Gak! I hope these animals weren't killed according to how PETA is complaining about.
In any case, I'm still going to be eating steak. If we're not supposed to be eating cows, they shouldn't be made out of meat.
With all the fabulous faux alternatives available, there's no reason to wear any part of an animal corpse. I stand by my God-given right to wear beef lungs if I want to!
Style-savvy vegan celebs such as Alicia Silverstone and Natalie Portman and fur-free fashion icons such as Stella McCartney, Charlize Theron, and Eva Mendes prove that looking great doesn't have to involve cruelty. On the other hand the furless pretty people don't live anywhere that gets particularly chilly, do they? Gollywood just doesn't get the biting wind that visits Fond du Lac every December through March. If you need to brave the cold of a New York winter there's always a nice warm limo waiting...
#3
They are happy when they kill the animals given to them for care.
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#4
I am a member of the other PETA. CZJ is thusly cool with me. Utilize an animal to it's fullest, not only as a tasty treat on your dinner plate, but whatever is left over for other purposes.
Anyway, what is their problem, the animals are dead and still useful. Unlike PETA that kills them for no purpose.
1. Racism
2. Islamicism
3. Economy in the dumper, no jobs
4. Blame game
5. Zero encourages Ground Zero mosque
6. Judges and condemns and shoots off mouth about "racists" police at Harvard
7. Does not condemn the new Black Panthers for voter intimidation at the polls
8. Marie antoinette obama goes on a holiday extravaganza in Spain while large numbers of Americans deal with unemployment
9. Legislation that will enslave Americans forever
10. Obamadon'tCare that will break the bank, enslave Americans forever, and radically screw up an otherwise good health care
system.
11. Slow response to decide to build up troops in Afghanistan
12. Same as #11 except applied to Gulf oil spill
13. Ticked off our allies and sucked up to our enemies
14. Lots of golf and vacations
15. Failure to address illegal immigration and crime along the border
#2
As started by another rantburger - BTW I would like to know who you are - I continued your legacy in documenting obama's .
I call Obama "H"
Constant apologies abroad for everything from slavery to Hiroshima
Bows to Saudi royalty, the Japanese emperor, and Chinese autocrats
Appointment of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state - against Constitution (Sitting Senator)
The Census given to executive branch to conduct and run by ACORN
The fight with the former CIA directors
The public show trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed
The reach out to Ahmadinejad Castro, Chavez, and assorted thugs
The Honduras fiasco
Killed the popular and successful DC school voucher system
Czars everywhere
The serial "Bush did it"/reset whine abroad
The Queen of England/I-pod fiasco
Gordon Brown gets snookered in his gift-giving
Unceremoniously shipping back the Churchill bust
The end of the special relationship with the UK
The New York on-the-town presidential splurge
Anita Dunn and her Mao worship
Timothy Geithner/Tom Daschle/Hilda Solis and their taxes
What ever happened to Gov. Richardson?
"No lobbyists" = gads of them
The Podestas' insider influence-peddling empire
Sotomayor's "wise Latina" chauvinism
The Special Olympics silly quip
Trashing Nancy Reagan
The Skip Gates/police acting "stupidly" mess( and then telling America "not to jump to conclusions about the murders at Fort Hood by a MOSLEM)
The get-Chicago-the-Olympics jaunt to Copenhagen
Cap-and-trade boondoggle
"Millions of green jobs"
Ignore gas, oil, coal, and nuclear power production
Cash-for-clunkers
The Joe Biden gaffe machine
Jobs "saved" or "created" rather than references to the actual unemployment rates
Van Jones, the racist and truther
Desiree Rogers won't testify
The blowback from, and silence about, the Rangel/Dodd corruption
The White House party crashers plan to take the 5th Amendment
The 'bipartisanship' con
The pork-barrel stimulus spoils ( all that money for jack shit)
The demonization of the Town-Hallers
The Acorn Mess -prostitutes
The Kevin Jennings/Safe School Czar embarrassment
The SEIU direct access to the White House
The Asian Tour comedown ( it accomplished ...wait for it...jack shit)
The politicization of the take-over of GM and Chrysler
The Obama readjustment in the order of paying back car creditors
GM Car dealerships closed on political, race, and sex considerations
Obama as "Caesar"
The Emanuel "never let a serious crisis go to waste" boast
The Black Caucus/Rangel/Waters bid to bail out the inner-city radio stations
Yosi Sergant and the NEA
$1.7 trillion deficit( Hello, can you hear me? 1.7 TRILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT !!!)
The planned $9 trillion added to the national debt
New income tax rates; health care surcharge talk; and payroll tax caps to be lifted
Rahm Emanuel's promised payback to those states that trash the stimulus
The supposed C-span aired health care debate
The promised website posts of pending legislation
Czechs and Poles sold out on missile defense
Sermons to and finger pointing at the Israelis
Getting stiffed and blown off by just about every govt. on Earth as a patsy/
The failed 'Putin helps to stop a nuclear Iran' gambit where putin signs his name on an etch-a-sketch
Voting present on the Iranian reformers in the street
Serial but empty deadlines to Ahmadinejad
The good war/bad war twisting and turning on Iraq/Afghanistan
Uptailing in Afghanistan and sticking it to the American military
The months-long dithering over Afghanistan
Renditions, tribunals, Patriot Act, etc. once trashed, now OK
Health-care take-over
The 2,000 page proposed new health code
The embarrassing Nobel Peace Prize nomination
The attacks on surgeons, Chamber of Commerce, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, etc.
The Islam mythologies in the Cairo Speech
The al Arabiya "Bush did it" interview
Obama's TV "my Muslim faith" gaffe
OPM "Conservative Lockout"
SEAL prosecution
Standing in the way of states in oil cleanup
Using the epa to shut down 30% of oil refining capability in texas
DOJ refuses to prosecute black panther voter intimidation case
TSA places restrictions on web use
The 2000 page insipid financial "reform" bill that exempts SEC from public disclosure
The horrible selection of elena kagan for supreme court justice
FBI may subponea electronic communication from private companies without judge oversight.
Refusal to allow the Justice department to persue the voter intimidation with the black panthers after they were already convicted
Congress coming in on recess to vote to bail state unions out with $26 billion. You just know he will sign it, he is like that. He promoted it.
Michelles $325 million vacation in spain in middle of hard recession.
drill mortorium
class warfare speech then vacation to the richest places in the nation
justice department tosses military votes in state roundup - Soldiers get no vote
“third-country nationals,” including Chinese, Syrian, and Iranian citizens, granted much greater access to U.S.-controlled military technology.
#1
Strangely enough, Reagan didn't fare as well as you might think he should have
Not strange at all. I remember the era well: the recession of 1979-81 was the most brutal to date of the post-Depression era, by far, and represented the biggest hit to the huge industrial manufacturing base-- as well as to the non-corporate small and mid-sized agricultural sector-- of the entire de-industrialization era. It was in 1979-81 that Chrysler went bankrupt, that Detroit fell from its perch, that the steel industry in Pittsburgh and Chicago/GaryIN shrank by half.
On top of that, Volcker was (successfully) wringing inflation out of the economy with double digit interest rates. Even Reagan's own party and the Wall Street Journal were criticizing his team for the harshness of their "root canal economics."
And then there was also Reagan's (again, successful) effort to break the unions, most notably with his refusal to re-hire the air traffic controllers who went on strike. Reagan was utterly hated by the union movement, which 30 years ago was about 3x its current size.
Thatcher, pursuing similar policies across the pond, was facing riots and even higher disapproval ratings. The Queen broke tradition and criticized Thatcher.
Barry's people no doubt think they're similarly resolute, and slaying dragons. Of course, they have no idea what dragons (besides lack of health insurance) they're actually slaying, or what will take the place of the rubble of the US consumer economy that was propped up on sand artificially cheap credit and the Fannie-Freddie crap mortgage engine.
But Barry's "transformative", as Reagan was!
Yeah, transforming the US into Mexico or Brazil. Latin America North is us.
#2
Ike was the best of all. No surprise. The 50's were the best of times. Women lib's complain that the women back then were on Valium. The Women weren't forced into work as they are now. You had strong families. The major roads of interstate travel were started under Ike. Cuba fell to Castro and our airmen airlifted Cubans out and the Russian menace of destruction was always there. We had steel mills,car manufacturing, Mighty Moe's, Hot Shoppes, home milk delivery,Garfinkels and custard shoppes. Military housing was built for returning soldiers like in Greenbelt Maryland that stand to this day. Ike was a big part of this time and was well liked by all except career politicians, and the socialist left. Ike had a big heart and a grand smile. It was his heart that failed him.
Carter-like military coming?
The U.S. Marine Corps is again threatened, this time with a sharp reduction in its size. In response, marine commanders say they would prefer to be a smaller force, one that concentrates on its main mission; amphibious operations. The marines were unhappy with the way they have been used as an army auxiliary over the past decade. The marines consider themselves specialists, while the army are generalists (and, for example, carried out more amphibious operations than the marines did during World War II). A different take on reduction in size of the Marine Corp. We just got done expanding the Core to meet the needs of Iraq and Afghanistan.
#1
Per the article there is some concern by some in the Corp that the Marines have become another branch of the Army. Too large and too heavy to conduct their primary mission as a maritime force. Good Read.
#2
ION WMF > THE US MUST BE MADE TO UNDERSTAND CLEARLY: ONCE A US-CHINA SHOOTING WAR STARTS, CHINA WILL NOT STOP FIGHTING UNTIL IT ACHIEVES EITHER TOTAL VICTORY, OR ELSE TOTAL DEFEAT, AGZ THE US. NUCLEAR CHINA HAS ITS BILYUHNS IN POPULATION, THE NUCLEAR US HAS ITS HUNDREDS OF MILYUHNS. US-CHINA WAR WILL LAST FOR MANY YEARS.
* SAME > JAMESTOWN FOUNDATION EXPERTS: A MAJOR US-CHINA REGIONAL WAR WILL DAMAGE OR DESTROY BOTH NATIONS' ECONOMIES.
* SAME > SOUTH KOREA TELLS CHINA TO SUPPORT CONCEPTS/SCHEMAS FOR INTER-KOREAN COOPERATION + UNIFICATION, OR GET OUT OF NORTH KOREA.
Much worse. Our fiscal situation is now the worst it's been since the days of the Continental Congress.
This is a feature, not a bug: Barry's objective is to starve the military and engineer a massive redirection of funds toward his cronies and his own version of Katrina, aka TheStim, TARP and GreenJobs.
#4
Clinton shrank the military considerably. This was halted by 9/11 and eventually the Iraq war under Bush. It looks to me like a continuation of the Clinton policy.
#5
Money used for the military cannot be used to bribe rent-seekers and unproductive citizens to vote Democrat.
So you know where this is going.
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Once again the sheep want to get rid of the sheep dogs. You can re arrange the numbers and the equipment but the country will always need a force in readiness to act as initial shock troops or to 'show the flag'.
1940 General Pop. 132 million
Army 267,000
Marines 28,000
ratio of both combined to population .0022 percent
2000 General Pop. 284 million
Army 471,000
Marines 172,000
ratio of both combined to population .0022 percent
We're at pre-WWII numbers in proportion of our armed forces to the general population while conducting a major war effort on the other side of the globe. If the bean counters want to reduce the Marine Corps they'd better be just shifting the personnel authorization over to the Army. Where are the savings? But of course this is not about having an adequate force structure is it? /rhet question
* for the technical minded, those numbers are set by Congress for authorized active duty. Activation of the reserve elements require literally an act of Congress to allow those numbers above the authorization come every fiscal year if they're on 'active duty'.
#8
One thing I know about Marines who are "out" in a RIF like this, is that they almost universally want back "in".
So it seems like an excellent alternative to create a "Marine auxiliary", like a State militia unit, whose purpose is to keep them close to active duty standards, so that they could rapidly rejoin the Corps and move to active duty with minimal effort.
Say a State sets up a system like this. It would need minimal funding, because most of the expense would be born by the individual. But just by clearing legal hurdles and providing organizational structure, would go miles to keeping them fit.
They are not paid, and must keep their uniforms up to standards, but are allowed to purchase replacement uniform parts. They must also purchase their own specified semi-automatic only rifle and ammunition.
Once a month, they perform a stringent PT test, and take a written test of written training material they were provided the previous month. Height/weight standards are in force.
If there is a State emergency, they can be used, and paid, like National Guardsmen, as auxiliaries. But they cannot be federalized as a unit, only as individuals.
If a border State is willing to pay them some money, they can act as border guards, not under federal constraints, and as a militia they are not subject to Posse Comitatus rules.
#9
hmmmm... Moose, with all due respect, your idea's scary. I would not assume that these freebooter militias would invariably serve benign political agendas. Could be another Freikorps. V. dangerous.
#10
Lex: These would be under the auspices of the State they were living in. As such, they are far less dangerous than even National Guardsmen. The only equipment they have are rifles they own, and their POVs, unless the State temporarily issues them other equipment, like radios and emergency response gear.
Likely, the State would arrange for them to unofficially keep their former rank in such a militia, but as a class designation, like E-5 and O-2 are used. They behave like Marines around each other because they want to.
Senior personnel would be in charge of designing their training regimen, and evaluating their standards, such as signing off on PT tests.
Again, the overall purpose is to keep them in shape, so that if there is a recall, there will be a motivated and prepared reserve ready to get back on active duty.
#12
People, People : state militias are not only legal in the US, they are provided for via the Constitution and federal statute. Most states have them, they are state-only troops that cannot be federalized except in a time of national emergency, with a FORMAL declaration of war. Even then, the state can refuse to release them, since all of their equipment and training is state provided -- the feds would have to replace them on a one-for-one basis.
#13
States cannot afford or equip a fulltime, professinal military. Soldiers and their gear are expensive. Only the budget of a Fed can support this. Relying on the state for fighting and equiping militias it ludicrous. No militia is on par with full time soldiers. Nor will the have their T/O&E. Demirats hate the military because they don't fit into their warm, fuzzy world view, and protect them. After all, you don't need protection if you bend over and let every one love you. Right?
#14
States cannot afford or equip a fulltime, professional military.
If you were gullible enough to believe AG Holder and Secretary Clinton, like readers of the NYT, LAT, and WAPO, Americans have more than enough assault rifles, medium/heavy machineguns and RPGs to fully equip the narcoterrorist cartels just over the border in Mexico. And that's just available at your local gun stores and gun conventions. Getting a muster of such domestic firepower should be simple. /sarc off
[Asharq al-Aswat] Some regarded the recent press conference held by Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah to be a success. The criteria of success in this case is not confirming or denying an accusation, but rather in preparing to deal with these accusations.
In order not to be misunderstood, let me clarify that this press conference was a success even before it started. This press conference was preceded by a media campaign launched by a host of media outlets affiliated or loyal to Hezbollah which leaked pictures, investigations, and confessions, all as a part of a slogan that many founded attractive; Israel is the killer, Israel is responsible for the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. We experienced several weeks of a media propaganda campaign that made almost everybody feel that they had to listen to what Nasrallah would say, and that their fate was closely linked to this press conference. This is precisely the mood that Nasrallah succeeded in creating.
Nasrallah prefaced his speech with several press interviews in which he continually promised to reveal more next time, telling al-Manar satellite television that "before 8 August is one thing, and what happens afterwards is another." The fact that the streets of Beirut were empty when this press conference was being broadcast, and that the media gave this special coverage, is proof that the event was a success in grabbing the attention of the Lebanese public and making them feel that the fate of the entire nation was hanging on what Nasrallah was going to say.
However let us analyze some of the things that we saw and heard.
What Nasrallah described as "inconclusive evidence" is precisely the same information that was published earlier by newspapers and media outlets affiliated to Hezbollah. The press conference merely recycled the same news that Hezbollah had previously leaked to the media, or to be more precise, to its own media. Nasrallah repeated what we had already been informed of in order to present his view and analysis of the Hariri assassination.
The conference, which included an unprecedented audio and visual presentation with regards to previous Nasrallah press conferences, relied primarily on journalistic expertise and capabilities rather than judicial or investigative [expertise]. Al-Manar satellite television reporters exerted a lot of effort to develop the photographs of the Israeli reconnaissance aircraft, and produce the segments [of the presentation] that showed the confessions of [Israeli] agents, with the Israeli flag being shown at the top of the screen.
Following the Nasrallah conference, newspapers revealed that more than 150 young men and women affiliated to Hezbollah searched through archives and records for the specific material that was utilized during this press conference.
Therefore it is not important here to confirm or deny what was put forward at this press conference, for this is something entrusted to the international tribunal, and until now we do not know what or when it will announce its final ruling. It seems that we have become entrapped by these fiery speeches, and we will continue to be affected by the leaks in the press as they have become the backbone of our daily lives. Nasrallah concluded this press conference by saying that he was providing data and evidence in order to open new horizons, but it seems that these new horizons will be nothing more than another source for leaks, speeches, and media talk, rather than giving us conclusive proof, investigation, or confession.
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#1
ION TOPIX > HIZBULLAH'S NEXT TARGET MAY BE LEBANON?
As supplemented by IRAN's repor new efforts to influence = dominate? the PA + PALEO MILITANT GROUPS???
Americans also may be surprised (Um....not really....)to learn that the United States has been an active participant in mosque construction projects overseas.
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A construction worker walks into a bar. He's a rather large, menacing guy. He orders a beer, chugs it back, and bellows, "All you guys on this side of the bar are a bunch of idiots!" A sudden silence descends.
After a moment he asks "Anyone got a problem with that?" The silence lengthens.
He then chugs back another beer and growls, "And all you guys on the other side of the bar are all scum!" Once again, the bar is silent.
He looks around belligerently and roars, "Anyone got a problem with that?" A lone man gets up from his stool unsteadily and starts to walk towards the man.
"You got a problem, buddy?"
"Oh no; I'm just on the wrong side of the bar."
And then there is the old saying something about throwing money down a......
#5
Nothing like financing your own destruction at home and abroad. Do the dumb $hits who are pushing this think we are going to win the hearts and minds of the mooselimbs? The muzzies can build their own mosques abroad. Personally, I'd rather they have to re-build their mosques abroad.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Asharq al-Aswat] Some regarded the recent press conference held by Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah to be a success. The criteria of success in this case is not confirming or denying an accusation, but rather in preparing to deal with these accusations.
