Folks, we have received a report here at the Blogs Canada Research Center, and the Perspective Naked News Department, that either Jim Carey, or Jim Carney, is about to quit.
Because of poor communication, and computer problems, we don’t know if Jim is quitting the movie business, or politics ………….!
We did note that a part of the garbled message might have suggested that it was Jim CAREY, and he was going to quit the movies to be a CARNEY…., but, once again, that’s only pure speculation on our part!
It might also have said that Jim Carney was quitting politics, but several issues arise from this news. First of all, a call to Carney’s father, Mark Carney failed to clear up the matter, since he was unavailable due to the time difference between North America and London, England, and second ………….., Jim Carney’s an American anyway, so what the hell difference does it make!!!!!!!Allan W Janssen
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What an “Asshole of the Day” we have for you today kids: Just listen to this headline!
Charlize Theron: ‘Googling Yourself Is Like Getting Raped!’
“I
don’t do that, so that’s my saving grace. When you start living in that
world, and doing that, you start I guess feeling raped.” Asked if she
felt that strongly about the issue, Theron said: “Well, you know when it
comes to your son and your private life. Maybe that’s just me. Some
people might relish all that stuff but there are certain things in my
life that I think of as very sacred and I am very protective over them.
“I don’t always win that war but as long as I don’t have to see that
stuff or read that stuff or hear that stuff then I can live with my head
in a clear space, which is probably a lot healthier than living in that
dark room.”http://www.thesuperficial.com/charlize-theron-press-intrustion-like-rape-05-2014?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thesuperficial%2FSNxk+%28The+Superficial+-+Because+You%27re+Ugly%29
Yup, that’s what it is folks, just like getting raped!
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They already know what rock ‘n’ roll is worth, so now Britain’s statisticians are getting to grips with sex and drugs in a bid to give a broader view of the size of the economy.
The fruit of their research is that sales of illegal drugs and sexual services add around 10 billion pounds (US $16.7 billion) to Britain’s economic activity each year, making up just under one per cent of total economic output.
—————————————————————NOW, FOR OUR SATURDAY FEATURE: How Many Terrorists Are There in the world?
Not As Many As You Might Think
Terrorism is a deadly, ever-present menace from which North Americans should spare no expense or effort in protecting themselves.
Or so our rulers claim.
For example, Rep. Mike Rogers warns, “The threat from Al Qaeda-linked terrorists is continuously evolving as they seek new safe havens from which to recruit, train and conduct operations against Americans and our interests…. terrorists tell us they want to strike American and other Western targets.”
It would seem that terrorism runs rampant, as the Feds remind us with each new infringement of our freedom. Which means there must be millions of terrorists out there.
RIGHT?
Nope. The same government that spends trillions of our dollars and sacrifices our few remaining rights fighting terrorists also publishes a census of sorts on them – though apparently the Feds don’t read it.
Country Reports on Terrorism appears annually courtesy of the US Department of State. And each year, it explodes the myth that jihadists lurk on every airport’s concourse.
In fact, bureaucrats at just one of the agencies supposedly battling them, the Department of Homeland Security, far outnumber them.Naturally, the enemy is too busy plotting America’s destruction to fill out questionnaires, so the Reports relies on educated guesses: statements such as “membership is estimated in the low hundreds” and “core membership is believed to be fewer than 100″ abound.
And of the 51 “Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) … designated by the Secretary of State in accordance with section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)” that the Reports surveys, the “Strength” of 15 remains flatly “unknown.”
While crunching numbers, we’ll give the Feds something they never give us: the benefit of the doubt. We’ll take the higher figure each time we encounter a range (“Reports of Jundallah membership vary from 500 to 2,000″ counts as 2000, for instance). And we’ll interpret “several,” “few” or “low” as 5, so that “several thousand” or “membership in the low thousands” becomes 5000. Finally, we’ll double our tally to cover those 15 “unknowns” and their no doubt huge enrollments.Try 84,000 people worldwide!
And remember, 84,000 is a ridiculously inflated figure – both because of our generous accounting and also because governments often expand a word’s meaning well beyond the dictionary’s.
You may recall the Feds’ contending with straight faces in 2004 that if “a little old lady in Switzerland gave money to a charity for an Afghan orphanage, and the money was passed to al Qaeda,” she met the definition of “enemy combatant.”
Five years later, a federal Fusion Center decreed that “if you’re an anti-abortion activist, or if you display political paraphernalia supporting a third-party candidate or [Ron Paul], if you possess subversive literature, you very well might be a member of a domestic paramilitary group.”
No telling how many confused Swiss grandmothers and readers of Techdirt’s subversive articles cluster among those 84,000.
That number grows even more absurd when we compare it with the aforementioned Homeland Security’s 240,000 Warriors on Terror. Meanwhile, something like 780,000 cops stalk us nationwide, whose duties also encompass tilting at terrorism’s windmill. And that’s to say nothing of the scores of other bureaucracies at the national, state, and local levels hunting these same 84,000 guerrillas as well as an additional 1,368,137 troops from the armed forces!
Nor do American armies, bureaucratic or literal, battle alone.
Britain, Europe and assorted allies aim at that grotesquely outnumbered 84,000, too.
It gets worse.
Country Reports also lists “Location/Area of Operation” for our 51 groups. Surprisingly, most of them harbor extremely modest ambitions, especially for folks who hate our freedom (or what’s left of it): they’re far more interested in their own backyards than ours.
For example, the Abu Sayyaf Group “operates primarily in the provinces of the Sulu Archipelago, namely Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi. The group also operates on the Zamboanga Peninsula.” And though American politicians suspect it of hoping to overthrow the Great Satan, it instead “claims to promote an independent Islamic state in western Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago.”
Ditto for the Continuity Irish Republican Army (“Location/Area of Operation: Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic”); the Haqqani Network (“…active along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and across much of southeastern Afghanistan”); Lashkar i Jhangvi (“…active primarily in Punjab, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Karachi, and Baluchistan”); and even the National Liberation Army (“Mostly in the rural and mountainous areas of northern, northeastern, and southwestern Colombia, as well as the border regions with Venezuela”).
In fact, despite the State Department’s insistence that “the organization’s terrorist activity or terrorism must threaten the security of U.S. nationals or the national security (national defense, foreign relations, or the economic interests) of the United States” for inclusion in the Reports, it’s incredibly difficult to see how most of these associations pose any peril whatever to the US.It’s even harder – some would say impossible – to understand how protecting ourselves from these distant dissidents requires forfeiting even one of our rights, let alone the wholesale evisceration of freedom the Security State demands.
1. Great piece of research and writing. Well-done. Remember: Americans Are as Likely to Be Killed by Their Own Furniture as by Terrorism We can never be too vigilant in the War on Upholstery.
2. The terrorists are needed to sucker the already stupid American electorate into losing their liberty. Most Americans now think terrorists are a secondary threat to our own government.
3. It doesn’t matter how many terrorists there are. The point is there will always be terrorists. They’ll never go away. There’s no surrender, no negotiations or peace treaties, no final victory, no need to ever end the gravy train of war. In fact, the more you fight terrorism, the more likely it is that you’ll just create more terrorists to fight. I suspect we’ll be at war against terror for the rest of my life.
4. And yes, by the definition that the US uses, our own government is a terrorist organization. They regularly use fear to complete public opinion and policy.
5. That is the whole point. Look at history, people in charge have ALWAYS used fear of a foreign enemy to extract liberty and obedience from their subjects. A classic but effective ploy because people are just that stupid.
6. There is a better chance I would get knifed in a k12 school here in the states than that I would ever come across a terrorist. Our president and his NSA, CIA, ETC… are a bunch of self serving a-holes looking for a paycheck. If they really were there to protect us, they themselves would be the first ones they attacked for the amount of damage their terrorist actions have done to our country and others.
7. Maybe, but at some point they may find a new bogeyman to declare “war” on to justify their actions. They got this when they found out how profitable it was fighting fascism. So once that was no longer sellable, they turned it into a dire fight against Communism which they were able to milk for well over 40 years. Then drugs became the new bogeyman. Now that that is tired, it’s terrorism. It’s not a matter of whether the terrorists still exist or not. Fascists, Communists, and Drugs all still exist. They didn’t go away. It’s just that the people don’t jump the same way anymore when the government yells “Boo!” Terrorism is quickly becoming the same thing and I’m sure they are looking as we speak for the the next bogeyman that will rekindle the effect.
8. For a little perspective:
‘Number of terrorist in 9/11= 19, number of deaths= 2,977, Number of non fatal injuries= 6,000, property damage $10 billion.’
Number of deaths for leading causes of death(2010):
-Heart disease: 597,689
-Cancer: 574,743
-Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 138,080
-Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 129,476
-Accidents (unintentional injuries): 120,859
-Alzheimer’s disease: 83,494
-Diabetes: 69,071
-Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 50,476
-Influenza and Pneumonia: 50,097
-Intentional self-harm (suicide): 38,364
Terrorism kills a lot of people in a short amount of time, but long term, there are countless threats that massively overshadow terrorism as a cause of death.
Also, if the idea is to protect/save as many lives as possible, just imagine how many lives could have been saved had the money spent towards ‘fighting terrorism’ been applied to R&D and improved services for the threats listed above. We’re talking billions upon billions of dollars, each year, for a ‘fight’ that is essentially unending, think of how much good even some of that money could do if applied to help deal with and manage other, greater, threats.
2. The terrorists are needed to sucker the already stupid American electorate into losing their liberty. Most Americans now think terrorists are a secondary threat to our own government.
3. It doesn’t matter how many terrorists there are. The point is there will always be terrorists. They’ll never go away. There’s no surrender, no negotiations or peace treaties, no final victory, no need to ever end the gravy train of war. In fact, the more you fight terrorism, the more likely it is that you’ll just create more terrorists to fight. I suspect we’ll be at war against terror for the rest of my life.
4. And yes, by the definition that the US uses, our own government is a terrorist organization. They regularly use fear to complete public opinion and policy.
5. That is the whole point. Look at history, people in charge have ALWAYS used fear of a foreign enemy to extract liberty and obedience from their subjects. A classic but effective ploy because people are just that stupid.
6. There is a better chance I would get knifed in a k12 school here in the states than that I would ever come across a terrorist. Our president and his NSA, CIA, ETC… are a bunch of self serving a-holes looking for a paycheck. If they really were there to protect us, they themselves would be the first ones they attacked for the amount of damage their terrorist actions have done to our country and others.
7. Maybe, but at some point they may find a new bogeyman to declare “war” on to justify their actions. They got this when they found out how profitable it was fighting fascism. So once that was no longer sellable, they turned it into a dire fight against Communism which they were able to milk for well over 40 years. Then drugs became the new bogeyman. Now that that is tired, it’s terrorism. It’s not a matter of whether the terrorists still exist or not. Fascists, Communists, and Drugs all still exist. They didn’t go away. It’s just that the people don’t jump the same way anymore when the government yells “Boo!” Terrorism is quickly becoming the same thing and I’m sure they are looking as we speak for the the next bogeyman that will rekindle the effect.
8. For a little perspective:
‘Number of terrorist in 9/11= 19, number of deaths= 2,977, Number of non fatal injuries= 6,000, property damage $10 billion.’
Number of deaths for leading causes of death(2010):
-Heart disease: 597,689
-Cancer: 574,743
-Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 138,080
-Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 129,476
-Accidents (unintentional injuries): 120,859
-Alzheimer’s disease: 83,494
-Diabetes: 69,071
-Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 50,476
-Influenza and Pneumonia: 50,097
-Intentional self-harm (suicide): 38,364
Terrorism kills a lot of people in a short amount of time, but long term, there are countless threats that massively overshadow terrorism as a cause of death.
Also, if the idea is to protect/save as many lives as possible, just imagine how many lives could have been saved had the money spent towards ‘fighting terrorism’ been applied to R&D and improved services for the threats listed above. We’re talking billions upon billions of dollars, each year, for a ‘fight’ that is essentially unending, think of how much good even some of that money could do if applied to help deal with and manage other, greater, threats.
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(The Indians didn’t have much luck with Neil Young, so they brought him here!)
Des hopped on a plane and did one circuit of Fort McMurray and the Oil Sands ……., then he stood before a bunch of reporters and said: “OH NO, THIS IS NOT GOOD!”
(Desmond Tutu is just like David Suzuki …….., milking the environmental issue for all it’s worth! Desmond should fuck off and go back to his own country! We don’t need the likes of him, and a bunch other people from of third world countries coming over here to tell us how to treat our land, Indians, women, children, gays or minorities!)
————————————————————————-Folks, do ya remember those ads for sexy Russian women?
Welllllllllll! We went on an actual Russian dating service and this is what ya get bunky!
AND FINALLY: Since I’m in the Solar business, I found this to be especially interesting!
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