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You know what really grinds my gears? This article of the U.N. WARNING the United States taxpayer about cutting AIDS funding for Africa: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081128/hl_nm/us_aids
***The world must maintain current assistance levels, he told a briefing before World AIDS Day on Monday.
“(Or) what we’ll find in the next four or five years is a resurgence in new incident infections and we won’t be able to scale up the treatment that is clearly going to be needed as more and more people become symptomatic and need access to drugs,” he said.***
Why do we care? Conservatives don’t want to waste their money on a WELFARE CONTINENT, and liberals know and support DARWINISM! So what we have here is feeding people who have no means to feed themselves, and they grow to reproduce more people that need our assistance. The only way to keep Africa within the reasonable range of humanitarian assistance is to LET THEM DIE OFF NATURALLY. It is harsh, but the uneducated who spread disease or belong to some civil war faction deserve to be weeded out of the gene pool. Yet, we do everything possible to keep them all humming along begging for more money, support, food.
Ironically, if you look at the cycle of genocide in Africa, it is because the world has fed their children to become armies 15-20 years later in life. There are too many people with too many competing tribes with jealousies, and too few resources. OF COURSE they are going to wipe each other out, they have been doing that for 1000s of years.
Yet the U.N. wags it’s finger in our face! Work harder you taxpaying slaves! There are dumb people counting on your money! Why not issue warnings to Africa, “Hey, listen, the tits run dry, if you don’t curb your own behavior, then you reap what you sow. The safety net is gone!”
Ok, I have nothing to do today, here is another link.
BLACK GUY kills white ANCHORWOMAN, and rapes another, media yawns. (too busy with Mumbai thing I guess)
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/u.....p;src=news
I guess if you were oppressed for 400 years, this is the LEAST you would do. Stop being racist white folks, or this is what you can expect….poor guy. : (
No, not reduced raises in higher education!
From a disappointed AP:
Uh, “we must demonstrate that our public university is sensitive to the public’s dire financial situation” and “annual raise of 2.5 percent” don’t exactly mesh.
This shows how out of touch higher education really is.
Given no staff will be losing their jobs, and most employers in the private sector (other than “living wage” jobs that require an increase) will not be giving raises at all, I’d say for most people a 2.5% raise would be cause to uncork the champagne.
But not for UW staff…
From the Los Angeles Times:
This of course is just sad, simply because “malware,” unlike virii or worms, must be downloaded and installed by an end user.
This means too many military computers are connected to the Internet, and too many users are clicking on attachments in email or on offers to install new “video codecs.”
But more to the point - this is because too many Government computers run Windows.
There is literally no reason why the federal Government needs to run Windows or use Microsoft Office, especially those in sensitive areas.
There are far fewer reasons why those same computers should have Internet browsers at all - oh yeah, that’s right, Microsoft makes it impossible for you to uninstall IE.
OK, apparently no one in the DoD has ever heard of a firewall?
From the Los Angeles Times:
Of course once Obama passes card check legislation and the local Union officials can strong arm interview employees in person as to whether they want to join the Union, all this likely will change.
It’s of course the left’s typical mode of operation - rather than study why foreign car makers are successful in the US, they should be forced to deal with the same encumberances as the Big Three.
Don’t make the Big Three more competitive; make everyone else just as uncompetitive. That’s the UAW way.
Please don’t read this if you’ve eaten recently, lest you have a mess to clean up.
From the Los Angeles Times:
What will be entertaining is to see just how long “a little while” is for most of these groups.
The fact that card check will be a knife through the heart of employers in the middle of an economic slowdown matters not to those demanding “payback” for their support.
Same for massive increases in energy pricing due to carbon caps. Job destruction? Who cares, don’t you feel good?
From the AP and their cadre of perpetually shocked experts:
Note there is no data presented to back up this assertion that evil profits will decrease.
How long until The One takes credit for inspiring consumer confidence?
RACIST MUMBAI ATTACK
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....5-000.html
He described how its mastermind briefed the group to ‘TARGET WHITES, preferably Americans and British’.
I wonder if the liberal media will go into great lengths explaining how racist and bad the arab terrorists are to single out white people in this huge HATE CRIME. When are the 1 hour re-education programs about diversity going to happen? Complete with man-on-the-street interviews, news magazine follow-ups. Are disappointed puppy-dog-eyed Hollywood stars going to go on Larry King hand-wringing and demanding these racists to be brought to justice?
IT’S NOT JUST A CULTURE WAR ANYMORE FOLKS, IT’S A RACE WAR!
Think it will happen?
brad -
unless they have radically changed things - a majority of Africa ‘healthcare’ do not test for AIDS - if you have the symptoms you are ‘diagnosed’ - yes, like so much of the financial ‘aid’ that goes to Africa - it is just more down a black hole of graft, corruption and uselessness. (my data is under 15 but over 8 years old - a lifetime in true medical info, I know - I did preface my ‘fact’ with a qualifier - wish that the msm would too).
I have to ask - what does sending and wasting all this money do to help Michelle’s girls? Wouldn’t it be better served to help all those in America who don’t have healthcare? Or a house? Or gas for their cars? Or a college education?
From the (Madison) Wisconsin State Journal:
Of course the left’s ads will just say “Paid for by moveon.org,” not “Paid for by George Soros.”
The world’s most obvious headline, from the San Francisco Chronicle:
So, in summary, time to throw federal money at problems and hope it helps, time to spend federal money investigating a technology that has never had a successful medical trial, and making energy more expensive.
Perhaps the headline should read “Economic destruction to rival FDRs eyed…
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From the San Francisco Chronicle:
So he’s silenced because he’s gay, not because he spouted an obscentity-laden rant at and wished a man dead whose only action was to dare ask Obama a question.
Note he spouted off at the mouth and wished Joe dead, yet he blames the station owners, the engineer and Janet Jackson’s breasts.
Not once does he admit he’s to blame and his own actions caused not only him to lose his job but also an audio board operator, likely making around $30,000/year, tops.
Nice.
Here is a golden oldie exchange between Hillary and BHO: Priceless & appropriate for Hillary being named SoS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhPxSm9Es0w
[Moved to its own thread.]
From WENN:
Because, you know, mercilessly lying about one Republican is as good as doing it to another.
Barak Obama’s motorcade came to a halt on the beltway….the secret service had noticed that one of Obama’s limousine’s tires had become flat. Immediately, four tall men with suitcases jumped from another vehicle, ran up to the car, opened the suitcases and began furiously throwing stack after stack of hundred dollar bills at the tire. A reporter who happened on the scene asked Obama what the hell they were doing. “They work for the United States Government” Obama told the astonished reporter…”they’re fixing the problem”.
The BBC is still cheering Chavez on to be President-for-life of Venezuela.
Chavez is nothing, if not hard headed. He’s following the liberal-socialist playbook to the letter, if you don’t like the rules, cheat anyway you can.
If I recall correctly, Chavez’ December 2007 referendums were defeated by significantly more than a “few thousand” votes that the BBC claims here.
From the Chicago Tribune:
Yet I’m sure none of her devoted fans will feel she, the richest woman in America (who says that thanks to Obama, African Americans can now “finally succeed”) is just, well, being cheap.
Well you know, supply-side doesn’t work anyway, so why should she give up some of her estimated $2.7 billion to the little people who watch her show?
After all, she might need to rebuild one of her homes, depending if it was damaged in the recent Santa Barbara-area fires.
It’s Monday so let’s play “guess the party affiliation”. From the DNC enablers at the AP.
Langford is, of course, a Dhimmicrat, and it appears he graduated with honors from the “William Jefferson School of Corruption and Graft”.
From the AP, Via Yahoo:
Stupid is as stupid does.
Media outlets everywhere are celebrating:
At least the USAtoday article mentions the “accepted” while “not official” definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative growth, which still hasn’t happened. Meanwhile the CNN article is accompanied by a picture of people queued as if in a depression era soup line. This report is based completely on politics and personal agendas. The “year long” recession we are currently in has seen only two, non-consecutive quarters of negative growth with two, consecutive quarters of positive growth. Positive growth that was far greater than the contraction. However, don’t let that get in the way of good propaganda. This was all do the housing crash and the Democrats, oops, I mean Bush, who sold these people houses they couldn’t afford. Now Obama is riding in on his mighty stead to save the day with more government spending. Spending which will surely depress the dollar and make peoples’ houses worth even less.
Somebody get the net , this guy is on the loose and He’s going to indict my Ham Sandwich.
Obame should put him in Justice
Those Texans
Indictments against Cheney, Gonzales dismissed
RAYMONDVILLE, Texas (AP) - A judge dismissed indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday and told the south Texas prosecutor who brought the case to exercise caution as his term in office ends.
Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra had accused Cheney and the other defendants of responsibility for prisoner abuse. The judge’s order ended two weeks of sometimes-bizarre court proceedings.
Guerra is leaving office at the end of the month after soundly losing in his March primary election.
“I suggest on behalf of the law that you not present any cases to the grand jury involving these defendants,” Administrative Judge Manuel Banales said in court while ruling that eight indictments against Cheney, Gonzales and others were invalid.
He also set a Dec. 10 hearing on whether to disqualify Guerra from those cases.
Even in thorough defeat, Guerra saw the outcome as confirmation of the very conspiracy he had pursued. “I expected it,” he said. “The system is going to protect itself.”
Banales withheld judgment on whether probable cause existed for the Cheney and Gonzales indictments because they were not represented in court and did not present any argument. For the other defendants, he found no probable cause to support the charges.
Three of the eight indictments returned Nov. 17 targeted private prison operator The GEO Group, state Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr., Cheney and Gonzales, as part of an investigation into prisoner abuse at privately run federal prisons in the county.
Guerra ran the investigation into alleged prisoner abuse with a siege mentality. He worked it from his home, dubbed it “Operation Goliath” and kept it secret from his staff, he said. He gave all the witnesses biblical pseudonyms—his was “David.”
Banales dismissed all eight indictments because GEO Group attorney Tony Canales showed that two alternate jurors were part of the panel that day but had not been properly substituted.
Five of the indictments—against two district judges, two special prosecutors and the district clerk—were dismissed because Guerra was the alleged victim, witness and prosecutor. The indictments accused the five of abusing their power by being involved in a previous investigation of Guerra.
The indictment against Cheney alleged that his personal investment in the Vanguard Group, which invests in private prison companies, made him culpable in alleged prisoner abuse at privately run federal detention centers.
Gonzales was accused of using his position to stop an investigation into abuses at a federal detention center.
Lucio was alleged to have used his Senate position to profit as a prison consultant, but Banales ruled that the indictment failed to address whether Lucio knew he was only being hired to consult because he was a state senator.
Enhanced election theft tactics, from Al Franken.
The new tack: ask the Senate to intervene.
From The Hill:
So now candidates themselves have “internal tallys” of secret votes and what they actually say is no concern, it’s some imaginary “voter intent.”
Really, why vote any more? The Democrats will take power regardless of what the ballots actually say…
From the UK Telegraph, a glimpse of our near future:
Of course Obama will likely be one of the first to sign on to this.
China? Somehow I don’t think so.
Posse what?
From the Washington Post:
Troops in the streets?
Nothing to worry about, move along…
Just remember Bush is responsible, even though the plans started being drafted in 1996.
Who was President in 1996 again?
Of course one wonders where those troops would be staying in the case of a terrorist attack.
Would it be too paranoid to wonder aloud whether the Third Amendment is the next to come under expanded SCOTUS review?
I know it’s meant to be empathy, but I’ve heard any number of people state “He apologized - that means he admits he’s at fault“:
From a blameful AP:
Every time I feel I need to defend Bush, he does something like this, and for the life of me I can’t figure out why.
From a joyful AP:
Of course, we still haven’t met the definition of recession - two consecutive quarters of negative GDP.
NBER is simply a group of academic economists - sort of like if the local Kiwanis club decided we’re in a recession.
But the AP hasn’t let facts intrude on their stories for years now.
BTW, that also means we could not officially be declared to be in a recession until January, 2009.
Couldn’t have that news sharing front page space with the Messiah’s inaugural now, could we?
Meanwhile the press is acting like this group’s declaration is the confirmation they need to run with “Officially in Recession” headlines, when in fact they have no more of a say on anything than another of the press’ favorite go-to agitprop groups, the CPSR.
Isn’t it great to read of uh, advances in public school education?
From the far-left Madison, WI Capital Times:
I’m glad to see the instructor never had the “energy” to clean up his - it might interfere with his personal yoga class time.
Remember, teachers are professionals, and that’s why they can’t be held to standards.
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: