A high-level inquiry into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found there was “little evidence” for its claims about global warming.
It also said the panel had emphasized the negative impacts of climate change and made “substantive findings” based on little proof….
It’s been a difficult Summer for President Obama as a struggling economy and a Gulf oil spill hurt his government’s standing and made him look impotent. But not for long. On Thursday, with safety helmet securely attached, Obama did a bit of cycling in Martha’s Vineyard and made sure the photographers weren’t far away.
It’s been a difficult Summer for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, as rampaging forest fires hurt his government’s standing and made him look impotent. But not for long. On Wednesday, harpoon in hand, Putin did a bit of non-lethal whale hunting in Kamchatka and made sure the photographers weren’t far away.
When someone wants to build a house, they buy a lot to build it on. This means new business for a land seller, a real estate broker, a surveyor, a real estate agent, a title company, a title insurance company, a liability underwriter, a real estate attorney, an accountant, and a bank or other financial institution. All of whom pay federal, state and local taxes, unemployment taxes, medicare taxes, social security taxes, employee health care premiums, and match contributions to individual retirement accounts. In addition, both the state and the city or county having jurisdiction over the lot derive tax revenue from the transaction.
When small businesses are profitable, it means new business for advertisers.
When small businesses make contributions to retirement accounts, it means new business for investment brokers.
When someone wants to build a house, they need plans to build from. This means new business for an architect, an interior designer, a civil engineer, a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, an electrical engineer, a plumbing engineer, a landscape architect, and possibly a consulting engineer (if, for example, the house is to be built in a coastal location and requires approval by a state environmental authority). All of whom pay federal, state and local taxes, self employment taxes, unemployment taxes, medicare taxes, social security taxes. They pay for their employees’ health care premiums and for professional liability insurance; they match contributions to individual retirement accounts, are liable for continuing education, pay state and local license fees and annual dues to professional organizations. They retain the services of attorneys and accountants. They borrow funds from banks upon which they pay interest. They buy office supplies, computers, and software; pay rent for office space and internet access; lease automobiles, have commercial credit cards used for frequent travel and lodging; and probably donate funds to their churches, universities, favorite charities, and local causes.
When someone wants to build a house, they need a building permit. This means the local government receives permit application fees and construction impact fees which fund the salaries of municipal employees, road construction, school construction, parks and recreation construction, water and sewer construction, utility construction, civil improvements, and other items critical to managing the growth of the local infrastructure.
When someone wants to build a house, they need construction financing. This means more business for a bank, an attorney, the local tax collector, and an insurance underwriter.
When someone wants to build a house, they need someone to execute the work. This means business for a general contractor who is insured, has a credit line at a bank, and pays federal, state and local taxes, self employment taxes, unemployment taxes, medicare taxes, workers’ compensation premiums, and social security taxes. The contractor pays for the services of attorneys and accountants. The contractor borrows funds from banks on which he pays interest. The contractor pays his employees’ health care premiums and his company’s liability insurance premiums. He matches his employees’ contributions to their individual retirement accounts. He pays state and local license fees, annual dues to professional organizations, is liable for continuing education, buys office supplies, computers, and software. He rents his office space, pays for internet access, places orders for building materials, leases cars and heavy construction equipment, and probably donates funds to his church, university, favorite charities, and local causes.
To build the house, the contractor signs a contract with the owner based on a specific schedule of values which comprises the construction budget and then contracts with a team of subcontractors from whom he has received proposals to complete the work. He has agreements with subcontractors for the clearing, grading, and site preparation; the foundation work, the structural frame, the masonry, the rough carpentry, the electrical work, the plumbing work, the heating, air conditioning and ventilation work, the insulation, the interior sheathing, the exterior sheathing, the interior painting, the exterior painting, the specialties such as solar, music, security, video, fire alarm, and data systems, the finish carpentry, the cabinetry, the plumbing fixtures, the lighting fixtures, the roofing, the kitchen and household appliances, the interior finishes, the furnishings, the swimming pool and equipment; the landscape planting, final grading, irrigation system, exterior lighting, mail box, ongoing cleaning, waste removal, and the final survey. All these subcontractors pay federal, state and local taxes, unemployment taxes, medicare taxes, social security taxes, employee health care premiums, and match contributions to individual retirement accounts. They pay for the services of attorneys and accountants. They pay liability insurance premiums, pay workers’ compensation premiums, and borrow funds from banks on which they pay interest. They pay state and local license fees, annual dues to professional organizations, are liable for continuing education, place orders for building materials, buy office supplies, computers, and software. They rent their office spaces, pay for internet access, buy trucks and construction equipment, and probably donate funds to their churches, universities, favorite charities, and local causes.
When the house is finished, the construction loan is converted to permanent financing. This means more business for the title company, the title insurance company, the bank, the local tax collector, and the attorney. It means new business for the flood insurance company, the home insurance company, the mortgagor, the possible second mortgagor, and a new perpetual flow of property taxes to the municipality.
When someone doesn’t build a house it’s called Recovery Summer …We need a recovery from Recovery Summer.
COMING SOON: Next World Immigration Mexican Style
“The process of settlement is a ‘Civilization-Jihadist Process’ with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of Grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”
Quotation from: An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America; Mohamed Akram, 1991
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” -Churchill
Remember the term “Counter Revolutionary?” Probably not, unless you were about to be executed for “Crimes Against the State.” Ever wonder why East Germany called itself the German Democratic Republic? Ever wonder why North Korea calls itself the Peoples Democratic Republic of Korea? Ever wonder why China calls itself the Peoples Republic of China? Ever wonder why North Vietnam calls itself the Democratic Republic of Vietnam? Ever wonder why Cuba calls itself the Republic of Cuba? Ever wonder what the stalwart citizens dwelling in those socialist paradises wonder about? Ever wonder why every movement using the words peoples and liberation, is ultimately dedicated to the exact opposite? To paraphrase Churchill, “Never have so many been deluded so strongly by such weakness, for so long.”
“In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic” – Karl Marx, 1845.
Ummm, okay….according to Marx, instead of doing something, we will pretend we can do everything while getting nothing done.
“We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.” -Churchill
[Russian jokes] depended on was the inherent absurdity of the official Soviet doctrine, rhetoric and propaganda – not just because it was absurd, but because it was official (in a way that no capitalist doctrine could be)…..
‘What is the difference between communism and capitalism?’ ‘Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man; communism is the exact opposite.’
‘Capitalism stands on the brink of the abyss. It will soon be overtaken by communism.’
‘Is it true that Marxism-Leninism is scientific?’ ‘No, surely not. If it were, they would have tested it on animals first.’
JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater, 39, blamed his profanity laced rant, theft of two beers, and sudden exit via the emergency slide, on the rude behavior of a passenger. Isn’t that special…these are more likely the byproducts of a raging hangover….must have been a wild night in Pittsburgh. Slater was drunk on duty and there’s no difference between him or the pilot in terms of the flight crew’s responsibility for the safety and welfare of the passengers. Thank goodness the flight didn’t encounter a real emergency which could have not only proven deadly to the passengers, but also further inconvenienced poor, hungover Mr. Slater. This is clearly a case of an aggravated drunk who, in this instance, has shown himself incapable of living up to his rather serious responsibilities as a flight attendant. His outrageous behavior deserves nothing less than energetic prosecution and, at least, permanent exile from any future involvement in the airline industry.
Judging from the quotes assembled from recent media coverage, we are now faced with a JetBlue Rashomon. It’s an opera waiting to be written….”JUST CHUTE ME!” Picture the set design…giant inflatable escape slide…Wow. Imagine the hysterical libretto of the profane PA system aria delivered from a burning microphone….goose bumps…”I’M GOING DOWN AND IT’S YOUR FAULT…ALL OF YOU, YOU MEANIES! Duets intensified by the call and response of conflicting passions…”Pull your seat up, pull your seat up, pull yourrrrrrr seeeeeeeeat up….it’s not reclined, it’s not reclined, it’s not recliiiiiiiiiiiiined!”
The Rashomonic testimony of some passengers, the pilot, an attorney, and a corporate representative…….
“He did hit the back of my seat and said, ‘Pull your seat up. It can’t be reclined.’ It was not reclining and I indicating it to him and then he says, ‘Pull your seat up.’ I said I didn’t recline the seat and he leaned over, hit the button to try to pull it up himself. He hit the back of the seat, but it didn’t move.”
“One of the times he passed by me he was carrying what could either have been a drink for himself, and that was a little bit of the impression I got, as he was kind of waving it about like it was his own cocktail.”
“They were shoving their bags around attempting to get it in. Steven came over to assist and either the bag or the overhang hit him on the head.”
“It makes me so mad, because he’s not a hero. He was rude.”
“The only thing I heard was some guy a few rows behind me I think opened his compartment early when they were taxiing to the gate.”
“I saw the male steward get up and say, ‘please sit down and wait,’ and then the female stewardess said ‘please wait, please wait until the light has turned off.”
“He was instructing them, something like: ‘You can’t move that.’ Then I thought I heard an ‘ow.”
“As we were getting off I overheard the captain saying that the attendant had been hurt at the beginning of the flight and just lost his mind for a second there.”
“I didn’t think she was rude in the least. It really blew my mind. It was so inappropriate.”
Travelers say Slater cursed at passengers over the public address system after several odd run-ins with them during the 90-minute flight from Pittsburgh.
“He looked disturbed at that point.”
Ms. Dominijanni, of Pittsburgh, said that when she pointed to the spilled coffee, Mr. Slater barked, “No! Maybe when we get in the air! I need to take care of myself first, honey!” She said he was pointing to the gash on his head.
Ms. Dominijanni said Mr. Slater never returned with wipes to clean up the spilled coffee. She said he spent much of the 90-minute flight slamming overhead bins and refrigerator doors.
“It wasn’t normal and he shouldn’t have been acting that way. I felt so uncomfortable on that flight.”
“It wasn’t anything totally strange, just a little off.”
“I didn’t even know anything happened until I got home and my mom saw it on the news.”
“We are participating and cooperating fully in the investigation.”
Briskin said the seemingly normal conversation turned unexpectedly nasty when Slater blurted out an expletive to the passenger.
[Slater's attorney] said Slater “hopes to return to the aviation field” — even saying his client wanted to return to JetBlue.
Hello Luke Paris and Maurice Heath…AKA Malik Zulu Shabazz and King Samir Shabazz….(and underling Jerry Jackson)…Let’s hear some big mouth black panther baseball bat shit right now booted and suited…you two assholes are ticks who live in the little infested holes of the internet. Why so quiet all of a sudden? All the videos of your remarkably repulsive performances are disappearing, one by one, due to “terms of use violations”….for a violation to occur, there have to be terms of use in the first place…hmmm…could it be that the recent activity by the Commission on Civil Rights has you circling the wagons, so to speak? Grandpa used to say, “Watch out son, your alligator mouth is gonna overload your Tweety Bird ass.” Testimony in the case is here. .. see how real professionals can frustrate a deposition process.
Bottom Line: The Department concluded that the evidence collected established that Minister King Samir Shabazz violated Section 11(b) by his conduct at the Philadelphia polling place on Election Day. This evidence included his display of a nightstick at the polling place during voting hours, an act which supported the allegation of voter intimidation. The Department therefore decided to seek an injunction against defendant Minister King Samir Shabazz. In approving the injunction, the district court found that the United States had alleged that Minister King Samir Shabazz “stood in front of the polling location at 1221 Fairmont Street in Philadelphia, wearing a military style uniform, wielding a nightstick, and making intimidating statements and gestures to various individuals, all in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1973i(b),” (Order of May 18, 2009, at 1), and entered judgment “in favor of the United States of America and against Minister King Samir Shabazz, enjoining Minister King Samir Shabazz from displaying a weapon within 100 feet of any open polling location in the City of Philadelphia, or from otherwise violating 42 U.S.C. § 1973i(b).” Judgment (May 18, 2009). The federal court retains jurisdiction over its enforcement until 2012.
Coming soon: “Minister King Schmear Schabatz charged with unlawfully denying blacks access to delicatessen counter.”
“Believe me, the American public does not appreciate double standards. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. No one should be so big, so important, so powerful they can violate the rules of this House and the laws of this country without suffering the consequences.”
-Maxine Waters, December 7, 1995
"Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out and death's the other."
Tennessee Williams
