Friday - May 02, 2014
the Glacial Turtle Party goes on the attack
“Dude, like where were you, like totally two years ago?” *
House Republicans moved on two fronts Friday to dig for answers on Benghazi, with Speaker John Boehner announcing a special committee to investigate and a key panel subpoenaing Secretary of State John Kerry to testify.
In a significant shift, Boehner announced that the House will vote on establishing a select committee to investigate, on the heels of newly released emails that raised additional questions about the White House’s response.
“In light of these new developments, the House will vote to establish a new select committee to investigate the attack, provide the necessary accountability, and ensure justice is finally served,” he said in a statement.
Boehner has long faced pressured from rank-and-file members for months to form such a panel to probe the attacks which killed four Americans including a U.S. ambassador, and until now had resisted. Fox News is told the speaker made the decision Thursday to go forward with a vote. The committee is expected to be bipartisan, and Fox News is told Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., is among those being considered to lead it.
The committee would still have to be approved on the House floor.
The movement comes after newly released emails raised questions about the White House role in pushing faulty claims about the attacks.
Caught that key line right away, didn’t you? “Still has to be approved ...” Gosh, do the Republicans have a majority in the House these days, or is this yet another piece of worthless BS grandstanding?
Meanwhile ... “at this point, what difference does it make?”: the emails have finally leaked out that makes these bastard’s guilt apparent, is 100% sticky, and goes all the way to the top. Investigate? Why bother. Impeach ‘em all.
A newly-released government email indicates that within hours of the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks on Americans in Benghazi, Libya; the State Department had already concluded with certainty that the Islamic militia terrorist group Ansar al Sharia was to blame.
The private, internal communication directly contradicts the message that President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice and White House press secretary Jay Carney repeated publicly over the course of the next several weeks. They often maintained that an anti-Islamic YouTube video inspired a spontaneous demonstration that escalated into violence.
The email is entitled “Libya update from Beth Jones. ” Jones was then-Assistant Secretary of State to Hillary Clinton. According to the email, Jones spoke to Libya’s Ambassador at 9:45am on Sept. 12, 2012 following the attacks.
“When [the Libyan Ambassador] said his government suspected that former Qaddafi regime elements carried out the attacks, I told him the group that conducted the attacks—Ansar Al Sharia—is affiliated with Islamic extremists,” Jones reports in the email.There is no uncertainty assigned to the assessment, which does not mention a video or a protest. The State Department provided the email to Congress in Aug. of 2013 under special conditions that it not be publicly released at that time. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) sought and received permission to release it Thursday.
“If the video was a cause, why did Beth Jones of the State Department tell the Libyan Ambassador that Ansar Al Sharia was responsible for the attack?” said Chaffetz.
Disgusting.
PS - There is a lot of bad information online about how to tie a hangman’s noose. In a proper noose, at the top of the knot, the stub end of the rope does not protrude at right angles to the working end. The stub end protrudes alongside it, in parallel, emerging from within the coils. This is because a hangman’s noose is an extension of a scaffold noose, which itself is an extension of the poacher’s knot, which is just a double bend slip knot. Tying a proper noose is a bit of a learned skill; it is more easily done with 4 hands, or with 2 nails a distance apart sticking out of a board to use as corner holders when you build the knot. Once it is wrapped, the hangman’s noose has to have the slack taken out a wrap at a time from the top down. In the end, when properly made, a hangman’s noose will completely unravel if the bends are held in place and the working end pulled, if the noose has nothing to tighten on.
I am a true Conservative: I believe in doing things the right way.
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Permalink • Tuesday - April 01, 2014
Really? I missed it all.
Golly gee, the final episode of How I Met Your Mother aired last night, after 9 seasons. Or was it 8? Or 13? And all the social networks are just abuzz with how the ending was just ... wrong.
Gee, not sorry, but I missed it. Actually, I never saw a single episode. Not one. Not even part of one. The commercials were on constantly, and they left me dead cold. Always. Kind of like the ads running now for this thing called The Millers. Are you effin’ kidding me? You couldn’t pay me to watch that crap.
I’m not sure how I’d define what interests me for a sitcom or other television show, but my wife and I keep missing out on all these “culturally relevant” programs. Never saw The Wire. Never saw The Sopranos. Never saw that other show that just ended a couple weeks ago after a many years run either. Hell, I’m so out of it I can’t even remember its name. No, I don’t mean 30 Rock or The Office, neither of which we ever saw either. Oh, right, Breaking Bad. That was it.
And it’s always been like that for me. As a small kid, I thought The Honeymooners sucked. There wasn’t a single thing in it that was in the least bit funny. Never could stand The Brady Bunch. Don’t watch Dancing With The Stars, or any of the America’s Next Top _____. Competitive cooking shows? Give me a friggin break. I can’t smell it, I can’t taste it. Don’t waste my time. I only managed to follow Survivor for 2 or 3 season, but not until after the first generation of watchers had abandoned the show. Which I rejected as complete BS when I first heard about it, because it wasn’t really about survival much at all; the show ought to have been called lying backstabbers. I don’t find that kind of thing entertaining. I can’t watch any of the reality programs; they’re all crap.
And the shows we do love? They get cancelled. All the time. Something that starts out with an awesome premise, like Lost or Fringe, gets dragged sideways and goes to Hell. Without fail; we are the anti-Nielsons here. So whoever the Powers That Be are in TV Land, their ideas don’t mesh with ours. Ok, almost all. She watched Burn Notice and Monk from the beginning almost to their ends. “BN” bored me after 2 seasons; too much Michael doing the McGyver shiz, and nowhere near enough Michael doing Fiona. And Monk? Half the time I found the show’s concept offensive, and half the rest of the other half of the time I found it boring, as Mr. Monk never learned, never healed, never made any forward motion, never made any progress on Trudy’s murder. And the ending was an even bigger slapped together crock of crap than that made for the American version of Life On Mars (aka “It was all a dream").
Politics is pretty much the same way. The candidates we like get creamed. The ones we hate get elected and reelected forever. The only party that has come anywhere near to lining up with the things I believe in has been the Tea Party, and they’ve been media raped nearly as much as Sarah Palin. I doubt if there has been a government program or action in the past 10 years that I’ve agreed with. I simply don’t fit in. I wish I did. I always wanted to. But I don’t. Never have. And I’ve long since stopped worrying about it. Mostly.
Maybe there will be something new this fall that we can get in on the ground floor of, that becomes a cultural reference / hinge pin that everyone revolves around. I hope so. CSI and NCIS are both worn out, and the new NOLA spin off with Scott Bakula is sure to bomb even worse than the Star Trek series he killed. I mean, how the heck do you do such a piss poor job that a Star Trek series gets cancelled??? It’s already bad enough that Game of Thrones runs only 10 episodes per year with just this year and next to churn through 3 1/2 books worth of story, and that Boardwalk Empire has killed off or eliminated nearly every interesting character other than Nucky at this point. And no more sweet, sweet naked Gretchen Moll. Crap. She was the best part of Life On Mars too. Hotness, yum.
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Permalink • Sunday - December 08, 2013
lady speaks the truth but … hell hath no rath like an ex husband?
This isn’t exactly the normal way to share a story. Just say to folks, hey. Never mind what I have to say. And after all, I am a foreigner here. But I don’t think she’s referring to me anyway. But who knows? Thing is .... the video was made in ‘08 and the lady speaks openly and honestly what I believe the vast majority believe. They are however, helpless at this moment.
The Daily Mail headline is, as so much of their headlines and captions are, grossly misleading.
There is nothing racist at all about her comments.
Her former husband had something to do with the video, and why some things were not erased is beyond my understanding. It isn’t that she said anything bad, but that some things could be used against her later. If you see the video and read the article you’ll understand.
Some politicos of course have jumped on the hang her (politically) bandwagon. I can’t stomach those types but sadly they are a part of the ruling class here as they are in the USA. But I believe more so. And further, I find it disturbing that a conservative paper like the DM can be so damn misleading but then .... they don’t support UKIP.
Oh yeah… finally. Of special note are the remarks made by her ex who clearly seems (to me) to be trying to end her political career and damage UKIP at the same time.
So here’s the link to the article.
SEND EM BACK SOURCE FOR ALL OF IT
‘Send them all back home’: In shocking video, UKIP councillor and key Farage ally launches astonishing racist video rant… then insists: ‘I stand by every word’Victoria Ayling says all immigrants in Britain should be sent back home
Tells camera: ‘I just want to send the lot back, but I can’t say that’
UKIP leader Nigel Farage said her comments were ‘slightly odd’
Ayling said there is nothing ‘offensive or politically incorrect’ in videoBy Paul Cahalan
Mrs Ayling – a Lincolnshire County councillor and deputy leader of the local UKIP party – says : ‘Multiculturalism is dead, I’m allowed to say that, but maybe Britishness is waving the National Front flag a bit.
‘We must control immigration. We cannot sustain the numbers coming in; the strains on our infrastructure are enormous. Control should be done fairly and the points system like they have in Australia and all those coming here should be encouraged to speak English so they can integrate.’
She adds: ‘I just want to send the lot back but I can’t say that.’
Last night, Mrs Ayling insisted her comments were taken ‘out of context’ and she was only referring to illegal immigrants.
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Permalink • Sunday - November 24, 2013
inflammatory remarks about one minority community by a senior politician
I don’t know if it’ll make much difference, but this was a surprise coming from a senior politician.
I guess he isn’t running for elected office, but the pc crowd who always search out and find offense is sure to lock on to this one.
Pakistanis in UK fuelling corruption, says law chief: Attorney General warns politicians to ‘wake up’ to the threat posed by minority communitiesDominic Grieve made inflammatory remarks in a newspaper interview
He said minority communities have ‘endemic’ corruption
‘It’s mainly the Pakistani community, not the Indian community’, he claimed
Also said corruption could be found in ‘white Anglo Saxon community’
The senior law officer said that the authorities should take action to combat electoral fraud in areas with high migrant populationsBy Gerri Peev
Corruption is rife in Britain’s Pakistani community, the country’s most senior law officer has warned.
Dominic Grieve said politicians needed to ‘wake up’ to the threat of corruption posed by minority communities using a ‘favour culture’.
In remarks that will inflame already sensitive diplomatic relations with Pakistan, the attorney general said he was referring to ‘mainly the Pakistani community’.
He said electoral corruption was a problem in constituencies such as Slough in Berkshire. Tory councillor Eshaq Khan was found guilty of fraud involving postal ballots in 2008.
Khan and five others were jailed in 2009 for using ‘ghost’ voters to win a local council ballot to oust longstanding Labour councillor Lydia Simmons from her seat on Slough Borough Council.
The audacious scam in 2007 was described by the Crown Prosecution Service as part of an ‘epidemic’ which threatens to destroy democracy in the UK.
Father-of 10 Khan received a three-and-a-half year prison sentence for conspiracy to defraud, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and perjury.
The Electoral Commission is planning to introduce tougher identity checks at the ballot box in Tower Hamlets in East London, another area that has suffered from electoral fraud.
David Cameron sparked outrage earlier in his premiership when he accused Pakistan of ‘exporting terrorism’ while on a visit to India.
Mr Grieve told the Daily Telegraph that corruption could also be found in the ‘white Anglo-Saxon community’ as well as among other groups.
But he said the rise of corruption was ‘because we have minority communities in this country which come from backgrounds where corruption is endemic.
‘It is something we as politicians have to wake to up to’.
Qassim Afzal, the Lib Dem chairman of the party’s Friends of Pakistan group, criticised what he called Mr Grieve’s “loose language”.
He told BBC Radio 5Live: ‘I’m profoundly disturbed at a statement from such a senior Conservative MP against the British Pakistani community.
‘This doesn’t help bring communities together.’
Baroness Warsi, the Foreign Office minister, has previously said the Conservatives lost three seats at the general election because of voter fraud in the Asian community.
Mr Grieve, whose Beaconsfield constituency in Buckinghamshire has a sizeable Asian community, said: ‘I can see many of them have come because of the opportunities that they get.
‘But they also come from societies where they have been brought up to believe you can only get certain things through a favour culture.
‘One of the things you have to make absolutely clear is that that is not the case and it’s not acceptable.’
Asked if he was referring to the Pakistani community, Mr Grieve said: ‘Yes, it’s mainly the Pakistani community, not the Indian community. I wouldn’t draw it down to one. I’d be wary of saying it’s just a Pakistani problem.’
He added: ‘I happen to be very optimistic about the future of the UK. We have managed integration of minority communities better than most countries in Europe.’
Mr Grieve also admitted that the ‘volume’ of potential immigrants from Romania and Bulgaria next year when movement controls were lifted ‘may pose serious infrastructure problems’.
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Permalink • Monday - November 18, 2013
politics …. no really guys. politics. would I kid you?
She’s an adviser on what? rotflmao Foreign affairs?
Hey ... am I foreign enuff? yuk-yuk
Having a difficult time keeping a straight face on this one. Come on. She’s only 27.
Reminds me of another song from yrs gone by. Would have to change a few words though.
Nice job if you can get it, and you can get it if you try.
Or if you look like her.
Hey ... I’m a tad tired of the usual stuff and this tickled the funny bone.
Also very tired, been up way too long and too long at the computer.
That’s my excuse and I am sticking with it.
Busty Serbian politician, 27, at ‘centre of government probe’ after racy photos of her in lingerie appear in tabloid paper
Vanja Hadzovic is an adviser in the ministry of foreign affairs
The photos of her in the daily Blic have ruffled feathers in the ministry
By Ted Thornhill
A sexy politician has made waves in her homeland after revealing photos of her appeared in a tabloid paper.
Vanja Hadzovic, 27, an adviser in the ministry of foreign affairs, is planning a life as a career diplomat.
But the photos of her in the daily Blic have ruffled feathers among her superiors in the ministry.
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Permalink • Wednesday - November 06, 2013
Another Short Bus Win
Just like 2 weeks ago, when the pundits went on about what a great almost-victory NJ’s Steve Lonegan (R) had against the corruptocrat Obamabot Cory Booker (D), losing by only 10% in the Special Olympics Special Election ... everybody gets a medal for participating!
No it doesn’t. They still won, and that’s good enough. Being Dems, they’ll have somebody to blame it on already ... low turnout, bad weather, a big football game, lazy ballot box stuffers ... just like they always do when they lose. Or just barely win. Or maybe ... maybe, like their master Teh iWon, they’ve perfected the art of fucking with you just to give you a taste of hope. Rig the vote to make the results look like whatever they want. A bit of Lucy holding the ball for Charlie Brown. And you’ll get all excited, and charge that ball once again for the big kick, and ... Aaaaaarrggh!!
VIRGINIA SQUEAKER SENDS SHIVERS THROUGH DEMS - Vulnerable Democrats must have watched in dismay as Democrat Terry McAuliffe barely clung to victory on Tuesday. Having spent three times more money than his rival and with the backing of his popular patrons, Bill and Hillary Clinton, McAulliffe was breezing to victory just three weeks ago. But his once-stout lead in the polls over Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli nearly vanished as voter outrage over the crash landing of ObamaCare nearly wrecked the race. A double-digit lead turned into a three-point scrape. Exit polls showed intense opposition to ObamaCare that helped Cuccinelli, who was written off by the national GOP and who had to lug along the scandal-plagued administration of Republican incumbent Gov. Bob McDonnell.
Exit strategy - It looks like if Cuccinelli had another week to tag McAuliffe for his unflinching support of President Obama’s unpopular new entitlement, the race might have ended differently. What if he would have had another year? That’s the reality facing vulnerable Democrats on the 2014 election cycle. As Republican candidates without Cuccinelli’s structural problems contemplate months and months of public frustrations with administrative failures, cancelled policies and premium spikes, the path to a Senate majority starts to look a little clearer as the fortunes of Democrats in red states and swing states continues to dim.
Keep dreaming. If he’d had another year, the herds of sheeple would have already been driven to their Single Payer slaughter pens and given some new McGrass to graze on ... and no matter how much excrement has hit the oscillator that is the O-care web page roll-out, their utter lack of short term memory would have put this behind them. Look, new babes onAmerica’s Next Bachelorette Dancer With Talent!! And ...oooh, shiny things!!! And soft!! Baa. Baaa. Baaaa!
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Permalink • Wednesday - October 16, 2013
NJ Turns Bluer
Steve Lonegan got creamed at the polls in special election for state senator. Steve Lonegan is the closest thing to an actual Conservative that this state has seen in generations. He isn’t FAR RIGHT. He isn’t a NAZI (I know, I know, but. the media.) He isn’t RADICAL. He’s really just an actual Republican, a normal Conservative. When the GOP had the primary for Governor the other year, it was Lonegan against Chris Christie. Christie, who many on what little of the Right remains feel is AT BEST a RINO, seemed like a tax ‘n spend gun hating Democrat in comparison. But Steve frightens people somehow. He doesn’t spin the bullshit, nor does he sugar coat the turds. So Christie creamed him in the governor’s primary back then, and went on to win that race. Lonegan, still trying to be relevant, or in theory still trying to save and serve NJ, got his name in as the Republican in this current special election to replace a Senator. Cuz Lautenberg died after being Senator for 3871 years. Burn in Hell Frank, you disgusting crotchwipe. Burn forever.
But today’s race was Lonegan vs Booker. And Cory Booker destroyed him.
Booker is slightly Black, totally Left, and fully corrupt. He’s one of Obama’s sycophants, and thus has the media in his pocket. And he’s slightly Black. That’s all it takes. Oh, and it said (D) next to his name at the voting booth. So he wins. And he’ll be our new Senator for as long as he wants the job.
I haven’t seen the polling data, but I’ll bet you a donut it breaks down just as it always does. Us rubes up here in the NW corner, a fifth of the state in area but barely 1/20th in population, voted bright Red. So did the SE quarter, excluding Atlantic City. And there will be a red pocket in the middle, somewhere around Fort Dix in the Pine Barrens in the middle of the state. And ritzy northern Bergen County - not southern, only slightly upscale southern Bergen County, but the the tony northern part along the NY border - will be somewhat purple. Pity that these areas, call it half the land area, don’t have as much as half the population. Nope, that’s all in the urban areas. The rest of the state, including all the ghetto cities - Camden, Patterson, Passaic, Elizabeth, Perth Amboy, Plainfield, etc - blue on blue on blue. And that’s where all the people live. All the government dependent people. Like roaches, packed into sardine cans. Once you get past the urban Hola/Ebonix zones, most of the state is really not that populated.
I don’t know why we even bother to vote anymore. We never get represented. Flegh, even our “Republican” governor is a best a RINO. How about that, a hippo and a RINO at the same time.
I hate this state.
New Jersey Democrat Cory Booker on Wednesday won the state’s special Senate election – keeping the open seat for his party.
“Thank you so much, New Jersey,” Booker said. “I’m proud to be your Senator-elect.”
The Associated Press declared Newark’s high-profile mayor the winner over Republican Steve Lonegan, 55-to-44 percent, with 85 percent of polls reporting.
The 44-year-old Booker fills the open seat of Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who died in June. He becomes the second African-American in the Senate along with Republican Tim Scott of South Carolina.
Toldja so ... fuck, the guy is whiter than I am (no, not really) Ok he’s paler than Vin Diesel (true) but it’s ever so important that we keep being told how A-A he is.
Lonegan cut into Booker’s early, 27 point lead in the final weeks but got no closer than 13 points in the final days – even after the country’s largest Tea Party political action committee brought 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to New Jersey last weekend.
Booker also relied on some star power, including fundraising help from Oprah Winfrey.
Cory Booker ... he’s so BLACK he gets Oprah to campaign for him. And Teh Won too.
Voters went to the polls as Capitol Hill lawmakers voted to end the partial government shutdown—a fiscal crisis that helped define each candidate’s political platform during the two-month campaign.
Booker accused Congress of failing voters by not finding a way to work together while the Tea Party-backed Lonegan supported the shutdown fight, arguing against the ObamaCare concept of government-directed health insurance and calling for a one-year delay.
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Lonegan, 57, the former state director of Americans for Prosperity, a group advocating limited government that was founded by the billionaire Koch brothers, ran an aggressive campaign.
Yup, an actual Conservative. Not a snowball’s chance ... the media here decided Booker won back in late August.
Booker was forced off-message to explain G-rated correspondence with a stripper he met while filming a social media documentary.
Hey, maybe he really is Black after all. No, that’s not why. It’s merely that corruption and vice follow him around ... like white on rice.
But Booker painted him as a Tea Party extremist, one who would—if sent to Washington—make the capital’s gridlock worse.
You know what sucks rotten donkey balls? Even Fox News now labels the Tea Party as extremists. Not only can we not win, we can’t even get anywhere near a fair shake. The Tea Party people are merely traditional Constitutionalists. Not all of us are even Conservatives. We just paid a tiny bit of attention in school, so we know how America used to be, and how it’s supposed to be. And isn’t any more. Limited government and fiscal sanity. And we want to see real - REAL - movement towards getting things back that way. You know, just in case we don’t want our great-grandchildren to be debt slaves to China. That makes us anti-education CO2 denying misogynistic nigger hanging Nazi granny rapers, don’t it? Just ask the news media. Or the pollsters ... I think I saw a poll the other day 34% of Americans think the Tea Party is a scarier threat than terrorism, communism, and a dead economy.
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Permalink • Saturday - October 12, 2013
conservative eye candy
I confess, I get some pleasure in posting the photos of some really ugly left wingers. I always think, rightly or not, that their ugliness matches their personality.
That’s simply my own personal prejudice since I hate what they do, say and stand for.
But I’ve neglected the conservative ladies along the way. To be honest, I haven’t been looking either. Anyway, nursing a bad stomach and reading the morning paper I came across this bit of lovely. She isn’t a pro model or an actress either. Oh well, hang on a minute. If she is now in politics she might be an actress.
What’s important is, she is a Tory. (Conservative)
Conservative MP posed for a sultry photo shoot back in 1999
Photos released not long after she was appointed employment minister
ESTHER McVEY
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Permalink • Friday - October 11, 2013
Only 60?
Would’ve thought 80-90 at this point.
That’s the message 60 percent of Americans are sending to Washington in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, saying if they had the chance to vote to defeat and replace every single member of Congress, including their own representative, they would. Just 35 percent say they would not.
According to the latest NBC/WSJ poll, the shutdown has been a political disaster. One in three say the shutdown has directly impacted their lives, and 65 percent say the shutdown is doing quite a bit of harm to the economy. NBC’s Chuck Todd reports.
The 60 percent figure is the highest-ever in that question recorded in the poll, registered in the wake of the government shutdown and threat of the U.S. defaulting on its debt for the first time in history. If the nation’s debt limit is not increased one week from now, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew warns that the entire global economy could be in peril.
“We continue to use this number as a way to sort of understand how much revulsion there is,” said Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart, who conducted the poll with Republican Bill McInturff. “We now have a new high-water mark.”
The numbers reflect a broader trend over the last few years. Americans have traditionally said that while they might not like Congress, they usually like their own representatives. But that sentiment appears to have shifted.
Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid speaks in the White House driveway following a meeting Thursday with President Barack Obama.
The throw-them-all-out attitude has slowly taken hold over the last three years, coinciding with two things – the rise of the Tea Party caucus in the House and the debt ceiling fight of 2011.
In other countries they have a “no confidence” vote that can bring down the government. Makes me wonder if we shouldn’t have such a thing here. Every day, every year the US government gets bigger and costlier, and moves to the left. A “centrist” now is where a far left Dem was 40 years ago. Even the “royal” and sainted JFK, demi-god of the Dems, would be a hard-line Conservative today.
Yup, it’s time to push the Reset button.
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Permalink • Wednesday - October 02, 2013
the longer the Obama presidency continues, the more America’s status as a superpower ebbs away.
I thought our readers in the USA might be interested in one Brit’s take on the current crises in the states.
He apparently doesn’t care much for O.
I guess that puts him on our side. I have read I should tell you, one or two pundits who believe that the president actually has the majority of us on his side in this matter, and in the end will come out on top.
We’ll see.
US government shutdown: Barack Obama is presiding over the end of America’s superpower statusBy Con Coughlin
For a country that is supposed to be the most powerful in the world, the fact that Americans have today woken up to find large swathes of their nation closed for business is humiliating.
Thanks to President Barack Obama obduracy over his flagship healthcare policy, Democrats and Republicans have failed to reach agreement in Congress on the federal budget, forcing the US Government to close down for the first time in 17 years, with around 700,000 federal workers being placed on indefinite leave.
While the White House insists that essential areas of the government, such as the military, will continue to function, the shut down represents yet a further blow to the prestige of the Obama administration at a time when it is still reeling from its inept handling of the recent Syrian crisis.
There was a time not so long ago when the world looked to America for both political and economic leadership. But now that can no longer be taken for granted thanks to Mr Obama’s inability to provide decisive leadership on either front.
Republicans rightly argue that by pressing ahead with Obamacare before the implications of the programme have been properly assessed risks adding to America’s debt mountain at a time when the American economy is still recovering from the biggest economic crisis in recent history.
The emergence of Russia, meanwhile, as the main power broker in the Syria crisis has severely damaged America’s standing as a major global player.
In short, the longer the Obama presidency continues, the more America’s status as a superpower ebbs away.
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Permalink • Monday - September 02, 2013
Mirror Mirror On The Wall …
”So we’re bombing Syria because Syria is bombing Syria? And I’m the idiot?” So, said Sarah Palin Friday evening.
Her sharply sarcastic statement, posted on her Facebook page as usual, followed President Obama’s latest global update on his unusually long deliberations over what he describes as a minor reaction to Syria’s use of chemical weapons against Syrians. Fifty-three weeks ago Obama drew a red line in the sand, saying:
“We have been very clear to the Assad regime but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is; we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus; that would change my equation.”
Last winter Bashar Assad used chemical weapons, killing a few hundred of his countrymen, country-women and country-children. No White House action then.
As one result, more than two weeks ago the Syrian dictator once more used these weapons, killing more than 1,400 men, women and children in the capital’s suburbs. Again, no immediate U.S. reaction. Only when the public and congressional drumbeat increased, did the administration speak out. Obama consulted with allies. John Kerry talked imminent serious military action. Britain’s Parliament said, “Uh, no, not us.”
Obama’s point has been that there should be some consequences for violating international norms about chemical weapons.
Stuck in his own painted-corner, Obama hesitates further, adding to his perceived weakness abroad and puzzling even sympathetic supporters. So long after the crime, the Democrat’s planned punishment, whatever it is, now looks more like a lash-out for his own humiliation by the skinny Syrian.
Today, Obama said he envisioned only a “limited, narrow act” with no “open-ended commitment” and no “boots on the ground approach.” Then, despite the limited, simple steps he has in mind, Obama dithers more, repeating, “I have not made any decisions.”
Reminds us of someone’s angry mother telling a misbehaving son, “Boy, are you in trouble when your father gets home from his business trip next week.” By which time, no one remembers the crime.
Both barrels Sarah, reload, repeat.
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There were a number of very interesting comments on Drew’s Saturday post, Mr. Blameless. Some darn good points but I have to say a few things based on what’s happening here on the topic.
As it happens, France is quite ready to launch missiles at Syria. And according to Kerry who really stepped into it large, France is our oldest ally. I suppose technically that is true. But Brits don’t see it exactly that way. They feel they are America’s closest and most trustworthy ally, and some have rejected Kerry’s statement. Critics remind France that after all, it’s Americans that called you cheese eating surrender monkeys.
I always thought that was a reference to the surrender in WW2, when Paris was declared an open city. Do I have that wrong? Because here, it’s a reference to France not backing our war against Iraq under Hussein.
First, the msm closely followed by any number of blog sites, keep banging on about Assad launching attacks against civilians. Ah, the magic word that justifies the west sticking it’s nose into Syria’s civil war. Just as it did setting things straight in Libya, and we can all see how great that turned out for the Libyans. Not that I miss Gaddafi. Every article I read, and this would be in conservative papers, all use the same wording. They claim that Assad has, “attacked his own civilian population”.
I say No He Hasn’t. He has attacked insurgents many of whom are known terrorists and jihadists who operate from civilian centers.
Also, you all will recall, (Drew covered this in a post some time ago) the habit these folks have of using mosques as ammo dumps and fire bases when it suits them. The end result of course is civilian casualties. The papers seem to very conveniently forget about that small item.
Anyway …
I totally agree with all Drew had to say about our staying out of that dismal and unordered mess that is Syria’s civil war. Further, I have serious doubts that Assad while maybe bad, is also mad. He’d have to be to order an attack using chemical weapons at the very time UN inspectors are in his country. And doubly mad to use any weapons of any kind where his own troops are known to be. Which has been put forward here.
Kerry and his master in the WH seem to believe, or they would dearly like to believe, that Assad ordered the use of those weapons. I have no access to top secret documents so I wouldn’t know. Would I? But it just doesn’t add up and I don’t believe Assad is crazy or even stupid. I do think it is just as likely that someone ordered an attack and gave an order to use them without first getting approval. Okay, that’s remote I know.
And then there are the Christians. Or has everyone forgotten about them?
I have heard the odd interview here and there with some Christian refugees, who are worried about the fall of Assad’s regime. They are they have said, worried about their future or if they will even have one, if Assad falls. He has not been anti Christian but they are worried that whoever replaces him, just might be.
OK finally, just so you get a picture of what some folks in the press think, and this is from Conservative, Max Hastings.
This is his take on Parliament voting against support for their PMs sabre rattling. Which is insanely interesting as it was the Brit PM who lobbied Obama very hard and spent 40 minutes on the phone with him, to convince Obama to join with the UK in sending Assad a message via missiles. He never stopped to check if he had the support he’d need here, but lobbied O. thinking he did. Color him embarrassed now.
I am not posting his entire editorial but before you get hot under the collar, I’d suggest you read it all first.
A disaster? No, it’s high time Britain stopped being Uncle Sam’s poodle...And as for those taunts about their ‘oldest allies’ the French, who cares!
By Max HastingsWe have associated ourselves with the U.S. in successive foreign crusades, and gained no reward in prestige, respect or gratitude.
The historian Michael Burleigh wrote in his recent book Small Wars, Far Away Places, castigating the failure of U.S. interventions: ‘Everything the U.S. did damned it as an imperialist power and, however harsh that verdict may seem, since Vietnam it has stuck.’ Burleigh is not a Leftist, merely a realist.
Britain’s subordinate role has secured it only a subordinate share of ingratitude and even hatred in most of the societies where it has joined America to meddle.
There is nothing for Britain in Syria, and nothing for the Syrian people in any attempt by our Armed Forces to blunder in there.
I heard a Cameron supporter say yesterday: ‘But how shall we feel if America, backed by Germany and France, takes military action in Syria, and we are not there?’
Pretty good, is my answer to that. As America signalled last night that it is prepared to attack Syrian targets, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s remark about France as ‘America’s oldest ally’ was only a foretaste of plenty of rougher ruderies to come at Britain from across the Atlantic.
Now if you really want to pull your hair out in anger cos you can’t bitch slap this slag …. here’s a self confessed libtard lefty of Ugandan origin, a muzzie and a Brit citizen who is a columnist here. She even appears on occasion in some conservative papers. In spite of what she may say here as a blind, the truth is, she really does not like America or Americans very much except for a few she knows personally, and those we can be sure are most likely Marxists. So here’s her headline as I read it this morning against better judgement, as every time I fall into the trap of reading her, I want to break her ugly face with a Louisville Slugger. Given the chance, I swear I would with no hesitation.
Not to defend the skank in any way but, living here as I do, I am made aware of a few things where Brits really have got the crappy end of the special relationship myth. That is, they have not always been treated fairly.
The Special Relationship is over? Good.
Britain deserves better than this unequal marriage to the USBy Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Tony Blair, the most willing spouse of the US, lost the argument. So Cameron, even though he, too, is a US loyalist, may be remembered as the PM who finally released us from that disastrous “special relationship” which began, understandably enough, because of the Second World War and America’s pivotal role in the victory.
Britain’s wartime debt has to end sometime. With our abject collusion, Americans have bases wherever they choose, a thriving weapons-based economy, a free card to detain and torture whomsoever they capture, to claim the planet and commandeer its resources. Guantanamo Bay, built on Cuban land, is the most potent symbol of all that. How long do we simply roll over every time the US wants us to?
Wars, as the American comedian George Carlin says, that’s what his nation does best: “We’re not good at anything else now – we’ve got no steel industry, can’t educate our young people, can’t get healthcare for our old people, but we can bomb the shit out of your country, especially if it is full of brown people.”
The first and “inspiring” black President turned out to be just another US cowboy, who believes Americans have special God-given rights that are not available to other humans, not even us pathetic Brits. The UK hitched to the US is more hated today by various peoples of the world than it was even when it had its own empire.More American-born immigrants live in Britain than do those born in Jamaica. It is their imperial right. Immigration rules going the other way are indefensibly stricter. Extradition treaties and other agreements are just as imbalanced. We would be saner about our European destiny if there wasn’t this sad dependency on the US. Our future links with China, South Africa and India need to be dislocated from American paranoia and interests based on ignorance. And do not forget that Americans detested the welfare state model and are helping to dismantle it today.
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promises made and promises broken
The Brits have found this as well and it could be too late now. I guess time will tell. An interesting development over here last couple of days. Angela Merkel,
the German chancellor, has raised Conservative hopes for David Cameron’s European policy. She has publicly said she supports Cameron in views that some things need changing, new agreements and more freedom for local control. Don’t be fooled people. The power in Europe these days are the German banks and Merkel has also said while she understands the Brit position, and tends to lean towards Cameron’s views, she also says that she won’t go so far as to turn away from the EU if forced to make a choice between him and the EU.
Another very important thing many here recognize and if I did and I’m foreign there are many Brits who also know.
This could be an attempt to soften the public and firm up Cameron’s pro EU camp within the conservative party. AND .... it could be a way to derail any promised referendum on membership in the EU. Which lots of citizens here want.
If you watch the video here, just pretend it isn’t Denmark being spoken about, but Gt.Britain. Because it all applies here.
H/T http://islamversuseurope.blogspot.co.uk/
MEP Morten Messerschmidts critical documentary about the EU: “False promises and lies”
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Whaddya Know? They Really ARE Death Panels
Of course they are. Any doofus could see that, even if he can’t see Russia from his house.
A B- effort from Bill Whittle, because he goes on so long with so many points in the middle of this that you forget where he’s going. Using a few dozen bullet points on the old blackboard, a la Glenn Beck, would have helped tremendously.
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