Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
“missed signs” I’ll translate: We, the MSM will never take on Barack Obama in a full frontal assault, lest we become targets of the FCC, but this was so egregious, that we can’t, with the small shred of moral compass we still retain, not address the fact that a high government official, deliberately used the power of his office to provide taxpayer money to a newly acquired personal entity, for his own benefit, and that of a select few top level private executives.
More pithy translation: The President and his staff committed a felony.
Well, since you put it that way…
http://www.despair.com/meetings.html
After that link, there’s no more that I can say. I’m sure others will try, however.
I think the legal phrase “due diligence” is about to become a household meme.
Hopefully along with the phrase “Do Hard Time”.
What do you mean “we” paleface?
That OB visit to Solyndra last year? Well orchestrated? They don’t know the half of it!
I had been working a contract about a half mile from another Fed darling company – the closed NUMMI (New United Motor Manufacturing – aka Toyota) plant, now Tesla Motors in Fremont. First thing I saw on the highway that AM was the unusual presence of Coast Guard helo assets far inland (I know one of the helo bubbas involved). NUMMI was used for a landing zone for the helo fleet carrying HizZz HoleyneSs. All of I-880 was closed to traffic. A few miles away I680 was being closed. Shortly afterwards, it was like a scene from Apocalypse now. Helos all over the sky. Most of the workers were told to stay home. Nothing to see. Orchestrated, big time.
What is significant here is there are two darling “enterprises” that HizZz HoleyneSs wanted to succeed. The other is Tesla Motors and both are in Fortney (that’s Pete, not Shortny) Stark’s congressional district. Forntney enabled all this funding, while the quasi-legit solar companies had to use normal channels.
The Solyndra plant went through money quicker than grass through a goose. Union workers salaries were rich. The new plant (that never worked) was built for over $1000 per square foot. Much of the capital equipment went to VDL, a bus maker in Netherlands, that never made such equipment before.
Lost. Crooked. Every step. Chicagoland in sunny Ca.
Ah, Forntey. One of the last of the original Burton Machine politicians.
Seems a major fund raiser for the WON! is an investor in the failed enterprise…Coincidence? I THINK NOT!
We have these sort of green energy fiascos here in Canada too. The current premier (like a governor) of Ontario, who is presently campaigning for an election that will happen in less than 2 weeks, is apparently staging photo-ops at closed “green” technology factories.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/40433
Distrust the media? Consider the recent stories about the speed of light being broken. CERN’s press release came a day AFTER the press broke their sensationalized stories.
CERN’s clarification is about a 20 PPM discrepancy in the measured speed of neutrinos. Considering past speed discrepancies have been 7-28% due to vacuum leaks at CERN, intelligent readers may want to be suspicious about an attempt to obfuscate a developing LightSquared (as in e=mc2) scandal.
Who would think? There is a curiously related timeline at Molten Eagle for the unconvinced.
Beyond that, there are problems with relativity. Einstein cobbled togetehr a few things to make it work.
In the late 70s some experiemnts were done that detected ethereal drag, something that E$instein said would not be found. The experiments of teh early 20th centurt didn’t find anything, but the instruments of the day were not sensitive enough.
The late 70s apparatus was stored at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal and was contaminated by chemical agents and FedGov refused to return it to the investigators as a result. The investigator is calling for a repetition of teh experiments. I’ll try to find the article again.
Tom Bethell’s article details some of the problems with Relativity.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/bethell4.1.1.html
The Obamination made no mistake. It was pure payback. And its only going to get worse. The LightSquared debacle will almost certainly get approval from the administration since The OneWhoWun was an early investor in the company (to the tune of $100K) before it changed it’s name in order to apply for it’s waiver of interference with neighboring frequencies. The fact that it pretty much destroys the ability to receive a high precision GPS signal within a couple of hundred square miles of each of the 40,000 planned LightSquared towers is no problem at all. With the need to feather his own pockets and those of his billionaire ‘bundlers’, don’t cha know.
After all….he’d be perfectly happy to see the entire military up and disappear. Just that much more money to buy his next election with.
That second link is actually pretty interesting, especially the last chart. The consensus opinion is that the media is left leaning. Even 16% of liberals and 20% of Democrats think the media is “too liberal,” which is really saying something.
They were pretty quick to find the $400 million Bridge to Nowhere and stuck to it like glue.
As long as it’s the other guy’s ox getting gored.
Where’s an outbreak of Hoof-and-mouth when you need it?
Solyndra didn’t kill anyone.
Fast and Furious did.
All of them, from the First Empty Suit all the way down to the last appointed janitor should be perp walking.
I hate it when I miss signs, but take solace in knowing the NYT has itdentified my error.
I wonder what the previous peak of Not much/no trust at 55% back in late 2004 related to? Or am I reading the timeline correctly? Too early for the BS Katrina coverage.
Note that current divergence began in 2008, and has remained steady since then. Gee, I wonder what happened in 2008 that would cause a massive loss of faith in the mainstream media?…