Saturday - December 08, 2012

Like I Said Earlier

A little case in point about the over-the-moon insane cost of military gear; unimaginable technology pushed to the brink, but with next to no durability and extraordinary maintenance costs.

One airplane has a slightly rough landing. Nearly two million dollars in damages. It’s just a fender bender, really. Nothing to see here, move along.

Horry Clap. What a waste of money.

An F-22 fighter jet used in a flyover during a remembrance ceremony at Pearl Harbor scraped its tail on a runway as it landed, causing $1.8 million in damage.

A Hawaii National Guard spokesman says nobody was hurt in the incident Friday morning on the 71st anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Lt. Col. Charles Anthony says the jet was coming back to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam from a training exercise after taking part in the ceremony. He says the “mishap” happened roughly 90 minutes after the flyover.

In jet terms, the damage to the F-22’s horizontal stabilizers may be little more than a pricey fender-bender.

Anthony says it costs roughly $147 million to make one F-22 fighter.

Geez Louise. Cost overrun much?

For one million dollars, you ought to be able to build a brand new Sea Fury AND a brand new Super Taco, as long as neither one is weighed down with all the deluxe electronic gimcrackery. Which neither one really needs for 90% or more of it’s lifetime. And OUGHT to be a modular package, Plug ‘N Play, that could snap in from one plane to another in a couple hours. A million in special electronics ought to buy a laser targeter and a missile defense package. If it doesn’t, then you’re buying those from the wrong freakin’ vendor. So $3 million gets you two entire mission-superior airplanes, one medium, one small, not just a rear bumper and a pair of new tires for some exotic flying auto-erotic wetdream.

More than enough airplane for >85% of small aircraft missions.

Stop pissing away my money. Especially on bullshit flybys.

Posted by Drew458     on 12/08/2012 at 06:04 PM   
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the conning of the public. again. the west wants assad gone, so the big lie begins

This is pure BS people.

Assad is preparing to use chemical weapons against Syrian rebels, Hague warns as he threatens action

Foreign Secretary says he has seen intelligence that Syria has nerve gas Sarin
US sources claim Assad has aerial bombs loaded with deadly weapon
Speculation that NATO could begin airstrikes

By Steve Robson

That’s the headline. You really don’t need to see the article here and if you’re interested in it, it’s at the Daily Mail and every other warmongering newspaper in the UK and probably the USA as well.  We are being conned. Again. So what’s new?

Oh joy. Here we go again. The west is just itching to dump full force on Assad.
Now look here folks.  I know I am not the sharpest tool in the box but even I can tell when someone is being set up. Big time.  You don’t even need a brain to understand how this is playing out.

A least a month ago the mention was made of chemical weapons. Yeah right. It was made in passing but the idea was to plant the seed. You know the drill.
Any lie provided it is big enough, people will buy. It’s the tiny ones people won’t believe.

Next we heard from some head of state, could have been Obama, about a line in the sand.  If Assad using chemical weapons on his own people there will be hell to pay. OK, so O. didn’t say hell but you get the message.  Then France started talking about Assad’s possible use of chemical weapons and the Brits and last night Bankee-Moon (I don’t really care if I spelled his name rong) warned Assad not to use chemical weapons as it would be declared a crime against humanity. Right. Okay BKM, if you say so.

Meanwhile, back in Damascus, Assad is continually saying he has no intention of using chemical weapons. And the more he denies the false charge against him, the more the west keeps bringing it up and threatening his government with reprisals.
It’s a no winner for him and wool pulled over the eyes of the public in the USA and France and the UK and anyone else who has it in for Assad and an axe to grind.

It is not that I am pro Assad. I don’t care frankly. Furthermore, I do not care if he did use chemical weapons against the mob shelling his city and military installations.
Oh pardon me.  They’re all freedom fighters. I forget. The ones we no longer do business with are now tyrants and the other guys formerly a rag tag band of bandits and tribal elders getting back their own for previous insults, are now democracy loving fighters for truth and justice. Uh huh. Pull the other chain now.

Is Assad a boy scout? Prolly not but chemical weapons?  I really doubt he’s that dumb. He must know the west is just looking for any excuse to lay a serious hurt on him.  Do any of you believe he is dumb enough to shoot himself in the foot?
Again and again and again we are reminded of the kind of weapons he has in his chemical arsenal.  Mustard gas he might use say the talking heads. Biological agents that Assad “might” possess. And “might” use against innocent civilians, who just happen to be gunning for him. 

Although not my favorite journalist, Robert Fisk, who writes for a liberal leaning paper and is I believe on the left himself, reports that back in 1982 the present Assad’s father, Hafez al-Assad, in the town of Hama during the rising by Sunni muslims there, was accused of using chemical weapons on his people. Well, Fisk happened to be there on the date those weapons were reported to have been used.  Feb. of ’82.
Well folks, it didn’t happen True, his army was busy slaughtering people who were also by the way, slaughtering regime officials and their entire families.  It is pretty much how those folks wage war on one another. But there were no chemical weapons then, but now we are expected to believe there were. Cos the old story came up again and so why shouldn’t the present Assad do likewise.

Once upon a time when Saddam was our guy cos you will recall he was once fighting a war against Iran, well the US and Germany gave him components for chemical weapons.

What gets to me is all the sabre rattling and the hot air being used up again by those in power who are so clearly hoodwinking their public. It is a con people. We’re being set up along with Assad.  They are making things up and setting us up to accept their intrusion into another country’s war against itself.

Oh yeah, by the way. Would anyone happen to know which country used gas in the middle east first?  Saddam?  Nope. Bet you thought he was the first though. Huh?
Well he wasn’t.

It was the Brits under General Allenby, against the Turks in Sinai, way back in 1917.

Posted by peiper     on 12/08/2012 at 04:24 PM   
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Vulture Approved

An easy one for your holiday events.

A simple to make appetizer for the crowd ... we call them the vultures at our events; almost none of the appetizers ever even make it out of the kitchen. But hey, it’s an Italian family, so who wants to leave the kitchen anyway?

This one takes about 5 minutes to set up, and about 15 minutes to bake, and about 90 seconds for the vultures to make disappear.

H/T to Peiper, the United Kingdom, and the Lidl’s grocery store insert from the Sunday Times. Well done.

1 whole Camembert cheese in it’s little wooden box, 8 oz to 250g (get one that is weeks away from it’s use-by date)
baker’s parchment
1 baguette of French bread, about 18” long
6” or so worth of fresh rosemary sprigs
2 good sized cloves of fresh garlic, one slivered, one mashed
a quarter stick of sweet butter, softened
a half handful of fresh finely chopped parsley, optional
fresh ground black pepper

Take the cheese out of it’s wooden box, remove the wrapper, then fold a quarter sheet of parchment into the box and return the cheese.

If you don’t have baker’s parchment, just unwrap the cheese and put it in a flat bottomed bowl (eg a ramekin) that just fits around it.

Take a broad tipped sharp knife and cut 4 or 5 parallel cuts in the cheese. Twist the knife in the cut to open the slit, and insert slivers of garlic and short sprigs of rosemary.

Cut the baguette lengthwise along the side, open it like a submarine sandwich, and spread on the softened butter, mashed garlic, and chopped parsley on the inside. Close it and wrap it up in aluminum foil.

Cheese and bread both go in a 400°F oven for about 10-15 minutes, until the cheese is soft but not fully melted. A younger cheese will have a thinner crust and will leak less, whereas an older cheese will have a stronger taste but a thicker crust and will leak more. Your call.

Take both out of the oven, hold the unwrapped garlic bread with an oven mitt, and slice the baguette into 1/2” thick slices. Grind a generous amount of pepper on the cheese. Serve. You can let folks dip directly, or put out a wide bladed cheese knife or even a spoon.

If all goes right, almost the whole cheese will be gone by the time you get back to the kitchen for some extra bread. Baking this one fills the whole house with a yummy garlic, cheese, and rosemary aroma ... which is irresistible to the vultures.

The two of us tried this, and we ate the whole thing in about 5 minutes. Piggy piggy, but it’s just that good. Wash it down with some ginger ale or some crisp white wine.

Fancy cooks will want to nix making the garlic bread, which is a tiny bit of overkill anyway, and roast up a head of garlic first. Drizzle it with honey and olive oil before roasting for about 40 minutes. When done, cut a good number of slices in the top of the cheese in a criss-cross pattern, and squeeze the almost fully roasted garlic bulbs out onto the cheese and press them in with a knife blade, then pop in a few sprigs of rosemary here and there and get it in the oven. Butter up the bread and put it in to heat. With the nutty taste of the roast garlic, I’d serve this version with a comfortable red wine.

Horry clap, this is NOT something to eat if you’ve got a big date later on. You’re going to have garlic breath like you’ve never had before. So do it with other folks already there, so they can share the effect, and nobody will notice. Sure they won’t. Who cares? Have some more wine! Happy Christmas!

Posted by Drew458     on 12/08/2012 at 01:11 PM   
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How to get your children to visit at Christmas

An old man in Miami calls up his son in New York and says, “Listen, your mother and I are getting divorced. Forty-five years of misery is enough.”

“Dad, what are you talking about?” the son screams.

“We can’t stand the sight of each other any longer,” he says. “I’m sick of her face, and I’m sick of talking about this, so call your sister in Chicago and tell her,” and he hangs up.

Now, the son is worried. So he calls up his sister. She says, “Like hell they’re getting divorced!” and calls her father immediately. “You’re not getting divorced! Don’t do another thing, the two of us are flying home tomorrow to talk about this. Until then, don’t call a lawyer, don’t file a paper, DO YOU HEAR ME?” and she hangs up.

The old man turns to his wife and says “Okay, they’re coming for Christmas and paying their own airfares.”

Posted by Christopher     on 12/08/2012 at 12:56 PM   
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What, No Pearl Harbor Post?

"Hey, did you guys forget it’s December 7th?” - Rich K.

No Rich, did not forget, but didn’t really see the point. Don’t always want to be a “samizdat” blog anyway.

Pearl Harbor was over and done long before I was born. Japan is no longer an enemy. There have been plenty of other wars and other attacks wherein we lost lots of servicemen that are equally deserving of remembrance but get almost none.

So what am I supposed to point out? That we were played for suckers in the early 40s? Gee, that hasn’t happened since. That our Socialist president at the time was very probably in the know and let it happen anyway? Gee, where have we heard that one ... just 90 days ago for the latest one. Can’t call it an act of terror, when it was a sneak attack that opened a war between nations. Around as many people died on 9/11, but our government won’t even call that terrorism at this point, and thinks that telling us that secretly killing one old goat buggerer in his bedroom ended the entire thing. Yeah right. So go out and lie your ass off and play CYA for months when that’s proved wrong ... and the majority of Americans simply accepts it.

So what would a Pearl Harbor post be for?

Perhaps I should do a post-Pearl post that celebrates the unified resolve of this nation at that point in time to actually defeat such an enemy, regardless of the time, cost, or loss necessary. That’s something that no longer exists ... America is afraid to fight, and even more afraid to win. Every last sub-group would cry the blues and claim instant mistreatment. And our own government is far worse. Pussy politics and political correctness have turned us into a nation of lazy chickens, far past the point where we have to spend an extra couple hundred thousand PER BOMB to make sure it not only falls exactly on a specific target, but that it doesn’t blow up one bit more than necessary ... only to fret and wet our pants when the talking heads on the news chastise us for supposed collateral damage. We’ve completely forgotten that collateral damage is half the damn point. And this is why we have troops rotting in Kosovo for nearly 20 years, why the Afghan campaign has taken more than a decade and is no closer to being over than it was on Week 4 (even though 2 months was ample time to destroy the entire country), why Iraq took ages, and why Somalia got away with piracy for years. We The People are afraid of our own might, and have lost our sense of righteousness and all of our resolve. If any war takes more than a single month we’ve grown tired of it.We are lead by cowards and morons, many of whom are blatant enemies to the American creed. Outright communists and anarchists, thieves and whores, there isn’t an inch of spine in the whole bloody bunch. And we keep right on re-electing them, never asking or wondering or demanding improvement ... on the news yesterday was the bit that the Presidential election cost TWO BILLION DOLLARS. Seriously? And where did that money come from? No way it was from donations from the people. So today let’s play Fiscal Cliff, and let our leaders send us, the brainless fat assed lemmings that we truly are, over the cliff. Because who is going to stop them? Will Boehner’s tears be enough? Please. The Dems are evil and the GOP is worthless, and We Teh People can just go the fuck to hell and pay out every cent we make to make the government and it’s thieves even richer, as they vote endless largess to themselves and the worthless layabout scum that are their constituencies.

We are doomed.

No, no Pearl Harbor post. We don’t deserve one. That America is dead.

The men who died there were for the most part not heroes. They were blown to smithereens, burned up, and drowned because they were caught with their pants down. At best 5% of them had a chance to fight back. Their deaths were tragic and horrible. Sad for them, but they have been remembered and honored for 70+ years now. The attack was the punch in the nose that awoke the sleeping giant. That giant is dead. Long gone. Other than lobbing a few dozen ICBMs at some attacking nation (which we would never, ever, never do), there is simply no way the USA could respond in a similar fashion today. We don’t have the factories. We don’t have the steel mills. We don’t have the ability to make our own clothing, ships, and so forth. We own 87 bombers, most of which are older than I am. All that awesome electronic stuff the military spends trillions on? It’s all made in the Philippines. Not in Texas. All of that production has been stripped away and sent to the other end of the world, and then our government has put in environmental rules to keep things pure that make it impossible for such production facilities to be created. Fuck, we can’t even make a single new nuke reactor or oil refinery in 40+ years. Every last commercial ship we own comes from either Norway or South Korea. Except for some tugboats and tenders that are built down the Gulf Coast. Gee, big deal. And in truth, we hardly even own any ships any longer. The vast majority of the merchant marine is foreign. We don’t even make our own damn hand grenades, the supply of which (as we saw in the last Gulf affair) can be curtailed by political differences with the producing nation. And I’m not even going to get started on the energy issue. Holy shit. Cost overruns and pie in the sky fantasy designs have given us a solid gold navy that is an absolute money vacuum. Super high end tricksy stuff that needs never ending high dollar maintenance, just to be marginally functional. And so on, and so on, ad nauseum. We’ve pushed excellence so far that it’s reached the point of non-functionality. But what you need to fight a real war is mass. Mass numbers of plain old ships, bombs, missiles, bombers, rifles that work, etc. We make one ship or one soldier do the work of 20, yet what happens when either one goes down?

America no longer stands on it’s own feet. America no longer has feet to stand on. There is no giant to awake, and no usable club for him to wield, and no leadership even willing to call an attack an attack.

So let’s just go back to sleep. Maybe you can read about Pearl Harbor in a book. For now. Until history gets rewritten and even that gets buried under a rock because there weren’t enough lesbians, bisexual gender amporhs, and other niche people in the service at the time. Plus there were no women, blacks, midgets or Apaches in any command position. Therefore everything they did and thought was probably wrong. And that kind of shit WILL happen - just ask Thomas Jefferson, that horrible twisted slave raper.

Posted by Drew458     on 12/08/2012 at 11:15 AM   
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a trip to the hosp. clinic to see a consultant

This is very much a personal post. I do this to show the state of what passes for healthcare has become.

I want to be very clear about one thing however.  Overall, on a person-to-person basis generally, and having been in a hosp. here some time ago, the people I have come into contact with have been first rate.  But the system itself is somewhat screwy in that it does not allow for some things being different. For example, at home in the USA due to my age and due to the fact that my mom died of colon cancer, I was encouraged to have a Colonoscopy on some sort of regular basis. Now in the states, at least where we lived, the docs doing the procedure put you under.  You woke up a couple of hours later and got the results.  Well, things work a bit differently here.

Based on height and weight I guess, you are given a certain amount of painkiller but not put to sleep. One size fits all seems to be the rule and if it HURTS!!!!! Well, tough.  Which to my American eyes seem unreasonable.  I saw the report after the exam, which stated that “The patient experienced some discomfort.” Discomfort?

At the age of 70 plus, having had back surgery and bladder surgery for a tumor removal, I believe I know the different between “Pain and Discomfort.” Trust me, pain is the correct word to use. A lot of it.

I will not go again into the silly method used to refill an Rx.  That was once an entire post all by itself.

Now then, this has to do with my wife.  As anyone who has been around someone close who has a medical problem, Wardmom is a good example as she had to deal with far more than I could ever imagine, you may often feel somewhat helpless to take away the hurt a loved one is feeling.  So, you must rely on medical professionals.
You have to also hope that someone will listen and pay attention and then hope for the best.

After a six-month wait to see a “consultant” at the pain management clinic, we finally got a call last week letting us know an opening was available at 9am on Friday. Yesterday.

To give you some background, for those new to this site or just passing thru.
What was thought to be a scratched eye, specifically the pupil, turned out to be instead, the opening salvo of Shingles. But she was treated for a scratched eye for the first 24 hours or so. By the time a doc saw here again it was clear that she had a bad case of Shingles, caught too late and so the attack was very severe and lasted for quite some time.  Her nerves are damaged and now she has been left with a maddening itch on the right side of her head and behind her right eye. 24/7.  She has been putting an anti itch cream on her eyelid, which is not so good to do, but she is desperate.  Besides which, the cream only lasts a short time and the itch is more behind than in front.
Which makes things a bit difficult for me because I see it all.

It is difficult to describe the room I am in without a drawing. I am not an artist and a photo will not do because, good grief.  This room is somewhat untidy.
It used to be the dining room, and what used to be the table is about 56 inches long by 26 wide.  It now acts as a partial desk/ and seating at meals for one. The computer desk faces the front window and forms an L shape to this arrangement.  There are also a couple of small lamps on the table with a phone.  Opposite the table within line of sight is an easy chair. A rather low sitting affair she finds very comfortable but I don’t see how she gets out of the damn thing easily as it is so low sitting.

We get more than one newspaper delivered each day 7 days a week.  On weekends and especially Sunday, it can take all day to get through them all plus the magazine supplements.  The wife even reads the financial section, which I ignore almost in total.
Cannot be bothered, the damn thing is just full of numbers. Like, 1,2,3, 4 and so on.
Now at some point about 6 months ago, she had a fall here at the house. Lucky in that nothing broken but she did hurt herself and has NOT been the same since.  There is extreme pain in her lower back.  She has had a back problem for a long time but this fall has obviously aggravated something and so she was given various painkillers to add to all the other meds she is on. 

So there she sits reading if not one of the papers then a book.  When not at the computer I’m in another chair across this small room with another paper. Which brings me back to her itch.

She sits in her chair and doesn’t exactly scratch except for the eye. She sits there with one hand on her head and from time to time doesn’t scratch but moves that hand across her head. Back and forth and back and forth. ALL FUCKIN DAY.  Can you imagine how distracting that is?  I say nothing cos after all, it isn’t her fault.
The docs say it might get better in time, or if not, at least the itch will grow less in intensity.  So there is hope. Meanwhile, the back pain is always there. The pain killers she is taking for that last not much more then a couple of hours.

So finally, I am coming to yesterday.  At last, after waiting six months on a list we get the call. 

Over here, a doctor is simply a doctor. Lower rung. If he is a specialist or a consultant, he becomes Mister.  Ain’t that odd? 
So we got the very first appointment of his day, 9am. Which is good cos there would be no wait. Glad of that because he gave us (her, the wife) extra time as she had so much. Mostly he gave us a talk about pain and causes and all sorts of interesting info.
The wife explained about the awful itch that would not go away and he said, we might have something for that that could help.  Might not work with everyone but it’s worth having a go. He showed us this demonstration sheet. Maybe 5inches by five. Something like that.  He said what you do is cut a strip out of it, take off the backing and place it on the forehead for 12 hours. Take it off and it’ll keep working another 12 hours.
So I ask him, why hasn’t her doctor told her about this?  He looked at us and merely shrugged a don’t know. But hey.  We are making headway. Right?  Sounds good. Right?  Might be an answer to prayers. Right?

Not so fast Gringo.

We now have to see about the back pain.  It’s decided that the pain medication she is on may not be the exact right one, and so he recommends another and possibly better one. Won’t know until she tries it. So we’re possibly on the home stretch? Relief?

Well …… not quite but only a few days away. Maybe four. Depends. Depends? On what?  Well, he explains that he cannot write the Rx for this stuff.  It has to be done buy her doctor. But, but, butbutbut. Huh?

“No” he says.  “I have to write out this form with my recommendation and I’m sure they will okay the change of pain killer as it doesn’t cost any more then the one she already has and they should approve it.  You then must take this form to your doctor’s surgery (office) within five days and they should write you the Rx.”

What?  Tomorrow is Saturday, her doctor won’t be in and we can’t see her today (this is all taking place on Friday mind you) because the office (always called a surgery here) can’t get an appointment to see anyone on such short notice. PLUS, the form clearly says this is NON-urgent patient/Rx.  The form even says, as you will see, the meds do NOT have to be started urgently.
Well hell, they do if you’re the patient in pain and discomfort for so long. Hell’s Bells.

I believe in another couple of weeks they may start shots of some kind. Possibly steroids. 

Just can’t wait to see what ObamaCare will become if enforced.  If he and his people have been using the NHS here as devised by Blair and gang, god help you.

Much of the current mess my wife insists, is the work of Tony Blair and the former left Labour govt.  But then, my wife blames things that don’t work as they should on anyone on the left and especially Blair. Don’t get her started on that subject.

The wife has explained to me and I do not know how close to right she is because it sounds so odd.  Apparently, it’s her doctor’s practice that will pay for the medication and so they write the Rx.  Which explains why he didn’t write the Rx. If he wrote the Rx, his office would be billed for it. 
Please don’t ask.  It’s all too much for me to understand.

Lyndon? You there?

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   Friday - December 07, 2012

It’s Getting Crowdered On The Edge Of The Fiscal Cliff

For the past couple of videos Steve has done, shortly after he sends out his email there arrives another email from someone named Mockerena at COTR. So I finally took a look, and COTR is a blog called Chicks On The Right. Very nicely put together pages; looks really pro. I think they’ve been up for about half a year now. You may wish to pay them a visit and see if they tingle your tastebuds. Click the icon below ( a graphic I stole from their site ) to travel there:

nice views, nice shoes*: COTR

* No, theirs is anything BUT a shoe blog. I just liked the picture. And it makes think of Jen from Demure Thoughts who has been offline for more than a year and a half now. Who did go on sometimes about shoes. Miss you Jen!!

Posted by Drew458     on 12/07/2012 at 01:23 PM   
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Rick said it best on Facebook… Oops!

Is there even such a thing as kosher ham?

Posted by Christopher     on 12/07/2012 at 01:34 PM   
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Unexpected Hope!

News Item: 146,000 new jobs added in November, nearly twice as many as the 85,000 predictded! Woo hoo!!!

News Item: Unemployment down to only 7.7%! Woo hoo!!!

Hidden Reality: nearly half of the new jobs are part time seasonal employment (ie selling Christmas Trees in the evening) and the labor force suffered MORE THAN HALF A MILLION drop-offs as folks rolled off benefits, bringing the number of unemployed to over 8.8 million.

Link

The truth shall set you free shall make you freeze: real unemployment is 14.4%, but you have to dig for that statistic.

PS - as always, expect the November jobs numbers to be adjusted downwards in a month or two, when they are no longer newsworthy. This happens nearly every month to the data from a couple months back. Some call it a rounding error. I call it bullshit.

UPDATE: via COTR: the hidden fact that 73% of these new jobs are with the government. Crivens.

Posted by Drew458     on 12/07/2012 at 11:03 AM   
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Filtered News From Fox

What a load of crap. Read the whole article; nobody says the “U word” once, yet it was common knowledge, local news, and even all over the internet that these work crews that drove halfway across the country to help were shut out because they were not union employees. And it was reported that they were told this to their faces. That was just a couple weeks ago. Has the Collective Hivemind become so blunted that it can’t remember back a whole five weeks, and history can be rewritten so quickly?

I am very disappointed in Fox News, but this isn’t the first time. I think they’re down to just one employee who tells it straight - Sean Hannity - and he’s on his way to being marginalized as a kook just like Glen Beck was. The rest of the crew are either playing it stupid or have tilted far to the left. They are the MSM just like MSNBC. Biased rats.

Hurry up and wait.

That’s what first responders were left to do after being deployed by FEMA to assist in the storm-ravaged areas in the initial days after superstorm Sandy, FoxNews.com has learned. A FEMA worker who spoke to FoxNews.com described a chaotic scene at New Jersey’s Fort Dix, where emergency workers arrived as the storm bore down on the Atlantic Coast. The worker said officials at the staging area were unprepared and told the incoming responders there was nothing for them to do for nearly four days.

“They told us to hurry, hurry, hurry,” the worker, who works at the agency’s headquarters in Washington and volunteered to deploy for the storm recovery effort. “We rushed to Fort Dix, only to find out that our liaison didn’t even know we were coming.”

“The regional coordinator even said to us, ‘I don’t know why you were rushed here because we don’t need you,’” said the worker, who spoke out of frustration with the lack of planning and coordination following the devastating storm.

After arriving in New Jersey, the worker and others waited for three full days and parts of another, even as reports dominated the television of the devastation and suffering wrought by the storm, which struck land on Oct. 29. When they asked for assignments, they couldn’t believe the response, according to the worker.

Posted by Drew458     on 12/07/2012 at 10:49 AM   
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Crimean Creation

Ukrainian model Elena Knyazeva. Singer and actress too I think; I can’t translate every page. But she’s been in at least one video, with Moldavian heartthrob Arsenie. And unlike some models, she manages to keep her clothes on. Most of the time.





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British Ministry of Babe-ism, Ltd

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unless they grant it, unions say pay raise for teachers of merit bad for kids. really.

This says all ya need to know about socialists and unions.
Heck, they tell their own loony tune story while we watch from the sidelines.
I once ran into a serious problem, years and years ago, when working in a place that had a union, that I was forced to join.
Cut to the chase, I put someone well deserving in for a pay raise.
Union came down on my head. Kangaroo court hearing and all. And I wasn’t even allowed to say anything. That was in California more than 40 years ago. And I don’t think too much has changed. Unions! Vermin!
They are also one of the major reasons your grocery bill is so high not just in my home state of Calif., but anywhere they are allowed to flourish.

Union position? 
‘It will be bad for children’s education and bad for the teaching profession’
Sure, merit is bad. Can’t have that. Only raises as approved by the commies in the union. Got it.

Unions’ fury as Osborne scraps national pay deal so that schools can pay better teachers more

· Chancellor gives heads power to reward teachers if they perform better than their colleagues
· NASUWT union: ‘It will be bad for children’s education and bad for the teaching profession’

Unions declared war on ministers today after George Osborne gave schools the power to reward better teachers with higher pay.
The Chancellor said heads should be able to pay teachers more if they perform better in the job than colleagues.
But NASUWT, the largest teaching union, branded the proposals as ‘unfair’ – and said the major unions would be meeting in the next few days to consider their response.

Mr Osborne said national pay bargaining for civil servants, prison officers and NHS staff will continue – meaning staff will all continue to be paid the same.
But he told MPs that there will be greater flexibility for headteachers – giving them more ability to pay good staff more.

the sheep play along in people’s game, Follow the commie-sar . be sure and bring the kiddies too. can’t get them young enough.

Posted by peiper     on 12/07/2012 at 04:36 AM   
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   Thursday - December 06, 2012

NOT A FUNNY POLISH JOKE

Bungling builders bulldoze entire historic French chateau by mistake… after its millionaire owner told them to demolish a small outhouse on its estate

· Chateau de Bellevue, near Bordeaux, once boasted 140,000-square-feet of grand reception rooms, ornate fireplaces, winding marble staircases
· Then its new owner, a Russian millionaire businessman, employed a team of Polish builders to renovate the manor to its former glory
· But the workers apparently misunderstood the instructions and pulled down the castle, leaving the outhouse completely untouched

By Matt Blake

SEE THE STORY IN PICTURES HERE

Posted by peiper     on 12/06/2012 at 12:02 PM   
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some time wasting fun …

H/T NewJerseyYank

If you haven’t seen this, it’s cool!!

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/future-weapons/games/cannon/cannon.html

Hell of a time waster and maddening at some points cos just when I think I got it I don’t.

As NJY says above, this is cool. Well, it’s lots of time wasting fun.

Have a go and share your scores.

Posted by peiper     on 12/06/2012 at 06:24 AM   
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