February 23, 2011

• Obama’s Dangerous Confusion
• More Say GOP has Plan Than Dems Do.
• Big Support for Wisconsin Governor
• Soros Calls Fox Nazis
• Cosmologically Speaking
• Egyptian Epilogue
• Michelle Obama Forgot To Do Her Homework
• Libyan Jihad Suicide: Oil Up, Dow Down
• Most favor district elections in SB and higher tobacco taxes.

Unions gave $200,000,000 (million) to politicians last year 97% of it to Democrats.

Obama is risking toppling allies in the war on terror with his public statements, Fran Townsend, President’s George W. Bush’s chief of counterterrorism, told Newsmax

It’s one thing to advocate for there to be greater freedom and greater liberalization,” Townsend says. “It’s another thing for us to put our thumb on the scale when it comes to toppling existing regimes and power.”

Obama’s muddled foreign policy ius confusing to allies and encouraging to enemies.

Townsend questions why Obama publicly advocated the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. In Egypt, “I’m not sure why we felt the need to speak out so frequently,” Townsend says. “This is a matter for the Egyptian people, and I think we needn’t have taken so public a role. I know there are many on the right and the left who would disagree with that. But having been responsible for security issues, I needed allies that I could depend upon, and the Egyptians were very dependable allies in the war on terror.”

The best Mayor money can buy. Rahm Emanuel is Chicago’s new mayor setting up a 2012 replay of the 1960 presidential election when Chicago delivered newly rekeyed ballot boxes a day late putting JFK over the top.

47% Say GOP Has Plan for Future, 41% Say Same of Democrats. That’s a 12-point increase from a year ago when just 35% believed that to be true.

Voters have more confidence now that Republicans rather than Democrats have a plan for the future, and they’re almost evenly divided over whether either political party is really the party of the American people.

Thirty-nine percent (39%) of voters feel it is fair to say neither party in Congress is the party of the American people, but 37% disagree.

Where am I going and why am I in this handbasket?

A new Rasmussen poll finds that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters agree more with Wisconsin’s Republican governor in his dispute with union workers. Thirty-eight percent (38%) agree more with the unionized public employees, while 14% are undecided.

In an effort to close the state’s sizable budget deficit, Walker is proposing to eliminate collective bargaining for public employees including teachers on everything but wage issues. He is excluding public safety workers such as policemen and firemen from his plan.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker repeated Sunday what he said last week — that Obama stop  meddling in the affairs of the state of Wisconsin. “The president ultimately should stay focused on fixing the federal budget, “Walker said, “because they’ve got a huge deficit,” Politico reports.

Billionaire currency manipulator and uber-liberal George Soros blasted Fox News, Glenn Beck and Rupert Murdoch last Sunday in a CNN interview, likening them to Nazis or the fictitious “Big Brother” of George Orwell for what he described as manipulation of the public. He also suggested that the tea party movement was deluded and should be pitied because they don’t “understand” the economic forces at work in the United States, according to CNN.

When Lybian madman dictator Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, 69, has report to have fled the country and not even Venezuala’s nutcase dictator Hugo Chavez wants him according to news reports. It appears Gaddafi is hunkered down in Lybia directing attacks against citizens,

New observations and calculations based on the planet hunting Kepler telescope predicts some 50 billion plants in our local Milky Way galaxy and 50 million of those in the so-called Goldilocks zone  neither too-hot or too cold for life as we know it. Assuming those are relatively evenly distributed someplace in the 100,000 light years that is the diameter of the Milky Way galaxy. Based on these numbers Drakes’ equation predicts tens of thousands of lifeforms exist in our “neighborhood..”

The wrinkles include how many, where and when sentient life occurs The rub is the projected lifespan of a civilization — let’s say it’s a 10,000 year lifespan for a civilization. So, if ET signaled  when human’s were building the pyramids we would hear that signal for another 95,000 years. Of course that would mean we and they would long since be extinct before we or they could figure out someone or something called.

That assumes translight speed travel and communications is not possible. But, njow scientist say that part of Einstein’ theory might be disproved.

An interesting approach ibto faster than light speed zone is called the G-theory that proposes that beyond, (or above, or outside) the space-time continuum. A trans-light state does exist. The idea is that what we call magnetism is a manifestation of something in the trans-light state which impinges on our universe.

G-theory is that magnetism in its “free” state, (i.e., untethered to matter), exists in the trans-light state as a kind of standing wave… or helix… or, as has been suggested, a circle drawn over time… one “turn” encompassing the entire material universe. Since, as has been explained, nothing can “travel faster than” light, we can say that the helix propagates at just the other side of the light barrier.

As G Theory suggest speed in addition to its being relative does not exist nor does  time in the faster than  the speed of light. State.

As you read this earth and you with it is rotating at about 1,000 MPH and zipping around the Sun at 67,000 MPH while the Sun and entire solar system is whizzing around  the center of our galazy at 480,000 MPH while the entire Milky Way galaxy is speeding  along at 828,000 MPH. Of course that a pittance of the 670 million miles per hour that light goes.

AMTRAC LOSES OVER $50,000,000,000 ( billion) every  YEAR - an average of $32 EVERYTIME A PASSENGER BOARDS a train. Obama’s blueprint would add tens of billions more for high speed rail including in Florida where AMTRAC posted a record $145 per passenger loss in 2009. No country on earth has a profitable railroad system and haven’t since they were takenover by their respective governments.

Egypt’s militsry has rejected Obama’s call to admit the Muslim Brotherhood into the nation’s political life. Except for thoes sleeping soundly as Obama took power the conscious recall that when Obama went to Cairo he called for Mubarak to give the Muslim Brotherhood a role then and that was soundly rejected.

In their first week in power, Egypt’s new military rulers took two steps that had nothing to do with democratic reform. They allowed Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the radical Sunni preacher exiled by Hosni Mubarak ,to return home and lead a victory assembly in Tahrir Square Friday night, Feb. 17 with a call to march on Al Aqsa in Jerusalem. From Qatar, al-Qaradawi repeatedly justified suicide bombings against Israelis. The second was permission for two Iranian war ships to transit the Suez Canal. Both have observers scratching their collective heads.

On the other side of the algorythm is Israel counting the cost of losing its most important strategic partner in the region — Egypt. Thirty-two years of peace leave Israel militarily unprepared for the unknown on their 270-kilometer long southern border; no contemporary experience of desert combat since the The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War or October War October 6-15. Its army is trained and equipped only for the hostile fronts of Iran, Lebanon’s Hizballah and Syria; a dearth of intelligence about the Egyptian army and its commanders, and no clue to the new rulers’ intentions.

Egypt transfered 900 men of two 18th Division battalions to Sinai to rein in the lawless rampage raging there. The Council acted within 24 hours of taking the reins of office from Hosni Mubarak. There is some speculation that the army is hiding the deposed president in a base on the Red Sea coast - far from Sharm el-Sheikh.near the extremne southern extent of the Gulf of Suez on he Red Sea.

A man from Ohio is being called “the Amish Bernie Madoff” for swindling Amish families out of millions of dollars. People became suspicious when they saw his horse pulling a Lamborghini. - Letterman

Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign is “unintentionally” misleading nation says a copyrighted NewsMax report., He campaign attempts to reduce childhood obesity by encouraging kids, parents, schools, communities, and pediatricians to focus on healthier eating and exercise, diverts attention from the real cause of the U.S. obesity epidemic, says Dr. Russell Blaylock.

While a high-sugar, high-fat diet, and a lack of physical exercise contribute to the problem, the three main causes of widespread obesity are:

• 1. consumption of massive amounts of excitotoxic food additives, such as MSG; l
• 2. ow vitamin D3 levels; and t
• 3. he over-vaccination of children, says Blaylock, editor of The Blaylock Wellness Report.

“This is the major problem, but it’s being completely ignored despite extensive research in the area,” he says. “While [Michelle Obama's] goals are laudable, one must be careful that this is not just another massive spending program that will eventually be taken over by major food-based corporations and pharmaceutical companies, as we have seen in other areas of such ‘governmental-private partnerships.’

“As soon as we accept [it], we will see mandatory vaccinations of every description, drugs being added to our water supply, and children forced to take dangerous psychotropic drugs and statins. I believe we should reject creating another massive federal agency and risk losing control of our own children.”

Studies show that when fed to newborn animals, excitotoxic food additives like monosodium glutamate and soy extract, cause obesity by damaging the hypothalamus, an area of the brain that regulates weight, and the pancreas, which regulates blood-sugar levels, he says.

Studies show that low levels of vitamin D3 are correlated to weight regain, he says. And extensive research has shown that too many vaccinations results in immune over-stimulation in the pancreas, causing diabetes, obesity, and metabolic syndrome, a series of risk factors such as high blood pressure, insulin resistance, and high cholesterol.

“Contributing to this is the massive consumption also of high-fructose corn syrup, high-sugar diet, [and] lack of exercise,” he says.

Obesity is such a dangerous condition because it produces chronic inflammation throughout the body, which leads to cancer, heart disease, degenerative brain disorders, disease of the liver and gall bladder, anxiety, and depression, Blaylock explains.

But there are ways to combat obesity and avoid these ailments and risk of early death that accompany them. Blaylock advises:

• Avoiding excitotoxins by preparing your own food
• Increasing vitamin D3 intake
• Eating lots of fruits and vegetables
• Avoiding over-vaccination and spacing apart the vaccinations you and your children do receive
• Increasing your physical activity
• Avoiding soft drinks sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup

“If you do all of those things, almost everybody will

New York City has gone 14 days without any measurable snowfall. Kids are back to making good old-fashioned garbage angels. — Fallon

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, who says he will run for Presidetn in 2012 has run into a buzz saw by predicted that a State license plate honoring a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan will not be approved by lawmakers. However, the Republican official has not denounced the efforts to produce the controversial plate.

Of course the likes of the Huffington Post, NAACP and various Obama-ites are in full song accusing Barbour of offenses against humankind. Admittedly the whole things seems foolish.

Barbour was criticized late last year for his praise of the Citizens’ Councils of Americans (CCA), a former white supremacy group that opposed racial integration, during an interview with The Weekly Standard. He also said that racial tensions were not “that bad” in Mississippi during the 1950s and 1960s. 

Japan is excavating the site of a former ‘medical school” where grisly secret germ and chemical experiments were conducted in World War II - the infamous Unit 731. There were an extimated 580,000 camp inmates.(95% Chinese and Korean;5% South East Asians and Pacific Islanders) and 200,000 Chinese military and civilians.

The most recent estimate - is about 79,000 were murdered there.

In a long, fiery speech broadcast by Libyan state TV Tuesday, Libya’s dictator and certifiable nutcase Col. Muammar Qaddafi declared war on his enemies at home and abroad. He accused the Cyrenaicans of the East of conspiring to establish an Al Qaeda emirate that would bring the Americans over and create the same situation in Libya as in Afghanistan and Pakistan and threatened them with the fury of millions of Libyans. Straight after his speech, Tripoli announced that Libyan oil and gas exports were blocked to Europe, causing pandemonium in a world market that saw a 12 percent price hike of crude oil this week and seriously threatens the fragile economies of many nations. Libyan Navy missile ships began pounding Benghazi from the sea. 

debkafile’s Gulf sources report that Saudi Arabia quietly informed Washington and some Arab capitals that it has enough spare production capacity to tide them over for the loss of Libya’s exported 1.8 million barrels a day.

The Saudis have a serious bone to pick with Qaddafi after foiling his plot to assassinate King Abdullah in 2007.

Contrary to expectations in some Western capitals, Qaddafi made it clear he had no intention of devolving his powers or  ”stepping down and giving up like other leaders.”

Earlier Tuesday, debkafile reported: Even after two pilots defected to Malta, the 22,000-man strong Libyan Air Force with its 13 bases is Muammar Qaddafi’s mainstay for survival against massive popular and international dissent. debkafile’s military sources report that 44 air transports and a like number of helicopters swiftly lifted loyal tribal militiamen fully armed from the Sahara and dropped them in the streets of Tripoli Monday, Feb. 21.
Qaddafi had mustered them to fill the gaps left by defecting army units and the large tribal militia which went over to the people.
One of the ruler’s sons, Mutassim Qaddafi, is in command of the Tripoli crackdown. Air Force planes, mostly from the Libyan Air Force’s inventory of 226 trainers, and helicopter gunships, bombed and fired heavy machine guns to scatter every attempt to stage a rally in the city’s districts.
In their wake, Mutassim’s “Libyan Popular Army” cleared the streets of protesters.

The tactics employed by Qaddafi and his sons was, first, to give the protesters free rein to rampage through the city, torch state TV and government buildings and so generate an impression among them and in the West that the Qaddafis were about to fall.

But when the demonstrators fanned out to seize the rest of the capital, they were bombed from the air and targeted by the tribal militias, who had no qualms about shooting directly at civilian crowds.

By the small hours of Tuesday, Feb. 22, when Qaddafi went on air to demonstrate he was still in Tripoli, he was again in control of the capital. 

 In a similar tactic, he first tried to gull his international critics by sending his urbane son, Saif al-Islami, who has convinced many influential people in the West that he is a moderate compared with his father, to state the Qaddafi case in a television interview Sunday, Feb. 20. Behind the scenes, another son, Mutassim, supreme commander of

the Popular Army, designed a vicious crackdown in the capital. Deep in Sahara, their father raised a tribal army to fight for their survival.

 When Muammar Qaddafi delivered his victory statement Tuesday, he sounded just like “the madman of the Middle East” - and epithet attached to him by the late Ronald Reagan. But in less than 60 seconds, he had conveyed his message that, although buildings were on fire in Tripoli, he was still standing and was determined to punish all his enemies, whom he dismissed scornfully as “foreign dogs” and “terrorist gangs of misguided youths, exploited and fed hallucinogenic pills.”
Our military sources report his strategy for staying in power rests first on consolidating his grip on Tripoli and then using it as a base for military operations to regain control of the rest of the country, including Cyrenaica.
The Libyan ruler has not yet thrown all this military resources into the battle for survival. His navy is still in reserve. But his substantial air might well be crucial fro his fight to recover Cyrenaica’s coastal towns of Benghazi and Tobruk from the rebels.

Qaddafi shows no sign of being cowed or deterred by international revulsion at his methods and the condemnations expected from the UN Security Council and the Arab League, both of which hold special meetings on Libya later Tuesday. Libya’s deputy ambassador to UN accused the ruler of “genocide” and war crimes against his own people” and several ambassadors have quit or refused to represent his government any longer. But Qaddafi is very much on the warpath.

 They say President Lincoln once walked three miles to pay back a penny. That makes him the last president to do anything about the debt. — Letterman

In what could be the first shot in the November, 2011 Santa Barbara City Council elections a hot button poll conducted Tuesday evening found two out of three  in support of returning the city to election by district abandoning the at-large election that is currently used.

 66%  support adopting a no-smoking ordinance banning tobacco smoking in all public places similar to the ban recently imposed in Carpinteria.

By a three to two margin voters favor a new $4 per pack tax on cigarettes and $3 tax per cigar. Proceeds to be used to balance the city’s budget saying they support a ballot proposition on the issues.

Voters say they will be more likely to support candidates that support district elections  the tobacco ban and new tobacco taxes.

The private telephone poll was conducted Tuesday evening

Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi was on TV and he was angry and defiant. Then he went off the air and no one has seen him since - kind of like Keith Olbermann. - Leno