Fire Jumps Kuwait (+ Larry Johnson on radio tonight) & Open Thread

This is scary. I do not know if it is an over the top conspiracy theory or it there is some truth to it. i am sorry that Hillary Clinton has been brought into it.

http://wtpotus.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/who-is-responsible-for-the-middle-east-meltdown/

WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

BTW, anyone in Egypt and elsewhere in the region who can escape will. Expect at least 10 to 40 MILLION refugees to flee the region as starvation, famine and intercine warfare spreads.

OMG–Did you all see the picture of Gaddafi on Drudge?  He looks like an aging member of a death/black-metal band in full makeup:

Wow–this is starting to sound like an old-testament prophet–a jeremiad.  Worse, I don’t find it implausible . . .

As the storm gains momentum, it is possible to connect dots in a manner that says it was instigated intentionally. I do not think that the case, as there are way to many egos and Sunni “monarchs” who are standing on shaky Shia ground.

Bahrain is a good example of this. I made the comment that the fifth fleet may weigh anchor eventually.
What will be telling is how the Saud’s deal with this “threat” to the kingdom.

BO ran on social justice and that is reeking havoc on our “policies” in the ME.
How on one hand can BO proclaim to have an agenda of “social justice” and then on the other hand stand behind allies in the form of a dictatorship?

The common thread? Not sure, but the outcomes are predictably bad in all cases where BO’s “policy” is “social justice” with complete disregard to the end result. If social justice is manifested in the suspension of an Ally’s constitution, suspend Parliament and a military dictatorship, I want nothing of it.

There is a cost in innocent lives, which BO apparently is accepting of, to achieve what ever his goal is. More educated and informed individuals than I are having an impossible time deciphering what that goal is, but it definitely not supporting any “traditional” ally’s in the ME.

http://www.memeorandum.com/110220/p50#a110220p50

PRESIDENT WEST……….Please pick up the white courtesy phone. You have an urgent call.

Anger on the streets: unrest in Iran, Algeria, Yemen, Morocco and China
Peaceful demonstrations staged in Morocco but violence breaks out elsewhere in the Middle East and Chinese police crackdown on planned unrest.

Thousands took to the streets of Rabat, Casablanca, Tangier and Marrakech in peaceful protests demanding a new constitution, a change in government and an end to corruption.

Anger on the streets: unrest in Iran, Algeria, Yemen, Morocco and China    
 
 Peaceful demonstrations staged in Morocco but violence breaks out elsewhere in the Middle East and Chinese police crackdown on planned unrest.    
   
Thousands took to the streets of Rabat, Casablanca, Tangier and Marrakech in peaceful protests demanding a new constitution, a change in government and an end to corruption.  

Did he not head off to the slopes with Meechele?

Did he not head off to the slopes with Meechele?

Ha Ha, yeah, I saw that oowawa, and I didn’t bother bringing it here because I knew someone else would. It’s amazing how evil eventually manifests itself in a person’s facial features. Bitter people end up with frozen pursed lips, liars get shifty eyes, happy people get smile wrinkles that make them look even happier, and disgusting, lying, Narcissistic jerks get giant ears, purple lips, and moles next to their noses! (OK, I made that last one up, but it fits!)

Fhad tweets 
“And proud for being a country of Sheikh Qaradawi because he lived in Qatar….’
Who is Sheikh Qaradawi I ask?
Wiki says;
 He is best known for his program, ash-Shariah wal-Hayat (“Shariah and Life”), broadcast on Al Jazeera, which has an estimated audience of 40 million worldwide
~~~ 
Some of al-Qaradawi’s views have been controversial in the West, and he is banned from entering the United States and Great Britain..
In 2004, 2,500 Muslim academics from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Palestine condemned Qaradawi, and accused him of giving “Islam a bad name.”.
 
Interesting that the seperation in language creates a “vpn” or tunneling effect using existing network infastructure to exchange sulafist views . I can’t, but for google translate, understand the arabic tweeting on the side of NQ. Don’t know what to make of it. One hand it is very educational and on the other…some what disturbing.
It is better to be informed.

TOO IGNORANT TO LEAD
http://jbjd.org/2011/02/20/too-ignorant-to-lead/

Well said. I would think that even if one views that calculus and thinks it is not so, the practical outcome will be as you said regardless.

When gas reached 4 dollars a gallon last, the “solar panal economy” became viable. Just as it was gaining some momentum, the energy prices dropped and it lost steam.
 I am just a lowly speck of humanity, (I might not be a smart man but I know what FUBAR is;Forest Gump) but I can see the outcome as plain as day.

Current News from California:
Governor Brown has crafted a budget that the legislature seems to be accepting.
As he promised, Brown will be asking Californians to vote a referendum on keeping the tax increases we already have in place.
Brown cancelled the selling off of State buildings which Schwartzenegger initiated because he said the state would lose too much money in this bad real estate market. There seemed to be no objections.
Brown is cutting everything within his control He just mandated no more Government agenciy personalized knick knacks and crap they give out.
He few into LA by Southwest coach (alone) to get the Chamber of Commerce on his side. Afterward, the head of the CoC indicated they were inclined to go along with Brown, much to the disgust of local press who tried to get them to fight.

So, we are starting to look boringly like the Brady Bunch while Wisconsin is taking all our drama.

O/T: Missed the King!

Court ruling like this aquittal of muslim for Christmas Eve killing of Christians.

http://www.aina.org/news/20110220184547.htm

WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

This one is even before  my time

Till the clouds roll by.

you will enjoy the music and be surprised at how long ago the songs were written and still sound good today

helenk—Love it—Thanks. didn’t know that song went so far back…..I always learn something here at the Q.

Nite, all. I turn into a granny early in the morn……
Stay well and happy!

Everyone in the Middle East, save for Israel, wants a return to the Caliphate. And every tin-pot despot therein wants to be the Caliph.

SOMEONE needs to focus their Attention to the fact that the patience of the West is not unlimited, and that attempts to wreck Western economies by further monkeying with the crude price will exhaust their already-thin stock of Goodwill.

I’m certain the the Israelis would oblige us by causing a fission yield in Tehran.

The remainder of the camel jockeys MIGHT figure out, “No SHIT! We could become EXTINCT!” and, as they say, “Shift their Paradigm.”

There are at least 2 billion too many mouths to feed on this planet now. Culling the herd of those who believe that their Mandate to Murder comes from a higher power could be a good start.

Sen. Inhofe Deftly Handles Attempted Ambush by Fake Politico Reporter.
The Senator is cordial, even when it is obvious that an agenda is present.  Delivering facts and stating the generally accepted reality about the topic of global warming and climate change, Inhofe is a fine example of how an elected office should act when confronted.  Even when faced with the shameless use of young people as human shields in the logic war, Inhofe scores with a fact-filled bullseye.
Perhaps more disturbing is how Mr. Hertsgaard took the raw, unedited interview seen above, cut it, changed the sequence and delivered it to meet his predetermined needs. A few facts about the manipulated story; Videos on link.

LOL Cindy, did the hub finish MI 5 and then move on to 6,7&8? Shame on us, but, yes, it was great fun! So many good stories, too! 

The White House and Wisconsin  
   
American Spectator,  
by The Prowler     
 
Original Article  
 
2/21/2011   
 
A BINDING CONTRACT  
 
- The White House has been watching the Wisconsin state employee labor fight with a degree of alarm, says a White House aide: “I think all of us recognize what this could mean for us in the re-election fight,” says the aide.  ”Without well financed labor, we’re screwed.”  For several weeks, now, the Obama Administration, with staff from the Labor Department and Department of Education, among others, have been setting up working groups to examine how, if at all, they could block or reverse in some way state-based rules and laws…..

Wisconsin State Senate to
Reconvene Without Dems,
GOP Leader Says

Fox News,
by Staff

Original Article

2/20/2011 

Wisconsin’s senate majority leader says the chamber will convene to pass non-spending bills and act on appointments Tuesday even if minority Democrats remain out of state. Republican Sen. Scott Fitzgerald told The Associated Press on Sunday that he would be reviewing which bills and appointees to schedule for action. He says senators can’t wait around “twiddling their thumbs” until the Democrats return.

(Snip) Snow that turned to freezing rain Sunday considerably reduced the protest activity in the capital of Madison as hundreds gathered inside the Capitol building. That’s significantly fewer than the estimated 68,000 who demonstrated on Saturday.

Egypt state media: Mubarak
has no assets abroad
 
Associated Press,
by Staff   

Original Article

2/20/2011
Cairo

- Egypt’s ousted leader Hosni Mubarak has submitted a declaration of his wealth to authorities as he has every year since taking office in 1981, official media reported Sunday. State TV and the official news agency MENA quoted Mubarak’s “legal representative” as denying reports in local and foreign media about the former president’s wealth, branding them as malicious rumors designed to stain his legacy.

(Snip) However, the representative said Mubarak did not have any assets or property abroad.

The 2011 legislative session is off to a great start in the Tennessee General Assembly.  The Tennessee Health Care Freedom Act (SB0079), sponsored by Sen. Mae Beavers, cleared the Senate Commerce, Labor, and Agriculture Committee last week, and is scheduled for a Senate floor vote on Wednesday, February 23.  The Tennessee Health Care Freedom Act is moving quickly in the House as well, and HB0115 (companion bill to SB0079)  sponsored by Rep. Terri Lynn Weaver will be reviewed by the General Subcommittee of the House Commerce Committee on Wednesday, February 23 as well.

White House has no business meddling
in Wisconsin or Ohio

Morning [Lorain, OH] Journal,
by Editorial   

Original Article

2/20/2011

Taxpayers across the nation, especially in Ohio, have a stake in what labor unions, the Democratic Party and the White House are orchestrating in Wisconsin. Barack Obama has directed the Democratic National Committee and his own Organizing for America operation to turn the Badger State into a battleground over the increasing cost to taxpayers of collective bargaining for public employees. Standing at ground zero is Wisconsin’s new Republican Gov. Scott Walker, with other GOP governors watching from the wings.

(Snip) Opposition to Walker’s plans has been ferocious.

Republican governors strike
at heart of Democratic Party

Politico,
by Jonathan Martin and
Ben Smith   

Original Article

2/20/2011

In what passes for major spending news in Washington, a coalition of House Democrats and Republicans this week banded to kill a backup engine for one Air Force jet project. Total savings: just under a half-billion dollars, chump change in the federal budget. Meanwhile in the states, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and other members of a new class of combative Republican governors are fighting pitched battles over painful budget cuts that affect issues that once were thought to be untouchable such as teacher tenure and collective bargaining rights. These showdowns in the states…..

Powerhouse Roundtable:
Obama Quicker Denouncing
Gov. Walker than Mubarak

ABC News,
by JOSHUA MILLER   

Original Article

2/20/2011

Thousands in the streets protesting. Chanting workers, young and old, taking over a government building and grinding activity to a halt. Lawmakers fleeing. An executive standing firm in face of the revolt. It’s not the Middle East — it’s Wisconsin.

(Snip) “The President was quicker and more forceful of his denouncement of Gov. Scott Walker than he was of denouncing Hosni Mubarak,” Karl said. “Madison, Wisconsin – the state of Wisconsin — this is arguably ground zero for the 2012 presidential campaign. Look, this is a state if President Obama loses, he’s almost certainly…..

Rumsfeld blasts Obama’s world image

Politico,
by Jen DiMascio   

Original Article

2/20/2011

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld disputes the notion that President Barack Obama has made America more popular around the globe than it was under his former boss, President George W. Bush.

(Snip)Rumsfeld also downplayed Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize.“He had not accomplished a thing when he got the Nobel Prize. It was given to him on hope,” Rumsfeld said. “He’d been in office 15 minutes.”

Herman Cain: Madison, Wisconsin,
is Ground Zero for
future of American politics
 
Daily Caller,
by Matthew Boyle   

Original Article

2/20/2011
Madison, Wisc.

- In an interview with The Daily Caller before he gave his speech in Madison, likely 2012 presidential candidate Herman Cain said the budget fight in Wisconsin “isn’t about union busting. This is about saving the state of Wisconsin.”

(Snip) “I like all of the things in his plan,” Cain said. “To be perfectly honest with you, I do, because, what it’s going to do is reverse a trend. The trend has been, for too long, give more and more to the public sector workers because of collective bargaining and because of the unions, regardless of what it…..

In House debate, pet
projects euthanized

Washington Times,
by Stephen Dinan   

Original Article

2/20/2011

After more than 100 votes in four days, the lesson from last week’s spending debate in the House is that nobody’s pet projects are safe anymore. House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, watched lawmakers vote to defund a military project that pumps millions of dollars into his district, and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, saw her colleagues vote to end federal funding for a park in her San Francisco congressional district. President Obama also took some shots to the chin in the bill known as a continuing resolution….

The world’s next oil boom

Houston Chronicle,
by Brett Clanton   

Original Article

2/20/2011

ON BOARD THE CIDADE DE ANGRA DOS REIS

— Brazil’s quest to remake itself into a global oil superpower is gaining momentum on this giant ship anchored about 200 miles south of Rio de Janeiro in the deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean.  Crews on this tanker-like vessel recently began extracting the first barrels of oil from a giant field known as Lula, more than three miles below, that has been called the biggest oil discovery in the Americas in three decades. Production is still at a trickle as the project ramps up. But lessons learned here will be critical…..

Nearly 3,000 Palestinians rally against
U.S. veto on settlement resolution

Haaretz [Israel],
by Staff   

Original Article

2/21/2011

Nearly 3,000 Palestinians demonstrated Sunday in the West Bank city of Ramallah to protest at the United States veto of a United Nations resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank, Palestinian media reported. Some of the demonstrators chanted “Get Out, Obama!” in the Al Manara main square of the city. Their protests were backed by members of Fatah, the party of the Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas.

(Snip) The U.S. voted Friday against a resolution at the United Nations Security Council which condemned Israeli settlements, describing them as illegal, and called on Israel to stop all building activities in the…..

Sherrod’s suit vs. Breitbart tests
libel law in era of Web

Washington Times,
by Ben Conery   

Original Article

2/21/2011 

The defamation lawsuit filed by a former Obama administration official against conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart promises to test the application of traditional libel laws in an emerging media landscape in which blogs and social networking websites have taken the place of newspapers and television broadcasts. Media and legal observers say the case bears watching because of that, but that it largely will hinge on well-established law and precedents despite its high-tech setting.

The Real Revolution Has Begun
 
American Thinker,
by J. Robert Smith   

Original Article

2/21/2011

How delicious is irony, how fickle fate?  Just a little more than two years ago, liberals were ecstatic about Barack Obama’s election and Democrats’ control of Congress.  Liberal pundits were all atwitter about the brand new Democratic Era that voters had ushered in. America would finally become what America should have been years ago: a European-style social democracy.

Fox Calls Doctors Writing
Sick Slips In WI “Fraud,”
CNN Calls It “Helping Out”

Mediaite,
by Matt Schneider   

Original Article

2/21/2011

As news in the Wisconsin union protests continues to develop, it’s interesting to get different perspectives on the same events.  Are public school teachers unfairly being asked to make economic sacrifices and noble for standing up for themselves or are they selfishly calling in sick and wrong for forcing kids to miss out on school?  Your answer might depend on which news channel you’re watching.  On Fox News, Mike Tobin interviewed some residents of the state who claimed that it was extremely easy to get a doctor to give them a sick note, thus enabling public employees to take off….

Chicago Teachers Union
Organizes for Wisconsin Protest

Weekly Standard,
by Stephen F. Hayes   

Original Article

2/21/2011

On Sunday, Mary Bell, president of the Wisconsin Educational Association Council, instructed the teachers in her union to return to the classroom after many of them skipped school for three days last week.  The unexpected move energized Republicans in Wisconsin, who took it as a sign that negative public reaction to the “sick-out” is making a difference.  Or perhaps they don’t need the numbers because the unions are bringing in additional reinforcements. Madison, one of the most liberal cities in the United States, is a town always in search of a cause.

Mideast volatility widens as
uprising in Libya escalates

McClatchy Newspapers,
by Jonathan S. Landay   

Original Article

2/21/2011
CAIRO,
Egypt

Libya’s second largest city, Benghazi, fell Sunday after a crack army unit defected to the opposition and clashes spread to the capital, Tripoli, as an uprising against Moammar Gadhafi appeared to threaten the Middle East’s longest ruling dictator’s 42-year grip on power, residents and news reports said. Gadhafi’s youngest son, Saif Gadhafi, seemed to acknowledge in a rambling speech on state-run television that Benghazi and the nearby eastern city of Baida were no longer under government control.

Is David Cameron reinventing
himself as a Thatcherite?

Telegraph [UK],
by Alex Singleton   

Original Article

2/21/2011

Just as many Tories were becoming fed up with Cameron, our PM has done three things that should put smiles on their faces. First, he gave the green light to backbenchers to vote down a ruling of the European Court of Human Rights, by allowing a free vote. [Snip] Then, Downing Street imposed its will on the Department for International Development, which announced that it was going to stop giving aid to 20 countries.

Libyan protesters ‘ransack state TV
headquarters and set fire to
government building’ as anti-Gaddafi
unrest takes hold in capital Tripoli

Daily Mail [UK],
by Gerri Peev &
Tom Kelly   

Original Article

2/21/2011 

The state television HQ in the Libyan capital Tripoli has been breached by anti-government demonstrators and a government building is ablaze as protests continue in the region. More than 300 people have been killed in the unrest after Colonel Gaddafi was reported to have contracted foreign mercenaries to quell the most violent protests in his 41-year reign.

No invite for the Obamas as the
Queen personally asks 40 other heads of
state to attend Prince
William’s wedding to Kate

Daily Mail [UK],
by Staff   

Original Article

2/21/2011

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle have not been invited to Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding. The Queen personally invited 40 heads of state, who received the gold-embossed invitations over the weekend to the April 29 wedding of the future king.

[Snip] But they can take solace in the knowledge that they will be the guests of their very own state visit to the UK in May. There have been suggestions that the state visit–the first for a US President since 2003–was set up in return for Obama not coming to the wedding because of the added security costs…..

Wisconsin: Progressivism
in All its Ugly Glory

Jewish World Review,
by Arnold Ahlert   

Original Article

2/21/2011

By the time you read this, we will all have been “Wisconsin-ed” up to our eyeballs.  Yet when one cuts through all the blather…..

(snip)what we are seeing is the first serious campaigning for the 2012 election.  The battle lines couldn’t be clearer: either the public will wrest this country back from the serial abusers for whom no government deficits are too large, no compensation packages too lavish and no special interest groups are too special, or we will all become vassals of their self-righteous, progressive tyranny.

Breeze—-how heartbreaking for that young Vet!

You had me till you referenced abortion as “murder”. 

I suppose we could have forced those thirty million unwanted babies to be born.  What do you think it would have cost taxpayers in welfare payments to raise them?

Obama airbrushing history

American Thinker,
by Clarice Feldman   

Original Article

2/21/2011 

Tom Maguire reprints the White House version of Obama’s role in the Wisconsin labor dispute and suggests we compare it with the video of his remarks. If you do, you know they are airbrushing history. The Milwaukee television interview that was Mr. Obama’s first involvement in the Madison budget war was sought by the White House not to interject the president into the state’s fight but to promote his separate message concerning his own national budget-cutting drama: the station broadcasts into the district of the Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee, Representative Paul D. Ryan.

Daily Presidential Tracking
Poll – 2-21-2011

Rasmussen Reports,
by Staff   

Original Article

2/21/2011

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 23% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president.  Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -18 (see trends). Yesterday and today mark the president’s lowest ratings since mid-December.

Breeze—-Thanks, as always, for all of these excellent bits of news!

Michelle Obama’s big
‘sacrifces’ on her Vail vacation

American Thinker,
by Jeannie DeAngelis   

Original Article

2/21/2011

It has been almost a month and a half since the Obama family returned from 10 days in Oahu.  With all the breastfeeding advice she’s been giving out lately, an exhausted First Lady is long overdue for some R & R.  Relinquishing her role as tireless workaholic, Michelle decided to revisit last year’s mother/daughter ski trip to the Ski Liberty Resort in Carroll Valley, Pennsylvania.  Only this year, the Obama women have taken to the slopes in Vail, Colorado on a “private family trip” accompanied by “several close friends.”

Awakening another sleeping giant

American Thinker,
by Russ Vaughn   

Original Article

2/21/2011

For all their supposed refudiation of martial metaphors, the leftist Democrats and union activists in the Wisconsin rebellion seem to have no reluctance in applying them to their hated enemy, the conservative Republicans leading the fiscal revolution.  Angry union demonstrators seem to have no reluctance in referring to the current situation as a war and they hesitate not a moment to liken their opponents to the militaristic Hitler and his Nazis.  In keeping with their martial zeal, I would submit that the unions and their minions, with their own fanatic militancy on such open, public display…..

Mika Makes Excuses For Vile
WI Signs—Till She Sees Them

Newsbusters,
by Mark Finkelstein   

Original Article

2/21/2011

Mika Brzezinski learned a life lesson this morning: look before you leap to defend liberals . . . [h/t reader Ray R] At the top of Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough referenced the hateful emails he and Mika had received from the left and the similarly ugly signs held by Wisconsin union protesters.  Mika reflexively defended the vileness, saying that people were “hurting and really don’t feel like they’re being heard.” Aww.  But later, the show rolled video of some of the Wisconsin signs, including one with crosshairs on Gov. Walker, another calling him Hitler, one accusing him of rape…..

Liberalism Is Dead

American Thinker,
by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.   

Original Article

2/21/2011

In the tumultuous history of postwar American Liberalism, there has been a slow but steady decline of which the Liberals have been steadfastly oblivious.  This pose has called for admirable discipline, for the evidence was all around them.  Yet Liberals, who began as the rightful heirs to the New Deal, carried on as a kind of aristocracy, gifted but doomed. They dominated the culture and the politics of the country unchallenged from the beginnings of the Cold War to the first Nixon administration. With the general populace, however, they….. increasingly faltered.

Extremist cleric to lead White House protest calling for Muslims to ‘rise up and establish Islamic state in America’

A hardline Muslim cleric who sparked anger across the U.S. with his anti-American comments in a television interview this month is to hold a protest outside the White House.
British extremist Anjem Choudary – who once said ‘the flag of Islam will fly over the White House’ – has announced he will lead a demonstration calling on Muslims to establish the Sharia law across America.
The rally, planned for March 3, is to take place just weeks after his on-screen row with Fox News presenter Sean Hannity.
Mr Choudary, 43, called Americans ‘the biggest criminals in the world today.’

Extremist cleric to lead White House protest calling for Muslims to ‘rise up and establish Islamic state in America’  
 
A hardline Muslim cleric who sparked anger across the U.S. with his anti-American comments in a television interview this month is to hold a protest outside the White House.  
British extremist Anjem Choudary – who once said ‘the flag of Islam will fly over the White House’ – has announced he will lead a demonstration calling on Muslims to establish the Sharia law across America.  
The rally, planned for March 3, is to take place just weeks after his on-screen row with Fox News presenter Sean Hannity.  
Mr Choudary, 43, called Americans ‘the biggest criminals in the world today.’

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Must Read.

Mr. Ahlert nails it clearly and succinctly.

It’s just the Muslim way to share in the joys of the Yuletide season….

So what else is new. As Gov. Palin says, if they didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards at all.

Well, there’s lots of desert out that way . . .

(sample treasure map) walk exactly 1.75 miles due north from the anus of the sphinx . . . )

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Did you guys see the pictures?

I wonder what happened to WeeWonOne?  Maybe she doesn’t like the
snow?

Middle Eastern Democracy in action . . .

Yes Helen, our loss is someone else’s gain.

Geologically speaking, diamonds aren’t all that rare, they’re made of carbon, one of the more abundant elements on Earth. The conditions that create diamonds are relatively rare, but not nearly as rare as the conditions that create much gems like emeralds, rubies, sapphires, Alexandrite, Tanzanite, and a number of other stones. In fact, the Russians have almost perfected techniques to create artificial diamonds that require experts to distinguish them from natural stones. The allure and scarcity of diamonds has been somewhat manufactured by powerful diamond cartels, ever read “11 Harrowhouse”? De Beers intentionally stockpiles much of the world’s recovered diamonds to keep the price artificially high, and every time there’s a significant new discovery of natural diamonds, De Beers’ representatives instantly show up and either buy up the entire operation, or shut it down. For these reasons, I don’t buy diamonds, but I still love and collect all of the other precious and semi-precious gems.

Oil is not too different from diamonds. The ME contains around one third of the world’s reserves, and aside from the obvious supply and price manipulations by OPEC, oil has flowed freely from that part of the world……….. they love being oil rich. Now however, political turmoil will trump OPEC’s power, and the free flow of oil from the ME may be drastically reduced. This is of great concern for an energy hungry world, and when supplies of such a necessary resource dry up, the price will move to a range that will cripple the entire planet, especially the industrial world………..us. Of course, Soros and many others of his ilk, have set themselves up to benefit from this disaster, the same way that buzzards benefit from death.

For EMTs and other first responders, the King of mnemonic acronyms is “ABC”, airway, breathing, and circulation. Airway is the first because it is the most important, if the airway is closed, little else matters, and until the airway is opened, it’s almost pointless to worry about other injuries, you’ll DEFINITELY lose the patient if he isn’t getting oxygen. Asphyxiation is deadly, even though it often leaves no marks on the body and there is no trauma, people who drown frequently have no physical injuries. Energy for civilization is like oxygen for a body, if someone can cut it off, it will not directly damage infrastructure and the people themselves, but the community will still die from energy suffocation. Various entities have no problem with this, and Econazis have often expressed the death of Human civilization as their primary goal.

How do we defeat those who would profit from energy shortages, and those misanthropes who wish that all of us would simply disappear? For God’s sake……….open up OUR oil reserves, start drilling in ANWAR, get OUR offshore oil before the Chi-Coms, develop and improve methods to use our huge supplies natural gas and coal, and expose the criminals, like Al Gore, who’ve done everything they can to undermine carbon based energy so that they can profit from the mischief they’ve created. Send a message to the rest of the world, “We won’t accept energy extortion, we’ll corner the market ourselves!”. The last time oil prices spiked, assholes like Obama sternly warned that “Drilling here, drilling now” only reduce the price of gas by a few pennies, because new exploration wouldn’t increase the actual supply for years, which only proved that Obama either didn’t understand how markets work, or he was discouraging the development of our own carbon supplies for other, more selfish reasons. However, on a global scale, the mere threat of increasing our oil supply had an instant effect on the market, and the price of oil dropped rapidly. Advocates of ramping up domestic energy, like Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich, understood that energy saber rattling, “Drill baby, drill”, would drive prices down immediately, while Obama and the libs were ignorantly poo-pooing the entire idea, starting operations in ANWAR won’t change oil prices for years……….yeah…….right.

When will people stop listening to those factions who disparage carbon based fuels for their own nefarious reasons? When gas at the pump is $10 a gallon, people might wake up, I suppose, but by then it will be too late, we will have passed the tipping point, and our comfortable way of life will ground to a halt. You think things are bad now? Just wait until the forces who conceived of the CCX, Cap and Trade, AGW, and draconian EPA restrictions have their way.   

Yes Helen, our loss is someone else’s gain.  
 
Geologically speaking, diamonds aren’t all that rare, they’re made of carbon, one of the more abundant elements on Earth. The conditions that create diamonds are relatively rare, but not nearly as rare as the conditions that create much more scarce gems like emeralds, rubies, sapphires, Alexandrite, Tanzanite, and a number of other stones. In fact, the Russians have almost perfected techniques to create artificial diamonds that require experts to distinguish them from natural stones. The allure and scarcity of diamonds has been somewhat manufactured by powerful diamond cartels, ever read “11 Harrowhouse”? De Beers intentionally stockpiles much of the world’s recovered diamonds to keep the price artificially high, and every time there’s a significant new discovery of natural diamonds, De Beers’ representatives instantly show up and either buy up the entire operation, or shut it down. For these reasons, I don’t buy diamonds, but I still love and collect all of the other precious and semi-precious gems.  
 
Oil is not too different from diamonds. The ME contains around one third of the world’s reserves, and aside from the obvious supply and price manipulations by OPEC, oil has flowed freely from that part of the world……….. they love being oil rich. Now however, political turmoil will trump OPEC’s power, and the free flow of oil from the ME may be drastically reduced. This is of great concern for an energy hungry world, and when supplies of such a necessary resource dry up, the price will move to a range that will cripple the entire planet, especially the industrial world………..us. Of course, Soros and many others of his ilk, have set themselves up to benefit from this disaster, the same way that buzzards benefit from death.  
 
For EMTs and other first responders, the King of mnemonic acronyms is “ABC”, airway, breathing, and circulation. Airway is the first because it is the most important, if the airway is closed, little else matters, and until the airway is opened, it’s almost pointless to worry about other injuries, you’ll DEFINITELY lose the patient if he isn’t getting oxygen. Asphyxiation is deadly, even though it often leaves no marks on the body and there is no trauma, people who drown frequently have no physical injuries. Energy for civilization is like oxygen for a body, if someone can cut it off, it will not directly damage infrastructure and the people themselves, but the community will still die from energy suffocation. Various entities have no problem with this, and Econazis have often expressed the death of Human civilization as their primary goal.  
 
How do we defeat those who would profit from energy shortages, and those misanthropes who wish that all of us would simply disappear? For God’s sake……….open up OUR oil reserves, start drilling in ANWAR, get OUR offshore oil before the Chi-Coms, develop and improve methods to use our huge supplies natural gas and coal, and expose the criminals, like Al Gore, who’ve done everything they can to undermine carbon based energy so that they can profit from the mischief they’ve created. Send a message to the rest of the world, “We won’t accept energy extortion, we’ll corner the market ourselves!”. The last time oil prices spiked, assholes like Obama sternly warned that “Drilling here, drilling now” only reduce the price of gas by a few pennies, because new exploration wouldn’t increase the actual supply for years, which only proved that Obama either didn’t understand how markets work, or he was discouraging the development of our own carbon supplies for other, more selfish reasons. However, on a global scale, the mere threat of increasing our oil supply had an instant effect on the market, and the price of oil dropped rapidly. Advocates of ramping up domestic energy, like Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich, understood that energy saber rattling, “Drill baby, drill”, would drive prices down immediately, while Obama and the libs were ignorantly poo-pooing the entire idea, starting operations in ANWAR won’t change oil prices for years……….yeah…….right.  
 
When will people stop listening to those factions who disparage carbon based fuels for their own nefarious reasons? When gas at the pump is $10 a gallon, people might wake up, I suppose, but by then it will be too late, we will have passed the tipping point, and our comfortable way of life will ground to a halt. You think things are bad now? Just wait until the forces who conceived of the CCX, Cap and Trade, AGW, and draconian EPA restrictions have their way.   

“I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here! … “

What part of “Muslim Brotherhood” is so difficult to understand?

Well, I don’t know about “WeeWonOne,” but I’ve been having a wonderful time vicariously enjoying my ski weekend in Vail . . . .

Yes Helen, our loss is someone else’s gain.    
   
Geologically speaking, diamonds aren’t all that rare, they’re made of carbon, one of the more abundant elements on Earth. The conditions that create diamonds are relatively rare, but not nearly as rare as the conditions that create much more scarce gems like emeralds, rubies, sapphires, Alexandrite, Tanzanite, and a number of other stones. In fact, the Russians have almost perfected techniques to create artificial diamonds that require experts to distinguish them from natural stones. The allure and scarcity of diamonds has been somewhat manufactured by powerful diamond cartels, ever read “11 Harrowhouse”? De Beers intentionally stockpiles much of the world’s recovered diamonds to keep the price artificially high, and every time there’s a significant new discovery of natural diamonds, De Beers’ representatives instantly show up and either buy up the entire operation, or shut it down. For these reasons, I don’t buy diamonds, but I still love and collect all of the other precious and semi-precious gems.    
   
Oil is not too different from diamonds. The ME contains around one third of the world’s reserves, and aside from the obvious supply and price manipulations by OPEC, oil has flowed freely from that part of the world……….. they love being oil rich. Now however, political turmoil will trump OPEC’s power, and the free flow of oil from the ME may be drastically reduced. This is of great concern for an energy hungry world, and when supplies of such a necessary resource dry up, the price will move to a range that will cripple the entire planet, especially the industrial world………..us. Of course, Soros and many others of his ilk, have set themselves up to benefit from this disaster, the same way that buzzards benefit from death.    
   
For EMTs and other first responders, the King of mnemonic acronyms is “ABC”, airway, breathing, and circulation. Airway is the first because it is the most important, if the airway is closed, little else matters, and until the airway is opened, it’s almost pointless to worry about other injuries, you’ll DEFINITELY lose the patient if he isn’t getting oxygen. Asphyxiation is deadly, even though it often leaves no marks on the body and there is no trauma, people who drown frequently have no physical injuries. Energy for civilization is like oxygen for a body, if someone can cut it off, it will not directly damage infrastructure and the people themselves, but the community will still die from energy suffocation. Various entities have no problem with this, and Econazis have often expressed the death of Human civilization as their primary goal.    
   
How do we defeat those who would profit from energy shortages, and those misanthropes who wish that all of us would simply disappear? For God’s sake……….open up OUR oil reserves, start drilling in ANWAR, get OUR offshore oil before the Chi-Coms, develop and improve methods to use our huge supplies natural gas and coal, and expose the criminals, like Al Gore, who’ve done everything they can to undermine carbon based energy so that they can profit from the mischief they’ve created. Send a message to the rest of the world, “We won’t accept energy extortion, we’ll corner the market ourselves!”. The last time oil prices spiked, assholes like Obama sternly warned that “Drilling here, drilling now” would only reduce the price of gas by a few pennies, because new exploration wouldn’t increase the actual supply for years, which only proved that Obama either didn’t understand how markets work, or he was discouraging the development of our own carbon supplies for other, more selfish reasons. However, on a global scale, the mere threat of increasing our oil supply had an instant effect on the market, and the price of oil dropped rapidly. Advocates of ramping up domestic energy, like Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich, understood that energy saber rattling, “Drill baby, drill”, would drive prices down immediately, while Obama and the libs were ignorantly poo-pooing the entire idea, “starting operations in ANWAR won’t change oil prices for years”……….yeah…….right.    
   
When will people stop listening to those factions who disparage carbon based fuels for their own nefarious reasons? When gas at the pump is $10 a gallon, people might wake up I suppose, but by then it will be too late, we will have passed the tipping point, and our comfortable way of life will grind to a halt. You think things are bad now? Just wait until the forces who conceived of the CCX, Cap and Trade, AGW, and draconian EPA restrictions have their way.   

Boy am I glad we’re safe…safe now in the wide, wide world.

Media Silence As Tolerant
Left Wishes Death on
Governor Scott Walker
 
Big Journalism,
by Liberty Chick   

Original Article

2/21/2011

You may remember President Obama’s recent call for civil discourse this past January. Well, it appears that the Left is still very much struggling with the #newtone online.  Unless, of course, you consider a persistent stream of steady death threats against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker a display of etiquette straight from the Emily Post Etipedia of manners.

(Snip)Initially, I’d written a summary here of some of the details around Gov. Walker’s proposal, including some of the positive highlights, like granting employees the right to choose whether or not to contribute dues to a labor union.

Well, the Obama’s may be “movin’ on up”, but they still haven’t reached the “East Side”:

Number of Solidly Democratic States
Cut in Half From ’08 to ’10

Gallup,
by Jeffrey M. Jones   

Original Article

2/21/2011

PRINCETON, NJ

– Gallup’s analysis of party affiliation in the U.S. states shows a marked decline in the number of solidly Democratic states from 2008 (30) to 2010 (14).  The number of politically competitive states increased over the same period, from 10 to 18, with more limited growth in the number of leaning or solidly Republican states.  Even with Democratic Party affiliation declining during the past two years, Democratic states still outnumbered Republican states by 23 to 10 last year, and there were 14 solidly Democratic states compared with 5 solidly Republican states.

Well, the Obamas might be “movin’ on up”, but they still haven’t reached the “East Side”.

First lady hits the slopes

Vail Daily [CO],
by Staff   

Original Article

2/21/2011 
VAIL

— First lady Michelle Obama enjoyed locally grown fare at a Vail restaurant Saturday night before hitting the slopes of Vail Mountain early Sunday.

(Snip)The first lady went to Restaurant Kelly Liken in Vail Village on Saturday night, dining on a pickled pumpkin salad with arugula and a braised ancho-chile short rib with hominy wild mushrooms and sauteed kale.

‘Kate Middleton’s no style
queen’: Vivienne Westwood’s
gives her verdict on Prince
William’s fiancee

Daily Mail [U.K.],
by Staff   

Original Article

2/21/2011

We don’t know who will create Kate’s wedding dress – but after some cutting words yesterday, it’s not likely to be Dame Vivienne Westwood.  The controversial 69-year-old designer appeared to suggest that the bride-to-be was not stylish enough to wear one of her outfits.  ‘I would have loved to have dressed Kate Middleton but I have to wait until she kind of catches up a bit somewhere with style,’ she said.

so many Christians and so little time…

Well, it is Democracy of sorts, oowawa. “One man, one vote; One gun, one hundred votes.” 

Bashir ‘will not seek re-election’
 
Al Jazeera and agencies,
by Staff   

Original Article

2/21/2011 

Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Sudan’s president, will not stand for re-election, reports say, with his party insisting he is “not under pressure” from the wave of demonstrations rocking the region. “[Bashir] announced that he will not enter the coming elections to compete for the presidency,” Rabie Abdelati, a senior official from the ruling National Congress Party, told the Reuters news agency on Monday.

(snip) Opposition groups have said the move is an attempt to stave off unrest in the region, which have ousted presidents in Egypt and Tunisia, from spreading to Sudan.

Show us the hairy truth!  We can take it!

Key U.S. official meets Egyptian
authorities after $150 million
aid promise

The Hill,
by Bridget Johnson   

Original Article

2/21/2011

A key U.S. official landed in Cairo on Monday to meet with military leaders and discuss the extra aid promised by Washington to help Egypt with its democratic transition.  Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns arrived days after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced Egypt would be receiving an extra $150 million to help with the political transition.  The $1.5 billion in foreign aid the U.S. gives annually to Egypt, which is unchanged in the State Department’s budget.

cleansing wars
**********
Where the hell are you from, ancient Sparta?
You are a sick individual!

Gone, Wisconsin
 
National Review Online,
by David Kahane   

Original Article

2/21/2011

The dirtiest words in a liberal’s lexicon — besides “judgmental,” “intolerant,” “unfair,” and “Constitution” — are “revanchism” and “irredentism.”  For years, I had no idea what these words actually meant, although like a good red-diaper baby, I threw them around a lot.  But to men of a certain age, and I’m talking about men even older than my father, the sainted “Che” Kahane, they’re terms that get our side frothing at the mouth, foaming from their nostrils, and stamping their feet against the imaginary, Stalingrad-like cold of Hallandale, Fla.

Hezbollah Working with Cartels

Fox News,
by Adam Housley   

Original Article

2/21/2011

As if the threat of deadly drug cartels in Mexico wasn’t enough, some of them are joining forces with Middle East terror groups.  “Hezbollah are absolute masters at identifying existing smuggling infrastructures,” says former DEA Chief of Operations Mike Braun, adding that the group “is developing relations with those responsible for operating those smuggling operations and then forming close relations with them, so that they can move anything they have an interest into virtually anywhere in the world.”  That comment comes from former DEA Chief of Operations Mike Braun.  He goes on to tell me that the…..

Wisconsin’s Walker: ‘This is
about balancing our budget’
 
Washington Examiner,
by Mark Tapscott   

Original Article

2/21/2011

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says the continuing showdown with his state’s public employee unions is at bottom about whether the state government can “balance its budget” and why “at a tough time when the private sector has been making sacrifices to keep people working, we should expect the same from government.”   In an interview with Examiner contributor Tina Korbe of the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Media and Public Policy, Walker says…..

Can you sing this in Arabic?

Reasons to be pessimistic about the
Middle East #863: you can’t have
democracy without demography

Telegraph [UK],
by Ed West   

Original Article

2/21/2011

It looks like the original author of “the third way” may not be in power much longer, Muammar Gaddafi’s unique ideological pathway between capitalism and Communism being as unsuccessful as all other attempts from Mussolini to Mandelson.  It would be a shame if, having gone to such efforts to betray the memory of PC Yvonne Fletcher and the victims of Lockerbie and the IRA by sucking up to a brutal (if sartorially-interesting) dictator, such dictator is then strung up.  I wonder what else may emerge about his international relationships if he goes?

Meanwhile brutal footage of events in Bahrain

Has Britain left itself defenceless
if Gaddafi goes?

Telegraph [UK],
by Benedict Brogan   

Original Article

2/21/2011 

William Hague says he has some information that Muammar Gaddafi may be on a plane heading to Venezuela to join his chum Hugo Chavez.  And he says he isn’t referring to rumours in the media, so this must have a bit of weight.

[Snip] The assumption must be that he is finished, and if he isn’t on his way out, he will be shortly. Which makes it a great moment for those who hoped that Yvonne Fletcher, the dead of Lockerbie, and all those victims of the IRA would be avenged one day.

Wisconsin’s teachers make a little more
money than they’re letting on

Daily Caller,
by Matthew Boyle   

Original Article

2/21/2011 

Wisconsin’s public school teachers and the unions that represent them are saying budget cuts proposed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker would be devastating — but many of those teachers make more money than they’re letting on.  The Daily Caller has broken out the salaries and benefits of teachers who have publicly entered the debate by commenting to the press.  Wisconsin’s 2010 Teacher of the Year, Leah Lechleiter-Luke of Mauston High School, told CNN the budget changes would force her to look for additional part-time work.

tweets from al-jazeera are most interesting. I just wish they were translated to English. It would save me a doing so. I really dislike not being able to understand what is being tweeted in arabic.

So is a universal transaltor for twitter yet?

University of Wisconsin Medical School
Investigating Doctors’ Notes at Protest

Fox News,
by Todd Ciganek   

Original Article

2/21/2011

The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is investigating whether some of its doctors wrote fake sick notes to people protesting the governor’s plan to strip public union employees of the right to collectively bargain.  Over the weekend, FOX News reported that doctors from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine were manning a doctor station to write medical notes excusing those protesting at the Wisconsin State Capitol from work. Physicians were seen standing on a street corner wearing lab coats and giving out medical notes.

“a brutal (if sartorially-interesting) dictator,”

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FRP, THE COMMENTS:

Jon Fraud Carry

Very funny! I can’t wait for his article about “irredentism”.

Posted by: ruby2ssday

This is the funniest lampoon I have read in a long time. Too bad it is all true.

Posted by: nonsmooth

I recently finished “Rules for Radical Conservatives” and highly recommend it. Kahane is nearly on a par with my old-time favorite, P.J. O’Rourke.

I am in a union and do NOT have the right to strike.

Well, I know that many will be counting the number of darker faces in the wedding pics . . .

And she was critized for it by the left. Go figure.

Venezuela?  He’ll look great in a poncho–He’ll fit right in–

We are the wrrrrrlllllld . . .

Yes–”cleansing wars” suggests “ethnic cleansing,” doesn’t it . . . you never know who might be writing these comments or for what purpose . . .

Yep–I’m paranoid . . .

Do we get a before and after weigh in?!

Goracle Blames Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, WSJ Op-Eds, For Brainwashing People Into Believing Global Warming is Junk Science…

Aspen Times? Is he skiing too?????
He tends to whip up the hysteria when he’s in need of a new mansion, luxury yacht or possibly a Gulfstream V.
Via Aspen Times:
During a question-and-answer session, the former vice president spoke about the intense opposition to the very idea of global warming.
He said many global corporations base their profit margins on the ability to pollute. They have banded together and spent billions of dollars in the media and in political campaigns, even hiring “four anti-climate lobbyists for every member of Congress.”

Soros, already has it all covered!

Oil Goes Berserk:

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/oil-goes-berserk-electronic-trading-wti-passes-98

This is OT but since it’s an open thread, I wanted to share this.. May have already been discussed but I just can’t believe the POTUS has nothing better to do than take his secret service detail to watch him coach a 9 year old basketball game. Why was this only reported in the UK papers?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358671/Obama-substitutes-daughters-basketball-coach-bad-Sasha-wasnt-there.html

The Brits, like to cause trouble!!

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CAIR is a prominent civil rights group? Who knew?

This one of the few times I agree with Huckabee.  I saw the interview and
he was NOT disrespectful…..

These people had better get over themselves or pretty soon PC is going
to run out and ‘backlash may become a female dog….” 

Malta, ehh? Hmmm…

Were they flying F-16 Fighter Falcons?

That really would be the stuff that dreams are made of.

Democratic Sen. Herb Kohl declines
visible role in Wisconsin Protests

Daily Caller
[Washington, DC],
by Will Rahn   

Original Article

2/21/2011

As Wisconsin’s public union protesters make national headlines, Herb Kohl, the Badger State’s long-serving Democratic senator, has kept a low profile.  Prominent Wisconsin Democrats such as former Sen. Russ Feingold have been vocal in their support of the protests, while Kohl, who is up for re-election in 2012, shied away from taking a visible role.  “Public workers deserve fair treatment and their interests should be taken into consideration as these issues are resolved,” Kohl said in a short, non-committal statement released by his office on Thursday.

Now thats the real question!!!!!!

Liberating Libya

Wall Street Journal,
by Staff   

Original Article

2/21/2011

As the Arab freedom wave reached Libya last week, Moammar Gadhafi reacted as he so often has during his benighted 42-year reign—by murdering his own people.

[Snip] A State Department official—who spoke on background, fortunately for his reputation—told the press Sunday that the U.S. was “analyzing the speech of Saif al-Islam Gadhafi to see what possibilities it contains for meaningful reform.”  Is that analysis taking place during or in between massacres?

Libya’s U.N. Diplomats
Break With Qaddafi

New York Times,
by Colin Moynihan   

Original Article

2/21/2011

Members of Libya’s mission to the United Nations publicly repudiated Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi on Monday, calling him a genocidal war criminal responsible for mass shootings of demonstrators protesting against his four decades in power.  They called upon him to resign. The repudiation, led by Libya’s deputy permanent representative at a news conference at the mission’s headquarters in New York, amounted to the most high-profile defection of Libyan diplomats in the anti-Qaddafi uprising that has convulsed Libya over the past week.

Libyan Aircraft to
Bomb Benghazi?

National Review Online,
by Daniel Foster   

Original Article

2/21/2011
4:07 PM

Al Aribiya is reporting from multiple sources that Libyan aircraft could begin bombing the city of Benghazi within hours.  Benghazi is the second largest city in Libya behind Tripoli, and is now believed to be more or less under the control of protesters, after an army unit joined forces with citizens to push Gaddafi’s forces out.  Benghazi has a population of some 600,000-plus.  Hundreds — and according to some sources, thousands — of anti-Gaddafi protesters have already been killed, some by aircraft fire.

Oil shock fears as Libya erupts

Telegraph [UK],
by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard   

Original Article

2/21/2011
3:54:47 PM
“This is potentially worse for oil than the Iran crisis in 1979,” said Paul Horsnell, head of oil research at Barclays Capital.  “That was a revolution in one country, here there are so many countries at once. The world has only 4.5m barrels-per-day (bpd) of spare capacity, which is not comfortable.”  US oil contracts jumped $6 a barrel on Monday to over $95, chasing Brent crude, which traded as high as $108, as the global oil system is drawn into the vortex.  While Egypt is a minor oil player, Libya’s Sirte Basin holds Africa’s largest reserves and supplies 1.4m bpd…..

Better the devil ya know, than, the devil ya don’t know!

Libya: up to a million refugees
could pour into Europe

Telegraph [UK],
by Staff   

Original Article

2/21/2011

Officials in Brussels believe as many as 750,000 refugees could attempt to make their way across the Mediterranean into southern Europe if the Gaddafi regime collapses.  But Libyan estimates put the figure as high as two million, with vast numbers of sub-Saharan illegal immigrants seizing the opportunity to use the lawless country as a gateway to Europe.  A £500 million accord, signed between the EU and Tripoli last year, has helped combat the flow of illegal immigrants in recent months.  But with diplomats claiming Gaddafi’s 41-year rule could be in its final death throes, southern Europe is being warned…..

Oh yes–Europeans are really beginning to love importing guest workers from Muslim countries . . .

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FROM YAHOO NEWS

Click on the blue titles:

Two Libyan fighter pilots defect, fly to Malta<!– COKE –> Reuters – Mon Feb 21, 2:24 pm ET Video: Will Qadaffi Be Next Domino to Fall? FOX NewsRelated: Libyan UN diplomats say Gadhafi should step down APRelated: Venezuela denies reports Gaddafi on his way there Reuters

NOTHING ON FOX NEWS YET. 

I’ll keep listening….

Please pray for all the innocents who might be destroyed…..

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“It’s time for the President of the United States to give another speech….”

====================================================

Sure, he can ‘mess up’ the world even more than he has….

I hope he keeps on coaching little girls’ teams and stay out of the way!!!
(I feel sorry for those little ones, though….)

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GADAFI’S SON WARNS OF ‘RIVERS OF BLOOD’

http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/02/21/138515.html

Gadhafi to speak on Libyan uprising
 
CBC News [Canada],
by Staff   

Original Article

2/21/2011

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was expected to speak early Tuesday morning local time — the first comments by the long-time ruler on the violence that has hit his country as protesters demand his ouster. A Libyan Foreign Ministry official confirmed to Al-Arabiya television that Gadhafi was to deliver a speech soon.

(Snip) Libyan state TV said Monday a large military operation was underway against “pockets of terror.”

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Shep said Gadafi was on radio/TV for only a few seconds, just to say

‘He was in Lybia’s capital, not Venezuela…’

(MAJOR
J.E.R.K.!!!)

6.3 earthquakes Christchurch New Zealand….. Buildings collapsing! Etc

Magnitude 6.3 earthquake hits New Zealand
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A 6.3-magnitude earthquake has rocked the southern New Zealand city of Christchurch.
There was no immediate confirmation of injuries or damage to the city

U.S. Warns Americans to Avoid Libya
 
Wall Street Journal,
by Thomas Catan   

Original Article

2/21/2011

The State Department warned Americans against traveling in Libya on Monday amid widening unrest and spiraling violence by the country’s security forces.  ”U.S. citizens in Libya should minimize overall travel in-country, exercise extreme caution when traveling, and limit all travel after dark,” the U.S. said in a travel advisory. 
It said demonstrations, violence and looting were all possible over the next several days, and urged U.S. citizens to stay away from any gatherings.  ”Even peaceful ones can quickly become unruly and a foreigner could become a target of harassment, or worse,” according to the State Department advisory.

Good for the boycotters. I won’t purchase Campbell’s soup until they rescind this policy publicly.

Well, it looks as though Michelle O’s recipe for  ”Stalingrad Sauteed Sawdust Biscuits” isn’t too popular with Chicago school kiddies. Although, isn’t it peculiar that all of the really good food on this continent seems to funneled toward her gaping maw, while her Hubby and his pet tapeworm grow skinny trying to scrounge the tidbits that manage to avoid being sucked into that frightening food maelstrom.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/ct-met-new-school-lunches-20110220,0,6830768.story

Could someone please help me set up a site like TOTUS (Teleprompter of The United States)? I want to call it TOTPOTUS (Tapeworm of The President of The United States) where I’ll chronicle all of the wonderful gourmet foods that daily bath the dear TOPOTUS on their way through the POTUS’ GI tract. It could be fun.

Obama: I will ‘paint the nation purple with SEIU’

American Thinker,
by Andrew Thomas   

Original Article

2/21/2011

After viewing the video below we can now say with certainty which side President Obama is on concerning the Wisconsin public union protests.  Mr. Obama is not a public union supporter, he is their national leader.  This is rapidly becoming a nationwide manufactured “crisis”, as orchestrated by SEIU and Obama’s Organizing for America.  Is this what he meant when he said he would make us a nation of purple states?

House GOP Moves to
Eliminate Obama ‘Czars’

Fox News,
by Staff   

Original Article

2/21/2011

If House Republicans have their way, the Obama administration’s “czars” will no longer be able to dictate pay at bailed-out mega-firms or negotiate new emissions standards for U.S. vehicles.  An amendment attached to the 2011 spending package, which passed the House last week, would strip funding for a select list of the so-called czars.  Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., the author of the proposal, hailed the vote as a step toward ending the administration’s “shadow government.”  ”Hardworking American families should not be forced to pay millions of dollars to fund…..”

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi
appears on state TV

BBC News [UK],
by Staff   

Original Article

2/21/2011

Speaking to state TV from outside a ruined building, he asserted: “I am in Tripoli and not in Venezuela.”  UK Foreign Minister William Hague had said he had seen information suggesting Col Gaddafi was on his way to Caracas.  Earlier, the new General Committee for Defence said its forces would cleanse Libya of anti-government elements.  A statement described the protesters as “terrorist gangs made up mostly of misguided youths”, who had been exploited and fed “hallucinogenic pills” by people following foreign agendas. But Libya’s diplomats at the United Nations in New York called for international intervention…..

New York’s Teamsters Local 237
to bus in support to union
protestors in Wisconsin
 
New York Daily News,
by Corky Siemaszko   

Original Article

2/21/2011

The Wisconsin workers who have staged a week-long protest against their union-busting governor are getting some Big Apple reinforcements.  Teamsters Local 237, which represents various city workers, intends to “bus a couple hundred” members to Madison – possibly this week, Deputy Director Pete Gutierrez told The Daily News.  ”This governor has awakened a sleeping giant,” Gutierrez said of Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican.  ”We’re going to bring down as many people as possible.  It’s an important issue and legitimate cause.”  The standoff in Madison erupted last week after Walker tried to get a bill passed by…..

Union protests spread to
Indiana’s state capitol

Wall Street Journal & NewsCore,
by Staff   

Original Article

2/21/2011
Indianapolis

- The confrontation between unions and government officials over bargaining and organizing rights moved to Indianapolis Monday as thousands of steelworkers, auto workers and others surrounded the state capital to protest a right-to-work labor bill before the Republican-controlled House.  The bill would change state law so that private-sector workers no longer are required to pay dues or belong to a union that bargains on their behalf.

(Snip) John Bartlett, a legislator and United Auto Workers member, said “when you said this is a good bill for unions, obviously you have never been a union employee.”

Teamsters Local 237, which represents various city workers, intends to “bus a couple hundred” members to Madison
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Talk about a “who needs enemies with friends like these” scenario. This isn’t going to be pretty at all, especially for the teachers.

Yep, there’s a brand new hole in their other foot to go with the self-inflicted one.

Other Obama pals unhappy with
what he’s done for Rahm

Chicago Sun-Times,
by Abdon M. Pallasch   

Original Article

2/21/2011

President Obama’s near-endorsement of mayoral front-runner Rahm Emanuel is a bit of a sore point with Obama’s old friends running against Emanuel.  “During the presidential primary, when Rahm Emanuel was ‘hiding under his desk’ because of his friendship with the Clintons, I was doing the heavy lifting supporting Barack Obama,” a frustrated City Clerk Miguel del Valle said.

(Snip) In 2003 when Carol Moseley Braun announced she was running for president, Obama, then mounting his run for U.S. Senate, sprinted up the stairs at the University of Illinois Chicago for Braun’s big announcement, hoping to get her endorsement for his…..

Wisconsin: What’s the Right Analogy?

by Rand Simberg
PajamasMedia

Forget comparing what’s happening in Madison right now to Greece, Egypt, Guernica, or Jutland. Think Gettysburg.

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Why Obama and the Dems Blundered in Wisconsin

by Richard Pollock

Another stunning political miscalculation.

(Also read:
“White House now disavowing involvement in Wisconsin protests.”)

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The Facts on Wisconsin: What the Unions Want, and Why It’s Insane 

by Gary Wickert

Only thirty states have such collective bargaining agreements. These are privileges, not rights, and can be taken away.

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Yep, a little iron and a lot of hot Nazi lead.

Might have to appoint a Czar to oversee the establishment of a committee that will study the feasibility of naming a commission to implement the appointment of agents to launch the investigation.

Don’t want to derail another open thread, so I’ll post in the basement of this one my musical question du jour:

Have you ever seen the movie “Truly, Madly, Deeply”? It’s about a woman who is in such deep grief after losing her BF that she seems to imagine that he comes back to her.  It is an unusual story with unusual romantic leads: Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman. They sing this song together on one of their “secret” days in her apartment. I found this and the whole movie very touching. I posted this song before, only sung by the 4 Seasons.

Christie’s confrontations
put conservatives in awe
 
Washington Times,
by Ralph Z. Hallow   

Original Article

2/21/2011

Every time Gov. Chris Christie plays another round of smash-mouth politics with New Jersey’s public-sector unions, conservative voters across the country lead the cheers.  “When he speaks to the unions and the other parasitic special-interest groups ripping off the taxpayers, you want to applaud,” said Mark Kevin Lloyd, chairman of the Virginia Tea Party Patriot Federation. “Think about the first time you heard [Clint] Eastwood say, ‘So, you feel lucky, punk? Go ahead — make my day.’  Remember how everyone cheered?”

State Workers in Wisconsin
See a Fraying of Union Bonds

New York Times,
by A. G. Sulzberger and
Monica Davey   

Original Article

2/21/2011
JANESVILLE, Wis.

— Rich Hahan worked at the General Motors plant here until it closed about two years ago.  He moved to Detroit to take another G.M. job while his wife and children stayed here, but then the automaker cut more jobs.  So Mr. Hahan, 50, found himself back in Janesville, collecting unemployment for a time, and watching as the city’s industrial base seemed to crumble away.  Among the top five employers here are the county, the schools and the city. And that was enough to make Mr. Hahan, a union man from a union town, a supporter…..

Yahooo Cindy, best and good luck!

This is a tipping point and it doesn’t look peaceful.

So will he be arrested for attempting to overthrow the US government?? Probably not. But he should be, as should everyone calling for sharia law in the US. Sharia law is un-Constitutional. To implement sharia law means discarding the Constitution. That is treason last time I looked.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/rep-allen-west-tells-koran-wielding-cair-executive-not-to-blow-sunshine-up-my-butt/

Yes, and there are those pesky energy credits that they eventually may get to trade at Goldman Sachs.

A good plan for the U.S.A. is to get energy independent ASAP.

And how do we do this with Armageddon-in-Chief in charge?