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Thursday, July 23, 2009

U.S. Must Learn From Jakarta Attacks
   Terrorism piece by Offsite (7/23/09)

On July 19, Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, was rocked by two simultaneous bomb blasts in the high profile JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, claiming nine lives and injuring more than 40. A similar third bomb blast took place at a road, killing two.

China’s Math, Science Advances an Ominous Sign
   EdukShun piece by Offsite (7/23/09)

According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the resident population of the United States projected to June 16 of this year is 306,683,932. What are they doing? If there is a source of money able to pay for a certain employment, a relevant number of resident Americans are employed, regardless of whether the money comes from a private source or the U.S. government.

Forests of concrete and steel
   GreeenIsm piece by Guest: Paul Driessen (7/23/09)

Many words could describe wind energy and green jobs. “Sustainable” is not one of them. - Boone Pickens, Nacel Energy, Vestas Iberia and others have been issuing statements and running ads, extolling the virtues of wind as an affordable, sustainable energy resource. Renewable energy reality is slowly taking hold, however.

Communists and Spies During Nixon Era
   Progressivism piece by Offsite (7/23/09)

“You Republicans see communists everywhere.“ So said John Chancellor, a then NBC commentator, to me.

Manhattan Retail Vacancy Rate Could Hit 10 Percent
   Economics piece by Offsite (7/23/09)

The storefront vacancy rate in Manhattan is now estimated at 6.5 percent - the highest since the early 1990s - and a new report says the rate will climb to 10 percent next year.

Tech Stock Run a Bullish Omen
   Economics piece by Offsite (7/23/09)

Investment guru Mark Hulbert writes that the Nasdaq composite is on a “winning streak,“ one of 67 such streaks since 1971. As of the close on Tuesday, at 1,930, the tech-heavy index is up 13.95 percent and had risen for 10 straight sessions.

China Will Spend Huge Reserves Abroad
   Economics piece by Offsite (7/23/09)

Analysts have speculated for months about what China would do with its massive currency reserves beyond purchasing U.S. Treasuries.

BlackRock CEO: Bank Trading Profits Inflated
   Economics piece by Offsite (7/23/09)

BlackRock CEO Laurence Fink says the large trading profits big banks have reported for the second quarter aren’t as impressive as they sound.

Jewish Leader Banned From Obama Meeting
   Middle East piece by Offsite (7/23/09)

Ever since President Barack Obama took office, Jewish leaders have been asking for a meeting with him. The White House, apparently thinking Jewish support for Obama was in the pocket, put them off. But a major Jewish leader says that after Newsmax.com reported on deep concerns in the Jewish community about Obama’s Middle East initiatives and statements, the White House responded quickly by asking 14 top Jewish leaders to meet with the president on July 13.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

‘Obama: Charlatan, Flim-Flam Man or Ignorant?‘
   ObamaNation piece by Malcolm T. Hedges (7/22/09)

Since the Crowning of King Obama, the Republic has been attacked and diminished almost on a daily basis.

Obama Utopia Built On Empty Promises
   ObamaNation piece by Christopher Adamo (7/22/09)

As the “healthcare” debate reaches its contrived crescendo, Barack Obama is proving to be the perfect con man. In every instance, he tells adoring crowds and media sycophants what they want to hear, often contradicting last week’s statements with this week’s damage control sound bite. And considering that his poll numbers have remained above single digits, it must be conceded that to some extent the ploy is working.

Obamacare for old folks: Just ‘cut your life short’
   Shadow Government piece by Offsite (7/22/09)

The version of President Obama’s universal health care plan pending in the U.S. House would require “end-of-life” counseling for senior citizens, and the former lieutenant governor for the state of New York is warning people to “protect their parents” from the measure.

Firefox 3.51 Appears To Be Another Problematic Release? (Revised II)
   Internet piece by Editor (7/22/09)

Firefox 3 was good!  Firefox 3.51 will NOT save passwords?  It seems it adds (for some reason)  ‘Exceptions’ on it’s own…

‘God,Science and…Evolution?‘
   Culture Wars piece by Guest: Rev. Austin Miles (7/22/09)

AGN-TCL Newswire 7/22/09. Oakley, Calilfornia.  One of the hottest topics in academia—Science vs.Creationism (or religion, or God) has spawned passionate debates among scholars on both sides of the issue.The scientific community presents no balance in these discussions. Science is fact, religion is fiction….period.

Dumbing down at the Naval Academy
   Multiculturalism piece by Offsite (7/22/09)

The U.S. Naval Academy’s PowerPoint display explains diversity by saying, “Diversity is all the different characteristics and attributes of individual sailors and civilians which enhance the mission readiness of the Navy,“ adding that: “Diversity is more than equal opportunity, race, gender or religion. Diversity is the understanding of how each of us brings different skills, talents and experiences to the fight – and valuing those differences. Leveraging diversity creates an environment of excellence and continuous improvement to remove artificial achievement barriers and value the contribution of all participants.“ Adm. Gary Roughead, chief of Naval Operations, says that “diversity is the No. 1 priority” at the academy.

‘Is Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Above The Law?‘
   Society piece by Aaron Goldstein (7/22/09)

What a hullabaloo at Harvard!  You would have thought the People’s Republic of Cambridge in 2009 was the Deep South in 1959.

‘Global Warming: Religion or science?‘
   Global Warming piece by Robert E. Meyer (7/22/09)

If we have seen it once, we have seen it a thousand times: somebody writes an editorial claiming that man-made global warming is a irrefutable scientific fact, and the rest of us who are stubbornly skeptical might as well be charter members of the flat earth society.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

The Phantom 46 Million
   Health Care piece by Thomas D. Segel (7/21/09)

Harlingen, Texas, July 21, 2009:  Admittedly there are millions of us who subscribe to the age-old adage that if a politician’s lips are moving - he is lying.  So, with that thought in mind, we ask again, just who are these 46 million Americans the Obama Administration and the Democrats say do not have health care coverage?

Obama and Israel, Into the Abyss
   Middle East piece by Daniel Pipes (7/21/09)

What I dubbed the Obama administration’s “rapid and harsh turn against Israel” has had three quick, predictable, and counter-productive results. These point to further difficulties ahead.

‘Paper Reports on Itself?‘
   MSM piece by Warner Todd Huston (7/21/09)

I think this is an example of the distraction that the Internet and the New Media have driven the Old Media to, but it seems that the Ledger-Enquirer of Columbus, Georgia was so amazed that someone finally paid attention to its work that it had to write a whole story about itself(1) to brag about how many webpage hits it got on a recent story by staffer Lily Gordon.

Liberal-Progressive Scientism vs. Religious Faith
   Progressivism piece by Thomas E. Brewton (7/21/09)

Believing themselves to be guided solely by science, liberal-progressives swallow whole banquets of contradictory and unprovable hypotheses.

Slouching Toward Orwell’s 1984
   Big Brother piece by Guest: Jeff Lukens (7/21/09)

George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” tells of an advanced world where there are no individual freedoms, and the state uses fear to manipulate and control people to conform to a prescribed belief. In the book, the Party maintains absolute power, and power has become an end to itself. His book is as relevant today as ever. In the age of Obama, the freedoms that define American life are slipping away and being replaced with ever more state control.

The US Military’s Major Malfunction
   National Security piece by Jayme Evans (7/21/09)

US Army Ranger First Lieutenant Michael Behenna comes from a long line of public servants. Like many young men today, he joined the military and became a US Army Ranger after seeing our country ruthlessly attacked on September 11th, 2001 . Sadly, like far too many soldiers and Marines of this politically-correct era, he was thrown into a deep, dark hole to die - not by the terrorists he was sent to fight in Iraq, but by the US military’s dysfunctional justice system.

Monday, July 20, 2009

The 535 and the 545…
   Government piece by Editor (7/20/09)

The new MoveOff sites are now up..

Sunday, July 19, 2009

The Audacity Of Progressive Stupidity!
   Progressivism piece by Malcolm T. Hedges (7/19/09)

The Progressive Demercrats are busy eliminating any people with large incomes, the so called “evil rich people”, even as they raise taxes on those “evil rich people”.

Sorry Apple, Windows 7 RC Runs Circles Around OSX 10.5.x (Updated)
   Computers piece by Editor (7/19/09)

Windows Vista is a little better than OSX 10.5.x but not much.

China Moves to Internationalize Currency
   Economics piece by Offsite (7/19/09)

China is turning its talk about making the renminbi an alternative to the dollar into action, said Qu Hongbin, China chief economist at HSBC.

World Bank: Global Economy Faces Deflation
   Economics piece by Offsite (7/19/09)

The World Bank has given warning that the global economy will fall into a “deflationary spiral” unless urgent action is taken to reduce high levels of excess capacity in industry, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reported in the UK Telegraph.

The Long, Agonizing Decline of the United States
   Socialism piece by Thomas E. Brewton (7/19/09)

We are following the downward path of Great Britain, one of the two greatest of Western history’s empires.

America Is Becoming Like The Home Run Derby
   Government piece by J.J. Jackson (7/19/09)

This past week Americans got to once again enjoy the spectacle of Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game as well as all the festivities and side events that go along with it.  One of those events is, of course, the Home Run Derby where sluggers flex their enhanced and unenhanced muscles in a duel to see who can put the most balls over the fence.  The problem that I have always had with the Home Run Derby is that it really is not all that indicative of a player’s skill at hitting Home Runs which requires a keen knowledge of the opponent on the mound pitching to him, what pitches he likes to throw in given situations, where that pitch might be, luck, and then, on top of everything else, actually putting lumber to leather to crank a particular pitch into the stratosphere.  The Home Run Derby eliminates many of these factors and dumbs down to art of hitting home runs to the point where I cannot even watch it.