Saturday, October 17, 2009

http://www.keeskennis.blogspot.com/

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Torture?

Medal of Honor recipient Bud Day Speaks of Torture


n jail...as was John McCain...and we agree that McCain does
not speak for the POW group when he claims that Al Gharib was
torture...or that "water boarding" is torture.

Our president and those fools around him who keep bad mouthing
our great country are a disgrace to the United States . I hope Sean Hannity. He uses this to point out the stupidity of the claims that water boarding...which has no after effect...is torture.

If it got the Arab to cough up the story about how he planned the attack on the twin towers in NYC ... hurrah for the guy who poured the water.

2009 October 17 � Count Us Out

2009 October 17 � Count Us Out
Illegal Alien paper mill

Friday, October 16, 2009

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical�

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical�
A crusty old Marine Sergeant Major found himself at a gala event hosted by a local liberal arts college. There was no shortage of extremely young idealistic ladies in attendance, one of whom approached the Sergeant Major for conversation.

'Excuse me, sir, but you seem to be a very serious man. Is something bothering you?'
'Negative, ma'am. Just serious by nature.'

The young lady looked at his awards and decorations and said, 'It looks like you have seen a lot of action.'
'Yes, ma'am, a lot of action.'

The young lady, tiring of trying to start up a conversation, said, 'You know, you should lighten up a little. Relax and enjoy yourself.'
The Sergeant Major just stared at her in his serious manner.

Finally the young lady said, 'You know, I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but when is the last time you had sex?
"1955, ma'am."

"Well, there you are. No wonder you're so serious. You really need to chill out! I mean, no sex since 1955!"
She took his hand and led him to a private room where she proceeded to 'relax' him several times. Afterwards, panting for breath, she leaned against his bare chest and said, 'Wow, you sure didn't forget much since 1955.'

The Sergeant Major said in his serious voice, after glancing at his watch, 'I hope not; It's only 2130 now.'

Joke Humor

Thursday, October 15, 2009

The Oil Drum | Shale Gas Estimates Perhaps Optimistic - An Interesting and Worrying Talk at ASPO

The Oil Drum | Shale Gas Estimates Perhaps Optimistic - An Interesting and Worrying Talk at ASPO: "Shale Gas Estimates Perhaps Optimistic"

the U.S. today consumes about 63 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day - in energy BTU equivalency terms, that’s 10.5 million barrels of oil per day, or about half of the amount of oil that the U.S. consumes each day. Of that 63 bcf per day of natural gas consumption, we import about 1 bcf in the form of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, and we import about 8 bcf per day from Canada. This means that we are about 98.5% self-reliant on natural gas supply from North America and about 86% self-reliant on natural gas supply from the U.S. Contrast that with oil, where we are only about 41% North American self-reliant and only about 27% self-reliant from U.S. sources.

VIX Definition - What is VIX?

VIX Definition - What is VIX?

VIX is the CBOE Volatility Index, created by the Chicago Board Options Exchange as a measure of equity market volatility. The VIX was introduced in January 1986. Since January 1993, the VIX has been computed in real time throughout the trading day. The computation of the value of VIX is based on the implied volatility of eight option series on the S&P 100 index, or OEX. The VIX is quoted in percentage points per annum. For instance, a VIX value of 19.28 represents an annualized implied volatility of 19.28%. The VIX is sometimes called the investor fear index, since investor uncertainty can lead to high market volatility through drops in prices, such as happened on Black Monday in 1987. Options are traded on the VIX, enabling additional hedging and speculation positions on volatility. Closely related to the VIX are the VXD, or CBOE Dow Jones Industrial Average Volatility Index, and the VXN, or CBOE NASDAQ 100 Volatility Index.

LIBOR Definition - What is LIBOR?

LIBOR Definition - What is LIBOR?



LIBOR stands for London Interbank Offered Rate. The British Bankers’ Association calculates LIBOR in an open manner each business day. LIBOR rates are generally released around 11am London time. Many LIBOR rates exist, for various multiple short-term periods in a number of currencies. For example, each day LIBOR rates are released, there is a 1 week Japanese Yen LIBOR rate, a 1 month US dollar LIBOR rate, and 6 month Euro LIBOR rate. LIBOR is the primary benchmark for interest rates around the world. Interest rate contracts traded on many exchanges around the world, such as the Chicago Board of Trade, settle based on LIBOR. LIBOR affects consumers, too, as LIBOR is often used as a benchmark for ARMs and other credit products.

Joint Will Definition - What is Joint Will?

Joint Will Definition - What is Joint Will?

A joint will is a type of legal agreement, in which property is distributed according to a will without the right to survivorship. According to a joint will agreement, the distribution of assets is predetermined by a joint will regardless of who dies first. A joint will is common among married couples, though legally a joint will can apply to any two people who intend to become each other’s beneficiaries according to a stipulated will. Like other legal contracts, a joint will has its benefits and drawbacks. On the plus side, a joint will prevents the surviving person from using the estate in ways that contradict the terms of the joint will contract. Thus for example, should the surviving spouse decide to remarry, a joint will contract may block him or her from granting the estate to the new spouse or stepchildren. A negative of a joint will is its constricting nature and inability to accommodate changing life circumstances.

Lame Cherry: The English Language Program

Lame Cherry: The English Language Program

The English Language Program

For 13 months between 1967 and 1968, a Caucasian with a latino accent was in North Vietnam, at a place termed The Zoo.

He was joined by two other hispanics in what was overtly termed, "The English Language Program" to teach North Vietnamese communist guards in prison torture camps how to speak English.

No one knows for certain who these three animals were, but were nicknamed Fidel, Chico and Pancho who joined with a North Vietnamese officer named, The Lump, due to a large tumor on his forehead.

For 13 months, 19 American Heroes were isolated and brought into a program of advanced torture which went beyond the normal communist Vietnamese methods of tying the arms behind the back and legs with ropes, pulling them until the joints popped loose, bouncing them from a hook on the ceiling and beating the snot out of them, as John McCain endured.

Fidel would enact a Manchurian candidate psychological warfare program on these 19 Americans in demanding these men "surrender" to him. This psychotic was operating under full knowledge of the North Vietnamese, Cubans and therefore Moscow.
Fidel would demand that he would not be "cheated" in the Heroes not obeying his every command. It was ritual in mind control with the advent of the Soldiers were ordered to carve little objects to give to the Vietnamese people to prove they were sorry for their "crimes".

United States Air Force Major Earl Cobeil was beaten so savagely that he was incoherent. It was then that Major Cobeil began the tortuous last days of his life as Fidel demanded to be bowed to, but Cobeil who was completely incapacitated mentally would refuse.
To this Fidel would personally whip the Major with a whip made from a truck tire, until his skin was shredded from his back and legs.
The Heroes would force a stick into the Major's mouth to shove food down his throat to keep him alive.
Major Cobeil would be knocked down 20 to 40 times by brute force in a torture session which he was not even aware the reason for.
At the end of the English Language Program, Major Cobeil, disappeared into North Vietnam beaten to death.

The Cuban Connection into Vietnam was precise. Fidel Castro had armed troops murdering American Soldiers and allied Fighters in Laos.

It was believed the Cubans created a program where Americans would be so punished, that they would recite communist text on cue, be exported to a communist "trial" symposium for war crimes by Americans, about to be held in Cuba, as the propaganda event of the century.

There are thousands of still missing Americans from Southeast Asia, and while the door has been shut on the Moscow connection of imported American Servicemen, escapees from Cuba have spoken of American Soldiers who arrived there and were under Castro's brutal torture programs.

It is thought that Fidel was Fernando Vecino Alegret, a Cuban communist, but the reality is no one is certain.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Emigre with a Digital Cluebat

Emigre with a Digital Cluebat

These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read. This is one paragraph that should be in every book in every school room in every city in every state in our great Union ... Our educators should make a lesson plan on this one statement and instill these words in the minds of all students.

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

4. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation..

5. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

Monday, October 12, 2009

Interview with Sadad al Husseini: Part 2—“A lot of Money = a Little Oil” | Energy Bulletin

Interview with Sadad al Husseini: Part 2—“A lot of Money = a Little Oil” | Energy Bulletin

Question: In the past you’ve mentioned that world oil reserves are overstated by as much as 300 billion barrels.

Sadad: It’s very important to adhere to proper reserve definitions when we’re talking about oil. Oil is money in the bank. If you are very loose in terms of how you define it, you can go off and make assumptions that are unsustainable. The current numbers published—I call them “declared reserves”—are something like 1,200 billion barrels. On top of that there are another 150 billion of extra-heavy crudes and 150 billion Canadian type of bitumens. So that would lead you to believe that we have roughly 1,500 billion barrels of proven oil reserves. In fact, those are hardly proven. There is a lot of speculation. If we go back to the SEC type of definitions, that number drops way back, maybe down to 900 billion. I think it’s important to be precise about the definitions if not the actual estimates, because that’s the only way we can decide how much can be delivered on a timely basis. So yes, I think I would say 900 billion proven, perhaps 1,200 billion probable and potential. But that’s about the limit.

Tycho Brahe

Tycho Brahe isn't as famous as Galileo or Copernicus, but in some circles he's considered the father of modern astronomy. He spent much of his life compiling the world's first truly accurate and complete set of astronomical tables -- all before the invention of the telescope. Brahe's assistant, Johannes Kepler, later used the tables to deduce the laws of planetary motion. In 1628 Kepler published the Rudolphine Tables, a list of remarkably accurate logarithmic astronomical tables based on Brahe's observations and Kepler's subsequent analysis.

In 1566 Brahe lost most of his nose in a duel, and wore a metal replacement the rest of his life.

Anti-Mullah


Anti-Mullah

Fredrick Bastat

If you haven't read or listened to it, you must must must must must. Maybe I am late to the game on this... but it is stunning in its verbal and moral clarity. And it was written by a french dude, Frederic Bastiat. And it was published, in the year of his death... in 1850. Eighteen. Fifty. And it could have been written this year and been just as relevant. It's only like 60 pages, and the free MP3's add up to two hours listening. Great for your commute.

A country full of people familiar with this work would resist socialism like an immovable object. It ought to be required reading by 8th grade. And again by 12th grade.

In private schools, of course ;-)

Please encourage others to read or listen.

http://www.fee.org/pdf/books/The_Law.pdf

http://www.freeaudio.org/fbastiat/thelaw.html