London, England
Clare Bueno, a favourite of this blog is seen here interviewing stars before a UK Premiere.
Monday, 26 July 2010
Coco Chanel
Moron is the wrong word for Obama... socialist works.
The trouble is this sort of rhetoric does nothing for the debate about the far-reaching policies of this President and his party. It is clear, that like his predecessor, Obama is anything but a moron. The man has a clear vision of what he would like the US to become and will go to any lengths to make it happen. He is the living embodiment of the socialist vision of the left that has obsessed them since their last great hope Jimmy Carter.
More @ The Examiner
GROUND ZERO MOSQUE UPDATE
Huge protest by families of 9/11 victims, police & firefighters against the Cordoba Mosque going up at Ground Zero . . .
. . . Sunday 6 June 2010 . . .
. . . largely ignored by the Mainstream Media . . .
. . . I don't have many causes but this is one of them . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . STORMBRINGER
New Episode...........
Last Night's Top Gear. Snowmobiles, Bugatti Veyron Supersport and Tom Cruise with Cameron Diaz.
Watch it HERE
News.................
Day 17 – July 26th 1940
Obama team's panic over losing whites
DaleyGator Daley Thought: What you must know about the Ground Zero Mosque, Dawa, and Sharia
Banks told: lend more or lose bonuses
'Meteorite' lands on cricket pitch during county match
Bear 'took car for joyride'
Angry cows attack walkers in French Pyrenees
Burma is working on nuclear weapons programme, experts claim
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Chicago comes to mind..........from Rico
For 'some' reason Chicago comes to mind. No, not the dreadful musical, but that miraculous city where the dead not only vote, but several times!
- And thanks to the DNC and ACORN, we now have this 'miracle' at the national level!
Huzzah!!!!
WikiLeaks and the Afghanistan War Logs
It's strange, since I was just listening to a 20 minute interview with Julian Assange yesterday at TED. I had planned to write about that as soon as this latest breaking news cycle winds down (JournoList, Shirley Sherrod, etc.), and now we've got the release of the Afghanistan war logs, which had been expected. Yeah, since the Iraq Apache video smear (and the detailed coverage at Jawa Report, et al., and my own), I've been gaining a sharper understanding of Assange and his hard-left enablers worldwide. It's simply more clear by the day that America's enemies are not just on the battlefield, but also among the global transnational issue networks working to bring down the United States and its Western allies.
I need to research the war logs and find out more on this, so expect updates. Below is a clip featuring Julian Assange for The Guardian. There's also a big exposé at The Guardian as well, so it's clear that the newspaper's coordinating its coverage with WikiLeaks. See, "Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation." And of course, the New York Times is on the case, seemingly as deeply involved as is The Guardian. See, "Inside the Fog of War: Reports From the Ground in Afghanistan."Also at NYT (FWIW), "Piecing Together the Reports, and Deciding What to Publish":
The articles published today are based on thousands of United States military incident and intelligence reports — records of engagements, mishaps, intelligence on enemy activity and other events from the war in Afghanistan — that were made public on Sunday on the Internet. The New York Times, The Guardian newspaper in London, and the German magazine Der Spiegel were given access to the material several weeks ago. These reports are used by desk officers in the Pentagon and troops in the field when they make operational plans and prepare briefings on the situation in the war zone. Most of the reports are routine, even mundane, but many add insights, texture and context to a war that has been waged for nearly nine years.There's more at the link, but I stopped at this line. "The Times has taken care not to publish information that would harm national security interests"?
Over all these documents amount to a real-time history of the war reported from one important vantage point — that of the soldiers and officers actually doing the fighting and reconstruction.
The Source of the Material
The documents — some 92,000 individual reports in all — were made available to The Times and the European news organizations by WikiLeaks, an organization devoted to exposing secrets of all kinds, on the condition that the papers not report on the data until July 25, when WikiLeaks said it intended to post the material on the Internet. WikiLeaks did not reveal where it obtained the material. WikiLeaks was not involved in the news organizations’ research, reporting, analysis and writing. The Times spent about a month mining the data for disclosures and patterns, verifying and cross-checking with other information sources, and preparing the articles that are published today. The three news organizations agreed to publish their articles simultaneously, but each prepared its own articles.
Classified Information
Deciding whether to publish secret information is always difficult, and after weighing the risks and public interest, we sometimes chose not to publish. But there are times when the information is of significant public interest, and this is one of those times. The documents illuminate the extraordinary difficulty of what the United States and its allies have undertaken in a way that other accounts have not.
Most of the incident reports are marked “secret,” a relatively low level of classification. The Times has taken care not to publish information that would harm national security interests ...
Don't believe it for a second. The New York Times has been the radical left's institutional organ working to bring about an American defeat in Iraq and the War on Terror, and now in Afghanistan.
Recall Heather MacDonald's piece from 2006, on the Times' reporting that helped killed the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program. See, "National Security Be Damned":
BY NOW IT'S UNDENIABLE: The New York Times is a national security threat. So drunk is it on its own power and so antagonistic to the Bush administration that it will expose every classified antiterror program it finds out about, no matter how legal the program, how carefully crafted to safeguard civil liberties, or how vital to protecting American lives.RTWT.
The Times's latest revelation of a national security secret appeared on last Friday's front page--where no al Qaeda operative could possibly miss it. Under the deliberately sensational headline, "Bank Data Sifted in Secret by U.S. to Block Terror," the Times blows the cover on a highly targeted program to locate terrorist financing networks. According to the report, since 9/11, the Bush administration has obtained information about terror suspects' international financial transactions from a Belgian clearinghouse of international money transfers.
See also, Michelle Malkin, "NY Times Blabbermouths Strike Again."
I'll have more later after I read and research a bit. Meanwhile, readers can check WikiLeaks directly: "Afghan War Diary, 2004-2010." And the Der Spiegel piece is here: "Explosive Leaks Provide Image of War from Those Fighting It" (via Memeorandum).
Cross-posted from American Power.
Sunday, 25 July 2010
A 'Shower of Hateful Epithets Outside Capitol Hill'? — Well, No Actually ... And a Correction
It's not everyday that MSM outlets correct their bogus "racist" slurs against the tea parties, but the New York Times made a correction today to one recent report. The full story is over at my place: "Correcting the New York Times."
And as always, all the hot commentary and analysis — and watchdog reporting — at American Power.
Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea
I'm about half way through C. Bradley Thompson's new book, Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea. Yeah, it's an attack on neoconservatism, by one who was sympathetic to the ideology at one time. It's an excellent read, although I disagree with its conclusions, and it'll take me some thinking to put those disagreements in more detailed writing here. I can say that Thompson's focus so far is primarily on Irving Kristol and how he was informed by Straussian political philosophy. Hence, Thomspon reads an allegedly extreme authoritarianism into the movement that --- it is argued --- is at odds with the vision of the American founders. I'd simply note that neocons are way more eclectic than is postulated at the book, and again, I'm not done yet. I have peeked ahead to the conclusion, and Thompson takes his thesis to its logical conclusion to find neoconservatism anti-democratic. More on this later. Meanwhile, this is the kind of response I'd offer outside of the Irving Kristol exegesis, from Max Boot:
"Neocons Are Liberals Who Have Been Mugged by Reality"BONUS: At Dr. Sanity, "WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW...":
No longer true. Original neoconservatives such as Irving Kristol, who memorably defined neocons as liberals who'd been "mugged by reality," were (and still are) in favor of welfare benefits, racial equality, and many other liberal tenets. But they were driven rightward by the excesses of the late 1960s and early 1970s, when crime was increasing in the United States, the Soviet Union was gaining ground in the Cold War, and the dominant wing of the Democratic Party was unwilling to get tough on either problem.
A few neocons, like philosopher Sidney Hook or Kristol himself, had once been Marxists or Trotskyites. Most, like former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, simply had been hawkish Democrats who became disenchanted with their party as it drifted further left in the 1970s. Many neocons, such as Richard Perle, originally rallied around Henry "Scoop" Jackson, a Democratic senator who led the opposition to the Nixon-Ford policy of détente with the Soviet Union. Following the 1980 election, U.S. President Ronald Reagan became the new standard bearer of the neoconservative cause.
A few neocons, like Perle, still identify themselves as Democrats, and a number of "neoliberals" in the Democratic Party (such as Sen. Joseph Lieberman and former U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke) hold fairly neoconservative views on foreign policy. But most neocons have switched to the Republican Party. On many issues, they are virtually indistinguishable from other conservatives; their main differences are with libertarians, who demonize "big government" and preach an anything-goes morality.
Most younger members of the neoconservative movement, including some descendants of the first generation, such as William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, and Robert Kagan, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, have never gone through a leftist phase, which makes the "neo" prefix no longer technically accurate. Like "liberal," "conservative," and other ideological labels, "neocon" has morphed away from its original definition. It has now become an all-purpose term of abuse for anyone deemed to be hawkish, which is why many of those so described shun the label. Wolfowitz prefers to call himself a "Scoop Jackson Republican."
...is not love or global orgasms, but more neoconservatism.Cross-posted from American Power.
IDF Commandos
Elite Israel Defense Forces special forces units, Commandos are called Syeret in Hebrew (reconnaissance unit) are usually a company or a battalion in strength.
IDF Reconnaissance battalions are typically made up of three specialized companies:
1. Demolitions
2. Reconnaissance
3. Anti-Tank / Heavy Weapons
IDF Commando units specialize in sea-to-land incursions, counter-terrorism, sabotage, maritime intelligence gathering and hostage rescue. Only a handful missions have ever been publicized or otherwise missions publicly attributed to the units...
More at DoubleTapper
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The Sunday Best..............
Day 16 – July 25th 1940
Change we must believe in
Money Can't Buy Green Love
Welcome to scenic Juarez... or Maywood California if you can tell the difference...
Forgotten Spitfire will fly again after major restoration
US and South Korea begin military drills in the face of nuclear threat from North Korea
The 'bomb magnet' soldier blown up 15 times
'Staycation' holidays boost branch lines Beeching wanted to cut
Special report: the Libya investment firm and the release of the Lockerbie bomber
Cuban capitalists must wait for change as Fidel Castro returns to the fray
Race Played Role in Obama Car Dealer Closures
and finally............
At the airport, the God of Embalming and Friend of the Dead
Happy Days are here again!................from Rico
The attached chart is 'proof' that the Great Recession is OVER! That 'Happy Days' are here again!
Oh, well, if you completely ignore the sharply ascending blue line just to the right of the 'shaded' area (which denotes recession) above 2010...in the light area (which denotes NO recession).
For my pilot* friends, the rising blue line seems to indicate that our economy may soon reach the "coffin corner" and stall out completely.
Not exactly the CHANGE that some had HOPEd for, is it?
*Non-pilots should go to Wikipedia or Google for an explanation of the "coffin corner" aka "Q-corner" and what the result is...
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Saturday, 24 July 2010
Canadian CF18 Pilot Ejects Moments Before Crash at Alberta International Airshow
At Chicago Ray's, "Canadian CF-15 Pilot Escapes Death Ejecting Moments before Fiery Air Show Practice Mishap..."
And at Boston's WCVB TV, "Jet Crashes During Air Show Practice: Canadian Pilot Able To Eject Before Aircraft Hit Runway":
LETHBRIDGE, Alberta -- A Canadian air force jet crashed and exploded in a ball of flames during a training run for a weekend international air show in Alberta, but the pilot was able to eject from the plummeting plane before it hit the runway.And check the spectacular pictures at the Calgary Herald, "Pilot survives after CF-18 crashes, burns at Lethbridge airport: 'This is an isolated incident with one aircraft'."
The pilot, Capt. Brian Bews, who sustained a sore back and scraped-up arms, was treated at a hospital and released Friday.
Bews was practicing Friday in a CF-18 Hornet jet over Lethbridge County Airport for an international air show. The CF-18 he was flying is a model specifically used for air shows.
"All of a sudden you could hear 'pop, pop, pop,' " witness Roland Booth told CTV News. "I saw sparks come out of the one engine. The plane started banking over to the side. That's when the pilot bailed out with his parachute."
Another witness, aviation buff Darren Jansens, says the pilot was just starting a maneuver known as a High Alpha pass before the accident.
"It's a high-angle pass, very low speed, fairly close to the ground. It's the lowest-speed maneuver the Hornet generally performs," said Jansens.
"The pilot did eject safely but was dragged several hundred feet unconscious along the ground," he added.
The military and the Department of Transport immediately launched an investigation into the accident. There was no indication of the cause of the accident.
Cross-posted from American Power.
Out Tuesday: The Post-American Presidency
I'm looking forward to reading it: The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America.
Cross-posted from American Power.
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