Heureuse Nouvelle Année

People throughout France are anxiously awaiting this years tally. A curious tradition has become the "norm" each New Years Eve since the early '90s. This wonderful celebration is most evident in France's "sensitive urban zones" according to - believe it or not - France's Observatory of Sensitive Urban Zones.

Seems that groups of disaffected youths - many of them Muslim - do not want France, let alone the world, to forget that they exist. So, with nothing to amuse them, they torch cars for fun no doubt while chanting "death to the west" or some such other BS.

New Year's Eve in Hautpierre

Last years lofty goal reached ~1,137 cars during New Years, an increase of 30% from 2008 with the grand total of ~12,874 cars in 2009. This has become a competition from neighborhood to neighborhood to see who can create the most car carnage. Oh what fun!

New Year's Eve fun in Strasbourg - 2009

What does French president Nicolas Sarkozy intend to do this year - other than try to cover it up? ("I have decided to put an end to the competition, the sweepstakes, and will no longer publish the number of burned vehicles," Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said this week)
Why deploy an additional 6,000 cops. Mon dieu!
Nick, that's NOT the answer - profiling and deportation ARE.


HAPPY NEW YEAR from SharkyandSharky

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Fare Thee Well Rosie

An American icon has died.

Rosie the Riveter, neé Geraldine Doyle, died today at the age of 86 in Lansing MI.  An inspiration to the men and woman who fought in WWII and arguably the first major figure in the "Woman's Empowerment Movement." "Rosie", represented the American factory worker, mostly female, who tirelessly toiled around the clock producing armaments and munitions for the Allied war efforts.

Her death signals the end of an era. An era when the people of the U.S. were a proud and unstoppable force and did not bow down to anyone. We will sorely miss you.

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When Words Are Not Enough

Edumacation - Virginia Style

One of the thirteen original colonies, Virginia ("Old Dominion") is now beginning to show it's true stripes. These aren't the Stars and Stripes from Old Glory but the stripes of political misdirection and historical revision.

Using the price is right excuse, the Virginia Department of Education has chosen a disproportionate number of textbooks from Five Ponds Press apparently based on cost alone - accuracy be damned.  Glaring errors include:

    The Confederacy was comprised of 12 states, not 11
    The United States entered WWI in 1916, not 1917
    New Orleans was a U.S. port in 1800's, not a Spanish       Colonial one
    Large numbers of African Americans fought for the         south in the Civil War

And on and on. Seems the Virginia "Standards of Learning", whose claim that mainstream textbooks do not meet their "high" standards, needs to redefine learning altogether.  Instead of trying to buy votes by placating factions that want to portray certain ethnic groups in a certain ways, they should focus on the truth - even if it hurts.

One Mr. Ronald Heinemann, a former history professor, reviewed "Our Virginia: Past and Present", one of many Five Ponds Press textbooks, and his recommendation - "This textbook should be withdrawn from the classroom immediately."

Said Mary Miley Theobald, a former Virginia Commonwealth University professor, after reviewing "Our America" (SharkyandSharky can only imagine what kind of crap is contained in that tome), "Any literate person could have opened that book and immediately found a mistake." Further stating, "Our America" is so inaccurate and biased that - "It is just too shocking for words."

SharkyandSharky believe it is time to change the state seal of Virginia.

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ClapTrap - Or When Is The U.S. Going To Tire Of These Stooges

Janet Napolitano unaware that there are 365 days in a year is one thing. 364 days a year  You expect that from a bimbo.  But the Director of National Intelligence, a Mr.  James Clapper, was unaware that a major terrorist operation in London had resulted in 12 arrests when questioned earlier today by Diane Sawyer.  As usual, this administration has NO idea what is really going on throughout the world or in it's own country. PATHETIC.

And all Homeland Security can concentrate on is seeing your genitalia.

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Christmas Trees Are Found to Produce Feelings of Exclusion

This goes under the heading of WTF which is beyond "Gimme a break" not quite to "Shoot me"

Graduate students of a Canadian university Simon Fraser University conducted a thesis study to determine the effects of being in the presence of a Christmas tree. (Yeah, you never heard of Simon Fraser; well you never heard of East Anglia University either until they told you that the world was going to burn up.)  The tree deployed was a 12 inch tree that was placed on a desk. The details of the study are here. The first study cohort was comprised of those who identified themselves as non celebrators of Christmas.

For those who did not celebrate Christmas, being in the room with the Christmas tree led to a less positive mood compared to being in a room with no tree. In particular, the Christmas display made non-celebrators feel less sure about themselves (what psychologists call “self-assurance”). Participants who did celebrate Christmas showed the opposite response – the presence of the tree led to a more positive mood.

The second study was conducted with a cohart of Sikhs and Buddists:

Students who identified with a religion other than Christianity (Sikhs and Buddhists) experienced a less positive mood, particularly less self-assurance, in the presence of the tree. The tree also made Sikhs and Buddhists feel less included at the university. The tree did not affect Christian students’ sense of inclusion at the university, but it did lead them to a more positive mood.

Although the SFU has an extensive Muslim study program

designed to broaden public understanding of an often misunderstood and feared groups

No Muslims were apparently included in the study. It appears that they have a great desire to blow up Christmas trees and those finding joy in them.

Now let us examine this. Christians are to express openness by being inclusive of others but others would feel a whole lot better included by Christians not expressing their Christianity and feeling good about being Christian. Christians are to suppress their religious joy in order that others may feel joy. Hmmm...Yeah WTF?

Here is a qoute from Ben Stein:

“I’m a Jew and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish, And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees. Stein categorically denies feeling threatened or discriminated against by Christian displays. He says, “I don’t like being pushed around for being a Jews and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christian.”

You got that right Ben. Continuing here are some comments by the followers of Behavorial Healthcare.net.

This is a Judaeo / Christian country and a J/C holiday time frame.That's the reality and that's the way it is. Its not our responsiblity to try to make everyone feel good. Non Jews and non Christians have their own time of year and their own holidays. Do you think that Muslims would welcome having Christmas tress and Hannukah celebrations during Ramadan ? Of course not. And, don't forget about the Athiests. They are bound to be depressed and feel bad about all of the religious holiday symbols of the believers of every faith. So , let's make sure not to offend them either. 

Continuing the same source:

Calling Christmas Trees "Ornamented Trees"?? Really? I guess we should call a Menorah a "7 Sticked Candelabra" except the Kwanza Kinara has 7 candles too so we must be careful you know! Give me a break!

TO ALL Sharky&Sharky offer this:

MERRY CHRISTMAS

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Snow Is White - Idiocy Colorblind

SharkyandSharky like a good snowman or snow angel as much as anything this time of year. But wait - it is just the first day of winter in the northern hemisphere and snow is a thing of the past. Oh sure


The Brits, experts on all things wealth transferenceable, have spoken and their double-speak is as good as any socialist freedom-hating country. Brits say - due to climate change - "If it's cold here, it's hot somewhere else." YEAH right, just ask those crazy Aussies. No wonder you lost your empire many years ago.

See that sign - pinhead

Climate change is alway occurring - just ask the freaking dinosaurs! R.Wilson

p.s. - Tell the Queen "Merry Christmas" from SharkyandSharky

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Saddam Crazy - It's Hard To Believe

The Koran, a book as responsible as the Bible for world-wide deaths and misery, may have the Bible beaten for creating an unimaginable international crisis.  


Seems that back in the late '90's, one Mr. Saddam Hussein thought it a good idea to have a copy of the Koran written in his own blood - over 7 gallons of it. That's a lot of red ink.  But considering the 605 page length of the tome, SharkyandSharky feel the E.P.A. would rate the pages/gallon acceptable.


Now the fun part.  The "Blood Koran" has been locked inside a vault under a Bagdad mosque that originally Saddam called "The Mother Of All Battles."  Turns out this is proving prophetic as the Koran in any form cannot be destroyed.  So the "Blood Koran" is likely to cause much more blood to be spilled as the Iraqis try to determine what to do about this.


Since his ouster in 2003 and his death in 2006, Iraq has been continuously erasing the tyrannical remnants of Hussein's regime.  Even street names are being changed "to protect the innocent."  Iraqi officials want to destroy the book to eliminate a Sunni rallying cause, but their religion won't allow it.


SharkyandSharky hope that no Dutch journalists pen cartoons about this subject. 

The"Blood Koran"

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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme

Ah the Obama supporters.  Enough is never enough. More is always required.  Buying votes is getting really expensive. 

Poor Raymeica Kelly.  Showing her Georgia Power bills (in "her" home - wonder who paid for it) in front of a mammoth flat screen TV, an Xbox and Blu Ray player, explains how her mother, sister and herself were turned away from the Energy Assistance Program last Wednesday.  All three complained that the system Macon-Bibb County Economic Opportunity Council (SharkyandSharky say get a load of that political horse shit) uses to GIVE out assistance needs improving. What needs improving Ms. Kelly, is the permanent removal of people like yourself, your sister and your mother from the backs of society.

Produce or perish.  It is time to hit the "reset" button. Enough IS enough.

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Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Drive

Those crazy romantic Italians have banned a TV commercial showing two lesbians engaging in what lesbians do apparently because the TV spot is "offensive to lesbians."

Chill out - can you say Roman Orgy?

Education Deadication

It takes a special person to choose education as a profession.  The hours are long, subject matter can be difficult as well as bland, respect from students hard to earn and a host of other issues. But occasionally a very special teacher - one who gives their all - separates themselves from their colleagues.


Such was the case when students of the Karolinska Institute performed their first clinical autopsy. Yes, the corpse that lay before them was none other than their professor. 


Autopsies tend to be very intense in and of themselves. "I was super shocked" said one of the students involved in the procedure when he saw the body on the bench. NO KIDDING! Said another, "The first autopsy is very emotional and we autopsied someone we knew."


Professor Birgitta Sundelin, the chief physician who was responsible for the course at the time, regrets the incident. Probably not as much as the professor being autopsied.

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Christmas R.I.P.

From reindeers flying through the sky disrupting commercial aviation to Santa Claus committing uncountable home invasions, the time has come to accept the fact that Christmas should be illegal.


Lets look at the facts:


Permits have not been filed with the appropriate authorities for fire inspections.  Christmas trees are very flammable - especially when decorated with cheap Asian light strings.  When they catch fire, and they most certainly will - just keep watching your local news, second hand smoke fills the house and we now know that just one inhalation can KILL YOU.


People climb rickety ladders on unsafe footings without proper OSHA approved climbing apparatus and head protection.  One slip and you will be seriously injured or worse and this will certainly happen - just keep watching your local news.  Hanging Christmas decorations outside your house can KILL YOU.


Many people consume eggnog during the Christmas holidays and many of those glasses are left unattended around small children.  In fact, according to local hospitals, incidents of alcohol poisoning sky rocket due to children drinking alcohol left in glasses during holiday parties.  This will certainly happen - just keep watching your local news.  Alcohol poisoning can KILL YOU.


Nothing like burning wrapping paper in the fireplace after opening all those cheap Asian produced presents.  Don't.  A flash fire may occur and it certainly will - just keep watching your local news.  These fires produce highly toxic fumes, burn intensely and they can KILL YOU.


So, start wringing your hands in fear - not those pesky Salvation Army bells.

This Public Service Announcement courtesy SharkyandSharky

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Get a Brew...and Listen to Quinn Sullivan

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Hans Rosling shows that US is slowing down

As other nations speed up the US slows down. Rosling demonstrates that Asian countries are moving fast ahead and the US is slowing down.



Too bad he cannot show that the US urban centers are matching Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Wading Through Wikileaks

Don't have time to wade through the ~300,000 recently leaked diplomatic cables.  We didn't think so.  This short primer is all you need.  Enjoy.



Don't forget to click on the "Stuff You Are Not Supposed To Know" link at the top of the blog for even more Wikileak goodness.


Oh, and watch out for the black helicopters which are sure to follow.

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Butter - The Deadly Spread

The latest "what you eat will kill you" craze has a new spokes food - BUTTER.

Dallas, Tx.


A sampling of Dallas grocery stores found unacceptable levels of PBDEs in butter as part of a study to determine "acceptable?" levels of said polybrominated diphenyl ethers.  In fact, one paper wrapper had levels 16 times greater than the stick of butter itself. Authors of the report called for more random screening of butter and other food products to determine how and where the butter was contaminated with flame retardant chemicals.


No doubt the formation of "Butter Police" departments is being discussed all across this home of the "brave" country along with the next Obama appointed Czar - the BUTTER Czar. Or maybe, just maybe - 
the BETTER BUTTER Czar.


Just grease my palm baby and we'll let you slide - or we'll shut you down!

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Socialized Medicine - A Cut Above The Rest

Wilford Brimley that grizzled character actor who has become a shill for Liberty Medical had better not take his next vacation in Greece.

To Vima, one of Greece's most respected newspapers, has reported that the nation's health insurance provider - IKA - will no longer pay for specialized footwear for diabetics stating: "amputation is just cheaper." And, as the U.S. follows Greece down the national debt rathole, these cuts may soon be appearing in a community near you.


Sharky&Sharky can only imagine how this precedent has eliminated Greek men's erectile dysfunction issues.

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Swedish Meatball

In what can only be described as irony at it's best, the U.S. State Department announces "World Press Freedom Day."  They are all giddy about protecting the flow of digital news.


Washington announces that they are “concerned about the determination of some governments to censor and silence individuals, and to restrict the free flow of information.”  Are you F&%$ing kidding us?


In typical State Department misinformation terror-speak, the "free" press is only free if you are not one Julian Assange - the Wikileaks guy. The combined might of the: Justice Department, C.I.A., NATO, Interpol and others are trying to prove freedom of the press is exactly what they tell you it is. Censorship is alive and well in this New World Order called globalization and it is being led by none other than Best America as we become more and more like Best Korea everyday. This, while Mr. Assange is being held without bail for not using a condom!?
From the official announcement:

The theme for next year’s commemoration will be 21st Century Media: New Frontiers, New Barriers. The United States places technology and innovation at the forefront of its diplomatic and development efforts. New media has empowered citizens around the world to report on their circumstances, express opinions on world events, and exchange information in environments sometimes hostile to such exercises of individuals’ right to freedom of expression. At the same time, we are concerned about the determination of some governments to censor and silence individuals, and to restrict the free flow of information. We mark events such as World Press Freedom Day in the context of our enduring commitment to support and expand press freedom and the free flow of information in this digital age.

 SharkyandSharky are getting so much change, that we no longer have a pair of pants without holes in the pockets.

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Subway - A 362 Foot Long

The men and women of the "silent service" are not likely expecting a Merry Christmas this year.  According to some creative and frightening internet sleuthing, it would appear that the U.S. Navy is firing up their collective reactors.


Within the last 72 hours or so, approximately 9 additional attack subs got under way - likely headed to the Korean Peninsula or thereabouts.

http://www.informationdissemination.net/2010/12/silent-service-gets-underway.html

We all know how much the U.S. depends on the military industrial complex - as it is almost the last remaining home grown business - so start buying up these company's stocks.  It might be the last time you can "strike it rich."

SharkyandSharky hope you sleep tight tonight and don't let the bed bugs bite.

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Barbie The Child Porno Maker

WARNING...WARNING...WARNING
For Immediate Release


The F.B.I. has sent an all-points bulletin alerting "law enforcement officials" to be on the lookout for Video Barbie.  According to the bulletin - "the doll could be used by pedophiles to make child pornography."


ALL other video cameras apparently can not be used in this fashion.


What is more likely the case, is that the F.B.I. and other groups of radicals need be aware that they could be filmed while performing their illegal activities.  Can you say Wikileaks?


Never the less, in the interest of public surrender to the "politically corrupt", Sharky&Sharky are posting a wanted picture so that the children remain "safe".

Description:

Barbie is wearing a hot pink shirt, matching shoes and cropped jeans and bends at the knees.

If you spot this Barbie, you should contact your local F.B.I. office immediately.

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UnReal Estate

Well, now that the great recession of 2008 is coming to a close - or that's what we have been led to believe by the Obama controlled media/press, comes this surprising little gem of Americana.


Once listed for the tidy sum of $154,500, apparently due to the weak and continually eroding real estate market, with a new "priced-to-sell" price of only $69,500 you can purchase a Mr. Ted Kaczynski's 1.4 acres of Montana 'big sky."

One small caveat, the above luxurious building is NOT included.  Seemingly, the stunning example of Mountain Man architecture was dismantled and relocated to Washington, D.C.


Locals say you can still smell the combustibles and explosives ol' Ted used to kill 3 and injure 23 over his 17 yr. bombing spree.

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Pimp My Ride..No!, Just Hail a Cab.

Well in Dubai things are a little wacky. This is because the people have so much money they have obliterated their common sense. You would think that they would share their wealth with poor Arab or Muslim countries. But Nooooo! They rather buy very upscale cabs. WTF. Let those Pakistani's float down stream. The Dubai menfolk need to have decent cabs. WTF. After a long day counting oil profits a guy needs a relaxing ride home.

Give me a freaking break A Lamborghini!

A FERRARI TAXI!!

 May the Holy Mother of Christ give us guidance...Amen

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China Manufactures New American Citizens

Not only is China manufacturing our Dell computers, our IPODS, (and basically everything else that starts with the letter I. There is no I in Chinese so that they have to use our I as well) and our plaster board walls. They are now producing future American Citizens. Du Juan of the China Daily writes that Chinese gals (all as pretty as you please) are Laboring for US Citizenship.

In fact Shanghai (population 17,000,000) is in competition with Beijing ( 13,000,000) as to which can produce the most new US citizens. To keep these populations in perpective the State of North Carolina is only 10,000,000 and NYC is 7,000,000. Of course we do not count the illegal aliens in either city. You can be sure that there are no illegal aliens in Beijing or Shanghai. But less, Sharky&Sharky digress.

The birthing business is run by Ms Jia. To quote this entrepreneur

Jia's agency has helped more than 100 Chinese women from the Chinese mainland to give birth in the US since it was established in 2007 in California. She is in charge of the Beijing office of her company, which goes under the name the US Yuezi Center. Yuezi in the Chinese language refers to the first month after a woman gives birth when, in Chinese culture, she receives special care over her diet, sleep and health.

The company has eight babycare centers in US cities including New York and Los Angeles, where expectant mothers can kill time by shopping in malls nearby. The company provides the expectant mothers with shopping trips three times a week and arranges tourist outings if the clients ask for them.

The biggest babycare center at 400 square meters run by Jia's company is near Long Island in New York. The mothers are served with traditional Chinese dishes such as stir-fried liver, pearl barley soup and boiled fish - foods deemed to be especially good for pregnant women.

Back in China, the representatives are mainly responsible for attracting clients and signing contracts with them for their trip. The average fee for the whole service including accommodation and hospital charges in the US is between 100,000 yuan ($15,026) and 150,000 yuan ($22,539). Clients need to pay extra for flights and the cost of the visa. The trend of giving birth in the US began in Shanghai and has now spread to Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and other big cities.

You might ask why do the Chinese ladies have to pay such hugh amounts when the Mexican ladies do not? Well silly, the Mexican ladies know how to work the US welfare system and the Chinese ladies do not. But do not worry the Chinese ladies will figure it out.

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Republicans keep ObamaCare

This speech by House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-IN) on Health Care has all the nice words but it does not kill Barry's Health Plan. Sharky&Sharky say that the Republicans and now the Conservatives are not hearing the American Public. They were asked/ordered to kill Obama care. Bref, they did not!  First listen to Congressman Pence appear to be on the RIGHT side:


He does not get it; he and all the others get it wrong. Now look at the GOP proposal (it is more wrong), which is touted as the Republicans’ Common-Sense Reforms Will LOWER HEALTH CARE COSTS. Republicans’ alternative solution focuses on lowering health care premiums for families and small businesses, increasing access to affordable, high-quality care, and promoting healthier lifestyles – without adding to the crushing debt Washington has placed on our children and grandchildren. Following are the key elements of Republicans’ alternative plan:

• Lowering health care premiums. The GOP plan will lower health care premiums for American families and small businesses, addressing Americans’ number-one priority for health care reform.

• Establishing Universal Access Programs to guarantee access to affordable health care for those with pre-existing conditions. The GOP plan creates Universal Access Programs that expand and reform high-risk pools and reinsurance programs to guarantee that all Americans, regardless of pre-existing conditions or past illnesses, have access to affordable care – while lowering costs for all Americans.

• Ending junk lawsuits. The GOP plan would help end costly junk lawsuits and curb defensive medicine by enacting medical liability reforms modeled after the successful state laws of California and Texas.

• Prevents insurers from unjustly cancelling a policy. The GOP plan prohibits an insurer from cancelling a policy unless a person commits fraud or conceals material facts about a health condition.

• Encouraging Small Business Health Plans. The GOP plan gives small businesses the power to pool together and offer health care at lower prices, just as corporations and labor unions do.

• Encouraging innovative state programs. The GOP plan rewards innovation by providing incentive payments to states that reduce premiums and the number of uninsured.

• Allowing Americans to buy insurance across state lines. The GOP plan allows Americans to shop for coverage from coast to coast by allowing Americans living in one state to purchase insurance in another.

• Promoting healthier lifestyles. The GOP plan promotes prevention & wellness by giving employers greater flexibility to financially reward employees who adopt healthier lifestyles.

• Enhancing Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). The GOP plan creates new incentives to save for current and future health care needs by allowing qualified participants to use HSA funds to pay premiums for high deductible health insurance.

• Allowing dependents to remain on their parents’ policies. The GOP plan encourages coverage of young adults on their parents’ insurance through age 25.

Note such items as keeping young adults on their parents plan until they are 25, support of pre-existing conditions, and non-competitively lowering of  health care premiums for the poor. Government should stick with the Policy business and not the Insurance business.  By the by, support of pre-existing conditions should just about break the insurance companies; they are now in the welfare business.

Enough already no one asked for reforms. The American people ask that Obamacare be repealed. Do what we ask.

Sharky©Sharky

Play Boy

The mysterious, musings of young boys. Tantalizing, titillating torment as the pages turned.  One by one, each better than every other - or so it seemed.

Well now, mild mannered middle aged Clark Kent type, thanks to the wonder of aging (memories become foggy) and technology, you can rekindle those now tepid flames.  All the buxom lasses you can imagine are available to digitally fondle courtesy of a custom "hard" drive from Playboy.

Your Wildest Dreams

Think of the possibilities.  You know you want to.  $300.00 seems a small price to pay for your little piece of history - and ALL those articles you swore you use to read.

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The Axis of Evil Slowly Turns

Aljazeera reports that the South Korean President Lee Myung-bak warns of enormous retaliation.

Sharky&Sharky encourage President Myung-bak to stop talking and start preparing to strike. This is the North's second attack against the South. Knowing that everyone will talk, the North will continue to attack. Do not wait until Seoul is attacked.

Your first attack should be against North Korea's nuclear war material manufacturing plants that US President Clinton funded to the tune of $2B from the US tax payers. Like all communist dictators the North Koreans lied when they requested the money for nuclear energy reactors. Further they will continue to lie and bomb South Korea until you ask for a peace treaty.

President Lee Myung-bak: End this North Korean evil now. 

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People ARE Awesome

Check this out for proof

You Simply MUST See These Pictures

These are from the National Geographic 2010 photo contest.  Absolutely stunning!

http://bit.ly/birta6
Click on the above link.

An example

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Get Rid Of These Public Enemies

The above Public Enemies of the United States voted to CENSOR the internet.  Get rid of this trash.

These are the same people who speak out against censorship in other countries around the world but who advocate it in the U.S.

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Nuff Said

Using Public Money For Personal Gain

There is no doubt the MAIN reason people run for office in the U.S. is to get rich quickly.  This explains people's willingness to spend 10's of Millions of personal funds running for the Senate.  The "height" of the office is such that the benefits far out weigh the cost.  Additionally, people lobby hard to be "appointed" to political positions for the very same reason.  Look at all the CZARs. 


A far more sinister reason to run or seek political appointment is the promise of using tax payers monies to accomplish the same goal.

Athens Greece
That wonderful Nobel Laureate and so earth-lovin' Al Gore admitted this weekend, during a speech to a "Green Energy Conference", that he supported public subsidies for corn-based ethanol solely to help him get elected president.  Now boo-hoo Al admits all these subsidies including the $7.7 Billion (with a B) given away last year to the companies producing this snake oil was a bad idea.  Really AL?  Where was Peg to advise you when you needed it?  Guess you've seen the price of Corn Flakes lately.


Said Al
"One of the reasons (only ONE?) I made that mistake is that I paid particular attention to the farmers in my home state of Tennessee, and I had a certain fondness for the farmers in the state of Iowa because I was about to run for president."


SharkyandSharky is sure this Snake Oil Salesman is not supporting "Global Warming" to become exceedingly earth shatteringly wealthy.


Thank god we wiped our feet on the door mat before going into the voting booth.


United States

Airports across the U.S. have installed, are in the process of installing or will soon install a wonderful device called RAPISCAN.  (The "A" is phonetically long)  Feel safer now?  If you're not guilty, you have nothing too worry about.


Put simply - this device is to keep you safe.  Isn't everything these days?


Presumably, the RAPISCAN system is to prevent "underwear bombers" from blowing their balls off.  But wait - it won't prevent that sort of event.  Notice that SharkyandSharky did not say attack in the previous sentence because exploding devices are not attacks.  The Japanese "attacked" Pearl Harbor.


Well if the RAPISCAN won't benefit the flying public, who will it benefit?


Remember a former Secretary for the Department Of Homeland Security (CZAR) one Michael Chertoff?  He now runs a private firm - one of ONLY two that can sell body scanners to U.S. airports!  And the $160 Million (with an M) contract doesn't hurt him either.

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Grope One - Fondle Too

The time to travel is upon us in the U.S.  What once was a joy and a pleasant experience for air travelers has become a nightmare of consequences, fear and loathing.  No longer are citizens and guests of this country treated with ANY sense of propriety or respect.  Gone are the days of rights, reason or the reassurance that we continue to live in the greatest country on earth.  Enter the T.S.A.

The Totalitarian Sexual Predator Abomination has erupted on the scene much as festering pustules on the skin of society.  These disgusting creatures have pervaded the lives of so many under the guise of "Safety" that the framework that once was the foundation of America has eroded to the point of collapse.

ITEM:  A three year old girl was essentially strip searched in public when a TSA thug viciously took away her teddy bear.  Said thug placed a gloved hand under her clothing and proceeded to FONDLE this child in front of not only her parents, but other air travelers as well.

ITEM:  A woman was singled out and forced to submit to a FULL Cavity/Body search because she was a breast cancer survivor.  The TSA demanded that they see her without her prosthesis.

IT IS TIME TO TURN THIS COUNTRY INTO A "NO FLY ZONE"!

Under NO circumstances should anyone fly anywhere.  Inform your employer that you will not subject yourself to the whims of these cretins and will only travel via private plane. 

Under NO circumstances should anyone fly for pleasure or to visit family.  There are other methods to travel.

People need to TAKE THIS COUNTRY BACK - NOW!!! 

©Sharky&Sharky

W.O.W.

Woman of Warsaw

People say all politicians are the same - SharkyandSharky beg to differ with that statement.

Running for office in Warsaw, Poland, Sara May (neé) Katarzyna Szczolek is a breath of fresh air.  Hell, Sara is a dying man's wish for his last breath.  This is a candidate that SharkyandSharky can get behind, or in front of or on top of.  It's our kinda change.

One of Sara's campaign slogans - "I want to change the world and help people solve problems."

You already have Sara, you already have.

Campaign contributions can be made to:

SharkyandSharky@gmail.com

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The Best Way To Make Money In America Is To Steal Someone Else's

Can it get worse?  Take it to the bank.

Everyone has role models but not everyone would choose the likes of Mike Milken, Bernie Madoff, Jeffery Skilling, Ivan Boesky, Ken Lay or a host of others - would they. You Bet!

In a new trend we'll call Lawsuit Usury, outside investors are funding plaintiffs' legal causes to the tune of $1 Billion.  Invest money in lawsuits, many of them - though not all - frivolous, win, and get rich.  What could be better?

An example:

As a result of a 1995 car accident in Philadelphia, a woman and her lawyer borrowed money to pursue legal recourse.  The award of ~$170,000 in 2003 was not enough to cover the interest on the money borrowed.  Said interest in eight years - $220,000+.  And get this - your lawyer or legal counsel is not obliged to disclose that money was borrowed for your litigation.  Ain't that sweet.  SharkyandSharky wonder who is responsible for those laws?

"If you want to use the civil justice system, you have to have money" said Mr. Alan Zimmerman who founded the first group of it's kind in of all places San Francisco.  "...Less money - less justice..."  And SharkyandSharky is sure Mr. Zimmerman has "justice" as his main motivation.

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If I Can Make It There - I'll Make It Anywhere

Some people have all the luck and some people have ALL the luck.

Take for example Tony Chan, the self appointed Feng Shui guru (designer) who made his fortune by bilking the richest woman in Asia - a Ms. Nina Wang.  Mr. Chan was Ms. Wang's Feng Shui advisor.  Later Mr. Chan became Ms. Wang's paramour, although she was 20 years younger than he.  After her death in 2007, during the course of an estate settlement  scandal, Mr. Chan netted a cool $4.2 Billion (with a B).  That's a bunch of Feng!

Fast forward to the year 2008.

Mr. Chan flew into Teterboro airport, in N.J., and hired a car-service to ferry him into Manhattan - a 13 mile trip. No problem so far.  Upon his arrival and subsequent departure from his limo, an aspiring lad by the name of Peter Rahhaoui formed a get rich slowly plan.  After glomming Mr. Chan's AmEx card number, our "when opportunity knocks" driver ran up charges totaling approximately $800,000 in the next several months.

Funny thing is, Mr. Chan is sooo wealthy he never realized these charges were accruing.  Only after a third-party bank specialist noticed some irregularities was the scam uncovered.

Fast forward to today.

But wait - there's more.  Seems Mr. Chan may have forged the will of Ms. Wang.  Mr. Chan now faces legal problems in Hong Kong that may result in Mr. Rahhaoui getting off scot free.

Some people have ALL the luck.

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