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Is it time to abolish debt yet?

Only the past is set in stone.

The Global Revolution Has Started

December 9, 2010: China owns the majority of U.S. debt.  They are now the superpower in the world.

Get away from materialism.  Bribery is the ultimate killer of freedom; they get people to forget freedom.
Repeating the mistakes of the past.  Repeating the mistakes of Rome.
The Road We Are Traveling; forget communism and fascism; see Global Socialism.
Be careful.  The globalists will do anything, use anything to trick you into legally signing up for more power to them.  They have money, connections.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple ones—Ronald Reagan.

2010.12.31

111th Congress gets highest disapproval rating since the rating poll started.

Afghanistan arrests: militants, “shadow governor.”  2 NATO troops killed in separate attacks.

2 men hold up a Houston bank for 4 hrs.
4/10 Greeks pay income tax.
Miller concedes.

2010.12.30

Soviet Union planted its flag 88 years ago today.

One non-Dane released after 4 men were charged with terror plot against Danish newspaper (prophet Mohammed cartoon) yesterday.

Mag.-4.2 quake rattles IN.
Motorcycle bombing in Athens; so far, no person/group has taken responsibility.
Monterrey, Mexico: 4 dead, at least one shot execution style.
Afghan mine blast kills 14 civilians.
Iraq: strikes on Christian homes kill 2.
Under peace deal: Yemen frees insurgents.
Missing snowboarder found dead near Lake Tahoe.
100 vehicles in chain-reaction crash during ND storms.

Gold: 1,414; Oil NYMEX Crude: 91.21; Copper: 434; GBP/USD: 1.5519 (00:34 EST).
India’s rupee hits week or more high.
Questions raised about Facebook transparency.
Metrodome out of commission through at least March.
NY may seize Nassau finances over $343M gap.
Rubber drops.

Obama admin. makes 6 recess appointments; includes new ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford.
DMX moved to mental health unit.
“Pot for Food” program yields 5.5 tons, giving back 2,000 joints.
Senate ethics panel dismisses complaint against Dodd.
Ford, Chrysler recalling thousands of vehicles.
Ban (S.Korea) ‘deeply’ troubled by calls to violence.

A Virtual Dictator already

Hugo Chàvez was granted “emergency” powers that make him both Pres. and legislature; he has pushed through laws that add (more) censorship of the internet and the airwaves.

Chàvez has been regularly wearing the red Socialist cap...
While Venezuela’s inflation rate is ~27%—higher than Zimbabwe’s (the more stable rate)—leaked cables (WikiLeaks) suggest Venez. is selling oil to China at...$5 a barrel?
State Dept. reacts to Hugo Chàvez’ dare.

Russia: sentence of oil tycoon extended by 6 years.  Convicted for embezzlement, fraud and tax evasion w/ his company, Putin rival Mikhail Khodorkovsky was originally due for release in 2011.  His lawyer branded the second trial a farce.

Culture of corruption in Israel: first high-ranking official to be charged of their kind; 8th Pres. could get 2 decades (already aged); accused of firing female employee for refusing further sexual advances; other charges include bribery.

Mississippi: Kidney donation a condition in sister’s release.
Organ exchange for value in consideration is prohibited; 2 black girls get 16 yrs. for an $11 robbery in MS...while little boys get a slap on the wrist?  What an ugly story.

Christine O’Donnell says that neither her nor her campaign have been informed of a funding probe by the DoJ; O’Donnell spends several hrs in the echo chamber, rejecting, then adopting lines picked up by networks she goes on...

Pol. headache in finance reforms: Republicans suggest ‘lock box’ (à la Gore) for freezing financing.

Limited use, kids

Nintendo® comes out with a warning for their new 3DS model: possible eye damage... remember that red laser 3-D goggle-GameBoy®?

Chicago Sun-Times, Crete: Family dog chews toes off 10-year-old girl w/ spina bifida.

Midwest Academy trained Obama and made his political career

Fmr. SDS member going to private ACORN meeting/celebration (w/ other radicals)... her Fabian Socialist response: to help build a better world.

Media

June Video: gunfire exchanged with biker gang that left one dead.
Barbara Streisand on LKL.
ESPN anchor apologizes for plagiarizing text of a CA newspaper writer.
Willow Smith may remake “Parents Just Don’t Understand.”

National Nuclear Security Agency’s Thomas P. D’Agostino on TRMS:
111 lbs of highly enriched uranium (HEU) removed fm. facilities in Ukraine.  Large casks w/ radioactive material not irradiated—safer to be kept in casks.
NNSA has disposed of enough enriched uranium to make 120 bombs.

2010.12.29

Critics of filibuster: ‘time to end it.’  Enemies of the Republic on CNN.

4 killed in Iraq suicide attack.
Police: man kills teen over phone use on plane.
Police line-of-duty deaths go up.
TX police officer killed in apartment complex shooting(?).
TX: body of burned child found.
TX police investigate a fatal crash involving a state senator.
Police: 1 killed when SUV collides with sch. bus in TX.
Last remaining police officer in Mex. town disappears.

2 killed in furniture store explosion in Wayne, MI.  2nd gas leak found: city hall(?) evacuated.  Final person pulled from MI store rubble confirmed dead.

American Airlines spokesman says flight 2252 had a “long rollout,” making a hard landing off runway in KY; no damage reported.

Guards charged in Mexican jail break.
Cuban court commutes a prisoner’s death sentence.
Aiden Quinn pleads guilty, admits to texting girlfriend in 2009, causing major crash.
U.S. college baseball star charged with rape in Bahamas.
Clinton to attend Brazilian Pres.’ inauguration.
Rangel raising funds for legal defense trust.
Decision on whether to pardon “Billy the Kid” expected next week.
A letter urges Israeli girls to not date Arabs.

Biz

CA rushes to mop up flood damages ahead of storm.
Freezing temps damage FL crops, $115M.
Citigroup probes ‘suspicious’ India transaction(s).
“30 Rock” biggest ethics violator on TV.
NFL cannot conclude that Bret Favre harassed (former) Jets employee...he’s fined anyway?
NJ mayor uses twitter to clear Newark streets.
GroupOn: after rejecting Google’s 5 and 6 mil. dollar buy, GroupOn tries to raise some funding mechanisms ($0.9B)?

Drawn out of existence?: Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s district may disappear in redistricting...
OH loses two seats due to Census nos.

CNN confirms: DoJ is investigating Christine O’Donnell’s use of campaign funds.

Ronald Heinemann can’t believe the number of “mistakes” found in VA textbooks.

TV

A 2010 ep. of MythBusters: op. Valkyrie was not compromised when Hitler was moved fm. bunker; both scenarios survivable; shrapnel in leg lines up with history; placement and magnitude of blast is what counts there.

Slap some sense into you, Confirmed: the jolt of adrenaline in being slapped in the face does restore much of your abilities; tests include freezing, sleep deprivation, starvation...

Weaved works best— Duct Tape Special #2: 102 Ways.  With just under 300 rolls, a bridge that holds, but isn’t something you would want to walk across.  Car reassembled w/ tape; works at top speed.

One strand supports up to 67.3 lbs.; generic car puts out 1,300 of pulling power, stopped by 5 rolls (taped to a light pole).  However, a car moving at 60 MPH will take more than 3 in. of in thickness.

Movie

Cyrus (John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, Marisa Tomei, Catherine Keener, David Walsh) is more of a drama, but labeled a Comedy.

2010.12.28

Most people polled say the debt ceiling should not be raised.
U.S. death toll in Afghanistan for 2010: 700.  Where’s the anti-war movement now?

Maine: a small, old two-passenger ski lift derails, sending passengers, mostly children, falling 30 ft.  The line fell under stress, as designed, instead of snapping.  The winds were 30 MPH.
Update: only one sent to ME Medical Center; 6 injured, hundreds “chilled.”

Danny David(?) plays the race card (but says he isn’t): running for mayor in Chicago, he says Clinton’s stumping for Emanuel “hurts aspirations for black voters that voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 Presid...

Gone Viral

Video: city-owned car destroyed as 2 large machines drive over a around it.  Man calls it nuts, taping it, woman heard (owner).

2010.12.27

Charlatan Al Sharpton speaks before the FCC for more Free Speech regulations.

Suspicious pkg. found at Greece embassy in Rome; group anarchist claims responsibility for packages.

Julian Assange’s lawyers are upset that police files were leaked...  Assange is now reported to consider a $1.3 mil. book deal.

Storm weather strands thousands, especially at airports.  It took till 6 p.m. for virtually anything to reopen in NY.
ME Gov. Baldacci wants to declare a state of emergency, but advisors/critics want him to wait until they can see if plow trucks can clear the alien white substance covering the ground.  For such an inactive day, delays and—well, all closings... 10-20" of snow.

You have to be a nut to believe in Keynesian economics

Doctors incentivized to do what the HC law, bureaucracy tells them, incentivized to talk about end-of-life care—something taken out, but put back in by the Pres.  Penalized if they go against it.
The Clinton push in 1992-93 didn’t go through because it was all at once.  So, gradually through, it was done despite opposition.  Mocked, then vindicated, called liars for telling people—one of the coverups was leaked by the New York TimesAnd incentivized to spend because spending stimulates.

What you get when you want Congress to act, and pass anything—anything!  Government is the solution!!: a writer for the Times names Jon Stewart the new Edward Roscoe Murrow because Jon’s the only one of the left to make action in Congress in a long time.  The first responders bill...enslaves 9/11 workers to the nationalized health care, some Medicare extension, and whatever else to say, we control y—sorry, support you.

Hypocritically, anything “right-wing” is “bad” if it amounts to action while the left are called heroes for action...well, Keith Olbermann isn’t credible; Huffington and Maher aren’t—well, there’s no one credible on the left.  Stewart fun, great applause; Democrats good, Republicans bad...

It takes a kind of desperation.  The media on the fringes will continue to call the Pres. a “centrist.”  He’s becoming a Republi—no, you’re insane.

William Monroe Trodder backed progressive Dem. Woodrow Wilson, but when Wilson predictably broke his promises, Trodder went to see him.  Your ____ angers me, replied Wilson.  Wilson sold segregation (or resegregation) as “not humiliating at all...as you don’t want friction between the races.”  What you get with any progressive “governance.”

Media

Body By Ovation.  Pushing the Standards and Practices limits...in an artful way.  Such devious painting.  A nude woman in the painting is looking at the viewer while the men are clothed.  And to find out that this woman, in these paintings, presented in the programme...was a lesbian!  Harrumph!

TCM its own long list of motion picture remembrances (those that passed away in 2010).
Blake Edwards today, who died Dec 15, at 88, directed wife Julie Andrews in Victor/Victoria (1982).  The film features a younger John Rhys-Davies.  Back then, Andrews broke her voice with all of the singing.

2010.12.26

Storms rip through New England; blizzard weather makes things worse for New Yorkers, Mainers...

Possibly the first female suicide bomber in NW Pakistan tribal region; dozens killed during aid coupons handouts (World Food Programme distribution).

457 evacuated in China.
Blast in Philippines kills several.
8 Amer. tourists killed in Egypt bus crash.
Neil Rogers passed away over the weekend.

Dutch arrest 12 suspects on terrorism charges.
Rpt.: Karzai open to new Taliban Turkey office.
Some transit workers go on strike in England over pay.
Clinton to stump for Emanuel in Chicago.

TV

Menthol cigarettes have more nicotine content; Isadore Rosenfeld quit in 1961.

New safety measures after Spider-Man play fall that broke an actor’s back; the actor now walking, wants to resume.

Howie Kurtz spends 20 min. with Larry King.  Washington Post will always follow you around.

Obit

Former Pres. of Venezuela Carlos Andrés Pérez died Dec 25 at 88.  Elected during the 1970s oil crisis, he resorted to “a neoliberal agenda of austerity” (Dan Fastenberg for TIME).  Enduring a coup by Chàvez in 1992 (before Chàvez won presidency in 1998), Pérez called the IMF a neutron bomb that killed people but left buildings standing.

“Ivory Queen of Soul” Teena Marie dies today at 54.  In 2009, she released the Congo Square album, and called herself a black artist with white skin.  Lovergirl, Square Biz are just two out of the many songs she wrote for a relatively short life.  She left Motown in the 1980s during a dispute led to the Brockert Initiative (a.k.a Teena Marie law) in effort to keep labels from holding musicians and their work hostage.  After her death, Motown founder Berry Gordy said, she had so much soul.

2010.12.23-25

Rome reports: bomb exploded at Chile embassy, injuring one
Suspicious pkg. found at Ukrainian embassy

Indian govt. issues terror alert for Mumbai.
After backing off, N. Korea threatens “sacred war” with the South.
5 dead in Afghan attacks, air strikes.
Sister of Las Vegas missing dancer asks for help.
Residents in Philly on street patrol over concern of serial killer.
NATO investigates 2 ‘inadvertent’ Afghan deaths from an operation.
Worker trapped underwater in FL mine collapse.
Hundreds of arrests, detentions, dozens of cases of torture in Ivory Coast after post-game violence.  Laurent Gbagbo still refuses to concede in the run off after the Nov 28 election(s).  He promised to let up on the Alassane Ouattara office siege, but has not budged from the presidential palace...

Ethnic clashes in Nigeria over fertile lands in the central region; Christians in the South,
Muslims in the North; attacks on 2 churches on Fri. add 6 to 500 deaths this year.

Preparations underway for Sudan vote.
Rahm Emanuel approved for Chicago mayoral run.
End of an era: No more Kennedys in Congress: Patrick is the last.
Skype working since Wed. to get back to ‘normal.’

Gas tops $3/gal.; unemployment claims drop again.

Chennai setback: communications satellite exploded; in April, a rocket plunged into the Bay of Bengal after rotor seizure, turbine casing rupture.
India’s space program has long been a source of national pride.

Media

WGME 13 (CBS affiliate) still threatening to cut programming w/ TWC.
Many can make it rain.  But only George Lopez can make it snow!  (Snow machine.)
Gold Rush, #1 highest-rated show in all of cable, returns Fri.
Katherine Crier was on at 8 p.m. in FNC’s early days (1996), w/ the O’Reilly Program at 6 p.m.  And, of course, the Factor runs all day on Christmas Day.

Curtis Robinson in Portland Daily Sun (Fri.): Signifigance-flu.  You have s-flu if...after Daily Show seems like a fake news program, Fox News seems like a real news program.  It gets pretty mind-numbing if you’ve just scanned the joke book America (The Book), Teacher’s Edition all at once.  The Shadow Government fold-out has Fox News in the MIND CONTROL section.  Credits: ClothesFree.com was used for the fake Supreme Court Justices Nude.

I finally got to see a 2009 ep. of MythBusters where a 15-yr.-old car equipped with nitrous oxide skips twice along a body of water, makes it to the other side dirty but virtually undamaged.

Tweet of the week: Hugh Hefner, 84, engaged to Miss December 2009 Crystal Harris, 24—“No. 1” girlfriend on Girls Next Door (E! Entertainment).

Mu Ch’i’s persimmons... A Decade of The New Yorker

Issue 2007.09.24 ad: Mark Katz was the humor writer for Clinton, Gore, Albright—what limited sense of humor these ‘leaders’ have!

Oliver Sacks’ A Neurologist’s Notebook reveals how dense and resilient the procedural memory is in The Abyss: Music and amnesia.  Different debilitating forms of amnesia, mainly focused on the case of Clive Wearing, an English musician and musicologist.  In March of 1985, in his mid-forties, was struck by (herpes encephalitis), affecting especially the parts of his brain concerned with memory.  He was left with a memory span of only seconds—the most devastating case of amnesia ever recorded.  New events and experiences were effaced almost instantly.  Deborah, his wife, wrote in her 2005 memoir, Forever Today:

His ability to perceive what he saw and heard was unimpaired...

...Desperate to hold on to something, to gain some purchase, Clive started to keep a journal, first on scraps of paper, then in a notebook.  But his journal entries consist, essentially, of the statements “I am awake” or “I am conscious,” entered again, and again every few minutes.

2010.12.22

2 Chicago firefighters killed, 19 injured.
Bill Richardson: war bet. the Koreas was close this month.
Drunk driver gets 51 years for killing baseball player.
6 illegal aliens found in truck at Atlanta airport?
Russia blames U.K. for diplomatic spat.
U.S. drafts immediate detention for suspected terrorists?

Oil breaks $90/bbl., copper surges.
Home sales rise 5.6% in Nov.
Abbey Road crosswalk named historic landmark.
Madoff aide turns herself in in FL.
Lindsay Lohan ‘called 911’ in rehab incident, lawyer says.

Sen. approves nuclear arms pact.
Congress freezes federal pay.
9/11 Responders health benefits bill passed; Schumer recalls, “nearly there.”
Murkowski declared winner, 10K vote lead; was 2,100 when Joe Miller started appeal, recount.
Big press conference: Obama signs repeal of DADT policy, hails ‘progress’ made during lame-duck session.

Natl. insecurity:
Intel. director Clapper caught off guard by Diane Sawyer, oblivious to recent terror plot arrests in U.K.
Former director James Woolsey on Parker Spitzer.

Dreams on Coast To Coast AM

All of the blips coming in before massive events...dreams prepare you for the other side.  Within or external?  Both.
Next guest: 2012 Winter Solstice marks an alignment that happens only once every 26,000 years.  Jenkins says The Fountain does a better portrayal of the Mayans and their culture.

Obit

Narrator Fred Foy dies at 89.  First for radio in 1948, then the TV series, he delivered the Lone Ranger introduction, A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty ‘Hi-Yo, Silver!’…the Lone Ranger!  Foy also worked on The Green Hornet and The Dick Cavett Show, and was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2000.

2010.12.21

2 years bef. the Mayan calendar is up.

Rome: bomb found under subway seat in.
5 hurt in Israel retaliation.
Madoff aide Bongiorno(?) faces possible jail time.
Fort Hood agency bans faith-based ads?
Pirates hijack a cargo ship in Indian Ocean, E.U. force says.
Evacuations at U.N. after suspicious odor.
WikiLeaks: Palestinian group ‘asked Israel’ to attack Hamas.
Gza Gza Gabor’s husband mistakes glue for eye drops.
Spider-Man on Broadway: ‘Turn off the Dark’ performer hospitalized after fall.

Deutsche Bank to pay $550 mn. in tax fraud probe.
Wells Fargo to modify 15K mortgages.
E.U. calls travel delays ‘unacceptable.’
Key aide departs ‘Palin world.’
Steele asks if he could apologize for ‘idiot’ remark.
Chris Brown completes domestic violence course (to avoid it now).
Rpt.: release of Pan Am bomber not medically justified.
Govt. checks to go paperless.
House approves bill extending govt. funding through March; would have shut down at midnight today.

Protect you from your service provider, food

It’s function is to break up interference, not cause it!
Net Neutrality approved as predicted; the “vote” held today; smiley faces when word ‘protect’ was used.  More god complex than belief in Free Speech.
Level the playing field...the socialists there have laid things out explicitly behind closed doors.

Eric Holder catches on to the ‘control the food supply’ bandwagon: terrorists,
particularly those from home, seek to poison us.  You ain’t nevah gon’ stop that from happenin’ mistah fake Attorney General.

Caller: pretty soon we’re going to be seeing ‘election protections’ to make choices for you.  The Globalists already do that; some candidates are literally told to step down.

1913: Worst Year Ever

Under the Wilson Admin., you had people arrested for playing music (Beethoven), or reading the Constitution aloud, over “fears of an anti-govt. uprising.”  (The kind of bull that some buy into—the Tea partyers are anti-govt., you know.)

TV

NBC runs SNL: A Very Gilly Christmas.
Final season of Big Love: Jan 16.

2010.12.20

U.K. arrests 12 terror plot suspects.
U-Conn. Women’s hoops tie record 88th victory record w/ 1974 UCLA Men’s team.
Discovery Health to become Oprah Winfrey Network.
Taxes: Jim McDermont(?) even uses Christmas to demand money from the rich for the govt.
Christians give the most to private charities.
Congressman Peter King wants a study on radicalized Islam in the U.S. as part of actions for the new House; MS-NBC programming (Ed Show): Radical Witch Hunt.

Seattle Times: suspect on sch. bus who kicked, beat pregnant teenager has a past of assaulting others, including the elderly.

Wasteful spending revealed/made in part by Coburn: $175 mn. for unused building up-keep, $2.2 mn. for inefficient lighting, $0.6 mn., Grateful Dead music studies.

Carr show reveals more soft Corruption

Ever since welfare reform in the mid-1990s, SSI scams took over; the disability compensation is too easy to take advantage of, via ‘behavioral problems.’  “I wish my kid could get a better autism diagnosis,” as the more dysfunctional you are the more money you get.  I don’t read too well, is the justification of another.  And for the weaker recreational drugs given, a no. (can) end up selling them for hard drugs.  Non-English speaking get paid more—transitional Assistance acts like Permanent Assistance.  According to an observational study, only 1/4 of recipients even have a disability.  Some board members have admitted at times to making the program into another welfare program.

Look at what it’s like in Chelsea, says the doc in the room, after the caller.
Carr: There are no happy straight marriages in the Globe, only happy gay marriages.

Counter-revolutionaries—against socialism.

Refresher of what we are up against: George Soros’ method of taking power.
1. Form a shadow govt. with humanitarian aid as a “cover”  2. Control the airwaves; anti-capitalist or communist propaganda, depending on which the govt. is.

Institute of Policy Studies (IPS): knowing how to fame the system.  Open Society Institute’s charitable arm is the creator of Students for a Democratic Society.  The time of SDS: raids and riots.

Decades ago the revolutionaries didn’t stand a chance.  But now they know the right people to help execute the plans.  Mao said that it was just a few million people killed, worth it for the world revolution.

Obit

Steve Landesberg dies at 74 of cancer in L.A.  He played Detective Arthur Dietrich on Barney Miller.

2010.12.18-19

Senate vote was 65-31, completing the repeal of DADT on Saturday.

West coast slammed by storms.
U.N.: 50+ killed in Ivory Coast; global leaders threaten sanctions as Coast pres. orders troops.
Afghanistan: 14 soldiers, police, a coalition/ISAF svc member killed in separate attacks.
Fire kills 3 children in OH.
Officials: 141+ escape from Mex. prison.
Korean tensions high as U.N. meets, S. Korea conducts more drills (Mon. morning there).
Bill Richardson: N. Korea “agrees” to return remaining captured.
CA man tries to sell military jet to Iran(?), arrested.
U.N. to investigate Haiti cholera outbreak sources.
Coast Guard helicopter rescues 5 off boat sinking off AK waters.

CA sheriff: couple schemed to steal baby, harm mother.
NY priest defrocked for child sex abuse.
Boxer Floyd Mayweather arrested on battery charges.
Jersey Shore Ronnie faces 5 yrs. behind bars, indicted mos. ago for beachside brawl.

2 states sue Bank of America over mortgage servicing.
GM recalls 100K SUVs for seat belts.
Duncan says no to Steele RNC bid.
Merkel visits troops in Afghanistan.
Humane Humane Society pres. says he is okay w/ Michael Vick owning dogs again.

TIME and EW do many pages of remembrances...Pod-people-eyed Mark Zuckerberg on the cover of TIME...with The 2010 Joel Stein Presents: Coolest Person of the Year™.

Truth doesn’t take sides.

With King gone, CNN has become unwatchable in all brackets.  Ali Velshi turns to Steven Moore, Moore tells the truth, then the bald white guy says, well, let’s hear what the other side has to say.  CNN network slogan: The truth isn’t just left or rightThe truth isn’t left or right!  People are sick of sides.
Stay tuned for Piers Morgan Tonight.  I’m almost sure I won’t.

Value-added tax brought up again.
The “cute journalist”: the bills have to be paid somehow.  Maybe if you started listening to solutions, not corrupt pol. figures, then there wouldn’t be all of this fraud.

TV

Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job! “Crimbus” Special—an hour long.

Colbert, and now Ricky Gervais (recorded earlier in Out of England 2) spend their time going after a false sense of Christianity.

2010.12.17

Socialism: disbelief that man can govern himself; job of govt. to do it all.

Journal of Pediatrics: 3/4 of kids consume caffein daily.
NSA: Next step for cyber-terrorists is an all-out cyber attack.
First gold dispenser opens in FL.
$7.2 bn. from the Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme has been recovered...in the form of coins, medals.

Lacrosse player Love murder case defense seeks medical records for UVA; internal bleeding, 0.14 blood alcohol, they tried CPR on her.

Tax rate law extension passed.
67 votes to ratify START.
Omnibus goes down in flames (Reid thought 9 Repubs. were for it); House working to fund the govt. for Tues. (“continuing resolution”).  Dems. blame GOP for “Christmas rush.”

Pelosi, sharing nutty opposition with Trumpka (not taking any more of somebody’s money is “a give-away”): The rich brought us this recession and Obama led us out; let’s tax them more.  She’s in the special, anointed crowd.

Media

A caller to Rush: You need a break; why not put a ‘chick’ on to fill in.

Howie Carr: “What have Jim McGovern, Anthony Weiner, Barney Frank ever done?  It’s not your money.  Why don’t you get a real bleepin’ job, and donate it yourself.”  “Kathleen Parker made her career by stabbing her ‘Republican’ friends in the back.”

America’s First Christmas special.
The four Es: Enlightenment, Education, Empowerment, Entrepreneur.
Prayer is at the center of Wilmington; they list items on a chalkboard to pray to around the clock.
...Glenn’s Chalkboard spells something different:

Elves - Slaves
Work -  365 days
Boss works   1 day
Red shirt
 Toys 4 free   MARXIST

Santa = Obama

Obama lost my vote, say celebs.
Jane Lynch: for not supporting gay marriage.
Gene Simmons: in retrospect, you couldn’t find someone more unqualified.

Obit

Artist/musician Don Van Vliet (“Captain Beefheart”) dies at 69 of complications from multiple sclerosis in Trinidad, CA.

2010.12.16

Bad ethics shorten the life span of a business.  Cut corners to ruin it?

Nepal plane crash: 32 dead.
Violence in Ivory Coast; deaths reported.
Pakistan drone strike kills 7 suspected militants.
4 Afghan army members mistakenly killed.
Insurgents warn of al-Qaida attacks.
Critics say new review sugar coats; Taliban numbers said to be lowest in years.
Alleged underwear bomber pleads not guilty to new charges.
S. Korea announces new military drills.
NM Gov. goes to N. Korea.
Rpt.: 27 fishermen go missing in South China sea.
Fmr. Detroit mayor Kilpatrick (D-MI) facing bribery, extortion charges.
Tea partyers slam ‘hyporkrisy’ on the Hill.
Rapper DMX sent to prison.

Aretha Franklin home after surgery.
Car of the Year finalists: Volt, Leaf, Sonata.
Honda recalls over 1.3 mil. Fit cars.
King’s Speech, The Fighter top SAG nominations.

Omnibus bill to be read aloud on the House floor.
Key House Dems.: tax rate deal will pass...after earmark bribes; House members attempt to change the debate ground rules, against promises to the GOP.
Biden issues Senate call to action.
We would flourish without all of the current Federal Govt. operations.

Assange physically out on bail, no computer access restrictions, thanks his fans, some sporting V For Vendetta masks (anarchy movie, U.S.’s war on terrorism brings the fascism we all knew would come fm. the oppressive U.S., blah, blah).

Net Neutrality

Another law for the holidays...
Two kinds: tier pricing, and discriminating...always trying to “find a problem” to regulate speech.  And again, “free speech” is unregulated speech.

TV

Unexplained structures on Ancient Aliens.
Conan: Pierre draws big boobs for all of his comic book characters.
Colbert stretches Bernie Goldberg’s Jesus would be a such-and-such liberal remarks.

Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger names today Larry King Day for 25 years of...
King had Bill Clinton on, and said Bill’s a real Zipper...uh, surgery makes something that looks like a zipper.  Glad you clarified that.  The record-setting show is over.

Fmr. Libertarian Presidential candidate Bob Barr on GBS, w/ “The Judge” filling in.  Jim Clyburn admitted most of what Congress does is not authorized by the Constitution.
Martinez’ Facebook page led FBI to plant the seed of the crime; You can’t blow up saw dust.  It’s virtually impossible to convict on Entrapment, but the feds target two more “weak links” (the unstable) to act as if they’re doing something.

No major TV news coverage of the 9/11 First Responders legislation (except for Al-Jazeera); Sen. McConnell got choked up about Judd Greg leaving.  So Jon Stewart puts on four first responders, out of 400+.

ABC News/PolitiFact does Lie of the Year:
Let’s see...runners up: Grayson’s whopper; Michele Bachmann repeated the Obama-India trip would cost—that’s speculation!
But the #1, which was also the web user #1: the HC law would be a govt. takeover—that was the point for some who have power!
Mark Twain once said, a lie travels the globe before the truth puts its shoes on.  Yeah, because of the so-called mainstream news.

Book

Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century.

James Madison said, If men were angels, there would be no need for a Constitution.

2010.12.15

Senate passes tax rate extension deal.

Deadliest year for Ciudad Juárez—3,000 deaths.
Molotov cocktails in Athens: socialist revolutionaries in the streets again.
Bangladesh fire claims 20+ lives.
Rampage shooting in Spain; man kills 4.
Iran: twin suicide bomb attacks kill 39+, injure 90+.
Border patrol agent killed; 4 in custody, man hunt for 3.
Moscow: +800 arrested in effort to curb ethnic clashes over a football fan.
S. Korea conducts nation-wide drill(s).
Carnival cancels more cruises on damaged ship.
Casino robbed $1.5M in chips.
Mex. lawmaker stripped of immunity.
Bride-to-be sues groom for $100K.
Teens: Marijuana use overtakes cigarettes.

House repeals DADT policy.
Aides: Govt. could shut down for a day or two, as the money funs out on Sat.
Long-range missile intercept test failed.

NASA: Soyuz takes off for International Space Station.
Israel storm unearths Roman statue.
AAA expects 3.1% increase in holiday travels.
Bill Clinton to visit Haiti again.
Obama ‘brainstorms’ w/ 20 CEOs.
Tankan survey suggests Japan confidence low for first time in 2 yrs.
European Court(s) rule that Irish anti-abortion law violates women’s human rights.

Ban or regulate our way to a utopia:
Air Force cutting off its access to WikiLeaks news.
Commercial volume bill passed; FCC to regulate sound levels in a couple of yrs.
U.S. to ban drop side cribs.

To celebrate 40 years of an Environmental Protection Agency...
U.S. sues B.P., others over Gulf oil spill; 9 pollution violations; Eric Holder at ~2:21 p.m. EST; EPA Admin. Lisa Jackson took the podium at ~2:27 p.m. EST.

Anarchy does not make you a hero; it makes you crazy and impatient

Called absurd, the Manning Resolution in Berkeley—yet those who wrote it aren’t quick to vote yea...because Manning hasn’t yet admitted to the crime.

A 17-yr.-veteran pleads guilty to charges of disobeying orders, could get 3 yrs.—missing a flight, criticizing the President...also questioning his birth certificate.

Not creators (such as Soros) of political correctness, but advancers.
Fact denial persists... Hey— remember when Wolf Blitzer had the gall to ask, during an earlier visit of Ahmadinejad, is the Holocaust a hoax?  Always buying into pol. figures... those corrupt political figures.

Media

Movie: Fish Tank (realistic, British).
Comedy Central: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (1.03), Onion SportsDome.
Jimmy Carter compares gay rights to racial issues of 15 yrs. ago.
Jon Bon Jovi appointed to W.H. advisory council, among other names.

Love written in Hebrew, (I-Give, right-to-left) at Wilmington, OH.  To expect miracles, and find them—someone hearing-impaired helped...

Obit

Director Blake Edwards, Pink Panther creator dies.
Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians dies.  (See Death Pool in comment space above.)

2010.12.14

People are putting their political differences aside to help out.

4 bodies found near NY beach.
Violence erupts in Rome after Berlusconi confidence vote.
Afghan “Eunice” arrested over alleged plot to pipe bomb the NY subway station.
60-80 people; Australian boat crashes into Christmas Island.
Nepal’s fmr. crown prince arrested.
South Korean army school(?) chief resigns.
Miller appeals Alaska senate race ruling.
Cheney, Halliburton may settle Nigerian charges.
AP: Bellagio casino robbed.
Holder (DoJ appeal), Sebelius defend HC law after Federal judge’s ruling.
Obama meets with Bill Gates, Warren Buffet for economic solutions.
The End of Privacy (CNN): Cameras everywhere, used for spying, can be watched by hackers.
Lt. Gov. gave $1,700+ to Deval Patrick...

School board meeting shooting (Bay District School Board): gunman attempted to kill some members; shot (himself) to death after being shot, cornered—WJHG(?).

New $1.1 trillion, 1,924-page Omnibus spending bill w/ a record 6,739 earmarks—are they actually getting a clerk to read it all?

Hugo Chàvez wants faster personal lawmaking powers to “deal with recent flooding.”  “Nay-sayers” say it’s all abt. gaining more power over the opposition, come 2011.

Julian Assange posts $315K bail, but is still held in jail.  Once he does get out, he has to wear a tag, maintain his address, and report in every evening.
Disillusioned Defections: one that worked at the org. said to Assange, “You’re acting like some kind of dictator or slave trader,” in response to the boss wanting an answer to a question, regarding leaked info from within WikiLeaks.  Assange: “You are suspended.  Effective immediately.”
ABC News’ take, after they started talking: he’s about fame and fortune.  Assange has not paid for Bradley Manning’s defense fund, as promised; instead makes it a matter of public donation.  Assange says he doesn’t recognize his defectors anymore, as they start their own sites; one of the sites, OpenLeaks.

“Erin Brockovich” town (the fictional one was based on) shows no sign of cancer danger.  (Another blame the corporations, regardless of law film?)

New Patriot app...by the DHS

Report suspicious activity at Wal-Mart.
Assist the govt. agencies by spying on your neighbors.  Cupcakes are a security threat, according to Michelle Obama, out of many, many things they don’t personally like: It’s up to the parent, but on a national scale, we can’t just leave it up to the parents.
What does the govt. do well?  Anything?  They’re certainly not doctors (first, do no harm).
It doesn’t end for what they’ll go after, thinking they are the saviors in limiting personal choice.
It’s clear that they haven’t a clue in what they’re doing.  Because they were so brilliant, went to Harvard, that they are qualified to lecture everybody.

The Dora the Explorer Band-aid isn’t going to cut it this time

World-wide economic cratering.
Moody’s says they are going to take the next step in downgrading the U.S.’s credit status if the tax rate extension goes through.
What percentage of Americans get what’s going on?  10%?
Soros on stage, w/ Elizabeth Warren (TARP czar, then credit protection czar): now is the opportunity for the revolution.
Remember when Sunstein wrote the “deal with the anti-govt. element” policy to such that agents have to crack down even if said ‘conspiracy theory’ turns out to be true?
The word ‘Revolution’ is being used!

Howie Carr doesn’t see it; he only sees the pol. advantage when hearing of unconstitutionality with the HC law, as if it compares to the Birther crap.

Progressive not communist: Evolution, not revolution

The Special Ops know that this is the time to go in: talks of having “a helping hand” before collapsing the sys. into it.  The progressives are so sure that they’ll win, that they are now calling for revolution.
Warren has real-time access to your credit card account... it is important for this revolution to have sweeping, important legislation, fin. reform, she says.
Another piece of video—an internal figure admitting that a recount was done in Soros’ NY apartment.  Sounds crazy—that’s how they get away with it.
Sunstein: we have a band of guerrillas, w/ Soros, that the fight has gone to regulation.  Sev. thousand pages for structure.

“Revenge fairness,” top down/bottom up/inside out, a 15-year-old in Britain calling for persistence—everything is fine.  Go back to sleep.
Social Democrats still seek selective taxing of legal ownership, >40%, violating equal protectio... try to provoke the right; once that doesn’t work, provoke the lef...

Media

So many things premiering on 1.11.
TIME selects Mark Zuckerberg as Person of the Year.
Third Ronald Reagan stamp unveiled; died June 5, 2004; he would be 100 years old today.
Microsoft to unveil new tablet PC at CES (starts 1.06) to compete w/ the Apple iPad; Windows 8.
Jeopardy will get an IBM A.I. contestant.

Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails front man) on Travis Smiley for The Social Network soundtrack.  Reznor, and Atticus Ross composed the scores for the film.  Focus blurred Jesse Eisenberg, w/ the title over his eyes.

John Favreau will not be directing Iron Man 3, pissed w/ the studio adding too many characters for the Avengers crossover.

Carr: the freeloaders are leaving behind a hazardous mess of fiscal waste, MA is going bankrupt and they don’t care; neither does Carr, moving to FL.
Caller: Obama attacks the people who make the deal, ups the rhetoric after shaking hands with them, then he attacks those who are attacking him for taking the deal...

Move over, Oprah—Glenn gives away some of his favorite things! ...Wha— Suburban survival playing cards?
Narnia series (books), and to the recent movie, and Billy Eliot (Thatcher, you don’t know what you’re talkin’ about!).

2010.12.13

For limited government — not for government comfort.

Midwest snow storm moves eastward tonight.
IN, OH, PA—snow storms.  300 stranded on the roads in one area.

Fedl. judge strikes down HC mandate.
Senators expect deal bill to pass as early as Tue.
Confirmed: NATO troops attacked, killed on Sun. were American.
Obama to review post-Holbrooke Afghan policy.
Fox News: RNC chair Michael Steele to run for a 2nd term.
Fmr. chief of staff Rahm Emanuel maintains that he is a legal resident of Chicago, pays taxes.

Trying to control nature?: UCSF successfully controls bacteria in the form of logic circuits, being able to basically program them.

Bernie Madoff will not attend his son’s funeral out of respect for his daughter-in-law’s privacy.

Legal words penalized: the Espionage act started under...the Wilson Administration

The excuse: a spectacular terrorist act (by Ger. spies), where shrapnel pierced the Statue of Liberty.  Woodrow Wilson blamed the companies.

The founders released the federalist papers to make their case for the constitution.  There are no papers, no justification for the global structure being put up.

Watch out for the deadlines that occur during the holidays—when people aren’t paying attention; TARP, HC, massive Omnibus, etc. all passed during this time of year.

Better change your passwords—the persistent hacker gets their way

If you’ve recently signed into twitter, your account has been compromised.
Hackers target Gawker/Gizmodo, using SPAM-bots to obtain passwords through comment posts.
Odnosis(?) cites supposed arrogance as cause, as if criticizing WikiLeaks is reason to dump on the people.  Off with their heads!  Oh, they’re anarchists.
Make sure you don’t have the same password for everything!

Media

CNN releases ‘immersive’ app.
Antoine Dodson topped the YouTube list of 2010.
Bungie shows you how to dominate in the newly released map for Halo: Reach.

Neil Cavuto, who I think has MS, overcomes everything just to be on television every night, is the nicest guy you could find at Fox, goes after Chris Matthews for hypocritically criticizing Chris Christie’s (R-NJ) weight.

Electronic Gifts
Spelunker HD is hard.
30th Anniv. of Pac-Man brings...Championship Edition DX: a bomb and time delay-filled upgrade.
TRON gear: 4/8GB light-cycle USB drive, $100 mouse...
The Hundreds teams up w/ Garfield to make orange sneakers, <$200.

Was Gran Turismo 5 worth the wait?  For those who like cars or visuals, yes.  For those who hate the loading times or the windows—how complicated the game can be...

Entertainment Weekly: comedian Dane Cook will appear on Hawaii Five-O as Dano’s brother.

Oprah’s Aus. special: Hugh Jackman got a cut and black eye slamming into a light during a zip-line stunt.

Obama served w/ Mitch McConnell in the Sen. for 4 years; now he can’t even recall his name.  I would like to thank...Mike McConnell.

End of the United States to just let anyone into the country.
Howie Carr Show: spousal refusal to qualify for Medicaid.  We will support our parents until they refuse to pay for them.  We have enough freeloaders as it is—we don’t need anymore.  Carr says they should be kicked out of the country.
Caller: We’ve waived every law in the book for illegal immigrants.  The def. of the rule of law has been so bastardized...people that haven’t lived in this country can be issued a driver’s license while we get an infraction for...

9/11 first responders bill on TDS; G.O.P. + 9/11 — 2001-2010.  Any thought of it being a bad bill?  Any thoughts at all?  Democrats good, Republicans bad?

Do you think Sarah Palin is qualified to be President, asked Babs of Oprah.  60% of O’Reilly Factor viewers think Oprah’s refusal to answer was pinheaded.

Obit

Richard Holbrooke dies.  He made the peace accord that ended the war in Bosnia a reality.

2010.12.12

Man looks for ‘normalcy,’ but when he steps in to do the right thing...

The Guardian: Sweden suicide bomber’s British connections under investigation.
Iraq: suicide blast kills 14, injures 53.
8 killed in China fireworks blast.
S. Korea to conduct naval drills.
Police: Va. girl, alleged kidnapper found.
Protesters made ‘contact’ with Prince Charles’ wife.
AP: Would-be Haitian contractors miss out on aid.
AP: EXCLUSIVE: Pilot duped AMA w/ fake M.D. claim.
AP:Israel’s leader does not want to share Jerusalem.
Heavy snow causes MN Metrodome roof to collapse.
Passengers stranded on Missouri lake cruise boat.
‘Bomb house’ in CA declared ‘safe.’
Holy See urges ‘prudence’ in viewing leaked Vatican-related cables.
FL pastor Terry Jones, who threatened to burn a Qur`an, gets invited to England.
Kosovo votes for first govt. since declaring independence.
Nouriel Roubini: U.S. on track for a “fiscal train wreck.”

Obama meets w/ CEOs to discuss ‘job creation.’
Axelrod: no big changes on tax cut continuation deal.
General Petraeus’ top NCO wants repeal of DADT.
Lt. Gov. Scott Angelle said on a Tues. that he’s turning GOP because of Obama.
Progressives out Obama as ‘unprincipled’ this week.

Future uncertain for postponed Vikings-Giants game; 17" of snow.
U.S. Cable TV bleeds subscribers as on-line grows.
Now Wikimedia Exec. Director Sue Gardner pleas for donations to keep Wikipedia ad-less.
24,000 wreaths laid at Arlington Natl. Cemetery.
Operation Gratitude (non-profit org.): knitting for the troops; one 98-yr.-old has done 400.

Sunday House Call (FNC):
Holbrooke underwent 20 hrs of surgery to repair a torn aorta.  The aorta is the vessel that channels blood from the heart, and expands due to high blood pressure/blockage.
Raynaud’s disease produces numbness in temp. changes; 80% women for those that have it; usually starts bef. age 30.
Low-dose aspirin (anti-inflammatory) lowers cancer risk.
Daycare increases immunity; low-grade disease exposure lowers allergy risk.
Too much salt during teen yrs. wreaks havoc in adult years.  Stay under 9 grams/day.  90% of salt is Na.
Have 2-4 servings of low-Hg fish a week; good fatty acids lower heart disease risk dramatically.
Licorice in small amounts can be beneficial; pregnant women and ppl. with heart disease should avoid it.

Study: +10 hrs of sleep indicates illness (a body having to repair more damage); increases the risk of stroke; 7-9 is normal.  Two centuries ago the life expectancy was lower, and the avg. sleep time was 10 hours.

Pro-WikiLeaks hackers banned on twitter?
The age of twitter: drowning in 140-char. tweets.
Twitter Co. opens office in D.C.
Co-founder Biz Stone on Reliable Sources.  Buried under E-mail, he declared “E-mail bankruptcy,” archiving and then deleting all of his E-mails, apologizing afterward.

Can’t beat ’em, co-opt them

Bloomberg looking to form a so-called “Tea party for moderates.”

TV

“Fat” Tony dies on The Simpsons, Homer’s fake hair catches fire.  We then discover cousin “Fit” Tony in a track suit.  He eats, gets fat and becomes “Fat” Tony for short.

LKL Special runs to remind of the final days left  (Thu marks the final live show).

Carrie Fisher does a Wishful Drinking comedy special on HBO.

2010.12.11

I got under 6 hours of sleep to upload.

Violence across Afghanistan ahead of US war review; 7 dead, many wounded.
Explosions kill 1, injure 2 in central Stockholm.
Iraq PM unlikely to form government this year.
Haiti: cholera vaccine needed, say health experts; Palin humanitarian mission gr. arrive.
Slain drug lord was ‘spiritual leader,’ Mex. govt. says.
Haiti protests ease, U.S. senator pressures govt.
Bernie Madoff’s son found dead of an apparent suicide; hanged.
Swimsuit designer murder: Ex-boyfriend suspected in NY death.
U.S. envoy in critical condition, top diplomat Rich Holbrooke has surgery.
AP: Cables show Ireland irked Vatican on sovereignty.
Admin. predicts START treaty ratification this yr.
Clinton presses Israelis, Palestinians to make tough choices for peace.
IN infant to get transplant after all.
Italy appeal: Amanda Knox makes emotional address.
Brittany Smith’s aunt emotional at mic.
Cate Edwards at mother’s (Elizabeth) funeral: she could barely speak anymore.

Cancún delegates reach climate change deal.
T.J. Maxx to cut employment by 4,400.
Bank of America to resume foreclosures.

Courts: using another’s SSN not a crime.
US federal govt. 30% bigger than it was 2 years ago; real unemployment, 22%.
Florida: BP oil spill incident commander died in small plane crash.
Federal govt. asks for closed courtroom to protect Goldman Sachs.
Unicredit America: debt collectors accused of fake courtroom, fake Judge.
MO on election day: 15 Counties got more than 100% voter registration...
In 1969, Rockefeller insider Dr. Richard Day predicted more difficult travel.
BP planning to challenge estimates of oil spill to reduce billions in liabilities.
FBI sting catches Bragg sailor selling secret documents.
Former G.S. programmer Convicted for trading code theft.
Home prices (-25% in 5 yrs) will easily eclipse Great Depression nos. (-25.9%) in coming mos.

InfoWars/Kurt Nimmo: Rand Paul’s opponent, obstruction of justice.
Conway involved in attempt to cover-up police investigation of his brother as supporters of his pol. campaign facilitated obstruction of justice.

InfoWars/Dahr Jamail: U.S. military officials decided to reroute training flights in Gulf region in order to avoid oil and dispersant tainted-areas.

InfoWars/Paul Joseph Watson: climate change con that threatens to eviscerate middle class faces more scrutiny under new House majority.

InfoWars/Martin Erzinger, Morgan Stanley wealth manager, won’t face felony hit-and-run because CO prosecutors don’t want him to lose his job.

HS football player in Tacoma, WA, flagged for dropping to his knee, pointing to sky (God) after scoring a touchdown during a playoff game.

For years, people have been laughing at the horrific economic decline of Detroit.
InfoWars: 24 signs that all of America is becoming just like it—a rotting post industrial post apocalyptic wasteland.

S.B. 510 (Food Safety bill) now back in the Senate after the House hid an amendment in an appropriations bill and passed it.

Simplifying the Terms

Responsible: to be responsive (not in a coma) and accountable (problem solve, try not to overwhelm).
Positive: what’s true (military def.), not some bubbly nonsense—is fraud positive?

Supercomputers hit 1% capacity of human brains in 2008; as perf./capacity doubles about every 18 mos., the fastest supercomputers should surpass the human brain by 2019.

Media

Charlie Rangel on Huckabee.  23rd member of the House to be censured in U.S. history, 11 violated ethics rules shown on screen as he was speaking.

Portland Daily Sun: WCYY DJ Mark Curdo talks/reminds of his love of music, and the Markathon benefit where he was on air for 102 hrs straight for the Center for Grieving Children.

The (USM) Free Press: A laboratory, a clubhouse, a launch pad.  They expect to increase circulation by 30%.

2010.12.10

Things will never be the same.

Martina Navratilova hospitalized for lung fluid buildup in trying to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Looking all over for money to spend: Dems. want to up the Estate tax by 55%+.
Pres. Obama brings in Bill Clinton to sell tax cut deal, goes to party.
Bill Clinton to pay off some of Hillary’s ~$475 K in campaign debts.
In the cables: Putin doesn’t like the Batman/Robin comparison to Putin/Medvedev.

Elizabeth Smart says justice has been served, as the case comes to a close; insanity plea fails for Brian David Mitchell; found guilty.

Revolution

To make a point, fires and riots are to occur here and in Europe at the same time.  Park benches have already been set ablaze outside of Parliament.
Revolutionaries and anarchists want to change the world, and see that chaos makes the change. The story repeats itself, as the gullible youth are replenished...edu. and media reform.
2011 will get interesting for body guards, secret service.
The Pentagon is wargaming of civil unrest here, while fighting two wars overseas, while undergoing budget cuts.
Are you prepared?  They are.  The heat has yet to be turned on.  You must think out of the box.

Not being in power, they crawl.  When given a supposed reason, such as the GOP majority come 2011 for the House, they bolt.  Things have been sped up.
“Free Press” has connections, and the prev. head of the organization is the current spokesman at the FCC.
Van Jones: the door has not been open for policy making before now.  “People like me don’t normally get into the White House.”
Jones goes on to say that the media are next.  The media landscape is last.

The event has not happened yet.  (I’m not talking about the TV show.)
The left are coordinated; this is very well thought out.  Saul Alinsky: isolate, exploit.
Things will become very painful very soon.

Do not be duped into becoming a useful idiot

Get the lies out of your life.  Get out of debt.
Please use this holiday to pull your family closer, and put honesty, giving and reliance on God first.
In order to be self-reliant, you need real value.  It can be tough to be honest all around—at home, at work—if you’re not used to it.  But it is worth it, necessary.

The less you have, the more you are.
Look at the spiritual when it comes to giving.  Look at the big picture, and find that one thing that fits.  Real heroes liberate.

Bernie-Buster: Sanders filibusters the Senate

With warnings of the U.S. becoming a Third World country, as China becomes the world superpower... G.E. dealings brought up.
Seen talking head Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) before?  This perpetuates the Bush trickle-down economics, hostage taking, debt.

Rachel Maddow was completely wrong on her ‘how many have to be scalped?’ segment mos. ago; Jones left for something better: Center For American Progress (Soros), where the actual action is for the W.H.  And like Jones, Maddow inserted race for the power of misleading belief.  Racial disenfranchisement.

CNN still considers everything as politics as usual

The tax cuts are calculated to cost $800 bi—[unpleasant reaction] Spending makes the deficits, not tax rate reductions!
Some others try to sell the cut extensions as a stimulus—also false.

Radio, TV

Bea Arthur was in the female version of the Marines, but denied it.

Jon M. Huntsman (Sr.) on GBS, embodies “the American dream.”  His book, WINNERS NEVER CHEAT, rings true.  For the first time on TV, he talks about his son’s kidnapping.  Holding his son for $1 mil. ransom, the kidnappers repeated warnings, we’ll cut him into little pieces.  After tracing the call, FBI agents stormed; one was cut from abdomen to neck, D.O.A., but got the highest medal of honor. Huntsman tears, chokes up a couple of times.
Times may be tough, but good results require contrast.  It is to learn from the mistakes, and advance.
Are capitalists greedy?  Wealth takes a long time—and a free mindset—to build.  Billionaires create things that are found in everything.  See a need, fill a need—naturally.  It’s never about the money.

What did we learn fm. Conspiracy Theory w/ bobble head Jesse Ventura?  There was hedging against Deep Horizon, major profits/collusion on the ineffective, highly poisonous dispersant used (life expectancy <60), that BP gave a fat middle finger to the EPA after the EPA asked them to stop using the dispersant...that the EPA approved.  We also learned that there have been relocation plans long before hurricane Katrina to move people away fm. the La. coast ($40B) and Mississippi river ($1.5B).  The situation (and the show’s editing) gets ridiculous enough that some can’t keep from joking.  No working blowout preventer; Halliburton (Cheney); Bush, Obama are Manchurian candidates, hand picked...whatever.

2010.12.09

4 killed in Mex. helicopter crash.
Medicare payment bill passes House, goes to Obama.
Fewer people sign up for unemployment insurance.
Body of WWI veteran to be buried.
Panama Canal opened after flooding.
Howard Stern: 5 more years on Sirius.
The now-commercially owned SpaceX returns after a successful launch.
After Gates and Buffet, Mark Zuckerberg to donate most of his fortune to charity.
Wesley Snipes heads to prison on tax evasion charges.
Jim Morrison pardoned of indecent exposure, even though he died in his 20s.
HHS director: no cigarette smoke can be tolerated.

Nigeria: Voter registration equipment stolen.
Russian Central Bank says they’re worried about inflation.
The U.K. has become insolvent?

House Repubs. overhaul work calendar.
IA GOP chair seeking 2nd term.
Dems. plan to block tax cut continuations, pull back DREAM act... but like Net Neutrality, it’ll be done another way.

Operation Payback: to cyberattack any “enemy” of WikiLeaks; 20-something-year-olds at several locations using servers to overload web sites.
The excuse to control the net... hacks into credit card nos., etc.

The largest cache of home-made explosives in San Diego.
Controlled burn of a home filled w/ explosive chemicals, ACME-type stuff; owner from Serbia, a software engineer, told authorities of the storage; fire wall put up to prevent other buildings from going up; pops were heard.

Have peace and love in your hearts, and be honorable

Blessed are the peacemakers.

World Peace is a rarity in history.  We must be our highest self.
Violent protests in Britain as the Parliament body moves to triple tuition costs in a line of cutbacks.
There was an attack on Prince Charles’ armored car, as they drove into the crowd of protesters.  Bullet-proof glass was broken!
They rammed in the grill, and chanted the collectivist line, Off with their Heads!
In the photos: hanging on the flag of a monument, trying to pull it down; using a giant stone, trying to break glass; in front of Big Ben, a fire.
The revolutionary mob tried to break down the barricades to Parliament.

According to WikiLeaks: It’s not about transparency, it’s about making a just world, about an internal lock down of the U.S. government.
Revolutionaries are of the youth.  A man who calls himself Cold Blood is 21 years old.
Denial of service attacks on the rise ever since Assange turned himself in on request.

City Council in Berkeley, California: “Peace and justice commission” declares Bradley Manning a ‘hero.’

Even the HuffPost admits to G.B. being the #1 most charitable celebrity.
Love in Hebrew is made up of the two symbols for ‘I’ and ‘Give.’

Captain Hindsight @ VA Tech: the warning system should have been activated.  The students should be allowed to defend themselves, as defined by the Second Amendment.  But no, they use law to strip others...

Dec 9, 2010, the revolution is NOW

The revolutionaries haven’t even begun to turn the heat on.
Robert McChesney said that media reform is necessary, but, “We can solve the problems after the revolution.”  He says to treat the media like the unions—like a plantation. He listed preconditions.
Van Jones on Sept 28 says to take on the racists, and get that inside out part to appear.
This will be the year that the power of the U.S. will be handed to China; they’ve made their decision already.
If you don’t think they are capable of controlling what you hear then you are a fool; they have had significant influence for a long time, and nobody in the “mainstream” has dared to cross George Soros.

A large spending bill passed yesterday; tons of new money for regulation, Cass Sunstein, yet for the military, the smallest raise in 50 years.  Stress them, push them, stretch them.  Bleed the overwhelmingly constitutionalist.

Sick: Nancy Pelosi is one of the Progressives that’ll try to co-opt everything—call the founders racist heathens, change the language, then say you like every bit of them (because they now “fit” your agenda).

Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day.  Everything’s been distorted to the point of no recognition.  Drop the endings: give Thanks to the teachings of Him so you can be renewed.
Well, there’s A Very Zombie Christmas comic book (houseofmysterioussecrets.com); SEASON’S EATINGS.

TV

CNN: Project that ‘lets’ kids teach themselves: a hole in the wall.
‘Cyber’ comes from cybernetics, the control bet. animals and machines.
Anderson Cooper interviews a man who talked to the Taliban, against the odds.
Michio Kaku on Conan tries to explain string theory...
Oprah apparently got questions in advance, when asked if she was gay by Barbara Walters (9 p.m.).

2010.12.08

Not anti-government but anti-BIG Government.

U.S. State Dept./Defense gives N. Korea the third warning.
18 killed, 33 injured in Pakistan suicide blast.
Death toll for coal mine explosion hits 26.
Protests demand carnival singer lead Haiti; barricades and pol. offices set ablaze.
Part of ink cartridge ban, they say: photo ID required for shipping packages.
Another cruise stranded in the waters.  “30-ft. wave knocked out engines.”
SpaceX misses initial launch time.
Bad Santa fired.
Barrett: U.S. edu. expectations so low, it’s pathetic.
SAT Cheating has gone fm. 1/5 to 4/5, even with Casino-level surveillance.

‘Facebook sting’ Man arrested for attempted bombing of a Baltimore recruitment center; fake attempted car bombing.

Oprah to star and produce in new HBO film.
Jeffrey Tambor to replace Kelsey Grammer in La Cage aux Folles ('lah Kaj'oh fahl).
Jesse Jackson says Aretha Franklin is doing fine after recent visits, yet no details have been given as to what the serious surgery was about for the 68-yr.-old Queen of Soul.

Big stock sale: Treasury to cut AIG stake.
China’s Youku.com, Dangdang sweep U.S. IPO Market.
Orexigen’s diet pill victory shows benefit of being .
Electronic cigarettes should be treated like tobacco, court ruling says.
SI.com: Could survive FL football w/o two-time natl. championship coach Urban Meyer?
QB Matt Cassel has appendectomy, hopes to play Sunday.
Konerko, White Sox agree to 3-year deal.
One of tennis’ ultimate winners, Pete Sampras, suffers a major loss.

Senate pushes Army to fix problems at Arlington National Cemetery.
Feeling the heat—Anthony Weiner in the news.

MasterCard, Palin web sites face wrath of hackers after ditching WikiLeaks.
Kristin Hraffnson of WikiLeaks says the release of docs will happen regardless of Assange.
Robert Wright: Julian Assange: Neocon Tool?

In 1933 gold was confiscated by the government... 90% of hedge fund managers bought physical gold, not paper gold.

Nearly half of the country doesn’t have broadband— oh, the horror!

Over the phone, the bullsh— A gift?  Not taxing the “wealthy” as much is not a gift.
Bob Beckel: I can’t believe that the people who caused the problem are gonna get a ...  It hasn’t even been finalized.

TV, mag

Barbara Walters yesterday asked Oprah if she’s gay.  She denies, cries.
There are also (useless) rumors of Anderson Cooper being gay.
Someone nominated Rush Limbaugh for the Regis and Kelly show.
WikiLeaks, and background propaganda for a number of television shows...Saudi Arabia: normal TV broadcasts have been more effective on changing culture round the globe than propaganda ever could.

Jon Stewart: Assange turned himself in on request?  Why haven’t we asked Osama bin Laden to turn himself in?
Blue Valentine’s rating was changed from NC-17 to R after, I guess, pleas to the MPAA ratings board.

The OBEY pol. artist on Colbert Report, as Colbert tries to sell his “painting” to Steve Martin.  Quasi-fascist.  >>I’m glad you said ‘quasi.’  “Ejaculate in trajectory” was one of the pieces.

Forbes mag gives Soros voice: Beck is working up a dictatorship.

2010.12.07

The undefined symbol, even in time.

Explosions in N. Korea part of live-action drills, S. Korea says.
Man in news used as a reflection of Medicaid cuts in AZ dies.
First case of a tobacco Co. winning a wrongful death suit?  The guy died.
Rep. (Peter) Welch: we should do more to cut wasteful spending.
TheBlaze.com: Bill Ayers compares WikiLeaks to the Weather Underground.
Man w/ barb wire, Nazi swastika tattoos had a makeover for court—hair cut, tattoos covered w/ flesh-colored makeup.

Julian Assange has been arrested for alleged sex crimes, held by British forces for Sweden, denied bail.  Big allegations against Assange, having everything to do with Sweden’s very broad definitions of rape, sexual assault, and molestation.  Here’s a bit of (basic) coverage that you cannot find but except in a few places.

Derrion Albert case: jury convicts teen in beating death of student; images of bruised/beaten face shown at trial, mother leaves courtroom sobbing.

An Egyptian official says comments made by a diver there were too ludicrous for a response; he said, for a recent shark attack, Mossad—an Israeli spy agency—put the shark in the water.

Mark Halperin (One Nation, Morning Joe) wrote a column of ‘Obama needs his own,’ in What Obama Needs to Come Back: LuckNo one wants the country to suffer another catastrophe.  But when a struggling Bill Clinton was faced with the Oklahoma City bombing and a floundering George W. Bush was confronted by 9/11, they found their voices and a route to political revival.

Al Sharpton: people don’t have the right to be offended

Rush Limbaugh has the right to say what he says, but not the right to say it over the airwaves; the FCC has standards.

No, Al, the FCC doesn’t have the right—and they don’t have the right to do what they’ve been doing for decades.  Intimidation, fines for indecency violate First Amendment rights.  The current form of a Federal Communications Commission will be abolished at some point.

People have a right to be offended.  How does anything get done when people don’t have a right to be offended.  How does anything work w/ this selfish nonsense.

Radicals at FCC motion to control even characters on TV shows

Local boards and diversity panels.  Radicals will continue to attempt to warrant a clamp down through generated chaos, anarchy.
They are never satisfied.  Do not cave.

World Socialist web site (wsws.com), also Common Dreams (to make it clear that there is no conspiracy theory here—the leftists eventually act alike because they are like-minded).
It seems as though they take from ideas found by their target and pull them out of context—what Media Matters does.  Progressives only learn how to control people.

Building a structure out of a perversion of law.

Bertha Lewis apparently wants cable regulated.  Liars, cheaters, the liar and cheater names.  They come at you even harderRush Limbaugh is a corporation.

Abusing the tree of liberty

All of the current-day problems for America...are due to losing the founding fathers’ vision.
We have to get back to the roots or else the tree will split in half, exactly what the revolutionaries want.
The last step is here: control the media.  There is not much left.  Elites in power are trying to get you to stop talking as part of ‘the solution’ for National Security...again.

The country is 2 minutes from midnight, on Coast To Coast AM

To talk to George Noory, call the wild card number at...

1 a.m. EST: On Feb 4, 2007, Cass Sunstein and Chinese dissidents for WikiLeaks: put out links to shut down the internet.  The efforts to shut down free speech.  Either you can work for us or go to prison—China at recruits.

Halperin, Soros, and six Mega banks—global jockeying, risk taking, detachment from reality, and the consequences are playing out now.  They believe that they are the solution, yet they gamble on life as we know it.

It was early as June 2008 that Hillary was told to step down and allow Obama to win. It was a matter of National Security, the globalists say, to even that.  That part of THE EVENT has now been confirmed.  Assange may have to be released for the 10,000+ standing by to get and release the decryption password in case anything happens.  People should support him on Free Speech grounds anyway.

Jesse Ventura/Conspiracy Theory on TruTV—an episode that went into the Police State reality was pulled.
“You will not run this again,” supposed govt. officials say.  Airing Nov 12, replayed 5 or 6 six times before [the episode] was canceled.  So much more was repeated prior to this episode.

If you want to disprove something (I never watched), wouldn’t you not shut it down?  They went after the show “because of the FEMA camps hoax” as a cover. (The FEMA camps thing was a hoax made in the mid-1990s; the supposed concentration camp was really a train repair shop.)

The über-elite control freaks always bring out the ignorant to do their dirty work

People went through hell to be able to bring the information to the web site, and on to the radio... Most of the members in the military are constitutionalist, and won’t stand for being called to (proverbially) gun down their own people.

The globalists are look scared for the first time because of the internet awakening. The people are awake, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they have a good picture of what is going on.  They want to know the truth; it is becoming less of dismissal and more of sources. Original sources.  That’s definitely a positive.

“We don’t want people knowing of the orchestrated depression ahead”.  And so, they want control of the internet, and are doing everything they can to stop people from talking.  So long as people want to be free, it won’t work at all.
Individual liberty destroys injustice.

If you are concerned, and work for the TSA, you are fired

It’s policy.  They’re human beings, just looking for a job.  Heavy metal scanners are 50x the prev. levels, and the Federal Govt. is suppressing radiation testing with the machines.
Fried eggs: in August, radiation down a street, scanning the area.
To go after Fox News, MS-NBC—it’s about shutting down outlets that expose them...
See more at PrisonPlanet.com, and InfoWars.com.

Oop—did I just type all of this in?  It looks like a hit will be put on me this time.  And again, I’m not joking in 2010.  Pweaz Expwain, Senator McCain.

TV

Colbert Report intro-caption: DECK THE BALLS.
Again, also—the lie that tax cuts add to the deficit.  Spending makes the deficit!

Rolling Stone was the last to interview John Lennon.  It was a different picture of him than what was recognized.  A balance bet. music and family, a rejection of convenient pol. bunk. No longer living in Britain will do that to you.  Sean Taro Ono Lennon, his son, is now 35.

You can try it when you have twelve stitches.  Obama, messing up names, words; shared laughter in the room.  Paul McCar'ney, scru'ulous.

Channel surfing... I find TheBingeThinker.com.
The Kevin McCullough Show—kind of a more boring side of the Glenn Beck Show...

Obit

Elizabeth Edwards dies at 61 after a 6-yr.-long battle with cancer.  The sun was always shining, and it made a difference, said someone close to her.  She was given weeks, not months, and chose to die this afternoon, with family.
Edwards’ son died, husband cheats on her, but she still loves John, and had big ideas. An accomplished author, she talked openly and honestly... called Rielle Hunter (who John cheated with) “pathetic”.

2010.12.06

Russian ARMS making Russian arms—no problem there.

Israel says fires are under control; 2007 report: fire svc weakest of rescue forces.
Ger. set to block IMF ‘solution’; Ireland in for a hard ride.
Elizabeth Edwards says she has stopped cancer treatment.
Kraft and Starbucks packaging goes to judge’s decision.
Disney’s Tangled ends Potter lead.

The new $100 bills are so complicated—in further attempts to counterfeit-proof them—that the machines jammed while they were creased (blank spaces on the bills).  It least this will stop the treasury/fed from printing round the cl—oh, yeah, they’ve been digitizing the money this time...
Update: A Western Massachusetts company was involved in the glitch.

Asian carp in IL eats the food chain, devastates the fishing waters.
Eating the jumping fish won’t cut it; now found 6 mi. from Lake Michigan.

The Australian: Australian govt. is treating Assange like non-citizen, says his lawyer.
The Guardian: Lawyer says U.S. State Dept. fails to respect attorney-client protocol.

Many Democrats are livid, as Obama announces a new framework for tax-cut deal that covers the board.  Another thousand-plus page bill?
Unemployment benefits/credits part of deal in passing all Bush-era tax cut extensions.

New “Fairness”

Radio to go through a “public values test.”  FCC “diversity council” says it is time to “correct injustices,” out of things like race statistics...as if some actually want to be in radio.  Mark Lloyd, again.

Survival does not work with last resorts

At some point the middle ground will fall away because it will become too expensive to manage one.  You have to choose soon—who are you, and are you on the side of individual liberty? The number of irresponsible people at best is still growing.
If it’s not clear enough, then you’d better educate yourself now.

The radicals need chaos, and the Pentagon looks into the possibility of violence from the left.
Faith Advocates for Jobs: mixing Church and State, while attacking others on something that doesn’t exist.  Advisors distorting the faith, distorting the First Amendment, distorting property rights.

How screwed we are.

I can’t put the list up because it’s too damn long.
The interest payments alone for the debt for one month are comparable to the annual cost of large-scale programs.
Corrupt Ben Bernanke: we are not printing money.  Yeah...they are digitizing it.  What we are doing is lowering interest rates, by buying...  How insane.

Our priorities are to ban bake sales “because they make make people fat,” in a new culture of lying, cheating and stealing.  Culture of Corruption.
Energy prices to go up 30% in some areas, in the U.S.
Elderly in Europe have been riding buses day and night to stay warm.  Wouldn’t it be great if we didn’t have all of this fuel or electricity to survive winter?  Personal responsibility?  [scoff]  We’re All Socialists Now.
Obama praises the supposed success of a company...that is now closing one of two plants, the other is in trouble.

Framework Convention—drinking (blood) out of skulls?: the woman opening the event prayed to the goddess of the Jaguar...just a normal day in Cancún, representing the new U.N. and climate change awareness (and I only found out about the IEC’s involvement this weekend).  What it takes for a minority power to govern all, and be remembered.  The nihilistic...what—they eat meat?!  Now that’s a problem!

Translation: blindly trust people like Ted...

I guess I have to put this down, even though it’s self-fulfilling prophecy, and out-of-date.
People like Olbermann and O’Reilly mark the end of journalism because the “respected” ones aren’t popular anymore.  It goes to show how disrespectful the “respected” are.  The death of real news...because of people like Ted Koppel.

Buffalo linebacker could be the man who ends MN qb Brett Favre’s winning streak

An MRI to be out/done today, after a consecutive games streak was broken by a hard hit by Tarvaris Jackson.

TV

Denis Leary was on the Factor.  O’Reilly verbally considered him a libertarian democrat; Leary was slow to “confer.”  Uhm, yeah.

2010.12.05

Iranian nuclear program is self-sufficient, official says.
The country’s nuclear energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi says the first batch of yellowcake uranium has been produced.

Albania: flooding forces evacuations.
10 killed in Mex. border city.
10 Chinese sailors missing; 14 rescued after ship sinks.
Iranian scientists being assassinated by Israeli secret agents...
S. Korea formally names new defense minister.
U.K.: lawmaker denies an aide is a Russian spy.
Shark hunt on after woman is killed off coast of Egypt.
Rapper ‘Suge’ Knight arrested outside a CA restaurant.
Tension grows bet. CA Muslims and FBI after an informant infiltrates a mosque.
Portland Press Herald: Augusta man’s death considered suspicious.
Day 2: Mobile, AL police search for missing kids, possibly killed by father, stepmother.
Madrid cop drags man off train tracks as train arrives.

3 Russian satellites crash into Pacific after failed launch.
3 held over stabbing during brawl bef. USC-UCLA game.
Gun used by ‘Person of interest’ doesn’t match wpn. used in Chasen killing.
Japanese prisons face overflowing elderly population.
Justin Bieber cancels appearance after stunt goes bad.

Assange increasingly turns to Switzerland, asks supporters for mirror sites; WikiLeaks server goes down, Swiss Say.
Like it or not, they are a media entity—Gigaom.com.

Ireland’s smaller lenders poised for revamp

The Bond vigilantes have moved to Dublin.
Financial Times/Sharlene Goff: Attention paid to radical restructuring of Ireland’s largest banks—Allied Irish Banks, Bank of Ireland and Anglo Irish Bank.
NYT: Ireland’s economic troubles don’t stop at water’s edge.  Dublin housing market crisis bailout...

Times of India for Cancún: Kyoto Protocol is make or break issue for U.N. climate talks, says Environment Minister (oh, gahd) Jairam Ramesh; Japan, other countries are opposed to new binding agreements; Obama made “big mistake” on Climate bill, Turner says.

Dem. Mark Dayton wins bid to become MN governor.
Tax cuts will be extended, says Mitch McConnell.
Hollow/contradictory John Kerry calls others, hollow, contradictory.

Troublemaker Thabo Mbeki arrives in Ivory Coast after Pres. run-off resulted in a surprise win for opposition leader Alassane Ouattara.

Sports:
Bears hold off stubborn Lions; game-breaking td in Q4 against Detroit.
Adrian Gonzalez, Red Sox fail to reach contract extension.
Packers/Aaron Rodgers: 21/30 passes, 298 yd, 3 td, 4 scrambles; 39 yd gainst 49ers in wk 13.
Detroit Free Press: Jayson Werth now off market for Tigers, too.
Celtics win 7th straight.

Sunday House Call

Difficulty in sleeping is indicative of disease.
Pain perception significantly reduced by acupuncture.
Study: high cholesterol foods can lead to memory loss.  Avoid foods high in sat. fat and cholesterol because over time they can have debilitating effects on the heart and brain. Don’t I already know all this.

Performed in emergency rooms: 16.2 mil. CT scans in 2007; 600%+ more than 1995.
Rituxan/rituximab (Roche Group, Biogen Idec) delays chemo for AAF lymphoma; vegetables prevent it.
Financial Times/Andrew Bolger for Cambridge, Edinburgh U. study: MS damage could be reversed by activating stem cells in the brain.

Damian Dovarganes, AP L.A./Alicia Chang: donated heart was beating rhythmically by the time Andrea Ybarra awoke from the grogginess of her surgery; beating heart transplants offer hope to patients.

A wooden roof and a tarp

The shack now at the Newseum. No, not the Love Shack—Who would want to own the Unabomber’s place?
And who’s idea was it to give Charlie Manson a cell phone?!  And who was the psycho talking to??

TV, Parade

Katy Perry, Paramore, Jersey Shore cast praise U.S. troops.
Simpsons Christmas ep.: dreams of Lisa (elephant and The Rise and Fall of... to produce something Inglourius Basterds), Marge (Martha Stewart chloroforming Homer, “it’s a good thing”) and Maggie (Sesame Street, dog is a sock—budget blown on Katy Perry).

Facebook: changes to member profile pages; new design and checkins—Mashable.com.  Mark Zuckerberg to unveil new profile pages tonight on 60 Minutes.

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff wrote Cleopatra: A Life (Little, Brown), and did a “View” for Parade, called, “Mummy Dearest,” sporting an image of Liz Taylor in 1963 (as Cleopatra).  Less sexually bold than strategically fertile, she used her brood to great pol. advantage.

2010.12.04

Flooding in Colombia; 174 dead, 1.5 mil. homeless.
Ecuador orders evacuations over active volcano.
Blast targeting Iranian pilgrims kill 7.
Moscow: 2+ dead, 80 hurt as plane went off runway, made emergency landing.
U.N. chief makes urgent appeal to fight cholera in Haiti.
Israel: intl. efforts grow in fighting wildfires.
Mexico: rights group criticizes detainment of accused teen hit man.
Controversial PSA on vaccines: 250x EPA safety limit of Hg for landfills.
AP: Ivory Coast dispute leaves 2 presidents, chaos.
Home searched in mosque fire case; person of interest identified.
AP: Spanish air controllers start returning to work.
AP: Iran says U.N. agency sending spies, not inspectors.
Chicago police see spike in cop killings, violent assaults.
AZ immigration law: court to hear arguments.
Advances in blood cancer treatment may improve survival rates.

TIME Update:
Eastern Gulf of Mexico/Atlantic Coast ban on offshore oil drilling to last 7 years.
China arrested 460 hackers this yr. as part of a crackdown on domestic cyberattacks.
Alma-Ata: declared via meeting, elimination of its highly enriched uranium stockpile by 2012.
Haiti: runoff election for Pres. election sched. for Jan 16; 12 of 18 candidates contested.
$700 bil. TARP bailout projected to cost $25 bil., less than the Aug. est. of $66 billion.
Conservative Swiss People’s Party-sponsored referendum to deport foreign rape and welfare abusers passed, 53%.

We will win this war, declared Pres. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva; 2,600 police and paratroopers stormed, seized a drug stronghold in Rio de Janeiro slums in effort to ‘prevent’ violent crime before the 2014 World Cup (held in Brazil).  Hailed by officials, yet <300 of the area’s 600 suspected drug traffickers were detained.

U.S., South Korea come to free trade agreement; S. Korea agrees to reduce tariffs, auto imports fm. 8% to 4%.  Pres. Obama had a press conference at 12 p.m., hails S. Korea trade as a victory for U.S. workers.  S. Korean Pres. Lee Myung-bak says the accord is significant because it lays the groundwork for a ‘win-win’ relationship by reflecting the national interests of Korea and the United States in a balanced manner.  This comes 3 days after both trade ministers “sealed the de-facto renegotiations of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) of 3 years ago.

AP: Senate showdown may pave way for year-end tax deal.
Dems. push for vote on extending Bush-era tax cuts; no compromise achieved; GOP blocks.

AP: PayPal cuts WikiLeaks from money flow.
Clinton tour showed limits of WikiLeaks damage.
U.S. officials urge take-down of documents/site while telling employees not to look.

New requirement for Lap-Band surgery; FDA, however loosens terms.
Stolen Edgar Degas painting to be returned to France.
New breed of pepper, 250x hotter than the jalapeño, blows away ‘ghost chili.’
Yeshiva university: most dreidels spun simultaneously.
Mel Gibson heads back to the big screen...a comedy...a hand-puppet Beaver.
Justin Timberlake sustains injury on movie set.
‘Irresponsible’ woman rings 999 (U.K.) for theft of snowman, his stuff.
Portland Press Herald: Red Sox near trade deal for Adrian Gonzalez; physical exam taken; general managers for both Red Sox and Padres haven’t responded.

30 years later: FYE and Fox News covered the final days of John Lennon.

2010.12.03

Unemployment rate rises to 9.8%.

Israel: wildfires kill 41, destroy 4K acres; now near city of Haifa; police suspect arson.
Iraq bus crash: 16 dead.
Kenya: explosion injures 2 police officers.
Japan, U.S. start joint military exercises amid Koreas conflict.
China expands travel ban ahead of Nobel ceremony.
San Diego police to burn down ‘bomb factory’ house.
Madoff trustee sues JPMorgan for $6.4B.
2 ex-Edwards aides testify on payments to mistress.
WikiLeaks says its site is back up; leak shows Afghan corruption, Mex. drug war concerns.
Sam King to plead not guilty; authorities say he was responsible for 32% of global SPAM.
NY manages to dig out after big storm (w/ lightning) disabled highway.

Congress passes sweeping ‘child nutrition’ bill.
Congress/FCC to force advertisers to limit commercial volume levels.
FTC looking to implement the equivalent of no-call list for the internet.
Voting on $3.9 T in cuts proposed by Deficit/Debt Commission.
Hyperinflation is now in the news.  And some are still trying to discredit that, the news now.

Apple’s Macintosh (Mac) turns 25... but no demo, beta Software in app store.
Apple countersuit update adds support for 12 more Motorola patent violations.
The Apple fear factor—absurdly successful?

Pres. Obama makes an unannounced visit, praises the troops in Afghanistan; weather prevented him from arriving specifically in Kabul.
Obama makes his first pardons as President of the United States (not counting the four turkeys):
one defendant that got one year probation and fined $20 in 1963 for mutilating coins, and four of the nine pardons involved individuals convicted of drug crimes years ago.

Attempting to close in, Julian Assange may be arrested.  A warning by his team: we will send out the decryption password if he is captured, so anybody can view the WikiLeaks site contents.

An investigation was opened at Arlington Cemetery after cremated remains of a number of bodies were found in Oct, under an “unknown” tombstone label.

Just when you thought there was more than enough consensus on DADT, some leading military guys—and Good ’Ol John McCain dismissed a study that asked even explicit questions.

Return of John Wayne’s American values in John Wayne: True Grit American (Duke Book) by Wilma Russell.  True Grit, now a movie, looks like it stars Jeff Bridges and Josh Brolin (W.).

Docs fail to understand link bet. heart disease and BMI.
Refined nutrients, cholesterol—only seeing overweight.

Stupidity and greed, in both the E.U. and the U.S.

E.U. member: You would be happy for millions…of people to be unemployed.  If you rob people of their identity, you will get…  Nationalism growing in Ireland with resurgence of the IRA, Communism in Greece.  The European left and right are rising.
Eventually, it turns to identity politics.  Identity politics never ends well.

We are becoming an empire.  After socialism, nationalism and violence.  What will it take for some to wake up?
A Democratic senator was caught on mic not knowing it was on saying the senate “is rigged”; Adam Bennett clarified the next day: rigged to prevent progress.  Legislators were blocking recognition of everything but what’s “vital for the govt. to function.”
This is how a Republic dies—they just do it anyway.  And they believe it is the best way.  They can’t identify actual freedom, to say it is overrated or dangerous.  And then the Romans fed Christians to the lions; the people just wanted to be entertained.
The Russians these days are poisoning their own citizens, and in public.

Irresponsible: more class warfare for political points

Alan Grayson (D-FL, one term) uses what he learned from MS-NBC, Bill Maher, etc. by putting up images of “Boss Limbaugh” (the man with the cigar), Glenn Beck and Hannity as “leaders of the GOP.”—  According to Newsweek, Beck makes $33 million.  No, $33 mil. is what his company makes.  Grayson, by the way, has been making $31 mil., barely disclosed.

Taxing “windfalls”—Can a $40 K business invest $7 M?  You have to be a socialist to believe that govt. is the employer.  (Socialism: where the public sector is greater than the private.)

Program: G.E. Capital got $16 bil. from the Federal Reserve.  Jeffrey R. Immelt is on the board.  They get their hosts to angrily go after pol. contributions, but receive bailout money.

DownWithUpton.com: a web site that stands against the big government progressive Republican who pushed though the ban incandescent light bulbs by 2012 bill.

Just be the best at your job.

Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) could be Pres. because he does his job.  He isn’t looking for special favors, he has stood up to the corrupt unions, and doesn’t care what anybody thinks of him.  Christie is the most popular politician in his state, and doesn’t want to be President.  He’s perfect.  Not at all thin, but perfect.

104 students are trapped because of the teachers union(s).  “Because of a union contract in the district, we can’t change a female teacher.”  Anti-bad teacher.

Prophet, spy

The book on Dietrich Bonhoeffer will make your life look like a cakewalk.
Bonhoeffer fought all the way to the bitter end (1945), and even wrote about the story of Babel, how Nimrod tried to force his way into the heavens, thinking you can just remove God without destroying yourself.  Over a decade, preaching individual salvation, against Hitler, murdered in a concentration camp out of revenge after being caught smuggling out Jews.  Revenge is not a part of the original scripture, as if Hitler, a pagan, even cared about Christianity other than to use people.

What’s wrong today: people are lacking convictions.  For the individual case, it is a preference.  A conviction is when it’s nonnegotiable.  Be yourself, and be responsible, responsive.

Media

A more realistic Lewis Black back in 1998 on Comedy Central.  Before I pass out... blood shoots out of my eyes.

The Portland Phoenix does The Best Video Games of All Time: Who tops the Laser Orgy 500?  Press A to continue.
Randomly narrowing down sounds simple, but some you just can’t.  Down to 10 (and the current list is updated in real-time on the web site):

  1. Half-Life 2
  2. Super Mario Bros. 3
  3. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
  4. Portal
  5. Super Mario World
  6. Super Metroid
  7. Castlevania: Sympathy of the Night
  8. Tetris
  9. Chrono Trigger
  10. Street Fighter II

There are the moments gamers remember in their worst moments of alien domination...as well as their wildest dreams of the way games should be.—_Maddy Myers

2010.12.02

“The new normal”: accept mediocrity.

NASA/Scientists discover/develop organism that thrives on arsenic in CA.
Google admits to violating privacy of the Borings (actual name, Aaron and Christine celebrated), settles for $1.
PeTA gets a household name: Tofu-Boy, after the Meat-Boy game...and the lawsuit that followed.

Nigeria probe of Halliburton: possible charges in $180 mil. bribery case, issue Interpol arrest warrant for Dick Cheney.

Earth: The Book by writers of The Daily Show (audiobook), and shoe factory job got a Grammy nomination.

Ronni Chasen didn’t leave much to her family; $6.1 mil. to others (goes to charity), $10 to niece.  The assassin (Lee?) was paid $10,000, and committed suicide as authorities closed in; the motive behind the murder is still unknown.

House censures Chuck Rangel; formal resolution read aloud.  Rangel makes a statement, and the progressive Dems. give a standing ovation.
Repub. Duke Cunningham was put in jail for basically the same thing, except he didn’t repeat the fact that he was a war hero.

Boehner on “lame duck” session moves by Progressive Democrats: this maneuver going on (looks like) chicken crap, already playing politics 23 mos. before national elections.  Still thinking it’s politics as usual.

Organ Recovery Unit: New York City is now testing a system where two ambulances are sent out for those deemed ‘likely to die.’  One for the patient, the other for their organs in case they die.

Global Warming “consensus” in Cancún, Mex., after Copenhagen.
In order to stop carbon emissions our economy must stop.  That’s great.  And CO2 has almost no affect on warming.

European countries bailed out—$3.3 T in U.S.-to-IMF to go

They are ahead of us.  It is time to change course.
With Mutually Assured Economic Destruction (M.A.E.D.) to prevent another World War, all of the economies are tied together.
The national bailouts are bringing about a global structure.  Being conned.
The States of the European Union, with a capital ‘S’—sovereign states.  But, just as predicted, they are being told to fold in order to survive.
Out of Europe, if the 2.5% falls, the largest economy of $16 T falls.  Germany knows it’s over.  Pissed off, the potential for Nationalism is there.
The solution is not a larger structure but smaller; decentralize.

Printing around the clock, inflation of the Zimbabwe dollar: value cut in half every 15 hrs.

With the entitlement mentality, out of collectivism (to be a brick, to conform), people are destroyed.  Basic rights are your entitlements: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  But now we have people in this country calling for education to be a right, committing crimes, violence.

In danger from within, still

Obama’s spiritual advisor Jim Wallace uses ‘assassinate’ and the name of the President in the same sentence.  Host(s) on Fox News assassinates (Obama’s) religion.  A complete lie—and a lie that Jimmy Carter continues to repeat—and he doesn’t even watch.  A poll says 1/5 of those who took it said the Pres. is a Muslim, but most said, I don’t know.

Wallace then lies about being called a Nazi, and goes into how Jesus is for social justice, promoting his self-avowed Marxist views.

Van Jones caught again—this time, for anything Fox News—even though the reporter he was referring to was from a small web site: “Satan among us.”

As the pol. extremes grab as much control as they can get, the people below may break up into even more separate groups out of dispute.

TV

Makes a ringtone: that taxpayer-funded Andy Griffith AARP ad (up to ~$3 mil.) has been nailed by FactCheck.org (non-partisan) for being misleading.

Goodbye, last black viewer: Stephen Colbert makes a (satirical) racist rant.  A premonition of mine.
David Stockman (fmr. Director, Office of Management and Budget) tells people to disbelieve history: “it’s called a Laffer curve, ’cause you have to laugh.”  He does admit that the dollar will be worth less.

Obit

Ronald “Rod” Edward Santo, 70, beloved Baseball player and broadcaster dies.  His last appearance was on Sept 29, 1974 for the Chicago White Sox.

2010.12.01

Wisconsin: Marinette classes canceled after 15-yr.-old gunman held up the school yesterday.
Debt Commission’s final report coming out.
Julian Assange’s mother caves; Amazon.com boots WikiLeaks.
Philly: Christmas Village sign changed; Christmas back on market sign(s).
Elizabeth Smart storms out of court after a psychiatrist took the stand.
Sarah Shourd sings songs in effort to free other prisoners; many written in prison.
Prison outlet store sells crafts made by inmates.
DoJ drops investigation of John Ensign.
Federal Highway Administration calls for signs to be in word caps, reflective; not achievable in some areas.

A school claims chewing gum improves student grades.  Tell that to the janitors that (may) have to clean the gum-covered desks.

Net Neutrality at the FCC today.
The Supreme Court and Congress said it can’t be done, but they’re doing it anyway.
Julius Genachowski (no direct relation to Gaius Julius Caesar).
FCC Commissioner Michael Joseph Copps to a BBC journalist: journalism is “in a state of peril,” and has a substance abuse problem.  He lists a delusional reporter as a good journalist (how do we get across that the Pres. saved the economy—they are focusing on the scars, like a burn victim).
Net Neutrality voted on by Dec 21.  Something of, being forced to put up pop-up boxes of opposing viewpoints, at best.

Well, Italy’s on fire; out of protests over budget cuts, people are setting fires.
George Soros: there has to be orderly restructuring around the globe, and you have to quick or else there will be chaos.  To do it quick so people don’t recognize the destruction of sovereignty.  And like any corrupt speculator, make sure he’s right by making sure it happens.  He thinks big because you get the whole thing once you hit the ends.

Individuality and perspective are not aspects of selfishness

Education, food, employment, healthcare are rights.  Do you think that these are new ideas?  The Soviet Union defined these as rights to control people.  Rights not from God (always had them) but from govt.  Not to say what govt. can’t do to you (Bill of Rights), but make promises that can’t be made or kept, and are still for the purpose of controlling people.  Do you want to be trapped in a box, or do you want to be free?

Education is not a right, it is a responsibility.  It is not achieved through inbreeding, it must be learned and taught.  Food is a necessity; you die without it, and it cannot be guaranteed by others.  Employment is a business term; there are exchanges of goods, and growth, but it is not a necessity.  Healthcare is a good; for most things in life, your immune system takes care of you; there would be no survival without your internal systems.

Julian Assange’s next target may be Russia or North Korea, but more likely banks (Bank of America), other capitalist institutions.  Blame what people like George Soroswith a capital Gwant you to blame, not people like George Soros.
N. Korea’s corruption: putting all of the money into military displays.

To Protect You From Your Food

Voting on food bill in the Senate yesterday.  Exacerbating the perfect storm, it passed.
At best it will raise the cost of food; at worst, it gives govt. more control.  A lot more control.  All livestock is fed with corn, and the price is already high.
In the 1930s, F.D.R. paid farmers to kill crops, livestock.
Delta smelt or man’s freedom?: California is now the breadbasket of the U.S.?! The state is killing the farm industry.
In the last few ears, China has doubled its coal usage.  Don’t you think that they would try to take our resources once we default on our debts?  Alaska would be an easy (and rich) target.
Cass Sunstein hates meat, so this is his contribution to try to get people off of it—make it more expensive.
Or, is it about global warming?  Or, is it about the redistribution of wealth.  Or, is it about power and control?
Respect the safety of the food supply—nothing like respecting chickens...that get their heads cut off.
It ultimately defines purity in progressivism: Prohibition.

Are you a Pawn or a Defender of the Republic?

26% of the U.S. don’t know about the Declaration of Independence, or what it’s about, “why the Fourth of July is celebrated.”
Alinsky talked about a communist dictator entering to protect the people from the anarchy...generated by them.  You have to be educated, and have a good family, community—they need all three of those destroyed.
“Food Safety” Act: FDA doesn’t have to ask for recalls—they can demand them.
“Dream” Act: illegal relatives would be legalized.

What values do we share anymore?
CNS: museum that depicts a small Christ w/ ants crawling on it—display(s) taken down.
Gay activism among the pics; ‘diversity’ used as a justification.

Obama:...keeping the American people safe and growing the economy.  Really destroying both.
John McWhorter: Where Is Our Deliverance?  Black America expected more from Obama, but the radical agenda of the struggle is obsolete.

Called crazy for food insurance—the people that call you names are the first to come to you when the sh** goes down!

TIME Stats, as the (actual) decade comes to an end

Maternal mortality in Ethiopia declined to 470/100,000, reflecting a global trend.
China’s trade with Africa decupled in 9 yrs. to $17 bil. from $1.6 bil. in 2000.
Despite state censorship, 30% of China is on-line; 420+ mil. users.
The no. of billionaires tripled in 10 years (inflation).
Tallest building: Burj Khalifa, Dubai.  In 2000, Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur.
All-time top grossing films by James Cameron: Avatar (2010), Titanic (2000).
Avg. student debt rose by 50% in ten years.
To 10, from zero: countries that wholly support gay marriage.
The amt. of money illegally leaving Africa abt. sextupled in 10 yrs. to $7.8 billion.
Gold went from $284.32 to $1,366.40.
Unemployment fell below 4% in 2000, its lowest in 30 years.
Stamped letters mailed went from 55.1 bil. to 29.8 bil., blogging went from 3 mil. (2004) to 130 mil., and the video game industry tripled in price.
(Official) National Debt: $13.8 trillion.

Current numbers of Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia, the Marxist guerilla group founded in the 1960s, are about half what they were in 2000.

The euro was made official when 2002 came, ending the franc, guilder (Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, and Suriname), mark (England and Scotland), lire (Italy, Malta, San Marino, Turkey, and Vatican City), peseta (Andorra and Spain), drachma (Greece), markka (Finland), and the escudo (Cape Verde and Portugal).

What they’re scrubbing now: Stewart/Colbert rally footage?  Dish it but not take it?

TV

Reggie Watts: Why Sh*t So Crazy? is awesome!
Colbert Report intro caption: CHRISTMUST.
Head writer for The Walking Dead drops all of his staff writers for the smaller 6-13-ep. packaging.

Stewart offers his caricature review; ‘What kind of sinister plot is it this time?’ Is it sinister if they believe that they are doing is the right thing?  Socialists believe in what they do.  To equate progressive with trustworthy and good, especially when thousands of pages for legislation since 2009 suddenly appear overnight—have you learned anything?

Progressive Republican Joe Scarborough to form civil centrist group, claiming hyperpartisanship is the problem w/ our pol. system.

Chi-Chi-Chi-Racist: Obama Chia Pet dropped by Wallgreens after racism cries, even though the commercial touts ‘hope and prosperity’ on the Pres.’s part.  “Proud to be an American” line.  With the ever-glowing statue of liberty torch.  And Bill-O didn’t know what a Chia pet is.

Taxation

The brackets are interdependent; you tax one to death, you hurt everybody.  This is not just due to the wealthy are the employers, but in market economics as well; a larger portion of the pie practically only comes down to larger exchange in items of the same cost.  (Those that stay wealthy don’t waste their money with things like caviare.)  Without this, things like overstocking would not be possible; everything would be more expensive.  Therefore, socialism, whether state-wise or corporate, is the cause as to why the middle class is shrinking.  Further implementing it marks an insanity where you are fighting for the cause of the problem to no end.
But of course, I’m just supporting the rich, and I’m paid to say what I say, and a bunch of other bull that I’m not going to waste my energy on.

Book

The History & Decline of the Roman Empire: The fire of genius was extinguished.

System X nails our current place and path completely now.
The controlling of companies would not be done outright, as with the old way of socialism.
State Capitalism: to turn the globe into the National, and become a state of Global Socialism.

To be confident in a misunderstanding is dangerous.
 Break the illusions.

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