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Thu Jul 24, 2008
Rove nails the flip-flopping Obama
The Second-Coming may yet find flip-flopping doesn't work
Rove, in the WSJ, writes:Sen. Obama has shifted recently on public financing, free trade, Nafta, welfare reform, the D.C. gun ban, whether the Iranian Quds Force is a terrorist group, immunity for telecom companies participating in the Terrorist Surveillance Program, the status of Jerusalem, flag lapel pins, and disavowing Rev. Jeremiah Wright. And not only does he refuse to explain these flip-flops, he acts as if they never occurred.
Then there is Iraq. Throughout 2006 and early 2007, Mr. Obama pledged to remove all U.S. troops, even voting to immediately cut off funds for the troops while they were in combat. Then, in July 2007, he started talking about leaving a residual U.S. force, in Kuwait and elsewhere in the region, able to go back into Iraq if needed.
By October, he shifted again, pledging to station the residual U.S. troops inside Iraq with two "limited missions of protecting our diplomats and carrying out targeted strikes on al Qaeda."
Last week, writing in the New York Times, Mr. Obama changed again. He increased the missions his residual force would perform to three: "going after any remnants of al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, protecting American service members and, so long as the Iraqis make political progress, training Iraqi security forces." That's not all that different from what U.S. troops are doing now.Flip-flop is not a good adjective to have before your name if you are running for President. We had enough of "tricky Dick" and "slick Willy". Do we really need "Flip-flop Obama"?
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on Jul 24, 08 | 12:03 am |
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Wed Jul 23, 2008
Well, I had a really great post ready to go
And I decided to sleep on it
Then Bill Gates minions decided they needed to close yet another glaring security hole in Windows Vista, downloaded a patch to my machine and rebooted it. Needless to say, my post got lost.
Memo to self. Write posts in Notepad or Word. Save often. Never, ever leave an unfinished post sitting in a browser window waiting for you to hit submit. Bill Gates minions will prove to you that that is very unwise.
Posted by: Pat
on Jul 23, 08 | 11:41 pm |
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Mon Jul 21, 2008
Looks like the NYT doesn' believe in the Fairness Doctrine
It refused to print McCain's response to Obama's Iraq plan
But, courtesy of Macsmind, here is McCain's op-ed:In January 2007, when General David Petraeus took command in Iraq, he called the situation “hard” but not “hopeless.” Today, 18 months later, violence has fallen by up to 80% to the lowest levels in four years, and Sunni and Shiite terrorists are reeling from a string of defeats. The situation now is full of hope, but considerable hard work remains to consolidate our fragile gains.
Progress has been due primarily to an increase in the number of troops and a change in their strategy. I was an early advocate of the surge at a time when it had few supporters in Washington. Senator Barack Obama was an equally vocal opponent. “I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there,” he said on January 10, 2007. “In fact, I think it will do the reverse.”
Now Senator Obama has been forced to acknowledge that “our troops have performed brilliantly in lowering the level of violence.” But he still denies that any political progress has resulted.
Perhaps he is unaware that the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has recently certified that, as one news article put it, “Iraq has met all but three of 18 original benchmarks set by Congress last year to measure security, political and economic progress.” Even more heartening has been progress that’s not measured by the benchmarks. More than 90,000 Iraqis, many of them Sunnis who once fought against the government, have signed up as Sons of Iraq to fight against the terrorists. Nor do they measure Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki’s new-found willingness to crack down on Shiite extremists in Basra and Sadr City—actions that have done much to dispel suspicions of sectarianism.
The success of the surge has not changed Senator Obama’s determination to pull out all of our combat troops. All that has changed is his rationale. In a New York Times op-ed and a speech this week, he offered his “plan for Iraq” in advance of his first “fact finding” trip to that country in more than three years. It consisted of the same old proposal to pull all of our troops out within 16 months. In 2007 he wanted to withdraw because he thought the war was lost. If we had taken his advice, it would have been. Now he wants to withdraw because he thinks Iraqis no longer need our assistance.
To make this point, he mangles the evidence. He makes it sound as if Prime Minister Maliki has endorsed the Obama timetable, when all he has said is that he would like a plan for the eventual withdrawal of U.S. troops at some unspecified point in the future.
Senator Obama is also misleading on the Iraqi military’s readiness. The Iraqi Army will be equipped and trained by the middle of next year, but this does not, as Senator Obama suggests, mean that they will then be ready to secure their country without a good deal of help. The Iraqi Air Force, for one, still lags behind, and no modern army can operate without air cover. The Iraqis are also still learning how to conduct planning, logistics, command and control, communications, and other complicated functions needed to support frontline troops.
No one favors a permanent U.S. presence, as Senator Obama charges. A partial withdrawal has already occurred with the departure of five “surge” brigades, and more withdrawals can take place as the security situation improves. As we draw down in Iraq, we can beef up our presence on other battlefields, such as Afghanistan, without fear of leaving a failed state behind. I have said that I expect to welcome home most of our troops from Iraq by the end of my first term in office, in 2013.
But I have also said that any draw-downs must be based on a realistic assessment of conditions on the ground, not on an artificial timetable crafted for domestic political reasons. This is the crux of my disagreement with Senator Obama.
Senator Obama has said that he would consult our commanders on the ground and Iraqi leaders, but he did no such thing before releasing his “plan for Iraq.” Perhaps that’s because he doesn’t want to hear what they have to say. During the course of eight visits to Iraq, I have heard many times from our troops what Major General Jeffrey Hammond, commander of coalition forces in Baghdad, recently said: that leaving based on a timetable would be “very dangerous.”
The danger is that extremists supported by Al Qaeda and Iran could stage a comeback, as they have in the past when we’ve had too few troops in Iraq. Senator Obama seems to have learned nothing from recent history. I find it ironic that he is emulating the worst mistake of the Bush administration by waving the “Mission Accomplished” banner prematurely.
I am also dismayed that he never talks about winning the war—only of ending it. But if we don’t win the war, our enemies will. A triumph for the terrorists would be a disaster for us. That is something I will not allow to happen as president. Instead I will continue implementing a proven counterinsurgency strategy not only in Iraq but also in Afghanistan with the goal of creating stable, secure, self-sustaining democratic allies.
Posted by: Pat
on Jul 21, 08 | 2:38 pm |
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Sat Jul 19, 2008
Argentine proves socialism doesn't work
Yet again
Ignorance is curable, stupidity is forever. It's a good rule for distinguishing conservatives from liberals.
Forever stops when you are a politician and the electorate let's it be known that they are unhappy. Take the new president of Argentine. She thought it would be nice to impose export taxes on one of her county's prime exports: grain. Export taxes? Too many politicians want to tax imports, but taxing exports raises political stupidity to a whole new level. Taxing imports is ignorant. Taxing exports is stupid.
The people who actually produce the exports were none too happy with the stupidity of their president. They revolted. Eventually, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner backed down. She probably figured that the path she was headed down would make all Argentinians billionaires. Just like the rich people of Zimbabwe. On the other hand, losing office concentrated her tiny mind.
Posted by: Pat
on Jul 19, 08 | 10:20 pm |
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Krauthammer nails Obama
In one sentence!
Krauthammer writes:His [Obama's] most memorable work is a biography of his favorite subject: himself.Meanwhile, the MSM is so in the tank for Obama, it's speaking as if from his own sainted mouth.
Posted by: Pat
on Jul 19, 08 | 9:43 pm |
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Thu Jul 17, 2008
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on Jul 17, 08 | 11:08 pm |
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Tue Jul 15, 2008
Ten years to ramp up domestic oil production by drilling?
Try one year
Cheat Seeking Missiles has this startling information:A Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. analyst said in a report there is a lot of offshore crude that can be produced relatively quickly. The problem: It is located off California, where politicians have built careers opposing new drilling.
The Minerals Management Service said that of the estimated 18 billion barrels of oil in off-limits coastal areas, almost 10 billion are off the coast of California.
“California could actually start producing new oil within a year if the moratorium were lifted,” the Sanford C. Bernstein report said, because the oil is under shallow water, has been explored and drilling platforms have been there since before the moratoria. (emphasis added)When Katrina swept up the Gulf of Mexico she hit the oil platforms with all her fury. But there were no catastrophic oil spills. The technology has improved and safety of off-shore drilling platforms has increased dramatically over the last three decades. This quote from a USA Today article provides some perspective:Spills from platforms have become far less frequent over recent decades, federal data show.
A report by the National Research Council found that offshore oil and gas drilling was responsible for just 2% of the petroleum in North America's oceans, compared with 63% from natural seepage and 22% from municipal and industrial waste. Coast Guard reports show that the amount of oil spilled in U.S. waters dropped from 3.6 million barrels in the 1970s to less than 500,000 in the 1990s.
During Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, 115 oil platforms were toppled, but only insignificant amounts of oil spilled, says Roland Guidry, Louisiana's oil spill coordinator.America's salvation from crippling oil prices is sitting off the coast of California. When will California see sense? $5 a gallon? $10 a gallon? $20 a gallon? How would the oil markets react to the news that America was going to start tapping proven reserves of 10 billion barrels of oil within a year? By obeying the laws of supply and demand. A major increase in supply one year out will impact prices immediately.
Posted by: Pat
on Jul 15, 08 | 9:59 pm |
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Mon Jul 14, 2008
High oil prices?
Let the lawyers loose
Apart from one Egyptian, all the 9/11 terrorists were Saudi. Their attack on 9/11 cost America billions of dollars. To add insult to injury, oil price rises are transferring far more billions to Saudi coffers.
Did Saudi Arabia know that some of its princes/citizens were financing Al Qaeda?
Did Saudi Arabia do anything to cut off that funding?
I suspect the answers are yes/no. I don't know if that is true, but I suspect so. At least there are some lawyers working on those issues on behalf of the immediate victim.
Posted by: Pat
on Jul 14, 08 | 11:50 pm |
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So, why are we fighting the Taliban?
Maybe because they are well worth destroying
We all remember the good old days when the Taliban ruled Afghanistan and used the soccer stadium, built with foreign aid, to administer justice to wayward woman. They are up to their old tricks. Jawa reports on the execution of two women in Taliban style. The Associated Press reporter/photographer was there to record the execution carried out by the Bush-hating "militants ".
Which is worse? The Taliban or their Western apologists?
I'd say the Western apologists. At least our military is allowed to kill the Taliban. Their Western allies are off limits.
Posted by: Pat
on Jul 14, 08 | 11:24 pm |
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A web site our Muslim friends might not like
They don't like mirrors, much
The blog Bare Naked Islam is a full frontal assault on Islamic extremism. It uses their words, videos and pictures to reveal the nature of much of Islam in the modern world. The Danish cartoons inspired this post.
The blog contains many disturbing photographs and videos. Perhaps the most disturbing was the picture of a 9/11 victim who had jumped from the burning towers. When you hit the pavement, after falling that far, you really do go splat. Every American America Hater who defends Al Qaeda terrorists should explain to that poor man's relatives why they are defending the animals that caused him to jump rather than burn to death.
I'm speaking to all the lawyers at firms like Shearman & Sterling, who took oil money to spring murdrous Gitmo detainees. Debra Burlingame had their number. But heck, she's biased. Her late brother didn't get to land his plane on 9/11.
Posted by: Pat
on Jul 14, 08 | 10:50 pm |
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Sun Jul 13, 2008
Scalia is good
He knows lawyers only gum up the works
Mr. Scalia has some idea for avoiding public anger at the courts in future: Use them less. He thinks the United States is "over-lawed" and has too many lawyers. "I don't think our legal system should be that complex. I think that any system that requires that many of the country's best minds, and they are the best minds, is too complex," he says. "If you look at the figures, where does the top of the class in college go to? It goes into law. They don't go into teaching. Now I love the law, there is nothing I would rather do but it doesn't produce anything."Why is Congress held in such low esteem? Too many lawyers.
Posted by: Pat
on Jul 13, 08 | 11:19 pm |
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The Murtha Award
Nominations requested
Which public figure did their utmost to destroy the reputation of the US Military in Iraq? I can't think of any more loathsome than Nancy Pelosi's soul mate, Vietnam veteran and present day congressman, John Murtha (D). He's the Vietnam-era Marine who accused his fellow marines of cold-blooded murder at Haditha. So far, all Marines charged have been acquitted. Frank Wuterich's case is still pending. He needs your donations.
Michael Moore gets a nod for this:"The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not ‘insurgents’ or ‘terrorists’ or ‘The Enemy.’ They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow—and they will win." - Michael Moore, 4/14/2004
Perhaps others have better candidates. John Kerry? Barack Obama? Wesley Clark?
Posted by: Pat
on Jul 13, 08 | 10:45 pm |
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Class and Crass
Know the difference
Tony Snow had it in abundance. His predecessor, who I decline to name, had none. God bless you, Tony Snow.
Posted by: Pat
on Jul 13, 08 | 10:38 pm |
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Israel respond to Iran's photoshopped missile test
In kind
Via Tigerhawk, this riposte.
Posted by: Pat
on Jul 13, 08 | 10:00 pm |
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Thu Jul 10, 2008
How many Jihadists are there in the US?
Who knows, but too many have been in the US
The Strata-sphere links to an important story that has flown below the MSM radar, along with other such breaking news as Al Qaeda's imminent defeat in Iraq. A surprisingly large number of terrorists captured or detained in Iraq and Afghanistan have US arrest records. From the Dallas News story that A.J. Strata spotted (WPO by-line):In the 6 ½ years that the U.S. government has been fingerprinting insurgents, detainees and ordinary people in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa, hundreds have turned out to share an unexpected background, FBI and military officials said. They have criminal arrest records in the United States....Many of those with U.S. arrest records had come to the United States to study, said former Criminal Justice Information Services head Michael Kirkpatrick, who led the FBI effort to use biometrics in counterterrorism after Sept. 11.I don't know if they are checking the remains of dead terrorists as well. However, it is disturbing to think that hundreds of highly motivated Jihadists came to the US, returned to the Middle East, and then traveled to the war zones to fight US troops. Are hundreds more still resident in the US? Are there dozens of sleeper cells in the US, ready to attack us? Remember that the 9/11 crew was just such a sleeper cell.
I suspect there are many cells in the US, but our actions have destroyed so much of Al Qaeda's leadership, that they lack the direction and leadership required to launch effective attacks.
But we do have proof that the fly-paper theory is correct. Terrorists who have lived in the US would be a valuable asset to Al Qaeda. But Al Qaeda's top priority has been to defeat the Crusaders invading Muslim territory, so those assets have been deployed on Muslim territory.
What happens to a terrorist cell when its foreign leadership has been destroyed? What happened to the Nazi cells in the US after WW2? I suspect they stopped being cells. Heck, some of them probably became Democrats.
Posted by: Pat
on Jul 10, 08 | 11:04 pm |
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Cognitive Dissonance on Pensions in NYT Op-Ed
Government is not the answer to corporate short-sightedness
Roger Lowenstein's Op-ed in the NYT explains how GM management sold off its future by promising lavish pensions and benefits to its unionized work force. What amazed me were these two paragraphs:The sorry decline of General Motors has proved Reuther right: the government is the better provider of social insurance. Let industry worry about selling products.
Unhappily, however, the fate of many public-sector pension plans is even worse than G.M.’s. Responding to the same temptation to offload expenses into the future, public employers have committed to trillions of dollars in future liabilities. In New Jersey, a huge pension liability has created a budgetary nightmare for the state. The city of Vallejo, Calif., burdened by police pensions, recently filed for bankruptcy.Right after telling us that "the government is the better provider of social insurance", Lowenstein tells us that government is even worse than G.M. The government cannot be better (assertion) and worse (reality) at the same time, can it?
Posted by: Pat
on Jul 10, 08 | 10:34 am |
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Mon Jul 07, 2008
Saddam's 500 tons of yellowcake is old news
Except to the MSM
Heck, I was blogging on Saddam's stockpile of yellow cake back in July, 2004. Thanks to John Bolton, we now know that Libya had an advanced nuclear weapons program based on off-the-shelf technology provided by the A Q Khan network. Saddam could have followed the same route, once the sanctions regime fell apart.
Why did Saddam want nukes? For the same reason a gangster wants fire-power; to fight the other gangsters in Iran, and to fight the cops, the good, old US of A.
500 tons of yellow cake is enough to produce 20 nuclear weapons. Would anyone want a nutcase like Saddam to have that firepower? In the middle of the world's primary source of oil? Only a Democrat, or an MSM type, would like that idea.
Posted by: Pat
on Jul 07, 08 | 10:15 pm |
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Sun Jul 06, 2008
The GOP election slogan should be very simple
"The only thing standing between you and lower gas prices is a Democrat"
It's a pity McCain is so off message, with his opposition to drilling in a pristine swamp, and his support for policies to combat Global Warming. He's bought into the moronic cap-and-trade policies that will save the Earth from the theoretical possibility that recycling fossil plant-food (aka CO2) back to the atmosphere will cause the Earth to explode, or someting.
He needs the likes of Sarah Palin to talk some sense into him. I moved Newt Gingrich down the list of sensible people, when he showed up on my Television set, seated next to the odious Nancy Pelosi, spouting nonsense about the threat of global warming.
So, blame the Democrats for high gas prices. Blame the Greenies. Same difference.
And here's a simple way to respond to the Democrat's "Drilling won't help" mantra: If the oil producers and speculators know we are going to ramp up domestic production over the next few years, they will increase production now, and prices will go down. Are they going to wait for the US to ramp up production from US sources, build nuclear power stations, switch to plug-in hybrids, use genetic engineering to produce bio-diesel, and do everything we can to expand our energy resources? Or are they going to increase their production to cash in while the window is still open? Who wants to bet against Yankee ingenuity, besides the Democrats?
Posted by: Pat
on Jul 06, 08 | 10:14 pm |
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Wall-e
Just OK
We're fans of the computer generated animated movie genre. The medium gives film makers the ability to do things that can't be done with flesh-and-blood actors. Wall-e fit the genre and had some great ideas and cute movie jokes. The best, at least to fans of Galaxy Quest, was the casting of Sigourney Weaver as the voice of the Hal-like computer. Another nice visual was an x-ray sequence showing how the humans on the Axiom were following the same evolutionary path as whales. This idea was reinforced by the pictures of the successive Captains of the good space cruise-ship Axiom.
The movie was slow in parts. The endless, pointless robot chases did nothing to advance the story. The graphics were so good that the only things that didn't look realistic were the humans.
This is basically a kid's story and it reinforces the eco-nut story-line that humans are trashing the Earth and destroying our planet. We need a time-machine to take those kids back to LA in the 50's, when smog blocked the sun, or London in 1952, when the infamous pea-souper fog killed thousands.
The Incredibles, also from Pixar, had a much more hopeful message to kids.
Posted by: Pat
on Jul 06, 08 | 8:49 pm |
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Sat Jul 05, 2008
How far has England fallen?
It sure isn't the England we loved
Michael Coren laments the state of the England. He writes:Gangs fill city squares on weekend nights and there are no-go areas in every major urban centre. Just last month a man was knifed to death in Oxford Street, arguably the busiest area in the entire country, in the middle of the day. Draconian gun control has achieved nothing but more liberal drinking laws have made alcoholism and drink-related crime figures escalate....Taxes are high, soccer is a narcotic, violence is fun, drinking is liberating, national identity is vulgar strutting, religion is for the Yanks, reading books is for losers and reality television and cell phone monologues matter more than mom and dad and self-respect.
This is not the Britain of considered tolerance, somewhat reserved, but compelling intelligence and good manners combined with eccentric genius that many of us knew and loved.Penalizing law abiding citizens for defending their property, banning guns, and installing CCTV cameras everywhere, has made the UK far more dangerous than the US. If we felt unsafe where we lived, we'd buy guns to defend ourselves. Luckily, that hasn't become an issue. But we couldn't do that in the UK.
We lived in London for two years in 1989/90. After we moved to the US, we bought a flat in London and visited every year. After the tube bombings we sold the flat. We've been back once since then. We will likely not return.
Posted by: Pat
on Jul 05, 08 | 11:17 pm |
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