Friday, February 20, 2009

Obama’s Bolsheviks

The Bolsheviks were the communist mob in Soviet Russia who went about taking away people’s property and confiscating it for themselves (claiming it was taking things back for “the people”). We have a modern day version in ACORN, a group that Obama once served as a lawyer and organizer. His stimulus bill funnels millions to this organization. And look what they’re up to (besides vote fraud).

Some community activists could face criminal charges after breaking into a home in Southeast Baltimore.

Police were at the home Thursday night looking for fingerprints and other evidence.

The activists who staged the break-in belong to the Association of Community Organizations For Reform Now or ACORN.

After snapping a lock with bolt cutters, ACORN member Louis Beverly told supporters “this is our house now.”

ACORN staged the demonstration to protest the foreclosure crisis sweeping the nation.

The home in the 300 block of Ellwood Avenue used to be owned by Donna Hanks. She lost this home in September, after owning it since 2001. When things got tough she struggled to make her payments. Her mortgage? $1995 a month. Her income? $2200. Donna’s story is one that ACORN is taking a stand against.

So a woman got a mortgage (thanks to ACORN who railroaded banks into lending to people who couldn’t afford their mortgage) she obviously couldn’t afford and is trying to once again strong arm lenders into letting them keep their property. They have the support of the white house, so guess what will happen. Is it any wonder there was a cascade of mortgage defaults that collapsed the banks?

The Collapse Begins

I don’t know if Gerald Celente is right. I hope he’s wrong. But it’s a good idea to listen to him and think about how you’ll survive if we have a new depression. He gives some answers in the later parts.

Part 2
Part 3
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Thursday, February 19, 2009

8 Cars You Can’t Buy

Like this BMW with a fabric body. Yes, fabric. Some cool and not so cool looking cars.

Once they perfect those stain resistant, bullet proof, nano-weave fabrics I can see car bodies being like this. It takes hundreds of pounds off the weight of the car which would radically improve fuel efficiency. The frame of the car and the air bags, etc, would protect the passengers in a crash.

Too Many Dicks

Flight of the Conchords is a hilarious show on HBO about two struggling musicians from New Zealand in New York. They usually break into music video mode at some point in each episode. This one from last Sunday as hysterical.

Obama Nation

Check out the Section called “Our Time has Come”.

Is this for real or some kind of political parody site? I don’t think any official Obama site would be this transparent. Despite Obama’s claim to have a transparent government it has been anything but.

This seems more like a left wing parody site by lefties trying to incite right wing bloggers.

Meanwhile, is Obama using ACORN as a means of shutting down conservative radio?

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

The Tragedy and the Hope

This is going to sound like crazy conspiracy stuff, but it’s pretty undeniably true. In 1966 a professor named Carol Quigley wrote a massive book called The Tragedy and the Hope. It outlined the elites thinking on how they intended to make the world a “better place”. It’s basically a road map that the elites have been following for a long time. Watch this video for a summary of what it says.

Quigley of course said that there is no conspiracy, even though everything he outlines in the book has and is coming true. In fact, people who complain about the UN and other groups trying to form a world government are called right wing cranks. Yet all you have to do is watch what they’re doing to see the truth. “The Global Warming crisis” is used to call for world action and a global tax. The world bank is reality, the CFR and other groups are a reality and they are all pretty much working in concert and talking the same language.

More info here and here.

American Idol 2/17

I’m going to start reviewing Idol again this season, but won’t detail each singer until they get past these brutal frist couple weeks of eliminations. They approved more people this year, and are burning them off more quickly. Only three contestants from each gender survive each night. So six are eliminated. Ouch!

It was easy to see who would be back next week. The first few up were good, the last three were also really good. Everyone in the middle was so so. Anoop Desai is excellent. Ricky Braddy‘s version of A Song for You was also really sound. I give him major points for crediting the song writer Leon Russell instead of Donny Hathaway, who made it famous. Russell is a fantastic song writer. One of the best of the 70s.  I especially liked Alexis Grace, who’s a real hottie. There’s a lot of lookers on this season, and most of them can really sing. But a bunch of the singers in the middle of the show really trip up and blow it. Stevie Wright is such a cutie but she really tanked. Too bad. She looks like she was genetically designed to be a teen idol.

I don’t think Michael Sarver saved himself, but who knows? He is likable so people may vote for him. Brent Keith went country. Not sure that’s going to fly. It was passable but nothing special. And there are so many contestants who are doing it for their families, that I don’t know if that spiel will save him.

Naturally they gave the pimp spots to Tatiana Del Toro and Danny Gokey. Gokey really deserves it. He’s a major talent. Tatiana not so much. SHe can definitely sing. And at least she wasn’t acting like a basket case this time. But when she did her exit interview it was so early Madonna. All ambition and a “vote for me you peons” kind of vibe.

I think the producers see her as good television so they will pimp her. But I don’t know if her personality will get her very far. We shall see.

All and all, it’s a very promising season so far.

Iron Man’s Armor

Some really nice flash work exploring Iron Man’s armor design.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Ubiquity

I love Firefox. The add ons make it the best browser out there. I like Chrome and even Safari, which I use on occasion, but Firefox rules.

They’ve developed a very cool new app called Ubiquity. Rather than explain it I will let you just read about it here. Play the video on the page. It’s something I think will have a lot of power in the near future.

And check out this article on how to make Firefox your productivity tool. Very handy if you are a power web user.

Slippery Slope

It’s reasons like this that Republicans have lost their support. They are no better than Democrats.

Nationalisation, long regarded in Washington as a folly of Europeans, is gaining rapid ground among US opinion-formers. Stranger still, many of those talking about federal ownership of banks are Republicans.

Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator for South Carolina, said that many of his colleagues, including John McCain, the defeated presidential candidate, agreed with his view that nationalisation of some banks should be “on the table”.

Mr Graham said that people across the US accepted his argument that it was untenable to keep throwing good money after bad into institutions such as Citigroup and Bank of America, which now have a lower net value than the amount of public funds they have received.

“You should not get caught up on a word [nationalisation],” he told the Financial Times in an interview. “I would argue that we cannot be ideologically a little bit pregnant. It doesn’t matter what you call it, but we can’t keep on funding these zombie banks [without gaining public control]. That’s what the Japanese did.”

First of all, these idiots gave money to banks without conditions. Secondly, they are agreeing to socialism. Point blank.

TARP was so badly handled the fact that it failed should surprise no one. Just as the “stimulus” package will do nothing except drag out the recession/depression longer than it needed to happen.

What’s the point of two parties if they both suck and offer the same brand of incompetence?

UPDATE: Alan Greenspan joins the dark side (but then his low interest rate decisions is partially what led us here.

”It may be necessary to temporarily nationalise some banks in order to facilitate a swift and orderly restructuring,” he said. “I understand that once in a hundred years this is what you do.”

Uh, “temporarily”? That’s government speak for many generations to come.