Buchanan: Socialist America Sinking

aux.link.: Socialist America sinking

"Coming to America to feast on this cornucopia of freebies is the world. One million to 2 million immigrants, legal and illegal, arrive every year. They come with fewer skills and less education than Americans, and consume more tax dollars than they contribute by three to one.

Wise Latina women have more babies north of the border than they do in Mexico and twice as many here as American women.

As almost all immigrants are now Third World people of color, they qualify for ethnic preferences in hiring and promotions and admissions to college over the children of Americans.

All of this would have astounded and appalled the Founding Fathers, who after all, created America – as they declared loud and clear in the Constitution – "for ourselves and our posterity."

China saves, invests and grows at 8 percent. America, awash in debt, has a shrinking economy, a huge trade deficit, a gutted industrial base, an unemployment rate surging toward 10 percent and a money supply that's swollen to double its size in a year. The 20th century may have been the American Century. The 21st shows another pattern.

"The United States is declining as a nation and a world power with mostly sighs and shrugs to mark this seismic event," writes Les Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, in CFR's Foreign Affairs magazine. "Astonishingly, some people do not appear to realize that the situation is all that serious." "

The Zombie Apocolapse Is Already Here

aux.link.: “Night Of The Living Govt!” (When Zombie Tax) : Glenn Beck – The 912 Project

Must Read: Don't Treat C02 As A Pollutant

aux.link.: Don't treat C02 as a pollutant - Yahoo! News

The Great Ethanol Scam: Inefficiencies And... Destroying Engines?

aux.link.: The Great Ethanol Scam - BusinessWeek

The Obama Administration's Economic Lawlessness

aux.link.: George F. Will - The Obama Administration's Economic Lawlessness

"Anyone, said T.S. Eliot, could carve a goose, were it not for the bones. And anyone could govern as boldly as his whims decreed, were it not for the skeletal structure that keeps civil society civil -- the rule of law. The Obama administration is bold. It also is careless regarding constitutional values and is acquiring a tincture of lawlessness."

Environmentaljihadists Jealous Of Your Stuff, Make You Feel Guilty For It

aux.link.: Living Environmental alarms raised over consumer electronics Seattle Times Newspaper

One of the comments for the article at the time of this posting is brilliant... "How may Polar Bears will be killed when everyone has to plug in the electric cars we will be forced to buy in the near future?"

Firm Develops Hybrid Hummer H3: 100MPG To Spite Algore

aux.link.: Raser Technologies develops 100MPG Hummer H3 just to spite Al Gore

Sticking it to the Man - Another Adventure Into Government Overreaching

aux.link.: Sticking it to the Man - Patrick Bedard - Car And Driver

The article showcased is a great example of why yours truly owns a Valentine One radar locator to protest against The Man's interference and inept judgement in how I should operate my vehicle.

"Back in Arizona’s analog days of sweaty horses and dusty trails, men with guns would hide behind rocks, and when the stagecoach came along, they jumped out and demanded money. This was called highway robbery.

Now the state installs robots with radar guns along roads. In this digital era, no horses are abused and no men jump out. The demand for $165 plus costs comes in the mail. And it’s no longer called highway robbery. Now it’s “balancing the budget.” "

Foreclosures At Sea: Boats Abandoned, Frauding Insurance Companies

aux.link.: Too Costly to Keep, Boats Become Castaways - NYTimes.com

GND: Mexico Cartels Don't Buy Assault Weapons from U.S.

aux.link.: Mexico Cartels Don't Buy Assault Weapons from U.S.

Earnest Truth: Obama's Radicalism Is Killing the Dow

aux.link.: Michael Boskin Says Barack Obama Is Moving Us Toward a European-Style Social Welfare State and Long-Run Economic Stagnation - WSJ.com

Jim Cramer Props Limbaugh, Fights Back Against 'Enemies List', Natch

aux.link.: Cramer: My Response To The White House News Money/Investing Mainstreet

Get 'em, tiger.

Reformed Taliban Mullah Uses iPhone, Encourages High Tech Afghans

aux.link.: FOXNews.com - Mullah Embraces iPhone in Afghan Tech Boom

BofA Chief Comes To Senses, Says Taking Aid ‘Tactical Mistake’

aux.link.: FT.com / Companies / Banks - BofA chief calls Merrill aid ‘mistake’

Well done. Really. But you're still a fool for assisting illegal immigrants by offering accounts with your bank.

TRUST: Nigerian Scammers VS. The United States Government

aux.link.: Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Congratulations: URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED - Payment Notification of your UNCLAIMED STIMULUS

You decide. Kudos to Ernie Mannix.

Outrage: 1,000 People Missing In Baja California Drug Wars

aux.link.: Families want answers from man who says he dissolved 300 people - Los Angeles Times

Why are investigating and disolving corrupt police, battling drug cartels with national force, and really pushing a 'War On Drugs' not Priority #1 for the Mexican government? There is absolutely no excuse.

Culture Of Corruption: Mayor Refuses To Release 'Stimulus' Plans

aux.link: Daley refuses to release stimulus project list Clout Street - local political coverage

"Mayor Richard Daley said today Chicago has compiled a wish list of "shovel-ready projects" to spend federal economic stimulus funds on should Congress approve a plan.

Unlike hundreds of other cities, however, Daley said Chicago won't make its list public. "Yes, we do, we have our list, we've been talking to people. We did not put that out publicly because once you start putting it out publicly, you know, the newspapers, the media is going to be ripping it apart," Daley said.

"It's very controversial. Yes, we have ready projects from the Board of Education to the City Colleges to the Park District to the CTA and the city of Chicago. Oh yes. Us and New York decided not to do that. We thought we could go directly into the federal bureaucracies and the different departments," the mayor added.

Later, Daley was asked why he wasn't being more transparent. "Read some of your newspapers. Heh heh," he replied."

Environmentaljihadists/CA Gov't. Killing Business

aux.link.: Mandate could force gas stations out of business - Pasadena Star-News

Disappearing Investor Saga Needs To Be A Movie

aux.link.: Authorities: Pilot stashed motorcycle in Ala. - USATODAY.com

This has Harrison Ford written all over it- 'The Fugitive 2'! Actually, Ford is a fairly standup guy- this Schrenker fellow here is an idiot for trying to evade federal prosecution by faking his own death... and risking the lives of others... by letting his own plane fall out of the sky... near a residential area... after he jumped out. I know!

Perhaps something more like 'U.S. Marshals 2' with Wesley Snipes again. C'mon, folks- the plot is simply writing itself here. Easy money.

Ethanol Worst Form of Renewable Energy

aux.link.: Stanford University Study Shows Ethanol to be Worst Form of Renewable Energy

"Mark Jacobson, professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program at Stanford University, recently conducted a study that ranked alternate energies from best to worst. Ethanol was put to the test against, "Solar-photovoltaic (PV), concentrated solar power (CSP), wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, wave, tidal, nuclear, and coal with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology." After looking at reports of air pollutants from energy types on climate and air quality, and comparing how well each energy type was able to power vehicles, the study showed that Ethanol came in dead last.

It seems that the report found that wind-powered battery electric vehicles as well as wind-powered hydrogen fuel cells were the greenest ways to go. The immediate problem now, is the fact that driving a wind-powered battery electric vehicle is horrendously expensive, let alone impractical. And for its part, Ethanol has already received huge support from the automotive industry and the U.S. government. Finding an appropriately sized role for ethanol, with adequate support for the greener of the new green-tech is easier said than done."

Bad Ass: David Spade Arms-Up Phoenix PD

aux.link.: FOXNews.com - David Spade Buys High-Powered Rifles for Local Police Department

NASCAR Should Die With Any Auto Bailout

aux.link.: If automakers get a bailout, should NASCAR die? - Autoblog



I'm actually agreeing with Slate on this one, care of Autoblog:

"A columnist over at Slate.com is recommending -- and not lightly, he wants you to know -- that with the domestic automakers enduring "Detroit's version of The Troubles," now would be a good time to "euthanize" NASCAR. He makes a long argument, but the crux of it is simple: if the domestics get a heap of money from the government, should that money really be used to sponsor a specialized race series that arguably doesn't have the national pull or the return it once did? His supporting arguments are sometimes disingenuous and occasionally slightly off-base, but the question is worth considering. If the public loans money to the automakers, who decides where that money is spent? Yet, if Ford, GM, and Chrysler were to do the same thing to NASCAR that Honda, Suzuki, Audi, and Subaru have been doing, well... that would leave NASCAR as a one-make series featuring, ta-da, Toyota. And wouldn't that be something to see?"

BIG D: Bushes Purchase North Dallas Home

aux.link.: Bushes confirm purchase of Dallas home in Preston Hollow

I drove by and checked the new digs out for myself this afternoon. Local media with a rare and actually interesting story on their hands along with several curious onlookers and neighbors have the end of the cul-de-sac saturated. As confirmed from Google Earth, while just hundreds of feet away from the Dallas North Tollway, this is a very fortifiable enclave and backs up to a friend with more land for helicopter access possibilities. Just a few miles away from SMU, where the library will be built as well. Excellent area, excellent choice- modest looks, but a large and very nice pad. Funded by a Midland bank!

Cheaper: Obama Drops O&NG Company Tax

aux.link.: Obama shelves oil company tax after price fall: aide Reuters

"Welllll... I guess they're not that bad afterall."

Bailout Lure: Big Business Backed Obama

aux.link.: Big Business transfers its loyalty, money to the Democrats - The Boston Globe

What they don't say- it was companies running scared away from bankruptcy and toward the chance of government bailout money that got CEOs leaning Socialist-blue this year. What other explanation is there for Democrats being the 'party of Big Business' for the first time in 75 years (article)?

Audi: The (New) Ultimate Driving Machine

aux.link.: No Audi R8 competitor coming from BMW - Autoblog

"It's a sign of the times. After having rolled out the delectable M1 Hommage concept, one BMW board member says that the Bavarian automaker has no intention of producing a supercar to compete with the likes of the Audi R8. Instead, BMW will focus on green technologies.

The news comes straight from Klaus Draeger, the board member at the helm of the EfficientDymanics initiative. While Audi continues to produce more powerful and more desirable versions of the R8, Mercedes prepares entirely new supercars and Porsche continues to do what Porsche has always done, the company that once hailed itself as the producers of the "Ultimate Driving Machine" is more concerned with hybrids than sportscars." -Autoblog

Shameless plug for Audi- the official automotive marque of YHPS.

Going 'Green' Found Lame, Crowd Goes Mild

aux.link.: Suddenly being green is not cool any more - Times Online

Proof: Enviros Want Western Lifestyles Changed

aux.link.: Plasma, LCDs blamed for accelerating global warming - ABC News (Australia)

US Lagging Far Behind In Broadband Services

aux.link.: Report: US must have universal gigabit broadband by 2015

Facinating Example Of An Economic Divide

aux.link: Shrinking fuel supplies causing mad scramble

TIJUANA – Truck and bus drivers experienced a day of chaos in Tijuana yesterday, as they chased a dwindling supply of diesel fuel. Today was shaping up to be even worse.

For weeks, drivers from the United States have snapped up Mexican diesel, which is selling for about 50 percent less than in California. That has resulted in a shortage of the fuel, and gas stations nearest the border crossings started halting or limiting sales last weekend.

By yesterday, diesel had started to run out at outlying stations, provoking delays or cancellations in public and private transportation. New supplies might not arrive until Monday. Long lines of trucks and buses, their drivers desperate to buy diesel, formed at those stations still selling the fuel.

Public transportation officials announced that if they could not refuel their buses they would halt service today, a decision that affects at least 750,000 daily riders.

Hooray for government subsidies! Best line from one of the comments at the bottom of this article...

"By letsgofathers on 6/19/2008 at 10:16 a.m.
Steal our healthcare we steal your gas."

Weather Channel Founder's Warming Rebuttal

aux.link: John Coleman's Comments Before the San Diego Chamber of Commerce

Czech Prez Ready For Climate/Gore Smackdown

aux.link: Czech President Klaus ready to debate Gore on climate change

Cable Rank: FNC #7, CNN #19, MSNBC #27

aux.link: mediabistro.com: TVNewser

"For the 77th consecutive month, FNC finished first in total day and prime time ratings during May. FNC was the sixth highest rated cable network on all of basic cable during prime time for the month (CNN and MSNBC finished 19th and 26th) and the seventh rated network in total day (CNN and MSNBC were 19th and 27th).

FNC also had 11 out of the top 13 programs in cable during the month in Total Viewers. The O'Reilly Factor was the #1 program in cable news for the 90th consecutive month, and saw gains in Total Viewers year-to-year (26%).

Amercia's Newsroom (9-11amET) was up 30% year-to-year, with the program averaging more viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined during the time period.

Meanwhile, On the Record with Greta Van Susteren has been #1 for 73 consecutive months in Total Viewers while Hannity & Colmes has been #1 in its timeslot for 54 consecutive months."

ExxonMobil CEO Vs. Environmentaljihadists

aux.link: Exxon Mobil CEO takes aim at environmentalists

Are We Secure? China's Counterfeit Cisco Routers

aux.link: World Tribune — FBI: China may use counterfeit Cisco routers to penetrate U.S. networks

The Common Sense Of Domestic O&G Exploration

aux.link: Saudi oil output hike would not solve US problems: Bush

I hope this trip to Saudi Arabia was just a P.R. move by President Bush, because what he says next is the common sense most of us have known all along. But the visit was worth it alone for him to shine some light on this while in the region to make a point. He's really on a roll this week.

"Our problem in America gets solved when we aggressively go for domestic exploration. Our problem in America gets solved if we expand our refining capacity, promote nuclear energy and continue our strategy for the advancing of alternative energies as well as conservation," he said.

"One interesting thing about American politics these days is those who are screaming the loudest for increased production from Saudi Arabia are the very same people who are fighting the fiercest against domestic exploration, against the development of nuclear power and against expanding refining capacity."

Hurrah! Oil Profits Are Up

aux.link: Hurrah! Oil profits are up Carl Mortished - Times Online

FAD: Undoing America's Ethanol Mistake

aux.link: Investor's Business Daily -- Undoing America's Ethanol Mistake

RUSH: Cubans Granted Mobile Phone Sales, Use

aux.link: FOXNews.com - Cubans Mob Cell Phone Stores as Service Becomes Available

This is great, though a very small start. I hope there are plenty of old Chevy and Trabant body shop mechanics ready for a swell in business...

Clueless: IOC Head Proud Of Beijing 'Wise Choice'

aux.link: IOC head says Beijing was wise choice

These blindly optimistic words sound just like Chinese propaganda. Towing the line, anyone?

NASCAR Coach Reveals Secrets Of Driving

I've laughed so hard I'm crying hysterically. This is embarassing. For me and them.



Viva F1, LeMans and WRC. I pray to God (literally) that they catch on more in America. RIP Speedvision.

US Intel Agencies Using Google Appliances

aux.link: CIA enlists Google's help for spy work - Times Online

'Fitna' Film Getting Banned Across The Web!

aux.link: Video: Fitna the Movie: Geert Wilders' film about the Quran (English) - Google Video

Except from Google Video, though they won't recognize it in their 'Movers and Shakers' rankings.



But even highly-credited LiveLink.com, four days early than the anticipated launch date, gives this in return:

"Following threats to our staff of a very serious nature, and some ill informed reports from certain corners of the British media that could directly lead to the harm of some of our staff, Liveleak.com has been left with no other choice but to remove Fitna from our servers. This is a sad day for freedom of speech on the net but we have to place the safety and well being of our staff above all else. We would like to thank the thousands of people, from all backgrounds and religions, who gave us their support. They realised LiveLeak.com is a vehicle for many opinions and not just for the support of one. Perhaps there is still hope that this situation may produce a discussion that could benefit and educate all of us as to how we can accept one anothers culture.We stood for what we believe in, the ability to be heard, but in the end the price was too high."

Proves the point- I hope this catches on like wildfire this weekend.

Facts Against Man-Made Warming Surface More

aux.link: Climate facts to warm to The Australian

An ABC Radio debate host in this article thinks these facts coming to light more, about temperatures cooling in the last decade (going plateau and negative since 1998) despite rising natural and man-made CO2 emissions, is "extraordinary". Indeed...

"If Marohasy is anywhere near right about the impending collapse of the global warming paradigm, life will suddenly become a whole lot more interesting. A great many founts of authority, from the Royal Society to the UN, most heads of government along with countless captains of industry, learned professors, commentators and journalists will be profoundly embarrassed. Let us hope it is a prolonged and chastening experience.

With catastrophe off the agenda, for most people the fog of millennial gloom will lift, at least until attention turns to the prospect of the next ice age. Among the better educated, the sceptical cast of mind that is the basis of empiricism will once again be back in fashion. The delusion that by recycling and catching public transport we can help save the planet will quickly come to be seen for the childish nonsense it was all along.

The poorest Indians and Chinese will be left in peace to work their way towards prosperity, without being badgered about the size of their carbon footprint, a concept that for most of us will soon be one with Nineveh and Tyre, clean forgotten in six months."

More more more more more more more.

McCain's Support From Cisco, eBay, HP Bosses

aux.link: John McCain 2008 - John McCain for President

"WASHINGTON -- A pair of high-profile former Silicon Valley executives have signed on to help John McCain's presidential campaign, offering a boost to the presumptive Republican nominee's economic credentials and fund-raising abilities.

Meg Whitman, the retirement-bound chief executive of eBay Inc., joined the McCain team Friday as a national co-chairwoman. She made the move after more than a year as an adviser to Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts who ran a tough campaign against Sen. McCain. Ms. Whitman joins Carly Fiorina, the former head of Hewlett-Packard Co., who was named the Republican National Committee's "Victory" chair earlier this month.

He already has the help of longtime supporter John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems Inc., as both a fund-raiser and an adviser."

Solid news for the backing of educated and well-paid IT professionals in America, a 12-million-strong voting block of which I am a member, who donate and are politically-active according to CompTIA. I'm proud to patronize services and wares from all three of these companies already.

Security Concerns Halt 3com + Huawei Deal

aux.link: Bain ends 3Com deal

Thank God- this was quite unsettling news that I caught wind of in January. Glad some folks a little higher on the food chain thought so as well.

"Bain said on Thursday that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) had said it would block the $2.2 billion deal that would also have given Huawei, China's biggest network equipment maker, a minority stake of up to 21.5 percent in 3Com. Several U.S. lawmakers have complained that the deal threatened national security due to Huawei's alleged ties to the Chinese military. 3Com sells security technology and network equipment to government agencies and large businesses.

Huawei had maintained that it is a private company owned by employees, but founder Ren Zhengfei was a former People's Liberation Army soldier. Huawei and 3Com representatives were not immediately available for comment."

Bain was trying to make it happen even after the security concerns were raised! I can't stand companies that don't consider ethics and security like this. Romney, go slap 'em up.

Hollywood's Next Superstar Whore

Only this time, she's a real one with no slander necessary. Mark my words today- record execs are trying to figure out how to contact Ashley Alexandra Dupré this week after realizing her MySpace track is no worse than anything Ashlee Simpson puts out. Someone out there somewhere is going to sign her to a label. Watch for an album and an E! True Hollywood Story special on primetime by Christmas. Of course Playboy is in there too somewhere. The Kardashian and Hilton names are so 2006- we can do much better now than the plots these monikers were built on. Because that's how American pop culture rolls, sadly.

Which brings me back to Bill Clinton- why is he not chastised off his wife's campaign stages every day? Why does anyone give any level of respect to him still? Why didn't he exile to Idaho?

Middle Eastern Investors Eyeing US Telcos

aux.link: Kuwait's Investment Dar eyes U.S. telecom firm Reuters

This is the kind of stuff that scares me. Not that Kuwait is an enemy - as they're actually one of the friendliest countries in that region - but they're still not the country I'd chose if we had a foriegn buyout of any section of our country's telecommunications infrastructure. Why not Canada? I think I'm going to be ill.

A Note To Steve Jobs / Apple's Political Agenda

aux.link: YouTube - Randy Newman - Macworld Expo 2008, Apple Keynote, Part 1/3

Babbling nonsense, especially hate against America, with no tune from a crotchety, old, senile man, does not make the embarassment of his existance on stage at an electronics tradeshow 'entertainment'. WTF is Apple thinking these days? Oh, but he was conveniently playing a piano while comparing President Bush to Hitler and Stalin, so it's ok. Everyone clap along.

Is he really that extraordinary, Steve? That's frighteningly telling for an otherwise visionary man like yourself. Why couldn't you have snagged U2 to close out your keynote speech instead? You know, someone your global audience generally likes and respects? Your company may make the best consumer IT products on the market of which I am becoming more of a fan, but that doesn't keep you from being a total douchebag. I feel equal parts cutting-edge and dirty every time I pick up my iPhone now. I knew Apple was fairly 'left', but this goes beyond the pale.

Antics like this and your incessant showcasing of The New York Times in every one of your product advertisements demonstrating any Internet capabilities, zooming in on questionable articles of obvious intent, keeps me from leaving my HP Xeon workstation behind for a new Mac Pro. Wake up and realize that your target market isn't full of Paulitards and environmentaljihadists any longer. Spin your energy attempting to mislead others about global affairs into giving us a 3G iPhone already. Marketing is obviously your place in society, not politics. A global showcase of great products to attract more market share - not less - is the worst place possible to advertise your ideologies. Give it up- quick.

Wow, Randy Newman isn't black. I had no idea.

In Too Deep: Is America Selling Herself Out?

aux.link: WorldNetDaily: Subprime Nation

I'm still not sure how much sway I'm willing to give Pat Buchanan's seeming scaremongering, but he's still saying some pretty interesting stuff here. Most of which I believe is true. Take a read, then pay some bills.

Bain Capital, Chinese Firm Privatise 3Com

aux.link: 3Com to sell itself to Bain Capital, Huawei Tech for 2 bln usd - Forbes.com

And also from my other entry today above, "Bain Capital is partnering with China's Huawei Technologies in a buyout of 3Com, the U.S. company that provides the technology that protects Pentagon computers from Chinese hackers." -Pat Buchanan

Old news I somehow didn't catch last year. Our government's VOIP systems, Ethernet switches, WAN routers - or in essence, their internal network and telecommunications backbone - now all controlled by the Chinese, in part. Somebody call up Mitt Romney and tell him to talk some sense into his old establishment, Bain Capital, the other part. Suddenly, my model 3103 phone doesn't look that cool anymore. Hmm, wonder what Cisco has now...

With the recent economic headlines dealing with such foreign investment, now I'm starting to get uncomfortable. And as a telecom guy, this bit in particular.

Controversy Stirs Over Federal 'Real ID' Program

aux.link: New Driver's License Rules Are Issued - WSJ.com

And this is bad... why? Secure, domestic passports would provide us better security, help to stomp out fake IDs, and keep the illegal aliens honest (and heading south). Especially if they contained an embedded 64k memory chip (re: SIM card technology) holding vital data for emergency or security personnel.

Don't Give That 750iL Another Look- It's Leased

aux.link: $30,000 Millionaires: Douchebags in the Mist

A co-worker sent this excellent article to me today. As a yuppie with a real job and a salary paying considerably more than the stereotype, I found it hilarious. Specifically because I dodge it with a 5-year old Volkswagen approaching 100k miles, my pleated pants, a weird pint of beer in one hand, and my hot doctor wife in the other. So even though I greatly appreciate the Bentley Continental GT that I showcase at the top of this site, I have the common sense to not lease one.

It is clowns like them who have provided the consumer base for our country's current credit crisis.

Packet Sniffing Coming To An IP Pipe Near You

aux.link: AT&T and Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready to Filter

Now that I'm out of college with a job (in telecommunications dealing with AT&T every day, no less) and a nice income where I don't have the desire to pirate any longer, I fully support this measure. I see no harm or foul in filtering out the blatantly illegal content online like copywritten movies that were just released 3 hours ago. Keep in mind that cops in these United States will come close your pirated DVD stand up on the streets of NYC, but the protests still occur in Berkeley and red light district enterprises everywhere continue to stay open in specifically zoned areas. They're not proposing China here, folks.

Hell On Wheels

Why isn't logic like this more obvious? Oh wait, because we have socialist Democrats in Congress... Watch this great video from free market and common sense guru comedian, Drew Carey.



reason.tv - Videos > Gridlock

The GE+Algore+NBC Ménage à Trois

Here's an interesting piece of the 'Live Earth' puzzle... funny, since the emerging image is starting to look more and more like horseshit. Oh wait, that's already depicted on the front of the box.

Al Gore And NBC: Birds Of A Feather

What Comes Around Goes Around

Is there even such a thing as a lower-key, 'proxy-proxy war'?

Here is the main reason I stopped grocery and homeware shopping at Wal-Mart, and why I'm checking the box bottoms of every consumer good my fiancee' and I are registering for this year for our wedding. While their unfair currency valuation is also an issue- the real problem with China stems just beyond their economy that we openly support more than any other country. Duly note this.

China arming terrorists

Richard Branson To Squander Fortune Away

Perhaps not his entire fortune, but it might as well be. Giving in to what could be one of the world's most voluntarily expensive fiscal wastes, Sir Richard Branson of Virgin fame in the UK is set to donate $3B to combat 'global warming'. Just what do you spend that kind of money on to fight something unproven?

Well, from some talking points with Neil Cavuto on FNC 9/21, he hopes it will go to develop new fuels over the next 10 years. Yeah, good luck with that. When asked by Cavuto about what he thought about escalating 'global warming' when this hurricane season has been nill, his response was, "winds have cooled the ocean down, and therefore we haven't had a lot of hurricanes."

Since when does man create wind? Sounds like the work of Mother Nature's cycles to me. Durrrrrr!

Mogul Pledges Billions Against Warming

But on the other hand, a chunk of common sense...

CSU Prof. disputes global warming is human-caused

Consumer Confidence Skyrockets, For Now

Gas prices are starting to sink below $2.00/gal. in various spots nationwide, two months ahead of some forecasts. People are starting to smile again (except those that work in the oil and gas industry). And now news like this that, obviously, consumer confidence is climbing even more than it was earier this year?

Hold on to your keisters, everyone... if this sticks, I'll make a forecast of some record-breaking retail sales this upcoming fourth quarter. And that in turn boosts the economy even more, shatters the DJIA record (I predict by October), and makes Republicans look better to vote for. Conspiracy theorize all you want in ignorance; it's still easing my concern for the mid-term elections.

Consumer confidence skyrockets - Yahoo! News

BUT WAIT! That's not all! While this is great news, it's largely short-term for a matter of months due to speculation that the hurricane season took a year off from all its hard work in 2005, and that economic sanctions will not be brought against Iran. On the former, the season could be rested up in time for 2007. On the latter, that can mean only two things: will they cooperate and stabilize the oil and gas industry, easing speculators? Or will they not, as we're forced to bomb their reactors? And will North Korea become more of a threat at the same time? And what effect will these turn of events have on our booming economy?

The Death Of America's Superman

No, not just any 'super guy', but Superman himself. Is he still American? The directors of his latest movie would rather he not be. Observe the saddening loss:

"...in the latest film incarnation, scribes Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris sought to downplay Superman's long-standing patriot act. With one brief line uttered by actor Frank Langella, the caped superhero's mission transformed from "truth, justice and the American way" to "truth, justice and all that stuff."

"Dougherty and Harris never even considered including "the American way" in their screenplay."

" "We were always hesitant to include the term 'American way' because the meaning of that today is somewhat uncertain," Ohio native Dougherty explains. "The ideal hasn't changed. I think when people say 'American way,' they're actually talking about what the 'American way' meant back in the '40s and '50s, which was something more noble and idealistic." "

"...(using that line) would taint the meaning of what he is saying." "

"...the long-standing member of the Justice League of America seems to have traded in his allegiance to the flag for an international passport. "He's here for humanity," Dougherty says."

Superman eschews longtime patriot act

Commie bastards. Superman is ours. And this movie should be geared for America and America alone. Sure, show it elsewhere for a few extra Euros and release a Region 3 DVD later for the rest of the world, but deliberately leaving America out of Superman is just another example of political correctness gone awry. Chalk up another reason to hate Hollywood.

BP Hit With Criminal Probe Over US Oil Spill

I really hope that the hypocritical, environmentaljihadist-pandering energy company, BP, is performing an about-face on their absurd 'carbon footprint' television campaign right about now. With recent events, their slogan is now even more absurd than Buick's "beyond precision" tagline.

Just say NO to lying, rubbish marketing!

BP to face criminal probe over US oil spill - Financial Times

Not Your Average NASCAR Sponsor

Ho boy...

Scientology is newest NASCAR sponsor

"Racin' fans, brace yourselves for some couch-jumping news:
Scientology is ridin' shotgun. A No. 27 red Taurus emblazoned with "DIANETICS" and featuring the volcano from the cover of L. Ron Hubbard's book has been tearing around California's Irwindale Speedway."

"it's also the weirdest sponsorship since Boudreaux's Butt Paste, the diaper-rash cream that began sponsoring a Busch Series car in 2005."

"Driver Kenton Gray, of La Verne, Calif., will drive the DIANETCS car Saturday in its official debut in a NASCAR Weekly Series race in Irwindale. Gray spouts Scientology praise with enthusiasm that would make the celebrity couple known as TomKat proud..."

"The Jehovah's Witnesses could not be reached for comment about any possible NASCAR sponsorship."

Now that's some quality car racin', don'tcha think, folks? Can you imagine the handmade, misspelled posters the fans will hold up in the air from the stands?

"HAIL XENU!"

Economy Surges Forward In Q1

Since good news is no news, I'll post it instead of CNN. The economy is a robust machine, even to the point that the housing market is taking people by surprise. Retail sales aren't doing too shabby either.



But again, you'll never hear that from the MSM. Rubbish.

Q1 GDP growth fastest in 2-1/2 years Reuters.com

Your Wallet Speaks to Hollywood

Paramount officials are scurrying around this week trying to figure out why Mission Impossible III is tanking at the box office. Did they miss the little fact that their star actor is a freak with a public relations approval rating equal to that of Michael Jackson's?

"And that's the irony here: "M:I3" is a terrific action film. Director J.J. Abrams did a great job, and the entire cast from Cruise right through to the team and various supporting players do a convincing job."

Proof positive that consumers are not willing to voluntarily go pay their hard earned money to see Crazy Cruise in a new movie, paying as much as ten bucks a ticket. Would you? Bad PR is a b****.

FOXNews.com - Cruise Crash Causes Paramount Panic

BP 'Carbon Footprint' Larger Than Expected

Pander to environmentaljihadist marketing apologists too much and you might just lose the big picture. Owned.

ABC News: BP Refinery in Texas Called Biggest Polluter

It's Because He's A Friggin' Looney!

Mission Impossible: III is not having the debut analysts expected. Could it be because moviegoers like myself are tired of the ludicrous media fanfare and aren't interested in futher supporting such a psycho idiot? Time will tell.

Deadline Hollywood Daily � MI3 Box Office Disappoints. Cruise's Fault?