To kill America's enemies abroad is a duty of the CIA. No, not to lead poison Castro or Chavez, but those trying to target America and American citizens here and abroad are targets. The majority of those at Foggy Bottom don't like this, but then they also don't like much about America except when she has enough sense to send them to places like Bern and Paris where they feel they will get the chance to hobnob with those they consider peers. Fine with me. Better there than infecting corporations, education and the general gene pool here and it is a small price to pay. It'd be cheaper if their tickets were one-way.
The entire diplomatic corp could easily be replaced by just half the membership of the Future Farmers of America, Manhattan Chapter. They'd be more effective too, just by not stabbing the citizenry at every turn and soirée they attend.
While Madam Pelosi is trying to deflect attention about her lying about the CIA lying, she does agree with those that are aghast that the CIA was acting legally when they made plans to kill terror leaders abroad. No bad deed shall be punished, only good deeds.
The CIA Plan to Kill Al Qaeda Leaders
First, I'm delighted, of course, that the CIA post 9-11 was formulating plans to try and kill Al Qaeda leaders wherever they might be; if they weren't, I would certainly have a big question about what exactly the CIA value-added to national security is. Why would you have a CIA if they weren't trying to figure out covert ops to kill Al Qaeda leaders after 9-11? As for the distinction between inserting small teams or using Predators, recall that the US only began using Predators as a weapons platform in a semi-improvised way after 9-11. The obvious tactic was small team insertion, and only when it became clear that Predators could work, did the US move to that strategy.
Second, as to the international law issues involved in targeting Al Qaeda leaders, I will simply refer you over to a new paper, soon to appear as a book chapter in a volume edited by Benjamin Wittes on reforming counterterrorism policy, on targeted killing. That paper has a particular point, however. It says that of course the US targeted killings of Al Qaeda terrorists is a legal act of self defense under international law.
The longer term question to which the paper mostly addresses itself is whether, in the face of withering international legal criticism, from UN special rapporteurs, human rights groups, academics, etc. - what we might call the international "soft law" crowd - the US, and specifically the Obama administration, will insist on the traditional doctrines of self defense, including against terrorists who find safe haven in states that are unwilling or unable to deal with them. The problem specifically for the Obama administration is that on the one hand it has - correctly in my view, for strategic, legal, and humanitarian reasons - embraced targeted killings via Predator strikes.
So now, Obama is in a fix and now, it appears, that his charm isn't going to win over the Foggy Bottom crowd just as it hasn't won over anybody, but those now with buyer's remorse, aka, those that voted for him. The election of Obama was the biggest pig-in-a-poke decision made in this country, even bigger than Carter, in fact, even bigger than if Kerry or Gore had won. At least they were fairly direct about their half truths and "misstatements."
That there are those who cannot stand the heat of the kitchen nor stomach the breaking of eggs to make an omelet to fulfill their charge to protect us is misfeasance. Though malfeasance and nonfeasance appear in the mix, they are the bailiwick of the wanna-be-cooks at Foggy Bottom and Congress.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
State Dept Bush Haters Beginning To Hate Obama
Pelosi: I Lied About Apples, Here's An Orange
For such a refined lady, Pelosi has all the deft of a ham-fisted mayor of a machine city such as Baltimore. No amount of botox and other refinements can hide the beast within when she is cornered like a rat. Sun Tzu is probably not on her shelf next to Who's Who In My World and the 2009 draft edition of Politics of Self Destruction: Best Practices.
Pelosi said she never heard about water boarding, then she said she misheard and then she was misled even though everybody else involved in the numerous briefings could only say, "ahem."
One can only assume that Pelosi is that ignorant, that stupid or that conniving. Me, I'll take column c with a sweet and sour soup.
Never a proponent of the big tent, Pelosi prefers a small tent and some ground outside for her entourage, she is lucky enough to have some real thinkers, like the two Intelligence panel Democrats — Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), who heads the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, and, separately, Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), to project the spotlight elsewhere in her tent as she tries to pull up the political knickers around her ankles for lying about water boarding.
"Why, good sir, you wanted an apple? Here's an orange."
Enter Dick. Dick Cheney. That Pelosi has chosen to do battle with Cheney is, I think, a real barometer of how badly she believes she is doing. That she is so desperate to move the spotlight
that she will do battle with Cheney and give away national security secrets just to save her pampered, powdered butt is an indication of the existence of proof that she blatantly lied and an indication of low she will go to save her political career.
With Pelosi’s blessing, Dems push ahead with probe of CIA
After Pelosi first made the allegation that she had regularly been misled by the CIA, she and Democrats were dogged by charges of making their own questionable claims, which were levied relentlessly by Republicans who demanded that Pelosi either prove her claims or apologize for them.
Democrats now believe further revelations about the degree to which the Bush administration misled Congress are giving them political cover.
Pelosi on Monday said she only learned of Cheney’s involvement through press reports. Last week she told reporters that she likewise had only heard about Panetta’s admission that agency officials had repeatedly lied to Congress through press reports.
Where does Pelosi get her briefs, Victoria's Secrets?
In this immediate fight I give a huge advantage to Cheney. In the fight to protect and continue prosperity in our Republic, the edge must go against the nation if silk gloved and lipped politicians such as Pelosi stay in power.
Pelosi is poison.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Clarence Thomas: 40 Years Of Liberal Nightmare
HISTORY? Clarence Thomas: I'll serve on Court for 40 years...
When justices follow the constitution, especially when they don't find the constitution to be a fluid document, it just drives them nuts.
Running With The Bulls Jr. Part Deux
Well, the little one (he's 6'3") decided to run again and I am glad he didn't tell me this time. He was with the pack that included the unfortunate death of a 27 year old Spaniard.Jimmy Carter, Best Prez Ever!
from my email:
Does anybody out there have any memory of the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ...... during the Carter Administration?
Anybody?
Anything?
No?
Didn't think so!
Bottom line .. we've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency the reason for which not one person who reads this can remember.
Ready???????
It was very simple...and at the time everybody thought it very appropriate...
The 'Department of Energy' was instituted on
8-04-1977 TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.
Hey, pretty efficient, huh?????
AND NOW IT'S 2009, 32 YEARS LATER ... AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS NECESSARY DEPARTMENT IS AT $24,200,000,000 A YEAR!
IT HAS 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES
AND LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS DONE!
What a guy, that Jimmah, but we must also thank all the fine people in Congress, the press and in our classrooms that have brought us to the current situation of being even more dependent on foreign oil.
Oil sales = fund terrorism. Good job guys. Maybe you can do for education what you've done for our energy needs, ah wait, never mind, you've already have done that as well. No wonder no one can read bills in Congress.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Big Fish Caught
The Big Fish Supper Club is on Hwy. 2 just outside of Bena, Minnesota, about halfway between Bemidji and Grand Rapids. The restaurant itself is in a normal building beside the fish. At one point, there was a hamburger stand inside the fish's belly, but that's long since been closed. Now it's just a roadside oddity. Fun tip: you can stand inside the mouth and pose for a picture. They only put the teeth in during the summer, though.
At last check, the Big Fish supper club was up for sale. No word on whether it's been sold yet.
Friday, July 10, 2009
BWAHAHAHAHAHA The Libs Are Already Turning On Franken
Not honest? A loser?
FRANKEN-LY UNHAPPY
Saturday Night Live does Air America on the Senate floor. The pride that those who voted for Franken is boundless.
Maybe Al can punch someone again to show he has gravitas.
Senator Gravitas Franken from Minnesota? Good Lord I needed a chuckle today and now I have had two really good ones.
From the Keeler Political Report. Ben found this gem.
Seriously
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter called his fellow Democrat, Rep. Joe Sestak, a "flagrant hypocrite" and accused his rival of registering as a Democrat "just in time to run for Congress.""Congressman Sestak is a flagrant hypocrite in challenging my being a real
Democrat when he did not register as a Democrat until 2006 just in time to run
for Congress," Specter said in the statement. "His lame excuse for avoiding
party affiliation, because he was in the service, is undercut by his documented
disinterest in the political process."
Liberal Media & Pundits Proudly Lied To Defeat McCain/Palin
Couric, Gibson, Sullivan, et al and losers like Maher, Fey, Letterman and so many others in the main stream media, Internet commentators, comedians and Democrats everywhere just made up the lies, passed them on and made them true.
Conservatives and Republicans did as well; Obama is a Muslim, Obama wasn't born here and on and on.
Both were wrong, but both are not equal and both did not attack equally.
Even Molly Ivins (unfortunately deceased, she had a barbed tongue that tickled me) said, "I don't do children." Even Obama said, ""People's families are off-limits and people's children are especially off-limits."
Democrats didn't get the message, they just upped the level and number of lies and lowered themselves and us by spelunking ever deeper into sewers to find new lies and lower standards to ensure their victory in Obama/Biden.
A story by Carl Cannon, whose father wrote books about President Ronald Reagan, lays out the story and his shame. Below is a section about Ohio's own Hack Hackett:
Sarah 'Barracuda' Palin and the Piranhas of the Press
Fretting that the Obama campaign was going to lose Ohio to McCain, Hackett proposed his own solution: A series of savage attacks on the GOP ticket focusing on Sarah Palin and her family.
Here is what he wrote:The message (would be) simple and the professionals can refine it but
Apparently, Hackett took the rumors of an affair from the National Enquirer, which offered no proof, or even evidence. He then segued into an even uglier line of attack, arguing that it's irresponsible to bring a handicapped baby into the world. This is not "pro-choice," it's pro-eugenics. It's also creepy and illiberal, and reinforces conservatives' worst fears about Democrats and the issue of abortion. And, oh yes, Bristol Palin's age was wrong. She was nearly 18 when Hackett wrote this screed, not 16. This proved a harbinger, too, as misinformation slipped easily from the left blogosphere into mainstream coverage.
essentially it should contain these elements: Sarah Palin? Can't keep her solemn
oath of devotion to her husband and had sex with his employee. Sarah Palin?
Accidentally got pregnant at age 43 and the tax payers of Alaska have to pay for
the care of her disabled child. Sarah Palin? Unable to teach her 16 year old
daughter right from wrong and now another teenager is pregnant. Sarah Palin? Can you trust Sarah Palin and her values with America's future?
Sen. McCain and Gov Palin lost. That's politics, but we as a nation lost because we had the media and media figures in the tank for Sen. Obama and Sen. Biden. And were more than willing to do double standards and to lie about those they wanted to defeat and to lie to help those they wanted elected.
UPDATE: Webutante has a great piece up today on the continued war against political debate and Gov. Palin.
On Sarah Palin's Resignation
FINALLY I SEE: A SHOCKING, SHAMEFUL HIGH-TECH MOB LYNCHING BY DEMS
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Fox News Watchers Outraged Over Nonstop Jackson Adulation
I just heard on Cavuto that Fox News had heard the outrage by viewers over the saturation coverage of Michael Jackson's death, every single point about his life (but not his criminal lifestyle) and his circus like memorial. The outrage, which I felt, was that here was NO other news, but that of Mr. Jackson's demise.
Case in point;
Relatives of Soldier Killed in Afghanistan Decry Lack of Coverage Amid Jackson Spectacle
I expect the other networks to do this type of thing, many times to close out news they wish not to report, but generally because they have to cover pop culture crap to help their ratings.
I hope Fox News has learned, as I just heard, that this practice is foolish and laughable.
How about daily reports on our amazing soldiers and the things they do to protect us and better the world while in the service and when they come home.
That's the least Fox can do and then they won't have to cover the criminal behavior of pop stars, king of pop or not.
Jackson dead? Yes that's news. Adulation? That's repugnant and ridiculous.
To spew agent press releases instead of the truly heroic nature of people and our soldiers, in spite of the murderous RoE, is almost criminal, but it is at least a stunning show of a lack of ethics.
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Labor: Pope Supports 'Card Check'
Yep, you read that right. According to the unions, Pope Benedict supports the purposely ill-named Employee Free Choice Act, aka Card Check.
Labor claims Pope Benedict as EFCA supporter
Organized labor groups claimed another prominent supporter of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) on Wednesday: Pope Benedict XVI.
Accordingly, labor will probably announce that the Pope believes unions should own corporations and all the other crap they are supporting.
Rerum Novarum doesn't support their claim, but these are the same people that say they don't use intimidation and violence nor corruption and bribery, but that won't stop them.
They're desperate now that the fog of victory has cleared and they begin to understand that the citizens are even more angry at their tactics and the massive payola scandal involving the new administration and the unions and the take over of corporations.
Running With The Bulls Jr.
I am happy to report that the intelligence, logic and sense of self preservation has passed to another generation.
My son just completed his first running of the bulls in Pamplona.
At least he told me that he was going to. My mother was mightily ticked when she found out. Sometimes details escape my memory.
Or so I told her. Back then.
BONUS: He got to hang with Ernest Hemingway's grandson and sent me photos to prove it.
Good Lord, I hope he doesn't try any more of my youthful activities.
Government Help
NoKo's Kim Jong-il Really Just Wanted To Chat With Obama?
Treasury Dept, Secret Service hit by cyber attack; NKorea suspected...
I mean Obama believes chatting will make us better people. Maybe they were discussing puppy food.
ADHD Biden To Stimulate Stimulus In Cin City
It is appropriate that Jabberin' Joe will be appearing, message and all, in a can factory.
Biden coming to Ohio
Vice President Biden will be in Cincinnati Thursday as part of the Obama Administration's effort to persuade Americans - and key voters in crucial states like Ohio - that the $787 stimulus package and other efforts to spur the economy are on track to create a recovery.
Biden Thursday morning will be at the American Can Building, an old factory that is the site of a "multi-use economic development project," according to the White House.
The vice president's visit was announced last night, not long after the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute released a survey of Ohioans showing that President Obama's approval rating has dropped dramatically in the Buckeye State in recent weeks, a sign of voters' frustration with the economy.
Obama is sending his teleprompter and Concerta so Joe will stay on message, but who will ask, "How's that stimulus thing working out for you Joe? Here in Ohio, with double digit unemployment, we're feeling stricklanded."
UPDATE: Hal writes, "Truth of the fact probably is that the President wanted him out of DC." I think he's right.
July 8
1822 – Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
Bush is blamed.
1898 – The shooting death of crime boss Soapy Smith releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip
Palin is blamed.
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Thriller Everywhere
Please, somebody tell me that Michael Jackson's memorial is not on all 3 networks, CNN, FOX and every other channel.
Sunday, July 05, 2009
Sarah Palin In A Sea Of Liberal Lies
I have always been stunned, even as a person who has seen first hand outright lies and petty slander (not just nitpicking fools) against good people, by the extent and the scope of the blatant lies against Gov. Sarah Palin.
It is more than politics. It is unbridled hate. Hate by people that I believe hate themselves and displace that hate onto Palin.
Imagine my surprise and delight when I read a piece, by a person I believe I would not share much common political ground with, write a lucid and inner truthful piece about Palin.
It is these people, both far left and right, in which I find a good future for our country for they make themselves informed, think with a logical lucidness and ask the right questions. That answers are not always easy or at hand do not intimidate these people, the difficulty makes them dig harder for their truths.
Even though I found this article a breath of fresh air, I must warn though that the extended article contains strong vulgarities as do the comments, but if you can get past them you will find a person of integrity truly attempting to understand a cultural failure.
Feminists and the mystery of Sarah Palin
It seems that some blamers know that the bullsh*t published about Palin (and unfortunately repeated here) was just that — bullsh*t. Palin considers herself a feminist, and except for the abortion thing, she’s more explicitly feminist than the average American. When a regular Jane with that kind of background proclaims her feminist sympathies, it doesn’t seem terribly productive to ridicule her or indulge in the misogynist slander put out by the political hacks running against her. I mean, sure, by the standards of pure feminism, she’s an enabling godbag. But so are most American women. On the other hand, by the standards of the Republican Party or evangelical Christianity, she’s Twisty Faster.
Read the rest.
It doesn't take courage to tell the truth, but it can take courage to look inward and express yourself knowing the vitriol that will be hurled your way by people of lesser character.
I applaud Violet though I'm not sure she may welcome my applause. None the less, Bravo.
Saturday, July 04, 2009
Dispair The Debt Star
READERS ARE SENDING PHOTOS FROM TEA PARTY PROTESTS AROUND THE COUNTRY. Here’s one from Perrysburgh, Ohio, sent by reader Chris Zarecki, who reports about 3,000 people attending.
When 3,000 people show up in Perrysburgh, Ohio there's trouble abrewing for the do-gooders in Dc doing no good.
Her Highness Dowd Has Spoken Thus Palin Is Fallen
Celestial virgin of the newsroom got another message from Mother Giah.
MAUREEN DOWD TRASHES 'NUTTY' PALIN
NY TIMES Op-Ed Queen Maureen Dowd runs out of adjectives and insults while ripping away at Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in an upcoming Sunday column.
Palin is "one nutty puppy", in the mind of Dowd, newsroom sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT, with "erratic and egoistic behavior".
Dowd spits her holiday barbecue in 800 words, designed for fireworks.
"Exquisite battiness... solipsistic meltdown so strange... incoherent, breathless and prickly... Sarah's country-music melodramas... girlish burbling."
I wonder what made Maureen such a bitter middle aged woman?
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Honduras Protests Anti-Democracy UN, Zalaya, Obama, Castro & Chavez
Obama Not Reconciled With Iran Having Nuclear Weapons? Huh?
Obama might be able to live with the Mad Mullahs having a tool called nuclear weapons to punish infidels. Like when Allah drops by to tell them big guy?
Personally, I have my doubts about the validity of BO's inner most feelings along the lines of my children having a decent future. Exploding nukes may jepordize that Barack buddy. You know?
Which Position Is Obama Posing As?
President Barack Obama says he is "not reconciled" to the idea of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon within a year.
...
Obama also said Thursday that opposing a nuclear weapons capacity for the Persian Gulf nation isn't simply "a U.S. position." He said "the biggest concern is not simply that Iran can threaten us or our allies, like Israel or its neighbors."
BUT, then there is:
The president said that Iran must not be a nuclear power, although he conceded that the challenge ahead is formidable.
This is like Spy VS Spy, but in one man's head. The ying and yang of indecision and each one is holding a bomb, but pointed inward and not at our enemies.
We're in some very deep doo-doo in a swamp called naivete
July 2
1776 – The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not approved until July 4.
