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History Quiz: American Presidents by Clyde Wilson

History Quiz: American Presidents by Clyde Wilson


What American President launched a massive invasion of another country that posed no threat, and without a declaration of war?


What President raised a huge army at his own will without the approval of Congress?


What President started a war of choice in violation of every principle of Christian just war teaching?


What President said that he had to violate the Constitution in order to save it?


What President declared the elected legislatures of thirteen States to be "combinations" of criminals that he had to suppress?


What President said he was indifferent to slavery but would use any force necessary to collect taxes?


What President sent combat troops from the battlefield to bombard and occupy New York City?


What President sent the Army to arrest in the middle of the night thousands of private citizens for expressing their opinions? And held them incommunicado in military prisons with total denial of due process of law? And had his soldiers destroy newspaper plants?


What President was the first ruler in the civilized world to make medicine a contraband of war?


What President signed for his cronies special licenses to purchase valuable cotton from an enemy country even though he had forbidden such trade and punished other people for the same practice?


What President refused medical care and food to his own soldiers held by the enemy country?


What President presided over the bombardment and house-by-house destruction of cities and towns that were undefended and not military targets?


What President’s forces deliberately targeted women and children and destroyed their housing, food supply, and private belongings?


What President’s occupying forces engaged in imprisonment, torture, and execution of civilians and seizing them as hostages?


Under what President did the Army have the largest number of criminals, mercenaries, and foreigners?


Who was the first American President to plot the assassination of an opposing head of state?


Who had the least affiliation with Christianity of any American President and blamed God for starting the war over which he presided?


What President voted for and praised a law which forbade black people from settling in his State?



What President said that all black people should be expelled from the United States because they could never be full-fledged citizens?


What President was the first to force citizens to accept as legal money pieces of paper unbacked by gold or silver?


Who was the first President to institute an income tax?


Who was the first President to pile up a national debt too vast to be paid off in a generation?


Who is considered almost universally as the greatest American President, indeed as the greatest American of all times and as a world hero of democracy?


What predecessor is President Obama most often compared to?

This is a take-home quiz. Please grade yourself.

December 21, 2009

Clyde Wilson was a professor of history but is recovering nicely, thank you. His most recent book is The Papers of John C. Calhoun.

Copyright © 2009 by LewRockwell.com.

Details of the Sweetheart Mortgage Setup the FDIC has With Goldman

Video - IndyMAC/FDIC Scam

Livin' large in Mobile

Welldigger makin' like a hawg.

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The Female Brain: On Auto-Pilot

Why They Look at You Funny When You Talk About a Free Country

From Facebook:

Cynthia Proffitt
TO: Laurie Berg

ME TO YOU: Laurie, this country has NEVER been "free." This country's people have paid taxes since it's inception - hardly free. The authors of the Constitution were NOT against paying taxes that's WHY they put the right for Congress to levy taxes IN the Constitution. Seriously, did YOU really think our Founding Fathers were against taxation? You couldn't be MORE WRONG.

BTW: YOU highlight the fact that Palin is just like all the other politicians when YOU justify Palin's hypocrisy by comparing HER HYPOCRISY with other politicians hypocrisy.

"Free" country! You can't make this shit up.

Cynthia goes on to take on all comers in much the same way in a Palin Facebook thread. Hell, if an affirmative action moron can be president surely Cynthia can be a pundit.

When You Lawyer Up to Hide Data You're Liein'

Penn State's response to a Climategate FOIA request:



Expect some high falutin' rational such as, "The data belongs to someone else", or "private emails (on a public owned computer)", but also expect the arrogance displayed to not go unnoticed by the body politic even in pennsylvania.

State Universities are all the time gettin' too big for their britches, and need to be occasionally reminded where the money comes from as illustrated by UK's recent firing of a student employee for having his pistol in his car. For some reason schools feel ideologically bound to the practice of violating the civil rights of their students and employees. Must be a Mao thing.

Harley Goes to the Bugs

What's really going on in biker bars:





From Craigslist:

Harley rider pre-ride check off list:
1. Comb baseball player goatee and mustache
2. Spend 6- hours polishing gaudy chrome pieces. Be sure people can read the "Live to ride - ride to live" statement on gas tank lid.
3. Assure suspension can handle at least 560 pounds of rider
4. Pack cell phone and have tow service numbers programmed.
5. Look in mirror and perfect the "I'm a bad ass motherfucker" harley riding scowl.
6. Affix tassels from daughters bicycle to handle bars for added gay appearance.
7. Test flashers for when bike breaks down (99% probability)
8. Put on your wrist brace to help carpal tunnel from all of the unnecessary revving
9. Leather pants
10. Gloves
11. Wrap around sunglasses
12. Skull cap (German soldier type for the real badasses). Remember to think about the SAFETY aspect/argument of loud pipes as putting that potato chip on head. The real tough guys here will wear a bandana over their face (some with a skull) to look really scary----ooooh!
13. CAT work boots (new)
14. Leather vest with some "chapter" like: North chapter of pig fucking obese attention whore douche bags with fat ugly loud mouth wives.
15. HD t-shirt (of course). Because everyone needs to know what shop you paid $40 for a $5 hanes shirt at.
16. Remove baffles from pipes so EVERYONE can hear you going 18mph in 2nd gear at redline. Note: Most HD break down before hitting 2nd gear.
17. Starbucks gift card: This is usually your hangout--------------how tough.
18. Call friends with similar ridiculous motorcycle (WW2 outdated technology garbage) and pathetic store bought image (gay pirate from the Castro) attire. Have them ATTEMPT to meet you at the starbucks without breaking down or crashing due to being distracted from looking at themselves in their chrome.
19. Five packs of Marlboro reds to smoke while riding to look extra cool
20. Slam a 6 pack of Zima prior to ride.
21. Saddle bags attached to pick up and store broken parts that fall off bike as you ride/push (if you can call it riding without laughing) that hunk of shit down the road.



22. remove rear flap from leather pants.

In other news, It is rumored VW is thinking of buying the floundering Harley-Davidson. Not surprising and fitting that a company that made it's bones with an air cooled 70 years ago engine would be in a position to take over a company still using one.

The question is, will the Harley collective still claim HD is an american company when the producer of Hitlers "People's Car" owns it?

No Reason for Federal Intervention in College Football

Unless the yankee easterners think it will help break the SEC's dominance of the sport. Somewhere in their pea-brains they harbour the idea the BCS system inherently favors the SEC in some way and that's the reason their teams generally get the shit kicked out of them and not the fact that their "back east" teams play each other in rounds of patty-cake football all season.

If there had been a playoff system, maybe Cincinnati would have beaten Florida.....

Unrealistic Expectations

You two want a pack of cigarettes and good sex? These broads obviously don't realize which end of the gene pool they inhabit.





Hey, Bro, gotta follow through for the ladies.

On a more serious note re: the Tennessee Cigarette Sisters; An incident where a female is actually charged with a crime for falsely accusing someone of rape should be shouted about from the rooftops. Women are accustomed to not having to suffer negative consequences resulting from this type of "legal revenge" and if there is to be a paradigm shift in enforcement they at least should get a heads up.

Now THAT's a Grill Guard!

That "Prius Shredder" is gonna look great on my Suburban.

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Some Make Choices, Others Have Choices Thrust Upon Them

This gets filed under "thrust upon".



It makes the moniker "The One" much more appropriate.

Mo. Ron.

Uses teleprompters at elementary school. Because he's a moron.

Pardon me, Ma'am. Sir. Whatever.

Pigs.

The Stasi in Pittsburg beat this guy damned near to death for something people all over the South, West, and (increasingly) the Midwest, commonly do every day. One of the benefits of life in the big city. No doubt, they were reassigned to applause from their mates for making the streets safer for them to kick the shit out of anyone they choose.

"Not until 15 minutes later, when uniformed officers drove up in a van and Miles overheard their conversation, did he realize he had been arrested, he said. Initially, when the handcuffs were clamped around his wrists, he thought he was being abducted, he said."

He was being abducted, only by a gang of thugs with the might of the state behind it. Appeals to the boss thugs on his behalf are a waste of time. When you live in an urban hive it is understood you give up certain rights and all your dignity much the same as you do when you choose to board a commercial airplane. He just didn't get the memo.

This is Why We Laugh at the Cornhole Game

Props to Gary

What Happened in Massachusetts?

Indeed. How weird is it when a state that has been proud to be known to be a Mass (bad pun) of Kennnedy boot lickers revolts?

It hinges on 1) Obama showed himself to be a weak personality, a typical sneaky politician, and not very bright 2) Coakley said what she really thought too often 3) the white folks may have finally punched their "I am not a racist/sexist/homophobe tickets" enough to satisfy themselves.

Obama's performance on the job is highly reminiscent of Carter at his worst; flitting about the world apologizing on behalf of the US for everything from pretend global warming to the last administration tweaking their noses, ignoring huge unemployment, playing at "big picture" games while (not) working folk struggle. Strangely, even in Massachusetts those things matter.

Coakley managed to be the right candidate at the right time with stunning efficiency. She offended the observant catholic population of Mass. and showed herself to be abrasive, oblivious, and uninformed in a single stroke with her crack that perhaps Catholics should not work in emergency rooms. Chances are she was probably born in a Catholic hospital. I would like to think the folk in Mass. were starting to chaffe at Kennedy worship, but growing a spine is far too much to ask of the bootlickers. They are probably aquiver at having offended Obama.

It is a plain fact that even with a sorry assed candidate like McCain, the economy unraveling, and congress writing checks to banksters, had Obama been white he would have lost. As one roll in the hay is all playing the sympathy card will get you some folk, having finally voted for a black guy for high office president, are no longer carrying that particular monkey on their backs. The white folk are free to vote however they wish (unwisely most often - but not so much racially, except for black folk who vote racially always).

The race guilt card won't play again unless the left's commentariart manages to cook up some hitherto undiscovered subtle undercurrent of racism for which all white folks should feel guilty. And convince them of it. Not bloody likely outside of the DC stage, but good luck to 'em anyway.

Facebook Fun

Ken - thinks there's just too many Neanderthals in this country clinging to their guns, religion and "freedom" of inequity.

JACIII
Oh Stop! You'll make me blush.

{liberal sap}
Indeed, Ken. Indeed.

Jac III
Why, oh why, do those dumb hicks not know we only want to help them? To make life better for all? They are just too stupid to know we know what's best for them. And they're still trying to keep the black man down!

Jac III
World Peace!

One Big Wrong Turn or The Damage One Sorry Son of a Bitch Railroad Lawyer Can Do

From Murray Rothbard's Just War.

Lincoln signed no less than ten tariff-raising bills during his administration. Heavy "sin" taxes were levied on alcohol and tobacco, the income tax was levied for the first time in American history, huge land grants and monetary subsidies were handed out to transcontinental railroads (accompanied by a vast amount of attendant corruption), and the government went off the gold standard and virtually nationalized the banking system to establish a machine for printing new money and to provide cheap credit for the business elite. And furthermore, the New Model Army and the war effort rested on a vast and unprecedented amount of federal coercion against Northerners as well as the South; a huge army was conscripted, dissenters and advocates of a negotiated peace with the South were jailed, and the precious Anglo-Saxon right of habeas corpus was abolished for the duration.

It is amazing how much fuckup can be traced to just a very short period of time the legacy of which is continued grief for generations removed from the evil deeds initiated by a very few evil men.

1) Prohibition - for which prisons overflow and privacy dies.

2) Income Tax - Whereby we are all slaves and ownership of our labor is claimed by bureaucrats and politicians.

3) Eminent Domain - The root of "corporate welfare" and condemnation (legal theft) of privately held property.

4) Gold Standard and Nationalized Banking System - See The Great Depression I and, now, II.

5) Credit Inflation - Bubbles anyone?


Further we are seeing more and more that the yankee (spit) deified state will tolerate no other god before it:

The Union was taken, by its Northern worshipers, from a contractual institution that can either be cleaved to or scrapped, and turned into a divinized entity, which must be worshipped, and which must be permanent, unquestioned, all-powerful. There is no heresy greater, nor political theory more pernicious, than sacralizing the secular. But this monstrous process is precisely what happened when Abraham Lincoln and his northern colleagues made a god out of the Union. If the British forces fought for bad King George, the Union armies pillaged and murdered on behalf of this pagan idol, this "Union," this Moloch that demanded terrible human sacrifice to sustain its power and its glory.

This worship of state is becoming obvious even to the obtuse as "Freedom of Religion" becomes corrupted toward "Freedom from religion other than worship of the state". What was yankee (spit) birthed is now irrational atheist borne.

Rothbard's reference to Milton's Moloch is especially apt:

First MOLOCH, horrid King besmear'd with blood
Of human sacrifice, and parents tears,
Though for the noyse of Drums and Timbrels loud
Their childrens cries unheard, that past through fire
To his grim Idol.

Props to our token Jew Bankster, Josh, for the Rothbard link.

Even the Finns and Soviets Love the South

Bless their hearts.



from Bill.

Please note the hillbilly is riding a BMW in the last shot.

Congress Will Birth The Healthcare Abomination

All the election of Scott Brown will do, as fun as it has been to watch, is give a cloak of legitimacy for the congressional politburo to crouch behind whilst spinning sticky strands to further ensnare the public in its totalitarian web. Congress now has a failed president to sheild it from the full force of the publics ire; watch the toads get busy.

Coakley will be seen as a sacrificial lamb (or goat, depending on your point of view) by the commentariat served up to quench burning "Tea Party" sentiment. All will breathe a sigh of relief that it wasn't them and will go back to work destroying piecemeal the remnants of the free nation whose demise the Bastard Lincoln began.

May Your Next Sights Be Trijicon

Because it torments these idiots so.

And wouldn't you know a damned pansy lawyer has his panties in a wad at the idea folks might err by worshiping God rather than his state?!

"It's wrong, it violates the Constitution, it violates a number of federal laws," said Michael "Mikey" Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, an advocacy group that seeks to preserve the separation of church and state in the military.

Proof positive you don't need to be able to think to string words together. There's not a thing wrong with that except most folk hear words well strung and assume that indicates reason.

"It violates the constitution"...... Which article exactly is that? Oh, yeah - "Congress shall buy no scope with biblical references marked upon them" that's the one.

Go See The Book of Eli

One of the best Christian films to come along in a long time, The Book of Eli mixes melancholy and sudden brutal violence in such a way as to have a viewer uncertain of whether the next sequence will be soliloquy or slaughter.

There is plenty of action, plenty of plot, but no boobs. (Hey, it's a Christian film.) And the official critics hate it for the same reasons everyone else loves it. The words "preachy" , "flawed", "doomily pompous", and my favorite quip "the constantly preachy tone tends to grate after a while, and nothing in the self-important, supposedly revelatory denouement makes up for having been fed so much irredeemably inexplicable hokum." Obviously, the socially autistic did not find it enjoyable; how dare someone make a movie without the obligatory disdain for western culture! They thought we were "past that".

That hollywood made this film amazes me, as it should you. I look for the sky to fall any day now.

Objective Reality and What Passes for the Liberal "Mind"

Senator Harry Reid is being put through the wringer for stating these verifiable facts:

(1) That Obama is a "light-skinned" black man and that (2) he has "no Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one."

The rationalization of taking offense to these facts averages out to be "We have moved beyond these sort of racial comments". When men's minds have become so befuddled they are no longer able to see shades or hear sounds this will come to pass. The left claims this attribute.

As an illustration of the efficacy of the left's claim to befuddlement I present the following citation from Jeff Davis' Message to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America in April of 1861 regarding African slaves in the South.

In moral and social condition they had been elevated from brutal savages into docile, intelligent, and civilized agricultural laborers, and supplied not only with bodily comforts but with careful religious instruction.

To which, a Befuddled Leftist responded:

Read it. Yeah, he didn't have a very good grasp of the US Constitution. And of course, there's the "brutal savages" and "superior race" comments. Nice.

The Befuddled Leftist's implication that the African slaves in the South were erroneously characterized as having been "brutal savages" is illustrative of the ignorance and bone-deep stupidity the left often holds forth as intellectual discourse. No dictionaries in left-land I take it:

savage
Function: noun
Date: 15th century

1 : a person belonging to a primitive society
2 : a brutal person
3 : a rude or unmannerly person

As for the Befuddled Leftist's disdain for Davis' use of the term "superior race"....

su·pe·ri·or
Date: 14th century

1 : situated higher up : upper
2 : of higher rank, quality, or importance

race
Function: noun
Date: 1580
1 : a breeding stock of animals
2 a : a family, tribe, people, or nation belonging to the same stock b : a class or kind of people unified by shared interests, habits, or characteristics
3 a : an actually or potentially interbreeding group within a species; also : a taxonomic category (as a subspecies) representing such a group b : breed c : a category of humankind that shares certain distinctive physical traits

In each of the above instances both men spoke obviously correctly in observance of objectively verifiable and obvious fact, yet the left hyperventilated en masse media over Harry Reid's truthful statement and the Befuddled Leftist dismissed Jeff Davis honest remarks entirely without thought or even the modicum of intellectual curiosity that would compel one to pick up Webster's.

Obviously, the exercise of reasoned discourse with the modern left is a solitary endeavor.

Shop News Flash!

Recent acquisitions include a Millermatic 250 mig welder (capable of welding 1/2" steel in a single pass, and a 48" Chicago Dreis & Krump  sheet metal break.

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What Once Was Old is Now New Again.

Twenty years ago, shortly after MrsJac and I purchased our turn of the century farm house and started renovating it ("renovating" does not do the process justice), we were at a loss for how to restore function to one of the fireboxes in a very unique triple firebox hearth. As we did not rescue the house before the previous owner removed the three flue chimney and a large portion of the hearth, there was the issue of clearance to combustibles to deal with. Our options were 1) a complete masonry rebuild of the original system (no chance - every mason we showed it too commenced to head scratchin'), 2) a zero-clearance fireplace (seen in apartments everywhere), 3)a wood burning stove out in the middle of the foyer. While we were weighing the options, we discovered a company in Ashville, North Carolina was producing a zero-clearance wood stove called the Gemini. We located the nearest dealer and went to take a look at one. MrsJAC was smitten with the brass trim and large bay window. I dug the forced air combustion, catalytic combustor, and the ash pan. We immediately made a deal with the salesman, haggling to a good price ($1300 was a lot of money in 1990!), and made an appointment to pick the unit up the following morning.

Long story short, we arrived the next morning with cash in hand only to have the salesman renege on the deal. The manager came out to explain he could not sell the unit at the agreed upon price and made a counter offer several hundred dollars higher than the sum previously agreed upon. We left the store without the stove, disgusted and disappointed at having found our perfect option coupled to a store full of obnoxious asses.

We installed a zero clearance fireplace for a time, then an Englander free standing wood stove out in the middle of the foyer. The Englander heated like crazy, but it sure was ugly and cost us some needed floor space. We made do for 15 the next years.

Late this fall I stumbled upon the Gemini below on Craigslist. I know it looks rough, but MrsJAC and I never stopped thinking it was the best solution to our need, and what good is a barn full of tools if not for this?



The Gemini had to be disassembled and soda blasted. It had been in storage for 15 years and all the high-temp insulation had made fine rat nests.



Upon disassembley I was surprised at the robust construction; a total of three 16ga steel enclosures surround the stove unit, with layers of insulation between each. A phone call to Appalachian Stove Works yielded a huge box of high-temp insulation, gaskets, and adhesive on my doorstep, all precut and tagged for location of installation. The good folks at Appalachian were a bit skeptical when I told them I had disassembled the unit, "That's welded together. How did you get it apart?" The answer, "Plasma cutter." removed all barriers between me and the tech staff.

Both blower motors had to be taken apart and freed up. JamieD pitched in and revived the combustion air blower while his brother, Brent sent naughty text messages to girls. Shortly, reassembly and the painting commenced.

Next, was to get the 700lb beast in the front door. I broke one wheel off a furniture dolly rated for 1200lbs in the process. Incidentally, next time you see those round plastic disks at Walmart claiming to make moving furniture a breeze, buy some.

Here you can see I had to remove some more of the other two fireboxes (gas logs anyone?) to make room in the hearth for the Gemini unit. Those two fireplaces cut the corners of the parlor and adjacent pool room forming a triangular three fireplace hearth with the fireplace in the foyer. The previous owner had designs on taking the parlor and pool room fireplaces out to "square the rooms". Retard.

Needed: one bearskin rug.

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You can do this stuff when you are the type of fella carries the Kamasutra in his back pocket.

Brent the contortionist, certified in overhead plasma cutting, said he would, "By God" fish those wires through the B-pillar. It didn't quite work out that way and he ended up cutting much of the interior panel out of the body to make a bigger hole for the passage of the wire trunk.

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Meritorious Mention

Some may have noted Waterboy's thorough and patient schooling of Ken, the willfully obtuse yankee apologist commenting in an historical thread burdened by an unusual temporal confusion compounded by the conviction his meritless, irrelevant assertion would become plausible if often repeated and supported by a cascade of creatively redefined terms.

An except from a particularly remarkable exchange with Waterboy:

WaterBoy (192.91.173.36)
Ken: "What's this nonsense that a group of people occupying land within another country can suddenly declare themselves a separate legitimate sovereignty without the consent of the host country?"

Why, this 'nonsense' is from the venerable words of none other than Rep. Abraham Lincoln himself, circa 1848:

"Any people any where, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing Government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a sacred right a right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing Government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit."

Yesterday, 9:31:58 PM

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ken (72.147.140.177)
Well, I certainly disagree with the last portion of that sentiment.

Yesterday, 10:00:51 PM

In recognition of the sweet irony of having our very own resident yankee (geographical) ,Waterboy, give the beat down to a yankee apologist I have inserted in the panel to the right a link entitled "Waterboy's Bitch" to Ken's Obama Blog.

Somehow This is Supposed to be Fun

This is where I would  begin sourcing explosives.

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A Cautionary Tale

For those of us who find ourselves getting a bit carried away in our adventures with chemistry, physics, innovation, and fire. You know who you are, for you are nodding your head even as you read the following line of reasoning:

Tired and a bit bored one evening, I took a break, swigged some soda, and set the Coke can down on the pipe rack. It fell neatly into a length of exhaust pipe. This raised some intriguing possibilities. I wondered if a small acetylene explosion would launch a can from the pipe. As it happened, an acetylene set was ready to hand, and I proceeded unimpeded with my experiment.

And That Bastard Lincoln is Deified

Documents recently released by the Vatican contain this excerpt from a letter to Pope Pius IX from Jefferson Davis on behalf of the Confederacy.

“We desire no evil to our enemies, nor do we covet any of their possessions; but are only struggling to the end that they shall cease to devastate our land and inflict useless and cruel slaughter upon our people.”

Props to Sarah

Quake on the Palm Pre

Bitches.

Have a Happy New Year Y'all

Not Only is the TSA an Incompetent Herd of Brown Shirt Wannabes, They Don't think You Should Notice

After a stroke of genius caused Obama's Janet Reno body double to issue a directive that all non-arab appearing folk be groin groped ("upper leg" pat down) and that terrorists should not detonate their explosive devices up to an hour prior to landing the TSA want's to know who leaked that top secret protective information.



Were the directive useful as a safety measure and not just as a means to submit the American Sheep Herd to even more humiliating degradation at the hands of government employees and something the ragheads could not discover for themselves the first time they sent one of their own through the process for the specific purpose of casing the joint, I could see being a bit touchy about a new protocol being leaked. That's not what went on here.

The liberal mindset, running unfettered in a position of power and in the full light of day (not used to that, are they?!) issued what, to it, was a telling blow to the terrorist (hereafter to be known as Man Made Disaster) organizations looking to do the flying public harm. Folks noticed. The directive was exposed to reason and ridicule on a grand scale and nothing, No Thing, is more important to the "progressive" than to be thought smart and clever (more specifically -smarter than thou) so another directive went out to legally harass those who would presume to let folk in on the joke that is airport security.

Can't you just picture a Power Point Presentation where some fella is pointing to a graph showing that 90% of all terrorist attacks (Man Made Disaster Occurrences) occur within the last hour of flight, to which Janet Reno's body double comments, "So, all we have to do is make passnegers sit perfectly still during the last hour of flight and that will prevent 90% of all Man Made Disaster Occurences?! Right! Do it!"

To come: forced sedation for all air travelers. It for your own safety and if it's good enough for school children it's good enough for you.

Dark Carbon Discovered

Finally, an article from Tennessee that gets it right:

Normally, The Tennessean is full of leftist crap. Imagine my surprise to find someone calling an AGW bedwetting spade an AGW bedwetting spade at Pravda on the Cumberland.

Truth is not determined by majority vote. Any talk of a "consensus" in science is best not taken as the final word. As Somerset Maugham once put it, "If 40 million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie."

We have had considerable domestic and international experience with governments that micromanage the lives of their residents. The more governments interfere in our lives, the more things go wrong. The people are poorer, less healthy and less able to adapt to the vagaries of nature and of other men. If ever a science were settled, this would be it.

They need to learn humility, an essential ingredient in anyone who would speak of science.

We need not con ourselves that we know enough to predict the Earth's temperature 100, or even 20 years from now. Even less certain should we be that we have the power to control it.

What we can control is our readiness to face whatever comes. But to follow the advice of the Copenhagen activists, or those who voted for the Waxman-Markey bill, is the path of fools.

It is the path of weakness and dissipation.

-Richard J. Grant is a professor of finance and economics at Lipscomb University


Update: Here's a sweet quote from Michael Tobis (taken out of context, I admit) that lays it out quite plainly while insisting if folks want Climatology to become a real science much more funding will be required. So, in effect, you can have the fake stuff on the cheap, as it were.

Costs increase nonlinearly with the amount of climate change.

Merry Christmas Y'all.

God Bless.

I Think I Have Created a Monster

I conceived of this apparatus to get me out of some biannual chores and to have an excuse to weld, grind, play with lifting heavy objects, smoke cigars, cuss, spit, and drink beer. However....



No plan survives engagement with the womenfolk. No sooner was the thing installed than MrsJAC hit on the idea that not only would it be handy for lifting tubs of clothing for the biannual winter/summer closet and drawer content changeover but, by God!, it would be handy to change out the whole damned chest.
If you don't hear from me over the next few days I will be out shopping. For a new chest of drawers.

Curses!



(nsfw)

From Climate Change to "a greener future" in a Thousand Emails

First was "Global Warming", when we didn't cook there was "Climate Change", now it's "A greener future". The Warming Bed Wetters are already backing up as fast as they can go with Gordon Brown narrating.

“Never again should we face the deadlock that threatened to pull down those talks. Never again should we let a global deal to move towards a greener future be held to ransom by only a handful of countries. One of the frustrations for me was the lack of a global body with the sole responsibility for environmental stewardship. “I believe that in 2010 we will need to look at reforming our international institutions to meet the common challenges we face as a global community.”
- Gordon Brown

Seriously. Whose ass is he kissing anyway?


There is no way to forsee how many fallback positions will support these Green Global Government Ghouls or for how long each position will resist turning to crumbling shale beneath their feet, but the tendency to heed "experts" has been pounded into the modern pinhead to the point he doesn't much keep score anymore. In the end the greenies legacy will be a small step in the wrong direction. Another brick in the wall.

Avatar 3d

The 3d effects are truly amazing, plentiful, and truly integrated into the movie without the normal 3 or 4 "gee-whiz" moments most 3d films get by on. It is a different movie going experience and may turn out to be where cinema is headed in the near future. The 3d effects are literally everywhere on the screen at all times and put you in the scenes. They make a theatre screen seem small. Now, if they could figure out how to do it without making everyone wear goofy glasses.

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Don't Flip Out

It's not like I went to Cocomment, but when the commenting system changes, feel free to express opinions; they will be duly noted and then ignored. At least 'til I can figure out how to fix it.....

Update: comments in order. I think.

May Be Cooler Than Monckton Raisin' Hell

From Waterboy:

The British Bulldog: Lord Monckton takes on Al Gore, Dawkins, The Left

Brutal. Simply Brutal.




The man should be Prime Minister.

Uh-oh. Here Comes the "Gulfo".

“The US dollar has failed. We need to delink,” said Nahed Taher, chief executive of Bahrain’s Gulf One Investment Bank.

In what has to be an "Oh Shit." moment for the Barak Cater/Obama administration, the arabs have declared their own currency to set the value of oil contracts. That is, if they are smart enough to know this is a bad thing.

By All Means, Ladies, Vote More Power to the State

These comments follow an article in the Daily Mail on a British midwife's tell-all of the conditions in maternity wards across the UK:

I had my little girl when we lived in London and it was so appalling it has put me off of having any more children. My poor midwife was on a 12 hour shift looking after 8 ladies in various stages of labour. Mine was a complicated delivery. I tore my perineum, was bleeding heavily and my baby was positioned "back to back" in my womb which caused excruciating pain. She had called for an anaesthetist to give me an epidural for the pain and in preparation if I had to have an emergency caesarian. The poor woman also had to contend with a very verbal and very unpleasnat family who accused her of being rascist for not giving enough attention to their relative, despite the fact that out of the 8 ladies she was attending, there was only myself and another white lady there!! She had no break since she started, nor had she been able to go to the loo in over 6 hours! When will the government wake up and address this situation? We are fast becoming a "third world country" in regards to health care!

- Susan, Somerset, 15/12/2009

I have today just been discharged from a maternity unity where I was admitted at 33 weeks pregnant with complications. Thankfully, I'm ok, but I was absolutely astonished with what I saw.
I was admitted by ambulance and put into bed by the paramedics; it was then 6 hours before I saw a doctor and she had just broken down in tears due to working non-stop for 11 hours with no break. That was Sunday. The staff are completely overworked and exhausted. On Monday, I saw no registrar or doctor as promised until after 1pm and I was toId I'd have to wait another 24 hours for my 'emergency' scan.
I asked 8 times in as many hours for pain reflief and only got it when I crawled to the desk and demanded help with tears streaming down my face. The midwife was so apologetic and said she knew we were all being neglected and encouraged us to write. I got my scan due to constant badgering of the poor staff and12 hours later am discharged. The whole painful procedure took 3 days to get 28 panadol.

- LH, Plymouth, 16/12/2009 11:24

This is my favorite. The commenter blames those who will not sacrifice themselves to a system that keeps them overworked , unhappy, and underpaid. Those selfish pigs!

Its all very well whistleblowing but it is midwives like YOU who get fed up and want a better lives for THEMSELVES and not for mothers by going off to work in a PRIVATE hospital. Why not stay at the NHS and be one of the midwives that promotes change. The NHS needs good midwives and by giving up on the majority of mums who cannot afford private care then how will the service get any better?????? You claim that you left the NHS to properly care for mums but it sounds like you didn't want the challenge that our NHS faces and you just wanted a cushy life for yourself and more money. I am not against private (I had my own kids privately) but if you were a good midwife you would've stayed and envoked change for the sake of all mums who cannot afford that choice.

- sam, surrey, 15/12/2009 8:50

I hear this kind of nonsense all the time; it always comes down to folk who believe there is nothing inherently wrong with government run healthcare, it just a few little problems that need fine tuning, and a legislative solution here and there (like indentured servitude for doctors, nurses. etc..) and Utopia will follow. It's those damned people mucking things up. If we could just get rid of them.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1235921/Midwives-meltdown-A-NHS-worker-reveals-understaffed-maternity-wards-sinking-chaos.html#ixzz0Zr0aU3Qw

One can be very stupid and still have a knack for stringing words together

Take this article by Thomas Freidman in the nytimes in which he states:

Soon after Suskind’s book came out, the legal scholar Cass Sunstein, who then was at the University of Chicago, pointed out that Mr. Cheney seemed to be endorsing the same “precautionary principle” that also animated environmentalists. Sunstein wrote in his blog: “According to the Precautionary Principle, it is appropriate to respond aggressively to low-probability, high-impact events — such as climate change. Indeed, another vice president — Al Gore — can be understood to be arguing for a precautionary principle for climate change (though he believes that the chance of disaster is well over 1 percent).”

Given one is even gullible enough to believe the AGW/CC hucksters the point this obtuse ass is missing is that the medicine is worse than the disease. Oh, he believes the Green Santa Clause will descend upon the world if we just believe hard enough and screw up all the worlds economies, food production, energy production, reproductive rights, civil rights, basic freedom from bureaucratic interference in everyone's lives, and leave energy independence, byproduct free manufacturing, electric cars, workable wind and solar power under our replantable tree. But the best part is this moron somehow equates this nations people kowtowing to their overreaching self-appointed "betters" with becoming "stronger, more innovative".

Strength through surrender. How French. Has to be a Star Trek fan.

Copenhagen is even going to save the dollar. 'Cause, ya' know, myriad and huge taxes and high energy prices have always spurred economic activity. Uh-huh.

Give thomas a pom-pom and take away his keyboard, please.

Some of Barak Carter-Obama's "Team" May Have Peered Down the Rabbit Hole

FOXNews.com - Administration Warns of 'Command-and-Control' Regulation Over Emissions

Putting aside, for the moment, the insanity of the EPA regulating the air we breath (who didn't see that coming?! All together now, "Told You So!") citing one disingenuous reason after another it is interesting to look at how the new power the administration has granted to the administration is put to use.

The above linked article contains the following paragraph:

The Obama administration is warning Congress that if it doesn't move to regulate greenhouse gases, the Environmental Protection Agency will take a "command-and-control" role over the process in a way that could hurt business.

One of two things is indicated by this "anonymous source" and the leak;

1) Somebody on "The Team" has seen just how whacked and willing the president is to persue his statist authoritarian expansion at all costs, up to and including further tanking an economy swirling the bottom of the toilet bowl and is trying to clue folks in,

or (more likely)

2) One of president Barak Carter-Obama's staff is doing nothing more than aiding in the policy of his president to use the "law by declaration" power of the executive branch to threaten congress into doing his bidding to impress the pinky-wavers in Copenhagen and is blithely unconcerned about the working folk and families the regulation/extortion schemes would do economic damage to.


It is illustrative to note that the apex proletariat advocacy group, The Politburo, employed a well-worn adage when issuing similarly onerous though pointless edicts:

If there is any misery to endure it should be spread among the poor as they are used to misery and therefore better able to deal with it.

Of course, they were used to misery because of the Politburo......


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'I Think I've Killed Him'

911 is a distraction.

All beach and no sun.

Yet.

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The heat

Check out the "temp" reading; Traveling South.

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The Real Story Behind Tiger's mysterious Crash

It is interesting to note the intensity of interest a foreign news service applies to a "who cares?" story:

The News

Mwahahahaha!

Upon reviewing these pictures I have come to the conclusion I really like that grey Rustoleum paint. I see a red door and I want to paint it grey...

The hoist is in, the trim begins!

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How it Works

I have teenaged daughters and I still didn't know how this worked.

Twilight for fellas.

Who Says the Flat Earther Global Warming Fanatics Don't Have a Sense of Humor?

Some brother is gonna be seriously pissed about his Caddie, though.

Made in Germany

Ya' learn something new every day

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The Democrats, They Know Best

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House said President Barack Obama could use an unusual evening war council session Monday to lock in his long-awaited decision on whether to commit tens of thousands of new U.S. forces to the stalemated war in Afghanistan.

Military officials and others said they expect Obama to settle on a middle-ground option that would deploy an eventual 32,000 to 35,000 U.S. forces to the 8-year-old conflict.

That rough figure has stood as the most likely option since before Obama's last large war council meeting earlier this month, when he tasked military planners with rearranging the timing and makeup of some of the deployments.

Like any lawyer, the president has decided that with a little reading and a few questions answered he can out-general the generals. The commander submits a request for 40K and, upon consideration, the lawyer decides the commander really only needs 32K to get the job done. Efficiency!

The proper response here, as any retard on the short bus could tell you, is one of two things:

1) "40,000? Hell! take 80,000, kill everybody, and be done by Christmas."

2) "Screw that! Everybody back on the bus, we're goin' home."

Obama is an idiot.

Here's the place for the latest on the flat earth society (the IPCC) lies and manipulation verified by hacked emails and data. Put this one to bed. Along with the 70's energy crisis, the Loch Ness monster, any number of "missing link" hoaxes verifying evolution absolutely, the earth-centric universe, spontaneous gener...ation, and alchemy.

It is wonderful to see the "Climate Scientists" trying to hide the stains on their wonderful blue dress (everyone is wearing it these days - consensus dontcha know). The usual positions are tried, especially the "appeal to authority" with degrees and institutions being bandied about like an internet penis size contest.

It all boils down to lies, collusion, and the biggest scientific fraud in history. Exposed.

Faux Fox or Fox?

I was pondering the way the conservative commentariat has been participating in the the panic Sarah Palin has engendered in other liberals when I discovered Netflix has Season 1 of SNL up for streamimg. I apologize for the Bruno plug.

The funniest skit ever:

Land Shark | Movies & TV | SPIKE.com

It's a hard life

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South Park Slips Harley Cult the Red Pill

In case you missed it, Southpark did an episode on harley owners. The plot revolved around the common perception that harley riders are fags and in their typical merciless fashion Matt and Trey went for the jugular. The story goes so far as to have the kids demand the definition of "fag" be revised to mean "harley rider".

It was obvious the harleyfags response to the episode would be damned near as funny as the show and the bucketheads did not disappoint.

Below is an example of what occupies the column "borderline genius" on the harley owner bell curve.

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Not to over-analyze something, but here is where I "think" they went with this. They key point to the episode was not the Harley riders, but how ridiculous the word "***" has gotten. So, to mess with how uptight people have gotten over the word, they decided to pick an image that is opposite of the the person that is upset over the use of the word right now. Then have the kids call bikers ***s since they are one of the less likely people to be called ***s given the current use of the word. Heck, they spelled this out by having them look up the use of the world throughout history in the dictionary.

At the same time we all know that there is the image of the biker with the crazy loud pipes that likes to crack the throttle at every intersection, so why not pick a "macho" target that you can make fun of as well. Heck, while they were at it they could make fun of the "poser" element of motorcycles as well by having them be so eager to be noticed.

It was a funny episode. Bike-curious had me cracking up.

They are in denial. Dude, everybody has figured out you are a bunch of fags. That's all.

Bad Ass Saw

I am currently pondering this saw (model 805) for addition to my pitifully meager tool collection:

Wait for it....

"Cop Killer" gun used!


And look - it only took four idiots at ABC (MATTHEW COLE, PIERRE THOMAS, JASON RYAN, and RICHARD ESPOSITO) to uncover this SHOCKING and UNEXPECTED twist to the story. Is there a merit badge or something similar they give out to supposed journalists for plagiarizing gungrabber propaganda?

The comment thread is rippin' 'em a new asshole, but I enjoyed the following the most:

"Using the same implied logic of this article - that guns are 'cop killers' as opposed to the criminals/terrorists who wield them - then I guess we should also outlaw teleprompters that destroy countries.
Posted by:
dez_sez Nov-9"

Bad Day for Multiculti

"It was "unbelievable", said Qadri, that the man who news reports said went on a deadly rampage Thursday was the soft-spoken psychiatrist who prayed at the mosque nearly every week. "

You got a raghead US army psychiatrist screaming "Allahu Akbar" and running around shooting folk on a military base. How many ways is that single incident a refutation of the tripe preached by the left as modern enlightenment and the dawning of their shiny new world of varied cultures and religions coexisting in harmony subservient to the state?
Mix a "man of science", a "healer" (specializing in combat stress, of course), a US soldier, a devotee of the "religion of peace", and a military base full of unarmed (combat trained) victims and what do you get? A step by step down the line reality check and refutation of damned near everything the left preaches and holds dear.

These are the facts. Mr B. Hussien Obama cautions folk,

“We don’t know all the answers yet, and I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts.”

because we sure need more information to come to the correct conclusion as the assertion the US just suffered a terrorist attack on its own soil has no basis in fact other than some raghead screaming "Allahu Akbar" running around shooting people....

Handiest Cellphone Ever

No problems dialing 911 for the cleanup crew after a foiling an assault attempt.


Props to JamieD.

All Facebook. All the Time.

The Pan Galactic Blogger Blaster appears to have thrown in the towel and opted for social networking over blogging. I can't say I am entirely surprised; I thought MySpace would do him in.

Seriously, things have gotten bad (Spacebunny/MafiaWars bad), so bad in fact Jamie R told me (in confidence) he overheard the BloggerBlaster assert to Josh he has more facebook "friends" than Difster and the only reason Larry had so many friends was because he was a "MafiaWars" addict.

So, as a brother, I would ask that you comment on his blog, clap your hands, and believe really hard, and maybe we can bring Bloggerbell back from the edge.

The Flat Earth Fighting Retreat Begins

New narrative: It's not the scientists who are wrong, but the alarmist environmental advocates trying to spur emission reduction who, in the process of dramatizing the dangers of the flat earth.. er, umm..global warming!, are discrediting legitimate concerns based upon scientific fact with unfounded outlandish disaster prophesies.

Attic elevator MkI/modII

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You will note the much more elegant design with two cables spooled onto the same drum. Cable separation is maintained via a guide rod assembly (the cables don't ride it, but bounce off when they try to get together). The end uprights have been grouped into sub-assemblies, and the hoist frame has been reconfigured so that it gives more even lifting, but reduced capacity with the same hoist.

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Change You Can Believe In

Seems folk in East St. Louis figure with a half-black man in the whitehouse they shouldn't be expected to hide their desire to leave whitey out in the cold anymore. The mayor was a bit too overt in his desire to keep the blood pure within his sphere of civic influence.

"[The] defendants thereafter fired all of the candidates hired by [Frazer and Murphy] and hired several new officers and employees based on their racial and political beliefs," the suit alleges.

East St. Louis is a pest hole of crime running the gamut from a to z and I guess it is only natural, given a community policing philosophy, that drug dealers and theives should be policed by those of similar backgrounds.

10 police officers hired in June 2008, two had criminal histories — and that one of the two took the oath of office while sought on an outstanding arrest warrant for domestic battery.

I guess it's Africa here now and the white folk just haven't gotten the message. What other explanation is there?

The Flat Earth Climate Change Movement is Useful After All

It sure brings the whackos out of their hidey holes and makes them feel free to step out from behind their veils of respectability. It must be liberating for them to think it is finally acceptable to share with the world what they really believe.

Climate chief Lord Stern: give up meat to save the planet

People will need to consider turning vegetarian if the world is to conquer climate change, according to a leading authority on global warming.

In an interview with The Times, Lord Stern of Brentford said: “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.”

Lord Stern, the author of the influential 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming, said that a successful deal at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December would lead to soaring costs for meat and other foods that generate large quantities of greenhouse gases.

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