Animal Farm Friday Follow-up

Just can't get enough koala!

Animal Farm Friday - Critter Hitter

I certainly wouldn't call this a joy ride for the poor fella. Luckily, me made it through the ordeal completely unscathed. I'm sure he'll be keeping a lookout for fast moving Ford Falcons in the future! Bigger pics here.

Drug Money

As our country plunges headlong towards third world conditions, we're continually bled to the bone by Wall Street, and by the pharmaceutical companies. We're all doped up enough to not even care.

The coming American Apocolypse, brought to you by the GOP with a little help from the Dems

MarketWatch takes a deeper dive into Stockman's recent Op-Ed in the NY Times, and provides a little more insight.

There is a difference between nihilistic thinking, and realism, and this is it:

First, that most Americans, 300 million, are helpless, will do nothing, sit in the bleachers passively watching this deadly partisan game like it's just another TV reality show.

Second, that, unfortunately, politicians are so deep-in-the-pockets of the Wall Street conspiracy that controls Washington they are helpless and blind.

And third, there's a depressing sense that Stockman will be dismissed as a traitor, his message lost in the 24/7 news cycle ... until the final apocalyptic event, an unpredictable black swan triggers another, bigger global meltdown, followed by a long Great Depression II and a historic class war.

So be prepared, it will hit soon, when you least expect.

And we're back...

Sort of quietly.

Animal Farm Friday (belated) - Sleeve Me Alone

Animal Farm Friday - Suicide Bomber Ants

Camponotus saundersi

Its defensive behaviours include self-destruction by autothysis. Two oversized, poison-filled mandibular glands run the entire length of the ant's body. When combat takes a turn for the worse, the ant violently contracts its abdominal muscles to rupture its body and spray poison or glue in all directions.^[2][3] The ant has an enormously enlarged mandibular (abdomen) gland, many times the size of a normal ant, which produces the glue. The glue bursts out and entangles and immobilizes all nearby victims. ^[4][5]

Seriously rad! But this earlier Wikipedia entry was pretty spot on!

The Israeli settlers steal Palestinian land and resources, and then wonder why Palestinians fire rockets at them?

Animal Farm Friday - The 8th Spider Leg, I haz it!

Why BP Is Deliberately Sinking Oil

In a shocking interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on June 29th, Allegiance Capitol Corporation V.P. Fred McCallister said that BP is deliberately sinking oil with the toxic chemical disbursant Corexit, to hide the size of the oil spill. By sinking the oil before it can be collected, BP won’t have to pay fines on it.

McCallister said, “Everybody in Europe, where the standard practice is to raise the oil and collect it, is scratching their heads, and quite honestly laughing at what’s happening in the Gulf.” He added, “Everyone is looking at us and wondering why we’re allowing this to happen.”

If this is true, heads need to roll. Literally, not figuratively.

America's Energy Sacrifices

WHERE IS MY FLYING CAR?!?

Oh, there it is...

What would you do with $700 Billion per year?

Now that it looks like we don't need it to threaten China over Taiwan, it looks like we might have some extra cash to use for, I don't know, something that actually serves a beneficial purpose to this country?

“The Chinese are coming” became the last refuge of war-profiteering scoundrels once the Russians started cutting back dramatically, but this alarm was never plausible. The authoritative quadrennial Defense Department reports have always made clear that China has at most threatened to become a regional power with Taiwan as its focus. Yet that pathetic excuse for the United States's spending as much on its military as do the rest of the world nations combined seemed plausible to most in Congress who voted for massive military appropriations even as our government had to borrow money from the Chinese to cover our deficits.

Then those treacherous Chinese, both the mainland Communists and their feuding Taiwan-based cousins, had to go and ruin a good thing by going way beyond kissing and making up.

Poor Joe Lieberman is going to lose his subs.

Mid-day Mindwarp

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Why BP Should Vanish: Reason 201,093

It seems BP's Command Center has a major competency problem!

Animal Farm Friday (belated) - Get-Along-Lil-Doggie

Who says cats and dogs can't get along?

IWC Moratorium on Whaling Stands!

Hooray!

“We now call on governments to work together to ensure the moratorium is implemented fully and effectively ending commercial, and so-called scientific whaling, which have no place in the 21st century. WDCS believes that the IWC has a strong future, but not one that legitimizes this cruel, unmanageable and unnecessary industry,” says Nicolas Entrup, spokesperson of WDCS in Agadir.

BOO!

Japan, Iceland and Norway continue to whale outside of the sanction of the IWC.

FUCK YOU, JAPAN! FUCK YOU, ICELAND! FUCK YOU, NORWAY!

One important item still to be debated is the demand by Demark that Greenland should be allowed to expand its hunt to include 10 humpback whales per year.

FUCK YOU TOO, DENMARK & GREENLAND!

Obama Did What Needed Doing...

...and said what needed to be said. (But I still think he should have demoted McChrystal!)

Why McChrystal MUST Be Fired

McChrystal MUST be fired, for two reasons:

1. Civilian command of the military MUST be protected. That's what separates us from 3rd world countries. Any fracture in that foundation will severely weaken civilian rule of law.
2. Anything short of firing McChrystal will make Obama look weak and as though he has no control over his generals. This would be an exceedingly dangerous position for a sitting Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces to be in. It will also only give truth McChrystal's statements.

Allowing him to resign will not do. Simply demoting him will not do. Obama MUST fire McChrystal (but a nice little demotion on the way out would really make a point that insubordinate generals will pay dearly for insubordination!)

Animal Farm Friday (early) - Kitty v Floor

Some things can't wait.