Sunday, December 06, 2009
Conservative *Layers*
we got ‘em, too*
Yanno, there’s more to the idea ”...the consent of the governed" than “a political theory wherein a government’s legitimacy and moral right to use state power is only justified and legal when derived from the people.”
It’s also an observation of fact. Consider it in light of this:
Oh how we burned in the prison camps, later thinking: what would things have been like if every police operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? If, during periods of mass arrests, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood that they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers or whatever was at hand? The organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt.
*only ours ain’t usually obfuscatory in purpose
Saturday, December 05, 2009
Unrest in Teh Big Happle
Urban rednecks, apparently
Dennehy passed along a message from the father of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who is opposed to a public trial for reputed terror mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed.
The actor said he also believed the trial would be “an uncalled-for ordeal that could be used for political purposes.”
“This will provide the radicals with a huge forum,” he said. “Why should they have the normal constitutional protections?”
...
U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, said military commissions have a poor track record when it comes to convicting terrorism suspects. The New York Democrat expressed confidence that U.S. prosecutors can win a conviction in a regular, civilian court.
erm, whaa??!?
Another sign said “Obama/Holder ... Jihad from within."
I say...
wot, now?
Britain is no longer a sovereign nation. At midnight last night [11/30/09], we ceased to be an independent state, bound by international treaties to other independent states, and became instead a subordinate unit within a European state.
... Article One of the1933 Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States ... Lisbon Treaty
...Now, [Teh EU] has the so-called “passerelle” clause, or self-amending mechanism. Parliament, in other words, no longer has the final say on extensions of EU jurisdiction. The EU derives its authority, not from its 27 members, but from its own foundational texts.
Yes, that bit about “the consent of the governed” is quite important.
Friday, December 04, 2009
Pigeon Feed
roping the mark
Since the AGW grift is falling apart, seems like there’s a new “crisis” for Rahm et al to not allow to go to waste.
An official announcement by the Obama administration disclosing the reality of extraterrestrial life is imminent. ...
The impending disclosure announcement follows upon the secret implementation of a year long openness policy on UFOs and extraterrestrial life. Over the period February 12-14, 2008, the United Nations held closed doors discussions where approximately 30 nations secretly agreed on a new openness policy on UFOs and extraterrestrial life ...
The secret UN agreement was based on two conditions. First, UFOs would continue to appear around the world; and second, the openness policy would not lead to social unrest in liberal democracies. Both conditions have been satisfied making it possible for the next stage to begin – official disclosure of extraterrestrial life.
Now I’m not real sure how they can insure that UFOs will “continue to appear around the world”—maybe another secret agreement with the UFO pilots. Maybe an offer of a Princedom in some exotic African country. I dunno. I’m just an Ideologically Stubborn Mobster Rube, after all. I mean I think it’s kinda weird they aren’t concerned at all about possible “social unrest” in fascist tyrannies or turd-world backwaters. What if the aliens aren’t little green men but little albino men—but whadda I know, right?
Still, what better justification for a Noo World Gubbmint than the implied threat of ETs with superior technology [they did come all the way from the Dog Star Sirius—and you don’t even know where you are...] ‘Course, as we’ll find out when one is interviewed by George Stehanopologroppous on Dateline, the aliens will be friendly and benign—as demonstrated by their smug, condescending attitude. Dang near indistinguishable from Teh iWon and Hiz Elites, ...
Wonder if they’ll get a spot on an “reality show” --- Not From Around Here [NBC Tuesdays @ 8 - 7 Central]
Oughta be an interesting winter.
ET *cough*
Thursday, December 03, 2009
Speaking of digging a hole and climbing in...
not even those dumb enuff to buy into Algore’s BS buy the Crap ‘n’ Tax Derivatives Market Scam
*evil schadenfreude-drenched giggle*
OR *clicky*clicky*
[yes. this toolbag is *smack*-worthy. just tell her she’s a carbon-based life form and watch her head explode. then remind her of her “ecological debt” *p00f* then confiscate that polyester, carbon-based shirt and replace it with a hair shirt]
[funny how Change is considered the best thing since sliced bread OR “The End of The World” depending on context. longer growing seasons in Canada and Siberia = Bad Change.
yeah; funny]
Look for this filim at a grade skool near you.
Journey Away From Credibility
incredible
“Nobody has more credibility with the American people on this issue than you do,” Obama said.
Well, credibility we handed out along with those white lab coats…
The California Medical Assn. represents more than 35,000 physicians ... is opposing healthcare legislation being debated in the U.S. Senate this week, saying it would increase local healthcare costs and restrict access to care for elderly and low-income patients.
oooo.... We’re gonna hafta ask ya to hand back those lab coats.
Nate
Appetizer
Hello? Ahnold?? Hell-OOO!!
OR *clicky*clicky*
*gah*
Ahnold Dummkopf
Ahnold. Srsly, Du-uude. You’re from The Future, right? Then you know in 100 years we’ll all be driving flyin’ cars—or ox teams. Depending on which way the political winds blow, right? Cahleefohrneeiah does not need this crappola.
Schwarzenegger said he is creating a panel of 23 California leaders [at $150K/year, no doubt] to recommend specific actions to prevent the destruction of infrastructure and deal with a depleted snowpack, the spread of disease, intense wildfires and other calamities that would result within the century from climate change.
The creation of the panel is a top recommendation of the so-called California Climate Adaptation Strategy report released Wednesday. The report anticipates that average temperatures will rise by as much as 5 degrees Fahrenheit by 2050 and 9 degrees by 2100. Also, sea level is anticipated to rise by as much as 18 inches by 2050 and more than 4 1/2 feet by 2100.
Included in those areas are broad recommendations to:-- Strengthen threatened communities so they will be less vulnerable to climate change. [women and poor illegals hit hardest]
-- Improve development planning and ensure food is grown closer to populations that consume it. [take over private lands for comuuuuu-nity gardens] [which will devolve into weed-laden empty lots within a year. see: Open Space Parks]
-- Restrict development in areas vulnerable to climate change impacts. [take high-priced lands off tax rolls. give to well-connected developers]
-- Aggressively push water conservation. [Learning to Dry Farm Your Back Yard for
Fun & ProfitSurvival]-- Enhance the state’s response to invasive species that target agriculture. [too late—Ahnold and the Illegals are here; house by house, job by job...]
-- Improve forest management. [ya mean we can finally remove all the dead-fall, widow-makers and fuel brush around houses? No? ...thought not.]
-- Consider higher water levels in transportation planning (San Francisco International Airport is a location expected to be underwater as sea level rises).
[WTH ya talking about?!? I thought we were all supposta quit flying anyway? Let it go—make a clothes washing dock out of it.]
“The 800-pound gorilla is land-use and making changes at the local level,” said Tony Brunello, deputy secretary for climate change and energy at the California Natural Resources Agency
What’d I tell ya?
It’s not too early to start drinking heavily, is it? Naah—in fact, I think it’s a little late…
Here. More.
pass the ice, willya?
gloogle is evil:
OR *clicky*clicky*
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
*facepalm*OTUS
the egosphere grows
Obama, on the other hand, positively revels in The Great I Am.
“I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters,’’ he told campaign aides when he was running for the White House. “I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that . . . I’m a better political director than my political director.’’
Stoaty [clue: *clicky* thru for widdle-worthy grafix]
erm... wha?
In an alternate universe this might seem, oh, I dunno, significant
Obama on Tuesday phoned President Asif Ali Zardari with a view to taking him into confidence over his government’s new Afghan policy assur[ing] President Zardari that the new surge of troops in neighbouring Afghanistan would not have any negative impact on Pakistan as Pakistan had expressed some reservations about the spillover effect from Afghanistan side due to fresh reinforcement of the ISAF forces stationed there.
Yeah. We should reassure them.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has ceded command of the country’s nuclear arsenal to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. [enough fissile material to make 30 to 52 nuclear weapons as well as short -and long-range ballistic missiles]
...An increase in U.S. troops in Afghanistan might force militants into Pakistan, making the situation “worse and confounded,” Gilani said, according to GEO television. The western nations should evolve a joint strategy against the Taliban on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, he said.
Abdul Qadeer Khan, the nuclear scientist who takes credit for building Pakistan’s nuclear weapons capability, was convicted of selling nuclear bomb technology to North Korea and other countries. Khan publicly confessed in 2004 to running a network that sold machinery for making bomb-grade uranium to Iran, Libya and North Korea.
ToDaZeD WTF Quote
no tingle
[Chris Matthews on West Point as choice of venue for President Obama’s speech on the War in Afghanistan:]
“I think it’s true of most wars,” Matthews said. “They start with a lot of excitement. I remember the scene in ‘Gone with the Wind’ where the rebels are so excited about going to war with the North, a country they can’t beat because of its industrial advantage and population advantage. They are going to lose that war eventually."
Gone with the Wind... It was an historical documentary, yanno—on the History Channel. Pro’lly made by Michael Moore’s grandfather—yeah, that’s right.
"It seems like in this case, there isn’t a lot of excitement,” Matthews said. “I watched the cadets, they were young kids - men and women who were committed to serving their country professionally it must be said, as officers. And, I didn’t see much excitement. But among the older people there, I saw, if not resentment, skepticism. I didn’t see a lot of warmth in that crowd out there. The president chose to address tonight and I thought it was interesting. He went to maybe the enemy camp tonight to make his case. I mean, that’s where Paul Wolfowitz used to write speeches for, back in the old Bush days. That’s where he went to rabble rouse the “we’re going to democratize the world” campaign back in ‘02. So, I thought it was a strange venue."
“rabble”... West Point cadets and staff… “rabble”.
Later, Chrissie elaborated on his ..."point:"
"He went up there to West Point, okay, and maybe earlier tonight I used the wrong phrase, ‘enemy camp,’ but the fact of the matter is that he went up there to a place that’s obviously military. People in the voluntary army that - and you have officers up there, people who have been tough,” Matthews said. “McChrystal, Petraeus identified with the Bush strategy, much tougher, more hawkish. He went up there, it was almost like he telegraphed the fact that he was going to, what, change sides on the issue of dove versus hawk."
Oh. So now Uh-Bambi is a “rabble"-rousing neocon?
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
On The Road
Seein’ things that I may never see again...
...a new academic paper by Brent T. White, a University of Arizona law school professor, titled “Underwater and Not Walking Away: Shame, Fear and the Social Management of the Housing Crisis.” ...White argues that far more of the estimated 15 million American homeowners who are underwater on their mortgages should stiff their lenders and take a hike.
And most important: Don’t feel guilty about it. Don’t think you’re doing something morally wrong.
...The main point, he says, is that too often people’s emotions get in the way of clear financial thinking about mortgages, turning them into what he calls “woodheads”—“individuals who choose not to act in their own self-interest.” Most owners are too worried about feelings of shame and embarrassment following a foreclosure, and ignore the powerful financial reasons for going through with it, he said.
If there is no moral sense—no individual responsibility—there can be no individual freedom.
Sure, credit scores get whacked when you walk away, he acknowledges. But as long as you stay current with other creditors, “one can have a good credit rating again—meaning above 660—within two years after a foreclosure.”
Better yet, you can default “strategically.” Buy all the major items you’ll need for the next couple of years—a new car, even a new house—just before you pull the plug on your current mortgage lender.
Srsly. If ya meet this fella, count your fingers after shaking hands and keep a grip on your wallet. And shoes.
Further down that same road:
The mistaken belief that albino body parts have magical powers has driven thousands of Africa’s albinos into hiding, fearful of losing their lives and limbs to unscrupulous dealers who can make up to $75,000 selling a complete dismembered set. ...Wealthy buyers use the parts as talismans to bring them wealth and good fortune.
“Mistaken belief”?!?!? AP calls the keeping of murdered human body parts as good luck pieces a “mistaken belief?!?!?” We’re farther down that road than we thought.
When Herbivores Try to Sneak Up on Prey
ToDaZeD Things Not To Say If You’re Trying To Sound Like You’re NOT Aiming To Take Over Every Aspect Of The People’s Lives
[Natcy Pelosi:] ...”the power of Congress to regulate health care is essentially unlimited."
...by what authority?” Reid’s bill offers the Commerce Clause ... In 1942’s Wickard v. Filburn, the court held that the Commerce Power was broad enough to penalize a farmer growing wheat for his own consumption on his own farm.
...The individual mandate “substantially affects interstate commerce,” and regulates “activity that is commercial and economic in nature.” ...
So g’head. Tell me. What human activity does not qualify as being “economic in nature?”
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