Gollywood finds surrendering difficult

Would you buy a movie from this guy?

Leslie Unger, the Acadamy's director of communications, told AFP on Friday that a group of members are in Iran on a completely private initiative for educational and creative exchange and with no political agenda."

She confirmed Iranian media reports saying the delegation included AMPAS president Sid Ganis, former president Frank Pierson, actress Annette Bening and producer William Horberg.

Uh, the problem is that these people forgot to tell the Muslims that this was about hugs and kisses and all that stuff.

The art advisor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged a visiting Hollywood delegation to apologise for "insults and slanders" about Iranians in films, the ISNA news agency reported on Saturday.
"(Iranian) cinema officials will only have the right to have official sessions with... Hollywood movie makers when they apologise to the Iranians for their 30 years of insults and slanders," Javad Shamaghdari said

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But I am sure that there can be an ass kissing ceremony arranged with suitable derogatory comments about Bush.... wait. Bush be gone. I guess now they'll have to condemn the evil Repubs...

A little music, Sam!

Mike L sent this over and since I like it and since we haven't posted it for a while, enjoy!

Dial 1 for English

Dedicated to all those all over the world who want to come live here!

A call to action

Attention! Attention! The following is a canned and standard response made whenever I find a Demo not wanting to take responsibility for the economy.

The Demos have had control of Congress for over two years. When they took over in 2/2007 unemployment was under 5%, gasoline was around $2.00 and the Dow around 14000…

By mid summer of 2008 the unemployment rate was going straight up, the market was going straight down and gasoline was holding steady at around $4.00-$4.50. All that in a short 17 months. In October the Democrats passed a bank bailout bill with no controls in it so the bankers did what came naturally, they stole their share and called it bonuses. Actually executives of Freddie Mae and Fannie Mac had been doing that for years, but since those guys were Demos no one thought anything about it.

Since Hussein’s election the trend continues with the market going down with unemployment and gasoline prices going up.

But since it only took the Demos 17 months to screw it up and 24 months to absolutely destroy it, maybe we can get back to 2000 levels by the third month of the Pallin administration. That would be April 2009.



But that isn't going to happen if all you Repubs in Washington keep on laying around like a whipped puppy dog whining that ACRON stole the election, that the Lame Stream Media was for Hussein and unfair to you and that McCain ran the worst campaign in history.

So? You boys and girls got fat and lazy and had your head handed to you by the other side who was quicker, faster and meaner. They said what you could say.... Remember the ban by McCain on calling Hussein, Hussein? They ignored the war on terror, and so did you. Think maybe a few reminders of 9/11 and what the radical Muslims want to do would have helped focused folks on the real issues? Worse, you ignored the energy issue, something that was demonstrably the Lefties and environmental wackos fault and hitting everyone in the pocketbook.

Let us face the music dear Repubs and Conservatives of all shades, you didn't man up. You wimped out big time and got your butt kicked and you deserve it, but the country doesn't. A large part of the folks out there don't have a clue and will never have a clue and it is your job to protect them. You failed.

And now all you can do is run around screaming the sky is failing. Well, it is and three of you helped pull it down a few days ago. Tell me. Any of you tell your peers that they screwed the pooch? Hell, on any football team someone will get in a team member's face when they f'up on big plays. Can't find Specter and Friend's telephone number? They are in the book dear Repubs.

You need to start kicking butts and taking names. Any of you who vote for this budget need to be called out in front of God and the world. You have veto power, use it. Be nasty. Be ugly. Start telling the truth. Get the facts out there. Call press conferences. Write editorials. Start blogs.

Show the courage you demand of the people we have sent off to war. Fight.

(The above is an expansion of comments I have written in the Tennessean.)

Think about this the next time you see a "star"

Hollywood team in Iran on cultural exchange

Yeah, that's what it said.

A top-level team from the Hollywood movie industry traveled to Iran on a non-government mission, for a weekend of cultural and creative exchange meetings, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Friday.

It a sane world these people would be run out of the country. Instead Hussein will undoubtedly be praising their efforts to surrender on his behalf.

Great gobs of drizzilng goose shit. It has been a shitty year.

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Quote of the year!

POLK COUNTY FLORIDA SHERIFF GRADY JUDD

Some 'dirtbag' in Polk County Florida who got pulled over in a routine traffic stop ended up 'executing' the deputy who stopped him. The deputy was shot eight times, including once behind his right ear at close range. Another deputy was wounded and a police dog killed. A state wide manhunt ensued.

The low-life was found hiding in a wooded area with his gun. SWAT team officers open fire and hit the guy 68 times.

Now here's the kicker:

Naturally, the media went nuts and asked why they shot him 68 times. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, told the Orlando Sentinel:'Because that's all the ammunition we had !!'

Hat tip to Don, Larry and Bill!

In case you RINO dummies don't understand

What the hell else do you need?

“Earlier this week, Secretary Salazar suggested America’s massive and homegrown reserves of oil shale held ‘great potential.’ Unfortunately, the Interior Department’s decision today may help ensure that potential never becomes reality – in the process, locking-away an American energy resource larger than the total reserves of the entire Middle East.


“At a time of great economic uncertainty, with millions of Americans out of work and state budgets stretched beyond their breaking point, responsible development of America’s abundant shale resources could be a way out of our current condition, and a way back to a better one. The Interior Department’s announcement today effectively forecloses that opportunity.”

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And I add to the dummies list all you ignorant moderates who like $5.00 gallon gas.

What cap and trade will cost you

The following is a rerun of a post I made a few months back addressing the cost of Hussein's announced plans. Since it is coming to pass, I thought you might enjoy chewing on it again.



Hussein's promise to bankrupt the coal companies may have grabbed a few people's attention. This is how it will be done.

I wrote the following on the subject back on June 1.

How much will the Senate's Global Warming bill cost us?

Well, we don't know. But we do know that the law will be structured around the cost of carbon dioxide emitted. So the question becomes, how do we measure it? (A better sentence would have been... how do we determine the amount of carbon per source?)

Here is how.

Now, if you have read the link, you know that burning a gallon of gasoline produces 20 pounds of carbon.

So, what's the cost?

In Europe, where permits to emit carbon have been trading since 2005, it now costs nearly $40 to emit a ton of carbon.

Now, if your car is tagged as a 20MPG car, if you drive it 1000 miles, you will have used 50 gallons.... that's 1000 pounds of carbon... or a half of a ton.. or $20. or 2cents a mile... or if you drive 30,000 miles a year that's $600.00 or $50.00 per month. Have two cars? $100 a month.. Of course the Demos will want a special "second car permit." Cost unknown.

For absolutely no reason other than the desire of the Environmental Wackos to run the world.

And carbon comes from many places, including when you breath, how much you breath and how fast....

Wanna have sex with your significant other?? Sorry. You have exceeded your carbon production allowance... And no cheating! And yes... in spite of what Clinton said, a BJ is having sex...

And, of course, that is gasoline. Coal is different, and will vary based on type of coal, but as an example:

Complete combustion of 1 short ton (2,000 pounds) of this coal will generate about 5,720 pounds (2.86 short tons) of carbon dioxide.

So for every ton that your utility burns to produce electricity, they will have to pay $114.40 or not produce electricity.

Can you see your electric bill costing $500 a month???

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Of course the next question is, who gets the money?

If I understand "cap and trade," what your utility will do is find someone who isn't emitting carbon and buy "their right to omit X amount of carbon."

A central authority (usually a government or international body) sets a limit or cap on the amount of a pollutant that can be emitted. Companies or other groups are issued emission permits and are required to hold an equivalent number of allowances (or credits) which represent the right to emit a specific amount. The total amount of allowances and credits cannot exceed the cap, limiting total emissions to that level. Companies that need to increase their emission allowance must buy credits from those who pollute less. The transfer of allowances is referred to as a trade. In effect, the buyer is paying a charge for polluting, while the seller is being rewarded for having reduced emissions by more than was needed. Thus, in theory, those that can easily reduce emissions most cheaply will do so, achieving the pollution reduction at the lowest possible cost to society.[

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Let's break it on down.

The cap: Each large-scale emitter, or company, will have a limit on the amount of greenhouse gas that it can emit. The firm must have an “emissions permit” for every ton of carbon dioxide it releases into the atmosphere.

First there is no reason to believe the "large-scale emitter" description. Government is always eager to grasp more power and more money, so expect to see this all the way down to your local Pancake House and Joe The Plumber's shop. And to your automobiles, lawn mowers, boats, etc., etc.

The next question is, how do you measure the emissions? I am sure there are ways, but they are expensive to do on... say a Delta Faucet or Whirlpool factory. So up front there is a huge cost that the consumer will have to pay, or.... gasp.... the factories will simply be moved to China and India and other countries that have told us to stick our man made global warming hoax in our ear.

And then we have the issue of setting the limits. Since politics are involved, the limits will reflect politics and political correctness. A chicken farm producing "free range" chickens might get X while a conventional chicken farm would get X plus 50... all in the name of good health and encouraging our practice of same....

Vehicles would be the easiest thing in the world. When you register and get your tags the miles driven is recorded and subtracted from the previous number. The answer is then divided by the manufactures "average" number, said number being approved by the government, to get the gallons of fuel, multiplied as shown above for the carbon and then taxed at whatever the current amount is.

How about an additional $2000.00, or so, to register your car???

The above is going to happen. You can write it down.

The trade: It will be relatively cheaper or easier for some companies to reduce their emissions below their required limit than others. These more efficient companies, who emit less than their allowance, can sell their extra permits to companies that are not able to make reductions as easily. This creates a system that guarantees a set level of overall reductions, while rewarding the most efficient companies and ensuring that the cap can be met at the lowest possible cost to the economy.

This almost makes sense if you were within the same industries, and if they did the same things the same way using the same equipment. But they don't.

Jet Blue, for example, goes coast to coast non-stop. They use less fuel than United who, on some flights, will fly NY to Chcago to LAX. But wait! Jet Blue is flying older (example only)aircraft than United so United is using less fuel. But wait! Jet Blue is carrying more passengers, so they are using less fuel per passenger mile. But wait! That is only true during the holiday season, United is better on non holiday....

The above makes my head explode, but it is absolutely perfect for bureaucrats.

And worse, it will stop plant expansion because no company, especially manufacturing companies, will be able to know their costs before the program is implemented. Since anything like this will take two or three years, all expansion will be overseas in countries that have told us to stick our man made global warming hoax in our ear.... but I repeat myself.

What it does is take money from politically unpopular industries/companies and send it to politically favored companies. Now do you understand why T. Boone Pickens, and his major stock holder Democratic Speaker of the House and Saver of the World and Polar Bears, Nancy Pelosi favor this?? T. Boone and Nancy P are selling wind and natural gas, both lessor carbon producers than coal.

Now, do you understand why the Democrats, including The Chosen One, have had to be forced into muttering, "I favor clean coal technologies, too."

Now we come to the money.

The profits: If the federal government auctions the emissions permits to the companies required to reduce their emissions, it would create a large and dependable revenue stream......

Initial estimates by the Congressional Budget Office project that an economy-wide cap-and-trade program would generate at least $50 billion per year, but could reach up to $300 billion. Approximately 10 percent of this revenue should be allocated to help offset costs to businesses and shareholders of affected industries. Of the remaining revenue, approximately half should be devoted to help offset any energy price increases for low- and middle-income Americans that may occur as a result of the transition to more efficient energy sources. The other half of the remaining revenue should be used to invest in renewable energy, efficiency, low-carbon transportation technologies, green-collar job training, and the transition to a low-carbon economy.....

Read the above and let it soak in for a minute.... $300 billion dollars a year is $1000 a year per person in the US. And that does include the revenues from personal licenses to drive a car.

So if you voted for Hussein today, congratulations. You have just participated in the destruction of the US economy and the world's longest existing democracy.

Be proud.