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Today’s Tidbits

May 31st, 2008 . by Basti

Group plans to display ‘world’s largest’ Confederate flag in FL county…

The whining and moaning from the ‘perpetually oppressed blacks’ has already started.

Dems seek to nationalize hurricane insurance…

Looks like hurricane insurance is another thing the Fed’s are going to FUBAR.

Can South Africa’s Foreigner Killings Be Stopped?

No not as long as S/A is run by people who don’t have the fainest notion of what they’re doing and in fact don’t want to stop it.  It’s the African way, “Chop them with a machete or hang an old tire around their neck filled with burning fuel.”

A Celebration of the AK47 Gun

Not as accurate as many small arms on the market, but you can’t beat the AK for reliability.  Throw it in the mud, the sand, pour water in it, and never ever clean it.  Wipe any obstruction from the mouth of the barrel and it will still fire.  You can also teach an 8 year old child to use one in about 20 minutes.

The Greenest Cities

I’ve grown to ‘hate the color green’!  I’m thinking of coloring all my grass and trees a ‘warm golden color’.

Have People Had Enough of British Actors Playing Americans?

I don’t mind Brits playing Yanks as long as they get their American idiom down pat.  The front of a car in the US is the hood not the bonnet and the rear is the trunk not the boot.  In addition the US doesn’t have just one accent.  If you’re playing a Southern Belle you don’t want to sound like a CA Valley Girl.

VIDEO - Young Hillary Clinton

A little humor, check it out.

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Should all Arctic species be red-listed?

May 31st, 2008 . by Basti

Should all Arctic species be red-listed?

 

Just two weeks after the US decided to list the polar bear as an endangered species because of the threat of climate change, conservationists have launched a campaign to afford its diet – Arctic seals – the same protection.

The same scientists say tens of thousands more Arctic species may soon be listed as “endangered” because of a threat several decades down the line. Some conservationists argue that all Arctic species be listed.

The Center for Biological Conservation launched a petition to have ringed, bearded and spotted seals added to the US Endangered Species Act. Like the polar bear, all three species rely on ice at some point in their life cycles.

“While the polar bear may be the first Arctic species listed under the Endangered Species Act due to global warming, it will, unfortunately, not be the last,” says Shaye Wolf, a biologist with the Center for Biological Diversity.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that between 1°C and 3°C of warming could increase the risk of extinction for up to 30% of species. Between 4°C and 5°C could cause more than 40% of species around the globe to disappear.

“Arctic sea ice is melting so rapidly in the face of global warming that every ice-dependent marine mammal is imperilled and needs the protections of the Endangered Species Act,” says Wolf.

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Here we go again folks.  Save the polar bears, save the seals, the spotted owls, snail darters, and on and on and on.  You know what this is about don’t you?  It’s about the oil/gas deposits in the Arctic that may soon be drilled for.  This is an end run in order to stop even the chance of drilling for oil/gas.

Something like 99.5% of every plant/animal that ever existed on planet earth are now extinct.  And nearly all of those extinctions happened before man was around to help or hinder.  Is it really worthwhile to expend money and limit potential resources in order to preserve some species of plant/animal that might go extinct if we don’t intervene?

I can just see some egg-headed blithering tree-hugging Left as the big meteor/asteroid struck the lower part of the Gulf of Mexico and the dinosaurs began to die.  “IF WE DON’T DO SOMETHING DINOSAURS WILL BECOME EXTINCT!”

Well that’s why its called survival of the fittest!  At one time it has been speculated that the human gene pool was down to 2000 or less individuals, yet humans survived without the intervention of a bunch of whining environmental goofballs.  If you can’t adapt you’re not fit for survival, so you go the way of the dinosaurs and thousands of other species who couldn’t cut the mustard.

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Intelligent Life

May 30th, 2008 . by Basti

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May 30th, 2008 . by Basti

Czech President’s “Inconvenient Challenge” to Al Gore

Quote:  A steadily growing number of brave souls are rising up to challenge the legitimacy of Gore’s assertions, despite the certainty that they will be derided and castigated throughout the media, and in virtually all major “educational” institutions.  Among the most notable of these challengers is Czech President Vaclav Klaus.

Human caused ‘global warming’ is being passed off as ‘fact’ by much of the media and by nearly all the TV media.  Discovery Channel brightly says things like.  “Global warming is going to cause more hurricanes, more tornado’s, world wide flooding, and drought.”  No evidence to back any of it up, but the models that were constructed to come to the conclusions that were looked for.  And all this despite polls that show some 76% of people do not believe in ‘human caused global warming.’  Of course the Left who is behind all this knows you don’t have to have bothersome ‘facts’ to back you up.  Just tell a big lie and keep on telling it no matter if you’re proven wrong or not.

Loyalty to Self Over Country

Quote:  It could be argued that the arrogance prevalent in today’s American culture is a direct by-product of our entitlement society–a society that manufactures high self-esteem and then bestows it on people who have done nothing to deserve it.

Arrogance starts in school where students are taught that you don’t have to excel in anything in order to have honors bestowed on you. 

Susan Sarandon vows move to Italy or Canada if McCain elected…

If McCain is elected this would be one good thing to come out of his election.  I’m sick to death of whining ’so called Hollywood stars’ pissing and moaning about anything that doesn’t make them happy.  Lot of things in this country don’t make me happy, but be damned if I’ll move because of it!

Kerry: On Sept. 11 ‘we were basically at peace’…

Shows you what this dingbat knows!  Remember the boming of the Marine barracks in Lebanon?  Remember the one eyed moon-bat who tried to bring down the WTC with truck bombs?  Remember ‘Black-hawk down’ in Somalia?  There can be no peace in this world as long as Islam exists any where in this world.

Mag: Chinese hackers may be responsible for two major U.S. power blackouts…

But we’ll keep buying their lead tainted shoddy products and doing other business with the ChiComms.  Makes a tidy profit don’t you know.

‘I’m White, I’m Entitled … Now There’s A Black Man Stealing My Show!’

Now a white nitwit priest gets his licks in for the ‘Stealth Muzzie’.

 

 

 

Texas high court says removal of polygamy kids ‘unwarranted’…

Outtakes:  The high court affirmed a decision by an appellate court last week, saying Child Protective Services failed to show an immediate danger to the more than 400 children swept up from the Yearning For Zion Ranch nearly two months ago.

“On the record before us, removal of the children was not warranted,” the justices said in their ruling issued in Austin.

Looks like Texas didn’t find those ‘friendly judges’ they were looking for.  I told y’all some time ago that Texas ’screwed the pooch’ with this whole affair and I was right.

Marines in hot water over Christian coins in Iraq…

It is however OK for Muslims in the US to demand equal treatment in everything and in many cases more than equal treatment.  If Iraq is going to be this ’shining light of democracy’ in the ‘big cat box’ why isn’t freedom of religion being practiced?

Rumors of OBL Death Put to Rest

I’m from Missouri, you have to ’show me’!  If OBL isn’t dead then trot him out and have him give an interview with a respected 3rd party.  Of course that’s not gonna happen because moldering bones don’t give interviews.

Neither Honest Nor Trustworthy: The 10 Worst Corporations of 2007  

Needless to say that the oil companies and pharmaceutical companies made the list.

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Monbiot fails to ‘arrest’ Bolton

May 30th, 2008 . by Basti

 

Campaigner George Monbiot said he would continue his attempt to serve arrest paper on politicians involved in the decision to go to war in Iraq.

He was unable to make a citizen’s arrest of former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton at the Hay Festival.

Mr Monbiot was dragged away by security as he tried to approach Mr Bolton, who was at the festival for a talk.

Mr Bolton said Iraq had “time and time again” shown it was not in compliance with the ceasefire resolution

Speaking afterwards, Mr Monbiot said he planned to pursue former PM Tony Blair.

He said he considered Mr Blair and other leading politicians to be war criminals who had breached international law by their involvement in the decision making process which led to the Iraq war.

He said he had given a dossier of evidence on Mr Bolton - who was President Bush’s representative at the United Nations during the time of the Iraq War - to Dyfed-Powys Police ahead of his attempt to present his charge sheet.

Mr Monbiot, who now lives in Machynlleth in Powys, is a leading environmental and anti-war campaigner and journalist.

He said: “I’m aware that I’ve made what I believe is the first attempt ever to arrest one of the perpetrators of the Iraq War, and I believe that is a precedent and I would like to see that precedent followed up.”

Monbiot=Moon-bat

 

 

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May 29th, 2008 . by Basti

Coach loses job amid concerns over religion

If it were a Muslim coach attempting to convert people from Christianity to Islam, what do you think would have happened?  That’s right, NOTHING!

Man won’t face death penalty in girl’s death

 

Quote:  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors say the man charged with killing a 13-year-old Tampa-area girl in 2005 won’t face death row if he’s convicted.

Hillsborough County prosecutors filed notice Friday that they won’t seek the death penalty. David Lee Onstott’s public defender calls the decision a good one.

Sheriff’s deputies say Onstott confessed to killing Sarah Lunde.

But prosecutors can’t use that confession at trial in August. A state appeals court agreed with a judge who threw out incriminating statements Onstott made after his arrest. The judge said investigators didn’t give him proper access to an attorney.

And they say we have the ‘rule of law’ and the ‘American system of justice’.  I submit we don’t have the any law nor justice when the victim is given short shift and its always about the ‘rights of the criminal’ who committed the crime.  When you won’t put to death a no good SOB who has committed such a horrific crime because of some B/S technically then there is no law and certainly no justice!  A young girl is dead for no other reason than this SOB wanted to kill her, where is the justice for her?

Texas town’s immigrant-renting rule is struck down

Quote:  Only the federal government can regulate immigration, U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay concluded in his decision.

Well since the Fed’s refuse to do their job, someone has got to step up to the plate and do it for them.  What GD part of ‘ILLEGAL’ is still not understood by so many people?

Thirty-eight Obama Falsehoods–and Counting

Only 38?  I would have though it would be in quadruple digits by now!

What Does Leadership Look Like?

It looks like something we haven’t seen in the US for decades and aren’t likely to see until things get so bad that a ‘man on a white horse’ comes along and leads us out of the chaos we’re in.  (Don’t look for any leadership by the crop of B/S artists we have running for POTUS this year or any of the worthless dregs we have in Congress)

Department of Homeland Security joins forces with ABC for reality show…

Man I can’t wait to see what sort of boondoggle this turns into!

$35 Billion in Oil Money Missing from Iran Coffers…

Gee I wonder how that happened?  Must be some sort of ‘accounting error’!

 

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May 28th, 2008 . by Basti

Preservationists: Gas drilling threatens carvings 

Save the whales, save the snail darters, save the owls, save the carvings.  Seems like everyone has something they want to save.  That’s all well and good if saving those things doesn’t get in the way of living.  The first priority should be for the good of the nation as  a whole and I submit that 99.99% of the people in the US don’t know about the carvings in Utah, will never see them, and don’t care about them.  Saving everything under the sun is one of the reasons we’re in the energy fix we’re in right now.

National Spelling Bee has international flair

It’s called the ‘National Spelling Bee’, not the ‘World Spelling Bee’.  ‘National’ in this case meaning the USA.  So why are foreigners allowed to participate?

Ban promises UN probe of sex abuse by peacekeepers

Been down this road before and it always ends in a dead end.  If US troops/aid workers were accused of even 1/10th of the things that UN troops/aid workers  are accused of and actually do the howls could be heard world wide.  The UN is run by thugs for thugs and its been that way from the onset.

Big Government Is the Problem, Not the Solution

Yes big government is the problem, but both the Repub’s and the Dem’s want even more government which of course means more interference in daily life for all and mountains of paperwork that no on understands.

Bush Compares Today’s Wars to World War II Efforts

Give me break!  If we had fought WWII like we’re fighting the so called WOT today, we all be speaking either German or Japanese today.  We went after the German and Japanese homelands during WWII, but we aren’t doing that in the WOT/War with Islam.  We know the millions of dollars are flowing from Iran and Saudi Arabia to fund militant Islam and other terrorists, but we haven’t laid a finger on either Saudi Arabia or Iran.  Yes we defeated Iraq and Afghanistan with ease, but I don’t see us winning the peace and when/if we leave either country they will revert right back to what they were before.

Californians Support Gay Marriage: Poll

I’m not surprised in the least by the results of this poll.  CA truly is the land of ‘fruits and nuts’.

Buffett: U.S. on Right Track Long-Term

Yeah we’re on the right track if you’ve got billions of dollars socked away.  However if you just a working class/middle class you’re screwed.

Russian ‘killer of aircraft carriers’ starts drills in Pacific

If this Russian ’killer ship’ doesn’t work and better than their vaunted T-72 & T-80 tanks then they better keep it home and play with it in the bathtub.

THE NEW McCARTHYISM: FEAR OF OBAMA

Quote:  Since a histrionic article about Barack Obama’s childhood friendship with the African-American, Communist? poet and journalist, Frank Marshall Davis appeared on the vile AIM (Accuracy In Media) website, the guilt by association charge of being either a Marxist or socialist has been repeated ad nauseum by the Right-Wing hacks of the blogosphere about Obama. Apparently, Obama is a secret Commie mole working for the Communist Party USA to destroy this shining gem of Democracy into a Red gulag. The whole idea would be laughable if it were not for the fact that a large percentage of the US voting public are simpletons with no grasp of history or the reality of their own country. This BS is only going to become more ridiculous as the Right attempt to scuttle Obama’s presidential chances. They really fear his intelligence and masterful oratory skills. The racist objections to Obama are quite obvious.

There is an old adage that says, “You are known by the company you keep.”  I happen to believe that adage is a true one.   ‘Barack Hussein Obama’ is a dangerous man and not one we want as POTUS.  You’ll notice that any criticism’s of him is at once leaped upon as ‘racist’.  In other words, “You’re picking on him because he’s black!”  Now let’s say it is true that criticism of him is racist based.  So what’s wrong with that?  You cannot make people of one race like people of another race no matter what you do.  IMO, criticism of ’Barack Hussein Obama’ is based on the facts as they have been presented and on race.

It is always left aside that blacks are as at least as racist as whites and many blacks despise whites and accuse them of all manner of skulduggery, absence any facts to back it up.  However the ‘race card’ will be played by those who think Barack Hussein Obama’ can walk on water and perform other assorted miracles as requested.

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Barack Obama – Muslim apostate?

May 27th, 2008 . by Basti

Barack Obama – Muslim apostate?

 

For Al Qaeda, the answer – and the implication – is clear.

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Osama bin Laden must be chuckling in his safe house. After all, the 2008 campaign could very well give Al Qaeda the ultimate propaganda tool: President Barack Hussein Obama, Muslim apostate.

The fact that Senator Obama – the son of a Muslim father – insists he was never a Muslim before becoming Christian is irrelevant to bin Laden. In bin Laden’s eyes, Obama is a murtad fitri, the worst type of apostate, because he was blessed by Allah to be born into the true faith of Islam.

There are two types of apostates according to sharia (Islamic law) and the Hadith (sayings of the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him).

The first type is murtad milli, one who converted to Islam and later renounced the faith. The second, and most egregious, type is murtad fitri. It refers to a person born of a Muslim father who renounces his birthright. Two recent examples of the latter are Magdi Allam (a male Egyptian who converted to Catholicism in Italy) and Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Somali-born woman who’s now an atheist). Both now face death threats.

According to Islamic jurisprudence, children of a Muslim father – even an apparently nonpracticing one, such as Obama’s father, and irrespective of the mother’s faith – are automatically Muslims. Most Muslims around the world agree: A child of a Muslim father is a Muslim. Period.

Should Obama become US commander in chief, there is a strong likelihood that Al Qaeda’s media arm, As-Sahab, will exploit his background to argue that an apostate is leading the global war on terror (read: attacks against fellow Muslims). This perception would be leveraged to galvanize sympathizers into action.

Remember: Al Qaeda’s ultimate goal is to restore the caliphate (the Islamic form of government that would preside over the community of believers) and expand Dar al Islam (”Abode of Islam”). Reaching it requires a long war against all – Muslim and non-Muslim – who don’t share its extremist Wahhabi worldview.

Al Qaeda, though, has struggled recently to recruit volunteers for this jihad. While bin Laden retains significant support as someone willing to stand up for Muslim concerns, most Muslims abhor Al Qaeda’s terrorist methods whose primary targets are innocent noncombatants.

But an apostate as head of the United States could change this equation. It would be a propaganda boost for Al Qaeda’s mission. All one has to do is read Al Qaeda’s public statements to recognize how frequently it makes baseless apostasy accusations against fellow Muslims who challenge its message or actions.

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This is only one of many reasons that Barack Hussein Obama’ should never be POTUS and of course never be CIC of the US Armed Forces.

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Apparent copper wire thief electrocuted

May 27th, 2008 . by Basti

Apparent copper wire thief electrocuted

Authorities Tuesday were trying to identify a man who was apparently electrocuted while trying to steal copper wire from an electrical transformer on the West Side.

The man, who appeared to be in his 40s, was found about 3:30 p.m. Monday in a building in the 4400 block of West Fillmore Street, according to police. Detectives believe he was electrocuted while trying to remove wiring from Commonwealth Edison Co. equipment on the premises.

The man was taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital and pronounced dead at 3:58 p.m. Monday. An autopsy was scheduled for later Tuesday.

Thefts of copper wiring have skyrocketed in recent years as the metal’s market value has increased from about 75 cents per pound in 2004 to about $3 today. The epidemic prompted Illinois lawmakers last year to require scrap metal dealers to record details of purchases, including the license plate number of the vehicle the seller was driving, on transactions of $100 or more.


As a man I know says all the time, “Stupid is as stupid does.”  But look on the ‘bright side’, he was the brightest bulb in the pack for an instant.

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May 27th, 2008 . by Basti

Here is why they foam at the mouth whenever they hear or read “NASCAR”.   (Or why the Left Hates NASCAR)

Quote:  CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Six Sprint Cup drivers and two Nationwide Series drivers will lead all NASCAR fans in the USO Salute the Troops Memorial Day tribute to the armed forces on May 24-25 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway to kick off a nationwide effort to raise funds for military families worldwide.

I admit I’m not a fan of NASCAR expect for the wrecks, but NASCAR does support the troops and they are patriotic.  And that’s why the Left hates them.

Professor to head new peace center at Virginia Tech

Damned waste of time, when ‘concealed carry’ could have put an end to this slaughter of sheep, in a hurry.

Mexico Is Soon to Be a Bigger Problem

Quote:  As if the constant flow of illegal aliens and drugs from Mexico were not already a huge problem for the United States, it is about to get worse.

Yes its going to get much worse and so far the Fed’s are doing dilddly squat about it.

Catchy Signs

In a counselor’s office: “Growing old is mandatory, but growing wise is optional.

My favorite is the above.

ATOMIC MONITOR SIGNALS CONCERN OVER IRAN’S WORK…   …may be withholding info

Gee what ever next Iran withholding info!  Who would have thought?

BILL CLINTON DECLARES: OBAMA FACES LOSS IN GENERAL ELECTION…  

Say what you want about the Clinton Mafia they have always known what was going to happen before it happened and Bill Clinton survived being convicted in impeachment hearings.

Every adult in Britain should be forced to carry ‘carbon ration cards’, say MPs

 

Quote:  The Government says it supports the scheme in principle, but warns it is ‘ahead of its time’.

Ya ever noticed how the Commies/Progressives/Socialists/Liberals always want to ‘FORCE’  people to do their bidding?  And these are the same people they say they are so concerned about and want to help in every way!  Lies, nothing but, damned lies piled on top of lies!  Check the above quote.  That means, “We haven’t got the silly twits exactly where we want them yet!”

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