Shit Happens

This is the political branch.


It tells you what the news won't.

:: Muammar Gaddafi

"Speaking on a local Tripoli radio station on Wednesday, Col Gaddafi pledged "martyrdom or victory" in the fight against Nato and the Libyan rebels..."

Quote from BBC News Read more

Opinion:

That's a laugh, he won't get either. Certainly not victory, and to be considered a martyr one must be fighting for a cause, not some megalomaniac desire for self aggrandisement.

:: Reaping what we Sow

Growing numbers of naughty new entrants being stood down from school for bad behaviour are often undiagnosed with special conditions like ADHD, foetal alcohol syndrome, autism or Asperger's syndrome, Auckland child educational psychologist Fiona Ayers says.


Ms Ayers, in Queenstown for the New Zealand Psychological Society conference, said children with such conditions were quite hard to parent and often weren't diagnosed until they were stood down for being disruptive at school.

Opinion:

It appears that we are beginning to reap what we have sown. This report from Stuff.co.nz slams a damning indictment on family values.

The world is becoming a sadder and sorrier state of affairs.

:: Psychopaths and Big Money - It All Adds Up

by Phil Taylor

"Psychopaths prefer commerce degrees - that's the finding of a world-first study examining university students' personalities and course preferences. Victoria University students with higher scores for psychopathy traits tended to opt to study commerce, with law next most popular. The study of 903 undergraduates found that significantly fewer with high psychopathy scores chose science and fewer still went for arts....

Source: Running 'Cause I Can't Fly Read more

:: How the Federal Reserve Fixed America

The reality since Ben Bernanke announced his QE2 policy in August 2010 is:

    * Unleaded gas prices are up 45%.
    * Heating oil prices are up 46%.
    * Corn prices are up 71%.
    * Soybean prices are up 26%.
    * Rice prices are up 13%.
    * Pork prices are up 31%.
    * Beef prices are up 25%.
    * Coffee prices are up 38%.
    * Sugar prices are up 48%.
    * Cotton prices are up 13%.
    * Gold prices are up 42%.
    * Silver prices are up 115%.
    * Copper prices are up 23%.

Source: Running 'Cause I Can't Fly Read the whole sad story

:: Indigenous Bolivians march against Amazon road

Hundreds of Amazonian Indians in Bolivia have begun a long march in protest at the construction of a road through a pristine rainforest reserve.

Activists say the road will encourage illegal settlement and deforestation.
Isiboro-Secure National Park is home to several isolated tribes.


The protest is an embarrassment for President Evo Morales, who is a prominent advocate of indigenous rights and the protection of "Mother Earth".

Source: BBC News Read more

:: The Black Swan Is On The Wing

by Karl Denninger

“Without comment... none is necessary...”

Les Visible from “His Reflections in a Petri Dish Blog,”

“The Black Swan Is On The Wing”
http://zippittydodah.blogspot.com/

Source: Running 'Cause I can't Fly

:: It's About Time

Yes, it is high time for the world and Americans to show that they will not be subjugated by the 'fears' of terrorism promoted by the US government.

Photo BBC News

This TSA bullshit has gone on long enough.

Daily horror stories of gropings and indecent assaults in the name of the 'war against terrorism are now the norm. How long are travelers going to tolerate this?

Read this story on BBC News

Then think about this...

All air traveler's traveling into, out of and within the USA should think again about air travel.

Tourists and domestic air travelers should boycott airports and air travel totally.

If the Americans want to defeat al -Qaeda, the Taliban or what ever ghost is haunting them, the only way is for the Americans to get out of the middle east where they don't belong. All this terrorism started when the Americans began meddling in middle eastern affairs and invasions.


:: Sunday Quote

"It seems to me, if you've got 400 gangs, then you're not being very effective."

Sir Hugh Orde,
president of the Association of Chief Police Officers

- Said in response to the suggestion that an American adviser from an area with 400 gangs be able to advise the British police on violence.

Source: BBC News Read more

:: Saturday Satire

You read about all these Terrorists most of them came here legally, but they hung around on these expired visas, some for as long as 10-15 years. Now, compare that to Blockbuster; you are two days late with a video and those people are all over you. I think we should put Blockbuster in charge of Immigration & Homeland Security.



:: Another Perspective

"Another perspective on our national financial situation.... If the US Government was a family, they would be making $58,000 a year, they spend $75,000 a year & have $327,000 in credit card debt. They are currently proposing BIG spending cuts to reduce their spending to $72,000 a year. These are the actual proportions of the federal budget & debt, reduced to a level that we can understand." 

- Dave Ramsey

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