Monday, 27 August 2012
Sunday, 26 August 2012
Image Gap: A Mitt Romney Most of America Doesn't Know
This is a must-read report.
And check back for lots more coverage on the GOP convention.
Reports: New Syria Massacre
Personally, I favor Western ground troops to depose Assad and stop the bloodbath, but there's obviously little stomach for it.
See: "Hundreds Dead in Syria Massacre."
The clip below is unauthenticated but purports to show government forces beating detainees.
Celine Dion Goes Topless in Sizzling New Photo Shoot for 'V Magazine'
Man, those dudes over at V Magazine are on fire!
See: "Celine Dion in 'V Magazine'."
And miss the smokin' topless shots at the click through.
My Goodness! In Bed With Irina Shayk!
The Sports Illustrated bikini model shows off her mind-blowing figure in a new lingerie shoot.
See: "Irina Shayk Shows Off Her Incredible Body in New Photo Shoot for La Clover."
Strike Eagle Show Of Force
USAF Strike Eagle 'Show Of Force' at Corris Corner (Mach Loop).
Thanks to M J Aviation
DNC delegates.............from Rico
No, these are NOT baseball fans. They are happy DNC delegates being instructed in the proper way to show obedience and respect to his exalted telepromptership upon command.
150 nations expected at 16th Non-Aligned Summit in Tehran, Iran! How's that for isolation?...from Mike Haltman at TPC
The 16th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit is meeting in Tehran, Iran with about 150 countries expected to attend, including our "friends", the Egyptians now led by the Muslim Brotherhood.
While the Obama campaign tries to woo the American public with domestic policy lies, half-truths and smoke and mirrors, remember that there is a big world out there that his administration has for the most part ignored in its quest to win a 2nd-term in the White House!
Read the article at The Political Commentator here.
Must watch video on how Washington hacks CANNOT possibly balance the federal budget!...from Mike Haltman at TPC
Must watch video that discusses how even if the federal government were to completely shut down the budget deficit could not be reigned in.
Why can't the Washington political hacks solve this problem?
Watch at The Political Commentator here.
Two Videos, 26 years apart - Just One Minute Each
From Shelly who writes
Of all the Presidential ads I've seen, these two hit home the most.
One from 1984, the other produced as a homage to that ad with a twist of today’s lack of optimism
Bail out - hand out - left out........................from Rico
If you're connected and rich, you get a bail out.
If you're poor and vote (D), you get a hand out.
If you're middle class and pay taxes, you get left out.
The Sunday Best...........
Navy Rescue Swimmer Gets Shot at Her Own Home
2016: A Review
Box office shocker. 2016 Obama's America at #3?
American sea power in the 21st century
Strassel: The Silent Second-Term Agenda
No babies allowed at Democratic National Convention: feminists revolt
Prelude to a Shellacking by Nice Deb
Epic Fail: Democrats Misspell Birther Airplane Banner At Mitt Romney Campaign Event
Muslims In Europe
Al-Qaeda terrorists launch human rights bid
From factory to firefight, what is the life cycle of an Army bullet?
Norway braces itself as scramble for Pole position begins
Security services 'failing' to stop British jihadis heading to Syria
'Scores of bodies found' near Damascus
Julian Assange case: Ecuador accused of allowing Iran to evade sanctions
Explosion kills 24 at Venezuela refinery
Canada allows information obtained by torture to be used
Aussie building replica of Titanic says ship to be '98% the same'
China’s New Shadow Government, Cash for Organs, and the Threat to America
and finally.........
Wendell Berry on Scythes, with a bit about one of my Grandpas
"Christian America!" - Wild Bill
Powerful evidence for the Christian foundation of the United States and a perfect refutation of the seaparation of church and state myth.
Destroying Our Military from Within
“Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.” -- Ronald Reagan
If you want to know how President Obama feels about the U.S. military, consider that in all the years since D-Day 1945 there have been three occasions when a President failed to go to the D-Day Monument that honors the soldiers killed during the Invasion.
The occasions were:
1. Barack Obama 2010
2. Barack Obama 2011
3. Barack Obama 2012
For the past 68 years, all Presidents, except Obama, have paid tribute to the fallen soldiers killed on D-Day. This year, instead of honoring the soldiers, he made a campaign trip on Air Force 1 to California to raise funds for his reelection.
The U.S. military has been systematically weakened from within by a combination of idiotic and duplicitous decisions that suggest how far the nation has come from the fundamental understanding that an enemy must be destroyed with sufficient devastation as to never contemplate attacking us or our allies again.
World War Two was a success because both Germany and Japan were required to sign instruments of unconditional surrender. Both nations are now our allies. Even Vietnam where the U.S. blundered into a civil war and was ultimately forced to withdraw now has normalized diplomatic relations and welcomes U.S. investment.
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan remain inconclusive due to a combination of timid rules of engagement and the transformation of our military’s mission into "nation-building" that have yielded unsatisfactory results.
The military force that distinguished America as a super power at the mid-point of the last century now is facing draconian funding reductions from a Congress unwilling to make hard decisions about our historic debt.
A July Wall Street Journal editorial, “The Coming Defense Crack-Up”, warned the automatic sequestration, “If implemented, the Pentagon budget would be cut by another 9% (or $492 billion) over the next decade, on top of the $487 billion in cuts that are already planned. Defense accounts for the largest share of total sequestration, or 42.6%m according to the Congressional Budget Office.”
“The sequestration cuts would leave the defense budget some 30% smaller in 10 years.” Does anyone believe that the world will be any safer in two years or ten years? Or that weakening our defense will make us safer in a world bristling with nuclear arms and other weapons of mass destruction?
If the sequestration cuts are pure folly, then the use of our defense forces as a means to avoid “global warming” is sheer insanity. There is no global warming insofar as the Earth entered a natural cooling cycle in 1998 and the claim that carbon dioxide is “causing” global warming is completely baseless. A tiny element of the Earth’s atmosphere—0.038%--carbon dioxide (CO2) has been the excuse environmentalists have used to attack our manufacturing and energy sectors. Now it is being used to render our military weaker through a requirement to use biofuels.
On October 8, 2009, President Obama issued Executive Order 13514, ordering the Defense Department and other agencies to reduce CO2 and other so-called greenhouse gas emissions. He set a goal of having the ships that defend our nuclear carriers powered by biofuels.
How stupid is this? First of all, America sits atop enough oil reserves to make us energy independent if the Obama administration would permit exploration and extraction domestically and offshore. The U.S. Geological Survey reports that the U.S. possesses 26% of the world’s oil supply. The Obama administration assertion that the U.S. has only 2% of the world’s supply is a lie.
There is zero need for biofuels. By 2020, the Navy has been instructed to use alternative fuel for half of its consumption. A recent naval exercise cost the Navy $27 per gallon of biofuel, versus $3.50 to $4.00 for standard petroleum fuel. As this is being written, Americans are required to use ethanol, a biofuel, in every gallon of gas they put in their cars, needlessly increasing the cost with no benefit in mileage and at the risk of damaging their car engines.
The Air Force is also subject to these mandates for biofuels that cost more than $26 per gallon, compared with standard jet fuel at $4 per gallon. Both the Navy and Air Force face the prospect of having to refuel ships and planes in potential battle zones where every gallon of biofuel would have to be transported from the U.S. for lack of biofuel refineries in Asian, Mideast or Mediterranean ports. Can you spell d-e-f-e-a-t?
These biofuel mandates are part of the Obama administration’s crony capitalism that has seen “alternative energy” lose billions in loan guarantees to solar companies and the government mandates that maintain the wind power industry that, like ethanol, would not exist without federal government support.
Phil Dunmire, the national president of the Navy League of the United States, on July 18, warned that “The defense and maritime industries are being jeopardized from within” noting that “programs related to our nation’s defense will absorb half of the sequestration costs despite being just 19% of the national spending budget.” These cuts go into effect in January!
The sequestration and other budget cuts, and the global warming biofuel mandates will leave the U.S. more vulnerable to attack and defeat since the end of World War Two. Our Navy has shrunk. Our combat air fleet is old. The manpower of military forces has been reduced and subjected to restrictions that leave every soldier and marine subject to investigation for every enemy they kill.
The exception to the long engagement in the Middle East was the successful killing of Osama bin Laden, but even that was tarnished by a President who took full credit for it and released information about it that runs contrary to the safety of all comparable future missions. Within days, the White House provided a briefing on it to a Hollywood producer and writer in order to facilitate a film lauding the mission.
The greatest force for the defense of the nation and for freedom in the world is being reduced by a Congress and a White House who refuse to recognize the threats that exist in a dangerous world.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
Saturday, 25 August 2012
Neil Armstrong (1930-2012), You Live Forever in Our Hearts
Video in Memorium to Neil Armstrong (1930-2102), First Human to Walk on the Moon, You Live Forever in Our Hearts; This video commenorates not only the Apollo 11 Mission in 1969 but also the fact that Neil Armstrong exemplified American Exceptionalism (as did the vast majority of his astronaut colleagues). Our sadness in his passing from amongst us reminds us that American must recapture and re-engage the American Excptionalism that took us to the Moon and, if re-engaged, can restore us to the preminence in liberty, engineering, space exploration and scientific advances.
Late News.............
CDR Salamander: Nice ....
BLACKFIVE: Godspeed Neil Armstrong
Obama administration 'cooking the books' on deportation numbers
Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. - Thought piece...
"America doesn't need a birther-in-chief"? Are we really going there?
Three BCTs to deploy to Afghanistan
Busted: "Republican" woman in Obama ad has been a registered Democrat since 2006
Classy, Sexy Babe: Nicole Kidman Takes Off Her Clothes for 'V Magazine'
A smokin' hot woman, and one classy babe --- and topless.
See, "Nicole Kidman in 'V Magazine'."
Click through for all the hotness, beautiful breasts and all.
Police Kill Gunman at Empire State Building
Here's the initial report, "Fired Employee Shoots Former Co-Worker at Empire State Building — GRAPHIC VIDEO."
More, "Snap Decision: Questions Emerge After Police Gun Down Shooting Suspect on Crowded City Street," and "Jeffrey T. Johnson, Empire State Building Shooter, Nursed Grudges Before Killing Co-Worker."
Salute to the end of summer with a political twist! (7 photos)...from Mike Haltman at TPC
Celebration of summer 2012 with photos of some of the best things that summer has to offer along with a photo for the Fall that shows how the country will soon move back onto the path for a strong and secure future!
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