tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post1117110128143312446..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Lincoln’ Thanksgiving Blessing of 1863 - (Context) April 12, 1861: Battle of Fort Sumter Casualties: noneDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-32215794870705206082014-11-28T02:08:13.529-05:002014-11-28T02:08:13.529-05:00The New York Times editorial board agreed, as Crow...The New York Times editorial board agreed, as Crowley noted. They titled their piece “A Problem Beyond Mr. Hagel,” and concluded that Obama’s incoherence on foreign policy was the root cause of the failure:<br /><br /> [Hagel] was not the core of the Obama administration’s military problem. That lies with the president and a national security policy that has too often been incoherent and shifting at a time of mounting international challenges, especially in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. …<br /><br /> Apart from these differences, Mr. Hagel was not well served by the fact that national security policy is tightly controlled by the White House, with Mr. Obama relying on a small group of aides, including Susan Rice, the national security adviser, for counsel. That process has often resulted in delayed and contradictory signals about Mr. Obama’s foreign policy agenda and the military strategies needed to carry it out. And, of course, all of this has come in for withering criticism from Republicans and many Democrats as well. …<br /><br /> A more aggressive defense secretary who has Mr. Obama’s full confidence and ear may be able to better deal with chaos and war on these fronts. But, ultimately, it is Mr. Obama who will have to set the course with a more coherent strategy.<br /><br />In order to get a more coherent strategy, Obama would need to move outside the insularity of his own inner circle, select a SecDef candidate with a solid constituency among foreign- and national-security policy stalwarts, while bringing Republicans in on the move to ensure a smooth transition. In other words, Obama needs an appointee with the stature of a Robert Gates, or even a post-CIA Leon Panetta, to reset policy and restore some bipartisan support while moving to competency. Either that, or a technocrat with lengthy experience who nonetheless can provide a dissenting voice on policy matters and make it stick.<br /><br />With that in mind, meet the man who has the newest trial balloon as a short-list candidate to replace Hagel:<br /><br /> Other candidates being considered include Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, who previously served as the Pentagon’s general counsel, according to several people close to the process. Johnson is highly regarded by the West Wing, particularly after he oversaw the months-long process to identify the immigration executive actions Obama announced last week.<br /><br /> But given Republicans’ staunch opposition to those actions, tapping Johnson for the Pentagon post risks turning his confirmation hearing into a fierce debate on immigration. The president would also need to fill the top job at Homeland Security again just as that department is implementing the immigration actions.<br /><br />Seriously? Not only does this double down on insularity within the White House inner circle, it practically alleviates any charges of obstructionism from Republicans if they block him. He’s got no particular foreign policy or national-security policy portfolio (other than tenures as the top lawyer for the Air Force and Pentagon), and his biggest accomplishment in the Obama administration is constructing a bypass of Congress. Why would the Senate endorse that?<br /><br />Even more to the point, why would anyone else support it? When only 19% of the public believes that Obama’s ISIS strategy is working, with 61% see it as failing, doubling down on the status quo is unbelievably tone deaf. The point of making a change is to actually make a change. A Jeh Johnson nomination will do nothing but strengthen the conviction that Obama is not only adrift, but unmoored from reality.<br /><br />http://hotair.com/archives/2014/11/26/unity-hagel-firing-brings-consensus-that-obama-foreign-policy-is-broken/Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-29644677281122311182014-11-28T02:07:43.656-05:002014-11-28T02:07:43.656-05:00Obama is unmoored from reality - what have I been ...Obama is unmoored from reality - what have I been saying ? -<br /><br /> <br />Unity: Hagel firing brings consensus that Obama foreign policy is broken<br />posted at 4:01 pm on November 26, 2014 by Ed Morrissey<br /><br /><br />Alternate headline: Failing executive fires wrong adviser in attempt to recover. It’s not that Chuck Hagel especially deserved to hang onto his job as Secretary of Defense that triggered the consensus in Washington that Barack Obama’s “smart power” foreign policy has become an utter disaster. It’s that no one thinks Hagel had anything to do with policy at all. Politico’s Michael Crowley explains how Obama has become a uniter after all:<br /><br /> It isn’t often that left, right and center agree about the Obama White House. But the firing of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel this week produced a near-unanimous reaction: President Obama’s foreign policy team is dysfunctional and in need of a stronger tonic than the exit of a low-profile cabinet member with a light policy footprint.<br /><br /> Both Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and The New York Times editorial page agreed that, in the words of the Times, Hagel “was not the core of the Obama administration’s military problem. That lies with the president and a national security policy that has too often been incoherent and shifting at a time of mounting international challenges” and “tightly controlled… by a small group of aides.”<br /><br />In fact, the decision to dump Hagel has backfired by highlighting the failure and dysfunction:<br /><br /> As Obama’s foreign policy continues to grasp for clear wins abroad — with ISIL still fighting, Iran still stubborn and Vladimir Putin still defiant — the critique of a tight-knit and micromanaging White House national security team is quickly gaining currency in Washington.<br /><br /> And while some say that dumping Hagel was intended, in part, to cool the criticism of Obama’s foreign policy machinations, the immediate effect has been to draw more attention to the way life-and-death decisions are made in the White House Situation Room — and why they’re not working out better in trouble spots like from Syria to Ukraine.<br /><br />McCain made this point in a radio interview, saying that the real problem is that the White House “has no strategy to deal with” any of the hot-spot foreign policy areas. McCain said Hagel had been “very, very frustrated” with a lack of access to the policymaking process,” and even though McCain had been one of the fiercest critics of Hagel’s appointment, argued that the real problem is with the people still left in place:<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-56702415297253103622014-11-28T00:54:50.628-05:002014-11-28T00:54:50.628-05:00.
That presupposes that a politician like Cameron....<br /><br />That presupposes that a politician like Cameron has a working knowledge of any level of morality.<br /><br />,Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-77305094028878087492014-11-28T00:47:33.673-05:002014-11-28T00:47:33.673-05:00.
Why dick around with it. The only ones that ca....<br /><br />Why dick around with it. The only ones that can sway Obama are women. Rice, Clinton, Powers, Jarret. <br /><br />Cherchez la femme.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-18370313733120815842014-11-28T00:42:46.292-05:002014-11-28T00:42:46.292-05:00.
I believe I am right in saying Islam has killed....<br /><br /><i>I believe I am right in saying Islam has killed more folks than any other grouping in the history of the world.</i><br /><br />I suspect you are wrong by at least an order of 10.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-46318187005501933842014-11-28T00:40:02.885-05:002014-11-28T00:40:02.885-05:00.
Yea, ME. Pennsylvania.
..<br /><br />Yea, ME. Pennsylvania.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-37725256856793285452014-11-27T23:39:58.688-05:002014-11-27T23:39:58.688-05:00I love that: 'sit down money'
Heh :)I love that: 'sit down money'<br /><br />Heh :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-25467363174504100462014-11-27T23:39:09.168-05:002014-11-27T23:39:09.168-05:00Seattle still in the hunt for a playoff position.
...Seattle still in the hunt for a playoff position.<br /><br />Big win tonight:<br /><br />Seattle 19<br />San Francisco 3<br /><br />FinalAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-31185113901341152862014-11-27T23:38:08.592-05:002014-11-27T23:38:08.592-05:00Ran out of, as the Australians call it, 'sit d...Ran out of, as the Australians call it, 'sit down money'.<br /><br />:)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-88261761199961961812014-11-27T22:57:23.000-05:002014-11-27T22:57:23.000-05:00Sorry, Bob, you already covered this. Sorry, Bob, you already covered this. allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-82076387509743530912014-11-27T22:55:04.496-05:002014-11-27T22:55:04.496-05:00Men allegedly plotted to bomb Gateway Arch, kill F...<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/11/27/men-allegedly-plotted-to-bomb-gateway-arch-kill-ferguson-officials-report-says/" rel="nofollow">Men allegedly plotted to bomb Gateway Arch, kill Ferguson officials, report says</a><br /><br /><i>The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the men had wanted to buy more of the “bombs,” but had to wait until one of their girlfriends’ Electronic Benefit Transfer card had more money.</i><br /><br />... only in America ...allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-21229148129675974832014-11-27T22:19:50.024-05:002014-11-27T22:19:50.024-05:00 You choose a member, indeed; but when you have ch... You choose a member, indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of Parliament. [Emphasis added.]<br /><br />In these days of rampant populism it’s important to realize that the old clique of politicians, in Britain as elsewhere in the West, hasn’t acted wrongly so much because it’s gone against the people’s will, as because it’s gone against the people’s interests.<br /><br />In fact, in many cases the political class has given people what they wanted — an unsustainable welfare state — in its own interest (which was to get elected), but has gone against the people’s interest by creating an unprecedented national debt of astronomic proportions that may bankrupt the state and will burden future generations.<br /><br />UKIP doesn’t seem to be different from the other parties in this respect. It doesn’t like to tell people uncomfortable truths, as can be seen by the compromises it has already started making. For example UKIP has promised that millions of European immigrants can remain in Britain after an EU exit and taken a soft stance on Islam, and so on.<br /><br />UKIP wants to appear politically correct.<br /><br />Its policies are fluid, constantly changed. Its representatives are often caught saying things against party policy. When placed under scrutiny, they often don’t know what to say.<br /><br />All this is not unique to UKIP, as it can be found in other parties. But that’s exactly the problem. Where is the difference? Where is a long-term plan for effective change? If UKIP knew the answer, it wouldn’t have gone so long without a manifesto, including during the 2014 European election campaign.<br /><br />In the end, leaving the European Union is not the ultimate solution. What will UKIP change after that? What about the Third World immigrants, who are an immensely greater problem than Bulgarians and Romanians? What about Islamization of Britain? What about the erosion of Christian values? The ideological dominance of the Left?<br /><br />UKIP is a breath of fresh air in the stagnant political situation of the UK, but air, though essential, is not the only necessity of life.<br /><br />Filed Under: Daily Mailer, FrontPage Tagged With: Conservative, eu, Islam, labor, liberal democrat, UKIP<br />Print This Post Print This Post<br />About Enza Ferreri<br /><br />Enza Ferreri is an Italian-born, London-based Philosophy graduate, author and journalist. She has been a London correspondent for several Italian magazines and newspapers, including Panorama, L’Espresso, and La Repubblica. She is on the Executive Council of the UK’s party Liberty GB. She blogs at www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk.<br /><br />http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/enza-ferreri/uk-independence-party-is-better-but-is-no-solution/Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-40135994108768097392014-11-27T22:18:59.230-05:002014-11-27T22:18:59.230-05:00The people who are worried by all these recent phe...The people who are worried by all these recent phenomena and even more scared by the main political parties’ inaction and collusion are absolutely right. What they don’t necessarily have, after many years of the media’s and education system’s propaganda, is a clear idea of what caused the UK’s problems and where to start if we want to stop, let alone reverse, these momentum-gathering trends.<br /><br />To know that is the job of politicians. Hence, the question “what should UKIP stand for” needs to be answered. It’s not enough to be against the European Union (EU), mass immigration and the main-party triad “LibLabCon.”<br /><br />Here UKIP represents vast numbers of the electorate even too well. Like them, UKIP senses the problems, but doesn’t grasp the solution.<br /><br />Irish statesman and political thinker Edmund Burke (1729–1797), himself an MP in the House of Commons for many years, made an important distinction between representatives and delegates.<br /><br />In his famous “Speech to the Electors at Bristol at the Conclusion of the Poll” of 1774, he explained that delegates exclusively carry out the instructions of those who elected them, therefore only reflecting the views and wishes of their constituents.<br /><br />Representatives, on the other hand, are trustees. Voters have entrusted them to act in their best interests, which doesn’t necessarily coincide with what the majority of voters want. Moreover, representatives make choices on the basis of the common interest, and not just of those who elected them. Representatives consider constituents’ views, but don’t have to abide by their wishes. They follow follows their consciences. The representative, thus, having knowledge and experience that his constituents generally lack, uses his judgement to form an opinion on what’s in the public interest, and acts accordingly.<br /><br />MPs, Burke said, should be representatives and not delegates.<br /><br />So, in Bristol he proclaimed (The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume I, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854, pp. 446–8):<br /><br /> [I]t ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to theirs; and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own. But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.…<br /><br /> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-16952823104539286932014-11-27T22:18:07.561-05:002014-11-27T22:18:07.561-05:00UK Independence Party Is Better —- But No Solution...UK Independence Party Is Better —- But No Solution<br />November 27, 2014 by Enza Ferreri 8 Comments<br /><br />Enza Ferreri is an Italian-born, London-based Philosophy graduate, author and journalist. She has been a London correspondent for several Italian magazines and newspapers, including Panorama, L’Espresso, and La Repubblica. She is on the Executive Council of the UK’s party Liberty GB. She blogs at www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk.<br /><br />12<br />Print This Post Print This Post<br /><br />ukip-2Last Thursday the UK Independence Party (UKIP) gained its second seat in Britain’s House of Commons, the lower House of Parliament, with Mark Reckless elected in the Rochester and Strood constituency, in Kent. The victory was obtained through a comfortable, though not dramatic, majority of 2,930 votes over the Conservative runner-up Kelly Tolhurst. The majority, many say, may easily be lost again at the May 2015 general election for the UK Parliament.<br /><br />This election, and especially the election of UKIP’s first Member of Parliament, Douglas Carswell, with a landslide 60% of the vote, are historical events.<br /><br />Both seats were won in by-elections necessitated by the fact that Mr. Carswell and Mr. Reckless, already MPs for the Conservative Party, defected to UKIP and left their seats, which they later regained with their new party.<br /><br />For good or for bad, UKIP, for all its limitations, is changing the British political landscape forever.<br /><br />UKIP’s limitations are a lack of long-term clarity about the objectives the party wants to achieve. What needs to be answered is what the party stands for and who does the party represent?<br /><br />The answer to the latter is obvious: The great number of British people of middle and working classes who have seen their country transformed beyond recognition in the relatively short time of a few decades by unrestricted immigration, multiculturalism and Islamization — in short, the socio-communist agenda tacitly or overtly accepted and promoted by the misnamed Conservative Party as well as the most obvious culprits, Labour and Liberal Democrats.<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-60662975869056124652014-11-27T22:10:19.335-05:002014-11-27T22:10:19.335-05:00Seattle 9
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................Seattle 9 <br />San Francisco 0<br />halftime<br /><br />....................<br />Muslim Black Panther Plot to Bomb Gateway Arch Fails Due to Welfare Cuts<br />November 27, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield 12 Comments<br /><br />Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. He is completing a book on the international challenges America faces in the 21st century.<br /><br /><br /><br />Cover-Story-Ferguson-Arch-690-942-26114404<br /><br />While the media chatters about the “social commentary” of this New Yorker cover, two Muslim New Black Panthers tried to make it into a reality. There was just one problem, racist Republicans weren’t providing enough EBT benefits to carry out the plot.<br /><br />Brandon Muhammad, aka Brandon Orlando Baldwin, the gentleman seen below, had a dream. A really horrible murderous dream. Like other Muslims camped out in Ferguson, he hoped to exploit Ferguson tensions to the next stage by engaging in terrorism against Americans.<br /><br />238AB60D00000578-2851364-image-3_1417069909560<br /><br /> Two men indicted last week on federal weapons charges allegedly had plans to bomb the Gateway Arch — and to kill St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch and Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson — the Post-Dispatch has learned.<br /><br /> Baldwin claimed to be buying two Hi-Point .45-caliber pistols for himself when they were really for another person. Brandon also is known as Brandon Muhammad, according to court documents, and Davis now goes by the last name Ali, his attorney said.<br /><br /> One of the defendants’ plans, the sources said, included planting a bomb inside the observation deck at the top of the Arch.<br /><br />Sadly welfare cuts undid their important statement about social justice.<br /><br /> The men wanted to acquire two more bombs, the sources said, but could not afford to do it until one suspect’s girlfriend’s Electronic Benefit Transfer card was replenished.<br /><br />This is what happens when the infidels don’t pay their Jizya on time.<br /><br />Olajuwon Ali aka Olajuwon Davis, the second conspirator, is a member of a Moorish Temple, which is an obscure black nationalist variant of Islam, like the Nation of Islam, but it gets less headlines. Its members claim to be an independent country and often seize property claiming diplomatic immunity.<br /><br />Ali also referred to himself as “Brother Ali”.<br /><br />http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/muslim-black-panther-plot-to-bomb-gateway-arch-fails-due-to-welfare-cuts/<br /><br />Wanted to blast the Arch into two parts.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-36594340892683558612014-11-27T20:44:34.433-05:002014-11-27T20:44:34.433-05:00>>>But one crucial piece remained: The el...>>>But one crucial piece remained: The elevation of Thanksgiving to a true national holiday, a feat accomplished by Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1939, with the nation still struggling out of the Great Depression, the traditional Thanksgiving Day fell on the last day of the month – a fifth Thursday. Worried retailers, for whom the holiday had already become the kickoff to the Christmas shopping season, feared this late date. Roosevelt agreed to move his holiday proclamation up one week to the fourth Thursday, thereby extending the critical shopping season.<br /><br />Some states stuck to the traditional last Thursday date, and other Thanksgiving traditions, such as high school and college football championships, had already been scheduled. This led to Roosevelt critics deriding the earlier date as “Franksgiving.” With 32 states joining Roosevelt’s “Democratic Thanksgiving, ” 16 others stuck with the traditional date, or “Republican Thanksgiving.” After some congressional wrangling, in December 1941, Roosevelt signed the legislation making Thanksgiving a legal holiday on the fourth Thursday in November. And there it has remained.<<<<br /><br /><br />Disunion<br />How the Civil War Created Thanksgiving<br />By Kenneth C. Davis <br />November 25, 2014 8:12 pmNovember 25, 2014 8:12 pm<br /><br />Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded.<br /><br />Of all the bedtime-story versions of American history we teach, the tidy Thanksgiving pageant may be the one stuffed with the heaviest serving of myth. This iconic tale is the main course in our nation’s foundation legend, complete with cardboard cutouts of bow-carrying Native American cherubs and pint-size Pilgrims in black hats with buckles. And legend it largely is.<br /><br />In fact, what had been a New England seasonal holiday became more of a “national” celebration only during the Civil War, with Lincoln’s proclamation calling for “a day of thanksgiving” in 1863..................<br /><br />http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/25/how-the-civil-war-created-thanksgiving/?ref=opinion&_r=0Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-30010205763102351292014-11-27T18:44:11.863-05:002014-11-27T18:44:11.863-05:00I have advocated that for yearsI have advocated that for yearsWhat is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-65278389088472133412014-11-27T17:15:54.688-05:002014-11-27T17:15:54.688-05:00Is there some correlation between casualty rolls a...Is there some correlation between casualty rolls and morality? <br /><br />... interesting article ... $1.26 billion ... <br /><br /><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/israeli-involvement-in-britains-national-security/5415368" rel="nofollow">Israeli Involvement in Britain’s National Security</a>allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-10771698512174805982014-11-27T16:43:15.152-05:002014-11-27T16:43:15.152-05:00Dinner time.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone except d...Dinner time.<br /><br />Happy Thanksgiving everyone except d. rat.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-49415976186395636712014-11-27T16:26:56.394-05:002014-11-27T16:26:56.394-05:00Just consider it another advertising gig.Just consider it another advertising gig.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-28234782386436493802014-11-27T16:24:14.241-05:002014-11-27T16:24:14.241-05:00White House struggles to find Hagel successor
By B...White House struggles to find Hagel successor<br />By Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon Correspondent<br />updated 2:49 PM EST, Wed November 26, 2014<br />Watch this video<br />Chuck Hagel out as defense secretary<br />STORY HIGHLIGHTS<br /><br /> Chuck Hagel resigned this week<br /> Hagel stepped down after meetings made clear Obama didn't want him on the job<br /> White House is having a hard time finding a successor<br /><br />Washington (CNN) -- The White House has a big problem on its hands: finding someone to replace Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who was pushed out of the administration this week.<br /><br />Since Michele Flournoy withdrew her name from consideration on Tuesday, there is a growing sense that many potential candidates may be shying away from the job due to the short time frame they would be in office and concerns over how independently they can function from the National Security Council, according to both current and former senior administration and congressional officials.<br /><br />Flournoy cited family reasons for her decision to withdraw her name, but several administration officials say the decision came as a surprise because she had known she was on the short list of candidates being vetted. Another name now being widely circulated is former Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter—who is widely credited with reforming cumbersome and expensive weapons acquisition procedures and programs, but who had clashed in the past with White House staff as well.<br />Pentagon: Hagel was not fired<br />Pentagon: Resignation not about Iraq<br />Obama announces Hagel's resignation<br /><br />The scramble to find a new defense secretary comes as new details emerge over Hagel's departure from the administration. Hagel submitted his letter of resignation on Monday after it became apparent over a series of meetings with President Barack Obama that the president no longer wanted him in the job.<br /><br />http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/26/politics/hagel-successor/index.html<br /><br /><br />Quirk, how about you? You are perfectly capable of 'faking it' for a little less than two years.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-79126453084288690472014-11-27T16:16:46.737-05:002014-11-27T16:16:46.737-05:00Why thank you, but I haven't exactly a Christi...Why thank you, but I haven't exactly a Christian heart, nor any great Judaic fervor, not being Jewish. Think they are fine folks by and large though. Sympathy for the human condition drives my anti Islamic attitude.<br /><br />I believe I am right in saying Islam has killed more folks than any other grouping in the history of the world.<br /><br />I'd like to see them declawed, or next best, just killing one another and not anyone else.<br /><br />They killed 100 million Hindus not so long ago, for instance.<br /><br />Now they want to exterminate all the Jews.<br /><br />And, us too.<br /><br />90% of the conflicts in the world today are Islamics vs Somebody else.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-57786576101643001062014-11-27T16:10:15.492-05:002014-11-27T16:10:15.492-05:00Say, just a minute here.......you told us some tim...Say, just a minute here.......you told us some time ago you were leaving for the Mid-East to 'clean it up'.<br /><br />What gives with that?<br /><br />Where are you blogging from.......some bunker in Baghdad? Mosul? Damascus?<br /><br />The bar at the King David Hotel?<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-10561134078602585502014-11-27T16:07:57.469-05:002014-11-27T16:07:57.469-05:00Your Christian heart, your Judaic fervor, your sym...Your Christian heart, your Judaic fervor, your sympathy for the human condition, your sympathy for the universal lesson and compassion for the suffering of all of God’s children is as inspiration to us as is the image of the late great bugger sitting atop his pedestal of Tennessee marble in Mordor. <br /><br /><br />Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-46712383800581612462014-11-27T15:59:10.102-05:002014-11-27T15:59:10.102-05:00You should quote Lincoln or your sorrow. You should quote Lincoln or your sorrow. Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.com