Mr. T Posted May 20, 2009 Report Share Posted May 20, 2009 Vice President Joe Biden, well-known for his verbal gaffes, may have finally outdone himself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. T Posted May 21, 2009 Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 Gallery: Mount St. Helens Then and Now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. T Posted May 21, 2009 Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 2nd Temple antiquities found Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budcarson Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,521138,00.html Gates Hails Soldier Snapped in Pink Boxer Shorts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aloysius Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 Mancow Waterboarded, Admits It's Torture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heckofajobbrownie Posted May 23, 2009 Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 Is this Cheney's Walter Kronkite moment? "If we've lost Mancow..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heckofajobbrownie Posted May 23, 2009 Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 Josh Green's Atlantic piece on Hillary and then the follow-up on the fall of the Hillary campaign. This National Geographic article is a bit frightening, and won an award for science reporting. I always liked this old New Yorker piece on "The American Religion". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. T Posted May 24, 2009 Report Share Posted May 24, 2009 Watch Out for Auto Warranty Scams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. T Posted May 28, 2009 Report Share Posted May 28, 2009 U.S. Inflation to Approach Zimbabwe Level, Faber Says May 27 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. economy will enter “hyperinflation” approaching the levels in Zimbabwe because the Federal Reserve will be reluctant to raise interest rates, investor Marc Faber said. Prices may increase at rates “close to” Zimbabwe’s gains, Faber said in an interview with Bloomberg Television in Hong Kong. Zimbabwe’s inflation rate reached 231 million percent in July, the last annual rate published by the statistics office. “I am 100 percent sure that the U.S. will go into hyperinflation,” Faber said. “The problem with government debt growing so much is that when the time will come and the Fed should increase interest rates, they will be very reluctant to do so and so inflation will start to accelerate.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. T Posted May 30, 2009 Report Share Posted May 30, 2009 "United In Hate" The Lefts Romance With Tyranny and Terror! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. T Posted June 4, 2009 Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 Interesting to pull an older post where the talk was about 5 million new jobs and it would cost only 150 billion? And Obama and congress have spent somewhere around 15 trillion and we have not even seen 1 million new jobs. Read these History of Lies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. T Posted June 4, 2009 Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 How Americans have turned into a bunch of scared old ladies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. T Posted June 7, 2009 Report Share Posted June 7, 2009 Strange clouds seen all over the world, check out these pics http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/art...seen-world.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted June 9, 2009 Report Share Posted June 9, 2009 http://books.simonandschuster.com/Go-Down-...n/9781416557067 True account of Clyde and Bonnie. Just finished the unabridged audiobook. It's fascinating. WSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicopee John Posted June 9, 2009 Report Share Posted June 9, 2009 http://books.simonandschuster.com/Go-Down-...n/9781416557067 True account of Clyde and Bonnie. Just finished the unabridged audiobook. It's fascinating. WSS In a similar vein, I recently read biographies about Billy The Kid and James Dean. I knew little about them - especially about their 'legends' - and found both books to be enlightening. In short, neither man's real life closely mirrored their legend. Always interesting to read different - maybe the true spins, maybe not - on so-called famous people. On another note, I just finished Frank McCourt's, "Angela's Ashes". In short, the best book I've read since "Atlas Shrugged", which I read a long time ago. "Angela's Ashes" is THAT good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aloysius Posted June 10, 2009 Report Share Posted June 10, 2009 The Peace Maker Rahm Emanuel's Mideast Mission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. T Posted June 12, 2009 Report Share Posted June 12, 2009 WHO declares swine flu pandemic who declares read here # FLU PANDEMIC -- Swedish government official tells BNO News that the WHO has declared a global swine flu pandemic # URGENT -- BNO News confirms that the World Health Organization has raised the pandemic alert level to its highest level. Details to come.21 minutes ago from BNO Headquarters # BULLETIN -- WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION RAISES PANDEMIC ALERT LEVEL TO ITS HIGHEST LEVEL, DECLARES SWINE FLU PANDEMIC. Level 6 http://www.vuetoo.com/vue1/Situationpagene...p;np=&tp=14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted June 12, 2009 Report Share Posted June 12, 2009 June 11, 2009 Influential liberal sees the light on Obama Ed Lasky Marty Peretz has been a leading liberal light for many years from his post at the influential New Republic. He was wholeheartedly in Barack Obama's corner during the campaign. I criticized him for his views and for spinning for the Obama campaign-particularly when it came to the issue of one of our most beleaguered allies, Israel. However, in the last few weeks, Peretz seems to have had an epiphany. Obama is not what he thought he was. Peretz has published one piece after another taking the Obama administration to task over its foreign policy approach. His latest target is our Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, about whom I have been writing since the campaign. Ambassador Rice's position was raised to Cabinet rank, and she seems to have as much foreign policy influence -- if not more than -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She pushed for participation in Durban II, pushed for America to join the disgraceful Human Rights Council, and (during her maiden speech at the UN) called for Israel to investigate itself for war crimes. She deflected criticism from supporters of the American-Israel relationship by promising that American would lead to a transformation of these international meetings and groups from being anti-Israel and anti-American. They would no longer be sinecures for our adversaries. Peretz finds her record one of broken pledges and one of failure: Given his following and weight in the world of liberal Jewish thought, perhaps his growing awareness will be a leading indicator. Another Triumph For Ambassador Rice: Four especially reassuring elections occurred at the United Nations on Wednesday. So I hasten to bring you the good news. Let me give it to you seriatim: 1. Libya was elected President of the U.N. General Assembly. The Libyan minister for African affairs has been designated for the post. 2. Sudan as been elected as vice president of the General Assembly. This bodes well for Darfur. 3. Algeria has been elected as chair of the Assembly's Legal Committee, known in the U.N.'s streamlined bureaucracy as the Sixth Committee. 4. Iran has been elected vice-chair of the Sixth Committee. Susan Rice will have a wonderful time engaging with these men. Especially since the president's Cairo speech, which has changed the world. Some might be tempted to criticize Peretz for his earlier support of Obama. But it does take some moral courage from the perches of Cambridge to criticize Barack Obama, his policies and the people he has chosen to drive our foreign policy. Apostasy does not play well within the crowds that Marty Peretz probably finds himself in on a day by day basis. His turn away from Obama is a welcome step forward. Hopefully, he will be a leading indicator of a wave of disillusion yet to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mz. Posted June 12, 2009 Report Share Posted June 12, 2009 Anything by Glenn Greenwald. EDIT: I'm not sure if you have to be a salon.com subscriber to read him or not............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PB&J Posted June 12, 2009 Report Share Posted June 12, 2009 This is pertinent to the right wing violence topic, but since that has been declared a crazytown I'll post it here: The Big Hate Back in April, there was a huge fuss over an internal report by the Department of Homeland Security warning that current conditions resemble those in the early 1990s — a time marked by an upsurge of right-wing extremism that culminated in the Oklahoma City bombing. Conservatives were outraged. The chairman of the Republican National Committee denounced the report as an attempt to “segment out conservatives in this country who have a different philosophy or view from this administration” and label them as terrorists. But with the murder of Dr. George Tiller by an anti-abortion fanatic, closely followed by a shooting by a white supremacist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the analysis looks prescient. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/opinion/12krugman.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted June 13, 2009 Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 He committed a crime, and was acting out in violence to change the status quo. Makes him more of a leftist terrorist. He had the location and info on the local very conservative newspaper... Apparently, he was out to get them, too. He was a nut case. Go look at the assasinations and attempted ones, and who committed them. Across the board. The premise of this thread is invalid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. T Posted June 13, 2009 Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 The only connection they did not bring forward was the Iraqi identity of "John Doe Number Two. The most positive thing to come out of this fiasco was that Oklahoma State Representative Charles Key is still going strong a decade later, after fighting hard at the time to establish a Citizen's Grand Jury, that was squelched by the government. Today, Key is a leader in the Oklahoma Sovereignty Movement. Remember Hoppy Heidelberg? He was on the original Grand Jury who quit because the government would not provide real evidence. But today, since we live in an Orwellian world, the only history is the history that is politically correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aloysius Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 Shooting the Messenger By Mark Hosenball | NEWSWEEK In February, the Missouri Information Analysis Center, one of several "fusion" centers created after 9/11 to share intelligence among local, state and federal agencies, issued a "strategic report" warning about a resurgence of the "modern militia movement." Last week, on the same day that white supremacist James von Brunn allegedly killed a guard at Washington's Holocaust Memorial Museum, Missouri's police chief informed legislators that the fusion center had suspended production of such reports. Why? Outcry from conservative activists, who felt they were being tarred too. Similarly, in April, Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives badgered the Department of Homeland Security into backing away from a report about growing far-right extremism. They may talk about it less in public now, but law-enforcment and intel officials tell NEWSWEEK they're quietly scrutinizing threats from the far right just as carefully as those from Islamic extremists. And the danger isn't entirely homegrown. According to published reports, von Brunn attended meetings of the American Friends of the British National Party, a now defunct group that raised funds for the U.K.'s largest far-right movement. The British National Party's leader, onetime Holocaust denier Nick Griffin, recently won election to the European Parliament and has regularly visited the U.S. to speak to extremist groups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 the site "Snopes.com" has positioned itself, or others have labeled it, as the 'tell-all final word' on any comment, claim and email. But for several years people tried to find out whom exactly was behind snopes.com. Only recently did Wikipedia get to the bottom of it - kind of makes you wonder what they were hiding. Well, finally we know. It is run by a husband and wife team - that's right, no big office of investigators and researchers, no team of lawyers. It's just a mom-and-pop operation that began as a hobby. David and Barbara Mikkelson in the San Fernando Valley of California started the website about 13 years ago - and they have no formal background or experience in investigative research. After a few years it gained popularity believing it to be unbiased and neutral, but over the past couple of years people started asking questions who was behind it and did they have a selfish motivation? The reason for the questions - or skepticisms - is a result of snopes.com claiming to have the bottom line facts to certain questions or issue when in fact they have been proven wrong. Also, there were criticisms the Mikkelsons were not really investigating and getting to the 'true' bottom of various issues. A few months ago, State Farm agent Bud Gregg in Mandeville hoisted a political sign referencing Barack Obama and made a big splash across the internet, 'supposedly' the Mikkelsons claim to have researched this issue before posting their findings on snopes.com. In their statement they claimed the corporate office of State Farm pressured Gregg into taking down the sign, when in fact nothing of the sort 'ever' took place. No one from snopes.com ever contacted anyone with State Farm. Yet, snopes.com issued a statement as the 'final factual word' on the issue as if they did all their homework and got to the bottom of things - not! Mikkelsons are very liberal. As we all now know from this presidential election, liberals have a purpose agenda to discredit anything that appears to be conservative. There has been much criticism lately over the internet with people pointing out the Mikkelsons liberalism revealing itself in their website findings. To everyone who goes to www.snopes.com to get what they think to be the bottom line facts, proceed with caution. Take what it says at face value and nothing more. Use it only to lead you to their references where you can link to and read the sources for yourself. Plus, you can always google a subject and do the research yourself. It now seems apparent that's all the Mikkelsons do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. T Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 the site "Snopes.com" has positioned itself, or others have labeled it, as the 'tell-all final word' on any comment, claim and email. But for several years people tried to find out whom exactly was behind snopes.com. Only recently did Wikipedia get to the bottom of it - kind of makes you wonder what they were hiding. Well, finally we know. It is run by a husband and wife team - that's right, no big office of investigators and researchers, no team of lawyers. It's just a mom-and-pop operation that began as a hobby. David and Barbara Mikkelson in the San Fernando Valley of California started the website about 13 years ago - and they have no formal background or experience in investigative research. After a few years it gained popularity believing it to be unbiased and neutral, but over the past couple of years people started asking questions who was behind it and did they have a selfish motivation? The reason for the questions - or skepticisms - is a result of snopes.com claiming to have the bottom line facts to certain questions or issue when in fact they have been proven wrong. Also, there were criticisms the Mikkelsons were not really investigating and getting to the 'true' bottom of various issues. A few months ago, State Farm agent Bud Gregg in Mandeville hoisted a political sign referencing Barack Obama and made a big splash across the internet, 'supposedly' the Mikkelsons claim to have researched this issue before posting their findings on snopes.com. In their statement they claimed the corporate office of State Farm pressured Gregg into taking down the sign, when in fact nothing of the sort 'ever' took place. No one from snopes.com ever contacted anyone with State Farm. Yet, snopes.com issued a statement as the 'final factual word' on the issue as if they did all their homework and got to the bottom of things - not! Mikkelsons are very liberal. As we all now know from this presidential election, liberals have a purpose agenda to discredit anything that appears to be conservative. There has been much criticism lately over the internet with people pointing out the Mikkelsons liberalism revealing itself in their website findings. To everyone who goes to www.snopes.com to get what they think to be the bottom line facts, proceed with caution. Take what it says at face value and nothing more. Use it only to lead you to their references where you can link to and read the sources for yourself. Plus, you can always google a subject and do the research yourself. It now seems apparent that's all the Mikkelsons do. Propaganda at its finest. nice find Cal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. T Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 Enjoy!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 Truth is, some site called "Factorfiction.com" says the aforementioned email is bogus ! (received in a follow-up email, just to be fair and balanced... LOL ******************************************************************************** * Snopes.com is a secret tool of the Democratic Party to promote Barack Obama- Fiction! Summary of the eRumor: An eRumor about Snopes.com accusing them being owned by a flaming liberal and this man is in the tank for Obama.[/font]The Truth: In October, 2008, stories began circulating via forwarded emails that the popular urban legends site Snopes.com was owned by liberals and was "in the tank" for presidential candidate Barack Obama. As with many forwarded emails, the criticism did not include any example of what the writer of the email claimed was the difference between what Snopes.com reported and what Barack Obama had actually said. Snopes.com is an excellent site that has become an authoritative source for information about urban legends and forwarded emails. We regard David and Barbara Mikkelson, the founders and operators of Snopes.com, as colleagues and professional researchers who have earned a good reputation for what they do. We can give a unique perspective on this story because we do the same kind of work as Snopes.com and have sometimes been the target of similar criticism. We've got a collection of emails that have come to TruthOrFiction.com accusing us of being "right wing whackos" as well as "liberals" and "communists." We've been suspected of being owned and operated by both Republicans and Democrats. We've been called "Christian propagandists" as well as "atheists pretending to be neutral." We occasionally receive emails that have elaborate theories about who "really" owns us and what our "real" motives are. The bottom line is that if you try to report the truth, there will be those who don't like the truth you've reported and who will develop suspicions about why you did. That, in our view, is what is happening with Snopes. The 2008 presidential campaign has been one of the most intense and unique in our nation's history and has prompted more political eRumors than any presidential campaign in our experience, especially about Barack Obama. These anti-Snopes emails have probably been prompted by someone who does not like Barack Obama and does not like the fact that Snopes (or TruthOrFiction.com for that matter) has debunked some of the emails that are not true about him. One of the versions of the eRumor mentions TruthOrFiction.com and recommends our site. We appreciate that, but we want to say for the record that we've had nothing to do with this eRumor about Snopes.com and we condemn it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. T Posted June 17, 2009 Report Share Posted June 17, 2009 Hamas Reinstates Crucifixions of Christians newsmax.com ^ | January 9, 2009 | Nicole Jansezian Posted on Friday, January 09, 2009 11:24:45 PM by Free ThinkerNY While the world focused on Hamas militants launching rockets from Gaza at southern Israel, the terrorist organization also voted quietly to implement Islamic law in the Gaza Strip, including crucifixion of Christians, according to reports in the Arabic press. The traditional Muslim criminal code, known as Sharia law, includes penalties such as amputation of limbs for stealing and the death penalty, including crucifixion, for actions Hamas deems detrimental to “Palestinian interests,” including collaborating with Israel. The new law was reported on the Al-Arabiya Web site and in the London-based Saudi-owned newspaper Al-Hayat, which wrote that the implementation of Sharia law has “brought criticism and concern from human rights organizations in the Gaza Strip.” But the media scarcely took notice when the decision was reported during the Christian holidays as fighting between Hamas and Israel escalated in late December. “Hamas’ endorsement of nailing enemies of Islam to crosses came at the same time it renewed its jihad,” Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick wrote on Dec. 26. “Here, too, Hamas wanted to make sure that Christians didn’t feel neglected as its fighters launched missiles at Jewish day care centers and schools.” 2000-2008 John Robinson http://www.topix.com/forum/world/middle-ea...9CS1MIR1P633C6U Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicopee John Posted June 17, 2009 Report Share Posted June 17, 2009 And Jimmy 'Golly' Carter wants Hammas removed from the list on International Terrorist Organizations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mz. Posted June 18, 2009 Report Share Posted June 18, 2009 the terrorist organization also voted quietly to implement Islamic law in the Gaza Strip, including crucifixion of Christians I think the feeling is mutual. So why wouldn't they be as pissed as you Christians are? I know this won't be popular, but i know I am right....the sooner they are extinct, the better off we will be...trust me.....they want to be sure we are extinct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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