Global warming hoaxer to New York Times reporter: "You've taken the words out of my mouth."
11.26.2009
Mixed emotions
Q. How can we not be ecstatic when our primary investment is going parabolic?
A. Because that investment is gold, and it's only going parabolic because Timmy the Tax Cheat and Zimbabwe Ben are flushing our dollar, and our country, down the toilet.
11.25.2009
Black Card cont'd...
W.C. Varones originally posted about the new Barclays Black Card here. Well my wife got the same offer in the mail yesterday and I was just curious to find out a little more about it before I drop $500 on a credit card. so I gave them a call, twice.
First Call after being on hold for 10 minutes:
NL - "Hi Dottie, can you explain to me how the luxury gifts work?"
Dottie - "Hi, the luxury gifts are gifts that you get because you are a member of the card. They are luxury items from the top vendors in the world."
NL - "Can you name some of the vendors for me?"
Dottie - "No I don't have that information."
NL - "Well, Dottie, you can see how it might be considered a scam if you don't know what the gifts are before signing up don't you think?"
Dottie - "It definitely isn't a scam."
NL - "So I'm going to pay $500 for something you just can't tell me what it is?"
Dottie - "Please hold" - [Puts me on hold and I finally hang up]
Second Call:
NL - "Hi Debbie, I'm one of the beautiful people who have been chosen for membership with your exclusive card. How are you today?"
Debbie - "Fine sir, would you like to sign up for the card?"
NL - "I'd love to but I want to get more of an idea of what I am getting. Regarding the concierge service, is that for anywhere in the world?"
Debbie - "Yes sir, it's a wonderful service that fulfills of all your concierge needs."
NL - "That's sounds excellent. So say I'm in Amsterdam and I need some female companionship for the evening, is that something the concierge could help me with?"
Debbie - "YOU'LL HAVE TO ASK THEM!"
NL - "But that's the thing, that's why I am calling you to find out. Nevermind, so how about the luxury items, what are they?
Debbie - [same schpeal]
NL - "But if you can't tell me what the items are how can I determine if it is worthwhile? After all what you might call a luxury item might be different than I call a luxury item. For example, I consider caviar, well Bulgarian at least, a luxury item while you might consider a can of premium tuna from the Stop and Shop a luxury item, no?
Debbie - "I don't think so!"
At which point I ended the call because I had nothing more snobbly clever to say.
Greenspan's Body Count: census worker Bill Sparkman
Remember that dead census worker who MSNBC wingnut Rachel Maddow hyped as possible evidence of anti-government sentiment leading to violence?
Yeah, it turns out it was just another case of Greenspan's Body Count.
Police: Census worker made death look like homicide to get money:
Authorities cited a number of reasons supporting the conclusion that Sparkman killed himself.
For instance, there was no evidence that Sparkman had struggled with anyone. There were no defensive wounds on his body and no trauma such as a blow to the head, authorities said.
Tests ruled out any theory that he was drugged and unconscious when he was tied to the tree, making the lack of signs of a struggle more significant.
[...]
Authorities say they don't think there was any single event that triggered Sparkman to take his own life, but rather a combination of problems. He had significant debt and didn't have a full-time job, Rudzinski said.
Sparkman, a native of Florida, had moved to Laurel County to work with the Boy Scouts of America. In addition to working part-time for the census, he was a substitute teacher.
He had gotten a degree to teach math but had not been hired full-time.
In addition to the insurance considerations, Sparkman might have been trying to spare his family from thinking he killed himself, Rudzinski said, though he left no note so there is no way to know exactly what he was thinking.
HT: IPFreely.
Greenspan's Body Count stands at 118.
Collectivization Watch?
Stimulus Political Patronage Keynesian Failure Bill
(a bill that was largely written by the radical Socialist "Apollo Alliance", lead by former Weather Underground partner-in-domestic-Terrorism of Bill Ayers, Jeff Jones.)
Cap and Trade loss of sovereignty and Global Warming Fraud exposed.
Card Check legislation vastly swell union rolls
Value Added Tax (National Sales Tax)
Cash for Clunkers (an idea that came from self described Communist Van Jones)
Government Takes over GM, puts unions ahead of bondholders
Government takeover of Large Banks
SEIU brown shirts in Purple shirts.
President Purging the opposing party from Federal bureaucracy
11.24.2009
Armageddon Watch
The FDIC is bankrupt.
The Sacramento Bee's primary political columnist says California will default on its debts.
The New York Times says America's option-ARM is about to reset.
23% of homedebtors owe more than their houses are worth.
Gold hits yet another new high.
Nine months after Obama's porkulus package, we're still way above the 8% unemployment he promised we wouldn't see. In totally unrelated news, Obama's approval ratings hit yet another new low today.
11.23.2009
Saturday Night Live is funny again!
As Temple of MUT says, when you've lost Saturday Night Live and Chrissy Matthews, it's the end of the beginning.
I'll make ya famous! SF Muni accident fraud
I was on the 45 from Union Street to the gold show at the Jukebox Marriott. It was about 10:35 am on Saturday 11/21, and we were stopped in Chinatown on Stockton Street. The doors were closing after people got off the bus, when this guy behind me jumped up and sprinted for the door. It was so unusual and obviously premeditated that he hadn't gotten up earlier that my first thought was that he was a purse-snatcher running off with someone's bag.
His true purpose became obvious when he pretended to get caught in the door, then started screaming and making a scene. I guess he was hoping the bus would pull away so he could pretend to be injured by being dragged, but since the bus wasn't moving, he had to settle for pretending to be injured by getting his jacket stuck in the door.
If that incompetent hack of a District Attorney Kamala Harris gave a shit about the city, she'd start prosecuting frauds like this before they catch on even further. I'd offer to testify, but she won't even prosecute hit & runs with injuries, so she certainly won't prosecute Muni fraud.
So the best I can do is make this guy famous, and maybe this will help Muni deny his claim.
That's him sitting there, patiently waiting for the Muni accident investigator to come give him his lottery payday.
If you know anyone in the Muni accident investigation group, please forward this post.
Chicago's "End the Fed" Protest 11/22/09
Hm, who were these people gathering in Chicago yesterday, 11/22/09? Oh! they're the "End the Fed" Protesters! Let's take a closer look.
Nice Skyline.
These signs are getting a workout!
I hope this sequel's as good as the original was. I mean, at least the script of the original was pretty darn amazing. The reality of it was pretty good, too, for the first 137 years or so. But I wasn't so fond of the original's 3rd act, to be honest.
They apparently went shopping along State Street.
Passersby like Walter Payton were a little confused at first, but took the literature anyway.
Some were so confused they didn't even take the literature.
K9s got it, though.
It's a fact that in the middle of 1963, JFK was starting to develop a plan to eliminate the Fed Reserve. I like this T-shirt. I'm just sayin'....
As the song goes, "Reflections of, the way life used to be."
Sunday in the Park
Some of the signs sat down to listen to the speakers.
A stop at the Board of Trade before moving on to the Chicago Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank for the protest's grand finale.
What? The policeman says, "You can't go there. They're shooting a film over there, and if you disrupted them with a lot of noise, it'd be a big hassle for everyone. They'd have to come back tomorrow to complete their shoot. The city would have to block off the streets on a work day, etc…" To which one protester responded, "Well, it'd be more work for you guys, at least. Right?" Laughter ensued.
Sure enough, the film includes old-school Chicago Police Cars, circa late 1980's maybe. Eventually, the lawman allowed the protesters to go in front of the Fed, and hold a "silent protest". So, the protesters engaged in a Silent Protest, which is exactly how the Fed wants it.
Some of the speakers took the opportunity to remind the protestors of some historically important quotes, which helped bring into focus what we are really facing.
1) "Lenin was surely right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." -John Maynard Keynes
2) "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." -Thomas Jefferson
3) In 1832, when President Andrew Jackson confronted the Second Bank of the United States, he said, "Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time, and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul the charter, I shall ruin 10,000 families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin. Should I let you go on, you will ruin 50,000 families, and that would be my sin." -Andrew Jackson
And I'll add one myself:
4) "This is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering... And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." - Thomas Jefferson
You've lost that loving feeling
Obama groupie Chrissy Matthews has lost that tingly feeling in her pants.
End the Fed roundup
I have some pics I'll try to put up later. In the meantime, JDA has SF pics here and the San Francisco and national stories.
From the Past: A Parallel to the SEIU?
"Soviet" is the Russian word for "council". In the period leading up to the 1917 Revolution, there were Unions that were largely behind the movement towards that Marxist/ Communist Revolution. There were even "Unions of Unions", (kinda like the AFL-CIO). Meetings of these Unions' elected delegates were called "Soviets". There were multiple Soviets, the "St. Petersburg Soviet of Worker's Delegates" being the most significant because Lenin and Trotsky were members of it. In 1905, new Unions were springing up all over Russia, including the "Peasants' Union" and the "Union of Russian People". The Soviets and other Unions won concessions from the Tsar in the 1905 Revolution. That produced some temporary stability, but it ultimately proved to be too little too late. After the 1917 Communist Revolution, in order to reflect the importance of the Soviets to the Marxist government he had helped create, Lenin decided to include the word "Soviet" in the name of the newly Tsar-less worker's paradise. Hence, the 2nd 'S' in "USSR".
Conceptually at least, the USSR was partly designed to be what one might call a Union-run government.
Jump cut to the United States, 2009.
When ownership wants to spend less on labor, the Unions will fight that plan. We have Unions to protect workers from being abused by ownership. That's all well and good. But this means that the SEIU (Service Employees International Union), whose membership consists of Government employees, is essentially protecting its workers from…what?…the ownership of the government! The problem is; that's the people! The SEIU is a powerful Union that is, by the very nature of its existence, protecting it's workers from the people. This means that whenever the people decide, through their representatives, that they want to spend less money on a given government program, the SEIU kicks its influence into overdrive. It mounts nasty protests (insert ACORN beating here), and it threatens whatever politicians it has funded with revocation of support. They even put up/fund their own new candidates for office when their "bought" politicians start talking about government spending cuts. This is currently happening in Oregon and all over California. The SEIU (and its close affiliate ACORN) uses its enormous power to ensure the constant growth of government. The relationship between the SEIU and the Government is thus a feedback loop that only produces ever-escalating taxes and ever-escalating spending over time.
Conceptually at least, the US was designed to be what one might call a citizen-run government. But when the SEIU blocks the will of the people from being implemented, shouldn't we conclude that the US is now a de-facto Union-run government?
For instance, the majority of American Citizens do not want it, yet Congress is preparing to pass the Health Reform bill. Is it a coincidence that this bill would greatly benefit the SEIU?
President Obama has basically pledged his life's work to the SEIU. When historians look back at our own time in America's history, will they see any such parallels? Are the SEIU and ACORN America's "Soviets"?
-Sic Ibid
11.22.2009
Just say what you really feel...on a billboard?
Wow- the owner of this billboard does not mince words! Mr. West seems to not give damn if he ever sells another car or not.
"Since Fort Hood, I've had it," owner Phil West told FOX 31 News Friday. "You can't suggest things. You can't profile. You gotta call a spade a spade."
"Everything I have read about Mr. Obama points right to the fact that he is a Muslim. And that is the agenda of what Muslim is all about. It's about anti-American, it's about anti-Christianity," West said.
Patient trapped in a 23-year 'coma' was conscious all along
By ALLAN HALL Last updated at 1:59 AM on 23rd November 2009 A man thought by doctors to be in a vegetative state for 23 years was actually conscious the whole time, it was revealed last night. Student Rom Houben was misdiagnosed after a car crash left him totally paralysed. He had no way of letting experts, family or friends know he could hear every word they said. 'I screamed, but there was nothing to hear,' said Mr Houben, now 46. Doctors used a range of coma tests, recognised worldwide, before reluctantly concluding that his consciousness was 'extinct'. But three years ago, new hi-tech scans showed his brain was still functioning almost completely normally. Mr Houben describes the moment as 'my second birth'. Therapy has since allowed him to tap out messages on a computer screen. Mr Houben said: 'All that time I just literally dreamed of a better life. Frustration is too small a word to describe what I felt.' His case has only just been revealed in a scientific paper released by the man who 'saved' him, top neurological expert Dr Steven Laureys. 'Medical advances caught up with him,' said Dr Laureys, who believes there may be many similar cases of false comas around the world.Full Story Here
11.21.2009
CNN: Global warming hoax? What global warming hoax?
It looks like the greatest scientific hoax of the century has been exposed.
Number of mentions among the dozens of stories on the front page of CNN.Com: 0. For Pete's sake, even MSNBC is front-paging it, though they only link a tepid WaPo story that doesn't mention the most damning stuff (which you can and should read at Mish).
UPDATE: Here's CNN finally, four days after the story broke. And they relegate the story to the backwater "Tech" section on CNN.com. I wonder if that's where they've posted all the credulous global warming stories over the years.
11.20.2009
ClimateGate: Global Warming Hoax Exposed
Wow.
A hacker cracked into a major Global Warmist research center, and found all kinds of damning documents.
It's still possible that we'll learn that the docs are an elaborate hoax. But I doubt it.
UPDATE: Not a hoax! Hadley CRU confirms it. Read Australia's Andrew Bolt for updates.
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