tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post5236037963959068031..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Video Spanish train crash at twice the legal speed limit - shockingDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-74415623427433431662013-07-26T09:27:51.316-04:002013-07-26T09:27:51.316-04:00.
Obama nominates Caroline Kennedy, divorcee and ....<br /><br />Obama nominates Caroline Kennedy, divorcee and lawyer, as Ambassador to Japan, the third largest economy in the world.<br /><br />Knows not a word of Japanese.<br /><br />Never been in foreign service.<br /><br />However, she is a single mother now. Maybe she needs the money.<br /><br />At least, I haven't heard she hangs with prostitutes or is a pedophile. <br /><br />I guess you could say things are improving.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-74363772514070199872013-07-26T09:04:46.419-04:002013-07-26T09:04:46.419-04:00.
The Obama administration has been rebuffed at t....<br /><br /><i>The Obama administration has been rebuffed at the first hearing of a landmark case into the constitutionality of the mass collection of telephone data.<br /><br />-----------<br /><br />Justice Department lawyers argued for the case to be delayed because the intelligence community is busily working through classified material related to surveillance to see what can be made public. Some of that declassified material could be pertinent to the case, but it is a time-consuming effort, they said.<br /><br />But at the US district court in New York, judge William Pauley dismissed the request and set a schedule, with motions to be filed by 26 August and oral arguments to begin on 1 November.<br /><br />-----------------<br /><br />The American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit five days after the Guardian revealed the NSA is engaged in the mass collection of US phone records.<br /><br />Jameel Jaffer, representing the ACLU, said: "We are arguing that the programme is not authorised by statute and, even if it was, it is unconstitutional."</i><br /><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/25/justice-department-case-nsa-collection<br /><br />=======================<br /><br />I am glad to see this lawsuit (and others) seem to be working their way towards the Supreme Court. Unfortunately, I am concerned it may not make a difference. I didn't know it before the Snowden stories started hitting the streets but Chief Justice John Roberts is the guy who actually appoints the FISA judges. I will be surprised (pleasantly so) if he votes against the people he has appointed.<br /><br />We shall see.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-52918842357192938012013-07-26T08:44:52.881-04:002013-07-26T08:44:52.881-04:00.
Halliburton to admit destroying evidence in spi....<br /><br /><b>Halliburton to admit destroying evidence in spill</b><br /><br />Houston-based company will admit that it directed workers to destroy simulations done after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11 people and leaked nearly 5 million barrels of crude oil.<br /><br />Anyone surprised? Bueller?<br /><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/halliburton-to-plead-guilty-to-destroying-evidence-in-bp-spill/2013/07/25/bab8f30c-f57b-11e2-aa2e-4088616498b4_story.html<br /><br />.<br />Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-34800547329029051092013-07-26T08:44:07.908-04:002013-07-26T08:44:07.908-04:00No comment
The Lincoln Memorial was shut down Fri...<b> No comment</b><br /><br />The Lincoln Memorial was shut down Friday morning after being vandalized overnight, U.S. Park Police said.<br /><br />The memorial — including the statue of Abraham Lincoln and parts of the floor — were splashed with green paint, police said.<br /><br />Authorities believe the vandalism happened around 1:30 a.m. Police are reviewing surveillance footage, but no information has been released about possible suspects.<br /><br />The National Park Service will work to clean up the paint. The memorial will be closed to the public until cleanup is completDeuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-36419282196236989102013-07-26T05:20:19.662-04:002013-07-26T05:20:19.662-04:00Subhuman, maybe.Subhuman, maybe.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-58889964151257639072013-07-26T05:19:57.375-04:002013-07-26T05:19:57.375-04:00One of the drivers was trapped in his cabin and to...One of the drivers was trapped in his cabin and told the railway station by radio that the train entered the bend at 190 kilometres per hour (120 mph), reported newspaper El Pais. <br /><br /><br />The speed limit on that section of track is 80km/h (50mph).<br /><br /> <br />'We're only human! We're only human!' he told the station, the newspaper said, citing sources close to the investigation. 'I hope there are no dead, because this will fall on my conscience.'<br /> <br />Police have put an unnamed train driver under formal investigation - the Galicia government said one driver was in hospital.<br />Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-70771708147413687162013-07-26T05:15:10.764-04:002013-07-26T05:15:10.764-04:00He is a Cutie, tho.<a href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/07/25/article-2377113-1AFDC63B000005DC-945_306x423.jpg" rel="nofollow">He is a Cutie, tho.</a>Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-63301067674669626592013-07-26T05:12:55.720-04:002013-07-26T05:12:55.720-04:00Fuck Crazy Ass Spaintards!
'What joy to set ...Fuck Crazy Ass Spaintards!<br /><br /><br />'What joy to set police speed guns off': <br /><br />Spanish driver whose derailed train killed at least 80 people while travelling at 120mph in 50mph zone posted boasting Facebook photo of speedometer<br /> <br /><br />Read more: <br /><br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2377113/Spain-train-crash-video-At-78-people-killed-140-injured-Santiago-Compostela-derailment.html<br />Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-22916327626454009822013-07-26T05:09:23.872-04:002013-07-26T05:09:23.872-04:00QuirkThu Jul 25, 06:58:00 PM EDT
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99%...QuirkThu Jul 25, 06:58:00 PM EDT<br />.<br /><br />Nonsense.<br /><br />99% of the country can't afford nanny's and maids.<br /><br />---<br /><br />Limbaugh caller had worked as housecleaner in CA.<br /><br />When she learned that one of her employers was on welfare and foodstamps, she started listening to Rush.<br /><br />For every "New Job" under Obama Who Cares, two people go on foodstamps.<br />...and the WORKFORCE continues to shrink.<br /><br />Never had a nanny, never had a maid.<br /><br />Never had a teacher for our son.<br />Except for two lying preschool "teachers" who convinced us to homeschool.<br /><br />Considering some type of help around the homestead as my body disintegrates, and the need for funds for the future diminishes.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-58789197487910785522013-07-26T04:46:14.206-04:002013-07-26T04:46:14.206-04:00Asked about the divorce rumors, Spitzer spokeswoma...<i>Asked about the divorce rumors, Spitzer spokeswoman Lisa Linden told us last night, “Eliot is running for comptroller on his record and the issues. We will not comment on the absurd barrage of stories about his personal life.”<br /><br />It is not believed that Silda has yet hired divorce lawyers.<br /><br />A very private person, Silda has never commented on Eliot’s patronizing of prostitutes or their marriage. But multiple sources say she is unhappy with his decision to reenter politics, thrusting their relationship back into the public spotlight.</i><br />samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-21101075308509606922013-07-26T04:42:42.464-04:002013-07-26T04:42:42.464-04:00Sequestration, which was enacted as a fallback opt...<i>Sequestration, which was enacted as a fallback option in the Budget Control Act when congressional negotiators failed to agree on budget reduction measures following the 2011 debt ceiling crisis, mandates automatic spending cuts through 2021. For 2014, those spending cuts take the form of spending caps on appropriated funds, allowing appropriators more discretion in targeting the cuts.<br /><br />President Obama and members of Congress issued dire warnings about the impact of sequestration cuts earlier in the year. So far, however, few signs of any major pain from the sequester have shown up in economic data.<br /><br />Nevertheless, the CBO has consistently projected that the effect of the broad-based cuts would be slower growth than otherwise would have occurred, rather than a sudden shock.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-17295455738481506672013-07-26T04:39:45.483-04:002013-07-26T04:39:45.483-04:00On Wednesday, July 17, Senator Mike Lee strode ont...<i>On Wednesday, July 17, Senator Mike Lee strode onto the Senate floor and called for Republicans to defund Obamacare. His case was simple.<br /><br />If the White House is calling for a yearlong delay in the implementation of two key elements of the law—the employer mandate and verification of eligibility for subsidies on health care exchanges—then Congress shouldn’t fund it.<br /><br />Lee’s speech emphasized the fundamental unfairness of delaying the employer mandate but enforcing the individual mandate. “Republicans in Congress must now stand up for the individuals and families who do not have the money, lobbyists, and connections to get this administration’s attention,” he said.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-85167816655211357932013-07-26T04:37:11.869-04:002013-07-26T04:37:11.869-04:00The accident came a day before a public holiday in...<i>The accident came a day before a public holiday in Galicia: the feast of St James, after whom the region's capital Santiago is named.<br /><br />"24 July will no longer be the eve of a day of celebration but rather one commemorating one of the saddest days in the history of Galicia," said Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the region's president.<br /><br />Residents of the semi-rural neighbourhood by the accident site struggled to help victims out of the toppled cars on Wednesday night. Some passengers were pulled out of broken windows as rescuers used rocks to try to free survivors from the wreckage.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-15161365535592776562013-07-26T04:32:37.703-04:002013-07-26T04:32:37.703-04:00In the United States today, there are very few wor...<i>In the United States today, there are very few words that provoke as much outrage as the name of Jesus. It is being banned from graduation ceremonies, chaplains all over America are being forbidden from using His name in their prayers, and many school officials all over the nation have become absolutely fanatical about eliminating every trace of Christian expression from their schools.<br /><br />...<br /><br />The following is an excerpt from a speech that Rand Paul gave earlier this year…<br /><br /> There is a war on Christianity, not just from liberal elites here at home, but worldwide.<br /><br /> And your government, or more correctly, you, the taxpayer, are funding it.<br /><br />...<br /><br />-In recent months, daredevil Nik Wallenda has walked a tightrope across Niagara Falls and has walked a tightrope across the Grand Canyon, and yet both times the mainstream media has gone out of the way to keep the name of Jesus out of news reports…<br /><br /> Despite Nik Wallenda’s frequent mentions of God the Father and Jesus during his high-wire crossing of Niagara Falls Friday night, an ABC News blog documenting virtually every moment of the achievement makes no mention of his verbal thanks to the Creator.<br /><br /> Wallenda, 33, the great grandson of legendary tightrope walker Karl Wallenda, walked across Niagara Falls on a high wire, as hundreds watched on TV at a block party in his Florida hometown of Sarasota, Fla., and millions of others tuned in for ABC television coverage.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-89122826024203285582013-07-26T04:28:26.694-04:002013-07-26T04:28:26.694-04:00The OSS wing of the CIA’s museum, which opened in ...<i>The OSS wing of the CIA’s museum, which opened in 2011, traces the short history of an organization that was founded in 1942 to aid resistance fighters and run spies behind enemy lines before morphing into the CIA four years later.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Among the exhibits is a tribute to Virginia Hall, an OSS agent who posed as a French farmhand as she counted German military units prior to D-Day. Hall, who had a wooden leg, organized sabotage and trained Resistance fighters.<br /><br />The Gestapo knew her as the “limping lady,” and called her the most dangerous of all Allied spies. She later became one of the CIA’s first female officers.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-57974087265548627042013-07-26T04:23:09.726-04:002013-07-26T04:23:09.726-04:00Egypt’s military warned Thursday that it was prepa...<i>Egypt’s military warned Thursday that it was prepared to use force to counter what it called "violence and black terrorism" as protests over the ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi continued.<br /><br />...<br /><br />"We confirm that the Egyptian Armed Forces is the army for all the people and of all the people and would never raise its weapons in the face of its people, but [it would raise its weapons] in the face of violence and black terrorism [that] has no religion or country," the statement added.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-66494403785024855842013-07-26T04:21:02.858-04:002013-07-26T04:21:02.858-04:00I thought his observations about the depletion of ...I thought his observations about the depletion of phostphate and the implications for food supply, the unsustainable impact of fossil fuels, the declining population over the next 250 years, his comments about economic bubbles, Bernanke, the 12000 year history of mankind, were all accurate. The one thing that impressed me most was that he was smart and wise enough to state what he was not expert of, what he did not know and where his limitations are. Compare that to the legions of talking heads that have an answer and a solution to everything.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-84954951906440061422013-07-26T04:09:43.046-04:002013-07-26T04:09:43.046-04:00You are dead on about Rose. He didn't get the ...You are dead on about Rose. He didn't get the case being made that all the extra debt had very little affect on job creation. On the macro level, energy consumption, population growth, the 250 year economic expansion based on an underpriced depleting resource, I saw little to disagree Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-29444488243262925692013-07-26T03:21:18.309-04:002013-07-26T03:21:18.309-04:00And, to top it off, that unctuous blowhard Rose in...And, to top it off, that unctuous blowhard Rose interrupted, to no point other than to stroke himself, at least three times when Grantham was getting steam up on some interesting observations... <br /><br />Then, oblivious to the thread he'd cut off, he didn't have the awareness to circle round and invite Grantham to resume his thought..<br /><br />Jeez, and he's got a rep as interviewer?gnossoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03985243587763564103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-10431083267342218952013-07-26T02:55:42.917-04:002013-07-26T02:55:42.917-04:00As to its latest 787 issue, an Air India spokesman...<i>As to its latest 787 issue, an Air India spokesman said: "due to overheating of the oven, there was some smoke inside the aircraft." He didn't specify what caused the incident, or if the oven was being used to prepare food at the time.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Air India is one of Boeing's first Dreamliner customers and has received seven of the 27 ordered in January 2006.<br /><br />The fuel-efficient Dreamliners are central to Air India's efforts to return to profitability. The national carrier has recorded losses for five years because of high fuel and interest costs as well as competition from budget airlines.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-43480559022284237272013-07-26T02:46:52.791-04:002013-07-26T02:46:52.791-04:00Deuce,
Gotta disagree with you on this guy... Asi...Deuce,<br /><br />Gotta disagree with you on this guy... Aside from some, imho, false assumptions, he's wearing a pinky ring for crying out loud!<br /><br />gnossoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03985243587763564103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-43246284398503076852013-07-26T01:08:24.672-04:002013-07-26T01:08:24.672-04:00Carlos Danger's Big Career Move
July 25, 2013
...Carlos Danger's Big Career Move<br />July 25, 2013<br />Just a few weeks after carrying the biggest flag in the Gay Pride parade, Anthony Weiner's weinermobile is about to come to a screeching halt.<br /><br />Weiner Goes Limp In Polls<br /><br />Weiner Is Not An Upstanding Man<br /><br />Carlos Danger Must Apologize To Hispanics<br /><br />Poll: Weiner Goes Soft.....<br /><br />Cross sextion look at recent Weiner headlines<br /><br />Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-19475877862370137282013-07-26T00:56:11.840-04:002013-07-26T00:56:11.840-04:00Unfortunately, what evidence there is indicates TM...Unfortunately, what evidence there is indicates TM did not do that, but rather, as one of the jurors said, 'threw the first punch'.<br /><br />Here is Lloyd Marcus again --<br /><br />>>>>To strengthen their "America is racist" storyline the MSM creatively called Zimmerman a "white Hispanic." The MSM edited Zimmerman's 911 call to make him sound racist. To gin up black rage, the MSM promoted a photo of Martin as an innocent 12-year-old rather than the 17-year-old 6'2"-160-lb. thug he was at the time of the incident. Yes, Martin's history documents that he was a thug.<<<<<br /><br />We can always count on Ash to go unthinkingly with the liberal fairy tale storyline, every damn time.<br /><br />I've gotten so I can see some humor in it.<br /><br />Good ol' Ash!<br /><br />hehehBobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-3562367963941222462013-07-26T00:48:08.228-04:002013-07-26T00:48:08.228-04:00Excellent point, WiO.
Hadn't thought of that....Excellent point, WiO.<br /><br />Hadn't thought of that. Your logic seems impeccable.<br /><br />They are actually criticizing Russians, not Jews, and don't even realize it.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-38288182672956852312013-07-26T00:11:32.576-04:002013-07-26T00:11:32.576-04:00On this day in 1965, Bob Dylan played electric gui...On this day in 1965, Bob Dylan played electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival, stunning fans and representing a major shift in the culture surrounding folk and rock music.samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.com