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Monday, June 24. 2013Monday morning linksPhoto from Is Obesity a Disease? - The American Medical Association says so. Is this just an insurance scam? Container Ship Splits and Sinks in Indian Ocean Off the Coast of Yemen Historic Week Opens as High Court Saves Biggest Cases for Last Chinese students and parents protest, want to cheat If Your Marketing Strategy Consists of "Cookies" Your Company Will Fail Dr. Krauthammer: Obama’s Berlin speech ‘self-indulgent, anachronistic and adolescent’ Obama: The fall Hostess Ditches Union Workers – Plans July Twinkie Relaunch President Asterisk - Why the Obama IRS scandal may be worse than "a cancer on the presidency." Autopsy report: Douchebag terrorist dies from insufficient diet Kimball: The DMV as an Allegory of American Decadence Meet The Man In Charge Of America's Secret Cyber Army A Challenge to Young Obama Supporters - Millennials who enthusiastically voted him in should support his legacy and sign up for Obamacare. EPA Covers Up The Safety Of Fracking Nobody knows what is in the Immigration bill Chuck Schumer still will not love Republicans in the morning. As the Prof says:
The sinner fills up on paper towels, but the righteous man buys paper towels with a green stamp on the box. Breaking: NSA Internet Spying Foils NSA Plot To Attack NSA - See more at: http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/in-the-news-nsa-internet-spying-foils-nsa-plot-to-attack-nsa-t11202.html#sthash.1aabgL9N.dpuf Breaking: NSA Internet Spying Foils NSA Plot To Attack NSA - See more at: http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/in-the-news-nsa-internet-spying-foils-nsa-plot-to-attack-nsa-t11202.html#sthash.1aabgL9N.dpuf Breaking:
NSA Internet Spying Foils NSA Plot To Attack NSA - See more at: http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/in-the-news-nsa-internet-spying-foils-nsa-plot-to-attack-nsa-t11202.html#sthash.1aabgL9N.dpuf Comments
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DISEASE: a condition of the living animal or plant body or of one of its parts that impairs normal functioning and is typically manifested by distinguishing signs and symptoms.
Insurance scam seems apropos. Or is it as the oil change ad goes, "pay me now or pay me later"?
Type II diabetes, stasis dermatitis, arthritis, heart failure, etc can be expensive to treat. Livin' ain't easy but it loads better with light and an occassional beer.
Declaring obesity disease is a terrible disease. Give me a girl that looks like that and worry will drop her into health and happiness. Then she may learn English but me self be slow which adds to the worrysomeness of good health. Suggestion: all take cooling off period on immigration.
Suspend all immigration legal and illegal until such time as US removes current migrant in White House back where he came from. Yall just got signed.
Yall field center or maybe, short the infield. "The EPA covers up the safety of fracking". Did you really ever believe the EPA was about environmental protection? Come'on! It was always about special interest groups with their agendas. Ever since the EPA colluded/conspired with Rachel Carson they have been nothing more then a front group and official government funding office for the radical left wing environSocialist nut jobs. Little to no proof of a pesticide or chemical causing problems? No worries! The EPA is there to grease your law suit through a compliant court with left wing judges and big payouts from Uncle Sam. Ooops! Did I say Uncle Sam? Silly me I meant the tax payer, everyone knows uncle Sam has no money and is bankrupt. Rachel Carlson wrote a book mostly about her biases and left wing beliefs and William Ruckleshaus passed a ban on DDT that would end up killing more people then Lenin, Mao and Hitler combined. But does anyone even care because after all most of those deaths are poor black children in Africa? The "science" on DDT was twisted and massaged to get what the loony left wanted without regrad to the facts or real science. The connection and comparison with AGW is scary. How many people will the AGW scam kill? So what is the purpose of the EPA? Clearly one purpose is to kill young Africans. Another is to supply funding to far left envirowhackos. And a third and very important purpose is to distribute large chinks of tax money to select congressman's districts for EPA cleanup's. While most of the cleanup's were real, i.e. there was something there that needed to be cleaned up, most of the hype and scare mongering that created the need to spend those billion$ was not real. The real legacy of the EPA has been pseudo-science, wealth redistribution, kickbacks and payoffs. Look for more of the same on steriods if "cap and trade" or something similar passes.
"Container Ship Splits and Sinks in Indian Ocean Off the Coast of Yemen" goes to story, first line is; "The Mol Comfort container ship carrying US arms to Syrian Islamic rebels ..."
What I can't locate is where the idea that this ship was delivering weapons to Syria came from. Asian papers, News websites, professional Engineering and Shipping sources that are covering this story don't say one word about any type of weapons or explosives in the cargo. The destination port was Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, not the port to offload weapons destined for Al Quada rebels. So on a hot, lazy summer day is someone playing connect the dots with two unrelated stories? Jeddah is so close to the base headquarters, Mecca.
Saud's need to be terminated and US can take back the oil we found. Mecca is ground zero. Sounds like it me. The need for hits (and so a steady stream for advertisers) rules blogs.
Personally, think since we just had a super moon, SCP-169 rolled over in its sleep. Or was it one of Cthulhu's minions? The Comfort was on her way from Singapore to Jeddah when she split. She did NOT sink: both halves are still afloat and salvage crews/ships are arriving to do what they can. As far as the weapons rumors goes that seems to have originated on islamist websites, the better to feed their conspiracy-laden paranoia.
With regard to the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action at the University of Texas (ruling just came down about an hour ago). I went to the website for the Supreme Court:
http://www.scotusblog.com/ In scrolling down through the other decisions that were handed down today (see list at top of page) I found that at the same time another decision about the University of Texas came out. This was an issue about employment and affirmative action at the university. Y'all know how I hate coincidences, but when you realize that both of these decisions were being considered at the same time you have to wonder--don't you? See: http://www.scotusblog.com/2013/06/details-university-of-texas-southwestern-medical-center-v-nassar/#more-165639 Have a nice day y'a hear. Note to Congressional Republicans: the immigration bill is a suicide pact and if it makes it into law, the Republican Party is as dead as Monty Python's parrot, not just because it will legalize tens of million future Democratic voters, but because conservatives like me will never vote for a Republican again. I know--and rue the fact---that this is what the Democrats hope will happen (and the main reason they are pursuing immigration "reform" as a wedge issue), but I have difficulty justifying why I would ever vote for a Republican Party that falsely sells itself on being the "Not Obama" party yet cannot seem to adhere to its own principles. I am not one to shed a tear over the disappearance of the Go-Along Party.
Re Obama: The Fall Fail
Someone has to post it, so I will: "Apres moi, le deluge" --i'd say, closer to the reality is:
Le Deluge, c'est Moi. Spoken by BO of course. |
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