Wow! Joseph [political correctness be damned] Farrah.
Friday, December 17, 2010
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Bailouts should be borne by banks: Carney - �News - MSN CA
Bailouts should be borne by banks: Carney - �News - MSN CA
Agreed... 100%. Actually in the US and UK the government should institute a tax to claw back much or most of the bailout funds.
Monday, October 04, 2010
BBC News - Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders goes on trial
BBC News - Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders goes on trial
I may not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it?
This is not a good situation for FREEDOM. People must be free to express their thoughts and ideas, and be able to debate them in the public forum.
Wilders is confronting a serious problem in Europe and while many may not appreciate his style of doing so, it seems that most others are asleep at the switch as this immigration train leads all of Europe and Western Civilization into a rock wall at full speed.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Shariah a danger to U.S., security pros say - Washington Times
Shariah a danger to U.S., security pros say - Washington Times
A panel of national security experts who worked under Republican and Democratic presidents... In a report set for release today, the panel states that "it is vital to the national security of the United States, and to Western civilization at large, that we do what we can to empower Islam's authentic moderates and reformers." According to the report, proponents of Shariah are "Muslim supremacists" waging "civilization jihad" along with the Islamist terrorists engaged in violent jihad, like al Qaeda.
Thursday, September 09, 2010
BBC News - US President Obama condemns plans to burn the Koran
BBC News - US President Obama condemns plans to burn the Koran
I think that Obama's entering in to the fray on this particular issue is ill advised. It seems to me that he is simply "fanning the flames" of this issue.
The idea of book burning is highly repugnant to me. The thought of burning some one else's Holy Scriptures is at least exponentially so.
This moronic "pastor" and his sophomoric followers should be seen for what and who they are... narrow minded, bigoted and daft.
There are much better ways to make a point. I m not certain that Islam in and of itself is the issue with respect to the blight of international terrorism... though I must admit that my own thinking and ideas are still developing on the matter.
There seems considerable evidence that 'Islam" is bent on some sort of world domination in some form and that, in areas of the world under Muslim control there is a vehement intolerance of other religious worship.
Europe has a pronounced and immediate problem... due to their liberal immigration policies, especially concerning Muslims. If the world of Western Civilization and Culture wants to survive... as itself... then serious measures will have to be taken to curtail the influx and get the population distribution to a more acceptable state.
Book burning... especially Koran burning... is immature, uneducated and makes a dangerous statement and precedent pertaining to all manner of freedom and liberty issues.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Dorothy Rabinowitz: The Alien in the White House - WSJ.com
Dorothy Rabinowitz: The Alien in the White House - WSJ.com
The title says it all... a good read.
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Current Affairs: ISRAEL - This is the most intelligent look at this issue that I have seen thus far. Well worth the read. I say it again… this is one issue that people need to be very aware of and to understand!
Read it and pass it on... or direct people to my blog.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0610/glick060810.php3
Caroline B. Glick is the senior Middle East Fellow at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, DC and the deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem Post.
Saturday, June 05, 2010
Krauthammer: Those troublesome Jews
Krauthammer: Those troublesome Jews
You might want to read this! Well written and it will give you an interesting point of view. Are we sitting by as it is being set up to happen again?
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Israel Navy commandos: Gaza flotilla activists tried to lynch us - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Israel Navy commandos: Gaza flotilla activists tried to lynch us - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
With all the "International" outcry and lockstep denunciations of Isreal... some balance and THINKING are required. I would point out that the elite Israeli forces are highly trained and disciplined and do not go in to situations hap-hazardly and guns ablaze in an undisciplined fashion.
Did anyone happen to hear or READ.... imagine that, actually read accounts of what happened rather that just listen to the 20 second sound bites or glance the headlines before giving in to "outrage"... This group of boats was "Ordered" to turn about and cease its course. They refused and were boarded. Some then reacted with violence... So what the hell do you expect... HELLO???? I suppose that it might have been better to have allowed the hapless group to continue in and proceed into territorial waters where they then could have been declared enemy combatants and literally blown out of the water... Hmmmm what do you think?
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Steve Wynn Takes on Washington, Vegas & EBITDA - CNBC
Steve Wynn Takes on Washington, Vegas & EBITDA - CNBC
“Washington is unpredictable these days,” Wynn states. Yes, what a mess!
Friday, May 28, 2010
Peggy Noonan: He Was Supposed to Be Competent - WSJ.com
Peggy Noonan: He Was Supposed to Be Competent - WSJ.com
Obama has been, and continues to be, a huge disappointment... even to those of us who were concerned about his lack of experience and his nothing but hype campaign for President... it is all coming home to roost now. How unfortunate.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Will the PIGS Blow Up Europe? - HUMAN EVENTS
Will the PIGS Blow Up Europe? - HUMAN EVENTS
That is the problem with 'ivory tower experiments'... some times they blow up! The sad thing is that in these "Social Engineering" experiments it is real people that do the suffering and now perhaps even whole countries of people. I wonder how many times we need to be shown that SOCIALISM DOES NOT WORK - FREEDOM AND LIBERTY must be the foundation for any civil society worth its name.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Economic Indiscipline the Root of Europe's Woes
Economic Indiscipline the Root of Europe's Woes: "Greece represents a perverse aspiration — a society with (in the words of Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan) 'more takers than makers,' more people taking benefits from government than there are people making goods and services that produce the social surplus that funds government. By socializing the consequences of Greece's misgovernment, Europe has become the world's leading producer of a toxic product — moral hazard."
Read the entire article... Brilliantly written. People need to have an understanding of the issues.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Blumenthal’s Words Differ From His History - NYTimes.com
Blumenthal’s Words Differ From His History - NYTimes.com
Liar
"In an interview on Monday, the attorney general (candidate for Senate) said that he had misspoken about his service ' in Vietnam' ..."
Interesting... we used to call this simply a LIE, and the person who did it... a LIAR.
–noun
a person who tells lies.
Lies
–noun
1.
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.
2.
something intended or serving to convey a false impression; imposture: His flashy car was a lie that deceived no one.
3.
an inaccurate or false statement.
"misspoke" I am starting be really displeased with that word! Let's have the decency and integrity to call it what it is, a flat out blatant lie!
This guy is a disgrace... I really feel for those who did put themselves in harm's way... their heroism being usurped by morons like this... Reminds me of his colleague, Hillary Clinton, when she supposedly landed in Iraq 'under fire'.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Breitbart.tv � ‘Unbecoming an American’: Gingrich Slams Kagen Over Military Recruiters at Harvard
Breitbart.tv � ‘Unbecoming an American’: Gingrich Slams Kagen Over Military Recruiters at Harvard
Well... here come some thoughts on Obama's new nominee to the Supreme Court. Newt has an excellent point here, excellent... and the news media should be all over this.
Anyway there will be more to come on this... including my own thoughts as well... stay tuned.... But please watch this brief clip first.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Mock invitation to f�te Count Michael Ignatieff and Czar Nicholas - Inside Politics
Mock invitation to f�te Count Michael Ignatieff and Czar Nicholas - Inside Politics
OK... Come on... Some people NEED a sense of humor... remember humor... ie: FUNNY... some thing to have a good laugh, etc. etc. Good grief.
Frankly, I do not begrudge Him his heritage at all. It would be fun and interesting to have that background as part of one's ancestry. Of course the people who are really upset by this political satire... ie: political FUN are the same that want us all to suffer in EQUALITY... meaning, of course, equality of outcome... meaning that we should all suffer in the pit equal to the lowest common denominator. Anyway... have a read...AND... have a good LAUGH!
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
The disturbing similarities between Quebec and Greece
The disturbing similarities between Quebec and Greece
Interesting take... in bringing it even closer to home.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
CBC News - World - Are we all facing a Greek-style future?
CBC News - World - Are we all facing a Greek-style future?
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/05/10/f-rfa-macdonald.html#ixzz0neQtAO7v
Neil Macdonald
"European states run famously costly social cradle-to-grave social programs, which basically rely on each new generation to support the one that just retired, and in remarkably generous style, compared to the U.S. or even Canada.
The trouble is, the European generation about to enter the workforce is much smaller and its workers will be groaning under the burden of servicing all that government debt.
You don't have to be John Kenneth Galbraith to figure out what's going to happen over there next: slashed pensions, medical care and services. A systemic collapse of the European nanny state.
Imagine the Greek riots, but, oh, say a hundred times worse."
(mjd) Now... to things on this side of the puddle...
"The Americans don't count unfunded liabilities when they calculate their national debt. Things like public pensions, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, which are about to face a stampede of aging, retiring baby boomers.
By most estimates, the bills that will be arriving in Washington for the next few decades will total more than a hundred trillion dollars — several times the size of the entire American economy. Unpayable, by any realistic measure.
In other words, Americans are driving toward the debt wall in an out-of-control Toyota, too. And given the realities of the North American economy, they will be dragging Canadians right along behind them."
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/05/10/f-rfa-macdonald.html#ixzz0neQtAO7v
The Big Fat Greek Bailout - HUMAN EVENTS
The Big Fat Greek Bailout - HUMAN EVENTS:
by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers
"Greece’s economic crisis was caused by too much government spending and borrowing which weakened its already over-taxed, over-regulated economy. Although Greece’s population is just 11 million, it has more than one million public-sector employees. Greek civil servants enjoy 14 months of pay for 12 months worked, and their average retirement age is 53. Once retired, they enjoy generous pension benefits worth 80% of their salary. Greece will run a budget deficit this year worth 14% of its GDP, and its entire national debt will equal 113% of GDP. These policies proved unsustainable, and so the European Union and the IMF were called in to rescue Greece before international investors stopped lending them any more money."
"The Obama Administration on Sunday approved U.S. participation in an international bailout of Greece that will cost American taxpayers billions of dollars."
(mjd - my comments)
So let me see if I get this:
Greece (and other nations in Europe... and to a large extent this happening in Canada & the US as well) creates a false economy by having massive amounts of people working in the public (ie: Tax dollars funded) sector with cradle to grave care and babysitting, along with generous vacation time and early retirement.... and now YOU are going to write a large cheque, from your hard earned funds... or from your kid's college account... and send it to these people who now riot in the streets (think temper tantrums like babies) because they won't face the reality that their 'soft-life' system is not sustainable. How big is that cheque anyway... how big is the next one... and the next? Make NO MISTAKE... those funds that are being sent to Greece now, and others later... oh and don't forget the cheques you already wrote to GM and all those banks and Insurance companies... well those funds, those dollars... TAX DOLLARS... they come from somewhere... YOUR POCKET - YOUR SAVINGS - YOUR EARNINGS... or those of your kids and grandkids or both.
Feels pretty good eh!
America’s Greek Tragedy - HUMAN EVENTS
America’s Greek Tragedy - HUMAN EVENTS
A great read. Mr. Bauer puts it succinctly and forcefully. It is a message that needs to be understood.
The End of La Dolce Vita - HUMAN EVENTS
The End of La Dolce Vita - HUMAN EVENTS
Can democracies that attracted universal applause in the golden years of rising expectations impose upon their citizens the enduring and painful sacrifices necessary in a time of retrenchment?
ABOUT THE FINANCIAL COLLAPSE OF GREECE... and Europe? ... and North America?
by Patrick J. Buchanan (article linked above)
(I have cut & paste this one because I want to hi-lite some of Patrick's VERY IMPORTANT comments.)... read on:
Are Europe and America headed to where Athens is today?
To answer the question, consider what brought Greece to where she is -- running a deficit of 14 percent of gross domestic product with a debt approaching 100 percent, with Portugal, Spain, Ireland and Great Britain not that far behind.
How did this happen?
Protected by the United States through a half-century of Cold War, Europe cut back on defense and ratcheted up spending for La Dolce Vita.
All of Europe adopted universal health care. All voted in a shorter workweek, a higher minimum wage, greater job security, earlier retirements and munificent pensions.
As the cradle-to-grave welfare states rose, an ever-increasing share of the labor force left the private sector for the security of the public sector.
(NOTE THIS... it is KEY! - mjd)
Tax-consumers, the beneficiaries of the welfare states and the bureaucrats that ran them, grew in number, as taxpayers declined as a share of the labor force. Though Greece was far from the most productive nation in Europe, Athens led the parade.
After the baby boom ended, the pill arrival in the 1960s. Then came abortion on demand in the 1970s.
The fertility rate of Greece and every European nation fell below the 2.1 births per woman needed to replace an existing population. Greece's birth rate has been below zero population growth for three decades.
Result: In Year 2000, Greece had just under 11 million people and a median age of 38. In 2050, Greece is projected to have just under 11 million people, but the median age will be 50.
Were Greece a company, the solution would be bankruptcy.
But Greece is a country. And a bailout of $141 billion is being put together by the European Union and International Monetary Fund.
Why? Because, should Greece decide not to take a chain saw to her welfare state, but walk away from her debts and default, she would blow a hole in the balance sheets of the biggest banks in Europe.
Then the banks would have to be bailed out.
Seeing Greece's bondholders being burned, terrified holders of Portuguese and Spanish debt would start dumping their bonds, forcing Madrid and Lisbon to pay a higher interest rate both to sell new bonds and roll over the old ones coming due. Rather than savage their welfare state programs, and risk riots in the streets and a massacre at the polls, Madrid and Lisbon, too, might look agreeably at default.
Chancellor Angela Merkel, though exasperated with the Greeks, is urging Germans to back the $141 billion bailout: "Nothing less than the future of Europe ... is at stake."
Merkel believes there is no alternative. But there is an alternative -- a restructuring of Greece's debt or a default where the holders of Greek bonds suffer the fate of the holders of bonds from Lehman Brothers and General Motors.
Inevitably, this is what is going to happen.
For how long will Greeks work longer, retire later and live on smaller pensions, so holders of Greek bonds can get their interest payments right on time?
The EU and IMF may, with the bailout of Greece, kick this can up the road. But the crisis will return. For the nations of Europe have made commitments beyond their capacity to keep, given their growing debts and aging populations.
And America is not all that far behind.
While the federal deficit is not 14 percent of GDP, it was 10 percent in 2009 and may reach 11 percent in 2010. Trillion-dollar deficits are projected through the decade, bringing the public debt -- held by citizens, companies, foreign governments and sovereign wealth funds -- close to 100 percent of GDP.
And the unfunded liabilities of Social Security, Medicare and federal pensions rival those of Western Europe.
States like California and New York, larger than Greece, look a lot like Greece. Were it not for the scores of billions dished out to them by Obama's stimulus, some of these states would have come close to the brink New York City went over in 1975.
Many of these states are today laying off teachers, letting felons out of prison, and looking hard at the salaries and pensions of civil servants. While the temptation is great for Washington to bail them out again, the United States government itself has now begun to attract the concerned notice of holders of U.S. debt.
That we are witnessing Oswald Spengler's "Decline of the West" seems undeniable.
La Dolce Vita is coming to an end. The ever-expanding European and American welfare states of the 20th century will contract in the 21st. Some have already begun to shrink. A time of austerity is at hand.
Indeed, what is about to be tested is democracy itself.
Can democracies that attracted universal applause in the golden years of rising expectations impose upon their citizens the enduring and painful sacrifices necessary in a time of retrenchment?
We are about to find out.
Who's the Bigot, Mr. Brown? - HUMAN EVENTS
Who's the Bigot, Mr. Brown? - HUMAN EVENTS
Getting into some interesting territory here... but there is some very important thinking that needs to go on about this issue. There is, particularly, a line that I will attempt to hi-lite (see below) that goes directly to my previous post. At any rate... do read and give it some thought and share your ideas.
"Does the desire of a people to preserve its unique and separate ethnic identity and cultural character, de facto, constitute bigotry?"
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Conservative News: Aging world population is a profound crisis. - HUMAN EVENTS
Conservative News: Aging world population is a profound crisis. - HUMAN EVENTS
I've been pondering these issues for some time... I'm glad to see that some others are as well. However there are not nearly enough people considering these issues... and they are very OBVIOUS problems. The answer to one nagging question continues to allude me however. Why do our political elites - across the Western World - promote and adopt policies that are so brazenly deleterious to the propagation of the caucasian race? I can't find any logical explanation. This should in no way be seen as "racist" or "white supremacist" in any way shape or form. Other racial and cultural groups readily celebrate themselves and properly take pride in their heritage, history and racial and cultural characteristics. We, as caucasians, should do, and be free to do, the same without regret or apology. (I like the the title of Mitt Romney's new book and the attitude it represents.) We have done some great things! Created some great... perhaps the greatest governing systems for the promotion and maintenance of freedom and liberty. Problems? Yes certainly... mistakes? Of course... like everyone else we are human and and prone to human foibles. I would argue though that our great moments are far more numerous and far greater in substance than are our negative ones. We should celebrate our successes, our freedoms... and our existence and learn and improve from our mistakes and look to a brilliant future.
However the negative, apologetic and seemingly shame-filled handwringing and head hanging that has been going on now for some time, especially amongst our elites, has got to be overcome.
I have noticed that in each generation there seems to be some looming, "sky is falling" crisis that makes "us" look "bad". Whether it is the population boom, the oil crisis, or now the "global warming... er... global cooling... er climate change" junk science that has been slapped on us by the likes of Al Gore and his minions to attempt to make "us" feel badly and ashamed of our industrial and technological prowess and progress. It is simply absurd!
In the Western World (meaning "western" in an historical and cultural sense) our political elites need to start THINKING about, and DOING something about these problems, instituting policies that will increase "our" numbers. OR we will soon, like has befallen our part in Europe, be facing our own take over by the Muslims, or the Latin Americans ( and they have many of their own great traditions and accomplishments) or others and the demise of our own race. And what, logically, would be the point of that? What is wrong with being "white" and celebrating it and increasing our own numbers?... Hello!
Thursday, February 18, 2010
A Dangerous Evolution
A Dangerous Evolution: "Alexis de Tocqueville"
Well done Ian Hunter. It seems to me that so many have forgotten about the simple basics of freedom and democracy in the pursuit of comfort and and 'rights' and supposed equality. One problem is that there is a law of opposition... meaning that how would ween know good if there was no evil, or happiness if there was no sorrow... wealth, if there is no poverty, intelligence if there is no idiocy? Point made?
We're drowning in climate stupidity | Lorrie Goldstein | Columnists | Comment | Ottawa Sun
We're drowning in climate stupidity | Lorrie Goldstein | Columnists | Comment | Ottawa Sun
People need to read... and THINK! Good for Lorrie and the many others who are finally seeing the light on this abhorrent monstrosity of a fraud!
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Playing fairy godmother to Quebec not so fun
Playing fairy godmother to Quebec not so fun
Deliciously witty! But well to the point. Enjoy this article and share it with any anti-Oil sands types - but mostly with your friends who are too busy working and raising families and actually making the economy work, to be out protesting all the time.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Kelly McParland: Attila the prime minister - Full Comment
Kelly McParland: Attila the prime minister - Full Comment
I am glad to see someone with some brains in this debate... my goodness, the moronic and childish whipping up of false hysteria about the prorogation of Parliament is simply foolish and idiotic. In my experience - I was a constituency EA (executive assistant) to Bob Wenman MP (now deceased) - MPs work very hard and work long hours, even in - especially in - their constituencies.
The problem with actually being in Parliament all the time is that they are usually making more and more laws and, frankly, that is not always in our best interest. So I don't think that a break once and a while is a bad thing!
The other issue, and I think the most likely and best reason for Harper's shutting down of Parliament, is the blatantly political one - to reshuffle the Senatorial deck. It is a brilliant, and necessary move. The Grit Senators have been holding up progress on important conservative legislation and the PM has the constitutionally legal and political right and opportunity to make this great tactical move. It will improve his government's ability to get things done. Any leader worth the name would and should do it.
All the crassly hypocritical crying by the Libs and the NDP, and the stoking of the phony fire by some in the media, who are disingenuous at best or brain-dead at worst, is simply dishonest nonsense.
Good for you Mr. Prime Minister!
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