Overdue Rule 5

I haven't done the booming bazongas roundup for a couple of weeks.

This is huge.

See, "Rule 5 on #Grammys Sunday."

Featuring Rosie Jones and Sabine Jemeljanova and a whole lot more freakin' fabulous T&A.

Check it out!

As always, more boosting babe blogging throughout the night!

Alyssa Miller Profile - 2013 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit

Bedtime Totty...................

The Middle East is Beyond Obama’s Control..........................from Dan Friedman

[The counterrevolution that’s just taken place in Egypt is the greatest setback for Obama’s plans for the Middle East and the Muslim world - and it’s unlikely Obama will ever put the genie back in the bottle. Here we see clearly why that is such good news: what Obama wants is exactly what Egypt (and Israel) don’t. df]

 

WAR ON TERROR

Egypt to Hamas: We're coming for you

Cairo set to become Israel's new best friend

 

By Ryan Jones, Israel Today

In a scenario Israelis would have found too far-fetched to believe just a few years ago, Egypt is set to become the Jewish state’s new best friend in the fight against Hamas terrorism.

Pic Dump..................

Swedish Marines parody of Grease lightning in Afghanistan

The People's Republic of Israel...............................from Dan Friedman

[The thing speaks for itself. There is no Left like the Israeli Left. df]

 

Why Israeli TV Boycotted Harper's Visit

Israel's leftist hostile media hated the fact that the Canadian prime minister was full of support for Israel, says investigative reporter.

By Gil Ronen

Teatime Totty...................

The Sunday Best..................

The transforma​tive beauty of burlesque

How toilet paper explains the world

72 Black-Eyed Virgins Still Waiting To Give It Up

The Nuclear Option: Republic to Lose True Public Servant, Sen. Tom Coburn

Threats at Sochi expose "a larger agenda," says intelligence source

Global Warming, EPA, and Exploding Toilets

Is Barack a Default Satanist? Yes, and Here is Why

Israeli officer: With 30,000 Al Qaeda fighters in Syria, Israel re-evaluates its neutrality in civil war

Lockheed Martin announces investment in Israeli cyber security

Five reasons the Lyubov Orlova — and its cannibal rats — are at the bottom of the Atlantic

Entire family of Kim Jong-un’s uncle executed in N. Korea

Democratic Values and US Bases in Okinawa

China To Build World's Largest Marine Surveillance Ship

Gone to ruin: the £3.4m white elephant backed by the EU and paid for by taxpayers

World Cup protests spark violence in Brazil

Hitting the beach with Johnnie Turk!

'World Powers Surrender to Iran'

and finally............

Winter comfort food: Bread Pudding

Bait Like a Master - First Time

Best advert for ages!!!!!!



H/T Old Dude

Colour of the Day.............

H/T Old Dude

Why the U.S. Has Been Losing Wars

By Alan Caruba

It is typical of the media that it concentrated on a few observations of Obama when reporting on Robert M. Gates new book, “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War”, while ignoring the main themes of the 600-plus page book.

Suffice to say, this is not light reading. It reads much of the time like a daily record of endless meetings—because there were endless meetings—and it is filled with the details of personnel changes and much else that went with a job he took on during the last two years of the Bush administration and was requested to remain on by Obama.

He did so for another two years and he describes the frustrations of being in the inner circle of the handful of people to whom all the problems, domestic and international, came to for decisions. As Gates notes, “while the national security apparatus to deal with such problems is gigantic, ultimately they all had to be addressed by just eight people: the President, the Vice President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of State, the director of national intelligence, the director of CIA, and the national security advisor.”

One cannot come to any conclusion other than the fact that Gates, a former Director of the CIA, a position he rose to after years in the spy agency, is a patriot for whom partisan politics is of little importance compared to the range of enemies the U.S. had to address when he served as the Secretary of Defense. What kept him on the job was literally his love of the troops who serve in our armed forces.

If one reads the book looking for juicy revelations about those for whom and with whom he served, you won’t find any. He is uniformly sympathetic to all of them, understanding the immensity of the pressures, no matter their experience and judgment.

What also comes through, however, is the way the bulk of the people whom we elect to high office in the White House and Congress, or who serve in various appointed offices are rarely extraordinary intellects, but rather fairly ordinary individuals who are in these positions often largely due to their personal ambitions.

The military, based on merit, does a good job of selecting men—and now women—to rise to flag rank, but the Pentagon as a whole, as Gates reveals, is a massive inefficient bureaucracy filled with people who are mostly detached from the fact that the U.S. has been at war since 2001 in Afghanistan and, until we were forced to withdraw, in Iraq since 2003. Even worse, for those in Congress these wars were more about how much to fund the Pentagon and the political ramifications of conflict’s success or failure than about the young men and women sent to fight them.

It gets worse. Military budgets are based on five-year plans and most procurements of the hardware needed to fight a war represented programs that could take years, even decades, from the decision to the delivery. The wars the Pentagon remains focused on are not the insurgencies led by non-state actors like al Qaeda, often unpredictable conflicts, but those more related to World War Two and the Cold War when major adversaries faced off against one another.

As the years have gone along, I would complain that the U.S. had forgotten how to fight wars, but I too was thinking of the big ones. At the time, I swiftly came to regard Vietnam as a war in which we should have never become engaged. It had begun in 1950 with a few military “advisors”, escalated dramatically through the 1960s, and finally ended in 1973, but not before 58,220 American troops had died.

After September 11, 2001, I thought the attack on the al Qaeda in Afghanistan was an appropriate response, but I doubt anyone thought we would stay on an engage in “nation building.”  This repeated itself after Iraq’s Saddam Hussein provoked action in the 1991 Gulf War to drive him out of Kuwait—a war that lasted 100 hours, but was followed by another in 2003 to remove him. What followed was more nation-building in a 4,000 year old nation that had always been run by despots and no experience with democracy.

Gates says that “all the services regarded the counterinsurgency wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as unwelcome military aberrations, the kind of conflict we would never fight again.”  We had, by then, been fighting such conflicts in Grenada, Lebanon, Libya (twice), Panama, Haiti, the Balkans and elsewhere “usually in relatively small-scale but messy combat.”

There’s a reason the subtitle of Gate’s book was about “a secretary at war.” His memoir is about a job that put him at war with Congress, with those in the Pentagon, and in conflict with those in the White House who often did not grasp the horrors of war. While Bush had confidence in the military, in the Obama White House “suspicion and distrust of senior military officers by senior White House officials—including the President and Vice President—became a big problem for me as I tried to manage the relationship between the commander-in-chief and his military leaders.”

Throughout the two years of the Obama administration there were no formal budgets and, as a result, “The world’s largest and most complex organization was being funded hand to mouth, living paycheck to paycheck to paycheck.”

This is why the Gates memoir is about a nation that has been fighting and losing wars for far too long. It is about American Presidents who “confronted with a tough problem abroad, have too often been too quick to reach for a gun—to use military force…”

War is not a video game or a technological endeavor that kills safely and at a distance. Gates quotes Civil War General William T. Sherman who said “every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.” Famously, Sherman said, “War is hell.”

The U.S. has been losing wars for a long time now. We don’t seem to be learning anything from that history.

© Alan Caruba, 2014

Video: Why there is no comparison between Fukushima and Chernobyl!...from TPC

This short video explains why the Fukushima disaster is so much worse and so much different than the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. 

One of the major differences? Groundwater!

Watch at The Political Commentator here.

Liberal Schumer Makes Smooth Transition to Fascism......................from Dan Friedman

[Anything to please Dear Fuehrer Leader. Not that I’m saying it’s not heartfelt. In fact, I think wannabe Senate Majority Leader Schumer and wannabe President Hillary would be a perfect match. Schumer gets to lick Hillary’s jack boots, and Hillary gets a chance to don her leather and crack her whip. df]

 

The Hill, Pundits Blog, January 24, 2014

IRS attack on Tea Party urged

By Rick Manning

Sunday Totty..................

Hannah Davis Profile - 2013 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit

Afternoon Babe Blogging

Hot.

See, "Sexy Saturday Rule 5."

Lots of hot T&A at the link.

And that toddler feeling-up the hooters of the Hooters waitress is priceless, lol.

More babe blogging throughout the night!

A Doctor for America - Wild Bill

Ready to throw out the career politicians and bring back "citizen/statesmen"? Dr. Ben Carson is the man to consider.

Papier-mac​he wealth......................................from Rico

While most in the US are distracted by trivial issues like some clown named Bieber, and another clown whose name we're not quite sure of but whose clown-championship was clinched long before he decided to tackle the fictional "global warming" issue when holding the coldest SOTU address ever, there are a few who are carefully looking at the fractional-Gold scam on the COMEX where paper claims on Gold are running over 90:1 against physical Gold.


Even fewer, notably Jim Sinclair, are zeroed-in on an even BIGGER issue. The potential for a systemic collapse. Why would that be?

- Maybe because the big-4 TBTF Banks in the US (JPM, Citi, Goldman, and B of A) are long....$81 billion long in Gold derivatives. Roughly long about the annual amount globally produced in physical Gold, that long....many times the multiples on the CRIMEX long.


As we watch Venezuela, Argentina, et al creep towards sovereign default (note the debt heat map attached) fewer yet are considering that these are the same Banks who have underwritten most of the credit insurance derivatives for the sovereign debt that is now at risk of default.

- It's a simple formula:

sovereign default = derivatives default = KaBoom!!!


The entire papier-mache scheme is at risk of being shredded, along with anyone still in the paper system.

Saturday Night is Bath Night.................

Late News...............

CDR Salamander​: Fullbore Friday

A Democrat lawyer's view of just where Bieber went wrong

Largest Hindrance To Moving Up Social Ladder? Not The “Income Inequality”, But The Single Parent Household

The ‘Earth-Shattering’ News Rush Limbaugh Says the Media Ignored, but You Need to Know

Life with 19 Kids and Counting: A Conversation with the Duggars

Fox News Channel's Megyn Kelly on Politics and Parenting

Ansar Jerusalem claims responsibility for Cairo attacks that killed 6

State of the Union: Barack Obama will have little concrete to offer disillusioned middle classes

Protesters killed in clashes across Egypt on anniversary of 2011 uprising

Happy Australia Day..................

Picture borrowed from The Australia Tea Party

Pic Dump.................

21st Century Warship (full documentary)

The USS Freedom and USS Independence are the pioneering warships changing the face of battle on the sea with cutting edge design. Go inside the rigid testing that these ships must face to become part of the Navy. From a simulated high-speed attack to test the ships' guns and cannons to helicopter launches and technical failures, watch these ships attempt to achieve their mission objectives to ultimately be integrated into the U.S. Navy's Surface fleet.

BIRDS OF PREY.....................

Something's Kosher with the First Amendment: Protecting Religious Freedom in Prison

A court ordered Florida to provide kosher meals to its inmates. Soon, the number of inmates requesting kosher meals soared, even among inmates who were not Jewish. Florida tried to fight paying for the additional expense of kosher meals but lost. Trifecta wonders whether the importance of religious liberty, even in prison, far outweighs the expense of serving kosher meals. Hear why.

Teatime Totty..................

GUY MARTIN - 275-Kmh Speed Wobble Isle of Man - TT

"The New Tea Party" - Wild Bill

It's time for the full power of the Tea Party to be unleashed by joining every chapter in a national Tea Party alliance under the leadership of Retired General Paul Vallely.

Millennials in the Workplace Training Video..................

Planning to hire Millennials in your office? This guide will teach you how to co-exist with this challenging new generation of workers.



H/T Infidel Joe

Unbelievable Wingsuit Cave Flight! Batman Cave, Alexander Polli

H/T Doverthere - "Here in Mississippi we call this “F**king Nuts”!

News....................

It's very crowded .... but, i have good sear alignment, and good sear engagement .... progress notes on the "plywood gun" ....

Ted Nugent Unloads: Arrest Subhuman Mongrel Obama For Treason

Pennsylvan​ia Girl Elbowed Boy In Testicles For Laughing After She Farted During Sex On School Bus

British Museum: Prototype for Noah's Ark was round

Absurd Creature of the Week: Foot-Long, Sex-Crazed Snails That Pierce Tires and Devour Houses

Backdoor Amnesty: Deportation Cases Closed by 'Prosecutorial Discretion' Up Almost 70%

Stepping up enforcement, China says it is warning foreign planes entering air defence zone

Jordan, once seen as a diplomatic footnote, now a major player in the Middle East

Indian officials push to demolish ‘illegal’ Coca-Cola bottling plant

Inside the heart of 'revolutionary' Ukraine

Hundreds of Nepalis die on World Cup projects in Qatar

North Korean troops practice assault on South Korean airport

US athletes told not to wear team gear outside Olympic venues

US 'Recovery' Going Global......................from Rico

Only days ago Venezuela devalued its currency by about 45%.

- Now the Argentine Peso is tanking. Along with their economy.

It looks like the American "recovery" is spreading.

- Going global.


Let's look past the Bieber headlines and the pre-Superbowl hype.

- Brazilian stocks tanked last Thursday, while Japan's stocks fell by the most in seven months.

- The Ukraine is ripping itself apart.

- China may be in the early days of a bank run.

- The Turkish Lira is collapsing.

- Unemployment in France is at a 16-year high, and has exceeded 26% in Spain.


But to read the Lame Stream Media headlines you'd be forgiven for assuming that all is well in Tralfamadore, and your favorite Central Bank has things well in hand, and everything will be OK.

- Actually MORE than OK. Bloomberg just reported that Jamie Dimon's pay has been increased from $11 million to $20 million per year. Huzzah for the recovery!

See Alice......................

H/T Harry

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

Smokin' Stacey Poole in Heavy Boxing Gym Workout

It's great.

See, "Stacey Poole Boxing Workout Photoshoot."

The Oracle: Obama to Exceed Expectatio​ns....................from Dan Friedman

Just a crazy thought as we head toward Shabbat: Remember, (at least) three more years of Obama to go. Within that timeframe we’re all going to discover that until now Obama has been showing us his good side. Nothing can rein him in now - whether he takes a “good shellacking” in next year’s elections or not.

The Super Bowl is not for paupers!...from TPC/HAS

The prices shown in this article for Super Bowl tickets and lodging puts this game out of reach for all but the wealthy, sponsors or corporations!

At HAS here.

Late News................

Russell Brand To Blame For Politicians Abysmal Image - Not Lying, Cheating Or Criminality

An Ex-Muslim Dares to Question Allah

Mississipp​i Supreme Court Upholds Law Clarifying Carry Rules

The Worst Film of 2013

The Shockingly Low Salaries of Profession​al Cheerleade​rs

We hate it! Canadian food inspectors ban MARMITE for 'unapproved ingredients' along with Ovaltine, Irn-Bru and Lucozade

‘Top Secret’ Documents Implicate Obamas, Clintons

UNESCO: Building Bigotry in the Minds of Men and Women

WH Defends Witless Ambassador Pick

NYTs, NBC Journos: White House “Secretive”

Pentagon: U.S. Not Capable of Detecting Foreign Nuke Threats

Threats at Sochi expose "a larger agenda," says intelligence source

The Polar Vortex Was Called Winter in My Childhood

Obama’s Hammer & Sickle ready to drop on the Free World

'We Saved the World': WWI and America's Rise as a Superpower

The New Cold War: China vs Japan

Indonesia and Saudi Arabia Sign Defense Cooperation Agreement

America’s Relative Decline: Should We Panic?

Sperm donor must pay child support to lesbian couple, court rules

Obama's Campaign of Disinforma​tion...............................from Dan Friedman

[Lately, Obama seems to be using the hackneyed anti-Zionist tactic of diluting threats to Israel and the Jews. It must be a sign of his desperation, or that he’s run out of ideas. In the present case, unnamed US officials cast doubt on the Shin Bet's capture (in Jerusalem) of three al Qaeda operatives who planned to blow up the American Embassy in Tel Aviv. Now here's where it gets a bit complicated - and more interesting.

 

The latest threat to the bogus "peace process" comes by way of Jihadists gaining strength in Judea and Samaria, the future home (or so the official line goes) of the Fakestinian Judenrein “demilitarized” state. These Islamists don't read from the State Dept. script. Why should they when they have the Koran? And nothing would bring down the house of cards down faster than the specter of another Gaza emerging in "the West Bank," a mega-disengagement. Assuming, of course, the Israeli people aren’t caught napping.

 

Now you understand why Obama rushed in so quickly to cast doubt on the Shin Bet's story. Nothing must get in the way of the pursuit of the Holy Grail - regardless of the cost to Israel, that is. df]

 

Shevat 22, 5774

 

US Hints Shin Bet Misled Government Over 'Al Qaeda Plot'

 

Israeli security agency says a terrorist cell planned to attack the US Embassy, but the US has doubts regarding the claim.

By Gil Ronen

Bedtime Totty.................