Friday - Aug 31st, 2007
9:49 am
Satire
If you are interested in adding arcade style flash games to your website to help encourage visitors to stick around and bookmark, then you will want to check out the collections of new arcade style flash games available over at OpenWeb Downloads. The game packs there have all been tested, categorized, pre-packaged and made available for immediate digital download in bundled packs. You can also find them at OpenWeb Downloads but also over at PayLoadZ along with other unique software. Over 300+ flash games are available in several zipped download packages.
The Shooting Arcade game to your left is one typical example. You can demo them all over at their arcade site. Just register at the OpenWeb Downloads Arcade to check them out yourself and have some fun at the same time! We have also loaded three of these games here on ZZ N&S in our right margin for you to play yourself and enjoy! A great idea to add a little fun to your website or blog.
Wednesday - Aug 29th, 2007
7:09 pm
Satire
Denying that he did anything wrong and stating emphatically that “I am not gay,” Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) asked the people of Idaho on Tuesday to forgive him for being arrested two months ago in a police sting in a men’s room at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
Craig, who was taken into custody on June 11 by a plainclothes officer investigating reports of lewd conduct in the restroom, said he pleaded guilty to a disorderly conduct charge in an effort to suppress a story — pursued by his home-state newspaper — that he has secretly engaged in gay trysts.
Craig said the story has been following him for nearly a year. – Fox News
Another nightmare is unraveling for Republican Conservatives in the form of Senator Larry Craig. Mitt Romney clearly comes out in strong opposition of the alleged behavior(s) even while some sharp reporters are asking Senator Craig in public why he is keeping himself in the “closet” and just exactly what’s wrong with him proclaiming himself gay? The questions occurred as he walk off the podium at his press conference asking forgiveness for his “transgression” as his wife stands next to him looking like a deer in headlights. Politics and double standards… they sure go hand in hand.
Tuesday - Aug 28th, 2007
7:15 pm
Satire
Hold on to your seats folks. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet !!
California-based Accredited Home Lenders says that it would stop writing new loans and lay off more than half its workforce. Lehman Brothers is shuttering its BNC Mortgage unit. And Quality Home Loans has joined about a dozen mortgage companies in filing for bankruptcy.
Subprime losses also might foreshadow losses on other new securities. Some of these bundle other loans: auto loans, credit card loans, business loans. In 2006, issuance of all these “asset-backed securities” totaled $748 billion, says Moody’s Investors Service. Other securities perform more exotic tasks. “Credit default swaps” in effect provide insurance against losses on loans (one party pays the other to cover specific losses if they occur).
In theory, all this diversifies risk; in practice, it may disguise risk.
Companies that approve loans (“originators”) often don’t hold them. Loan standards may slip because originators get paid on volume. “The originator has less reason to worry about loan performance down the line,” says economist Joseph Mason of Drexel University. Rating agencies such as Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s evaluate creditworthiness. But the task is gargantuan and global in scale. Moody’s rates 100 nations, 12,000 corporations, 29,000 governmental units and more than 96,000 debt securities. Economist Charles Calomiris of Columbia University worries that agencies may subtly relax ratings because the more securities that are issued, the more the rating agencies make.
The verdict on the new order is unsettled. No one really understands its Byzantine ways. “It has become so complex and so arcane,” former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan said recently, that it is “swamping” governments’ regulatory controls. Yet, it “seemingly works because there is an implicit, invisible hand which creates . . . smoothness.” Most markets, he said, self-regulate. That’s reassuring — up to a point.
Greed and fear are not always self-correcting. If foreign and domestic investors lose confidence, who knows what might happen? Credit might become scarcer as they retreat to safe securities. Interest rates might rise. A panic is conceivable. The biggest upsets “come out of left field,” Greenspan noted. “We never anticipate.” – Robert Samuelson
Monday - Aug 27th, 2007
2:21 pm
Satire
So now we know why Karl Rove resigned earlier this month. Democrats are said to be jumping off of Washington buildings as the nefarious Republican strategy unfolds… LOL
(WASHINGTON – Satire) — Embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales submitted his letter of resignation over the weekend to President George Bush, who today announced he’ll fill the post with departing White House adviser Karl Rove.
The president said he selected Mr. Rove because “he meets the major qualification for the job by being one of the few unemployed, longterm Bush cronies available at the moment.”
Mr. Rove said he’s honored to accept the appointment to such a prestigious position, and he hopes he can “be effective at the attorney general’s main job which is to answer accusatory questions posed by Democrat lawmakers about perfectly legal activities.”
Mr. Gonzales, who has devoted the last year to fending off allegations that he fired eight political appointees for political reasons, said he’s leaving to “spend more time with family, away from the burden of a regular paycheck.”
He plans to write a tell-all memoir about his years at the justice department, tentatively entitled: “I Had No Idea.” — as described by satirical reporter Scott Ott / ScrappleFace
Got to hand it to Scott Ott for this little gem… If this happened, Democrats heads would explode !!
Saturday - Aug 25th, 2007
12:38 pm
Satire
Who are the “Truthers” or “Troofers” as they are refered to by Cox & Forkum above?
Magical thinking neanderthals that believe there is a evil sinister government plot behind every mishap including Katrina and the great meteorite crater outside of Winslow Arizona. The quintessential paranoid personality archetype of the political left.
The Discovery Channel has been running a show debunking the 9/11 “truth” movement who are full of these magical thinkers: 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction. The show airs twice more this weekend: Saturday, August 25 at 8:00 PM and Sunday, August 26 at 12:00 AM so be sure to check it out.
From Discovery Channel…
Examines the various conspiracy theories espoused on the
Internet, in articles and in public forums that attempt to explain the
9/11 attacks. It includes theories that the World Trade Center was
brought down by a controlled demolition; that a missile, not a
commercial airliner, hit the Pentagon; and that members of the U.S.
government orchestrated the attacks in hopes of creating a war in the
Middle East. Each conspiracy argument is countered by a variety of
experts in the fields of engineering, intelligence and the
military. The program also delves into the anatomy of such
conspiracies and how they grow on the Internet.
Facts??? We don’t need no stinking facts !!
It really just amazes us how much air play these mental morons get and how they are revered by the crazies and moonbat in the far left Democrat subculture. Yet they are the first ones to scream…. where is the government to help them when they themselves are victims. They are the very same people who lobby to handcuff our intelligence agencies, then cry “incompetence” when an event unfolds that the agencies were not aware of. Sick puppies with neurological disorders induced by copious amounts of leftist government conspiracy fantasy films from Hollywood screenplay writers. These poor souls can’t distinguish fact from fiction and have brains that are as pliable as cookie dough.
Here are two additional sources if information lifted from the C&F
site that are worth checking out. Just in case you feel yourself
succumbing to these conspiracy myths yourself.
Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can’t Stand Up To The Facts by David Dunbar and Brad Reagan, both editors at Popular Mechanics, is the must-read book on the subject.
See the Screw Loose Change
blog for the latest information about leaders of the “truth” movement
and the conspiracy film “Loose Change.” They also have links to other
debunking sites.
Friday - Aug 24th, 2007
8:17 pm
Satire
Now this has to be one of the best strategies we have heard in a long time. Satirist Scott Ott fires away in sarcasm at Senator Warner for his extremely insightful strategy of changing the playing field in the War on Terror. Why not bring it here and give the troops a break !!
(WASHINGTON) — Sen. John Warner, R-VA, yesterday called on President George Bush to start bringing troops home from Iraq “to show al Qaeda that the U.S. commitment to fighting Muslim terrorists overseas is not open-ended.”
“This is a two-way street,” said Sen. Warner. “We’ve kept our end of the deal, delivering crushing blows to the terror networks, but al Qaeda has refused to capitulate. It’s time to send a strong, clear message that our devotion to fighting the enemies of freedom is not a blank check.”
The influential member of the Senate Armed Services Committee said, “Osama Bin Laden and his minions need to see that we mean business, and that someday soon they won’t have the U.S. military to kick around Iraq anymore.”
The lawmaker added that best way to quell the violence against U.S. forces in Iraq is to remove them from Iraq.
“After we’re out,” he said, “if al Qaeda wants to kill Americans they’ll have to come to America to do it, where our troops will be enjoying a well-deserved rest at home and time with their wives and children.” — [Hat Tip: -- satirist Scott Ott / ScrappleFace]
No doubt the good Senator has a clear plan and strategy for the aftermath in the Middle East in 2009 when the Democrats have control of the helm and the troops are ordered home. The strategy above sounds as plausible as any other we have heard from the leading Democratic candidates. You go Senator !!!
Thursday - Aug 23rd, 2007
1:33 pm
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(WASHINGTON) — Former presidential rival Sen. John Kerry, D-MA, today filed suit against President George Bush over remarks to the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) yesterday in which the president likened the consequences of an early pullout from Iraq to the blood-drenched aftermath of the U.S. retreat from Vietnam in the 1970s.
The lawsuit claims that Sen. Kerry, a professional Vietnam veteran, “holds exclusive rights among modern politicians to the use of Vietnam imagery, metaphor and analogy to present-day circumstances.” Essentially, the suit argues that President Bush infringed on Mr. Kerry’s copyright by even mentioning Vietnam in a political context.
In the VFW speech, the president cast a vision for a free Iraq, noting that during World War II few believed that Japan could ever become a free, democratic nation and a U.S. ally. During the Korean war, few dreamed that South Korea could become the economic engine of today, as well as a stalwart friend of the United States.
“And during the Vietnam war,” Mr. Bush added, “few could have hoped that U.S. military involvement would eventually produce a junior senator from Massachusetts who would become the second popularly-elected Democrat to never serve as president.” — as reported by satirist Scott Ott / ScrappleFace
Wednesday - Aug 22nd, 2007
5:15 pm
Satire
Yep… that’s right! Bye Bye Blogger… After four years and 1500+ posts on an otherwise ground breaking platform, we have decided to switch to a more flexible blogging platform for ZZ N&S.
We apologize for any formatting problems you may have experienced… we believe we have taken care of most of them. More on what we are planning later on. Right now its back to testing and porting the site.
We do regret however that our old permalinks were not compatible with the WordPress formatting (unless we can find a way to port them over). We’ll we did find a fix and want to give a plug to a great site that helped out with a database wipe utility… WordPress Suicide. If you are thinking about switching over… make sure you convert the permalinks if you have a busy site so you don’t loose Google rank and frustrate readers that may have bookmarked your posts !!
Feel free to re-Digg a few of our older posts that you might find interesting if you are so inclined…
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