Tuesday, January 28, 2014

These will make your day. Can people really be this dumb?


 TOP 8 Obamites and Supporters OF 2013

 

1. WILL THE REAL DUMMY PLEASE STAND UP?

AT&T fired President John Walter after nine months, saying he lacked

intellectual leadership. He received a $26 million severance package.

Perhaps it's not Walter who's lacking intelligence.

 

2. WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM OUR FRIENDS:

Police in Oakland, CA spent two hours attempting to subdue a gunman who

had barricaded himself inside his home. After firing ten tear gas canisters, officers

discovered that the man was standing beside them in the police line, shouting, 'Please 
come out and give yourself up.'

 

3. WHAT WAS PLAN B???

An Illinois man, pretending to have a gun, kidnapped a motorist and forced him

to drive to two different automated teller machines, wherein the kidnapper

proceeded to withdraw money from his own bank accounts.

 

4. THE GETAWAY!

A man walked into a Topeka, Kansas Kwik Stop and asked 
for all the money in the cash drawer. Apparently, the take was too 
small, so he tied up the store clerk and worked the counter himself for 
three hours until police showed up and grabbed him.

 

5. DID I SAY THAT???

Police in Los Angeles had good luck with a robbery 
suspect who just couldn't control himself during a lineup. When 
detectives asked each man in the lineup to repeat the words: 'Give me
all your money or I'll shoot', the man shouted, 'that's not what I 
said!'

 

6. ARE WE COMMUNICATING???

A man spoke frantically into the phone: 'My wife is pregnant and her contractions

are only two minutes apart'. 'Is this her first child?' the doctor asked. 'No!' the man shouted,

'This is her husband!'

 

7. NOT THE SHARPEST TOOL IN THE SHED!

In Modesto, CA, Steven Richard King was arrested for trying to hold up a

Bank of America branch without a weapon. King used a thumb and a finger

to simulate a gun. Unfortunately, he failed to keep his hand in his pocket. (hellooooooo)!

 

8. THE GRAND FINALE!!!Last summer, down on Lake Isabella, located in 
the high desert, an hour east of Bakersfield, CA, some folks, new to 
boating, were having a problem. No matter how hard they tried, they 
couldn't get their brand new 22 foot boat, going. It was very sluggish 
in almost every maneuver, no matter how much power they applied. After 
about an hour of trying to make it go, they putted into a nearby 
marina, thinking someone there may be able to tell them what was wrong. 
A thorough topside check revealed everything in perfect working 
condition The engine ran fine, the out-drive went up and down, and the 
propeller was the correct size and pitch. So, one of the marina guys 
jumped in the water to check underneath. He came up choking on water, 
he was laughing so hard.    NOW REMEMBER...THIS IS TRUE.

Under the boat, still strapped securely in place, was the trailer!

 

 

 

 

Predicting the coups of 2014 The dart-throwing chimp takes a look.

Predicting the coups of 2014

The dart-throwing chimp takes a look.

By Staff writer / January 27, 2014

Demonstrators in Kiev would like to see the back of Viktor Yanukovich. They might get something else.

Marko Djurica

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Where are coups most likely this year? Political scientist Jay Ulfelder, who uses statistical models based on past history from who colonized a country to GDP to frequency of coups in a nation's past, takes a stab at it.

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Dan Murphy is a staff writer for the Monitor's international desk, focused on the Middle East. Murphy, who has reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, and more than a dozen other countries, writes and edits Backchannels. The focus? War and international relations, leaning toward things Middle East.

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He cautions (at his blog The Dart-Throwing Chimp) that identifying where a coup is "likeliest" doesn't mean one will occur - far from it. As he writes: "Statistically speaking, the safest bet for any country almost any year is that a coup attempt won’t occur. The point of this exercise is to try to get a better handle on where the few coup attempts we can expect to see this year are most likely to happen."

He separates nations into fifths - the top fifth, the countries likeliest to suffer a coup, the bottom fifth where it's least likely. The bottom three-fifths aren't really at risk at all. Within the top fifth of 40 countries, seven stand out as far more likely than those that follow. In order:

  1. Guinea
  2. Madagascar
  3. Mali
  4. Equatorial Guinea
  5. Niger
  6. Guinea-Bissau
  7. Sudan

There are no countries from Europe in the top-fifth on his map (represented by the color red), with the Ukrainethe only country in the second-fifth (orange). Ecuadorand Haiti are the only two countries in the Americas in red on the map. Six countries in Asia are in the most at risk category, and only one in the Middle East (Iraq). To a casual observer Yemen being in the second fifth rather than the top tier is kind of surprising, but that's what his numbers show. The remaining countries are in Africa(among them Egypt and Algeria).

Recent coups, among other factors, increase the chances of a coup in the coming year in his model, and the numbers rely on the definition of "coup" by theCenter for Systemic Peace. (Correction: While Jay relied on CSP last year, he writes in to say "this year I used a mash-up of coup lists from two sources, not just CSP.) Since that's a somewhat subjective determination, it can effect the numbers substantially. As Ulfelder wrote about his 2013 predictions:

Finally, notable for its absence is Egypt, which ranks 48th on the 2013 list and has been a source of coup rumors throughout its seemingly interminable transitional period. It’s worth noting though, that if you consider SCAF’s ouster of Mubarak in 2011 to be a successful coup (CSP doesn’t), Egypt would make its way into the top 30.

Again - the safe bet is that a coup or coup attempt won't take place in any of these countries. At least, in particular. But Ulfelder's post on the matter, full of details about how his models are built and tweaked, is an interesting window on how this type of forecasting is done warts, uncertainty, and all.

Famous Presidential Lies...



 
 
Famous Presidential Lies
Written by, To The Point News
 

LBJ:
  • We were attacked (in the Gulf of Tonkin)
Nixon:
  • I am not a crook
GHW Bush:
  • Read my lips - No New Taxes
Clinton:
  • I did not have sex with that woman... Miss Lewinski
GW Bush:
  • Iraq has weapons of mass destruction
Obama:
  • I will have the most transparent administration in history.
  • The stimulus will fund shovel-ready jobs.
  • I am focused like a laser on creating jobs.
  • The IRS is not targeting anyone.
  • It was a spontaneous riot about a movie.
  • If I had a son.
  • I will put an end to the type of politics that "breeds division, conflict and cynicism".
  • You didn't build that!
  • I will restore trust in Government.
  • The Cambridge cops acted stupidly.
  • The public will have 5 days to look at every bill that lands on my desk
  • It's not my red line - it is the world's red line.
  • Whistle blowers will be protected in my administration.
  • We got back every dime we used to rescue the banks and auto companies, with interest.
  • I am not spying on American citizens.
  • Obama Care will be good for America.
  • You can keep your family doctor.
  • Premiums will be lowered by $2500.
  • If you like it, you can keep your current healthcare plan.
  • It's just like shopping at Amazon.
  • I knew nothing about "Fast and Furious" gunrunning to Mexican drug cartels.
  • I knew nothing about IRS targeting conservative groups.
  • I knew nothing about what happened in Benghazi.
  • I have never known my uncle from Kenya who is in the country illegally and that was arrested and told to leave the country over 20 years ago.
  • And, I have never lived with that uncle. He finally admitted (12-05-2013) that he DID know his uncle and that he DID live with him.

And the biggest one of all:
  • "I, Barrack Hussein Obama, pledge to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America."
I believe we have a winner!
 
 


Sunday, January 26, 2014

Five years is long enough to keep Canadians waiting!

Five years is long enough to keep Canadians waiting

Jan. 25, 2014 11:09 PM   |  
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Fixated as we Americans are on Canada’s three most attention-getting exports — polar vortexes, Alberta clippers and the antics of Toronto’s addled mayor — we’ve somewhat overlooked a major feature of Canada’s current relations with the United States: extreme annoyance.

Last week, speaking to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Canada’s foreign minister calmly but pointedly complained that the U.S. owes Canada a response on the Keystone XL pipeline. “We can’t continue in this state of limbo,” he sort of complained, in what for a placid, imperturbable Canadian passes for an explosion of volcanic rage.

Canadians may be preternaturally measured and polite, but they simply can’t believe how they’ve been treated by President Obama — left hanging humiliatingly on an issue whose merits were settled years ago.

Canada, the Saudi Arabia of oil sands, is committed to developing this priceless resource. Its natural export partner is the United States. But crossing the border requires State Department approval, which means the president decides yes or no.

After three years of review, the State Department found no significant environmental risk to Keystone. Nonetheless, the original route was changed to assuage concerns regarding the Ogallala Aquifer. Obama withheld approval through the 2012 election. To this day he has issued no decision.

The Canadians are beside themselves. After five years of manufactured delay, they need a decision one way or the other because if denied a pipeline south, they could build a pipeline west to the Pacific. China would buy their oil in a New York minute.

Yet John Kerry fumblingly says he is awaiting yet another environmental report. He offered no decision date.

If Obama wants to cave to his environmental left, go ahead. But why keep Canada in limbo? It’s a show of supreme and undeserved disrespect for yet another ally. It seems not enough to have given the back of the hand to Britain, Israel, Poland and the Czech Republic, and to have so enraged the Saudis that they actually rejected a Security Council seat — disgusted as they were with this administration’s remarkable combination of fecklessness and highhandedness. Must we crown this run of diplomatic malpractice with gratuitous injury to Canada, our most reliable, most congenial friend in the world?

Charles Krauthammer’s email address isletters@charleskrauthammer.com.

Saturday, January 25, 2014

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January 25, 2014

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