The link: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/100201/us/usreport_us_budget_backdoortaxes
" NEW YORK (Reuters.com) --The Obama administration's plan to cut more than $1 trillion from the deficit over the next decade relies heavily on so-called backdoor tax increases that will result in a bigger tax bill for middle-class families.
" In the 2010 budget tabled by President Barack Obama on Monday, the White House wants to let billions of dollars in tax breaks expire by the end of the year -- effectively a tax hike by stealth. " (emphasis added)
Say it ain't so, O!
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Will the 'real' 'Ellie Light' please stand up?
You might remember this article from the Cleveland (OH) Plain Dealer about 'Ellie Light.'
First, the link: http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2010/01/ellie_light_dozens_more_sighti.html
You'll notice, I hope, the word 'dozens' in there. Indeed, in following the link from the Plain Dealer's site, we get sent here: http://patterico.com/2010/01/23/ellie-lights-obama-letters/
where we get these totals:
69 publications in 31 states and the District of Columbia,
3 National Publications and a Yahoo link, and,
2 foreign publications.
Most of those 69 publications are newspapers, of which 'Ellie Light' gives a local address as her home. Either:
1) Ms Light (If that is this person's real name ... but I'll give you very very long odds against this,) really does get around or
2) Everything about this 'administration' really is staged. Remember Mrs. Obama's (I won't call her the First Lady. First perhaps, but not First Lady) Vegetable Garden?
" In it [the 3-JAN-2010 Food Network episode of "Iron Chef America"], superstar chef Mario Batali teamed with Emeril Lagasse, and Bobby Flay with White House chef Cristeta Comerford to cook five dishes using the secret ingredient: produce from the White House garden.
" Except for one thing: As first reported on AOL’s Politics Daily blog, the fruits and vegetables used on the show weren’t from the White House. They were stunt produce. Ringers. " *
Oops. No doubt it's "Fake but accurate," a phrase used to describe RatherGate.
So, we have the phoney 'doctors' touting Osama (er...Obama)Care, their staged health care 'towne hall meetings' and our brave soldiers being told "You guys make a pretty good photo op." **
I don't think Mr Osama (er...OBAMA) would know what honesty was if it knocked him over. Note to the Department of Hussein's Sycophants and to the Secret Service, I am NOT advocating violence against Mr Obama. This is used to illustrate a point.
* - http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/food/chi-talk-white-house-veggiesjan14,0,7560057.story
** - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/19/AR2009111900904_pf.html
First, the link: http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2010/01/ellie_light_dozens_more_sighti.html
You'll notice, I hope, the word 'dozens' in there. Indeed, in following the link from the Plain Dealer's site, we get sent here: http://patterico.com/2010/01/23/ellie-lights-obama-letters/
where we get these totals:
69 publications in 31 states and the District of Columbia,
3 National Publications and a Yahoo link, and,
2 foreign publications.
Most of those 69 publications are newspapers, of which 'Ellie Light' gives a local address as her home. Either:
1) Ms Light (If that is this person's real name ... but I'll give you very very long odds against this,) really does get around or
2) Everything about this 'administration' really is staged. Remember Mrs. Obama's (I won't call her the First Lady. First
" In it [the 3-JAN-2010 Food Network episode of "Iron Chef America"], superstar chef Mario Batali teamed with Emeril Lagasse, and Bobby Flay with White House chef Cristeta Comerford to cook five dishes using the secret ingredient: produce from the White House garden.
" Except for one thing: As first reported on AOL’s Politics Daily blog, the fruits and vegetables used on the show weren’t from the White House. They were stunt produce. Ringers. " *
Oops. No doubt it's "Fake but accurate," a phrase used to describe RatherGate.
So, we have the phoney 'doctors' touting Osama (er...Obama)Care, their staged health care 'towne hall meetings' and our brave soldiers being told "You guys make a pretty good photo op." **
I don't think Mr Osama (er...OBAMA) would know what honesty was if it knocked him over. Note to the Department of Hussein's Sycophants and to the Secret Service, I am NOT advocating violence against Mr Obama. This is used to illustrate a point.
* - http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/food/chi-talk-white-house-veggiesjan14,0,7560057.story
** - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/19/AR2009111900904_pf.html
Monday, February 1, 2010
Editorial: "EDITORIAL: Obama won't connect terror dots"
Two things. First, this is an editorial. Second, this is the Washington Times.
The link: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/01/obama-wont-connect-terror-dots/?feat=home_editorials
" Lloyd R. Woodson was arrested Jan. 25 in rural New Jersey. He had been observed behaving strangely, wearing military-style fatigues and a bulletproof vest. He had a weapon modified to fire .50-caliber rounds from beneath his jacket. He had a hotel room full of weapons and ammunition. Despite all these warning signs, the immediate response from the government was that this was "not a terrorism thing." "
Really?
How then do we explain that various law enforcement authorities are now investigating Mr Woodson's possible ties to radical Islam, including to Anwar al Awlaki, the same radicalized Imam who preached at the Mosque that two of the 9/11 hijackers worshipped at ... and at the same time.
No ties? Come on. Pull your PC blinders off already.
One exit question: Exactly how many more bodies will it take before you wake up?
(H/T: Northeast Intelligence Network)
The link: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/01/obama-wont-connect-terror-dots/?feat=home_editorials
" Lloyd R. Woodson was arrested Jan. 25 in rural New Jersey. He had been observed behaving strangely, wearing military-style fatigues and a bulletproof vest. He had a weapon modified to fire .50-caliber rounds from beneath his jacket. He had a hotel room full of weapons and ammunition. Despite all these warning signs, the immediate response from the government was that this was "not a terrorism thing." "
Really?
How then do we explain that various law enforcement authorities are now investigating Mr Woodson's possible ties to radical Islam, including to Anwar al Awlaki, the same radicalized Imam who preached at the Mosque that two of the 9/11 hijackers worshipped at ... and at the same time.
No ties? Come on. Pull your PC blinders off already.
One exit question: Exactly how many more bodies will it take before you wake up?
(H/T: Northeast Intelligence Network)
Article: "UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article"
The link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7111525/UN-climate-change-panel-based-claims-on-student-dissertation-and-magazine-article.html
" The revelation will cause fresh embarrassment for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which had to issue a humiliating apology earlier this month over inaccurate statements about global warming. "
Which, you might recall, contained five factual errors in the first paragraph. Could you imagine you or I presenting such a 'paper' to our professors? We'd quite literally be laughed off campus.
Their 'conclusions' you'll also recall weren't based on the raw data. It turns out that they'd already destroyed the raw data! Google this, you'll find it. Again, try doing that in a paper for a professor. You and your paper would be dead in the water.
But this is climate change we're talking about, so what the hell, right?
Right?
Turns out that in examining the fossil record, there have been 15 mass-extinctions in the Earth's history. One of the most severe (killing the most species) was 250 million years ago. Called "The Great Dying" it occurred at the end of the Permian Era. There are two prominent theories as to what caused that particular E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event.) (Sorry to channel the movie Deep Impact, but it does fit.)
Theory 1: An asteroid between 6 and 12 km (kilometers) across. Although they have found C60 molecules (carbon-60) in the rocks of that time, they have yet to find definitive proof of this theory. Such proof would either be shocked quartz or iridium.
Theory 2: A massive flood-basalt of lava from the Siberian Traps. This would release an enormous amount of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and many other gases into the atmosphere.
Indeed, in looking at the fossil and geological records we find only one E.L.E. which was definitively caused by asteroid impact: the KT event of 65 million years ago (yes, the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.)
That leaves 14 other E.L.E.'s which were caused by ... global warming. No humans around 250 million years ago to cause "The Great Dying."
But to scare the pants off of people reading this (that is, if anybody actually is reading this) the fossil record supports an ongoing mass extinction happening right now. Seriously. It's called "The Holocene Extinction Event." Honestly.
" However, modern climatology suggests the current Holocene epoch is no more than the latest in a series of interglacial intervals. Furthermore, there is a continuum of extinctions since 11,000 years BCE. If only considering human impact, the vulnerability and extinction rate of species simply rises with the increase in human population, so there would be no need to separate the Pleistocene extinction from the recent one. Nevertheless, the Pleistocene extinction event is large enough and has not been resolved completely. " (Emphasis added.)
But let's go back to the article I linked to at the start of this entry. It turns out that the 'proof' that the UN climate guy was referring to had two sources:
1) Anecdotal reports from mountaineers about the changes they were observing. Two problems with this: These cannot be taken as scientific measurements and therefore are invalid. Each person might see the same event differently and thus use different words to describe it. Again, it is not scientific.
2) The other source was a paper written by a geography student who was studying for the equivalent of a Master's degree.
Neither of these was peer-reviewed. And as already stated, it contained five factual errors in just the first paragraph.
Global warming?
Yes. It is happening. No, mankind is not the only cause.
" ... modern climatology suggests the current Holocene epoch is no more than the latest in a series of interglacial intervals. "
But they have an agenda, so what the hell, right?
Right?
" The revelation will cause fresh embarrassment for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which had to issue a humiliating apology earlier this month over inaccurate statements about global warming. "
Which, you might recall, contained five factual errors in the first paragraph. Could you imagine you or I presenting such a 'paper' to our professors? We'd quite literally be laughed off campus.
Their 'conclusions' you'll also recall weren't based on the raw data. It turns out that they'd already destroyed the raw data! Google this, you'll find it. Again, try doing that in a paper for a professor. You and your paper would be dead in the water.
But this is climate change we're talking about, so what the hell, right?
Right?
Turns out that in examining the fossil record, there have been 15 mass-extinctions in the Earth's history. One of the most severe (killing the most species) was 250 million years ago. Called "The Great Dying" it occurred at the end of the Permian Era. There are two prominent theories as to what caused that particular E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event.) (Sorry to channel the movie Deep Impact, but it does fit.)
Theory 1: An asteroid between 6 and 12 km (kilometers) across. Although they have found C60 molecules (carbon-60) in the rocks of that time, they have yet to find definitive proof of this theory. Such proof would either be shocked quartz or iridium.
Theory 2: A massive flood-basalt of lava from the Siberian Traps. This would release an enormous amount of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and many other gases into the atmosphere.
Indeed, in looking at the fossil and geological records we find only one E.L.E. which was definitively caused by asteroid impact: the KT event of 65 million years ago (yes, the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.)
That leaves 14 other E.L.E.'s which were caused by ... global warming. No humans around 250 million years ago to cause "The Great Dying."
But to scare the pants off of people reading this (that is, if anybody actually is reading this) the fossil record supports an ongoing mass extinction happening right now. Seriously. It's called "The Holocene Extinction Event." Honestly.
" However, modern climatology suggests the current Holocene epoch is no more than the latest in a series of interglacial intervals. Furthermore, there is a continuum of extinctions since 11,000 years BCE. If only considering human impact, the vulnerability and extinction rate of species simply rises with the increase in human population, so there would be no need to separate the Pleistocene extinction from the recent one. Nevertheless, the Pleistocene extinction event is large enough and has not been resolved completely. " (Emphasis added.)
But let's go back to the article I linked to at the start of this entry. It turns out that the 'proof' that the UN climate guy was referring to had two sources:
1) Anecdotal reports from mountaineers about the changes they were observing. Two problems with this: These cannot be taken as scientific measurements and therefore are invalid. Each person might see the same event differently and thus use different words to describe it. Again, it is not scientific.
2) The other source was a paper written by a geography student who was studying for the equivalent of a Master's degree.
Neither of these was peer-reviewed. And as already stated, it contained five factual errors in just the first paragraph.
Global warming?
Yes. It is happening. No, mankind is not the only cause.
" ... modern climatology suggests the current Holocene epoch is no more than the latest in a series of interglacial intervals. "
But they have an agenda, so what the hell, right?
Right?
O Bow Ma Bows Again ... To Tampa (FL) Mayor
Don't believe me?
The link goes here: http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//100128/480/b07861589f354ce698c3bf88b741d692/
Where we see this:
The caption reads: " U.S. President Barack Obama bows to Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio at MacDill Air Force Base on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 in Tampa, Fla.(AP Photo/Edmund Fountain, Pool) "
Would somebody please explain to president dumbass that he doesn't bow to foreign leaders and sure as hell not to the Mayor of a US city!
Wait!!! I can hear MSNBC, ABC and Janeane Garofalo now. He wasn't bowing you see, he was ... um... admiring her cleavage?
No ... that would channel his inner Bill Clinton again.
Wondering what that ant was doing on her foot? Possible.
Wondering why that dog had run across the tarmac and then stopped right there?
Bowing before the Tampa Florida Mayor.
What a disgrace we have in the White House.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Article: "Fort Hood Report: No Mention of Islam, Hasan Not Named"
The link: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1954960,00.html?xid=rss-topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+time%2Ftopstories+%28TIME%3A+Top+Stories%295
" The U.S. military's just-released report into the Fort Hood shootings spends 86 pages detailing various slipups by Army officers but not once mentions Major Nidal Hasan by name or even discusses whether the killings may have had anything to do with the suspect's view of his Muslim faith. And as Congress opens two days of hearings on Wednesday into the Pentagon probe of the Nov. 5 attack that left 13 dead, lawmakers want explanations for that omission. "
There's the first paragraph, complete and untouched. Major Hasan's name wasn't mentioned nor was the possibility that his murders were due to radical Islam. Why do you think that is?
" The Pentagon report's silence on Islamic extremism "shows you how deeply entrenched the values of political correctness have become," he [John Lehman] told TIME on Tuesday. "It's definitely getting worse, and is now so ingrained that people no longer smirk when it happens." "
You don't say. Does anybody remember what I wrote to the JCS (Joint Chiefs of Staff) about this?
" Your choice is this: either bow to the blinders of political correctness, or acknowledge that having radical Imams (of the 14 currently in the military, 10 are KNOWN to have been radicalized) in the military is akin to asking Nazis to handle decryption during WWII. Again, that figure is not my opinion it is a FACT.
" So ... what, if anything, do you plan to do?
" I await what will in all probability be an echoing silence. "
" The U.S. military's just-released report into the Fort Hood shootings spends 86 pages detailing various slipups by Army officers but not once mentions Major Nidal Hasan by name or even discusses whether the killings may have had anything to do with the suspect's view of his Muslim faith. And as Congress opens two days of hearings on Wednesday into the Pentagon probe of the Nov. 5 attack that left 13 dead, lawmakers want explanations for that omission. "
There's the first paragraph, complete and untouched. Major Hasan's name wasn't mentioned nor was the possibility that his murders were due to radical Islam. Why do you think that is?
" The Pentagon report's silence on Islamic extremism "shows you how deeply entrenched the values of political correctness have become," he [John Lehman] told TIME on Tuesday. "It's definitely getting worse, and is now so ingrained that people no longer smirk when it happens." "
You don't say. Does anybody remember what I wrote to the JCS (Joint Chiefs of Staff) about this?
" Your choice is this: either bow to the blinders of political correctness, or acknowledge that having radical Imams (of the 14 currently in the military, 10 are KNOWN to have been radicalized) in the military is akin to asking Nazis to handle decryption during WWII. Again, that figure is not my opinion it is a FACT.
" So ... what, if anything, do you plan to do?
" I await what will in all probability be an echoing silence. "
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Price Stays Same - Quantity (amount) Goes Down
Yes, this is one of those 'duh' moments.
Recently, I caught Deerfield Farms doing this: Their 16oz bag of Jumbo Sunflower Seeds became a 13oz bag, but the price remained the same - $1.99.
But here's something shocking: Wyler's Beef (Flavor) Bouillon Cubes
6.5oz (makes 50 cups (50 cubes))
UPC: 0 41258 75124 5
3.25oz (makes 25 cups (25 cubes))
UPC: 0 41258 75117 7
Granted, you can't buy the first one any longer, and the container we had was being used to store thumbtacks. But the price was still on it: $2.18. Of course, to be fair, the 'use by' date was 01-NOV-1999.
I purchased the 25 cubes container today and paid (at Wal-Mart) $2.33.
YIKES. Before somebody tells me that the first one wasn't made by Wyler's ... um ... you need to learn how to read a UPC code.
An excellent primer is here: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/high-tech-gadgets/upc.htm
The first six (6) digits of the UPC code belong to each unique manufacturer. For any size Q-Tips (made by Unilever), as an example, the first six digits will ALWAYS read '3 05215.' For any thing of the Walgreens brand, the first six (6) digits will ALWAYS read '3 11917.' And so it is with Wyler's; the first six (6) digits will ALWAYS read '0 41258.'
YIKES.
Recently, I caught Deerfield Farms doing this: Their 16oz bag of Jumbo Sunflower Seeds became a 13oz bag, but the price remained the same - $1.99.
But here's something shocking: Wyler's Beef (Flavor) Bouillon Cubes
6.5oz (makes 50 cups (50 cubes))
UPC: 0 41258 75124 5
3.25oz (makes 25 cups (25 cubes))
UPC: 0 41258 75117 7
Granted, you can't buy the first one any longer, and the container we had was being used to store thumbtacks. But the price was still on it: $2.18. Of course, to be fair, the 'use by' date was 01-NOV-1999.
I purchased the 25 cubes container today and paid (at Wal-Mart) $2.33.
YIKES. Before somebody tells me that the first one wasn't made by Wyler's ... um ... you need to learn how to read a UPC code.
An excellent primer is here: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/high-tech-gadgets/upc.htm
The first six (6) digits of the UPC code belong to each unique manufacturer. For any size Q-Tips (made by Unilever), as an example, the first six digits will ALWAYS read '3 05215.' For any thing of the Walgreens brand, the first six (6) digits will ALWAYS read '3 11917.' And so it is with Wyler's; the first six (6) digits will ALWAYS read '0 41258.'
YIKES.
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