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Sarah Palin is allowed first dibs on Alaskan wolfpack kills.

calendar   Sunday - October 25, 2009

IDIOTS WRITE BOOK, EAT YOUR PETS TO SAVE THE PLANET … ANYONE SURPRISED?

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Don’t know about you but I for one will not eat Fido or Fluffy if I still had one of those, even if the sky is falling.  Which it isn’t.

These folks are serious. The fear is that there are enough idiots out there who may buy their message.

Owners should consider doing without, downsizing or even eating their pets to help save the planet, according to a new book.

Pet dogs as bad for planet as driving 4x4s, book claims

By Paul Stokes
The Telegraph

It claims that the carbon footprint left by domesticated animals is out of proportion to the size of their paws.

A medium-sized dog has the same impact as a Toyota Land Cruiser driven 6,000 miles a year, while a cat is equivalent to a Volkswagen Golf.

But rabbits and chickens are eco-friendly because they provide meat for their owners while a canary or a goldfish has little effect on the environment.

At the same time a pair of hamsters do the same damage as running a plasma television, suggests the book Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living.

New Zealand-based authors Robert and Brenda Vale base their findings on the amount of land needed to grow food for pets ranging from budgerigars to cats and dogs.

They say an average Collie eats 164kg of meat and 95kg of cereals a year, giving it a high impact on the planet.

But a pair of rabbits can produce 36 young annually, which would provide 72kg of meat and help decrease the owner’s carbon footprint.

Mr Vale, an architect who specialises in sustainable living, said: “There are no recipes in the book. We’re not actually saying it is time to eat the dog.

“We’re just saying that we need to think about and know the (ecological) impact of some of the things we do and that we take for granted.”

He explained that sustainability issues require us to make choices which are “as difficult as eating your dog”.

Mr Vale added: “Once you see where cats and dogs fit in your overall balance of things, you might decide to have the cat but not also to have the two cars and the three bathrooms and be a meat-eater yourself.”

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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 10/25/2009 at 02:47 AM   
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calendar   Saturday - October 24, 2009

Don’t Blame Me

Carol sent this one in ... another of those great emails ...



To: Drew458
Subject: Fertilized egg business

John was in the fertilized egg business.
He had several hundred young layers (hens), called ‘pullets,’
and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs.

He kept records, and any rooster not performing
went into the soup pot and was replaced.

This took a lot of time, so he bought some tiny bells
and attached them to his roosters.

Each bell had a different tone, so he could tell from a distance,
which rooster was performing.

Now, he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report
by just listening to the bells.

John’s favorite rooster, Hussein, was a very fine specimen,
but this morning he noticed Hussein’s bell hadn’t rung at all!

When he went to investigate, he saw the other roosters were busy chasing
pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets, hearing the roosters coming, could run for
cover.

To John’s amazement, Hussein had his bell in his beak, so it couldn’t
ring.

He’d sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.
John was so proud of Hussein, he entered him in the Renfrew County Fair
and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.

The result was the judges not only awarded Hussein the
No Bell Piece Prize but they also awarded him the Pulletsurprise as well.
Clearly Hussein was a politician in the making.

Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the

most highly coveted awards on our planet by being the best at

sneaking up on the populace and screwing them when they weren’t

paying attention.

Vote carefully, the bells are not always audible.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 10/24/2009 at 09:29 PM   
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The Horror





I dunno man. I’ve been a good guy and carried this guy’s videos since the beginning. I’ve run them all ... except for two that really really sucked. Is he losing Teh Funnee? 


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 10/24/2009 at 09:15 PM   
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A Most Excellent Read

Yes, I’m finally digging into my email. Egads, I’m drowning in there. Here’s a fabulous link sent to me from reader The Browns. It’s the text of an old speech made by the late great Michael Crichton, on the collapse of scientific wisdom, media and special interest alarmism, and the dangers of setting national policy based on “consensus science”. It’s a big long read, half an hour maybe, but it’s worth it. Chrichton was a fantastic writer, which explains why everything he ever wrote got turned into a blockbuster movie. This one won’t though, because it’s truth, not fantasy.



Aliens Cause Global Warming!

A speech by Michael Crichton



How impressed was I with this? Impressed enough that I will respect the author’s wishes that his words not be snagged and pasted elsewhere. So all I’m giving you is the link. It’s worth it.




PS - Pellagra is a skin disease caused by a lack of niacin in your diet. Like scurvy and jaundice, pellagra is caused by vitamin deficiency. There used to be a lot of maladies around that were caused by poor diet.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 10/24/2009 at 07:48 PM   
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Real Bio Fuel

Feeling Cold? Put Another Bunny On The Fire



Swedes using rabbits culled from city parks, along with roadkill as bio fuel to heat homes

Stray rabbits are getting a raw deal in Sweden. Thousands of them living in the center of Stockholm are being culled, deep frozen and converted into biofuel for heating homes. Wildlife campaigners have criticized the practice.

Thousands of rabbits, some of them pets abandoned by their owners, are being shot, deep-frozen and burned in a heating plant in Sweden, a professional hunter who works for the city of Stockholm said on Tuesday.

The center of the Swedish capital is being plagued by thousands of rabbits, some of them wild and some of them stray pets, and 3,000 have been culled this year, down from 6,000 in 2008, Tommy Tuvunger, who hunts rodents for the Stockholm city administration, told SPIEGEL ONLINE.

Animal control authorities employ a special rifle to shoot the excess rabbits [ja, it’s called a “tventy too"], with most of the culling taking place at dawn when the animals peek out from their holes.

“We are shooting rabbits in Stockholm center, they are a very big problem,” said Tuvunger. The rabbits are eating their way through the city’s central parks. “Once culled, the rabbits are frozen and when we have enough; a contractor comes and takes them away. “

Tuvunger said it was normal for animal carcasses to be processed for fuel. “The contractor doesn’t just pick up rabbits, he also picks up cats, deer, horses and cows,” said Tuvunger.



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In the Swedes’ defense, the bunnies are a menace; a plague of wild and stray pet rabbits is devouring the city’s parks. Some 3,000 have been killed thus far this year, down from 6,000 last year, Tommy Tuvunger, a professional hunter who works for the city, told the German news magazine.

Converting the rabbits to fuel is the company Konvex, a subsidiary of the Danish company Daka Biodiesel, which makes automotive and heating fuels from vegetable and animal oils and fats. The Swedes have a variety of similar efforts, including turning slaughterhouse trimmings into biogas, a methane fuel that runs taxicabs in Linkoping in southern Sweden. And in the U.S., ConocoPhillips and Tyson have joined forces to make biofuel from pork and chicken fat, which is otherwise consumed as pet food or turned into cosmetics or soaps.

Bunnies, despite a felicity for breeding, are not quite abundant enough to be a reliable fuel so Stockholm also ships dead cats, cows, deer and horses to the plant for processing, Tuvunger told Der Spiegel. No word on whether the remains of man’s best friend are also keeping Swedes warm this winter.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 10/24/2009 at 04:23 PM   
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WEEKEND WOMEN

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I chose one glamorous lady of what I consider extreme beauty, facially.  I think she appears way too thin for my taste.  That’s odd because I’ve seen photo shoots of her looking rounder and curvier.  These hardly look like her. She still looks sexy without looking raunchy.  Anyway, these were taken from a fashion shoot and I was taken yet again with,

SCARLETT JOHANSSON

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H/T Christopher for the great photo he sent me below the fold. I don’t know the year but we know it’s old. She’s pretty and has a great hat.

See More Below The Fold

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Posted by peiper   United States  on 10/24/2009 at 04:04 AM   
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calendar   Friday - October 23, 2009

In A Class Of His Own

A Category of WON




Media bias much? Nah, couldn’t be.


The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) has done their annual magazine cover awards. To cover the thousands and thousands of magazines out there, they have 11 different categories. Celebrity & Entertainment. Fashion & Beauty. House & Home.

This year there is a 12th category. Just for Obama. Because he’s that special.

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[via NewsBusters.org]:
The Magazine Publishers of America’s American Society of Magazine Editors has added a category to its annual magazine cover awards: Obama. This new category is the only ASME category focused on a single person, and highlights the reverential attitude for the President widely held in the magazine publishing community.

Gak. So, Ok, fine. Big deal. There’s a category for Obama. WTH, he’s been on the cover of almost every single issue of NewsWeak since July 2008. So they picked a Best Obama cover winner. It makes a certain kind of sense, as the Wall Street Journal points out:

The more we thought about it, though, the more this made sense to us. Given how amazingly super President Obama is, there is a temptation to give him every award for everything. Example: It’s hard to imagine that anyone will end up deserving the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize more than Obama will, but if the Norwegian Nobel Committee gives Obama the prize every year, no one else will have any incentive to work for peace. Solution: create two separate prizes, the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Non-Obama Peace Prize. Problem solved!

The separation of Obama awards from others would allow him to get his due, while making it possible for people besides Obama to get some recognition once in a while. Other people, after all, sometimes are worthy too--just not worthy of Obama.

But when you bring that kind of moxie to the table, that level of photographic art, that amount of power, grace, and humility, that much sheer perfection ... is there any doubt who the overall Cover of the Year award is going to?

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No doubts at all. And you can’t say he didn’t deserve this one. Although Obama will always be the winner of the Obama category.

Media bias? There’s no steenkin’ media bias! They’re just utterly, totally, slavishly in love with him. Perfectly natural and normal. No different than a 11 year old girl and her pop idol crush of the week. They’re all illuminated by the rays of glory reflected off this unique and wonderful lightworker.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 10/23/2009 at 07:06 PM   
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Another Step Closer To The Edge

I guess the white flags are still on back order from fwance?



Machine Guns In The Streets Of London

Last Ditch effort to take back city from violent armed gangs

From The Country That Brought You National Gun Control



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“A hand-picked team from CO19 will carry Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine guns in gun crime hotspots”

[funny, that weapon sure as heck looks like an M4 to me. (M4=M16 carbine)]



A hand-picked team from CO19, the Metropolitan Police’s elite firearms unit, will walk the beat in gun crime hotspots where armed gangs have turned entire estates into “no go” zones.

Local politicians and anti-gun campaigners have reacted with anger at the news that the officers will carry Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine guns – capable of firing up to 800 rounds-per-minute [except they can’t lift that much ammo and the barrels would melt if you tried to actually do that] – and Glock semi-automatic pistols.

CO19 currently provides armed support in volatile situations like sieges and terrorist attacks, with its officers on constant call in vehicles around London.

But this is the first time that armed officers will be sent on permanent foot patrol anywhere in the country outside Northern Ireland.

“Historically, CO19 was only called out when someone rang up to report a gun crime,” said Inspector Derek Carroll, head of the new unit.

“But a lot of streets in London have young people in postcode gangs, aged 14 and upwards, and a lot of communities feel that they are controlling areas of estates.

“We are looking at gangs that have access to firearms and will be robust in dealing with them and disrupting and deterring them.”

“Gun crime in this country is very low by international standards and that’s largely because there aren’t many guns about. Arming police officers sends out all the wrong messages.”

[ except for this next inconvenient truth: ]

Gun-related crime is on the increase in London with 1,736 gun crimes reported in London between April and September this year – up 17 per cent on 2008.

The problem of turf violence between drugs gangs was highlighted earlier this month with a spate of shootings in north London linked to two Turkish gangs, the Tottenham Boys and the Bombacilar.

Sounds like neither gun control nor socialism is working out too well. Nor are the stink bombs and sticky nets?

The cops need machine guns to patrol their own streets, or else the gangs will get them. Will they be putting crew served weapons on the roof of every police station? Or replace those stations with Taggart Forts? Seems to me they’ve lost the war already, since they weren’t allowed to fight it for the past 2 decades.

Hey, let’s open the Chunnel even wider to every last eraserhead in the EU. Come on over! Bring your guns, drugs, and religious fanaticism!


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 10/23/2009 at 02:41 PM   
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ONLY THE JAPANESE …. THIS IS A MUST SEE .  ALL IT TAKES IS MONEY

Tis no secret what money can do
What its done fer others, it can do for you.

Especially if you’re a wealthy Japanese business man.

Was just getting ready to shut down for the night when I found this.  I can’t imagine anyone else doing this sort of thing.  The Japanese have done similar in the past.  Take a look at this. Amazing!

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Church on high: The replica chapel which has been built on the 21st floor of the Hotel Monterery in Osaka, Japan, after a Japanese property developer fell in love with the original in Brockhampton, Herefordshire

The link has a ton of other great photos too.  Hope this meets with approval.

Room with a pew: Businessman builds replica of Herefordshire church on 21st floor of Japanese skyscraper
By DAVID WILKES
Last updated at 3:44 PM on 23rd October 2009

It’s hard to imagine a more romantic place to marry than All Saints Church in the village of Brockhampton.
Nestling in the beautiful Herefordshire countryside, the arts and crafts style building looks like something from a fairytale, has wishbone arches in the chapel and is one of only a few thatched churches in Britain.

It certainly caught the eye of one Japanese tourist. In fact, the businessman was so swept away by its charms that he has built an extraordinarily detailed replica on the 21st and 22nd floors of a skyscraper hotel 6,000 miles away in the city of Osaka.

The multi-millionaire developer stumbled upon the 107 year old church near the market town of Ross-on-Wye accidentally after getting lost on a sight-seeing tour.

The replica All Saints built inside the Hotel Monterey Grasmere in Osaka is three-quarters of the size of the Grade-1 listed original but otherwise exactly the same as it (except for the setting, of course). The developers took measurements from the original on laser cameras to ensure the replica was perfect.
The Reverend Will Pridie, vicar of All Saints Church, said: ‘The replica looks stunning. The attention to detail is quite staggering.
‘Even the slightest imperfection and mark on the stone work has been reproduced.
‘The stained glass windows are all exactly the same and they’ve even built a scaled down bell tower with a bell which is rung on wedding days.’

He said: ‘The developers said a group of Japanese tourists were visiting Britain and they stumbled across our church by mistake.
‘They were travelling through Herefordshire and, I don’t know if they got lost or not, but they happened to pass by the church.

‘One of the group was a developer and was so taken with the church he decided to build an exact replica in a development in Japan.
‘English-style weddings are apparently extremely popular in Japan and our church captured their imagination.
‘The Parochial Church Council agreed to have the church reproduced and the developers came armed with laser cameras and computers and examined the church inch by inch.
‘We are a very tiny village and congregation. I think everyone is just astonished that anyone would do such a thing, especially when you consider it is 21 floors up.’

Japanese couples can now get married in civil ceremonies in the replica church which even includes an exact copy of the church yard and railings which circle the original. It costs up to £8,000 to hire out for weddings compared to £400 in the original.

On the same floors as the reproduced church are photographic studios and restaurants along with a hotel and honeymoon suites.
The developers spent months trying to find the same type of stone to use for the replica church and eventually found a similar one at a quarry in Honshu island. The replica church, which can accommodate up to 60 guests, then took four months to build.

A spokesman for the hotel said: ‘It would have been too expensive to import the stone from England but the recreation is loyal to All Saints Church.
‘Young Japanese couples love themed weddings and the hot style at the moment is the traditional English church wedding. The ceremonies are civil but the registrar wears a dog-collar and confetti is thrown afterwards. The service is as authentic as possible.

‘The church has been block booked since it opened in July and we are already taking bookings for weddings up to the end of next year.’
Completed in 1902, All Saints Church in Brockhampton was built by renowned architect William Lethaby, a leading light in the arts and crafts movement. The architectural critic Sir Nikolaus Pevsner called it ‘one of the most convincing and most impressive churches of its date in any country.’

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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 10/23/2009 at 11:08 AM   
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2,000 year-old Roman vase identified …. TAKE A LOOK!

This is exciting stuff.  Wish I’d had what it takes, whatever that is, to have become an archeologist when I was young. Just seems so fascinating discovering things like this. Bet I’d have been bored though. I mean, it probably takes days and years of exacting detail to finally come up with results.  I tend to want results before Christmas or my birthday, which ever comes first.  By weeks end is good too.

Here, take a look.

An incredibly rare, 2,000 year-old Roman glass vase that is “academically and artistically priceless” has been identified.
Published: 7:00AM BST 23 Oct 2009

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The vase is one of only 16 known in the world and was brought to the attention of the world by experts from Bonhams Auction house.
Possibly the most important of its kind on the planet, the 33.5 inch high vase would have been made for only the well-heeled Romans in about the first century.

It is similar to the incomplete and damaged Portland Vase held in the British museum, but is bigger and far more decorative.
A battle scene showing 30 white figures adorns the spectacular vessel that is likely to re-write the history of these pieces.

It is owned by a collector “from the continent” who took it to Bonhams in London to be identified.
Though the owner was said to be aware that it was of high quality, he had no idea just how significant it was.
At present, there are no plans for it to be auctioned and scholars could be studying it for decades to come.

Made by the Roman Empire’s finest craftsmen, the vase was formed by two pieces of glass, one cobalt blue and the other white.
After cooling it was cut down to create the cameo-style decoration.
All known examples were made within the space of about two generations, experts believe.

Chantelle Rountree, head of antiquities at Bonhams, said: “It is of major international importance. Academically and artistically it is priceless.
“Scholars will be evaluating this find for decades.”
Richard Falkiner, one of the experts who has examined it, said: “As far as I can see, the repairs make it look as though it has been out of the ground since at least the 18th century, possibly 16th.”

Experts from the auction house are continuing to study it. They have not put a monetary value of the vase, but said ultimately it might go on display.
The Portland Vase in the British Museum served as an inspiration to many glass and porcelain makers from about the beginning of the 18th century onwards.
Wedgwood’s work was clearly influenced by the vase that has now been usurped as the finest example of its kind.

The Portland vase stands just nine inches high, is missing its base and has been restored three times
It is supposed to have been discovered by Fabrizio Lazzaro in the sepulchre of the Emperor Alexander Severus, at Monte del Grano near Rome, and excavated in about 1582.

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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 10/23/2009 at 10:27 AM   
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Animal abuser—Baby abuser—Baby rapist. Threatens to sue to keep “his good name.” AND WINS!

We all know the job of a defense lawyer is to make the indefensible , defensible.  But this carries things to new extremes unheard of before. Or maybe not.  Nothing in todays culture carries any surprise anymore.  Especially where lawyers get involved.

For the first time I find myself on the same side as PETA and for that to happen folks takes one hell of an event.

Some weeks ago or maybe months, I related a story to you about some scum including the mother of a baby abused and finally killed, after months of torture.  The little kid was only 17 months old.  17 months old.  OK I won’t repeat all the things they did to the kid here.  It’s been known as the Baby P case should you want more information.

So just where does PETA come into this?

Well, PETA produced a poster with one of the baby abusers photos. And oh by the way, this absolute rotten excuse for a human had also raped a two year old girl. Keep this all in mind.

Here is the PETA poster.

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Well BMEWS, this filthy bastard has through lawyers (proving why some really need to be graveyard dead by any and all means) that his “good name” was being ruined by PETA.  And they had to cave in!  He’s a baby raper and a damn killer and a child abuser BUT .... he still has a “good name.”
Yeah. I suppose in todays world he does. At least among the lawyers who would take and fight this case on his behalf. 

Baby P thug: Poster is ruining my good name
By Vanessa Allen

A sadistic thug who tortured Baby P has threatened to sue a charity for damaging his reputation, it was revealed yesterday.
Steven Barker was labelled a murderer by an animal rights group which used his police mugshot in a billboard campaign.

Now Barker, who was cleared of murder but convicted of ‘causing or allowing’ the death of 17-month-old Peter Connelly, has astonishingly decided that his ‘good name’ has been threatened by the posters.

It believes there is a link between cruelty to animals and violence towards humans.
Moors murderer Ian Brady killed cats and dogs as a child, serial killer Fred West mutilated and killed rabbits, and Soham killer Ian Huntley strangled a puppy and strapped fireworks to animals.

Spokesman Poorva Joshipura said: ‘Whatever the courts call Barker, the fact remains that violence towards animals is evil and if unchallenged it may be a warning that the perpetrator won’t stop there.

‘Abusers are generally cowards who seek out the most vulnerable victims, including children, animals and elderly people.’ Replacing the billboard cost £1,000 but PETA could have faced a much higher bill if Barker had sued successfully.

Baby Peter suffered more than 50 injuries during months of abuse by his mother, Barker and his brother Jason Owen.

The judge at the Old Bailey said neo-Nazi Barker played a ‘major role’ in the toddler’s death in August 2007. Owen was also found guilty of causing or allowing the death of a child, while Baby Peter’s mother admitted the same charge.

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I’m really surprised PETA caved in but I also know they have lawyers too.  They were probably told they couldn’t win this.
What a miserable sad day for truth and right.  What a condemnation of where we’ve come.  What a shit world!


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 10/23/2009 at 09:16 AM   
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An editorial by Pat Condell. One of his best with H/T to Lyndon.

H/T LyndonB

I was away again and catching up on things when I found this in one of Lyndon’s comments. I try and keep up with Condell but obviously I missed this.
I think it’s one of his best. I believe EVERYONE SHOULD SHARE THIS.  From what I have seen here over five years, I can tell you this guy has it exactly right.  And for some time now I have been saying to my countrymen, don’t think you’re immune.  What starts here always makes it way overseas. Once they get a firm foothold, there won’t be any way except ball and shot to rid ourselves of them.

Conservative warrior David Horowitz was scheduled to speak at St. Louis University this month. But he won’t be. University officials canceled his speech because of its title: “Islamo-Fascism Awareness and Civil Rights.”

Horowitz commented: “I have spoken at 400 universities. This is the first time my speech has been censored and stopped by an administration. And they are supposed to be the guardians of intellectual discourse.” Cary Nelson, the president of the American Association of University Professors, said that with this cancellation, St. Louis University “joins the small group of campuses that are universities in name only…. The free exchange of ideas is not just a comforting offshoot of higher education; it defines the fundamental nature of the enterprise.

http://europenews.dk/en/node/27006 for the rest of article


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 10/23/2009 at 08:40 AM   
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Not A UFO

It Is Balloon!!*

Blimp? Dirigible? Whatever.




So we’re having a bit of Indian Summer here, mostly. Not a PC term I’m sure, but what it means this year is that it’s stopped raining and has been comfortably cool the past couple of days. Instead of feeling like late November near freezing duck hunting weather, like last week. So we’ve got the windows open. Last night we had a bit of overcast and there was not a breath of air moving. Not a breath.

We live in this condo park not very far from the highway. So we can hear a bit of the traffic noises when they’re loud, but otherwise it’s not a bother. So I’m sitting around last night while my wife was busy packing - she’s off this morning to an eyeball conference in San Fran for a few days - so I was staying out of her way. Never get between a woman in a hurry and her luggage!

Anyway, I heard this engine sound that didn’t seem right. It wasn’t a traffic kind of noise, it was more like a contractor’s generator or an air compressor engine sound. And odder still, there seemed to be several of them going on at the same time. So I took a look out the front window. Nothing to see. So I went to the back of the unit, out onto the back porch. The noise was much louder out there, and it seemed quite bright out. And then I looked up.

And the whole damn sky was filled with airship.


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Granted, it wasn’t the Hindenburg. Whatever blimp it was, was probably no more than 175 feet long, and maybe 50 feet across. But when it’s night, and the thing is perhaps 400 feet up over your head, and all lit up and glowing, it’s bloody huge.

This was the DirecTV blimp. I looked it up. It’s a Lightship A-170, and is just a hair bigger than I guessed. At night it’s all lit up from the inside, so it glows. It’s got a giant video screen on one side, but they weren’t using it. It’s pale blue with the darker blue DirecTV logo. And it was just hanging in the air above me, close enough so that I could see people in the cabin. Gondola? Basket? Whatever the hangy thingy is called. And it then did an amazing thing: it turned around. On a dime. Within it’s own length. Like it was on a bearing. Impressive! It then proceeded to fly sideways back over our place, out towards the highway. I didn’t know blimps could do that.

I guess the idea was to use it like a floating billboard, and hang in the sky perpendicular to the highway. And that’s exactly what they did. As the thing motored over our place, I quickly walked to the front and grabbed my camera. By the time I got the slider open and was out on the front balcony the blimp was several hundred yards past us and quite a bit higher. So I took what pictures I could - digital cameras aren’t at their best at night, that’s for sure! - and watched it float up and down the road for a while. Pretty cool.

We get hot air balloons here all the time in the summer. Sometimes dozens at once. We even had one land in the backyard a few years ago. So I’m quite familiar with the size of those, and I know the ripping canvas sound of their burners from a mile away. But this blimp had them beat all to hell.

And that was the high point of my evening. Never a dull moment here in Clinton.

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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 10/23/2009 at 04:50 AM   
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calendar   Thursday - October 22, 2009

Obama’s Newest Tyrant Buddy?

Is there one single despot this assclown won’t befriend? What’s the point here? Are we running low on bloodstones? The best way to contact this scumbag is with a JDAM.



US govt to send delegation to Burma



The United States is preparing to send a rare mission to Burma but warns that its bid to engage the military junta after decades of hostility will be “slow and painful.”

Kurt Campbell, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia, said a team would head to Burma to follow up on talks last month in New York, which marked the highest-level US contact with the regime in nearly a decade.

But in testimony Wednesday before a House of Representatives committee, Campbell cautioned: “We expect engagement with Burma to be a long, slow, painful and step-by-step process.”

A Burma official on Thursday confirmed the “fact-finding” trip would take place next week. But the official gave no further details, saying the visit was still in the planning stages.

President Barack Obama’s administration last month concluded that the longstanding US approach of isolating Burma had failed to bear fruit but said it would not ease sanctions without progress on democracy and human rights.

In August, Burma’s military leader Than Shwe held an unprecedented meeting with a visiting US senator, Jim Webb, a leading advocate of engaging the junta.

Democratic Representative Joseph Crowley, one of Suu Kyi’s top champions in Congress, said he backed the new strategy in part because the Nobel laureate has indicated her support.

But Crowley warned: “It is a real possibility that the military regime will try and use ongoing talks to buy time, in order to proceed with a sham election they have scheduled for next year.”

The NLD plans to shun the elections, the first since a 1990 vote that the party won in a landslide. The junta ignored that result, and has kept Suu Kyi under house arrest for much of the past 20 years.

Representative Dana Rohrabacher, a conservative Republican, was one of the few to reject the US outreach altogether, questioning whether the Obama administration needs to learn more about the junta.

“With all due respect, we know all about Burma. It’s not an unknown quantity. It has a vicious gangster regime, one of the most despicable regimes in this planet,” he said.

“We are saying that they are a legitimate government to sit down with. They are not.”




I think that the most we will get out of this is yet another opportunity for some piss stained tin pot dictator to embarrass the United States. Thanks a bunch, ya stoopid Kenyan.

And if you have forgotten what the Burma situation is all about - not just their psycho crazy leader not allowing all those relief supplies after the typhoon the other year - Gateway Pundit has more: in 2007 several thousand Buddhist monks lead a protest for democracy. The government gunned them down in the streets. A Japanese journalist was covering the protest. They killed him too.  Murdering thugs run Burma, and they have turned the entire country into slaves. We don’t need to talk to them. We need to kill them. And then let the Burmese form a new government. But no. This is Obama’s new plan of “engagement” at work. Let’s talk to all our enemies, all the shitdogs around the world. And maybe we can talk them into holding hands, making S’Mores around the campfire, and singing Kumbayah with us. Riiiiiight.

It also takes a remarkable degree of cynicism—or perhaps cowardice—to treat human rights as something that “interferes” with America’s purposes in the world, rather than as the very thing that ought to define them. Yet that is exactly the record of Mr. Obama’s time thus far in office.


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