Even little kids are horrified.

That's gotta be little Billy's sister in the background, who appears slightly amused at the whole situation.

It's not just us that they hate.

I can't embed this video, so I'll have to send you over there via this link, but over at Memri they have a clip of an Egyptian TV show where a Shiite guest comes to blows with a Sunni guest, after accusing his wife of arranging "pleasure meetings" with other men.

Those Muslims can't even get along with each other, let alone the rest of the world

This was found over at DumpDC, and I feel it is worth posting in full here to illustrate both the possible outcome of the Fed's clearly stated policy of unlimited money printing, and an example of true treason to the American people.

None of this might come to pass if Romney is elected and stops the madness, but again, he seems more a creature of the establishment rather than a revolutionary.

Anyway, read it all, for what it is worth.

QE3: The Beginning Of The End

By Russell D. Longcore
The Federal Reserve flushed the toilet Thursday…and by extension Washington and the US economy are beginning to pick up speed as they circle the drain.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke announced Thursday September 13th that the Fed would be buying $40 Billion per month in mortgage-backed securities indefinitely into the future. The reason he gave was to “see more progress (in job growth)”. He said “the program should increase downward pressure on interest rates,” supposedly to encourage more home sales and refinancing.
When challenged about low interest rates hurting savers, Bernanke said the low rates help the value of homes. What he does not say is that the entire housing market is built upon a balloon of debt, and that home values are only where they are today because of inflation.
The Federal Reserve is a private consortium of banks whose sole reason for existence is to maintain the solvency of the banks. Buying mortgage-backed securities won’t help you and it won’t help me. But it will strengthen the bottom line of the member banks. Also remember that banks that participate in the fractional reserve system (ALL BANKS) have basically only one product…loans. Abraham Maslow said, “When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” Banks only see one thing…debt.
And hear me loud and clear. This is not all of QE3. The Fed will quietly continue to print TRILLIONS of dollars and flood the world with them. Today’s announcement is akin to a magician distracting you with his left hand while the magic trick is being done with his right hand.
I want you to understand how dreadfully serious QE3 is. QE1 and QE2 were stimulus packages that utterly failed. But 1 and 2 were limited in amounts. QE3 has no outer or upper limit. The Federal Reserve will print as much money as they desire or need to keep the charade going. That means that hyperinflation is both guaranteed and imminent.
John Williams, owner and editor of Shadowstats.com, predicts that hyperinflation will hit America in 2014. That is 15 months from now. That means that anything that is either greenback currency, or any investment tied to Federal Reserve currency, will very rapidly lose its value.
Let me lay out the scenario for you:
1. There is no fix for Washington’s runaway spending. Even if Washington confiscated ALL the income generated in the American economy, DC would still be insolvent. If DC cut out all government spending except Social Security and Medicare, they would still be insolvent. There is no way to bring the system back into fiscal correctness where DC only spent what it takes in.
2. The Federal Reserve cannot even acknowledge or discuss the truth about the spending problem. If the Fed admitted that QE 1 and 2 were failures, they could certainly not justify QE3. And if they admitted that they can do nothing else but continue to issue more fiat money, they would expose the entire world financial system as the counterfeiting scheme it truly is. If the Fed chairman confessed that everything he has done has failed, he would likely get fired. Remember what Paul Volker did 30 years ago. He allowed interest rates to rise until they were north of 20%, and it brought some needed correction into markets. What Volker did worked. What Bernanke has done has not worked. But he cannot now turn an about face and do what Volker did. Bernanke believes in regulating interest rates at nearly zero percent, which only enriches the banksters and punishes anyone who is an investor or saver. Investing and saving is where capital comes from. And there are trillions of dollars in cash in America’s business that the businesses refuse to invest because of the Fed.
3. There will be a worldwide debt selloff.Think about your own situation. If you had a wad of cash stashed under the mattress, and you knew that it would quickly become worthless, what would YOU do? You would try to spend it or trade it for something of value. Nations are no different. Nations are people…governments are people. When the rest of the nations of the world that hold US Securities understand that QE3 will flood the world with dollars that are worth less and less, those nations will begin accelerating their selling of US Bonds. But who will buy them? The rest of the world understands the scheme, because kings and governments have debauched their monies for millennia. The world financial system today relies upon inflation simply to keep going. And DC and The Fed know that they can pay their debts with Dollars, even though they are becoming worthless. But the inflation rate will now begin to accelerate until it is a fire that cannot be quenched.
4. The Fed is the buyer of last resort. They MUST buy the debt held by the world.Why? (A) To prevent anybody holding US securities from selling too many too fast. Dumping securities would cause a global bond collapse. A “collapse” is what happens when the prices of bonds fall precipitously (too many bonds for sale at once) at the same time demand dries up. That means that nobody wants US Securities at any price. And all the nations…all the massive institutional investors…ALL know this. But as in #3 above, bondholders are going to know that the money they get paid for the US securities will be worth less and less. (B) Eventually, when Washington holds its monthly bond auctions, there won’t be any buyers…that is, except the Federal Reserve.
5. Here comes hyperinflation. All our lives we have accepted an inflation rate of 3-4% a year as normal. As QE3 moves forward, inflation (which is actually now at about 8-9% per year) will quickly change to 8-9% per month. Shortly, 8-9% per week will jolt us. And THEN it will get worse. If you don’t know what happened to the money in Zimbabwe, do a Google search. A couple years ago, I bought 160 trillion of Zimbabwe money and it cost me $3.00. That will happen here in America.
Hyperinflation destroys the lower and middle classes. Think about it. If you are a middle class person, working and earning a living, you only have just so much discretionary income in your budget. You may even have no discretionary income in your budget, and your outgo exceeds your income. If prices double on the things you buy to survive, what will you do? But think about the upper class…the wealthy. They can more easily ride out a doubling of prices, since their living expenses are a smaller percentage of their income and assets. Inflation has always been the cruelest way for governments to steal from their citizens, and it has been done for millennia.
6. Then cometh the collapse of the West. Unless you get your assets out of anything that is tied to the US Dollar and into gold and silver and other hard assets, YOU. WILL. LOSE. EVERYTHING. At some point, anybody selling anything will stop accepting Federal Reserve notes in payment. But before that, America will descend into chaos, violence, crime and death on a level never before witnessed.
7. From the ashes of this historic cataclysm, groups of individuals will form that want to establish new nations of their own. And when DC has collapsed, and its counterfeiter The Federal Reserve loses control, there will be little to prevent secession and liberty.
If you do not believe that this scenario can happen or will happen, I invite you to tell me about a reasonable alternative scenario in which America digs its way out of this morass.
The year 2014 is only 15 months away. Washington and the Federal Reserve are your enemies. They only care about their own survival.
The only thing you should be concerned about right now is CAPITAL PRESERVATION. FORGET RETURN ON INVESTMENT. Get out of your 401K and IRAs. Take the penalties and get your cash. Get your money out of anything and everything that is tied to the US Dollar. I recommend that you buy a big safe for your home from Liberty Safes. I recommend that you take your cash and buy 50% gold, 30% silver and keep 20% in US Cash.You can afford to manage 20% of your savings as hyperinflation begins, but you cannot afford to lose 100% of your money. Put your hard assets in the safe. Get smart!
Secession is the only hope for individual liberty and property rights in North America.
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Nice selection!

Sunday cabin porn.

Saturn's moon Tethys, and it's iconic rings.

                                           Someone's knocking at the door.  Maybe it's

The Danes are not dour.  Makes me want to ride the bus....well, maybe...naw.

Churchill on Islam:

• How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!  Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.  The effects are apparent in many countries.  Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.  A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.  The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property—either as a child, a wife, or a concubine—must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.  Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities.  Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die.  But the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it.  No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.  Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proseltyzing faith.  It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science—the science against which it had vainly struggled—the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.

Check out this table of heirloom tomatoes displayed last week over in Santa Rosa at the Harmony Farm Supply and National Heirloom Expo.

So much tasty variety and rich color. If I ever had the time, I'd love to grow stuff like this, and maybe even create a new tomato variety, or two.

Via Lloyd Kahn.

In a fascinating theory, two French researchers believe that stone age cave painters may have been attempting to create the illusion of moving visions in their work.

  "Stone Age artists used  cartoon-like techniques to give the impression that wild beasts were trotting or running across cave walls,  a new study  has suggested.

Reporting in  the June issue of Antiquity, archaeologist Marc Azéma of the University of Toulouse–Le Mirail in France and independent French artist Florent Rivère argued that by about  30,000  years ago Paleolithic artists used "animation effects" in their paintings. To render the movement, they deconstructed it in successive images.

According to the researchers, this would explain multiple heads or limbs on some cave paintings.

"Prehistoric man foreshadowed one of the fundamental characteristics of visual perception, retinal persistence," Azéma and Rivère wrote.

Azéma, who spent  20  years researching Stone Age animation techniques,  isolated 53 figures in  12  French caves that superimpose two or more images to represent trot or gallop,  head tossing, and tail shaking.

"Lascaux is the cave with the greatest number of cases of split-action movement by superimposition of successive images. Some 20 animals, principally horses, have the head, legs or tail multiplied," Azéma said.

When the paintings are viewed by flickering torchlight, the animated effect "achieves its full impact," said Azéma."

Taken looking down on the Curiosity rover's landing site by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, we can actually see the first tracks left on the surface of the red planet by Curiosity. The color is obviously enhanced here. 

 Perhaps the start of great things.

Below is the camera on the arm of Curiosity, take with the mast cam.   That looks like one futuristic robotic arm!  By the way, the thing on the end of the arm is a mechanized wire brush used to remove dust.  All of it is very impressive.

                                                        

                                            Freckled girls like big fish ( see story below ).

Aaarrrr!! There be monsters in the northern seas!

Up in the waters off British Columbia, a sport fisherwoman landed a gigantic 83.3 pound King salmon.

And after they weighed it, they let it go, so the monster still swims the seven seas.   Don't go skinny dipping at night in British Columbia!