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Saturday, August 18, 2012
LOMBORG AND WILL: 3 DECADES OF INANE LEFTIST ALARMISM
LOMBORG HERE AND GEORGE WILL ON LOMBORG HERE.
VIA HOT AIR.
I SAY: IF WE WANT TO MAKE GLOBAL POVERTY HISTORY, THEN WE HAVE TO MAKE LEFTIST AND ISLAMISM HISTORY.
VIA HOT AIR.
I SAY: IF WE WANT TO MAKE GLOBAL POVERTY HISTORY, THEN WE HAVE TO MAKE LEFTIST AND ISLAMISM HISTORY.
How Good Liberals Can Pay More Taxes Without Having To Sit Around And Wait For Obama To Raise Taxes
There are wealthy Liberals who try to be down with the homies (and by "homies", I mean people who only make average money) by declaring they believe wealthy people like them ought to pay more in taxes.
Sonic Charmer, from Rhymes With Cars and Girls, has suggestions for them:
Now that they have these suggestions they don't have to sit around and wait for Obama to "force the rich to pay their fair share."
They can start paying "their fair share" right away.
Sonic Charmer, from Rhymes With Cars and Girls, has suggestions for them:
Memo to super-rich people who ‘think your taxes need to be higher’ but (for some reason) are waiting for Congress to raise tax rates before sending in more money to Fedgov: You don’t have to wait! There are plenty of things you could do to raise your current tax owed under the current rates.
For example, you could, like, take a bunch of money out of your 401(k) (or similar) early for no reason. That will incur a penalty, which you’ll have to pay.Other tax-sheltered vehicles: Roth IRA, college funds for your kids – hell, empty ‘em out, into your savings account. ‘Penalties’ galore. Then start up new ones (for next year)!
Those penalties add up and go straight to the U.S. Treasury, just like taxes. Voila, you will have raised your effective tax rate!
If you buy bonds, stay away from munis. Interest on municipal bonds is deductible. You don’t want that! You want to pay more taxes! (right?)
Sell investments for gains but never crystallize any losses. Nothing to offset your capital gains! Or if you had losses that were unavoidable, sell anything that shows a gain from its cash basis on December 31 until your capital-gains go positive. Either way, maximal tax! The capital gains tax rate is too low anyway (right?).Go read the whole thing.
Now that they have these suggestions they don't have to sit around and wait for Obama to "force the rich to pay their fair share."
They can start paying "their fair share" right away.
THE PATH TO PROSPERITY VERSUS THE ROAD TO SERFDOM
BOTH OF OBAMA'S CO-CHAIRS OF HIS BUDGET AND DEBT COMMISSION ADMIRE RYAN BECAUSE OF HIS INTELLECT, HIS VALUES, AND HIS ABILITY - AND BOTH SAY HIS PLAN, THE PATH TO PROSPERITY, IS SOUND, (THOUGH BOWLES PREFERS HIS OWN PLAN).
WHAT MORE COULD ANYONE WANT?
NOTHING.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY. VOTE ROMNEY-RYAN.
RENO, NEVADA - AND THE DETROITIZATION OF URBAN AMERICA
UH-OH: RENO IS DYING THE SAME DEATH THAT DETROIT SUFFERED - AND MANY OTHER CITIES IN AMERICA ARE INFECTED WITH THE SAME DISEASE:
THERE IS ONE REMEDY:
VOTE ROMNEY-RYAN.
- UNAFFORDABLE AND UNSUSTAINABLE DEBT INCURRED VIA LONG-TERM SOCIALISTIC POLICIES...
- AND A COLLAPSING LABOR MARKET CAUSED BY PESSIMISM AND UNCERTAINTY CAUSED BY OBAMANOMICS AND OBAMACARE...
- AND COLLAPSING HOUSING AND REAL ESTATE MARKETS CAUSED BY LONG-TERM SOCIALISTIC POLICIES WHICH ORIGINATED IN THE CRA AND FANNIE MAE.
THERE IS ONE REMEDY:
VOTE ROMNEY-RYAN.
RAMADAN DEATH TOLL PROVES ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION OF PEACE
404 KILLED - ONLY ONE DAY WAS ATTACK-FREE - DURING THEIR "HOLIEST" MONTH.
WHY ALL THE VIOLENCE?
SIMPLE: THE TERRORISTS ARE ONLY EMULATING THEIR "PROPHET".
IF MOHAMED WAS A BAD MUSLIM THEN ISLAM IS BS.
IF MOHAMED WAS A GOOD MUSLIM, THEN ISLAM IS IS INHERENTLY VIOLENT AND THOSE WHO EMULATE HIM ARE GOOD MUSLIMS AND EVIL HUMAN BEINGS.
UPDATE: MORE PROOF HERE - WITH VIDEO.
WHY ALL THE VIOLENCE?
SIMPLE: THE TERRORISTS ARE ONLY EMULATING THEIR "PROPHET".
IF MOHAMED WAS A BAD MUSLIM THEN ISLAM IS BS.
IF MOHAMED WAS A GOOD MUSLIM, THEN ISLAM IS IS INHERENTLY VIOLENT AND THOSE WHO EMULATE HIM ARE GOOD MUSLIMS AND EVIL HUMAN BEINGS.
UPDATE: MORE PROOF HERE - WITH VIDEO.
Friday, August 17, 2012
HERE ARE A FEW OTHER CATCHY PHRASES FOCUS-GROUPED BY BIDEN AND AXELROD AND OBAMA
WHEN MIGHTY JOE BIDEN UTTERED "HE'LL PUT Y'ALL BACK IN CHAINS!" WASN'T AD-LIBBING AND IT WASN'T THE ONLY WARNING BIDEN AND OBAMA AND AXELROD TESTED.
HERE ARE FEW OTHERS:
"If y'all vote fer Romney...
- "... he'll put you Nips in camps again, ching-chong chop-chop!"
- "... he won't let you, my mishpucha friends, make matzoh with gentile blood!"
- "... he'll poison the ground water with arsenic."
- "... he'll make sodomy and blow jobs illegal!"
- "... he'll steal the reservations from you Injuns!"
- "... he'll raise taxes on the poorest and ship every job overseas!"
- "... the seas will start rising again and Mother Earth won't heal!"
COMING TO A THEATER NEAR YOU: MIGHTY JOE BIDEN
NEVER BEFORE HAS A DUMB APE GONE SO FAR ON SO LITTLE!
ROMNEY SHOULD RELEASE ALL HIS TAX RETURNS WHEN OBAMA RELEASES....
... US ALL FROM OBAMACARE!
IOW: ROMNEY TO OBAMA: "LET MY PEOPLE GO!"
IOW: ROMNEY TO OBAMA: "LET MY PEOPLE GO!"
US ARMY APPEALS COURT PLAYS DHIMMI TO MALIK NIDAL HASAN
AWR Hawkins at Big Peace reports that the US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces has halted proceedings for the murderer at Ft. Hood to be forcibly shaven to appear properly at the trial.
Now, the trial is starting to look like that of Khalid Sheik Mohammed at Gitmo, when the judges there decided to allow him to celebrate Ramadan, holding up the trial for something the defendant does not deserve. Absolutely shameful.
Now, the trial is starting to look like that of Khalid Sheik Mohammed at Gitmo, when the judges there decided to allow him to celebrate Ramadan, holding up the trial for something the defendant does not deserve. Absolutely shameful.
SOME MORE GALLING DETAILS FROM HARVEY PEKAR'S LAST SCRAP HEAP
On Comic Book Resources' Robot 6 blog, one of their contributors, J. Caleb Mozzocco, a man whom I decided a while ago was not worth the bytes his writings were published on, has written another review of Harvey Pekar's Not the Israel my Parents Promised Me, and provided more info explaining perfectly why I have no respect for Pekar. For example, something about this panel bugs me:
Why do I get the feeling that Pekar and J.T Waldman are implying that the ancient Israelites "usurped" the land from other tribes, when many of those tribes basically assimilated with us?
Mozzocco's list of graphic novels he's obtained is nothing to write home about either:
Then, Mozzocco goes on to say 2 things that give anybody with common sense reason enough to be dismayed at both him and Pekar:
Mozzocco's claim that as a non-Jew he's disappointed in Israel's conduct also reeks of offensiveness and is actually insulting to much of the gentile population, making it sound like he's painting non-Jewish citizens of the US with the same brush. Guess he's someone who doesn't take pride in being American! It doesn't take much to figure out that he's clearly opposed to Jews living in Judea/Samaria, and probably doesn't want to visit Israel either. He says towards the end:
Mozzocco's also shown his true colors at other times too, like when he wrote a disgraceful pan of Frank Miller's Holy Terror where he trivialized the seriousness of subjects like Islam, and like quite a few other leftists of his sort, never mentioned that the book features a dedication to the memory of Theo VanGogh, and probably didn't like that the story features an Israeli official as the hero's trainer either. Hey, it's not like I'm a rabid fan of Miller; of course there were some dumb things he'd done in past years. But speaking out against a belief system you feel is dangerous and abhorrent is not a crime, and by attacking Miller just for that, Mozzocco has only beclowned himself. He's also a disgrace for attacking Miller because Miller had the clever sense to condemn the Occupy movement. Does this mean that Mozzocco is opposed to Stan Lee and Julius Schwartz making money from all the comics they'd published? What's also galling about Mozzocco is that he's allegedly lamented how DC published their misogynist screed called Identity Crisis, yet he seems quite unconcerned when similar crimes took place at the Occupy movement's messes, nor does he seem particularly troubled by their connections with anti-semitism either. He also oblivious to how Will Eisner more or less slammed the Islamic world's embrace of anti-semitism, and Eisner and Miller were good friends in their time, so I don't see what Mozzocco's problem is.
And this is why I don't consider Mozzocco worth reading anymore. But it explains why some of the most leftist sites on the web want to hire him.
Mozzocco's list of graphic novels he's obtained is nothing to write home about either:
Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me, written by Pekar with Philadelphia-based artist JT Waldman (Megillat Esther), is seemingly on a subject far less associated with Pekar than Cleveland, one that can be incredibly controversial, as Israel’s history embodies a sort of perfect blend of serious life-and-death issues that almost everyone is extremely passionate about. It’s also, incidentally, not a a subject Pekar owns the way he owns, say, Cleveland; I don’t necessarily seek out graphic novels about Israel and its relations with its neighbors, but in the past few years the following have come across my desk: Sarah Glidden’s How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less, Joe Sacco’s Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza, Marv Wolfman and company’s Homeland, Rutu Modan’s Exit Wounds and Jamilti and Other Stories and Guy Delisle’s Jerusalem: Chronicles From the Holy City.I don't know about Wolfman's book, but the rest is pretty much by anti-Israel advocates, most of whom I've already spoken about.
Then, Mozzocco goes on to say 2 things that give anybody with common sense reason enough to be dismayed at both him and Pekar:
Pekar never went to Israel, despite an attempt as a young man to emigrate there (they wouldn’t have him). His feelings and opinions about the nation actually predate its founding, however, as his Jewish parents, who lived in a Jewish neighborhood (in the 1930s and ’40s, Cleveland had a population of about 85,000 Jews, and Yiddish was spoken on the streets of their neighborhoods rather than English), followed closely the events of the diaspora in Europe and the Middle East.So let me see, Pekar never actually traveled to Israel, making his arguments far less credible. I don't know if he really had trouble with immigration officials for Israel (I wouldn't be surprised if he weren't being very truthful there either), but that wouldn't prevent him so easily from coming here (unless maybe authorities suspected he was planning on participating with anti-Israel activists and balked at providing him with immediate citizenship?), and he could've come here on a tour vacation if he'd wanted to. But I guess he wouldn't fork out the air fare needed, showing just how cheap he must've been.
As a gentile American in the 21st century, it’s not all that difficult to find things to be disappointed in when it comes to the conduct of the state of Israel, but Pekar’s disappointments predate, say, the Second Intifada of 2000-2005, but go all the way back to the aftermath of the 1967 war and the beginnings of the controversial settlements programs … which still continue.
Mozzocco's claim that as a non-Jew he's disappointed in Israel's conduct also reeks of offensiveness and is actually insulting to much of the gentile population, making it sound like he's painting non-Jewish citizens of the US with the same brush. Guess he's someone who doesn't take pride in being American! It doesn't take much to figure out that he's clearly opposed to Jews living in Judea/Samaria, and probably doesn't want to visit Israel either. He says towards the end:
It would have been nice if Israel and its neighbors could have solved some of their most pressing problems before the end of Pekar’s life, if he could have seen at least a glimmer of the Israel his parents dreamed of when he was a kid. But then, there are a lot of things one wishes might have happened before Pekar passed away.I'm not sure it's clear what kind of Israel Pekar himself thought his parents wanted; after all, he basically rejected their visions circa the late 70s. And the problems Mozzocco clearly has no comprehension of center around the Koran's vision of the Jews: that they're "sons of monkeys and pigs" and that it's acceptable to commit murder of a Jew in the name of the Koran/Hadith. These beliefs also apply to other infidels/kuffars.
Mozzocco's also shown his true colors at other times too, like when he wrote a disgraceful pan of Frank Miller's Holy Terror where he trivialized the seriousness of subjects like Islam, and like quite a few other leftists of his sort, never mentioned that the book features a dedication to the memory of Theo VanGogh, and probably didn't like that the story features an Israeli official as the hero's trainer either. Hey, it's not like I'm a rabid fan of Miller; of course there were some dumb things he'd done in past years. But speaking out against a belief system you feel is dangerous and abhorrent is not a crime, and by attacking Miller just for that, Mozzocco has only beclowned himself. He's also a disgrace for attacking Miller because Miller had the clever sense to condemn the Occupy movement. Does this mean that Mozzocco is opposed to Stan Lee and Julius Schwartz making money from all the comics they'd published? What's also galling about Mozzocco is that he's allegedly lamented how DC published their misogynist screed called Identity Crisis, yet he seems quite unconcerned when similar crimes took place at the Occupy movement's messes, nor does he seem particularly troubled by their connections with anti-semitism either. He also oblivious to how Will Eisner more or less slammed the Islamic world's embrace of anti-semitism, and Eisner and Miller were good friends in their time, so I don't see what Mozzocco's problem is.
And this is why I don't consider Mozzocco worth reading anymore. But it explains why some of the most leftist sites on the web want to hire him.
REMINDER TO DRONES: "Satellite data show no net warming for as long as such data have been collected, i.e., back to 1979. "
Satellite data show no net warming for as long as such data have been collected, i.e., back to 1979.
Ocean measurements show no net warming over that period, either; the evidence for warming is based on land measurements. But the accuracy of land measurements depends on proper siting and maintenance of weather stations. One obvious factor is the urban heat island effect: many weather stations are located in cities, which grow warmer as more people and buildings accumulate. Thus, increasing temperatures at such stations may be measuring urban development rather than the climate. We all know that the urban heat island effect is real–”chance of frost in outlying areas”–yet the data that alarmists rely upon do not take it into account.
Apart from that broad issue, the siting and maintenance of weather stations is crucial to the accuracy of the data they generate. This was nicely illustrated in a recent post on Watts Up With That:USE THE LINKS!
THERE'S AN OLD SAYING ABOUT DATA AND STATISTICS: SHIT IN, SHIT OUT.
USE THE LINKS TO SEE HOW ALARMISTS HAVE MISUSED DATA TO MAKE THEIR SOCIALIST CASE FOR CARBON TAXES AND SO-CALLED RENEWABLE/SUSTAINABLE/"GREEN" ENERGY.
AFGHAN "POLICE" DECLARE JIHAD ON US SOLDIERS
There's been a number of attacks committed in past weeks by so-called police officers in Afghanistan against American troops, and this tragic case is the latest:
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Another Afghan policeman turned his weapon on American allies on Friday in the country's west, killing two U.S. service members in the latest of a disturbing string of attacks by Afghan security forces on the international troops training them.It should be clear from this that training any of these Islamists is just too dangerous and risky. And Afghanistan certainly can't be called an ally of the US if this is how they're going to treat the US army.
The killing - which local police said was by an Afghan recruited just five days earlier to a village defense force - is the sixth similar incident in two weeks.
The shooting happened in the far western province of Farah, said Jamie Graybeal, a spokesman for the international coalition force. The attacker was a member of the Afghan Local Police, a village defense force that is being trained by international forces, including U.S. special forces.
Graybeal says two American service members died before the Afghan attacker was shot and killed.
The attack came at about 8 a.m. Friday after the U.S. forces arrived in the village of Kinisk to train members of the local police, Farah provincial police chief Agha Noor Kemtoz said. He identified the attacker as Mohammad Ismail, a man in his 30s who had been recruited to the program five days ago.
He said one Afghan National Police officer was seriously wounded in the shooting.
Attacks by Afghan allies on international troops have escalated this year, killing at least 36 foreign troops and raising questions about the strategy to train national police and soldiers to take over security and fight the Taliban after most foreign troops leave by the end of 2014.
PEACE NOW IS UPSET THAT IDF COMMANDER SUPPORTS ISRAELI SOVEREIGNTY OVER ITS OWN LANDMARKS
So the head of the anti-Israel Peace Now movement is up in arms over an army official named Shai Hazut's belief that Israel should be maintaining sovereignty over the Cave of Patriarches in Hebron, one of Israel's very own historical landmarks:
Peace Now on Thursday complained to the Defense Ministry about public comments an IDF commander made in support of Israeli sovereignty over the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron.The only person politicizing this whole case is Oppenheimer himself. Hazut was simply stating fact, and this disgrace of a leftist is trying to police his dialogue.
It also took issue with the IDF’s decision to hold a ceremony Wednesday at the Cave of the Patriarchs for the incoming commander of the IDF Judea Brigade, Avi Balut, and the outgoing commander, Shai Hazut. It noted that in the past the ceremony had been held in the nearby brigade base. [...]
The decision to hold the ceremony in front of the cave was made worse by Hazut’s statement at the event, [Yariv] Oppenheimer said. According to Oppenheimer, Hazut said that the cave validates the Jewish nation legally and morally and strengthens its hold on the Land of Israel.
“This is not a religious or political statement, but rather a purely Zionist and Israeli matter,” Hazut said.
...Hebron Jewish community spokesman David Wilder, who attended the ceremony, said that its location at the cave sent an important and necessary message about the site’s value to the Jewish people.And if they can hold ceremonies there, they can do the same at various other landmarks too. Oppenheimer should be ashamed of himself, but sadly isn't, for trying to dictate other people's positions.
The IDF, he said, often holds ceremonies in places that it deems to have significant Jewish value, like the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
Thursday, August 16, 2012
HILLARY SAID "NO THANKS!"
HILLARY SAID NO.
APPARENTLY, JOE IS STAYING ON THE TICKET.
APPARENTLY, JOE IS STAYING ON THE TICKET.
I GUESS HILLARY DIDN'T WANT TO BREAK-UP SUCH A GOOD TEAM...
DOES ANYONE REALLY WANT JOE BIDEN TO BE A HEARTBEAT A WAY FROM THE OVAL OFFICE???
IF DEMOCRATS DIDN'T LIE, THEN THEY'D HAVE NOTHING TO SAY, AND...
.... AND IF THEY DIDN'T WRAP THOSE LIES IN OUTRAGEOUS HYPERBOLE, THEN NOBODY WOULD LISTEN TO THOSE LIES.
MORE HERE.
MORE HERE.
BILL SIEGEL'S NEW BOOK THE CONTROL FACTOR
One Jerusalem recommends a new book by Bill Siegel called The Control Factor that researches how political correctness and how it enabled Malik Nidal Hasan to commit the bloodbath at Fort Hood, because Gen. George Casey believed that diversity is more important than security. Since when is "diversity" more important than innocent people's lives? For that, as David Horowitz said, Casey should be fired from the military.
Siegel's book does sound like a very important item for reading to learn just how political correctness is the very danger being posed to society now, so I too would strongly recommend reading it.
Siegel's book does sound like a very important item for reading to learn just how political correctness is the very danger being posed to society now, so I too would strongly recommend reading it.
WEEKLY STANDARD: IS TODAY THE DAY OBAMA FIRES BIDEN AND HIRES HILLARY?
I'VE THOUGHT THIS WOULD HAPPEN - AND HAPPEN RIGHT AROUND NOW - SINCE JUNE:
TUESDAY, JUNE 05, 2012
OBAMA'S TWO OCTOBER SURPIRSES
SURPRISE #1: DUMPING BIDEN
SURPRISE #2: ATTACKING IRAN
UPDATE:
- The Hillary announcement would be best timed to come right after Mitt's Veep announcement.
- And the Iran attack would have to come before the conventions.
WHY DO I FEEL HE WILL DO THESE 2 THINGS?
SIMPLE: HE WILL DO ANYTHING TO WIN AND ACHIEVE HIS MOST IMPORTANT GOAL: "TRANSFORMING" AMERICA.
ALSO: FIRING JOE AND HIRING HILLARY WILL MEAN OBAMA CAN SLEEP LATER: SHE'LL TAKE THOSE PRETTY DARN FREQUENT 3AM PHONE CALLS!
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Canadian Schools Teaching 8-Year-Olds There Are Six Genders, Being Forced to Role Play Opposite Gender Roles
ALL WITHOUT PARENTAL PERMISSION
From the Vlad Tepes Blog:
From the Vlad Tepes Blog:
The Newly proposed, Ontario curriculum, which teaches six genders (male, female, transgendered, transsexual, two-spirited and inter-sexed) is being taught by teaches in Toronto schools and is confusing to our children. Our precious, impressionable little boys and girls, as young as eight years old, are forced to “role play opposite (gender) roles” and even search images of Pride Week.
Go read the whole thing.The curriculum is mandatory without parental notice or option to withdraw their children.
DALLAS DECLARES WEST NILE VIRUS EMERGENCY
The city of Dallas in the US state of Texas has declared a state of emergency as it struggles to contain an outbreak of mosquito-borne West Nile virus. At least 14 people have died after contracting the virus in the state so far this year. Almost 700 cases have been reported across the country - the highest number since 2004.Yipes.
UH-OH: ISLAMISTS ATTACK PAKISTANI AIR FORCE BASE
Suspected Islamist militants attacked an air force base in central Pakistan early on Thursday, the air force said, in a brazen challenge to the country's powerful military. Air force commandos were exchanging gunfire with what an air force statement called "terrorists", hours after the attackers entered Minhas base in the town of Kamra in Punjab province.
"Terrorists" is the term Pakistani authorities use to describe militant groups such as the Taliban. The overnight assault challenged official assertions that Pakistan's military had severely weakened militants waging a violent campaign to topple the U.S.-backed government and impose strict Islamic rule.WERE THEY LOOKING FOR A NUKE? STAY TUNED...
UPDATE:
According to PAF spokesman, the militants stormed into PAF Base Minhas and in a two-way clash five to six militants were killed while one body of a suicide bomber strapped with explosives has been found close to the impact area.MORE/BACKGROUND:
In May 2011, it took security forces 17 hours to quell a similar attack on an air base in the southern city of Karachi that killed 10 security personnel and destroyed two US-made aircraft, and was claimed by the Taliban.
The military in Kamra, in the central province of Punjab, has been targeted at least twice in recent years.STAY TUNED...
UPDATE - 8/15/12: NYTIMES: THERE WERE NUKES THERE:
Suspected Islamist militants attacked a major Pakistani Air Force base where some of the country’s nuclear weapons are thought to be stored in the early hours of Thursday, setting off an exchange of fire that lasted several hours.THE ISLAMISTS WERE PROBABLY FYER THE NUKES.
STAY TUNED...
IF OBAMA WINS, THEN A GLIMPSE INTO OUR POLITICAL FUTURE IS A GLIMPSE INTO THE FAILED POLITICAL PAST
APPEASEMENT.... IT'S USUALLY POPULAR - NO ONE LIKES WAR. AND IT AIN'T NEW:
NATIONALIZATION IN THE NAME OF FAIRNESS? NOT NEW:
WE SAID IN 2008 WHERE THIS ALL WOULD LEAD:
WE WERE RIGHT:
WE EITHER PUT AN END TO IT NOW, OR YOU NOW KNOW WHERE IT WILL LEAD...
CERTAINLY NOT FORWARD... NATIONAL SOCIALISM, PERONISM, FASCISM, STALINISM AND MAOISM NEVER LED ANYONE FORWARD.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY.
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| CLEMENT ATTLEE AND THE NHS |
WE WERE RIGHT:
WE EITHER PUT AN END TO IT NOW, OR YOU NOW KNOW WHERE IT WILL LEAD...
CERTAINLY NOT FORWARD... NATIONAL SOCIALISM, PERONISM, FASCISM, STALINISM AND MAOISM NEVER LED ANYONE FORWARD.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY.
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA'S COLDEST WEEKEND IN 4 YEARS
The skies are finally clearing in Sydney, allowing it to warm up above average after the coldest weekend in four years. Today's sunshine enabled it to reach 19 degrees early in the afternoon, one degree above average, Brett Dutschke, senior meteorologist at Weatherzone, said.
This is noticeably warmer than it got all weekend, which had a 15.6-degree maximum and a wind chill of 10 degrees at times.
Not only was it the coldest weekend since 2008, it was the gloomiest weekend since the start of winter with less than six hours of sunshine.IOW: AGE AND MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE IS BS.
EURO FUTURE TO BE DECIDED ON SEPTEMBER 12TH, IN GERMANY
The Fiscal Union treaty and the ESM bailout fund are currently being dissected by the Federal Constitutional Court, with a decision due on September 12. These mechanisms would transfer budgetary sovereignty and other rights from the Bundestag to the EU government, and thus from voters in Germany—or Italy and Spain, for that matter—to unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.THE COURT WILL EITHER DECIDE FOR DEMOCRACY OR FOR THE EURO AND THE EUSSR.
EUROPEANS IN THE EU CANNOT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS.
IF THEY DECIDE FOR THE EURO, THEN - UNDER DOUBLE-ASSAULT OF FASCISM AND ISLAMIZATION - EUROPE AS WE KNOW IT WILL VANISH IN 20 YEARS.
SIGH.
ANOTHER GLIMPSE INTO OUR OBAMACARE FUTURE
12 HOUR WAITS IN BRITAIN FOR EMERGENCY BEDS:
AND IT STILL SUCKS.
AND ITS GETTING WORSE.
AND IT'S BANKRUPTING THEM.
SO IT WAS INSANITY FOR OBAMA TO TAKE US DOWN THAT ROAD.
(THE ATTLEE/OBAMA ROAD TO SERFDOM.)
WE CAN CHANGE COURSE.
VOTE ROMNEY-RYAN.
Almost 67,000 patients during the first half of this year endured long waits for emergency beds, an increase of nearly a third, according to the government statistics.
While campaigners condemned the findings as “startling”, the Department of Health insisted that A&E departments were already offering an improved service.
Over a six-month period to June, 66,845 patients were found to have waited for between four and 12 hours for a bed once doctors decided they needed to be admitted.
During the same period the previous year, nearly 51,000 patients endured similar waiting times, the equivalent of a 31 per cent rise, according to the DoH.THE BRITISH LEFT INVENTED NATIONALIZED HEALTH. THEY'VE BEEN AT IT LONGER THAN ANYONE ELSE.
AND IT STILL SUCKS.
AND ITS GETTING WORSE.
AND IT'S BANKRUPTING THEM.
SO IT WAS INSANITY FOR OBAMA TO TAKE US DOWN THAT ROAD.
(THE ATTLEE/OBAMA ROAD TO SERFDOM.)
WE CAN CHANGE COURSE.
VOTE ROMNEY-RYAN.
ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVER 2500 YEAR OLD MUMMY OF A TATTOOED SIBERIAN PRINCESS
Tattoos as complex and abstract as any modern design have been discovered on the body of a Siberian princess buried in the permafrost in Russia for more than 2500 years.
Scientist Natalia Polosmak, who found the remains of ancient Princess Ukok, aged around 25, high in mountains close to Russia's border with Mongolia and China, said she was struck by how little has changed in the past two millennia."Not changed"?!?!?
Nope.
Gone backwards.
Tattooed people used to be uncivilized savages, merchant seamen, or freaks.
Now it's prevalent with our youth.
I hope it's just a fad, but I fear it's part of the Gramscian effort [more here] by the postmodern left to dismantle Western Civilization.
SERIOUSLY: I think it's awful that Angelina and Megan have desecrated their gorgeous bodies and skin with graffiti.
I see think that about 35% of people I see in NYC who are under the age of 30 have tattoos. No telling how many more have tattoos not visible in street-clothes.
I think 95% are Obama supporters.
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
IF YOU HAD A LARGE NEST-EGG AND WANTED IT TO GROW BUT REMAIN SECURE, THEN WHO WOULD YOU WANT MANAGING IT, OBAMA OR ROMNEY?
END OF STORY.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY. VOTE ROMNEY-RYAN.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY. VOTE ROMNEY-RYAN.
ROMNEY LETTING IT ALL HANG OUT TONIGHT IN OHIO: UNLEASHES DIRECT ATTACK ON DISGRACEFUL OBAMA
Here are excerpts, courtesy of the [ROMNEY] campaign:
For the first time, most Americans believe that our best days are behind us. This is an election in which we should be talking about the path ahead, but you don't hear any answers coming from President Obama’s re-election campaign. That’s because he's intellectually exhausted, out of ideas, and out of energy. And so his campaign has resorted to diversions and distractions, to demagoguing and defaming others. This is an old game in politics; what’s different this year is that the president is taking things to a new low.
It wasn’t supposed to be this way.
In 2008, Candidate Obama said, “if you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare voters.” He said, “if you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from.” And that, he told us, is how, “You make a big election about small things.”
That was Candidate Obama describing the strategy that is the now the heart of his campaign.
His campaign and his surrogates have made wild and reckless accusations that disgrace the office of the Presidency.
Another outrageous charge came a few hours ago in Virginia. And the White House sinks a little bit lower.
This is what an angry and desperate Presidency looks like.
President Obama knows better, promised better and America deserves better.
Over the last four years, this President has pushed Republicans and Democrats as far apart as they can go. And now he and his allies are pushing us all even further apart by dividing us into groups. He demonizes some. He panders to others. His campaign strategy is to smash America apart and then cobble together 51 percent of the pieces.
If an American president wins that way, we all lose.
But he won’t win that way. America is one Nation under God.
American history has been a story of the many becoming one - uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the greatest economy in the world, uniting to save the world from unspeakable darkness. Everywhere I go in America there are monuments that list those who have given their lives. There is no mention of their race, their party affiliation or what they did for a living. They lived and died under a single flag fighting for a single purpose. They pledged allegiance to the UNITED States of America. So, Mr. President, take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago and let us get about rebuilding and reuniting America. …YEAH BABY! TELLING IT LIKE IT IS!
DOES OBAMA VIOLATE FEDERAL LAW IN THIS VIDEO?
IT IS AGAINST FEDERAL LAW TO USE BEER TO GET VOTES.
ALSO, NOTICE THE LACK OF ANY CROWD OR ANY REAL ENTHUSIASM ROUND BARRY:
Obama didn’t buy everybody a beer. . .
Rather he first demanded that EVERYBODY over 21 buy a beer. . Just like he is demanding all of us to buy health insurance. . .
And when called on the carpet to pay for drinks for everyone. . .Obama reaches in his wallet and comes up short. .way short. . .just enough money for 10 beers. . . (probably because Angry Big MAMA Moochele spent over $7000 on her Olympic outfit)
Just like Fed Government, no money to pay for things unless they
!) print more phony dollars or
2) tax the heck out of everyone
The only good I see in the vid clip is the major lack of a crowd. . . where are all the people? Probably all reasonable Iowans were over listening to Paul Ryan. . . leaving Obama all by his lonesome. . .
WHEREAS RYAN IS ALREADY GETTING HUGE CROWDS.
NEW DEMOCRAT MEDISCARE BUMPER STICKER AND ITS ANTIDOTE
OBAMA'S:
MINE:
IN 2005, DEMOGOGUE OBAMA CRITICIZED BUSH FOR NOT DEALING WITH MEDICARE:
AS PRESIDENT, OBAMA HAS CUT $700 BILLION FROM MEDICARE - TO PAY FOR OBAMACARE.
OBAMA HAS CUT MEDICARE AND THIS WILL REDUCE BENEFITS TO SENIORS STARTING NEXT YEAR.
ROMNEY AND RYAN WILL RESTORE THOSE CUTS AND SAVE MEDICARE FOR SENIORS AND PEOPLE OVER 55, AND CHANGE IT AND SAVE IT FOR THOSE WHO ARE YOUNGER.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY. VOTE ROMNEY-RYAN.
MINE:
IN 2005, DEMOGOGUE OBAMA CRITICIZED BUSH FOR NOT DEALING WITH MEDICARE:
AS PRESIDENT, OBAMA HAS CUT $700 BILLION FROM MEDICARE - TO PAY FOR OBAMACARE.
THAT'S WHAT HAS OBAMA REALLY DONE TO MEDICARE.
IT'S NOT FAIR TO SENIORS WHO HAVE ... "PAID IN":
IT'S NOT FAIR TO SENIORS WHO HAVE ... "PAID IN":
OBAMA HAS CUT MEDICARE AND THIS WILL REDUCE BENEFITS TO SENIORS STARTING NEXT YEAR.
ROMNEY AND RYAN WILL RESTORE THOSE CUTS AND SAVE MEDICARE FOR SENIORS AND PEOPLE OVER 55, AND CHANGE IT AND SAVE IT FOR THOSE WHO ARE YOUNGER.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY. VOTE ROMNEY-RYAN.
IF THE COMPANY YOU WORKED FOR WAS IN TROUBLE, THEN WHO WOULD YOU WANT TO COME IN AND SAVE IT, OBAMA AND BIDEN, OR ROMNEY AND RYAN?
END OF STORY.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY. VOTE ROMNEY-RYAN.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY. VOTE ROMNEY-RYAN.
JUST AS WE SAID: RYAN A HIT WITH INDEPENDENTS!
TODAY RASMUSSEN RELEASED THESE NUMBERS FROM OHIO - A KEY BATTLEGROUND STATE:
Ryan’s at a -2 among women (47/49), but a +19 among independents, with 50% already having a favorable opinion, and 33% having a “very favorable” opinion of the new #2.ON AUGUST 12TH I POSTED THIS:
IN A WORD, HERE'S WHY ROMNEY CHOSE RYAN: INDEPENDENTS
Many have wondered why Romney chose Ryan. He doesn't obviously help win a battleground state or a key demographic. So... what was Romney thinking?
POWER LINE:
If Romney is playing to win a close election, the traditional analysis would dictate that he pick a veep candidate who could help him carry a key state.
I thought that this gave Portman or Rubio — and as between them, Rubio — the edge.It makes me wonder what Romney is thinking. On what did he base his pick? What does the pick signify?... Looking at the pick in traditional terms, Ryan puts Wisconsin in play.But what about Ohio and Florida?Romney is playing to win not just by making himself an acceptable alternative to a failed incumbent, but by making a positive case through the force of ideas.RIGHT! And that's not just morally good, but politically and tactically an strategically sound.
HERE'S WHY:
- Ryan is the strongest person in the GOP on issues and ideas and in debates of substance.
This was Mitt's reasoning. And it is brilliant. It cuts through all the cliches and gets right to the strategy that wins elections: winning the independents.
- Independents CRY OUT for this and Ryan will deliver them.
MARK MY WORDS FRIENDS - (AND REMEMBER YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST!) - AND WATCH THE INDEPENDENTS IN THE POLlS IN THE COMING DAYS...I was exactly right and am still the only one who has posted on this.
EUROPE STILL TEETERING TOWARDS RECESSION
BBC:
AND WITHOUT CUTTING TAXES AND REGULATIONS THEY HAVE ZERO CHANCE OF GROWING.
THE TAXES THEY SHOULD GET RID OF FIRST ARE ALL THOSE THAT RAISE TIE PRICE OF ENERGY.
NO ONE SHOULD HOLD THEIR BREATH...
IN FACT, EUROPEANS ARE PREPARING FOR THE END OF THE EURO.
The economy of the eurozone shrank 0.2% in the three months from April to June compared with the previous quarter. The figures from Eurostat covering the 17 countries that use the euro followed zero growth in the previous quarter.
Europe's biggest economy, Germany, grew by 0.3% in the second quarter, helped by exports and domestic consumption. France announced its economy had recorded zero growth in the period, which was better than had been expected.WITHOUT GROWTH THEY HAVE ZERO CHANCE AT SAVING THE EURO.
AND WITHOUT CUTTING TAXES AND REGULATIONS THEY HAVE ZERO CHANCE OF GROWING.
THE TAXES THEY SHOULD GET RID OF FIRST ARE ALL THOSE THAT RAISE TIE PRICE OF ENERGY.
NO ONE SHOULD HOLD THEIR BREATH...
IN FACT, EUROPEANS ARE PREPARING FOR THE END OF THE EURO.
BREAKING: 7.3 QUAKE IN NORTHERN JAPAN
7.3? OH DEAR.
UPDATE: The epicenter of the quake was off the coast of Hokkaido in the Sea of Okhotsk... no reports of immediate damage.
UPDATE:
A POWERFUL 7.7 magnitude earthquake has struck in the Sea of Okhotsk off the east Russian coast, US and Japanese monitors say, with the tremor felt as far away as Tokyo. The quake occurred at 12.59 (AEST) today, some 158 kilometres east of Poronaysk, Russia, with the epicentre a comparatively deep 625km down, the US Geological Survey said in an initial report. Japan's Meteorological agency said the tremor was felt throughout the country's northern island of Hokkaido, but the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said in a first and final bulletin that a destructive tsunami was not expected. The earthquake caused a jolt in the Japanese capital Tokyo, AFP journalists said.GLAD THERE ARE NO REPORTS OF SERIOUS DAMAGE OR CASUALTIES - AMAZING CONSIDERING THE STRENGHT OF THE EVENT.
AND IN THE HEELS OF IRAN'S AWFUL QUAKE....
WHEN AND WHERE WILL BE THE NEXT BIG ONE?
Monday, August 13, 2012
WHO COULD RUN FOR NYC MAYOR AND PREVENT THE CITY FROM GOING BACKWARDS?
I'M WORRIED NYC WILL FALL BACK INTO THE CLUTCHES OF NYC'S LEFT-WINGERS WHEN BLOOMBERG VACATES THE JOB.
WE NEED TO RECRUIT A MAJOR CANDIDATE WHO CAN STOP THEM.
WHO COULD IT BE? HERE'S MY LIST SO FAR:
ANY ONE ELSE HAVE ANY IDEAS?
I THINK MARIO CUOMO SHOULD RUN ON THE OTHER SIDE.
PERHAPS SPITZER WILL.
YES: THE USUAL SUSPECTS LINING UP - QUINN, LIU, THOMPSON, AND DIBLASIO - ARE EVEN MO0RE DREADFUL!
WE NEED TO RECRUIT A MAJOR CANDIDATE WHO CAN STOP THEM.
WHO COULD IT BE? HERE'S MY LIST SO FAR:
- CURRENT NYC POLICE COMMISSIONER RAY KELLY.
- FORMER MAYOR RUDY GIULIANI COULD RUN AGAIN.
- OR... FORMER NY GOVERNOR GEORGE PATAKI.
- OR FORMER GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS BILL WELD.
ANY ONE ELSE HAVE ANY IDEAS?
I THINK MARIO CUOMO SHOULD RUN ON THE OTHER SIDE.
PERHAPS SPITZER WILL.
YES: THE USUAL SUSPECTS LINING UP - QUINN, LIU, THOMPSON, AND DIBLASIO - ARE EVEN MO0RE DREADFUL!
MUST SEE TV: OBAMA IN 2010 PRAISING THE SERIOUSNESS OF RYAN'S MEDICARE PLAN AND PROMISING HE WON'T DEMAGOGUE IT
MORE PROOF THAT EVERY PROMISE OBAMA HAS EVER MADE SHOULD COME WITH AN EXPIRATION DATE:
President Obama: I think Paul [Ryan], for example, the head of the Budget Committee, has looked at the budget and has made a serious proposal. Ive read it. I can tell you whats in it. And theres some ideas in there that I would agree with but theres some ideas we should have a healthy debate about because I dont agree with them. The major driver of our long-term liabilities, everybody here knows, is Medicare and Medicaid and our health care spending. Nothing comes close. Thats going to be what our children have to worry about. Now, Pauls approach, and I want to be careful not to simplify this, I know youve got a lot of detail in your plan, but, if I understand it correctly, would say, were going to provide vouchers of some sort for current Medicare recipients at the current level No?
Congressman Ryan: No we protect the program for Americans 55 and above [those in and near retirement]
Obama: I understand theres a grandfathering in.Thats why I said I wanted to make sure that Im not being unfair to your proposal. I just want to point out that Ive read it, and the basic idea would be that, at some point, we hold Medicare cost per recipient constant as a way of making sure that that doesnt go way out of whack, and Im sure there some details
Ryan: We increase the Medicare payments with a blend of inflation and health inflation. The point of our plan is, because Medicare as you know is a $38 trillion unfunded liability.
Obama: Right.
Ryan: It has to be reformed for younger generations because it wont exist. Its going bankrupt. The premise of our idea is look, why not give people the same kind of health care plan we here have in Congress? Thats the kind of reform were proposing for Medicare. [applause]
Obama: As I said before, this is an entirely legitimate proposal. There is a political vulnerability to doing anything that tinkers with Medicare. And that's probably the biggest savings that are obtained through Paul's plan.
And I raise that, not because we shouldnt have a serious discussion about it; I raise that because we're not going to be able to do anything about any of these entitlements if what we do is characterize whatever proposals are put out there as 'Well, you know, that's the other party being irresponsible...the other party is trying to hurt our senior citizens.'
That's why I say: if we're going to frame these in the way that allow us to solve them, then we can't start off by figuring out a) who is to blame; b) how can we make the American people afraid of the other side.
And unfortunately that's how our politics works right now. Every time somebody speaks in Congress, the first thing they do, they have all the talking points, I see Frank Luntz up here, he's already polled it. I've done a focus group, they way we're going to box Obama in on this one, or make Pelosi look bad on that one. That's how we operate. It's all tactics. It's not solving problems.
And so the question is: at what point can we have a serious conversation about Medicare and its long-term liability, or a serious conversation about Social Security or serious conversation about budget and debt where aren't simply trying to position ourselves politically.
That's what I'm committed to doing.NOW, OBAMA IS DEMOGOGUE #1 WHEN IT COMES TO RYAN, AND EVEN THE RYAN-WYDEN PLAN.
WHY'D OBAMA CHANGE TACTICS? SIMPLE:
WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING POSITIVE TO RUN ON, THEN YOU HAVE TO RUN ON THE NEGATIVE AND ATTACK YOUR OPPONENTS.
Message to leftists and liberals: look in the mirror: you've become totally conventional
In the old days - when I was a young leftist radical - me and my comrades used to take pride in "speaking truth to power" and fearlessly taking on conventional wisdom.
Today's left IS ENTIRELY conventional - not radical or revolutionary, and is all about conventional wisdom:
Boomers and X-gen's who think they're cool and unconventional, "with it", hip and "progressives" - and serious thinkers - should really reexamine their positions and received "wisdom".
Vapidly repeating the editorials in the NYTIMES or DNC talking points is nothing if it is not idiotic knee-jerk conventionality.
THINK I'M WRONG?
Well, there's a way to find out:
I suggest you start watching FOXNEWS, reading the WSJ and NRO, and listening to Mark Levin.
Pretend you are a juror on a case and that you're listening to BOTH sdies, the prosecution and the defense, then make up your own mind.
HEY: that's a radical idea: make up your own mind.
Bet you'll be surprised to find out what you really believe.
Another way to have your eyes opened is to take this test.
I DOUBLE DARE YOU!
Today's left IS ENTIRELY conventional - not radical or revolutionary, and is all about conventional wisdom:
- It is conventional wisdom that CO2 is toxic and causing an impending global climate catastrophe.
- It is conventional wisdom that islam is a "religion of peace".
- It is conventional wisdom that the rich have too much and their greed is why there are poor people here and in the Third World.
- It is conventional wisdom that higher taxes could help solve the deficit.
- It is conventional wisdom that war never solved anything.
- It is conventional wisdom that people who dislike Obama's policies are really racists.
Boomers and X-gen's who think they're cool and unconventional, "with it", hip and "progressives" - and serious thinkers - should really reexamine their positions and received "wisdom".
Vapidly repeating the editorials in the NYTIMES or DNC talking points is nothing if it is not idiotic knee-jerk conventionality.
THINK I'M WRONG?
Well, there's a way to find out:
I suggest you start watching FOXNEWS, reading the WSJ and NRO, and listening to Mark Levin.
Pretend you are a juror on a case and that you're listening to BOTH sdies, the prosecution and the defense, then make up your own mind.
HEY: that's a radical idea: make up your own mind.
Bet you'll be surprised to find out what you really believe.
Another way to have your eyes opened is to take this test.
I DOUBLE DARE YOU!
MESSAGE TO DRONES: ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL WON'T IMPROVE THE ECONOMY
VIA IMAO: WHAT OBAMA'S DREAM OF SHARING THE PROSPERITY INVARIABLY LEADS TO:
MY TAKE - 2/10/12:
THE ONLY WAY TO UPLIFT THE POOR IS TO ENLARGE THE ENTIRE PIE.
TAKING SOME OF ONE PERSON'S SLICE TO GIVE TO SOMEONE ELSE DOESN'T CREATE PROSPERITY - BUT THAT'S WHAT OBAMA REALLY REALLY BELIEVES AND NOW ADMITS HE WANTS TO DO WHEN HE SAYS WE HAVE TO "SHARE THE PROSPERITY."
“The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”
FLUSH ACCORDINGLY.
AND VOTE ROMNEY-RYAN.
The Bottomless Well: Bio-Production and The Future Of Energy
In 2006, Peter Huber published his important work, The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy.
The description on the flap declares,
But, running out of oil will never be a problem for the human race, because if we ever run out of fossilized Dinosaurs (and yes, that is a joke), we will simply pull it out of our asses:
In the future, I picture, we will have giant farms of Leftist assholes genetically-optimized to secrete billions of barrels of oil rather than billions of pages of new taxes.
Forward.
The description on the flap declares,
"The things we think we know (about energy) are mostly myths. A better understanding of energy will radically change our views and policies on a number of very controversial issues. In The Bottomless Well, Huber and Mills show why energy is not scarce, why the price of energy doesn't matter very much, and why "waste" of energy is both necessary and desirable. Across the board, energy isn't the problem; energy is the solution."Leftists have coined the phrases "Fossil Fuels" and "Renewable Energy" to create the illusion that we will one day run out of Oil.
But, running out of oil will never be a problem for the human race, because if we ever run out of fossilized Dinosaurs (and yes, that is a joke), we will simply pull it out of our asses:
Scientists at LS9, a Silicon Valley research firm, have been experimenting with this unlikely source of energy. The scientists have learned that with some genetic alteration, a beaker of ‘bug excretion’ can contain pure oil.Indeed, Scientists are now taking the first steps towards learning how to create more specific and productive oil-pooping bugs, animals, and vegetation:
The team's method can be compared to understanding both the chemical reactions and the machinery that are required to refine crude oil into petrol in a large, industrial factory. Modeling metabolism tells you what biochemical reactions need to take place.
Modeling the organism's gene expression tells you what kind of machinery you need. The team's method specifically accounts for the expression of enzymes, which are the molecular machines responsible for the biochemical processes of life. With this knowledge, it is possible to explore how an organism distributes its resources to promote growth and how genetic manipulation of these organisms alters this distribution. _SD
This new approach devised by UCSD researchers is likely to expedite the creation of biological organisms capable of producing high volumes of fuels, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, etc. in a fast and profitable manner.
Moreover, through in silico comparative transcriptomics, the model allows the discovery of new regulons and improving the genome and transcription unit annotations. Our method presents a framework for investigating molecular biology and cellular physiology in silico and may allow quantitative interpretation of multi-omics data sets in the context of an integrated biochemical description of an organism.
_NatureCommunications
Moreover, through in silico comparative transcriptomics, the model allows the discovery of new regulons and improving the genome and transcription unit annotations. Our method presents a framework for investigating molecular biology and cellular physiology in silico and may allow quantitative interpretation of multi-omics data sets in the context of an integrated biochemical description of an organism.
_NatureCommunications
Nature Communications 3, Article number: 929 doi:10.1038/ncomms1928
UCSD researchers have taken an important step toward the general ability to custom design the genome of organisms, in order to produce synthetic fuels, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, on a commercial scale.
A biochemically accurate model of molecular biology and metabolism will facilitate comprehensive and quantitative computations of an organism's molecular constitution as a function of genetic and environmental parameters. Here we formulate a model of metabolism and macromolecular expression. Prototyping it using the simple microorganism Thermotoga maritima, we show our model accurately simulates variations in cellular composition and gene expression.
"What you could hypothetically do with our model is simulate the total cost of producing a value-added product, such as a biofuel. That includes all the operating and maintenance costs," said Daniel Hyduke, a project scientist in Palsson's lab. Hyduke said the method has the potential to help streamline industrial metabolic engineering efforts by providing a near complete accounting of the minimal material and energy costs associated with novel strain designs for biofuel, commodity chemicals, and recombinant protein production.
In the future, I picture, we will have giant farms of Leftist assholes genetically-optimized to secrete billions of barrels of oil rather than billions of pages of new taxes.
Forward.
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