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Cancel Hellfire and Tomahawk missile programs -Obama   Stu Tarlowe sent me this piece from the American Thinker.  I wasn’t aware of these cuts, and didn’t know the Hellfire was in the Navy budget, but it’s logical from an Obamaesque point of view.  If you want to destroy the American military, you have to get into the details like the actual weapons they use.  The big question is why there are no resignations of senior military officers.  I have to guess they agree with the cuts. skoonj My take: Obama's end game is to provoke an attempt to remove him from office. TRKOF Let’s start with a simple question. What happens when a soldier runs out of ammunition during a firefight? First, he either retreats, or he quickly becomes killed, wounded or captured.  Second, his tactical position converts from active to indefensible which imperils the strategic array of the entire battlefield. What do you call a submarine that runs out of torpedoes? Missing in action. That’s an old Navy joke that dates back to WWII.  However the fundamental military concept remains true: without the ability to attack your enemy and inflict serious damage, you’re unable to influence any subsequent events on the battlefield. The military has a term for any ship or combat unit that cannot defend itself, “Useless as tits on a boar.”  From TheWashington Free Beacon by Adam Kredo we read: President Barack Obama is seeking to abolish two highly successful missile programs that experts say have helped the U.S. Navy maintain military superiority for the past several decades. The Tomahawk missile program—known as “the world’s most advanced cruise missile”—is set to be cut by $128 million under Obama’s fiscal year 2015 budget proposal and completely eliminated by fiscal year 2016, according to budget documents released by the Navy. In addition to the monetary cuts to the program, the number of actual Tomahawk missiles acquired by the United States would drop significantly—from 196 last year to just 100 in 2015. The number will then drop to zero in 2016. The Navy will also be forced to cancel its acquisition of the well-regarded and highly effective Hellfire missiles in 2015, according to Obama’s proposal. The proposed elimination of these missile programs came as a shock to lawmakers and military experts, who warned ending or cutting these missiles would significantly erode America’s ability to deter enemy forces. The U.S. Navy relied heavily on them during the 2011 military incursion into Libya, where some 220 Tomahawks were used during the fight. Nearly 100 of these missiles are used each year on average, meaning that the sharp cuts will cause the Tomahawk stock to be completely depleted by around 2018. This is particularly concerning to defense experts because the Pentagon does not have a replacement missile ready to take the Tomahawk’s place. “It doesn’t make sense,” said Seth Cropsey, director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for American Seapower. “This really moves the U.S. away from a position of influence and military dominance.” Cropsey said that if someone were trying to “reduce the U.S. ability to shape events” in the world, “they couldn’t find a better way than depriving the U.S. fleet of Tomahawks. It’s breathtaking.” Meanwhile, the experimental anti-ship cruise missile meant to replace the Tomahawk program will not be battle ready for at least 10 years, according to some experts. The Long Range Anti Ship Missile has suffered from extremely expensive development costs and has underperformed when tested. This article brings up so many unasked and unanswered questions. Where do the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the CNO (Chief of Naval Operations) stand on this absurd military folly? Have these supposed war fighters become so politically emasculated that they would allow our soldiers and sailors go in harm's way without the sufficient and proven weapons they require to win big and win fast? This Administration certainly understands the need for sufficient ammunition, hence the purchase of hundreds of millions of rounds for Homeland Security, the IRS, and dozens of other domestic Federal agencies. But why does this same Administration seeks to “abolish two highly successful missile programs.” that are key to projecting force both on the seas and in any heavy tank and artillery land warfare scenario? What changes in policy and operational deployment will the Russian, Chinese, and Iranian military staffs’ be making in the next few years, in light of this new information? First published in 1898, H.G. Wells, War of the Worlds, continues to warn us of evil, by “intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic.” “Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.” And we also know there are “envious eyes” residing in the White House, quickly and surely drawing their plans against us. [Full (American Thinker)] Stu Tarlowe via skoonz

They tried to snow us!

GOING UNDER COVERS Jamie Anderson In quick succession I saw that picture of what looked like some Euro princess signing in to see the Pope.  Then I saw (rollover) another version that had been "cleansed."   Who was this young lady whom the media tried to protect?  She looked familiar. Influenced by the earlier posted 'Obama Ape" story exposé, and certainly by my hero James O'Keefe, I wanted something I could exposé.  Something that would make the word a better place. This was it.   I clipped the derrière and Google image searched it, which led me to this Bingo! I was right. Olympic gold medalist snowboarder Jamie Anderson. We will accept no coverups. You're welcome.

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Meet De Press "Where's the mainstream media?" I wondered. “If a Murdoch paper had done this, or even a comparably-sized, right wing newspaper had published the image, there would be outrage.”  "Where's the mainstream media?" I wondered.  If a Murdoch paper had done this, or even a comparably-sized, right-wing newspaper had published the image, there would be outrage. Cue the opprobrium from MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, and The Guardian's Polly Toynbee. The headlines would read: 'The right-wing press wants to eat your babies' or 'How Rupert Murdoch hates all black people and their friends'.  But there was nothing. And that's not to say that people hadn't read it. I know for a fact that they had. Left-wing journalists had been in touch with me over the matter. I even e-mailed it to some. Still nothing. Could it be that they were too lazy to run the translation from Flemish to English?  Or was it because of this?: I concluded they were all going to let it slide, until The [London] Metro almost carbon copied my original article, and ran it for Monday morning.  Then came the Independent. Same sort of copy (no credit this way for breaking the story, of course). Then Breitbart London ran the fact that De Morgen had issued an apology. Admittedly, Belgian-based papers beat us to the scoop on this one. But wait... now suddenly everyone was on board. "Oh, this progressive outlet has seen the light, the error of its ways and are penitent sinners!" Cue the Huffington Post, Al Jazeera, MSNBC, the New York Times and Talking Points Memo: [FULL] "The paper claimed this was 'satire', but we didn't buy it." a. A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit. b. The branch of literature constituting such works. See Synonyms at caricature. 2. Irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose folly, vice, or stupidity. A stupid assertion for De Morgen to even attempt since it begs the question," Just what Obama  ape-like attribute is it that you are attacking?"

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How not to kill yourself with household items (15 16 Pics). How easy is it to be an Infojournalst? Pretty damned.

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Progressive Racism: The Hidden Motive Driving Modern Politics  Progressive politics is rooted in racism. Look carefully at most social or fiscal policies advocated by progressives and you’ll see that underneath their false public rationales lie hidden racist fears and assumptions — some of which the progressives may be too embarrassed to admit even to themselves, much less to the world. Viewed globally, the real long-term consequence of all the “climate change”-related policy proposals is to transfer massive amounts of wealth from the First World developed nations to the Third World underdeveloped nations, while simultaneously crippling the ability of the developed world to maintain its economic dominance. What could motivate this seemingly suicidal economic policy by First-World progressives? In a word: Guilt. Specifically, “white guilt” This essay will likely be eye-opening for conservatives, and infuriating for progressives, who often don’t know their own history and never contemplated the origins of their own belief system. But it’s time to finally bring the uncomfortable truth out in the open. Below you will find eight separate entries, each focusing on a different policy pushed by progressives. Each entry follows the same format: BOLD: Name of topic. In yellow: A neutral description of the exact proposal which progressives champion. In red: The progressives’ stated justification or explanation behind their position, which hides their real purpose. In red: The inaccurate theory which conservatives mistakenly assume must be the actual progressive motivation. In green: The true racist reason underlying the progressive policy. Plain text: Additional notes on the origins of the progressives’ racist attitude and how it led to this specific policy proposal. GUN CONTROL Progressive position: Restrict access to guns as much as possible; ultimately ban and confiscate them all. False public rationale offered by progressives to justify their position: Gun violence is a scourge on society; easy access to killing machines unnecessarily facilitates murder and crime. Conservatives’ inaccurate theory of progressives’ real intent: Progressives want to disarm the populace to prevent armed resistance to the eventual imposition of a leftist totalitarian police state. The actual racist origins of the progressive stance: White urban liberals are deathly afraid of black gangbangers with guns, but are ashamed to admit this publicly, so to mask their racist fears they try to ban guns for everyone, as a way of warding off the perception that their real goal is to target blacks specifically.   The basic dividing line in American politics is not (as it once was ) North vs. South, nor is it (as many people now assume) Coasts vs. Flyover Country, but rather Urban vs. Rural: The new political divide is a stark division between cities and what remains of the countryside. Not just some cities and some rural areas, either — virtually every major city (100,000-plus population) in the United States of America has a different outlook from the less populous areas that are closest to it. The difference is no longer about where people live, it’s about how people live: in spread-out, open, low-density privacy — or amid rough-and-tumble, in-your-face population density and diverse communities that enforce a lower-common denominator of tolerance among inhabitants. …The only major cities that voted Republican in the 2012 presidential election were Phoenix, Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, and Salt Lake City. Or put more simply: In modern America, liberals live in cities; conservatives live in rural areas. And what else is concentrated in cities? African-Americans, and gun violence: The 62 center cities of America’s 50 largest metro areas account for 15 percent of the population but 39 percent of gun-related murders. Putting all these statistics together, we see that large cities have high concentrations of white liberals alongsidegun-using black criminals. And yet it is specifically in Democrat-voting big cities where most of the gun-control measures are proposed. Why is that? Are the white progressive urban dwellers afraid of rootin’-tootin’ cowboys? Of backwoods deer hunters? Of hillbillies with shotguns? No: the average white progressive has never even met a cowboy, a hunter or a hillbilly. And frankly, progressives couldn’t care less if rednecks own guns, because progressives aren’t physically afraid of rednecks on a daily basis. Instead, they are afraid of gun violence at the hands of their fellow city-dwellers, the urban African-Americans who commit a wildly disproportionate percentage of the gun crimes in America. Progressives don’t want to ban guns to disarm resistance to any upcoming police state; that idea has never even occurred to them. Instead, progressives want to ban guns because progressives are afraid of black people. But God forbid that progressives’ racist motivations be exposed publicly. So to make the gun-control bans appear even-handed and race-neutral, progressives must try to ban guns for everyone, even though the bans are in reality aimed at one specific group. Rural gun-users are just collateral damage of a policy that actually targets inner-city blacks.     JUNK FOOD TAXES Progressive position: [Full Article] The author's reflections fully comport with my own (or any HiFo's) analysis, so A+.  Via skoonj ”

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TECHNO CHILLS                                Aero Gel “ Aerogel Aerogel    Aerogel              HORRY CLAP! Aerogel material—often referred to as frozen smoke, solid smoke, solid air or blue smoke—is actually, like all the best things, the result of a wager. It was first created by Samuel Stephens Kistler in 1931, after he bet Charles Learned that he could replace the liquid in a jelly with gas, without causing shrinkage. Turned out, he was right! To produce an aerogel, you take a normal gel and then—very slowly and carefully—remove the liquid, leaving behind just the solid structure. That process varies depending on the gel in question, but invariably requires some complex chemistry to facilitate removal of the liquid by supercritical drying, which carefully avoids the liquid-gas transition by using pressure and temperature variation to go from liquid to solid to gas instead. Otherwise, the evaporation process can destroy the structure. The result is a substance that looks like the original gel but feels like expanded polystyrene to the touch. And the material properties! Oh, the material properties. Just look at what it can do. DIBS: Since any patent on this 70 year old process must be expired, I am filing for one as we speak.  I will then begin manufacture of the Aerogel Mini. Weight: 1 gram Fuel: Four AA Batteries Further projections, such as 0-60 and top speed would be premature. Since he found it for me, cuzzin ricky is Senior Optimization Developer         ”

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Who's the leader of the band ...

“ Band of (really, really bad) Brothers  Obama's Rogues Gallery Of Radicals Appointments: America is a country of 320 million people, most of them holding to traditional values. Yet President Obama keeps mining the fringes for his hires. Does he have any friends who aren't crackpots? We were told the parade of anti-American subversives Obama came in contact with throughout his life amounted to ancient history. But now we have this roster of radical appointments, a current record that's harder to explain away and which raises the indefeasible question of whether they're a reflection of himself. Seriously. The president keeps saying he champions the middle class and its values. But his choices of people to help him run the country are the most extreme in U.S. history, and his second-term nominations are more radical than the first. No sooner had even some Senate Democrats joined Republicans in voting down a cop killer-coddler for civil rights chief, Debo Adegbile, than Obama sent up a 2nd Amendment-basher for U.S. Surgeon General. Dr. Vivek Murthy  .... <snip> Obama's previous appointees include: • Valerie Jarrett, his closest White House adviser, whose father-in-law worked closely with Obama mentor and Communist Party leader Frank Marshall Davis in a number of front groups during the Cold War. • David Axelrod, Obama's political aide, whose mother worked for a communist organ in New York and whose mentor was Soviet agent David Canter. • Van Jones, an admitted communist hired by Jarrett as Obama's green jobs czar. • Anita Dunn, former White House communications director and Obama's 2012 foreign policy debate coach, who listed communist dictator and mass murderer Mao Zedong as one of her two favorite philosophers whom "I turn to most" when questions arise. • Cass Sunstein, Obama's regulatory czar who wrote a socialist "bill of rights" and who advocates redistributing wealth through climate-change policy. • Samantha Power, ambassador to the United Nations, a 9/11 apologist who advised the president to follow a "doctrine of mea culpa" and literally bow down to foreign leaders as atonement for America's "sins." • Anne-Marie Slaughter, former State Department policy chief, who advised the president to apologize for the War on Terror. • Rashad Hussein, Obama's Mideast envoy, who once defended a convicted terrorist (then got caught lying about it), and drafted the president's Cairo speech apologizing for the War on Terror. • Rose Gottemoeller, Obama's Soviet-sympathizing chief nuclear arms negotiator, who thinks America is a global "bully" and must unilaterally disarm for the sake of world peace. • John Trasvina, assistant HUD secretary for fair housing who once headed the radical Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund, whose co-founder made racist statements about whites. • Cecilia Munoz, head of White House domestic policy who used to work for La Raza, the militant Latino group that advocates illegal immigrant rights. • Erica Groshen, Bureau of Labor Statistics chief who sends her children to Camp Kinderland, aka "Commie Camp," a communist-founded institution where kids during the Cold War sang Soviet anthems. • John Holdren, Obama's science czar, who's advised surrendering U.S. sovereignty to a "Planetary Regime" that will redistribute the West's wealth to underdeveloped countries and who once advocated "adding a sterilant to drinking water" to control population. • Harold Koh, former State Department general counsel who believes in "trans-nationalism" and sees nothing wrong with Shariah law in U.S. courts. • Tony West, associate attorney general who oversees Gitmo policy, even though he defended al-Qaida and Taliban terrorists including John Walker Lindh, who pleaded guilty to aiding the enemy and fighting U.S. troops in Afghanistan. So what? In Washington, personnel are policy. These people make the rules we have to live by, from health care to home loans to homeland security. And these radical political appointees hire other radicals at the bureaucratic levels, where they'll become entrenched as career federal employees. In 2008, before Obama was nominated, we warned about his radical associations, including his ties to Davis — a hardened communist with a thick FBI file — at his Honolulu home. His defenders wrote off this Marxist indoctrination as youthful experimentation. [Full] cuzzin ricky   That was Friday's Investor's Business Daily editorial.  With just a few changes, it could have been an editorial written every year since 2009.   Obama has reached this  point.  Nary a day goes by without some documentary being shown, or essay being broadcast about the Hitler years (80 years ago!).  But why? We know everything there is to know (at least until the Hitler sex tapes are released).  We know that Chamberlain was a clueless berk; we know that Hitler could have been stopped at the Rhineland; we know that he was a monster (he wrote a book, for chrissake!); we know that his cohorts were a collection of perverts, druggies,  ne'er do wells and psychopaths.   Still we watch.  Same with Obama. 100 years from now people will be watching  Obama news reel film —saying "WTFF?"  You know I'm right. Oui? ”

Another Bacon Thing

But you gotta act now!   You have until April 4 to fill out the online entry form to become an Official Bacon Beta Tester. (The "value" of the bacon-puffer is $40.) Well, that barn door is open.  Think of the mischief one could perp with various aromas. In fact. it looks like that one's set to "burning tires."

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Drudge was Right, As Usual

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Progressives: It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people assume you're an ignorant twat than to open it and remove all doubt. Like these berks..    Jesse Lee, the Director of Progressive Media Sahil Kapur of the leftwing Talking Points Memo Dylan Scott of the leftwing Talking Points Memo Sam Baker of National Journal Jeffrey Young of The Huffington Post   WHITE HOUSE, MEDIA ATTACK AFTER DRUDGE PAYS OBAMACARE OPT-OUT PENALTY A White House aide set off a stampede of liberal media criticism for Internet news pioneer Matt Drudge over Obamacare – but his critics don't seem to understand how small businesses pay taxes. The brouhaha started when Drudge tweeted, “Just paid the Obamacare penalty for not 'getting covered'... I'M CALLING IT A LIBERTY TAX.” Jesse Lee, the Director of Progressive Media at Barack Obama's White House, responded that that was a “Flat lie, no fee for previous year,” adding, “Scary how much influence he once had.” Lee’s response to Drudge set off a firestorm in the liberal media, with many mainstream media and left-wing reporters countering him on Twitter and in their own articles to claim he does not have to pay Obamacare’s Individual Mandate tax until next year. The individual mandate went into effect Jan. 1 of this year, and most people paying their taxes right now are paying taxes for 2013. “Dude, there's no penalty until next yr,” Sahil Kapur of the leftwing Talking Points Memo tweeted. Kapur’s colleague at TPM Dylan Scott wrote a full story with a headline alleging Drudge was “probably lying.” “Americans don't pay a penalty for not having health insurance until they file their 2014 taxes -- in 2015,” Scott wrote. “So either Drudge is lying or he paid a huge penalty a year earlier than he needed to.” “Penalty isn't collected until 2015,” Sam Baker of National Journal tweeted at Drudge. The Huffington Post’s Jeffrey Young wrote a full article in which he described Drudge’s tweet as “weird” and a “little head-scratching” because the Obamacare tax does not kick in until the 2014 tax year. Drudge indicated in his followup tweets that since he is self-employed as the proprietor of The Drudge Report, he files as a small business. According to the IRS’s website for self-employed individuals, they are required to pay taxes quarterly. “As a self-employed individual, generally you are required to file an annual return and pay estimated tax quarterly,” the IRS website reads. So, when they file and pay those 2014 first quarter taxes, such individuals have to pay the Obamacare Individual Mandate tax if they opted to not have health insurance—like Drudge just did. Additionally, the IRS form (1040-ES) for estimating quarterly taxes specifically recommends adding the mandate penalty to line 12 for "other taxes" -- to pay before the first quarterly deadline of April 15. “It is true that thousands of small businesses will be forced to pay Obamacare taxes quarterly in 2014,” a Senate Budget Committee aide told Breitbart News on Friday afternoon. Drudge even indicated as much in followup tweets, but the left-wing reporters—and the White House—have left their criticisms of him intact. “Dazed team Obama media reporters think Opt-Out tax 'year away’?” Drudge tweeted. “Not for small businesses that file Qtr estimates. We're there NOW, baby #pay.” [Full]

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Da Mooshelles Do China

STFU Michelle Moshelle Does China

“ 'We can't wait for this to be over, to tell you the truth,' he said in a sudden hush. 'We entertain many important people here, but this has been, I think, erm ...very different.'  Plague Descends on Beijing Government security forces from both China and the U.S. started Thursday to screen everyone who entered the building, including paying guests, setting up checkpoints that resemble those at airline concourse entrances. The Secret Service's monopoly on the hotel's highest floors has meant the Westin had to boot guests with previous reservations out of their executive-level rooms. Secret Service agents are also monopolizing hotel elevators long before the Obamas need them, added the staffer, who identified himself as a member of the concierge staff and spoke English during a phone call on Friday. 'Many of them are Asian, too, or Americans who are Asian, so you know our guests don't understand.' Mrs. Obama's mother Marian Robinson has been 'barking at the staff since she arrived.' Michelle Obama and three of her family members are staying in a $8,350-per-night Beijing presidential suite, but despite a 24-hour butler and other perks that come with the lodging, her entourage has inconvenienced 'pretty much everyone' and made the hotel staff 'fed up,' a well-placed hotel staffer has told MailOnline. Full Story Yeah, I know; everyone's seen this, but I cannot let it pass without putting it on my recored. ”

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Amazing Math

Gary Larsen                                                                                 NUMBERS Perhaps after seeing yesterday's godawful example of educational malpractice (Common Core Math), the erstwhile vocalist in my band, The Chestnuts, Guy du Francois, sent me this Amazing Mathematics.  Pretty quick into I it I thought satirically, "Oh, another Darwin evolution."  Turns out that was the point, so Darwinists may want to skip this one and avoid the angst, and cut me from thier travel list.  Sigh.   If we must, boys and girls, deviate from tried and true basic math education, here is a damned good example of stuff that works, and would appeal to kid's desire to one-up their parents.  I truly wish Sister Margaret Eleanor had pulled this out of her habit in my way back.  I love it.

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