Fireguy's Blog – November 2010 Archive (14)

Portlanders Condemn Bomb Plot, Criticize FBI Probe

Portlanders Condemn Bomb Plot, Criticize FBI Probe

Patrols Around Mosques, Other Islamic Sites Stepped Up

NIGEL DUARA, Associated Press

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/25944160/detail.html

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Some residents of this famously liberal city are unnerved, not only by a plot to bomb an annual Christmas tree-lighting ceremony last week but also by the police tactics in… Continue

Added by fireguy on November 30, 2010 at 6:54pm — No Comments

Storms, not airport security, slow holiday travel ( Blame every thing on the weather. LOL)

Storms, not airport security, slow holiday travel

By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press The Associated Press

Thursday, November 25, 2010 7:05 AM EST

http://www.charter.net/news/read.php?rip_id=%3CD9JN2JIO1%40news.ap.org%3E&ps=1011&page=1

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A planned boycott of airport security scanners was a bust, but holiday travelers in the… Continue

Added by fireguy on November 25, 2010 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Science: Another Ice Age?

Science: Another Ice Age?

Monday, Jun. 24, 1974

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914,00.html

In Africa, drought continues for the sixth consecutive year, adding terribly to the toll of famine victims. During 1972 record rains in parts of the U.S., Pakistan and Japan caused some of the worst flooding in centuries. In Canada's wheat belt, a particularly chilly and rainy… Continue

Added by fireguy on November 24, 2010 at 1:08am — No Comments

CCRKBA OPPOSES TRAVER NOMINATION TO HEAD BATFE

CCRKBA OPPOSES TRAVER NOMINATION TO HEAD BATFE

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

http://www.ccrkba.org/?p=2498

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today is announcing its opposition to the nomination, by President Obama, of Andrew Traver as director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

Traver is… Continue

Added by fireguy on November 23, 2010 at 12:17pm — No Comments

Israel and Palestine: A Statist War (PODCAST _Mises Daily Article for January 13, 2009)

Israel and Palestine: A Statist War
Posted: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:48:18 -0600

The audio version of the Mises Daily Article for January 13, 2009. [22:10]

http://feeds.mises.org/~r/AudioMisesDaily/~3/FWd-hBUY470/3285_Bergstrom.mp3

Added by fireguy on November 20, 2010 at 3:25pm — No Comments

Dear Employees:

Dear Employees,

Due to the current financial situation caused by the slowdown in the economy, Management has decided to implement a scheme to put workers of 40 years of age and above on early retirement. This scheme will be known as RAPE (Retire Aged People Early)...

Persons selected to be RAPED can apply to management to be considered for the SHAFT scheme (Special Help After Forced Termination). Persons who have been RAPED and SHAFTED will be reviewed under the SCREW… Continue

Added by fireguy on November 18, 2010 at 8:52pm — No Comments

PETA: "Be Proud of Your Body Scan: Go Vegan."

The ad, shown above, displays a 'security scan' of a woman in her underwear with the words, "Be Proud of Your Body Scan: Go Vegan."

Southwest rejected the ad which was submitted to its in-flight magazine Spirit, stating it was too provocative to run in the publication.

PETA Vice President Dan Matthews predictably rejected this.

This site has been unable to gauge whether the lobby reveals the amount of donor money… Continue

Added by fireguy on November 11, 2010 at 10:32pm — 13 Comments

Oh, the irony! Look who's calling you terrorist!

Posted: November 06, 2010

10:25 pm Eastern

Oh, the irony! Look who's calling you terrorist!

Former Weather Underground leader worries about 'armed' tea parties

By Drew Zahn

© 2010 WorldNetDaily

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=224817

A former leader of a '70s protest group responsible for bombing the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, police… Continue

Added by fireguy on November 9, 2010 at 5:07pm — No Comments

Albert Einstein, Paul Robeson and Israel

Albert Einstein, Paul Robeson and Israel

by William Loren Katz

http://www.williamlkatz.com/Essays/CurrentEvents/EinsteinRobeson.php

At a moment when so many people in the world decry the shockingly senseless, destructive militarism of the Israeli state and demand protection of the sacred rights of Palestinian people, the historic relationship between Jewish people and Zionism requires… Continue

Added by fireguy on November 9, 2010 at 1:04pm — No Comments

Nssm 200-Kissinger Report

Nssm 200-Kissinger Report… Continue

Added by fireguy on November 8, 2010 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Believe in Science?

If you believe in science I challenge you to spend a couple of hours and listen to Dr. Chuck Misler's five part series "Beyond Coincidence".

http://www.khouse.org/6640_podcast/feed.xml

November 01, 2010 - Why Is Logic Important? - www.khouse.org…

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Added by fireguy on November 6, 2010 at 1:00pm — 6 Comments

Remember, remember the Fifth of November

Remember, remember the Fifth of November,

The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,

I know of no reason

Why the Gunpowder Treason

Should ever be forgot.

Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, 'twas his intent

To blow up the King and Parli'ment.

Three-score barrels of powder below

To prove old England's overthrow;

By God's providence [or By God's mercy] he was catch'd

With a dark lantern and burning match.

Hulloa boys, Hulloa boys, let the bells ring.

Hulloa… Continue

Added by fireguy on November 5, 2010 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Statists use lottery funds to buy 67 square miles of private land

Gilchrist State Forest First new state forest in 60 years

http://www.oregonlottery.org/Good/ShowProject.aspx?Project=201010_Gilchrist

There’s been a lot of talk over the past 10 years about the word ‘green’. Green cars. Green homes. Green catering companies. But what about the good old literal green? As in green trees? Well, we haven’t forgotten. We’re Oregonians, after all. That’s… Continue

Added by fireguy on November 3, 2010 at 2:00pm — No Comments

The Germany That Said No

The Germany That Said No

The stimulus pleas of the Obama administration fell on deaf ears in Berlin. Guess whose economy is growing faster.

Oct 30, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 08 • By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL

"You won’t find a lot of Keynesians here,” explained one German economic policymaker in Berlin in September. That will not be news to anyone who has spoken to his counterparts in Washington. In their view, Germany is a skulker, a rotten citizen of the global economy, the… Continue

Added by fireguy on November 2, 2010 at 7:32pm — No Comments