Theo Spark

Thursday, 2 September 2010

H/T Nebraska Bob

Letter from a "Proud American"

My Dear American Citizens,

For only the second time in my adult life, I am not ashamed of my country. I want to thank you hard working American people for paying $242,000 plus additional expenses for my Spanish vacation.

My daughter Sasha, several long-time family friends, my personal staff and various guests had a wonderful time. Honestly, you just haven’t lived until you have stayed at a 5-Star, $2,500.00 per night suite in a luxury hotel. Some of you say we are extravagant. That’s just not true. We booked only 70 rooms for our friends, staff and family. Also, we used public transportation, Air Force 2. Besides, we had little privacy with 70 Secret Service personnel who tagged along to be sure we were safe and cared for at all times.

I sincerely must ask the help of you American citizens. Please drive smaller, more fuel efficient cars and drive less too. We need to lessen our combined carbon footprint.

That old Air Force 2 used 47,500 gallons of jet fuel for our trip and carbon emissions were a mere 1,031 tons of CO2. It costs only $11,500 per hour to operate Air Force 2 and each additional plane for the other members of our party group. These are only rough estimates, but they are close. It’s quite a carbon footprint, as my good friend Al Gore would say. But who’s counting anyway.

I want you to know that I realize that times are hard and millions of you are struggling to put food on the table and many of your are exhausted trying to make ends meet. I do so appreciate your sacrifice and do hope you find work soon. I also was really exhausted after Barack took our family on a luxury vacation in Maine a few weeks ago. I just had to get away for a few days.

I had planned to have written you more from Martha’s Vineyard where we spent our sixth vacation this year with more of our family and friends, but Barack and I were just too busy eating shrimp. I just didn’t realize it is so much fun being proud!

Cordially,
M. Obama

H/T DML

News.........

Day 55 – 2nd September 1940

Is your state college a five star resort?

From the folks who brought you the Blood Libel MasterCard

Gun-wielding ecoterrorist calls for reduction in human population, gets wish

"Al Gore Told Me to Skin You Alive!"

A Gay Muslim Bar Next To WTC Mosque? Greg Gutfeld Vows To Make It Happen

Taliban operate ‘very extensive’ spy network in British Afghan bases

Man fired for charging scooter with employer's electricity

Business people behind bars in Russia

EU to discuss Gaddafi's €5 billion demand at Africa summit, Italy says

Obama Urges Court to Vacate AGW Decision. I Smell a Rat (or Two!)

Witness to Japanese surrender vividly recalls day

Proof: Democrats at Fault for the Recession

Switzerland Confidential: Behold the Legal Sex Drive-Thru

Pakistan military abandons US trips after being 'mistaken for terrorists'

UK house prices fall for second month

Former RAF helicopter pilot dies cutting down tree on orders of council

Six dead in Mozambique riots over food

The Sonderkommando Photos

and finally......

New York Times Reports (Sorta) On Brooklyn College’s Indoctrination Book

Thursday Totty..........

Reason TV: Free the 'Shine! Why it's finally time to legalize liquor

Trailer: 'I Want Your Money' in Theaters Oct. 15

Meet reality..............from Rico

Sometimes it makes 'sense' to double-down, like when you're playing Blackjack in Vegas and holding a very good hand.

Doubling-down on debt is NEVER a good idea, and tripling-down on debt is just stupid. Always.

When 'hopey-changey' suddenly meets with 'reality' even the dead aren't safe...

Biden Gives Bush Administration Credit for Iraq Surge Success — Not!

I've laid out a full analysis here: "Biden Grudgingly Credits Bush on Success of Iraq Surge." But check the clip. Man, this guy is hatin' it! Can't give the dreaded Bush neocons the slightest acknowledgement of firmness and resolve, not to mention pragmatism and smarts:

More at American Power.

Wednesday, 1 September 2010

M4 Rifle Upgrades

I recently upgraded the accessories on my IDF issue M4 rifle.

Take a look at the video and let me know what you think of the new setup.

Bedtime Totty...............

Crazy And Unpredictable

You know it player! The truth about the results of Iraq War is that, for all the tragedy and loss, Great Satan's military did a major miracle. After nearly seven years, a semi constitutional gov is in place.

23 of the writ thingies for war passed by the Congress in 2002 — "...from enforcing the Gulf I resolutions and stopping the destruction of the Kurds and Marsh Arabs, to preventing the Iraqi state promotion of terrorism, ending suicide bounties on the West Bank, and stopping Iraq from invading or attacking neighbors or trying to acquire WMD" — were satiated and satisfied by Great Satan's military appetite to devour enemies - not some fanboy outreach to confusing 'shared interests'.

Libya gave up WMD witchcraft; Dr. Khan’s new clear Walmart was shut down; Syria split Lebanon; and American troops in Wahabbi Arabia, put there as an Iraqi deterrent, unassed - thus dynamiting one of al Q's memes.

In a world hot! for oil - S'Ddam "....might have been more or less free to do what he pleased again in Iraq. (The verdict is out on Iran; playing a genocidal Hussein regime against it was morally bankrupt. Currently, Shiites participating in consensual government could be as destabilizing to Iran in the long run as Iranian terrorists are to Iraq in the short run.)

The suspect NIE 2007 says Iran freaked and halted all new clear chicanery - for fear Mullahopolis was the next stop for Great Satan's ME Tour.

Killing off al-Qaeda in Iraq dissed the entire idea of radical Sunni m'hammedist terrorists, and killing thousands of foreign radical m'hammedists in Land betwixt the two rivers was sweet blowback for Great Satan's security — inspite of goofy incantations that Great Satan conjured them out of thin air by defeating the largest Arab army in history in only 20 days.

Kurdistan proves ppl can get it and run with it - prepping for this life instead of racing off to the next. Before Op Iraqi Freedom - Kurds were always on the endangered list in B'Aathist Iraq - threat of genocide by their own gov; today it is a booming economy.

All these things would have been impossible without Great Satan doing Iraq.

Yet the REAL lesson of Iraq is that Great Satan is crazy and unpredictable. She is liable to go off and go anywhere and do anything - anytime she wants:

Nation building and Counter Insurgency Ops are bloody, time consuming heartbreaking tasks and, in contrast:

Annihilating entire regimes over a few weeks is easy, fun and reliably doable.

Pic "Unpredictable" with GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD