Hint:

Want me to look at your web page? Then don't overload it with ads so that it takes 5 minutes to load and navigate (even up or down).

'Cause if you do, I won't bother. That little "X" in the upper right corner works well.

interestin'

So the Saudis apparently are afraid of the truth.....or they want to rewrite history.

Saudis vow to sell US assets of over 750 Billion if 9-11 commission report is unclassified Congress finds the Saudi government was involved in 9-11...

While I doubt that the Saudi Government was officially involved, I do not doubt that there were many individuals in that government who were complicit in the attacks. Most of the Saudis I know/have met hold a deep hatred for the West and would support anyone like Bin Laden.  I have no doubt that when the opportunity arose to help make the attacks happen, there were individuals who chose to aid the conspiracy.

But the Saudi Government doesn't want that known, I am sure. I, personally, don't understand why the secret was kept for 15 years. It should have been shouted from the rooftops as soon as the report was finished.

I doubt there will be any surprises for me when it is finally declassified.

Why else would so many try so hard to keep the report secret?

Calculate:

GO figure?

Here is a calculator that will tell you how your taxes would change for the 4 front runners in the presidential campaign based upon their current tax plans.

Using that as the only criteria, I should vote for Cruz....which while distasteful,isn't the worst option i can think of.

Bernie, of course, will tax us all to death while subsidizing everyone as well.

See for yourself.

Indeed:

A better condemnation of the TSA I cannot find at the moment:

TSA: Summer Stock Theater.

But hey, Thousands Standing Around makes most travelers FEEL safe, at least. Right?

3 years

3 years ago, amateur radical islam killed 3 people and hurt over 250 others.

Bur it was an isolated incident. Had nothing to do with Islam. Just a couple of disaffected yoots.

Oddly though, that is the only group that does that sort of thing.

The family involved had been thoroughly vetted, of course, before immigrating.

Think about it.

Activist Judges

Should be disbarred when they do things like this:

Judge Denies Gunmaker’s Motion To Dismiss Sandy Hook Lawsuit.

If a judge cannot keep himself from letting his personal beliefs override the law, then they are unsuitable as judges.

And I find that judges that are appointed by liberals to do much more of that. (ETA: Yes, I know she was appointed by a "Republican" But in Conn., that means slightly more liberal than an Illinois Democrat)

At best this is a nuisance lawsuit.

One Wonders

Poor science. Very poor.

And shame on the New England Journal of Medicine.


So the CDC has "concluded" that the Zika Virus does, indeed, cause Microcephaly. (and it might)...They have terrified nearly every woman who will have children in the near future....and all potential grandmothers too, in the hope that they will get support for their funding request.

Maybe Zika DOES cause Microcephaly...... I would hope that the researchers are smarter than I am...and not political...But as we have seen in the past, that is often not the case with the CDC.

Reading the study, I notice that the CDC has apparently abandoned that wonderful thing that I was taught in school....Science and the Scientific Method. .

It does appear that there is a possible causal relationship. Microephaly happens where the Zika virus occurs...that is the extent of the relationship between Zika and microcephaly.

But that isn't the whole story.

Microcephaly DIDN'T occur (or occurred very seldom, the data is sketchy) until the affected countries began using insecticides heavily for the mosquitos IN THE WATER SUPPLIES. that people use for potable water. Specifically pyriproxyfen, which is (coincidentally enough) a growth inhibitor (causes malformations in insect larvae which result in them not growing to full term) for mosquitos and other insects (and maybe mammals). Zika has been in Africa for many years with no increase in microcephalic births...and in Columbia, where they don't use pyriproxyfen, there is no increase in microcephaly, yet the Zika virus has infected over 3000 women who gave birth there....

There is just as much of a causal relationship for the insecticide as there is for the Zika virus....More, actually, because of the timing evidence.

But the CDC and other organizations are crying for funding....specifically, they say they need $1.9 BILLION dollars to cure/find a vaccine for Zika.... (Odd that they can tell us exactly how much they need, innit? Will we get a money back guarantee? )

They won't get paid anything for research if it is the insecticide....Is there any doubt that they would claim it was the virus?

Just like the Global Warming Climate Change folks never ever ever claim that any data disproves the theory....there isn't any money in that sort of claim.....

It IS odd that the world has been studying Zika in earnest for only a few months...yet the "scientists" claim that they are SURE about the cause of the microcephaly.... I don't know,... the CDC may well be right and the small heads are caused by Zika and not the pyriproxyfen. But,once again, the politics involved, and the past history of the CDC in following the "correct" political trends in order to assure funding, makes this claim suspect. It is a disservice to the people to fail to investigate all links and clues. To fail to do proper research is a failure to serve the citizens of the US who are paying the bill, and to the people who are affected by this virus.

We all know

Or at least suspected....That the 9-11 commission report is/was classified to hide the fact that the Saudis (or at least some high level officials) were complicit in the 9-11 attacks. The only question for me was how complicit,...and how many Saudi officials? ?

Therefore, no surprises here:
  Lawmakers are calling on the White House to declassify more than two dozen pages in the 9/11 Commission report that they say outlines evidence for possible support from the Saudi government for two hijackers who settled in Southern California.

IMO they are already done.

[–]ScottAdamsSaysVerified Scott Adams[S] 363 points 1 day ago 
If Trump is nominated, the GOP will grow stronger and become a bigger tent.
If Trump is denied after getting the most votes in the first round, the GOP will be done, one way or another.

So why, exactly

Do we even have Primary elections?

I mean, if the delegates can vote exactly how the party elite tells them to their conscience and not represent the will of the voters, then what, exactly, are the primaries for?

     But if no candidate has a majority of delegates during the first ballot at the convention, then the          delegates are free to cast their votes for anyone they choose.

     "Donald Trump talks about polls, polls, polls," he said. "That’s been the theme of his campaign.           Using that methodology, I’m looking at polls, and that leads me to believe at this point that                  Donald Trump can't beat Hillary Clinton."

(Not to mention that you and I are paying for the farce primary elections, when they should be paid for by the parties benefitting from those election, rather than the taxpayers)

CBS today

Kasich:
"The Republicans should have "Fixed" the country when they had control"

That assumes, of course, that you assume that this country was "broken".

I don't see that. 'Twasn't perfect, but wasn't"broken". It worked. Worked well. The majority of the people were able to make a living. Some were very rich, most weren't Some were very poor....Most lived, for the most part, well. Yes, there were those on the edges who didn't, either by bad luck or (generally) by bad choices. But they had a safety net.

Now,we are bringing the middle group down, by many points, in order to raise the small percentage by a point or two. And it didn't, really, affect the affluent at all.

If anyone or anything has "broken" the country, it wasn't the Republicans. They might not have "fixed" it, but they didn't break it.

Worth every single little bit

of the $15/hour that they demand:

Burger King workers smash windows after prank caller tells them to.

Intelligence is one link to higher pay.....

Were I the owner I would press charges against the employees.

Pray for the TSA

'Cause I get to go back home today....


and past the TSA probulation squad.

Muahahahahahahaha.

Rumors are Not true

I kept my mouth shut and I didn't get hassled by the TSA, and I didn't get arrested at OHare airport.

But Jesus, what security theater.

Not gonna say what I could have (or may have?) gotten past the TSA. Nope. They were, however, vigilant in looking for the razor blade that wasn't in my safety razor handle (I mailed one ahead).

But their security really sucks.

As I said: Security theater.

Yo, Hipster:

Yeah, you got the used lumberjack boots...evenly worn jeans, and the L.L.Bean flannel shirt.

Nice beard too.

But your office worker-soft hands betray you to anyone who cares to look.

Real workers boots aren't evenly distressed, their jeans are worn at the pockets, and the knees, not evenly all over. And an unworn LLBean flannel tops it, bro. You are only fooling yourself...and maybe others like you. .

By the time you read this

I should be embarked on a Super Secret mission, at a somewhat secret location.

I should (assuming I survive) be back in about a week.

Expect posting to be light for a week(ish).

On the way to Grandpa's house

When I was a young lad, there was a sign that said:

"Get US out of the UN" .

And then an address for the John Birch Society. One time I wrote that information down as we passed by....

I did a bit of research, and found out a LOT about the UN. It wasn't pretty then....and it is even less pretty now. They were on the edge of irrelevant 45 years ago...

Fast Forward to today, when I read that the UN had decided that Israel is the top Human Rights Violator,,,,And the top violator of the rights of women....and a whole slew of other denunciations against Israel. 
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Add in the total mismanagement of the UN's peacekeeping, it's inability to respond to any aggressions, or any natural or other disaster, the fact that they constantly whine for funding, but have money for sculptures and other useless but symbolic things and I can't help but wonder why, exactly, the US is a part of the UN any more?

And why do we allow the UN to take up all that space in New York? They could go to Brussels and take up space in the now useless NATO headquarters......Yeah, that NATO, the one where most of the member countries have spend so much on socialist programs that they cannot field any military (see Germany and France and Belgium for examples) and are depending (again) on the US to provide the teeth while exerting (partial) control over our military.

Really, the US should give up on such organizations. They are divorced from reality, and simply waste money employing (and entertaining_ a bunch of liberals whose effectiveness is, essentially, zero.

Even bees

Even bees can be racist. 

People stung by bees outside mosque

Islamaphobia and all that. 

Spare a thought

For fellow blogger Comrade Misfit.

She's gotta take her long time companion on his last trip.

He's crossing the bridge.

This has to be one of the hardest things a responsible pet owner has to do.

I've done it, and it is hard, even if it is the right thing.

So spare a thought for her today.And for Jake.

Sadly, it ain't an April Fools joke