How’s That Hopey-Changey Thing Working Out For Ya?
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Barack Obama, Feb.6th, 2011 – You know, I think that the thing you understand intellectually, but you don’t understand in your gut until you’re in the job, is that every decision that comes to my desk is something that nobody else has been able to solve. The easy stuff gets solved somewhere by somebody else. By the time it gets to me, you don’t have easy answers.
Boston Herald – The MIT economics whiz who crafted President Obama’s national health-care overhaul now plans to explain the complex and controversial plan to the masses — in one long comic book.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Obama’s tough budget cuts in pictures
What We Really Need Is Democracy
With a totalitarian party to vote for.
h/t Instapundit
The Tolerant Left
Scratch a leftist, find an anti-Semite.
As racist and illogical as most supporters of Israel are, these failings are only too human and such people should be both pitied and corrected. Hate the position, not those that hold it.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
Washington Examiner, Feb.7th,2011 – Online company AOL Inc. is buying online news hub Huffington Post in a $315 million deal that represents a bold bet on the future of online news.
New York Post, Feb.9th, 2011 – AOL has shed $315 million in value over the last five trading days…
What We Really Need Is Democracy
With millions of voters informed by historical revisionism and conspiracy theory.
Examples are far too numerous. Here are just a few that range from the comical: deadly shark attacks in Sinai attributed to the Mossad, through to the nauseating: the usurping of Holocaust language to describe the conflict (as in the website www.shoah.org.uk), to the truly astonishing: denial of Jewish history on Temple mount. In this video from Israel’s Channel 2 news (minute 1:30, Hebrew and Arabic) the Mufti of Jerusalem claims that the recent excavations of a drainage tunnel from the Second Temple period are really Muslim artifacts and not Jewish at all – even though they date from 2000 years ago, 20 years before Jesus was born and 600 years before Mohammad took his first breath.
It’s All Just “Politics” Until Someone Loses An Eye
Violent campaign imagery from the NDP.
h/t Mississauga Matt
Reader Tips
For the benefit those who find it hard to stay up-to-date with all the results from the sporting world, here’s some – admittedly late – coverage of the derby rugby match contested by local teams Hunslet and Leeds in 1910.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Embrace Hollywood
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Michael Moore, 2004 – “Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to tell a story.”
Michael Moore, 2011 – Michael Moore Sues Weinsteins For More 9/11 Movie Profits After Already Pocketing $19.8 Million
Recession Medicine
Much needed lighter fare (fair?), you just have to promise to watch it to the half way point.
Great rifles do not die
Australian International Arms keep building Lee-Enfields–completely new. Some photos, more here (7.62mm M43 Russian rimless versions also available, banana clip):
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7.62mm NATO No.4 Mk 4 SL
No.4 Mk 4 SL (7.62mm NATO) [bottom]
22-in. barrel rather than 25.2-in. normal.
B1 metal on T05A or T06 action body.
Shorter overall in barrel & fore-wood. Adjustable foresight for elevation, windage, dual rear aperture at 200 & 400m.
Rifle club model, QMRC Commemorative.
Provision for Picatinny steel rail to fit telescopic sight…
7.62mm NATO M10-B2 match
M10-B2 ex-M42-B2 (7.62x51mm NATO)
640mm heavy barrel a la L42A1.
Steel blue-black finish, teak hardwood stock with chamfered edges, hand oiled.
Adjustable foresight, elevation & windage.
10-rd. box magazine like US M14.
‘L’ aperture for 200 & 400 metres. Comes with Picatinny steel rail for ‘scope sight.
Option military butt & cheekrest like L42…
Earlier rifle matters here.
Detroit: Not Dead Enough!
A constant that one hears from all recovered drug addicts is that what was necessary to get them onto the path to recovery was to hit absolute rock bottom. Prior to that, denial holds too strong a grip on the brain to let them see the error of their ways.
In a not too dissimilar way, such is the case with communities that for too long have consumed the “drug” of Leftism. In this regard, Detroit, Michigan is clearly the poster child in North America for failed cities run into the ground by the policies of the Left. This earlier post on SDA and the comments therein explain this most succinctly.
Yesterday Mark Steyn guest hosted Rush Limbaugh’s radio program and had a few biting, but accurate, comments about Detroit. Some in Michigan were not pleased.
This morning Steyn appeared on Detroit radio station WLQV-AM. The full interview can be listened to and should be by all because the points raised have repercussions far beyond the hulking ruins in what was once an industrious, thriving city.
Arianna 18,000,000 – Bloggers 0
Spreading the wealth like only the left can!
“…there is no indication that its small army of unpaid bloggers will benefit from the deal.”
How Many Deaths Is Walt Disney Responsible For Worldwide?
h/t Russell S.
Y2Kyoto: State Of Aneroxia Envirosa
So, you don’t like governments picking winners and losers? If only we had it so good. Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Popular Mechanics, Feb.3, 2011 –
Shell Oil has canceled its plans to drill for oil in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska in 2011, but will now set its sights on the summer of 2012. The company has run into repeated regulatory hurdles in its attempts to explore for oil in America’s slice of the Arctic Ocean. Most recently, in late December 2010, the Environmental Appeals Board (EAB) sent air quality permits granted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) back to regulators for revision. Pete Slaiby, the VP of Shell Alaska, cited “tremendous uncertainty”—and frustration—during a press conference in Anchorage to announce the decision. The company has been seeking the required permits for the past five years.
Washington Examiner, Feb.2, 2011 –
To turn wood chips into ethanol fuel, George W. Bush’s Department of Energy in February 2007 announced a $76 million grant to Range Fuels for a cutting-edge refinery. A few months later, the refinery opened in the piney woods of Treutlen County, Ga., as the taxpayers of Georgia piled on another $6 million. In 2008, the ethanol plant was the first beneficiary of the Biorefinery Assistance Program, pocketing a loan for $80 million guaranteed by the U.S. taxpayers.
Last month, the refinery closed down, having failed to squeeze even a drop of ethanol out of its pine chips.
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why I’m digging an underground bunker.
Reader Tips
Tonight’s tips music is a snappy little tune from the WWII era: here are The Four Vagabonds singing Rosie The Riveter.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Vote Cancelers
Language Warning:
If these two ladies lived in Canada, which political party(s) do you think they’d likely be voting for?