The Peanut Gallery

Statements, comments and forecasts that have no substance, but just might turn out to be relevant.


1. President Obama keeps talking about victory in Afghanistan. What victory? In fact he is claiming credit for the withdrawal of US forces and ending the conflict.The facts are as follows. When Obama took office there were 33000 troops in Afghanistan. He increased that threefold to over 100,000 troops and recently announced the withdrawal of 30,000 troops. PG: Is there any doubt that when US troops come home, the Taliban will claim the victory and the country. What a waste of life and money.


2.The French housing market would be the next bubble to pop if the European Central Bank increases interest rates, or if markets begin to perceive the same fundamental weaknesses in France as they currently do in Spain, analysts at Danske Bank wrote in a market note. House prices saw only a minor fall during the financial crisis, and in 2009 they started rising again, to reach new all-time highs in the third quarter of 2011 – up 121 percent since 2000, with prices in Paris rising at the fastest pace.


3.EGYPTIAN husbands will soon be legally allowed to have sex with their dead wives - for up to six hours after their death. The controversial new law is part of a raft of measures being introduced by the Islamist-dominated parliament. It will also see the minimum age of marriage lowered to 14 and the ridding of women's rights of getting education and employment. PG: This will be part of the Obama legacy. He is directly responsible for this lunacy. Mubarak knew what he was dealing with! 


4.China's Watergate -- A top Chinese official is accused of wiretapping the president of China. The man who was thought to be the future president of China has been caught red-handed in a crime: wire-tapping the president of China. Along with this crime up to $180 billion is missing, and it is thought that there is a connection. China is the only dictatorship without one man (the dictator) in charge. China is ruled by a collection of dictators, and therein lies a problem -- fierce and deadly competition.


5.Five men were arrested April 30 in connection with a plot to destroy a bridge outside of Cleveland, Ohio. The men were charged with conspiracy and attempted use of explosive material to damage physical property affecting interstate commerce. The suspects are anarchists who were noticed and approached by an FBI informant during an Occupy protest in Cleveland on Oct. 21, 2011. PG: The Occupy movement has turned into a cover for anarchists and stoners. If the unemployment picture does not improve, we could be witnessing an upswing in the cycle of violence. Needless to say, we all know who these parasites will be voting for come election time!


6.Iran's ambassador to the UN has lodged a complaint against Israel at the Security Council on Friday, slamming Defense Minister Ehud Barak and other Israeli officials for remarks about a potential strike on the Islamic Republic. From Iran's official FARS news agency: Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Hassan Firouzabadi said threats and pressures cannot deter Iran from its revolutionary causes and ideals, and stressed that the Iranian nation will remain committed to the full annihilation of the Zionist regime of Israel to the end. PG: Dead silence from Barak Hussein Obama, even while it is clear that Iran has reached the required enrichment percentage.


7.Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a law aimed at keeping the state's courts or government agencies from basing decisions on Islamic or other foreign legal codes, and a national Muslim group's spokesman said Friday that a court challenge is likely. PG: Good man Brownback! Sharia law is not religion. Its a political way of life. In fact its a straightforward challenge to western freedoms.


8.U.S. job growth slowed sharply in May, a sign of a sputtering recovery that may increase pressure on the Federal Reserve to prop up the economy. The unemployment rate, ticked higher by one-tenth of a percentage point to 8.2%, the first increase since June 2011. "This is what a jobless recovery looks like," said Nomura Securities economist Jeffrey Greenberg. The U-6 rate ((more truthful) is at 14.8%. The Euro-zone unemployment is at 11%. PG: In case the left has not worked it out, business creates employment, governments create unemployment.


9.While the world is sitting on an economic powder keg, President Obama and his Hollywood advisors are campaigning for Gay rights and free contraception. This guy is so out of his depth, its frightening. Even more frightening is that about 45% of the US still support him. 


10.TOKYO –  It must have been a wild ride. Japanese media say a Harley-Davidson motorcycle lost in last year's tsunami has washed up on a Canadian island about 4,000 miles away. "This is unmistakably mine. It's miraculous," Yokoyama told Nippon TV when shown photos of the motorcycle. Yokoyama lost three members of his family in the March 11, 2011, tsunami, and is now living in temporary housing in Miyagi prefecture (state).


Life is a shipwreck, so don't forget to sing in the lifeboats-Voltaire