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Sad, but it seems that every UC and Calif. State University is over populated with Israel bashing and pro-sharia/Jihadists. Where's Planned Parenthood when you really need the?
Sad, but it seems that every UC and Calif. State University is over populated with Israel bashing and pro-sharia/Jihadists. Where's Planned Parenthood when you really need them?
As the world decries Israel's attempt to defend itself against the rocket attacks coming from Gaza, consider this: When Hamas routed Fatah in Gaza in 2007, it cost nearly 350 lives and 1,000 wounded. Fatah's surrender brought only a temporary stop to the type of violence and bloodshed that are commonly seen in lands where at least 30% of the male population is in the 15-to-29 age bracket.
In such "youth bulge" countries, young men tend to eliminate each other or get killed in aggressive wars until a balance is reached between their ambitions and the number of acceptable positions available in their society. In Arab nations such as Lebanon (150,000 dead in the civil war between 1975 and 1990) or Algeria (200,000 dead in the Islamists' war against their own people between 1999 and 2006), the slaughter abated only when the fertility rates in these countries fell from seven children per woman to fewer than two.
The warring stopped because no more warriors were being born.
In Gaza, however, there has been no such demographic disarmament. The average woman still bears six babies. For every 1,000 men aged 40-44, there are 4,300 boys aged 0-4 years. In the US the latter figure is 1,000, and in the UK it's only 670.
...THE REASON for Gaza's endless youth bulge is that a large majority of its population does not have to provide for its offspring. Most babies are fed, clothed, vaccinated and educated by UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. Unlike the UN High Commission for Refugees, which deals with the rest of the world's refugees and aims to settle them in their respective host countries, UNRWA perpetuates the Palestinian problem by classifying as refugees not only those who originally fled their homes, but all of their descendants as well.
UNRWA is benevolently funded by the US (31%) and the European Union (nearly 50%) - only 7% of the funds come from Muslim sources. Thanks to the West's largesse, nearly the entire population of Gaza lives in a kind of lowly but regularly paid dependence. One result of this unlimited welfare is an endless population boom. Between 1950 and 2008, Gaza's population has grown from 240,000 to 1.5 million. The West basically created a new Near Eastern people in Gaza that at current trends will reach three million in 2040. Within that period, Gazans may alter the justifications and directions of their aggression but are unlikely to stop the aggression itself.
The Hamas-Fatah truce of June 2007 allowed the Islamists again to direct all their energy on attacking Israel. The West pays for food, schools, medicine and housing, while Muslim nations help out with the military hardware. Unrestrained by such necessities as having to earn a living, the young have plenty of time on their hands for digging tunnels, smuggling, assembling missiles and firing 4,500 of them at Israel since 2006.
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These things always sound outrageous and sometimes they are.
OTOH, fed and state agencies are notoriously horrible customers for new, massive IT systems. They tend to have incomplete, conflicting and impossible requirements and assumptions for the system. The result is that the contractor is desperately trying to comply with shifting, inadequate and sometimes just plain crazy specs.
If they're working on an award fee basis - and these guys probably were - their only way to make any profit at all is through those 'bonuses' which are periodically awarded over and above approved expenses.
Sometimes those expenses fail to reimburse the basic cost of corporate level support. If so, the award fee is the only way to avoid LOSING money on the contract.
So the game is: the contractor tries to up his hourly rates, the GAO cuts them back. The contractor signs up to deliver a system according to specs, specs change, everyone has to negotiate who's to blame for how much of the mess.
Not to say that there aren't incompetant, greedy contractors. There are. But there are also, and even more prevalently, hugely incoherent agencies issuing conflicting, inadequate or changing specs too.
This has been a huge issue for IRS, FAA and a bunch of other large centralized control system acquisitions - to the point that some major players won't even bid on these contracts anymore.
The psychotic Roseanne Barr has some really sound advice for Bruce Springsteen. Assuming Springsteen is dumb enough to flush his career before a worldwide audience, here's what the idiot offers as advice.
The Boss oughta demand during his half-time appearance this Sunday that Obama stop bombing Pakistan (which even President Karzai of Afghanistan has requested) and stop funding the Israeli war machine! TELL OBAMA TO STOP BOMBING PAKISTAN AND MAKE ISRAEL STOP BOMBING GAZA!!!!
It's highly unlikely Springsteen would pay any mind to this idiocy and he'll be wise to keep to performing and leave the politics for another day. The NFL has made it clear they'd like halftime and pregame performers stick to music and leave the politics off stage. Barr's career peaked in about 1990 when she was named "America's Pig" by some celebrity media outlet or another. It's been downhill ever since, now she is just a has-been local pig.
Same for Madonna, who was "America's Slut" in the same article, but who has since been eclipsed by hordes of younger competitors.
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and Rosie O has quit blogging. Where o where will we turn for our fat loudmouthed stupid celeb news? Oh, that's right, Whoopie is still around, and Oprah, and.....
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01/31/2009 9:39 Comments ||
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Frank, don't forget the harpies on "The View". Affectionately known in my house as "PU".
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Springsteen is doing the Super Bowl halftime show? He's kind of a risky choice, if you ask me. All that campaigning he's done for candidates like John Frickin' Kerry? I think I'd rather see a good old high school marching band.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
01/31/2009 12:46 Comments ||
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Preview of Springsteen's performance:
Mumble mumble mumble MUMBLE mumble mumble
Mumble mumble mumble MUMBLE mumble mumble
Mumble mumble mumble MUMBLE mumble mumble
Born in the USA!
Born in the USA!
Mumble mumble mumble MUMBLE mumble mumble
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Springsteen is still known as "The Loss" in my house.
Having spent most of my life in Jersey few things are more nauseating to me than the local worship of Springstein and that other useful idiot turd Bon Jovi.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
