And in Hollywood - Where reality is just another thing you fake

Speaking of unintended consequences, looks like the combo writer’s strike and economic slowdown has inspired NBC to save $50 mil a year. They’re gonna stop doing expensive pilots to attract advertisers who aren’t there to buy ‘em anyway. These $7 mil an episode ‘maybes’ often never got beyond wishful thinking. Jeff Zucker, the chief executive of NBC Universal said, “So you’re spending money on programs you’re not going to get.” Guess NBC got tired of hope over experience - you know, like what motivates the average Hollywood serial marriage.

Everybody is anxious to find out what killed Brokeback Mountain star, Heath Ledger. Jack Nicholson thinks he knows - the sleeping pill Ambien. “I warn people about Ambien. I almost drove off a cliff once. I don’t take sleeping pills but somebody said, take this, it’s mild’. I got a call in the middle of the night, kind of an emergency, and I almost drove off a cliff 50 yards from my house. I live up in the mountains in Aspen. It’s something to warn people about.” The UK has reported 197 adverse reactions and six deaths. While in Australia, the Health Department reported one woman who painted her front door while sound asleep. These drugs should have better warning labels. Something like, if death occurs - stop taking it immediately and call a doctor.

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“And on the seventh day God rested. That’s when he asked me to take over.”

Today’s pundit: Alexander Tyler, in his 1770 book, Cycle of Democracy

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal responsibility, always followed by a dictatorship.”

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Stock markets across Europe tanked $350 billion Monday 1/21/08 while the USA escaped because markets were closed for the Martin Luther King Day holiday. Then the cat got out of the economic bag when the biggest bank fraud ever shook the EU. $7 billion dollars evaporated into thin air from Societe Generale, France’s second biggest bank. And it might have been the bank’s attempt to stem the bleeding by selling hard and fast during trading on the 21st that caused the EU stock meltdown. Now SocGen is trying to make up their gigantic loss by diversifying into the medical body part banking business. But I wouldn’t invest in it if I were you. Seems they plan to specialize in things like freckles, dandruff, warts…

That’s China for ya. Never a piker. Seems they’ve got their own banking ‘irregularities’ to the tune of $119 billion. The good news is Chinese bank regulators found fewer ‘irregularities’ in their state-owned banks this year than last year. Odd kind of good news considering the new ‘irregularities’ equal three times the total profits for their top five banks. Now they want to make sure customers feel their money’s safe. So with every deposit, you get a year supply of tranquilizers.

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Putting his own oar in the world’s economic waters, Venezuela’s dictator and sometimes prez, Hugo Chávez, is urging his Latin American pals to remove their country’s reserves from U.S. banks. He warned them there’s a U.S. economic crisis a coming. And hey guys - why wait! Let’s finesse one now! Chávez told them, “We should start to bring our reserves here. Why does that money have to be in the north? You can’t put all your eggs in one basket.” So is this fox in the henhouse suggesting they put their eggs in his baskets instead? The same baskets disguised as banks Chávez threatened to seize just a week ago? What a joker huh! Chávez and his germs of humor. Let’s just hope his ‘pals’ have been vaccinated.

Iowa had a rousing start to the its 2008 legislature session with a prayer by a Muslim Imam asking for “Victory over those who disbelieve,” and “Protection from the great Satan.” Um, aren’t Christians and Jews “unbeliever’s”? And if I remember correctly, the USA is the great Satan. Rev. Steve Smith of the Evangelical Free Church is not too pleased with the prayer. “I’m not concerned about a Muslim Imam opening the Legislature in prayer but it concerns me with the statements that were made. He interpreted this prayer from his understanding of Islam.” Guess the Rev. Smith figures this kind of victory prayer for the USA is about as useful as a sand-filled water cooler.

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Is it better to light a candle - than open the drapes? Evidently that’s what Hamas legislators in Gaza thought last week. One reporter told The Jerusalem Post that “They had closed the curtains in the rooms to create the impression that Hamas leaders were also suffering as a result of the power stoppage. It was obvious that the whole thing was staged.” And to the Hamas delight, the journalists came, they saw and Reuters published the pixs. Wonder what Reuters thought those glowing drapes were, solar powered night lights?

Ooops! Charles Enderlin is best known for filming the staged death of a Gaza 12-year-old in his father’s arms - the kid supposedly shot by the Israeli military. Well, during an appearance at Harvard’s Center for European Studies hustling his book, “The Lost Years,” Enderlin let slip another hoax. Joel Pollak’s blog ‘Guide to the Perplexed’ 01/17/08 post recounts Enderlin’s Oooops! moment. “Yasser Arafat had faked his blood donation to the victims of the September 11th attacks. Enderlin said the event had been staged for the media to counteract the embarrassing television images of Palestinians celebrating in the streets after the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. Arafat didn’t like needles, and so the doctor put a needle near his arm and agitated a bag of blood. The reporters took the requisite photographs.” Guess reporting the ‘facts’ is simply a matter of perspective. Like in gardening. To your friends you’re a good gardener. To your weeds - you’re a homicidal maniac.

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Wet and Wild. China is suffering the coldest, snowiest winter in over 50 years. Trains with hundred of thousands of New Year travelers are stuck in terminals waiting for trains that won’t show for another week. Premier Wen Jiabao is hopping around the country trying to sooth the nerves of an increasingly restive population suffering power brownouts in 17 cities. It’s so cold even the Yeti is looking for heating fuel. At least officials think it’s a Yeti. They found huge foot prints and a 50-gallon drum of Dr. Scholl’s Foot Powder.

Tibet’s Temperature Story
January 24, 2008

95. Tibet - Warmest decade in 1,000 years. Ice core records from the Dasuopu Glacier indicate that the last decade and last 50 years have been the warmest in 1,000 years. Meteorological records for the Tibetan Plateau show that annual temperatures increased 0.4°F (0.16°C) per decade and winter temperatures increased 0.6°F (0.32°C) per decade from 1955 to 1996…

Very interesting and potentially effective to say the least, but an article forthcoming in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Theoretical and Applied Climatology tells a very different story – and a story that will not be featured anywhere but World Climate Report. The research was conducted by scientists from various Chinese institutions, Columbia University, and the University of Delaware; the work was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China.

The Gou et al. team took 139 tree ring cores from 97 trees located in the valley of Qiemuqu in the Animagin Mountains in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau; you all realize from your geography classes that this valley produces a major headwater tributary of the Yellow River. They found that the tree ring widths were very highly correlated with summer maximum air temperatures in the region (the trees love cool summers), and this allowed for a surprisingly accurate way to reconstruct temperatures back 700 years. A bit of statistical wizardry was then applied to produce Figure 2 below.

In their own words, Gou et al. observe “The ten-year average summer half-year maximum temperature in the 1990s is relatively high, but it is still colder than several other periods, including 1480s–1490s and 1590s–1600s. The 1480s is the warmest period in the past 700 years. The summer half-year maximum temperature can change significantly within decades.”

Even more amazing, with respect to all the material we see on the internet is their finding that “There is no warming trend for the reconstructed summer half-year maximum temperature since the Industrial Revolution in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau.” Further, we learn “The summer half-year maximum temperature in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau has increased since the 1980s, but it is not exceptional on centennial or millennial timescales. The ten-year average summer half-year maximum temperature in the 1990s was relatively high, but was still colder than several other periods.” You undoubtedly see now why this article will be immediately dismissed by the global warming crusade.

We will leave you with this exact quote, because it speaks volumes as they so clearly state

“There is no warming trend since the Industrial Revolution, in fact, the linear trend is negative.”

Excerpted from
WorldClimateReport.com

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There’s a new documentary out called “What Black Men Think.” Janks Morton got on the road to discovery when he couldn’t believe a statistic he heard on C-SPAN. Seventy percent of black babies are born out of wedlock. Well that one turned out to be true but a lot of others didn’t. You’ve heard the one there are more blacks in prison than in college? Wrong! In 2002 there were 805,000 black men in college to the 757,000 in prison. But of college age youth 18 to 24 there were 473,000 upwardly mobile young men in college to the 106,000 losers in prison. How many black men marry whites? He got guesses of up to 30% while the real figure is 5.3%. Morton tackled more misconceptions but the one that floored him was the leading cause of death for blacks - it’s abortion. While black women account for only 13% of the USA population, they have 1/3 of all abortions in this country. The whole point of the flick is to urge blacks to not blindly believe everything they read and hear, particularly from certain black ‘leaders’ and the NAACP. And don’t depend on government provided Jim Crow handouts either. In fact he suggested blacks get squarely behind their elected and self-appointed leaders. Less chance of getting stabbed in the back.

“I am for the truth. And not for phony Democrats - Obama and the Clintons - who kowtow to the poor and middle class to gain power in Washington.” That was Chris Jackson, who penned “Men in Black II,” “Rush Hour” and its sequel, and “The Kings of Comedy.” And what is this Hollywood writer complaining about? That the Happy Hollywood Dem presidential candidates won’t touch the lowly scribes for fear of offending the big shots in Tinsel Town. “I was hurt by learning the truth. The DNC [Democratic National Committee] are in bed with big business. They are for change when it comes to using marketing slogans . . . but they only use Hollywood to milk money out of us.” Well actually Chris they have closer ties than just money. In the old days, kids ran away to the circus to become clowns. Now they run for public office.

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“And on the seventh day God rested. That’s when he asked me to take over.”

Today’s pundit: Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British statesman, writer, prime minister during WWII

Any man who is under 30 and is not a liberal has no heart; and any man who is over 30 and not a conservative has no brains.

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The USA economy has a severe head cold in Florida, California and Michigan and may be getting the sniffles elsewhere. Big banks are tanking big time but most regional banks are doing just fine. Construction workers are out but engineering and consulting talent are in big demand. At least that’s what the Washington Post reported last week. “A wide range of data from the government, private corporations and independent analysts paint a picture of a nation that is already in recession in some states and industries, while much of the nation and big parts of the economy have suffered little.” But like the flu, it could spread. Joel Naroff, chief economist for Commerce Bank believes, “We don’t have a full-blown nationwide recession now, or even a full-blown slowdown. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t ultimately turn into one. What the Fed and Congress need to do is try to make sure this is a soft period rather than a recession.” In fact, Congress is already gearing up to pass a one time federal rebate for us suckers to spend right away. Right after they take the money away from us in taxes that is. And to lead us in the paths of righteous spending, one Congressman said he’s gonna use his rebate to trade up his limo for one with an outdoor swimming pool.

Meanwhile, the USA Federal Reserve cut its interest rate a hefty 3/4 of a percentage point Tuesday. That made the European markets momentarily happy but Asia still has the shakes. India was forced to stop trading for an hour when the market fell 10% in just minutes after opening. Hong Kong, China, Japan, Australia all took a nose dive. Koji Takeuchi, the very unhappy senior economist at Mizuho Research Institute in Tokyo said, “Unless we get some positive ’shock effects,’ such as drastic measures from the U.S. government, there is almost no hope for a recovery in stocks.” Maybe Asia should post a warning sign in all their stock exchanges. You know, something like - Warning! A USA recession could be hazardous to your wealth!

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“I can think of parallels in wartime, but I have trouble coming up with a precedent in our peacetime history for such broad and centralized control over a sector of the economy. … Is the public really ready for this? … None of us know whether we can make it work well or at all…” And what is this secret memo about? It’s a newly released document from Hillary Clinton’s First Lady days, when she was plotting a take over of the healthcare system. Method used to seal off criticism of her takeover? “Expose lifestyles, tactics and motives of lobbyists…” Judicial Watch has pried loose 13,000 documents from her 1993 health care task force with only “3 million textual records, 2,884 pages of electronic records, 1,021 photographs, 3 videotapes and 3 audiotapes” to go. Remember Hillary, ugliness is only skin deep. And girl - do you have deep skin!

The other Happy Hollywood Dem prez candidate and Oprah fav, Barack Hussein Obama, is scary in his own right. His church preaches Africa first with a dollop of Jesus-Lite on the side. And thinks the Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan, is the cat’s meow. Obama decries racism but still sticks close to Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. and his loves. In an article Wright published in his church’s magazine “Trumpet” he wrote, “When Minister Farrakhan speaks, Black America listens. His depth on analysis [sic] when it comes to the racial ills of this nation is astounding and eye-opening. He brings a perspective that is helpful and honest.” Hey, Wright, guess that’s ‘cause both of you hate those “blue-eyed devils” and “anti-Christ” whites. As well as those government and media controlling “bloodsucker” Jews. Jeremiah, you think anybody who follows you can’t be wrong - but they sure can be stupid.

• Obama’s on Fire for Jesus-lite

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