North Korea (yes, North Korea) to head UN disarmament conference

You simply couldn't make this stuff up. The Australian is rightly apoplectic about  a UN decision  as ludicrous as Qaddafi's Libya being a member of  the UN  Human Rights Commission as he was bombing  and shelling his own people. Now the Madhouse-on-the-Hudson  has put North Korea  in charge  of the UN Conference on Disarmament. Talk about lunatics running the asylum...

Egypt possible source of deadly E.coli

Fenugreek seeds imported from Egypt, then spouted, are the likely source of the recent deadly E.coli outbreaks in Europe, say reports today. Too late for Bruce, our intrepid Sydney correspondent who was laid low for days during and after a pre-revolution visit to Egypt, by recurring attacks of what used to be called "Gippo tummy" by British troops stationed in that country.

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"I don't care what AOL said.  Real men don't fake orgasms."
Drawing by Alagram

I'll Huff and I'll Puff and I'll blow...

A more liberal  viewpoint -- widely expected when Arianna Huffington took over as content chief  after the merger  of AOL and HuffPo--  is becoming  ever more apparent, Greg  Coleman,  once a colleague of mine, whose judgement I respect, has been  quoted as saying that  Huffington does not take kindly to being managed.
On Independence Day, the site demonstrated its patriotic spirit by running an article on men faking orgasms.
Read more here. Some say AoL is set to become major liberal Internet portal.  Ya think?                        

Even Aussie redheads reject green-hugging PM Gillard

 Bruce, our Sydney correspoondent, sends this gem  which reveals  green-hugging Carbon-tax-touting  Prime Minister Julia Gillard. is being spurned  even by  her fellow redheads.

The Red And Nearly Ginger Association, which claims to represent the nation's redheads, said it is withdrawing its support because she is giving gingers a bad name. The RANGA group cited disloyalty, dishonesty and incompetence as three contributing factors. 

Why Australians Vote Green

 Bruce, our man in  Sydney, alerted us to this,  which is circulating on the Net Down Under:

Reasons I voted Green:

• I voted Green because I believe oil companies profits of 4% on a litre of petrol are obscene, but my government taxing the same litre of petrol at 27.5% isn’t.

• I voted Green because I believe my government will do a better job of spending the money you earn than you would.

• I voted Green because Freedom of Speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.

• I voted Green because I believe that people who can’t tell us if it will rain on Friday can tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don’t start driving a Prius.
•  I voted Green because I think illegal immigrants have a right to free housing, health care, education, and welfare benefits – and the right to change our society to suit their cultural demands .

• I voted Green because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves.  They need to break even and give the rest away to my government for redistribution as the Greens see fit.

• I voted Green because I believe ‘enlightened progressive’ judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters. 

•  I voted Green because I think that it’s better to pay billions to people who hate us for their oil, but not drill our own because it might upset some endangered beetle or frog.

•  I voted Green because I want to convert Australia to a ‘carbon neutral green economy’ to create jobs – even after Spain has proven the green economy destroys three times as many jobs as it creates and leads to 20 percent unemployment.

•   I voted Green because my head is so firmly planted up my **** it’s unlikely that I’ll ever see another point of view.

Why Dominique Strauss-Kahnt

Just as the New York case falters, comes news, via AP and Yahoo News, that  DS-K  faces a  new sexual assault complaint, this time back home. That would likely end any remaining hopes  he has  for the French  Presidency.  But you never  know with the French. Only one thing's for sure: they're always there when they need us.

The Psychic Poet: 'And For My Next Trick...'

 If a hotel cleaner was really
Turning tricks 
on New York's dime.

It's time  
to seek a punishment 
That truly fits the crime

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" Happy Fourth,  Mr Greenie. 
Enjoy your  soyburger cookout"
Drawing: alagram

Bwahahaha ! And a meaty Fourth to you, too

Verboten: Fireworks

Chris Wysocki  at Wyblog has  been having a fiendish laugh at a deluded tree-hugger's  "green" Independence Day advice over  at The Huffington Post.  

Have they finally gone Moonbat crazy at The HuffPo?  Naah... I'd guess they're just  temporarily high on green nuts.

Stimulating Indignation: the $278,000 cost of every job

Jeffrey Anderson at  the Weekly Standard was alert for hidden explosives in the White House economic report issued at the outset of the  long weekend. He was right: The figures reveal a cost  to taxpayers of $278,000 for  every job created or 'saved' by  Obama's stimulus. 
But wait, there's more!
Anderson further  asserts that, over the past six months, the economy would have added or saved more jobs without the “stimulus” than with it.  Compared with the way  things would have been, the “stimulus” has been working in reverse over the past six months, causing the economy to shed jobs. There's more here.

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"OK, Smarty-pants, you'll get a raise, when you've halved your carbon emissions."

Wisconsin Over the Pond

 Blogger Michelle Malkin,  on vacation in England with her family, has  landed amid a massive public service strike in which 750,000 teachers and other public sector workers are protesting a modest nudge in retirement age to 66 and a 3% increase in their retirement fund contribution (they already have defined benefits that vastly exceed anything available in the private sector.)
"Left-wing teachers around the world spend many hours lecturing their students about the need for a ' sustainable environment', ” says Malkin.  "Too bad they don’t practice what they teach when it comes to their own unsustainable demands. "   Indeed.

The Psychic Poet

,

A Frenchman was held
For trying to meld 
With a lady hotel-room cleaner.
She filed a complaint, 
But honest she ain't,
So maybe the cleaner 
Was meaner.

Strauss-Kahn case 'near collapse'

The New York Times  asserts that the case against former IMF chief  Dominique Strauss-Kahn is on the verge of collapse because of  growing doubts about the alleged victim's  credibility. You thought Parisians were rude to Americans? If he's cleared, you might think about packing body armor.