“Your days are done, GOP white man. In its November issue, Newsweek and writer David Frum want you to know that you’re old, you’re white, and you’re finished.”
Which is rather ironic, I think.
Great colour footage. Must have been one hell of a fight. Wonder what it looks like today??
Re: Okinawa today.
Just checked it out–gorgeous!! The Yanks gave it back to the Japs in 1972. Now that is bad!
If a “fat tax” is in your future just point the health Nazis to this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20280863
Sure to p!ss off Michelle and Bloomberg but that alone makes it worthwhile.
Frum has proven to be irony deficient for some time…
The UN also…
Great WW II film clip.
Does western civilization have the will to defend freedom today? I doubt it, as it is being destroyed from the inside.
Every year on Remembrance Day I remember one of my high school teachers who cried in the class room every Remembrance Day. He was the only survivor of a nine man bomber crew.
Rest in peace guys. Hopefully it was not in vain, although some days it does appear so.
US Debt Bomb Video Goes Viral
Is the US debt situation terminal like Greece?
CA types out there please check out the numbers and get back to us. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW5IdwltaAc
Michael Ledeen (in a hypothetical Ouija-board conversation with the late James Jesus Angleton [JJA], once the chief of CIA counterintelligence) on the Orca system “failures” in Mitt Romney’s campaign the day of the election, which resulted in their not knowing who they needed to get out to vote: JJA: Have you read those stories about the “software breakdowns” in the Romney get-out-the-vote program “Orca”? ML: Sure, it didn’t work, passwords didn’t work, it was a gigantic snafu. JJA: Uh huh. And has anyone raised the possibility that the Romney organization was penetrated in order to introduce “fatal errors” in their computers? ML: Actually I don’t believe I’ve seen that in print, although I’m sure somebody must have thought of it. http://pjmedia.com/michaelledeen/2012/11/10/the-petraeus-espionage-file/
I posited this theory yesterday. It’s not rocket science. The way it was written up in the media, it made Romney and his campaign sound like total idiots. It sounded more to me like sabotage.
On yesterday’s Reader Tips thread multirec asked about good Aussie conservative blogs to check out(apparently the luck sunofagun is living there now). He should definitely check out Tim Blair. http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/
Tarawa was the US’s first amphibious assault against heavy opposition. The heaviest part lasted only about 3 days.
It probably relied too much on land-based tactical airpower; the USN and USMC later put much more emphasis on carrier-borne air support.
For two later attacks, one might wish to read Eugene Sledge’s amazing and harrowing “With the Old Guard on Peleliu and Okinawa”.
There are still are American (and Candian, and British) military who would go through this.
These men are betrayed regularly by their most senior generals, and by the political leadership.
I don’t see “pregnant soldiers” storming the beaches (such as they were) at Tarawa.
I’m not sure what Ann Barnhardt was thinking when she got dressed the morning she taped her Economic Presentations, but they are worth watching.
Thanks Mamba, I will check it out. As to being a lucky guy, love the weather, but holy crow it’s expensive here! Good luck on buying a house. Also, I’m not used to the birds. I wake up at dawn everyday because they have birds here that sound like monkeys screwing.
Remembrance Day brings thoughts of now departed family who fought in the big name WW II battles. Sister’s father in law at Dieppe and ensuing Death March on the way to the POW camp. My father in law and the battle of Ortona. An uncle at D Day, another at the Falaise Pocket still another at Antwerp. Extracting their stories was worse than pulling teeth. Greatest memory I have of all of them is the far off stare that embraced them as they went back to the events still fresh in their minds. Well that and the occasional silent tear quickly wiped away.
I just watched a fascinating documentary about the politics of the Allies called “World War Two: 1942 and Hitler’s Soft Underbelly”.
It’s actually currently available here on YouTube though I don’t know for how long it’ll be there before it gets removed.
I’m actually quite a history buff when it comes to WW2 but I learned a lot from this new doc.
‘multirec’, you’re in Australia now? Can you answer me something: A fellow once called up to a Vancouver talkradio show and said that:
1. The prices of meals in restaurants in Australia is approximately double that of in Canada.
2. Food at supermarkets is much more expensive too.
Is any of this true?
For starters, what does a gallon (4L) of milk cost? What about a Big Mac?
And hookers. What’s the going rate for half and half down under? Is that twice as much too? If so, could I call it an Aussie double double?
Robert, Aussies we met on the ship thought European food prices were normal for them.
We paid 27.40 Euros for an American coffee, a tea and a 125 gm Tiramisu in small side street cafe off St. Mark’s Square. The only reason we bought these items was because we needed to have a whiz and the whiz places charged 1 Euro each.
Another place in the same area, which had waiters in white suits, wanted 85 Euros for a tea and another 85 Euros for an American coffee. There were people in there, but we walked out.
Btw, lots of Democrats, and some Canadians, on the ship who were ecstatic over Obama’s win. A few not so much.
Just a thought for the night on Justin Trudeau vs PM Harper :
Who would you trust your credit cards and life savings to more – your Dad or your kid?
d
Ken, you must have been in an Insane Tourist area in Italy! I was in Northern Italy earlier this year, as well as throughout Germany. The prices of food & coffee there were the equivalent to Canada except the prices were in Euros – so about 30% more. However, beer in Germany was much CHEAPER than in Canada!!
Globe and Mail, Saturday, Nov. 10. Editorial: “A ruling for a perfect world”. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/editorials/supreme-court-ruling-on-special-education-opens-pandoras-box/article5169193/
Ed.: “The Supreme Court of Canada has opened a Pandora’s box for public school boards by finding that a British Columbia school district discriminated against a dyslexic child when, during a financial crisis, it closed a special-education centre that provided him intensive help in learning to read.”
The Court had ruled previously, in Auton, 2004, that the health care system was not required to fund a special, expensive program that treated autism, as far as s.15(1) of the Charter of Rights, which deals with discrimination, was concerned. It had previously ruled in Eldridge, 1997, that a deaf person was entitled to sign-language interpreters for hospital visits.
Ed.: “[Moore] … received half-hour, one-on-one sessions three times a week with a learning assistance teacher, and two 40-minute sessions with a volunteer tutor, in Grade 1. A psychologist later recommended he receive more intensive help at a special centre run by the North Vancouver school district. But then the district closed the centre. The Supreme Court, noting that the district kept an outdoor education program open in spite of its financial difficulties, found that it had illegally discriminated. Is it the court’s business to choose a school district’s programs, or prescribe the required intensity of extra help?”
This is not a new development, after the Court arrogated a Minister’s decision-making power in Insite last year.
Ed.: “The court’s definition of adequacy is stunningly open-ended. A psychologist had said the centre’s intensive help would be beneficial; to the court, that meant it was required.”
Ed.: “It makes the court’s unanimous ruling more out of touch that the boy’s public education unfolded between 1991 and 1994, during and after a recession marked by across-the-board restraint, and finally, the overcoming of Canada’s deficit. Many political choices went into those years, and similar choices await today; governments, accountable to voters, should be the ones making those choices. The court overstepped its authority.”
Thus the Court decision is extremely destructive. Who knows what future government spending will be required on grounds that not to spend would be “discrimination”?
On the other hand, consider the plight of the parents. They have a disabled child, and the school system that provincial politicians allege is to be all things to all children is not helping that child, even though the parents pay taxes to it. What are they supposed to do? In this case they paid thousands of dollars out of their own pocket.
Had the Court ruled the opposite way, that would have been equally destructive, though perhaps on a smaller scale. But an individual must not be sacrificed to the collective.
There are no principles that can properly guide the spending of tax dollars collected through coercion. The concept of “fairness” can be applied broadly, but there are always winners and losers, many unwittingly, and many fully intent on capitalizing on the situation.
If there is a lesson to be learned from all of this, it is that education should be taken out of the hands of government, because government cannot live up to all its pie-in-the-sky promises and can never spend unjustly raised tax dollars in a just manner.
The closest we can get to a perfect world is one in which there is no coercion: “No person has the right to initiate the use of force or fraud on any other person” — Ayn Rand. This includes the barbarity of taxation, although, as she noted, eliminating taxation is the last step in the process, not the first.
NV53, I’ve thought long and hard on this decision. Initially, as a fiscal conservative my thought was that it was not (is not) the place of the court to ‘even the playing field of life’ regardless of cost to society.
But in this case, the young man has become a full time plumber – a well paid and highly useful career choice. Over the course of his career, he will likely pay many more times the cost of his ‘boosted’ education through income taxes.
OTOH, how much should we be obliged to pay towards a deeply autistic or Down’s child’s education, when the incremental benefit is to the child rather than to society at large?
Does a disability automatically entitle one to benefits and if so, who determines the level of those benefits – and are those entitlements unlimited irrespective of the circumstance or capacity of governments to provide them?
Great article by Jonah Goldberg over at NRO on how the devaluing of both the family and religion contributed, big-time, to the re-election of the Obamanation and his European vision for the U.S.A.: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/333038/becoming-european-jonah-goldberg The chief obstacle for this mission [Europeanizing government] is the family. The family, rightly understood, is an autonomous source of meaning in our lives and the chief place where we sacrifice for, and cooperate with, others. It is also the foundation for local communities and social engagement. As social scientist Charles Murray likes to say, unmarried men rarely volunteer to coach kids’ soccer teams [unless they’re pedophiles — my inclusion]. Progressivism always looked at the family with skepticism and occasionally hostility. Reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman hoped state-backed liberation of children would destroy “the unchecked tyranny . . . of the private home.” Wilson believed the point of education was to make children as unlike their parents as possible. Hillary Clinton, who calls herself a modern progressive and not a liberal, once said we must move beyond the notion there is “any such thing as someone else’s child.”
Yeah, Hillary, we get it: It’s not the family’s responsibility to care for their own children, it takes a village, aka, the government. ‘Turns out I was right to want to be the gatekeeper of my family in the ’80s, which was the reason I encountered so much hostility from the progressives: They were scathing in their scorn, ridicule, and exclusion.
This Petraeus/Benghazi scandal’s becoming as big as Hurricane Sandy (though watch the MSM try to stuff it into a bottle):
[Petraeus] betrayed us on two fronts: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/he_betrayed_us_on_two_fronts_y98HXOiiTtJZvjobbxxXRP
Inspector Clouseau wisdom applies here: “I believe everything. And I believe nothing. I suspect everyone. And I suspect no one.”
Neo-AGW Progress Report.
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“From United States:Climate Change Momentum: Sandy’s wrath gets our attention, and that of our …Syracuse.com (blog)”
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“Blizzard Shifts into the Canadian Prairies
The potent storm that dumped heavy snow on Montana will spread into Manitoba.” http://www.accuweather.com/
Robert, this was in the St. Mark’s square area in Venice. We had a lunch in a sidewalk cafe along the Grand Canal, not far from St. Mark’s Square, that was priced like you describe. Gasoline was priced around 1.70 Euros a litre.
According to another CIA source, the resignation of Christopher Kubasik, president and CEO-elect of defense and aerospace company Lockheed Martin, announced on the same day as Petraeus, might have ties to the events at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. “There is a relationship between Lockheed Martin and the defense department, as well as the CIA, that ties into current events in Turkey and Syria. This is particularly relevant in the operation taking place in Benghazi and when investigation into where the ‘black-ops’ money went. Don’t forget, Congress appropriated money, at the behest of Obama, for humanitarian aid, not weapons.”
Like Petraeus, Kubasik cited an “inappropriate relationship” for his resignation. “The timing is beyond coincidental, and the operation much too big for this to be merely coincidental.” http://mainfo.blogspot.ca/2012/11/did-obama-spend-humanitarian-aid-for.html
The media is reporting that businesses such as Applebee’s and Papa John’s will be laying off employees due to the consequences of the election.
The liberals, in their typical moronic stupidity have called for a boycott of these places citing job losses as a political move. How friggin’ dumb can they get? Boycotts will only precipitate additional layoffs.
The caring Left. Always concerned about others!
Left-liberalism’s dream world.
“… a horror of existence and a desire to escape from it.”
“… when a society mistakes itself for a cosmic fact, “it has become impossible to imagine that the society could simply cease to exist.””
c.f. O’s Dream Act*.
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Ken (Kulak):
“Liberals can not be persuaded by facts or logic…they have to wake up themselves apparently…and some do.”
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“Further Remarks on Eric Voegelin and Gnosticism”
“Voegelin has now broached the all-important topic of the “dream world” in and of itself, taking us to the heart of the Gnostic “pneumopathology,” or sickness of the soul.
I offer a quotation at length, the necessity of which I hope my readers will perceive:
Gnosticism as a counterexistential dream world can perhaps be made intelligible as the extreme expression of an experience that is universally human, that is, of a horror of existence and a desire to escape from it. Specifically, the problem can be stated in the following terms: a society, when it exists, will interpret its order as part of the transcendent order of being. This self-interpretation of society as a mirror of cosmic order, however, is part of social reality itself. [But not of cosmic reality.] The ordered society, together with its self-understanding, remains a wave in the stream of being… an island in the sea of demonic disorder, precariously maintaining itself in existence. Only the order of an existing society is intelligible; its existence itself is unintelligible. The successful articulation of a society is a fact that has become possible under favorable circumstances; and this fact may be annulled by unfavorable circumstances… Especially when a society has a glorious history, its existence will be taken for granted as part of the order of things. It has [then] become impossible to imagine that the society could simply cease to exist.
This dense passage presents a few philosophical subtleties. The dominant one is Voegelin’s careful distinction between the one fact of “the order of an existing society” as being “intelligible” and the other fact of “the existence” of such a society as being “unintelligible.” One can gloss the distinction under an example. The Constitution of the United States articulates the order of the North American polity that it establishes; and the Constitution is explicable to educated people who speak English, think logically, and have some sense of history before the Constitutional Convention. However, as the current campaign to undo the Constitution makes clear, the “fact” of the Constitutional order is only a contingent one, a “wave in the stream of being.” All of this is “intelligible.” But that unaccountable factors and incalculable chances could so dispose themselves at a particular moment in the swirling temporal pattern of the late Eighteenth Century so as to give rise to the Constitutional order, is not “intelligible.”
Next in relevance and still quite important is Voegelin’s assertion that, when a society mistakes itself for a cosmic fact, “it has become impossible to imagine that the society could simply cease to exist.” http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3984
*O’s Dream Act:
“Obama Wins Election and Latino Voters and Dreamers Are Ready to Cash the Check for the DREAM Act”
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com·2 days ago
PET Cemetery’s Multiculturalism Report.
Socialism is the religion of the stomach.
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“Surrey Diwali celebration cancelled after man chokes during eating competition
Victoria Times Colonist – 6 hours ago
SURREY – A Diwali celebration at a Surrey mall was cancelled Saturday afternoon when a man choked during an eating competition and was taken to the local hospital emergency.”
“Democracy fail!
Voter turnout in St. Lucie County, Florida was 141% of registered voters. Col. Allen West has locked down the ballots and voting machines to get a true recount, or that’s what he’s hoping he’s doing.
The Republic is a delusion.”
“130. Peter Boston” http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2012/11/10/and-thats-the-news/#comments
maz2 @12:41 – I have a very great regard for Col. West.
The CEO-in-waiting of the defense contractor who declined to issue WARN Act layoff notices on the urging of the Obama administration — sequestration-related notices mandated by law that would have gone out just before the election — has resigned, citing an affair.
The sequestration, which goes into effect Jan. 2 without “fiscal cliff” action in the lame-duck session, puts more than 2 million jobs at risk.
Virginia, Florida, and Pennsylvania — all swing states won by President Obama — would take the hardest hit with more than 365,000 job losses combined, according to a George Mason University & Chmura Economics and Analytics report. http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/11/09/lockheed-martin-exec-who-followed-admin-lead-on-warn-act-resigns-due-to-affair/
“It is outrageous that the White House is calling on companies to ignore federal law requiring them to alert their employees of possible layoffs due to potential budget cuts, then offering up taxpayer dollars to pay for legal fees and fines that result,” said Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.). “The aerospace and defense industry trade association recently estimated that the cuts from this sequestration will result in the loss of over 29,000 jobs in North Carolina alone.” http://pjmedia.com/blog/to-warn-or-not-contractors-get-financial-coverage-to-withhold-layoff-notices/
I put this up late yesterday,I think it deserves some more attention considering it is a direct assault on our ‘free; speech,and that the tribunal and court are acting on a section of the Human Rights Act that has been deleted.
Regina man gets jail for racist messages
” 30 days in jail for acting in contempt of an order of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.” http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/story/2012/11/07/sk-terry-tremaine-sentenced-1211.html
” GO STAMPS GO “, that isn’t hate speech,is it?
wallyj @2:42 – Crikey. Even the CBC commenters don’t seem to be liking this.
It’s outrageous.
Black Mamba, I also like Col. Allen West.
Went to a few links outlining post election layoffs. Staggering. 26,207 for starters
Some marked* are not necessarily Choomer connected; Contaminated medicines for example.
Teco Coal officials announce layoffs 90
Momentive Inc plans temporary layoffs for 150
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pa. officials to announce mandatory layoffs
Bartikowsky Jewelers shutting down 25
Penn Refrigeration laying off about 30
Layoffs at Groupon 600
* More layoffs announced at Aniston Weapons Incinerator 50
Murray Energy confirms layoffs at 3 subsidiaries 150
Laid off in Minnesota dairy plant closure 130
Stanford brake plant to lay off 75
Turbocare, Oce to lay off more than 220
ATI plans to lay off workers in North Richland Hills 172
SpaceX claims its first victims as Rocketdyne lays off 100
Providence Journal lays off full-time employees 23
CVPH lays off 17
New Energy lays off employees 40
Utah miners laid off because of ‘war on coal’, company says 102
Coal mine owner blames Obama for layoffs ( …. fired last night) 54
US Cellular drops Chicago, cuts jobs 640
Career Education to cut jobs, close 23 campuses 900
Vestas to cut more jobs 3,000
First Energy to cut jobs by 2016 400
Canceled program costs jobs at Ohio air base 115
AMD trims Austin workforce – jobs slashed 400
Workers lose jobs as Caterpillar closes plant in Minnesota 100
Exide Technologies to lay off workers 150
TE Connectivity to close Guilford plant, lay off 620
More Layoffs for Major Wind Company (…… jobs cut) 3,000
Cigna to lay off workers worldwide 1,300
* Ameridose to lay off hundreds of workers 800
Welch Allyn 275
Dana Holding Corp.
Stryker 95
Boston Scientific 1,300
Medtronic 1,000
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Energizer 1,500
Westinghouse
Research in Motion Limited 200
Lightyear Network Solutions 12
Providence Journal 23
Hawker Beechcraft 240
Boeing (30% of their management staff)
CVPH Medical Center 17
US Cellular 980
Momentive Performance Materials 150
Rocketdyne (Pratt and Whitney) 100
Brake Parts 75
Vestas Wind Systems 3,000
Husqvarna 600
Center for Hospice New York 40
Bristol-Meyers 480
OCE North America 135
Darden Restaurants (cutting hours)
West Ridge Mine (204 !!!!! power plants)
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United Blood Services Gulf (10%)
Smith & Nephew – …. layoffs 770
Abbott Labs – layoffs 700
Covidien – layoffs 595
Kinetic Concepts – layoffs 427
St. Jude Medical – layoffs 300
Hill Rom – layoffs 200
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*Caterpillar 100
Albrecht Sentry Food 70
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Applebee’s
Tarawa and the Island of Betio belong to a Japanese company the beaches where all those Marines had to wade in shallow water under fire is now the dumping ground for garbage and shellfish shells.
Recently an old amtrac was found buried under sand and debris inside were arms, ammo and the bodies of two Marines since exhumed ID’ed and repatriated.
There are estimated 500 American MIA’s in Betio arena many washed out to sea before collection could be done. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1rdZxfIvAc&feature=related
Black Mamba and Ken (Kulak): I, too, like Col. Allen West. Please God, he’s elected. But the way the trend is going, it may be difficult to differentiate a legitimate vote from a fraudulent one.
I don’t care if it sounds like whining, it appears that on a lot of fronts this election was stolen. Too many irregularities — a voter turnout of 141%? Orca system crashing on election day? Voting machines that tally a vote for Obama when the voter clearly hit the Romney button?
“Your days are done, GOP white man. In its November issue, Newsweek and writer David Frum want you to know that you’re old, you’re white, and you’re finished.”
Which is rather ironic, I think.
Sure, why not?
“The United Nations has placed Sudan on its panel that oversees human rights and the plight of women.”
Glenn Beck actually predicted Petraeus would ‘go’ because of the Libya attack:
http://www.glennbeck.com/2012/11/09/another-glenn-beck-prediction-comes-true-david-petraeus-resigns-as-head-of-the-cia/
Great colour footage. Must have been one hell of a fight. Wonder what it looks like today??
Re: Okinawa today.
Just checked it out–gorgeous!! The Yanks gave it back to the Japs in 1972. Now that is bad!
If a “fat tax” is in your future just point the health Nazis to this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20280863
Sure to p!ss off Michelle and Bloomberg but that alone makes it worthwhile.
What else are they hiding? is the headline over at the Drudge Report. Exactly my question.
Evidently, a lot: CIA Director Petraeus Resigns Over ‘Affair’
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/11/09/CIA-Director-Petraeus-Resigns
Frum has proven to be irony deficient for some time…
The UN also…
Great WW II film clip.
Does western civilization have the will to defend freedom today? I doubt it, as it is being destroyed from the inside.
Every year on Remembrance Day I remember one of my high school teachers who cried in the class room every Remembrance Day. He was the only survivor of a nine man bomber crew.
Rest in peace guys. Hopefully it was not in vain, although some days it does appear so.
US Debt Bomb Video Goes Viral
Is the US debt situation terminal like Greece?
CA types out there please check out the numbers and get back to us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW5IdwltaAc
Michael Ledeen (in a hypothetical Ouija-board conversation with the late James Jesus Angleton [JJA], once the chief of CIA counterintelligence) on the Orca system “failures” in Mitt Romney’s campaign the day of the election, which resulted in their not knowing who they needed to get out to vote:
JJA: Have you read those stories about the “software breakdowns” in the Romney get-out-the-vote program “Orca”?
ML: Sure, it didn’t work, passwords didn’t work, it was a gigantic snafu.
JJA: Uh huh. And has anyone raised the possibility that the Romney organization was penetrated in order to introduce “fatal errors” in their computers?
ML: Actually I don’t believe I’ve seen that in print, although I’m sure somebody must have thought of it.
http://pjmedia.com/michaelledeen/2012/11/10/the-petraeus-espionage-file/
I posited this theory yesterday. It’s not rocket science. The way it was written up in the media, it made Romney and his campaign sound like total idiots. It sounded more to me like sabotage.
On yesterday’s Reader Tips thread multirec asked about good Aussie conservative blogs to check out(apparently the luck sunofagun is living there now). He should definitely check out Tim Blair.
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/
Tarawa was the US’s first amphibious assault against heavy opposition. The heaviest part lasted only about 3 days.
It probably relied too much on land-based tactical airpower; the USN and USMC later put much more emphasis on carrier-borne air support.
For two later attacks, one might wish to read Eugene Sledge’s amazing and harrowing “With the Old Guard on Peleliu and Okinawa”.
There are still are American (and Candian, and British) military who would go through this.
These men are betrayed regularly by their most senior generals, and by the political leadership.
I don’t see “pregnant soldiers” storming the beaches (such as they were) at Tarawa.
I’m not sure what Ann Barnhardt was thinking when she got dressed the morning she taped her Economic Presentations, but they are worth watching.
Thanks Mamba, I will check it out. As to being a lucky guy, love the weather, but holy crow it’s expensive here! Good luck on buying a house. Also, I’m not used to the birds. I wake up at dawn everyday because they have birds here that sound like monkeys screwing.
Remembrance Day brings thoughts of now departed family who fought in the big name WW II battles. Sister’s father in law at Dieppe and ensuing Death March on the way to the POW camp. My father in law and the battle of Ortona. An uncle at D Day, another at the Falaise Pocket still another at Antwerp. Extracting their stories was worse than pulling teeth. Greatest memory I have of all of them is the far off stare that embraced them as they went back to the events still fresh in their minds. Well that and the occasional silent tear quickly wiped away.
I just watched a fascinating documentary about the politics of the Allies called “World War Two: 1942 and Hitler’s Soft Underbelly”.
It’s actually currently available here on YouTube though I don’t know for how long it’ll be there before it gets removed.
I’m actually quite a history buff when it comes to WW2 but I learned a lot from this new doc.
‘multirec’, you’re in Australia now? Can you answer me something: A fellow once called up to a Vancouver talkradio show and said that:
1. The prices of meals in restaurants in Australia is approximately double that of in Canada.
2. Food at supermarkets is much more expensive too.
Is any of this true?
For starters, what does a gallon (4L) of milk cost? What about a Big Mac?
And hookers. What’s the going rate for half and half down under? Is that twice as much too? If so, could I call it an Aussie double double?
Robert, Aussies we met on the ship thought European food prices were normal for them.
We paid 27.40 Euros for an American coffee, a tea and a 125 gm Tiramisu in small side street cafe off St. Mark’s Square. The only reason we bought these items was because we needed to have a whiz and the whiz places charged 1 Euro each.
Another place in the same area, which had waiters in white suits, wanted 85 Euros for a tea and another 85 Euros for an American coffee. There were people in there, but we walked out.
Btw, lots of Democrats, and some Canadians, on the ship who were ecstatic over Obama’s win. A few not so much.
Just a thought for the night on Justin Trudeau vs PM Harper :
Who would you trust your credit cards and life savings to more – your Dad or your kid?
d
Ken, you must have been in an Insane Tourist area in Italy! I was in Northern Italy earlier this year, as well as throughout Germany. The prices of food & coffee there were the equivalent to Canada except the prices were in Euros – so about 30% more. However, beer in Germany was much CHEAPER than in Canada!!
Globe and Mail, Saturday, Nov. 10. Editorial: “A ruling for a perfect world”.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/editorials/supreme-court-ruling-on-special-education-opens-pandoras-box/article5169193/
Ed.: “The Supreme Court of Canada has opened a Pandora’s box for public school boards by finding that a British Columbia school district discriminated against a dyslexic child when, during a financial crisis, it closed a special-education centre that provided him intensive help in learning to read.”
The Court had ruled previously, in Auton, 2004, that the health care system was not required to fund a special, expensive program that treated autism, as far as s.15(1) of the Charter of Rights, which deals with discrimination, was concerned. It had previously ruled in Eldridge, 1997, that a deaf person was entitled to sign-language interpreters for hospital visits.
Ed.: “[Moore] … received half-hour, one-on-one sessions three times a week with a learning assistance teacher, and two 40-minute sessions with a volunteer tutor, in Grade 1. A psychologist later recommended he receive more intensive help at a special centre run by the North Vancouver school district. But then the district closed the centre. The Supreme Court, noting that the district kept an outdoor education program open in spite of its financial difficulties, found that it had illegally discriminated. Is it the court’s business to choose a school district’s programs, or prescribe the required intensity of extra help?”
This is not a new development, after the Court arrogated a Minister’s decision-making power in Insite last year.
Ed.: “The court’s definition of adequacy is stunningly open-ended. A psychologist had said the centre’s intensive help would be beneficial; to the court, that meant it was required.”
Ed.: “It makes the court’s unanimous ruling more out of touch that the boy’s public education unfolded between 1991 and 1994, during and after a recession marked by across-the-board restraint, and finally, the overcoming of Canada’s deficit. Many political choices went into those years, and similar choices await today; governments, accountable to voters, should be the ones making those choices. The court overstepped its authority.”
Thus the Court decision is extremely destructive. Who knows what future government spending will be required on grounds that not to spend would be “discrimination”?
On the other hand, consider the plight of the parents. They have a disabled child, and the school system that provincial politicians allege is to be all things to all children is not helping that child, even though the parents pay taxes to it. What are they supposed to do? In this case they paid thousands of dollars out of their own pocket.
Had the Court ruled the opposite way, that would have been equally destructive, though perhaps on a smaller scale. But an individual must not be sacrificed to the collective.
There are no principles that can properly guide the spending of tax dollars collected through coercion. The concept of “fairness” can be applied broadly, but there are always winners and losers, many unwittingly, and many fully intent on capitalizing on the situation.
If there is a lesson to be learned from all of this, it is that education should be taken out of the hands of government, because government cannot live up to all its pie-in-the-sky promises and can never spend unjustly raised tax dollars in a just manner.
The closest we can get to a perfect world is one in which there is no coercion: “No person has the right to initiate the use of force or fraud on any other person” — Ayn Rand. This includes the barbarity of taxation, although, as she noted, eliminating taxation is the last step in the process, not the first.
NV53, I’ve thought long and hard on this decision. Initially, as a fiscal conservative my thought was that it was not (is not) the place of the court to ‘even the playing field of life’ regardless of cost to society.
But in this case, the young man has become a full time plumber – a well paid and highly useful career choice. Over the course of his career, he will likely pay many more times the cost of his ‘boosted’ education through income taxes.
OTOH, how much should we be obliged to pay towards a deeply autistic or Down’s child’s education, when the incremental benefit is to the child rather than to society at large?
Does a disability automatically entitle one to benefits and if so, who determines the level of those benefits – and are those entitlements unlimited irrespective of the circumstance or capacity of governments to provide them?
Dr Fruit Fly gets his knickers in a knot.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/11/09/friday-funny-david-suzuki-goes-postal/#more-73953
Made me smile, we just had our first freeze out here, might have killed all his tiny pets(pests).
Since Obama’s done with New Jersey’s hurricane, he can now use his superpowers in Asia.
http://nyti.ms/VVhXLe
http://bit.ly/SUJ1fg
Great article by Jonah Goldberg over at NRO on how the devaluing of both the family and religion contributed, big-time, to the re-election of the Obamanation and his European vision for the U.S.A.:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/333038/becoming-european-jonah-goldberg
The chief obstacle for this mission [Europeanizing government] is the family. The family, rightly understood, is an autonomous source of meaning in our lives and the chief place where we sacrifice for, and cooperate with, others. It is also the foundation for local communities and social engagement. As social scientist Charles Murray likes to say, unmarried men rarely volunteer to coach kids’ soccer teams [unless they’re pedophiles — my inclusion].
Progressivism always looked at the family with skepticism and occasionally hostility. Reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman hoped state-backed liberation of children would destroy “the unchecked tyranny . . . of the private home.” Wilson believed the point of education was to make children as unlike their parents as possible. Hillary Clinton, who calls herself a modern progressive and not a liberal, once said we must move beyond the notion there is “any such thing as someone else’s child.”
Yeah, Hillary, we get it: It’s not the family’s responsibility to care for their own children, it takes a village, aka, the government. ‘Turns out I was right to want to be the gatekeeper of my family in the ’80s, which was the reason I encountered so much hostility from the progressives: They were scathing in their scorn, ridicule, and exclusion.
This Petraeus/Benghazi scandal’s becoming as big as Hurricane Sandy (though watch the MSM try to stuff it into a bottle):
[Petraeus] betrayed us on two fronts:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/he_betrayed_us_on_two_fronts_y98HXOiiTtJZvjobbxxXRP
Inspector Clouseau wisdom applies here: “I believe everything. And I believe nothing. I suspect everyone. And I suspect no one.”
Neo-AGW Progress Report.
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“From United States:Climate Change Momentum: Sandy’s wrath gets our attention, and that of our …Syracuse.com (blog)”
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“Blizzard Shifts into the Canadian Prairies
The potent storm that dumped heavy snow on Montana will spread into Manitoba.”
http://www.accuweather.com/
“Share This Massive List Of Post-Election Firings And Layoffs With Everyone You Can”
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/share-this-massive-list-of-post-election-firings-and-layoffs-with-everyone-you-can
Robert, this was in the St. Mark’s square area in Venice. We had a lunch in a sidewalk cafe along the Grand Canal, not far from St. Mark’s Square, that was priced like you describe. Gasoline was priced around 1.70 Euros a litre.
According to another CIA source, the resignation of Christopher Kubasik, president and CEO-elect of defense and aerospace company Lockheed Martin, announced on the same day as Petraeus, might have ties to the events at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. “There is a relationship between Lockheed Martin and the defense department, as well as the CIA, that ties into current events in Turkey and Syria. This is particularly relevant in the operation taking place in Benghazi and when investigation into where the ‘black-ops’ money went. Don’t forget, Congress appropriated money, at the behest of Obama, for humanitarian aid, not weapons.”
Like Petraeus, Kubasik cited an “inappropriate relationship” for his resignation. “The timing is beyond coincidental, and the operation much too big for this to be merely coincidental.”
http://mainfo.blogspot.ca/2012/11/did-obama-spend-humanitarian-aid-for.html
The media is reporting that businesses such as Applebee’s and Papa John’s will be laying off employees due to the consequences of the election.
The liberals, in their typical moronic stupidity have called for a boycott of these places citing job losses as a political move. How friggin’ dumb can they get? Boycotts will only precipitate additional layoffs.
The caring Left. Always concerned about others!
Left-liberalism’s dream world.
“… a horror of existence and a desire to escape from it.”
“… when a society mistakes itself for a cosmic fact, “it has become impossible to imagine that the society could simply cease to exist.””
c.f. O’s Dream Act*.
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Ken (Kulak):
“Liberals can not be persuaded by facts or logic…they have to wake up themselves apparently…and some do.”
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“Further Remarks on Eric Voegelin and Gnosticism”
“Voegelin has now broached the all-important topic of the “dream world” in and of itself, taking us to the heart of the Gnostic “pneumopathology,” or sickness of the soul.
I offer a quotation at length, the necessity of which I hope my readers will perceive:
Gnosticism as a counterexistential dream world can perhaps be made intelligible as the extreme expression of an experience that is universally human, that is, of a horror of existence and a desire to escape from it. Specifically, the problem can be stated in the following terms: a society, when it exists, will interpret its order as part of the transcendent order of being. This self-interpretation of society as a mirror of cosmic order, however, is part of social reality itself. [But not of cosmic reality.] The ordered society, together with its self-understanding, remains a wave in the stream of being… an island in the sea of demonic disorder, precariously maintaining itself in existence. Only the order of an existing society is intelligible; its existence itself is unintelligible. The successful articulation of a society is a fact that has become possible under favorable circumstances; and this fact may be annulled by unfavorable circumstances… Especially when a society has a glorious history, its existence will be taken for granted as part of the order of things. It has [then] become impossible to imagine that the society could simply cease to exist.
This dense passage presents a few philosophical subtleties. The dominant one is Voegelin’s careful distinction between the one fact of “the order of an existing society” as being “intelligible” and the other fact of “the existence” of such a society as being “unintelligible.” One can gloss the distinction under an example. The Constitution of the United States articulates the order of the North American polity that it establishes; and the Constitution is explicable to educated people who speak English, think logically, and have some sense of history before the Constitutional Convention. However, as the current campaign to undo the Constitution makes clear, the “fact” of the Constitutional order is only a contingent one, a “wave in the stream of being.” All of this is “intelligible.” But that unaccountable factors and incalculable chances could so dispose themselves at a particular moment in the swirling temporal pattern of the late Eighteenth Century so as to give rise to the Constitutional order, is not “intelligible.”
Next in relevance and still quite important is Voegelin’s assertion that, when a society mistakes itself for a cosmic fact, “it has become impossible to imagine that the society could simply cease to exist.”
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3984
*O’s Dream Act:
“Obama Wins Election and Latino Voters and Dreamers Are Ready to Cash the Check for the DREAM Act”
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com·2 days ago
PET Cemetery’s Multiculturalism Report.
Socialism is the religion of the stomach.
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“Surrey Diwali celebration cancelled after man chokes during eating competition
Victoria Times Colonist – 6 hours ago
SURREY – A Diwali celebration at a Surrey mall was cancelled Saturday afternoon when a man choked during an eating competition and was taken to the local hospital emergency.”
“Democracy fail!
Voter turnout in St. Lucie County, Florida was 141% of registered voters. Col. Allen West has locked down the ballots and voting machines to get a true recount, or that’s what he’s hoping he’s doing.
The Republic is a delusion.”
“130. Peter Boston”
http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2012/11/10/and-thats-the-news/#comments
Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein:
“Senate Intelligence Committee head says news of Petraeus affair hit ‘like a lightning bolt’”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/official-emails-from-paramour-led-to-fbi-probe-that-prompted-petraeuss-ouster-as-cia-chief/2012/11/10/987726e4-2b94-11e2-aaa5-ac786110c486_story.html
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“How I Was Drawn Into the Cult of David Petraeus”
“When it came out that CIA Director David Petraeus had an affair with his hagiographer, I got punked.”
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/petraeus-cult-2
maz2 @12:41 – I have a very great regard for Col. West.
The CEO-in-waiting of the defense contractor who declined to issue WARN Act layoff notices on the urging of the Obama administration — sequestration-related notices mandated by law that would have gone out just before the election — has resigned, citing an affair.
The sequestration, which goes into effect Jan. 2 without “fiscal cliff” action in the lame-duck session, puts more than 2 million jobs at risk.
Virginia, Florida, and Pennsylvania — all swing states won by President Obama — would take the hardest hit with more than 365,000 job losses combined, according to a George Mason University & Chmura Economics and Analytics report.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/11/09/lockheed-martin-exec-who-followed-admin-lead-on-warn-act-resigns-due-to-affair/
“It is outrageous that the White House is calling on companies to ignore federal law requiring them to alert their employees of possible layoffs due to potential budget cuts, then offering up taxpayer dollars to pay for legal fees and fines that result,” said Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.). “The aerospace and defense industry trade association recently estimated that the cuts from this sequestration will result in the loss of over 29,000 jobs in North Carolina alone.”
http://pjmedia.com/blog/to-warn-or-not-contractors-get-financial-coverage-to-withhold-layoff-notices/
I put this up late yesterday,I think it deserves some more attention considering it is a direct assault on our ‘free; speech,and that the tribunal and court are acting on a section of the Human Rights Act that has been deleted.
Regina man gets jail for racist messages
” 30 days in jail for acting in contempt of an order of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.”
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/story/2012/11/07/sk-terry-tremaine-sentenced-1211.html
” GO STAMPS GO “, that isn’t hate speech,is it?
wallyj @2:42 – Crikey. Even the CBC commenters don’t seem to be liking this.
It’s outrageous.
Black Mamba, I also like Col. Allen West.
Went to a few links outlining post election layoffs. Staggering. 26,207 for starters
Some marked* are not necessarily Choomer connected; Contaminated medicines for example.
Teco Coal officials announce layoffs 90
Momentive Inc plans temporary layoffs for 150
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pa. officials to announce mandatory layoffs
Bartikowsky Jewelers shutting down 25
Penn Refrigeration laying off about 30
Layoffs at Groupon 600
* More layoffs announced at Aniston Weapons Incinerator 50
Murray Energy confirms layoffs at 3 subsidiaries 150
Laid off in Minnesota dairy plant closure 130
Stanford brake plant to lay off 75
Turbocare, Oce to lay off more than 220
ATI plans to lay off workers in North Richland Hills 172
SpaceX claims its first victims as Rocketdyne lays off 100
Providence Journal lays off full-time employees 23
CVPH lays off 17
New Energy lays off employees 40
Utah miners laid off because of ‘war on coal’, company says 102
Coal mine owner blames Obama for layoffs ( …. fired last night) 54
US Cellular drops Chicago, cuts jobs 640
Career Education to cut jobs, close 23 campuses 900
Vestas to cut more jobs 3,000
First Energy to cut jobs by 2016 400
Canceled program costs jobs at Ohio air base 115
AMD trims Austin workforce – jobs slashed 400
Workers lose jobs as Caterpillar closes plant in Minnesota 100
Exide Technologies to lay off workers 150
TE Connectivity to close Guilford plant, lay off 620
More Layoffs for Major Wind Company (…… jobs cut) 3,000
Cigna to lay off workers worldwide 1,300
* Ameridose to lay off hundreds of workers 800
Welch Allyn 275
Dana Holding Corp.
Stryker 95
Boston Scientific 1,300
Medtronic 1,000
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Energizer 1,500
Westinghouse
Research in Motion Limited 200
Lightyear Network Solutions 12
Providence Journal 23
Hawker Beechcraft 240
Boeing (30% of their management staff)
CVPH Medical Center 17
US Cellular 980
Momentive Performance Materials 150
Rocketdyne (Pratt and Whitney) 100
Brake Parts 75
Vestas Wind Systems 3,000
Husqvarna 600
Center for Hospice New York 40
Bristol-Meyers 480
OCE North America 135
Darden Restaurants (cutting hours)
West Ridge Mine (204 !!!!! power plants)
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United Blood Services Gulf (10%)
Smith & Nephew – …. layoffs 770
Abbott Labs – layoffs 700
Covidien – layoffs 595
Kinetic Concepts – layoffs 427
St. Jude Medical – layoffs 300
Hill Rom – layoffs 200
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*Caterpillar 100
Albrecht Sentry Food 70
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Applebee’s
Whitehouse.gov petition for Louisiana to leave union with 10,000 + signatures since Nov 7
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/peacefully-grant-state-louisiana-withdraw-united-states-america-and-create-its-own-new-government/1wrvtngl
Tarawa and the Island of Betio belong to a Japanese company the beaches where all those Marines had to wade in shallow water under fire is now the dumping ground for garbage and shellfish shells.
Recently an old amtrac was found buried under sand and debris inside were arms, ammo and the bodies of two Marines since exhumed ID’ed and repatriated.
There are estimated 500 American MIA’s in Betio arena many washed out to sea before collection could be done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1rdZxfIvAc&feature=related
Black Mamba and Ken (Kulak): I, too, like Col. Allen West. Please God, he’s elected. But the way the trend is going, it may be difficult to differentiate a legitimate vote from a fraudulent one.
I don’t care if it sounds like whining, it appears that on a lot of fronts this election was stolen. Too many irregularities — a voter turnout of 141%? Orca system crashing on election day? Voting machines that tally a vote for Obama when the voter clearly hit the Romney button?
batb – although I have little doubt that serious voter fraud took place on Tuesday, this “141% turnout” allegation from Florida seems to concern a confusion between ballots and something called “cast cards”.
http://twitchy.com/2012/11/10/voter-fraud-rumor-of-the-day-141-voter-turnout-in-st-lucie-county-fla/