The Dutch?

What the hell's going on?

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Europe's largest oil company, reported Thursday that fourth-quarter profit rose 60 percent due to asset sales and higher oil prices.
Net income was $8.47 billion, up from $5.28 billion in the October-December period a year earlier. Sales rose to $107 billion from $75.5 billion despite a fall in oil production.

Full-year net profit was a record $31.3 billion, up 23 percent from $24.4 billion while sales rose 12 percent to $356 billion.

Chief Executive Jeroen van der Veer described the results as "satisfactory," noting that the company had weak refining margins in the fourth quarter but "launched new (production) projects ... and achieved exploration successes."

The damned Dutch? How is it they own the largest oil company in Europe? How could a little two-bit country like the Netherland's end up controlling a major chunk of the worlds oil, and taking all the profit from it?


That smiling little weasel is Chief Executive Jeroen van der Veer during a press conference in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008. He's "satisfied" with the results of a $31,000,000,000.00 profit this year. Thrity one billion dollars PROFIT. And You - you big giant sucker - you're paying three bucks a gallon for gas.

Damn man, something really stinks here. Maybe we should lob a few cruise missiles at the Hague instead of the Arabs. Seems to me it's the Dutch who are really putting the hurt on us, not those pitiful little groups of Arab "terrorists" hiding away in a few remote caves in Pakistan.

And I'm not kidding, either.

More Not-So-Subtle Racism

Obama easily won the African American vote in South Carolina - no surprise there - but to woo California Latinos, where he is running 3-to-1 behind Clinton, he is taking a very large risk: spotlighting his support for the red-hot issue of granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.

It's a huge issue for Latinos, who want them. It's also a huge issue for the general electorate, which most vehemently does not. Obama's stand could come back to haunt him not only in a general election, but with other voters in California, where driver's licenses for illegal immigrants helped undo former Gov. Gray Davis.

Now, the Mexicans leap into the fray bigtime:

"Barack Obama has not backed down" on driver's licenses for undocumented people, said Federico Peña, a former Clinton administration Cabinet member and Denver mayor now supporting Obama. "I think when the Latino community hears Barack's position on such an important and controversial issue, they'll understand that his heart and his intellect is with Latino community."

There it is again... the "Latino" community. Racial division at it's most basic.

This presidential election is turning into nothing more than a huge minority push to elect anybody but "the man", or in other words, another white male.

Another WND howler

Sometimes, when reading World Net Daily for the latest Zionist slant on all things worldly, Farah's headlines - no doubt unintentionally - will generate gales of laughter.

For example, one of WND's latest:

OBAMA AIDE WANTS TALK WITH TERRORISTS.
Foreign adviser's 'anti-Israel policies,' sympathy for Hamas, raise concerns

Why is that amusing? read on:

JERUSALEM – While officials here largely maintain a policy against interfering in U.S. election Politics...

A policy against interfering with U.S. elections? What a joke. Zionist interests literally own our media and control every word the bobbleheads utter.

How many of you remember that Hillary once made a comment about those "F*cking Jew bastards"? And how many of you are wondering how a nobody like Obama suddenly shot into national prominence?

And how many of those Obama zombies can put two and two together and come up with four?

Clue:
Obama is a media-created phenomena, who has received a billion dollars worth of very positive free media publicity, and because of that, appears to now have the possibility to knock off Jew unfriendly Hillary... if the media can keep it up.

But what a dilemma for the Joe Farah's of the world. Their hand-picked Hillery killer may harbor hidden anti-Israeli sentiments. That's the real "howler" part of all this.

Remember how CIA supported and friendly ally Castro turned when he got in power? Even the big boys can get fooled.

At any rate, perhaps a few anti-Israeli polices would be good medicine for America at this time in our history.

Footnote:
In eubonics, "Obama zombie" slurs into "Obama zomba". Actually, a bit catchy, when repeated to a Samba beat.

Huh?

At a recent press gathering Bill Clinton came up with a doozie while he was talking about the rancor and finger pointing going on between Hillary and Obama.

Clinton said the news media is much tougher on his wife than on Obama. At the end of the exchange, he told the CNN reporter, "Shame on you."

Shame on you? This from Mr. BJ himself? He certainly must think most Americans have forgotten his sexual shenanigans in the White House with his chubby little dark-haired bimbo.

It's an amusing line from a man who hasn't a clue about what "shame" is.

Soros At Davos

DAVOS, Switzerland:

On the first day of this conference, a parade of bankers, economists, and political officials expressed deep fears about the faltering American economy, peppered with blunt criticism of its institutions, chiefly the Federal Reserve, which some accused of sowing the seeds of today's crisis.

A parade of bankers, economists and politicians... many of whom are the very ones responsible for America's failing economy... are worried about the gravy train limping to a halt.

George Soros, the financier who made a fortune betting against the pound, went so far Wednesday as to say that the downturn would put an end to the long status of the dollar as the world's default currency.

Soros... a man who has not helped improve your future.

Said Soros:

The current crisis is not only the bust that follows the housing boom. It's basically the end of a 60-year period of continuing credit expansion based on the dollar as the reserve currency.

So how many more fortunes will Soros - and others like him - make betting against the dollar?

Soros and his ilk are exactly the kind of greedy money handlers that have helped to promote all this financial mayhem for personal gain, and quite successfully at that. Now that they've done all the damage, they're all bailing - taking their billions with them - and have the arrogance and hubris to tell us publicly.

People like that are the ones on the top my "Hunt down and publicly horsewhip" before we hang them list... when we Americans finally have had enough and decide to take some real action.

Oh Goody, Another Looming Global Disaster

A few experts are trying to call attention to another global crisis quietly taking place under our feet.

On average, the planet is covered with little more than 3 feet of topsoil -- the shallow skin of nutrient-rich matter that sustains most of our food and appears to play a critical role in supporting life on Earth.

We're losing more and more of it every day," said David Montgomery, a geologist at the University of Washington. "The estimate is that we are now losing about 1 percent of our topsoil every year to erosion, most of this caused by agriculture.

One percent a year.

To the mathematically challenged amongst us, that means that in 100 years, all our topsoil could be gone.

To those who never made it out of high school, that means no place left to plant our crops.

To those who think milk does not come from cows, but from the grocery store, it means no more veggies, no more animal feed, and no more milk.

Hope you just love fish.

Not So Bad... So Far

Well, it's 10:30AM Central time and the stock market is down about 155 points. Not bad, not bad.

My dire prediction of a greater sell-off appears to have been short-circuited by the feds huge 3/4% reduction in interest rates. That is making the rest of the global markets assume a "wait and see" attitude about how America's economy will respond to that move.

Will a 3/4% reduction in prime prompt credit strapped Americans to go out and buy? Will bush's 100 billion "assistance" package convince Maxed-out Americans to stream into retail outlets to buy yet more shiny Chinese junk? Will the two strategies working in concert steer America away from it's recession bound course?

Neither strategy - alone or combined - addresses any of the serious problems that are feeding this downturn. No reduction our government's insane and out-of-control spending, no stopping of the overworked presses at the treasury in their endless printing of more and more less-valuable dollars, no attempts at all to stop the hemorrhaging of our national treasure in the Middle East and elsewhere, no assistance to those hundreds of thousands of home owners trapped by the sub-prime debacle, no plans to return many of our lost American jobs, so... after a possible short-term boost, it will be back to the rock-bound course the ship-of-state is on today.

So far, the stock market is down over 2,000 points from it's peak, and it's a real cliff-hanger waiting to see if and when it will finally stop it's nosedive.

How many more financial gimmicks will be found and used to prop up this failing economy? At what point does the dike finally break?

Are you on high ground? Or down in the floodplain?

Oh-Oh

The American stock markets are closed today in recognition of Martin Luther King. Meanwhile a global sell-off is occurring worldwide showing losses up to 8%.

Seems the rest of the world is in a panic over America's collapsing economy, and that the bush incentive package is way too little and much too late.

Look for the largest sell-off in American stock market history when they open tomorrow.

King - as a result - will forever be tied to the upcoming "Black Tuesday".

Addendum:

Jayant Pai, a member of the Mumbai investment company IL&FS Ltd, - and others - have suggested that the declines could lead to a buying opportunity.

"The sell-off today takes us close to the bottom," she said.

Wow. Head-up-arse time. We aren't anywhere's near the bottom of anything.

A Joke's A Joke, Folks

William R. Farr, A Greeley, Colorado businessman was pretending to read telegrams congratulating this year's award recipient at the National Western Stock Show banquet, when he pulled out a piece of paper and said, "I have a telegram from the White House."

Then he added, "They're going to have to change the name of that building if Obama's elected."

Witnesses said they could hear people gasp in the ballroom of the Adam's Mark Hotel.

People gasped. The poor, sensitive widdle PC delicates. No doubt they swooned, felt faint, got all bug-eyed with shock... all those oh-so correct responses.

Personally, I see no racist undercurrent with the joke. I mean, they have black committees, black study groups, black colleges, on and on almost endlessly.

So what's the big deal?

Is This A Joke?

You gotta be kidding:

Chelsea Clinton ‘01 fielded questions about her mother’s presidential bid last night before an audience of more than 100 young women packed on the floor of the Pi Beta Phi lounge.

Other than uttering banalities like "My Mom's really great", what can privileged little elitist Chelsea possibly say of substance about her mother's presidential campaign?

Anybody who makes up their minds about Hillary based on what daughter says to a hundred or so other privileged little elitists about Mommy Dearest is just plain dumb.

No surprise Here Either

The race for the Democratic Nomination has been narrowed to a two-person competition between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Somewhat surprisingly, as the campaign has tightened, racial tensions have bubbled to the surface with the two camps exchanging accusations. Those tensions are reflected in this week’s polling data. Overall, Clinton and Obama are close nationally in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll. But, among white voters, Clinton leads 41% to 27%. Among African-American voters, Obama leads 66% to 16%.

Somewhat surprisingly? To Who? Anybody with a brain knew the minute Obama entered the race that blacks would flock to him like moths to a flame. Why? Not becuase he's black - or black enough - but because he's not white.

The gulf between the races in America is huge and growing. Whatever progress that had been made over the years has been destroyred and reversed by the race-baiting scum of all stripes. This campaign is starting to expose this fact to the Pollyannish simpletons who think that we Americans have overcome this issue. In areas where blacks are concentrated, the hatred for whites is palpable, and it has become generational.

Not only that, the disdain and disrespect that millions of Mexicans everywhere - both legal and illegal - hold for white America is real and rapidly surfacing. You can see this everywhere.

The next president - white or black - will have this explosive issue to face, and it's going to be very nasty.

Wilting Little Pansies

Sharp criticism of Barack Obama and other comments about Martin Luther King Jr. — all from people associated with Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign — have generated resentment among some black S.C. voters.

“To some of us, it is painful,” said state Sen. Darrell Jackson, a Clinton supporter.

Painful? What nonsense. How can those poor, touchy, sensitive people manage to make it through a single day? Somebody "huts their widdle feelings" and it's a giant cry-in, accompanied by the predictable demands for even more preferential treatment.

It's becoming extremely tiresome. These crybabies need to grow up and join the rest of the adults.

Those Iranian Speedboats... Again

The Iranian boat incident became an opportunity for juicy 30 second sound bites for Repub presidential candidates in the latest debate.

Here they are, in no particular order:

Huckabee:

Be prepared, first, to put your sights on the American vessel. And then be prepared that the next thing you see will be the gates of Hell, because that is exactly what you will see after that.

Fred Thompson:

I think one more step and they would have been introduced to those virgins that they're looking forward to seeing.

Rudy Giuliani:

I think an incident like this reminds us that we shouldn't be lulled into some false sense of confidence about Iran.

And Mitt Romney:

I believe it was a very serious act.

Whoopee. The simple solution was to simply sink the boats and be done with it, no threats of Hell, no promises of virgins, none of that nonsense.

Our ships have the right to protect themselves, and that's what should have happened. The "Speak softly, but carry a big stick" approach would have sent the correct message to the Iranians, no threats or promises required.

The Scent Of A (illegal) Woman

Good old Hillary.

At a Los Vegas shindig, while talking to illegals about their poor, poor plight, some Mex (in broken Spanglish) was crying about how his wife was "illegal", and Hillary Said:

No woman is illegal.

Yep.

Her view, a view no doubt created in part by her husband's lifelong passion for skirt chasing, appears to be: As long as they are "available", they're all welcome... and fair game.

What's The Problem Here?

WASHINGTON - The government is readying 102 court cases against landowners in Arizona, California and Texas for blocking efforts to select sites for a fence along the Mexican border.

The Bush administration wants to build 370 miles of fencing and 300 miles of vehicle barriers, but a number of property owners have refused the government access to their land.

On my little acre I have easements that will last forever for the lights, gas, water and other companies to put whatever they want across my land... power lines, water lines, telephone lines, that sort of thing,

Seems to me that the government should have automatic rights along our national borders to put up a fence if they want to. You know, an easement kind of thing.

Must be Mexicans - legal or otherwise - that own those contested pieces of property, and want to keep the back door wide open for their friends and relatives. Mexicans, or American citizens with Mexican spouses. And I'll bet it's one or more of those Mexican organizations like La Raza or LULAC, or the ACLU, that's fighting the feds.

If the land along our national borders doesn't constitute Public Domain, I can't imagine what does... at least enough of it to put a fence and access road on.

Let There (Not) Be Light

Now that the Federal government has passed laws that will soon ban incandescent light bulbs across the nation, it's time to take a few measures that will keep things a bit brighter.

Those florescent bulbs are fine for general purpose lighting in many areas around our home, but for places where I need good light to read or work with, they just don't cut the mustard.

So I'm buying a full case each of 40W, 60W and 100W incandescent bulbs for our future use where needed. On to the garage shelf they go.

Oh yes, the garage. I have a 200W bulb in it, so I'll buy a few dozen of that wattage also.

Those Iranian Speedboats

Those Iranian "gunboats", or whatever they were, should have been blown out of the water, period.

After the Cole incident, our ships should have the final say-so in these kinds of situations, and any Captain worth his stripes will protect his crew and vessel.

The quick sinking of those Iranian boats would have ensured that there would be no more such challenges to our ships. Playing cat-and-mouse with them almost guarantees an inevitable escalation until those morons actually attack one of our ships.

Morons? Of course. Who in their right mind would play chicken with a United States warship using a speedboat? Only a moron... or someone who was positive there would be no response.

And if those boys were positive they were safe from retaliation, there is much more to this incident than we are being told.

First?

Russia claims to be leading in the race to complete a manned mission to Mars and could land a Russian on the Red Planet by 2025, a leading scientist was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
Says the director of the prestigious Space Research Institute, Lev Zelyony:

We have something of a head start in this race as we have the most experience in piloted space flight.

They also have the most experience in killing astronauts, called "cosmonauts" by the Ruskies, because of their tendency to not pay much attention to the tiny little details that turn out to be real killers later on.

If they do launch the first manned attempt at Mars. wish them luck, but be ready for some unintended consequences.

Tired Of The War?

A revealing demonstration of faithlessness:

Israeli diamond billionaire Lev Leviev, who immigrated to Israel from Uzbekistan in 1971, has bought the most expensive new property ever sold in Britain -a $70 million home with a bullet-proof front door costing $100,000, British real estate dealers said on Tuesday.

The 51-year-old businessman best known for his diamond trading company and who is estimated to be worth $6.5 billion, is expected to move with his wife and two of his nine children.

Abandoning the land of his forefathers? Or just tired of the uncertainty and constant fear of attack generated in Israel by the endless war his people has created?

A $100,000 bullet-proof front door. The man is definitely afraid of something, like maybe the war coming to visit him on some dark, foggy London night.

Six and a half billion profit from the diamond business. You bet. Now go buy that $5,000 diamond. Help keep this guy - and others like him - in total comfort, luxury... and security.

Another One, The Optimist This Time

Yet another American president tilts at windmills:

JERUSALEM (AP) - President Bush sought new footing Wednesday to pull Israel and the Palestinians toward serious negotiations that would crown his final year as president, as revived peace talks stumbled over land squabbles and fear of violence.

"We see a new opportunity for peace here in the holy land and for freedom across the region," an optimistic Bush said upon landing in Tel Aviv.

Seems every one of our presidents has wanted to bring peace to the Middle East. They all wanted that moniker as the man who brought peace to the world, to earn that "crown" for his final year. Ahh, what glory!

Naturally, when the standing president makes his big peace push, both sides smile and agree, promising all manner of effort to achieve said goal, those promises being nothing but a batch of lies.

If there is one lesson that should have been learned during the last half-century is that there will be no peace - ever - between the Jews and the Arabs. Peace in the region will only occur when one side has obliterated the other completely, totally, never to rise again.

And, of course, that will never happen.

So... the idea that an outgoing American president will ever make a difference is only a pipe dream, but damn... it makes such good press!

Or So They Say..

Michael Bloomberg, who is expected to decide sometime in the next eight weeks whether to launch an independent bid for the US presidency, is meeting leading members of both main political parties who have expressed deep frustration with the state of the campaign.

The goal of the meeting was to pressure the current candidates to end partisan gridlock.

Our hope is that the candidates of the two parties will respond favourably to this challenge.

Well, of course. You bet. Hah. That's just the line of BS put out to for our resident simpletons to digest.

The way things are shaping up, the two candidates may well be neither of the "chosen" selected by the powerful Jewish king makers that ensure that the final two candidates are 100% pro-Israel when it comes to money and military support for Israel.

Remember Mr. "I-love-Israel" himself, Joe Lieberman? When he lost his party nomination for the Senate in a stunning upset, he switched to the Independent party, ran for the Senate, and won, with the financial backing of the Jewish power brokers, and of course, the media.

Bloomberg would be a candidate that fits the Jewish presidential mold exactly... no problems. So if the "chosen" two don't make it, then look for Bloomberg to leap in... with unlimited backing. They succeeded with Lieberman, why not Bloomberg?

But who the hell is Bloomberg? Other than a multi-millionaire that literally bought his New York Mayor title? Just what does he have that qualifies him for the presidency? The "correct" attitude about Israel, that's about all.

And for you lovers of Zion, this is not Jew-bashing. It's just comments about the way it is.

The Optimist

PARADE magazine asked President Bush to share his thoughts on the best and worst moments of 2007. They wondered what he would talk about, but the President told them "right away" that he is "an optimist" and chose to describe five people who inspired him in 2007.

He talked of a mother and father who gave up their son to the conflict in Afghanistan. For their sacrifice, he had given them a bit of shiny metal and colored ribbon.

Another person he talked about was the Director of a national research institute, a paper shuffler directing a bunch of career cancer researchers. Bush gave him another bit of shiny metal and colored ribbon, one must suppose for this guy's federally-funded efforts to find a cure for cancer sometime in the next five hundred years.

He talked of an HIV positive African female whose child he held in his arms during a meeting in the Rose Garden at the White House, at which time Bush proposed doubling America's commitment to global HIV/AIDS relief.

Finally, he talked of a Cuban woman who fled to America after her husband was jailed for the "crime" for advocating democracy. she "inspired" him during a visit to the White House.

Let's look at this a bit closer. Two of his most "inspiring " moments are when he gave out a couple medals, one was when he proposed doubling the American taxpayers obligation to a global problem, and the last one was over a jailed man who - like Bush - liked to promote democracy but just didn't have a superpower military to do it with.

Every one of his examples were as much about him as anything else. Bush had passed out medals, Bush had proposed spending more money, Bush had found another democracy game player,

In a nation that is facing massive challenges, all he was able to do was talk about events in which he played the starring role.

An "optimist"? Don't make me laugh. He is a cynic - a charlatan - of the first magnitude.

Results

Obama and Huckabe.

That means the king makers have their jobs cut out for them if they want to get their "chosen" to ascend to the presidency.

That would be both Republicans and Democrats.

Huckabe and Obama. Definately not the desired results for the creatures in the back rooms and board rooms that control this nation.

Now the real mud slinging begins, fully supported by our bought-and-sold media.

Let the games begin! (again)