So: What Was It?

That our NORAD indicates it has no idea of its existence is perchance even more frightening than the implications of the event itself.

Some have hypothesized that the launch, 35 miles off our sovereign west coast, may be the work of some kind of private rocketeer.

Customarily our military, when making a missile launch, initiates prior public notice. It provides, usually, notice of missile range testing or exercises.

No such announcement was made; further: flatly denied.

Was this the work of other nations operating off our shores? South Korea? China?

Anyone besides me think this is a rather oddly denied event?

Something very important, I suspect, is being hidden.

This is a huge, a massive security breach no matter what the US military officially says.

Your thoughts?

BZ

Finally: MSM (via MSNBC) Admits Socialism

During a very recent edition of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, Lawrence O’Donnell admits he is clearly a Socialist.

As if we as Conservatives didn’t have the most minute molecule of supposition in terms of the general MSM . . .

Friday’s November 5th, HuffPo here.

O’Donnell, in a massive breeze of refreshing TRUTH, admitted:

(Blogger) Glenn (Greenwald), unlike you, I am not a Progressive. I am not a liberal who is so afraid of the word that I had to change my name to Progressive. Liberals amuse me. I am a Socialist. I live to the extreme Left, the extreme Left of you mere liberals, okay? However, I know this about my country. Liberals are 20 percent of the electorate. Conservatives are 41 percent of the electorate, okay?

You can sit there and pretend that liberals should run more liberal in Conservative districts. You love the loss of the Blue Dogs. The only way, the only way you have a chairman Barney Frank, there’s only one way, that’s by electing Blue Dogs. It’s the only way. That’s the only way you have a Speaker Pelosi.”

Thanks for the honesty, Lawrence. You’re therefore quite unique in that manner.

Isn’t honesty, for once, an actual puff of so-called “fresh air” indeed?

BZ

US Economic Implosion: It’s Coming


And it may start, with China, at the upcoming G20 conference in South Korea:

China tees up G20 showdown with US
By Alan Beattie in Washington, Geoff Dyer in Beijing, Chris Giles in London
Published: November 5 2010 06:56 | Last updated: November 5 2010 19:03
China has curtly dismissed a US proposal to address global economic imbalances, setting the stage for a potential showdown at next week’s G20 meeting in Seoul.
Cui Tiankai, a deputy foreign minister and one of China’s lead negotiators at the G20, said on Friday that the US plan for limiting current account surpluses and deficits to 4 per cent of gross domestic product harked back “to the days of planned economies”.
“We believe a discussion about a current account target misses the whole point,” he added, in the first official comment by a senior Chinese official on the subject. “If you look at the global economy, there are many issues that merit more attention – for example, the question of quantitative easing.”
“Quantitative easing.”
Ladies and gentlemen, that’s code for “printing money.”
And yes, with no backing.
Not a smart move; instead, the move of a fiscal dolt.
Gird thy loins, people.
BZ
P.S.
With regard to China, check this out.

If You Like Sci-Fi, Can “SKYLINE” (Friday, Nov 12 Release) Satisfy?


What I’ve seen, so far, of the various trailers for the upcoming movie “Skyline,” is hugely beguiling.

Of course, though, as we know, sometimes the trailers themselves are the “high points” of their advertised films.

Some recent sci-fi films have left me completely disappointed; the most trashy and obvious is “The Day The Earth Stood Still.” It was a complete travesty and massively unworthy of the film title. It is to be avoided at all costs. The original, in comparison, requires its own shrine.

However, District 9 was admirable, as was Splice and the impressive Pandorum (just you wait until the final frames!).

I am a colossal fan of both written and filmed science fiction. When it warrants admiration.

Will Skyline satisfy?

It “looks” great. But there is also story and acting and FX — but again — story.

Story rules all.

BZ