It’s starting: “So Long, Yankees! China And Brazil Ditch US Dollar In Trade Deal Before BRICS Summit”

Killing The DollarFrom InternationalBusinessTimes.com:

China and Brazil agreed to trade in each other’s currencies just hours ahead of the BRICS summit in South Africa.

The deal, which extends over a three-year period and amounts to an exchange of about $30 billion in trade per year, marks the latest effort among two of the world’s largest emerging economies to shift the dynamics of international trade that have long favored the U.S. dollar.

“Our interest is not to establish new relations with China, but to expand relations to be used in the case of turbulence in financial markets,” Brazilian Central Bank Governor Alexandre Tombini said, Reuters reported.

The financial markets, globally, are beginning the process of change.

I don’t think the US will much care for this change.

It’s starting in Cyprus.  Migrating to Italy and Spain.  And now updated with the creation of the BRICS bank — a consortium of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

Leaders of the five BRICS nations plan to create a development bank in a direct challenge to the World Bank that they accuse of Western bias.

And there you have it.  “Western bias.”  You can rest assured Mr Obama will do nothing.  He will be “concerned” and “monitoring.”

Leftists will want to tax more and continue spending, printing more money.  We are our own worst enemy and now — our enemies are taking overt fiscal steps against us.

BZ

 

 

Feds Spend $1.5 Million to Study Why Lesbians Are Fat

FatLesbiansSee the article at CNSNews.com.

Answer: 1) because they eat too much, and/or 2) have terrible self-esteem.

My, that was difficult.

Can I get my $1.5 million dollars now?  Because those are the conclusions the study will make.

I mean, seriously — and the Demorats absolutely INSIST there’s no “fat” to cut, eh?

BZ

 

 

Daylight saving time should be abolished

ClockDaylight Saving Time (United States) 2013 begins at 2:00 AM on Sunday, March 10 and ends at 2:00 AM on Sunday, November 3

Does it not seem to you that DST seems to extend itself farther and farther every year?

To what end?  And why?

First, a petition is circulating to kill DST or make it the new “now.”  From HuffPo:

On March 10, Americans will set their clocks forward an hour in the biannual ritual known as Daylight Saving Time (DST). But the hour of reckoning could be close at hand for DST, if some online petitioners get their way, that is.

A petition seeking to eliminate DST (or make it the year-round standard) has surfaced on the White House’s “We the People” crowdsourcing platform. The document, which needs 100,000 signatures to prompt a response from the West Wing, urges President Obama to eliminate the “archaic practice” of adjusting clocks twice a year.

Daylight Saving Time was standardized in the U.S. by the 1966 Uniform Time Act, according to National Geographic. That act has since been amended several times, most recently by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which extended DST by one month.

The “We the People” petition claims that, while some industries still support DST, studies have shown the change is a health risk, leads to a loss in productivity and is “really annoying.”

I don’t know about the health issues, but I gladly cast DST into the “really annoying” category.  Because: we’re “saving daylight” for — what?

And one very interesting point I’d guess you’ve never realized:

Though participating areas of the country must switch their clocks on the same day, no federal law forces states to observe the time change, according to National Geographic. Arizona, for example, has not observed DST for decades.

Good for them, I say.  Independent thinkers who can make their own decisions.  Where are the other so-called “independent thinkers”?

Oh yes, that’s correct.  Pandering to DC for cash.  More Free Cheese.

The WashingtonCityPaper actually has a measured and logical view: get rid of DST.

For nearly 100 years, daylight saving time has been a pox on American sanity. It’s time for its long, dumb history to end.

Enough with changing our clocks (car, watch, bedside, kitchen); enough with the cutesy mnemonic devices (“spring forward—or backward?”); and enough with remembering things period (“is it this Saturday?”). Daylight saving time has been tried and tested all over the world for different reasons by many generations, and the only solid, incontrovertible fact to glean from this grand temporal experiment is that it’s a pain in the ass.

Yes!

Belief in DST’s energy-saving powers is often traced to a 1970s study from the Department of Transportation. A later review of that research by the National Bureau of Standards, however, found that the results were not significant. A more recent study by Yale professor Matthew Kotchen of energy consumption in Indiana (a state that formerly did not observe DST, and then observed it on a county-by-county basis) found that Indianans actually increased their energy use during daylight saving time by 2 percent: People might have turned on their lights less frequently, but they ran their air-conditioners more.

If the science behind DST’s supposed energy-saving powers is so inconclusive, why does this irritating pastime persist? Good question; let’s ask 7-Eleven. The convenience-store chain was the main source of funding behind a coalition supporting the extension of DST in 2005. Why? Because more sunlight in the summer meant more retail business. The National Golf Association also supported the extension, estimating that increased sunlight would increase golf revenues by $200 or $300 million, as detailed by Michael Downing in his 2005 book Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time.

It’s stupid, it’s complicated, it yields much of nothing.

Time to become more simple and plain, I submit.

What say you?

BZ

 

 

Florida bill would require anger management courses for bullet buyers

Audrey Gibson, FL SenatorYes.  You read that correctly.  You don’t need glasses.  You damned near need a new country, however.

From FoxNews.com:

A Florida legislator wants anyone trying to buy ammunition to complete an anger management program first, in what critics say is the latest example of local lawmakers reaching for constitutionally-dubious solutions to the problem of gun violence.

The bill filed Saturday by state Sen. Audrey Gibson, D-Jacksonville, would require a three-day waiting period for the sale of any firearm and the sale of ammunition to anyone who has not completed anger management courses. The proposal would require ammo buyers to take the anger management courses every 10 years.

“This is not about guns,” Gibson said. “This is about ammunition and not only for the safety of the general community, but also for the safety of law enforcement.”

Gibson said she’s concerned with citizens stockpiling ammunition, potentially creating dangerous situations should those individuals ever come in contact with law enforcement agencies or criminals.

“It’s about getting people to think, really, about how much ammunition they need,” Gibson said. “It’s a step, I think, in a safer direction. It’s about getting people to think before they buy.”

First, let me state the obvious: this excrement is coming from a black female Demorat.  That’s essentially all you need to know.  I’d wager this empty suit is public-school educated, though Wikipedia claims she acquired a BA in Criminology from Florida State.

Allow me to proffer some more issues in “obviosity” (just made that up): I’m a cop.  And I don’t fear people who may stockpile ammunition.  These days I’d simply call them honest, good and true Americans responding to their corruptors in DC.

Apparently, however, her classes neglected to take American history into account and she resoundingly failed to read any of our nation’s foundational documents; you know, the basic ones: the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights.  The Federalist Papers?  She likely thinks those are what you roll around your dope for a nice, fat joint.

Though I’m not a fan of Michael Savage, he had it right back in 2005 when he stated, before anyone else, that Liberalism is a mental disorder.

There is no cure.  And the disease becomes more rampant.  The mentally ill, Demorats, Liberals, Progressives, Leftists — their mental disorders cannot be “cured.”  It only becomes more catching, like a virulent bubonic plague, when Free Cheese is added to the mix.

As I’ve said many times, you simply cannot make crap like this up.  Just when you think you’ve seen or heard the sickest of ideas from the Left, they manage to outdo themselves.  It’s as though they not only possess what I call Historical Alzheimers — I’d submit purposely so — but they go out of their way to top each other, weekly, in terms of the most daft, inane, brain-dead, illogical, illegal and outright stupid ideas to craft into some form of law whose sole purpose is to remove more of your freedoms.

I’m guessing that Senator Gibson isn’t a “bad person” per se; she likely doesn’t set stray kittens on fire.  But the Demorat culture and Leftism has clearly lobotomized her to the point where she cannot even recognize the documents that created this country.  She needs a refresher course in BZ 101 in re the US Constitution and the real purpose behind its creation — positive vs negative rights.

A very brief review of my post:

Our current Constitution frames much of what we value in terms of what the government cannot do.
– The government cannot engage in unreasonable searches and seizures
– It cannot inflict cruel and unusual punishment

 

Thomas Jefferson said: When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.

Let that sink in and then percolate for a bit.

BZ

 

 

Bob Woodward: Obama has a “kind of madness”

And I most certainly agree.

I already wrote here that I believe Mr Obama has NPD, which is Narcissistic Personality Disorder.  You can hear it every day, over and over and over, in his speeches.  He loves the sound of his voice, and every tenth word is “I.”  Because, after all, it’s all about him.

Here, Woodward takes Mr Obama to task.  Things have gotten so bad in DC that historic Liberals are starting to stutter-step:

Bob Woodward blasted President Obama on Wednesday morning for deciding to recall an aircraft carrier from the Persian Gulf because of impending budget cuts, calling the decision “a kind of madness.”

Woodward: “Can you imagine Ronald Reagan sitting there and saying ‘Oh, by the way, I can’t do this because of some budget document?’ Or George W. Bush saying, ‘You know, I’m not going to invade Iraq because I can’t get the aircraft carriers I need’ or even Bill Clinton saying, ‘You know, I’m not going to attack Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters,’ as he did when Clinton was president because of some budget document? Under the Constitution, the president is commander-in-chief and employs the force. And so we now have the president going out because of this piece of paper and this agreement, I can’t do what I need to do to protect the country. That’s a kind of madness that I haven’t seen in a long time.”

Mr Obama wants you to hurt.  He wants you to feel pain.  He wants you to feel the shock and agony that he allegedly feels by those evil sequestration cuts.

First, he’s releasing illegal Mexicans and then kicking Janet Napolitano to the curb via Jay Carney, because Mr Obama lacks the balls to do the job himself.

Mr Obama wants to make you hurt.  Because he is being defied — and he cannot possibly countenance defiance.  He wants everything and everyone and every issue held at arms’ length from him.  He absolves himself of all responsibility, culpability, capacity, charge, burden, duty or obligation.  A bit like salesmen who must be “always closing,” Mr Obama is always campaigning.  And he never is actually governing.

Mr Obama’s minions are already claiming that teachers are receiving pink slips.  Another LIE.

It’s just one massive shell game of DC lies and — I completely concur this time with Woodward — naked madness.

BZ

P.S.
New word, now, is that a “senior staffer” at the White House called Woodward and threatened him, saying that Woodward would “regret” his words about Obama.

Perfectly in keeping with the dirty tactics, lies and corruption in the Obaka Regime.

The continuance of “Chicago Politics,” anyone?