9 arrested as NY raids rescue more than 3,000 birds from cockfighting, AG says Associated Press. Bob: “Schneiderman brings in 3,000 cocks. Not a single one from Wall Street”
Fredericton man builds $300 solar furnace, decreases heating bill CBC (Francois T)
UGA discovery uses ‘fracture putty’ to repair broken bone in days UGA Today (Chuck L)
Lottie Dexter should quit – and take the Year of Code board with her Adrain Short. Richard Smith: “The Paxman interview is gorgeous, particularly the contentedly Luddite Paxman taking down the idiot PR person undermining her own message about the essentialness of programming. All this stuff about “skills shortage” is bunk as usual. We preferred to
ship the skills to India rather than increase salaries so that local “programmers” could afford to buy a house here.”
What Is Happening To Alaska? Is Fukushima Responsible For The Mass Animal Deaths? Truth (Deontos) Note this site does have a section on UFOs(!) but this piece is almost entirely compilation of media reports.
Wind and Gas Forcing Out Nuclear in Midwest OilPrice
Why Australia’s economic debate doesn’t rate Steve Keen, Business Spectator. This is funny as well as acute.
US blames China for rising tensions in South China Sea Financial Times
SE Asia Legitimacy in Crisis Asia Sentinel
Eurozone banks face £42bn ‘capital black hole’ Telegraph (Swedish Lex)
The Troika and the New York Times Bury the Issues, not just the Lead Bill Black, New Economic Perspectives
Peter Bofinger’s Euro-bundles are a Step Backwards – to the EFSF’s toxic bonds. But they do point to a real solution Yanis Varoufakis
Spain Exports Its Construction Model, With Predictably Dire Consequences Don Quijones, Testosterone Pit
RBS Twitter Foot-In-Mouth (Richard Smith)
Hope of new Homs truce as talks held BBC
Big Brother is Watching You Watch
The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program Jeremy Scahill, Glenn Greenwald, First Look. Very detailed and impressive reporting, but I don’t see the “so what” as a stunner. The supposedly surgical drone strikes were known to be very inaccurate (as in way too many civilian deaths). The NSA is supposed to be using intel to get terrorists, so the use of their data for this purpose shouldn’t be a surprise (if you accept the legality of assassinating US-declared terrorists on foreign soil, which I don’t but TPTB do, the NSA’s involvement is to be expected). They were also clearly managed from afar (as in not based on much if any human intel). So the big revelation is in showing that the targets have already figured out that Administration is using geo-location. That and raising visibility (as in more people may start taking interest in the drone murders, um, strikes).
Moreover, the site was down at 4:30 AM (“An internal server error occurred. Please try again later.”) So the traffic crashed it. So much for all of Omidyar’s tech connections.
The Internet is Broken – Act Accordingly ThreatPost
Of gunsmiths and strategic analysis. Sic Semper Tyrannis (Chuck L)
Selling Your Secrets, The Invisible World of Software Backdoors and Bounty Hunters Pratap Chatterjee, TomDistpach. From last week, still germane.
Obamacare Launch
HealthCare.gov firm has had a series of stumbles Washington Post
Corporate backing is helping Obamacare go mainstream Los Angeles Times
GOP grows confident of Senate takeover Politico
The Dust Bowl Returns New York Times
Farmers face bankruptcy as California drought persists Washington Post
If You Thought You Couldn’t Go To Jail For Debt Anymore, You’re Wrong Business Insider (Francois T)
Chinese Official Made Job Plea to JPMorgan Chase Chief New York Times. As if we needed it, but more evidence that Dimon belongs in jail.
US biotech IPO fever stokes bubble fears Financial Times. As a deal attorney observed, “What’s the difference between high tech and biotech? How long it takes you to learn you’ve lost all your money.”
My Baby and AOL’s Bottom Line Slate
Fight Over Minimum Wage Illustrates Web of Industry Ties New York Times. The Grey Lady racks up some rare good karma points, outing a think tank that has been attacking minimum wage increases as being run by a PR firm that is in bed with the restaurant industry.
The Fed’s waning magic in Yellen’s era Ed Luce, Financial Times
Anatomy of an economic debacle: How the Fed proposed bailing out Mexico to pass NAFTA Matt Stoller, Salon
What is the Monetarist Position on Fiscal Deficits and is it Similar to Krugman’s? Philip Pilkington
The economics of ‘Downton Abbey’ Washington Post
Finally, a query: a buddy who is downwardly mobile but still has some scratch left asked about programs that would give you an EU passport if you bought a house in Portugal. I said I didn’t know about that but I thought there was one in Spain if the investment was €220,000 or something like that.
Please let me know:
1. If I am hallucinating
2. If not, if the Spanish and/or Portuguese programs are still operative and a link to details
Thanks!
Antidote du jour (Tim F from HPJ):
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Dunno about Portugal and Spain, but Malta has such a deal.
I can’t find a direct source, but I did find this:
It’s the same elitism everywhere – the elites have to take care of the elites from elsewhere.
It couldn’t be that the 99% get a chance to move to another less-polluted or less dangerous country?
On the other hand, if the government here can’t help you get a job, at least they can be decent enough to help you land a job in another country.
‘The Department of Emigration is here to help you land a job in Mexico, Greece or Saudi Arabia.”
If you have an Irish Grandparent, you can get Irish citizenship through the Foreign Birth Registration program. You have to get all the papers proving the link back to Ireland.
I did the above and it cost about 600 Euros. I now have an Irish passport and am free to travel and live anywhere in the EU. There are also other benefits.
A nice addition to any Get Outa Dodge Package. (Shaky Nuke Plant near here for one reason.)
Does my great-uncle’s wife count? That would be sweet.
Perhaps this link can be of use to your friend: http://www.marktier.com/2ndpassport/chapter.php?page=06-02
that link doesn’t take one directly to the chapter on Portugal -click on the chapter 6 button on the left of the page
also that info was published back in 1990, this is current:
http://www.internationalresidency.com/residency/portugal it doesn’t look as if much has changed
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/shortcuts/2013/dec/10/want-to-buy-citizenship-super-rich-malta-passports
There is program in Portugal for a residency permit if you buy property worth €500,000
http://goldenresidencepermit.com/
Spain has a similar program.
In Ireland you can get residency for investing €75,000 in start-up capital.
In Malta you can buy citizenship for €600,000.
Some European countries have Jus Sanguinis laws that will give citizenship to people who can prove their are ethnic descendants from a particular country.
Or you can just marry an EU citizen…
Italy and Ireland (at least) have this. You need to prove one grandparent was a native-born citizen and can obtain a passport.
UK too
Residency and citizenship (including passport) are two different things. With residency, a foreigner (still holding her home-country passport) doesn’t need to leave and re-enter her new country every 180 days to renew a tourist visa. If you’re buying overseas property to live in, you need a residency permit to guarantee that you can stay there.
Citizenship and a second passport are a higher, and usually more costly, hurdle. Passports from rich OECD countries are more useful, because they offer visa-free access to much of the world. Whereas with a passport from a poor country, getting into the U.S. is a major hassle of fees, interviews at the embassy, proof of employment and property ownership, etc. … and the possibility of STILL getting rejected.
An EU passport is desirable for the right it confers to work in any EU country, whereas NAFTA never provided for any labor mobility (or even automatic residency) among the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
If you have money, you can buy a lot of things, it seems.
Perhaps we shouldn’t blame them, but allow those without money to have that freedom as well.
And for those with money, for giving at least 50% of their net worth to buy tropical forest trees for donation, they can be citizens of the world.
IIRC, there’s nothing like your buddy wants in Spain and Portugal, but maybe he’s confusing it with Cyprus (althought that’s an order of magnitude more expensive in terms of investment requires http://www.workpermit.com/news/2013-12-20/cyprus-immigration-lowers-cost-of-fast-track-citizenship), or Malta (still about 3 times muchhttp://www.forbes.com/sites/carlapassino/2013/11/14/malta-launches-controversial-citizenship-by-investment-scheme/ )
What Is Happening To Alaska? Is Fukushima Responsible For The Mass Animal Deaths? – Michael Snyder
Michael T. Snyder is a fundamentalist Christian crank who has started numerous blogs as a testament to his raging insane belief that the world is about to end. He started with The Economic Collapse Blog in 2007, with constant articles stating how the world is going to hell every single day since the meltdown started in 2007. It seems as though Snyder blames the government for every ill in the world, because without it everything would be great.
Like most doom-sayers, it doesn’t seem to faze Snyder one bit that every one of his past predictions of economic collapse were dead wrong. This horrendous track record would cause most people to reevaluate their beliefs in the effort to one day be right. Yet, he simply refuses to even address or acknowledge that he has been wrong thousands of times, especially if you count each numbered item of his massive lists. He seems to have explosive diarrhea of the mind that no amount of logic can slow or stop.
Contents
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1 Who is this nut?
2 The Economic Collapse blog and clones
3 Why is the economy going to collapse?
4 Christian blog
5 See also
6 Footnotes
[edit] Who is this nut?
Michael T. Snyder states on his contact page that he is an undergraduate in Commerce from the University of Virginia, and possesses a law degree with an LLM (legal emphasis, not stated) from the University of Florida law school. He has supposedly worked in “numerous Washington DC lawfirms”, but quit to live outside of Seattle and rage at the world through the internet. Or as Snyder puts it “now I mostly focus on trying to make a difference in the world.”
He also states very clearly “I am a Christian, but I believe that most of the churches in America have gotten way off track.” Snyder has recently posted a statement of faith[1] in which he states that he believes that the Bible is literally true and that Jesus is coming down in person soon to start the end times to punish all the non-believers.[2] After which Jesus will start his thousand year reign over Earth.
Otherwise Snyder is very tight lipped about himself, which makes it hard to find out what drove him mad.
[edit] The Economic Collapse blog and clones
The Economic Collapse Blog plays to the heart strings of every survivalist, tax protester, extreme libertarian, and rapture ready nut that can access the internet. The unfortunate part is many cranks post the articles far and wide to the groans of many people who have pointed out that time itself has proven all of the blogs posts over a year old (the longest time frame in Snyder’s prediction range) dead wrong. Driving people insane with these unrelenting articles about global failure is very encouraged by the author as well…”please do not hesitate to spread these articles wherever you would like. I want as many people as possible to read them. Hopefully the things I write are helping a few more people to wake up.”
The only ones to survive are the ones believing in the mantra of 3 G’s (Gold, Guns, and God). If you don’t have enough of the products to survive the shit hitting the fan, you can always click any of the links at the top of the main page to buy it!
Recently it seems apparent that Snyder has begun to realize his original blog has started to gain a long history of mocking reviews and refutations. He has created 2 clones of The Economic Collapse Blog called End of the American Dream and The Most Important News. These pages post the exact same pages and articles as The Economic Collapse Blog, just with different names and color schemes.
The contact pages[3] have started to include Snyder’s StumpleUpon account with a user name called Matthew517,[4] which strangely posts his resident state as Virgina. The StumpleUpon account posts the exact same articles as The Economic Collapse Blog series of websites.
The interests area of this account is very amusing in that it links in very large and bold letters subjects like aliens, alternative news, banking, Christian, Conservative Politics (Snyder has stated numerous times that he is “non-partisan”), end times, Survivalism, and Swine Flu.
Christian blog
Snyder has created a new blog recently where he attempts to interpret the Bible called What The Bible Says About…
Considering his older signs of insanity claims to fame, this blog doesn’t disappoint. It is filled with the same writing style and format, along with headers leading people to buy books by other fundamentalist cranks. Great topics include:
Christians can drink, but if they feel any effects of alcohol it’s a sin.[11]
We are all lawbreakers of God’s will. Including loving anything more than God at any time, done anything on the sabbath, not honored your mother/father completely, ever hated or anger towards anything/anyone, or lusted after a women (even thinking, including your own wife).[12]
He equates anyone who hasn’t accepted the word of God like he has equivalent to rapists, murderers and child molesters.[13]
Snyder states divorce is only acceptable if there is adultery or if one’s spouse is not Christian. This does not include abuse. He states it is “because God knows best”.[14]
Snyder is against homosexuality, and all sex outside of marriage. He does state first and foremost one thing that stands him out from the pack of fundamentalists, in that people should still love gays like every other one of Gods creations.[15] So, y’know, at least there’s that.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Michael_T._Snyder
skippy… you have to say tho – that dog do hunt.
Ad hominem fallacy! This article is not an essay but a compilations from news. This is series of extracts from linked material and all the sources are recognized outlets. And his few comments he added aren’t out of line. My caveat was meant to indicate I was endorsing the article only, not the site.
Breibart occasionally has a sane piece too and I’ve linked to them as a result.
Sorry, but the article is a lazy compilation of the scare-mongeringest pseudoscience pieces. Here’s some science:
http://deepseanews.com/2013/11/true-facts-about-ocean-radiation-and-the-fukushima-disaster/
And here’s some more:
http://deepseanews.com/2013/12/three-reasons-why-fukushima-radiation-has-nothing-to-do-with-starfish-wasting-syndrome/
Thank you for the information. I keep hearing all of these scare stories and can’t punch holes in them fast enough. Going through and explaining the “maps” was a good start.
It’s an ocean. As a matter of fact, the LARGEST OCEAN in the world.
I’ve been trying to figure out what sort of effect dumping every bit of “nuclear” material from Fuk would have on the Pacific. I would guess minimal, except in the immediate area. That would be one side of the “frame”.
But…Nuclear!!!
It’s interesting that you attack the messenger and offer no explanation for the massive die-offs of Pacific marine life, the spike both in cancer among commercial flight crews, and thyroid problems among the young who live along the Pacific rim, the Radcon 5 alerts in many US cities, and the anecdotal evidence of geiger counter readings on the West Coast that are over 100 times acceptable limits. Are you a nuke lobby troll or a government disinformation specialist?
Dear AndyB;
Skippy is a well known Rationalist and Debunker. I believe that he was scared as a child by Monty Pythons’ “Spanish Inquisition” skit. The rest is history.
Snort ambrit… alas Python had noting to do with it, tho their mental hijinks was a good spring board for someone so young trapped in a strange reality. No, the kicker was always hypocrisy and hard data.
skippy… hope you and the lassie are well, party is just getting started over here.
What has he debunked; I’m still snuggly in my bunk despite Skippy trying to turn it upside down?
A new paper by Israeli archeologists Lidar Sapir-Hen and Erez Ben-Yosef, [pdf] posted at the University of Tel Aviv web site , is bad news for biblical literalists and far right wing Israeli nationalists who use the Bible for support.
The Hebrew Bible’s oldest chapters– Genesis, Exodus, and even Judges purport to discuss events thousands of years ago. The custom in Western biblical scholarship is to date Abraham to e.g. 2000 B.C. This dating is based on nothing more than counting generations (“begats”) backward and assigning an arbitrary number of years to each generation. In fact, Genesis is replete with myths and assertions of people living hundreds of years, and was only historicized in this way by 19th century positivists.
But here is proof that the Bible was written late and projects later developments into the distant past: it alleges that people had domesticated camels four millennia ago in what is now Israel. And that assertion, folks, is simply not true. That is the finding of Sapir-Hen and Ben-Yosef.
E.g. Genesis 24: 64 says, “Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac she dismounted from the camel.” If this encounter happened circa 2026 BC, it was happening a thousand years before anyone was riding camels.
The archeologists’ digs near the Jordanian border find evidence of domesticated camels sort of 930-900 BC. But they don’t find that evidence in any settlements older than 930 BC. There is a pretty clear dividing line between the pre-domestic camel and post- domestic camel settlements.
Although it was likely based on previous oral tales, the Bible probably wasn’t written down in something like its present form until the Babylonian exile, 586-539 B.C. When those scribes reworked the folk tales of the Canaanites, they projected sixth-century BC realities back into the past. Thus, they had characters riding camels before they were domesticated. Riding a camel was taken for granted in 580 BC.
You might think this point is a minor one. But it demonstrates how the scribes worked. They projected recent things into the distant past.
The archeological evidence shows that not only weren’t people riding camels in the Levant when the Bible says they were, David and Solomon didn’t have a huge palace in Jerusalem in the 1000s and 900s BC. The Assyrians, the gossips of the ancient world, wrote down everything on their clay tablets. They knew events in the whole Middle East. They did not know anything about a glorious kingdom of David and Solomon at Jerusalem. Indeed, in the 1000s when David is alleged to have lived, Jerusalem seems to have been largely uninhabited, according to the digs that have been done. Jerusalem was not in any case founded by Jews, but by Canaanites in honor of the god Shalem, thousands of years ago. There is no reason to think anyone but Canaanites lived in the area of Jerusalem in the 1000s or 900s BC. Likely some Canaanites became devoted to Y*H*W*H in a monotheistic way during the Babylonian exile when they began inventing Judaism and becoming “Jews” and projecting it back into the distant past.
In short, those far right wing Israelis who use the bible stories as a basis for kicking Palestinians out of their homes in East Jerusalem are making many mistakes, including historical ones, as well as human rights mistakes.
skippy… how can a mob get it so wrong and still stand there and say half they stuff they do… I think there is a term for that.
The camels is one thing, a proper valuable study, but no serious western scholars argue in favour of the historicity of Rebbeca or Abraham and Sarah, any more than they would Noah.
Juan Cole is getting himself into a debate about the existence of a shortlived davidic dynasty in Jerusalem in around 1000bc which is a total minefield for obvious reasons. I suspect he would be completely out of his depth if he discussed it with someone who knew what they were talking about.
To cut a long story short, the “minimalist’, Copenhagen school position on the Kingdom of Judea is in retreat, having been the default position (certainly from a European perspective) in the eighties and most of the nineties. Archeology led to the change, firstly the finding of a inscription from Dan in northern Israel which seems to mention a “house of david”, and an accumulation of findings from sites which show definite stratefications in the record. These tend to be sites occupied for thousands of years and show a series of stark cultural changes that represent different groups in occupation. Some of them can be identified with settlements named in the bible. On some of these you go from lots of pig bones and “pagan” cultic artifacts, to no pig bones and no cultic artifacts, back to lots of pig bones and statuettes of female deities.
The argument that the period in the middle period shows occupation by judeans or proto jews or whatever you want to call them is a fairly decent one.
From my own perspective, I reckon if we were talking about the existence of an obscure dynasty from modern day turkey or Syria, which had become sexed-up a couple of centuries later and had extravagant legendary details added to it, the evidence would probably be considered strong enough to say they existed, and had a peculiar religious structure, but we can’t say anything much more than that.
Intensive archeology of the temple mount might answer some questions, but thats aint going to happen, and even then it might not. Herods temple was built on the site of where Soloms would have been, and that was a vast and complex building that likely erased anything that came befor, and the many re-builds down the centuries have permenently altered the landscape, levelling hills and filling in valleys.
The trouble is, this whole subject is a battlefield where the chief spokesmen on both sides of the debate are ideological zealots, and as a result few professional historians and archeologists are willing to weigh in for fear of getting caught in the crossfire and losing credibility.
Camel Bones and Jerusalem: Archeology Shows Bible written Late, Full of Errors
By Juan Cole | Feb. 6, 2014 |
A new paper by Israeli archeologists Lidar Sapir-Hen and Erez Ben-Yosef, [pdf] posted at the University of Tel Aviv web site , is bad news for biblical literalists and far right wing Israeli nationalists who use the Bible for support.
The Hebrew Bible’s oldest chapters– Genesis, Exodus, and even Judges purport to discuss events thousands of years ago. The custom in Western biblical scholarship is to date Abraham to e.g. 2000 B.C. This dating is based on nothing more than counting generations (“begats”) backward and assigning an arbitrary number of years to each generation. In fact, Genesis is replete with myths and assertions of people living hundreds of years, and was only historicized in this way by 19th century positivists.
But here is proof that the Bible was written late and projects later developments into the distant past: it alleges that people had domesticated camels four millennia ago in what is now Israel. And that assertion, folks, is simply not true. That is the finding of Sapir-Hen and Ben-Yosef.
E.g. Genesis 24: 64 says, “Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac she dismounted from the camel.” If this encounter happened circa 2026 BC, it was happening a thousand years before anyone was riding camels.
The archeologists’ digs near the Jordanian border find evidence of domesticated camels sort of 930-900 BC. But they don’t find that evidence in any settlements older than 930 BC. There is a pretty clear dividing line between the pre-domestic camel and post- domestic camel settlements.
Although it was likely based on previous oral tales, the Bible probably wasn’t written down in something like its present form until the Babylonian exile, 586-539 B.C. When those scribes reworked the folk tales of the Canaanites, they projected sixth-century BC realities back into the past. Thus, they had characters riding camels before they were domesticated. Riding a camel was taken for granted in 580 BC.
You might think this point is a minor one. But it demonstrates how the scribes worked. They projected recent things into the distant past.
skippy… do you own your self beardo?
I hope I don’t own myself since I don’t know how to survive the death of my body.
Camels? Yawn. Jesus the sinless, prophecy fulfilling Miracle Worker who was raised from the dead vouched for the Old Testament and that’s good enough for me.
And isn’t it a bit odd that Jews who believed in Moses and the Ten Commandments, including “Thou shall not bear false witness” would create forgeries?
But what do you have against “Thou shall not steal” that you defend government-backed credit creation by attacking me? Are you sure who you’re serving?
If that was good enough, there was no need to reference astrophysicist Hugh Ross at all.
I want to say redundancy but since the latter is inferior, it’s more likely a distraction.
It was good enough to make me keep seeking and I did.
But the same Sun that melts better hardens clay.
Make that butter, not better.
Is this the last time we will hear of Hugh Ross?
It is so because it says so in the book. That’s good enough for any believer.
Scair’t?
You’ll get no promises from me.
The same words that lead the Religious Right astray light the way home for you.
Probably a major fertile area for weed pulling over there. Eureka!.
Comprehension problem?
“The archeological evidence shows that not only weren’t people riding camels in the Levant when the Bible says they were, David and Solomon didn’t have a huge palace in Jerusalem in the 1000s and 900s BC. The Assyrians, the gossips of the ancient world, wrote down everything on their clay tablets. They knew events in the whole Middle East. They did not know anything about a glorious kingdom of David and Solomon at Jerusalem. Indeed, in the 1000s when David is alleged to have lived, Jerusalem seems to have been largely uninhabited, according to the digs that have been done. Jerusalem was not in any case founded by Jews, but by Canaanites in honor of the god Shalem, thousands of years ago. There is no reason to think anyone but Canaanites lived in the area of Jerusalem in the 1000s or 900s BC. Likely some Canaanites became devoted to Y*H*W*H in a monotheistic way during the Babylonian exile when they began inventing Judaism and becoming “Jews” and projecting it back into the distant past.
In short, those far right wing Israelis who use the bible stories as a basis for kicking Palestinians out of their homes in East Jerusalem are making many mistakes, including historical ones, as well as human rights mistakes.” – snip
Skip here… The particulars of camels is not the point, its the accuracy of the foundation its built on. Particularly the the state, it was never as such but, small individual city’s, this leads to a whole array of inaccuracy’s which compound over time and space.
Must be nice to codify the “nature of humanity” from whole cloth and with out a lick of factual bias. Then you have the libertarians trying to de-deityfiey it so they can become personal creators in their own right… cough job creators… mini monarchs.
Skippy… The really sad bit is – the justification of so much death in the particular region this “piece of art” has enabled. People slaughtering each other for what… fables from antiquity ignorance.
trollee time
so skimpy
radiation will have no effect…yup
maybe instead of confusing your compilations with babylon 1 instead of babylon 2 (600 ad) you might sit on the notion that
iero salima is a greek word…iero being sanctuary…
and if one were to hand back all the lands that once belonged to someone else, most would have no where to live…
but back to radiation…as in radiation dust…one of the reasons JFK was hell bent on getting his above ground nuclear test ban treaty in place in 1963 was due to all the radiation dust floating around the earth…
look up low alpha lead…pre 1945 lead…why pre 1945…a funny thing happened on the way to the truman presidency in japan…and it is the gift that keeps on giving…so, there is no reason to worry about some little itsy bitsy thing like the toilet flushing of all that nuclear waste into the pacific…it will just disappear…like you probably imagine nuclear fall out disappears…but it don’t….
Huh[?] you too. Please point out where I said or made any statements to the topic of radiation. It was purely to point out the well know character of that links author and his dubious activity’s. Yves did point out she was aware of some issues, but denoted it and informed of the links assertions, caveat all over it.
Skippy…. reading comprehension fail, knee meets olfactory imo.
Genesis 12:15-17
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Pharaoh’s officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. Therefore he treated Abram well for her sake; and gave him sheep and oxen and donkeys and male and female servants and female donkeys and camels*.
But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
So now prove that camels were not used by the Egyptian Pharaohs around 2000 BC?
Your eagerness to disprove the Bible has tripped you up? Will the Lord approve of such eagerness, do ya think? I warn you that Scripture is full of snares to trap the unworthy.
*Note that female donkeys are not mentioned Because the Egyptians did not want camels bred outside Egypt?
Make that female camels
Pacific marine life? No. http://deepseanews.com/2013/12/three-reasons-why-fukushima-radiation-has-nothing-to-do-with-starfish-wasting-syndrome/
Commercial flight crew cancer? Commercial aircrew can expect about double the lifetime exposure to radiation of those at sea level. Got a link for Fukushima specific study?
Thyroid problems: Yes: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperDownload.aspx?FileName=OJPed_2013030716594887.pdf&paperID=28599
Iodine 131 fortunately is very short lived. Govt should have banned milk consumption in Western US for a week after incident. See also: http://www.npl.washington.edu/monitoring/
Radcon 5: link?
The plural of anecdotal is not data.
Also, check out this graphic: http://xkcd.com/radiation/
It’s guys like him that pushed me big into GLD right before it crashed.
They will eventually be right and so will I.
The world may end first — but that’s the price you have to pay for intellectual integrity!
Oh my… the comment was not meant to attack the linked articles, but, to send a clear warning of both the authors intent in utilizing the linked materiel and to his unique view on reality. Had I intend to dispute the linked material I would have done so clearly.
skippy… in other news Pat Robertson has publicly called out Mr. Ham for being a wing nut… that’s right the guy that called the big one and equated natural events to punishment… whats that thingy about the weird going pro again?
The only ones to survive are the ones believing in the mantra of 3 G’s (Gold, Guns, and God). skippy
Gold is a stupid money form. A gold standard is fascist thievery. As for guns, I just have one gun myself so I can off myself if necessary before ever being locked up again.
And I’ve never heard of the guy. Still, if I get weary here it’s nice to know there’s weeds to pull there.
But who will survive? Not gold hoarders per se:
They will fling their silver into the streets and their gold will become an abhorrent thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their appetite nor can they fill their stomachs, for their iniquity has become an occasion of stumbling. Ezekiel 7:19
The Bible has little to say about homosexuality in the Old Testament and much more to say about social justice. As for the New Testament, I’d bet even Progressives would be disgusted by Greek and Roman behavior in that regard. But in any case, Christians are called to a very high standard indeed when it comes to sex – much higher than the Hebrews were.
The only ones to survive are the ones believing in the mantra of 3 G’s (Gold, Guns, and God). skippy – Huh?
http://www.juancole.com/2014/02/jerusalem-archeology-written.html
skippy… to get something so wrong, for so long, yet in light of actual facts claim factual superiority is indicative of a delusional state… enjoy your meds.
Dem shovels ain’t done digging and dem atheists ain’t done biting the dust therefrom.
Enjoy your finite life and shouldn’t you be spending it having more fun since tomorrow you die?
Who implied its finite [projection], yet who said life was about fun? The shovels have already shown many massive fallacy’s, completely contrary to the historical perspective portrayed and by a wide spectrum of fields of inquire. So on one hand you have a mob that asserts validity by bound only and on the other hand you have abounding physical evidence from many extraneous sources [cuts down on institutional bias].
skippy… child like comes to mind, are you sacred of dying, its only natural mate.Maybe we should consider those to come before our selves, that a theft you can’t undo imo.
The righteous who lived before us still live or at least shall live again.
And the shovels AREN’T finished so your eagerness to disbelieve is based on incomplete information. And since the Muslims are blocking at least some digging your state of disbelief may be untreatable via archaeology.
But hey, if the case for God was undeniable then even Stalin would have feigned obedience, no?
Tautologous hearsay is not a good indicator of events. but, more of conditioning and the emotive state of those that require such constructs, to imbue superiority over others.
skippy… construct a social system that makes humans insecure from day one, next offer salvation by remote agency. Welcome to Whoop Whoop.
With a hat tip to FromMexico–
Wallace Stevens on the death of the gods:
“To see the gods dispelled in mid-air and dissolve like clouds is one of the great human experiences. It is not as if they had gone over the horizon to disappear for a time; nor as if they had been overcome by other gods of greater power and profounder knowledge. It is simply that they came to nothing. Since we have always shared all things with them and have always had a part of their strength and, certainly, all of their knowledge, we shared likewise this experience of annihilation. It was their annihilation, not ours, and yet it left us feeling that in a measure we, too, had been annihilated. It left us feeling dispossessed and alone in a solitude, like children without parents, in a home that seemed deserted, in which the amical rooms and halls had taken on a look of hardness and emptiness. What was most extraordinary is that they left no mementoes behind, no thrones, no mystic rings, no texts either of the soil or of the soul. It was as if they had never inhabited the earth. There was no crying out for their return. They were not forgotten because they had been a part of the glory of the earth. At the same time, no man ever muttered a petition in his heart for the restoration of those unreal shapes. There was always in every man the increasingly human self, which instead of remaining the observer, the non-participant, the delinquent, became constantly more and more all there was or so it seemed; and whether it was so or merely seemed so still left it for him to resolve life and the world in his own terms.”
“Two or Three Ideas” (lecture on Baudelaire’s “La Vie antérieure” given at Mt. Holyoke College, 28 April 1951).
As i pointed out up-thead, you don’t want to rely on Juan Cole for that sort of thing.
Cole is not the only source [as you infer many will not publicly publish in the commons], that and the data is from a wide swath of disciplines, across the entire regions varied social constructs, cross referenced.
skuppy… digging holes is only a part of the examination, personally the correlation of the three is the most telling, as it wafts throughout time and space, re-branded for ethnic purity and such.
Re solar heater. Indeed, not rocket science.
My friend has a garden greenhouse attached to his home. He merely opens the kitchen window into the greenhouse and slashes his heating needs.
I know people who slash their heating bills by wearing a sweater and a hat.
The math goes like this: min x:y,x –> f(y,x,z) = f'(y)/(x)*z'(y)/z > t-1/t = savings.
It’s no wonder few people get it.
A Neanderthal man would do it by finding a good (non-bear occupied) cave.
Your cost? Nada.
And the bears who can’t find a cave hunker into hibernation under several feet of snow. Cheaper yet, no eating.
I think it’s the fur. Where can I get me one of those?
Off’n a polar bear EXCEPT:
If you ever met a polar bear
and he hadn’t had his lunch,
the last sound to be heard from you
would be a hearty “Crunch!”
It’s known they’re cute and cuddly
but this unwelcome fact:
If you meet a hungry polar bear
you’ll end up polar scat.
Bear scat. How to tell the difference between black bear and grizzly bear scat.
http://www.anorak.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/grizzly-bear-warning.jpg
Such funny!
Thanks!
A 300 USD greenhouse?
Count me in on that deal!
I made my cold frames from 100% salvaged materials: windows, plywood, even fasteners.
I think I bought a tube of caulk.
What’s the number for your housing association?
Good fences make good neighbors
Unless made from salvaged materials? :)
Francois, CND$: Fredericton is in Canada.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/f718296e-8ec1-11e3-b6f1-00144feab7de.html?src=longreads#slide0
“He is a political conservative who rejects the theories of Charles Darwin and listens regularly to the rightwing radio commentator Rush Limbaugh. He is also a dedicated environmentalist – the author, under a pseudonym, of a series of online books called Sustainable Me – and a rascal. Cole loves God but he likes his martinis dirty – “very dirty … Lindsay Lohan dirty”
There was a 100 per cent chance you would get a loan,” Cole says, adding that when his colleagues called lenders to discuss financing terms, they were told: “You know what, we can get your frickin’ dog a loan if you have a Social Security number.”
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“Cole and his confederates found themselves facing the temptation of a lifetime. They could cheat people who knew less about their local property market than they did – out-of-town bankers who came to Bakersfield to buy mortgages to package into bonds, but left their brains back east, or wherever it was they came from. It was easy money for people who had known hard times, but it put Cole on the wrong side of the law. Banks that cheat people pay fines, but people who cheat banks do time – and in Cole’s case, he is now looking to do a lot of it.”
That last sentence is a classic….
Mr. Cole, a man who reads the bible over and over, and never understands a word of it…
“That might have given some financial executives pause, but Cole and Crisp weren’t the kind to argue with good fortune. Their attitude was perhaps best summed up by one of the Bible verses they discussed at sales meetings. “The Lord has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy,” goes Psalm 126:3. And so it went at Crisp & Cole: they counted their blessings.”
“This put local real estate people in a position to pull the wool over the eyes of Wall Street.”
HA, HA, HA – OUCH!!! I laughed so hard I hurt myself…..
I know, right? I read this piece yesterday and was a little flabbergasted to find such ridiculous nonsense in the Pink Paper.
Oh yes, those unscrupulous Bakersfield RE moguls, pulling the wool over Wall Street’s eyes. Gary Silverman, the article’s author, must be unaware that the Wall Street ‘marks’ buying all this bad paper knew exactly what they were doing…to the extent of making bets against the securities they were creating with the loans they bought from C&C et al.
This strange lack of comprehension of the actual dynamics involved is even more bizarre, since Silverman reports earlier in the article that the lenders were willing to give loans out to dogs…and said as much. How Silverman can write about that, and then only a couple of paragraphs later be talking about how C&C “pulled the wool over Wall Street’s eyes,” is beyond my comprehension. I wonder if all that cognitive dissonance gives him a headache…
…it gives me one but maybe his head is harder than mine.
Once again, the low level guys do the time, the kingpins walk (and in this case, actually get to play the victim).
I had no idea those kids on the street were selling meth. Had I known, I never would have cooked it by the ton….
Well, Dexedrine used to be easily obtained from doctors and benzedrine was OTC but Progressives discovered that people were enjoying life therewith and rushed to end such nonsense.
So blame meth on busy-body “doo-gooders”?
I enjoy much of your stuff, but your jihad against progressives seems misplaced.
It is not unlike blaming government for Wall Street.
The logic is the Progressives have been working over time, in self-employment, to permit he government to back the Wall Street cartel.
It’s not a jihad, just another exercise in logic and reasoning.
Which ones? Do they even call themselves progressives?
This strikes me like calling the DLC liberals, just because they call themselves Democrats.
Which ones?
I ask that myself.
What can one do when social identity has, like so many other commons, been enclosed and transformed into a San Fernando Valley shopping mall? Society has no consensus control over social identity anymore; money aside, you are whatever fraud you declare yourself. But that’s what identity politics is: a simulacrum of class consciousness for those content to be ruled. And that’s on-the-clock, MLTPB.
Next time I’m feeling like an MST3k night, I think it’s going to be Parts: The Clonus Horror. In it, scientists run a clone farm for spare parts for the super-elite, enforcing tranquility through lobotomies and a fabricated civil religion, based closely on the American land-of-hope immigration narrative.
Conceit does not make up for lack of performance. Just what have the Buddhists and Hindus done for the world other than try to ignore and justify suffering respectively?
I just hoped to state your case as closely as possible for Mike here, who can judge for himself by comparing my comment with yours at 4:52 PM.
I would think you would be happy.
He who laughs last …
It’s better to smile than to laugh.
I do blame government for Wall Street banks since they could not exist to any large extent without government deposit insurance, the Fed and Federal borrowing. And Wilson was a Progressive, no? And FDR?
And I blame Progressives for not having the guts and the imagination to finally put a stake through the heart of banking.
But mostly I blame Progressives for thinking they are holier than the God of the Bible and disdaining a Book that could thump the Hell out of the Religious Right if they’d use It.
So the logic here is that it’s mostly about the Progressives (which one) for failing to thump the Hell out of some religious people who spend too much time reading the Bible??
Actually, most Christians DO NOT read the Old Testament.
You’d know that if you weren’t so ignorant of it yourself.
Den, you should war on those who fail to ‘drink deep and taste the Pierian Spring.’
Leave those Progressives out and go straight to those fail at reading.
Its always easier to attack outsiders than clean up your own house… you have to live somewhere~~~
Skippy… psychology has a term for those that lay their problems at the feet of others – pathologically.
Why should I? My group is probably well represented within the top 1% and it wasn’t them who supported the establishment of the Fed and other favors for the banks. Instead, they took YOUR rules and out-competed you?
What a bunch of unsupported or qualified projection all dripping with your sniveling quip “My group is probably well represented within the top 1%” [Koch et al?].
“Instead, they took YOUR rules” – Berado
Massive projection beardo, I mean where do you get off just making stuff up and then trying to pin it on others – not your stripe.
Your devolving into a cultist beardo, US [your cult] against THEM [everyone else] stuff.
Skippy… I informed you years ago repetitively that I don’t do ologys or isms, function on a bases of belief[s, yet you’re constantly trying to label me one.That’s a cheap ploy, that and the excessive moralizing and party room image burnishing.
LOL “Bakersfield RE moguls”
I will have to remember that….and apply it to those dastardly Fresno RE moguls as well…cause Fresno scammers are known for their subtlety and sophistication…..
Not that I have any sympathy for this clown, Cole…but is sure if funny, at the end of the day, how the guys who ran the banks that lost trillions !OOPS! I meant, how WE LOST Trillions, but despite Wall streets’ ?stupidity? ?naivety? ????brilliance??? they are still rich and free…..
I have never heard of any program like you mention in either Spain or Portugal and would take Vlade’s word for it. But you could find out for sure asking the Embassy of Spain (202) 452-0100 or the Portuguese embassy. And I wonder why he might think that to be to the advantage to an American. If he wanted a work permit he could get one without that passport or investment.
Ref.Passport programme. There was talk last year of a Golden Passport project for the soveriegn island of Malta. The amount to be invested was € 650,000, and the investment is specific, plus fees and due diligence costs, cost of the passport itself, and extra costs for spouse and one’s children ( they are the offspring Americans call “kids”). No criminal record and possibly an interview required before acceptance.
I am sure there are websites which detail this scheme, both genuine and scams. You would do best to find the full and further facts of any Maltese Investor Immigration Program from the official medium of state representation, the Maltese consulate in your present country of residence.
Somewhat more expensive, Portugal has/had the “Golden Residence Permits for Investment Activity” requiring transfer of capital worth 1 million Euros or more (including investments in company stocks or shares ; or, the acquisition of real estate with a value of 500 thousand Euros or more; or
the creation of at least 10 jobs ( which would be within the country, no more details on duration or type)
Do your own due diligence, i have no credibility to promote official agencies hence no links.
U.S. Sailors Sick From Fukushima Radiation
Citing a wide range of ailments from leukemia to blindness to birth defects, 79 American veterans of 2011’s earthquake/tsunami relief Operation Tomadachi (“Friendship”) have filed a new $1 billion class action lawsuit against Tokyo Electric Power.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/02/10/u-s-sailors-sick-from-fukushima-radiation/
Great site for solar heating http://www.builditsolar.com/index.htm
thank you!
http://www.tos.org/oceanography/archive/27-1_buesseler.pdf is one of the few freely available academic reviews of Fukushima. To be honest, this and several other articles I skimmed via university access don’t say much. New Scientist has a lot in print that doesn’t say much either – http://www.newscientist.com/special/fukushima-crisis
The internet is stacked out with rubbish, but at least 95% of academic production makes little sense to the critical eye. It’s very difficult to find anything approaching the truth on all but a few scientific areas of knowledge. The post looks like hype to me, but what are we supposed to do to find out what is going on? Eristic argument like ad hominem can be allowable in what we can informal logic. In the case of the post on Fukushima it might be an important filter, as we have so little proper detail to work with to make more acceptable argument. Linking, say, bleeding herring gills to radioactive waste, any full enquiry would include the dissection of a sample of bleeding herrings.
Composites of media reports aren’t science, but scientists have to be attracted to a problem by some kind of information in the first place. I wouldn’t start an enquiry in evolutionary biology from a composite of creationist claims (using my ad hom filter), but in this case I have no information the composite is wrong and can only wonder why we have so little reliable detail.
This is by no means conclusive, but I would monitor the migration pattern of rich people in Hawaii and the West Coast.
Fundamental science there Prime. In speculative mode, I’m expecting to see a flocking to Argentina. The economy there has been softened up and it looks a better bet on global warming charts as the USA turns dust-bowl.
‘re Aol and babies:
What a courageous couple for calling out that ghoul who runs the company. Hope the father employed at aol doesn’t lose his job….
the article makes very powerful yet totally obvious points. Can’t believe we have to point this stuff out.
I wondered at the time how these people would feel being so publicly singled out.
But Armstrong looks like such a pantie-waist, I doubt he’d have the balls to fire either one of them now.
Small consolation.
I live on the West Coast – I can see Puget Sound from my house, I walk my dogs on the beach, I catch crab and eat fish. I’m a chemist and a data professional. I’m on the board of our community water system where we do radiation monitoring on our drinking water. This is the best I’ve read so far on West Coast radiation:
http://deepseanews.com/2013/11/true-facts-about-ocean-radiation-and-the-fukushima-disaster/
I’m a lot more concerned about ocean acidification, seawater intrusion in our aquifer, and nitrate contamination from septic systems and fertilizer.
Thanks for the link. I maintain a couple monitors for airborne radiation in California visible on the map at http://www.blackcatsystems.com/RadMap/map.html and have yet to see any change in radiation levels. I also have a couple of survey meters and periodically check food and water samples (and my sandy shoes after coming back from the beach.) Nothing yet, but I’ll be one of the first to raise a ruckus if there’s a significant increase in background levels.
If I recall, the Government will grant an investment visa to those who invests a minimum of €500,000 in Spanish assets. This visa is renewable every couple of years indefinitely [pure hogwash if you ask me] as long as he/she can meet the same conditions of solvency (income, savings, etc.).
This visa will only grant to the particular a permanent residency after 5 years if he/she stays a minimum of 6 months every year and is not away from Spain for longer than 10 months during the valid period of the visa.
Repair broken bone in days.
Now, there is no excuse not to show up for work the next day nor to skip (nor was there one before, mind you) that mortgage payment.
It’s Gamera! Love today’s antidote!
Antidote: is that a young Michaelangelo? [dating myself as a young’un, no doubt]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=moignmp4P5k
Fish in boat, people out….
Re: gunsmiths and strategic analysis.
What Col. Lang might have written is that, as with the mandarins of yore, the process is the product. I can’t help but think of le Carré’s Smiley, who ran British Intelligence out of his hat. A nice comment section, as always with the SST crowd.
Eurozone’s ‘capital black hole.’
With the latest development, it’s quite possible that capital can escape a black hole…perhaps we might start seeing money we thought we would never see again reappear somewhere.
Yes, in Mafia and Triad bank accounts.
Oh, I forgot to link this some days ago: Monetary Reform article in the Guardian!
http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2014/feb/06/change-uk-money-system-solve-long-term-economic-problems
This from the Positive Money crowd in the UK, who have recently gotten backing from the Green Party there.
Maybe time for MMT’ers to have another go at getting monetary reform articles in the Guardian?
The Dust Bowl returns.
This time, Californians will be moving to the Pacific Northwest.
Good. Maybe they’ll stop Californicating Colorado for a while.
And the Mono Lake as well.
Just Mono Lake.
Tried to access Scahill and Greenwald via your site, Huffington, and Google. Each time got:
Error 503 Service Unavailable
Service Unavailable
Guru Meditation:
XID: 2016628535
Varnish cache server
Are we to chuckle at the little critter getting a scrubbing? It looks to me that he’s coated with oil/tar. Not pleasant.
file under “silver linings”. The tarring sucked, no doubt, but s/he lived through it and got a toothbrush massage out of the deal (I’m reaching, I know).
GOP’s senate takeover.
Like the article says, they felt the same way in 2010 and 2012….
Ref: . the RBS Twitter Foot-In-Mouth (Richard Smith) link.
The predominent respondent on the Twitter thread, Bully Banks have their own website with membership and information to help Small and Medium Sized Businesses (SMEs ?) which have been miss-sold Interest Rate Swap Agreements (IRSAs) by the British high street banks.
http://www.bully-banks.co.uk/site/helpline-updates/957-helpline-update-january-2014
Living on bitcoin:
http://bytegeist.firedoglake.com/2014/02/07/on-obtaining-bitcoin/
Finally a real nuts and bolts account of bitcoin (we get a lot of intellectual windbaggery but are often missing the nuts and bolts).
Of course bitcoin is not ideal for some in terms of the economics it encapsilates (for me in terms of the morality of the economic system it does!) but it’s not the only possible means of implementing cryptocurrency! Whether other better alternatives fail well it depends on two things 1) path dependency. Why do people use facebook where more private better alternatives exist? path dependency 2) how completely the Feds are able to kill or corrupt cryptocurrencies.
You remind me that government should stick to unevadable taxes so that people will have to sell Bitcoins or whatever to buy fiat to pay them. Land taxes are unevadable; the Income Tax isn’t so the Income Tax is immoral because it is evadable? I think so.
Religious properties are merely exempt, not evaded.
Tennessee GOP threatens to withhold incentives to Volkswagen if the UAW succeeds in their membership election at Chattanooga Assembly: http://www.freep.com/article/20140210/BUSINESS0104/302100100/volkswagen-uaw-chattanooga-tennessee-republicans
Good News and Bad News
There’s a lot of bad news in the Links today. There usually is. Which after a while kind of busts the vibe and you get so worn down you look at the faces on the street and you wonder “Why do they even try? When all that’s there at the end of your days is the slaughterhouse?”
Then you see some good news, by accident, and you think to yourself “Maybe I was exaggerating there when I was coming to ponderous philosophical conclusions. it may not be so bad after all.”
The good news is this: The 53 year old actor Sean Penn has a hot 38 year old girlfriend. That might seem old to somebody who’s 28 right now. It would have seemed old to me at 28 too. But not now. That’s bad news and good news all at once. I’ll take the good news and smile. I bet that won’t be in Links, it’s just too good.
I shouldn’t tease people who might think I’m just making this stuff up, just fabricating something because it’s in my imagination, and not offer verifiable proof. It’s actually true, really! If you don’t believe me, here’s the Link:
http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/sean-penn-charlize-theron-heating-200812612–abc-news-celebrities.html
It’s only good news if you’re Sean Penn.
Stoller asserts that the “Fed” proposed bailing out Mexico to ensure passage of rigged-trade pact SHAFTA, exploiting a currency crisis. Surely that’s just silly conspiracy-mongering!
Wait…What? For real? Yup, another conspiracy theory becomes conspiracy fact. I can’t wait the see what they’re hatching for the TPP and the FEMA camps. Anyone think the submerging markets crisis is purely coincidental and that Wall Street won’t exploit it?
This is an interesting development….or not:
http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-weighs-killing-american-in-drone-strike-20140211-hvbv5.html
And this is a sad development in Oz:
http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2014/02/australian-disease-enters-terminal-phase/
The author of the second link probably didn’t intend it, but it seems fitting:
“The result was a second leg up in the REER. “
Y, but not just for Oz.
There are numerous examples of other nations also abandoning manufacturing and thereby empowering the Chinese in the process. Though Oz has an upper hand, given that it has both an abundance of natural resources, is the world’s largest net exporter of certain minerals….and has the logistical advantage of sitting next door to a resource-ravenous Chinese nation.
Lambert,
Another topic for consideration concerning Obamacare. This is a post by Paul Craig Roberts concerning Medicare estate claw back, in the author’s view another form of elite looting of the already poor and disadvantaged to the detriment of their heirs.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/02/08/obamacare-final-payment-raiding-assets-low-income-poor-americans/
More grist for the mill…
Good to see Medicaid clawback circulating again…
Downton Abbey
Jesus can you imagine having a butler? WTF?
“Sir is there something I can do for you sir? I’ve done nothing all day.”
“Neither have I, what’s the problem?”
“Sir, I’m accustomed to being occupied and feel as if I should be assisting you in some way.”
“You’re fine. Don’t worry.”
“But sir, you’re paying me a considerable sum and there must be a way I can be useful.”
“I can’t think of one. It’s OK, don’t worry.””
“I’m sorry sir but what about dinner? Can I have the staff prepare a meal for you?”
“Oh man, are they all still in the kitchen? Shit. I hit Chipotle for a pork carnitas and just wanna chill.I don’t need anything OK? I just want to be left alone. Go out and have a beer or something. ”
“Sir this is quite perplexing. I really feel I must be of service. Perhaps you’d like an after dinner drink. Can I prepare a brandy for you?”
“Of for god’s sake, NO! I just wanna lay around by myself. I’m sorry. I don’t mean to be disrespectful but I know where the liquor is. Oh man. All right. here. You can check out this Youtube clip with me. faak this is Adele. Isn”t she awesome. Check this shit out.”
Oh well. Butlers aren’t for everybody. Why worry about the inheritance tax? All you need is a room with a view of the wall and the time to see it.
If I might be so bold as to suggest the night sky over a wall, something autistic about staring at stuff to long and the mind folding in on itself. History’s results on that phenomenon is not kind imo, some take flight, only to see a parking lot at journeys end.
skippy… faak indeed…
Gee, if you’re going to report on the NSA that your own website would at least pass security muster? FirstLook.org fails at security so far: http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/02/firstlookorg-fails-at-security-so-far.html#.UvlBGvldV8H
you get residency in Spain if you buy a house for a minimum of 500000 euros
People I know are giving up Spanish residency for Andorra (tax haven between France and Spain) to avoid new Spanish taxes and sequestration.
Poisoned, Vomiting, Hospitalized W. Va. Children Close Schools. Media Still Censors ‘Poison’ Word (beforeitsnews). Beforeitsnews.com seems to have a bad reputation (any chance of a rundown, skippy?), but checking local media confirms the major facts. CO2 is probably the least of our problems where oil, coal, and gas are concerned. Long-term poisoning of ecosystems…
Got an links to that local media?
Very quick search:
2 W.Va. schools cancel class after chemical odor (WOWKTV)
3 more schools closed due to smell concerns; hearing lineup announced (Register-Herald)
sorry, not local media, but here’s a huff post post from last thursday:
Chemical Spill Concerns Prompt Closure Of Several West Virginia Schools
al jazeera from last wednesday:
CDC: West Virginia water now OK for all
But many remain skeptical and some doctors have cautioned certain patients to avoid it
the photo in the al jazeera article is titled ‘Al Jones of the West Virginia Department of General Services tests the water as he flushes a faucet at the State Capitol in Charleston, West Virginia on Jan. 13, 2014’.
if i’m not mistaken, mr jones is ‘testing’ the water with his nose. (echoes of the bp oil disaster, anyone?)
Before It’s News is a citizen journalism outfit, where anyone can write something and have it go up. Or at least, that was the intention, as it was promptly flooded with conspiracy theorists and is now an outlet for gibbering lunacy. The advertising is for survivalist supplies.
The site was founded in 2008 by dot com investor and Falun Gong practitioner Chris Kitze.[1] Before It’s News describes itself as “People Powered News®”, and accepts stories from any political background, although its political stories are entirely from conservative viewpoints and BIN goes so far as to have a dedicated “Obama Birthplace Controversy” category. A significant amount of the site’s content consists of bloggers reposting their stories with links back to their own site.
The site also runs a podcast called BIN Radio. The Skeptical Humanities blog uses Before It’s News as a rich source of idiocy for their “This Week In Conspiracy” series.
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/united-states/an-american-business-owners-journey-with-falun-dafa-258714.html
skippy… looks legit to me… making money is all that counts… ask Dimon…
Thank you, skippy.
By the way, I’ve linked to SoTT.net. You might be interested to know that I was listening to their show the other week, an episode featuring one of the site founders, Laura K-J. During one segment of the show I started laughing, as I was struck by the thought that she was the female version of Ed Dames (with some traits of Garrison Keillor thrown in). I’ll still visit the site as they link interesting stuff, but I wouldn’t advise buying any books from them…
Better Markets sues DOJ for sweetheart (and non-judicially approved) settlment. Seize the day! I’m donating money. Holder and Chase (with a pile of amicus nonsense) are going to fight this like rabid dogs. http://www.bettermarkets.com
RE: What Is Happening To Alaska?
Based on the desparate and deceptive coverup done up to now (in Japan), Japan INC and Tepco are not telling us everything. That’s OK with DogPatch-DC, since “Foreign Policy” always comes first.
RE: Wind and Gas Forcing Out Nuclear in Midwest
It’s only a matter of time until Solar, Wind and Gas also extinguish the five nukes under construction in the Southeast U.S. These “Free Enterprise on Steroids” projects are a profound example of how defunct economic ideology and its plutocrat believers can swindle ordinary folks.
RE: HealthCare.gov firm has had a series of stumbles
Not surprising since it was designed by Plutocrat and Insurance “stumble-bums” for the “benificiaries” to trip over constantly.”