Blog of the Week of January 9, 2012   On The Slope

"SHTF Survival Q&A: A First-Hand Account of Long-Term SHTF Survival"

http://get-urban-survival-skills.blogspot.com/2011/11/selcos-shtf-school.html   [Ed.: long load] 

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~ Don’t let them eat my cake ~

~ No do as I do?  No life by example?  No teaching moment? ~

“The White House is pushing back against claims from a new tell-all book that staff kept an extravagant, Hollywood-created Halloween Party under wraps due to fear it would create imaging problems.”

“Book: White House Hosted 'Wonderland'-Themed Extravagant Hollywood Halloween Bash Before Burton Film Release” by foxnews.com,  January 08, 2012

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/08/book-white-house-hosted-hollywood-halloween-bash-before-burton-film-release/
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~ Powder Puff.  No, not Palin, you ninny.  The Itsy-Bitsy-Mittsymeister.  G’ boy. ~

“Palin: Mainstream media and Obama want Romney as nominee” by patriotupdate.com, January 9, 2012

http://patriotupdate.com/16994/palin-mainstream-media-and-obama-want-romney-as-nominee

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~Yawn ~

“Project Shield was supposed to make citizens safer. But in the end, the $45-million Homeland Security program more resembled a disaster, wasting taxpayers’ dollars and failing to make a single citizen more secure.

“The failed Cook County initiative was replete with equipment that failed to work, missing records and untrained first responders according to a report by the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.”

“Feds find failures in Cook Co. homeland security project” By Carol Marin and Don Moseley, suntimes.com, January 8-9, 2012

http://www.suntimes.com/9853704-417/feds-find-failures-in-cook-co-homeland-security-project.html

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~ Be very afraid of the people who are very afraid ~

“Freedom of speech might allow journalists to get away with a lot in America, but the Department of Homeland Security is on the ready to make sure that the government is keeping dibs on who is saying what.

“Under the National Operations Center (NOC)’s [SIC] Media Monitoring Initiative that came out of DHS headquarters in November, Washington has the written permission to retain data on users of social media and online networking platforms.

“Specifically, the DHS announced the NCO and its Office of Operations Coordination and Planning (OPS) can collect personal information from news anchors, journalists, reporters or anyone who may use ‘traditional and/or social media in real time to keep their audience situationally aware and informed.’ ”

 “Homeland Security monitors journalists” by rt.com,  07 January, 2012

http://rt.com/usa/news/homeland-security-journalists-monitoring-321/

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~ All the better to trash America, my pretty ~

“. . .the three sources of Islam—the Koran, the Sira (the life of Mohammad), and the Hadith (traditions of Muhammad)— . . . demonstrate[s] that the conflict between Islam and the West is irreconcilable.” 

See “THE FUTILITY OF NEGOTIATING WITH MUSLIMS” by PROF. PAUL EIDELBERG in  http://segalyakov.livejournal.com/6025.html

“Washington Post opinion writer Marc A. Theissen has published a list of the Taliban leaders President Obama is reportedly planning to release from Guantanamo Bay detention center — and their rap sheets just might (or not) shock you.

“The Obama administration is allegedly considering the release of these senior Taliban leaders as part of a deal to bring the militant Islamist group to engage in peace talks.”

“Government The Shocking List of Gitmo Detainees Obama Plans to Release in Deal with Taliban” by Tiffany Gabbay, theblaze.com, January 9, 2012

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/the-shocking-list-of-gitmo-detainees-obama-plans-to-release-in-deal-with-taliban/

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~ S-h-h-h.  Let them eat a bug. ~

~ Their excellencies are somebodies. ~

“The White House covered up an Alice in Wonderland-themed Halloween party staged by film director Tim Burton and actor Johnny Depp for fear of creating the wrong impression during a recession, a new book on the Obamas has claimed.”

“White House 'covered up' Tim Burton-staged Alice in Wonderland Halloween party” By Alex Spillius, telegraph.co.uk, 08 Jan 2012

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/9001133/White-House-covered-up-Tim-Burton-staged-Alice-in-Wonderland-Halloween-party.html

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~ So?  What?  Like we need another deprecative, truthful characterization?  Like - wa, wa, wa. ~

~ See?  Coulda told ya.  Even Socialists don’t want The Other Big O shoved under their tent. ~

“Socialist Party USA to Rick Perry: Stop Calling Obama a Socialist!” by Christopher Santarelli, theblaze.com, January 10, 2012

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/socialist-party-usa-to-rick-perry-stop-calling-obama-a-socialist/

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~ You give them power and it will be abused. ~

“An amendment that would ban Oklahoma courts from considering international or Islamic law discriminates against religions and a Muslim community leader has the right to challenge its constitutionality, a federal appeals court said Tuesday.

“The court in Denver upheld U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange's order blocking implementation of the amendment shortly after it was approved by 70 percent of Oklahoma voters in November 2010.”

“Federal court blocks Oklahoma ban on Sharia law” by Associated Press, foxnews.com, January 11, 2012

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/11/court-oklahoma-ban-on-islamic-law-unconstitutional/

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~ Dear Harry George Belafonte II, 

The Other Big O is like a Muslim laser. ~

“Belafonte on Obama: He Doesn’t Deserve a Second Term, Lacks ‘Moral Compass’ ”by Hollywoodland, undated week of January 9

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2012/01/10/belafonte-on-obama-he-doesnt-deserve-a-second-term-lacks-moral-compass/

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~ Ya think The Other Big O’s dilating? ~

~ Ed.:  This is a must read article. ~

“Doctors should not rely on computers for end-of-life decisions” by Dr. Manny Alvarez, foxnews.com, January 11, 2012

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/01/11/doctors-need-to-stop-relying-on-computers-to-diagnose-patients/ 

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“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” William Shakespeare, Hamlet Act 3, scene 2, 222–230

~ What goes on behind the curtain mostly stays behind the curtain.  Eh?  Mostly.  But the missy mean face thang what shows up now and then in pics is either a chicken or egg and it doesn’t matter.  Source or symptom . . . it doesn’t matter. ~

“Mrs[.] Obama: Tired of 'angry black woman' stereotype” by Associated Press, January 11, 2011

http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/11/10112993-mrs-obama-tired-of-angry-black-woman-stereotype

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~ Coming to a neighborhood near you ~

“The reasons for the shortages are complex. One major cause is the Greek government, which sets prices for medicines. As part of an effort to cut its own costs, Greece has mandated lower drug prices in the past year. That has fed a secondary market, drug manufacturers contend, as wholesalers sell their shipments outside the country at higher prices than they can get within Greece.

Strained government finances only make matters worse. Wholesalers and pharmacists say the system suffers from a lack of liquidity, as public insurers delay payments to pharmacies, which in turn can’t pay suppliers on time.

“ ‘Wholesalers simply do not have the money anymore to play bank to the pharmacies,’ Heinz Kobelt, secretary general of the European Association of Euro-Pharmaceutical Companies, said in a telephone interview.

“330 Million Euros

“Public insurers owe pharmacists some 330 million euros ($422.1 million) for drugs bought since April, Dimitris Karageorgiou, vice-chairman of the pharmacists’ association, said in an interview last month. Payment can take three months to up to a year, pharmacists said. Some are turning to patients to pay up front.

“ ‘They’re saying you pay me now, and then you’ll get the money from your social security fund,’ said Ioannis Theodorakis, chairman of the Association of Persons with Multiple Sclerosis.”

“Greek Crisis Dries Up Drug Supply” By Naomi Kresge, Bloomberg.com, Jan 10, 2012

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-10/greek-crisis-has-pharmacists-pleading-for-aspirin-as-drug-supply-dries-up.html

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~ With friends like these . . . ~

~ Youz cainst takes away my powa ~

~ Rules is rules, ’specially when their my rules ~

~ The Establishment is there for a reason.  Right?  Right? ~

“Under the resolution, the national party will make sure Florida's delegates have poor seating and poor hotel options -- as in, hotels that are not close to the Tampa Bay Times Forum, the convention venue. According to an RNC official, the delegates will also be limited in the number of guest passes they can hand out.” 

[Ed.:  The convention will be in Florida.  Double-down spanky.]

“GOP to punish Florida at nominating convention for holding early primary” by foxnews.com, January 11, 2012

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/11/gop-gives-florida-second-class-access-to-convention-as-punishment-for-early/ 

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~ FILE:  CASE STUDY OF FIMHUB* ~

*FIMHUB is a/k/a ‘Foot in Mouth, Head up Butt – the gentility of which is lost in its crude partner FIMHUA

~ This ’n’ even makes Republicans look good. ~

“Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., speaking in New Hampshire this morning, reminded her audience of the tragic Tucson shooting last year -- and also insinuated that the Tea Party, which she said regards political opponents as ‘the enemy,’ has enhanced divisiveness in Congress and had something to do with the shooting, at least indirectly.” 

“DNC chair blames Tea Party for Tucson shooting” by Joel Gehrke, washingtonexaminer.com, January 11, 2011

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/dnc-chair-blames-tea-party-tucson-shooting/307106

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~ The better truth of America’s 2012 is not in the best likely leader, but in the least likely despot. ~

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