see also: History Obobo sez: “I know President Putin seems to have a different set of lawyers making a different set of interpretations, but I don’t think that’s fooling anybody.” What does the FoxFace say? According to multiple media reports including The Sydney Morning Herald (smh.com.au) as well as Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the [...]
codependence The budget includes a $302 billion “four-year surface transportation reauthorization proposal” designed to support transit infrastructure projects and create jobs. …paid for with transition revenue from pro-growth business tax reform. “transition revenue” “pro-growth business tax reform” The federal government awarded around $3.5 billion in grants to the California High Speed Rail Project, and within [...]
some lite reading Here’s how this guy’s sees it. The core idea of Dugin’s Eurasianism is that “liberalism” (by which is meant the entire Western consensus) represents an assault on the traditional hierarchical organization of the world …this liberal threat is not new, but is the ideology of the maritime cosmopolitan power “Atlantis,” which has [...]
when you’ve lost… previously… [JOhn KErry] ”You just don’t in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pretext,” … “…in order to assert your interests,” Tell that to the Eurasian Union, JOhnny. But it’s also true that, as long as some leaders play by what Mr. [...]
and yer mother dresses ya funny ToDaZeD #ComfortingAssurances Firstly: Federal health authorities on Tuesday reported a 43 percent drop in the obesity rate among 2- to 5-year-old children over the past decade… Rates for blacks (one in nine) and Hispanics (one in six) … About 8 percent of 2- to 5-year-olds were obese in 2012, [...]
February 28, 2014 – 10:30 am
Legal Court Sanction upholding “right” to curtail Americans’ rights as hostage to “enflamed passions” of foreign citizens San Jose suburb of Morgan Hill, CA. Officials at a Northern California high school acted appropriately when they ordered students wearing American flag T-shirts to turn the garments inside out during the Mexican heritage celebration Cinco de Mayo, [...]
February 25, 2014 – 11:43 am
we have always been at war with Eurasia Vladimir Putin’s dream of a Eurasian Union, a vast trade and political bloc stretching from China to the edge of the EU, began taking shape in 2010 with the ECU, a free-trade customs union binding Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus. …Putin’s plan is for the ECU to grow [...]
February 22, 2014 – 8:30 am
It’s a Floor Wax, you cow!! “We continue to let Vladimir Putin push us around,” [Weekly Standard columnist Steve Hayes] claimed, citing negotiations on Iran and Syria as well as Ukraine. “And what’s most worrisome about this development, in the broader context of Obama foreign policy, is we are watching, in real time, the decline [...]
February 19, 2014 – 11:01 am
stickin’ with the classics Things are gettin’ interesting … COSSACK militia have attacked the Pussy Riot punk group with horsewhips as the group tried to perform under a sign advertising the Sochi Olympics. Six group members — five women and one man — donned their signature ski masks and were pulling out a guitar and [...]
February 19, 2014 – 8:14 am
squirrel ———> !!!!!!!!!!!!! Suddenly: the Ukraine!!!!!!!!! The violence Tuesday was the worst in nearly three months of anti-government protests that have paralyzed Ukraine’s capital in a struggle over the identity of a nation divided in loyalties between Russia and the West, and the worst in the country’s post-Soviet history. whaaaa?!? It prompted European Union to [...]
February 18, 2014 – 10:51 am
plus participation The final stage of socialism isn’t Communism. It’s an empty shelf. Anyone else noticing more empty shelves and reduced inventories at supermarkets. small markets, drug stores, and other places?
February 18, 2014 – 9:45 am
Phrase of Teh Day Edition Also; Rookie Mistake of The Day. The Oakland City Council will soon be voting on plans for a new surveillance hub called the Domain Awareness Center. yep. Cameras everywhere: banks, schools, stores, housing authority property [the Projects], neighborhoods [street corners], and transit agencies [the bus and train]. But not in [...]
February 14, 2014 – 8:36 am
aaiiiiieeeeeeeeeeee Ok – pick one: How dare you try to asterisk*label meeeee?!?! Today this is just Faceboook. Tomorrow? It will be one of those ginormous drop-downs on the fill out the online forms sites that kick ya off half-way through for all Fed and State permits, taxes and fees. I’m going with “Decline to State.” [...]
February 13, 2014 – 9:27 am
lay edition internationale Lay Frentch Presidente, oddly named for another country, visited California and was greeted on the steps of the San FranFreakShow City Hall by Teh Chiiiildren waving little flags. “It is here in California that the world of tomorrow is being invented,” Hollande said. “For centuries France has wanted to change the world. [...]
February 12, 2014 – 9:09 am
raggedy ‘n’ worn Havin’ some fun, now! …First, the [FCC] selected eight categories of “critical information” such as the “environment” and “economic opportunities,” that it believes local newscasters should cover. With its “Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs,” or CIN, the agency [FCC] plans to send researchers to grill reporters, editors and station owners about [...]
February 12, 2014 – 8:43 am
what-evah! “Listen – we’re going to move forward,” Boehner said. Instead of bringing up the leadership’s plan, which would link a restoration of recently cut military benefits to a debt-ceiling extension, he would push a “clean” bill, averting default more than two weeks before the Treasury Department’s debt-limit deadline. “We’re going to get this done,” [...]
February 11, 2014 – 1:27 pm
de fucto Not that one; this one. California is the largest state in the US, and its laws have in the past become de facto national laws. The now-ubiquitous publication of privacy policies on Internet websites, for instance, is the result of a California state law. The state has also led the nation in areas [...]
February 11, 2014 – 9:15 am
a surfeit of nasal expression NB to be read with lay frantch assent President Obama “quipped” today during a visit to Monticello with the French president, “That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want. Whaat-evah.” “Quipped” Quipped it good. That quote may not be exactexact. *I* write blog posts – [...]
February 7, 2014 – 3:23 pm
*facepalm* of em-bare-ass-ment Feminism must therefore accommodate wildly incompatible propositions — e.g., (1) Women unquestionably belong alongside men in Marine units fighting pitched battles in Tora Bora but (2) really should not be expected to be able to perform three chin-ups. Or: (1) Women at Columbia are empowered by pornography* but (2) women at Wellesley [...]
February 7, 2014 – 2:55 pm
though “they say” we may get 5-10 inches over the week end Precision, thy name is NOAA. The California disease is characteristic of comfortable postmodern societies that forget the sources of their original wealth. The state may have the most extensive reserves of gas and oil in the nation, the largest number of cars on [...]
