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calendar   Monday - March 12, 2012

Oh Snap!

I’m having technical issues here this morning. I’m surfing around the net a bit trying to find some stories worth writing about ...


* Supposedly, an American soldier gunned down a bunch of Afghan citizens. At 3am, in several different homes in several different villages! For no reason at all!  Yeah right, but now it’s an excuse for the Affies to demand we leave. Oh, and the Talliban promises revenge!! I saw the shooting story yesterday, and said to myself “Ach, crivens, here we go again.”

* Sheriff Joe and the whole Birther thing. A long and interesting read, especially the links. Who knew about Justia-gate? Who knew about Minor V. Happersett and the Soros-funded efforts to remove the digital links to the opinions therein? And why is it friggin’ PRAVDA that’s printing this; if it has any validity, ought not some American news page run with it? The Justia thing is the only new bit of info Arpaio’s research seems to turn up. All the rest I’ve seen on every Birther page everywhere. This isn’t today’s news, but it sure makes interesting reading.

* Black sportscasters and penis pride? Last month’s Twitter kerfuffle over some dumb Tweet ... all news to me this morning, since I don’t Twit and I don’t follow sports much at all. But this guy does have an interesting blog, talking mostly about Asian-centric stereotypes. Well, maybe more; I’ve only read 4 of his posts. I have no idea how I got to this ‘news story’ at all.

* It was no “fluke” at all:

late today we found out that Ms. Fluke is now being repped by the progressive PR agency SKDKnickerbocker where Anita Dunn, the former Obama communications director is the managing editor… a-ha.


but anyway, back to my technical issues ...

My hard drive is spinning like mad. Churn churn churn. For no reason at all as far as I can tell. Firefox is doing it; I ran some of my PC tools and it’s the only thing running - I have Windows locked down tight, and all that automatic background stuff is disabled. But since my PC is pretty old, I’m running the newest copy of the old Firefox (3.6.27) because of my limited system resources. But the churning is driving me nuts, bringing my PC to a standstill. I can’t even maintain the darn cursor to write a whole sentence. WTH is going on?

So I try to Google up “why is firefox accessing my hard drive so much”, and you know how Google is so damn presumptuous and tries to answer your question before you’ve asked it, often giving the answer to what it figures you should be asking even when that isn’t what you asked? Pain in the ass, and I wish there was a setting I could turn that crap off with, without logging in to Google and thus letting them strip me of my last fantasies of privacy?

So I ask the question, and Google comes back with Showing the responses for “why is the sky blue”.

Thanks Google. I so needed that dose of irony. A digital “well duuuuh” generated by one app to explain another.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 03/12/2012 at 10:19 AM   
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Not What I Expected

Something different for a Monday morning. This is a young (24) actress and model with an absolutely unique name. She is Astrid Bergès-Frisbey.

I quite like the looks of her. She’s quite pretty yet so innocent looking. You may have seen her once or twice, although she is not yet very well known. But I pretty much guarantee you that your children have seen her, and without any clothes on to boot.

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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 03/12/2012 at 12:01 AM   
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calendar   Sunday - March 11, 2012

Today’s Lie

Obama: still doing everything he can to lower the price of gas

I was laughing so hard at this whopper I shot some coffee up my nose. Horry clap, who does he think actually believes this rot? Pull the Gulf drilling permits, cancel the Keystone pipeline, forbid any new drilling on federal land, the continued moratorium for ANWR and offshore, billions thrown at useless green alternatives as a way to pay off his financial backers, his impossible mpg mandate to CAFE for cars, the Supertrain to nowhere, the moronic continuation of food based ethanol which wastes billions and has doubled the price of food in 6 years, ... the list is endless. And let’s not forget Transportation Secretary Chu, who is all for $5/gal gas. And the US still does not have one more refinery or nuke reactor than we did in 1973.

President Barack Obama is hitting back at Republican criticism of his energy policies and his role in controlling gasoline prices.

Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday to underscore his administration’s work to develop alternative energy sources and increase fuel efficiency.

Really? Because another wind farm that gets subsidized to NOT generate electricity and a design for a 2025 Chevy that’s hardly bigger than a soapbox derby racer is going to lower the price of gas how??

“I’m going to keep doing everything I can to help you save money on gas, both right now and in the future,” Obama said. “I hope politicians from both sides of the aisle join me.”

He accused Republicans of a “bumper sticker” approach to solving the nation’s energy problems.

A ‘bumper sticker’ approach? You mean simplistic sloganeering that makes no sense in the real world? Like No Blood For Oil and Bush Lied, People Died? Another example of the Left’s mind numbing double standard.

“We can’t just drill our way to lower gas prices — not when we consume 20 percent of the world’s oil,” Obama said in the address

How would you know when you’ve never tried?
If those ANWR projects had gone ahead in 2002, we may have had enormous supplies of the stuff on hand by now. If the commie anarchists at EPA were ever reeled in and we got a new refinery - even a government one! - we wouldn’t go through this seasonal price spike mess. If the morons at the state level could get their ducks in a run with the reds at EPA, just once, we wouldn’t have 57 gas blends and could get some real economies of scale going.

After 39 straight days of increases, prices fell nearly a penny from Tuesday to Thursday and held steady on Friday at $3.758 per gallon for the national average. The lull won’t last long, and gas is still nearly 50 cents higher than it was at the beginning of the year.

And this news is from CBS, one of the biggest Obama whores going.

I seem to recall that when we had that huge gas price under Bush, which the media blamed him for 10,000%, (of course Obama gets a free ride; none of this is His fault) and the oil stock prices and corporate profits skyrocketed to the point where they nearly equaled those of the iPad people this year, and the government was condemning speculators, that it all came crashing down when Bush announced that new offshore drilling would commence. Just the word that new supplies were being dug for, not actually delivered at this time, was all it took. And the crude price per barrel dropped like a rock. We went from $4/gal to $1.99 in two weeks it seemed, and the price kept dropping for several months after that. Perhaps the economy going to rack and ruin around the same time had something to do with it, but all these years later the economy doesn’t seem to be doing all that much better, and we’re right back to $4 gas again.

The truth is, Obamba isn’t doing squat to bring down gas prices. He and Chu want them this high, even higher. What else can you believe? Another presidency, and another bunch of years, and still the USA has a self-destructive energy policy. Still. How many times do you need to be kicked in the wallet before you see the reality? The government is not on the people’s side on this. And some in government are actively the people’s enemy on this.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 03/11/2012 at 10:37 AM   
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Government’s legal fight AGAINST the right to wear a cross at work

Take a look at the photo.(link) That tiny cross is a threat to civilization? Jeesh.
Many women and a few men too, have worn the cross as jewelry instead of as a religious display. But no matter. Nobody has to my certain knowledge been traumatized by the sight of the cross or for that matter by the Star of David which some have also worn as jewelry. 
But times have changed and I guess there are so many folks who belong to religions that are NOT native to this country, that they might be offended by the site of either and especially the frightening cross.  Oh dear me.

Government’s legal fight AGAINST the right to wear a cross at work brings accusations it is ‘sidelining Christianity’
By BRENDAN CARLIN

The Government was last night accused of ‘sidelining’ Christianity for preparing a legal fight against believers having the right to wear the cross at work.

In a move branded ‘extraordinary’ by Christian groups, the Government was reported to be ready to argue against two British women at the European Court of Human Rights.

It is set to defend the right of employers to ban the cross as it is not a ‘requirement’ of the Christian faith to wear it. Bosses could then sack workers who insisted on wearing the symbol.

The move would potentially scupper the case being brought by two Christian women, Nadia Eweida and Shirley Chaplin, who claim they were discriminated against when their employers stopped them wearing crosses.

The Ministry of Justice was last night unavailable for comment, but Christian groups expressed their astonishment at the news.

Andrea Williams, the director of the Christian Legal Centre, said: ‘It is extraordinary that a Conservative Government should argue that the wearing of the cross is not a generally recognised practice of the faith.

Mrs Eweida, a former British Airways worker, and Mrs Chaplin, a nurse, are taking their case to the European court in Strasbourg after facing disciplinary action at work. Mrs Eweida’s case dates from 2006 when she was suspended for refusing to take off the cross, which her employers claimed breached BA’s uniform code.

The 61-year-old, from Twickenham, claimed that BA allowed members of other faiths to wear religious symbols. She lost her challenge against an earlier tribunal decision at the Court of Appeal and in May 2010 was refused permission to go to the Supreme Court.

Mrs Chaplin, 56, from Exeter, complained she was barred from working on wards by Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Trust after refusing to hide her cross, ending 31 years of nursing.

The hospital argued it was a health and safety issue.According to reports last night, the Government will argue that the two women’s application to the Strasbourg court is ‘manifestly ill-founded’.

Its submission stated: ‘In neither case is there any suggestion that the wearing of a visible cross or crucifix was a generally recognised form of practising the Christian faith, still less one that is regarded (including by the applicants themselves) as a requirement of the faith.’

But last night, former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey said: ‘The reasoning is based on a wholly inappropriate judgment of matters of theology and worship about which they can claim no expertise.’

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Posted by peiper   United States  on 03/11/2012 at 08:32 AM   
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fire sale as Arab state buys Britain

Didn’t think I’d even boot this thing today but. Caught a couple of item I couldn’t hold for tomorrow.
I knew from the day we arrived here that this country was for sale. A piece at a time.
There just are not the Brit billionaires available to buy things. Like Harrods. Probably once the greatest dept. store in the entire world. And a lovely tea shop. Or it was when last we visited many yrs ago when the Brits still owned it.
It really is a world turned upside down, and it’s all Bush’s fault.

How Qatar bought Britain: They own the Shard. They own the Olympic Village. And they don’t care if their Lamborghinis get clamped when they shop at Harrods (which is theirs, too)
By EDNA FERNANDES in Doha

Creeping steadily above the London skyline, the Shard will be Europe’s tallest building when it is finally finished in a few weeks’ time: an extraordinary monument to glass, steel and sheer ambition.

And an appropriate symbol for the rise of its Qatari owners and their ever-growing influence here in Britain.

From the ruins of the financial crisis, this tiny Gulf state has snapped up a range of famous British assets, and if you were to take a look from the upper storeys of the Shard, quite a few would be in view.

To the east, Qatar owns swathes of the Canary Wharf financial district through its majority holding in Songbird Estates plc.

When Barclays was in trouble at the height of the banking turmoil, the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) emerged as a white-knight investor, and became the biggest shareholder.

Over at Stratford stand the buildings of the Olympic Village – once the Games are finished this summer, QIA will take ownership.

Due west lie Harrods and, close by, No 1 Hyde Park, the world’s most expensive block of flats, also Qatari-owned.
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The only time the Qataris have excited the curiosity of the British was when two of their royal family’s matching turquoise supercars were clamped outside Harrods, which they own

If I’m not mistaken, the bros. who own these cars, and they always buy matching cars together, have a newer set here. I believe their other ones were yellow.
And that was only just before Christmas. I think. 

From a standing start, in the last two years Qatar has become Britain’s biggest supplier of imported liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Last year Qatari LNG accounted for 85 per cent of Britain’s liquefied natural gas imports, providing power to homes across the land.

But that figure is rising, and by the final quarter of 2011, Qatari supplies had jumped to 95.5 per cent of our total LNG imports.

For some, at least, our dependence on Qatar for a major part of our power has become a significant cause for concern. (LNG already accounts for one quarter of the UK gas supply.)

As one union leader put it: ‘They have vast sums to spend, they invest in our strategic industries and that in turn allows them to influence the type of society we are.’

Certainly, as North Sea oil reserves diminish, this tiny Gulf state has become pivotal to Britain’s future energy security and our prosperity.

It is little wonder that both David Cameron and his predecessor as Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, have been assiduous in courting the Qatari leader, Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, and his glamorous wife, Sheikha Moza bint Nasser Al-Missned.

more to see and read, take a look at their skyline


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Posted by peiper   United States  on 03/11/2012 at 08:12 AM   
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calendar   Saturday - March 10, 2012

This Doesn’t Work In Philadelphia Either

For a while there it seemed Philly was passing it’s own set of gun laws every year, only to have them, um, shot down by the state Supreme Court. Cities can’t make laws that go beyond state law. Now it’s Seattle’s turn to lurn. How come this kind of thing never works in New York City? Gun law-wise, the place is a nation unto itself.


WA Supremes: No Seattle, bad dog! No special gun laws for you!

The Washington State Supreme Court put an end Thursday to the city of Seattle’s efforts to impose a gun ban at city parks.

Attorneys for the city had asked the high court to overturn a lower court ruling that the gun ban violated state law. But the Supreme Court justices declined to even look at the case, reaffirming that the gun ban is illegal.

The National Rifle Association cheered the ruling, saying that it represents a “final victory” for Seattle gun owners.

The case began in 2008, when the city of Seattle and then-Mayor Greg Nickels enacted a rule that banned firearms from city parks, community centers and other city properties.

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In 2009, the city added another rule that banned guns from parks where children were likely to be present.

In October 2009, the NRA and the Second Amendment Foundation asked a King County Superior Court judge to strike down the rules as a violation of a state law prohibiting localities from enacting this type of ban on guns.

In response, the city replied that the ban was permissible because it was acting in its interest as owner of the park properties.

In 2010, a King County Superior Court judge struck down the gun ban, and the state Court of Appeals later confirmed that ruling. By declining to review the appeals court ruling, the state Supreme Court reaffirmed it, and the gun ban is now history.



Beat the leftist nanny-staters down with a hammer again and again until they give up or die. Preferably both.


Hell, they knew they were full of beans in 2008 when they passed the first law, and their AG told them so:

In October 2008, Attorney General Rob McKenna (R) issued an opinion, which put the city and Mayor Nickels on further notice that Washington cities may not enact local laws prohibiting possession of firearms on city property or in city-owned facilities.

In 2010 the King County court threw out their bans:

The rule banning firearms in Seattle parks was tossed out Friday by King County Superior Court Judge Catherine Shaffer, who said the city cannot pre-empt state law.

The city now has 30 days to remove the 116 metal signs, which are about 1 by 1-½ feet in size and show a handgun inside a red circle, with a red line crossing out the gun. In all-capital letters there is the warning: “FIREARMS PROHIBITED.”

Assistant City Attorney Gary Keese said, “We will comply with the court order and are weighing with the mayor and City Council the options for appeal.”

I’m not a lawyer, but I don’t think “but we don’t like the decision” is sufficient grounds for appeal. Nevertheless ...

In 2011 the State Court of Appeals threw out their appeal:

The Washington state Court of Appeals affirmed this week that a gun ban in Seattle’s parks is illegal.  The decision comes more than a year after a King County judge sided with several area gun owners, the NRA and the Second Amendment Foundation, and the city of Seattle appealed.

So the question had to be asked at least 4 times (2008, 2010, 2011, 2012): Just which part of NO don’t you understand?

In this week’s ruling, which affirms the trial court’s decision, the Court of Appeals panel wrote:  “We hold that under the plain language of RCW 9.41.290 and RCW 9.41.300, the City’s attempt to regulate the possession of firearms at designated park areas and park facilities open to the public by adopting the Firearms Rule is preempted by state law.”

So my guess is that Seattle will now try and appeal their refused appeal of their denied appeal of their denied appeal of the decision that said the same thing as their own AG’s original opinion to the 9th Circuit clowns, and then the US Supreme Court, which will both ignore them as well. As long as the taxpayers are footing the bill, the leftists simply will not take no for an answer. It’s for the chiiiiildren you know.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 03/10/2012 at 02:18 PM   
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Fake And Inaccurate

An Army of Andrews fights all the BS memes, all the time.  I found this one at CNN this morning while looking for news stories. It’s a 15 picture photo essay of the Por ‘n Starvin’, their harmonious-with-nature home brought low by Glowball Warming!!!1111!!


Sodden In Ghoramara

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On the shore of a vanishing island

Daesung Lee sees global connections the rest of us often don’t recognize or choose not to dwell on.

Lee, an international photojournalist, spent two months photographing the people of Ghoramara Island, located in the Ganges Delta region in India’s West Bengal state. The island has been dramatically affected by global climate change.

“I have researched the effect of global warming, which is caused by mass consumption and pollution. Since the 1980s, more than 50% of the Ghoramara has vanished due to erosion by the sea. As a result two-thirds of the population have moved away from the island,” Lee says.

“This world is more connected than we can imagine by globalization. Most of the products we use for everyday life are produced by people we never know.”

He says many people who aren’t involved in the consumption of these products become “environmental refugees.”

“I hope people realize that climate change is more serious than we know and we have a major responsibility for it. I also hope people consider the impact that our consumption has on the world … and make efforts to reduce it by recycling products and using them long term.”

Working on the remote island had its challenges. With no electricity, Lee was forced to leave the island to go to the mainland every three days to charge his camera batteries.

He posed villagers on the shore and took portraits of them in juxtaposition with the beauty of the vanishing island.

“The villagers in Ghoramara have begun to save money in preparation to buy new farms,” Lee says. “I could see the traces of a heritage vanishing by the rising tides. Exposed roots of plants destroyed by the erosion serve to illustrate the absence of foundation in the lives of these people. The sea is swallowing up their past, while their future remains unknown.”

– Robert W. Johnson, CNN



What he isn’t telling you is that the island of Ghoramara is little more than a hump of mud on the outside edge of a bend in the Rupnarayan River where it dumps into the Bay of Bengal at the north end of the Indian Ocean. It’s a pile of silt with some grass growing on it. As anyone who knows anything about rivers knows, they are constantly changing. Riverine silt islands come and go all the time. It’s just that in this overpopulated and poorest corner of the Turd World, people will live on any piece of somewhat dry ground they can find. In this case, there was probably no more room in the nearby town of Kakdwip (is that the ancestral home of Barney Frank??) and it was either live on the silt pile or share the stanky mangrove swamp to the East with a bunch of tigers. Climate change, global warming, increased consumption, and insufficient recycling have nothing to do with this eroding mud pile whatsoever. But it does make a better picture than some lone polar bear clinging to a bit of sea ice, right? And most folks won’t even read the whole one paragraph story, they’ll just look at the pictures. And then Blame Bush.

See the map at Wiki, or Google Map up 21.916667, 88.129722.

Fight the meme. Do not accept the lie.

PS - the Rupnarayan River was dammed some years ago, some miles upstream at Kolaghat, for a hydropower generator. This lowered the level of the river, perhaps allowing this pile of silt mud to surface and dry out in the first place. The province of West Bengal is in desperate need of electricity, so it is entirely probable that the electricity people - government employees - have been running more water through their turbines to produce it. That would put more water in the river, which would in turn rise up in level, and erode or drown the mud island as it should have done all along.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 03/10/2012 at 11:08 AM   
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Saturday’s Moonbat

Extremist Lawyer Gloria Allred Wants Rush Arrested And Sued

Cites his violation of archaic and sexist 1883 Florida Blue Law

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Rush Limbaugh has drawn the ire of celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred, who sent a letter to the Palm Beach County state attorney requesting an investigation into whether the popular radio host should be prosecuted for calling a law student a “slut” and “prostitute” last week.

“Mr. Limbaugh targeted his attack on a young law student who was simply exercised her free speech and her right to testify before congress on a very important issue to millions of American women and he vilified her. He defamed her and engaged in unwarranted, tasteless and exceptionally damaging attacks on her,” Allred told POLITICO Friday afternoon. “He needs to face the consequences of his conduct in every way that is meaningful.”

So much for Free Speech. But wait, stop: Emulate Andrew [Breitbart] and don’t accept the meme: Sandra Fluke DID NOT actually testify before Congress. She didn’t even testify before a Congressional Committee. She met with Queen Nancy and a few other Democrats at an unofficial meeting about contraception and she was the ONLY witness. Do not accept the base lie that is the premise of this story, and torpedo the left with their own words. Here is the original story from CBS News, the more-than-just-leaning-left Dan Rather “fake but accurate” network:

House Democrats on Thursday sought to capitalize on the controversy surrounding the government’s role in providing contraception to women, holding a high-profile discussion on the matter and asking supporters for money as soon as the talk was over.

Led by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, the Democrats held a pretend hearing while Congress is not in session to listen to the views of a third-year Georgetown Law student and activist ...
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Specifically, she said contraception can cost a woman over $3,000 dollars ...

And she said contraception is not just used for birth control, but also for other health issues including the treatment of polycystic ovary syndrome and even seizures.

No Republicans attended the mock hearing.

It was merely a session orchestrated by House minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other liberals to bolster their spurious contention of a “war on women.” Page has been around Washington long enough to know the difference.  But it might interfere with the narrative he and some other members of the mainstream media wish to advance.

As we have all learned in the past few days, Fluke’s statement that contraception can cost $3000 a year is only true for the most extreme and highly rare type of birth control pills which are prescribed to primarily treat the maladies she stated. In terms of regular contraception for the use of not getting pregnant, the cost rarely exceeds $500 per year. And we all know that most non-religious colleges hand out free condoms like candy, and we’ve learned that there are at least 3 Planned Parenthood and other places that distribute free contraception all within a couple blocks of Georgetown University which Fluke, 31 not 23 as originally portrayed by the MSM, attends. But the point is that the liberal media itself at first reported the truth: Fluke is a known activist and the meeting was neither official nor fair and balanced. So right away lawyer Allred (what an appropriate name, huh?) is really spinning things here, as she tries to jump on the bandwagon as it leaves town.

In a letter dated March 8, Allred, writing on behalf of the Women’s Equal Rights Legal Defense and Education Fund, requested that Palm Beach County State Attorney Michael McAuliffe probe whether the conservative radio personality had violated Section 836.04 of the Florida Statutes by calling Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke the two derogatory words.

The statute stipulates that anyone who “speaks of and concerning any woman, married or unmarried, falsely and maliciously imputing to her a want of chastity” is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

Oh yeah baby, I’m sure Rush is quaking in his boots. You’re going to try and get him busted by a law that MIGHT result in him getting a $50 fine. WOW. [actually the maximum penalty of that statute is a year in jail and a $1000 fine] Although all Rush really needs to do is plead No Contest, and have his lawyers appeal that the law itself is sexually discriminatory and should be annulled. And he will win, guaranteed. The Blue Laws all went out the window at least 40 years ago. Every last one of them is unconstitutional, and I think that all but this one have already been thrown out. Allred is just shooting her mouth off trying to stir things up again; she knows she doesn’t stand a snowflake’s chance in Hell of winning this one.


But the real point of this is that the Left does not hesitate to use the law to try to repress the free speech of its opponents. “Free for we, but not for thee” ought to be their byword.

This publicity hound has a serious problem with liberty. She constantly bellyaches about her client’s right to free speech while hypocritically seeking to stifle the same from her opponents. It would be amusing if it weren’t so nauseating.

Perhaps we can get the prosecutor to arrest and charge Allred under one of the “excessive noise” statutes.

Perhaps we can get the prosecutor to fine Allred a few tens of thousands for being a nuisance and a grandstander.

Limbaugh’s contentious remarks, made against Fluke for testifying on Capitol Hill about women’s access to contraception, resulted in widespread public outrage and dozens of advertisers pulling their commercials from his three-hour program.

But let’s get back to not accepting the meme. Note how misleading the above quote is. If I stand out on the sidewalk and orate my views, then I too am testifying on Capital Hill. Congress? Official committees? What are those??



Fight the bullshit. It’s time to promote an Army of Davids to an Army of Andrews. And for that, I’m already qualified!


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 03/10/2012 at 10:20 AM   
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What Our Blood And Treasure Bought

100 Emos Get Stoned

In Iraq. And I’m not talking about sparking up a spliff.

Iraq. Not Iran. Iraq, where we brought peace, freedom, democracy, tolerance, etc. Yeah right.



Years and years ago, when the DC clown posse was first putting Iraq back together again, and I read that they allowed the locals to write a constitution driven by Sharia law, I knew it was a lost hope. Now they’re killing teens in the streets over their hairstyles. How is this free democracy any different from the brutal theocracy on the other side of the Zagros mountains? It isn’t.



At least 90 Iraqi teenagers with “emo” appearances have been stoned to death by religious extremists in Baghdad in the past month after an inflammatory interior ministry statement dubbed it “devil worshiping”, activists said.

Iraq’s Moral Police released a chilling statement on the interior ministry’s website condemning the “emo phenomenon” among Iraqi youth, disturbingly declaring its intent to “eliminate” the trend.

“The ‘Emo phenomenon’ or devil worshiping is being followed by the Moral Police who have the approval to eliminate [the phenomenon] as soon as possible since it’s detrimentally affecting the society and becoming a danger,” the statement read.

“They wear strange, tight clothes that have pictures on them such as skulls and use stationary that are shaped as skulls. They also wear rings on their noses and tongues, and do other strange activities,” it continued.

Religious extremists caught onto the interior ministry statement, and have been harassing and killing teenagers with “strange” or “emo” appearances.

A group of armed men dressed in civilian clothing led dozens of teenagers to secluded areas a few days ago, stoned them to death, and then disposed their bodies in garbage dumpsters across the capital, according to activists.

Al-Bayaty said the killings appear to have been carried out by extremist Shia militias in mostly poor Shia neighborhoods and said she suspected “there’s complicity of the Ministry of Interior in the killings.”

Photos of the victims were released on Facebook, causing panic and fear among Iraqi students.
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The interior ministry has not disclosed the number of teenage victims, but released a follow-up statement on Thursday warning extremists “not to step on public freedom of Iraqis.”
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The Director of the Moral Police of the Interior Ministry released a statement, saying “The ‘Emo phenomenon’ or devil worshiping is being followed by the Moral Police who have the approval to eliminate [the phenomenon] as soon as possible since it’s detrimentally affecting the society and becoming a danger.”
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“They wear strange, tight clothes that have pictures on them such as skulls and use stationary that are shaped as skulls. They also wear rings on their noses and tongues, and do other strange activities.”

Yes, I think that kind of strange dress and behavior is called being a teenager.

Can someone please tell me what the heck kind of “freedom” or “democracy” we set up over there that has a MORAL POLICE to even begin with? Freedom Rule #1: Get your damn nose out of my life; what I do, what I think, how I look, how I act, how I feel, what I believe in is NONE OF YOUR DAMNED BUSINESS.

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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 03/10/2012 at 08:23 AM   
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calendar   Friday - March 09, 2012

little girls as sex objects. and moms encourage it? SICK!  a new low.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2112156/Dance-Moms-hits-new-low-Girls-young-EIGHT-wear-nude-bikinis-burlesque-routines.html

That link above well illustrates how depraved and sick the world, or their world anyway, has become.  I won’t post any of the photos here.

What the hell is going on with the moms?

Some people automatically accept men are supposed to be these sexually perverted beings that live under rocks.  There are many who fit that description.
But someone has to feed the perverts and I naively am shocked every time I see evidence that the enablers are actually women, mothers who think it’s perfectly normal and perfectly okay to turn an 8 year old into a would be sex object.  It’s wrong just plain wrong and frankly I think it should be made illegal.
We’re talking about wee kiddies here and even at the age of 10 they are still too damn young.  But what kind of message are the kids getting as they grow up?
This can not be okay.

I’m not sure but I think it comes from the USA. Hope not but I think it does. 


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Posted by peiper   United States  on 03/09/2012 at 12:31 PM   
Filed Under: • CULTURE IN DECLINECorruption and GreedOutrageousStoopid-People •  
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the titanic …. that says it all

Only possible with modern technology.  This is worth looking if you haven’t seen it yet.

Researchers have pieced together what is believed to be the first comprehensive map of the entire 3-by-5-mile Titanic debris field.

Deep sea grave of the Titanic: Extraordinary sonar images show full map of shipwreck on ocean floor for first time

Researchers hope the map will provide new clues about what happened when the famous vessel sank 100 years ago
Expedition team used sonar imaging and more than 100,000 photos taken from underwater robots to create the detailed map
It shows where hundreds of objects and pieces of the presumed-unsinkable vessel landed

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

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There’s no point in my copying everything over here from the source, especially as the photos at the Mail are HUGE! 

SEE IT ALL HERE FULL SCREEN


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Posted by peiper   United States  on 03/09/2012 at 11:47 AM   
Filed Under: • Amazing Science and DiscoveriesArt-Photography •  
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looking for a solution to a problem. see screen shot and note. any ideas?

Gonna be short to nil on my posting today, but needed to get this in.

A problem I can’t solve and I’ve tried the usual stuff, thinking that the problem was on my machine or maybe the browser.

Here’s what’s happening and it only happens on this web site. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/?source=refresh

The trouble first surfaced yesterday or maybe the day before.

Getting double images, print covered by other print and photos the same.
Here’s a screen shot of just a little but you’ll get the idea.

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This appears on the far right side of the page in a column called Promotions although there are also news stories there.
I use Chrome as my default browser, and also have Opera and IE8 which I hardly ever use.  But the problem showed itself on all three browsers.
So, I downloaded the latest Firefox browser (which btw impressed me as there are some improvements from when I last used it before uninstalling)
Anyway, the problem showed itself on FF also.
I called the Telegraph and got this reply.

Thank you for contacting the Telegraph Media Group.

Sorry you have been experiencing problems whilst using the Telegraph.co.uk.

Unfortunately, this problem has not been recognised from within the Telegraph or from any other users. We have tested this area of the website today from various computers and found no issues arising. We can now confirm that the cause of the problem you are experiencing is external from the Telegraph website and we believe this may possibly be a local issue concerned with your personal computer set-up.

As you may already be aware, computers are very complex tools and this particular problem could be related to a host of different possibilities by the general nature of computers, some of which you may not comprehend and of which we are unable to help you diagnose remotely from our office.

So I thought I’d share this with all here who are tech smarter them me which may be all of you. If any have ideas or suggestions I’d love to hear em cos I am stumped.  Yeah, cache is cleared. System defragged, and all the usual regular maintenance we’re supposed to do.  I do those as a matter of course and not just when there’s a problem.

And why only this one site if the problem is not at the newspaper online?


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Posted by peiper   United States  on 03/09/2012 at 10:33 AM   
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calendar   Thursday - March 08, 2012

How could I have missed this one?

World Leaders Forum speakers—who can range from presidents of foreign countries to renowned artists—generally take questions from audience members after they speak. For this event, though, audience members who wanted to ask questions had to write them down and submit them before the event began. Bollinger then posed questions to Holder.

One of Bollinger’s questions concerned the United States Supreme Court’s decision earlier this week to reconsider affirmative action. Bollinger was involved in defending affirmative action when the court declared it constitutional in a landmark 2003 case, and he said on Thursday that the court’s decision to revisit the issue is “ominous.”

Holder expressed support for affirmative action, saying that he “can’t actually imagine a time in which the need for more diversity would ever cease.”

“Affirmative action has been an issue since segregation practices,” Holder said. “The question is not when does it end, but when does it begin ... When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are entitled?”

source.

The first discussion: “Ponder a moment the layers of rubbish in this philosophy.”

The second discussion: “Apparently, not until all that the White Man has built over the last two millennia has been taken from them and redistributed.”

Who will speak truth to this crap?

Not the party that claims to represent us, apparently. For they still couch under the rock in fear of the fallacy that was, conversely, the driving force behind Andrew’s activism:

That is a fundamental thing that enraged Andrew, this idea that if you disagreed about public policy, if you disagreed about how to organize society, that proved you were a racist. That proved you were a fascist. That proved you were a homophobe…

Our party has accepted the moral code of those who oppress us, and thus have left us open to being gleefully looted by Eric Holder and the full force of the law.

We need a new leader. Or a new party.

Damn right. Don’t accept the enemy’s meme. Don’t allow their “moral code” because it is false. Don’t play in his sandbox by his rules.

Holder is a racist, period. So is his master.

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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 03/08/2012 at 04:14 PM   
Filed Under: • Obama, The OneRacism and race relations •  
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Oh for the love of …

Just in case you weren’t 110% certain that the Obama Regime not only has its head up its ass when it comes to a national energy policy, but is actively working against our better interests ...


Subsidized Wind Farms Paid To NOT Generate Electricity



Wind farms in the Pacific Northwest—built with government subsidies and maintained with tax credits for every megawatt produced—are now getting paid to shut down as the federal agency charged with managing the region’s electricity grid says there’s an oversupply of renewable power at certain times of the year.

The problem arose during the late spring and early summer last year. Rapid snow melt filled the Columbia River Basin. The water rushed through the 31 dams run by the Bonneville Power Administration, a federal agency based in Portland, Ore., allowing for peak hydropower generation. At the very same time, the wind howled, leading to maximum wind power production.

Demand could not keep up with supply, so BPA shut down the wind farms for nearly 200 hours over 38 days.

“It’s the one system in the world where in real time, moment to moment, you have to produce as much energy as is being consumed,” BPA spokesman Doug Johnson said of the renewable energy.

Now, Bonneville is offering to compensate wind companies for half their lost revenue. The bill could reach up to $50 million a year.

The extra payout means energy users will eventually have to pay more.

“We require taxpayers to subsidize the production of renewable energy, and now we want ratepayers to pay renewable energy companies when they lose money?” asked Todd Myers, director of the Center for the Environment of the Washington Policy Center and author of “Eco-Fads: How the Rise of Trendy Environmentalism is Harming the Environment.”

“That’s a ridiculous system that keeps piling more and more money into a system that’s unsustainable,” Myers said.

Green energy advocates also oppose BPA’s oversupply solution.


If even the greenies agree that this plan is asinine, it has to be stupid beyond imagination. Hey Obama, I don’t have oil beneath my house, so how about sending me a couple of million bucks for not drilling for what isn’t there? What the hell, it’s only somebody else’s money anyway!

Of course, the ultimate in Stoopid Policy was to build the windmills in the first place, without massive capacity increases to the power grid and a battery farm the size of Delaware. So now the power companies, which couldn’t afford to build the things in the first place and got huge bucks to do so, are being paid to not use them when they actually can work. Naturally the windmill geniuses blame the evil hydro-power folks, all of whom probably work for Halliburton and are out to Kill All The Fish™, for maliciously continuing to generate electricity when water is flowing in the rivers. The audacity of that defies belief! Why, with that kind of attitude, you’d expect the windmill folks to generate electricity with their Whack-a-Bird™ toys when the wind blows. The nerve!


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 03/08/2012 at 12:39 PM   
Filed Under: • GovernmentOil, Alternative Energy, and Gas PricesStoopid-People •  
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