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July 4, 2009

Arrogant American

Happy Independence Day

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free;
While God is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! While God is marching on.

Please stop over to teresamerica and share her tribute to a true American hero.

July 3, 2009

I think I've discovered how Obama was elected

Good-bye Michael Jackson

Linda Stasi of the New York Post voices her opinion. I may not fully agree with her, but these are certainly things that need saying.

July 2, 2009 --

YOU'D have thought by the media lovefest that the pope had died a tragic death after a lifetime of caring for lepers.

But, no, it was the death of Michael Jackson, a drug-addled, creepy-beyond-words, accused pedophile who literally bought his children with the help of two brood mares and, apparently, his dermatologist -- a group of amoral savages who had no problem giving their kids to a man who looked like the Phantom of the Opera and who behaved like a depraved worm.

You can call it "adoption," but I call it child-trafficking.

OK, I said it -- and it's about time somebody had the nerve to say what millions of people must feel and believe about the once-talented black man who turned himself into a white woman before turning himself into a monster.

But you'd never know any of that if you'd listened for the past week to the endless prattle from the sickening, fawning media and all those Hollywood music phonies who were crying crocodile tears over someone they'd mostly avoided like, well, a pedophile.

Even the president of the United States felt compelled to issue a statement. Are you kidding me?

I say all this not just as some casual bystander to the Michael Jackson freak show -- though I was a Jacko freak back in 1993, when I was as in awe of him as the rest of the world. But then one day, a friend came to see me at my office at another newspaper and everything changed.

"My cousin's boy's been hijacked by Michael Jackson," he said. He pulled out two photos of the boy, Jordie Chandler, with Jackson. They were dressed alike -- in fedoras, little black suits, each wearing one freaking glove. They were on a roller-coaster -- in Europe.

Jordie's mother had remarried, and his stepfather had introduced her to Jackson. Within weeks, the sleepovers among Jackson and her gorgeous 13-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter began. The boy broke down and told his father that he'd been molested at Jackson's playground, Neverland Ranch, and in Europe.

The dad, a dentist-to-the-stars and screenwriter, contacted authorities, and shortly thereafter was jumped and beaten bloody in a garage. His home was broken into, and thugs menaced patients in his waiting room. The authorities told him it might be best if he and his son disappeared for a while. They settled for more than $20 million. The father took the boy underground, and he had plastic surgery and disguised himself for safety. Dental practice destroyed, screenwriting career over, family in tatters.

Jackson walked free -- or as free as a tortured soul can be -- to repeat over and over again his hideous tricks with children at Neverland, a place straight out of "Hansel and Gretel."

It is in this very spot where his family wanted to put on their grotesque public display of his sadly emaciated, needle-marked body, reportedly to be dressed "like a prince," as though he has become one of the garish statues upon which he loved to drop millions in Las Vegas hotel tchotchke shops. Another circus of the macabre to add to the horror that became Michael Jackson's life.

This is the kind of madness that's followed Jackson's death -- everyone is acting as though the world has lost one of its greatest men.

The King of Pop was a great entertainer -- innovative beyond anyone the world had ever seen -- but he turned into a disgustingly depraved man who hung an infant off a balcony and forced his kids to walk around with masks, veils, towels and even nets over their faces.

Great men don't pretend to be childlike to disguise their depravities. Shameful.

The king is dead, and I for one am not crying.

Wanna see a preview of Socialized Medicine?

Chuck DeVore at Human Events gives us a glimpse of the growing cancer that is California's IHSS program.
A few months ago there was a fatal crash of a bus headed to one of California’s tribal casinos. Several of the passengers killed were “patients” of in-home supportive services from the Sacramento area -- people who were supposed to be so infirm as to require constant attention. As a senior deputy district attorney from Sacramento County said, “If you are able to get on a bus and go gamble, then maybe the medical documentation you submitted to qualify for the program wasn’t accurate.”
Less than a month after California voters overwhelmingly rejected billions in taxes in a May 19 special election, the legislature’s Democrats are pushing $1.9 billion in new taxes on oil, vehicle licenses and tobacco to help close a $24.3 billion state deficit.

A newly-invigorated Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has threatened to veto any tax increases. The California governor has also moved to block additional borrowing to paper over California’s overspending -- a first for him. Harking to the early days of his governorship when he called to “blow up the boxes,” Schwarzenegger wants government reform, especially in California’s bloated and fraud-ridden welfare programs.

A Schwarzenegger veto of the Democrats’ new budget, with its reliance on taxes, threatens to move California to insolvency, as the Golden State’s cash reserves are rapidly running out. A state cash crunch could unleash political forces beyond anyone’s understanding, with overburdened taxpayers facing off against state workers, people dependent on state programs, and government contractors.

Schwarzenegger signed off on a massive $13 billion tax increase in February, the largest tax increase in U.S. history at the state level. California is now one of America’s top three highest-taxed states. Now the state’s deepening economic slump and Democrats’ reluctance to enact any substantive reforms may have nudged the governor back to the right -- at least for negotiating purposes.

Meanwhile, an additional bailout from the federal government is not yet in sight. The Obama administration is counseling a tough love approach -- for now -- saying that if more federal dollars were to come to California, it would be with onerous conditions designed to ward off requests from other states. No doubt, those federal strings would include requirements for massive new state taxes in exchange for freshly printed Federal Reserve notes.

A high-profile example of how government has gone wrong in California can be found in its welfare system. With only 12 percent of America’s population, California now strains under 32 percent of the nation’s welfare caseload, according to data from the federal Department of Health and Human Services. Year after year, the one consistent thing Schwarzenegger has tried to do is to reform California welfare to reduce fraud and encourage welfare recipients to graduate to the dignity of work. And, year after year, legislative Democrats have rebuffed him.

The latest welfare showdown has Schwarzenegger proposing to cut $765 million from California’s most rapidly growing welfare expense: the state's In-Home Support Services (IHSS) program. IHSS pays newly unionized workers to take care of the frail and elderly, often their own parents, at home. The theory is that care in a convalescent home is far more expensive. The program has doubled in cost to $5.4 billion in the past five years. Conference Committee Democrats immediately slashed Schwarzenegger’s cost containment efforts to $117 million, trimming IHSS rolls by less than 10 percent. Assembly Budget Committee Chairwoman Noreen Evens (D-Santa Rosa) expressed a commonly stated Democrat concern when she said of the proposed health and welfare cuts, “The imagination runs wild on what would actually happen to these people.”

That many of “these people” are committing fraud to receive state benefits is becoming increasingly evident as Democrats have resisted most efforts to ensure only the truly needy receive help. (More...)

July 2, 2009

He's gone now, but this message is timeless!

What if George Bush had...

What If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current on their income taxes, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to “Cinco de Cuatro” in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the Fifth of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?

If George W. Bush had misspelled the word advice would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potato as “proof” of what a dunce he is?

If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on “Earth Day”, would you have concluded he’s a hypocrite?

If George W. Bush’s administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually “get” what happened on 9-11?

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how he is inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?

If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans, would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in just a few months -- so you'll have three years and six months to come up with an answer.

It will be here soon

MacHeath at Newgate News shares his family's experiences with socialized medicine in Britain.
"6. The receptionist who gave a patient an appointment (requiring an 80-mile round-trip by taxi) on the consultant’s day off."
Over the past few years, three close relatives of mine have been seriously ill. In each case, their chances of survival were seriously impaired by a catalogue of mismanagement and inefficiency. In particular, the delays in diagnosis and treatment, if other patients have had the same experiences, could be significant in the UK’s shameful cancer survival statistics.

I was once told by a consultant that the number of ‘no-shows’ equalled his waiting list and cost the NHS many thousands every year. To the best of my knowledge, nobody has ever fully researched why patients miss appointments; they could start by asking my family, who have, despite their assiduous efforts to attend every appointment, experienced all of the following:

A consultant’s appointment letter sent to an empty house – the ‘client’ being a long-term in-patient in hospital at the time.

Several urgent appointment notifications received some days after the appointment date because ‘the hospital post-room operates one day a week to save money.

Yuri Bezmenov

Yuri Bezmenov is a Soviet KGB operative who defected. In an eye-opening interview, he outlines the Soviet plan to undermine America and eventually turn it into a socialist state and then into a communist one. He also discusses their plans to infiltrate our schools, media, use "useful idiots" on the left, and so on.

Bezmenov completely explains the Soviet (socialist, communist) influence and their plan to do here in this country exactly what is happening today, under much different auspices.

Visit Opus "6's blog to view this powerful interview

July 1, 2009

These people were actually allowed to vote!!

How would Iran like this guy as US President?

Who’s Funding the Obamacare Campaign?

Michelle Malkin answers this question, and you'll never guess who's lobbying for the dismantling of private medicine.
"MoveOn, of course, is the recreational political vehicle of radical liberal sugar daddy George Soros. The magnate’s financial fingerprints are all over the HCAN coalition, which includes MoveOn, the action fund of the Center for American Progress (a Soros think tank) and the Campaign for America’s Future (a pro-welfare state lobbying outfit)."
If you believe the White House, there are 30 million Americans who support a government health care takeover. But if you look at the funding behind the Obamacare campaign, it’s the same few leftist billionaires, union bosses and partisan community organizers pushing the socialized medicine agenda. Let’s connect the dots.

On Thursday, a national "grassroots" coalition called Health Care for America Now (HCAN) will march on Capitol Hill to demand universal health care. The ground troops won’t have to march very far. HCAN, you see, is no heartland network. It is headquartered at 1825 K St. in Washington, D.C. — smack dab in the middle of Beltway lobby land.

In fact, 1825 K St. is Ground Zero for a plethora of "progressive" groups subsidized by anti-war, anti-Republican, Big Nanny special interests. Around Washington, the office complex is known as "The Other K Street." The Washington Post noted in 2007 that "its most prominent ten-ants form an abbreviated who’s who of well-funded allies of the Democratic Party. Big money from unions such as the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, as well as the Internet-fueled MoveOn, has provided groups like those at 1825 K Street the wherewithal to mount huge campaigns." (More...)

Richard at EU Referendum warns us (surprise, surprise) that Green Jobs ain't what they're cracked up to be.
"Spain’s experience cited by President Obama as a model reveals with high confidence, by two different methods, that the US should expect a loss of at least 2.2 jobs on average, or about 9 jobs lost for every 4 created..."
While the stupidity of president Obama continues to break new records, one would struggle for find anything more facile than his claim that his obsession with global warming will create millions of new green jobs and so spur the US economy toward recovery.

Now, even Reuters is beginning to notice, offering a details of a Spanish report which rather confounds Obama's enthusiasm for Spain as an example to follow.

The report is produced by economics professor Juan Carlos of the University of Madrid, who has found that for every green job "created" by the Spanish government, an average of 2.2 other jobs have been destroyed. And, of those fabulous green jobs, only 1 in 10 was permanent. (More...)

Beating Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s - The Italian Way

Corriere Della Sera covers a promising new medical breakthrough.
Scientists reveal mechanism that poisons cells to provoke diseases"
ROME – Think of a skip overflowing with rubbish. The cleansing department is on strike and the skip never gets emptied. It won’t be long before the contents begin to poison the air with unpleasant smells, pose public health problems and exasperate residents. Something very similar happens in all the cells in our bodies when they are unable to break down the toxins their own activities generate. Over time, the waste accumulates, triggering a chain of events that can bring on very serious conditions, like Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s chorea, Parkinson’s disease and a swath of accumulation syndromes, such as mucopolysaccharidosis, glycogenosis and others, on the long list of rare genetic diseases. The mechanism underlying this malfunction has now been revealed by researchers at TIGEM, the Telethon institute of genetics and medicine, in Naples. Yesterday, the study was published in Science. (More... )

Hat tip to The Jerusalem Post

June 30, 2009

Charles Krauthammer tells it like it is (Ouch!!)

"Well, the president has a knack for getting all of these big decisions wrong. Two weeks ago he refuses to meddle in a country where peaceful demonstrators are getting shot by a theocratic dictatorship. He doesn't want to choose sides.

And now he's eager to president on behalf of the president in Honduras who is a Chavez wannabe, who is strong-arming his way to a referendum that has been declared illegal by his Supreme Court as a way to have a referendum to establish a constituent assembly which will establish a new constitution, which will be a Chavez-like dictatorship.

That's what everybody understands in Honduras, and that's why the Supreme Court had ruled the referendum illegal. Only Congress has a right to call it, not the president. Congress had denounced it.

The Supreme Court had told the military not to assist in the referendum because it's illegal. So Zelaya fires the chief of staff of the army. The Supreme Court orders him reinstated, he fires him again.

This guy is acting extra-constitutionally. Yes, he was elected, but Hitler was as well, and Chavez also was. It's easy to dismantle a democracy if you a president if you are intent on doing it, and he is intent on doing it.

So our decision ought to be, yes, a coup isn't a nice thing, but it's preferable to having Zelaya dismantle the democracy. And we should insist on the elections of a president as scheduled in November, so it is a temporary situation.

Look, a rule of thumb here is whenever you find yourself on the side of Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, and the Castro twins, you ought to reexamine your assumptions."

Hot Jungle Jane Nudity

Yeah, I know this is a blatant ploy to draw new readers, but I'd rather think of it as an erotic stroll down mammary lane.

Our older readers (Rhod, LL and Daisy) probably remember lining up at the Bijou on a Saturday morning. The stench of JuJuBees and Sugar Daddys would fill the heavy air. Suddenly the houselights would lower, a shrill cheer would rise from the prepubescent throng, and Tarzan would introduce us to the wonders of jungle life.

Hat tip to ExUrbanLeague

June 29, 2009

Britain's major political parties continue to ignore the elephant in the room. So, guess what's happening now!!

Richard at EU Referendum accurately addresses a political time bomb ticking in the UK
"...while Thatcher killed off the National Front in the late 70s by taking the issue immigration head-on, Cameron is silent. The subject scares away voters in the marginal seats he needs to take power. Westminster only cares about swing voters in swing seats - so millions are forgotten. Thus writes Nelson, the silence from Westminster suggests that the BNP's "shocking success story" is far from over."
In the News of the World yesterday, Fraser Nelson writes a piece under the heading "Condemned by silence".

He notes that, three weeks since the BRITISH NATIONAL PARTY's election triumph, no party has started to discuss immigration. Westminster parties have kept their baffled silence and are giving the BNP a monopoly over the most explosive issue in politics.

You'd think, writes Nelson. Gordon Brown and David Cameron would have been shocked into action after seeing Griffin win a seat in Brussels, his party taking almost a million votes.

Immigration was always a "big subject" and it is bigger now because layoffs in the recessions are hitting British-born people hardest. Directly from the Office for National Statistics – but not openly published – Nelson has found that there are fewer UK-born workers in the private sector than 12 years ago.

In the last year there are 119,000 more migrant workers in UK jobs, but 615,000 fewer UK-born workers. In recent months, both are falling. But UK-born workers are being laid off at five times the rate. Workers, he says, can see it with their own eyes, and ask: why? And because no mainstream party has an answer, the BNP prospers. (More...)

The Impact of Islam on Free Speech in America

Diana West at The Brussels Journal believes that Americans are voluntarily giving up their First Amendment rights.
"Soon, the president was giving up other words, other pieces of our culture. Operation Infinite Justice, the Pentagon name for the assault on the Taliban, for example, was changed after Muslims complained that they believed only Allah dispenses infinite justice."
Americans are proud, and rightly so, of the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights, which, among other things, protects speech from government control. The Amendment says in part: “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.”

Increasingly, however, Americans seem content to regard the First Amendment not as the fundamental working tool of democracy, but as a national heirloom, a kind of antique to admire rather than put to use. I don’t think many of my countrymen perceive how profoundly their attitude toward free speech has changed. But there is a difference between having freedom of speech and exercising freedom of speech, one that has become glaringly and distressingly obvious to me since September 11, 2001. So, while it is true that the US government is not Constitutionally empowered to make laws that censor Americans, it is also true, I believe, that Americans have come to censor themselves. But why?

I speak today in regard to the effect of Islam on speech in America - Islam as it has entered our national discussion and debate – and, I must add, lack of national discussion and debate - since the heinous Islamic attacks on the US nearly 8 years ago. (More...)

What is being done to us? What are we doing to ourselves?

Here's the news today...

But what was the television news lead this morning? It was...

The media in this country have decided that the future of the United States of America will be directed by individuals and forces other than an informed electorate. Kiss America good-bye.


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Qadry Ismail on M&M: ‘You stop Vince Wilfork, you give yourself a chance’

Former Ravens receiver Qadry Ismail, now a TV/radio host in Baltimore, joined Mut & Merloni on Tuesday to preview Sunday’s AFC championship matchup.

Ismail said the Ravens defense won’t be intimated by New England’s high-powered offense, especially considering the teams’ recent history of games against each other. And the key to the Ravens’ offensive success is how Baltimore handles Vince Wilfork [1].

“Offensively, Joe Flacco [2] and the offense, they’re churning, they’re doing things, they’re feeling pretty good,” Ismail said. “I think that’s something that you take into consideration. I know one thing, offensively, you’re going to have to find a way to stop Vince Wilfork. You stop Vince Wilfork, you give yourself a chance. You don’t stop Vince, it’s going to be a long day.”

Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo took to Twitter on Sunday night to sound off on the Patriots’ hurry-up offense, accusing New England of borderline cheating. He apologized on Monday for embarrassing himself and the organization.

“I absolutely am shaking my head, like, ‘What are you thinking?’ He’s normally spot-on in regards to just his measure and understanding what’s the right thing to say and what’s the incorrect thing to say, and don’t say that incorrect thing,” Ismail said. “When you’re looking at the Patriots offense [3] ‘¦ you’re absolutely right, it’s about situational football. If you ain’t ready on defense and we are, and that referee says, ‘OK, the play clock is started,’ what am I supposed to do, wait for you?”

Added Ismail: “That’s what you look at when you’re talking about a veteran like Tom Brady [4]. He’s figured out another way to enhance the probability of a play working. You as a defense, you have to be honed in and ready to perform or he will make you pay. It’s that simple.”

Retiring linebacker Ray Lewis [5] missed some action this season due to injury, but Ismail said any speculation of a drop-off in his play is overblown.

“Ray has fresh legs, that’s for sure,” Ismail said. “His mental awareness is spot-on, obviously. When you’re looking at just the flow of how he’s been able to play, yeah, sure, there’s a play here or there, but what the heck — you’re 17 years in, 37 years old. You’re going to have a play here or there. But I think the good plays far outweigh any of the bad plays you might be seeing.”

The Ravens made a chance late in the season, replacing offensive coordinator Cam Cameron [6] with Jim Caldwell [7], and Ismail said there’s been a big difference.

“Part of it is more of a commitment to the run,” Ismail said. “I think part of it is improved pocket presence of Joe Flacco. Remember, he was Joe’s quarterbacks coach. With him now being the offensive coordinator there’s some things that you can say and do that you couldn’t really necessarily say and do as a quarterbacks coach that you can say and do now as an offensive coordinator that accentuates Joe’s strengths.

And I think at the same time, you’re looking at the team from an offensive line standpoint playing a lot better now that they have Bryant McKinney at left tackle and Michael Oher back over to right tackle, which I think is his natural position to play. Then you add in Kelechi Osemele, who as a rookie did the right tackle spot, but he’s looking pretty impressive at that left guard spot. So, I think the re-shifting of the O-line, coupled in with some little details that Jim brought to the table and some tweaks to the offense, I think that’s where we’re seeing the improvement.”

To hear the interview, go to the Mut & Merloni audio on demand page [8]. For more Patriots news, visit the team page at weei.com/patriots [9].

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The dirty little secret of data center construction

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Much of the data center construction around the globe is being conducted by purveyors of popular websites like Facebook and Google. These heroes of the Information Age are feverishly expanding capacity to deal with the massive amount of data being generated by their services over the Internet.

But look behind the curtain, and these Wizards of Oz have a dirty little secret: To a staggering degree, they’re still buying electricity generated by coal-burning power plants.

“The IT industry’s failure to disclose basic information on its rapidly growing energy footprint has hidden a continued reliance on 19th-century dirty coal power to power its 21st-century infrastructure,” said Gary Cook, an IT policy analyst at Greenpeace International, an Amsterdam-based organization that uses nonviolent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems.

Apple, Facebook and IBM have the biggest appetites for coal-generated electricity, consuming enough to supply more than half of their power needs, according to a new report from Greenpeace titled, “How Dirty is Your Data?”.

The report analyzes publicly available information to estimate the amount of clean and dirty energy being driven by investment decisions and energy choices by the major Internet brands. Finding those numbers from within the companies proved nearly impossible, according to Cook.

“Despite the fact that data centers … currently consume 1.5% to 2% of all global electricity and are growing at a rate of 12% per year, companies in the sector as a whole do not release information on their energy use and its associated global warming emissions,” Cook wrote.

U.S. data center construction is clustering in places like North Carolina and the Midwest, where cheap, coal-powered electricity is abundant. When opened, the Apple iData Center in North Carolina, for example, will consume an estimated 100 megawatts — equivalent to the electricity needed to power about 80,000 U.S. homes, or a quarter-million European Union ones. Apple has not yet announced how the data center will be powered.

Greenpeace’s estimates of coal intensity put IBM, HP and Twitter just behind Apple and Facebook: Apple at 54.5%, Facebook at 53.2%, IBM at 51.6%, HP at 49.4% and Twitter at 42.5%. Google’s coal intensity is ranked at 34.7%, Microsoft’s at 34.1%, Amazon’s at 28.5% and Yahoo’s at 18.3%.

Recognizing that such IT giants could be the group that leads the world to renewable energy — or, conversely, hastens the adverse effects of global warming — Greenpeace this month issued an Earth Day challenge to Facebook, calling upon the company to “unfriend coal.”

Alas, the deadline came and went with no such action, despite a blizzard of posts from 700,000 Greenpeace supporters who set a Guinness World Record for the most comments on a Facebook post in 24 hours.

Google, at least, is getting the message when it comes to new data center construction. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company announced last week that it would purchase power for the next 20 years from a wind farm to be built in Oklahoma; this follows a similar agreement last year to buy power from a wind farm in Ohio. Google plans to sell surplus energy from the farms to the local electrical grid, thereby ensuring that more renewable energy enters the market as part of Google’s goal of operating on a carbon-neutral footprint.

Coal-burning power plants emit harmful chemicals that are warming the Earth’s atmosphere to life-threatening levels. Nuclear power, long proposed as the safe alternative, is explosive under certain circumstances, as we’ve seen at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant. Moreover, it’s extremely difficult to safely store spent fuel rods.

Wind, solar and geothermal power projects are coming along, but not as fast as the rate of data, which is forcing huge cloud providers to choose power sources during data center construction that appear to be less costly. Yet these business practices could be costly for environmental health, which affects us all.

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    Unfortunately, Greenpeace's usual propaganda emanating from their Holland offices which receives most of it's power from Frances 80% nuclear power based infrastrutcure. The hypothesis of dangerous runaway man made global warming is false, and designed by a politically minded, anti-capitalist group, with support from self interest groups requiring bottomless pits of money from taxpayers to research their pet interests, and using fear to scare the general public and politicians. Prior to coal fired power stations, there were notable periods in the earth's history where atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, not a pollutant, but an intrinsic part of the world's ecosystem food chain, were far higher than the worst projections being bandied about by Greenpeace scaremongers, and there was NO RUNAWAY DANGEROUS GLOBAL WARMING. How terribly inconvenient. Modern coal burning plants have made huge strides in cleaning up real pollutants like sulphur dioxide and particulate matter from their stacks, but all these positive moves pale into insignificance when measured against sulphur and particulate matter blasted out by inconvenient, non UNO and Greenpeace regulated volcanoes, both above, and below the sea. And is that really bad? Only recently have deep-sea cameras provided stunning and completely unexpected evidence of abundant life forms apparently thriving in high sulphur and very high temperatures around the vents of these sub-marine cative volcanoes. The notion that man can really influence the world's intricate climate system whilst driven by an uncontrollable atomic power station in the sky is just plain silly. Yet every generation's scientists like to think that they are the ones with the full understanding of nature, and the ones before them were jsut uninformed. This generation's whose scientists promote the fear of dangerous runaway global warming for monetary gain and research grants will be mocked by their successors in the very near future. But unlike their forebears, this new generation of scaremongers is making excellent money out of the scam, and they won't be around to be brought to task when their Madoff like adventure is eventually proved completely silly. But the taxes will have been taken and enjoyed! In true scientific debate, anyone claiming that dissent or alternative viewpoints should be shut down, clearly represents the same idiology expressed in the past, where for instance a medical doctor suggested washing hands before an operation would increase the chances of a successful outcome. He was ridiculed and pilloried by the mainstream medical groups of the time, just like the IPCC and Greenpeace do today to anyone who doesn't share their agenda. That's how you know who they really are. When so called scientiests have to fiddle the data using various "tricks" to hide the cooling, then you know what a scam it has become.
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Jacksonville's beaches offer the epicurean some of the finest restaurants of the area, utilizing the proximity of the ocean's bounties with elegant touch. Among these, two true standouts are Roy's Jacksonville Beach and Amelia Island Plantation's The Ocean Grill . Award-winning chef Roy Yamaguchi perfected the art of European technique and Asian cuisine to form Hawaiian Fusion Cuisine. With it's upscale decor and delicious sushi, seafood and steaks, this hotspot is a beaches favorite. Make sure to try Roy's signature Hawaiian Martini, but be weary of the drunken pineapple that accompanies each cocktail.

Travel up the road, to Amelia Island Plantation for the culinary experience of The Ocean Grill, overlooking the magnificent Atlantic Ocean. First-class cuisine is immersed with native flavors to create the one-of a-kind menu. Listen to the waves rolling onto the beach below as you dine on the finest aged steaks, chops and seafood.

Looking for an after-dinner experience? Jacksonville also has romantic evenings out which will appease your sense of romance and adventure.

Jacksonville is one of the United States' largest cities by land mass and it's no wonder that people from around the world call Jacksonville home, bringing their native flavors. There's no need to visit attractions made with artificial flavors. Here the flavors of the world are folded into each neighborhood.

Let's start with a taste from our neighbors across the pond. In the heart of Downtown, visitors find traditional British pub cuisine at The London Bridge English Pub and Eatery. Popular menu items include bangers and mash, cottage pie, fish and chips - all served with an ice cold pint of your favorite cider, ale or bottled beer.

Out at the beaches, Ireland is being celebrated at Fionn MacCool's Irish Pub and Restaurant. These people aren't messing around with tradition. Their furniture and bar were hand-crafted in Ireland and shipped to Jacksonville. If the furniture is for real then the food must be worth the trip. Live music and drink specials make this a hot nightlife spot, too.

For a taste of the Mediterranean, head to Zaitoon Mediterranean Grill . This new restaurants located right off Atlantic Boulevard, close to the beaches. Zaitoon's extensive menu reflects the rich, regional diversity of the Mediterranean and features culinary works of art that are inspired by Spanish, French, Italian and Middle Eastern cuisines. The impressive menu is complimented with an extensive wine list. A special tapas menu is available Tuesday through Sunday from 3-5 p.m.

An elegant taste of Asia awaits at Pom's Thai Bistro in San Marco Square. Crisp, white tablecloths decorated with single stems of orchids are softened by exposed brick walls. House specialties blend traditional Thai ingredients with unexpected finds like fresh sea bass. Traditional favorites include Pad Thai with your choice of meat or tofu and Curry Chicken.

If you're looking for something more exotic, maybe a taste of the Middle East, then you're in for a treat at Layla's of San Marco. Enjoy the popular Lamb Shawarma Plate for dinner or taste it all during the lunch buffet. Tucked away in historic San Marco this hot spot also has an open hookah and cigar patio with drink specials nightly.

There are many flavors of the world to try in Jacksonville. Extend your trip and try each one. We're sure you'll find one that reminds you of home or an exotic vacation.

From casual dives to trendy hotspots, sundown in Jacksonville sheds light on entertainment options as diverse as the local landscape.

A Great Place to Meet , proclaims the red neon sign casting a crimson glow on the unassuming brick building at the core of downtown Jacksonville Beach. The Ritz, crown jewel of the beaches social scene, has long been a favorite watering hole for coastal residents. In recent years, its popularity has spread like wildfire "across the ditch" (local slang for any place west of the Intracoastal waterway), becoming one of the hottest gathering places in town. Don't miss $1 Guinness night every Wednesday.

Just north of the Ritz, at the intersection of Atlantic Beach and Neptune Beach affectionately known as "the triangle," resides a local legend, Pete's Bar. Reportedly the holder of the oldest liquor license in Jacksonville, Pete's first opened its doors in 1933. The clientele is an eclectic mix ranging from salty seaside dwellers to the college crowd looking to save a buck on the nightly $.25 drafts and $.25 pool. Noted author and frequent visitor, John Grisham, used Pete's Bar as inspiration for the smoky pub featured in his 2000 best-seller, The Brethren.

Infusing the revitalized Downtown district with an air of glamour and sophisticated style, the Twisted Martini at the Jacksonville Landing has become a magnet for the city's young and beautiful since its opening. Offering upscale entertainment and live music including jazz, blues, pop and funk, the riverfront lounge is a tantalizing taste of life on the VIP side of the velvet rope. Weekend evenings attract an enormous crowd, but the bar offers one of the best happy hours in town. Wednesday through Saturday, beginning at 4 p.m. premium cocktails are only $4.

Another Downtown favorite is The Wine Bar - Southbank . This unique wine bar is a treat for the novice or experienced wine connoisseur. You won't be able to select a favorite from the more than 100 wines in-house. Each are available by the taste, glass or bottle. For an entertaining evening with friends pickup a "Fee Per Tasting" card to sample as many wines as possible, each poured from a high-tech gadget, allowing just a sample of each flavorful wine.

Just minutes from Downtown and a world away from the ordinary, experience a touch of the exotic at the Cuba Libre Bar, the first upscale Latin club in Jacksonville. From the sizzling sounds pulsating through the dance floor to the best Mojitos in town, Cuba Libre offers an authentic taste of Cuban culture within the heart of Northeast Florida. Take part in free salsa lessons on Tuesday, then show off the new moves during "Big Salsa Night" every Friday and Saturday.

Across town in the neighborhood of Mandarin, your funny bone gets a work out at The Comedy Zone . This 21-and-up club brings the best comedic performers to Jacksonville, including Larry the Cable Guy, John Heffron of Last Comic Standing fame and Sheryl Underwood of HBO's All-Star Def Comedy Jam. Drink specials and appetizer menu available nightly.

Offering an evening alternative in a family-friendly environment, the Murray Hill Theater provides live Christian entertainment every Friday and Saturday night within an alcohol-free and smoke-free nightclub atmosphere. Listen to the hottest acts in Christian contemporary and rock in the renovated historic auditorium, relax in the onsite café and outdoor patio, or play the video games and pinball in the theater lobby. Ages 16 and up admitted alone, all ages welcomed when accompanied by an adult.

Whispers and laughter over libations...sunset strolls along the crashing ocean waves or in a riverfront garden...music coming from the DJ on the dance floor, at the ballet or in concert...there is an evening out to suit every couple's tastes. Before or after dinner, let Jacksonville set the stage for a truly romantic time between sweethearts.

In the early evenings, Northeast Florida shines along its waterways. Stroll hand in hand along Jacksonville's more secluded oceanfront communities of Neptune and Atlantic Beaches. Let the ocean waves wash away everyday stresses, so that being together is the only thing that matters. Search for the ocean's unique seashell treasures or let time stand still while witnessing the sunset. At the Beaches Town Center, which lies between the two municipalities, stop in one of the boutiques, restaurants or bars to explore the beaches way of life.

Along the waterfront of the St. Johns River, the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens offers a gem in the heart of the city with its magnificent English- and Italian-styled gardens. Water fountains, azaleas, lilies of the Nile and creeping fig-covered archways are among the sights visitors will see when strolling the property. Since 1903, these historic gardens, stretching over two acres in length, have delighted visitors in their breathtaking beauty and have inspired many a marriage proposal.

A musical evening at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts arouses love with cultural performances in each of its three distinct halls. Enjoy ballet, classical music, Broadway hits and more in this world-class structure, located in Downtown Jacksonville.

Or dance your heart out to the DJ-inspired music at any number of nightclubs. The intimate and modern setting at Mark's Downtown gives couples a chance to canoodle in leather loveseats or dance the night away. The Twisted Martini offers contemporary, yet comfortable sofas and mood lighting to accompany the musical ambiance of the upscale nightclub which inspires South Beach style. As the namesake states, sip on a large selection of delicious martinis and move with the music.

Prefer toasting the night in a quieter setting? Try the Martini Room at Atlantic Beach's Ocean 60 and listen to reggae, jazz and soul music and choose from over 30 unique martini concoctions and extensive wine list. Speaking of, wine is a perennial favorite of lovers, and those hotspots that know this best are San Marco's The Grotto, which incites an Italian wine cellar with its brick walls, candlelight and extensive wine and tapas menu, and The Wine Bar - Southbank , which boasts the country's largest collection of vino by the taste affording guests the option of sampling many wines. With a dark, warm ambiance featuring leather couches and high-top tables, the extensive knowledge of the staff and long list of wines, The Wine Bar - Southbank is the perfect spot for the wine enthusiast.


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Friday, July 6, 2012

Jacqueline Howett's Art interval plus novel updates

Hi Guys, More updates for 2013, coming soon!

While I'm busy working on my edits to my novel, Cass, and another WIP, I thought I would show you all again more of my abstract art works for a change. But before we go to my art interlude, I just wanted to say, I hope soon to have my novel, The Greek Seaman back up on Amazon and Smashwords. Yes, I know, its been a long while, what with vacation time- and all, but it's still in the proofing stages. I have only just re-submitted it back to the editor for another final look. I'm also wondering now if I should cut out the first chapter completely in order to get into the story quicker, or leave it in and just snip some bits from it. Those of you who have already read it in its former state are more than welcome to e-mail with their opinions on what they think I should do.

Note: 2013 update: If you arrived at my blog from the Wikidpedia link, that was recently put up in March 2013, you might want to read my side of the story, concerning my viral mishap at the link below. There you'll find facts that were not mentioned online on how it all came about. Your soon realise how at the on set, my issue with Big Al  had nothing to do with a spelling matter.  For the moment, I'm not sure who might have placed "The Greek Seaman" in the Wikipedia.

Anyway, back to my other hat now in art. Maybe some day I'll work on that art coffee book I've always wanted to put together, and get cracking looking through my art slides. I shall be creating a seperate blog link page to sell my fine art with Paypal. Hope you enjoy my crazy art. Thanks for stopping by. Have a great week!

Art gallery - is this way!

No 1.   Imortality. Oil on Canvass by Jacqueline Howett. 6 feet by 9 feet.

A brief art bio:
My art has appeared in the Art Cellar Exchange, Manhattan Arts International Magazine, Art Now, and the International and New York Gallery Guide. I have appeared in group and solo exhibits such as the Danforth Gallery in Portland, Maine and The Oreno Print Museum, New York. I've also dabbled in installation/performance art. The Herald Tribune in Biddeford, Maine did a feature article when my work was exhibited at The Saco Museum of Art.  Starbucks gave me a solo exhibit and my work is in private collections, and they have been sold in several silent art auctions, and featured on various art websites.

No. 2. Collage by Jacqueline Howett

No. 3.  Acrylic on canvass c by Jacqueline Howett

No. 4.  Oil on canvass by Jacqueline Howett. 12 feet by 9 feet.

No. 5.  Oil on Canvass by Jacqueline Howett. 4 feet by 4 feet. 12 panels were created.

No. 6. Collage by Jacqueline Howett

No. 7. Acrylic on canvass by Jacqueline Howett

No. 8.   3D Sculpture art by Jacqueline Howett

No. 9.  Acrylic on canvass by Jacqueline Howett

I use to stretch my own canvass and create giant sized panels in my bathing suit, then jump in the pool after.

All artworks on this site are the copyright property of Jacqueline Howett.

If you like, you can view more of my art, over at Art Review.

All serious art queries to my e-mail please! Thanks! Email:
Subject line: Art query with # or art title.

Title: Timeless. Acrylic on canvass by Jacqueline Howett. 20 inches X 16 inches. Price: $800.
Contact by email.

  Added note: January 7th 2013  - Art Links

I placed up on the 7th of January 2013, a seperate art blog introduction page, just for art lovers: Paypal links should go up by the end of April or early May 2013. I accept checks only for the exact amount of offered price. Pre-orders are welcome!  so I hope you'll come back and check it out!

And I also created a seperate Facebook page for my art too.

Seeing that it's new and all, I hope you will hit the Like button when your there! Thanks. JH

Your visit is always appreciated.

  1. Gorgeous art, Jacqueline. Thanks for sharing!

  2. Great art! I see you're a woman of many talents.

  3. WOW! I'm totally impressed! #7 is totally my favorite. thanks for sharing! :)

    1. Margo, you know I'm smiling. No. 7 is also my favorite too. I don't know what you see, but I see water, bridges, trees, houses and little towns reflected in water. It's one of those kind of paintings where the longer you stare, you start seeing things

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  5. Thanks guys for your comments. I really appreciate it!

  6. You are such a talented person. I love your art and wish I could see it in a gallery to get the effect of the size. Beautiful! Hope all is well with you and thanks for stopping by my blog.

  7. Wow! I'm impressed. My husband's grandmother and mother are painters. I have their art displayed all over our home. You are very talented. I particularly like number 7 and 9. Are they for sale? If so, what would you let them go for? Hope you had a merry Christmas and a blessed New Year. Let me know when your novel is up again and I'll check it out. Now that my husband has an I-pad I can actually download e-books.

    1. Thank you Andrea. So glad to know you're an art lover. Your words are such an inspiration to me! Yes, #7 and #9 are still available, and I'll catch up soon via e-mail about some special price for you.

      Here's wishing you a wonderful 2013.

  8. It was so nice to see a comment from you. I have been wondering what was going on in your life, if you were ever going to post something again.


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The Porsche 918 Spyder is mind-boggingly fast. So fast, in fact, that it was even faster than anybody thought. Zero to 60 comes in less than three seconds, and somehow it still gets 78 miles per gallon. Our friends over at Autocar have the first video review of the production-spec Spyder, and it looks astonishing.

We've entered a new era of hybrid hypercars, and despite all the whining of a decade ago about hybrids being slow and dull and just awful in every single way, the Porsche 918 Spyder proves all of that wrong. Especially when it makes that noise. Oh, that noise.

H/t to HMMMA!


text: We think we know where Dodge is going with this little commercial viral video we're assuming was made for the Euro market showing the Dodge Nitro electrocuting a dog that gets too close to those chrome rims. We think they're trying to separate themselves as the Chrysler Group's "boy brand." But our only issue is — should a brand all about the message of "Grab Life," be taking it away? Just askin'...and plus, isn't the dog getting it in the end kinda anticlimactic? We still cried a little, but you know, still?


text: Mitsubishi Evo Flips At X-Games RallyThe 2008 X-Games Rally held in Carson, California this weekend saw Andrew Comrie Picard launch his Mitsubishi Evo over the big stadium jump, come up short, and flip the car end over end back onto its wheels. The driver and co-driver were uninjured, but the car, as you can see from the in-car angle, wasn't able to continue driving. Since the X-Games format is a head-to-head tournament on the super-special stage, Picard's opponent, Dave Mirra, went on to win the race despite broken control arms on his Subaru, which caused him to limp around the course making three-point turns. In the final round, Travis Pastrana claimed the gold medal victory over none other than Top Gear USA host Tanner Foust. [YouTube]


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What's Your Favorite Brougham Edition?

According to Wikipedia, a brougham is a "light, four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage." Not since Detroit's marketers unearthed the term 50 or so years ago!

Just about every Motor City carmaker has produced a Brougham Edition of some sort over the years: Mercury, Plymouth, Oldsmobile, you name it. Why, even Nissan, with their Cedric Brougham VIP, hasn't been averse to jumping on the Brougham bandwagon. The emblem above is my current favorite junkyard emblem score: a 1990 Cadillac Brougham d'Elegance. In spite of- or, in fact, because of- the Cheeze-O-Meter™ pasting its needle in the red part of the dial every time it comes across one, we love Broughams! In fact, I'm edging ever closer to organizing the world's first-ever Brougham 500 Rally, in which entrants must drive a $500 Brougham between two Broughamic locations separated by 500 miles.

So, the question: What's your all-time favorite Brougham? Bonus points for the oldest, newest, and most obscure choices! Even more bonus points for the best start- and end-points for the Brougham 500 Rally.


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Brabus E V12 Coupe: Once Your E-Class Goes Black...

I see a red door and I want it painted black. No colors any more; I want them to turn black. I see the girls drive by in their murdered-out, V12-powered Mercedes-Benz E-Class and... no, wait, it's already black. Done!

Brabus brought three cars to Geneva. All of them are black, and all of them have a twin-turbo V12 under the hood. The E V12 Coupe is a Mercedes-Benz E-class with a bunch of Death Paint, 800 hp, and 1047 lb-ft of torque. The G V12 S Biturbo Widestar is a G-class done up in a slightly friendlier shade of dark (silver wheels!) and equipped with only 700 hp and 973 lb-ft. The third car is a four-door version of the E V12 Coupe.

It is black.

We cannot overemphasize the blackness. Let's see if this helps: Black. Black.

Get it? These cars are not white. They have a blue metric boatload of torque. That is all.


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New Lancia Stratos Is Ferrari F430-based

After days of teasing pictures we've got the full story of the new Lancia Stratos, straight from the backer's mouth. It's a Ferrari F430-powered retro sexmobile, built by a German billionaire after twenty years of dreaming.

It's a simple story: man loves car, man is billionaire, man spends piles of money recreating modern version of car. It's noble. The new Lancia Stratos is a weapon of war mixed with a labor of love... a weapon of love? It's the creation of billionaire car nut and CEO of supplier Brose KG, Michael Stoschek, a long-time Stratos and rally car fanatic. Its creation is a long time coming. Long like 24 years long, like 1986, when Stoschek met Chris Hrabalek in Alta Badia, Italy at a the World Stratos Meet.

Stoschek and Hrabalek met with the designers at Pininfarina to hammer out a car in early 2008. The design started under the hand of rising design star Jason Castriota and eventually moved to the designers at Bertone, which was the studio behind the original Stratos. It's based around the Ferrari F430 chassis and its 4.3-liter V8 engine with an all carbon fiber body, carbon ceramic brakes, a tiny wheelbase like the original, and a weight-to-power ratio of just 5.5 lbs per horsepower.

As of now there is only one prototype vehicle, but there may be as many as 25 copies built when the design is finalized.

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Driving Tips From The Woz

Steve Wozniak is, of course, one of the two Steves that founded Apple, and the one that did all the technical work. The guy that soldered a 6502 and a bunch of other chips together into a computer that essentially started the personal computer revolution. More recently, he's known for his love of Segways and his generally being a Good Guy in an industry that doesn't always reward that.

But I bet what you're really wondering is does this guy have any driving tips?

You're in luck, because Mercury News asked the Woz just that. If you're reading this on a Woz-signed Apple IIgs, this will be a special treat.

Let's start with the big one. What's Woz' Golden Rule of Driving?

Don't offend other drivers. This falls into what I said above. Choose your lane appropriately. The general rule is that slower traffic should stay in the rightmost lanes — in our country. Although we all hate reckless drivers racing and cutting in and out of lanes, I don't want to interfere with motorists who simply want to go faster, even faster than the speed limit. Road conditions are better at some times and they might have somewhere important to get to, like an airport. Assume that other drivers are good like you. We all want to get somewhere. Let everyone in. It's OK to touch your own brake. We all help each other get to where we are going.

That's a pretty fitting assessment from a man who didn't want to murder Steve Jobs after learning about that whole Atari Breakout thing. If more people were like Woz on the road, life would be easier.

Wozniak also uses his turn indicators religiously and actually reads his car's manual. Even to the point of using post-it notes to bookmark the good bits. Wozniak comes off as a bit less of a glowing model citizen when you hear about his tough-love teaching methods he uses to school his wife on remote-entry key habits:

I try to educate Janet from my own learning but she doesn't remember subtle things that one never uses. So one time, to better educate Janet, I pushed the button by the driver's left knee (2009 or earlier models), which disable the keyless entry system, and the ability to start your Prius without putting the key into the ignition. As I drove toward home in my Prius my cellphone rang. It was Janet screaming that I was driving away with her key. I'd just driven her Prius to a parking spot by my own Prius. But now her Prius would not start. I calmly told her that I did not have her key. It took awhile to ask where she'd put her key and to calmly tell her to look there (her purse) and she found it. Then I told her calmly to put it in the ignition. When she got home I showed her the button. She will NEVER forget that lesson. I consider it an example of good teaching.

Tough, but effective, I suppose. His car collection ranges from the predictable (four Prii despite his troubles) to the implausible (an original Hummer?) to the hopeful (an unspecified Mercedes-Benz convertible— I'm hoping it's a pagoda). The Hummer may be explained if it's the hydrogen-powered one Woz took to the south pole with his pal, moonwalker Buzz Aldrin.

Also, no Black Gold Datsun?

Woz also says he's interested in a Tesla Model S, but so far the Priuses have worked just fine for him. I think as Jalops we can totally accept Woz' Prius love, because if there was ever an equivalent in the computer world to a gearhead, this man is it.

(Thanks, BoingBoing!)


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The 'Super Jew' Motorcycle Helmet Is For The Hebrew Hoon

There are two hours left to buy this vintage motorcycle helmet with "Super Jew" graphics both left and right. If you are a Heeb who likes to hoon, it should be perfect for you.

The bidding is at $36. Someone please buy this.

(Hat tip to Bradley Price!)

Photo Credit: jtittel/eBay