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Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Dinesh's Exclusive interview with Barack Obama

H/T Infidel Joe

How Low Will Obama Bow This Time?.............from Dan Friedman

[Obama’s upcoming trip to Saudi Arabia has sure been kept under the radar. No fanfares this time around. Things have changed. Reading the report below from (Saudi-owned) Al Arabia reveals how. The warm welcome Obama’s received in the past is not likely to be repeated this week. Another diplomatic/security debacle with far-reaching consequences that Obama’s media have decided to ignore. Face it. It takes a special kind of Islamophile to screw up our most important Arab relationship. df]

Al Arabiya News, Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Dennis Ross says Obama is in for a tough time in Saudi Arabia

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

Let me see if I have it right now....

Ukraine buys almost all its energy (natural gas) from Russia. Revenues from natural gas sales are a primary source of income for Russia.

Because of the recent disagreement between Ukraine and Russia, Russia is raising the price of natural gas it sells to Ukraine.

Ukraine is almost broke and can't afford the increase in the natural gas price because it would be forced into bankruptcy.

Obama (the USA) just announced the United States is giving Ukraine $1 billion to assist in paying for the higher priced natural gas it buys from Russia.

So, the United States is actually giving Russia $1 billion because the money is just passing through Ukraine.

The first question: Has Putin figured out a way to raise the price of his natural gas sales and make the U.S. pay for the increase?

Next question: Was he really in the KGB or was he a commodities trader?

If this analysis is accurate, Putin just got Obama (the USA) to pay him $1 billion by holding a press conference and trucking some troops across town from the Russian Navy base in Ukraine.

Who is the smartest guy in the room now? (Never was Obama, was it?)

H/T Shelly

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

Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. - Whatever happened...

Dwarf planet discovery hints at another planet

Bill Donohue and the Gay Thought Police

College Students Fail to Name a Single U.S. Senator

The Democratic Party’s War on Black People and How to Counter It

North Korea: Students required to get Kim Jong-un haircut

All in the family: Valerie Jarrett and the Chicago communists

Welcome Back, Butter, We Missed You - Our misguided fat-is-evil thinking is finally going away

David Beckham brings his soccer pitch to Tallahassee

One of a kind WWII plane stops in DeLand

Black 'Nazi' gets 19 yrs in stabbing death

Video: Sebelius Said No Delay Beyond March 31

Russia Could Cut Off Critical Supply Line to Afghanistan

A Lesson From Ukraine: Balance Threats Internally

Why unpresidential ‘O-Blah-ma gets no respect

World leaders play nuclear terror game. Obama more worried about nuke in Manhattan than Russia

The West and Russia: Why Obama's Legacy Hinges on Europe

Ukraine's spy dolphins switch allegiance to Russia

Group Readies Benghazi Report Based on Witness Accounts

Peshmarga ministry denounces killing journalist

PC apology for Tasered blind man

The White House is Defeating the U.S. Military

By Alan Caruba

I began March with a look at the way President Obama is undermining the U.S. military and did not think I would have to return to this topic for a while. I was wrong.

A March 25 article in The Washington Times was titled “Obama to Kill Navy’s Tomahawk, Hellfire Missile Programs in Budget Decimation” and on March 21, The Wall Street Journal published a commentary, “America’s Incredible Shrinking Navy.” When you add those to The New York Times February 23 article, “Pentagon Plans to Shrink Army to Pre-World War II Level”, you’ve got sufficient reason to begin to realize something very ominous is occurring.

This concerned is heightened by the way dozens of high ranking officers are, in the view of some observers, being purged. A number of retired generals are speaking out about it. One of them, retired Army Major General Paul Vallely has charged that Obama is “intentionally weakening and gutting our military and reducing us as a superpower, and anyone in the ranks who disagrees or speaks out is being purged.” Retired Army Major General Patrick Brady agrees saying, “There is no doubt he is intent on emasculating the military and will fire anyone who disagrees with him.”

The world, over the course of human civilization, has always been a dangerous place. Much of the history of mankind is a history of wars, large and small. In the last century the U.S. military was involved in two world wars, a Korean conflict, a war in Vietnam, and the Gulf War to drive out Hussein’s Iraqi forces after he invaded Kuwait.

The Russian seizure of Crimea in the wake of the protests that has left Ukraine in disarray has put all of Europe on edge and raised questions about the readiness of NATO. A look around the world sees China increasing its military strength, particularly at sea.

The Middle East to include much of northern Africa is a hotbed of turmoil. And, of course, Iran continues to contribute to it, aiding Syria’s regime along with the Russians, supporting Palestinian terror organizations that threaten Israel, while pursuing its own nuclear weapon capabilities.

This would hardly seem a good time to undermine U.S. military capabilities, but that is exactly what is occurring thanks to President Obama.

The Washington Times reported that “President Barack Obama is seeking to abolish two highly successful missile programs that experts say have helped the U.S. Navy maintain military superiority for the past several decades.” The Tomahawk missile program, under Obama’s 2015 budget proposal, would be completely eliminated by fiscal year 2016. Seth Cropsey, the director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for American Seapower, said “This really moves the U.S. away from a position of influence and military dominance.”

Writing in The New York Times, Steve Cohen, a former director of the U.S. Naval Institute, noted that “The Navy is supposed to be ‘forward deployed’ to provide the president with tools powerful enough to deal with potential threats and trouble spots.” For decades since the end of World War Two the U.S Navy has patrolled the world’s sea lanes to protect trade between nations, but Cohen said, “The rest of the world isn’t unpatrolled, but it is under-patrolled” noting that “Some 90% of the world’s trade moves by sea. Much of that can be disrupted by attacks on a handful of choke points readily apparent to pirates, terrorists, and rogue nations.”

“With the U.S Navy arguably at its smallest since 1917, we don’t have many ships that are actually at sea. Only 35% of the Navy’s entire fleet is deployed, fewer than 100 ships.”

U.S. air power has been under assault as well by the Obama regime. In June of last year, David A. Deptula, a retired Air Force three-star general and senior military scholar at the Air Force Academy, warned that “In the Air Force alone, more than 30 squadrons are now grounded, along with aircrews, and maintenance and training personnel.” Less than a year ago “The graduate schools for Air Force, Navy and Marine combat aviators” had been cancelled. “Equipment testing and upgrades to F-22s, F-15s, F-16s, and other aircraft have been delayed.”

In September 2013, the commandant of the Marine Corps, James F. Amos, warned that cuts to the nation’s defense and security spending that occurred from 1990 to 2001, reduced its total active-duty strength by 32%. In 2001 the Corps totaled approximately 172,000 Marines, down from 197,000 in the 1990 Gulf War. When 9/11 occurred, the Marines “found themselves short of critical capabilities in intelligence collection and analysis, in communication and in mobility on land, sea and in the air.” These days the Marines are facing further reductions.

It will be up to Congress to eliminate the sequestration cuts and the Obama regime proposals to ensure that the U.S. military is restored to a state of readiness. If it rubber stamps the reductions that have been occurring for more than a decade, the ability of the nation to respond to an attack on our homeland or any of our allies will be highly limited.

You can be sure that those nations unfriendly to our future are fully aware of this and the defeat of our armed forces could occur on the battlefield because it has already occurred here.

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

Stephen Kinnock - Hereditary Socialists, Exclusion And Self Flagelation

MH370 .... if we knew whither we were tending, we would know how to get there ....

School workbook blatantly redefines Second Amendment to include gun registration

Hiding in Plain Sight: Jihadi Activism on Twitter

Barack Obama's first visit to Brussels to cost Belgium more than €10m

U.S. Sends 1,100 Marines to Australia, Reassures China It Isn't a Threat

Obama Tells Congress of Central Africa Deployment, Could Be 'As Many As' 300

Report: Former head of al Qaeda's network in Iran now operates in Syria

Administration extending health care signups

Turns Out Nobody Really Knows Anything About Wine

IRS: Bitcoin is not currency

Harvard Researchers Print Functional Heart Tissue

Annexation of Crimea 'not a done deal,' Obama says

The Planet’s Best Stealth Fighter Isn’t Made in America

Austria: Muslims Outnumber Catholics in Vienna Schools

Contractor Designs Air Force Jet, Chinese Missile To Shoot It Down

RI senator apologizes for cursing at gun rights advocate

This $21,000 Grill Is Worth Every Cent

Scientist who discovered Ebola frustrated by deadly Guinea outbreak

Poll Worker Imprisoned for Voter Fraud Honored by Local Democrats upon Early Release

Three trucks, two Mustangs reported stolen from Ford of Ocala

Pensacola Beach offers spring break that's 'not as wild' as Panama City Beach, students say

Plato......................

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." - Plato

H/T Shelly

Facing Down Threats: Somali Pirate Takedown

When Somali pirates take a German merchant vessel hostage, a Marine Maritime Raid Force takes action to rescue her crew.

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

Top 10 Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign slogans! (Humor)...from TPC

These are the Top 10 campaign slogans that should be used for Hillary Clinton in 2016!

At The Political Commentator here.

ZoNATION: Media Drive-By On Jindal

It's another one of those articles that slipped by. The liberal media acts a lot like termites, destroying the integrity of a structure in ways you often can't see until there's a big problem. They're constantly firing little shots to damage republicans, and those little points add up with the masses they're trying to control. Hear More in this ZoNation.

Cartoon Round Up....

H/T Paul B

The Grand Irony......................from Dan Freidman

[Heh, looks like the BDS idiots are really taking their toll on Israel. Soon enough the tables will be turned. If you think they're in a frenzy now, wait until the Jew-haters discover they can’t live without Israel’s science, medicine, innovation and ingenuity. Don’t you love G-d’s plan? I do. df]

Israel Hayom, 2/25/14

Israel's unemployment rate drops to record low

Unemployment reaches historic low of 4.9% in February • Bank of Israel cuts economic growth forecast for 2014 to 3.1% • GDP growth forecasts lowered by 0.9 percent over past six months • Interest rate for April remains unchanged at 0.75%.

Do You Know Anyone in Israel?.......................from Dan Friedman

[If you do, pass this along to them. Nationalists and Jewish patriots are beginning to stir in Israel. df]

The One Thing New Under the Sun..........................from Dan Friedman

The false either/ors, the bogus Hobson’s Choices, the jerry-built “demographic time bombs,” the fraudulent conundrums and counterfeit threats set for Israel by unJews and their comrades on the Jew-hating Left will soon come to naught and vanish in thin air. How can I be so sure? Just watch this video via a shtarker, Jerry Gordon. (BTW it works.)

Wednesday Totty.......................

Political Brain Drain: Why Are Politicians Becoming Dumb and Dumber?

Ever wonder why our politicians seem to be getting dumber by the minute? Were you baffled by Rep. Hank Johnson's (D-GA) fear that Guam might capsize, or by GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin's (R-MO) bizarre comments on rape? Then tune into part one of Trifecta's three part examination of American political stupidity.

Tuesday, 25 March 2014

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

Victoria's Secret Very Sexy Online Commercial (Extended Cut)

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

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

IMAGINE: first ever wingsuit flying above skiers

NewsBusted 3/25/14

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

Conciliatory note to lefties, regarding obama's foreign policy "skills" ....

Hints from "heloise," no. 7, .... , to obama and the rest of the western "leaders" .... how to comport yourselves in political disaster ....

The Royal Royals Versus the Royal Obamas

Blue Angels arrive in Pensacola

Local shark video goes viral

Admiral: Navy is not pushing for BRAC

Obama to Kill Tomahawk, Hellfire Missile Programs

Cocaine-filled condoms were headed to Vatican

Obama to propose NSA data overhaul

Obama, Tell the Saudis to Stop Oppressing Christians

The story of the RYNO electric microcycle – in the inventor's own words

Palestinians Dream of Destroying Israel, Peace Treaty or Not

For Jared Remy, leniency was the rule until one lethal night

He Cooperated with the Cops -- and is Paying the Price: The Ordeal of Mark Byrge

Obama has backed himself into a corner over Ukraine

Cartoon Round Up....

Ultimate Winter Fail Compilation 2014

MH370: the best comment to date..........................

The Aussies are not known for subtlety which, in this age of spin, is a good thing.

From this morning's press conference on the apron at the RAAF air base for the search SW of Australia:

RAAF Air Vice Marshall Binkin: "We are not looking for a needle in a haystack, we are looking for the haystack."

He was preceded by the Australian Defence Minister, a giant of a man, just the sort of guy you want with that portfolio.

H/T Roger

H/T Paul B

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