I thought this was pretty hot until I read the caption. Shame.
Rima Fakih, Miss USA 2010, wears a costume inspired by the Seal of the President of the United States as a tribute to Barack Obama. She apparently drew a basic design, and then Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show designer Martin Izquierdo came up with the final creation. We haven’t heard what Mr Obama thinks of the tribute.
Thanks to Telegraph UK.
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Destroying the value of the monetary unit slowly over time is every bit as good for social-engineering of a debt-based society as “stamped” or “expiry” money is. And once you have changed the behavior of the masses from saving-based to debt-based spending, who gets to collect a vig from all of that wonderful spending? Uh-huh, the banks win again.
http://lewrockwell.com/north/north733.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard43.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/63342.html
http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/consumer_kids_credit_card_debt_as_a_way_of_life/
“Ms. Kagan, whatever her credentials as a college administrator, is absolutely unqualified to sit on the US Supreme Court. Her tenure as Solicitor General has been an unbroken stream of defenses of unprecedented expansions of executive authority. , precisely the sort of person uniquely unsuitable for a role in defending the rights of Americans against the depredations of the President and Congress, in the name of the failed War On Terrorism.
Please oppose Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court.”
The nut of this very long, but very worthwhile essay by Angelo Codevilla on our emergent ruling class;
“Its attitude is key to understanding our bipartisan ruling class. Its first tenet is that “we” are the best and brightest while the rest of Americans are retrograde, racist, and dysfunctional unless properly constrained. How did this replace the Founding generations paradigm that “all men are created equal”?”
via The American Spectator : Americas Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution.
Caller: “Good evening, do you identify with the Republican Party?”
Me: “Well, you know, I don’t, exactly”
Caller: “Thank you, good night, God bless”.
Not a follow-up question. Not the slightest curiosity why I, a registered (Ron Paul) Republican, would answer that way (they clearly called me from a precinct list).
I really think they are heading for much-deserved oblivion.
The Immigration PR Campaign
We are being stampeded, AGAIN, by a classic PR-lying campaign into a pre-arranged conclusion on immigration, the contents of which will be opaque until passed under a political smokescreen, and a false urgency. When we speak of the “immigration” issue, we are really speaking about a number of separate but interrelated issues They are complex issues, each of which needs to be dealt with fundamentally and without undue haste;
1) Border security, 2) Freedom to trade in labor services, 3) Freedom to trade in goods, 4) Free movement of capital;5) Free movement of people; 6) Privacy; 7)Tax policy; 8) Immigration policies of the US and Mexican governments; 9) Labor regulation; 10) Property rights: 11) Naturalization; 12)Welfare; 13) State sovereignty, and, I am sure a multitude of others.
The estimated 12 MILLION illegals aren’t going anywhere any time soon, why the hurry?