At the beginning of the month there was a story in Reuters about distribution problems for fuel in China: China fuel crisis spreads Diesel shortages in China’s political heart, which escaped previous supply crunches unscathed, highlight tensions between the government and its increasingly independent oil firms about who should pay for the country’s generous fuel […]
From What Bubba Knows: If only the anthropogenic global warming data looked half this convincing… ..bruce w..
I’ve always enjoyed Ron Silver as an actor — but now I admire him for his humor as well: The presidential electoral cycle is upon us. That means conventions. Conventions have platforms. I propose a platform that will make the world like us again. Just like they always did. It may take 12 steps to […]
This one is a goodie. I am trying to figure out if someone is being serious here or if this is just a really good joke about the pot-bellied transvestite Elvis impersonator who is running North Korea. It includes such notables as: Korea is well on the way to the great national reunification under the […]
While the usual moonbats float truly asinine theories about the causes of the Southern California fires, another group opens up their very thin wallets to help the fire’s victims: BAGHDAD, Iraq — Members of the Iraqi Army in Besmaya collected a donation for the San Diego, Calif., fire victims Thursday night at the Besmaya Range […]
As most of you know from my earlier posts, I have been watching the stresses build in the global currency and credit markets. While most people have little idea what they are and why they are there, suffice to say in a world that is increasingly outsourcing things to each other, the exchange of money […]
Ok, I am probably an old, partially insane intelligence junkie. But I wandered across this site that is devoted to old Soviet era propaganda and motivation posters. These things always fascinated me (the modern ones from China and North Korea still do), and this site, as you might expect, has one of them each day. […]
I’ve been following the coverage (little as there is) about Israel’s strike on an Syrian military site back on September 6th. There are several remarkable aspects to the strike and its aftermath: Israeli jets flew all the way across Syria to the site in question — which is by the Turkish border — and back […]
A few weeks ago the Fed massively cut rates, essentially stepping in to free up money that the banks and large investment firms could not or would not. Most observers would expect that the credit crisis had largely passed, and in fact the press trumpeted such. In my opinion all they did was kick the […]
European Nationalism – A Growing Undercurrent
Europe has undergone significant changes in the past 20 years: The formation of the European Union (EU) as a political force, and the steady move towards a more secular progressive mind-set and society. For many Americans, the countries of Europe represent an ideal that we should strive for. Within the EU, there are really few […]
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