oh.

my.

sweet.

god.

Repulsive and terrifying.

OMG I totally remember that commercial! Never wanted it though.

‘… her pree-tend mee-elk is-a feelin’ the pail!’

I believe that there was also a bull.

She’s shore got a purty mouth.

And that “preetend milk”, just how toxic do you suppose that was?

How did we ever survive our childhood?

‘Pretend Milk’? It’s interesting how the word ‘non-toxic’ never quite makes it into the commercial.

The barbecue grill never enters the frame, because a Cat 1 hurricane knocked it over.

And that “preetend milk”, just how toxic do you suppose that was?

Well, it’s not dissolving through the cup, so I suppose that’s something.

I received this for Christmas in 1979 and it was broken. Unfortunately there were none left in the store for exchange. Very upsetting for a 6 year old. I’ve been on the hunt for one all of my adult life. I can’t wait to someday try it out.

ShellyG, December 11, 2008

I remember that one! Yeah, we never really found the toy appealling, just bizarre.

I’ve been on the hunt for one all of my adult life. I can’t wait to someday try it out.

OH WHAT A GIVEAWAY

BTW what are the chances TIDOS YankMe is also thinking “I’ve been on the hunt for one all of my adult life. I can’t wait to someday try it out”?

My grill!

“IT PUTZ THE MILK IN THE FUCKIN BUCKET!”

How much would you wager that Bub the Confederate Spankee Owens has moved on to squeezing a different sort of milk from single uddered animals?

I believe that there was also a bull.

Junior artificial-insemination kit DO NOT WANT.

Comment from the link:

My daughter had one as a child and loved it. We have been trying to get one on e bay but they are priced out of our reach.

Really?

“Pretend milk?” You know they make this stuff called “powdered milk” that would do the exact same thing but would be, you know, edible.

but would be, you know, edible.

That’s very debatable.

You know, recently we’ve had a lot of fairly serious (OK, for this place) comment threads with a fair bit of doom and gloom and all. So why does the fact his toy was conceived and marketed (and apparently loved) make me want to throw things?

“that this”

See? I’m throwing out words now.

[spooky time machine music, warp-y video effect, yay we’re back in the 70s!]

“Hey, Bobby, look I got this cool Evel Knievel wind up motorcycle for Xmas! What did you get?”

“Mine’s way better, I got this cow that drinks water and makes fake milk!”

“Uh, ok… I’m gonna go play over here…” [backing away slowly]

[/end of 70s]

You know, recently we’ve had a lot of fairly serious (OK, for this place) comment threads with a fair bit of doom and gloom and all. So why does the fact his toy was conceived and marketed (and apparently loved) make me want to throw things?

I’m gonna go with a latent hostility due to a repressed memory…? Also, some shit about cigars.

his toy was conceived

…As clearly demonstrated by this obvious Freudian slip.

I remember this toy. I thought it was pretty amazing at the time. But I also thought the Visible Man and chemistry sets were pretty amazing. I was a weird kid.

Oh, and the Play-Doh Fuzzy Pumper Barber Shop, which I actually owned. Of all of them, I can’t quite believe that this one actually existed and find it, today, to actually be a little gross.

Holy shit that TIDOS Wankee is a fucking asshole. I mean – fuck.

I’m feeling kinda bad for ragging on BM Matt and even that piece of shit soullite. Kinda lost perspective about how utterly pathetic someone can go. Thank you Bobo Wens for reminding me that even the moronic shitbags that populate Youtube comment threads aren’t the bottom of the barrel.

That’s the closest Bobo has ever gotten to a set of teats.

Or teef, for that matter

Am I having a brain-snap or was there really a pregnant barbie, who’s belly opened to reveal a baby barbie? on the same level of gross. Mind you it could be a 70’s flashback rather than reality.

I remember this commercial as well, and I think it says a lot about the power of propaganda advertising, and its effect on kids in particular, that I didn’t find it the least bit strange at the time.

Hey, this might be a great way for the Chinese to get rid of lots of melamine-laced dairy products.

“Yeah, it’s, um, pretend milk! That’s it! It’s toy milk!”

El Cid, I think it might be a bit late, the chinese umm disapeared the marketers of the melamine milk. Kind of the way the wingers would dispose of embarassing employees.

Am I having a brain-snap or was there really a pregnant barbie

I certainly hope that this is just a bit of your fevered imag- HOLY SHIT!!! THERE IS NO IPU!!!!

I remember this commercial- man, it made us laugh our little asses off.

“Pretend milk?” You know they make this stuff called “powdered milk” that would do the exact same thing but would be, you know, edible.

Edible, but perishable- imagine the smell!

They should have made a variation which could dispense Raisinettes.

Growing Up Skipper. A fascinating doll.

Good God, the 70s were fucking weird. The creepiest toy they had when I was a kid was Teddy Ruxpin.

Growing Up Skipper. A fascinating doll.

My sister had one. It was not a favorite.

Growing Up Skipper. A fascinating doll.

Think how much worse it could’ve been if menarche were simulated by the doll as well.

Weebles haunted house, on the other hand, was the greatest thing ever.

And HR Puff n Stuff was the shit of nightmares, y’all.

Growing Up Skipper.

Little Buddy!

And HR Puff n Stuff was the shit of nightmares, y’all.

you mean acid trips, don’t you?

I believe that there was also a bull.

Delivered ex cathedra?

I remember my mom laughing so hard at this commercial. God bless her for surrounding me with Legos and Fisher Price and, Tonka trucks and toy cars you know, real fucking toys so I would never think tail pump action plastic milk cow* was anything more than the stupidest thing ever.

How much would you wager that Bob ‘Confederate Yankee’ Owens really, really wanted this toy ^and a drill so he could … “modify it” when he was a kid.

Fxd.

*Would it be inappropriate to make a Pam Geller joke? Yes? Never mind then.

And HR Puff n Stuff was the shit of nightmares, y’all.

you mean acid trips, don’t you?

Yet again, I am glad I never tried acid. That flute haunts me to this day.

Combat drones are much in the news these days. Such weapons constitute the major current focus of effort against organized jihadi terrorism, with nearly weekly strikes carried out in the unassimilated areas of northern Pakistan and the Taliban-occupied districts of Afghanistan, along with less frequent strikes elsewhere.

Drones have compiled an impressive record, taking out a number of high-ranking al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders, many of whom likely believed that they were perfectly safe until that persistent whining sound started getting louder. The MQ-1 Predator has achieved the status of legend, with the MQ-9 Reaper not far behind. New models, such as the so-called Beast of Kandahar, evidently a high-speed stealth model, are beginning to enter combat.

The armed drone is peculiarly suited to the purposes of the Obama administration. Liberals like military gimmicks (does anyone recall the McNamara Line?), particularly if they allow for a standoff form of fighting that can be presented as the lowest level of involvement. In this sense, the combat drone campaign is the millennial version of Rolling Thunder, the limited air campaign against North Vietnam during the mid-’60s. Though considerably more successful, the drone strikes (notice there’s no catchy name that can provide a hanger for criticism) fill the same purpose of acting as a replacement for more decisive action.

Public debate over the strikes has settled around synthetic controversies as to whether drone attacks are “legal” (in the sense that they may be a form of assassination) and the question of collateral damage. The legal aspects fit the standard liberal philosophy that there’s nothing worth doing that isn’t worth interfering with at the same time. It is adequately answered by the ancient Roman dictum, inter arma silent leges — “in wartime, law is silent.” There are a lot of things that are legal in wartime that are not under other circumstances. Assassination fits that category. Snipers do it all the time, being instructed to target officers above all other enemy personnel. Drone attacks can and should be viewed as a technologically sophisticated form of sniping.

As for civilian casualties, this sudden outburst of concern overlooks the fact that the U.S. Air Force has over the past fifty years made incredible efforts to perfect weapons capable of carrying out surgical strikes — attacks in which as little collateral damage as possible is incurred. Drone attacks can be considered the ultimate payoff of this effort. Putting aside the question of what kind of “civilians” are to be found in close proximity with terrorists, it’s undeniable that drone attacks cause far less in the way of collateral casualties than any other form of military attack. Since 2003, adversary types in this country have been involved in a Quixotic attempt to assure that wars cost not only minimal friendly casualties, but also a similar level of enemy casualties. We should be inclined to listen — as soon as these people demonstrate that they’ve done more than the U.S. military to decrease the horrific aspects of modern warfare.

One question that has not arisen is the possibility of drones being used against us. An ad feed that appeared with my last piece here on the F-22 was placed on behalf of Nitroplanes.com, an outfit that specializes in radio-controlled aircraft models. Nitro advertises flying scale-model versions of current and historical aircraft, including the F/A-18, the F-16, and the F-35. (I didn’t see an F-22 Raptor in there, but maybe I didn’t look hard enough.) These models are of a good size, some over three feet long, and relatively cheap, too.

No, I’m not suggesting that Al Qaeda is going to overthrow the West with model airplanes. What I’m saying is that the technology is out there. Along with full models, Nitro (and a dozen more similar companies) sells engines, receivers and transmitters, and everything else you need to build or repair a working drone. Designing and building your own mini-aircraft might work even better for a potential terrorist. A couple of engines, a guidance system, a mini-video camera, and a stick or two of dynamite, and you’ve got yourself your own personal combat drone. (Anyone doubting the terrorist’s technical ability to pull this off need only recall last year’s revelation that al-Qaeda in Iraq were hacking in to the Predator’s visual feed.)

What would you target with these? Keep in mind that the purpose of terrorism is to generate terror. The jihadis wouldn’t be knocking down buildings with these things, nor is that necessary. Consider the jihadi airliner problem. Since 9/11, their attempts on airliners have proven futile despite almost open cooperation from the State Department and the Transportation Security Administration. With Umar Abdulmutallab’s Christmas attempt, the campaign degenerated into something close to black comedy — Monty Python’s Guide to Airline Terror. Recent tests utilizing a superannuated 747 have conclusively demonstrated that Abdulmutallab’s undie-bomb would scarcely have damaged the airplane. The same goes for the fearsome rectal and vaginal bombs. It’s doubtful that enough bang could be created to cause the fatal damage the jihadis hope for.

But a radio-controlled drone is something else. For best results, you simply ram it straight into an engine intake, preferably an inboard engine nearest the fuselage. The engine turbine, spinning at several hundred rpm, will then disintegrate, spraying turbine blades like shrapnel, piercing the fuel tanks and the passenger compartment, possibly causing a fire or massive wing failure. At best, a badly damaged aircraft limping back home for an emergency landing. At worst, a catastrophe, with bodies scattered across the landscape. An alternative target would be the cockpit, with your drone bursting through the windscreens at several hundred mph closing speed before exploding inside. (Though, as with the engines, explosives would not be strictly necessary — kinetic energy would do the job nicely.)

The perceptive student will have already noticed that such tactics would totally negate the years of development and billions in funding that have been put into developing airport-based security measures. That’s quite an accomplishment for a weapon costing only a few thousand bucks at most.

The targets need not be limited to airliners (lacking enthusiasm for encounters with grim-faced government types in dark suits, I will allude only to the airliner that operates under the blue and white “United States of America” livery.) Hitting a speeding eighteen-wheeler on a city expressway at rush hour would cause interesting complications. The IRS office attack two weeks ago revealed new vulnerabilities in government offices. Electrical substations are an obvious and overlooked target. The possibilities are virtually endless — once you get the weapon in hand, more will suggest themselves, such as assassinations of individuals who have annoyed the jihadis in one way or another.

Strategic strikes are also a possibility. The most advanced aircraft in the world, the B-2 Spirit, operates out of a single airbase: Whiteman AFB in Missouri. A half-dozen of these drones unleashed against the base could possibly cripple or destroy a B-2, at the cost of up to a billion dollars each. The same tactic could be unleashed against our limited and valuable F-22 fleet, which is deployed at only a handful of bases.

Countermeasures do exist. Radio jamming will certainly work to impede drone activity of the type we’re discussing, along with patrols around fixed sites such as airports. (Something just now occurred to me — airports are surrounded by hotels, often of a dozen stories or more. Has any thought been given to putting observation stations atop hotels to watch for suspicious activity?) But that doesn’t mean that we can dismiss the threat. Advanced drone technology is spreading worldwide. At least forty-four nations apart from the U.S. are working on combat drones. Eventually, an unscrupulous corporation or arms dealer will fill an order out of Waziristan, and then things will get interesting.

The success of combat drones has clearly been demonstrated. We can’t interdict the supply of such weapons forever, nor can we adequately track sales of related technology. Drones are another terror-related problem that require considerably more thought than they’ve yet been given. Otherwise, we may find ourselves sooner than we wish in the same predicament as today’s black-turbaned jihadi leaders: constantly casting nervous glances at the sky, fearful that the next breath will be our last.

Speaking of acid trips…

Growing Up Skipper.

Don’t forget to shave the baby!

Along with her difficulties ramming health care down our throats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has an ugly, slightly “cobwebbed” credibility issue that is about to get dusted off and given full, sunlit exposure due to new documents being pried loose by court order.

Pelosi’s “credibility” is under scrutiny due to her unusually harsh criticism of the Central Intelligence Agency last year. When liberals began flapping indignantly a few years ago over “enhanced interrogation techniques” such as waterboarding, which were used on detained terrorists after 9/11, the CIA defended itself in 2009, saying that certain members of Congress had been aware of the interrogations for years and had done nothing to stop them. It turned out that one of the most outspoken critics of the so-called “torture” techniques, Speaker Pelosi, attended a briefing or briefings.

Ensnared in her own word-web after she had so vociferously criticized the Bush administration for “torturing” terrorists, an indignant Pelosi called a news conference in May 2009 to make the remarkable or reckless assertion that the CIA was “misleading the Congress of the United States” about her knowledge and/or complicit approval of any waterboarding or other tough interrogation tactics and that “they [the CIA] mislead us all the time.”

ABC NEWS (see also video in link):

“The CIA briefed me only once on enhanced interrogation techniques in September 2002 in my capacity as ranking member of the Intelligence Committee. I was informed then that the Department of Justice opinions had concluded that the use of enhanced interrogation techniques were legal. The only mention of waterboarding at that briefing was that it was not being employed,” Pelosi said today, reading from a prepared statement.

Terror suspect Abu Zubaydah was subjected to waterboarding 83 times in August 2002, the month prior to when Pelosi was briefed about enhanced interrogation techniques.

Republicans in Congress have been calling since last year for the CIA to release all briefing minutes to determine who in Congress knew what and when about “torture” or enhanced interrogations — and which, if any, approved of the methods. Democrats like Pelosi had called for a “truth commission” to investigate the Bush administration’s treatment of terrorists, but after the CIA released part of the briefing information, Pelosi, Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, and the Obama administration backed away from the idea. What, did the truth not serve them?

Despite Ms. Pelosi’s “suggestions” to release all briefing memos, a major public interest agency has been forced to file lawsuits to get them.

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, has received through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) a CIA “Top Secret” memorandum which may be one of the first pieces of evidence to show that Speaker Pelosi indeed was briefed about the tough interrogations of terrorists in U.S. detention. More memos are being sought which may show how many meetings she attended and what she asked, said, and did.

Judicial Watch:

The following are excerpts from the Memorandum, dated July 14, 2004:

Summary of testimony by DOD Official, Lt. Gen. William Boykin: “At this point, General Boykin read a prepared statement to the Committee in which he asserted that interrogation is a critically valuable tool, and, citing observations made by service personnel at Ft. Bragg, said that the most [imp]ortant factor in the capture of Saddam Hussein was interrogation.”

Summary of testimony by member of the CTC (Counterterrorism Center), name redacted: “…Even today long term detainees like Khalid Shayk Muhammed and Zubaydah are providing good information because their histories go back a long way and often a tidbit they provide, while not initially operationally significant, ends up being the piece that completes the puzzle; DC/CTC closed by noting that he was personally persuaded that detainee reporting has saved lives.”

Rep. Jane Harman: “What do you think of the value of enhanced techniques?” John Pistole, Witness for the FBI: “In my view the benefits are huge and the costs are insignificant. Very few detainees don’t provide us with good information….”

Rep. Ruppersberger: “Are there procedures that we have stopped that should be resumed?” Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, the Army G-2, [now Director of the National Security Agency (NSA)]: “Yes. Diet and sleep management. Those, plus segregation which is still employed, are key…”

General Alexander also testified that field commanders wanted more “97E’s” (interrogators), “even to the point of trading off some of their combat troops.”

Saddam Hussein was not subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques, but “friendly discussions with an eye to future public prosecution.”

In February, Judicial Watch released documents, previously marked “Top Secret,” indicating that between 2001 and 2007, the CIA briefed at least 68 members of Congress on the CIA interrogation program, including so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques.” The documents include the dates of all congressional briefings and, in some cases, the members of Congress in attendance and the specific subjects discussed. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who previously denied she was briefed by the CIA on the use of these techniques, is specifically referenced in a briefing that took place on April 24, 2002 regarding the “ongoing interrogations of Abu Zubaydah.”

Again, return to Ms. Pelosi’s May 2009 news conference assertion that she was briefed “only once” about the interrogations and that the briefing was in September of 2002.

April 15 is the court’s deadline for the CIA to produce the rest of the briefings memoranda to Judicial Watch per the court’s order, so it should be clear then who was at which meeting and what was said.

“We are now beginning to get a very clear picture of what members of Congress knew about so-called enhanced interrogation techniques and when they knew it,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Intelligence officials repeatedly informed members of Congress that enhanced interrogation techniques are effective and save lives. It is little wonder why the Obama administration would try to keep these documents hidden, given the administration’s ideological hostility to these effective interrogation techniques.”

Once the full truth is known from the CIA memos, Pelosi will be caught in a web of her own making. Then what? It’s unlikely that the House Speaker will apologize or retract her accusation. The time and effort spent by watchdogs like Judicial Watch to bring out the truth years after Pelosi’s CIA slander (or careless words) may not reap any immediate penalty to her, but maybe it will affect her reelection in November.

Ms. Pelosi has been entrenched in the Congress for 23 years, rarely challenged in her San Francisco district. Perhaps after this credibility “clunk,” even California Congressional District 8 liberals will finally be sufficiently offended or embarrassed by Ms. Pelosi’s many missteps. These would include but not be limited to Pelosi’s self-entitled $2.1-million expenditure of government funds over two years for an Air Force jet for her and her family’s use, including more than $100,000 for catering and alcoholic beverages aboard said jet, and $1.1 million of taxpayer funds to squire a delegation of 106 people to the purpose-challenged Copenhagen climate summit. Ms. Pelosi has also been listed as one of “Congress’ Top Ten Most Corrupt Politicians” in 2007, 2008, and 2009.

Meanwhile, many federal dollars were no doubt expended to have CIA staff review, redact, and unsuccessfully fend off the release of records which are proving the House Speaker to be “misleading.” It is certainly very expensive to have Nancy Pelosi in Congress. There are two able Republicans running who hope to replace her.

The word I choose to spread is….

FERD

FERD’S THE WORD!!!!!!eleven!!

FERD’S THE WORD!!!!!!eleven!!

It’s got groove, it’s got feeling…

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) of the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal EPA) sponsored a full-day scientific discussion and debate on February 26, 2010 at the California EPA hearing room in Sacramento. The unprecedented public meeting was held because of public outcry against the latest CARB air pollution regulations. Usually California Environmental laws and regulations are passed with little debate, after an inevitable scientific review process with written public comments that are received and filed but have no impact on agency actions.

CARB has an annual budget of 1.2 billion dollars, 90% of it supplied by fine and penalty income from California business and industry. CARB and its allies in the media and the environmental movement are used to having their way.

Not this time, not yet, and that’s the story to tell.

Norman “Skip” Brown is an enthusiastic hunter and fisherman, native Sacramento boy, son and successor, owner, and operator of Delta Construction Company, Inc., a 67-year-old street and highway construction company. He loves his home state and wants it to prosper, but his company is on hard economic times, like many other companies in California. For Skip, CARB is making things worse because they hate diesel engines — just hate them — and only diesel engines can make big equipment run.

During the ’90s and early part of this century, Skip volunteered for his industry and tried to work with CARB to achieve an accommodation between environmental goals and economic reality. He often found that agency officials did not understand business, and when he explained that business assets and business plans could be destroyed by regulations, compliance costs, fines, or penalties that would reduce inventory, equipment, bonding, and credit capacity — and ultimately, competitiveness — agency officials had no concern, and they even suggested that he just raise his prices.

Brown decided that CARB was not willing to be cooperative, and if he didn’t work to stop CARB excesses, then his California dream would become a nightmare.

James Enstrom, southern California native, earned a Ph.D. in elementary particle nuclear physics at Stanford, then received postdoctoral training in epidemiology and a Masters in Public Health from UCLA. He began his career in 1974 as an epidemiologist (population researcher) at the Jonsson Cancer Center of UCLA. Enstrom had a special interest in healthy lifestyle effects like those of the Mormons, and he cooperated on the American Cancer Society (ACS) studies of a big cohort (group) of Americans.

In 2005, Enstrom published his results of a robust and current (50,000 people, 1973-2002) study on the effects of small particle air pollution in California. He found (here) no premature death effect in California from small particle air pollution. California’s air pollution of the ’50s and ’60s has declined for thirty years, and Enstrom was also familiar with the improvement in air quality and the conundrum of increasing rates of asthma that was being misrepresented by CARB.

When CARB announced another round of onerous small particle air regulations in 2008, Enstrom’s concern was that CARB was out of control and ignoring the science. Enstrom concluded that he had to become a public advocate for sensible science and prevent CARB from causing great harm to California’s people and economy, which would involve economic hardship and shortened life expectancy. Enstrom became a physicist/epidemiologist who was also a concerned citizen of the Golden State.

Enstrom, Brown, and I met for the first time in late June of 2008 at a symposium on CARB malfeasance in San Diego. Enstrom brought colleagues to talk about epidemiology and how CARB air pollution science was misguided and pushed inappropriate and excessive air rules and regulations. I was there to talk about human health issues and legal strategies. Skip Brown came to tell his story of CARB tyranny and hostility to the business and industry community.

The CARB Toxic Air Machine Project of 2007-2008

First, In 2007, the CARB Scientific Review Panel “Solicitation” and review process was set up, involving six “independent” but paid reviewers well known to, and allies of, CARB. Then CARB staff released in May of 2008 a draft report and proposed regulatory regime, claiming that air pollution caused premature deaths in California. A public comment period began, and the CARB business-as-usual process ran into vigorous critiques (here) submitted by Enstrom and other distinguished public health scientists and engineers in July of 2008.

Criticisms of the CARB Draft Report included:

1. Panel reviewers were reviewing their own or their close colleagues’ studies.
2. CARB had discarded the Enstrom study and ignored geographic and time trend evidence that argued against their conclusions of air pollution death effects and the need for more regulations.
3. CARB had failed to adjust for changes in engines and emissions that also made older studies invalid.

CARB staff minimized the critiques and issued in October of 2008 a final report that was the same as the preliminary draft report of May 2008. CARB staff admitted that they didn’t show the critiques to the Expert Panel or request an expert response to the public comments. In December of 2008, Enstrom and three senior and prominent California Ph.D. experts directly contacted CARB board members to urge rejection of the 2008 report. The four also wrote a public letter to CARB to recommend that CARB reassess the report and delay any decision on air pollution and diesel regulations.

Prior to that, since luck comes to the well-prepared, Enstrom and Stan Young, Ph.D., a statistician from North Carolina, found that Hien Tran, lead author of the CARB report, had a bogus $1,000 Ph.D. purchased from Thornhill University, which not a university at all. The Enstrom and Brown group and their allies pointed out the phony Ph.D. to the public, but they also pursued another scandal — that CARB had failed to rotate its Scientific Panel experts, many of whom had been in their positions for time beyond that prescribed by the law. A lawsuit was filed by Pacific Legal Foundation in the fall of 2008 with Brown as one of eight party plaintiffs to force compliance with the law after twenty years of disregard. The troubles were multiplying for CARB.

The Enstrom and Brown group kept pressing in 2008 and 2009. They pointed out how silly the CARB public relations (propaganda) apparatus was if it claimed 2,400 lives saved by the new diesel rules on page 6 of the original Tran report in 2008, here, and then in 2009 claimed that the new rules would save 24,000 lives here.

A taxpayer protest was held with speeches and demonstrations at the State Capitol on August 28, 2009, reinforced by the sound of a 220-truck convoy sponsored by the Cal Dump Truck Owners Association. The convoy circled the Capitol Building, and on cue, there was a one minute dump truck horn sounding. The convoy and the Capitol steps rally on California agency overreach with speeches were not covered by the press, but the legislators were there.

Business and industry sectors using diesel engines raised their voices. Dr. Bill Wattenberg, an engineer and influential talk show host from San Francisco’s KGO, railed against CARB. Bloggers and other radio hosts joined in. Bryan Bloom, Lee Brown, and Betty Plowman and other trucking industry people were eloquent in public meetings. Jay McKeeman for the Independent Oil Marketers, logging industry organizations, Bill Davis with the Southern California Contractors, and Shelly Sullivan of the California Manufacturers and Technology Association all pressed for a CARB suspension of new rules and a sensible agency retreat from its aggressive stance.

Assemblyman Roger Niello presented a bipartisan letter with 52 signers demanding that CARB suspend the new diesel rules. Senator Dutton and Assemblyman Logue introduced bills to slow down CARB implementation plans on greenhouse gas and global warming regulations. The Governator weighed in to advocate a suspension of regulations until the economy could recover.

The Grudge Match Debate is on

The circumstances created a new ballgame on environmental regulations and rules in California. The board of CARB ordered up the debate or symposium on the air pollution science in response to the public outcry and the political realities. Friday, February 26, 2010 — full day, no holds barred — was set.

CARB designated three experts from the original scientific review panel: Drs. Krewski, Jarrett, and Pope, well-credentialed and also longtime friends and beneficiaries of CARB. CARB paid for them to appear, and they argued that Enstrom and the others were wrong, CARB was right, they were right, air pollution was a killer, and more regulations were imperative.

For the public critics of the CARB team: James Enstrom; Fred Lipfert, Ph.D.; Robert Phalen, Ph.D.; Roger McClellan, DVM; Suresh Moolgavkar, M.D., Ph.D; and Tom Hesterberg, Ph.D., MBA. These critics urged no more regulations and no more exaggerating the science on air pollution health effects. McClellan and Phalen are past or present expert panelists for the U.S. EPA on air pollution matters. Lipfert and Moolgavkar represent more than sixty years of experience in human health research. Moolgavkar was sponsored by an engine-manufacturing concern. Enstrom, Lipfert, Phalen, and McClellan were not sponsored. Hesterberg was en environmental issues and products official for Navistar, the successor company to International Harvester, which made my grandpa Hugh Dunn’s Farmall Tractor in the ’50s and now makes engines and trucks.

The video webcast notice is here. The webcast is seven hours long and can be found here.

The debate was full-throated, and the issues were properly vetted. I was disappointed that there was not a more complete discussion of epidemiology rules on causation (see my exegesis on epidemiology and toxicology rules here), but never let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Will CARB just get up, limp off, and do what it was planning to do all along?

Enstrom, Brown, and their allies are still committed to holding on to the California Dream.

FERD’S THE WORD!!!!!!eleven!!

Everybody knows that the FERD is the word!

But I thought GERD was the word???

My monitor has been overrun with dancing badgers. I presume the troll came for the cow.

…full-throated… just get [it] up… limp…

Issue troll has issues.

TruculentandUnreliable said,

March 11, 2010 at 3:06

But I thought GERD was the word???

BLASPHEMER!!!

Growing Up Skipper. A fascinating doll.

That’s not a Pammy Atlas doll? You sure?

Man, it’s like a brontosaurus took a dump in here.

Peej said:

…came for the cow.

AAaaannd we’re back to Bob Owens.

…came for the cow.

AAaaannd we’re back to Bob Owens.

I doubt he did that for the cow’s benefit…

That’s not a Pammy Atlas doll?

They WERE plastic…

Weebles haunted house, on the other hand, was the greatest thing ever.

Those Weebles were something, they could have been used as lethal missiles. Hell, they even look like sling-bullets (known in Latin as glandes, the singular form being glans– VPR).

God bless her for surrounding me with Legos and Fisher Price and, Tonka trucks and toy cars you know, real fucking toys so I would never think tail pump action plastic milk cow* was anything more than the stupidest thing ever.

As a toddler, I used Tonka trucks to conduct a paleontological excavation outside my parents’ grad-school housing. I never did find any dinosaur bones in the Boston suburbs, but the pit was over four feet in depth by the time dad got his sheepskin. Damn, those things were made from industrial-grade steel.

Damn, those things were made from industrial-grade steel.
Micronauts on the other hand… one good fire cracker reduced them to little plastic chunks.

one good fire cracker reduced them to little plastic chunks.

Pammy hates the Fourth of July.

Hates.

I wanna hear from ANTHRAX!!!! CONTINUE SPREADING THE DISEASE!!!!

Speaking of Bob Owens’ mom, on the pregnant-barbie post, you have to love the first comment:

when i was a child I got one of this dolls and i dont see nothing wrong with it

Ah, but if you hadn’t then gone out and gotten preggers yourself, honey, maybe you would have finished Junior High.

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President Obama intends to impose a solution on Israel.

During the lead up to his election victory, he surrounded himself with a host of vehemently anti-Israel advisors including Lee Hamilton, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Samantha Power, Susan Rice and Gen Jones, many of whom advocated imposing a solution on Israel..

He also made common cause with Jewish leftists represented by J Street and Israel Policy Forum who were urging him to increase the pressure on Israel and if that didn’t work, to impose a solution on Israel.

So it was no surprise that he started his term of office by attacking Israel, America’s best and most steadfast ally, declaring that all settlements were illegal and demanding a complete settlement construction freeze east of the greenline including in Jerusalem. He went so far as to repudiate the US commitment set out in the Bush letter ’04 to Sharon, declaring there was no agreement. Elliot Abrams and others involved in the negotiations which led to the letter, testified otherwise.

This letter also affirmed that “as part of a final peace settlement, Israel must have secure and recognized borders, which should emerge from negotiations between the parties in accordance with UNSC Resolutions 242 and 338.” Pres Bush had always supported a negotiated settlement and this letter did likewise. Noticeably absent was any reference to the Saudi Plan. The letter also contained a commitment, that “the United States will do its utmost to prevent any attempt by anyone to impose any other plan”.

By repudiating this letter as a U.S. commitment, Pres Obama opened the way for a settlement to be imposed according to the Saudi Plan rather than Res 242.

He set a goal of achieving an agreement in two years. One year is up, what has he accomplished? At first blush, it would appear, not much. But the reality is otherwise.

He got PM Netanyahu to agree to a two-state solution for the first time and to the terms of reference for negotiations, namely, “an outcome which ends the conflict and reconciles the Palestinian goal of an independent and viable state based on the 1967 lines, with agreed swaps, and the Israeli goal of a Jewish state with secure and recognized borders that reflect subsequent developments and meet Israeli security requirements.” These terms leave very little wiggle room so it does not matter that Pres Obama agreed with PM Netanyahu’s demand that there be no pre-conditions or that negotiations not start where Ehud Olmert left off.

Noticeably absent from the terms of reference were Jerusalem and refugees, two items that could scuttle talks and probably will. Pres Obama is on record of wanting Jerusalem divided and not favoring the return of refugees to Israel

He also got Netanyahu to agree to a temporary constructions freeze, not near what he was demanding, but enough to enable him to get Abbas to agree to the proximity talks.

Since attaining these building blocks, Pres Obama’s has witnessed falling approval ratings and increasing pressure to focus on domestic issues. How will this affect the progress made?

The Arab League has given its support to “proximity talks” but only for four months. This has enabled Abbas to likewise agree. The talks therefore will start soon and end before the temporary freeze ends. But no one expects an agreement to be reached.

The U.S. managed to accomplish this by sending a document to the Palestinians responding to their enquires which provided, “We expect both parties to act seriously and in good faith. If one side, in our judgment, is not living up to our expectations, we will make our concerns clear and we will act accordingly to overcome that obstacle,”

The document also committed the US to “sharing messages between the parties and offering our own ideas and bridging proposals.” and reiterated “Our core remains a viable, independent and sovereign Palestinian State with contiguous territory that ends the occupation that began in 1967,”

This commitment by the U.S. was a determining factor in the Palestinians’ and the Arab League’s decision to agree to the U.S. proposal on indirect talks.

Both the agreed terms of reference above quoted and this document imply that Israel must return all occupied territories rather than some occupied territories as was the original intention of Res 242.

One wonders why PM Netanyahu would enter fruitless negotiations that would result in Israel being blamed and ultimately dictated to. In doing so, PM Netanyahu abandoned Israel’s previous demands for direct negotiations thereby allowing the Arab League to have a say. For that matter, Abbas also abandoned a long held position that only the PA can negotiate on behalf of the Palestinians.

The Arab League has thus given Obama four months only to achieve an agreement, failing which it will take over of the process. Pres Obama is only too happy to pass the buck.

When the Arab League announced their support, their Secretary General said;

“We intend in four months time to bring back the whole of the peace process to the Security Council thus ending the role of honest broker role played so far by the US and to put an end to the peace process.

“We will put the results of the talks before the Security Council and then ask this important body in charge of maintaining peace and security to decide on the steps forward.”

This in effect would abrogate the Oslo Accords and the Roadmap which heretofore have been considered binding.

Pursuant to Article 33, of the United Nations Charter, members, Israel included, who are “parties to any dispute, the continuance of which is likely to endanger the maintenance of international peace and security, shall, first of all, seek a solution by negotiation, enquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial settlement, resort to regional agencies or arrangements, or other peaceful means of their own choice” and the Security Council “shall, when it deems necessary, call upon the parties to settle their dispute by such means.”

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Israel could well be ordered to submit to arbitration or judicial settlement. Perhaps this is the reason PM Netanyahu keeps reaffirming Israel’s desire to negotiate.

The Security Council has the “primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security”. In fact, Article 37 provides, “If the Security Council deems that the continuance of the dispute is in fact likely to endanger the maintenance of international peace and security, it shall decide whether to take action under Article 36 or to recommend such terms of settlement as it may consider appropriate.” Chapter VII gives the Security Council the right to enforce these recommendations.

You can be sure that the Arab League is well aware of these provisions. It is highly doubtful that the US will veto any such move.

The EU is already on board. European Union foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, told a British audience in London on Saturday,

“After a fixed deadline, a UN Security Council resolution should proclaim the adoption of the two-state solution,”

“It would accept the Palestinian state as a full member of the UN, and set a calendar for implementation. It would mandate the resolution of other remaining territorial disputes and legitimize the end of claims.”

“If the parties are not able to stick to it [referring to the UN-imposed timetable -ed.], then a solution backed by the international community should be put on the table.”

Solana added that the UN-imposed “two-state solution” should include resolution of issues such as control over Israel’s capital, the city of Jerusalem, as well as border definitions, security arrangements and the “right of return” by millions of foreign descendants of Arab refugees who abandoned their homes during the 1948 war..

Netanyahu will thus be faced with making the best deal he can for fear of a worse deal being imposed. He can also decide to reject the authority of the United Nations resulting in Israel’s expulsion and the imposition of serious sanctions.

Speaking of serious sanctions, it appears unlikely they will be imposed on Iran. Israel’s only option then is the military one the sooner the better.

Pres Obama may well decide to posture as Israel’s defender and save her from the worst thereby improving his reelection chances without jeopardizing the imposed solution. For him, a win-win all around, that is, if Israel doesn’t reject it.

Obama will impose a solution on them–a hard solution.

Gosh, Mr. spread-the-cheeks sure types fast

You’d think he’d eventually find a more receptive venue.
You know, after the first couple hundred times he was ignored.

I presume the troll came for the cow.
And I did nothing for I am not a cow.

I prefer to spread the cream cheese, thankyewverymuch.

Continue to spread the S, N! Burdizzo script!

Micronauts on the other hand… one good fire cracker reduced them to little plastic chunks.

I have this hunch that you really shouldn’t check out eBay on a whim…

As a wee little sprat, I would have been perfectly happy to get a Marx Toys dinosaur set every Christmas. We used to put blankets on the ground and form them into terrain- making an entire dinosaur village.

Continue to spread the S, N! Burdizzo script!

Check my nymlink, libs. With extra logarrhea action and loud report!

I’m dead. Fucking DEAD, killed, I’m Obama’s Waterloo.

The Right hates me, the Left hates me, Centrists hate me, the only people who don’t hate me are Obama Cultists.

Am I having a brain-snap or was there really a pregnant barbie, who’s belly opened to reveal a baby barbie? on the same level of gross.

Barbie’s friend Midge. Didn’t come out ’til 2003, though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midge_(Barbie)

Miss me yet?

How much would you wager that Bob ‘Confederate Yankee’ Owens really, really wanted this toy when he was a kid?

¿Are you sure you don’t mean Neal Horsley?

Miss me yet?

There should be a filter for these wallpaper trolls. Why are we getting messages that our posts are too short when continue and his ilk are posting reams of this shit? If brevity is the soul of wit, then humorless wall-o-trolls have no soul.

The fact is, Your Boy Obsama is failing more and more all the time. The health care bill? DEAD. Tax increases? NO WAY. Curbs to freedom and attacks on the Consitution? STOPPED BY PATRIOTS. Gay rights? NOT IN THE HEARTLAND.

Miss me yet?

O, dost thou miss me yet?

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Miss me yet?

Yes.

Miss me yet?

Oliver Cromwell said,
March 11, 2010 at 4:24

O, dost thou miss me yet?

YES!!

Ferd?

The fact is, are copypasta trolls the most pathetic trolls ever?

Yes. Yes they are.

They are partially responsible for the popularity of Firefox, I think, because of the logorrhea script. I know I would probably stick to Safari if not for the scroll trolls.

I did, however, change the “logorrhea advisory” to “POOPARAMA ALERT!”

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FERD IS THE WORD!!!

Miss mne yeshche?

Misu watashi wa , mada?

Hitler said, Miss me yet?

Several times – you yourself were the only one who managed to get the shot right.

Hey guys, find out what “to snorkel” (in a sexual sense) means?

Hey guys, find out what “to snorkel” (in a sexual sense) means?

Not me, thanks.

I’m just waiting for you to go away, then we can all sing that Jimmy Crack Corn song.

Requiro mihi etiamnunc?

Where can you find pleasure
Search the world for treasure
Learn science technology
Where can you begin to make your dreams all come true
On the land or on the sea
Where can you learn to fly
Play in sports and skin dive
Study oceanography
Sign of for the big band
Or sit in the grandstand
When your team and others meet

In the navy
Yes, you can sail the seven seas
In the navy
Yes, you can put your mind at ease
In the navy
Come on now, people, make a stand
In the navy, in the navy
Can’t you see we need a hand
In the navy
Come on, protect the motherland
In the navy
Come on and join your fellow man
In the navy
Come on people, and make a stand
In the navy, in the navy, in the navy (in the navy)

They want you, they want you
They want you as a new recruit

If you like adventure
Don’t you wait to enter
The recruiting office fast
Don’t you hesitate
There is no need to wait
They’re signing up new seamen fast
Maybe you are too young
To join up today
Bout don’t you worry ’bout a thing
For I’m sure there will be
Always a good navy
Protecting the land and sea

In the navy
Yes, you can sail the seven seas
In the navy
Yes, you can put your mind at ease
In the navy
Come on now, people, make a stand
In the navy, in the navy
Can’t you see we need a hand
In the navy
Come on, protect the motherland
In the navy
Come on and join your fellow man
In the navy
Come on people, and make a stand
In the navy, in the navy, in the navy (in the navy)

They want you, they want you
They want you as a new recruit

Who me?

They want you, they want you
They want you as a new recruit

But, but but I’m afraid of water.
Hey, hey look
Man, I get seasick even watchin’ it on TV!

They want you, they want you in the navy

Oh my goodness.
What am I gonna do in a submarine?

They want you, they want you in the navy

Did you miss me yet?

If not, keep drinking!

All I can think of when I see this video is some guy having to explain to his wife why he got canned from Kenner’s project development team. “No, I swear, I thought kids would go nuts for a plastic cow with pretend milk. No, I am not doing the LSD.”

Miss my dick yet?

I miss your dick! A LOT!

*slurp slurp*

The fact is, I want more dick.

Wow, been a while since we had a real Troofie infestation.

Or has it?

Wow, been a while since we had a real Troofie infestation.

That detachable rubber udder got him all riled up.

Wow, been a while since we had a real Troofie infestation.

Couldn’t they think of funnier names? Also, of all the threads to jump on, why pick this one? Glenn Beck’s stellar interview probably had something to do it.

THEN WHAT STONE CLUBS?

[What Then?]

No one has addressed these questions, no one has taken the long term view, the Empire thinks in quarters of a year, not decades of a century. The Footholds, Trip-Wires, Foreign Occupations, [300] Three-Hundred bases like Rome will be gone, and like Rome it will be a failure to afford to maintain them, along with resistance to there remaining by the countries under their occupation, and for Israel, THEN WHAT?

Question One [1]: How long do you see the [Special Relationship] lasting?
Answer: The US military has strong ties to the Israeli military, Americans share many values in common with Israel is a democracy, Americans feel very much at home in Israel, Americans are genuinely liked universally by Israeli Jews and are welcome visitors. The same cannot be said about Americans when they visit Europe, so at this point the relationship is solid. According to Britain’s former ambassador to the American-Israeli Empire, Sir Christopher Meyers in an interview with Owen Bennet-Jones, America’s closest ally in the world and the one it really has an [Unshakable Special Relationship] with is Israel. This was reiterated by Vice President Biden.

Question Two [2]: Israeli has made it clear to both Egypt and Europe that they are capable of hitting any target within both regions with their nuclear weapons, with their past histories with these countries how long do you expect them to remain on friendly terms under such a threat?

Answer: Given a choice between ditching/ending its relationship with Europe or with Israel, the Empire will support saying good-bye and good riddance to Europe. That includes the [UK] United Kingdom

Question Three [3]: The Empire is seen by all countries on the face of the earth as the American-Israeli Empire with [AIPAC/AZC] American Israel Public Affairs Committee/American Zionist Council, Ron Emanuel, David Axelrod and other Jewish-Americans as running the Empire, how long do you really expect this to continue?

Answer: Until a new administration takes over, at which time a new set of [AIPAC/AZC] acolytes will dutifully replace their predecessors.

Question Four[4]: The North American Continent is large and could take a [1st] first strike nuclear hit and still respond, but Israel is to small to take even a small nuclear first stake and this is why Israel need a powerful supporter, but what happens as the Empire is like all others in history in decline?”

Answer: There are [6M] Six-Million American Jews who support Israel in its struggle to survive the relentless war that has been waged against it since the day it was founded almost [62] Sixty-Two years ago in [1948], along with and a large majority of American Christians who support it, at present Israel is seen as the front line in the so named [War on Terrorism], with money spent on Israel as part of its cost and a sound investment. So the answer seems to be you change strategies, to the best defence is a strong offense.

Question Five [5]: What then happens to the State of Israel, after the fall of the Empire, who they can turn to?

[Deist View]

There seems to be a cynical belief created by a core of [30] Thirty million born again evangelical Christians and supported by tens of millions of other Christians with similar beliefs, with their entire lives are devoted to one single event, devoted too the [2nd] second coming of Jesus Christ, as inevitable and necessary according to bible prophesy and as a precursor according to their reading of the bible and defeating their neighbours, followed by a cataclysmic war as being. Swirling around them are tens of millions of other Christians who believe similarly, and therefore would make the point mute.

[Non-Deist View]

With those who do not embrace or advocate a belief in a deist view, see the out come in much the same fashion based upon deduction, cultural values, history, see that embattled nations seldom go down without resorting the only available recourse remaining, to go down fighting, America is the only ally Israel needs but even there, ultimately Israel is responsible for its own security and will take whatever actions it deems necessary to protect its people. Even its American-Israeli partner can prevent that, with Israel being no exception along with the mean to defend itself and when push comes to shove will use those assets.

[Stone Clubs]

So, what is your opinions, the finial conclusion seems in either way to What Then or Then What is to be a [3rd] Third World War, and a German Jewish-American by the name of [Albert Einstein], if you add it all together, would have summed it up something like; A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, to be the main problem, and repeating the same actions in hope of obtaining a different conclusion is stupid, we no longer are assuming there will be a [3rd] World War its already begun, and by its end the next will be fought with stone clubs.

HERCULE TRIATHLON SAVINIEN

Wow, been a while since we had a real Troofie infestation.

The assholes use antibiotics to allow them to raise trolls in cages so small they can’t turn around, and then we get multiply-resistant troll breakouts. It’s a misuse of science that makes me want to cry.

When he grew up he moved on to Cathy The Mooing Cow.

That and the Easy Play Doh & Bake’n Oven.

Consult your doctor immediately if you get a Troofie infestation in your Play-Doh Fuzzy Pumper.

JAPANESE LEVERAGE

[The Shogun’s and Samurai of the Rising Sun

[The Feather Robe]

The Japanese Kyodo News has shown and the subjects of the American-Israeli Empire have seen their Media Messiah Imperial President bowing to the Emperor Akihito and Empress of The Land of the Rising Sun, Japan, displaying both seritorship and fealty to the Emperor and the people of Japan, and many Japanese now feel that their letters of grief burned upon the summit of Mt. Fujiyama, have risen to the heavens stirring compassion for the long suffering People of The Land of The Rising Sun, and the wheel of fate has turned placing the feather robe once again upon their nation, and all of sadness will be of the past, the heavens will once again be compassionate, the chill winds of the evening of American-Israeli occupation will be lifted, and the Sun will once again rise from the east over the Mountain Abounding with Warriors, the beauty of the Chrysanthemum, and the smell of the Cherry Blossom, will once again flow over the Land of The Rising Sun.

[The Warriors of Japan]

The Warriors of the Mountain Abounding with Warriors are;

* The [PM] Prime Minister of Japan, from the [9th] District of Hokkaid? Yukio [Sangokushi Manga] Hatoyama of the [LDP] Liberal Democratic Party.

* Secretary-General of the Democratic Party (DPJ) Ichiro [Shadow Shogun] Ozawa

* Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada

[A PERIOD OF REFLECTION]

A NEW Left-leaning Japanese government took office in September of [2009], representing the New [21st] Century Dreamers, Thinkers, Workers, and [Netcitizens], of Japan and what do they want;

* A period of reflection, the reassessing of present alliances/ commitments/ relationship with the American-Israeli Empire in the [21st] Century, with change to the Status Quo, which now exists.

* The ending of all Japanese military involvement in the Wars of Economic Stimulus, Blood for Oil, wars in progress against the Islamic Peoples upon the Islamic Crescent/Arabian Peninsula/Hindu Cush, which has taken place with the removal of Japanese Troops, and the ending Japan’s refueling missions within the Indian Ocean of their fleets.

* The ending of the [2006] agreement allowing the [47K] Forty-Seven Thousand, [FOOTHOLD] Troops of Far East Occupation, to remain on Japanese soil, demanding their total removal from Japan, and its occupation of the southern Japanese Island of Okinawa, with the closing of their Marine Corp Air Station Futenma.

* The ending of port calls of any American-Israeli Empire, nuclear-armed warships to Japanese ports, ending hidden past agreements, violating the hallowed anti-nuclear principle of postwar Japan.

* Calling for a closer relationship with [PRC] People’s Republic of China, within the Chinese Sphere of Influence.

* The Creation of a [ASEAN] Association of Southeast Asian Nations, of [16] nations using a single [ASEAN] trading currency by [2020] within the bloc and [PRC/ASEAN] Sphere of Influence; Australia, Brunei, China, India, Indo-China [Vietnam], Indonesia, Japan, A United Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, The Paracel Islands, The Philippines, and The Spratly Islands.

[ECONOMIC LEVERAGE SAMURAI SWORD]

Now, we read the other day that China has an economic plan unlike the American-Israeli Empire which is based upon massive debt, based upon massive borrowing, while fighting wars of economic stimulus, and the Chinese economic plan is becoming pretty clear, use that massive debt and borrowing to accomplish the fortification of its Sphere of Influence. And, what has this to do with Japan, well the answer is simple they just provide as on the [TV] Television, /Tele. LEVERAGE, economic leverage to the Japanese by selling American-Israeli Debt, to the Japanese, and the Japanese now holds more debt against the American-Israeli Empire than the [PRC] Peoples Republic of China. So, in MAY [2010], when once again the Gun-Boat Diplomacy [SOS] Secretary of State of the American-Israeli Empire Hillary Diane Rodham-Clinton faces the Japanese Warriors with debtors hat in hand, they have an Economic Leverage Samurai Sword to wield, the foothold/footprint of the American-Israeli Empire in the Far East is coming to its end, not by military force but [PRC] economic planning using American-Israeli Empire Greed against itself.

HERCULE TRIATHLON SAVINIEN

ALTERNATIVE DIPLOMATIC CO-OPERATION

[Quid Per Quo a NO!]

The Shi-ite Persian Republic of Iran, a sovereign nation within the Global Community of Nations, has the right to use nuclear power for civilian purposes for the betterment of its population, and as such has announced that it would begin the enrichment of uranium to a [20%] Twenty-percent level using a Medical Research Reactor to be used in the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases, a level [70%] Seventy-percent below that of the [90%] Ninety-percent requirement needed to produce a Thermo Nuclear Weapon. The Republic of Iran has been unable to reach agreement upon a fuel rod exchange/swap out, low-enriched uranium for higher-grade nuclear fuel with the refinement done outside of the Republic, do to the demand that the quantities to be refined determined by the outside refinement community and not by the needs determined by the Republic of Iran, The Republic of Iran maintains that any exchange must be simultaneous/same time/ a Quid Per Quo/ Cash and Carry/ exchange. The Republic of Iran has been working with the West in an effort to reassure the [EU] European Union in particular that there Republic has absolutely no intention of producing any nuclear weapons capability, that it is the [21st] Century and that the Caspian Sea Basin though rich in oil and gas deposits, can only be husbanded for a certain length of time, and with each passing day the demands upon these finite resources increases, and the Republic must act responsibly not only in the short term but in the long term to provide for its energy needs into the future, and The Republic of Iran has been in negotiations trying to make such assurances.

[Alternative Diplomatic Co-operation]

Dr. G. Westerwelle, The Foreign Minister of Germany a man more than willing too walk the tight rope, too take the extra step, and the extra kilometer, seeking alternative options exhausting every avenue, reaching into his quiver of arrows his arsenal of electives, to achieve a win/win outcome, Dr. Westerwelle represents the face of the New Germany and the New Europe, and has stated that the world in which Germany and therefore the Community of Nations exist, should formulate foreign policies based upon the fact of Sphere of Influence globalization of Sovereign Nations, with the recognition that on both sides an equal measurement of decisiveness to stand one’s and/or Sphere of Influence ground, based upon self and/or Sphere of Influence interests, therefore should be geared to cooperation, not confrontation, that disputes require patience, which should be recognized and politically worked thru to achieve a win/win outcome, seeing that sanctions are a punitive step, with the end results only serving to widen the gap between sides in any confrontation, resulting in only in unnecessary pain upon innocent civilian populations caused by such action, Dr. Westerwelle, seeks to broker an agreement with the [IAEA] International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna on the issue of the Tehran Medical Research Reactor which would serve as confidence building step between the [2] Two opposing sides, and one with which the Republic of Iran is working to achieve, but the two sides so far have failed so far to reach agree on how to implement the plan.

[Gun-Boat Diplomacy Confrontation]

Dr. Westerwelle, correctly stated that no meaningful concessions have been arrived at on either side but the hand of Germany is still reaching out toward Iran and a win/wins resolution. But so far it’s reaching out into emptiness, of a well founded mistrust, when faced with the American-Israeli Gun-Boat diplomacy of [SOS] Secretary of State Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, based upon my way or the highway, win/lose diplomacy, always, engaging in careless talk and saber rattling favoring a military solution as the first solution with its [MIC] Military Industrial Complex representative Defense Secretary Robert Gates squeezing the trigger with the pressure of sanctions, with the ultimate goal of a pre-emptive Nuclear Strike against The Republic of Iran, a sovereign nation within the Global Community of Nations, having the right to use nuclear power for civilian purposes an the benefit of it population, demanding sever sanctions that can only severely hurt the civilian population of Iran over baseless, non-proven, allegations that Iran has aggressive intents with its Civilian Nuclear Program.

[China]

The Valentine Month will lack love at its ending, as once again the Rogue American-Israeli Empire continues its Saber Rattling, Gun-Boat Diplomacy, and Wars of Economic Stimulus upon Sovereign States of the Global Community;

[1st] First Empire will meet head to head as on the [28th] Twenty-Eight, the [DOD] Drop Dead Date, will arrive for the Imperial Court of the American-Israeli Empire to stop yet another shipment of arms to the Nationalist Chinese Island of Taiwan, interfering in the internal affairs of yet another Sovereign Nation within the community of nations, the [PRC] The Peoples Republic of China.

[2nd] Second the American-Israeli Empire is demanding that the [5] Five permanent [UN] United Nations Security, Council members, [The Peoples Republic of China, The Republic of France, The Russian Federation, The United Kingdom, and the American-Israeli Empire] plus The German Republic, meet and impose crippling new sanctions upon the civilian population of the Republic of Iran, a Sovereign member of the Community of Nations, and failing in a vote for such sanctions that the [EU] European Union in conjunction with the American-Israel Empire impose unilaterally, disabling sanctions insisting upon a win/lose, meet our demands unconditionally or face a pre-emptive Nuclear Strike.

The Peoples Republic of China rejects the Gun-boat, Saber Rattling, Clinton Diplomacy, having itself been the victim of its approach, with active confrontations with the American-Israeli Empire concerning the China Sea, The Hainan Island Incident, the Nansha Islands, The Paracel Islands, The Spratly Islands and Tibet, the only difference, the [PRC] is not just any Sovereign Member within the Community of Nations or Global Spheres of Influence but one well able to respond to any such threats on its own behalf, and is in fact coming to the support of the Republic of Iran a nation that is a valued trading partner to the [PRC], seeing the Alternative Diplomatic Cooperation that Dr. Westwelle is putting forward a diplomatic, co-operational, none-confrontational, patient, measured policy, as the only win/win, approach in the [21st] Century, Sphere of Influence globalization of Sovereign Community of Nations.

HERCULE TRIATHLON SAVINIEN

CONSEQUENCES OF EMPIRE IN DECLINE

[Reconstruction Political Gerrymandering]

Now, we spent the last two days on (www.americanprogressaction.org), blogging on the Matthew Yglesias, site, a [SUPERIOR SITE], and this is not meant to be a hit job we’re not Anthony come to bury Caesar, but that being said, he’s a far-Far-FAR-Left, Democratic Nelson Mandela/John Brown Abolitionist Socialist Activist Thinker, just to keep in touch with what, the Far-Left is thinking, now we seldom go on the Far-Right sites we pretty much worked as a hired mercenary for them all our lives, Marine Corp. Gen. Chesty Puller always said, the military were Wall St., enforcers, and that hit the nail on the head. And, Yglesias is a very bright individual and has thinking in line with that of Nelson Mandela, the concept that the transition from a North American Continent, of Anglo-Saxon based Heritage to one of a Black/Negro Based African Heritage, can be done thru peaceful political means, and much as with Mandela the road to Hell is paved with good intentions and has targeted the Confederate States of Mississippi and Alabama, for a [21st] Twenty-First Century re-creation of the [19th] Nineteenth Century Post War of Secession [1865] Reconstruction Era Period, using a new [21st] Century, Gerrymandering System, with the intent of, placing as in [1865], more Black/Negro faces into State thru Federal government.

[White Man’s Burden/Black Man’s Revenge]

But, that being said we found that Yglesias, while having the best of intentions, and the best laid plans of mice and men often, go astray, has followers much as Mandela’s, who have far less noble one’s as the Confederate States [19th] Century White Mans Burden, is seen more in view as an opportunity for Black revenge of the [21st] Century with Mississippi the top of the hit list with Alabama a close [2nd] Second. This would all seem like a bad dream or a badly made movie if it wasn’t for real. It’s stopped being about good government and more about some Zeitgeist in reverse, a skin pigmentation based Social Agenda, the oppressed must now be given rule, its much like the French Revolution, with Madam Guillotine and citizen mob ruling of France, now this may not be the intended out come, that Matt Yglesias envisions but his followers seem to have a vengeance is justified mine set, as much as the continued retribution served upon Germany over the last [65] Sixty-Five year, of Political house cleaning, Para-Military/Military/Police, occupation of some form and Economic repression, with reparations paid to the State of Israel, too now be wrought upon former Confederate States.

[Capitalist/Socialist Democratic]

Now, we seem to have developed a split in the Democratic Party, now made up of [2] two types of Democratic, Capitalist and Socialist;

[THE CAPITALIST DEMOCRATIC]: The Capitalist Democratic are like Ronnie Reagan, he didn’t leave the party the party left him, and then he became a Republican. Well, it seems the Capitalist Democratic are pretty much like Ronnie Reagan, they didn’t leave the party, the party, left, Left, LEFT, them, and the boys were left out in the cold, they were not Socialist Democratic, and they weren’t Republican, so what to do, not seek re-election, they haven’t got a political party that they can support, the [18th] Century government The United States of America doesn’t exist, having been replaced by the [21st] Century, American-Israeli Empire.

[THE SOCIALIST DEMOCRATIC]: The American-Israeli Empire, far-Far-FAR-Left, Democratic Nelson Mandela/John Brown Abolitionist Socialist Activists, the My Way Or The Highway, Socialist, they hate, Hate, HATE, Tea-baggers and Republican’s, the white establishment, the White Devils, thinking in line with [Malcome-X/El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz], and Black Muslim leader Lewis Farakhan, and they have a lexicon of foul words used by Sailor’s and is not meant for civilized society, used upon those who’s comment’s don’t fix into the thinking of their blogging community, and will tell you to just leave their blogging community. There goal is one of retribution, much as occurred in The Union of South Africa, which became a blood bath, which ended up in the breaking up of the country, and return to a [3rd] third world status.

[The Consequences of Empire in Decline]

Now, the whole great social experimentation started in [1776] was never going to work anyway, as was said on [1] One episode of Inspector Lewis All Men Are Created Equal and how did that work out for you, to an American Tourist, one can only guess how this is going to work out as the [18th] Century United States of America Social experiment comes too a close, as a [21st] Century American-Israeli Empire, as an intellectually, financially, morally bankrupt, militarily weak, ungovernable, unfixable, unsustainable, Empire, governed by of an oligarchy of jaded pros, permanent residents locked in the Beltway whose only movement is from Pennsylvania Avenue, when they’re in office, to [K] Street, when they’re out — & back. We would suggest, much as the Union of South Africa, in blood-shed, and the breaking up forming New Republic and a new map of the North American Continent;

* The Republic of Alaska

* America [The Confederate States/The United States]

* The Republic of California

* Republic of Cascadia” [Northwestern separatists envision a “Republic of Cascadia” carved out of Oregon, Washington and the Canadian province of British Columbia.]

* The Republic of Hawaii

* The Republic of Texas

* The Republic of Vermont carved out of [The New York Adirondacks, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, New Hampshire.]

And, all this in the mist of a War of Economic Stimulus on the Islamic Crescent/Arabian Peninsula/Hindu Cush, as [NATO] The North Atlantic Treaty Organization falls apart, and the Empire of Japan demands ending of Empires, Far-Eastern [FOOTHOLD] established in Japan, with the replacement of the [$] Dollar as the World’s Base Currency, while living off the [PRC] Peoples Republic of China’s Credit unwilling too be dictated to by a debtor Empire in decline, printing [$] Dollars as fast as they can be printed, with a government in Grid-lock, The Consequences of Empire in Decline.

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I think the logorrheah outbreak has grown into full-blown logodysentery.

Sulfa! Stat!

I think the logorrheah outbreak has grown into full-blown logodysentery.

It’s the result of all that pretend milk.

We may have to initiate a quarantine protocol to prevent an epidemic of logocholera.

First they came for the ankylosaurs, and I did not speak out because I was not an ankylosaur;
Then they came for the absorbing zombies, and I did not speak out because I was not an absorbing zombie;
Then they came for the two-headed giants, and I did not speak out because I was not a two-headed giant;
Then they came for the elemental lords, and I did not speak out because I was not an elemental lord;
Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak out for me.

See, I’ve figured this thread out. It starts with a moo-cow and then moves toward these incredibly long experiments in oddball language.

It’s a James Joyce thing, right?

Wow, been a while since we had a real Troofie infestation.

Deadbeat finally got around to paying his electric bill.

Then they came for the absorbing zombies

And the sons of the absorbing zombies.

Then they came for the absorbing zombies

Absombies.

BBBB — Wow, been a while since we had a real Troofie infestation.

Deadbeat finally got around to paying his electric bill.

No, back to stealing wifi from the neighbors. You know — “Letting the Market Decide”

No, back to stealing wifi from the neighbors. You know — “Letting the Market Decide”

He probably also tapped into a municipal light pole- while decrying “big government”.

I wonder what Troofie thinks about Todd Palin being sponsored by…gasp…HUGO CHAVEZ!!!

http://palingates.blogspot.com/2010/03/sarah-palins-newest-gig-making-mystik.html

Fnord is the word!

Eh? What’s that you say?

Heartaches Riven Till Union?

Healthcare Ennui Lint Visor?

Earache Hive Tonsil Lint Urn?

Hm. I think I’m having DNS problems. Sadlyno seems to be redirecting to Timecube.

There is no Human or

God who can match my Cube Wisdom

as a Cube Phenomenoligist – The Cube

God Measurer.

feh

Then they came for the absorbing zombies

The quicker picker uppBRRRAAAAAAANNNNEEEESSSSS!!!!!!

Also, too.

Deadbeat‘s Mom finally got around to paying his electric bill.

Fecksed.

Then they came for the absorbing zombies

Absombies.

Zomb-WOW!

Absombies.

That sounds like something AS SEEN ON TV for getting rid of your love handles.

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Truth Anarchise Online Live
Truth Anarchise Online Vile
Truth Anarchise Online Veil
Truth Anarchise Online Evil
Truth A Channels Oilier Vein
Truth A Channels Oilier Vine
Truth A Channels Oilier Nevi
Truth A Chorale Ninnies Live
Truth A Chorale Ninnies Vile
Truth A Chorale Ninnies Veil
Truth A Chorale Ninnies Evil
Truth A Cholera Ninnies Live
Truth A Cholera Ninnies Vile
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ad infinitum, ad nauseum…

That sounds like something AS SEEN ON TV for getting rid of your love handles.

That, sir, is a thing of beauty. Like your mom when she’s wet.

Think about it: it’s a product guaranteed never to quit on you. It keeps after you, forcing you to do crunches in perpetuity.

March 11, 2010 at 8:02 See, I’ve figured this thread out. It starts with a cow and then moves toward these incredibly lon experiments in oddball language. It’s a James Joyce thing, right?

Oh god he’s right, it’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Copypasta Troll.

remind me again, the badgers?

Absombies.

That sounds like something AS SEEN ON TV for getting rid of your love handles.

LipoNOMNOM

We need to hear from Lonny Martell

Oh god he’s right, it’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Copypasta Troll.

His throat ached with a desire to cry aloudblow TinTin, the cry of a hawk or eagle on highbaby with a wet Huggies, to cry piercingly of his deliverance to the windssudden disappearance of Cheetos. This was the call of life to his soul not the dull gross voice of the world of duties and despairhis boss, screaming at him for falling asleep at the drive-thru window, not the inhuman voice that had called him to the pale service of the altaron his mom’s 1-900 number. An instant of wild flight had delivered him and the cry of triumph which his lips withheld cleft his brain.

so who’;s up for starting a chapter of The Feral Cows of America!

Well, just be glad that Mattel didn’t go through with Glory-Hole Barbie, complete with kneepads and an “action set”.

Hm. The drinking/milking cow was clearly too much stimulation for some folks. The cow triggered serious Mommy issues, apparently.

This is why we start with simple shapes and bright primary colors.

This is why we start with simple shapes and bright primary colors.

In sum, fuck moo.

wow, the knocked up barbie/mitch was real! I knew I was paying too much for the acid, should have just watched more TV. I think it’s time for a troll barbie with pam atlas as the model.

I had one of those cows. It wasn’t very much fun, but I wouldn’t call it the worst toy ever. I had plenty of worse toys.