Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Suzanna Gratia-Hupp: What the Second Amendment is REALLY For

I LOVE BILL................Image by roberthuffstutter via FlickrTexas state representative, Suzanna Gratia-Hupp, whose parents were killed by an insane gunman while her gun was out in the car, gives very moving and bold testimony about the REAL reason that the second amendment was designed to protect our God-given right to keep and bear arms.
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Saturday, October 23, 2010

“The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.”

I am overwhelmed

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George Soros, Liberal Idiots, Politics, The Shadow Party, The Shadow Warriors 

Those are the words of George Soros. And he feels the United States must be destroyed.

George Soros was born György Schwartz in Hungary in 1930. Soros, born a Jew but now an atheist, was the son of a Nazi colloaborator and accompanied his father while the father assisted in the confiscation of private property from Jews. Through it all, he feels no guilt. In fact

“70% of Mr. Soros’s fellow Jews in Hungary, nearly a half-million human beings, were annihilated in that year. They were dying and disappearing all around him, and their numbers no doubt included many whom he knew personally. Yet he gives no sign that this put any damper on his elation, either at the time or indeed in retrospect.”

Soros has called 1944 “the best year of my life.”

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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

EXCLUSIVE: Al Qaeda Leader Dined at the Pentagon Just Months After 9/11

This Should be a Career Stopper

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Oct. 2008: American-born Al Qaeda-linked cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen.

Anwar Al-Awlaki may be the first American on the CIA's kill or capture list, but he was also a lunch guest of military brass at the Pentagon within months of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, Fox News has learned. 

Documents exclusively obtained by Fox News, including an FBI interview conducted after the Fort Hood shooting in November 2009, state that Awlaki was taken to the Pentagon as part of the military’s outreach to the Muslim community in the immediate aftermath of the attacks. 

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Sunday, October 17, 2010

US Tea Partiers explain what they stand for

It Took the British, Who have a strong Aversion to "tea parties" to define the feeling....

Both main parties are elitist. Washington is full of the same type of arrogant people who look down on those outside the system. These elites don't listen to people like me - we're just part of the country they fly over.

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Both main parties are elitist. Washington is full of the same type of arrogant people who look down on those outside the system. These elites don't listen to people like me - we're just part of the country they fly over.

Conservative activists calling themselves the Tea Party arrived on the political scene in 2009. The anti-establishment movement won several victories over mainstream Republicans in primary contents ahead of November's mid-term elections.

Here four voters from across the US explain why they support the Tea Party movement and what they expect from the forthcoming vote.

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Saturday, October 16, 2010

Merkel says German multicultural society has failed

Hey Portland Oregon, If you want us to become European ....

How about Kicking the Illegal Aliens out... and the Anarchists on Two Wheels along with them.....

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Attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany have "utterly failed", Chancellor Angela Merkel says.

In a speech in Potsdam, she said the so-called "multikulti" concept - where people would "live side-by-side" happily - did not work.

Mrs Merkel's comments come amid recent outpourings of strong anti-immigrant feeling from mainstream politicians.

A recent survey showed that more than 30% of Germans believed Germany was "overrun by foreigners".

Angela Merkel (centre) among delegates at the congress of the youth wing of the CDU in Potsdam

While acknowledging that this was the case, Mrs Merkel stressed that immigrants living in Germany needed to do more to integrate, including learning to speak German.

"Anyone who does not immediately speak German", she said, "is not welcome".

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Thursday, October 14, 2010

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein http://amplify.com/u/co50

Links, 10/14/10 Add as favorite

The Higher Tax means I will work Less is a Old Strat­egy:) I did that Dur­ing the Carter Admin­is­tra­tion. I worked until I got the Max in the Tax Bracket and Quit till the next year… A lot of Con­struc­tion hands did the same.…

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The Higher Tax means I will work Less is a Old Strat­egy:) I did that Dur­ing the Carter Admin­is­tra­tion. I worked until I got the Max in the Tax Bracket and Quit till the next year… A lot of Con­struc­tion hands did the same.…
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Praise Allah and pass the ammunition

America's liberals are happily arming Osama bin Laden

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The extent to which the enemies of America abroad ape the anti-Western rhetoric of Western intelligentsia never ceases to amaze. The latest example features none other than Osama bin Laden, who in a recently released Internet recording lamented the massive flooding in Pakistan, for which he blamed - wait for it - climate change.

In the message, a voice believed to be bin Laden's proclaims, "The huge climate change is affecting our nation and is causing great catastrophes throughout the Islamic world," which "calls for generous souls and brave men to take serious and prompt action to provide relief for their Muslim brothers in Pakistan." But as John Collins Rudolf reminds us on the New York Times' Green blog, it's not the first time bin Laden has so railed:

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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Phillip Booth, “Terms”

I have no idea if I got the sailing/knot imagery even remotely cor­rect. Just tak­ing a guess to get started with this poem.

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On land any length of rope that’s hitched

to some­thing beyond itself and takes

the strain is called the stand­ing part.

Tossed over a beam or limb, with a slip­knot

tied in the far­ther end, the stand­ing part

could be said to end in a noose. At sea,

put to use, rope changes its name to line.

Terms (from poetryfoundation.org)

Phillip Booth

On land any length of rope that’s hitched

to some­thing beyond itself and takes


the strain is called the stand­ing part.


Tossed over a beam or limb, with a slip­knot


tied in the far­ther end, the stand­ing part


could be said to end in a noose. At sea,


put to use, rope changes its name to line.


The part spliced into an eye or, say,

made fast to a shackle, the part that does

the work, that works, remains the stand­ing part.

Any loop or slack curve in the run­ning part

of the line, the part that’s not work­ing, becomes

a bight; and the part of the run­ning part

that’s let go, or finally eased off

until there’s no reserve left, is known

as the bit­ter end. As it is in other events,

ashore or at sea, that come to the end of the line.

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

The Scoop Deck – Ten years gone

The Scoop Deck – Ten years gone

Despite an attack that killed 17 sailors and injured 39 a decade ago, the destroyer Cole remains an active, ready combat warship -- a living, working memorial to its fallen crew members. // MC3 Matthew Bookwalter / Navy

To All Who Perished that Day and to All of The Survivors and the Families of the Perished. Thank You For Your Sacrifice...  We Will Never Forget
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Cole Survivors Await Justice 10 Years Later

Remember the USS Cole on the Anniversary of the Unanswered Attack on USS Cole, October 12;2000

My Flag is Half Staff for this Unpunished Crime

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hey have grieved and coped, reminisced and ruminated on what might have been.


The survivors of the attack on the destroyer Cole, and the families and friends of the 17 Sailors who died on Oct. 12, 2000, have had 10 long years to mourn. To keep alive the memories so children grow up knowing a missing parent. To honor the sacrifice their shipmates made.


Some have made an uneasy peace with the past. But there is one sore spot shared by many: frustration that the criminal case against the alleged mastermind of the bombing has ground to a halt.


Saudi national Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, captured in late 2002 and held for years at CIA black sites, was scheduled to be arraigned on capital murder charges in early 2009. But days before that happened, the o

They have grieved and coped, reminisced and ruminated on what might have been.


The survivors of the attack on the destroyer Cole, and the families and friends of the 17 Sailors who died on Oct. 12, 2000, have had 10 long years to mourn. To keep alive the memories so children grow up knowing a missing parent. To honor the sacrifice their shipmates made.


Some have made an uneasy peace with the past. But there is one sore spot shared by many: frustration that the criminal case against the alleged mastermind of the bombing has ground to a halt.


Saudi national Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, captured in late 2002 and held for years at CIA black sites, was scheduled to be arraigned on capital murder charges in early 2009. But days before that happened, the official in charge of military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, announced she had dismissed the charges against him.




















Around the same time, President Obama took office, promising to close the detainee facility in Cuba. He met with some families of Cole victims at the White House and pledged that justice would be done, but he said the cases needed to be reviewed. Read more at m.military.com
 

North Korea succession: Kim Jong-il's oldest son reveals ruling family fissure

The Hermit Kingdom has Dissent???? The Emperor's suit is fraying:))

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North Korea leader Kim Jong-il's oldest son, Kim Jong-nam, said he is 'personally opposed to the hereditary transfer' of power to his half-brother, Kim Jong-un.

Indeed, Kim Jong-nam, the son of an actress, professed “no interest” in a decision that he said “as a matter of course” would have been made by his father. Jong-nam, whose mother died in 2002, is assumed to have lost out on inheriting leadership after his arrest and detention in 2001 by immigration officials at Japan’s Narita Airport near Tokyo. Traveling on a fake Dominican passport, accompanied by two women and a son, aged four, he reportedly said he was bringing them to nearby Disneyland.

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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

State of the Blog 9/29/10

This guy is a good blogger

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This blog will have 10,000 unique vis­its for Sep­tem­ber — my thanks to all of you for mak­ing that possible.


How is the blog doing with regards to con­tribut­ing in some small way to larger goals? I’m not sure.

This blog will have 10,000 unique vis­its for Sep­tem­ber — my thanks to all of you for mak­ing that possible.

How is the blog doing with regards to con­tribut­ing in some small way to larger goals? I’m not sure. So far I haven’t seen a rebirth of inter­est in the lib­eral arts, nor have I seen peo­ple as a whole take read­ing care­fully seri­ously. A more thought­ful, authen­tic par­ti­san­ship is a far dis­tance from where we are now.

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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Flagstaff grandmother's 'tea party' shirt spurs lawsuit

We the People, Reclaiming Our Constitution? That is Political Propaganda?

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Diane Wickberg didn't intend to become a public defender of the First Amendment. But now that she's found herself in that position, she's not backing down from the fight.

The 55-year-old Flagstaff grandmother, with the help of the Goldwater Institute, is suing Coconino County Recorder Candace Owens after Wickberg was twice stopped at the polls for wearing a "tea party" T-shirt.

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Monday, September 27, 2010

Paul Hoover, “God’s Promises”

The rest is worth a look:))

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I, the Lord, will make bar­ren

your fields and your fair­ways.

Your refrig­er­a­tors will be empty,

no steaks and no leg bones,

no but­ter and no corn­bread.

And I will remove your screen doors,

force the mos­qui­toes indoors

where you lie on the bed undead.

For my house you have not read­ied,

no flat screen and no broad­band.
I, the Lord, will make bar­ren

your fields and your fair­ways.


Your refrig­er­a­tors will be empty,


no steaks and no leg bones,


no but­ter and no corn­bread.


And I will remove your screen doors,


force the mos­qui­toes indoors


where you lie on the bed undead.


For my house you have not read­ied,


no flat screen and no broad­band.


My habi­ta­tion is a waste­land

of fur­ni­ture from motel rooms.

I will send the ostrich and bad­ger

in herds through your wrecked rooms;

your beds will be entered by turn­stile;

the floor will seethe with bees.

For my house is but a pre­fab;
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French MEP Rachida Dati makes oral sex slip-up

I guess she thought that the Financial Markets Suck:))

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Rachida Dati

She told Canal Plus: "I see some [foreign investment funds] looking for returns of 20 or 25% at a time when fellatio is close to zero."

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Sunday, September 26, 2010

Somali Pirates Take Ship 900 miles at Sea

900 miles out. Pirates are certainly widening their net.... EU needs more Assets....

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n the early hours of 25 September, the Panama flagged MV LUGELA sent a distress alert to its Greek operator.



The vessel was in the Somali Basin, approximately 900 nautical miles East of Eyl, Somalia. A short while later, the vessel altered course to sail towards the Somali coast.

EU MSC(HOA)report MV LUGELA pirated in the Somali Basin:

In the early hours of 25 September, the Panama flagged MV LUGELA sent a distress alert to its Greek operator.



The vessel was in the Somali Basin, approximately 900 nautical miles East of Eyl, Somalia. A short while later, the vessel altered course to sail towards the Somali coast.
There has been no contact with the ship throughout this incident.



After having transited through the Gulf of Aden, the MV LUGELA was sailing in direction of Republic of Mauritius with a cargo of steel bars and wires. The MV LUGELA, deadweight 4,281 tons, has a crew of 12, all Ukrainian.


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Superlobbyist pleads guilty, made illegal contributions

Magliocchetti used straw donors to funnel $386,250 to members of Congress

His Friends abandoned him as soon as he was no longer useful....

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Magliocchetti was a major fundraiser for three powerful Democratic members of the defense subcommittee -- the late John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania, James P. Moran of Virginia and Peter J. Visclosky of Indiana -- who had repeatedly helped him and his clients.
Superlobbyist Paul Magliocchetti, who specialized in getting defense earmarks for his clients, pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges of making hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions to members of Congress.
Magliocchetti admitted using straw donors -- friends, lobbyists and family members, including his aged in-laws -- to funnel $386,250 in illegal contributions to favored members of Congress including key members of the House appropriations defense subcommittee who provided hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks for the clients of his now defunct Arlington lobbying firm, The PMA Group
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Sunday Funnies

Have A great Sunday


Saturday, September 25, 2010

ACORN, A Rose by any other Name....

SOS different name... A rose by any other name.....

ACORN Housing Corporation, which was formed in 1985 by ACORN organizers, changed its name this year to Affordable Housing Centers of America.

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ACORN Housing Corporation, which was formed in 1985 by ACORN organizers, changed its name this year to Affordable Housing Centers of America. 
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An official report released this week says an ACORN offshoot group cannot properly account for how it has spent millions of federal dollars and recommends that the group repay the government and be put on standby mode until it cleans up its act.

The report from the inspector general for the Department of Housing and Urban Development reviewed how ACORN Housing Corporation -- now called Affordable Housing Centers of America -- has spent federal grant money over the past two decades. The report described the group's book-keeping as "problematic and unsupported," and claimed that more than $65,000 in "ineligible" salary expenses were charged to a federal grant last year, including costs for six employees after they were terminated. 

ACORN Housing Corporation, which was formed in 1985 by ACORN organizers, changed its name this year to Affordable Housing Centers of America. 

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Military Wisdom

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Wait a moment. I smell hypocrisy. Didn’t we help GM (and Chrysler) with a big bailout, and not help competitors Ford, Nissan, Honda, or Toyota or any other automaker that builds cars in the U.S.?

Moreover, the circularity of GM’s logic leads to some strange places. It would presumably allow any big corporation to get tax deductions (in effect, tax subsidies from the rest of us) for outlays for lobbyists, political ads, and political donations to members of congress – so long as these expenditures help the company relative to its competitors.

Problem is, the tax laws don’t allow this.

Nor does the law allow taxpayer-supported entities to use taxpayer dollars to influence elections. And yet this is exactly what GM is doing.

Since TARP, suspicions about big government in cahoots with big business have fueled angry tea partiers on the right and despairing cynics on the left. GM’s crass disregard for the spirit if not the letter of the law continues to fuel them.


Since the bailout, GM belongs to the taxpayers. So why are they funding political candidates?

In this file photo from April 21, 2009, American flags fly outside General Motors world headquarters in Detroit. The government and taxpayers have owned General Motors since the bailout. Why is a government-owned company choosing candidates to give campaign contributions to?

General Motors has given $90,500 to candidates in the current election cycle, according to the Federal Election Commission.

Hmmm? Last time I looked, you and I and every other U.S. taxpayer owned a majority of GM. That means some of the money we’re earning as GM owners is being used to influence how we vote in the upcoming mid-term election.

To put it another way, we taxpayers are paying some people (GM executives) to tell us how we should vote for another group of people (House and Senate candidates) who will decide how our taxes will be used in the future.

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Liberal Politics and the Constitution

Pretty Mean Jab.....

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On September 23, 2010 I filmed a public "Meet and Greet" and speech...

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Military Wisdom

I guess the only one who don't like being a Super Power is in the White House

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While preaching to the choir at his April 12 Nuclear Security Summit, President Obama revealed his perspective on America's matchless military might: "Whether we like it or not," he said, "we (the United States) remain a dominant military superpower." That the president would even imagine "we" might not "like it," betrays his fixed membership within that "progressive" camp of self-loathing "or nots." (Mr. Obama's anti-Americanism is showing.)

Indeed, if there were ever a question whether Democrats are woefully weak on national defense, that question was cleared up on Tuesday. Taking direction from Lady Gaga (evidently Mr. Obama's new national defense czar) Senate Majority Leader and chief surrender monkey Harry "the war is lost" Reid cynically attempted, but fortunately failed, to ram through a repeal of Section 654,Title 10, USC - the law prohibiting homosexual conduct within the ranks of the armed services. Just two Democrats - Sens. Mark Pryor and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas - voted against repeal.

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Thursday, September 23, 2010

231 years ago today

Why America Won....

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On September 23, 1779, 231 years ago to the day...



"I have not yet begun to fight!" shouted John Paul Jones when the captain of the British ship Serapis asked him to surrender.



Their ships were so close their cannons hit each other and their masts entangled, yet the American ship Bonhomme Richard, named for Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac, refused to give up.



When his ship began sinking, instead of striking the colors, John Paul Jones lashed his ship to enemy's to keep it afloat. After 3 more hours of fighting, the British surrendered.


231 years ago today - reminder from Chris Murch USNA - 83

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Obama battles bigoted bugs

You cannot make this stuff up:))

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The Obama administration has hit a new low in race-obsessed government. The post-racial president can't even fight bedbugs without affirmative action.

Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency announced to "environmental justice" advocacy groups that the agency plans to spend more than a half-million dollars battling the bedtime pests in "communities disproportionately exposed to environmental harms and risk." That's bureaucratese for minority communities.

If bigoted bugs were singling out blacks, Hispanics and American Indians, liberals might have a rational reason for working harder to protect them, but in New York, where bedbugs have gone big-time, they are hitting the rich as well as the poor, black and white alike. After all, we taste the same. That's one reason the critters have been dubbed "Bloombugs" - for the famously rich Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg who has been so ineffective in fighting the plague of bloodthirsty insects.

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Military Wisdom

The First Marine


Links 9/22/2010

thought provoking...

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Mary Elizabeth Williams, "Have Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart Crossed the Line?"
  • Megan McArdle, "The Bad Financial Luck of the Irish" - from the article: But Ireland's problems are really rather special.  For various reasons, including favorable corporate tax rates and an educated, English-speaking population, capital poured into the country for more than a decade, leading to a banking sector that was grossly inflated compared to the underlying economy.  The US banking sector is rather tame by comparison to most European nations--bank leverage at the beginning of the crisis was about equal to GDP, rather than the three to five times GDP found in many European nations.  But Ireland is almost in a class by itself.
  • Mark Bauerlein, "Lincoln, History and Ideology" - the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy has been printing copies of the Gettysburg Address that do not contain the words "under God." The trouble with this: it is almost certain Lincoln said those words at Gettysburg, and the most authoritative copies of the Address contain those words.
Yet even though the contract probably had just a marginal effect on the November elections, it still had value. It was a blueprint for the Republicans in Congress, a straightforward plan of action that gave the GOP majority meaning and purpose. The real worth of the contract was in governing, not electioneering. Read more at www.ashokkarra.com
 

Harry Reid's FUBAR

Can't buy the votes to stay... Or can He

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hoped the defense policy bill would help make a final pre-election argument for Democrats while energizing the base on gay rights and immigration.


But what he got was a failed vote and a mix of frustration and disappointment from the people he was trying to help. The stalled defense authorization bill — one of the last major Senate votes before November’s elections — was emblematic of the Nevada senator’s struggles to cut deals with the GOP while still pleasing core Democratic constituencies.


The disappointment was widespread.


And Democrats on both sides of the Capitol are unhappy that a debate on gay rights and immigration distracted yet again from issue No. 1: jobs.

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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Kims back in the driver's seat

Ooh! So NorKo sinks a South Korean military ship and we better back off, lest they strike out against South Korea! Gotta love that logic.



So we basically say to Kim the Younger: do as Daddy has done and you will be both respected and rewarded.



Spineless.

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NYT John Pomfret reporting that America and its allies in Asia are working to reopen talks with North Korea, afraid that the ongoing succession process could send the whole relationship down the path to war.

Score one for the Kims and so much for Team Obama's "strategic patience" (tough talk and shows of force and letting the Kims stew in their own paranoid juices).  I had thought the White House had settled on a solid path of not caving in, but Obama seems to have chickened out rather quickly:

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Obama Adviser Summers to Depart White House at Year's End

And another one Departs the Ship

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President Obama's top economic

adviser, Larry Summers, is leaving the White House at the end of the year, the administration announced Tuesday.

Summers will return to Harvard University as a professor.

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“A Man may make a Remark” (952)

So why all these twists and turns to say peo­ple get mad when oth­ers talk?

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So why all these twists and turns to say peo­ple get mad when oth­ers talk?

“A Man may make a Remark” (952)

Emily Dick­in­son

A Man may make a Remark -

In itself — a quiet thing

That may fur­nish the Fuse unto a Spark

In dor­mant nature — lain -

Let us deport — with skill -

Let us dis­course — with care -

Pow­der exists in Char­coal -

Before it exists in Fire.

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France raises Paris terror alert over al-Qaeda warning

Testing... Testing... one,... two,... three...

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French intelligence services are hunting a female would-be suicide bomber who
they believe could be planning to target the Paris metro.


France raised its terrorist alert warning today amid fears of suicide bomb
plots against the Paris transport network.


French intelligence services are hunting a female would-be suicide bomber who
they believe could be planning to target the Paris metro.



The alert followed a tip-off from a friendly intelligence agency – thought to
be Algeria’s — warning of an imminent al-Qaeda threat.


Five French nationals have been kidnapped close to a French uranium mine in
Niger in the last week, while a bomb scare caused alarm at the Eiffel Tower.

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