Smoother without them! Heathrow braced for chaos as hundreds of Border Agency 'workers' walk out, a Backfire!

Now we know we don't need those bloated government employees, they are certainly not workers!

Heathrow braced for chaos as hundreds of Border Agency workers walk out | Mail Online

By EMILY ALLEN 11/30/11

Heathrow has never been more efficient! Passengers' glee as border agency strike SPEEDS UP passport control

• 'It was the fastest I have ever come through passport control'
• Passengers had been warned they could face two or three-hour delays
• 400 admin staff re-deployed with iPads to assist passengers with flight information and free food and water
  
• Civil servants including airport vets believed to be manning borders
• Fears terrorists and criminals could sneak into the country and exploit predicted chaos
• No delays or problems reported on ferries at Dover
  
• More than half of England's state schools close
• Thousands of NHS operations and appointments cancelled

Closer to jolly old England without them.

Passengers who had been warned of lengthy delays at Heathrow due to striking workers today said border controls were 'better than usual'.

As Border Agency bosses were forced to take on regular airport workers to man passport control, delighted passengers said queues had been shorter than normal.

The situation was echoed at Dover too as passengers faced apparently normal travel conditions with ferry services 'running well and to time' this morning.

Meanwhile, millions of children have stayed at home as more than half of England's 21,700 state schools closed. Thousands of NHS operations and appointments have also been cancelled.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2067997/Heathrow-braced-chaos-hundreds-Border-Agency-workers-walk-out.html#ixzz1fEX55rtl

Holder thinks we are Gun-Runners and Obama thinks we are lazy

Holder and Obama have a very different view of America.

Eric Holder | Gun-Running | Gang Activity | The Daily Caller

Holder blames Americans for gun-running

Neil Munro- 11-30-11

Attorney General Eric Holder scolded The Daily Caller’s reporting on the Fast and Furious gun-running scandal shortly after government officials and reporters heard him admonish Americans for funding gun-runners.

Holder appeared Tuesday at a White House event to showcase a new media campaign that is intended to stigmatize the selling and buying of knock-off videos and counterfeit fashion products.

Holder recorded one critical radio ad, which is titled “You can help.” The clip was played to the audience in the White House auditorium.

“This is Attorney General Eric Holder. We are working hard to protect our communities by reducing gang violence and organized crime and there is an important and simple way that you can help. Some street gangs and organized crime groups are selling counterfeit products, such as fake watches, DVDs and purses, as an easy way to make money. And they use that money to fund other crimes, like trafficking in drugs and guns.”

“When you buy knock-offs on the street or online, although it may not be obvious, you could be supporting gangs, putting money in their pockets and helping them to engage in other illegal activities that put our communities at risk,” said Holder in the radio ad.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/30/holder-blames-americans-for-gun-running/#ixzz1fDGV6DJH

Michelle Antoinette dines at Co Co. Sala

...What an exciting and humbling experience!"

So was having Sidney Poitier's son Paul up for dinner!

FLOTUS dines at Co Co. Sala | The Examiner | Yeas & Nays | Washington Examiner

By: Katy Adams and Nikki Schwab | 11/29/11

First lady Michelle Obama enjoyed a lovely evening at Co Co. Sala on F Street on Monday night. A Yeas & Nays source tells us she dined with seven friends for dinner and, of course, dessert -- which featured an edible chocolate sculpture and house-made artisanal chocolates by Chef Santosh Tiptur. We're told Obama's favorite savory was Chef Tiptur's Moroccan Swordfish Sliders with chermoula marinade, fennel salad, aged pecorino and hazelnut coffee dressing. The restaurant owners later posted to Twitter about their excitement of having her as a guest. "It was such an honor to have first lady Michelle Obama dine at Co Co. Sala last night. What an exciting and humbling experience!"

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/yeas-nays/2011/11/flotus-dines-co-co-sala/1959251#ixzz1fCguln62

Detroit Light Rail - It will be a great 'success,' as is the light rail in Camden, NJ - for criminals

Detroit Light Rail » The Antiplanner

11-30-11

Detroit’s plan to spend $550 million building a nine-mile light-rail line on Woodward Avenue would be laughable if it weren’t wasting so much money that could actually do something useful if spent on something else. Detroit leaders have convinced themselves that light rail is world-class transportation, that it will be the lynchpin of Detroit’s recovery, and that it will keep young people in the city.

A shadowy group of so-called private investors known as the M-1 Rail group have actually agreed to put up $100 million of the cost of the project. They aren’t expecting any financial return on this money; more than a third of this amount is coming from the S. H. Kresge Foundation and is being donated as an act of charity. Strangely, the arrangement almost foundered on the seemingly trivial question of whether the tracks should go down the middle of Woodward Avenue (as local residents preferred) or be in the curbside lane (as the M1 group preferred). One pundit went so far as to call this the “Lincoln-Douglas debate of our time.” So serious is this debate that one more transit agency leader has lost his job over rail transit.

-read on at link-

Who Cared? No one notices the Public sector strikes- Public Employees don't work anyway.

Government employees can't really be called 'workers,' since they rarely work. The dirty little secret is that it is hard to tell when government employees aren't on the job, because they do so little when they are on the job, that is outside of harassing the private sector and making life miserable for everyone else.

Come to think of it, life may be more pleasant with public employees on strike.

The real public, that is the private sector, may realize how little needed they are and eliminate most of their jobs.

This is true in both the UK and the USA. It is most likely true for most governments where bureaucracy has become the beast. ♘

Public sector strikes: live

Live coverage of the public sector strikes as teachers, hospital staff, airport workers and government employees strike in protest of proposed pension and budget cuts.

By Lucy Jones, Victoria Ward, Andy Bloxham, Nick Britten

GMT 30 Nov 2011

• Public sector strike fails to bring country to standstill
• But unions claim today's strike will be the largest since 1979
• Cameron calls public sector strikes a 'damp squib'
• NHS: 60,000 non-urgent operations, appointments cancelled
• Schools: 60 per cent closed today as teachers strike
• Airports largely unaffected by the strike

Sir Bernard Ingham, Margaret Thatcher's former press secretary, has lashed out at strikers, saying their industrial action is a "disgrace."

Writing in the Yorkshire Post, he said that the taxpayer is now getting "worse than monkey service" from public servants.

12:55 Francis Maude sticks it to the strikers again, saying their action is utterly "indefensible" and it's "lucky the economy hasn't been more damaged" by today's strikes.

This is hard on those who are still driven by an old-fashioned concept of public service. It is nonetheless true.

12:51 Watch the Labour leader blame strikes on government failure:

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Isn't that what they exist for? The Muslim Brotherhood’s “Kill the Jews” Election Platform

Actually, they want to kill everybody outside the 'Brotherhood'. The sad part is that our political 'experts' on the left refuse to believe them.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s “Kill the Jews” Election Platform | FrontPage Magazine

By Joseph Klein On November 30, 2011

Egyptians have gone to the polls in large numbers this week to cast their votes in the first stage of protracted parliamentary elections that will stretch into early next year. Meanwhile, the country’s military rulers do not appear to be going anywhere, unless forced out by mounting street protests and outside international pressure.

Few of the hundreds of thousands of protesters who have crowded Tahrir Square in recent days would appear to trust the integrity of the electoral process, nor think it will mean greater freedom any time soon. One voter quoted by the New York Times captured the situation succinctly when he said, “It is like a play, it is like a sham. We are pretending to be voting. I know these elections don’t mean anything, but I am still going.” Another said, “There is no justice, no integrity, no confidence. But I came because then I will have done my duty, so I will ask to claim my rights.”

The main beneficiary of the elections will in all likelihood be the Muslim Brotherhood, whose leaders formed an alliance of convenience with the ruling military council to ensure that the elections would proceed as planned. The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest and best-organized political force, wanted no delays that would give opponents the opportunity to catch up with its organizational prowess.

We got a taste of what is to come from the Muslim Brotherhood’s co-sponsored “kill the Jews” pep rally held last Friday in Cairo. According to a report in YNet News, about 5,000 people joined the rally at Cairo’s most prominent mosque, the Al-Azhar mosque. Over and over again, the crowd chanted passages from the Koran vowing that “one day we shall kill all the Jews.”

-read on at link-

Another reason to oust Obama! While you were having your Thanksgiving turkey, President Obama signed a law allowing Americans to kill and eat horses

Bluegrass Pundit: Sad: While you were having your Thanksgiving turkey, President Obama signed a law allowing Americans to kill and eat horses

Anthropogenic global warming believers must be pleased. They have suggested we eat our pets.

(Technorati)- Horse slaughter plants are legal again in the United States. Restrictions on horse meat processing for human consumption have been lifted.

[Image of Moose and his cat]

In a bipartisan effort, the House of Representatives and the United States Senate approved the Conference Committee report on spending bill H2112, which among other things, funds the United States Department of Agriculture. On November 18th, as the country was celebrating Thanksgiving, President Obama signed a law, allowing Americans to kill and eat horses. Essentially, one turkey was pardoned in the presence of worldwide media while in the shadows, buried under pages of fiscal regulation, millions of horses were sentenced to death.

Horse slaughter has been prohibited in the United States as funding for inspections of horses in transit and at slaughter houses was non-existent. This worked because the horse meat cannot be sold for human consumption without such inspections. The House version of the bill retained the de-funding language and the Senate version did not. The conference committee charged with reconciling the two opted to not include it. The result is that it is now legal to slaughter horses for humans to eat.

Horses could soon be slaughtered for meat in US

AP 11-30-11 - "If plants open up in Oklahoma or Nebraska, you'll see controversy, litigation, legislative action and basically a very inhospitable environment to operate," predicted Wayne Pacelle, president and chief executive of The Humane Society of the United States. "Local opposition will emerge and you'll have tremendous controversy over slaughtering Trigger and Mr. Ed."

But pro-slaughter activists say the ban had unintended consequences, including an increase in neglect and the abandonment of horses, and that they are scrambling to get a plant going — possibly in Wyoming, North Dakota, Nebraska or Missouri. They estimate a slaughterhouse could open in 30 to 90 days with state approval and eventually as many as 200,000 horses a year could be slaughtered for human consumption. Most of the meat would be shipped to countries in Europe and Asia, including France and Japan.

-read on at link-

Hear Hear! Christie rips Obama over deficit talks: 'What the hell are we paying you for?'

Christie rips Obama over deficit talks: 'What the hell are we paying you for?' - The Hill's Video

By Justin Sink - 11/29/11 08:27 AM ET New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ripped President Obama for the failure of the debt supercommittee, calling the president "a bystander in the Oval Office" in comments Monday. “I was angry this weekend, listening to the spin coming out of the administration, about the failure of the supercommittee, and that the president knew it was doomed for failure, so he didn’t get involved. Well, then what the hell are we paying you for?” Christie said in Camden, N.J. " 'It’s doomed for failure, so I’m not getting involved'? Well, what have you been doing, exactly?” ... “Why the president of the United States refuses to do this is astonishing to me. If he wanted to run for Senate again and just be one of a hundred, I’m sure he could have gotten reelected over and over again in Illinois,” Christie said. “He’s the one in Washington, and he’s got to get something done here. And it’s not good enough just to say, ‘Well, I’ll get it done after the election.' " -read on at link-

Wages of Funny Money - A Bailout Monstrosity

The ultimate buddy system. $7,700,000,000,000....+++++++++++

A Bailout Monstrosity | FrontPage Magazine

Arnold Ahlert On November 29, 2011

On Monday, after two years of efforts to pierce the veil of secrecy surrounding the largest bank bailout in history, Bloomberg.com revealed the true scope of the phrase, “too big to fail.” In short, the number is staggering: total loan guarantees and lending limits engineered by the Federal Reserve to rescue the financial system amounted to $7.77 trillion as of March 2009. Bloomberg got the information after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal last March by the Clearing House Association LLC, a group comprised of the nation’s largest commercial banks. They, along with Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, tried to prevent the details from becoming public. The ultimate question: was both the scope of the effort–and the secrecy surrounding it–necessary? Unfortunately, the answer to that question is far from clear.

One thing is certain. In order to accept that any or all parts of the numerous transactions involved were necessary, one is required to accept as a given that the entire financial world was on the brink of systemic collapse. Was it? Perhaps a more accurate answer to that question is that thestatus quo was on the brink of collapse. It was a status quo where “too big to fail” had been institutionalized long before this particular crisis took hold. In 1984, faced with the failure of Continental Illinois, a large commercial bank, the government not only engineered a rescue, but extended FDIC insurance to both the bank depositors and all its other lenders, including those whose accounts exceeded FDIC limits, as well as global bondholders. In 1998, Long-Term Capital Management, a hedge fund whose financial excesses had many major Wall Street firms on the hook, was rescued by the Federal Reserve with funding from its member banks. Thus, long before the government-engineered housing crisis that led to the debacle of 2008 took hold, the pattern of “privatizing profits and socializing losses” had been established. This situation virtually invited financial institutions to take greater and greater risks.

As this latest revelation shows, those risks reached astronomical levels. In a single day, December 5, 2008, the banks were in such dire straits they needed a combined $1.2 trillion to remain solvent. Yet even as financial institutions were taking Fed funds, some of their leading officers were touting the strengths of the institutions involved. On Nov. 26, 2008, Bank of America Corp.’s former CEO, Kenneth D. Lewis, informed shareholders that B of A was “one of the strongest and most stable major banks in the world” despite owing the Federal Reserve $86 billion at the time. In a March 26 letter to shareholders, JP Morgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon claimed his firm used the Fed’s Term Auction Facility (TAF) “at the request of the Federal Reserve to help motivate others to use the system,” even though the bank’s total borrowings were nearly twice its cash holdings. He also failed to mention that the height of Chase’s borrowing, which crested to $48 billion, occurred on Feb. 26, 2009–over a year after the TAF had been created. Spokesmen for both banks declined to comment.

Furthermore, borrowing by banks from the Fed substantially exceeded the $700 billion they borrowed from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the rescue plan engineered by the government. The six largest U.S. banks–JP Morgan, Bank of America, Citigroup, Inc., Wells Fargo & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley–received $160 billion of TARP funds, even as they took $460 billion from the Fed. Such borrowing amounted to 63 percent of the average daily debt owed to the Fed by all publicly traded U.S. banks, money managers and investment-service firms. That represented a 13 percent increase from the 50 percent the Big Six owed prior to the bailout.

And then there was the secrecy.

-read on at link-

Global Warming Scam - 'Scientists' Behaving Badly

A lie that won't die!

Scientists Behaving Badly - Jim Lacey - National Review Online

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

More nails for the coffin of man-made global warming

Global-warming skeptics spend much of their time knocking down the fatuous warmist claim that the science is settled. According to the warmists, this singular piece of settled science is attested to by hundreds or thousands of highly credentialed scientists. In truth, virtually the entire warmist edifice is built around a small, tightly knit coterie of persons (one hesitates to refer to folks with so little respect for the scientific method as scientists) willing to falsify data and manipulate findings; or, to put it bluntly, to lie in order to push a political agenda not supported by empirical evidence. This is what made the original release of the Climategate e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia so valuable. They clearly identified the politicized core of climate watchers who were driving the entire warmist agenda. Following in their footsteps are all the other scientists who built their own research on top of the fraudulent data produced by the warmist core.

Last week over 5,000 new e-mails, already dubbed Climategate 2, were released. Anyone still desiring to contest the assertion that only a few persons controlled the entire warmist agenda will be brought up short by this note from one warmist protesting that his opinions were not getting the hearing they deserved: “It seems that a few people have a very strong say, and no matter how much talking goes on beforehand, the big decisions are made at the eleventh hour by a select core group.” Over the years this core group, led by Phil Jones at East Anglia and Michael Mann at Penn State, became so close that even those inclined toward more honest appraisals of the state of climate science were hesitant to rock the boat. As one warm-monger states: “I am not convinced that the ‘truth’ is always worth reaching if it is at the cost of damaged personal relationships.” Silly me, how many years have I wasted believing that the very point of science was to pursue the truth in the face of all obstacles. On the basis of this evidence the scientific method must be rewritten so as to state: “Science must be as objective as possible, unless it offends your friends.”

Unfortunately, from the very beginning, the core group at the heart of Climategate had no interest in “scientific truth.” As one states: “The trick may be to decide on the main message and use that to guide what’s included and what is left out.” In other words, let’s decide on a conclusion and then use only evidence that proves that point, discarding everything else. One scientist who seems to have been slightly troubled by these methods wrote: “I also think the science is being manipulated to put a political spin on it, which for all our sakes might not be too clever in the long run.” In another note to Phil Jones, this same scientist complained: “Observations do not show rising temperatures throughout the tropical troposphere unless you accept one single study and approach and discount a wealth of others. This is just downright dangerous. We need to communicate the uncertainty and be honest.”

-read on at link-

Good Riddance!!! Exit Barney Frank - He will be remembered for three things

And under all three, he is an arrogant, lying SOB.

Exit Barney Frank - The Editors - National Review Online

11-28-11

Barney Frank will be remembered for three things: First, he was not only the first openly gay member of Congress but the first involved in a gay-prostitution scandal. Second, he said, “I do not want the same kind of focus on safety and soundness” regarding Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as exercised with regard to other government-affiliated agencies, preferring, as he memorably put it, to “roll the dice a little bit.” Third, he was co-author of the Frank-Dodd financial-reform legislation. Which is to say, Representative Frank will be remembered as an embarrassment, a reckless gambler, and a legislative malefactor. ...

... From his relatively petty transgressions related to his personal life to his more consequential role in enabling Fannie and Freddie, Representative Frank personifies a great deal of what is wrong with American public life. Though a highly intelligent man, he made the wrong decisions at every turn, and compounded his policy errors with the petty and vindictive style of his politics. Republicans will not miss him. Neither should his Democratic colleagues, his constituents, or the American public that will be paying off the cost of his errors and those of his allies, with interest, for a great many years. We hope that he will find in the obscurity of retirement the grace and wisdom that eluded him as an elected official, but we do not assume that it will be so. [Amen]

-read on at link-

Fish & Wildlife Service are a bunch of fools - Chincoteague fears plan to move beach will drive away tourists, (and ponies) hurt economy

The Fish & Wildlife Service, that is part of the National Park Service, is mismanaged by a bunch of PC fools who do more damage than any set of back to back storms ever could.

Chincoteague fears plan to move beach will drive away tourists, hurt economy - The Washington Post

By Darryl Fears, Published: November 27. 2011

In a new plan to deal with beach erosion and prepare for sea-level rise, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed changes that the mayor, the chamber of commerce and homeowners say would eventually drive away summer tourism and drive down the economy that depends on it. Some of those changes would involve closing the beach and its parking lot, then opening a beach with parking farther away and shuttling tourists. ...

But Chincoteague doesn’t control its beach. It’s part of the Assateague Island National Seashore, run by the federal National Park Service, and sits within the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, controlled by the Fish and Wildlife Service.

Charged with protecting endangered animals and managing the refuge on a shrinking budget, the Fish and Wildlife Service ar­gued in a 15-yearcomprehensive refuge plan that it can’t save the beach and its parking lot from the unrelenting forces of nature.

More than 100 yards of shoreline has been lost to the Atlantic Ocean since the mid-1960s, said Louis Hinds, the refuge manager. A federal visitors center has been moved twice from rising waters. And if cars didn’t occupy the 8.5-acre parking lot, piping plovers, an endangered shorebird the refuge protects, would nest there.

The changes facing Chincoteague are coming to coastal communities across the nation. In Hampton Roads, planning commissions are preparing for the day, 30 to 50 years from now, when sea-level rise reshapes the coast, and a few landowners are resisting. [Is this based on the global warming hoax?]

-This story is so badly written, it is a muddled bunch of quotes that never get to the point-

A Step in the Right Direct - Standards should be uniform across nation

Standards should be uniform across nation | Philadelphia Inquirer | 11/28/2011

Currently, 49 states have laws that permit concealed-carry. Only Illinois and the District of Columbia deny their residents the right to carry a concealed firearm outside their homes and workplaces for self-defense.

The problem is that interstate recognition of these various permit laws is not consistent. Some states recognize permit holders from other states, and others refuse to recognize any state's permit but their own. The National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act would solve this problem by requiring states that allow concealed-carry to recognize each other's permits, in the same way they recognize each other's driver's licenses.

Others have tried to argue that H.R. 822 violates the Tenth Amendment right of every state to make its own laws. Again, this is false. The fact is that the Second Amendment guarantees the individual right of every law-abiding citizen to bear arms. This is an inalienable right that neither the federal government, nor any state government, may infringe upon. Furthermore, Congress has the power (under the 14th Amendment) to protect citizens from state infringement of their constitutional rights.

Predictably, the gun-control lobby is trotting out the same "Wild West" scare tactics we hear from it every time Congress moves to protect our Second Amendment freedoms. And once again, its hysteria falls flat when faced with the facts.

In fact, as the number of right-to-carry states has more than doubled since 1991, the violent crime rate has fallen to a 38-year low. Murder has fallen by more than half, to a 47-year low. In the last dozen years, numerous peer-reviewed studies by economists and criminologists have found that violent crime decreased faster in areas where right-to-carry laws had gone into effect.

This should be no surprise, since Americans with concealed-carry permits are more law-abiding than the general public.

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Half of all Assets Blown! Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks Undisclosed $13B

Who are the real thieves? We have all been robbed to pay off cronies.

Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks Undisclosed $13B - Bloomberg

Bob Ivry, Bradley Keoun and Phil Kuntz - Nov 27, 2011 7:01

The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. Now, the rest of the world can see what it was missing.

The Fed didn’t tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required a combined $1.2 trillion on Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn’t mention that they took tens of billions of dollars in emergency loans at the same time they were assuring investors their firms were healthy. And no one calculated until now that banks reaped an estimated $13 billion of income by taking advantage of the Fed’s below-market rates, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its January issue.

Saved by the bailout, bankers lobbied against government regulations, a job made easier by the Fed, which never disclosed the details of the rescue to lawmakers even as Congress doled out more money and debated new rules aimed at preventing the next collapse. ...

...The Fed, headed by Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, argued that revealing borrower details would create a stigma -- investors and counterparties would shun firms that used the central bank as lender of last resort -- and that needy institutions would be reluctant to borrow in the next crisis. Clearing House Association fought Bloomberg’s lawsuit up to the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined to hear the banks’ appeal in March 2011.

$7.77 Trillion

The amount of money the central bank parceled out was surprising even to Gary H. Stern, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis from 1985 to 2009, who says he “wasn’t aware of the magnitude.” It dwarfed the Treasury Department’s better-known $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. Add up guarantees and lending limits, and the Fed had committed $7.77 trillion as of March 2009 to rescuing the financial system, more than half the value of everything produced in the U.S. that year.

-read on at link-

Hot Car - 2nd electric car battery fire involving Chevy Volt

Thank you, Mr. President

2nd electric car battery fire involving Chevy Volt | SignOnSanDiego.com

Nov. 25, 2011 By JOAN LOWY, Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Federal officials say they are investigating the safety of lithium-ion battery in General Motors Co.'s Chevrolet Volt after a second battery fire following crash-testing of the electric car.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday that three Volt battery packs were crash-tested last week. In one instance, the battery caught fire afterward, and in another the battery emitted smoke and sparks.

Last May, a fire erupted in the battery of a Chevy Volt that had been damaged during a government crash test three weeks earlier. Last week's tests were an attempt to replicate the May fire.

NHTSA has opened a formal safety defect investigation of the batteries.

General Motors officials said previously that government officials didn't follow the carmaker's protocols for storing post-crash batteries.

The Associated Press

Confessions of a Light Bulb Addict - Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb, shall be regulated into oblivion.

The real truth:

"All this has been ably exposed as an act of crony capitalism, designed to enrich manufacturers who prefer to sell pricier light bulbs that a lot of Americans"

The time has come to curtail the Legislative, the Executive and Judicial Branches of government from their continued onslaught of disastrous and perennial tyrannies they bring.

Say NO! Fire Them!

The Rosett Report » Confessions of a Light Bulb Addict

November 27, 2011 - 2:37 am - by Claudia Rosett

Americans being an enterprising band, it is of course possible that the country will develop bootleg markets in incandescents. Though I would recommend against such law-breaking. The federal government may not have control of America’s borders, but in Washington such stuff as border security can’t hold a candle to having control of America’s light bulbs. Presumably, federal authorities will now be spending U.S. tax dollars (excuse me — “creating jobs”) to deploy light bulb cops. In years ahead, if you haven’t amassed a private stash of the old incandescents, and find yourself yearning for their comfortable glow after the sun goes down, you may have to head overseas and comb the developing world for someplace where people are still free to choose what bulbs they sell and buy.

But I promised you the confessions of a light bulb addict, and so far I have mainly been talking about the drawbacks of the incandescent ban. So here begins the real confession. Never mind the crony capitalism, or the latest news ofClimategate 2.0, or the simple ornery pleasure of exercising free will to choose how I individually will spend my scarce resources to light the night. I surrender. I give in. The federal government says this is for my own good. Washington can choose my ideal energy efficiency tradeoffs much better than I can do it for myself.

-read on at above link-

More More More - " propose the adoption of this song as the U.S. national anthem"

More More More - Mark Steyn - National Review Online

11-26-11

How do you like Andrea True’s federal government?

NOVEMBER 26, 2011 7:00 A.M.

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How do you like Andrea True’s federal government?

I see Andrea True died earlier this month. The late disco diva enjoyed a brief moment of global celebrity in 1976 with her ubiquitous glitterball favorite:

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How do you like it?


How do you like it?


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How do you like it?


How do you like it?

In honor of Andrea’s passing, I have asked my congressman to propose the adoption of this song as the U.S. national anthem. True, Miss True wrote the number as an autobiographical reflection on her days as a porn-movie actress but, consciously or not, it accurately distills the essence of American governmental philosophy in the early 21st century: excess even unto oblivion.

When it comes to spending and the size of government, only the Democrats are officially panting orgasmically, “More More More, How do you like it?” while the Republicans are formally committed to “Less less less.”

-read on at link-

Farewell to what should have never existed - Euro Zone Breakup

Time to Float

Banks Build Contingencies for Euro Zone Breakup - NYTimes.com

Banks Build Contingency for Breakup of the Euro

: November 25, 2011 By LIZ ALDERMAN

PARIS — For the growing chorus of observers who fear that a breakup of the euro zone might be at hand, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany has a pointed rebuke: It’s never going to happen.

But some banks are no longer so sure, especially as the sovereign debt crisisthreatened to ensnare Germany itself this week, when investors began to question the nation’s stature as Europe’s main pillar of stability.

On Friday, Standard & Poor’s downgraded Belgium’s credit standing to AA from AA+, saying it might not be able to cut its towering debt load any time soon. Ratings agencies this week cautioned that France could lose its AAA rating if the crisis grew. On Thursday, agencies lowered the ratings of Portugal and Hungary to junk.

While European leaders still say there is no need to draw up a Plan B, some of the world’s biggest banks, and their supervisors, are doing just that.

-read on at link-

Climate Hoax Scam Reveal! Second leak of climate emails: Political giants weigh in on bias, scientists bowing to financial pressure from sponsors

Strange how this news just kind of hides, isn't it?

Second leak of climate emails: Political giants weigh in on bias, scientists bowing to financial pressure from sponsors | Mail Online

By ROB WAUGH 25th November 2011

Climategate scientists DID collude with government officials to hide research that didn't fit their apocalyptic global warming

• 5,000 leaked emails reveal scientists deleted evidence that cast doubt on claims climate change was man-made

• Experts were under orders from US and UK officials to come up with a 'strong message'

• Critics claim: 'The stink of intellectual corruption is overpowering'

• Scientist asks, 'What if they find that climate change is a natural fluctuation? They'll kill us all'

More than 5,000 documents have been leaked online purporting to be the correspondence of climate scientists at the University of East Anglia who were previously accused of ‘massaging’ evidence of man-made climate change.

Following on from the original 'climategate' emails of 2009, the new package appears to show systematic suppression of evidence, and even publication of reports that scientists knew to to be based on flawed approaches.

And not only do the emails paint a picture of scientists manipulating data, government employees at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) are also implicated.

One message appeared to show a member of Defra staff telling colleagues working on climate science to give the government a ‘strong message’.

The emails paint a clear picture of scientists selectively using data, and colluding with politicians to misuse scientific information.

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