Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Quick, call Al Gore!
"CHICAGO (Reuters) - Late blight, which caused the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s and 1850s, is killing potato and tomato plants in home gardens from Maine to Ohio and threatening commercial and organic farms, U.S. plant scientists said on Friday.
"Late blight has never occurred this early and this widespread in the United States," said Meg McGrath, a plant pathologist at Cornell University's extension center in Riverhead, New York.
.....This year's cool, wet weather created perfect conditions for the disease."
But..but wasn't global warming supposed to cause crops to fail and widespread famine?
Someone screwed up....
BAWAAHAHAHA!
'Auto Czar Leaves Washington Amidst Pay-to-Play Probe Involving Former Firm
The White House stood by Steven Rattner back in April when reports surfaced that he was tied to a deal being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission and New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. But his departure as auto czar is raising questions about the course of the investigation.
The peculiar timing of Steven Rattner's departure as White House car czar has raised questions about the course of an investigation that has scrutinized his possible dealings with the New York state pension fund.
The probe into pay-to-play schemes, part of a long-running and wide-ranging investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, reportedly has intensified as Cuomo's office seeks additional documents from a firm Rattner co-founded.
"Obviously he's been a player" in the probe, said a source familiar with the investigation.'
"hope and change" eh? No hope, no change.
Beats standing in a welfare queue!
'Man Carving His Own Destiny, By Albin Polasek'
Thanks to Not PC for that. He has lots of other good stuff on art and liberty, too.
How true...
"I believe it was Robert A. Heinlein who said that you can’t free a slave; he has to do it himself. I’d have preferred that we saturation-airdrop carbines and ammo all over Iraq and then leave for good, over what we actually did. The Iraqis would have gotten the message—and so would our domestic statists."
Francis Porretto
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Just whose side is he on?
The Week, NRO - Abandoning longstanding U.S. policy, the administration has not only negotiated with a network of secret jihadist cells operating in Iraq (instruments of Iran, which is duplicating the Hezbollah model it has used in Lebanon); it has now released outright one of the terrorists responsible for the murder of five American soldiers in Karbala back in 2007. The release was a transparent effort to trade the terrorist for five British civilians abducted by the same network. But in exchange, the network (which had suggested the hostages were alive) released only the corpses of two, and threatened to kill the rest unless more of its detained operatives were freed. The administration has thus signaled to terrorists that they stand to win valuable concessions by abducting Americans and their allies — even if they kill them.
At first blush, the news from Honduras sounds like a sad return to Latin America’s past: A democratically elected president has been exiled by the military. But the Honduran soldiers who escorted Pres. Manuel Zelaya from his home were acting to protect their country’s democracy, not to trample it. Moreover, they had the full support of the Honduran Supreme Court, which had rejected Zelaya’s bid to hold a referendum on constitutional reform. The proposed referendum, illegal without an act of Congress, aimed to launch a “constituent assembly” that would draft a new constitution. Zelaya’s ultimate goal was to extend or abolish presidential term limits, mimicking the example of Hugo Chávez and other Latin American populists. Hondurans rightly feared that such a maneuver would set their country on the path to Chávez-style authoritarianism. When the Supreme Court rebuffed him, Zelaya defied its ruling. Along with a large group of followers, he ransacked a military post and seized millions of referendum ballots. While it is always unnerving to see gun-toting officers arrest a president, the move against Zelaya was not a conventional “military coup,” but an affirmation of democracy and the rule of law, both of which Zelaya had flouted.
It sure is nice to have missile defenses when you need them: In anticipation of North Korea’s test of a long-range rocket over the Pacific Ocean, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates ordered interceptors to Hawaii. This allowed President Obama to go on television and tell Harry Smith of CBS News that Americans in Honolulu and elsewhere are safe from North Korean mischief: “Well, first of all, let’s be clear. This administration — and our military — is fully prepared for any contingencies.” Obama nonetheless plans to slash missile-defense funding by about $1.4 billion in the 2010 budget. Ground-based interceptors in Alaska, the Airborne Laser program, and the prospective basing of a small system in Eastern Europe — all developed with an eye toward countering Iran and North Korea — could suffer. The next time the United States needs missile defenses, it may not have them.
Every year, the National Endowment for Democracy gives an award, and every year the winner or winners get some presidential attention. This year was somewhat different. NED honored five Cuban democracy activists. Three of them are in prison; two of them are out, for now. Needless to say, no one was able to travel to Washington. But the honorees had a representative in Washington, the sister of one of them — and NED’s requests that President Obama meet with her went unanswered. It was the first time in five years that the U.S. president did not grant such a meeting. Only when the Washington Post pestered the White House was a presidential statement written and released — just as the NED ceremony was starting. In an editorial, the Post asked, “Why doesn’t President Obama have time for Cuba’s pro-democracy opposition?” Answer: The administration is determined to warm up to the Cuban regime. Barack Obama’s election was supposed to cheer people around the world, and it has. Too bad so many of them are dictators.
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At first blush, the news from Honduras sounds like a sad return to Latin America’s past: A democratically elected president has been exiled by the military. But the Honduran soldiers who escorted Pres. Manuel Zelaya from his home were acting to protect their country’s democracy, not to trample it. Moreover, they had the full support of the Honduran Supreme Court, which had rejected Zelaya’s bid to hold a referendum on constitutional reform. The proposed referendum, illegal without an act of Congress, aimed to launch a “constituent assembly” that would draft a new constitution. Zelaya’s ultimate goal was to extend or abolish presidential term limits, mimicking the example of Hugo Chávez and other Latin American populists. Hondurans rightly feared that such a maneuver would set their country on the path to Chávez-style authoritarianism. When the Supreme Court rebuffed him, Zelaya defied its ruling. Along with a large group of followers, he ransacked a military post and seized millions of referendum ballots. While it is always unnerving to see gun-toting officers arrest a president, the move against Zelaya was not a conventional “military coup,” but an affirmation of democracy and the rule of law, both of which Zelaya had flouted.
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It sure is nice to have missile defenses when you need them: In anticipation of North Korea’s test of a long-range rocket over the Pacific Ocean, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates ordered interceptors to Hawaii. This allowed President Obama to go on television and tell Harry Smith of CBS News that Americans in Honolulu and elsewhere are safe from North Korean mischief: “Well, first of all, let’s be clear. This administration — and our military — is fully prepared for any contingencies.” Obama nonetheless plans to slash missile-defense funding by about $1.4 billion in the 2010 budget. Ground-based interceptors in Alaska, the Airborne Laser program, and the prospective basing of a small system in Eastern Europe — all developed with an eye toward countering Iran and North Korea — could suffer. The next time the United States needs missile defenses, it may not have them.
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Every year, the National Endowment for Democracy gives an award, and every year the winner or winners get some presidential attention. This year was somewhat different. NED honored five Cuban democracy activists. Three of them are in prison; two of them are out, for now. Needless to say, no one was able to travel to Washington. But the honorees had a representative in Washington, the sister of one of them — and NED’s requests that President Obama meet with her went unanswered. It was the first time in five years that the U.S. president did not grant such a meeting. Only when the Washington Post pestered the White House was a presidential statement written and released — just as the NED ceremony was starting. In an editorial, the Post asked, “Why doesn’t President Obama have time for Cuba’s pro-democracy opposition?” Answer: The administration is determined to warm up to the Cuban regime. Barack Obama’s election was supposed to cheer people around the world, and it has. Too bad so many of them are dictators.
'WE RULE NOW'
"...Marty Marshall, his wife and two children had just returned from watching fireworks at Firestone Park with two friends. Suddenly, a roving gang of 50 Black youths attacked them, chanting and shouting “we rule now,” “this is our world,” and ”this is a black world now!”
The phrases used by the Black gang as they beat on the White family are believed to be a reference to the US presidential victory of Barack Obama..."
On The Skyline (Hermit)
Brace yourselves for more of this, America, whether it's Obama losing the next Presidential elections or 'postponing' them because of civil unrest.
A very large number of blacks and Hispanics are not likely to accept a democratic outcome because as far as they're concerned, it's all over. "Their man" won and they see no reason to bother with the inconveniences of democracy and the rule of law unless it suits them. Adherance to civilized norms depends on an appreciation of traditions and conventions, a certain productive, responsible mindset. And a hell of a lot of these lowlifes don't possess those things. They have a welfare cheque in one hand and a monumental sense of grievance and entitlement though-- and that's a recipe for war.
Sex is now a 'right'
The general understanding of 'a right' to something, is that this something must be provided somehow. Lefties like to say that healthcare is a right, a right that someone else must provide and pay for. So if teenagers have a 'right' to enjoyable sex, does government now have to provide this, it's a 'right' isn't it? What if junior is too ugly and unpopular, does the taxpayer now have to pay prostitutes to fulfill junior's right to enjoyable sex.Daily Mail - The NHS is telling school pupils they have a 'right' to an enjoyable sex life and that it is good for their health. A Health Service leaflet says experts concentrate too much on the need for safe sex and loving relationships, and not enough on the pleasure it can bring. ......Under the heading 'an orgasm a day keeps the doctor away', the leaflet says: 'Health promotion experts advocate five portions of fruit and veg a day and 30 minutes physical activity three times a week. What about sex or masturbation twice a week?'
And how do you prove enjoyable sex, after all, if you start providing call girls to junior, he'll figure out real fast that they're just not fulfilling his needs and more call girls are needed, will the nanny-state then deploy the orgasm police, thinking out loud here folks? Only leftists are so stupid that they need to have all the consequences outlined for them before their thick skulls are opened. Perhaps these lefties are just using this 'right' to enjoyable sex as a smokescreen to give themselves the ability to have sex with minors. They have a right and someone has to provide it you know.
While I'm on the subject of sex and teenagers, you know how lefties are always pushing sex-education for younger and younger children with such vigor? Well, turns out it's actually causing more of the problems they promised sex-education would fix, shock/horror, I know.
So the evidence is clear, after the government spent £6million of taxpayers money educating teenage girls all about sex, more of the ones that were 'educated' than the ones that were ignorant, ended up pregnant. If they hadn't spent the 6million pounds the taxpayer and the girls would have been better off. Nothing in the article, but I doubt very much that the people who actually coughed up this 6million pounds can get even part of their money back.......It came to light just a week after it emerged that teenagers who took part in a £6million Government initiative to reduce teenage pregnancies were more than twice as likely to fall pregnant as other girls. The scheme tried to persuade girls not to get pregnant by handing out condoms and teaching them about sex.
In light of this, I say it's time that we tell government to get out of sex-education, it's plainly obvious that they can't do it, they shouldn't do it and they should stop wasting our hard-earned.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Doing business with commies
News.com.au - CHINESE Government sources say President Hu Jintao personally endorsed the Ministry of State Security investigation into Rio Tinto that led to the detention of Australian iron ore executive Stern Hu and three staff. The investigation appears to be part of a big realignment of how China manages its economy, with spy and security agencies promoted to top strategy-making bodies, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.
......The revelation comes as The Australian reports China has rebuffed the Rudd government and may force Australian officials to wait a further month for a second visit to Mr Hu. Senior Australian ministers have warned that China risked damaging its international trade relations over Mr Hu's arrest, with new reports emerged that Rio Tinto was seeking as much as $9 billion in compensation for breach of contracts from Chinese steel mills.
......Chinese-born Mr Hu, the head of Rio Tinto's iron ore operations in China, and three other senior company officials were arrested in Shanghai by secret police and have been detained for a week without charge or legal representation.
It's a warning that none of us ought to be surprised by or need. They've killed millions of their own in the name of ideology. They continue to murder their own in the thousands every year, what makes you think that just because some white fool from Australia can speak fluent mandarin or whatever that they'd think twice before throwing you in jail and disposing of you in any way they feel like.
If you got family over there, you best make plans to shove off, it's all well and good for western fools masquerading as leaders to prattle on about how connected they are with Beijing, but when it's your ass that chained to some wall in some cold dungeon eating shit-flavored noodles once a day, the aforementioned western fools can't do shit for you.
......The revelation comes as The Australian reports China has rebuffed the Rudd government and may force Australian officials to wait a further month for a second visit to Mr Hu. Senior Australian ministers have warned that China risked damaging its international trade relations over Mr Hu's arrest, with new reports emerged that Rio Tinto was seeking as much as $9 billion in compensation for breach of contracts from Chinese steel mills.
......Chinese-born Mr Hu, the head of Rio Tinto's iron ore operations in China, and three other senior company officials were arrested in Shanghai by secret police and have been detained for a week without charge or legal representation.
It's a warning that none of us ought to be surprised by or need. They've killed millions of their own in the name of ideology. They continue to murder their own in the thousands every year, what makes you think that just because some white fool from Australia can speak fluent mandarin or whatever that they'd think twice before throwing you in jail and disposing of you in any way they feel like.
If you got family over there, you best make plans to shove off, it's all well and good for western fools masquerading as leaders to prattle on about how connected they are with Beijing, but when it's your ass that chained to some wall in some cold dungeon eating shit-flavored noodles once a day, the aforementioned western fools can't do shit for you.
'Fairfax County Government pulls out all the stops for Monday hearing on radical islamic academy'
"The Fairfax County, Virginia Board of Supervisors will hold its final hearing Monday night to consider a plan by the Saudi government-owned Islamic SaudiAcademy to expand its campus in the county. The Islamic Saudi Academy is planning to build an immense Shariah-ruled campus in Fairfax to teach the apartheid doctrines of Shariah. As usual, Fairfax officials are bending over to help, even though the Islamist campus may severely damage the environment of the neighborhood and cause unmanageable traffic. This massive ISA campus is opposed by a rapidly growing group of Fairfax taxpayers who will testify July 13.
In 1985, the Fairfax Board of Supervisors refused a school permit filed by Robert L. Thoburn for the Fairfax Christian School - on the identical property, for fewer students, and a generation ago with less traffic and less environmental risk.
ISA faculty and graduates have been implicated and convicted in numerous terrorism-related crimes: to assassinate the President of the United States, launch homicide missions against Israel, board airlines with a concealed weapon and photograph bridge structures in the Washington, DC area. An International Commission cited the school for textbooks which advocated murdering Jews and contained numerous other anti-Christian, anti-Semitic and anti-American tirades. Radio commentator and Fair Oaks Church pastor David Stokes discusses the highly controversial school's association with multiple terrorist-related arrests and convictions in "The County and the School of Hate" at townhall.com and adds: "In the case of ISA, there appears to be an almost fawning and subservient approach on the part of many county leaders."
The Fairfax County government recently sent invitations to a free dinner presentation on Islam as a religion of “peace and harmony” to county churches and to some who have testified against the Academy’s planned expansion in the past. County government personnel and resources were used to distribute the e-mailed invitations.
“The Fairfax County government has been compromised and the Saudis and their radical cohorts are getting their money's worth out of all of their political contributions,” said James Lafferty, chairman of the Virginia Anti-Shariah Task Force. “Churches and synagogues here can’t even get the government to talk to them, let alone help them proselytize.
“Fairfax County government is already following the first rule of Shariah law – Islam is the state religion and the only religion. While brave American men and women are dying to defeat terrorists – spineless Fairfax County politicians turn a deaf ear to terrorism in its midst.”
For more information visit http://saudiwatch.wordpress.com
'Swine flu vaccine rushed through safety checks'
"A vaccine against swine flu will be fast-tracked for use in Britain in just five days, with 130 million doses on order.
.....Regulators at the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) said that the fast-tracked procedure has involved clinical trials of a “mock-up” vaccine similar to the one that will be used for the biggest mass vaccination programme in generations. It will be introduced into the general population while regulators continue to carry out simultaneous clinical trials.
The EMEA said that fast-tracking would not be at the expense of patient safety, adding: “The vaccines are authorised with a detailed risk management plan. There is quite a body of evidence regarding safety on the trials of the mock-up, and the actual vaccine could be assessed in five days.”
Ah well, that's all right then--just so long as there's a detailed "risk management plan" what could possibly go wrong?
Update: Zen Tiger in comments nails it.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
'The Pontifications of Pompuss'
life and food and the whole damned thing--from a fat, spoiled cat's perspective. Hilarious, but I'm afraid Alfie may get ideas....Boyd's too thick to have ideas. Of any sort.
'Those Riotous French Youths'
by Baron Bodissey
"...Because the 21-year-old delinquent Mohammed Benmouna hanged himself in his prison cell [last Monday, after hanging himself, he went into a coma, and died Wednesday in Saint-Étienne Hospital. He was under arrest for attempted extortion and in custody at the police office of Chambon-Feugerolles (Loire)], last night riots by Muslim youth returned for yet another night. During the third night in succession, it came to heavy riots in a suburb of the French city of Saint-Étienne, where these fellow citizens also set a shopping mall on fire in Firminy and many other small shop
.....These youngsters are the children of Tunisian and North African immigrants, who are indeed included in the French state and are well taken care of, but have a deep contempt for the symbols of their new homeland and state authority. They are the young people from now more than 700 officially- designated “problem areas” [in majority Muslim — translator], in which the children of immigrants are trying to seize power and constantly challenge the French state authority."
Does anybody believe that a similar situation won't arise in any Western country where muslim immigrants reach a certain critical mass?
If not, why not? Do they think France is importing an especially virulent strain?
Leftists persecuting the little guy for their racist
FOX News - New Haven firefighter Frank Ricci, whose reverse discrimination claim is at the center of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's most controversial ruling, now finds himself in the cross hairs of the judge's supporters. Sotomayor's backers are urging reporters to probe what one called the "troubled and litigious work history" of Ricci, according to McClatchy Newspapers.
Sotomayor rejected Ricci's reverse discrimination claim in an appeals court decision but the Supreme Court reversed that ruling last week. Republicans point to Sotomayor's decision as evidence she might let her personal and political views -- particularly a belief in racial preferences for minorities -- influence her decisions. But supporters of Sotomayor are apparently trying to shift the focus on Ricci.
What the hell does this fellow's life have to do with the nomination of their racist latino? Think about it, sotomayor rejected his claim and it wasn't Ricci that then kicked her racist ass back down, he had nothing to do with the Supreme Court reversal. They looked at her ruling and found that she's a racist and a probably a fool, so they corrected it, end of story. Ricci didn't posses magical powers or something to make those other judges see the lefties racist latino nomination for what she really is.
If anything, they should be demonstrating why the Supreme Court reversal was wrong and their racist latino isn't really that, but no, like your everyday bully and thug, the left are going after the small target, the more vulnerable one. Forget his rights, dig baby, dig, if only they'd feel the same way about the rights of terrorists trying to murder people.
People for the American Way, a liberal advocacy group, and other advocates urged the newspaper to dig into Ricci's background, specifically an earlier 1995 lawsuit the firefighter filed contending the city of New Haven discriminated against him because he's dyslexic. They also cite Hartford Courant stories from the same period detailing how Ricci was fired by a fire department in Middletown, Conn. -- allegedly, Ricci said then, because of safety concerns he raised.
Ricci is a hard-working American who was done over by a racist leftist, so you'd rightly expect those that purport to be for the 'American Way' to actually give a shit about people like him, but no, that's not really what they're about. Like all leftists, what they say and what they do are totally different, if they had any balls or integrity they'd rightly name themselves, 'leftist scum for the leftist way'.
And the democrats insist they're the party of the little guy, yeah my ass! I really hope that gaggle of clowns masquerading as Conservatives called the Republican party will help this fellow out and protect him from the vile leftist scum desperate to get their fellow racist into a position of power.
Sotomayor rejected Ricci's reverse discrimination claim in an appeals court decision but the Supreme Court reversed that ruling last week. Republicans point to Sotomayor's decision as evidence she might let her personal and political views -- particularly a belief in racial preferences for minorities -- influence her decisions. But supporters of Sotomayor are apparently trying to shift the focus on Ricci.
What the hell does this fellow's life have to do with the nomination of their racist latino? Think about it, sotomayor rejected his claim and it wasn't Ricci that then kicked her racist ass back down, he had nothing to do with the Supreme Court reversal. They looked at her ruling and found that she's a racist and a probably a fool, so they corrected it, end of story. Ricci didn't posses magical powers or something to make those other judges see the lefties racist latino nomination for what she really is.
If anything, they should be demonstrating why the Supreme Court reversal was wrong and their racist latino isn't really that, but no, like your everyday bully and thug, the left are going after the small target, the more vulnerable one. Forget his rights, dig baby, dig, if only they'd feel the same way about the rights of terrorists trying to murder people.
People for the American Way, a liberal advocacy group, and other advocates urged the newspaper to dig into Ricci's background, specifically an earlier 1995 lawsuit the firefighter filed contending the city of New Haven discriminated against him because he's dyslexic. They also cite Hartford Courant stories from the same period detailing how Ricci was fired by a fire department in Middletown, Conn. -- allegedly, Ricci said then, because of safety concerns he raised.
Ricci is a hard-working American who was done over by a racist leftist, so you'd rightly expect those that purport to be for the 'American Way' to actually give a shit about people like him, but no, that's not really what they're about. Like all leftists, what they say and what they do are totally different, if they had any balls or integrity they'd rightly name themselves, 'leftist scum for the leftist way'.
And the democrats insist they're the party of the little guy, yeah my ass! I really hope that gaggle of clowns masquerading as Conservatives called the Republican party will help this fellow out and protect him from the vile leftist scum desperate to get their fellow racist into a position of power.
Leftist scumbags in action:
1. 'Sotomayor Supporters Take Aim at New Haven Firefighter'
Never mind whether or not the "wise latina" is a suitable SCOTUS appointee--attack the opposition to the appointment....
2. 'Homeland Security Revises Immigration Plan, Limits Officers' Power to Arrest Illegals'
Must keep the USASoviet Republic program on track, eh?
On Barry Soetoro in Africa:
"...This is the Africa of reality, not the Africa of Economic Development seminars and the blathering of politicians. What is to be done—what can be done—about the place? The best and the brightest in our own nation cannot even come up with a solution to the problems of Detroit. How much less can they solve the problems of Africa?
One thing that might work for Africa—or at least it would do no more damage—is to take every politician and hang him by the neck from the nearest tree. Such a plan might also work for Detroit.
If it works there we could do the same thing in Washington DC."
The Return of Scipio
More thoughts on Africa, from Kim du Toit: 'Let Africa Sink '
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Shove it CAIR
To which Robert Spencer replies.CAIR Chicago - The Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago) today called on the American Library Association (ALA) to drop an "Islamophobe" from a panel discussion on dispelling stereotypes about Islam. Robert Spencer, publisher of the anti-Islam Internet hate site "Jihad Watch," is scheduled to speak July 12 on a panel, titled "Perspectives on Islam: Beyond the Stereotyping," at the ALA annual conference in Chicago. One other panelist already withdrew in protest over Spencer's participation.
You can read the rest at Jihad Watch, those at CAIR really do make some outlandish claims about Spencer, all made up off course. I say that we spread the word and support Robert Spencer and the drama queens and fragile islamists at CAIR by buying his books. Not only will we be supporting him, but we'll also be educating ourselves on the truth about Islam, the truth the likes of CAIR would much rather be swept away. Show those wankers at CAIR that many of us aren't buying their bullshit about Spencer.News to me. But interesting. One would think that if I say such odious untruths, it would be more effective for the wounded panelist in question to have stuck it out, demonstrated that what I was saying was false, and thereby ended my baneful influence forever. But no such luck -- somehow, no one ever seems up to that job, oddly enough.
Honor a Fallen Soldier...real Americans still know what it means.
'Killed in action the week before, the body of Sergeant First Class John C. Beale was returned to Falcon Field in Peachtree City , Georgia , just south of Atlanta , on June 11, 2009 . The Henry County Police Department escorted the procession to the funeral home in McDonough , Georgia . A simple notice in local papers indicated the road route to be taken and the approximate time. Nowadays one can be led to believe that America no longer respects honor and no longer honors sacrifice outside the military. Be it known that there are many places in this land where people still recognize the courage and impact of total self-sacrifice. The link below is a short travelogue of that day’s remarkable and painful journey. But only watch this if you wish to have some of your faith in people restored.'
H/T Theo Spark
It is women who enable and empower the socialists.
Thomas Lifson:
"The American public awakens to the disaster that is the Obama presidency. Rasmussen's Daily Presidential Approval Index shows 38% of the public strongly disapproves and only 30% strongly approve of Obama's handling of his job.
With the economy crashing despite the promises made over the stimulus package, the public is turning negative:
Thirty-nine percent (39%) now give the President good or excellent marks for handling the economy while 43% say he is doing a poor job. Those are by far his lowest ratings yet on the economy
...A startling gender gap has opened, with women apparently still charmed by the man (those adoring magazine covers about the first couple and their kids are still working on some), while fellow males have turned against him decisively"
Friday, July 10, 2009
Hilarious
I bought a roast chicken on the way home after a night shift and tossed it out on to the frost-covered lawn for the cats. They're now playing Serengeti lions, crouched over the kill....
Thursday, July 09, 2009
The limitless stupidity of leftist government
No folks, it's not some sort of joke. No folks, I ain't pulling a fast one or a slow one for that matter. This is for real, these are illegals you see and they have committed crimes more than just sneaking over the border. The jails in the UK are full and the Brits can't kick these vermin onto the first boat/plane out of London because it would breach their human rights, yes really.Daily Mail - British taxpayers are to provide £1million for a comfortable jail in Nigeria to take convicts whose crimes were committed in the UK. The prison would house 400 Nigerian inmates incarcerated in our own packed prisons who cannot be forcibly sent home to complete their punishments. Jails there are considered so rough that any prisoner the UK tried to deport could oppose their removal on human rights grounds.
Now if they go ahead with this building of jails over in Nigeria and the like to house these criminals, there is no word in the article or assurance from the British government that these scumbags won't be brought back to Britain after serving their sentences. Now you might think that can't happen, if you do, you fool! You should know better, this is government and what's worse, it's leftist government. You have to get it in writing, a written contract with the punishment being death-by-stoning for breaking it.
And you have to make sure someone will monitor this and ensure compliance or again, death-by-stoning, otherwise you can never rest easy. You see the left will never run out of excuses to coddle criminals, especially the illegal, useless, dangerous kind. Before you start pounding the keyboard, wait, there's more.
And no one in Britain is allowed to carry a gun to protect themselves. The state takes care of safety and security for you, supposedly. And what a swell job they're doing aren't they.Three years on from the mistaken release of 1,000 overseas inmates without them even being considered for deportation, almost two-thirds are still in the UK. Incredibly, 87 of the 1,000 convicts - who included killers and sex attackers - have yet to be even traced. Of those who have been located, only 348 have been deported or removed. The remainder have either been told they can stay - often because removal back to their homeland would be a breach of human rights law - or are still going through the deportation process.
Well, yes.....
"..But we must be cautious to not let the good create bad, in the sense that I truly believe that we are creating an entire generation of narcissistic, lazy, morally and ethically deprived little monsters that actually believe that there are people out there reading their facebook page with enthralled interest and actually care about what trifles they have Twittered. This is directly due to the fact that their lives have been, from the cradle, an exercise in indulgence and a total lack of deprivation of anything that they desire.
They’ve become convinced that they are entitled to things. They’ve become convinced, because of Mommy and Daddy dearest, that they should not have to work to get these things. They’ve become convinced that they should be able to do whatever they want with their lives, and that they are owed a living if whatever they choose to do does not create a revenue stream.
And they’ve become convinced of that because that is how it has been for them, from day one.
As a result, we now have the collectivist movement. People who feel as though they are entitled to things they haven’t earned, because that is what they’ve been taught their entire lives."
'Goober', commenting at Eternity Road
The dismantling of America
Watch carefully the item that comes up at 1:52. We were assured that reports of this were "paranoia". Still laughing at the EUSSR, America? Your turn is coming.
H/T Hermit
Nanny-state trumps over safety
This state government is broke, they have very few options, cut services and sell the farm off or raise taxes. The people of this state are not willing to give up the nanny state, we still want public health, subsidized transport, free this, free that and all the services that government apparently provides for free. We don't want to let go of any of that, we don't want to cough up extra taxes which is understandable, so we're going to have to suck it up and choke it down. The choices are bad and worse. Oh and don't bother looking for better government, we won't get that option for at least a few years, no matter how much we whine and scream.News.com.au - THE New South Wales Government is offloading police stations in a fire sale of public land to fill dwindling coffers. Nine police stations and another 200 buildings and parcels of land, including the Sydney Fish Markets, are now under the control of the Government's real estate agent. Residents of Rockdale, Malabar, Mosman, Berowra and Brooklyn are angry they are being robbed of their police stations despite 20 murders in five years across those areas.
The Police Association said yesterday Earlwood, Canterbury, Mt Victoria and Blackheath were also in the sights of a Government desperate to sell $12 million worth of police stations. Opposition finance spokesman Greg Pearce said it was the start of a massive $350 million sell-off of everything from schools and nursing homes to sports venues. ......A group in Malabar called Save Our Station staged a rally on Sunday and collected 4400 signatures on a petition in a last-ditch bid to save their station.
Domestic attacks are up 7.4 per cent in the area, there have been 10 murders in five years and ecstasy possession has soared from 14 offences five years ago to 83 last year. "We are currently dealing with vandalism, graffiti and anti-social behaviour. How can they sell this station?" group organiser Carlos Da Rocha said.
The sad thing about this whole fiasco is that people will whine, protest, petition and all that to get their police stations back. This is all well and good if the leftist government we voted for can afford to keep them, which I doubt it will, but it still won't keep us safe. Having more police out there will help off course, but we are still not allowed the basic human-right to defend ourselves with arms, so unless you can saturate every corner with a copper, there will still be times when you're really just bare-assed and defenseless.
In a way we are getting what we deserve, when we gave up our right to bear arms and trampled upon the rights of others to bear arms we basically said, we don't want the responsibility to defend ourselves and we won't let anyone else take it on either. And so our liberty was taken away from us by the nanny state and now our safety is also taken away. So here we are, reduced to the state of frightened, whining toddlers unable to accept that we outsourced our security to those who don't really give a damn about us and now there is little recourse.
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