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Journal Journal: Nope. It's That Twat, Cameron 5

And his unusually equine spouse. Ah. The horsey set.

Still, twisted the tits on NewLabour(tm). Clegg knows how to kick 'em when they're down, even with all his pertness.

I want Loony kingmakers. Next time, I suppose.

United Kingdom

Journal Journal: My Party Showed Poorly 1

It couldn't be our platform:

        * Campaign in the 2010 General Election for the election of the statue of Queen Vic in EastEnders to be elected as Queen replacing Queen Elizabeth the Second.

        * Refusing to sign up to the euro, but inviting the rest of Europe to join the £ pound

        * Drivers can go straight over a roundabout when there's no traffic coming "to make driving through Milton Keynes more fun"

        * Traffic cops "too stupid" for normal police work to be retrained as vicars

        * Withdrawal of MPs' £118,000 expenses allowance, and the money "in future be distributed to the poor and needy so that they can waste it instead"

        * Any MP whose constituency sells off a school playing field for development will be required to relinquish their own back garden as a replacement sports facility for the school

        * All motorways to become massive cycle tracks instead

        * All speed cameras will be abolished and replaced by a new device fitted to cars which will automatically slow down to the speed limit when driven though an infra-red beam

        * The introduction of a 99p coin to "save on change"

        * Banning semi-colons; no-one knows how to use them

        * Banning vaccinations, to be replaced by nurses with shot guns to hide around playgrounds

Still, there's hope:
Alan 'Howling Laud' Hope has confirmed plans for his inclusion in any future government cabinet. Following the hung parliament that follows Thursdays results, David Cameron is keen to get as many influential leaders on board in his attempt to oust Gordon Brown's Labour party. As the above picture shows, Mr Cameron was right on hand to congratulate our glorious leader upon his 234 votes (a loony swing of 0.4% in the constituency) and it is believed that conversations took place after the results in Witney and that Laud Hope is also seeking a place in the House of Commons bar, a space in the carpark, excemption from the loony policy in bringing back hanging for MP's in the event of a hung election as well as a full and roomy part in any cabinet that the Conservatives have to offer. We will keep you informed of any developements that may occur over the next few days.
http://omrlp.com/

The Matrix

Journal Journal: Pakistani Patsy 7

Thursday, May 06, 2010

Portrait of a patsy

It would be ridiculously easy to set up Faisal Shahzad. New American, a little on the make, with family in Pakistan and big financial problems. Friendly government agent approaches him and appeals to his patriotism and love of adventure, plus offers to pay well (note the history). First mission: infiltrate a 'terrorist' training camp in Pakistan (little does Shahzad know that the camp is really run by the CIA). Second mission: buy a cheap used car on Craigslist. Third mission: buy some fireworks. Fourth mission: stay at home awaiting further instructions. Shahzad, seeing his car on TV, suddenly got that Lee Harvey Oswald feeling, and decided it might be better to get out of the country before he died in a shoot-out.

Despite a gazillion cameras and CCTVs in Times Square, there is not the slightest evidence that Shahzad was actually there with the car. Complete absence of forensics in the car points to a government job. Strangely enough, so does the utter incompetence of the bomb - even without any training, Shahzad could have done better - and the fact that the bomb was modelled after the incompetent car bomb at Edinburgh (which Shahzad couldn't have known to copy - we're supposed to believe it came out of training at the same incompetent bomb-making school in Pakistan!).

They say he's talking, but who knows. They have him in a tough spot, liable to be labeled an 'enemy combatant' with the loss of all rights, and friendly authorities in Pakistan have his family in custody for further blackmail. Patsies always find themselves in a position where there is no way out.

I suspect the 'no fly list' problem is phony, intended by American authorities as a way of forcing recalcitrant airlines to get in line. The entire story of his capture is hinky, from the alleged fact that the FBI somehow 'lost' him, to the entire buried story of American Army involvement (whatever happened to posse comitatus?). Gawker investigated the changed story, and the attempt at an innocent excuse is ridiculous (and note the drone reference at the end of the Gawker article: drone blowback against the American people is particularly ironic given illegal American drone killings in Pakistan).

Journal Journal: Christian leader caught with male escort says he needed help 2

Christian leader caught with male escort says he needed help with his luggage

"And in return, I can help you with that package..."

A Christian leader and prominent neuro-psychiatrist who co-founded the Family Research Council with evangelist James Dobson took a ten-day European vacation with a callboy he met through RentBoy.com and was caught in an airport with the escort by a Miami newspaper.

 

 

According to Penn and Thorp, the slender, 20-year-old escort's profile advertises his "smooth, sweet, tight ass" and "perfectly built 8 inch cock." RentBoy.com's profiles are not indexed by Google.

"It is clear that Rekers has baggage and certainly needs help," said Wayne Besen, a prominent opponent of the "ex-gay" movement and director of the nonprofit Truth Wins Out. Referring to South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, a conservative who claimed he was hiking when he'd actually been meeting with a mistress, he added: "At least he did not say he was walking the Appalachian Trail."

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0504/christian-leader-caught-rent-boy-needed-luggage/

United States

Journal Journal: Mr. Bad Taste: Let's Joke About Remote Killing 7

Murder by numbers/
One, two, three/
It's as easy to learn/
As your ABC...

"The Jonas Brothers are here; they're out there somewhere. Sasha and Malia are huge fans; but boys, don't get any ideas. Two words for you: predator drones. You will never see it coming. You think I'm joking?"

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2010/05/obama-jokes-about-killing-people-via.html

The Almighty Buck

Journal Journal: Maybe we can pay Halliburton, to do this work? 4

The Bad.

Containment chambers are put in place and they catch the outflow from the three ruptures that are currently pouring 200,000 gallons of oil into the Gulf every day. If this works, it will take until June to complete. The chambers are 30-foot-high steel configurations that must be placed on the ocean floor at a depth of one mile. This has never been done before. If early containment is successful, the damages from this accident will be in the tens of billions. The cleanup will take years. The economic impact will be in the five states that have frontal coastline on the Gulf of Mexico: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.

The Worse.

The containment attempts fail and oil spews for months, until a new well can successfully be drilled to a depth of 13000 feet below the 5000-foot-deep ocean floor, and then concrete and mud are injected into the existing ruptured well until it is successfully closed and sealed. Work on this approach is already commencing. Timeframe for success is at least three months. Note the new well will have to come within about 20 feet of the existing point where the original well enters the reservoir at a distance of 3.5 miles from the surface drilling rig. Damages by this time may be measured in the hundreds of billions. Cleanup will take many, many years. Tourism, fishing, all related industries may be fundamentally changed for as much as a generation. Spread to Mexico and other Gulf geography is possible.

The Ugliest.

This spew stoppage takes longer to reach a full closure; the subsequent cleanup may take a decade. The Gulf becomes a damaged sea for a generation. The oil slick leaks beyond the western Florida coast, enters the Gulfstream and reaches the eastern coast of the United States and beyond. Use your imagination for the rest of the damage. Monetary cost is now measured in the many hundreds of billions of dollars.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/05/oil-slickonomics/

United States

Journal Journal: Oh! Bama! Rollercoaster of Love) 5

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The Matrix

Journal Journal: "Strange times are these... 5

...in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school. And the one man that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool."
-- Plato

The Almighty Buck

Journal Journal: Wamu bankers sang 'I like big bucks and I cannot lie' 2

Wamu bankers sang 'I like big bucks and I cannot lie' before bank failed

"I like big bucks and I cannot lie," they sang. "You mortgage brokers can't deny."

We're not making it up. According to documents released as part of a Congressional investigation, bankers from the failed Washington Mutual rewrote the lyrics to 1992's "Baby Got Back" to celebrate their dominance of the mortgage lending market.

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0415/wamu-bankers-sang-i-big-bucks-lie-bank-failed/

        "That when the dough rolls in/
        like you're printin' your own cash/
        And you gotta make a splash/
        You just spends/
        Like it never ends/
        Cuz you gotta have that big new Benz/

        All of that bling you're wearin'
        Shining so bright peoples starin'/
        It's crazy, I gotta ski Aspen/
        That's all I'm askin'"

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