Showing posts with label tsunami. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tsunami. Show all posts

Monday, December 31, 2018

Headlines


A coupled-up Trump's threats fail to break the budget deadlock

Trump hails call with China's Xi, says trade talks are making good progress

IRS has 4,487 guns, 5,062,006 rounds of ammo ...

Trump threatens to shut southern border

House leader: Dems won't seat candidate in unresolved [North Carolina] race

Goldman Sachs lowers forecast for first half of 2019, says weaker growth needed to 'land the plane'

Another, BIGGER caravan set to leave Honduras ...

Google blocks Gateway Pundit from news search results

Trump lifts Turkey sanctions but Americans remain detained

Earthquake of 6.9 strikes off of Philippines, small tsunami possible

Egypt police 'kill 40 militants' in raids after tourist bus blast ..

Yellow Vests try to storm Macron's holiday residence

Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Headlines


Trump owns the shutdown. And he's OK with that

China is reportedly considering a law to crack down on forced tech transfers

NH considers holding 2020 primary -- in 2019 ...

Tsunami triggered by volcano kills at least 280 in Indonesia ...

Two months early, Mattis leaving by Jan. 1

'The worse is yet to come': Experts say the global bear market is just getting started

Supreme Court intervenes in apparent Mueller mystery case ...

James Comey: 'There is no Deep State'

Mnuchin speaks to big bank CEOs about [stock] market's stability

Facebook is the 'biggest concern' among the FAANG stocks, analyst says

El Chapo cries in court ...

Migrant ship rejected by Italy heads for Socialist Spain

Tuesday, October 02, 2018

Headlines


'This is march or die': Kavanaugh urged to hit back hard

New tsunami warning system was meant to be installed in Indonesia before quake

Yale classmate says Kavanaugh misled Congress over drinking habits ...

[Sen.] Cotton: Ford attorneys to face D.C. Bar investigation for lying

[Kellyanne] Conway: 'I'm a victim of sexual assault'

Six months before Brexit, the U.K government is attacking the EU

CA bans secret settlements in sex harassment cases ...

Update: Still zero  evidence against Kav

U.S. reaches trade deal with Canada and Mexico, providing Trump with a crucial win

Tesla's shares surge over 15% after SEC settlement

Indonesia quake: Mass grave for 1,300 victims ...

... Avenati: This [FBI] investigation is a scam

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Relative Things


An astrophysicist was speaking to a woman's club about the future of our sun and how, in about two billion years, it would become a red giant star and burn our Earth to a crisp. After his talk was finished a woman of a certain age frantically accosted him and asked him if he had said two million years or two billion years. He replied, "two billion years," to which she sighed and responded, "thank goodness!"

Which brings us to a similar news story about the Catalina Island off of California's shores near Los Angeles. Apparently this island is eventually going to sink under the ocean causing a tsunami which could wipe out L.A. ... but this could probably take up to three million years ... see: Breitbart Article.

I don't think that anyone other than the matron at that woman's club and Al Gore should be lying awake nights worrying about such a possibility.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Serf's Up

Surfer Boy
Let's investigate further Mitt Romney's remarks in Boca Raton about how the 47% of Americans who don't pay any taxes would probably not be his voters.  Indeed, this was perhaps "inelegantly expressed" ... but that should not remove Mitt's concern.  I have recently heard that, if one excludes retired seniors, the percentage of voters not paying taxes is closer to 42%.  Let's be generous and also eliminate the legitimately disabled and thus conclude that those crowding into the wagon to be pulled by the rest of us (to use a Dick Armey metaphor) are closer to 40%.  These would then be the automatic "gimme" voter percentages ... or to use a medieval term ... America's serfs ,,, with The Barry as their plutocratic liege.  This still reinforces the fact that we are perilously close to that tipping point wherein the takers control the political agenda ... and those pulling the wagon effectively become disenfranchised voters.

But to better focus Romney's concern, we must understand that there are also a considerable number of pragmatic 1%-ers (limousine liberals) who would rather subjugate our underclass by paying them off (generally with other people's money) rather than have them create mischief and civil unrest ... such as the Occupiers.  (I still remember, years ago, a liberal Wall-Street friend confessing this motivation to me ... to my shock and chagrin.)  And now, unfortunately many government workers appear to be also riding in the wagon.  This bounces the percentage of those on the left back up closer to 50% ... justifying why we have ... and will continue to have ... a divided electorate.  I honestly believe, like many others, that this nation has one last chance to start to remedy this situation before the tsunami of socialism drowns us all. 

I'm "hanging ten" ... how about you?