NATO's Ordinary Future By Robert D. Kaplan | May 9, 2012 Whatever one thought of the Libya intervention, the details make for a bad advertisement about NATO. As one U.S. Air Force planner told me, "It was like Snow White and the 27 dwarfs, all standing up to her knees" -- the United States being Snow White and the other NATO member states being the dwarfs. The statistics regarding just how much the United States had to go it alone in Libya -- pushed by the British and French -- despite the diplomatic fig leaf of "leading from behind," are devastating for the alliance. More than 80 percent of the gasoline used in the intervention came from the U.S. military. Almost all the individual operation orders had an American address. Of dozens of countries taking part, only eight air forces were allowed by their defense ministries to drop any bombs. Many flew sorties apparently only for the symbolism of it. While most airstrikes were carried out by non-U.S. aircraft, the United States ran the logistical end of the war. Read More » Comments? Send them to responses@stratfor.com

One of the best lines I've heard lately was from a retired shop foreman at the old Republic Steel plant in Cleveland Ohio ....when a young black kid was being laid off.   The black kid said to the shop foreman: "You're firing me because I'm black!” The foreman thought a moment and replied "No, we hired you because you were black."...   "We're firing you because you are useless!"   Sounds like a possible slogan for the 2012 election . . .        

WHY MICHELLE CAME HOME - Interesting! Sheppard Smith, Fox News. "If you check President Obama's last trip over-seas, his wife left just after their visit to France . She has yet to accompany him to any Arab country. Think about it. Why is Michelle returning to the states when 'official' trips to foreign countries generally include the First Lady." Here's one thought on the matter. While  renting videos I came across a video called "Obama". There were two men standing next to me and we talked about President Obama. These guys were Arabs, so I asked them why they thought Michelle Obama headed home following the President's recent visit to France instead of traveling on to Saudi Arabia and Turkey with her husband. They told me she could not go to Saudi Arabia , Turkey or Iraq . I said "Why not,(?) Laura Bush went to Saudi Arabia , Turkey and Dubai ." They said that Obama is a Muslim and therefore he is not allowed to bring his wife into countries that adhere to Sharia Law. Two points of interest here: 1) I thought it interesting that two American Arabs  believe that our President is a Muslim, who follows a strict Islamic creed. 2) They also said that's the reason he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia. It was a signal to the Muslim world, acknowledging his religion. For further consideration, here is a response from Dr. Jim Murk, a Middle Eastern Scholar and expert on Islam. This is his explanation of what the Arab American's were saying. "An orthodox Muslim man would never take his wife on a politically oriented trip to any nation which practices Sharia law, particularly Saudi Arabia where the Wahhabi sect is dominant. This is true and it is why Obama left Michelle in Europe . She will stay home when he visits Arab countries. He knows Muslim protocol; this includes, bowing to the Saudi King. Obama is regarded as a Muslim in the Arab world, because he was born to a Muslim father; he acknowledged his Muslim faith with George Stephanopoulus. Note that he downplays his involvement with Christianity, by not publicly joining a Christian church in D.C. And occasionally attending the chapel for services at Camp David . He also played down the fact that America is a Christian country and said, unbelievably, that it was one of the largest Muslim nations in the world, which is nonsense. He has publicly taken the side of the Palestinians in the conflict with Israel and he ignored the National Day of Prayer, something no other President has ever done. He is bad news! He conceals his true faith to the detriment of the American people." --- Jim Murk, Doctor of Philosophy in Middle Eastern Culture & Religion. ACTIONS speak louder than words. Another interesting item regarding Sharia Law. Why has Barack Hussein Obama insisted that the U.S. Attorney General hold the trials of the 911 Muslim Terrorists in Civilian Courts as Common Criminals instead of as Terrorists who attacked the United States of America ? If the Muslim Terrorists are tried in Military Tribunals, convicted and sentenced to death, by LAW, Barack Hussein Obama, as President of the United States , would be required to sign their death warrants. He would not be required to sign the death warrants if they are sentenced to death by a Civilian Court . Recently, Muslim Jihadist, Army Major Hassan slaughtered non-Muslim, soldiers at Ft. Hood , Texas rather than go to Afghanistan and be a part of anything that could lead to the deaths of fellow Muslims. He stated that Muslims 'could not and should not kill fellow Muslims.' Is the motive for Barack Hussein Obama's insistence on civilian trials, to make sure he doesn't have to sign the death warrants for the Muslim Terrorists? Why would he, as President of the United States , not sign the death warrants for Muslim Terrorists who attacked the United States and murdered over 3,000 U. S. Citizens on 9/11? Could it be that he is FORBIDDEN by his RELIGION to authorize the execution of Muslims? Think about that! Open your eyes, ears and mind to who the President is, how he behaves and what he is doing! Actions speak louder than teleprompter-written words  

   ...............AIN'T SHE JUST GRAND???!!!..............(and I was upset with Lehman Bros!....WHAT A BRAZEN B_T_H!!!)  The  real reason that Queen Nancy is considering retiring, is that they took  her Jet away... The FACTS ARE  IN! As a result of a Judicial  Watch filing under the Freedom of  Information Act, the USAF  released documents detailing House Speaker Pelosi's use of United States Air Force aircraft between March 2009 and June 2010.  The data is published in the Judicial Watch Verdict  of  December 2010, Volume 16, Issue  12. Here are the main  highlights revealed by the USAF. Keep in mind that all the data below relate to United States Air Force aircraft  used by one  woman over a sixteen month  period. Over Several of these flights  included Ms Pelosi's guests such as grown children, grandchildren,  various in-laws, friends, and hangers-on. 95% of the trips were between the west coast and  Washington , DC or what we might call a commute between home and  the office. READ it and  WEEP!! Total  trips: 85 trips over a  68 week period or 1.25 average trips per week. Total  mileage: 206,264 miles or 2,427 average miles  per trip Total flying time: 428.6 hours or  an average of 5 hrs per trip Cost to the taxpayers:  $2,100,744.59 or $27,715.00 per trip or $1,285,162.00 per year Cost of in  flight food and alcohol: $101,429.14 or $1,193.00 per trip or $62,051.00 per year. On one junket to  Baghdad, according to the Air Force report,  she had the aircraft bar stocked with Johnny Walker Red  Scotch, Grey Goose Vodka, E&J Brandy, Bailey's Irish Creme, Maker's Mark Whiskey, Courvoisier  Cognac, Bacardi Rum, Jim Beam  Whiskey, Beefeater Gin, Dewars Scotch, Bombay  Sapphire Gin, Jack  Daniels Whiskey, Corona Beer and several varieties of wine.  This was obviously a very important  "gubment bidness"  trip. Evidence generally speaks  for itself, and in Ms. Pelosi's case it  speaks the language of  abuse and (evidently) a serious familial drinking  problem, for in a single year she and her spawn drank  an amount in excess of  the net income of the average  employed American! When she said, "... If the stimulus doesn't pass, five hundred million people might lose  their jobs...", I thought she was unintentionally revealing her  ignorance. I'm now more inclined to think she was  pickled. Even  though she can no longer abuse the USAF, she can either fly on  her broom or fly Southwest Airlines, where bags  fly  free. If you are an AMERICAN  citizen it is YOUR DUTY to PASS THIS ON!!

Chen Guangcheng Ignored by Hillary Clinton

Chen Guangcheng Ignored by Hillary Clinton. LIFE IS CHEAP, VOTE FOR OBAMA......NOT!!!

PUT ME IN CHARGE . . . Put me in charge of food stamps. I'd get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho's, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want steak and frozen pizza, then get a job. Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I'd do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal legations. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, or smoke, then get a job. Put me in charge of government housing.  Ever live in a military barracks? You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your home" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried.  If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your own place. In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or you will report to a "government" job.  It may be cleaning the roadways  of trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you.  We will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo and speakers and put that money toward the "common good.." Before you write that I've violated some one's rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary.  If you want our money, accept our rules.  Before you  say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin their "self esteem," consider  that it wasn't that long ago that taking someone else's money for doing  absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem. If we are expected to pay for other people's mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices.  The current system rewards them for continuing to make bad choices. AND While you are on Gov't subsistence, you no longer can VOTE!  Yes,  that is correct.  For you to vote would be a conflict of interest.  You will voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Gov't welfare check.  If you want to vote, then get a job.

Gun Control and the 2012 Presidential Election - Godfather Politics

Gun Control and the 2012 Presidential Election - Godfather Politics

Micro Chip Implant...   Let's all pray we have enough ammo in our safes for  Islamic Terrorists to meet GOD, and their Virgins !!!!     Just call us 'The Implant Doctors'.   Microchip Implant Allows Islamic Terrorists to Speak to God. The implant is specifically designed to be injected in the forehead. When properly installed, it will allow the terrorist to speak to God. It comes in various sizes: Generally from .223 to .50 cal.

      Dhimmitude -- What does it mean? Obama used it in the health care bill. Now isn't this interesting? It is used in the health care law. Dhimmitude -- I had never heard the word until now.  Type it into Google and start reading.   Pretty interesting.  It's on page 107 of the healthcare bill.  I looked this up on Google and yep, it exists.  It is a REAL word. Dhimmitude is the Muslim system of controlling non-Muslim populations conquered through jihad. Specifically, it is the TAXING of non-Muslims in exchange for tolerating their presence AND as a coercive means of converting conquered remnants to Islam. ObamaCare allows the establishment of Dhimmitude and Sharia Muslim diktat in the United States. Muslims are specifically exempted from the government mandate to purchase insurance, and also from the penalty tax for being uninsured. Islam considers insurance to be "gambling", "risk-taking", and "usury" and is thus banned.   Muslims are specifically granted exemption based on this. How convenient!  So I, as a Christian, as well as all other non-Muslims, will have crippling IRS liens placed against all of my assets, including real estate, cattle, and even accounts receivables, and will face hard prison time because I refuse to buy insurance or pay the penalty tax.  Meanwhile, Louis Farrakhan and his followers, as an example, will have no such penalty and will have 100% of their health needs paid for by the de facto government insurance. Non-Muslims will be paying a tax to subsidize Muslims.  This is Dhimmitude. I recommend sending this on to your contacts. American citizens need to know about it --                                             WAKE UP AMERICA!!!                            IT'S GETTING LATER THAN YOU THINK!!!  

New Obama slogan has long ties to Marxism, socialism

New Obama slogan has long ties to Marxism, socialism. WHAT'S NEXT...OBAMA YOUTH CORPS???

THEY FINALLY PUBLISHED "MY" VERSIONS OF THE GREAT DOCTOR- SEUSS Dr. Seuss For Older Kids ~ Just in case you weren't feeling too old today......... The people who are starting college this fall were born in 1993. They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up. Their lifetime has always included AIDS. The CD was introduced two years before they were born. They have always had an answering machine. They have always had cable. Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show. Popcorn has always been microwaved.. They never took a swim and thought about Jaws. They don't know who Mork was or where he was from. They never heard: 'Where's the Beef?', 'I'd walk a mile for a Camel ' or 'de plane Boss, de plane'. McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers. They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter. Pass this on to the other old fogies on your list. Notice the larger type? That's for those of us who have trouble reading. P.S. Save the earth. It's the only planet with chocolate.  

read and heed              There are actually two messages here.  The first is very interesting, but the second is absolutely astounding - and explains a lot.               A recent "Investor's Business Daily" article provided very interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International Health Organization.               Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosis:                U.S.                    65%                England              46%                Canada               42%                 Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received treatment within six months:                U.S.                     93%                England              15%                Canada               43%                 Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it within six months:                U.S.                     90%                England              15%                Canada               43%                 Percentage referred to a medical specialist who see one within one month:                U.S.                     77%                England              40%                Canada               43%                 Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people:                U.S.                     71                England             14                Canada              18                 Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are in "excellent health":                U.S.                    12%                England               2%                Canada               6%                 And now for the last statistic:                 National Health Insurance?                U.S.                     NO                England            YES                Canada             YES               Check this last set of statistics!!               The percentage of each past president's cabinet who had worked in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet. You know what the private business sector is a real-life business, not a government job.  Here are the percentages.                 T. Roosevelt.................... 38%               Taft.................................. 40%                Wilson ........................... 52%               Harding........................... 49%               Coolidge......................... 48%               Hoover............................ 42%               F. Roosevelt................... 50%               Truman........................... 50%               Eisenhower................ .... 57%               Kennedy......................... 30%               Johnson.......................... 47%               Nixon.............................. 53%               Ford................................ 42%               Carter............................. 32%               Reagan........................... 56%               GH Bush......................... 51%                Clinton .......................... 39%               GW Bush........................ 55%               Obama..................... 8%                 This helps to explain the incompetence of this administration: only 8% of them have ever worked in private business!               That's right!  Only eight percent---the least, by far, of the last 19 presidents!  And these people are trying to tell our big corporations how to run their business?               How can the president of a major nation and society, the one with the most successful economic system in world history, stand and talk about business when he's never worked for one?  Or about jobs when he has never really had one?  And when it's the same for 92% of his senior staff and closest advisers?  They've spent most of their time in academia, government and/or non-profit jobs or as "community organizers."  They should have been in an employment line.               Pass this on because we'll NEVER see these facts in the main stream media.

The Left’s expected, contemptible, and blatant hypocrisy over ALEC and stand-your-ground laws. Posted by Moe Lane (Diary) Wednesday, April 18th at 2:00PM EDT 6 Comments I’m not really all that into blogging about the Zimmerman/Martin shooting.  From what I can tell, what happened was that there was an confrontation that might have very well been avoidable; it ended with a genuinely tragic ending; and that there were actually pretty much no wider partisan implications at all, despite the attempts of the Online Left to fit a Latino Democrat onto the Procrustean bed of WASP Tea Partier.  All of which is contemptible of the Online Left, by the way.  Expected, but contemptible. Still, the news that the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has decided to stop working on criminal bill advocacy because of liberal push back on ALEC’s work on stand-your-ground laws is of interest.  Said laws, for those unaware of them, essentially confirm the right of a citizen to defend themselves if attacked; and (as Clayton Cramer and Glenn Reynolds note) such laws are very important from a feminist perspective.  Particularly when we’re talking about, say, battered women.  Amazing how quickly people on the Left stop caring about that sort of thing when it gets into the way of going after perceived Righty groups, right? Again: expected, and contemptible. READ MORE → Category: alec, colorofchange, common cause, Florida, jennifer granholm, Michigan, stand your ground