Archive for March, 2009

NY Post: Michael Timlin, owner of the Smoke N Gun Shop in Mount Vernon, New York, as well as a gun training school, security company, and shooting ranges, says his store is struggling to meet demand. “Common stuff that normally wouldn’t be on a waiting list handguns, ammunition, assault rifles, pretty much anything there’s a [...]

German woman burning money for heat before Hitler came to power New York Post: If you don’t understand the profound importance of the Federal Reserve’s decision this week to purchase $300 million of US long-term debt, consider the words of savvy Wall Streeter Ben King: It’s the “nuclear option . . . commence the Weimar [...]

“The West Vancouver resident converted to Islam after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and runs a website, Jihad Unspun, that says it provides information “devoid of the constraints of mainstream media.” Her visa application to Pakistan said she was a freelance journalist working on a documentary for the Al-Jazeera television network.” The words “Die, witch” [...]

Obama’s Holiday Message To Iran

I assume this display of pussifosity has done nothing but assure the Iranians that they’re going to get away with building those atom bombs after all.

Politico: Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), who is battling brain cancer, has returned to Washington for what is expected to be his longest stretch back on the job since the new Congress convened in January. Kennedy will vote Monday night in Senate, and remain in town for at least the next two weeks to work [...]

Matt Lauer Hospitalized After Crashing His Bicycle Into A Deer

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Financial Times: China’s central bank on Monday proposed replacing the US dollar as the international reserve currency with a new global system controlled by the International Monetary Fund. In an essay posted on the People’s Bank of China’s website, Zhou Xiaochuan, the central bank’s governor, said the goal would be to create a reserve currency [...]

<b>And The Winner Is …</b>

Thanks to everyone for all the great suggestions. So, for the duration, Bobby Gibbs’s nickname is “Gazoo Gibbs”, as provided by CPLViper. (Applause … SPEECH! SPEECH!!!) What’s that, Viper? Huh? Oh no, sorry, no actual award or prize … As some stated, Bobby Gibbs might have a short run on Obama-Broadway in the White House. [...]

NY Post: WHAT THE WORST WEEK OF HIS YOUNG ADMINISTRATION SAYS ABOUT THE PRESIDENT The AIG bonuses, alienating our allies, that Special Olympics crack on “The Tonight Show” there’s certainly plenty of competition, but this was probably the worst week of President Obama’s nascent administration. The problem wasn’t just bad decisions followed by rash reactions [...]

FOX: Rep. Frank Calls Justice Scalia a ‘Homophobe’ The Massachusetts Democrat told a gay online news agency that he hoped the Supreme Court won’t ever get to hear a challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act while Justice Scalia is on the bench. By Lee Ross Masscahusetts Rep. Barney Frank called Supreme Court Justice Antonin [...]

McClatchy: Call it a condom conundrum. At a time when the federal government is spending billions of stimulus dollars to stem the tide of U.S. layoffs, should that same government put even more Americans out of work by buying cheaper foreign products? In this case, Chinese condoms. That’s the dilemma for the folks at the [...]

Fox News: BEIJING — China will continue buying U.S. government debt while paying close attention to possible fluctuations in the value of those assets, a vice governor of Beijing’s central bank said Monday. Investing in U.S. Treasury bills is “an important component part of China’s foreign currency reserve investments,” People’s Bank of China Vice Governor [...]

WSJ: Toxic-Asset Plan Rallies Stocks Markets Race Higher on Long-Awaited Rescue Effort Details By PETER A. MCKAY and GEOFFREY ROGOW Financials paced a broad market surge Monday after the government explained in greater detail its plan to use private and public funds to take bad credit bets off banks’ hands. The Dow Jones Industrial Average [...]

JPost: Haifa vehicle contained 100kg of explosives By YAAKOV LAPPIN AND HERB KEINON Had the terrorist plot gone according to plan, Saturday would have been a black day in the country’s history. Hidden in the trunk of a stolen Subaru, parked near columns holding up part of Haifa’s Lev Hamifratz mall, were 100 kg. of [...]

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(International ANSWER and Hezbollah in Washington DC over the weekend.) More from the ‘event’ here.

I do not like Susan Estrich … She is at the very least annoying in her opinion delivery (aesthetically to the ears and eyes) … and usually towing the democrat/liberal party line on that nag’s back of hers. However, she makes some decent points regarding ‘where the hell are the Republicans’ in this mess? I [...]

Think he apologized for the Cold War and that whole “Reagan thing”? … Obama I mean. Obama met Gorbachev in run-up to Medvedev talks MOSCOW – U.S. President Barack Obama has held talks with Mikhail Gorbachev, a spokesman for the former Soviet leader said on Monday, in the latest sign of Washington’s efforts to “press [...]

Unless they went ‘shopping’ in the last week or so, I believe Geitner’s Treasury Department has yet to fill important seats/positions (or even answer the damn phones) to work on this crisis that seems to have snowballed in the last two months to critical mass. But then, when you have the Dictator-in-Chief with his Pelosi [...]