From all of us at 'PO' (that would be me)Happy New Year!

Try not to "tie one on" tonight as the guy in the post below this one did.

Video of Saddam Hussein being executed

Never Get Busted Again

AP Poll: Bush #1 Villain of 2006

The U.S., a banana republic after the coup d'état of Sept. 11

http://www.progresoweekly.com/index.php?progreso=Rosa_Miriam_Elizalde&otherweek=1166680800

Stopping by Woods on a Cloudy Morning

The Voice of the White House

http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a2603.htm#003

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself

http://www.daypoems.net/plainpoems/1900.html

Yamboree Parade

I noticed this was one of the next items after mine on YouTube.

BUSH NOW OVERRULING OWN GENERALS

http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/gallagher295.html

Parasite 'turns women into sex kittens'

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20975555-1702,00.html

Plum Puddings

http://www.kunstler.com/mags_diary19.html

Office Christmas Party

Your Humble Blogger is dressed in black and blue.

The United States is Insolvent

http://drmss.com/wordpress/?cat=1

It's Official: Kuwait's Burgan Field has Peaked

By Peter J. Cooper
KUWAIT: It was an incredible revelation last week that the second largest oil field in the world is exhausted and past its peak output. Yet that is what the Kuwait Oil Company revealed about its Burgan field. The peak output of the Burgan oil field will now be around 1.7 million barrels per day, and not the two million barrels per day forecast for the rest of the field's 30 to 40 years of life, Chairman Farouk Al-Zanki told Bloomberg. He said that engineers had tried to maintain 1.9 million barrels per day but that 1.7 million is the optimum rate. Kuwait will now spend some $3 million a year for the next year to boost output and exports from other fields.

However, it is surely a landmark moment when the world's second largest oil field begins to run dry. For Burgan has been pumping oil for almost 60 years and accounts for more than half of Kuwait's proven oil reserves. This is also not what forecasters are currently assuming.
Last week the International Energy Agency's report said output from the Greater Burgan area will be 1.64 million barrels a day in 2020 and 1.53 million barrels per day in 2030. Is this now a realistic scenario?
The news about the Burgan oil field also lends credence to the controversial opinions of investment banker and geologist Matthew Simmons. His book 'Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy' claims that ageing Saudi oil fields also face serious production falls.
The implications for the global economy are indeed serious. If the world oil supply begins to run dry then the upward pressure on oil prices will be inexorable. For the oil producers this will come as a compensation for declining output, and cushion them against an economic collapse.
However, the oil consumers then face a major energy crisis. Industrialized economies are still far too dependent on oil. And the pricing mechanism of declining oil reserves will press them into further diversification of energy supplies, particularly nuclear, wind and solar power.
All this was foreshadowed in the energy crisis of the late 1970s when a serious inflection in oil supply by the year 2000 was clearly forecast. How ironic that those earlier forecasts now look correct, while more modern and recent forecasts begin to look over optimistic and out-of-date with geological reality.
Nobody can change the geology, and forces of nature that laid down reserves of oil and gas over millions and millions of years. Could it be that we have been blinded by technological advances into thinking that there is some way to beat nature?
The natural world has an uncanny ability to hit back at the arrogance of man, and perhaps a reassessment of reality at this point is called for, rather than a reliance on oil statistics that may owe more to political manoeuvring than geological facts. - AME Info FZ LLC.

Cheney Laughs at Lying about CFR Directorship

Sky photo I took a few weeks ago

The Price of Free Corn

http://cafr1.com/Pigs/Pigs.html

Federal welfare is bad, all right. And the chief recipients of it right now are Bush Crime Family-connected cronies receiving no-bid contracts in the phony "snipe hunt" known as the Global War on Terror.

The Highwaymen

Why you could soon be paying Wall Street investors, Australian bankers, and Spanish builders for the privilege of driving on American roads.

The big day is here

Reindeer: The Truth Behind the Legend

‘God, How I Hate These People’

It FloatsAddendum to Clausewitz

http://www.fredoneverything.net/BushPuppy.shtml

Too Good To Be True: Is Daddy Bush's Illegal Financial NWO Empire Collapsing?

http://www.arcticbeacon.com/6-Dec-2006a.html

'Near miss' at Pantex could have set off nuke

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/12/15/15pantex.html

Savage Garden - I Want You

'Don't Sweat Small Stuff' author dies at 45

'Don't Sweat Small Stuff' author dies at 45

He wouldn't want me to "sweat" his passing, so I won't.

It seems like a lot of the self-help gurus die young.

I guess one way to look at it is in the saying, "Only the good die young."

In which case, I must not be all that good or I'd already be gone.

Oh well. I won't sweat it if I'm not.

Ben and Hank’s Not So Excellent Adventure

Post-Saddam Iraq: The War Game

To put it in sexual terms, this was supposed to be a "gang bang" led by the studly United States and its testosterone-deficient junior partner, the United Kingdom, with the Israeli voyeurs watching with glee in Tel Aviv and selling videos of it via the Internet.

Sexual fantasies always turn out with simultaneous, multiple orgasms for everyone. The reality of "wargasms" is usually different. Or, in double entendre terms, "What if they gave a war and nobody came?"

About Face: Soldiers Call for Iraq Withdrawal

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070101/cooperweb

Dream on, soldiers. Until you can get those oil reserves "locked down" better than you have so far, you're going to keep being sent back ... again and again and again.

It sucks to be stupid and/or naive enough to volunteer to fight a war for a misleading criminal. All U.S. elected leaders should be presumed to be New World Order-promoting globalist Luciferians. You should have done your "due diligence" as they say on Wall Street, which is your real master and commander in this war. Maybe Kerry was right.

The Great Wealth Transfer

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12699486/paul_krugman_on_the_great_wealth_transfer

United States imprisons more people than China, Russia or any other nation, experts say

http://www.newstarget.com/021290.html

A devil food is turning our kids into homosexuals

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53327

This is why the 4-year-old was diving into the teacher's aide's breasts. He realizes someone is trying to turn him into a queer and wants some real milk.

Waco boy, 4, suspended for 'sexual' hug

06:10 PM CST on Sunday, December 10, 2006

Associated Press

WACO – School administrators gave a 4-year-old student an in-school suspension for inappropriately touching a teacher's aide after the pre-kindergartner hugged the woman.

A letter from La Vega school district administrators to the student's parents said that the boy was involved in "inappropriate physical behavior interpreted as sexual contact and/or sexual harassment" after he hugged the woman and he "rubbed his face in the chest of (the) female employee" on Nov. 10.

DaMarcus Blackwell, the father of the boy who attends La Vega Primary School, said he filed a complaint with the district. He said that his son doesn't understand why he was punished.

"When I got that letter, my world flipped," Blackwell said in a story in Sunday's editions of the Waco Tribune-Herald.

La Vega school district officials said student privacy laws prevented them from commenting.

After Blackwell filed a complaint, a subsequent letter from the district said the offense had been changed to "inappropriate physical contact" and removed references of sexual contact or sexual harassment from the boy's file.

Administrators said the district's student handbook contains no specific guidelines referring to contact between teachers and students but does state that inappropriate physical contact will result in a discipline referral.

The La Vega school district, which has five schools, covers about 30 miles around Waco.

My first comment when I read this was:

Good move. Gotta nip these horny little bastards in the bud while they're young.

Then I said:

I just now realized the wicked pun I inadvertently came up with. Gotta "nip" ... I didn't even read it that closely the first time, but it must have registered on my subconscious that he was cited for plunging his face into the aide's cleavage. Kid must have really enjoyed breast-feeding.

History will not treat us kindly

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15870.htm

Paralyzed cheerleader dies 2 years after accident

Then and Now

Scenario: Jack pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack.

1973 — Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at Jack's rifle, goes to his car and gets his to show Jack.

2006 — School goes into lockdown, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.


Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.

1973 — Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends. Nobody goes to jail, nobody arrested, nobody expelled.

2006 — Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.


Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students.

1973 — Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by Principal. Sits still in class.

2006 — Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.


Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his father's car and his Dad gives him a whupping.

1973 — Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.

2006 — Billy's Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. Billy's sister is told by state psychologist that she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.


Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some headache medicine to school.

1973 — Mark shares headache medicine with Principal out on the smoking dock.

2006 — Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.


Scenario: Mary turns up pregnant.

1973 — Five high school boys leave town. Mary does her senior year at a special school for expectant mothers.

2006 — Middle School Counselor calls Planned Parenthood, who notifies the ACLU. Mary is driven to the next state over and gets an abortion without her parent's consent or knowledge. Mary given condoms and told to be more careful next time.


Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.

1973 — Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.

2006 — Pedro's cause is taken up by state Democratic party. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he can't speak English.


Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.

1973 — Ants die.

2006 — BATF, Homeland Security, & FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny's Dad goes on a terror watch list and is banned from all commercial flights.


Scenario: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Teacher hugs him to comfort him.

1973 — In a short time Johnny feels better and goes on playing.

2006 — Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.

Author Unknown, received via email

Huey Lewis & The News - Stuck With You

How not to rob a liquor store

http://www.glumbert.com/media/badrobber

Heaven

This video by a 14-year-old known as "Willow" has me weeping. The last two comments about "knowing that you really loved" and "that love all around you" is exactly what I experienced when I nearly died three years ago.

The Sacredness of the Holy Cow

The big time has arrived for former small-town coach Lovie Smith

Jules Michelet

This man once said, "If you want to be ruined, marry a rich woman."

If we can't trust Zamfir, it's really OVER, folks

When I think of all those hours I spent watching CNN in its early years, always looking forward every half-hour or so to the 'Master of the Pan Flute' and his reassuring commercials full of soothing flute music, to find out he is not what they said he was is devastating to me.

Hunter S. Thompson in February 2003

It is hard to follow what he is saying, but obviously he predicted all of what has unfolded. I myself thought the U.S. military would not be as incompetent, but I was opposed to it on the grounds it was based on a total pack of lies and was really about Israel and oil/petrodollars.

Plus, I knew it would blow a hole in the federal budget, although I had no idea, even being the pessimist I am, it would exceed one trillion dollars over time.

"Little Fatty" unlikely Internet hero in China

Scary 'Mary Poppins' Trailer

Condoms 'too big' for Indian men

Sunrise in the Pineywoods

Worker dead at desk for five days

Russian Economist Tatyana Koryagina Uncovers New Players in the New World Order Drama

I put this up here for those who didn't know 9/11 was an "inside job" in advance of it happening as this woman did. Quite a few people were on the record before it happened saying it was about to happen.

Lord Dubya will propel us to victory

First President Bush Sobs While Talking of Son

And the granddaughters don't look too happy either. These chicks are marked for life. They will lead a very privileged life, but everyone will point at them as they do at circus freaks. "Look, there are the twin daughters of the 'American Hitler.'"

Forget Iraq, why couldn't I have just pulled out of Barbara sooner

We're all crying now, Poppy. This is why we support Planned Parenthood. As Jesse Jackson used to say, "Stay out da Bushes." He has a sob story about that as well from a few years back for which he is now paying child support.

Richest 2 percent own more than half the world

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1806182006

Shock waves from college killing

She did not reciprocate his romantic affections, but Sam Houston State University cheerleader Rachel Pendray never turned away from Jake Taylor.
When Taylor, 24, tried to kill himself with sleeping pills last month, she called medical help to his home in time to save his life. And when Taylor showed up at Pendray's Huntsville apartment late Sunday, she let him in.

Paul McCartney's song (click on last three words of the quote above) is about people who have died who are knocking on heaven's door. I don't think Rachel has to knock.

Sam Houston State cheerleader dies in murder-suicide

Rachel was a straight-A student at Spring Woods and a cheerleader during high school, said Pendray, an industrial engineer. Rachel was helping pay her way through college by working at an Outback Steakhouse in Conroe, he said.

The lyrics of this song about a male's obsession with a female fit this case.



'She was an amazing girl' — Sam Houston State cheerleader Rachel Pendray, 20, of Houston, pictured with her father, was killed in a murder-suicide by a male acquaintance she didn't want to see, university officials said.

Death of Student

Honesty in Iraq

http://www.davidswanson.org/?q=node/670

Hold Them Accountable

Linden chosen as site for Murphey Western Institute

I was a big fan of this guy back when he was a rocker. I am not as interested in his Old West preservation act, although it is a worthy pursuit. It is a real coup for Linden to beat out Aspen and Taos for this. I guess Murphey figured more people would visit if it were located in the flatlands, although this is certainly not classic "Old West" territory.

The kind of pine trees you see in Westerns are Ponderosas, not Loblollies.

Cenk Uygur: The Republicans Lost Iraq

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20061203/cm_huffpost/035432

F-16 pilot downed in Iraq listed as KIA

Does this mean he is now a Korean automobile?

George Carlin - Owners of This Country

Beach Boys - Don't Worry, Baby

Jewish American (Former IDF)Overhears Secret Meeting InCemetery - In Hebrew

http://www.rense.com/general74/heard.htm

Stay the course or else we will "lose face"

FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool

http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-6140191.html

Unseen Photos of Bohemian Grove Found

And we wonder why the GOP has a problem with closet homosexuality.

Borat: puppets on a string

http://simonjones1.blogspot.com/2006/11/borat-puppets-on-string.html

What A Beautiful Blue Planet!

http://home.att.net/~hideaway_fun/442/planet.htm