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US General Frederick Hodge, the director of operations for all of southern Afghanistan: "Our mission is to show irreversible momentum by the end of 2010 - that's the clock I'm using"
Isn't this mission impossible? Especially if the enemy knows your time table?
Al
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ION BHARAT RAKSHAK > [NYT] US SAID TO EXPAND SECRET MILITARY ACTIVITIES IN THE MIDEAST REGION |US SAID TO ORDER FURTHER CLANDESTINE MILITARY ACTIVITIES, agz CURR + FUTURE MILITANT THREATS in IRAN, SAUDI ARABIA, SOMALIA, ETC. = CENTRAL ASIA + HORN OF AFRICA.
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I really, really, really hope Sarah & hubby install several webcams aimed at their neighbor's place so that the entire world can all keep an eye on him. Places like Camstreams offer this for free.
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The owner of the home should receive some tender loving blog-attention for being a dickhead and allowing this tool to rent.
Posted by: Frank G ||
05/25/2010 18:43 Comments ||
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Some to think of it, if he were to commit a local infraction, perhaps a judge could see fit to insure that he gets to spend another six months in Alaska. In jail. In winter.
Tigerhawk understands. America does not.
Oil continues to pour out of a hole in the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, and BP Plc is the latest corporate villain by dint of its ownership of the hole and its failure to plug it after more than a month of trying. Whether the company survives the disaster probably depends on whether it stops the oil before hurricane season gets in to full swing. Regardless, the executives and employees of BP are under siege, just trying to survive the present and worrying whether they have any future.
There will be time to sort out culpability in some imperfect political or prosecutorial process. We will blame some of the right people, but it is a lot more probable than not that we will also blame some of the wrong people and omit to blame at least some person or institution that will escape the gauntlet of hearings and depositions. That spectacle will come as night follows day.
In the last few days, however, I've been thinking about other people, the nameless men and women who will actually remediate this disaster.
Somewhere within BP true heroes are working night and day to stop the gusher and clean up its consequences. These people -- everybody from petroleum engineers to the rough men and women who work in oil fields in the world's most challenging environments to the machinists and welders who labor around the clock to build the next solution -- are not, in the main, responsible for the disaster. They are responsible for ending it. They are not known to us as individuals. In the current climate, where liberal activists intimidate the families of corporate executives to gain leverage, they no doubt hope to remain anonymous. They are working around the clock, to the point of exhaustion, in conditions, both physical and emotional, more stressful than most American employees (including many who complain about all the stress they are under) can possibly comprehend. They will eventually solve this problem they did not create. At the moment of their success, which no doubt will come, these men and women will have prevented staggering incremental damage. Their only reward, though, will be relief and the satisfaction of a job well done.
I respectfully submit that the anonymous employees of BP and its contractors who are devoting themselves to plugging the hole and cleaning up the oil are, perhaps, the most heroic people in America right now. I'm one American who is grateful for you, and wish you the strength and wisdom to finish the daunting task before you.
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MSM-NET > the BP DEEPWATER HORIZON repor stood atop the SECOND LARGEST OIL DEPOSIT/FIELD IN THE WORLD.
IOW, its an INTERNATIONALLLY IMPOR OIL FIELD HENCE A OWG-NWO = "GLOBAL/GLOBALIST" ISSUE.
Sub-read, POLITICAL + ELECTORAL + GEOPOL ISSUE.
Sub-sub-read, BETTER TO LET GUSH FOR MONTHS OR DECADES + LOSE MOST, IFF ALL, OF THE GLOBALLY-VITAL OIL IN RIGHTEOUS OWG-NWO ENVIRO CATACLYSM THAN TO BE HELD MORALLY, LEGALLY, OR $$$-PAYOUT NEGLIGENT OR RESPONSIBLE???
E,g. KAMALEN + COMET APHOPHIS > D *** NG IT, WE OWG POLS + PERTS CANNOT BE BLAMED FOR FAULTY MATH + SPACE DEFENSES BECUZ IT WAS OUR INTENTION ALL ALONG TO HAVE APOPHIS SLAM INTO + DESTROY THE MOON..........AND DON'T YOUSE EVER FORGET WHAT WE NEVER TOLD YOU!
Well, [Sarah Palin is] incredibly charismatic. Her politics are different than mine. But I don't belittle her. She represents a significant segment of America. It might not be the majority, but certainly a significant segment of America that lives her lifestyle and believes as she does. And therefore, I can disagree with her without making fun of her. And for those of us who are more liberal, we step on dangerous ground when we try to belittle her, or belittle her fundamentalism, or religion or stuff like that, saying you know she is backwoods or stuff like that. That is how liberals come across as elitists or snobs ... She touches a nerve for people who resent being looked down upon. And there is a significant segment of America that feels it is being looked down upon. I think that's dangerous. It's where people who are liberal can get into trouble. So, I respect her. I disagree with her. But I have nothing bad to say about her. Who said this? The answer may--nay, will!--surprise you.
The speaker was a very successful local politician before getting caught having paid a prostitute with a personal check, well-liked on both sides of the aisle. There had been serious talk of running him for governor, but the brouhaha made that impossible. So he found an alternate career. Hence the surprise.
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Half the point of being a liberal in the first place is sneering at the common folk over coffee. It's not bigotry when we do it!
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I remember the personal check incident. It happened when I was in college. For reasons of family obligation, I was compelled to vote in the Dem primary that year, and I voted for him on the theory that at least the man paid his bills on time.
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I'm not sure I'd call him a prominent liberal. He's well known but not for any elected position he's held.
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Yeah, Jerry's really sensitive to people who resent being looked down upon. I'll remember that the next time I'm clicking through channels and catch another glimpse of his audience cheering on another white trash cat fight or battle of the baby daddies.
He's full of shit.
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He may be generally full of sh*t, but that doesn't mean he is wrong about this. Make all the Caribou Barbie jokes you want, but Palin represents some very mainstream views. Doing the full Alinsky on her is going to piss off the people that identify with her positions.
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Right now there are exactly two politicians in America who can consistently fill an auditorium: Palin and Obama. And in Obama's case, I think folks are starting to shy away from the front rows.
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05/25/2010 13:53 Comments ||
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Matt I question whether Obama can still actually fill a room if half the persons present aren't paid political hacks and/or bussed-in union goons.
Elizabeth Scalia, "The Anchoress" Commenting on Woody Allen and Tom Friedman's open admiration for benevolent dictatorship:
The leftist party that these people support is currently in control of both houses of congress and the White House (and they are well-represented within the federal judiciary) and yet, it is not enough. The power is not pure enough, it is not invincible enough; their power is diluted because, dammit, those little people crowing about the constitution all over the internets are mucking things up!...
Friedman and Mitchell, and even that self-absorbed twerp Woody Allen are all wringing their hands over something they cannot (yet) control; alternative media and how it has contributed to the difficulties of getting things done in Washington.
When the press had a monopoly on information, it was much easier for them to influence opinion; that in turn made the legislator's jobs easier, too. Now, yes, things are more difficult for the politicians, but that's mostly because they insist upon working as they always have (the incestuous commingling of pols and media freaks on the left, and pols and business freaks on the right, with back-room-deals-aplenty, back-scratching galore and pork, pork, pork for everyone) while the electorate has decided it wants something different.
So, Allen and Friedman--and others who have kept their faces before us for 40 years by coasting on the work of their youth, because they've done nothing memorable, lately--are feeling the shifting sand beneath their feet, and they're wondering why America can't simply submit to a fantasy of Limited Dictatorship. It's so inconvenient for these elites to have to deal with the noise of the bourgeoisie -- commoners who presume to opine on anything and who dare to object to the incessant lecturing from their betters.
So, let's be China "for a little while..." (just long enough to get everything we want accomplished).
Because what they want must, of course, darling, be the very thing that needs doing.
Let's allow Obama to be dictator "for a couple of years," because that preening narcissist will certainly give up his dictatorship once the nowhere-utopia of which the left dreams is achieved. Right? Of course....
Every murderous totalitarian government of the 20th century began with some insulated group of faux-intellectuals congratulating each other on how smart they are, and fantasizing about how, if they could just install a dictatorship-for-a-day, they could right all the wrongs in the world.
It is the ultimate fantasy of the narcissist. And we've got whole generations of them, in control of our media and our government, all intent on "remaking America."
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I think it would be fun to get a bunch of no name actors together, dress them up as stereotypical Hollywood secret police, and send them out to Tom and Woody's houses about dawn some morning with a film crew to kick down the doors, yank them out of bed, throw them in cuffs, and tell them that their dictatorship dreams have come true. Just to see the looks on their faces. If Ashton Kutcher wasn't such a lefty douchebag, he might be interested.
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Oh I dunno, this "dictator for a week" business might not be all bad. For example: I'd prefer any of the regulars here be dictator for a week rather than continue on with the administration we have now.
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"I really think some NYT columnists are overpaid hacks at some point, have made enough money"
/Barry Obamao's little red book
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Of course they're all for it. They think that they will be part of the nomenklatura, and can dish out revenge to people they never liked in the first place. (They never think that they ever might be up against the wall after they have outlived their usefulness.)
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600 million people? She's probbably an environmental wacko too and doesn't realize what that would do to the landscape. Product of a public education.
MyFoxBoston obtained police reports that show suspect Isaias Naranjo was arrested after crashing into state Rep. Mike Moran's car at 60 miles per hour and then bragging to police that they couldn't punish him. According to the report, the suspect "just laughed, slurring that he was going to go back to 'my country' Mexico. 'Nothing is going to happen to me, man.'"
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
