tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post7023547997042085435..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Our generals have grown worse as they have been lionized more and more by a society now reflexively deferential to the military. Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger134125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-26139336540358783782012-11-12T01:05:55.488-05:002012-11-12T01:05:55.488-05:00I posted the video and the extraordinary part afte...I posted the video and the extraordinary part after 3:30 on the next post. Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-62819687197123913382012-11-12T00:45:26.301-05:002012-11-12T00:45:26.301-05:00is of a large painting over..is of a large painting over..Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-46134448051737824762012-11-12T00:44:15.429-05:002012-11-12T00:44:15.429-05:00My pic today Doug of Old Faithful is over the larg...My pic today Doug of Old Faithful is over the large fireplace, or thereabouts, at Old Faithful Lodge, Yellowstone National Park.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-83325254348037881112012-11-12T00:40:03.914-05:002012-11-12T00:40:03.914-05:00:) yes and I just put a smiley and a heh:) yes and I just put a smiley and a hehBobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-50131352390710923242012-11-12T00:39:01.687-05:002012-11-12T00:39:01.687-05:00:) heh:) hehBobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-60998640034183125052012-11-12T00:34:11.192-05:002012-11-12T00:34:11.192-05:00Nobody had watched or known about the Video until ...Nobody had watched or known about the Video until the Administration appologized to the ROP about it!!!<br /><br />THEY lit the fuse!Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-18223785743554916262012-11-12T00:30:25.421-05:002012-11-12T00:30:25.421-05:00Did you see my reparations reply above?Did you see my reparations reply above?Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-3088098627109035312012-11-12T00:29:42.240-05:002012-11-12T00:29:42.240-05:00Finally got to your Johnny Mercer, see comment the...Finally got to your Johnny Mercer, see comment there.<br />Whata guy, both you and him, of course.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1961430620332776002012-11-12T00:28:32.366-05:002012-11-12T00:28:32.366-05:00Yep, There's Johnny!
Wife said on warm evenin...Yep, There's Johnny!<br /><br />Wife said on warm evenings with windows open, they'd hear him playing the Ivorys.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-39826437323245751702012-11-12T00:14:39.342-05:002012-11-12T00:14:39.342-05:00Broadwell: Petraeus Knew of Benghazi Plea for Help...Broadwell: Petraeus Knew of Benghazi Plea for Help<br /><br />By Gil Ronen<br /><br /><br /><br />Reuters<br /><br />Military expert Paula Broadwell, who was allegedly improperly involved with resigned CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus, confirmed in October that the CIA annex in Benghazi asked for reinforcements when the consulate came under attack on September 11. She also acknowledged that "there was a failure in the system."<br /><br />Broadwell was speaking at her alma mater, the University of Denver, on October 26. Her lecture, which is on YouTube under the title "Alumni Symposium 2012 Paula Broadwell," now has added value, because based on the recent disclosures, it can now be assumed that she indeed knew exactly what it was that Petraeus knew about the attack.<br /><br />Broadwell confirmed the reports on Fox News that the CIA annex asked for a special unit, the Commander in Chief's In Extremis Force, to come and assist it. She also said that the force could indeed have reinforced the consulate, and that Petraeus knew all of this, but was not allowed to talk to the press because of his position in the CIA.<br /><br />"The challenge has been the fog of war, and the greater challenge is that it's political hunting season, and so this whole thing has been turned into a very political sort of arena, if you will," she said. "The fact that came out today is that the ground forces there at the CIA annex, which is different from the consulate, were requesting reinforcements.<br /><br />"They were requesting the – it's called the C-in-C's In Extremis Force – a group of Delta Force operators, our very, most talented guys we have in the military. They could have come and reinforced the consulate and the CIA annex. Now, I don't know if a lot of you have heard this but the CIA annex had actually taken a couple of Libyan militia members prisoner, and they think that the attack on the consulate was an attempt to get these prisoners back. It's still being vetted.<br /><br />"The challenging thing for Gen. Petraeus is that in his new position, he's not allowed to communicate with the press. So he's known all of this – they had correspondence with the CIA station chief in Libya, within 24 hours they kind of knew what was happening."<br /><br />Broadwell did give some support to the administration, however, for its initial version of events, which tied the consulate attack to protests in the Muslim world.<br /><br />"If you remember at the time, the Muslim video, the Mohammed video that came out, the demonstrations that were going on in Cairo, there were demonstrations in 22 other countries around the world, tens of thousands of people, and our government was very concerned that this was going to become a nightmare for us," she said.<br /><br />"So you can understand if you put yourselves in his shoes or Secretary Clinton's shoes or the President's shoes, that we thought it was tied somehow to the demonstrations in Cairo. And it's true that we have signal intelligence that shows the militia members in Libya were watching the demonstration in Cairo, and it did sort of galvanize their effort. So we'll find out the facts soon enough.<br /><br />"As a former intel officer it's frustrating to me because it reveals our sources and methods, I don't think the public necessarily needs to know all of that. It is a tragedy that we lost an ambassador and two other government officials, and [...] there was a failure in the system because there was additional security requested, but it's frustrating to see the sort of political aspect of what's going on with this whole investigation."Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-29019223446429491822012-11-12T00:10:46.766-05:002012-11-12T00:10:46.766-05:00The democrats had a data mining operation they hir...The democrats had a data mining operation they hired through the cable companies that tracked what people watch on cable TV. By knowing what programs people like they were able to estimate those new voters that might tend Democratic. They then contacted all these new voters while the Republicans were fighting things out in the primaries, got them signed up to vote and tried to make sure they did. This was going on in Ohio, according to what Cunningham is saying. He is out of Cincinnati, and seems to have a good understanding of how things went there in Hamilton County but is mystified as to the results, as the Republican turnout was easily estimated to be higher than it turned out to be. Maybe the evangelicals didn't support Romney as much as was thought.<br /><br />Meanwhile the whale Orca crashed.<br /><br />Things are not as they used to be.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-62266224725138614952012-11-11T23:38:54.020-05:002012-11-11T23:38:54.020-05:00Maybe we're only counted as 3/5ths of a vote.
...Maybe we're only counted as 3/5ths of a vote.<br /><br />Reparations is fair play, ya know.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-64719898214675945742012-11-11T23:37:55.252-05:002012-11-11T23:37:55.252-05:00These negotiations will be a high-profile test of ...<i>These negotiations will be a high-profile test of Mr. Boehner's leadership of his own party conference, a balky, hard-to-lead crowd. He is walking a tightrope between the party's large conservative faction that has put a premium on confrontation and its more pragmatic wing.<br /><br />He is asking his colleagues to give him latitude to size up and navigate the new political landscape—and for now, at least, they seem to be giving it to him.<br /><br />"The president won, and the tax cuts are ending, whether we like it or not,'' said a senior aide to one House Republican leader, describing Mr. Boehner's message. "So we have to figure out how to deal with it.''</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-72637522316925845862012-11-11T23:35:56.091-05:002012-11-11T23:35:56.091-05:00Shave our Pubs?
...er, Pubes?Shave our Pubs?<br />...er, Pubes?Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-54697951484642452632012-11-11T23:25:46.433-05:002012-11-11T23:25:46.433-05:00What do we do, wear condoms over our heads?What do we do, wear condoms over our heads?Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-53119876455279510932012-11-11T23:24:37.888-05:002012-11-11T23:24:37.888-05:00Somehow, LewinskyGate now pales in comparison.
.....Somehow, LewinskyGate now pales in comparison.<br /><br />...I may be the only human alive to remember hearing her father at first calling Bill a misogynist, before he got back in line.<br />...wonder if that can be found on the internets?<br /><br />Good that 41 has been so helpful in rebuilding Bill's Rep.<br />...and that 43 was too compasionate to fire any of Bill's Crooks when he took office.<br />...their contribution of damaging leaks in the WOT against the ROP, helped set the stage for BHO's Immaculation.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-43905326646747784652012-11-11T23:05:06.402-05:002012-11-11T23:05:06.402-05:00Well,Bob, that's all stating the obvious, isn&...Well,Bob, that's all stating the obvious, isn't it.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-19020812878991393832012-11-11T22:57:54.336-05:002012-11-11T22:57:54.336-05:00Which is the Darker Story, Obama's handling of...<i>Which is the Darker Story, Obama's handling of Ambassador Christopher's safety</i><br /><br />Obama's handling of the Ambassador's safety and the coverup, of course.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-18513642570225054502012-11-11T22:53:42.590-05:002012-11-11T22:53:42.590-05:00Wayne Allen Root is one of my very favorite self p...Wayne Allen Root is one of my very favorite self promoters. He is going to take on Reid next Senatorial election, he says.<br /><br />He did make a lot of sense on how the pubs should handle the women's issues.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-75493176667534341582012-11-11T22:47:24.935-05:002012-11-11T22:47:24.935-05:00Hell if I know. The base was motivated, then didn&...Hell if I know. The base was motivated, then didn't show?Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-53988875599777041542012-11-11T22:45:22.342-05:002012-11-11T22:45:22.342-05:00Interesting discussion about the auto voter screen...Interesting discussion about the auto voter screens.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-83531824130613535772012-11-11T22:43:33.425-05:002012-11-11T22:43:33.425-05:00Wayne Allen Root up now......is saying it not poss...Wayne Allen Root up now......is saying it not possible, something is wrong, talking about 80% pub turnout in Ohio and elsewhere, where are the votes?<br /><br />They are talking numbers I can't keep up with. But the upshot is....something isn't right here.<br /><br />Two million less votes for Romney than McCain...how is this possible? These two talkers are not buying it.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-32240362541125004822012-11-11T22:34:18.019-05:002012-11-11T22:34:18.019-05:00The real question about the election is the low wh...The real question about the election is the low white turnout.<br /><br />I guess nobody gives a shit anymore.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-80097055232485175322012-11-11T22:32:11.000-05:002012-11-11T22:32:11.000-05:00Such an outcome would redeem P4 and make him a Her...Such an outcome would redeem P4 and make him a Hero, in my eyes, at least.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-86287815631803396332012-11-11T22:29:59.299-05:002012-11-11T22:29:59.299-05:00Helll no. I love it. It's the only entertainin...<i>Helll no. I love it. It's the only entertaining thing going on right now. I hope there's a number 3, and 4, and 13.</i><br /><br />Just heard on the Cunningham radio program it might be more than a love triangle, might be a quadrangle, maybe even a pentagon!<br /><br />So, you may get your wish. I admit to enjoying it a little myself.<br /><br />I think O'Cool told P4 to shut it about Benghazi. They were blackmailing him. Because something seems really amiss. Thus, he decided to out himself. And I hope he takes O'Cool for a real ride.<br /><br />At least, that's my take now.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.com