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Moonbattery » White Flags Over Brooklyn Bridge: "The incidents that are most emblematic of an age may hardly be noticed at the time. This story may not make much of a splash, but looking back, people might remember it as the quintessence of America under Obama:
In a stunning security breach, the giant American flags at the top of both sides of the Brooklyn Bridge were replaced by white flags overnight, cops said.
The two new flags appear to be American flags that were painted over white — the traditional symbol for “surrender” — and were flying Tuesday morning from both towers."
Angelina Jolie 'hates' President Barack Obama: 'She thinks he is really a socialist in disguise' - NY Daily News: "Angelina Jolie isn't happy with the state of politics today … and that includes President Barack Obama. "She hates him," a source close to the actress said in the latest issue of Us Weekly magazine. "She's into education and rehabilitation and thinks Obama is all about welfare and handouts. She thinks Obama is really a socialist in disguise." Despite her displeasure with the leader of the Democrats, the 34-year-old actress is reportedly not a Republican like her father, actor Jon Voight. Jolie, who has been a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador since 2001, is said to think the President is all "smoke and mirrors.""Of course, it probably takes having Jon Voight -- an exception himself -- as her Dad for something like this to happen. Read More......
David Burge (iowahawkblog) on Twitter: "David Burge @iowahawkblog · 11hUnbelievable. Have a good laugh, Obamoron... Read More......
Come back Nero, all is forgiven
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President currently out connecting with regular Americans. Also currently out connecting with regular Americans: SAM missiles.
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Instapundit » Blog Archive » MORE CONVENIENTLY DISAPPEARING DATA: “Recycled” hard drive at the FEC too? “A probe into Hatch…: "JULY 15, 2014Read More......
MORE CONVENIENTLY DISAPPEARING DATA: “Recycled” hard drive at the FEC too? “A probe into Hatch Act violations at the Federal Election Commission ran aground when the electronic communications of the suspect — a former colleague of Lois Lerner — had her computer hard drive ‘recycled.’ Sound familiar?”
It’s a coverup. And what they’re covering up is a conspiracy to destroy political opposition, one that goes all the way to the White House. That’s the only reasonable inference from this chain of events."
‘Socialism in one image’: Daniel Hannan nails it [pics] | Twitchy:Read More......
@DanHannanMEP @GABaines #Socialists #Labour - people who dream of their boot on your neck from the fatherless cradle to the childless grave
2:45 PM - 14 Jul 2014
Ace of Spades HQ: "Quote of the DayAnd don't forget the modern Kristallnacht starting all over again in France... Read More......
"Muslims will want to go to the moon when the Jews set up Israel there."
-- Dennis Miller in his "Big Speech" show."
Human Traffickers Are Asking HHS for Immigrant Children | National Review Online: "Individuals associated with human trafficking organizations are asking Health and Human Services officials to hand over the children who have immigrated to the United States during the recent border surge, according to a congressman who toured a facility where the children are being housed.And that would be both aiding their initial business and then turning a blind eye while they're sold into what is effectively slavery. Read More......
HHS is trying to release the children to sponsors in the United States, but those sponsors aren’t always parents. “There have been cases of people who have attempted to be sponsors actually being identified as associated with trafficking organizations,” Representative Jim Bridenstine (R., Okla) told National Review Online after visiting a housing facility at Fort Sill. "
Bill Whittle: Where Do You Live Mark Zuckerberg?: "The crisis on the Mexican border is worsening by the hour. In his latest FIREWALL, Bill Whittle hammers home three devastating points regarding the dangerous legal precedents, the morally gray areas, and the hypocritical pose of unearned moral superiority on the part of those proposing amnesty and open borders."
In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are - The Washington Post: "Offshore wind 9:12 PM MDTRead More......
Bingo. Here's the coda from Patrick Henry.
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.""
Ace of Spades HQ: "We all know what a fireworks show looks like from the outside, from the ground. But this clever guy sent up his aerial drone to film the show from the sky, from within it. It's just about the neatest thing you'll see this summer."
When a Fly Falls into a Cup of Coffee: International Style | Augean Stables: "WHEN A FLY FALLS INTO A CUP OF COFFEE
The Italian – throws the cup, breaks it and walks away in a fit of rage.
The German – carefully washes the cup, sterilizes it and makes a new cup of coffee.
The Frenchman – takes out the fly and drinks the coffee.
The Chinese - eats the fly and throws away the coffee.
The Russian - drinks the coffee with the fly, since it came with no extra charge.
The Israeli - sells the coffee to the Frenchman, sells the fly to the Chinese, sells the cup to the Italian, drinks a cup of tea and uses the extra money to invent a device that prevents flies from falling into coffee.
The Palestinian – blames the Israeli for the fly falling into his coffee, protests the act to the UN as an act of aggression, takes a loan from the European Union to buy a new cup of coffee, uses the money to purchase explosives and then blows up the coffee house where the Italian, Frenchman, Chinese, German and Russian are all trying to explain to the Israeli that he should give his cup of tea to the Palestinian."Perfect. Read More......
One Journalist's Decision to Escape From Socialist Venezuela: "In a piece published in the Washington Post, former Venezuelan journalist Rafael Osío Cabrices describes his decision to leave the country with his family and become an immigrant in another land.
We were proud of the job we were doing as journalists, writing about the problems our country was facing and possible ways to solve them. We wanted to help our society to go back to the path to democracy, interrupted in 1998 by the return of army men to power, with the election of Chávez, a career military officer, who had failed to take over the government in a bloody putsch just six years before.Cabrices and his family decide to move to Canada because it is easier, as a professional journalist, to get a visa there than in the U.S. However his first stop was in Florida where he awaited final word on his Canadian visa. Compared to life in Venezuela, Florida is a different world.
But the majority of our fellow Venezuelans had other plans. In 2009, when Chávez obtained the popular support to reform the constitution in order to rule forever, my wife and I accepted that we wouldn’t be able to live under an elected dictatorship, a government that also would be unable to stop the inflation and crime rates that now are among the highest in the world. As newspapers were being whittled down and journalists feared speaking against the regime, it became virtually impossible to do the work my wife and I were trained to do.
Even if we were (and still are) terrified about burning through our savings, Weston reminded us that another life, a good life, is possible. The first days there, my wife used to stand in front of the supermarket cases full of brands of yogurt, stressed out by her inability to decide which one to choose. For months, finding any yogurt in Venezuela had been an epic achievement.Lest you think he is exaggerating, today I came across this video clip which shows what it is like to shop in a Venezuelan supermarket. You don't need to watch all 7 minutes (or understand what the videographer is saying) just look at the rows and rows of empty shelves."
Ace of Spades HQ: "3. VA Employees Diverted From Their Actual Jobs of Processing Vets' Applications to Fix Obamacare Enrollment Applications.Read More......
Sometimes, in your Socialized Medicine Future, your health is going to be less important than servicing the current political needs of the Rulership Class.
You're just going to have to get used to this, peons."
Sarkozy comeback dream torpedoed by corruption charges - The West Australian: "Paris (AFP) - Nicolas Sarkozy was hit Wednesday with charges including corruption and influence peddling in a dramatic legal move that threatens to torpedo the former president's hopes of a political comeback."
The Fed Bubble? | Power Line: "Further to yesterday’s note on “Behind the Levitation” about the Federal Reserve’s easy money policy, Ron Greiss of The Chart Store kindly sent along these four graphs that display the astronomical expansion of the Fed’s balance sheet in the aftermath of the crash of 2008. These make for sober viewing indeed. Hard to see how this ends well (click to enlarge any of these):"
Dawn of the Age of Oligarchy: the Alliance between Government and the 1% - The Daily Beast: "“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few,” Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis once noted, “but we can't have both.”Read More......
These sentiments are still valid. Many, if not most Americans, recognize that our political economy is not working for the majority of the country. The vast majority recognize the reality of crony capitalism and understand that government contracts go to the politically connected. More troubling still, less than one third believe the country even operates under a free market system. Most suspect that the American dream is falling increasingly out of reach. By margins of more than two to one, Americans say they enjoy fewer economic opportunities than their parents, and that their offspring will have far less job security and disposable income.
Today, Americans increasingly see the same threat Brandeis saw. American politics has ceased to function as a rising democracy and come to resemble an emerging plutocracy. "
Wind turbine payback period claimed to be within 8 months | Watts Up With That?: "Max Hugoson says:Read More......
June 16, 2014 at 1:33 pm
Back in my “previous life”, the major utility I worked for was “beaten up” by the state regulators, and to install a certain amount of gas turbine peakers (needed for growth, summers) they had to “subsidize” 100 Megawatts of wind turbines (100 units that is.). That they did, placing them in the WINDIEST PLACE in the STATE (clue, somewhere near, around the Dakotas, a very open and windy area.) Subsequent to development, and for the next 10 years, I was able to watch the Grid Operations System (GOS) system,and see the amount generated. Yep, after 10 years of operation, the wonderful wind power (“free”, don’t you know) produced an AVERAGE of 8.7 Megawatts, orr 8.7% capacity factor. (The gas turbines, of course, produced about a 99% cap factor, not “free”.) Now, what of this? Despite the FIGHT the utility had to go through with the PUC (Public Utilities Commission) the cost figures came out. Installed, each unit was a little under $2 Million. Using STANDARD industrial amortization, the net cost during that 10 years, was…hang on to your hat, about $1.65 per KWHr. If you had a standard cost of $100 a month for your electricity, if you had WIND power you could be paying $2000 a month. Wonderful way to personal bankruptcy and national bankruptcy."
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