Weather Forecast: Blackhawks at low altitude.

Where's my aluminium foil hat dammit!

A few snippets from operation Jade Helm that popped out at me.

JH is a challenging eight week joint military and interagency* unconventional warfare exercise conducted throughout Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado.

RED: Hostile  (See the map.  The entire state of Texas, because we are well armed? I take personal offense frankly.)

Personnel may be carrying weapons with blank ammo .**
Some participants will be wearing civilian attire and driving civilian vehicles

Wearing civilian clothes...weapons with blank ammo. Hmmm.  Do be careful boys. See parenthetical comment at "RED: Hostile"  I jest of course.







* Die Polizei, i.e. the local Po Po.
** That can be read two ways.

All snark aside, exercises such as this only apply to one theater of operation.

Stupid Party Convention next week

Libtard Convention follows.  Is this necessary this year? Is there any doubt about who the candidates are?  We'll just have to wait and see. Maybe crazy Uncle Paul has on last trick up his sleeve and is going to pull off a stunning coup.
I jest.  
Although, Uncle Slow Joe Biden is planning on attending the RNC. WTF? Oh, wait, it is the Stupid Party Convention.   Could be some kind of conspiracy here.
I've seen a number of theories on why Biden is headed to Tampa. Considering what a dumbshit that guy is, most of them make no sense.
The one that does make sense creeps me out.
Nah you say, could never happen.
We've never had a full blown Communist in the White House either.

From here, you can see Mexico

This is "The Window" in Big Bend State Park. It is said, that on a clear day, you can see 200 miles into Mexico.  Been there. A very memorable trip, but that's a whole nuther post, as they say.

From here, you can see something much more nefarious.  From here you can see the underlying Lie of Fast and Furious.

This is the sign, purportedly made from weapons illegally exported to Mexico from the U.S. (courtesy of the ATFB, FBI and DEA btw)

The lie your Federal Government via the main stream media told you?
"The Mexican Government knew nothing of operation fast and furious".
I don't think the Mexican peasants of Mestizo decent along the border put this sign together.
Not much you can count on these days, but at least the Mexican government is keeping their part of the bargain in Obummer and Holders's little gun grab.

Pissed had a post that made me go..hey, wait a second.  "Automatic" weapons? From the U.S.?
I could blather on, but I'll just close with the comment I left at The Feral Irishman.

Supposedly, the Mexican government knew nothing about the fast and furious operation. Holder et.al. are still trying to salvage the underlying goal of the operation, which was another "assault weapons" ban. This sign puts the lie to the Mexican government's ignorance of the operation.
As a Cartel gun buyer, why would you buy semi-auto weapons from the U.S., when you can get the full auto versions dropped by boat anywhere along the thousands of miles of Mexican coastline from the myriad of shithole countries on this planet?
This is Holder's Hail Mary pass.

The more light shed upon this, the better.

Oh, yeah...I almost forgot

The world is supposed to end...again.  This coming December.
The Mayan Calendar is round. Even if you carved really really really small symbols, eventually you will run out of circle.  Considering how long ago this calendar was carved, it's a safe bet when the Mayan stone carvers ran out of circle, they figured it was Miller Time and they wouldn't have to worry about the calendar again in their lifetimes.
Then, the Spanish showed up and offered to smuggle them through Mexico to high paying jobs the Gringos were offering, off the books, cash..no really, the streets are paved in Gold. (Ok, I'm paraphrasing history a little there).
So, it just happens that when the Mayans ran out of space, the last date happened to land on Dec. 21, 2012.
The only calamity likely to happen is that the descendants of Mayans, still extant today, are likely to exclaim, "sunuvabitch! it's time to carve another one of those damn things!"

yoiks what a creepy thought

so I'm watching the republican debate and I see three that are handling the debate pretty well; Romney, Gingrich and Cain.
And I'm wondering how  president zero will stand up against any one of these three guys in a non-telepromptered unscripted debate. There's just no way.
So, for one, I'm wondering if there will be a presidential debate after the republican candidate is chosen for us.
The creepy thought was that if the debate is scheduled will a convenient crisis be created requiring the cancellation of president zero's participation by his handlers to protect the tatters that remain of his image?

Things that make me go...Hmmm

Eric Holder.
Does that man ever look like he's not lost his last friend and his last dollar?
The Sipsey Street Irregulars post up regarding Patrick Leahy being Holder's punk ass bitch flunky boy, as noted by the Confederate Yankee.
But I'm looking at the pic in the post, and Holder's posture, like so many of his pics in the news, reflect the image of a man that is totally, and I mean totally owned by someone.
Holder is a puppet, like our president do'h!bama.    Someone else is pulling the strings.
The Sipsey Street Irregulars are blowing the lid off the Gunwalker  scandal. If you haven't already picked them up from North's Gun Blog Blacklist, hit the link and go read.

Suspicious

While posting a comment at a blog, a google popup appeared as I logged into my google account, requesting my phone number.  Some mumbo jumbo about needing it for security reasons in case I "lose" my password or my account gets hijacked. Aaalrighty then, click the red x thingy. Buh-bye.
How about the google guys beef up their security a bit more instead.
Isn't google in the process of buying a cell phone company? The name escapes me.
So google is getting in the cell provider bidness, and wants my phone number...hmmmm.

oh noes, the sea level's rising...more

With just a smidge of help.
The University of Colorado's Sea Level Research Group is monitoring... the sea level.
Something about that seems so non sequitur. U of Colorado? Miami maybe, seeing as the sea is in their backyard.

Maybe not:
As Fox reports:

"Many global warming alarmists say that vast stretches of coastline are going to be swallowed up by the sea. Well, that means we should be talking about sea level, not about global water volume."

"Steve Nerem, the director of the widely relied-upon research center, told FoxNews.com that his group added the 0.3 millimeters per year to the actual sea level measurements because land masses, still rebounding from the ice age, are rising and increasing the amount of water that oceans can hold."

[insert quizzical dog look here]

This is really to fulfill a predetermined political narrative isn't it? Isn't it?

Yes.

I thought so.

And here I was thinking I'd mow the lawn Saturday...

Apparently the end of the world is at hand. May 21, 2011, according to the prophet du jour's extensive calculations is the day Jesus returns to earth. Although the prophet professing such has a shaky track record, this time he got it right, so he believes.

As noted by the Christian Post

"Camping also made a previous judgment day prediction, saying there was a very high likelihood that the world would end in 1994. Despite the failed prediction, several still sold their homes, quit their jobs and spent their savings in anticipation of May 21, 2011."

What this means of course is that our suspicions regarding the community organizer in chief are correct.. Some how I expected more. I am not alone.

Jefferson101 commented over at POWIP some time back:

"And here I’ve been expecting the Antichrist to be charismatic, eloquent even without a teleprompter, and very popular. If Barry is the best that Satan can do, I’ve been profoundly overestimating him for these many years.

Have we really become so hopeless that we get a low-rent and second class Antichrist? I’d be almost disappointed if that proves to be the case"

If this doesn't pan out for Camping, I bet we hear from him again in November when the big rock passes inside the lunar orbit. I'll be decked out in my track suit, new k-mart tennis shoes and bowl haircut. Hale-Bopp!

ps. it's official:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/19/dc-department-transportation-tweets-rapture/

Asteroid 2005 YU55 will pass within 0.85 lunar distances from the Earth

Whew! that's close. Wait...what?

If it's .85 lunar distances, that means it's .15 lunar distances from the lunar ... I mean Moon!

The path of this rock cuts inside the lunar orbit. Nasa has an animation that shows the moon going "shit!, shit! shit!" as it skirts out of the way. Click the image at the Nasa page to see the animation.

I hope those guy's calcs are right. It would not take a direct hit on this dirtball of a planet to do us in. All that would have to happen is a collision with the moon. Maybe the Mayan calender isn't bs after all.

Where's my tinfoil hat, my head is cold.

update: Oh here's an encouraging footnote on the Nasa page I missed.

Although classified as a potentially hazardous object, 2005 YU55 poses no threat of an Earth collision over at least the next 100 years. However, this will be the closest approach to date by an object this large that we know about in advance and an event of this type will not happen again until 2028 when asteroid (153814) 2001 WN5 will pass to within 0.6 lunar distances