Total Emasculation Caught on Tape
(fake, but still hilarious)
House Urges Bush: Blockade Iran!
Below is the resolution text of House Congressional Resolution 362, currently co-sponsored by 40% of House members, including a significant number of Democrats (approximately 77 in total). A related resolution in the Senate, S.Res. 580, is co-sponsored by 26 Senators.
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That Congress–
(1) declares that preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability, through all appropriate economic, political, and diplomatic means, is vital to the national security interests of the United States and must be dealt with urgently;
(2) urges the President, in the strongest of terms, to immediately use his existing authority to impose sanctions on–
(A) the Central Bank of Iran and any other Iranian bank engaged in proliferation activities or the support of terrorist groups;
(B) international banks which continue to conduct financial transactions with proscribed Iranian banks;
(C) energy companies that have invested $20,000,000 or more in the Iranian petroleum or natural gas sector in any given year since the enactment of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996; and
(D) all companies which continue to do business with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps;
(3) demands that the President initiate an international effort to immediately and dramatically increase the economic, political, and diplomatic pressure on Iran to verifiably suspend its nuclear enrichment activities by, inter alia, prohibiting the export to Iran of all refined petroleum products; imposing stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains, and cargo entering or departing Iran; and prohibiting the international movement of all Iranian officials not involved in negotiating the suspension of Iran’s nuclear program; and
(4) urges the President to lead a sustained, serious, and forceful effort at regional diplomacy to support the legitimate governments in the region against Iranian efforts to destabilize them, to reassure our friends and allies that the United States supports them in their resistance to Iranian efforts at hegemony, and to make clear to the Government of Iran that the United States will protect America’s vital national security interests in the Middle East
Did you catch the part about the President’s “existing authority” to impose a blockade on Iran? What existing authority?
Also of note, the president of Iran has already ordered that billions of Iranian assets held throughout Europe be returned to Iran in anticipation of sanctions.
A Reciprocal Iraqi Embassy in D.C.?
Ron Paul interviewing a member of the Iraqi parliament today regarding our presence there.
The Education Bubble
One test of skill for investors is the ability to spot a bubble. As I’ve had it recently described to me, a bubble exists when there is a mentality that prices in a certain area will always rise. Take housing, for example. The wisdom for many of the recent decades has been that housing prices will continue to rise - despite the fact that houses are depreciating assets much like cars.
Now think about education costs. When in our lifetime has anyone suggested that education costs will do anything but rise? “When your children graduate, annual tuition will be hundreds of thousands of dollars” we are conditioned to think.
This is a bubble.
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Beware of Latest Flash Update
Adobe’s latest version of Flash will break this site, youtube, et al. when using Firefox. If you’ve updated to flash version 9.0.115.0, the flash-stylized links of this website will not work. Youtube videos will load only the first two seconds, and play with no audio - albeit this behavior occurs intermittently.
Fortunately, you can check your version of flash, and download version 9.0.47.0 (the last version of flash that actually works). The appropriate installer can be chosen from the “fp9_archive.zip\fp9_archive\9r4\” directory.
There are plenty of sites and suggestions out there about turning off services, moving dll files, clearing cache, reinstalling Firefox, upgrading to FF Beta 3, or even “upgrading your internet connection to prevent choppy playback.” Don’t listen to them. They only think their particular solution works because the youtube playback problem comes and goes, and just happened to go at a certain point in their troubleshooting flail.
This is the only solution that works. I had particular insight into version 115’s flaws because my youtube problems were coupled with the links on this site being broken permanently after the flash upgrade. Despite how youtube was doing on any given day, the links here were always unresponsive - and now they work perfectly with revision 47.