On this "last day" of 2010...
Many people The one half witted person on the planet, me, who happens to be eyeing capital markets this week must be wondering why what looked to be the start of a rollover, or early move to the exits yesterday suddenly escaped the butchers knife...
Through extensive research, CV has found the culprit!
"DANVILLE —
A 900-pound bull being transported to slaughter escaped Wednesday morning and led his owner and authorities on a two-mile, hour-long chase through two townships.
Wayne Myers, of Bald Top, Montour County, was en route to the butcher with the raging 2-year-old bull when he stopped at a red light near the Danville Middle School on Route 11.
Then the 900-pound animal made a break for it, he said."
That should just about do it, for me, as to what "answers" I might be able to provide for 2010... So as we flip the calendar to 2011... You'll have to ask yourself one simple question... "Do you continue to want the truth?"...
Can you handle it?
The following might be a "short list" of some of the "truths" we need to face in the coming year...
Ezra Klein... Constitution has no binding power on anything because it's 100 years old
And, of course, there doesn't seem to be a shortage of mesmerized zombies (vis-a-vis the Kucher-Moore video from yesterdays thread who would agree with Ezra Klein, and are happy to start their own blogs to spread the word - I found a few here)...
Their version of that raggedy old document, The Constitution, just doesn't fit their lifestyle... So theirs goes something like this... (ht/bigjournalism)
Preamble:
We the People of the United States progressive-minded citizens of the North American Province of the United Nations, in Order to form a more perfect Union obtain a far groovier chakra, establish & legislate SocialJustice, get righteous with Mother Earth, insure domestic Tranquilitypartnerships of any nature, the "gayer" the better, provide for the common defencepromotion of peace, free love and a total lack of responsibility, promote the general creation of the Welfare State, and secure the Blessings of Liberty some boss doobage to for ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America North American Province of the United Nations.
Article I
Section 1
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives and shall be subjugated to the will of the United Nations.
Section 2
Clause 1:
The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several blue States …
Clause 2:
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen approval of the Democrat Party (which has transferred its allegiance to the communist party).
Clause 3:
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers collected in mass quantities from the rich, which shall be determined to be anyone who makes more than $10,000.00 per year…
Clause 4:
When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to media shall fill such Vacancies... Dissenting opinions will be banned from commenting on blogs, and the Internet shall be censored...
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Hey... Let the censorship & police state party begin!
Internet Groups fear UN Could Threaten Cyberspace
Excerpt:
"Technocrats like Holland have also been hinting at a specific threat: that the UN could become a forum where authoritarian governments who are riled by the free flow of information work to put the breaks on its superhighway."
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No Refusal Checkpoints
EXCERPT:
(Says the vigilant Mother Hen)
"I think it's a great deterrent for people," said Linda Unfried, from Mother's Against Drunk Driving in Hillsborough County.
Florida is among several states now holding what are called "no refusal" checkpoints.
It means if you refuse a breath test during a traffic stop, a judge is on site, and issues a warrant that allows police to perform a mandatory blood test.
It's already being done in several counties, and now Unfried is working to bring it to the Tampa Bay area.
"I think you'll see the difference because people will not drink and drive. I truly believe that," she said.
Not everyone is on board, though.
DUI defense attorney Kevin Hayslett sees the mandatory blood test as a
violation of constitutional rights.
"It's a slippery slope and it's got to stop somewhere," Hayslett explained,
"what other misdemeanor offense do we have in the United States where the government can forcefully put a needle into your arm?"
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While CV is certainly not siding with drunk drivers, CV also believes that one should NEVER trade FREEDOM for SAFETY... Pigs are nice and safe and happy in their pens... That is, while they are in the process of being fattened up for slaughter...
Speaking of happy "pegs"... (and UNHAPPY ones as the case may be - let's start with the UNHAPPY ones first)... Well - I think Peggy Joseph, at least, started out happy...
But as Maggie Thatcher said... "The problem with socialism is that eventually to run out of other peoples money to spend..."
Cuba Slashes State-Subsidised Soap
HAVANA (AP) -
The cost of cleanliness will rise in Cuba after its cash-strapped, communist government announced Wednesday that soap, toothpaste and detergent will be slashed from monthly ration books.
Cuba's official Gazette said that effective Jan. 1, "personal cleanliness products" will join a growing list of products cut from the ration books that islanders have come to rely on for a small but steady supply of basic goods.
Maybe they could borrow a few bars from Gitmo (as that place still seems to be fully operational)...
OK OK... So Peggy Joseph never said anything about Obama paying for her soap... But she was happy about Obama paying for her gas... I can see why...
Five Dollars per Gallon of Gas by 2012!
EXCERPT:
"Five dollars per gallon of gas by 2012! A former president of Shell Oil considers this likely. The average price on Christmas Day for a gallon of regular gas reached $3.28 in Los Angeles County, the highest price since October 2008. In one month, the price rose 13 cents, up 35 cents year to year.
Where are the calls to sic Obama's Justice Department on Big Oil to hold the oil companies accountable for "market manipulation"? Why aren't we hunting down the amoral "oil speculators" responsible for repealing the law of supply-and-demand in order to line their pockets?
During President George W. Bush's administration, we constantly heard demands to hold the President accountable for "Big Oil's price gouging." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., just two years ago, knew exactly whom to blame for "skyrocketing" oil prices: "The price of oil is at the doorstep; $4-plus per gallon for oil is attributed to two oilmen in the White House and their protectors in the United States Senate."
In 2007, when the average national price ranged from $2.17 to $3.22, then-Sen. Barack Obama demanded that the Federal Trade Commission investigate Big Oil for "price manipulation." In 2008, presidential candidate Obama urged the Justice Department "to open an investigation into whether energy traders have been engaged in illegal activities that have helped drive up the price of oil and food."
Obama also called for "a windfall profits penalty on oil selling at or over $80 per barrel." As of Christmas 2010, a barrel of oil sold at slightly above $90. What happened to the windfall profits tax?
I'm sure he's going to get to that just as soon as he finishes his "lobster lasagne"...
Cooking for the President: Obama Dines at Alan Wong's
Cost to Taxpayers
My apologies because I'm surely out of line here... CV didn't get the message from Ashton Kucher and his little band of "blogeteer" groupies, that it is MY job to SERVE the President...
So I suppose that'll have to become my New Years Resolution for 2011!
"One for all and all for One" - Doesn't it go something like that?
Let the rematch begin anew...
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