Obama took SIXTEEN HOURS to make up his mind about Bin Laden mission.
President 'slept on it' as tense military chiefs awaited decision
Action started the next morning when Obama declared 'it's a go'
Mission delayed by one day after heavy cloud cover on Saturday night
Navy seals dodged Pakistani security to reach Bin Laden's lair.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1383010/Osama-Bin-Laden-dead-Obama-took-16-hours-make-mind.html#ixzz1LJkz0f2d
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Is political correctness infiltrating our armed services?
Richard Miniter's book Mastermind: The Many Faces of 9/11 Architect Khalid Shaikh Mohammed reveals Mohammed’s rise to the top of Al Qaeda and his planning of the jihadist attacks on America in 2001.
More than that, though, Miniter’s book includes shocking new disclosures about how the US treats its detainees. Miniter tells Big Peace:
I was stunned to learn while researching Mastermind that Guantanamo detainees succeeded in convincing prison officials to no longer raise the American flag anywhere they could see it. Each morning on every U.S. military base around the world, the American flag is raised to a bugle. But in the interests of not offending the detainees, it was stopped at Guantanamo.
Released just after the killing of Osama Bin Laden, MASTERMIND combines on-the-scene reporting on three continents, thousands of documents, reports from intelligence agencies in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and the United States, as well as eyewitness accounts and exclusive interviews.
http://bigpeace.com/dreaboi/2011/05/03/new-book-on-ksm-us-military-defers-to-inmates-hides-us-flag-at-gitmo/
More than that, though, Miniter’s book includes shocking new disclosures about how the US treats its detainees. Miniter tells Big Peace:
I was stunned to learn while researching Mastermind that Guantanamo detainees succeeded in convincing prison officials to no longer raise the American flag anywhere they could see it. Each morning on every U.S. military base around the world, the American flag is raised to a bugle. But in the interests of not offending the detainees, it was stopped at Guantanamo.
Released just after the killing of Osama Bin Laden, MASTERMIND combines on-the-scene reporting on three continents, thousands of documents, reports from intelligence agencies in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and the United States, as well as eyewitness accounts and exclusive interviews.
http://bigpeace.com/dreaboi/2011/05/03/new-book-on-ksm-us-military-defers-to-inmates-hides-us-flag-at-gitmo/
Frank J. Fleming (Instapundit) nails it.
"Don’t Worry: Osama Was Shot in Accordance with Islamic Tradition."
2012 Lamborghini Aventador
On-Sale Date: Summer 2011 (but sold out for first 18 months)Price: $387,000
Competitors: Ferrari FF, McLaren MP4, Porsche 911 Turbo S
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"Actionable Intelligence" Created By Real Men...From Paris
George W Bush-take-no-prisoner-REAL MAN, created an environment of strength that enabled us to "produce actionable intelligence" leading to "tapping" Osama a couple quick times on the forehead. While we are giving Osama-Butcher-Bin Laden a 40 minute memorial service, perhaps we can give a moment of thanks for real men like George Bush.
Following Cancer Prevention Guidelines Lowers Risk of Death from Cancer, Heart Disease, All Causes
ScienceDaily (Apr. 14, 2011) — A study of more than 100,000 men and women over 14 years finds nonsmokers who followed recommendations for cancer prevention had a lower risk of death from cancer, cardiovascular disease, and all-causes. The study appears early online in Cancer Biomarkers, Epidemiology, and Prevention, and was led by American Cancer Society epidemiologists.
For their study, researchers led by Marji McCullough at the American Cancer Society used diet and lifestyle questionnaires filled out in 1992 and 1993 by 111,966 non-smoking men and women in the Cancer Prevention Study (CPS)-II Nutrition Cohort. The participants were scored on a range from 0 to 8 points to reflect adherence to the American Cancer Society (ACS) cancer prevention guidelines regarding body mass index, physical activity, diet, and alcohol consumption, with 8 points representing adherence to all of the recommendations simultaneously.
After 14 years, men and women with high compliance scores (7, 8) had a 42% lower risk of death compared to those with low scores (0-2). Risk of cardiovascular disease death were 48% lower among men and 58% lower among women, while the risk of cancer death was 30% lower in men and 24% lower in women. Similar associations, albeit not all statistically significant, were observed for never and former smokers.
The rain and employment in Spain, stays mainly with no gain
Spain's jobless rate tops 21% as all major sectors lose jobs.
Remember, Spain dove headfirst into creating "green jobs". For every green job Spain's government created, they lost 2.2 jobs in the rest of the private sector. Obama wants to re-create Spain's mess here.From CNN:
Spain's unemployment rate rose nearly a point to 21.29%, with 4.9 million jobless for the first quarter of 2011, the government reported Friday, as the prolonged economic crisis continues to squeeze the nation.
Some analysts had predicted the number of jobless might surpass 5 million. But while that didn't happen, the latest statistics were another blow to the economy and to the embattled socialist government.
The numbers for the fourth quarter of 2010 -- 20.33% unemployment and almost 4.7 million jobless --- already represented the highest joblessness rate in 13 years.
Florida gators are getting aggresive
Eyes bigger than his stomach: Alligator chomps on police car and refuses to let go
The 10 foot long beast clamped its powerful jaws on the front bumper of the Florida patrol car and refused to let go. Video footage captured the alligator holding on to the bumper as the car slowly reverses away.
The devil is in the details
Embarrassment grows for Pakistan security forces as 12-year-old reveals even he was a regular visitor to Al Qaeda boss's hideaway
Zarar Ahmed said he used to visit the compound in Abbottabad and spoke to three children there, who gave him these two rabbits. Bin Laden, 54, is believed to have lived with up to 17 or 18 members of his family in the fortified mansion less than a mile from a military academy in the Pakistani town.
4 wheel drive M5?
- A BMW M5 with xDrive? Don your Internet fire suits and get to the forums in in 3-2-1... There's no production confirmation, but as Autocar reports, BMW officials have confirmed they're messing with the concept.
Season of Birth May Affect the Rest of Your Life
The season in which you are born may affect everything from your eyesight to your eating habits and overall health later in life, according to a blossoming field of research. The latest study shows that spring babies are more likely to suffer from anorexia nervosa as adults.
The researchers found that eight out of every 100 people born between March and June had anorexia. This is a 15 percent increase in risk for those born during these spring months.
Influential environments
Previous studies have found similar links between spring births and various disorders, including schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis and even Type 1 diabetes. It's possible these diseases are linked to some environmental influence during gestation or the first few months of life, though researchers aren't sure what that could be.
These changing environmental factors seem to influence a wide array of conditions:
* A study from 2003 published in the Journal of Nutrition showed that African-American babies born in the summer and fall were smaller than those born at other times. Also, babies of African-American and Puerto Rican decent gained less weight in their first four months if they were born in the fall.
* Babies born in the fall have a 9.5 percent risk of having food allergies, up from 5 percent for babies born in June and July. Those babies born in November or December were also three times more likely to suffer from eczema and wheezing. That study was published in 2010 in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
* Moderate and severe nearsightedness, or the inability to see well at long distances, is highest for babies born in the summer months, suggests research published in April 2008 in the journal Ophthalmology.
* Birth month might even affect your biological clock, a mouse study published in 2010 in the journal Nature Neuroscience showed. Mice born in the winter were less able to adapt to a summer light cycle, which could be related to the increased risk of mental health disorders in humans born in the winter, the researchers speculated.
* Leukemia has also been linked to being born in the spring, with a peak in April.
They hate the USA, they hate themselves.
Liberals Sickened by 'USA! USA!' Chants
'USA! USA!' Is the Wrong Response
...But in the years since 9/11, we have begun vaguely mimicking those we say we despise, sometimes celebrating bloodshed against those we see as Bad Guys just as vigorously as our enemies celebrate bloodshed against innocent Americans they (wrongly) deem as Bad Guys. Indeed, an America that once carefully refrained from flaunting gruesome pictures of our victims for fear of engaging in ugly death euphoria now ogles pictures of Uday and Qusay’s corpses, rejoices over images of Saddam Hussein’s hanging and throws a party at news that bin Laden was shot in the head. Read more at salon.com.
Average Gas Price Poised To Hit $4 A Gallon This Week
The psychological price-point of $4 a gallon is looming straight ahead, and will likely be hit before the end of the week, based on the rate of recent price escalation. The national average price of self-serve regular today is $3.967 a gallon, according to AAA's Fuel Gauge Survey. That's nearly a dime a gallon more than seven days ago.
Already, motorists in many parts of the country are paying well in excess of $4 a gallon. For example, the average price of gas has hit an all time high in Chicago, $4.39 a gallon. The average price is over $4 a gallon now in 14 states; Alaska, California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Washington, Wisconsin and West Virginia.
Pakistan compound custom built for OBL
source: US Government Believes Pakistan Compound was Built Specifically for Bin Laden
Sources tell ABC News that administration officials believe Osama bin Laden had been living at the Abbottabad, Pakistan compound for years, with one senior administration source even suggesting the compound was specifically built in 2005 for the al Qaeda leader.
That this compound was constructed in the neighborhood of former Pakistani military officials and a local military academy is of course calling into question the participation of the local – if not national – government.
“It’s inconceivable that bin Laden did not have a support system in the country that allowed him to remain there for an extended period of time,” said White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan on Monday.
Thoughts on a recent wedding
Cool wedding, hot marital sex, and some thoughts about What Husbands Want
Somebody referred to the royal wedding as "chick crack." I think it was. I keep hearing about the hats, and I have learned over the years that hats and shoes are crack to females even though guys rarely notice them. Here are some good clips from the pageant.
It doesn't take much to keep a guy happily married: lots of sex fun, decent and abundant meals made with love if not with expertise, letting him have his alone time, no nagging about his many flaws, some interesting conversation, no inquiring about his "feelings," and otherwise just generally appreciating his unique wonderfulness. Create a beautiful life for him to live in, and make home a soft, loving haven without the negativity and hassles of life out there. That's all we ask for, ladies. Without those things, our lives aren't very pleasant.
Maybe they should become Americans…
American Muslims Angry Americans Are Dancing in the Streets
At a Monday morning press conference, Muslim-American leaders reiterated their contention that Osama bin Laden never represented Islam but cautioned America against continuing to use violence in Islamic lands.
...Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, deputy committee member on the Council of Muslim Organizations of Washington, D.C., reminded the audience that despite bin Laden’s evil, Americans should not respond to his death with jubilation.
SEALs and tattoos
Dick Couch, former SEAL and honorman of his BUD/S class, says there's no way to predict at the outset who will survive the rigorous training and eventually become a SEAL. One common quality among those who do: They never quit unless killed.
Couch says there's also no foolproof way of predicting who will drop out of SEAL training, but notes that in his experience the best predictor is, for some reason, the presence of tattoos on the candidate.
Stagflation. Gov’t is cooking the numbers.
... the reason the CPI is losing credibility is that, as economist John Williams tirelessly points out, it's a bogus index. The way inflation is calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been "improved" 24 times since 1978. If the old methods were still used, the CPI would actually be 10 percent. Yes, folks, double-digit inflation is back. Pretty soon you'll be able to figure out the real inflation rate just by moving the decimal point in the core CPI one place to the right.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner say: "Our policy has been and will always be ... that a strong dollar is in the interest of the country." Fact: the dollar has depreciated relative to other currencies by 17 percent since 2009.
Happy 400th Birthday to the King James Bible -- The Most Influential Book in the English Language
The poetic power of the King James Bible is part of our heritage. Around the world people have been comforted by the words, “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.” They have been challenged by, “Be strong and of good courage.” They have celebrated with the proclamation, “Fear not . . . For unto you is born in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.”
Elizabeth I, who reigned from 1558 to 1603, sought to bring peace among religious factions. But more importantly for our story, varied creative forces came together then to form the most splendid age in English literature. James VI of Scotland was a product of this season of creativity. When James VI became king of all Great Britain and Ireland in 1603, he called a conference to try to settle differences between Anglicans and Puritans. Out of this conference came the decision to create a new translation of the Bible.
Fifty-four scholars labored nearly seven years. In spite of its title page saying that the KJV was “newly translated,” the committees were instructed to follow the Bishops’ Bible when possible. Because the Bishops’ Bible depended on the work of Tyndale, more than 80% of the KJV is Tyndale’s wording. The KJV was published in 1611 and within 50 years it was the dominant English translation of the Bible—a position it held for 300 years.
Canada's Conservatives Win Majority .
Canada's Conservative party won a long-elusive majority in federal parliamentary elections Monday, securing another term for Prime Minister Stephen Harper and elevating the left-leaning New Democratic Party ahead of the more-established Liberal party for the first time to second place, according to preliminary results.
Mr. Harper framed the campaign as a referendum on his economic track record—insisting it was a chance for voters to further solidify the country's nascent economic recovery with a stable, majority Conservative government after five years of minority Tory rule.
Tax facts for those who think the rich aren't paying enough
Also, while the U.S. income tax system might be more progressive, the nation's overall social safety-net system has been less generous than many European countries, according to many experts. The tax debate comes as Washington weighs a range of options for cutting budget deficits.
Upper-income taxpayers have paid a growing share of the federal tax burden over the last 25 years.
A 2008 study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, for example, found that the highest-earning 10% of the U.S. population paid the largest share among 24 countries examined, even after adjusting for their relatively higher incomes. "Taxation is most progressively distributed in the United States," the OECD study concluded.
Meanwhile, the percentage of U.S. households paying no federal income tax has been climbing, and reached 51% for 2009, according to a new analysis by the Joint Committee on Taxation. That was the first time since at least 1992 that more than half of households owed no federal income tax, according to JCT estimates.; earlier data were unavailable on Monday.
Follow up to an international bride murder
Shrien Dewani's 'confession'
British businessman needed to "find a way out of'' marriage, court in South Africa hears.
Gas prices set record in Chicago
U.S. gasoline prices surged ever closer to the $4-a-gallon threshold in the latest week, placing more pressure on lawmakers to show voters they are working to provide relief at the pump.
In Chicago, the average price for a gallon of gasoline jumped 10 cents to hit $4.352 over the past week, the Energy Department said. That exceeds the city's all-time high of $4.303 set on July 7, 2008.
Reality has never been their strong suit.
Bin Laden’s Online Fan Club Fumes at Death Reports
Osama bin Laden’s death prompted Americans to pop champagne corks and party in flash mobs at the White House. His supporters on the internet had an altogether different response: anger, silence and suspended belief.
“As a cover-up to its catalog of failures, the enemy always tries to distract the attention of not only the supporters of the Jihad and the Mujahedeen,” cries Abu Ali Assadiq, one moderator of the Somalia-oriented jihadi forum Al-Qimmah.
Reports of Bin Laden’s demise are “a new barefaced lie that happens to be proved wrong in no time at all,” Assadiq adds. “So, we would like to inform our brothers not to go into discussion about the current rumors till an official statement from the Mujahedeen themselves.”
For your morning consideration.
Hot stuff: The metal coffee beans that keep your drink warm for hours
The beans, called Coffee Joulies, cool down your beverage to a drinkable temperature three times faster than normal, and then maintain that temperature. They work by absorbing extra thermal energy in the drink when it's too hot, and then releasing that stored energy back into the drink to keep it at an optimum temperature as it begins to cool down.
This will go on for a while
Bin Laden Death Ignites Wild Conspiracy Theories
Within hours of the raid on Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound, the CIA had used 21st technology to get "a virtually 100 percent DNA match" on the dead man. But something out of another century may come back to haunt the United States: the al-Qaida leader's burial at sea.
Conspiracy theorists on the left and right were quick to insist bin Laden was either still alive or had been dead for years, pouncing on the government's decision to slide the body of the world's most wanted man off a board into the Arabian Sea.
APThe dumbest headline of the day
Has to be this one from the LA Times:
Osama bin Laden dead: Yes, SEALs were in on the raid, but aides hail Obama’s office bravery
“Office bravery”? Really? Were they surrounded by copiers bent on global domination?
“Minutes passed like days,” says John Brennan, who bravely stood with press secretary Jay Carney before reporters and TV cameras today chronicling his boss’ weekend heroics.
Obama “heroically” watched as the real heroes did the deed. Lots of brave “standing around” going on. I know that the strike team was given great comfort by this degree of standing bravely.
Sounds like a script from a Monty Python movie.
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Tea Party comes to Canada
Canada Goes Conservative in a Big Way
Sea change.
It’s a big win for Prime Minister Stephen Harper as conservatives rout liberals in Canada’s parliament and take 164 of 308 seats:
The Conservatives have finally captured their elusive majority government in tonight’s federal election with the NDP taking its historic place as official opposition, pushing aside the Liberals to a humiliating third place finish.
It is the first time in Canadian history that the Liberal party did not finish either first or second.
Harper’s winning campaign was centered on taxes:
Harper campaigned on a message that the New Democrats stood for higher taxes, higher spending, higher prices and protectionism. He called the election a choice between “a Conservative majority” and “a ramshackle coalition led by the NDP that will not last but will do a lot of destruction.”
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