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07/05/2009

Can you hear me now?

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From the Sunday Times ...

 America's traditional means of projecting power abroad is growing “increasingly obsolete” and its billion-dollar military hardware could be as ineffectual against future threats as the heavily fortified Maginot line was in defending France against the Nazis, a senior Pentagon adviser has warned. In a wake-up call to US military chiefs, Andrew Krepinevich, a leading architect of the counter-insurgency strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan, argues that the Pentagon is ill-equipped to counter rising powers such as China, hostile states such as Iran, the threat from irregular forces such as Hezbollah, and terrorists such as Al-Qaeda. It is also wasting billions on weaponry that could be outdated before it rolls off the production line.

 In an interview, Krepinevich said the military, like many bureaucracies, was in danger of “drinking its own bathwater” and discounting new challenges, including the proliferation of precision-guided weapons and threats from space and cyberspace. Last week Robert Gates, the defence secretary, rewarded him for his prescience with a seat on the influential defence policy board at the Pentagon. Aircraft carriers, navy destroyers, short-range fighter aircraft and forward bases such as Guam and Okinawa in the Pacific Ocean are becoming increasingly vulnerable to technology and tactics being developed by America’s rivals, Krepinevich argues in the July issue of Foreign Affairs journal.

 Even new areas of supremacy, such as US dominance of global positioning satellites that guide “smart” bombs to their targets, are becoming a “wasting asset” as states such as China develop the space technology to destroy them. China already has the ballistic missiles and laser technology to destroy low-orbit satellites on which the military depends. Krepinevich claims America should devote more resources to cutting-edge nanosatellites to maintain its technological lead and should invest in missile interceptors and laser energy defences that could counter the threat from adversaries deploying their own “smart” weapons. “Britain came out of the first world war with all the world’s aircraft carriers but fell behind between the wars,” said Krepinevich. “Being the leader doesn’t necessarily help you over time.”

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A chilling and prophetic read and it deserves your attention.

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07/03/2009

Uh oh. Now what's he gonna do?

   I think I will do things differently around here. In large part because I really can't bring myself to address the news. It is just too ugly and I don't have the words anymore. There are only so many ways you can say 'that is so fucked up'. I may deal with those things from time to time, but it is no longer 'fun'.

   Besides my meager attempts at making images, behind all my rhetoric and politics is a burning desire to speak. I am not a 'talker' but I can tell a very good story. I can tell you a story that will make you listen. Make you laugh. Make you cringe. Make you wonder. Make you want to hear more.

   I think I will start telling stories here. Tales of where I've been or what I've seen. I know, I know, Everybody does THAT, but I have a 'way' of telling stories. My stories are connected to a larger truth. I have a reason to tell you what I tell you. I will leave it to you to understand that reason.

   I suppose the easiest way to do this would be to start at the beginning. Screw that. Tina Turner said it wouldn't be 'nice and easy' and that's good enough for me. In fact, I will go her one further. This might be the roughest ride you ever took.

   Let's start at the end. I am 60 and very old for my years. If there was a way to stop my progression from birth to death and I haven't tried it, smoked it, done it or embraced it, then I must be getting old. I knew I wasn't going to live forever at age three. It was then I found out there was no God.

   Oh! I should find an image for this post. Can't have words just slapped all willy-nilly up on the screen without something to look at, can we? I shall go do that and return to this conversation later. Remind me to finish this story when I get back.

   God
  

07/01/2009

Maybe

I might be back tomorrow.

06/26/2009

Michael Jackson

MICHAEL JACKSON
It ain't polite to speak ill of the dead - so I have nothing more to say.

06/23/2009

Ask yourself this ... do you REALLY want to click? Well do ya?

Can you see him NOW?

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So, how's that whole 'hope and change' thing working out for ya? He didn't change Iraq. He didn't change military tribunals. He didn't change Afghanistan. He didn't change the Patriot Act. In fact, if Barack Obama changed anything, he 'changed' it to more than George Bush.


Oh, almost forgot, he DID change a few things. He changed his position on bankruptcy for our largest industries - after he gave them trillions of YOUR dollars. He changed his position on campaign finance reform. He changed his name back to Hussein. He changed his mind about taxing health care benefits - except for union members. He decided things were not so imminent that 95% of that stimulus money HAS YET TO BE SPENT.

Transparency, yeah he sure changed that didn't he? Appointed 15 Czars who answer only to him and are not subject to Congressional subpoena or oversight. Their budgets paid from TARP money - money allocated BEFORE he was in office and without accounting. Leaving all the trillions he and Congress have spent since January 20th to lavish on his supporters and progressive agenda.

Hope? Hoping that the world's tyrants would alter their courses after hearing of good intentions doesn't seem to have panned out, has it? The only member of George Bush's 'Axis of Evil' who is not currently sticking their thumbs in our collective eye is dead - executed by a duly and democratically elected Iraqi population. Hope things are going to 'get better' economically? He promised his grand plans would fix things and they'd never get nearly as bad as they are now.

And that was just a couple of months ago - just today he couldn't say yet another multi-trillion dollar 'stimulus package' was not in our immediate future. I'd be very beholdened to anyone out there who can name a single thing that Barack Obama has actually done that he said he would do. Let me put it another way. Is there anyone out there who doesn't know that he is a bald-faced lair? Fraud? Charlatan? Amateur? Player? Poseur?

And for all you idiots out there who voted for this, I have only this to offer. Behind him, should he wither, waits Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Joe Biden. Dick Durbin. Barbara Boxer. Chris Dodd. Barney Frank. Patrick Leahy. Roland Burris. Robert Byrd. Al Franken. Henry Waxman. Charles Schumer. Ah yes, a clown's convention and it will be your money they shred for confetti.

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From WND ...

 Enthusiastic tea partiers in Virginia have decided to give "imperial leaders" in Washington a seat of power they believe they truly deserve - a portable toilet throne. Tea party organizer Karen Miner Hurd told WND her group is expecting between 3,000 and 5,000 people at the upcoming June 26 protest at Chesapeake City Park in Chesapeake, Va. While she is excited about the turnout, Hurd has a predicament: She must raise funds for 30 portable toilets on a shoe-string budget. "How do you tell people you need money for bathrooms?" she asked. "Does that excite or inspire anybody? Not very much."

 So Hurd asked taxpayers to sponsor commodes and name them with their least favorite politicians. "It started growing, and once people started seeing the list of people who were named, I got more and more requests," she said. "People started to love it." At a June 16 tea party, the group loaded 10 portable johns into trucks and paraded them through three cities - complete with names of politicians who they believe are trying to flush the nation down the toilet. Enthusiastic tea partiers in Virginia have decided to give "imperial leaders" in Washington a seat of power they believe they truly deserve – a portable toilet throne.

 Tea party organizer Karen Miner Hurd told WND her group is expecting between 3,000 and 5,000 people at the upcoming June 26 protest at Chesapeake City Park in Chesapeake, Va. While she is excited about the turnout, Hurd has a predicament: She must raise funds for 30 portable toilets on a shoe-string budget. "How do you tell people you need money for bathrooms?" she asked. "Does that excite or inspire anybody? Not very much." So Hurd asked taxpayers to sponsor commodes and name them with their least favorite politicians.

 "It started growing, and once people started seeing the list of people who were named, I got more and more requests," she said. "People started to love it." At a June 16 tea party, the group loaded 10 portable johns into trucks and paraded them through three cities - complete with names of politicians who they believe are trying to flush the nation down the toilet. The "Don't Flush U.S." campaign was born. Now she has asked the public to send in their nominations and help sponsor toilets for the next party by sending donations. The following are just a few of the names 34 currently under consideration:
  •      Nancy Pelosi's Throne
  •      McCain, John
  •      U.S. Congress – Our #2 Problem
  •      ACORN john (Always Cr-ppy, Offensive, Rotten, Noxious)
  •      I.R.S. john – Eliminate it!
  •      "Porky Little Projects" john
  •      Royal Pain in the Tax
  •      Office of Tim Geitner's Accountant
  •      Harry Reid's Throne
  •      Eric "toilet paper" Holder
  •      Marxist Government Think Tank
  •      Federal Depository
 "The names are of people who have horribly abused taxpayer money or people who have betrayed us. We have some Republicans listed," Hurd said. "Some people like Nancy Waters, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and the Murtha john and the Kerry john were pretty self-evident, we felt." Hurd said the campaign has chosen not to use references to President Obama. "We were very careful about that. We don't even mention him remotely," she said. "He is the president, and we respect the office."
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   Personally, I think Barack Obama has so disrespected his office and misused and abused his power that he doesn't deserve the least respect. But what could we call his porta-potty? The Plastic Fantastic Composter in Chief? The Black Hole? Or wait ... better not go there. Too misogynistic.

Do you have any suggestions?

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06/22/2009

Welcome to the Hotel Barack Obama ...

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It is the month of August; a resort town sits next to the shores of a lake. It is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted.  It is tough times, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.

Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town.

He enters the only hotel, lays a 100 dollar bill on the reception counter, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one.

The hotel proprietor takes the 100 dollar bill and runs to pay his debt to the butcher.

The Butcher takes the 100 dollar bill, and runs to pay his debt to the pig farmer.

The pig farmer takes the 100 dollar bill, and runs to pay his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel.

The supplier of feed and fuel takes the 100 dollar bill and runs to pay his debt to the town's prostitute that in these hard times, gave her "services" on credit.

The hooker runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt with the 100 dollar bill to the hotel proprietor to pay for the rooms that she rented when she brought her clients there.

The hotel proprietor then lays the 100 dollar bill back on the counter so that the rich tourist will not suspect anything.

At that moment, the rich tourist comes down after inspecting the rooms, and takes his 100 dollar bill, after saying that he did not like any of the rooms, and leaves town.

No one earned anything.  However, the whole town is now without debt and looks to the future with a lot of optimism.

And that is how the United States Government is doing business today.

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'You can check out anytime you want but you can never leave'.Hotel California - the best version! Gypsy Kings, video, St. Francis hotel Santa Fe New Mexico
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06/21/2009

Hey, Mr. President, are you paying attention? It can happen here, too.

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Cooking with Bugs!

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   In keeping  with the spirit of this post, how about a recipe? I've said often that the only food I don't love is boiled carrots. Cooked any other way they are great! Here's my favorite. Saute sliced carrots in butter very softly - nice and low - so the carrots absorb lots of butter. When the carrots are softened, add one or more of the following dried fruits; raisins, currants or cranberries. My personal favorite is currants. Let the dried fruit plump  with the remaining butter and stir in a healthy dose of curry powder. That's it.
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