Socialism and Obama seem to go hand-in-hand. National Security or surrender? Click on the button and then you decide. Push it. You know you want to……….

IN 52 SECS WHY BARACK OBAMA CANNOT WIN A GENERAL ELECTION

H/T to Gray Dog and the rest of the Eagles.

Children of the corn

Since 2001, ethanol production has quadrupled from 1.6 billion gallons in 2000 to an estimated 6.4 billion gallons in 2007, with the vast majority coming from corn. In 2005, the United States became the world’s leading ethanol producer, and last year, the U.S. accounted for nearly half of worldwide ethanol production.

H/T to you also CSM Pendry.

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Just how close might a military confrontation between Iran and the United States be?

Though a war of words eased a bit recently, President Bush’s strong Iran warnings during his just completed Mideast trip, coupled with a ship standoff, are raising fears that a small incident could someday spiral — even by accident — into a real fight.

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H/T to Matt at 1913Intel for the link.

Some of todays highlights:

Video: IRANIAN BOATS PROVOKE U.S. NAVY - CNN REPORT

Video: Michelle Malkin on the tears of Hillary

H/T to for the link. Click on the pic to watch this segment of the “Factor”. Fred is the guy on the right. I’m not so sure about Bill, he has a tendency to lean to the left when you look at it from my perspective. Nice job on Fred’s part anyhow.

Its sad to say that he probably won’t get what he truly deserves, which would be a quick boot on his $ss while he’s headed out the back door. I’ve had it up to here with these clowns trying to run the circus. Heh, and they wonder why things don’t go as planned?

It’s (Past) Time for Murtha to Resign
By: FrontPage Magazine
The surge is working; Jack Murtha shouldn’t be.

“Every public official has the right to be wrong on an issue, even forcefully wrong – and to bear the responsibility for his stand. That’s what being a “Profile in Courage” is all about. As the most publicly visible advocate of American surrender, his endorsement of the surge he derided as hopeless and opposed even as it was bearing fruit just months ago amounts to an almost total self-repudiation. His continued, full-throated defense of American withdrawal from Vietnam, Beirut, and Somalia – the three reversals that convinced Osama bin Laden he could attack the Great Satan with impunity – indicate the Congressman is not merely passionately wrong but possibly ineducable. This alone would demand for the resignation of an honorable man. The most compelling reason for John Murtha’s resignation, though, is that he is not an honorable man. Citing inside military sources, he publicly accused U.S. Marines of murdering innocent Iraqis “in cold blood.” (Unfortunately, Murtha was not referencing these informants when he said, “Look, these guys have lied to us so much, I’ve even lost confidence in the military”; he was referring to those honest enlisted men who said the surge was working.) Although all but one of the accused has been cleared of criminal charges, Murtha pointedly refused to apologize for painting American troops as pariahs, sadists, and maniacs – even as they face al-Qaeda demons who cook their opponents’ children alive”.

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H/T to 1913 Intel for the link. Matt does a great job of providing news links that you won’t get anywhere else, without doing some digging on your part of course. Nice work IMO.

A Terrorist State in the G8?
by Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa

“There is no historical precedent for a country to be governed by former and active officers of a political police organization that killed millions in the past and still considers murder an acceptable, even obligatory, practice.”

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A sign of the times would probably be more like it. For instance. I just had some nice lines typed up earlier dealing with socialism and what it’s effects were on us as individuals. I hit the save button and sure enough, Lypha was out of the loop. It disappeared into thin air. No response. In the mean time (45 min.) I made a phone call to my son, put a log on the fire, and got over it. It is what it is.

I’m just a little grumpy today. Can you tell?

3 Arrested in Radioactive Sale Bid…

Neighbors Battle Over Security Cam…

High-Tech Drones Joining Miami Police Force…

Nixon Papers Recall Concerns on Israel’s nukes…

Scientists Say ‘Standing Up’ May Be as Important as Exercise… WTF?

Exploding cell phone may have killed South Korean man…

Madonna outrages animal rights group after dyeing sheep blue, pink, yellow…

NYT: As credit dries up, concerns mount about recession…

China’s fuel-supply crisis

Brazil, the New Oil Superpower

Iran Extends Submarine Range to Hit Tel Aviv and US Mediterranean Targets

US admirals criticize China over Hong Kong port calls

The Rot Continues

Well the vacation was nice while it lasted. I’m still not sure why they call it a vacation though. Hmmmm? What’s up with that?

Anyhow, here’s a few links for ya while I try to re-adjust to my normal life cycle
Log. On. Fire……….

Cycles of History, Boom and Bust
by J. R. Nyquist

“When the economic situation changes, when peak oil has its say, when the Middle East crisis cannot be solved, when American politics reduces to a sharp ideological division, when the real estate bubble continues to burst, what will happen? What will the Russians and Chinese do? For thousands of years the world was about war and dominance, the power of oligarchies and the exploitation of peasants. Does anyone believe that the world cannot revert back? Does anyone think that the fall of modern capitalism will result in any other outcome?”

Read it here

H/T to 1913 Intell for the following links.

A Pearl Harbor without War

By Gabor Steingart in Washington, D.C.

“The dollar crisis has politicians alarmed worldwide. The US currency has lost 24 percent of its value since the introduction of the euro, and now there is even a chance that China could abandon its policy of pegging its currency to the dollar — a problem the United States should take very seriously.”

” Translated into Texan, what the Chinese politely told the Americans last week simply means: Unless something happens, all hell will break loose.”

Read the rest……….

IS CHINA BLACKMAILING AMERICA?

Geopolitics at $100 a Barrel

The Downward Trend Is Unstoppable

The United States is headed into a crisis of unprecedented proportions. The dollar continues to lose its value versus other currencies. Look at the price of oil this week. Look at the price of gold. These are objective measurements that defy market optimism. Consider the following sources of trouble: (1) runway debt, (2) credit inflation, (3) the bursting real estate bubble, (4) government spending and (5) hidden monetary inflation. In Michael J. Panzner’s book, Financial Armageddon, we learn how creaky America’s retirement regime is, and how liable to collapse. We read about that great house of cards, the derivatives business. In fact, it now appears that default is inevitable on many fronts. The U.S. government has made big promises related to financial and economic matters. Today’s government takes care of millions of people; but this cannot continue indefinitely. And America’s financial crisis isn’t an exclusively American problem. The welfare state advances toward bankruptcy in Europe, North America and Japan.

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Iran War Drumbeat Grows Louder

The prospect of war with Iran is beginning to look real. The hardening of positions in both Tehran and Washington over the past week has brought relations to their lowest point since the Iran hostage crisis that began in 1979. Both sides insist that they seek no military conflict, but tensions on issues ranging from Iran’s nuclear program to influence in Iraq and the Arab-Israeli peace process is turning their differences into all-out regional power struggle.

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Putin warns of new Cuban missile crisis

Vladimir Putin today compared the proposed US defence shield to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis that pushed the US and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war.”Analogous actions by the Soviet Union when it deployed rockets on Cuba provoked the Cuban missile crisis,” the Russian president said after an EU-Russia summit in Portugal.

“For us, technologically, the situation is very similar. On our borders such threats to our country are being created.”

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Clear Evidence Implicates Assad Personally in North Korean Nuclear Deal

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Iran’s new chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili is close to the same apocalyptic splinter group as Iran’s president,Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, reveals PJM analyst Meir Javedanfar.

Read the rest at Pajamas Media

DEBKAfile
Olmert sounds alarm: Iran has crossed red line for developing a nuclear weapon. It’s too late
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On a lighter note, check out this bit of humor courtesy of HOT AIR.

Jeff Dunham makes the real terrorist talk. Funny stuff I guess, but I’m still not laughing.

This interview with Robert Spencer on Blog Talk Radio regarding Islam is educational to say the least. (60 Min.)

Then there’s this interesting piece from James Lewis at The American Thinker.

Did A’jad predict Armageddon at the UN?

Careful there now, You might just end up on the wrong end of the fork Iran.

Nannies Come Home to Roost
By Shawn Macomber
Published 9/26/2007 12:08:32 AM

Sinclair Lewis’s bumper sticker friendly maxim, “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross,” may be all the rage these days, yet from my New York City perch it seems more likely fascism will come weighed down with studies by self-congratulatory “public interest” groups and carrying a sign reading, “It’s for the children!” Few grasp this new paradigm quite as well as Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi, whose wonderful, essential new book, Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and Other Boneheaded Bureaucrats Are Turning America Into a Nation of Children provides not only perhaps the authoritative account of the bipartisan conspiracy to institute a “low-grade, feel-good tyranny that has downgraded freedom to a mere annoyance,” but also one of the most stirring battle cries for a “second American Revolution” to counter it. “In an ideal world,” Harsanyi writes, “karma would decree that these irritating and dangerous activists be taken behind the woodshed by a dozen minutemen re-enactors for a momentous ass-kicking.” Harsanyi was kind enough to discuss Nanny State with TAS last week.

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UPDATED 09/25/07

Hat Tip to 1stCav for the heads up on Ron Winter and the link to his blog. A must read for all….
Hillary Clinton on Fox News Sunday: I yak, yak, yak, HATE, natter, natter, natter, BUSH, etc., etc., etc.

This is a Skerry thought I know, but Hillary Clinton could be our next Commander In Chief if we’re not real careful here folks.
Socialism is definitely on the march in America, and it will only add to the burden we all bare in the long run.
I’ve about had it with this whole damn clown act, and intend to counter it with all my heart and soul. We’ve made this country what it is by doing what had to be done in the first place. It sure as hell didn’t have anything to do with a “nanny state” of mind. That would be counter productive to getting the job done right in the first place, now wouldn’t it? Nothing in-Nothing out ……..

Bug Off Hillary

Exspider/out
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Clinton On Health Care

She said she could envision a day when “you have to show proof to your employer that you’re insured as a part of the job interview — like when your kid goes to school and has to show proof of vaccination,” but said such details would be worked out through negotiations with Congress.

A Preview of Hillarycare. From The American Thinker and Rick Moran.

Nationalized Health Care Is Broken: Real Clear Politics

Hillary Trying Socialism Again! The Conservative Voice

We’re starting to get some video and pictures from “The Gathering of Eagles” in DC Saturday.

Here’s some video for ya. Link HERE

Michelle Malkin has more HERE

Then read this: Antiwar Protest Fizzles

UPDATE 09/18/07:

Yankee Mom has put together a nice post that includes a multitude of links to pictures and videos from The Gathering of Eagles event. Thanks Yankee Mom!

Other Stuff….

Oil Industry ‘Sleepwalking Into Crisis’

Israelis ‘blew apart Syrian nuclear cache’

And no, I didn’t get these from NPR. I don’t know why I listen to that crap on the way to and from work. Sounds more like a Democrat campaign ad than anything else. Disgusting drivel to say the least.

Report: Israel spots nuclear installations in Syria

Washington official says Israeli surveillance shows possible Syrian nuclear installation stocked by North Korea, Israeli Arab newspaper claims target of alleged raid last week was Syrian missile base financed by Iran.

Right Truth has more on this HERE

In keeping with the “Illusion Or Reality” theme I’m going to give you a link to another of Right Truths posts.

Nuke ourselves, then nuke Iran?

Here’s a conspiracy theory for you. Remember those six nukes that were loaded ‘by mistake’ and flown from North to South across the United States? According to one account, “six nuclear weapons disappeared from Minot AFB in North Dakota and only five nuclear weapons were discovered at Barksdale AFB in Louisiana.” Which leads the author to one chilling conclusion: “Someone, operating under a special chain of command within the United States Air Force, just stole a nuclear weapon.” Soooooo, what will happen to this nuke?

Right Truth. Bookmark her site. You won’t be disappointed.

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You can’t imagine how tough it is for me to post something from NPR. I will give them a little credit for actually coming up with something interesting for a change…, Naw, NPR shouldn’t get credit for this one. The spiders did it for them…….
Even Spiders Know Everything Is Bigger In Texas

Lake Tawakoni State Park in Texas has some new tenants: spiders – lots of spiders. And they’ve spun a giant communal web.

Several hundred yards along a nature trail have been taken over by the elaborate arachnid construction. Webs stretch from tree to tree — and down to the ground.

God Bless Texas!

Exspider/out for now……………….

All eyes in Washington are focused on the Middle East as the war there continues, the troop surge in Iraq nears its climax and the ever-elusive Osama bin Laden, assuming he’s still alive, continues to evade capture. Iran is rattling its sword and the hawks in Washington are demanding satisfaction. The 2008 election countdown has started and politicians on both sides of the aisle have begun the traditional blame game of finger pointing, name calling and jockeying for political advantage. The American political process is once again paralyzed by the politicians’ lust to retain power. Forget the business of running the nation; there’s an election to be won! And so it will go until November of next year.

Meanwhile, in a country far, far away, the political, military and economic downfall of the United States is being planned by an intelligent, patient, industrious enemy who hopes never to fire a shot in anger, yet fully expects to win. Its goal: To replace the United States as the world’s reining superpower. The war, by all indications, may have already begun.

Read the rest HERE

Nice shot Willie! Sometimes if you beat a man he’ll just get back up and kick your butt for ya. One way or the other.
Cops: Man, 93, Shoots Violent Robber

It might seem hard to assign blame for this one, but both pilots are at fault as far as I’m concerned….
Two Helicopters Collide Over Phoenix

Things that make you go Hmmmm….

U.S. Outfitting B-2’s with Bunker Buster Bombs?

Record failures at refineries raise gas prices. LINK HERE

The Great Global Warming Swindle. Video HERE

The Pakistani Threat. LINK HERE

$100 Oil Price May Be Months Away, Say CIBC, Goldman (Update1) Link HERE

I figure this is a lot easier to do than trying to right lengthy and thought provoking articles. Hell, I never was geared for writing. I’m more inclined to do something that takes my mind off the deep thought process. I like the physics end of it a lot better even if it does require working your butt off. Sure, it can be a challenge on some days to get the chores done, but that’s only because I was thinking about it, and not doing it in the first place! Ya, I know, nothing in, nothing out.
Anyhow, here’s a couple of links to the real world for you today:

Hat tip to Matt at 1913 Intel for the first one from Daniel Pipes:

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Israeli Jets vs. Iranian Nukes

by Daniel Pipes
New York Sun
June 12, 2007

[With slight differences from the NY Sun version]

Barring a “catastrophic development,” Middle East Newsline reports, George Bush has decided not to attack Iran. An administration source explains that Washington deems Iran’s cooperation “needed for a withdrawal [of U.S. forces] from Iraq.”

If correct, this implies the Jewish state stands alone against a regime that threatens to “wipe Israel off the map” and is building the nuclear weapons to do so. Israeli leaders are hinting that their patience is running out; Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz just warned that “diplomatic efforts should bear results by the end of 2007.”

Can the Israel Defense Forces in fact disrupt Iran’s nuclear program?

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Of course the following is really helping matters: Hat tip to LGF

Sorry for the lack of attribution, but I don’t recall where I found this for sure. Thanks anyhow..

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