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4/30/2006

Energy: if you watched Tim Russert on Meet the Press this AM you learned exactly what the energy problem is: the politicians. The participants were four energy experts and one posturing pol. The pol was Dick Durbin from Illinois, the home of corn and hence the home of the ethanol lobby. This guy was determined not to listen to anybody on the panel and was only interested in taxing, investigating (and any investigation better come up with his predetermined opinion), and posing for Holy Pictures.

The experts pretty well explained: refinery capacity has actually gone up during the period of consolidation; ethanol is a pain in the ass; drilling in the U.S. can't be done; refineries cannot be built due to local opposition; a windfall profits tax is counterproductive (Durban saying "fuck you, we're doing it anyway."); world wide demand is up; tensions in various oil producing countries has everyone supply concerned; there is no evidence of price fixing or collusion (not to Dick Durbin who says there is); Iraq oil has not been forthcoming; mpg standards must be raised but it isn't a magic wand because it takes a couple of years for engines to be designed; and the failure of all concerned to plan properly for the substitution of ethanol for MTBE.

Durbin's drooling was a guarantee that the political class will pay no attention to the facts but will pontificate, oraculate absurdities, continue spending like there was tomorrow, thus making things worse.

Last on Flight 93:
As all of you who have been reading my deathless prose for a while know, I am a neo-con rock hidden in a sea of slimeball liberals. So I'm eating at a fast food joint at the new AMC Super Multiplex in Century City CA,---23 fucking theatres and truly amazed at how really shitty Beverly Hills high priced fast food can be, and I overheard a couple of conversations about Flight 93. To sum both of them up: "I'm not going to give a bunch of Right Wingers my money. All they are trying to do with this "film" is rile people up so we can kill more poor Muslims with another war against a people who have done nothing to us." I can assume from the Left Wing babble I hear and read around here is that a war against Iran is unthinkable to this crowd. I also devine from this conversation that Flight 93 will be strictly a Red State movie. BTW, I'm sorry to say that the movie just isn't that good. I'ts pretty boring.

4/29/2006

Reggie Bush's parents: any of us who have worked with kids from poor families who are outstanding athletes have had the unfortunate experience of dealing with their disgusting parents. Many regard their kids as future meal tickets for themselves and are aggressive and threatening to coaches who don't play their kids, don't coach their kids the way the parents have decided is correct, don't coddle their little darlings and so on. I was involved with the parents of a nine year old phenom (who later started for two years at USC) and was confronted by his father--backed up by two obvious gangbangers---demanding that we switch formations so his kid would get the ball more often. I never set foot in that area again, but all kinds of coaches can relate stories like that and worse. I've talked with many parents who seem to regard their kids as if they were farm animals who have to be fed and fattened so they can play ball. Kids are held back for as many as two years so that at 19 years old they are starting in high school---Casey Clausen, the "best qb in the country," who signed with Notre Dame before this, his senior year----is typical of the college sophomores who are still playing in high school. We will see how good this "kid" is this year as he faces Division 1A high schools in SoCal for the first time, after spending his first two years on an all star team that played in Division TWELVE and running up scores in the sixties and seventies. It was his parents who saw that he was held back for the sole reason that he would be better at sports if he was a few years older than his opponents. We've seen many parents who have crossed way over the line around here and we will see many more.

Flight 93---politically correct? Some eviewers are saying so. Not only has the original tag been castrated to something too bland for words, but the words Islam, Muslim, and terrorist are never mentioned. Most say the movie plays it straight. But to say that this is a Hollywood Movie is total BS, the Hollywood Left movies to come will be filled with praise and understanding for "the religion of peace." This movie is simply factual and that is enough.

I have a link
to a site called YouTube, a place that everyone should visit at least once. 35 million hits per week. A place where everyone can, and does, submit their own videos. Slate has a terrific review of it that is worth looking at.

Revolt inside the CIA
is detailed by "Former Spook." We are talking wall to wall traitors inside agencies. And this guy has sources.

Everybody, and I mean every body, has pix of Mischa Barton exposing her no longer private parts at a restaurant. She does this while kissing her dog. My favorite layout is HERE. But she looks much better on the left exposing only her face when she really looked good. Now? Not so hpt

$1.75 PER GALLON GASOLINE: IT'S EASY IF THE GOVERNMENT HAD THE GUTS

A step by step program that will attain this goal

We, the USA, consume about 20 million barrels of oil each day. If you look at the statistics you find that a barrel of oil will yield something like 19 or 20 gallons of gasoline, depending on the refinery. Therefore the United States consumes something like 400 million gallons of gasoline every day. Taking this out to a year, the U.S. consumes about 146 billion gallons of gasoline per! And per financial quarter we burn up 35 billion gallons of gasoline per. The quarterly profits for the four biggest oil companies are around 20 billion. Suppose we take back a penny on every gallon pumped, that sounds good. That comes to what? A skadillion dollars? Thirty five billion dollars? Oh oh, that only comes out to....shit, fuck....that’s only a paltry 14.6 million dollars. Fuck them, let’s get back fifty cents a gallon and make the pump price $2.50 per gallon......let’s see fifty cents times thirty five billion is 17 billion dollars give or take a little bit. That would mean their combined profits would be reduced to $3 billion. Fuck them. I want $1.75 gasoline and now you’re telling me that taking back a dollar twenty five for every gallon they screw us out of would mean the oil companies would lose money? Those pricks would lose? Good. Let’s fucking take it. I could give a shit. YOU could give a shit.

So what would you do if you were a corporate CEO who just robbed of fifteen billion dollars? Oh, maybe stop selling gasoline to the stations and stop buying crude? 1970s gas lines come back---and all of us loved them---and limits of 10 gallons every two days is imposed. That will teach the pieces of shit companies.

The only alternative after that would be to nationalize the oil companies like they do in progressive countries like Russia and China. Demand the government sell gasoline to us for $1.75 per gallon or we’ll kick them out of office.

Solved
Can’t wait. We'll see who's in charge.

4/28/2006

Fuel Cell Reducks: a comment from Dick on my pollyanish post about fuel cells asked "what fuel are you going to use to power them?"--meaning the fuel cells-- forced me to do some research. The fuel cells do NOT just make hydrogen, nor do they manufacture it. You have to buy it from somewhere, store it, and then use it.

It turns out that fuel is the main thing holding fuel cells back. They have been called Hydrogen Fuel Cells because hydrogen is supposedly available everywhere to be used as fuel, and it is---BUT it is so dangerous to store that hydrogen could blow everything up. They are working on device called a "reformer" that will make possible the storage of hydrogen as a part of the fuel cell. There are further efforts to completely eliminate reformers able to store hydrogen; research is well along to devise something to store hydrogen safely.

The issue is finding sources of pure hydrogen. Currently, the least expensive way of deriving hydrogen is by reforming natural gas, which means we will continue to be reliant on fossil fuels. Another way to produce hydrogen is through electrolysis of water, using electricity or sunlight.

Right now methanol is being used for the fuel. We are years away from freedom from oil producers. Fuel cells work but powering them is a problem.

Thanx to poster, Dick.

Boycot Fitness USA. Why? Because they have completly capitulated to Muslim radicals in Michigan. Schussel has the goods. Have a barf bag ready and then ask yourselves, "Where are the big mouthed feminists on this one? Where are all the women's groups on this one?"

Kim DuToit insists that every red blooded male must link to this website. Being a fan of the gunster I linked. Go there. Now. Don't thank me.

From my email I know that a large portion of my readers are women. To them I urge a reading of this piece at Front Page. Muslim gang rapes of young women in France, Germany, Sweden and Norway are now becoming the norm and feminists are silent because.... It's pretty scary stuff and the "elites" blame the victims not the perps. Coming here? Maybe. Note in the piece that all participants indicated that the acceptance of this horror is the first step in imposing Sharia Law and our left is laying down for it.

4/27/2006

Hollywood Tuna has outdone himself today. Check it out, who cares if they're communist reconquista bitches? Reconquista ME bitch..... And keep clicking on the picture, they're even better when they take up the entire screen.....



How close are we to fuel cell technology? We are there already in a few places and there are some test vehicles in the hands of some "private persons" (like the babe on the left from a layout at I don't like you in that Way.) There is a 133 page (but in huge print with pix) study from MIT HERE. It's an easy read and informative as hell. Plus it's in color too. That's the good news.

The bad news is this: the government collects hundreds of billions in taxes from fossel fuels and do you seriously think that liberals, for all their whining, will ever allow a drop in tax revenues?

And this: do you seriously think that Big Oil will ever allow this technology to ruin them without one hell of a fight?

There is actually one hydrogen fuel cell operation in full bloom in the middle of Central Park where a police station is 100% fuel cell powered with the huge savings advertised. The ACLU will probably move to have it closed down any day now.

Response to email: "Gasoline futures are down twenty cents, does this mean we will see gasoline prices drop twenty cents at the pump?"

A: Profit margins must be maintained at all costs. Does that answer your question, you socialist prick?

"For decades Democrats have been trying to raise the price of gasoline so that the working class will stop their infernal car-driving and start riding on buses where they belong, while liberals ride in Gulfstream jets." This is just a part of Coulter's rap today, and well worth reading.

ETHANOL FOR DUMMIES

If all the automobiles in the United States were fueled with 100 percent ethanol, a total of about 97 percent of U.S. land area would be needed to grow the corn feedstock. Corn would cover nearly the total land area of the United States. That’s total. Including every city, town, and community. This assumes that all desert land and all rock land such as mountains and the Dakota Badlands would be used.

The average U.S. automobile, traveling 10,000 miles a year on pure ethanol (not a gasoline-ethanol mix) would need about 852 gallons of the corn-based fuel. This would take 11 acres to grow, based on net ethanol production. This is the same amount of cropland required to feed seven Americans, who by the way won'’t be eating anything at all since all land has been used up to grow corn.

Besides the environazis, U.S. corporations joined the drive to ethanol, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) and Carghill being the biggest. Wonder why? Well, the way ethanol is made, corn also yields products such as high-fructose corn sweetener, the major sugar substitute in candy and soft drinks . It is here that things get really hairy because the sugar people get into the act. Why? Because sugar processors get a subsidy of around eighteen cents per pound, a price that prices sugar out of the market for candy and soft drink use because the CORN syrup comes in at around sixteen cents, a two cent savings (this year there is a temporary spike in sugar prices). The big agri-business processors are behind both the sugar subsidy AND the drive for corn based ethanol.

Cutting to the chase on this point: The same companies behind the sugar subsidies are fueling the charge to switch to ethanol. It's the money, stupid.

Continuing with the ethanol stupidity: Gasoline is more efficient than ethanol. One gallon of gasoline is equal to 1.5 gallons of ethanol. This means that a 30 mpg Camry would only get about 20 miles to the gallon if it were running on ethanol. Through research performed at Cornell University, we know that 1 acre of land can yield about 7,110 pounds of corn, which can be processed into 328 gallons of ethanol. That is about 26.1 pounds of corn per gallon.

Let's pretend we're planning to cross the country. How much ethanol fuel will we need? Well, 2,774 miles / 20 miles per gallon = 138.7 gallons. We know that it takes 26.1 pounds of corn to make 1 gallon of ethanol, so we can now calculate how many pounds of corn we need to fuel the Camry on its trip: 138.7 gallons times 26.1 pounds = 3,620.07 total pounds of corn (which is also known as seventeen shitloads). This means that someone has to plant a little more than a half an acre of corn to produce enough ethanol to fuel your trip.

If you think you would save any money by using ethanol, guess again. Producing ethanol costs a hell of a lot of money compared with fossil fuel energy. Ethanol is expensive to process. According to the research from Cornell (the best left wing study going), you need about 140 gallons of fossil fuel to plant, grow and harvest an acre of corn. So, even before the corn is converted to ethanol, you're spending about $1.05 per gallon (that's 2001 dollars, the year of the study. Today it's $3 per gallon x 140 which is $420 total).

The energy economics get worse at the processing plants, where the grain is crushed and fermented. The corn has to be processed with various enzymes; yeast is added to the mixture to ferment it and make alcohol; the alcohol is then distilled to fuel-grade ethanol that is 85- to 95-percent pure. To produce ethanol that can be used as fuel, it also has to be denatured with a small amount of gasoline.

The final cost of the fuel-grade ethanol is about $1.74 per gallon in 2001 dollars. So with gasoline at $2 not counting taxes, ethanol is cheaper even though wewouldn't have any roads to run our cars on because all the land will be used to grow corn, and even better for the environuts, there will be no factories left in which to build cars because they too are growing corn.

We, the USA, consume about 20 million barrels of oil each day. If you look at the statistics you find that a barrel of oil will yield something like 19 or 20 gallons of gasoline, depending on the refinery. Therefore the United States consumes something like 400 million gallons of gasoline every day. Taking this out to a year, the U.S. consumes about 146 billion gallons of gasoline per!

Now get this one: It takes more energy to make ethanol from grain than the combustion of ethanol produces. The lefty Cornell study tells us that, "abusing our precious croplands to grow corn for an energy-inefficient process that yields low-grade automobile fuel amounts to unsustainable, subsidized food burning." Lefty intellectual speak for "we will starve because the land will be useless in a few growing seasons."

The Encyclopedia of Physical Sciences and Technology says: An acre of U.S. corn yields about 7,110 pounds of corn for processing into 328 gallons of ethanol. But planting, growing and harvesting that much corn requires about 140 gallons of fossil fuels and costs $347 per acre, according to the analysis. Thus, even before corn is converted to ethanol, the feedstock costs $1.05 per gallon of ethanol (2001 dollars and prices).

Further, the study found that about 70 percent more energy is required to produce ethanol than the energy that actually is in ethanol. Every time you make 1 gallon of ethanol, there is a net energy loss of 54,000 BTU.

In other words, ethanol is another hate Republicans hype by the usual suspects on the Left who are joined by the "let's make money" usual suspects on the Right who populate our ethically challenged business community. So there!

Tomorrow: whale oil, the cheaper alternative.

Sources include Cornell research
The Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology. I have shamelessly plaigarized from both. They are both too complicated to understand anyway.

4/26/2006

ILLEGALS ARE SICK BIRDS

Most of us are the offspring of immigrants circa mid to late 1800s to early 1930s. My great great grandfather was a bum with no skills whatsoever who fled some pogrom or other in "old Europe" hoping for anything he could find in the USA. He would have found some way to get here no matter the barriers put in his way; so would millions of others like him with no skill and no "qualifications" but a willingness to work his ass off. While he didn't go to school, his kids did, and his kid's kids went to college. Same can be said for the illiterate animal Irish (my mother's side), Italians, Germans, and all the rest of us. My family tree indicates that my male Irish guy jumped ship in Boston Harbor (he was wanted for stealing food in starving Ireland) and made his life here.

If you lived here in SoCal you'd see a hundred or so "illegals" standing at lumber yards and paint stores all around our cities waiting to be picked up for some day labor by one of us gringos, just like my great great grandfather must have done eons ago. The most they get from us is $15 per hour cash and they will be at the same place the next day hoping somebody will come by and pick them up again. It's a tough life for people who don't want to do anything but work. And it's very tough for most of us to do anything but respect them because, unlike blacks, they dam well want to work.

It will never come to pass that we will stand by and watch a forced repatriation of people who are just like my great great grandparents. They are me a hundred and ten years ago. So I will bitch and moan about "illegals" like everyone else, but I don't have the gut resentment to kick them out and return them to a life they cannot tolerate.

Everything, and I do mean everything, you ever wanted to know about the CIA (whistle blower, patriot, scumbag, traitor) Mary McCarthy is here at Hot Air, which is a terrific blog by the way. Also revealed: the DNC will fund traitoress McCarthy's defense.

Then Patterico lands all over the LA Times biased coverage, but I get so tired of bashing those lefties I don't bother any more. Nobody reads the rag anyway.

And be sure to read The American Thinker right now. Lots of good stuff.

STUPIDITY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL

When Dan found out he was going to inherit a fortune when his
sickly Father died, he decided he needed a woman to enjoy it with. So one evening he went to a singles bar where he spotted the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Her natural beauty took his breath away!

"I may look like just an ordinary man," he said as he walked up to her, "but in just a week or two, my father will die, and I'll inherit 20 million dollars."

Impressed, the woman went home with him that evening.

And three days later, she became his stepmother.

4/25/2006

I have added a link to Betsy's Page, a blog that I find very interesting. Give her a try, I think you'll make it a weekly stop.

4/21/2006

HOLLYWOOD LEFT STRIKES OUT, AGAIN

The reviewers are slamming both Blue State hit pieces on Bush---"Dreamz" and "The Sentinel"--- as simply not funny, and not even believable; this condemnation coming from the Bush hating Left Wing critics means they must be just awful. So the Left pisses another 50mil or so down the drain. As a person with a lot of show biz experience, allow me to offer the view that satire never works when it is aimed at an individual. It has to be embedded in lifestyle, a place like D.C., the court of Louis the Fourteenth, or broad attitudes about something. Think of the delicious Restoration Comedies, so named because they satirized the entire ruling class of the post Cromwellian "Restoration" of the monarchy in England. This was an age of foppery and sexual excesses the equal of today; an age of the stare; when women with plunging necklines curtsied as low as possible so the male recipients of the move could see their "goods" while they "flashed" by using a fan; a time when men carried mirrors so they could check themselves out while walking or in company; men wore fake calves on their lower legs in order to look muscular, and so on. The best known playwrites of the period include Moliere (The School for Husbands, School for Wives, and a ton of others), Wycherley ("The Country Wife"), George Etherege ("The Comical Revenge or, Love in a Tub" ) William Congreve ("The Way of the World") and many more. All had to do in part with the phony "romances" going on in courts of the period and the impossible situations the players concocted for themselves. While not especially funny, the recent "Dangerous Liaisons" sort of fills the bill.

You cannot satirize Bill Clinton but you might be able to satirize world wide buggering of mistresses and chambermaids by PMs, Presidents, and dictators while they are all having a meeting at some conference or other as they chase each other's women, and simultaneously their equally compromised press secretaries try to cover it all up.

So Hate loses once again.

BEWARE GENERALS BEARING WISDOM

Gas prices in LA: Drudge is full of shit. Last nite gasoline was $2.93 all over town. I drive through Beverly Hills and there ain't nobody charging $4. High is around $3.30.

Late awakening bloggers warn of a possible military takeover, something I warned about several days ago. Funny how people just don't get it til days too late. This "revolt" against Rummy---if indeed there is one---is one of the most dangerous things to ever happen in our country; it's positively Idi Amin dangerous and if you will recall, the savior of Africa was welcomed by all the usual suspects when he first took power. We all better take a step back before we embrace the statements of the seven generals as something more than the usual military bitching or the utterances of sages. Reynolds has some quotes and links to others. Read them. Beware Generals offering solutions.....

FYI: This is what CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) is:
# Let their [sic] be no doubt that CAIR is a terrorist supporting front organization that is partially funded by terrorists, and that CAIR wishes nothing more than the implementation of Sharia law in America."
# CAIR is an "organization founded by Hamas supporters which seeks to overthrow Constitutional government in the United States and replace it with an Islamist theocracy using our own Constitution as protection."
# "ACAIR reminds our readers that CAIR was started by Hamas members and is supported by terrorist supporting individuals, groups and countries."
# "Why oppose CAIR? CAIR has proven links to, and was founded by, Islamic terrorists. CAIR is not in the United States to promote the civil rights of Muslims. CAIR is here to make radical Islam the dominant religion in the United States and convert our country into an Islamic theocracy along the lines of Iran. In addition, CAIR has managed, through the adroit manipulation of the popular media, to present itself as the ‘moderate' face of Islam in the United States. CAIR succeeded to the point that the majority of its members are not aware that CAIR actively supports terrorists and terrorist supporting groups and nations. In addition, CAIR receives direct funding from Islamic terrorists supporting countries."
# "CAIR is a fundamentalist organization dedicated to the overthrow of the United States Constitution and the installation of an Islamic theocracy in America."
Go to Pipes site for the details on a CAIR law suit just thrown out of court. CAIR sued the AntiCair website and lost.

4/20/2006

The fall of gold today is just the beginning. Take a glance at silver which is down $2.50, a $12,500 per contract move. Gold's fall is only $1,200 per contract.

To you guys who've been with me for a few years, this stuff in Front Page about the Turkish PM is old news. Turkish PM Erdogan has been an Islamic Extremist since the 70's when his long time friend, Necmettin Erbakan, first took power (with 22% of the vote). He promptly invited terrorists to set up madrassas there. He was a raving anti-American as well as a full blown friend of Islamic Jihad. I penned this back in March of 2003
TURKEY AIN'T OUR FRIEND-----Duuuuuhhhh

The only blunder of the war could be very serious indeed

The unreadiness of our military for this Turkish "betrayal" (refusal to let us invade Iraq from the north) is inexcusable. The current leader of Turkey, Necmettin Erbakan (Erdogan's best best friend since college days), is well known as a Muslim firebrand. When Erbakan was last leading the country he did the following: signed agreements with terrorist Lybia and Iran, established a religious school system to turn out Islamic radicals, had plans to build mosques with public monies, infiltrated the government with hard line Muslim Fundamentalists, allowed the Iranian ambassador to Turkey to call on Turkish young people to take up arms against the United States; and other less odious practices.

He and his party are no friends of the United States and could well be moving Turkey from a secular state to an Islamic state. Turkey has been flexing its muscles throughout the middle east for years and was once the seat of The Ottoman Empire.

They fear the Kurds who have migrated in great numbers into many cities and are a majority in the Southern area. It can never be forgotten that the Kurds were the instruments of the Turks in the genocidal slaughter of one million Armenians in the early 20's. They don't like each other and if the Kurds ever "ratted the Turks out about the Armenian genocide" Turkey would be liable for billions in reparations.
Turkey is almost an Islamic state right now and is on the northern border with Iraq, and the Kurds. Only the hope of joining the EU keeps things in line.

BENNY HILL TO PLAY BUSH

Some real data refuting the "more troops on the ground" theory. Reynolds has it posted HERE and one would think the White House would have the same response....hahahahahohohoho. Bush isn't even a bad president, he is simply a guy adrift on a raft as the flood waters carry him along his sorry route. When they do the movie about this White House how about Reese Whitherspoon as Bush.....? Only because Benny Hill is dead.

There are more than 300 comments posted for this very sad yet inspiring post. Once again if this White House had a brain they would be all over it.

Duke: check out Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe. In it the DA arrests a white guy for a crime so he can have "The Great White Defendant," so he can tie up the Black vote before election. The DA won, railroaded an innocent guy who was convicted by all the ususal suspects before a trial ever took place. The non-criminal lost his wife, his mistress, and all his wealth; the book ends with everyone happy but the hero, who is left awaiting a trial that will certainly put him in the slammer for ten years. Will life imitate art in this case? Read the book, learn the ending of this sorry Duke "rape case."

If you want to see a market topping just check June Gold HERE. The rise changed from 45 degrees to about 85%, a rate of advance that cannot be sustained. Gold could easily hit $540. If you're in it, get out. If you are out, stay out. Many of you will say that gold will "fill the gap." It will fill it alright, all the way down to $540 area. BTW, if you check the weekly chart you will see that this is a "blow off top," complete with a gap opening today. OUT.

Late add: the active contract is now JUNE, be careful. April represents people in cash positions trying to cash in so there will be a distortion if shorts bail.

4/19/2006

FIREFOX ALERT: It sucks. 20 vulnerabilities. There is a patch. As usual Mozilla informs nobody. Go HERE for new Firefox. And oh yeah, there is a patch for Thunderbird too. When MSIE gets tabs I'm there.....

ON THE NOTHINGNESS OF IRAN

Iran re-ducks: the ravings about military might uttered by nothing prez, Mamoud Ahmadinejad, about his near nothing country are discussed and exposed over at Former Spook. He then spells out just how many P-2 centrifuges are actually needed to produce a bomb quickly, a figure (54,000) that is impossible to attain because of the complexities of making the rotors. This entire Iran thing is media hysteria which the same media will blame on Bush lies when they finally read up on the facts. Going even deeper, once again the inarticulate Bush White House can't explain so it's left to the MSM to spread their bullshit.

QUICK: WHO IS BURIED IN GRANT'S TOMB?

And what of the only man ever promoted on the battlefield by Grant, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, that peerless combination of modesty and valor, the college professor from Maine who might personally have saved the Union during the crisis at Little Round Top in the Battle of Gettysburg? Well, who needs to know about him these days?
Chamberlain, an evil white man, found himself atop Roundtop heading an army that was out of ammunition. Having been ordered to hold the position at all costs, he led his more or less defenseless men in a bayonet charge down the mountain and routed the Rebs. This charge is credited with saving the Day at Gettysburg. The post is terrific piece about the dumbing down of American History, the elimination of almost all white men from the course so women aren't offended, and other goodies baddies over at ISteve....

4/18/2006

A LATIN AMERICAN STYLE REVOLT IN WASHINGTON?

I mentioned in my post of yesterday possibility that the generals who are now attacking Rumsfeld were also speaking for a lot of other senior officers still on active duty. It seems that lots of people with connections within the high levels of the army are telling some reporters the same thing. This means a possibility exists for the first army "revolt" in our history. Yeah, there was McClellan vs Lincoln and Truman vs MacArthur and many generals thought Roosevelt responsible for Pearl Harbor but there has never been, til possibly now, a situation where a large number of generals has conspired together against a sitting president (through castigating the Secretary of Defense). If these "stories" are true--and right now they are just stories---this may well be a major Constitutional crises. A conspiracy among army officers against civilian authority is treason. Stay tuned.

More and more of us Republicans ain't gunna vote for the so-called Republican pieces of shit now slithering around the House and Senate. While I can't bring myself to vote for the Dems I will leave both House and Senate spots blank. Get rid of them and do not support any of them if they run again. And no money either, we can starve them out.

4/17/2006

Iran and nukes? A detailed article can be found HERE. It is by David Albright and Corey Hinderstein of the Institute for Science and International Security. There is no cutting to the chase here because of the detail, but the construction of ten or twenty thousand P-2 centrifuges (best and most efficient) is very difficult. This is because there is a rotor involved that must be machined to very high tolerances, far too high for all but advanced industrial states to produce. However the P-1 has a copper rotor, is easy to make, but will not produce the quantities needed for a terror state like Iran. The really bad news in all this speculation is the so called "Khan Network" of tens of thousands of spare parts, diagrams, and instructions containing all you need to get into the atomic bomb business. Lybia was all set to go based on help from the Pakistani "scientists's" plans and parts.
The components for roughly 500 P1 centrifuges that went to Iran in the mid-90s were, according to reports, from centrifuges that Pakistan had retired from its main centrifuge program. Members of the network were able to remove them in secret and sell them to Iran. Initial exports of the P1 centrifuges to Iran in the mid-1990s included 500 machines retired from Pakistan's nuclear program or made under contract by the network, says the report. This quantity of P1 centrifuges would only be able to produce about one quarter of a bomb's worth of weapons-grade uranium in a year.
A scary detailing of the workshop network that can produce these P-1 parts is HERE. No matter, it seems to be impossible for Iran to be nuke ready before 2010 at the earliest. They are just blustering. Now. We think.

DUKE: THE GREAT WHITE DEFENDANT; A LEFTIST WET DREAM COME TRUE

Call the members of the Duke LaCrosse team the Great White Defendant; privileged, elite, and arrogant. On the other side we have a poor black WOMAN who says she has been brutally raped by said White Defendant.

We have race: rich white devils vs poor and victimized blacks. We all get to scream about how much we love them poor negras. String up the white bastard just to prove we love black people.

We have gender to think of: poor victimized women who are stomped on daily by those awful white males. They mind rape us when they don't sexually rape us. It's payback time.

And then there is money: we all know white people have stolen everything they have from the poor. This is our chance to show the rich that they can't just do anything they like.

This is the Left Wing gangbang of the highest order; their wet dreams come true. They get to ejaculate on TV, in the press, and even a movie deal. Hell, next they might choose to show everyone that they swallow each other's ejaculatory rhetoric. Are you in line yet?

4/16/2006

IF ONLY THE TERRORISTS FOLLOWED THE RULES OF WARFARE

Again, our complaining retired generals:
To make the assertion that only six out of three or four thousand retired generals are pissing and moaning is a deceptive argument. Same can be said about the view that the six complainers represent only 1% of the total number of the retired. Everything should begin with the question I posed yesterday: How many of the 4,000 retired generals served in Iraq? How many sent their men down roads loaded with IEDs knowing they'd be killed or maimed for life with no grand objective in mind?

I mentioned yesterday that these guys are telling us something and we better listen. They could also be speaking for many still in the Army who are afraid to speak out because their careers would be ruined. Then there is something else.

These army generals have opposed "modernizing" the army from the get go. They want the "old" army. The old army that had big battle plans with huge numbers of troops and support designed to fight a similar foe.

How much of the bitching has to do with losing command and control of divisions of 25,000 plus troops. Now they have a hundred or so small groups of ten or twenty guys most which have to be directed by colonels and majors actually in battle. Generals want to general, which means planning and executing big battles, not some penny ante attack on a few buildings to kill two terrorists. Keep in mind that these guys were never trained for the type of warfare being waged today and they long for the "good old days" of set piece battles fought under theories a-la Clausewitz, a last century military theorist who had as mantra:

"Whoever has the most wins---unless superior technology is on the other side."

Hence we had Ike in Europe reacting too late to the German attack in the "Battle of the Bulge," a reaction that should have resulted in his being replaced; he didn't plan for the obvious. He then refused to let Patton cut off the Germans in the middle of the bulge. Instead, Ike, in true Clausewitz fashion, massed a numerically superior force in front of the German Panzers and waited for superior technology (airpower) to guarantee a Clausewitzian victory, just like he'd been taught at West Point.

We can mass more than a hundred times the troops any terrorist band can hope to muster; we have so much superior technology it is ridiculous, and more generals planning things than any hundred terrorist cells. This is a different war and the generals are trying to give us lessons based upon rules that no longer apply.

Do you really think that 200,000 more troops would make any difference, or would that number just mean we would be bigger slower moving targets? Poor planning from D.C. is as old as the army--try the planning for each of the hundred Pacific Islands we took during WWII with horrendous and needless loss of life; how about the planning for D-day, when troops were just landed under a cliff containing known gun emplacements and left there to win or die (they won and died); or the planning that missed the hedgerows that lay just beyond the Normandy beachhead that anybody who had ever visited France knew existed? All war plans in all of history were pretty awful, so what else is new other than we have a more than willing media eager to spread defeatism at every opportunity.

We are in a tough war, much tougher than any of us thought. The real question is: "Now what?"

Bitching former generals are interesting, but are they correct? This new army stuff all started when those goddam Greeks snuck soldiers into Troy inside that wooden horse. I mean that was totally unfair and nobody has allowed a wooden horse inside their cities since, no matter what some general thought.

4/15/2006

WE NEED JOE WILSON AGAIN

Iran Nukes: Cutting to the chase......
They are full of it. No matter how you slice it they are three years away at the very minimum of having two bombs. Fifty four thousand centrifuges is total crap. Perry's has over a thousand used centrifuges for sale, but they are for orange juice and shit and can't be used for making a bomb.
A single centrifuge might produce about 30 grams of HEU (Highly Enriched Uranium) per year, about the equivalent of five Separative Work Unit (SWU). As as a general rule of thumb, a cascade of 850 to 1,000 centrifuges, each 1.5 meters long, operating continuously at 400 m/sec, would be able to produce about 20-25 kilograms of HEU in a year, enough for one weapon. One such bomb would require about 6,000 SWU.
Problem is that centrifuges are relatively small and easy to conceal. BUT building centrifuges with anything less than first rate technology is impossible. Unless it can be shown that they have purchased some from one of our pals like France, Pakistan, or North Korea, they have a long way to go.

And that's the rub: where did they buy them? If they did buy them. What we need is Joe Wilson to go over there and find out.

Think about this one: "Too many people think that grossly insulting someone is not only a right, but an obligation to insult things in order to preserve the right to do so." Patterico has a very thoughtful piece up this AM, and it is here.

THEM WHINING RETIRED GENERALS

Well Rummy, tell me: are there 3,000 retired generals who have served in Iraq?

These generals need to be listened to because no officer ever wants to lead his men to their deaths over and over again. For the proof, all you have to do is look at France in 1940 when WWI veterans, gripped by their memories of horror and endless deaths in the "Big War," refused to fight, refused to sacrifice an entire army; refused to attack the oncoming Germans in spite of numerical and tank superiority, and the still horrified WWI hero, Marshall Petain, surrendered the country without any fight at all.

These generals are telling us something we need to listen to because their lack of confidence spreads downward like a gallon drum of molasses covering everyone it touches. The head of the 82nd Airbourne isn't just some pissed off retired general.

Belmont Club has the best overall look, HERE.

4/14/2006

Kim du Toit grew up in Africa so he knows the territory. He posts an opinion of what will happen to the Chinese for sticking their noses in there.....

A REALLY BIG DEAL: a restaurant called Fran O'Brians located inside one of the DC Hilton Hotels, has been putting on a free meal for the wounded vets from Bethesda VA Hospital there for quite a while. Hilton Hotels, in which the restaurant is located, is cancelling the lease with no reason given. There seems to be discomfort over the fact that "a bunch of cripples" doesn't look good for Hilton. Do not motherfuck Hilton. Please go HERE and read what is going on. They request that you write in a polite manner. Crude remarks are acceptable here should you feel the need to vent. Mudville is all over this too with sample polite letters for you to read.

Wanna get really pissed off? No, I mean totally pissed off.... GO HERE and read about a sexopolitcal legal attack on a librarian for recommending conservative books.

4/13/2006

IT'S SEXUAL ASSAULT PREVENTION WEEK AT DUKE


Believe it or not, as a "femme" studies the pictures of the LaCrosse team posted for all to memorize (left) the feminazis are having a Sexual Assault Prevention Week (planned before the current lynching) so they can whine and accuse in force. As breathlessly revealed in a Durham rag:
Some students wore T-shirts that said, "Men's Lax, Come Clean." A poster said, "The DNA will talk, even if the cowards of men's lacrosse won't. Shame on you all."

The rally on campus came amid Sexual Assault Prevention Week, an event planned at Duke before the rape report on March 14.
Now that the DNA has spoken these ugly pigs won't listen.

The lynch mob continues their crusade and now the New York Times has apparently hired its own private detectives in an attempt to smear those horrid Duke white boys, because make no mistake, this is a live lynching brought to you by the usual guilt ridden liberals who hate America and themselves. It is rare for a multi-million dollar enterprise like the New York Times to hire private detectives; people who are hired precisely because they don't have to pay attention to the Constitution; people who have no problems wire tapping, bribing, and threatening their way to the truth that their boss wants.

Make no mistake, the NYT is a big part of the mob. Featured article today includes the praying members of the lynch mob, left.


Rush Limbaugh stated yesterday AM (Link is now down)
Immediately, the media went in there and was convinced because of their template that white guys had to be guilty. There could be no question about it. These charges are serious. The nature of the evidence doesn't matter. It's the seriousness of the charge. You had the New York Times, I am told, hiring detectives on its own to look into the 47 members of the Duke lacrosse team to see if they could dig up the truth, because they just knew it had to be true.
There are millions of dollars going into this big time lynching and thankfully the parents of the boys have enough money to hire a few of the top attorneys in the business to defend. But this may have no ending because the liberal lynch mob needs no DNA to convict, no witnesses, nothing but their own guilt ridden fantasies. They will follow the successful Tawana Brawley script and keep these kids in racist purgatory for as long as possible. Fake rape cases on college compuses based on black women accusing white young men of rape are nothing new. Neither is the faculty/liberal elites joining in the lynching. According to a piece in the American Thinker:
The first and only serious study of hoax crimes was conducted in by independent scholar Laird Wilcox. In a self-published booklet titled, Crying Wolf: Hate Crime Hoaxes in America, Wilcox documented hundreds of hoax crimes and analyzed who commits them and why. Wilcox found that blacks are the worst offenders when it comes to staging phony hate crimes. While some perpetrate hoaxes to get insurance money or to cover their own misdeeds, many, particularly on college campuses, stage them to generate sympathy for their racial agenda.
This is going to be tough, the usual horde of nasty feminist women are wailing their usual hate filled lungs out, the oh so righteous liberals are writing the usual editorials in all the usual places because at last they get to lynch some white kids; and the TV media? You watch it. You see what they are doing.

Late Add: Bob Bennett, one of THE legal heavyweights has joined the defense, "not for the boys but to defend the university," which could be the worst news those boys ever got. If you've ever been in a company and were assigned a company appointed lawyer you know you are dead. One of the worst outcomes, and perhaps the least probable, is that if the case goes to trial and a Black Jury lynches, the verdict will be overturned because of the horrid pre-trial publicity which the DA himself generated. Most likely: the DA will go to the Grand Jury which will rubberstamp what the DA wants and then all the victim women and Blacks can have a field day. In fact they will have a field day no matter the outcome, unless the boys go to jail. The DA has announced that he will seek a Grand Jury indictment of one of the boys.

DNA evidence? We don't need no stinking DNA evidence.



Doesn't go to Duke

Hasn't filed rape charges


Wonder why?

4/12/2006

Go here for a cinch bear market chart signal; the infamous "W" formation. The only thing is, the formation is on the Crude Oil chart and I don't think we will see a crash in price any time soon. If charts worked there would be no need for a market.

Duke: on full display for all of us to see is Black racism and paranoia (dare I say stupidity?) and the limp wristed cowardly white elite, which is pandering ---as usual--- to a loud mouthed, racist, and violent minority hoping to get a black vote that will never vote for a white person if they can help it.

Iraq is becoming a he said she said media show regarding almost everything about the "war."

Speaking of gutless Republicans, Ann Coulter did a TV interview blasting the party. If this keeps up the only Republicans left will be in a few churches who don't have TV, radio, or Newspapers. When you compare the words and deeds accomplished by the party after the '94 Republican landslide with the assholes who slink around D.C. piling up pork handouts, sacking the treasury, and stealing money you have to sit '06 out.

Iran: the gutless white liberals around the world will do nothing to stop them from having the bomb. They will have it and Muslims who have the will to use a bomb will rule the world. Of course this would never happen if we had an energy policy that cut down our need for foreign oil, a policy this jerk president (and their pork hungry party) has let slide for eight years.

An amplification of yesterday's post regarding the number of centrifuges necessary to produce a bomb in three years. Several experts on TV said a bank of 1,500 centrifuges could produce a bomb in three years IF source uranium ore is of high enough grade. Late add: NY Sun
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran intends to move toward large-scale uranium enrichment involving 54,000 centrifuges, the country's deputy nuclear chief said Wednesday, signaling its resolve to expand a program the international community has insisted it halt.
This is like the "Bush planning to a bomb Iran" reports. I don't believe it for a second.

The "New GM"
is just like the old and this just means selling off the 51% of GMAC for five skadillion bucks will only result in GM having more money to burn through before the end. The unions will let all the companies go broke before they give up any goodies, and that is problem one. Problem two is the public perception of a company that makes too many different models that look alike and don't work very well. I say perception because the reviews on the latest GM products are dam good and their quality has improved so that there is little difference between it and Toyota. Auto Extremist lays it out there.

And just in time for the gas crunch, the new 12 cylinder-198 mph gas guzzling Bentley convertible for all the rich pricks who don't give a fuck about $4 gasoline. Or even $10 gasoline.

4/11/2006

Naked shorts and what they mean to you: finally, somebody has gone after this horrible practice, designed to ruin a company stock and the company as well. A short position is a sale of a stock with the intention of buying it back later at a presumed lower price, thus pocketing the difference between the money collected on the sale and the cost of buying the stock "back" (sell for $110 and buy back at $100). The "short" doesn't have the stock to start with so he "borrows" it from a brokerage firm, hence the term "short" as in your are short twenty cents on this burger. BUT a naked short is a short position with no stock available: 110 shares are shorted but there are only 100 shares outstanding in the entire market. This practice is so widespread, and has been for years, that now the entire capitalist system is threatened. In addition, from my years in the business I can attest to the fact that "shorts" get on the phone with each other and work like hell to take a stock down; they do this by "selling" increasing numbers of stock til the market is actually moved.

Hedge Funds used to represent a tiny portion of the market but now they are a huge percentage of the market and a hedge fund only shorts a stock or buys puts and writes calls. This will mean a lot for the markets so stay tuned. From the East Carolinian
The issue is that hedge funds, which are like mutual funds except that they make their profits typically on securities like stocks falling in price. These hedge funds can often generate astronomical returns for a short time and usually the investors of that fund get hooked on the high returns and therefore seek to flood the financial media with bad news to make certain stocks decline, though some of the time this negatively generated news is either inconsequential or lacking objectivity. The media will then report this news and investors will sell thus causing the share price to decline.
A hell of a lot of people have been trying to write legislation covering the funds but so far, nada. Forbes has a more detailed (and harder to understand) article HERE.

Go to Kaus today and read his stuff for April 10th. Particularly the link to this great interview about Iran and making the bomb. It's 25 minutes long (a TV feed) so have that amount of time before you go there. You will not be disappointed. This interview is a ten. Iran could be two to three years away from having a bomb IF they install the 3,000 centrifuges they claim they will. The other two links to Blogging Heads are to a typical "discussion" by a couple of Lefties who make various false premises and launch into blanket charges.

DUKE FEMINISTS BEGIN SEARCH FOR PHANTOM RAPIST; LEFT WING CAMPUS ON FULL ALERT

No Duke lacrosse player's DNA is found in either the vagina or on the body of the accuser. That won't stop the feminazi Left, the phony liberals on ESPN, and the editorial writers from demanding "justice." The first claim is that they did it but wore condoms. Yes, everyone who rapes somebody puts on a condom first, everybody knows that. The "girl" was mind fucked by the over masculine testosterone laden Duke athletes who bribed the lab doing the testing. The pretentious pseudo seekers of "fairness" will do their best to lynch these guys. I hope the lawyers start suing people like Jim Rome who convicted the guys with no proof whatsoever. And the racist black DA will go forward anyway. Keep in mind he is in a Black part of town and there is an election in two weeks.

Later Add: Although many are now sort of apologizing to the Duke players, I saw some stupid women on TV who wanted the DA to "prosecute" anyway and said that lack of DNA evidence is no proof that a crime wasn't commited. Which reminds me of an old Superman joke:
Superman is horney as hell and decides to fly over the city in search of some quick pussy. Not seeing any he decides to fly over to Wonder Woman's house and see if he can nail her. He zooms over there and he sees Wonderwoman spread eagled on the lawn, vagina exposed and her body wriggling. Wow, he thinks to himself. I'll grab myself a quickie. Faster than a speeding bullet Superman declothes himself and dives down on the seemingly ready Wonder Woman; faster than a speeding bullet he unloads his love juice and retreats back into the clouds. On the ground, Wonder Woman says, "Jesus, what the hell was that?"
To which the Invisible Man says, "I don't know but something just tore me a new asshole."
So while Jim Rome and the ESPN "Sports Reporters" look for the Invisible Duke rapist, the rest of us better look at the "Rush to Judgement" by the Left, the women, and the so-called "sports reporters."

4/10/2006

Nuking Iran: chalk it up to one more moronic lard brained White House not bothering to counter the charges til the weekend was over. By that time it was on every news outlet in the world. Bush is either the Nero or the Caligula of the Republic, the least competent president in my lifetime.

Hollywood finances
: Gwyneth Paltrow is getting three million dollars for a three minute bit part in a movie aptly called, Infamous. It has been written up thusly in I Don't Like You in that Way
How this idiot has achieved Hollywood elite status is a mystery. She was born rich, has no education and at an early age, she was handed movie roles by her connected family's friends after she decided being a hippie and making friendship bracelets wouldn't make her famous.
And in her spare time she issues fatwas against the United States. Behave appropriately when this movie comes out. They deserve to lose every dime stolen from the shareholders. BTW her list of nothing parts in mostly nothing movies can be found here. How this total nothing got more than SAG minimum can only be explained by.......


If you want to know the real deal on the Page Six extortion scandal and all about; 1. the WWI fighter pilot, Ms. Sessa von Richtofen; 2. Page Six honcho Richard Johnson who is the dude who married her; AND 3., some inside stuff on Richard Burkle, the target of the extortion and who is one powerful dude inside the Democratic Party; go HERE to the New York Social Diary. This Burkle is one dinosaur rich mother fucker and you have to be a moron to fuck with him. It seems he really got pissed when Page Six linked him to the super hot super model, Giselle Bundchen, left. I'd opine that the Buncchen site is safe for work only if you work in a whore house or Hollywood the Vatican.

John Fund
isn't the only one who sees that the current GOP has sold out, and sold out completely. There is no reason to vote for these morally bankrupt pieces of shit. They are every bit as bad as the Democrats we elected them to replace. I'm not saying I'd vote for the Dems, but I can dam well leave my ballot blank for Senator and Congressman.

Rah rah rah for Phil Mickelson, the guy who couldn't win the Big One for winning his second Big One after ten years of blowing lead after lead. A feel good story and you just knew from the way he looked that he wasn't going to miss any shots....

In what I hope is just the first of many, FOX Sports Net 2 showed the Laker-Clippers game on two channels, one of which was broadcast with just one camera that was courtside. You actually felt you were there. You didn't have to listen to these shit for brains announcers and so-called "color men." What sound there was came from the area announcers. Really good and there is no chance we will be relived from hearing those tedious announcers.

Still working on my taxes. I don't want to send those pricks anything but an empty envelope.

4/9/2006

French Yoot "win" they don't have to risk being fired. So France lurches on to their eventual collapse that history will regard as a national suicide.

Brits bail on Airbus: this is big news in Euroville because this government subsidized plane company is now a potential albatross around the neck of the EU. The governments own most of the manufacturing and the people working in plants must be kept on the (dole-payrolls) or unemployment will ravage the continent. Trouble surfaced when the Frogs tried to palm off what is basically a used plane---a hopped up A320 --- as brand a new A350, a plane that has so little headroom that Boeing will smoke it. The billions and billions in subsidies just keep on coming and will keep on coming in spite of everything.

Dems to curtail free speech? It looks like in addition to impeaching Bush, the Democrats want to "get" both Limbaugh and O'Reilly if they can. In fact the Liberals want to get control of content on the internet, talk radio, and cable news. We all better wake up because "campaign financing" is the foot in the door covering speech. Good piece in City Journal.

Newspapers and magazines may be teaming up illegally to force everyone accessing their news sites to pay. They have a point in that almost all internet content is a rehash of what is on the MSM news sites. Stay tuned on this one.

Before you go into a road rage after reading Malkin on school demonstration, be sure you check the asterisk at the bottom of the piece. Sort of takes the heat off it.

This is the home page of a site called flimstrip. Go there and listen to the tune "Bush is an asshole" and check their index. This is a site we should all check regularly because it is the best Left Wing hit site on the planet. The Republicans better get hip, fast. They have posted lots of good stuff we may not have seen. Keep in mind that the misery photos shown in the "title song" are all from the thirties. Also look at The Water Has Risen which I guarantee will be a Democratic ad this summer. This left wing hit site is very effective. (upraised fist: Malkin)

Have to do my taxes, so bye bye.

4/8/2006

The BEST posting on the financial end of the movie business is up at Libertas, HERE . All data and no opinion. The piece will tell you once and for all that R movies not only don't make money but they are responsible for more red ink in the movie biz than anything, and have been for a decade. A great and enlightening (to me) read.

4/7/2006

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, ANOTHER CODE WORD TO HIDE WHAT WE ARE REALLY DOING

Face facts everybody, what we have with our _________ (fill in the blank) "guest worker" program is slavery. Back in the bad old Civil War days the Southerners called the Northerners "wage slaves," pointing out the hypocrisy of Northern factories hiring only dirt cheap foreign immigrant labor who couldn't even speak English so they could fuel their economy. Sure, we don't tie our modern slaves to a single plantation, clothe them, feed them whatever substandard food we choose, or physically abuse them, but the low wage "illegals" are wage slaves of the modern era. Our wage slaves.

We pay a bunch of near starving Mexicans or Central Americans the absolute minimum wage, a wage too low to sustain them in our cities, or warehouse them while they are on ranches and farms. We pay them poverty wages to make our clothing in sweat shops, clean our cars in car washes for $8, and do our janitorial work in the fancy hotels where we can get drunk and play golf in splendor. They live two or three families to a small apartment just like our great great grand parents had to do at the turn of the last century.

How much would our food cost if the harvesters were paid $10 per hour plus benefits? Here's an example: pure Kona Coffee runs around $24 per pound because the Hawaiian coffee workers are paid as much as $200 per day and all get benefits. Colombian and Brazilian coffees cost less than $6 per pound because Colombian and Brazilian Indians get the lowest possible wage and all the cocaine they can snort.

If our wage slaves were paid $10 per hour plus medical what would our bread cost? Our fruit? Our hotel stays?

We are pretending. We are doing what we used to do in the bad old days but covering it up with the new code words so everybody can feel good about themselves. Illegals are our slave class, they keep our food cheap, our clothing cheaper, and our cars all bright and shiny.

They also keep our consciences bright and shiny so we can imagine that a white and loving God will love us and welcome us into Heaven.

For a good POV that is different, visit VDARE. They have some good stuff.

If you still harbor as much as an ounce of respect for The Bush Administration, read this very long piece on the INS/HSA at Malkin. It means only that the Al Qaeda types don't have the where with all to get over here and let us have it. Enough. I say that his lack of actions at Homeland Security is enough to impeach. I hate to say it, but schussel has been all over it too, especially nailing Julie Myers.

And now to Schussel her own self: she has nailed, with fact after fact, one Jill Carroll as an American hating bitch of the first order. No guilt by association in that piece, Carroll is a horror story, a poster child for the America hating Left and the Jew hating Arabs. I have re-linked to her because with all her shit, she does a hell of a job in many cases.

OMFG, SOME DEMOCRATS HAVE BOTH A PLAN AND A POLICY

Robert Rubin, the ex Goldman Sachs exec and Clinton Treasury Secretary who made the trains run on time during the Clinton presidency, has come back from the dead and is leading a Democratic Economic program that has real balls. His main philosophical thrust is that income distribution cannot continue with the disparity that exists right now---high income corporate execs earn 214 times more than their workers---without having the wheels come off the entire capitalist system, a thesis I totally agree with. The new group has launched The Hamilton Project and has some heavyweights from the Democratic Party (not the bomb throwing Soros Brothers), people like Laura Tyson, Roger C. Altman, Jason E. Bordoff, Peter R. Orszag, and Rubin.

It is unfortunate that they are spouting their stuff in acadamiaspeak that nobody can figure out, as is usual with the eliteist Democrats in this country. As reported in the Financial Times and MSN Money,
Citing concerns about the sluggish growth in real median family income, which has grown at just 1 per cent a year since 1973, the paper argues "public policy that benefits a select few will fail to utilize the nation's full potential...Broad-based economic growth is stronger and more sustainable".

We need to address fiscal imbalances, entitlements, low personal savings rates, high debt and the current account deficit. No other developed country in the world has this combination of imbalances."
Rubin says there are a hell of a lot of corporate suits that agree with him but don't want to challenge the Administration. It seems that lots of people who roam at the top are looking at the income spread as a stick of dynamite with the fuse already lit. How far can this go? Well Rubin and friends are free traders and the New Left is protectionist to an extreme, anti-globalization, and against any entitlement reform. So read some stuff and get back to me.

A partial list of heavyweights are behind this set of proposals; starting here. A summation of the entitlement fiasco reads like this
Washington is divided into two camps. One wants to fix the problem by raising taxes, but would never dare say so publicly. The other wants to fix the problem by cutting benefits, but would never dare say so publicly.
Bloomberg on Line has a great overview of everything HERE.

Another conservative think tank, American Enterprise Institute, is also on board. Bush's attempt at SS reform went down the tubes so it's not very likely that this package will have a chance.

One other point: show me the place in the Constitution that says one person is entitled to earn 214 times of what another earns. Life Liberty and the pursuit of happiness must have an ending. A very few people have pursued, and caught, happiness; too dam many are failing.

Guns are cheap and all the poor own at least one of them. The Freedom to bear arms can have serious consequences when the poor get pissed off.

Hot sex for kids: While four (4) adult chaperones, coaches etc. did their jobs by sitting in the front seats of the bus, two track kids (male and female at least) were screwing their brains out in the back of the bus while the track team cheered. Time to visit Bad Jocks for some juicy stuff

I have a ton (well five) emails challenging my statement that corporate execs earn 214 times what their workers earn. Robert Devlin of American General earned 45mil last year; Michael Capellis of Compaq pocketed 36mil; Eugene Isenberg CEO of Nabors Industries scored a fat 28mil and so on; keep in mind that these numbers represent only compensation, they do not include returns on investments, stock and stock options, or capital gains from selling stock. Nor do they include the value of perks; things like company cars, yachts, vacations to heavenly places, and God only Knows what else. The lower paid employees---not the lowest---earn $25K. Multiply that by 214 and you get $5.3 million and the poor CEO that earns that paltry sum in compensation is only number 75 in the corporate CEO list. Guys who make their money from Real Estate, stock investing, commodities speculation (George Soros) and so on are not listed. Forbes has a completely different list of high paid CEOs, a list that ends with number ten, a guy who only earns $30mil per. My point is only that the spread between the lower paid employees and the top is a multiple of 214 overall. It is interesting that there is a huge difference between compensation and net worth, a figure derived from stock holdings (Gates 40billion, Buffet 30billion, etc.), property holdings, jewels and so on. There are a lot of lists; for example Electronic Business lists forty different people with incomes ranging from $45mil to $9mil. Actors, athletes, "artists" and other entertainment gazillionaires and so on are not listed. The figure of 214 is an average that is derived from all sources (not defined) and could be higher or lower.

View from the bottom: Today more than 28 million people, about a quarter of the working-age workforce, work full time yet still earn less than the income that marks the federal poverty line for a family of four which is $9.04 per hour; a full-time salary of $18,800 a year. Child care workers can't afford the care they provide for their own children, and retail workers cannot pay for the goods they sell to others. And these same people are on the dole if somebody in the family gets sick. It is inevitable that these people will eventually start shooting. They will be joined by people working two and three jobs just to break even. I hope all of us will take this income gap seriously.

BOTH CBS AND NBC TURN HARD LEFT

Meredith (Lefty) Vieira, a Leftist that is so hard core she even has her meals shipped to her from San Francisco, will now spew forth her rancid proclamations each and every morning on The Today Show over at NBC. So out in Left field is she, so disconnected from any known journalistic ethos, and such an overbearing loudmouth that her new program may be re-titled FY America. While working as an NBC journalist she marched in anti-war parades, denounced Bush as a liar on the air, debated Ann Coulter by calling her stupid, and wants anti-war marches "every day." A litany of this looney leftist's past is here at CyberAlert. Let it be known that there is no such thing as a Conservative at either NBC or CBS News. At least now we absolutely know that the Left controls the MSM. But it gets worse, for the goods (meaning pix) on her public lesbian kissing go to HERE. Jesus.

Late Add: both Drudge and Schultz are linking to CyberAlert too, so if you've been there don't click on links.

4/6/2006

NEXT, SHOW THE AMERICAN FLAG AND BE DEPORTED?

Economy: for the first time in weeks the yield curve is normal--short term rates are lower than long term rates. Bravo, it was getting scary there. Dynamic chart is HERE --- will not work with anything other than MSIE

Noonan has a thought provoking essay today, part of which indicates that most generals opposed the Iraq war. The question is, were they afraid to come forward. She a right winger and is currently reading a book called Cobra II that is scaring the shit out of her.

Has Moonves pulled a coup on NBC by getting Couric to leave the ratings rich Today Show and go onto an evening TV News sector that is losing viewers? The Byzantine reasoning goes that Evil Genius Moonves pulled this off so CBS can have a shot at that huge AM audience that Couric has had in her lap for ten years.

For those of you who only go to Slate to read Mickey Kaus, you owe it to yourselves to go HERE and read the piece about the FBI, an agency so backward that at least twenty percent of the agents don't have email; an untold number can't operate a computer; and their systems are so old they go back to the time of DOS and 386; etc.

Illegals to vote in NYC. apparently no citizenship qualifications in city elections. Next, anyone caught flying the American flag will be deported.

4/5/2006

NYTimes new layout worth a visit. They include vids which is a good idea, but when you see and listen to a movie review betcha a mil you won't want to see it. n The reviewer is pretentious to an extreme, a cliche arty farty limp wristed liberal. Overall, the site is so good there is no way it will stay free for long.

The horror
that the GOP has become is featured HERE at WSJ. It ain't just DeLay, stupid. Name four bills this idiot Congress has passed this year. OK, name one.

Some women should never, like in never ever, let their boobs show. My only favorite actress, Hillary Swank, looks like she's posing for Skank...

Learning a new text editor so no blogging today......

4/4/2006

Concealed guns legislation is passing in lots and lots of states. All I can say as a two time mental hospital resident, you better not let me have one. And that's the problem I have with these laws. There is no way to see the insides of people carrying concealed weapons. I must admit that it appears assault and similar crimes against people are dropping in OK to carry states. BTW, since every gangbanger wannabe in LA carries weapons--concealed and otherwise---with impunity we might as well make it legal here too.

Even loyal cheerleader Michelle Malkin is fed up with Bush. This from her post today:
There was a time when I'd be cheerily gung-ho about that refrain. But what with the administration's botched response to the Danish cartoons, its lame reaction to the near-execution of Abdul Rahman, and its obstinate insistence on a guest-worker/amnesty plan, among other wrong-headed moves, I'm not in the mood to wave pom-poms.

Sorry.
I'm not the only one on the "Right" fed up with this truly incompetent president.

ESPN EXPOSED AS A BIG MARKET TEAM HYPE SHOP

NCAA final game: another boring slaughter from the start, a game that was over by the first TV timeout. Too bad, most of the games leading up to the Final Four were among the most exciting of the year. The tournament proves one thing to all of us: ESPN sports opinion sucks. They suck because they are after ratings and the only teams that matter are those near Eastern big market cities. The Big East is no better than most other conferences, but as long as ESPN carries their games in an early time slot they will hype the East Coast teams in order to inflate prices they can charge to adertisers. Can you see the angst in suitville if teams playing in games that start at 9 or 10PM EST were said to be the best? ("Stay tuned for the game between Number One Texas vs Number Three UCLA at 10PM Eastern?") It has been clear all year that teams like Gonzaga, Washington, Memphis State, Texas and a few others with late games were just as good or better, than the ESPN hyped Big East or the ACC, but not to ratings starved ESPN. The network will parade their paid army of "experts" before us til we stop watching them.

I just received another warm and fuzzy email from Debbie Schlussel which I post here:
So, Howard:
You still haven't taken down the incorrect statement
that I sued bloggers in the past. Unless you can come
up with the documents showing I filed suit against any
bloggers--and you can't, because I did not--I highly
suggest you take down the defamatory, slanderous
comment. Not because you care about the truth (you
apparently don't, or you'd have bothered to verify it
by, say, contacting me), but because you don't want
others to think you are the liar you now are. And by
the way, love the comments you made about me. I
must've really gotten to you. Apparently, even the
"millions" you claim to have can't insulate your hurt
pride or take you out of the gutter.
Debbie Schlussel
OK, Debbie. What is it about "fuck off" that you don't understand? Do you know the difference between slander and libel? Do you know I can quote anyone who sends me an email any time I choose? If I choose to post every email that I have received that describes you in terms pornographic, in phrases comparing you to various animal species, mentally deranged criminals, and political psychopaths (I particularly liked the email that called you the Pol Pot of Blogdom) I'd have a blog that would be as boring as letters from you. I hope my readers will go to your site every day and absorb the endless "guilt by association" attacks on anybody and everybody, attacks which make your site as effective in creating change as a popcorn fart.

4/3/2006

Today's art and entertainment Center: It looks like the young guys of America are still not ready to drool over a 55 year old over the hill actress taking her clothes off and revealing all. Sharon Stone (the naked old lady) has drawn bupkis in her latest masterpiece, Basic Instinct 2. A decent family movie called Ice Age 2 did 70 mil opening weekend, the naked old lady was extinct coming out of the box.

Saw an eighth grade production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night on Friday. All the kids had braces, and you ain't heard nothin' til you hear the Bard's lines sifted through a metal grill. And there are three kissing moments (boys and girls kissing) and the school mates of the performers in attendence went approptiately wild--kids are still kids no matter what we hear.

Final Four: after two weeks of absolutely great games the two games on Saturday were awful. UCLA showed everyone that LSU is shit and their fabled "big" man was an overweight out of shape fat clod. I can't believe other coaches didn't see that the 310 pound kid is only 6'7", is fat, and has a vertical leap of five inches. The game was over after the first two minutes. Oh well, I hope tonight's game is better.

While too long by half, this allegory regarding illegal immigration does bring it down to a "you and me" level. The allegory relates what would happen if somebody walked into the back door of your house and "shared" everything you have. Link courtesy of emailer: Bill---site is called Parkway Reststop in case you've already read it.

4/2/2006

I just received this wonderfully warm letter from Debbie Schlussel:
You incorrectly claim that I have the facts wrong on
Jill Carroll. I don't. I NEVER cited the video or
any statements made at gunpoint. I cited other facts,
which still stand, if you bothered to read. But now
it is you who owes me an apology. WHEN have I sued
other bloggers? Please tell me the case. Would love
to know. You can either apologize right now on the
post for posting false info or take it down. Your
choice. But now you've posted two absolutely false
statements.
And by the way, reading is fundamental. Learn how,as
you are one of the premature articulators I'm talking
about:
Hey Debbie: I didn't mention any video as anyone who can read knows. I don't know of a time when you threratened to sue a blogger, so I retract til I learn otherwise. As for the rest: fuck you. And to you emailers and commenters on this site who told me not to link to you because you are a fat cow and a nasty cunt: Done. The link is gone.

If you read nothing else this week, read this Bob Kaplan piece from The Atlantic Online. He does what the MSM chickenshit so-called reporters are afraid to do: report from somewhere other than a hotel room in Baghdad. Kaplan is the author of Eastward to Tartary (ya gotta read it too) and Warrior Politics, to name two of fifteen or so great pieces. I'd like to credit this link but I forget where I first found it.

Many of you have emailed insults to me for including Debbie Schlussel on my must read list, most of you hate her because it seems she has sued bloggers in the past. Well, now we can see if she retracts all the abuse she "mistakenly" hurled at journalist/hostage Jill Carroll now that Jill has retracted everything she said while under threat of death.

Late Sunday Add: Nope, she not only doesn't retract, she piles on Carroll for sins in her past. I just opine that Carroll has a right to be who she is and she has a history of sleeping with Satan. I don't know that she has been a liar (it's possible to be against the war and remain a decent person, against Israel and ditto, and pro Arab ditto) and I have never knowingly read any of her pieces. Is she a pro terrorist propagandist? I don't know. She is certainly glad to be released and is not praising Terrorists.

Bullshit from Britain as touted by Malkin/Allah Pundit... Let's see, the Malkin site has been panting about the "SECRET plans to bomb Iran." These "secret" plans have been "revealed" by a Brit paper called The Telegraph as a sort of weekly series. According to Malkin etc., the idiots who read her blog are supposed to actually believe that top secret plans to attack Iran are leaked to the press on a weekly basis. Got news for you, Malkin: those top secret plans are meant for the ears of the Iran mullas and only the Iran mullas, assuming they are as stupid as you and your readers. There ain't no secret plan to attack Iran, at least no secret plan that is being leaked piece by piece to a press well known for its anti-American and anti-Brit military stances. Who says bullshit is the exclusive property of the MSM?

Late Add: the latest "secret plan" is to tape teeny tiny plutonium bombs to the backs of mice and let them loose at the border.......

4/1/2006

WHEN MEXICO FENCED STOLEN GOODS TO AMERICA

Kim du Toit, he of the fun-gun-pun site has posted this one on the illegals issue complete with links. Go there because he pretty well states my position from an intellectual point of view. However, you can't paint an entire picture with one color and expect to see anything. Plenty of illegals have arrived here, started working, opened businesses, and after ten or fifteen years have become citizens. They have, and are, contributors to the society in which they have deep roots. In other words, they have become Americans. They came here to better themselves and have done so.

Our problem right now is the literal army of uneducated illiterates who illegally sneak into the country and only want to get by. Their goals are low; just to pick up a few bucks to send "home" and who learn very quickly about American Entitlements and how to get them. They aren't going to go to school, learn skills, or do anything other the simplest tasks available, which means they will work for the lowest wage possible and force Americans who would work at these tasks out of the workforce and onto the welfare rolls where they become a huge new entitlement class that our ever America hating Left wants to enshrine. Illegal employment is the blue whale of sponges sucking up our wealth. Illegals work with fake SS numbers if they actually work on the books. Most work while carrying fake SS cards. There are no SSI contributions from them because they work off the books for cash. Without any health care of any kind they dump their families into subsidized health care, apartments, and welfare. They are "wage slaves" needed by corrupt employers seeking only low wage low benefit workers. These "illegals" (wage slaves) actually hate this country, hate white people and black people, and have as a goal "not getting caught today." They march under the Mexican flag and desecrate the American flag. I leave out the ten to fifteen percent of them who are members of terrorist criminal gangs like MS-13 that have a death grip on the so-called "barrios" (Mexican neighborhoods), murder at will, rape and rob whomever is close by, and deal in drugs and manage little bands of prostitutes.

And if any cop asks if these Mexicans are citizens of the country housing them and doling out the benefits, the cop is charged with a Civil Rights violation and his career is over.

The lie at the core of the pro-illegal Left media

The usual suspects say they are doing jobs Americans don't want and won't do. This is the core lie of the pro illegal Left.

Four cases close to me are sufficient examples of the emptiness of this statement. There are two large office buildings being built across from where I am working in Santa Monica; there is a four story apartment building being built next door to where I live and a huge parking structure/office building a half a block from where I live. These construction sites provide great jobs, mostly skilled jobs, and they pay up to $40 per hour. Among the several hundred workers on all these sites there is not ONE black or white face to be seen anywhere. No Asian faces. No South East Asian faces. They are 100% Mexican. The language spoken by all is Spanish, not English. The Black and White population of Los Angeles exceeds sixty percent and if you toss in Asians it tops sixty five percent. We are to believe that none of the people in these groups will do jobs that pay $40 per hour.

Well, no American wants to work off the books for cash and pay nothing into SS, Disability, Workers Comp, or other plans that provide health care. When the illegals or their kids get sick or hurt on the job they "go on the county" by going to the nearest state or country hospital and allowing us bigoted suckers to pay for them. They dump their kids into our school systems and the American Sucker Class keeps picking up the tab.

Reconquista

Nothing pisses me off more than the MEChA goons who want to “re-conquer” California and return it to Mexico. They claim that they are the original owners of the land and deserve to reclaim the territory. We, the filthy gringos and Americans stole it from them.

Facts: the fucking Mexicans and the Spanish stole everything they had from the Indians. Everything including all of Mexico. Not only that, they kicked the Indians off their land and forced them to farm; a forced labor system called “Encomiendas.” Fencing in hunter gatherers, whether in large estates in the West Indies and South America or in the back yards of missions in California, had the same effect on Indians. Once fenced in they simply lost the will to live. The Spanish/Mexican policy of Encomiendas didn’t go out of style until the dirty gringos walked into Texas and California and put a stop to it.

The Encomiendas policy was continued in California by the Spanish through the establishment of missions. Since the dirty gringo can’t be blamed for the entire southwest, the MEChA fascistas have decided to go back to 1848 when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican American War, was signed. This treaty gave what is now the American Southwest (which Mexico had stolen from the Indians) to the United States. The "treaty" could be called a fencing operation: Mexico simply "fenced" their stolen goods to the Americans. Now they want their booty back,) It was that treaty that tossed invading Mexicans out of the U.S. and back into Mexico and ended once and for all the system of Encomiendas (Indian forced slavery) on American soil. So now the Mexican pricks who had enslaved most of the Indians of the Southwest somehow or other deserve to get the "Southwest" back---not back to the Indians but to this current crop of mestizos who somehow deserve it, just because.

Be sure to read THIS over at Libertas....and then go back and click on all the links if you didn't do so while reading. The LINKS, stupid. Click on them.

Claudia strikes back, again as she gets up close and personal with Benon Sevan, the architect of the Oil for Food mega crime. It's actually not much of a read, so lightweight that the Journal is running it on a hardly-ever-read Saturday.

More Duke (rape?). If these guys are innocent they and their lawyers will probably get rich. The local media there is hanging them, sponsoring rallies, lynching them in the face of mounting reports that the whole thing is a fake. This is a typical feminist left attack on men with the New York Times convicting them in advance. And the New York Times really has bucks.

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