In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips the harmonizing Louvin Brothers sing one of their distinctive up-tempo country-gospel numbers called Make Him A Soldier.
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips the harmonizing Louvin Brothers sing one of their distinctive up-tempo country-gospel numbers called Make Him A Soldier.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Ponzi World
The BBC takes credit that doesn’t belong to them by using the passive voice: Nick Cohen’s The shabby deceit of BBC journalism.
“C’mere, Luv, look what they’re doing in there!”
The wsj: The Hidden Jobless Disaster
At the present slow pace of job growth, it will require more than a decade to get back to full employment defined by prerecession standards.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323728204578514183323171670.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Another insane example of how environmentalism kills.
mhb23re
Britain’s having a problem with disrespectful immigrants:
Bill Maher tells the truth: http://weaselzippers.us/2013/06/09/obama-mega-donor-bill-maher-admits-the-real-reason-for-amnesty-immigration-reform-will-just-create-more-democrats/
True, he called Republicans “close-minded, racist, rigid and old fashioned”. Nevertheless, I think his statement here supports my theory that he’s planning on trying to jump ship. If he’s on the outs at HBO he may be angling for a gig on Fox.
http://chicksontheright.com/posts/item/23955-attention-liberals-if-you-lose-bill-maher-we-don-t-want-him-just-fyi
http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/20/bill-maher-violence-islam-christianity-liberal-bullshit/#ixzz2R2ZXeC2w
I can’t put it better than the chicks. “Attention Liberals – If You “Lose” Bill Maher, We DON’T WANT HIM. Just FYI.”
northwest Houston [TX] community of Oak Forest is the first neighborhood in the country being trained and equipped by the Armed Citizen Project, a Houston nonprofit that is giving away free shotguns to single women and residents of neighborhoods with high crime rates.
While many cities have tried gun buy-backs and other tactics in the ongoing national debate on gun control, the nonprofit and its supporters say gun giveaways to responsible owners are actually a better way to deter crime. The organization, which plans to offer training classes in Dallas, San Antonio, and Tucson, Arizona, in the next few weeks, is working to expand its giveaways to 15 cities by the end of the year, including Chicago and New York.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/08/houston-free-guns/2404307/
Via Instapundit: http://cdn.pjmedia.com/instapundit/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/tsarnaev.jpg
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel’s military fumed Monday over the discovery that the U.S. government had revealed details of a top-secret Israeli military installation in published bid requests.
The Obama administration had promised to build Israel a state-of-the-art facility to house a new ballistic-missile defense system, the Arrow 3. As with all Defense Department projects, detailed specifications were made public so that contractors could bid on the $25 million project. The specifications included more than 1,000 pages of details on the facility, ranging from the heating and cooling systems to the thickness of the walls.
“If an enemy of Israel wanted to launch an attack against a facility, this would give him an easy how-to guide. This type of information is closely guarded and its release can jeopardize the entire facility,” said an Israeli military official who commented on the publication of the proposal but declined to be named because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the facility. He declined to say whether plans for the facility have been altered as a result of the disclosure.
“This is more than worrying, it is shocking,” he said.
It’s not surprising. When I actually think about it and look at the incompetence displayed by so many of the Obama administration (Obama, Rice, Clinton, Biden, Holder, Schulman and the list goes on and on)…. it would be surprising if they didn’t screw it up. I suppose that I could look at it as a conspiracy but I tend to think of “Never assume conspiracy when mere incompetence will suffice.”
Assad is bad, so the UN wants to support these guys ?
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/06/201369175918244221.html
The human rights white Elephant in Winnipeg is also building with “Leed’s”) standards which explains why they are behind time and over budget. Not that anyone cares except the long suffering taxpayers. We thought this disease was contained in California and the EPA had all the rights to stupid and invasive legislation, but oh no….
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_WOOD_WARS_FLOL-?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=STATE&TEMPLATE=
Downloaded a program called Ghostery so I could watch anyone watching me;
these watched me over at Drudge Report.
Now watching for snoopers here at SDA.
Adap.tv
ADTECH
Advertising.com
AlmondNet
AppNexus
Audience Science
BlueKai
ChoiceStream
Dotomi
DoubleClick
DoubleClick Bid Manager
DoubleVerify
Dynamic Logic
eProof
Evidon Notice
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Google Adsense
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Intermarkets
Lotame
Microsoft Atlas
NetRatings SiteCensus
OpenX
OwnerIQ
Quantcast
Right Media
Rubicon
ScoreCard Research Beacon
SiteScout
SpotXchange
Tremor Media
Tribal Fusion
Tribal Fusion Notice.
What the hell is OwnerIQ ? Must be looking for Democrats..
These bastards follow you around like a dose of the clap.
Now I know why Kate uses Captcha:?
AGW Spring.
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“Alaska’s chilly ‘spring from hell’ confirmed by national climate data”
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20130609/alaskas-chilly-spring-hell-confirmed-national-climate-data
I’ve used Ghostery for years – Highly recommended.
Sadly the latest version incorporates only “opt-out”, i.e., user intervention now required to permanently block trackers, web beacons and so forth. Previous versions blocked all snoopers by default. To Kate’s credit SDA has only two benign creatures – Sitemeter and a Twitter button. The others you mention are from linked sites.
I’d recommend another browser enhancement to block annoying adverts – AdBlockPlus
Shamelessly filched from AmericanDigest.org, this passage from a column by Glenn Greenwald in the Guardian:
“The way things are supposed to work is that we’re supposed to know virtually everything about what they do: that’s why they’re called public servants. They’re supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that’s why we’re called private individuals.
“This dynamic – the hallmark of a healthy and free society – has been radically reversed. Now, they know everything about what we do, and are constantly building systems to know more. Meanwhile, we know less and less about what they do, as they build walls of secrecy behind which they function. That’s the imbalance that needs to come to an end. No democracy can be healthy and functional if the most consequential acts of those who wield political power are completely unknown to those to whom they are supposed to be accountable.”
Suitable for framing. Or skywriting.
Mao Stlong* Lepolt.
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“China’s May Numbers Disappoint, No Remedies In Sight”
“Analysts are busy revising their China 2013 growth estimates downwards after Beijing, ahead of a three-day holiday, released May numbers this weekend.
Trade figures, announced yesterday, shocked analysts. Exports increased only 1.0% year-on-year, against consensus estimates of 7.4% growth.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2013/06/09/chinas-may-numbers-disappoint-no-remedies-in-sight/
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“Europe’s vintage wines grapple with Chinese fakes”
http://www.france24.com/en/20130609-fake-european-wine-growing-problem-china-chateau-lafite
*Ex-Liberal leader Rae’s uncle, c/o Red China.
Socialism: the religion of the stomach. F.A.I.L.
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“‘They will be counting bodies’: Malnutrition ‘ravaging’ Haiti’s children”
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/06/10/they-will-be-counting-bodies-malnutrition-ravaging-haitis-children/
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“Socialism is in effect nothing but the religion of the stomach.”
http://www.brocku.ca/MeadProject/Lebon/LeBon_1899/LeBon_1899_03.html
O’narcissist’s coverup uncovered.
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“U.S. mainstream media (MSM) finally stops protecting Obama Administration,
CBS News reports State Department cover-ups range from prostitution charges to drug rings”
http://www.newswatchcanada.ca/
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“CBS News: U.S. State Department Cover-Ups Range From Prostitution Charges to Drug Rings”
“WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – Uncovered documents show the U.S. State Department may have covered up allegations of illegal behavior ranging from sexual assaults to an underground drug ring.
CBS News reports that is has unearthed documents from the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), an internal watchdog agency, that implicate the State Department in a series of misconducts worldwide.
The memo, reported by CBS News’ John Miller, cited eight specific examples, including allegations that a State Department security official in Beirut “engaged in sexual assaults” with foreign nationals hired as embassy guards and the charge and that members of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s security detail “engaged prostitutes while on official trips in foreign countries” — a problem the report says was “endemic.”
Former State Department internal investigator Aurelia Fedenisn told CBS News, “We also uncovered several allegations of criminal wrongdoing in cases, some of which never became cases.””
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/06/10/cbs-news-u-s-state-department-cover-ups-range-from-prostitution-charges-to-drug-rings/?NewsWatchCanada.ca
Barack Obama ###
Der Internationale: Arise ye work….. O Uber Alles.
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“Prism Exposed: Data Surveillance with Implications for the World”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/prism-leak-inside-the-controversial-us-data-surveillance-program-a-904761.html
“No democracy can be healthy and functional if the most consequential acts of those who wield political power are completely unknown to those to whom they are supposed to be accountable.”
Unknown until they start showing up at 4:00 am in a black car.
O’narcissist*.
“*This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
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“Mounting controversies are all about trust
By LIZ SIDOTI
Associated Press”
“If he can’t convince the American people that they can trust him, he could end up damaging the legacy he has worked so hard to control and shape – and be remembered, even by those who once supported him, as the very opposite of the different type of leader he promised to be.”
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_THE_POLITICS_OF_PROMISE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-06-10-10-51-15?NewsWatchCanada.ca
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*O’narcissist:
http://www.globalpolitician.com/default.asp?25109-barack-obama-elections/
Greece “considering” labour camps for people owing over 5000 Euros in back taxes.
Billy Porter won a Tony Award last night for his work in Cyndi Lauper’s Kinky Boots. I heard part of his acceptance speech on the radio this morning in which he was praising his Christian family for their unwavering support; by the sounds of it, he’s gay but he says his family have been wonderful Christians and have stood by him through everything.
I thought it would be good to hear the whole speech but it’s nowhere to be found on the Internet. Here’s the message that comes up when you try to play it: “An error occurred. Please try again later. Learn more.”
When you click on “Learn more,” one of the reasons given for a video getting an error message is: “A video is being removed, or having other issues.”
Hmmm … a Tony Award winner praises his “Christian” family and his acceptance speech is deep-sixed. All the other winners’ speeches, by the looks of it, are posted at YouTube.
But not Billy Porter’s.
It just won’t do, will it, to have Christians shown to be the compassionate, loving people they are?
Leftist Snowden’s slow, gradual meltdown …
Snowden said:
“I believed in Obama’s promises.”
O’narcissist’s sole legacy:
“This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.” (ibidem)
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“Asked when he concluded to release the information,
“You see things that may be disturbing. When you see everything you realise that some of these things are abusive. The awareness of wrong-doing builds up. There was not one morning when I woke up [and decided this is it]. It was a natural process.
A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed in Obama’s promises. I was going to disclose it [but waited because of his election]. He continued with the policies of his predecessor.”
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/09/1214922/-Snowden-s-own-words
Ah yes, labour camps for those unable to pay their taxes is the logical next step for Marxist governments.
Is O Da Spook; or, Da Spookee?
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“Obama pressured by European leaders to explain secret NSA surveillance tactics”
“Information chiefs worldwide sound alarm over communications privacy while US senator Dianne Feinstein orders congressional review of NSA program”
“World leaders seek answers on US collection of communication data
US politicians call for review of Patriot Act after NSA surveillance revelations
Internet’s big names in battle to salvage reputations after NSA revelations”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/10/obama-pressured-explain-nsa-surveillance
Well, well, well … YouTube’s got Billy Porter’s acceptance speech up now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9qPdtiNzuk