www.israel21c.org
A new exhibit pays homage to Israeli ingenuity behind gadgets like the Disk-on-Key, PillCam, solar windows and a space camera.
Saturday, October 01, 2011
Or this level of corruption. Pelosi enriches her circle by fraudulent means. http://hotair.com/archives/2011/09/29/737-million-in-green-tech-loan-to-company-connected-to-pelosi-family/ 
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$737 million in green-tech loan to company connected to Pelosi family?
www.dailymail.co.uk
Thomas Lobel, who now calls himself Tammy, is undergoing controversial hormone blocking treatment in Berkeley California to stop him going through puberty as a boy
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Breakthrough technology is allowing previously untapped oil to be drilled in the U.S., Canada and South America. And experts say that's moving the global energy supply's center of gravity away from the Middle East and toward the Americas. In a decade, they say, that could make the U.S. a bigger oil ...
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Til death do us part ... except in Mexico City. Citing the fact that most of the marriages that fail there typically end in the first two years, lawmakers have proposed creating temporary marriages licenses.... World News Summaries. | Newser
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www.charismanews.com
The settlement closes one more chapter in a difficult year for Long, who also offered a financial settlement to five young men who accused the senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church of sexual coercion.
www.redstate.com
I'm not a lawyer and I don't even play one after staying at a Holiday Inn Express or when posting on RedState so what follows doesn't pretend to be a legal
www.artofmanliness.com
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from two-time USA Memory Champion, Ron White. What if you could play a game of cards with your buddies and recall every card that had been played? You can. What if you could meet a client today and six months later see him at a football game and
patriotpost.us
Daniel Webster was the most famous lawyer of his day. In 1819, the 'Godlike Daniel' stood before the U.S. Supreme Court and argued passionately for the right of Dartmouth College to govern itself, and not to be brought under the rule of the New Hampshire legislature. Webster appealed to the Constitu...
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Part 2: Jay asks Herman Cain his thoughts on Sarah Palin and to describe the candidates.
www.realclearpolitics.com
Democratic strategist Cornell Belcher says there is a media "double-standard" over Herman Cain saying blacks have been "brainwashed." Belcher calls Mr. Cain a bigot and a racist and says this incident is a "teachable moment." CORNELL BELCHER, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: First of all, do you think you'...
www.theblaze.com
Speaking at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Friday, Michael Moore, as usual, dropped a few bombs. Even the “f” bomb. “Sorry I said [the f-word] the first time. I didn’t realize I was in a church,” the filmmaker, wearing his trademark trucker cap, joked to an auditorium comprised of a few h...
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I hope this isn’t too uncomfortable for my Lutheran friends, but don’t you think the time really has come that we speak aloud and talk about that problem that has been facing the world for so long: Lutheran terrorism. Fortunately for the truth, Michael Coren knows no fear and will not be stopped by...
Thursday, September 29, 2011
One of the most important Posts I have Ever Put up. Your world is about to end
I am a reader of a blog...Seth's blog. Seth Godin He has great wisdom, is a good writer and has said what I have been saying for a long time. Life is about to change. The idea of a Job is over. You can expect to be on your own in the future. It will be different from what you thought.
Read his whole post which says in part:
Read his whole post which says in part:
There are actually two recessions:
The first is the cyclical one, the one that inevitably comes and then inevitably goes. There's plenty of evidence that intervention can shorten it, and also indications that overdoing a response to it is a waste or even harmful.
The other recession, though, the one with the loss of "good factory jobs" and systemic unemployment--I fear that this recession is here forever.
Why do we believe that jobs where we are paid really good money to do work that can be systemized, written in a manual and/or exported are going to come back ever? The internet has squeezed inefficiencies out of many systems, and the ability to move work around, coordinate activity and digitize data all combine to eliminate a wide swath of the jobs the industrial age created.
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This means we may need to change our expecations, change our training and change how we engage with the future. Still, it's better than fighting for a status quo that is no longer. The good news is clear: every forever recession is followed by a lifetime of growth from the next thing...
Job creation is a false idol. The future is about gigs and assets and art and an ever-shifting series of partnerships and projects. It will change the fabric of our society along the way. No one is demanding that we like the change, but the sooner we see it and set out to become an irreplaceable linchpin, the faster the pain will fade, as we get down to the work that needs to be (and now can be) done.
This revolution is at least as big as the last one, and the last one changed everything.
He's right you know. Get Ready
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
seekingalpha.com
Crashing global stock markets, debt defaults, overproduction, falling prices, tumbling interest rates, global debt deleveraging, and the clear necessity for austerity are all classic long wave forces now in full tilt, producing the perfect storm in a Kondratieff long wave winter. Only long wave ...
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As NewsBusters reported Friday, Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman during an interview on CNN said members of the Tea Party are racists willing to do whatever they can to "get this black man" out of the White House.
www.guardian.co.uk
International Labour Organisation urges governments to focus on job creation to make up for the 20m jobs lost since the financial crisis
www.chicagotribune.com
Luis, a Miami father of two young children, sits atop his lawn mower like it's a throne. Luis used to be a mortgage banker, but he has been out of work for more than 20 months. Like others, he has become frustrated with the job hunt.
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The price of gold, which has fallen in recent weeks as part of a broader market sell-off, has even further to fall, Marc Faber, author of the Gloom Boom, and Doom Report, told CNBC Monday.
He was 14 yrs. 6mos. and 5 days old --- and the youngest person executed in the United States in the
www.flickr.comGeorge Junius Stinney, Jr., [b. 1929 - d. 1944] In a South Carolina prison sixty-six years ago, guards walked a 14-year-old boy, bible tucked under his arm, to the electric chair. At 5' 1" and 95 pounds, the straps didn’t fit, and an electrode was too big for his leg. The switch was pulled and
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With his divorce finalized, the actor may head to the altar with a much-younger family member.
www.bloomberg.com
The U.S. government’s $8 billion bet on solar energy that would pave the deserts with mirrors risks following the Betamax into the technological wilderness because of Chinese backing for a cheaper system.
BBC Speechless As Trader Tells Truth: "The Collapse Is Coming...And Goldman Rules The World" | ZeroH
www.zerohedge.comIn an interview on BBC News this morning that left the hosts gob-smacked (google it... it is the BBC after all), Alessio Rastani outlines in a mere three-and-a-half-minutes what we all know and most ignore. While the whole interview is worth watching, the money shot for us was "This economic crisis ...
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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Thousands of Philadelphia residents gathered in long lines, citywide, waiting hours outside of 12 County Assistance Offices, hoping to ...
www.irishweatheronline.com
Fears are growing that the El Hierro volcano in The Canary Islands could soon erupt after seismic activity beneath the island increased dramatically during Tuesday and Wednesday.
- Gene Redlin HMMM http://www.rense.com/gener
al56/tsu.htm 
Canary Island Mega Tsunamiwww.rense.com
www.telegraph.co.uk
Germany and America were on a collision course on Tuesday night over the handling of Europe's debt crisis after Berlin savaged plans to boost the EU rescue fund as a
phelps.donotremove.net
For those who don’t know, the Gunwalker scandal goes like this: For whatever reason, the ATF decided that it was a good idea to let guys that they knew were buying guns in mass quantities to give to the Cartels in Mexico… go ahead and do it. Those weapons were then used to murder at least a couple ...
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Below, see the safe sex and abstinence ad put out by the Candie’s Foundation (featuring Bristol Palin and “The Situation”). Christians are known for believing that sex is something best saved for marriage. But new research seems to indicate that young evangelicals are almost just as sexually active ...
The Mad as Hell Generation: 20 Reasons Why Millions of Americans Under the Age of 30 Are Giving Up o
www.lewrockwell.comMillions upon millions of young Americans have completely lost faith in the U.S. economy and are mad as hell that their economic futures have been destroyed. The recent economic downturn has hit those under the age of 30 the hardest. Today,...
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The Republican presidential candidate proposes a flat 9 percent income tax, corporate tax and national sales tax. It attracted the attention of Republican voters in Florida's straw poll, where Cain took first place. But economists wonder how well it would work.
www.israel21c.org
A new exhibit pays homage to Israeli ingenuity behind gadgets like the Disk-on-Key, PillCam, solar windows and a space camera.
www.newser.com
Fiery words from Herman Cain tonight. The Republican presidential hopeful calls the black community politically "brainwashed" in an interview on CNN's The Situation Room. "African-Americans... Politics News Summaries. | News...more
Monday, September 26, 2011
a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madhoff
It is very appropriate in light of what is going on !!!
Remember, not only did you contribute to Social Security but your employer did too. It totaled 15% of your income before taxes. If you averaged only 30K over your 49 year working life, that’s close to $220,500.
If you calculate the future value of $4,500 per year (yours & your employer’s contribution) at a simple 5% (less than what the govt. pays on the money that it borrows), after 49 years of working, you’d have $892,919.98. If you took out only 3% per year, you would receive $26,787.60 per year and it would last better than 30 years, and that’s with no interest paid on that final amount on deposit! If you bought an annuity and it paid 4% per year, you’d have a lifetime income of $2,976.40 per month.
The folks in Washington have pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madhoff ever had. Entitlement, my foot, I paid cash for my social security insurance!!!! Just because they borrowed the money, doesn't make my benefits some kind of charity or handout !! Congressional benefits, aka free healthcare, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days, now that's welfare, and they have the nerve to call my retirement entitlements !!!!!!
They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most of us have been paying for it all our working lives and now when it’s time for us to collect, the government is running out of money. Why did the government borrow from it in the first place? 99% of people won't have the guts to forward this. I'm one of the 1%.
Remember, not only did you contribute to Social Security but your employer did too. It totaled 15% of your income before taxes. If you averaged only 30K over your 49 year working life, that’s close to $220,500.
If you calculate the future value of $4,500 per year (yours & your employer’s contribution) at a simple 5% (less than what the govt. pays on the money that it borrows), after 49 years of working, you’d have $892,919.98. If you took out only 3% per year, you would receive $26,787.60 per year and it would last better than 30 years, and that’s with no interest paid on that final amount on deposit! If you bought an annuity and it paid 4% per year, you’d have a lifetime income of $2,976.40 per month.
The folks in Washington have pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madhoff ever had. Entitlement, my foot, I paid cash for my social security insurance!!!! Just because they borrowed the money, doesn't make my benefits some kind of charity or handout !! Congressional benefits, aka free healthcare, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days, now that's welfare, and they have the nerve to call my retirement entitlements !!!!!!
They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most of us have been paying for it all our working lives and now when it’s time for us to collect, the government is running out of money. Why did the government borrow from it in the first place? 99% of people won't have the guts to forward this. I'm one of the 1%.
VDH on Cultural Decline
From Victor David Hansen:
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Redistribution of wealth rather than emphasis on its creation is surely a symptom of aging societies. Whether at Byzantium during the Nika Riots or in bread and circuses Rome, when the public expects government to provide security rather than the individual to become autonomous through a growing economy, then there grows a collective lethargy. I think that is the message of Juvenal’s savage satires about both mobs and the idle rich. Fourth-century Athenian literature is characterized by forensic law suits, as citizens sought to sue each other, or to sue the state for sustenance, or to fight over inheritances.
The subtext of Petronius’s Satyricon is an affluent, childless, often underemployed citizenry seeking inheritances and lampooning the productive classes that produce enough excess for the wily to get by just fine without working. Somewhere around 1985 in California I noticed that my students were hoping for a state job first, a federal job second, a municipal job third — and a private one last. Around 1990, suddenly two sorts of commercials were aired everywhere: how to join a law suit by calling a law firm’s 1-800 number or how to get a free power chair, scooter, or some other device by calling the 1-800 number of a health care company that would do the paper work for Social Security on your behalf.
Why is it more moral for a federal bureaucrat in a state-supplied SUV to shut down an offshore oil rig on grounds that it is too dangerous for the environment than for a private individual to risk his own capital to find some sort of new fuel to power his government’s SUV fleet? All affluent societies believe that they are just too rich not to be able to afford another regulation, just one more moralizing indulgence, yet again an added entitlement. But as we see now in postmodern America, idle 250,000 acres of farmland for a tiny fish, shut down an entire oilfield, put off a new natural gas find in worry over possible environmental alteration, add a cent to the sales tax, mandate yet another prescription drug entitlement not funded, or offer yet another in-state tuition discount to an illegal alien — and the costs finally equate to an implosion as we see in Greece or California.
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Things you NEED to know
- A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes. (O.M.G.!!!)
- A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy. I'm still not over the pig.)
- The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. (Honey, I'm home . What the...?)
- The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
- (30 minutes. Lucky pig! Can you imagine?)
- The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?) Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (I still can't believe that pig ...quality over quantity.)
- Butterflies taste with their feet. (Something I always wanted to know.)
- Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. (Okay, so that would be a good thing.)
- A cat's urine glows under a black light. (I wonder how much the government paid to figure that out.)
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that.)
- Starfish have no brains. (I know some people like that, too.)
- Polar bears are left-handed. (Talk about a southpaw.)
- Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (What about that pig? Do the dolphins know about the pig?)
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Never lie to your Mama
Anthony invited his mother for dinner. He lives with a female roommate, Tina. During the course of the meal, his mother couldn't help but notice how pretty Anthony's roommate is. Over the course of the evening, while watching the two interact, she started to wonder if there was more between Anthony and his roommate than met the eye. Reading his mom's thoughts, Anthony volunteered, "I know what you must be thinking, but I assure you, Tina and I are just roommates.''
About a week later, Tina came to Anthony saying, "Ever since your mother came to dinner, I've been unable to find the silver sugar bowl. You don't suppose she took it, do you?" "Well, I doubt it, but I'll email her, just to be sure. " So he sat down and wrote an email:
Dear Mama, I'm not saying that you "did" take the sugar bowl from my house; I'm not saying that you "did not" take it. But the fact remains that it has been missing ever since you were here for dinner. Love, Anthony
Several days later, Anthony received a response email from his Mama which read:
Dear son, I'm not saying that you "do" sleep with Tina, and I'm not saying that you "do not" sleep with her. But the fact remains that if she was sleeping in her OWN bed, she would have found the sugar bowl by now. Love, Mama. ------
Moral: Never lie to your Mama
About a week later, Tina came to Anthony saying, "Ever since your mother came to dinner, I've been unable to find the silver sugar bowl. You don't suppose she took it, do you?" "Well, I doubt it, but I'll email her, just to be sure. " So he sat down and wrote an email:
Dear Mama, I'm not saying that you "did" take the sugar bowl from my house; I'm not saying that you "did not" take it. But the fact remains that it has been missing ever since you were here for dinner. Love, Anthony
Several days later, Anthony received a response email from his Mama which read:
Dear son, I'm not saying that you "do" sleep with Tina, and I'm not saying that you "do not" sleep with her. But the fact remains that if she was sleeping in her OWN bed, she would have found the sugar bowl by now. Love, Mama. ------
Moral: Never lie to your Mama
Why do so many people believe sports, entertainment or a political job is the way UP?
I am struck by how big heroism is among those who live in the poor communities in our nation. The heroes are wrong however.
They are heroes of Sports, Heroes of Entertainment, Heroes of politics.
Those heroes are OK if you get to be a big time rap star, ball player or President of the USA. The truth is you won't ever get there without exceptional luck, opportunity and skill. Chasing that dream of the unachievable imposed on the culture is soft classism.
The reality is, those heroes exist because they show a way out, a way up. Why basketball, football, baseball or a job is the only way out is because the REAL WAY OUT is not taught in schools. It is not given a place of prominence. In fact if you watch television programs, those in business are often portrayed as evil or conniving. The truth is opposite of that. When I grew up, businessmen were my heroes. Melroe (I met Les), Shaffer (I met him), Carnegie, Ford, Edison and on and on. They were heroes because I read books about them that showed them in the light of accomplishment.
Therefore today I am a businessman. I became what I Fixed my Gaze upon.
Somehow we must have our children reading about the greatness of the businessmen and women who hire others, who provide opportunity, who are making a difference in creating the middle class.
I don't understand how in the world we got away from teaching business, entrepreneurship and the idea of unlimited opportunity in the classroom.
There were 33 people in my small school graduation class. We all came out with aspirations to do something great. Many did. Making a difference.
Today, many leave school with no dream because they were not exposed to the reality of how to find it.
I asked a Friend of mine why in a mob of a hundred thousand agribusinessmen there were zero members of the community of which he is a part. He said that it was never taught that there was any opportunity in agriculture. I saw every nationality, every language, but only one african american person. There is something wrong when people think entertainment, sports or a political job are the only ways up.
IF you want to have your young person, your child, your friend break out of the pit of poverty, start buying them positive books on the lives of successful businessmen. We need to know their stories.
They are heroes of Sports, Heroes of Entertainment, Heroes of politics.
Those heroes are OK if you get to be a big time rap star, ball player or President of the USA. The truth is you won't ever get there without exceptional luck, opportunity and skill. Chasing that dream of the unachievable imposed on the culture is soft classism.
The reality is, those heroes exist because they show a way out, a way up. Why basketball, football, baseball or a job is the only way out is because the REAL WAY OUT is not taught in schools. It is not given a place of prominence. In fact if you watch television programs, those in business are often portrayed as evil or conniving. The truth is opposite of that. When I grew up, businessmen were my heroes. Melroe (I met Les), Shaffer (I met him), Carnegie, Ford, Edison and on and on. They were heroes because I read books about them that showed them in the light of accomplishment.
Therefore today I am a businessman. I became what I Fixed my Gaze upon.
Somehow we must have our children reading about the greatness of the businessmen and women who hire others, who provide opportunity, who are making a difference in creating the middle class.
I don't understand how in the world we got away from teaching business, entrepreneurship and the idea of unlimited opportunity in the classroom.
There were 33 people in my small school graduation class. We all came out with aspirations to do something great. Many did. Making a difference.
Today, many leave school with no dream because they were not exposed to the reality of how to find it.
I asked a Friend of mine why in a mob of a hundred thousand agribusinessmen there were zero members of the community of which he is a part. He said that it was never taught that there was any opportunity in agriculture. I saw every nationality, every language, but only one african american person. There is something wrong when people think entertainment, sports or a political job are the only ways up.
IF you want to have your young person, your child, your friend break out of the pit of poverty, start buying them positive books on the lives of successful businessmen. We need to know their stories.
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