Archive for April, 2009
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
The word from GM (i.e. Government Motors) is that all the car models need to “pay the rent.” It can’t sell at a profit, it’s gone. Hell, even some of the models that sell at a profit are going.
The interesting exception, the Chevy Volt. Officials at GM admit that the Volt probably won’t be putting red ink on the books for the first couple of model years.
I’ve written about the Volt before. It has some interesting technology, but given Chevy’s financial situation, should it be making exceptions to the “pay the rent” rule?
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
Uller Uprising, by the late H. Beam Piper
A brillian SciFi telling of the Sepoy Rebellion. Set early in Piper’s Future History series timeline, this is a solid bit of adventure/Military Science Fiction. For you Military SciFi fans, there is character, only mentioned once, named “Major Falkenberg” of Falkenberg’s Rifles.
The Monday Book Pick Archive.
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
Our Dear Leader did bring us “Hope & Change.” I’m hoping for a return to sanity in the 2010 elections and in two months, Americans are now more divided politically than ever.
That’s change we can believe in!
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
Color me not surprised over this. The Times of UK has a story on this subject.
Paween Mushtakhel, 41, and her two children left Afghanistan on Friday. Hours later, under intense pressure from critics worldwide, President Hamid Karzai promised to review new laws that are said in effect to legalise marital rape in the Shi’ite minority.
HT to Infidels are Cool.
I’m not going to be holding my breath waiting for the outrage from famous leftist “feminists.”
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Sunday, April 5th, 2009
Corrupt democrat Congressman John Murtha is continuing his pattern of pork barrel spending.
Four of the earmark requests from Murtha’s office are for current or former clients of a lobbying firm, the PMA Group, that is currently under federal investigation for connection to possible “straw” donations to Murtha and other Democratic members of the House.
Murtha also has not yet apologized to the cleared US Marines he insulted.
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Saturday, April 4th, 2009
As Stuart Varney points out in this Wall Street Journal article, control of the banks is clearly the goal of our Dear Leader‘s administration.
The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distant future. Keeping them TARP-stuffed is the key to control. And for this intensely political president, mere influence is not enough. The White House wants to tell ’em what to do. Control. Direct. Command.
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If the banks are forced to keep TARP cash — which was often forced on them in the first place — the Obama team can work its will on the financial system to unprecedented degree. That’s what’s happening right now.
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Fast forward to today, and that same bank is begging to give the money back. The chairman offers to write a check, now, with interest. He’s been sitting on the cash for months and has felt the dead hand of government threatening to run his business and dictate pay scales. He sees the writing on the wall and he wants out. But the Obama team says no, since unlike the smaller banks that gave their TARP money back, this bank is far more prominent. The bank has also been threatened with “adverse” consequences if its chairman persists. That’s politics talking, not economics.
The clear goal here is not economic recovery, it is to use the power of the federal executive branch to bully private business to rewarding the President’s friends and punish his political enemies.
Welcome to the Third World folks.
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
A good cold war thriller, The Killer Elite stars James Caan and Robert Duvall in this Sam Peckinpah flick. Excellent martial arts scenes as well. Good supporting roles from Mako, Bo Hopkins and Burt Young. It’s a tale of bloody revenge, complete with automatic weapons, shotguns, and ninja. Yes, I said Ninja.
The Friday B-Movie Archive.
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Remember that often repeated statistic that Mexican Drug Cartels were getting 90% of their firearms from legal sources of firearms in the US. That included that stuff you can’t buy legally, like grenade launchers and other military grade support weapons.
Hardly surprising, that “fact” repeated by the MSM was a lie. A lie told by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, CBS “News” own Bob Schieffer, and that well known opponent of Civil Rights, California democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein.
…68 percent of the guns that were recovered were never submitted for tracing. And when you weed out the roughly 6,000 guns that could not be traced from the remaining 32 percent, it means 83 percent of the guns found at crime scenes in Mexico could not be traced to the U.S.
The actual truth run contrary to the left’s agenda, so they ignore it. This is not new behavior.
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
According to the Washington Post, the DNC has no problems with fabricating signatures to make good on their promises.
“Supporters of President Obama’s Budget to Hand Deliver 642,000 Pledges Gathered from Around the Country to Capitol Hill,” announced the Democrats’ news release.
CNN and the Huffington Post dutifully reported the DNC’s claim of 642,000 pledges. Network cameras and the BBC showed up to film the operation. “We had one of the big printers downstairs smoking last night,” party spokesman Brad Woodhouse said.
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The DNC got to 642,000 by making three photocopies of each pledge so that each signer’s senators and representative could get one.”
In reality, the DNC only had 214,000 pledges. So, in order to meet their announced goal, they lied. They fabricated two thirds of the signatures they claimed.
This is the same democrat party that wants to take the federal Census out of the hands of the non-partisan Commerce Department and let Obama Hatchetman Raum Emmanuel run it.
This is not giving me a warm fuzzy feeling.
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
If you listen to one pod/netcast this week, make it episode 43 of Brassballs Radio.
Wendy “RightGirl” Sullivan interviews Ezra Levant about his 900 day ordeal with the Canadian so-called “Human Rights” Commission, which is actually a rigged “kangaroo court.”
Here is the first in a series of videos of one of Levant’s interrogations by the “Human Rights” commission.
Mr. Levant went on to write a book about his ordeal and how these so-called “courts” in Canada operate. Shakedown: How Our Government is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights is selling out all over Canada. It’s a wake up call for what can happen in America if the left continues to push its agenda of “political correctness.”
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