April 4, 2011

• Bye, bye Glenn Beck
• Saudi Arabia and Iran on Hair Trigger
• Israeli UAV Missile Kills Iranian WMD Smugglers in Sudan
• Cal. Workers Get 8 Weeks Off A Year.
• MAIN STREAM MEDIA puts Christ down\
• 2012’s Four Letter Word Campaign - JOBS
• TEA PARTY Approvals Tumble
• Obama Deficit Will be Over $20 Trillion in 2021
• Obama Loses Saudis As Ally
• Israel Signs Space Deal With Russia
• History of Toilet Paper
• Rare Earth (Strategic Metals) China Crisis

For the first time in 12 years Tiger Woods is not the favorite to wear the green jacket that goes to the winner of the Augusta Masters. Phil Mickelson is, and the wise guys in Vegas don’t even make it close.At his peak, bettors could put down $20 to win $30 on Woods in the Masters. This week they can bet $10 and win $100, but even the prospect of a big payoff hasn’t lured them to put a lot of money on Woods.

Glenn Beck confirmed on air Wednesday he will leave his Fox News Channel show later this year, although an announcement from the network and his production company today did not include his final departure date.or exact reason — others blamed the split on falling ratings, decreasing advertisers and continuing controversy Leftist could barely keep the champagne corked.

In a joint news release, the network and Beck’s Mercury Radio Arts announced that Fox News and his company will work together to “develop and produce a variety of television projects for air on the Fox News Channel as well as content for other platforms including Fox News’ digital properties.”

Beck became a sensation almost immediately after jumping from HLN to Fox for an afternoon program. But his viewership has declined lately, The Associated Press noted.

Among other things, he had faced an advertiser boycott that limited the amount of companies that wanted to be a part of his show after saying President Barack Obama had a “deep-seated hatred for white people.”

Beck’s statement expressed gratitude to Fox News chief Roger Ailes “for the lessons I’ve learned and will continue to learn from him and I look forward to starting this new phase of our partnership.”

Q:  What’s the difference between Obama and his dog, Bo?
A:  Bo has papers.  –Jimmy Kimmel

An accord reached between Saudi King Abdullah and the Bahraini King Hamas bin Isa Al Khalifa for the oil island’s virtual annexation by Riyadh has so incensed Tehran that armed Iranian-Saudi clashes with the potential for all-out warfare may soon become unavoidable,

Shiite-ruled Iraq would back Tehran in the first Shiite-Sunni collision to be sparked by the wave of unrest sweeping the Arab world - in contrast to the domestic discord raging in Libya and Yemen. In the third week of March, That, of course, would drag U. S. forces there right onto the front line and  to the brink of all-out war in the region.

As if prompted  to provoke on Saturday, April 2, Iraq’s Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki chipped in by reviling US Middle East policy as discriminating among the popular movements in motion against the different Arab dictatorial regimes: “Whatever decision is made on Libya should be applied to any government that suppresses its people with iron and fire,” he said.

King Hamad agreed to hand over to Riyadh control Bahrain’s defense, external, financial and domestic security affairs. The Saudi king’s son Prince Mutaib was confirmed by the two monarchs as commander of the Saudi and GCC forces invited to enter the tiny kingdom to put down the Shiite-led uprising, and it was agreed that Saudi Arabia would soon start building a big naval base on the island opposite the Iranian coastline.

Because Saudi Arabia funded Pakistan’s nuclear weapons development it is believed to have access to the Pakistani arsenal estimated of between 35 and 95 warheads,with at least two on ready standby to be loaded onto Saudi cargo planes and flown to Arabia, The Sauds have purchased and installed intermediate range nuclear warhead capable missiles within easy range of everywhere in Iran and much of the region’s centers.

Obama’s decision to no longer oppose an Iranian nuclear weapon’s program and his stopping Israel from destroying it has put the middle East and OPersian Gulf on a hair trigger. Open fighting in Bahrain also puts the U. S. 5^th fleet, that is berthed and based there, in jeopardy.

Another important military step afoot at present is the transfer of Saudi fleet units from the Gulf of Oman and Red Sea to the military section of Bahrain’s port, where the US Fifth Fleet has its headquarters and berths its ships.  This is a provisional facility, to serve the Saudis until they finish building a port at Manama for parking their main Persian Gulf naval and marine command center, in response to the expanded facilities on the opposite shore of Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ naval and marine raider units.
On March 31, the Iranian parliament’s security and foreign affairs committee strongly condemned Saudi military steps

Sources report that in closed meetings with senior Saudi princes, King Abdullah explained the fundamental importance of this steps for the kingdom’s national security. He reported that Iran and its Hizballah surrogate were actively stirring up Shiite opposition in Manama as the first step toward fomenting a Shiite uprising against the Saudi throne.

The liberals are asking us to give Obama time. We agree…and think 25 to life would be appropriate. –Jay Leno

Late Tuesday, April 5, two passengers of a Hyundai Sonata car were killed in a ‘mysterious’ missile attack that wrecked their car near Port Sudan. counter-terror sources report that the attack, carried out by an unmanned aerial vehicle at Kalaneeb south of Port Said, targeted the two Hamas representative in Sudan in charge of the vast Iranian weapons smuggling enterprise for the Gaza Strip via Egypt and the Suez Canal.  His latest task was to organize the transfer to Port Sudan of a shipment of mustard and nerve gas shells purchased by Hamas and Hizballah representatives with Tehran’s help from Libyan rebels in Benghazi.

The covert WMD consignment was destined for Gaza and Lebanon .I reported on this clandestine sale of poison gas shells more than  a week ago and questioned U. S., French and British support for the so-called rebels. U. S. Main Stream Media has ignored the story

Authorities in Mali arrested four people after an aircraft loaded with 10 tons of cocaine crashed. Charlie Sheen called it “the worst air disaster in history.” — Leno

Governor “Moonbeam” Brown’s administration has struck a labor deal that gives new employees so many days off, they may have trouble using them all - 7.7 weeks.a year!! The contract provides nearly two months off. Vacation, holidays, a personal holiday, personal development days and the personal leave program, amount to 7.7 weeks off according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office. All but the personal leave program - 12 furlough days - are with full pay.

Now you know why Arnold had to hire 50,000 new employees–to cover for the employees taking weeks off with pay!

50% of Adults believe the United States should produce more domestic oil by allowing drilling in the ANWR, an issue that Congress has debated for years. Thirty-five percent (35%) oppose drilling in the refuge, while 14% are not sure.

This week Obama claimed oil companies have vast tracts but won’t drill there. That’s largely untrue since those tracts are judged unprofitable or have other impediments. He was being untruthful again.

It seems as though each year, just in time for the Easter season, mainstream media sources decide to feature content that questions whether Jesus Christ rose from the dead and if he actually ever lived at all.

A church in Orange County, Calif., is trying to counter the secular media spin this season with a novel advertising approach. The Compass Bible Church created an ad to be shown in movie theaters prior to the feature film.

At a time when theaters routinely show previews of films with images of sex, violence, and drugs, one would think that a church ad for an Easter service might be a welcome change.

This type of advertising is typically sandwiched between previews and has been proven to be quite effective. The church’s spot was seeking to bring nonbelievers to the Aliso Viejo congregation’s annual Easter service at the University of California, Irvine.

The 30-second ad features one-liners about what some conspiracy theorists believe may have happened to Jesus Christ more than 2,000 years ago. The ad closes with the line: “Find out what we believe about the resurrection at Compass Bible Church.”

Surprisingly, Pastor Mike Fabarez received a rejection from NCM Media Networks, a firm that handles pre-show advertising displayed on many Southern California theater screens.

What was the reason given for the rebuff? It wasn’t conspiracy theories or the church invite that caused the firm to ban the ad. No, it was the fact that the ad includes the name “Jesus.”

NCM Media released a statement claiming that the ad was rejected because Compass Bible Church chose not to revise it so it would conform to content guidelines.

The firm maintains that it gave to Fabarez guidelines that disallowed nudity, drug use and the promotion of religious figures.

Beau geste (bo ZHEST) plural beaux gestes (bo ZHEST) noun: A gracious, but often meaningless, gesture. Etymology from French, literally fine gesture. Earliest documented use: 1920.

Monday Obama officially kicked off his reelection campaign something that most see as redundant since he has only campaigned since he began his presidential run in 2006. He plans to raise $1 billion to be reelected. Don’t chuckle he raised $750 million for 2008.

In politics it is most important who your opponent is. Obama would beat Mitt Romney by nine points and Tim Pawlenty by 19 points in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup if the election were today.

The margin was narrower against a generic Republican candidate (something that, of course, doesn’t exist) - but even there Mr. Obama held the edge, 45 percent to 40 percent. Mr. Obama’s approval rating two years into his term (49 percent) was higher than two of the last two three presidents to win a second term - Presidents Reagan and Clinton. (President George W. Bush had a 59 percent approval rating at the midpoint in his first term.)

Even those who disagree with Mr. Obama tend to like him - a crucial factor in winning the independents who broke from the Democrats in the 2010 midterm elections. The fact that 84 percent of Americans (according to an Associated Press poll last month) call Mr. Obama a likeable person speaks to his advantage among the casual voters who may not go to the polls in a midterm year but will cast ballots in 2012.

“In the last 56 U.S. presidential elections, 31 have involved incumbents; 21 of those candidates have won more than one term.” Only once in the past 120 years has a Democrat president from that party who sought a second term lost. And that was Jimmy Carter in 1980.

Then there’s the money: Obama is expected to potentially hit the $1 billion mark this time around. Republicans will fight hard to match Mr. Obama on the money front, with the help of the GOP-leaning outside groups that the Supreme Court has freed up to spend massive amounts on behalf of candidates. But that’s an uphill fight - as will be their attempt to match Mr. Obama’s well-oiled campaign apparatus and voter turnout operation.

The 2012 presidential election will turn on a four letter word - JOBS. Bizaarely Obama flacks are cheering unemployment at ONLY 8.8% and just 14 million jobless.

Combine the words “The” with “IRS” and you get “theirs”.

CNN has a new poll out showing their highest-ever level of unfavorable views for the Tea Party movement. According to the poll, 47 percent of Americans now have an unfavorable view of the Tea Party, as compared to 32 percent with a favorable one.

Let’s keep this simple: is the poll some sort of outlier or part of a trend?

When all polls are plotted, from the PollingReport.com database that asked people for their impressions on the Tea Party, and then plotted a smoothed regression line on top of them. The trend looks reasonably clear: unfavorable views are on the rise. Although the CNN poll may have exaggerated them slightly, they now register at about 44 percent, according to the trendline.

It’s not clear, on the other hand, that favorable views are decreasing; they’ve never been much higher than the low 30s, and that’s roughly where they remain today. Instead, this is almost certainly a case of Americans who had ambivalent views about the Tea Party before now coming to a more negative impression.

Certainly this will encourage the left to spice up its anti-TEA PARTY talking points. TEA PARTIES latching onto the up coming Ayn Rand movie will also likelt be exploited among the religious who dislike the atheist Rand’s rants and onjectivist ideology.

Bumf (bumf) noun: Unwanted or uninteresting printed matter such as governmental forms, legal documents, junk mail, promotional pamphlets, etc. Etymology short for bum fodder, slang for toilet paper. Earliest documented use: 1889.

When Obama ran for President he said his goal was to cut the deficit in half.  When  ho took office the national debt was $11 trillion. Today it is over $14 trillion.

“The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says that Obama’s 2012 budget will cause large and persistent yearly deficits that will push the public debt to $20.8 trillion by 2021.

This figure, known as the debt-to-GDP ratio, is used to illustrate the size of a country’s debt relative to its economy in order to show how stable a country’s finances are.

$20.8 trillion is also more than double the size of the current level of public debt, which is $9.6 trillion. It is also 1.4 times as large as the economy is today.”

South African Dr. Sonnet Ehlers has invented a female condum with teeth designed to prevent rape. Ehlers who sold her house and car to make the gadget says woman inserts the latex condom like a tampon. Jagged rows of teeth-like hooks line its inside and attach on a man’s penis during penetration and can then only be removed surgically, Ehlers said. Apparently only if a man tries to remove it does it penetrate his skin. But, it is painfull.

Saudi Arabia, which has deployed thousands of troops into neighboring Bahrain, has lost faith with Obama’s Rodney King-like strategy in the Gulf, a report said.

The Foreign Policy Research Institute has asserted that the Saudi kingdom was taking its boldest military operation in decades in an effort to quell the Shi’ite revolt in Bahrain. The institute, in a report by analyst Rachel Bronson, said the Saudi intervention could increase the prospect of a confrontation with Iran.

“The kingdom is clearly rattled by events in the region, and has lost faith in U.S. efforts to promote dialogue in the absence of brute force,” the report, titled “Saudi Arabia’s Intervention In Bahrain: A Necessary Evil Or A Strategic Blunder?”

It’s now being reported that CIA agents have entered Libya. We’re not sure how long they’ll be staying, but some of them just left Vietnam. — Leno

Obama’s pathetically misguided policy toward Israel has shoved it into the welcoming embrace of Russia. Israel and Russia have launched a project to cooperate in the field of space technology in part because Obama has eviscerated NASA.

Israel and Russia signed a framework cooperation agreement between the space agencies of the two countries. Officials said the accord was meant to enhance cooperation in the fields of research, observation and advanced material and launching amid Israeli plans to double its space assets.

“The technology is very focused and very advanced,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “Therefore, the combination of Russia’s major and developed industry, including its technology, and Israel’s developed and advanced technology, is, I believe, one that could provide major benefits to both countries.”

The signing, which took place on March 27 in Jerusalem, was said to reflect increasing cooperation between Jerusalem and Moscow. Officials said Russia could contribute expertise in rocket and satellite assembly while Israel would offer skills in miniaturization of space payloads.

For his part, Netanyahu said the Russian leadership has agreed to increase space cooperation. The prime minister said Israel was the “most natural partner for cooperation” with Russia.

“We have focused technology, including, I believe, six satellites in space,” Netanyahu said. “Soon we will have a dozen.”

42% of American Adults say the federal government should legalize and tax marijuana as a way to dig out of federal debt, but 45% disagree. Thirteen percent (13%) are not sure if it’s the right approach to generate more revenue for the government. These views have barely changed in the last two years.

The tax argument mirrors George Washington imposing an 11 ½ cent per gallon excise tax on whiskey leading to the infamous Whiskey Rebellion 1791-1794 which was Alexander Hamilton’s scheme to fund the $54 MILLION national debt $700 MILLION IN 2010 DOLLARS. Tax collectors were sent into then wild and wooly western Pennsylvania to be confronted by 500 angry, armed men. Tax collectors were routinely tarred and feathered and run out of town tied on  a rail.

Although paper had been known as a wrapping and padding material in China since the 2nd century BC, the first documented use of toilet paper in human history dates back to the 6th century AD, in early medieval China. In 589 AD the scholar-official Yan Zhitui (531-591) wrote about the use of toilet paper:

During the later Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) a Muslim traveler to China in the year 851 AD remarked about the use of toilet paper.

During the early 14th century (Yuan Dynasty) it was recorded that in modern-day Zhejiang province alone there was an annual manufacturing of toilet paper amounting in ten million packages of 1,000 to 10,000 sheets of toilet paper each.^[2] During the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 AD), it was recorded in 1393 that 720,000 sheets of toilet paper (two by three feet in size) were produced for the general use of the Imperial court at the capital of Nanjing.^[2] From the records of the Imperial Bureau of Supplies (Bao Chao Si) of that same year, it was also recorded that for Emperor Hongwu’s imperial family alone, there were 15,000 sheets of special soft-fabric toilet paper made, and each sheet of toilet paper was even perfumed.

Elsewhere, wealthy people wiped themselves with wool, lace or hemp, while less wealthy people used their hand when defecating into rivers, or cleaned themselves with various materials such as rags, wood shavings, leaves, grass, hay, stone, sand, moss, water, snow, maize, ferns, may apple plant husks, fruit skins, or seashells, and corncobs, depending upon the country and weather conditions or social customs. In Ancient Rome, a sponge on a stick was commonly used, and, after usage, placed back in a bucket of saltwater. Several talmudic sources indicating ancient Jewish practice refer to the use of small pebbles, often carried on one’s person in a special bag, and also to the use of dry grass and of the smooth edges of broken pottery jugs.

Joseph Gayetty is widely credited with being the inventor of modern commercially available toilet paper in the United States. Gayetty’s paper, first introduced in 1857, was available as late as the 1920s. Gayetty’s Medicated Paper was sold in packages of flat sheets, watermarked with the inventor’s name. Original advertisements for the product used the tagline “The greatest necessity of the age! Gayetty’s medicated paper for the water-closet.”

One tree produces about 100 pounds (45 kg) of toilet paper and about 83 million rolls are produced per day.

An average American uses 50 pounds (23 kg) of toilet paper per year which is 50% more than the average of Western countries or Japan.

Berjuan Toys’ Breast Milk Baby, is a toy baby doll that allows little girls as young as 5-6 years-old to pretend that they are breastfeeding. In order to “breastfeed”, a little girl straps on a halter top where two flowers represent the nipples. The baby doll, once close to a flower (aka breast), has a sensor in its mouth and makes suckling noises. Most think the “baby doll” is not appropriate for little girls.

U.S. and Asian governments are quietly working on plans to secure access to rare earth minerals essential to developing military and civilian high-technology systems and hope to gain access to rare earths (strategic metals) in Mongolia.

Japan, for example, wants to conclude new mining deals with Mongolia after China cut off exports of rare earth minerals to Japan during a maritime dispute last year over the Senkaku Islands.

Prices for rare earth minerals continue to rise as China remains nearly the sole source of the minerals used in items from computers to jet aircraft.

Chinese exports of rare earths in the first two months of 2011 came to 7,084 metric tons, according to data published Tuesday by Hong Kong-based Economic Information & Agency, which publishes statistics it gets from China’s General Administration of Customs.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the figures represent a 0.3% increase from the first two months of 2010 but about half of what Beijing said would be permitted for sale overseas in the first six months of 2011.

The U.S. Congress will soon introduce legislation that would require the Pentagon to stockpile rare earths for the U.S. military.

Rare earth elements or rare earth metals are a collection of seventeen chemical elements in the periodic table, specifically the fifteen lanthanoids plus scandium and yttrium.

Despite their name, rare earth elements (with the exception of the radioactive promethium) are relatively plentiful in the Earth’s crust, with cerium being the 25th most abundant element at 68 parts per million (similar to copper). However, because of their geochemical properties rare earth elements are typically dispersed and not often found in concentrated and economically exploitable forms known as rare earth minerals.

Uses range from lasers to nuclear batteries to MRI machines and super-conducting magnets and numerous other uses. China could cut off supply with virtually no effort choking off critical projects.

More American Adults in March identifying themselves as Democrats than Republicans for the first time since October.

Now, just 34.0% of Adults consider themselves to be Republicans. That’s down three points since December and just over a point lower than a month ago. The number calling themselves Democrats rose to 35.3% from 34.3% in February.

The California Highway Patrol is handing out more traffic citations than it did a few years ago, and that has generated tens of millions of dollars in new revenue for state and local government issued about 200,000 more traffic citations in 2009 than it did two years before.

Sacramento Superior Court, meanwhile, processed about 37,000 more traffic filings last year than in 2006 - a 16 percent increase. Local police departments, the county Sheriff’s Department and the CHP gave out those tickets.

Driver advocates say that such growth in traffic enforcement is happening all over the country and that the timing isn’t coincidental

They contend that state and local governments nationwide have been raising revenue by issuing more traffic citations.

A noble if failed experiment was called “selective enforcement” that proposed patrols should be assigned to places where traffic crashes occurred. But, those were places hard to patrol and studies showed and traffic tickets are disproportionately issued on easy to patrol and the physically safest stretches of road (like air patrols o bright sunny days on 4-lane mostly rural divided.highways.

 Likewise the idea of a “quota” of one citation per patrol hour is also fallacious.

With the average fine costing as much as $250 and rising, the increase in CHP tickets produced as much as $50 million over two years.

How much, if anyting. this has to do with the least number of fatalities in traffic crashes in 50 years if likely nothing at all: airbags and multipoint seat belts are credited with most of the lives saved although manitory seat belt use enforcement certainly contributed.

Obama’s approval ratings are so low now, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the United States — Leno.