Why?
And why now?
And why so many countries?
BZ
P.S.
It’s time to leave Monterey Bay and the Monterey Bay Inn. Seven days and eight nights and we had a wondrous anniversary time. We’ll miss Berford the Seagull eyeballing us every morning:
And, of course, the beautiful bay itself replete with sea lions, otters, gulls, kelp and the crashing waves.
Time to drive home with all the other vacationers and prepare for the coming work week. We’ll miss the beautiful views and the gorgeous nights.
Check out the below video with regard to the amazing Girandoni air rifle (ca 1779), carried by Lewis & Clark’s Corps of Discovery (1803 to 1806). This rifle could (with 1,500 pumps creating 800 psi) shoot up to forty consecutive .46 caliber round balls before loss of muzzle velocity and pressure. The tubular magazine held 22 balls.
Additionally, an excellent book on their journey is Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose.
BZ
The House voted on Friday (2-18) to block funding for ObamaKare.
Specifically, the House voted to prohibit any funds be used by the Internal Revenue Service to carry out the law’s mandate that Americans buy health insurance. The individual mandate, one of the law’s key tenets, has been struck down by federal courts.
The House also adopted an amendment by Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., to bar the Labor and Health and Human Services Departments from spending any money for the rest of fiscal year 2011 on the health care law. Still another provision adopted today would ban the government from paying the salaries of any federal employee involved in implementing the health care law.
Further, one day prior (Thursday, 2-17), the House stopped any funding for the FCC’s application of so-called “net neutrality“:
The amendment, approved on a 244-181 vote, was offered by Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., to legislation that would fund government agencies for the rest of fiscal year 2011.
Walden and other critics of the FCC’s net-neutrality order argue it will stifle innovation and investment in broadband. The order aims to bar broadband providers from discriminating against Internet content, services, or applications.
“If left unchallenged, this claim of authority would allow the FCC to regulate any matter it discussed in the national broadband plan,” Walden said.
Mr Obama also, as you recall, wants to create an “OFF” switch for the US internet under the guise of Pulling The Big Red Handle only when the hacking is dangerous and the government is threatened. Instead, I posit, think: Egypt.
Mr Obama and the Leftists seem to forget that their administration isn’t permanent and that, under a different administration, Handles can be pulled “whenever.”
Anyone here doubt that a Leftist government wouldn’t sever the internet if the internet were flying with the various Truths about oppression of freedom?
Me neither.
Gerald Celente makes an interesting observation which tends to tie many things together:
Celente believes the government will use this increased defense allowance to amass weapons and apparatuses that will control any dissent among the people. Citing a Feb. 15 article in the USA Today titled, Kill Switch Bill Alarms Privacy Experts, Jones says the government has already begun taking steps to control an uprising. They’ve openly stated that they want to be able to shut down the Internet and they’re getting ready to launch a false flag using either a terrorist alert or the threat of war as an excuse to flip the kill switch.
Moves are being made, ladies and gentlemen, internationally and locally. Forewarned is forearmed. Literally.
BZ
First, view the below video (from May 5th, 2009) in which Rep Alan Grayson (D-Orlando — a man who has sufficient problems himself but, in this instance, is dead-spot-on) asks questions of Elizabeth Coleman, whose job title is Inspector General of the Federal Reserve. The job title itself would, I can only assume, proffer the largest clue possible as to the specific job attached:
Yes, that’s correct, we really still have no damned idea where billions and billions and billions of our dollars went. We assume they went to good causes, like banks — where the assumption was that the “stimulus” would result in an uncorking of loans for those who can actually pay, etc. But still, in February of 2011, no one really knows where all this money went. I submit that perhaps we know more about the sex life of the average silverfish than the various resting places of that staggering amount of cash.
And, oh, yes: cash that YOU labored for, taken out of YOUR pockets by way of federal taxes. You were FORCED to give that money to the government so that IT could not have ANY idea where the money really went.
As I said a few years back, the banks that were “too big to fail”? Let them fail. Car manufacturers that were in that same category? Let them fail. Hell, GM fell anyway — and then wanted MORE of your tax dollars. And got them!
Further, by shuttering many dealerships when the Fed took control of GM and Chrysler, your GOVERNMENT was responsible for the loss of tens of thousands of private sector jobs. I’m sure dealerships closed in your area as they did in mine.
Lord knows the stimulus money has been highly beneficial: the Northern Mariana Islands is applying for federal stimulus money that would go to foreign welfare recipients. The money would pay for food stamps and job training. You stimulus dollars ($823 million) also went to a study by a UCLA research team to teach uncircumcised African men how to wash their genitals after having sex.
In an unprecedented move, the number of investors fearing a catastrophic stock market crash is rising even with the stock market at 2 ½ year highs.
The unusual dislocation comes from two distinct reasons: a lack of trust in the U.S. financial markets following the so-called Flash Crash last May and the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2007.
Once again: precious metals.
BZ
P.S.
And let us not forget: Mr Obama wants to spend even MORE of your taxpayer dollars and — concurrently — print more money backed only by the sheerest of wafting air currents.