Duluth, Minn., native U.S. Army Spc. William E. Simmons, a rifleman assigned to Company D, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Task Force Storm provides security during a patrol in Kharwar District, Feb. 12. Photo by Sgt. Cooper Cash
H/T Marc
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
On Libya, Obama is AWOL...............by Dan Friedman
Mubarak was a sick, old man on the way out and a pussycat as tyrants go, and Obama’s seeming indecision as the Egyptian crisis wore on wasn’t out of confusion or vacillation. It stemmed from intelligence (sic) reports he was receiving that showed the situation was in flux. However, once it became clear which way the wind was blowing and Mubarak would fall, Obama got behind the wave and rode it to shore. What a guy! Heck, he’s practically a neocon.
Now comes the hard part. Gaddafi is the genuine article, a bloodthirsty Arab lunatic who sits on a lot of oil. He’s facing a popular uprising inspired by Egypt’s and has already killed scores of his own people, threatening to fight to the end. What’s the leader of the FREE world to do? Apparently nothing.
News..........
Wishful Thinking and Indecisive Wars
Ex-pilots shoot down timeline of Navy
Plastic bags are green after all
The New Normal In Canada: Politicians Attend Mosque That Condones Death To Apostates, Beating Your Wife
Breaking: Gaddafi flees Tripoli? Update: Two military pilots land in Malta for asylum
Israeli sues Coca Cola for containing alcohol
Why Obama and the Dems Blundered in Wisconsin
Beer, is there anything it can't do?
Dance with Who Brung Ya – The GOP and the TEA Parties
Census spies will track every home: Anger at 'intrusion of vast computer network'
Mexico teen on hunger strike for royal invite
TSA Source: Armed Agent Slips Past DFW Body Scanner
Columbia families and Alums are speaking out
Letter DNA could unseal mystery of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance
How to rake in more? Mistresses go online
Geek cons US out of $20m with bogus software to stop al-Qaeda
A new food crisis is on our plates
Japanese toilet technology - Good, bad and baffling
It's the Unions' Last Stand, and Taxpayers Must Fight the Good Fight
Troops lives risked by MoD's 'cycle of failure' in kit spending
More than three million migrants under Labour
Christchurch earthquake: 65 people dead in 'New Zealand's darkest day'
Japan digs up site linked to World War 2 human experiments
Powerful earthquake devastates Christchurch
Regime's collapse could create 'tidal wave' of refugees
Japan creating spy agency for first time after Second World War
Revolt in Libya: West Warns Gadhafi Against Escalation of Violence
Unfriendly Fire: German Troops Slam Afghan Training after Deadly Attack
Google Maps ignites Dutch border dispute
and finally.......
8 former US Presidents and their amazing sex scandals
What a $1 Billion Palace Looks Like
The Wrong War
Army Major Michael Few asked Bing, a longtime supporter of Small Wars Journal, for an exclusive interview prior to publication.
"...We wanted an honest, open discussion on the current war in Afghanistan and modern warfare. He more than delivered, and hopefully, this interview will be followed in several weeks with another by Octavian Manea. Enjoy the interview, and make sure that you go out and get his book! "
SPOILER ALERT!
"...Afghanistan is the Wrong War for our benevolent strategy of wooing the Pashtuns by offering money. Our senior leaders say the war cannot be won by killing. It will surely be lost if we don't kill more Islamist terrorists and hard-core Taliban. More disturbing, the US is steadily getting out of the arrest and imprisonment business, due to politics in the States. "
Don't stop! Get it, get it!
Bing expands his final answer to address Teufel Hunden Major Nathanial Fick and Counter Insurgency wizard CNAS' pres Dr Colonel John Nagl's killer op-ed in the New York Times.
Hotter than hello - from GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD
Monday, 21 February 2011
Wisconsin Protests: The Pathologies of the Progressive Left
See the full report with breaking updates: "Malpractice in Madison: Doctor Debacle Showcases Pathologies of the Progressive Left."
Protests Intensify Against Muammar Gaddafi's Regime
The full report is here, with additional video: "Muammar Gaddafi Flees Tripoli — Regime's Grip on Power Crumbles Amid Mounting Pressure."
Marines with Combat Assault Battalion, Ground Combat Element, 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade Forward, III Marine Expeditionary Force, in amphibious assault vehicles train with smoke grenades here Feb. 11, 2011. The training evolution also included courses of fire with the M2 50. caliber heavy machine gun and the Mk19 automatic grenade launcher at a newly-constructed range built for multinational training by Marines from 4th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III MEF, and Combat Assault Battalion, 3rd MarDiv, both assigned to GCE during Exercise Cobra Gold 2011.Cobra Gold 2011 is a yearly multinational, joint training exercise designed to improve partner nation interoperability. Photo by Pfc. Mark Stroud
H/T Marc
News........
The New York Times Gets It Wrong, Again.
Uprising flares in Libyan city
Al-Qaradawi Returns to Cairo After 50 Years
Beck Celebrates Lila Rose’s Triumphant Effort Exposing Planned Parenthood
Green Roof Collapses in Illinois
Memories of 1995 haunt GOP as shutdown talk grows
What does the Arab world do when its water runs out?
Arab anger to turn against U.S.
The Region: Egypt gets its Khomeini [Fasten your seat belts, kids. We’re going for a wild ride. df]
Lady Gaga Outfit or Landfill Trash?
Bloodbath that shames Britain: As 300 are massacred for defying Gaddafi, America and UN condemn UK for cosying up to tyrant in Blair's dirty deal
North Korea 'preparing nuclear test'
Alien life boost after Nasa finds one in two Suns has Earth like planets
Man shot dead for eating popcorn too loudly during Black Swan
Robert Mugabe's health 'hurting Zimbabwe'
Barack Obama 'did nothing to earn Nobel Peace Prize'
The World from Berlin:'Witnessing Gadhafi's Overthrow Would Be a Special Pleasure'
and finally....
Captured: The Pacific and Adjacent Theaters in WWII
10 Fascinating YouTube Facts That May Surprise You
Decision maker discovered.........from Rico
I had wondered what thought processes Obama-Soetoro used when making some of his absurd decisions, finally deciding he was heavily self-medicated and THAT explained his wacky approach to reality.
This worked for a while, until he left this decision-making device behind after a recent cabinet meeting.
Oh, that makes things perfectly clear....he was using this while heavily medicated!
Muslim Student Association
David Horowitz gave a speech at the University of California at San
Diego. After his speech, students were invited to come up and ask
questions. The video below shows one of them, a 20-something Arab
girl in full Muslim head covering and wearing the PLO’s trademark Keffiyeh scarf draped around her throat and chest. She identifies
herself as a member of the Muslim Student Association (“MSA”) at the
university and challenges Horowitz as to why he says the MSA is
radical.
She
begins her question to Horowitz. “I was reading your literature – I
found that much more interesting than the talk – and I found some very
interesting things about the MSA which is very active on campus and it
is hosting our annual “Hitler Youth” week.” Without missing a beat, she
wisecracks. “You should come out to those events.” She then
continues. “If you could clarify the connection between the MSA and the
Jihad terrorist networks – because last I checked, we had to do our own
fundraising and we never get any help from anyone.”
This is Horowitz’s reply. “Will you condemn Hamas here and now?”
The
young woman, obviously taken aback, stammers, “I’m sorry, what?”
Horowitz repeats his question, at which point she irritably asks him,
“Are you asking me to put myself on a cross?”
He then tells her
that she obviously didn’t read his pamphlet because it reveals that the
MSA is part of the Muslim Brotherhood network. At that point, the girl
interrupts him to protest that she can’t possibly answer his question.
“If I say something, I am sure I will be arrested for reasons of
Homeland Security.” Then she clarifies it. “If I support Hamas,
because your question forces me to condemn Hamas, if I support Hamas, I
look really bad.”
“Well, if you don’t condemn Hamas,”
replies Horowitz, “obviously you support it. Case closed.”
He then
talks about a speech he gave at UC Santa Barbara where the front row was
filled with about 30 members of the MSA. When he’d asked them
to condemn Hamas and Hezbollah, they’d refused just like the girl in
front of him now. Horowitz than repeats to her the same question he
asked the leader of that MSA group in Santa Barbara.
“I’m a Jew.
The head of Hezbollah has said that he hopes that we (Jews) will gather
in Israel so he doesn’t have to hunt us down globally.” At this point, Horowitz stops and leans towards the young girl. “For it or against it?”
Without batting an eye, the girl replies. “For it.”
More Here
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Honorable Mentions
- The Grouch – Thank You FDA!
- The Political Commentator – Lambs Being Led To Slaughter Or…
- Daily Gut - Nir Rosen Shut Up
Council Winners
- 1st place – Joshuapundit--Turkish PM Erdogan Consolidates His Islamist Regime By Purging The Military
- Second place with 1 2/3 votes – Right Truth-Lies That Lead To War And Death
- Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – Simply Jews – In Doubt About Multiculturalism
- Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes –The Razor – The Real Problem With Libertarianism
- Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – VA Right – Ron Paul’s Drug Problem
- Third place with *t* 1 1/3 votes – Bookworm Room – Obama suffers an empathy failure when it comes to Israel
- Fourth place *t* with 1 vote – Rhymes With Right – Odd, No Liberals Objected To Political Activity By This Judicial Spouse
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -The Noisy Room - Soros, the Youth, High Tech and the Fundamental Change that is Revolution
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -The Glittering Eye- From Memory
- Sixth place with 1/3 vote – GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – L’Etat C’est Moi
Non-Council Winners
- 1st place! – Gulag Bound- Top 5 Revolutions Backed by George Soros submitted byThe Noisy Room
- Second place *t* with i 2/3 votes – Ace of Spades – Thank G-d Obama Gave That Cairo Speech, Eh?submitted bySnapped Shot
- Second place *t* with i 2/3 votes – Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion – The Muslim Brotherhood’s Five-Year Plansubmitted byThe Watcher
- Third Place with 1 1/3 votes –Wolf Howling – http://wolfhowling.blogspot.com/2011/02/battles-that-changed-history-chip-yong.html submitted by Bookworm Room
- Fourth place *t* with 1 vote -Melanie Phillips -The Palestine Paper That Got Away submitted by Joshuapundit
- Fourth place *t* with 1 vote -USNI Blog -HH104, WWATMD… submitted by The Glittering Eye
- Fourth place *t* with 1 vote -Zero Hedge – Jim Quinn -Guest Post: Grapes Of Wrath – 2011 submitted by The Razor
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Danger Room – Wired – ‘Armed Humanitarians’ Kill People Between Sips of Tea submitted by Right Truth
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Project Syndicate – The Poverty of Dictatorship submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Modernity Blog – Chomsky And The IHR submitted by Simply Jews Sixth place *t* with 1/3 voteThe Best Defense – What can Ike and Lawrence of Arabia teach us about Army personnel policy? submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote -Ray Gross/American Thinker – Sarah and the San Francisco Poster Wars submitted by The Watcher
Sunday, 20 February 2011
(Iqbal al Yahud!) means "Death to Jews."
Muslims Attack Jewish Synagogue In Tunis Screaming Death To Jews
Muslims attacking synagogue in Tunis (anti-Semitism in Tunisia)
In 1948 there were 120,000 Jews living in Tunisia. Today -- after anti-Jewish government decrees were passed, synagogues destroyed, and Jews attacked and killed in the period following independence in the 50s and 60s -- there are less than 1,000 remaining in a nation of over 10 million.
Yet even this minuscule remnant of that ancient community (which dates back to Roman Times) is too much for the recently emboldened Tunisian masses -- what Simon Tisdall would no doubt wistfully refer to the as the authentic Arab Street -- who recently saw fit to vent their frustration over one of the most repressive Arab regimes in the world by engaging in a hate fest outside one of the last remaining synagogues in Tunis.
Yes, the chant you hear in the video (Iqbal al Yahud!) means "Death to Jews."
Iraq War Hero Heckled at Columbia
And he was jeered as "racist."
I'm speechless, really. I don't know --- and I can't identify with --- some of my fellow Americans anymore.
See: "Army Staff Sgt. Anthony Maschek, Iraq War Hero, Heckled at Columbia Over ROTC."
'A Massive Onslaught Against Democracy'
Lots of links to developments: "Protest Saturday in Wisconsin."
Poll: Who is the Sexiest Female Golfer?
Our friends at I Suck at Golf have asked our readers to vote for Sara Brown.
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Members of the U.S. Navy flight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels, fly over San Diego Harbor in formation, Feb. 12, 2011. They participated in the Parade of Flight, an air show showcasing historic and current naval aircraft in celebration of the Centennial of Naval Aviation. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Roland A. Franklin
H/T Marc
Wisconsin.................by DJ Elliott
This is just my short opinion on how to deal with the unions in Wisconsin:
Just a thought: When the teachers took "sick" and then went to protest, they were commiting Fraud.
They lied in order to take a payed day off - criminal Fraud.
Rarely enforced because most do not rub it in the face of the boss and when they do they are fired.
Did the Union "Solicit" this "Organized Fraud".
Solicitation of a crime carries the same penalties as the crime.
The Union leadership solicited how many counts of Fraud?
Under RICO, doesn't that make this "Organized Criminal Activity" and grounds for seizure of assets...
With each and every teacher that participated facing 1 count
and the organizers facing as many Solicitation counts as could be proven.
I would accept the resignations of each and every one of the participating teachers - in return for not criminally procecuting them.
I would ask for warrents to see the Union communication and who specifically Solicited multiple counts of Fraud.
I would freeze their assets pending determination under RICO.
As to the union dues being automatically withheld, paying a kickback to have a job is governed under "extortion".
The investigation would be grounds for the payroll side to stop all such payments or face accessory charges.
The Union and supporters have too many skeletons in the closet.
They and the politicians supporting would fold rather than face legal investigation and potential seisure of assets.
The precident would chill out the fights that are going to occur across this nation and
Any seisures would help the budget...
DJ blogs at Montrose Toast
The Sunday Best..........
The Envy of Flight
Libyan protests death toll nears 100 as snipers shoot crowd — media
Rule 5 Saturday Night: The Donald’s Daughter
Non-Woodsterman Rule 5: Sofia Vergara
“The Damage Obama Has Done”
Malaysia police nab 3 for stealing 725,000 condoms
US opens direct secret talks with Taliban
Asian buying set to lift gold demand in 2011: World Gold Council
Blue Team Action Item: Research why the Supreme Court is compelled to hold a new hearing on Obama’s eligibility to hold the presidency
'Women competed' at Berlusconi villa
Call for lust rights
A queer beer? Not here
Ferrari accused of doctoring test cars
Olivia Wilde rumoured for Lara Croft role
Wal-Mart Security Employees Fired for Disarming Store Gunman
Libya protests: 'foreign mercenaries using heavy weapons against at demonstrators'
Army facing huge cuts after withdrawal from Afghanistan
Rolls-Royce develop electric car
Yemenis clash with riot police across the country
Tunisian fundamentalists burn down brothels
GILAD SHALIT IN HAMAS CAPTIVITY FOR 1700 DAYS
The family of kidnapped Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit marked the 1,700th day of his captivity on Saturday along with hundreds of supporters in front of the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem.
Gilad Shalit: "You are not forgotten" . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . .STORMBRINGER
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