Saturday, 15 October 2011
Will Chaos in America Be Obama's October Surprise?..............by Dan Friedman
Watch the trajectory of “Occupy (name goes here)” protests carefully. It may tell us a lot about what the atmosphere in the country might be during the election campaign next year. I for one don’t think Obama will let a little thing like the polls stand in his way. Oh, while we’re on the subject, Mayor Bloomberg has decided to handle these proles with kid gloves. Wouldn’t want to ruffle their feathers, would he? They might get angry and go on a tear. What’s more, while the lumpen marched uptown to picket the homes of some of NYC’s wealthiest residents earlier this week, they passed over hizzoner’s townhouse and George Soros’s pad. The mezuzahs on the front doors must have kept them away. Meanwhile, over at the Washington Post two of their worthies, Krauthammer and Gerson, have weighed in.
Krauthammer: “Obama is too intelligent not to know what he started. But so long as it gives him a shot at reelection, he shows no sign of caring.”
Gerson: “We are being asked to reelect a political figure who no longer exists.”
Dan Friedman
NYC
News............
Hippie sign language
Headline fail
Distinguished Flying Cross recipients swap war stories, seek others
Febrezing Wall Street
Luggies In-comming!
BLACKFIVE: Occupy Wall Street Spitters
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Petraeus Orders Increased Military Role in CIA Analysis
Royal Navy finds 61 bombs in two day sweep at nudist beach
CBS: Don’t forget Grenadewalker, too
Eviction of Zuccotti park canceled: Protesters clash with cops anyway
Dr Liam Fox resigns
Navy divers detonate WW2 mine
Standard Ops « Neptunus Lex
Last Marine team of Operation New Dawn leaves Iraq
Ariz. school objects to cheerleaders' breast-cancer shirts
Report: Arab Spring upheaval cost $55bn
France arrests over 'casino scam'
Rick Perry defends wife's comments on faith
Rep. Miller asks to keep F-35s despite budget concerns.
Obama adminstration, GOP battle over Solyndra loan
Obama dispatches 100 troops to Africa
US retail sales in strong September growth
GOP candidates to boycott Nevada caucuses
U.S. court: No immigration checks at Ala. schools
The Comedy of Amnesty
Bostonmaggie: OK, So You Know #OccupyBoston Is Making Me Crazy
There's no alligator division in the Destin Fishing Rodeo, but there IS a gator
Bridges too far? The £500,000 bat crossings
Day by day Burma's iron regime opens up to the world
Libya: Fighting breaks out on the streets of Tripoli as battle continues to rage for control of Sirte
Failing dreams: California faces it's own Great Depression
Busted flush: Las Vegas on a losing streak
Will Frankfurt See Birth of 'Occupy Germany' Movement?
US worries over China's underground nuclear network
Happy Holidays?.................from Rico
Happy Holidays?
- If you're a retailer, or a consumer, maybe not so fast sparky.....
The five busiest container ports in the US have lower volumes in 2011 than 2010.
Rail traffic reflects this, as does the drop in truck fuel usage.
Shoppers do not see it, the employment/labor market doesn't see it, nor do the MENSA candidates (Congress) see it.
Yet - these are exactly the kind of 'indicators' our media presstitutes should be pointing out to us, instead of 'cheerleading' a fakey-phoney-baloney 'recovery' hype led by this current misAdministration.
- This kind of data, these facts, say things are NOT getting better for us.
Does this look like the 'recession' is over, and there is a 'recovery' underway to you?
Bring back Lord Haw-Haw for some comedic relief, please!
- Barry, and Timmy, and Benny are getting tiresome.
Knotty WoW!
Every week these cats hook up each other with hot hits and big phazed cookies to peruse and then vote on their individual fancy catchers.
And now - without further adieu or a don't
Council Winners
- *First place with 2 2/3 votes! The Razor–-Chosen Paths: Why I Don’t Resent People Making More Money Than I Do
- Second place with 2 votes – Bookworm Room-The USS Carl Vinson rocks!
- Third place with 1 1/3 votes – The Noisy Room -The Occupiers’ Siren Song
- Fourth place *t* with 1 vote – Right Truth-White House Reaction to Violence in Egypt
- Fourth place *t* with 1 vote – Simply Jews-The Assassination Conundrum
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Joshuapundit – FBI and DEA Foil Iran Plot To Murder Saudi Ambassador
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – New Zeal – Communists Lead “Occupy Los Angeles” Movement – Nationwide Takeover Planned
- Sixth place with 1/3 vote – GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – al-Qods!
Non-Council Winners
- First place with 2 2/3 votes! – The Investigative Project On Terrorism- ABBas Could Be Next Domino To Fallsubmitted by Right Truth
- Second place with 1 2/3 votes – Iowahawk – En El Telefono submitted by Joshuapundit
- Third place with 1 1/3 vote -Michelle Obama’s Mirror – The People of OWS: like the People of Walmart – only not as smart submitted by The Razor
- Fourth place with 1 vote -Seth Godin – The forever recession (and the coming revolution) submitted by The Glittering Eye
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Gateway Pundit – Her Name Was Ruth submitted by Rhymes With Right
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Accuracy in Media – Van Jones Media Mouthpiece Gets Russian Cash submitted by New Zeal
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Buckhorn Road – Sacramento restaurant closures provide a lesson in free-market economics submitted by The Colossus Of Rhodey
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Urban Infidel – Occupy Wall Street Revisited – Zucotti Square: Bio-Hazard Colony Emits Weapons Grade Odor submitted by Bookworm Room
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Raymond Ibrahim – Egypt: Destroying Churches, One at a Time submitted by The Watcher
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote -Small Wars Journal – Drone Wars? Not Quite submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote -Labor Union Report – Occupy Wall St’s Neo-Communist System of “Collaboratism” Revealed submitted by VA Right!
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote -Ben Stein – Go Occupy Yourselves, My Darlings submitted by The Political Commentator
Friday, 14 October 2011
Drones Gone Wild! Part LXIX
America is once again getting the upper hand in this long war against Middle Eastern terrorists, with the use of Predator-drone targeted assassinations to which the terrorists have not yet developed an answer. In systematically deadly fashion, Predators are picking off the top echelon of al-Qaeda and its affiliates from the Hindu Kush to Yemen to the Horn of Africa.
New models of drones seem almost unstoppable. They are uncannily accurate in delivering missiles in a way even precision aircraft-bombing cannot. Compared to the cost of a new jet or infantry division, Predators are incredibly cheap. And they do not endanger American lives — at least as long as terrorists cannot get at hidden runaways abroad or video-control consoles at home.
The pilotless aircraft are nearly invisible and, without warning, can deliver instant death from thousands of feet away in the airspace above. Foreign governments often give us permission to cross borders with Predators in a way they would not with loud, manned aircraft.
Moreover, drones are constantly evolving. They now stay in the air far longer and are far more accurate and far more deadly than when they first appeared in force shortly after 9/11. Suddenly it is a lot harder for a terrorist to bomb a train station in the West than it is for a Predator to target that same would-be terrorist’s home in South Waziristan.
All those advantages explain why President Obama has exponentially expanded the program. After five years of use under George W. Bush, such drones had killed around 400 suspected terrorists in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Under President Obama, in less than three years, Predators have taken out more than 2,200.
The program is uniquely suited to Obama’s “leading from behind” approach to warfare: killing far out of sight, and therefore out of mind — and out of the news. So comfortable is Obama with this new way of war that at a White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the president joked about using Predators on would-be suitors of his daughters: “But boys, don’t get any ideas. Two words for you: Predator drones. You will never see it coming.”
For Pres. Barack Obama, the Predator drone avoids former candidate Obama’s past legal objections by simply blowing apart suspected terrorists without having to capture them — and then to ponder how and where they should be tried. With a dead, rather than a detained, terrorist, civil libertarians cannot demand that Obama honor his campaign pledge to treat suspects like American criminals, while conservatives cannot pounce on any perceived softness in extending Miranda rights to captured al-Qaeda killers.
Anti-war protestors demonstrate in response to American soldiers getting killed, but rarely about robotic aircraft quietly obliterating distant terrorists. American fatalities can make war unpopular; a crashed drone is a “who cares?” statistic.
Still, there are lots of questions that arise from this latest American advantage. Waterboarding, which once sparked a liberal furor, is now a dead issue. How can anyone object to harshly interrogating a few known terrorists when routinely blowing apart more than 2,000 suspected ones — and anyone in their vicinity?
Predators both depersonalize and personalize war in a fashion quite unknown in the past. In one sense, killing a terrorist is akin to playing an amoral video game thousands of miles away. But in another, we often know the name and even recognize the face of each victim, in a way unknown in the anonymous carnage of, for example, the Battles of Verdun and Hue. Does that make war more or less humane?
Once the most prominent critic of the war on terror, Obama has now become its greatest adherent — and in the process is turning the tide against al-Qaeda. And so far, the American people of all political stripes — for vastly different reasons — seem more relieved than worried over Obama’s most unexpected incarnation as Predator-in-Chief.
Pic - "While the bulk of military technology has remained relatively stagnant over the last decade of war, unmanned aerial vehicles have taken off." submitted by those killer drone fangrrls at GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD
The Latest Progressive Attempt to Destroy American Power
See: "W. James Casper's Demonic Band of Progressive Totalitarians":
I just love how classic this is. Every time these people attack they prove one more time just how demonic they are, just like the mob.RTWT.
What's That Stench Down on Wall St.?..........by Dan Friedman
As it turns out, the unwashed rabble “occupying” Wall Street aren’t the ones stinking up the joint. It’s George Soros and his filthy money. When the hapless juveniles sleeping in the parks find out one of Wall Street’s richest players is behind their anti-Wall Street protests, will they then turn on their multi-billionaire creator?
Soros: not a funder of Wall Street protests
Dan Friedman
NYC
The Iranian Caper: Has Obama Been Had?.............by Dan Friedman
"If they're looking for 007, they got Mr. Bean"
Only one of two conclusions can be drawn from this Reuters story. Either the Iranians are suckers or our president is.
Dan Friedman
NYC
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