My Obama-Is-Actually-A-Space-Alien Theory*

Forward! Political Animal The One 6 Comments

All is proceeding according to plan;

Mayor Rahm Emanuel closed the books on 2012 with $33.4 million in unallocated cash on hand — down from $167 million the year before — while adding to the mountain of debt piled on Chicago taxpayers, year-end audits show.
Last week, Moody’s Investors ordered an unprecedented triple-drop in the city’s bond rating, citing Chicago’s “very large and growing” pension liabilities, “significant” debt service payments, “unrelenting public safety demands” and historic reluctance to raise local taxes that has continued under Emanuel.

* Rahm Emanuel eats mice. See also: James Carville

Bin Laden is Dead And Ambassador Stephens Is Dead

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Via Weekly Standard;

Two spectacular al Qaeda prison breaks in Iraq, freeing over 500 of its members in two separate prisons simultaneously this week, demonstrate the group is back with a vengeance. Al Qaeda’s Iraq branch is also the moving force behind the jihadist success in Syria. The resurgence of al Qaeda in Iraq has sobering implications for what is likely to follow the drawdown of NATO forces in Afghanistan for the al Qaeda mother ship in Pakistan. […]
…if American pressure on al Qaeda in Pakistan diminishes after the NATO withdrawal of combat forces next year from Afghanistan, we can expect a rapid regeneration of al Qaeda in Pakistan. The drones all fly from bases in Afghanistan, without which there is no pressure on al Qaeda next door in Pakistan. Iraq is a sobering lesson in what happens when a battered al Qaeda movement gets a second chance.

Related: More than 1,000 escape in Libya prison break

Not A Muslim

The One 7 Comments

NOOoonononono…

Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison.
The intervention, which has angered US relatives of those who died in the attack, was made by Richard LeBaron, deputy head of the US embassy in London, a week before Megrahi was freed in August last year on grounds that he had terminal cancer.
The document, acquired by a well-placed US source, threatens to undermine US President Barack Obama’s claim last week that all Americans were “surprised, disappointed and angry” to learn of Megrahi’s release.

We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors

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Oops.

Siemens, Europe’s largest engineering company, has lost patience with its CEO after Peter Loescher’s expansion into green energy and expensive acquisitions led to a fifth profit-forecast cut.
Supervisory board officials have asked for the 55-year-old Austrian native to be ousted. A key element of Loescher’s growth strategy was the 2009 announcement that he would transform Siemens into a “green infrastructure giant”, heralding a drive into solar technology to promote Siemens as a partner for companies and governments keen to use more renewable energies. At the 2010 annual general meeting, he wore a green tie and called for a “green revolution.” Since Loescher took over in July 2007, the shares have declined 22 percent.

Reader Tips

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Last Friday songwriter, singer, and guitarist J.J. Cale passed away at the age of 74. Although never a big star, the quiet Oklahoman’s songwriting and laid-back, in-the-pocket guitar playing strongly influenced other musicians over the years including Neil Young, Mark Knopfler, and, of course, Eric Clapton, who exposed Cale’s songwriting to the broader public with his recordings of “After Midnight” and “Cocaine”.
Tonight we listen to Cale himself: first, a live 1971 performance of After Midnight, and then a studio version of Crazy Mama.
The comments thread is open, as always, for your Reader Tips.

The Sound Of Settled Science

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Meteorologist Klaus-Eckart Puls of the European Institute for Climate and Energy;

“The anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gases is not completely without impact on the climate. The impact however, is relatively small because of physical laws, and is about 0.5°C for a CO2 doubling with respect to today. Early on – around the mid 1980s – politics empowered a pseudo-science called ‘climate protection’. The political motivations were on one hand “world rescue philosophies”, and, on the other hand, fiscal interests via ecological taxes.”

Free Robert McCorkell!

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Karen Selick;

One of the crimes that the Nazis committed against European Jews in the 1930s and ’40s was to legalize, or at least facilitate, the theft of Jewish property, merely because it was owned by people whom the Nazis despised for their religious beliefs.
Now, a Canadian court is being asked to adopt Nazi-like tactics: namely, to authorize the theft of property merely because it is slated to be delivered to an owner who is despised on the basis of ideology.

You Can Imagine My Relief

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Chambliss said he recently spent time with NSA officials and was assured that the programs Greenwald describes have been exaggerated.
“I was back out at NSA just last week, spent a couple hours out there with high and low level NSA officials,” Chambliss said. “And what I have been assured of is that there is no capability at NSA for anyone without a court order to listen to any telephone conversation or to monitor any e-mail.”

After all, a couple of hours with Nanny ought to be enough to sooth anyone.

They Hate The Independent Minded Person

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For your viewing or listening pleasure, this was a speech I put together for the Liberty Mastermind Symposium and it turned out to be a lot better than what I anticipated. In short it is about the benefits (and drawbacks) of having a truly free mind and pursuing independent thought. If you can get to the part about Peggy Joseph and squirrels I guarantee you’ll watch/listen to the rest.

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