Thursday, October 4, 2012
Diplomacy
Will Rogers said that "Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggie, nice doggie until you can find a good rock".
Environmental Nuts
Well, the environmental nuts are at it again trying to scare us back into the stone age. Here is a summary of their latest study..
Rise in Sea Level Can't Be Stopped.
Sun Jul 1, 2012 1:00pm EDT
* Deep emissions cuts can help slow rise
By Nina Chestney
LONDON, July 1 (Reuters) - Rising sea levels cannot be stopped over the next several hundred years, even if deep emissions cuts lower global average temperatures, but they can be slowed down, climate scientists said in a study on Sunday.
After a lot of "if" this and "if that happens they come to the Earth shaking conclusion that...
"The scientists calculated that if only the weakest emissions cuts were made, temperatures could rise to 3.91 degrees Celsius in 2100 and the sea level rise could increase to 32.3cm, increasing to 139.4cm by 2300."
So the bottom line is that even if we don't do anything much the sea level would only rise by 4 feet by 2300. So we have 300 years to construct a 4 foot levy around our low-lying cities. But of course the better option is to force the whole world to go back to living in caves and fighting over potatoes by 2020 to help "save the planet" from a 4 foot rise by 2300.
Rise in Sea Level Can't Be Stopped.
Sun Jul 1, 2012 1:00pm EDT
* Deep emissions cuts can help slow rise
By Nina Chestney
LONDON, July 1 (Reuters) - Rising sea levels cannot be stopped over the next several hundred years, even if deep emissions cuts lower global average temperatures, but they can be slowed down, climate scientists said in a study on Sunday.
After a lot of "if" this and "if that happens they come to the Earth shaking conclusion that...
"The scientists calculated that if only the weakest emissions cuts were made, temperatures could rise to 3.91 degrees Celsius in 2100 and the sea level rise could increase to 32.3cm, increasing to 139.4cm by 2300."
So the bottom line is that even if we don't do anything much the sea level would only rise by 4 feet by 2300. So we have 300 years to construct a 4 foot levy around our low-lying cities. But of course the better option is to force the whole world to go back to living in caves and fighting over potatoes by 2020 to help "save the planet" from a 4 foot rise by 2300.
Unmanned Cockroach Pursuit Vehicle
That stands for Unmanned Cockroach Pursuit Vehicle. This site explains more about it.
http://www.economist.com/node/
And we should build one of these too, I know we have the spare parts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
http://www.economist.com/node/
And we should build one of these too, I know we have the spare parts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
YouTube - Videos from this emailThe Green Thing
Checking out at the store, the
young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her
own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.
The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."
The clerk responded, " That's our problem today . Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
She was right -- our generation didn't have the "green" thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store.
The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and
refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled . But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
We got our drinks and hamburgers at the A&W drive-in in glass mugs and plastic baskets that were cleaned and re-used, not the piles of Styrofoam and paper in today's fast food chains.
Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property, was not defaced by our scribblings so they could be reused each year. The meat department cut every steak to order and wrapped it in white paper. No Styrofoam containers with absorbent pads and clear plastic covers for the meat back then. But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We washed the dishes and dried them by hand. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then car tires were recapped and reused not thrown away when the tread got low. Shoes were repaired and re-soled when they got worn out. We wore jeans that my mom patched and re-patched in the knees whenever we managed to get them ripped. She even put patches on the elbows of our shirts when they wore out. Almost everything in the grocery store came in glass jars with standard "Ball" canning lids so they could be re-used to can home grown garden items simply by replacing the lids.
Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a clothes line,
not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and
solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that lady was right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of movie theater. There was only one fan in the house and you made it into an air conditioner by draping wet towels over the back of it.
In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we wanted a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, as kids we rode our bikes to school or walked instead of turning our parents into a 24-hour taxi service. We had two electrical outlets in each room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. All meals were cooked right in the kitchen without a microwave and you were lucky if you ate a meal outside of the house once a month. We got fresh vegetables and fruit only one season each year - in the summer. The rest of the year you ate fruit out of a can or just did without, now fruit is shipped daily from all over the world and bananas are ripe all year long. But we didn't have the green thing back then.Checking out at the store, the
young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her
own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.
The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."
The clerk responded, " That's our problem today . Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
She was right -- our generation didn't have the "green" thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store.
The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and
refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled . But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
We got our drinks and hamburgers at the A&W drive-in in glass mugs and plastic baskets that were cleaned and re-used, not the piles of Styrofoam and paper in today's fast food chains.
Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property, was not defaced by our scribblings so they could be reused each year. The meat department cut every steak to order and wrapped it in white paper. No Styrofoam containers with absorbent pads and clear plastic covers for the meat back then. But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We washed the dishes and dried them by hand. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then car tires were recapped and reused not thrown away when the tread got low. Shoes were repaired and re-soled when they got worn out. We wore jeans that my mom patched and re-patched in the knees whenever we managed to get them ripped. She even put patches on the elbows of our shirts when they wore out. Almost everything in the grocery store came in glass jars with standard "Ball" canning lids so they could be re-used to can home grown garden items simply by replacing the lids.
Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a clothes line,
not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and
solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that lady was right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of movie theater. There was only one fan in the house and you made it into an air conditioner by draping wet towels over the back of it.
In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we wanted a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, as kids we rode our bikes to school or walked instead of turning our parents into a 24-hour taxi service. We had two electrical outlets in each room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. All meals were cooked right in the kitchen without a microwave and you were lucky if you ate a meal outside of the house once a month. We got fresh vegetables and fruit only one season each year - in the summer. The rest of the year you ate fruit out of a can or just did without, now fruit is shipped daily from all over the world and bananas are ripe all year long. But we didn't have the green thing back then.
young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her
own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.
The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."
The clerk responded, " That's our problem today . Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
She was right -- our generation didn't have the "green" thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store.
The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and
refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled . But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
We got our drinks and hamburgers at the A&W drive-in in glass mugs and plastic baskets that were cleaned and re-used, not the piles of Styrofoam and paper in today's fast food chains.
Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property, was not defaced by our scribblings so they could be reused each year. The meat department cut every steak to order and wrapped it in white paper. No Styrofoam containers with absorbent pads and clear plastic covers for the meat back then. But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We washed the dishes and dried them by hand. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then car tires were recapped and reused not thrown away when the tread got low. Shoes were repaired and re-soled when they got worn out. We wore jeans that my mom patched and re-patched in the knees whenever we managed to get them ripped. She even put patches on the elbows of our shirts when they wore out. Almost everything in the grocery store came in glass jars with standard "Ball" canning lids so they could be re-used to can home grown garden items simply by replacing the lids.
Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a clothes line,
not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and
solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that lady was right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of movie theater. There was only one fan in the house and you made it into an air conditioner by draping wet towels over the back of it.
In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we wanted a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, as kids we rode our bikes to school or walked instead of turning our parents into a 24-hour taxi service. We had two electrical outlets in each room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. All meals were cooked right in the kitchen without a microwave and you were lucky if you ate a meal outside of the house once a month. We got fresh vegetables and fruit only one season each year - in the summer. The rest of the year you ate fruit out of a can or just did without, now fruit is shipped daily from all over the world and bananas are ripe all year long. But we didn't have the green thing back then.Checking out at the store, the
young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her
own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.
The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."
The clerk responded, " That's our problem today . Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
She was right -- our generation didn't have the "green" thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store.
The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and
refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled . But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
We got our drinks and hamburgers at the A&W drive-in in glass mugs and plastic baskets that were cleaned and re-used, not the piles of Styrofoam and paper in today's fast food chains.
Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property, was not defaced by our scribblings so they could be reused each year. The meat department cut every steak to order and wrapped it in white paper. No Styrofoam containers with absorbent pads and clear plastic covers for the meat back then. But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We washed the dishes and dried them by hand. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then car tires were recapped and reused not thrown away when the tread got low. Shoes were repaired and re-soled when they got worn out. We wore jeans that my mom patched and re-patched in the knees whenever we managed to get them ripped. She even put patches on the elbows of our shirts when they wore out. Almost everything in the grocery store came in glass jars with standard "Ball" canning lids so they could be re-used to can home grown garden items simply by replacing the lids.
Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a clothes line,
not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and
solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that lady was right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of movie theater. There was only one fan in the house and you made it into an air conditioner by draping wet towels over the back of it.
In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we wanted a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, as kids we rode our bikes to school or walked instead of turning our parents into a 24-hour taxi service. We had two electrical outlets in each room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. All meals were cooked right in the kitchen without a microwave and you were lucky if you ate a meal outside of the house once a month. We got fresh vegetables and fruit only one season each year - in the summer. The rest of the year you ate fruit out of a can or just did without, now fruit is shipped daily from all over the world and bananas are ripe all year long. But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Another good reason not to get cremated.
Obese woman's body fat causes Austrian crematorium to burn down
GRAZ, Austria – A devastating fire which gutted a crematorium in southern Austria was caused by an obese woman's excessive body fat blocking an air filter, Austrian public broadcaster ORF reported.
The fire occurred at the facility in the city of Graz in mid-April. Firefighters had trouble extinguishing the blaze due to a thick layer of insulation lining the crematorium's walls.
Austrian officials investigating the fire found that it was caused by the burning body of the 440-pound woman. The obese corpse reportedly led to overheating in the crematorium's filter system, triggering the blaze.
Other recent fires caused by the burning of obese bodies were reported in Germany and Switzerland.
American's aren't working, April's Jobs
April’s jobs: Americans aren’t working
By Felix Salmon
May 4, 2012
The big news, however, lies elsewhere, in the fact that a whopping 522,000 people joined the “not in labor force” rolls last month. When more than half a million people in one month decide that they’re not even going to bother looking for work any more, there’s no way you can say you’re in a healthy recovery.
First you have the number of people not in the labor force, which has been climbing steadily through the recession and the recovery, and is now approaching 90 million. The only time it fell was during the first quarter of 2010 — the census-hiring boom. This chart speaks volumes to me: it says that while Capital might not be in a recession any more, Labor still isn’t working.
Then there’s the even scarier one, which is the labor force participation rate — now down to 63.6%.
This chart is just petrifying. The participation rate started falling after the dot-com bust, leveled off during the credit boom (but never really rose much), and then fell off a cliff when the recession started. You’d think it would have started to bounce back up by now, but no. Instead, we’re now deep into pretty much unprecedented territory. Yes, the participation rate has been this low before — back in 1981. But that was during the decades when women were were just starting to move into the labor force.
A key indicator of labor recession is still in force: if you’re unemployed, you’re still more likely to drop out of the labor force entirely than you are to find a job. In a country of 314 million people, there are only 115 million full-time workers and 27 million part-time workers. It’s really hard to get a robust recovery when the number of people earning money is so anemic.
For demographic reasons — the retirement of the baby boomers — the labor force participation rate is naturally going to fall over the next decade. But go back just one year, to March 2011, and look at the official CBO projectionof the labor force participation rate. The Congressional Budget Office saw a rate of 64.6% in 2012 — a full percentage point higher than we’re at right now. The participation rate wasn’t expected to fall to today’s level of 63.6% until 2017.
Politically speaking, the unemployment rate is still the number that people concentrate on. But increasingly, being unemployed is little more than a halfway house between employment and dropping out of the labor force altogether. Until the labor force participation rate stops falling and starts rising, the so-called recovery will remain a theoretical economic entity and not a real-world reality for millions of Americans. We need jobs, and we need them now.
Update: The labor force actually fell by 342,000, not 522,000. The working-age population grew by 180,000, however, so the number of people not in the labor force went up by 522,000.
( This last figure is really telling, because of the 115,000 new jobs created last month, even if they ALL went to young college grads, that would still leave 65,000 grads per month without a job. When you add to that the number of immigrants, estimated at around 1,500,000. a year to this figure that means that our economy needs to create around 280,000 jobs each month just to keep pace with the population. So we are still losing ground on the jobs. front. The interesting thing is that this article appeared on Reuters, which is heavily invested in the Obama administration. Maybe they are actually going to have to start reporting more balanced news about this administration. The TV ratings came out two days ago and CNN is steadily losing market share while Fox is steadily gaining market share. Maybe the other networks are seeing the writing on the wall, "start reporting the news accurately or gradually go out of business".
First you have the number of people not in the labor force, which has been climbing steadily through the recession and the recovery, and is now approaching 90 million. The only time it fell was during the first quarter of 2010 — the census-hiring boom. This chart speaks volumes to me: it says that while Capital might not be in a recession any more, Labor still isn’t working.
Then there’s the even scarier one, which is the labor force participation rate — now down to 63.6%.
This chart is just petrifying. The participation rate started falling after the dot-com bust, leveled off during the credit boom (but never really rose much), and then fell off a cliff when the recession started. You’d think it would have started to bounce back up by now, but no. Instead, we’re now deep into pretty much unprecedented territory. Yes, the participation rate has been this low before — back in 1981. But that was during the decades when women were were just starting to move into the labor force.
A key indicator of labor recession is still in force: if you’re unemployed, you’re still more likely to drop out of the labor force entirely than you are to find a job. In a country of 314 million people, there are only 115 million full-time workers and 27 million part-time workers. It’s really hard to get a robust recovery when the number of people earning money is so anemic.
For demographic reasons — the retirement of the baby boomers — the labor force participation rate is naturally going to fall over the next decade. But go back just one year, to March 2011, and look at the official CBO projectionof the labor force participation rate. The Congressional Budget Office saw a rate of 64.6% in 2012 — a full percentage point higher than we’re at right now. The participation rate wasn’t expected to fall to today’s level of 63.6% until 2017.
Politically speaking, the unemployment rate is still the number that people concentrate on. But increasingly, being unemployed is little more than a halfway house between employment and dropping out of the labor force altogether. Until the labor force participation rate stops falling and starts rising, the so-called recovery will remain a theoretical economic entity and not a real-world reality for millions of Americans. We need jobs, and we need them now.
Update: The labor force actually fell by 342,000, not 522,000. The working-age population grew by 180,000, however, so the number of people not in the labor force went up by 522,000.
( This last figure is really telling, because of the 115,000 new jobs created last month, even if they ALL went to young college grads, that would still leave 65,000 grads per month without a job. When you add to that the number of immigrants, estimated at around 1,500,000. a year to this figure that means that our economy needs to create around 280,000 jobs each month just to keep pace with the population. So we are still losing ground on the jobs. front. The interesting thing is that this article appeared on Reuters, which is heavily invested in the Obama administration. Maybe they are actually going to have to start reporting more balanced news about this administration. The TV ratings came out two days ago and CNN is steadily losing market share while Fox is steadily gaining market share. Maybe the other networks are seeing the writing on the wall, "start reporting the news accurately or gradually go out of business".
The Ayers connection.
William Charles "Bill" Ayers (born December 26, 1944) is an American elementary education theorist and a former leader in the movement that opposed the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. He is known for his 1960s activism as well as his current work in education reform, curriculum, and instruction. In 1969 he co-founded the Weather Underground, a self-described Communist Revolutionary group that conducted a campaign of bombingpublic buildings during the 1960s and 1970s, in response to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
He is a retired professor at the College of Education at the University of Chicago. Formerly holding the titles of distinguished professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the university. During the 2008 US presidential campaign, a controversy arose over his contacts with then-candidate Barack Obama. He is married to Bernardine Dohrn, who was also a leader in the Weather Underground. This organization openly calls for the end of capitalism and the rise of communism in the U.S. It states that this can only occur via violent class struggle and destruction of capitalism in the U.S. "There will be millions of people who will cling to capitalism and these people will have to be sent to re-training camps.", according to Ayers. But ultimately, says Ayers, around 25 million Americans will refuse to accept the new world order and will have to be "eliminated". Sound familiar? It should because that is the same technique used by two fellow communists, Joseph Stalin in his "Great Purge" and Moa Tse-Tung with his "Cultural Revolution" who ultimately had to kill or eliminate 20 million and 40 million people respectively who refused to be re-educated with the party line. But why do I bring this up? Because Bill Ayers has recently written a book that documents his close connections with Barack Obama. In a new edition of his memoirs, Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Anti-War-Activist, he added a new afterword describing their relationship as "neighbors and family friends" ("In 2008 there was a lot of chatter on the blogosphere about my relationship with Barack Obama") he writes. Ayers now admits that they had served together on the board of a foundation, knew one another as neighbors and family friends, and Barack held his first campaign fundraiser and announced his candidacy for Illinois senator in Bill Ayer's house in Chicago. Ayers was also the first person to make a donation to Obama's campaign.
Ayer's father lived in Hawaii and was a close family friend of Obama's maternal grandparents (avowed communists) in Hawaii. After graduating from Harvard, Ayer's father helped Barack get his first job as a lawyer in Chicago.
For seven years, Bill Ayers and Obama both worked on the board of the Annenburg Challenge Foundation.
"The specific job of the board of directors was to give out Foundation money," said Stanley Kurtz, a conservative researcher for the Ethics and Public Policy Center. "Instead of giving money directly to schools, they gave money to what they call external partners and these partners were community organizer groups, like ACORN" said Kurtz.
Obama's communist cabinet.
Obama’s closest cabinet member and confidante, Valerie Jarrett (Secretary of Public Information), is the protégé of Marilyn Katz, a security provider for the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in Chicago.
Katz introduced Jarrett to Daniel Levin in Chicago who gave her a real estate job, whereupon she worked with Obama’s bagman, convicted felon Tony Rezko. Katz also founded the New American Movement (which included the Communist Party USA).
In regard to the president, one of Katz’s clients, Project Vote (an ACORN affiliate), brought Obama to Chicago. She also introduced Obama at his first nationwide anti-war speech on Oct. 2, 2002; then served on his finance committee and as a bundler during his 2008 presidential race.
Further, Katz has known Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers (a disciple of the SDS) for over 40 years. Ayers served with Obama on the Woods Fund (which provided a major expansion in funding to ACORN). Ayers also arranged for Walter and Leonore Annenberg to name Obama to be the first chairman of the prestigious Annenberg Challenge Foundation in 1995.
Similarly, Valerie Jarrett’s mother ran the Erickson Institute, where one of the board members was Tom Ayers, father of Bill Ayers. Bernadine Dohrn also served on this board.
Katz introduced Jarrett to Daniel Levin in Chicago who gave her a real estate job, whereupon she worked with Obama’s bagman, convicted felon Tony Rezko. Katz also founded the New American Movement (which included the Communist Party USA).
In regard to the president, one of Katz’s clients, Project Vote (an ACORN affiliate), brought Obama to Chicago. She also introduced Obama at his first nationwide anti-war speech on Oct. 2, 2002; then served on his finance committee and as a bundler during his 2008 presidential race.
Further, Katz has known Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers (a disciple of the SDS) for over 40 years. Ayers served with Obama on the Woods Fund (which provided a major expansion in funding to ACORN). Ayers also arranged for Walter and Leonore Annenberg to name Obama to be the first chairman of the prestigious Annenberg Challenge Foundation in 1995.
Similarly, Valerie Jarrett’s mother ran the Erickson Institute, where one of the board members was Tom Ayers, father of Bill Ayers. Bernadine Dohrn also served on this board.
Then, none other than Valerie Jarrett brought Van Jones into the Obama cabinet. She boasted at the Daily Kos conference on Aug. 15, “We have been watching Van Jones for some years and are so delighted to recruit him into the White House.”
In addition, Jarrett hired Michelle Robinson (Obama's future wife) in 1991 to work in Mayor Richard Daley’s office; then opened doors for the couple to enter Chicago’s most liberal social circles.
Another influential member of Obama’s Cabinet with close ties to Jarrett is senior adviser David Axelrod. Jarrett first hired him at the Urban Health Institute, and introduced Axelrod to Obama in 1992.
Current Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta has been a longtime member of the Institute of Policy Studies as a congressman from 1977 until 1993.
The Institute for Policy Studies, or IPS, has faced criticism for positions some say attempt to undermine U.S. national security and for its cozy relationship with the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
The IPS is currently funded by philanthropist George Soros’ Open Society Institute.
Panetta supported the Soviet satellite government of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua and was a vocal opponent of Chile’s anti-communist government. Panetta also presented budgets as a congressman that drastically slashed defense spending and called for deep reductions in the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
The FBI labeled the group as a “think factory” that helps to “train extremists who incite violence in U.S. cities, and whose educational research serves as a cover for intrigue, and political agitation.”
The IPS has been accused of serving as a propaganda arm of the USSR and even a place where agents from the Soviet embassy in Washington came to convene and strategize.
In his book “The KGB and Soviet Disinformation: An Insider’s View,” Ladislav Bittman, a former KGB agent, called the IPS a Soviet misinformation operation at which Soviet insiders worked.
Green Energy Czar Van Jones:
Jones in a radio interview stated his goal as energy czar was a 'complete revolution' to 'transform the whole society' away from capitalism. He also created the movement called "Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM)" rooted in Marxism and Leninism. ." Jones explained his plans, "So the green economy will start off as a small sub-set and we're going to push it and push it and push it until it becomes the engine for transforming the whole society away from capitalism."
In other words, environmentalism and "green jobs" are the cover for implementing Marxism.
In other words, environmentalism and "green jobs" are the cover for implementing Marxism.
Cabinet member Cass Sunstien:
Cass Sunstein is a law professor at the University of Chicago on loan to the Obama administration as the Regulatory Czar. He taught constitutional law at Harvard University at the time Obama was a student at the university. He is a strong proponent of socialism and communism and redistribution of world wealth from rich countries to poor countries.
Sunstein penned a 2007 University of Chicago Law School paper in which he debated whether America should pay “justice” to the world by entering into a compensation agreement that would be a net financial loss for the U.S. He argues it is “desirable” to redistribute America’s wealth to poorer nations.
The Obama czar’s controversial comments were made in his 2004 book “The Second Bill of Rights”. In the book, Sunstein openly argues for bringing socialism to the U.S. and even lends support to communism. He is a strong supporter of redistribution of America's wealth via international climate change regulations. And believes that the U.S. constitution should be drastically altered and a new bill of rights issued that only guarantees the right to an adequate living that only provides for adequate food and clothing. No freedom of speech, no right to keep arms, or freedom from unlawful searches. According to Fox news Cass Sunstein has already written over 200,000 new government regulations.
And the list goes on and on.
We have already lost our country by letting foxes into the hen house.
Scariest Robot
| You have to agree that this robot is the scariest thing yet. And this video is over two years old so you can just imagine what the latest versions look like. http://www.youtube.com/watch? |
YouTube - Videos from this emailYeti's
 Have you heard of SETI? search for extraterrestrial ... something something, where they use millions of computers across the globe to read over data/random crap thrown at our planet, hoping to decode an alien message. Below I present: Yeti, please take a look at this site, it is great! http://www.phobe.com/yeti/ |
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Famous Sayings
| "He who shits on road meets flies on his return" - Famous African sayings " He who shits in ditch comes back with terrible itch" - from Robbie's Indian trip |
Gore's Theory in Trouble.
Antarctic Sea Ice Shelf Sets All-time Record
Posted on September 30, 2012
Antarctic sea ice now covers 19,454,000 km². This is the most sea ice ever measured at either pole, and is about the size of the US and Europe combined. Antarctica contains around 90% of the total ice on the Earth while the Arctic only contains about 2% of the worlds total ice.
The ice now extends more than 1,000 miles off the coast of Antarctica. Emperor Penguins have to walk across the ice to get to the sea.
Most of the ice is located between 60 and 70S, which means that it reflects huge amounts of sunshine back into space, dramatically cooling the Earth.
The sun is currently about 30 degrees above the horizon at the ice edge.
While Arctic ice has been declining in recent years, the Antarctic sea ice has been steadily increasing.
Posted on September 30, 2012
Antarctic sea ice now covers 19,454,000 km². This is the most sea ice ever measured at either pole, and is about the size of the US and Europe combined. Antarctica contains around 90% of the total ice on the Earth while the Arctic only contains about 2% of the worlds total ice.
The ice now extends more than 1,000 miles off the coast of Antarctica. Emperor Penguins have to walk across the ice to get to the sea.
Most of the ice is located between 60 and 70S, which means that it reflects huge amounts of sunshine back into space, dramatically cooling the Earth.
The sun is currently about 30 degrees above the horizon at the ice edge.
While Arctic ice has been declining in recent years, the Antarctic sea ice has been steadily increasing.
Friday, September 21, 2012
Dear Daughter in Diaspora
"Black Environmental Thought Conference" - oh my goodness, looks like we have a Van Jones, cool-aide drinking, American Communist Dreamer in the family now. The conference purpose is to invite "outdoor enthusiasts across the African diaspora to engage in translocal and transnational dialogues about environmental justice and to develop an emergency theory of change". Strange how I never realized that my daughter was a member of the African diaspora. But I guess it is time for a new theory of change since the one we tried four years ago didn't work out so great. Sounds like the real goal of this conference is to implant a microchip in your brain that constantly repeats the following messages: "Plant collard greens, Vote for Obama, Russia is greatest country, comrades".
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Utopia
Man has always tried to create a heaven here on Earth. The first settlers in Jamestown and Roanoke, Virginia came for that express purpose to create a special Utopian society. Karl Marks tried to devise the perfect society where everyone would be equal with "to each according to his needs, from each according to his means". But each has failed completely over the years and for the same reasons. Those reasons are that 1)The Earth is not heaven and it never will be. As Jesus says in the bible, "My kingdom is not of this world" 2) That men are imperfect beings with unequal talents and abilities. Some people are lazy and some are industrious some are good and some are evil. Even the bible says that "the poor you will always have with you". Those who try to create the perfect society are really trying to create their own heaven here on Earth, because they really don't believe in God or eternity. They think either that God doesn't really exist
or that they are actually descendants of Gods themselves as did the Aryans or Nazis. And if you believe that there is no God and that there is nothing left after you die then the next best thing to do is to try and change the world and make it your heaven so you can live forever. The Chinese communists under Mao tried to purge the world of all undesirable rich and educated people so the masses could create the perfect society and thus began the great leap forward where millions were killed. The Nazis wanted to create the master race for a perfect world by killing all Semites and creating a world of only perfect Aryans because only the Aryans were, as they believed, descendants of the alien gods that created Atlantis. Beware of social justice that requires the "elimination" of all rich people and "unenlightened" old people. This world is just a temporary passing test, pick up your cross daily and follow the will of God, not the rantings of
anyone who says they are going to save the world. Do good and do not become attached to material possessions. But remember that since this world is just a test, then strive to do what is good and right with everyone you meet. Those who talk about preserving the world but sow hatred and envy of others are evil. For as the Bible says, you will know the tree by it's fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit and a bad tree cannot produce good fruit. The end "Never" justifies the means to the end. Marks thought that revolution and mass murder were not only justified but necessary to achieve the desired end, "a perfect society". And over the years millions and millions of people have been "killed" in the name of "social revolution". Do not be fooled and participate in it.
or that they are actually descendants of Gods themselves as did the Aryans or Nazis. And if you believe that there is no God and that there is nothing left after you die then the next best thing to do is to try and change the world and make it your heaven so you can live forever. The Chinese communists under Mao tried to purge the world of all undesirable rich and educated people so the masses could create the perfect society and thus began the great leap forward where millions were killed. The Nazis wanted to create the master race for a perfect world by killing all Semites and creating a world of only perfect Aryans because only the Aryans were, as they believed, descendants of the alien gods that created Atlantis. Beware of social justice that requires the "elimination" of all rich people and "unenlightened" old people. This world is just a temporary passing test, pick up your cross daily and follow the will of God, not the rantings of
anyone who says they are going to save the world. Do good and do not become attached to material possessions. But remember that since this world is just a test, then strive to do what is good and right with everyone you meet. Those who talk about preserving the world but sow hatred and envy of others are evil. For as the Bible says, you will know the tree by it's fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit and a bad tree cannot produce good fruit. The end "Never" justifies the means to the end. Marks thought that revolution and mass murder were not only justified but necessary to achieve the desired end, "a perfect society". And over the years millions and millions of people have been "killed" in the name of "social revolution". Do not be fooled and participate in it.
Monday, July 23, 2012
Technology
http://news.investors.com/
I want one that can make replacement windows for me and meals
I want one that can make replacement windows for me and meals
Friday, April 13, 2012
Simple Math: "Have" vs "Make"
The president has been calling for people who "make" over 1 million dollars a year to pay at least 30% of their income in taxes to help pay their fair share. Well it turns out that the majority of people who "have" (not make) over 1 million dollars are currently retired and have the money in retirement accounts that represent a lifetime of savings and therefore don't fall under the income tax rate of 35% for people making over 1 million dollars but under the dividend tax rate of around 15%. According to the last census, there are 3 million people in the U.S. who "have" 1 million or more in savings accounts or stock mutual funds etc. 3 million vs 300 million U.S. population gives us the occupiers "evil 1%". But of those 3 million people only 235,000 actually "make" or earn 1 million or more each year. These people are currently subject to a 35% top tax bracket. So this is already 5% more than Obama's campaign rhetoric. Unless the Bush tax cuts are reinstated for 2013 the top rate will rise from 35% to 40%
But lets say for argument that we take an additional 1 million dollars more per year in taxes from each of these people. That would give us 235 billion a year in new tax revenue assuming that these people would actually sit back and let the government take another million without deciding to move to Costa Rica or to move the money to offshore businesses to avoid those taxes. The current U.S. national debt has been growing an average of 115 billion dollars per month over the last two years. So this new tax would only cover 2 month's of our federal budget shortfall and still leave us with a national annual debt growing at 1.1 trillion dollars a year. But if your goal is to demonize the wealthy and create a red herring issue to motivate the poor to vote for you while ignoring your economic record then it is a great idea. ---- Mike Bair 4/12/12
But lets say for argument that we take an additional 1 million dollars more per year in taxes from each of these people. That would give us 235 billion a year in new tax revenue assuming that these people would actually sit back and let the government take another million without deciding to move to Costa Rica or to move the money to offshore businesses to avoid those taxes. The current U.S. national debt has been growing an average of 115 billion dollars per month over the last two years. So this new tax would only cover 2 month's of our federal budget shortfall and still leave us with a national annual debt growing at 1.1 trillion dollars a year. But if your goal is to demonize the wealthy and create a red herring issue to motivate the poor to vote for you while ignoring your economic record then it is a great idea. ---- Mike Bair 4/12/12
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