Theo Spark

Saturday, 21 May 2011

News.......

Canada sees the incandescent light

Obama's War on Fun

On going down to the sea in ships...

Chronicles of an Alaskan Assassin: Sleeping Beauties

CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday

Iraqis flee violence in Syria, return home

Labor looking to distance themselves from Democrats? « Hot Air

Treason « Neptunus Lex

China giving fighter jets to Pakistan « Hot Air

'Palestinian Authority' passes law putting all terrorists on payroll, to be funded by Western taxes

Survey: Recent college grads wising up about Obama « Hot Air

Army soon to field double-V hull Strykers to protect against blasts

Is War Over?

Israel focuses on Korean, Italian jets

Intelligence unit deployed to Afghanistan as movie about WWII predecessor hits the screens

Truth About "Gay" Illegal Alien Pedophile

Just a reminder: World to end in a few hours « Hot Air

Bernake's Economic Time Bomb

Married Women...Better Sex More Money

War Powers Act first to be Raptured

Mental Health Hotline

French Should Feel Shame, But We’re No Puritans

What Obama’s MENA Speech Means

In Oval Office, Bibi Offers History Lessons to Obama

Ukraine supplies Iraq with 6 planes ahead of time

'Lazy' British workers are unwilling to go the extra mile says steel chief as he axes 1,500 jobs from UK factories

Osama bin Laden planned Easter bomb campaign

Syria defies Barack Obama shooting 21 in fresh protest retaliation

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Europe 'stealing Iran's rain'

Pakistan Taliban launches attack on US diplomats

Rising Literacy and a Shrinking Birth Rate: A Look at the Root Causes of the Arab Revolution

Ukraine may supply An-32 planes to Iraq ahead of schedule

Looted plaque from sunken WWII destroyer off Okinawa returned

Iraqi Kurdish lawmaker Muayyed Tayyeb: Labeling US troops ‘occupier’ is illegal

Wannabe SEALs willing to pay for a taste of the special ops life

Obama Poisons The Well.........by Dan Friedman

Unlike some observers, I disagree totally that by speaking first Obama gained the upper hand and stole Netanyahu’s thunder. In the game of golf, the player farthest from the cup gets to putt first, but then the player who putts next gets to “go to school” on the first putt. In show biz, the opening act precedes the star of the show. In geopolitics, Obama has lost the element of surprise.

Obama’s decision to show his cards before Netanyahu touched down in Washington may be poor etiquette, but it has given the Israelis valuable time to adjust their game plan and, most important, rewrite the speeches the prime minister is set to deliver to AIPAC on Sunday and to an historic joint session of Congress on Tuesday. Netanyahu is now in position to make that his grand finale and bring the House down, while Obama watches helplessly on a White House HDTV.

Obama has made another costly foreign policy blunder, one that he could have easily avoided were it not for the man’s inability to control his visceral animosity toward the Jewish State and his bred-in-the-bone Islamophilia. In the final analysis, his mistake will hurt America and his presidency more than it will hurt Israel or Netanyahu.

But we already know leftist anti-Zionism is what makes Obama tick. We will soon learn once and for all what Netanyahu is made of too.

Dan Friedman
NYC

Little Satan WoW!

Here ya go - "Little Satan For Dummies"

Council Winners

First place with 3 2/3 votes! The Colossus of Rhodey–-Why We Don’t Revere Our Intellectuals
Second place with 2 1/3 votes – Joshuapundit-Historical Resonance, Barack Obama And The Coming Election
Third place *t* with 2 votes – Snapped Shot-Shooting al-Aqsa
Third place *t* with 2 votes – The Noisy Room-A Kinder, Gentler Hatchet Job
Fourth place with 1 1/3 vote – The Glittering Eye – Why does The Unemployment Rate Stay So High?
Fifth place with 1 vote – Bookworm Room – Community Servitude
Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – New Zeal – Rapping for the Rev’lution: ‘Pac Was a Teenaged Communist
Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – VA Right! – Republican 2012 Presidential Field Goes Jurassic as RINO-Saur Gingrich Jumps in the Primordial Ooze

Non-Council Winners

First place with 3 1/3 votes! – Sultan Knish- Allahu Akbar submitted byNew Zeal
Second place with 2 1/3 votes – Gates Of Vienna – The Intrusion of Sharia Into American Justice submitted by Joshuapundit
Third place *t* with 1 vote -Wired/Danger Room – NATO Choppers, Pakistani Troops ‘Exchange Fire’ submitted by Right Truth
Third place *t* with 1 vote -Maggie’s Farm/Bruce Kesler – What My Grandfather Taught Me About Honor submitted by Bookworm Room
Third place *t* with 1 vote -Pajamas media/Victor Davis Hanson – End Of An idea – Why Affirmative Action Should Stop submitted by Rhymes With Right
Third place *t* with 1 vote -Via Meadea – Establishment Blues submitted by The Glittering Eye
Third place *t* with 1 vote - Atlas Shrugs – New York City: Muslims March in Jewish Genocide Bund Rally; “Third Intifada” Marches Round the World submitted by The Watcher
Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Big Government/Kyle Olson – IL Tea Party Activists Expose Alleged Gift Cards-For-Votes School Scam submitted by The Noisy Room
Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote -The Reaganite Republican – Iran Moving Ahead on Venezuelan Missile Bases that Bring Miami Well Within Range submitted by The Political Commentator
Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Doug Ross – My response To HuffPo’s “Constitutional Expert” submitted by The Watcher
Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote -Israellycool – Nakba Caption Bias of the Day submitted by Snapped Shot

See you next week!

Saturday Totty...........

McIlhenny, Memorial Day & Tinian..............from Rico

"An army marches on it's stomach." Napoleon Bonaparte

Hey, Bony!!!
- Many of the 'Greatest Generation' well remember C-rat's (C-rations: canned, pre-cooked wet rations issued to US military forces when fresh food was impracticle or unavailable).
- Many of MY subsequent generation remember them very well, also.

I best remember the 1/8 fl oz bottle of McIlhenny's Tabasco Hot Sauce that invariably came with. It made the most vile meals palatable (imagine ham & lima beans with scrambled eggs if you will....a very FAR cry from the coveted "Steak, B-3A" meal, I assure you).

OK. So MRE's (Meals, Ready-to-Eat) came along, and they were arguably (for some, anyway) an improvement.

BUT God bless YOU McIlhenny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- With YOUR Hot Sauce, we could easily whip that Froggie napoleon's butt!!!

I just returned from grocery shopping with a 5 fl oz bottle of McIlhenny's Buffalo Style Hot Sauce, and I GOTTA say:
- is this a GREAT country or what?

Remembering Memorial Day, I'll end this with a picture of the Marines disembarking at Tinian Island in WWII.
- I could write volumes about my beloved Marines, and Tinian, but a better author than I already HAS!
Check out Don A. Farrell. [eg. "The Sacrifice 1913-1943"]

Brothers and Sisters-in-arms, past-present-future......I salute you all proudly!