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  1. “Nobel prize winner for physics in 1973 Dr. Ivar Giaever resigned as a Fellow from the American Physical Society (APS) on September 13, 2011 in disgust over the group’s promotion of man-made global warming fears. Climate Depot has obtained the exclusive email Giaever sent titled ‘I resign from APS’ to APS Executive Officer Kate Kirby to announce his formal resignation.
    “Dr. Giaever wrote to Kirby of APS: ‘Thank you for your letter inquiring about my membership. I did not renew it because I cannot live with the (APS) statement below (on global warming):

    APS: ‘The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring. If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth’s physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur. We must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases beginning now.'”

    (h/t Maggie’s Farm)

  7. @martywd
    No kidding. Unfortunately, if Obama loses a primary to Hillary, the chance of Republicans winning the White House in 2012 drops significantly.
    The worst part is that Obama probably isn’t any further left than Hillary, he’s just not smart or subtle enough to push socialism quietly enough. Hillary is.

  8. As kate would say: The end of the American Empire.
    Dinner with Ahmadinejad
    Why is a man who represents all that liberals hate being welcomed onto campus?
    A student spokesman for the group, asked if the invitation provoked controversy within CIRCA, seemed surprised by the question. “Everyone was really enthusiastic,” said Tim Chan. “They’re thrilled to have this opportunity.”
    http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/277382/dinner-ahmadinejad-mona-charen
    Mean while
    Michael Coren: Tyndale University Caves to Cultural Marxists Cancels George W Bush Speech
    http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2011/09/michael-coren-tyndale-university-caves.html

  9. Well, Rev., not everyone’s privileged to have their own insane Iranian to converse with the way we do here at SDA.
    ‘Course if I thought she was developing the bomb I might be worried.

  10. A citizen is a person who, when the government says “Jump”, answers “How high?”. The evidence:
    Toronto Star, Friday, Sept. 16. Article by Edmund Pries, department of Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University.
    (Global Studies? The whole globe? That must be awfully profound. But didn’t these things used to be called political science or sociology or something?)
    http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/1054802–taxpayers-vs-citizens
    Pries: “The [Toronto Taxpayers Coalition] recently offered an essay contest confined to the simplistic anti-visionary insipidity, ‘Lower taxes are good for Toronto because …'”.
    Government officials are not visionaries. They do not have special insight into the societal problems of the day. They are human beings with agendas of their own, and can be as venal as anyone. In fact, since they are paid through taxation rather than through offering services to voluntary buyers in the free market, they are often protected from their mistakes or depredations. Government is coercive, not visionary. Leave the visions to Nostradamus.
    Pries: “‘Taxpayer’ is an individualistic and self-centred definition that imagines taxes as a transaction in which a levy or a tariff is borne and paid by an individual in exchange for specific personally-realized services.”
    Yes, that’s called “trade”. Individuals decide what they wish to produce, what they need to consume to maintain their life and its quality, and they voluntarily trade with others for mutual benefit. That is how the standard of living rises.
    Pries (next sentence): “Hence, all evaluations and calculations of government actions and community development programs are based simply upon their monetary ‘cost’ to an individual ‘taxpayer,’ without any reference whatsoever to social benefit or community value.”
    There is no “social benefit or community value”. Every one of these programs is geared to individuals in some way. The problem is that in the absence of trade and market pricing and in the presence of forcible taxation, some individuals will benefit more and some will pay more. That is immoral and unsustainable. A person who is asked to pay all the costs without receiving any of the benefits is not much better than a slave. This is what is really meant by “citizen”. He is a person who is willing to accept coercion by government, which increases incrementally until he has no freedom left.
    Pries: “The operative question for a citizen thus becomes: What contribution am I making to build and strengthen the community for my family and for my neighbours — for my fellow citizens? Citizens will see taxes as a positive contribution to broader society, whether city, province or country.”
    Here’s a related question: Who benefits from the citizen’s “contributions”? This passage is the siren song of the person who is benefiting from the “contributions” of others at the bottom of the scale.
    No one is saying that the monolithic monstrosity we call government can be broken up overnight, but given the economic difficulties around the world caused by exactly the kind of thinking advocated here by professor Fries, the time to start thinking about it is yesterday.

  12. “Red alliance wins election”
    “Helle Thorning-Schmidt to become Denmark’s first woman prime minister.”
    http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/ECE1394598/red-alliance-wins-election/
    …-
    “Action is needed to save Europe from paralysis”
    “The longer the eurozone’s problems are unaddressed the more likely it is we will see another dramatic economic contraction.”
    “At The Daily Telegraph’s Festival of Business in Manchester yesterday, George Osborne, the Chancellor, outlined the very welcome programme of initiatives the Government has launched to help enterprise and get the economy going again. But overshadowing his speech was a menace he seems powerless to counter – an all-embracing paralysis at the heart of Europe that threatens to plunge the world economy into its greatest crisis since the collapse of Lehman Brothers three years ago.
    The causes of Europe’s debt nightmare are many and varied, yet the eurozone’s failure to come up with meaningful solutions can be put down to one thing – an almost total failure of political leadership. This is as much a political as a financial and economic crisis.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/8768599/Action-is-needed-to-save-Europe-from-paralysis.html

  13. Quote of the day:
    “Despite being less liquid than currencies, bonds or gold, farmland remains a popular haven investment for two reasons. First, it is a ‘real asset’ that cannot be devalued by central bank or government policy. Second, its value is tied to the growth in agricultural consumption being driven by emerging economies,”

  14. “… when will we be seeing george dubya stuffed with kapok and put on display?”
    Maybe never, troll. It’d be better to see a stuffed BHO on display: that’d be “Hope and Change” we could all believe in, and benefit from.
    The only way Hussein is leaving the whitehouse is if he’s asked quietly, and given a plumb position with the ruse that he’s “bigger than the whitehouse” to carry. Secretary General of the UN, or maybe Master of the Universe. Nobody on the left, hillary included, is going to spearhead to forcefully challenge and dump the first black POTUS in the country’s history, even one that has proved as destructive to the country as BHO.
    Great commercial, but wonder why chuck testa is wearing an SS skull on the front of his hat?
    mhb23re

  15. xiat – agree with you ref farmland. But it can always be “nationalized” or “collectivized”. Ownership of land can only exist in a civilized society because it is based solely on a bit of paper that says you own the land, and other peoples respect for those conventions.

  16. mhb – “Great commercial, but wonder why chuck testa is wearing an SS skull on the front of his hat?”
    Good question; that does seem to be what it is. Creepy bugger. Reminds me of this.

  17. He is definitly wearing a German Army field cap. It may or may not be an SS badge. German armoured corps troops had a very similar badge that dated back to the Prussian cavalry of the Napoleonic period. They are very similar and I can’t get a close enough look in the video to tell which it is. Still not a particularly wise choice of head gear.

  21. ““Ick bin ein Obama”.
    (H/T Someone reads SDA? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, they say. You heard it first on SDA.)
    “in an apparent play on John F. Kennedy’s famous “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech.”
    …-
    “Blackface Obama Billboard Sparks Outrage”
    “Via DrudgeReport ^ | September 17, 2011”
    “German comedian Martin Sonneborn is well-known for jokes bordering on the tasteless. But a satirical political billboard of him posing in blackface makeup as US President Barack Obama is sparking outrage.
    US ambassador laments ‘racist jerks’ in Germany – Society (8 Sep 11) “Ick bin ein Obama (I am an Obama),” reads the poster at Berlin’s central Ernst Reuter Platz square, in an apparent play on John F. Kennedy’s famous “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech. On the poster, a “black” Sonneborn smiles as he raises his arm in the air.
    The billboard is the latest in Sonneborn’s campaign for his satirical political party Die Partei ahead of state elections in Berlin this Sunday. It’s meant to make fun of the entire German political establishment and go up to the edge of propriety – another poster is entitled “MILFS against Merkel” and the campaign has also mocked the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party.
    But the latest one is upsetting to some because of the racial connotations of blackface theatre, which was widespread in America in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Based on ugly stereotypes, blackface consisted of white performers painting themselves black for degrading minstrel shows. It it quickly died out in the United States after the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
    In an interview with The Local on Thursday, Sonneborn, staying in character as the leader of Die Partei, said his billboard wasn’t racist.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2779937/posts

  22. O’hood and the Boy$.
    A twofer.
    …-
    “Solyndra: Obama’s audacity of failure”
    “CHICAGO, September 17, 2011- Sloyndra is not the name of a recent Obama appointee. It’s not a Middle East rebel faction, a country facing revolution, the name of a stripper, rap singer, or a newly discovered planet.
    It is the name of a company that robbed the tax payers of over 500 million dollars and tried to come back for more. Aided and abetted by the White House.
    Solyndra was a pipe dream California company that planned to manufacture solar panels. It had applied for government loans during the Bush administration. That administration dragged their feet or sat on the deal because the financials did not make sense. There was a prediction Solyndra would go belly up in September of 2011.
    What a difference an election makes. The Obama administration comes in and the money flows out. The prediction came true and it is blowing up in everyone’s faces. Timing is everything. While this president is touting spending more taxpayer money for his jobs plan, we are witnessing the failure of past money spent for his jobs plan.
    Over a half billion dollars wasted and 1,100 jobs lost at Solydra. That’s change you can believe in. Other new or green technology companies are facing the same problems. They too received government funds in the form of grants or loans. They are falling by the wayside. Money wasted and jobs lost.
    Solyndra was fast tracked by the Obama administration, against all expert advice, for three reasons.”
    http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/middle-class-guy/2011/sep/17/solyndra-audacity-failure/
    …-
    “Solyndra’s Whorehouse Lender (Follow the Money)”
    “zerohedge ^ | 9/17/2011 | Bruce Krasting”
    “If you want to find out what happened with Solyndra you have to follow the money. I did. The half billion dollars of taxpayer dough that is probably lost in Sol came from the Federal Financing Bank (“FFB”). It’s worth a look at this bank to see what else is going on.
    FFB is a bank that is owned and controlled by the US Treasury. The chairman of the Board is the TSec. (Tim Geithner). With the (big) exception of the Post Office all of the loans at FFB are guaranteed by government agencies. Technically speaking, FFB has no risks on loans guaranteed by an agency like the DOE. But I don’t think that should absolve Tim Geithner of any responsibility regarding the losses the country faces with Solyndra. If he, (or anyone else at Treasury) puts their pen to a ½ billion loan, they better well know where the taxpayers money is going. That didn’t happen.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2779904/posts
    (Go for the comments.)

  23. Mao Stlong* Lepolt.
    WHO not 20% funny.
    …-
    “Chinese condoms too small for South Africans”
    “A South African court has blocked the government from buying 11 million Chinese condoms, saying they are too small, a newspaper reported Friday. The finance ministry had awarded a contract to a firm called Siqamba Medical, which planned to buy the Phoenurse condoms from China, the Beeld newspaper said. A rival firm, Sekunjalo Investments Corporation, turned to the High Court in Pretoria after losing the bid, arguing that their condoms were 20 percent larger than the Chinese ones. Judge Sulet Potterill blocked the deal with Siqamba, ruling that the condoms were too small, made from the wrong material, and were not approved by the World Health Organisation, the paper said.
    South Africa has more HIV infections than any country in the world, with 5.38 million of its 50 million people carrying the virus.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2779981/posts
    *Liberal leader Basement Bob Rae’s Uncle Mo Strong.

  24. O’Lenin: Shoot the kulaks*.
    …-
    “Obama to propose “Buffett Tax” on millionaires”
    “By Alister Bull”
    “WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, in a populist step designed to appeal to voters, will propose a “Buffett Tax” on people making more than $1 million a year as part of his deficit recommendations to Congress on Monday.
    Such a proposal, among suggestions to a congressional supercommittee expected to seek up to $3 trillion in deficit savings over 10 years, would appeal to his Democratic base ahead of the 2012 election but may not raise much in revenues.”
    http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE78G2K320110918
    *Lenin: Shoot …
    “the campaign of mass executions launched against the kulaks — designated “wealthier” peasants — also overwhelmingly targeted males. “In Kiev jail they are reported at this time [1929-30] shooting 70-120 men a night,” reports Robert Conquest; a typical story “is of the Ukrainian village of Velyki Solontsi where, after 52 men had been removed as kulaks, their women and children were taken, dumped on a sandy stretch along the Vorskla River and left there.” (Excerpts from Conquest, The Harvest of Sorrow.) The vast majority of “kulaks” imprisoned in the labour/death camps were also male (see the incarceration/death penalty case study).”
    http://www.gendercide.org/case_stalin.html

  25. @ maz2, The Harvest of Sorrow is quite interesting and sad to read, especially when some of your relatives suffered the fate Conquest describe.
    The only difference between what you mention “dumped along a sandy stretch along the Vorskla River” is that in the case of my great uncles families, after the farmsteads and personal effects were confiscated and the men arrested and sent to the labour/death camps, the women and children were given some shovels and picks, a horse for every so many families and with what they could carry in the way of food, cloths and kitchen utensils, were chased into the Ural Mountain foothills to dig caves in which were to be their living quarters. They eventually were supposed to establish a village. Until brush could be cleared and gardens planted they had to survive on what they could find in the bush. Needless to say many died, especially the children, from exposure and lack of food during the winters.
    Kind of like some would like to accomplish here.

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