tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post5232420301702093876..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: NATO to the rescue of al-Qa’ida: “Any deployment would be defensive only. It would in no way support a no-fly zone or any offensive operation,” said Mr Rasmussen.Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-60735578408173840072012-12-05T02:32:49.391-05:002012-12-05T02:32:49.391-05:00They're probably just thanking their lucky sta...They're probably just thanking their lucky stars they're not working for some asshole that thinks the earth is 6,000 yrs. old.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-28583066166199002092012-12-05T02:21:28.625-05:002012-12-05T02:21:28.625-05:00Inward Ho! [Paperback]
Christopher Morley (Author)...<br />Inward Ho! [Paperback]<br />Christopher Morley (Author)<br />Be the first to review this item | Like (0)<br /><br />Available from these sellers.<br /><br /><br />1 used from $436.26<br />Formats<br /> Amazon Price New from Used from<br /> Hardcover -- -- $3.87<br /> Paperback -- -- $436.26<br /><br /><br /><br />Holly shit! What's going on here? I was thinking of buying it.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-9312228410914001922012-12-05T02:12:24.088-05:002012-12-05T02:12:24.088-05:00Both, Pew, and ABC/Wash Post nailed it at Obama +3...<b>Both, Pew, and ABC/Wash Post nailed it at Obama +3.</b><br /><br />Rasmussen missed by 4 at Romney +1.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-69674637453489340782012-12-05T02:07:14.738-05:002012-12-05T02:07:14.738-05:00It’s Panetta-Burns, the imaginary debt-reducing un...<br />It’s Panetta-Burns, the imaginary debt-reducing unicorn!<br />A new poll from Public Policy Polling found that an impressive 39 percent of Americans have an opinion about the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction plan. <br /><br />Before you start celebrating the new, sweeping reach of the 2010 commission’s work, consider this: Twenty-five percent of Americans also took a stance on the Panetta-Burns plan.<br /><br />What’s that? You’re not familiar with Panetta-Burns? That’s probably because its “a mythical Clinton Chief of Staff/former western Republican Senator combo” that PPP dreamed up to test how many Americans would profess to have an opinion about a policy that did not exist. They found one in four voters to . . . .<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/04/one-in-four-americans-has-an-opinion-about-an-imaginary-debt-plan/" rel="nofollow">Panetta/Burns Plan</a><br /><br /><br />The CBO said it scored about the same as Boehner's.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-26383557415496878352012-12-05T00:56:12.853-05:002012-12-05T00:56:12.853-05:00Maximum air speed and altitude in the Himalayas - ...Maximum air speed and altitude in the Himalayas - and dive attacks too!<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ew-cS0MpME<br /><br />and<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkW29rppgA0<br />......<br /><br />Hannity had a good segment on the invasion of privacy, e-mails, texting etc today. So it's getting some play in some places.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-45518264894121450422012-12-05T00:25:11.962-05:002012-12-05T00:25:11.962-05:00.
As for NATO,
Those who like to see the Balkan ....<br /><br />As for NATO,<br /><br /><i>Those who like to see the Balkan glass as half full optimistically point to the fact that most Balkan countries are either full NATO members or members of NATO’s Partnership for Peace (PfP) program, yet NATO itself is a military alliance whose very raison d’etre—deterring a Soviet invasion of Western Europe, in less politically correct terms, “to keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down”—has ceased to exist. And there is considerable grumbling throughout the region about the relative costs and benefits of NATO membership. In Croatia, for instance, skeptics wonder why they should be forced to buy F-16s when the planes can’t even reach maximum speed and altitude within Croatian airspace.</i><br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-20946056313694813342012-12-05T00:23:49.005-05:002012-12-05T00:23:49.005-05:00.
Who needs to go to the ME to screw things up?
....<br /><br />Who needs to go to the ME to screw things up?<br /><br /><i>Nation Building Fails in the Balkans.<br /><br />The latest news from the Balkans sounds strangely familiar.<br /> <br />In Bosnia, the three leading nationalist parties have won the elections, and the country is mired in political and constitutional disputes over how power should be divided between the main ethnic groups. Newspapers and airwaves are filled with stories of crimes and atrocities committed during the latest hostilities, and public ceremonies exhuming the victims of the previous war are frequent occurrences.<br /> <br />In Serbia, the government is led by a prime minister from the Socialist Party, and one of the main items on the political agenda is how to handle the Kosovo problem. In Kosovo itself, an aggrieved ethnic group has created parallel institutions to protect its interests. In Montenegro, the prime minister is Milo Djukanovic. Further south, Greece refuses to accept its northern neighbor’s right to use the name “Macedonia.” An ethnic group that finds itself divided amongst a number of states is increasingly pushing for a “greater” solution to its national question. And for most people, the hope for EU accession seems like a far off dream.<br /> <br />The year is 1991 or 2012: take your pick.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/the-unchanging-balkans-7801" rel="nofollow">The Balkanization of The EU</a><br /><br />.<br />Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-51237310674986619872012-12-04T22:02:44.377-05:002012-12-04T22:02:44.377-05:00
TECH AT NIGHT
TARGET RACES
TobyToons
...<br /> TECH AT NIGHT<br /> TARGET RACES<br /> TobyToons<br /> <br /><br />MEMBER DIARY<br />Workplace Freedom States Soared While Ohio and Michigan Economies Crashed<br />BLS data from 1991-2011 make clear case for workplace freedom<br /><br /><br />http://www.redstate.com/jasonahart/2012/12/04/workplace-freedom-states-soared-while-ohio-and-michigan-economies-crashed/<br /><br /><br />Interesting graphic. Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania,Alabama, Indiana, Mississippi suck, while Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Idaho soar.<br /><br />Data from December 1991 to December 2011Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-40681819170023740572012-12-04T21:48:32.051-05:002012-12-04T21:48:32.051-05:00Study Foresees Shortage of Primary-Care Doctors
&...Study Foresees Shortage of Primary-Care Doctors<br /><br /><i>"This is worrisome," said study author Dr. Colin West, an internist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. "In the next decade, we will be 50,000 primary-care physicians short for the needs of the country." </i><br /><br />http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2012/12/04/study-foresees-shortage-of-primary-care-doctors<br /><br /><br />Well, there you go then. We'd be a lot better off putting our money into new teaching hospitals, medical schools and perhaps incentives to go into primary care, than into the coming fiasco of ObamaNoCare, with its abortion demands and the coming bumping off of the elderly.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-32429672848501816282012-12-04T21:45:56.833-05:002012-12-04T21:45:56.833-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-45051955138386134762012-12-04T21:42:29.327-05:002012-12-04T21:42:29.327-05:00On this day in 1980, Led Zeppelin announced it was...On this day in 1980, Led Zeppelin announced it was disbanding after drummer John Bonham unexpectedly passed away.samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-88300878085009489512012-12-04T21:39:00.976-05:002012-12-04T21:39:00.976-05:00The Hamas government is working toward reopening t...<i>The Hamas government is working toward reopening the only airport in the Gaza Strip.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Ziad al-Thatha, Hamas’s deputy prime minister, said that his government has asked the Egyptians to help reopen the airport. He did not say when and if it would resume operations.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-11040786787328230962012-12-04T21:32:20.327-05:002012-12-04T21:32:20.327-05:00I don't understand how any of these Jewish guy...I don't understand how any of these Jewish guys can work for that son of a bitch.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-24426309011197288492012-12-04T20:36:38.321-05:002012-12-04T20:36:38.321-05:00Keeping the Benghazi story front and center -
Ben...Keeping the Benghazi story front and center -<br /><br /><i>Benghazi Storytelling<br />Too many answers, not enough truthfulness. <br /><br />Senator Bob Corker, a top Republican on the Foreign Relations committee, met with Rice and Morell last week. The meeting, he says, “was a terse conversation, a direct conversation.” His questions remain unanswered. “I was in Libya after the attacks,” he says. “I spent a lot of time with our [CIA] station chief on that trip. ((((He told me that he was communicating with Washington in real-time)))) and said immediately that this was a terrorist attack that was probably carried out by al Qaeda and its affiliates.” He says the chargé d’affaires at the U.S. embassy in Tripoli told him the same thing. (The Associated Press reported earlier that the CIA station chief sent a cable to Washington fingering Ansar al Sharia and possibly Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.)</i><br /><br />http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/benghazi-storytelling_664289.html?page=1<br /><br /><br />And so, we continue to want to know why no help was forthcoming. Remember, Barky has told us he gave the order to do everything necessary.....and who among us can question Barky?Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-81463393723913841612012-12-04T20:28:19.896-05:002012-12-04T20:28:19.896-05:00And a little good news -
Supreme Court sides wi...And a little good news -<br /><br /> <br />Supreme Court sides with private property against the federal government<br /><br />http://hotair.com/archives/2012/12/04/supreme-court-sides-with-private-property-against-the-federal-government/<br /><br /><br />8-0 wowBobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-7610480183303964162012-12-04T20:25:24.220-05:002012-12-04T20:25:24.220-05:00Nor did the attack on Kohut's objectivity meet...Nor did the attack on Kohut's objectivity meet the standard of proof requisite to repudiating his professional work for Pew Research Center. More Noise.DRRhttp://d.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-3789326244543772752012-12-04T20:25:19.327-05:002012-12-04T20:25:19.327-05:00Green Room
Amsterdam proposes “scum villages”
post... <br /><i>Green Room<br />Amsterdam proposes “scum villages”<br />posted at 6:11 pm on December 4, 2012 by Ed Morrissey<br /><br />Can we count just how many horrid 20th century chapters of humanity this might evoke?<br /><br /> In a move that sounds straight out of Orwell, Amsterdam allocated 1 million euros last week to a plan that would relocate trouble-making neighbors to camps on the outskirts of the city, the BBC reports.<br /><br /> The “scum villages,” as critics have called them, would lie in isolated areas and provide only basic services to their unwilling residents. According to details of the plan reported by Der Spiegel and the BBC, residents will live in “container homes,” under the watchful eye of social workers or police. The residents themselves might not make very good company. According to the BBC, they’ll include families that engage in repeated, small-scale harassment, like bullying gay neighbors or intimidating police witnesses.<br /><br />Or perhaps just people whose political and social perspectives annoy the ruling class. Say, didn’t the Soviet Union and China try this out for a few decades? They called them “re-education camps,” as I recall, where people who didn’t cooperate properly with enforced collectivism were kept under the “watchful eye” of the police state. In the Soviet Union, the Kremlin transformed Siberia into an internal-exile internment province. In some areas of the world — notably North Korea — this practice hasn’t yet ended, either.<br /><br />If law and order are breaking down in Amsterdam, start building a prison and bolstering law enforcement, but don’t try to pass it off as a social-welfare program.</i><br /><br /><br />I wonder just what type folks these people really are there in Amsterdam.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27083560788975120272012-12-04T20:15:50.789-05:002012-12-04T20:15:50.789-05:00....the name Andrew Kohut comes up. Enough said pr...<i>....the name Andrew Kohut comes up. Enough said presumably. I honestly don't know enough about the man to have an opinion </i><br /><br />Obviously, which doesn't prevent you from expressing an opinion you don't have anyways.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-12646875134528415602012-12-04T20:13:41.714-05:002012-12-04T20:13:41.714-05:00Next, he may be consulting with Rufus II.Next, he may be consulting with Rufus II.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-64320939007899670102012-12-04T20:12:26.491-05:002012-12-04T20:12:26.491-05:00Meanwhile -
Obama Consults with MSNBC Hosts Sharp...Meanwhile -<br /><br /><i>Obama Consults with MSNBC Hosts Sharpton, Maddow on Tax Rates...</i><br /><br /><br />A certain sign of how very far we have fallen.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-45244440925015459972012-12-04T20:10:31.172-05:002012-12-04T20:10:31.172-05:00Morsi seems to have fled the Presidential Palace f...Morsi seems to have fled the Presidential Palace for, probably, a deep underground bunker beneath some Sunni mosque.<br /><br />Alas, this is far from the end of it.<br /><br />I just like the sounds of it.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-7625470553659286122012-12-04T19:49:41.613-05:002012-12-04T19:49:41.613-05:00Mention a Pew Poll in a room full of Republicans (...Mention a Pew Poll in a room full of Republicans (as I did once) and the name Andrew Kohut comes up. Enough said presumably. I honestly don't know enough about the man to have an opinion but this was another data point that turned me against the modern Republicans - any empirical data they don't like is discredited or ignored. Romney will go down in history as the poster boy for denial. Mensa-defended denial but denial just the same.<br /><br />DRRhttp://d.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-2659082289427046672012-12-04T18:35:22.405-05:002012-12-04T18:35:22.405-05:00The black hole in this instance is more than 11 ti...<i>The black hole in this instance is more than 11 times wider than the orbit of Neptune, the eighth planet in the Solar System.<br /><br />A description of the black hole, found by astronomers using the nine-metre Hobby-Eberly Telescope in Texas, appears in the journal Nature.<br /><br />The discovery could change theories of how black holes and galaxies form and evolve, say the scientists.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-7799978175035886302012-12-04T18:21:51.397-05:002012-12-04T18:21:51.397-05:00The U.S. didn't comment publicly on the loss. ...<i>The U.S. didn't comment publicly on the loss. U.S. officials at the time said privately that the drone had been in Iranian airspace when its remote pilots lost control of the craft and blamed the loss on mechanical failure.<br /><br />Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad struck a defiant tone Tuesday during a speech at an industrial complex in the city of Isfahan. He contradicted his earlier comments that international sanctions were hurting Iran's economy, saying that Iran was heroically "riding the wave of sanctions."<br /><br />"Our enemies should know that our history is 10 times longer than theirs. It's possible that the enemy will take a few steps forward but we will push them back to their own borders," Mr. Ahmadinejad said.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-63425165170194688742012-12-04T18:03:20.259-05:002012-12-04T18:03:20.259-05:00“Who gets a 10 pointer as their first deer?” said ...<i>“Who gets a 10 pointer as their first deer?” said Ryan, praising his daughter.<br /><br />Asked if he’s over the post-election hangover, Ryan said: “Obviously it’s not fun to lose an election.”<br /><br />“You’ve got to think and ponder these things,” he said. “And they tell me it was about 427,000 votes spread across four states that made the difference between winning and losing this election.”</i><br />samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.com