait a minute. Wouldn’t flying that low lose him lift? OK maybe not but this is hard to believe. It isn’t April 1st tho.
Gee ... talk about a very high wow factor.

Thing is, that guy on the balcony watching.  He just looks so casual like it’s an every day event. And what about being that close to a jet engine?
How about the walls and windows in the apt. complex?  Wouldn’t they suffer some damage?
I’m just trying to figure out if it’s a hoax. It was published a short time ago (an hour ago) in the Mail.

Now that’s what I call a fly-past: US Navy F18 streaks past apartment block

By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 1:27 PM on 13th July 2009

This is the moment a a US Navy pilot gave a shocked resident a very close look at his F18.

The fighter/bomber streaked past an apartment block on the banks of the Detroit River at the weekend.

It was part of a tactical demonstration fly-past to open a speedboat race in the North American city.

Officials waived rules to allow the Navy flyers to swoop under 100ft along the waterway.

One resident said: ‘I couldn’t believe how low they flew and how close they came to our building - I’m sure the pilot waved at me.’

The jets had flown in from the Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia to put on a spectacular show for thousands of spectators.

The Chrysler Jeep Superstores APBA Gold Cup race was won by speedboat ace Dave Villcock.

‘We danced with the devil at every turn,’ said Villwock, 55, who demolished the field on his way to his seventh Gold Cup win.

‘We were either going to win it big or lose it big.’

He couldn’t match the F15s for speed, although his average of 141mph for the five-lap final remained impressive.

DAILY MAIL

Posted by peiper     on 07/13/2009 at 08:15 AM   
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