Monday, September 30, 2013

Senate to US Economy: Drop Dead

Senate Kills Latest ObamaCare Counter-offer, Bill Kicks Back to House

From Fox News:
The Senate voted for the second time Monday to kill a Republican counter-offer that would rein in ObamaCare while funding the government, kicking the bill back to the House with only a couple hours left on the clock before the government begins to shut down.

Lawmakers are facing a midnight deadline to reach an agreement on a government spending bill. Senate Democrats vow they will not accept any proposal that targets ObamaCare.

The latest House bill would have delayed the law's individual mandate while prohibiting lawmakers, their staff and top administration officials from getting government subsidies for their health care.

The Senate voted 54-46 along party lines to reject it.

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Sunday, September 29, 2013

Saturday, September 28, 2013

House Will Vote on Plan to Keep Government Open, Stop ObamaCare

Things are getting quite interesting.

From Speaker.gov:
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), and GOP Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following joint statement:

“The American people don’t want a government shut down and they don’t want ObamaCare. That’s why later today, the House will vote on two amendments to the Senate-passed continuing resolution that will keep the government open and stop as much of the president’s health care law as possible.

“The first amendment delays the president’s health care law by one year. And the second permanently repeals ObamaCare’s medical device tax that is sending jobs overseas.

“Both of these amendments will change the date of the Senate CR to December 15th. We will also vote on a measure that ensures our troops get paid, no matter what.

“We will do our job and send this bill over, and then it’s up to the Senate to pass it and stop a government shutdown.”

Friday, September 27, 2013

Senate Approves Budget Bill, Restores ObamaCare Funding

From FoxNews:
Capping a dramatic and chaotic week on Capitol Hill, the Senate on Friday approved a critical budget bill that would fund the government past Sept. 30 -- but only after Democrats succeeded in stripping a Republican-backed provision to defund ObamaCare.

The final vote was 54-44.

The bill now returns to the House, and is seen by some lawmakers as a sort of legislative hot potato. If the two chambers cannot agree on a final bill by midnight on Monday, then the government will shut down. Neither side wants to be left holding the bill if that happens.

House Republicans are under heavy pressure, now, from fellow conservatives to stand by their demand that ObamaCare be defunded, or least delayed.

House Speaker John Boehner already indicated that he will not accept the Senate-passed bill in its current form. The House is expected to take up the legislation starting on Saturday.

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Is the Government Shutting Down?

From Fox News:
The Senate voted for the second time Monday to kill a Republican counter-offer that would rein in ObamaCare while funding the government, kicking the bill back to the House with only a couple hours left on the clock before the government begins to shut down.

Lawmakers are facing a midnight deadline to reach an agreement on a government spending bill. Senate Democrats vow they will not accept any proposal that targets ObamaCare.

The latest House bill would have delayed the law's individual mandate while prohibiting lawmakers, their staff and top administration officials from getting government subsidies for their health care.

The Senate voted 54-46 along party lines to reject it.

What is the Debt Ceiling?

From Fox News:
The Senate voted for the second time Monday to kill a Republican counter-offer that would rein in ObamaCare while funding the government, kicking the bill back to the House with only a couple hours left on the clock before the government begins to shut down.

Lawmakers are facing a midnight deadline to reach an agreement on a government spending bill. Senate Democrats vow they will not accept any proposal that targets ObamaCare.

The latest House bill would have delayed the law's individual mandate while prohibiting lawmakers, their staff and top administration officials from getting government subsidies for their health care.

The Senate voted 54-46 along party lines to reject it.

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Friday, September 20, 2013

13 Injured in Chicago Shooting; 3-Year-Old Shot in Face

From CNN:
An assault-style rifle with a high-capacity magazine was used in Thursday night's shooting that injured 13 people in a park on Chicago's South Side, and the shooting appears to be gang-related, Chicago Police Superintendent Garry F. McCarthy told reporters Friday. All of the injuries are non-life-threatening, McCarthy said

A Chicago grandmother pleads for a respite as the television cameras roll: "Y'all out here killing these innocent people, kids, parents, grandparents, mothers, fathers: It's got to stop. You need to stop."

Semehca Nunn's grandson was in the hospital after being shot in the head Thursday night. In all 13 people were shot at a park in the city's South Side.

Except for the boy, Deonta Howard, none of the other victims were listed in critical condition, but that fact offered little relief.

Once again, Chicago is in the spotlight over gun violence; a reminder that it is the city with the highest number of homicides in the country.

House Passes Spending Bill to Defund Obamacare

"Victory of common sense."

From the Washington Post:
House Republicans passed their stopgap funding bill Friday to keep government open while terminating the new health care law, setting up a final showdown next week with Senate Democrats and President Obama who have firmly rejected that.

The 230-189 vote, which split almost exclusively along party lines, is the precursor to the big action next week, when the Senate is expected to strip out the health care provisions and send the bill back to the House — where Republicans will have to decide whether they can accept it at that point.

All sides are racing a Sept. 30 deadline, which is when current government funding runs out. The new measure would fund the government through Dec. 15, essentially at last year’s levels, and would leave the budget sequesters in place.

But Republicans also attached two amendments — one to direct how government spending is prioritized in the event the Treasury Department bumps up against its debt limit, and another that strips out funding for the health care law, which would effectively stop it.

Thursday, September 19, 2013

5.3-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Japan's Fukushima, 9/19/13

From MyFoxNY:
A 5.3-magnitude earthquake has hit the Japanese prefecture that is home to the nuclear power plant crippled in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake struck early Friday at a depth of about 13 miles (22 kilometers) under Fukushima Prefecture and about 110 miles (177 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not issue an alert.

The Japanese news agency Kyodo News reported that the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., observed no abnormality in radiation or equipment after the quake.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday ordered TEPCO to scrap all six reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant and concentrate on tackling pressing issues like leaks of radioactive water.

Tom DeLay Case Overturned

Reversing one of the top political scandals of the top ten years, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay leaves a free man.
DeLay, 66, was convicted in 2010 for his alleged role in a scheme to influence Texas elections. 
He was found guilty of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering after he was accused of helping funnel corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Train Crashes into Double-Decker Bus in Ottawa; At Least 6 Dead, Dozens Injured

From CNN:
A double-decker bus and a passenger train collided in Ottawa Wednesday morning, killing six people, including the bus driver, authorities said. At least 30 other people were injured, and a third of them were in critical condition. All the fatalities and serious injuries occurred on the bus.

Monday, September 16, 2013

Photo of White House Shooter Arrest 9/16/2013

Whoa.
Credit @FoxNews

Picture of White House Shooting 9/16/2013

Credit: @newsbreaker

Seems like it was a firecracker:

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Seems like it was a firecracker:

Information on Las Vegas Plane Evacuation 9/16/2013


Video: Obama Speech on Washington Naval Yard Shooting 9/16/2013

Aaron Alexis Mugshot Photo 9/16/2013

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Aaron Alexis Facebook Information 9/16/2013

After two false positives, it appears that Aaron Alexis is, in fact, the shooter at the Washington Naval Yard. He is a 34 year old contractor with the military. His motives are not clear at the moment.

He does not seem to have a facebook account. If we can track one down, we'll post information.

Some more info:

Update: The Navy is saying that he was a reservist from 2007-2011. His hometown is NYC. This is coming from Bloomberg News.

Credit to one of our commenters for pointing out a seeming FB profile.

More here.

Rollie Chance Facebook Information 9/16/2013

At present, no Facebook account has been found.

Rollie Chance has been identified by CBS News as the Washington Naval Yard shooter.

From his LinkedIn account:



More here.

UPDATE: Photo found here.

Rollie Chance Information 9/16/2013

Rollie Chance has been identified by CBS News as the Washington Naval Yard shooter.

From his LinkedIn account:



More here.

UPDATE: Photo found here.

UPDATE: Suspect #1 now identified as Aaron Alexis.

Rollie Chance Photo 9/16/2013

Reportedly pictured here:
Credit: https://twitter.com/13monsters
More info here.

Washington Naval Yard Shooted Named Identified as Rollie Chance

Conflicting reports are coming our way. It appears that the shooter is being identified by CBS News as Rollie Chance, a retired Naval Officer.

Washington Naval Yard Shooter Named Identified as Abeed al Mahmood

Abeed Al Mahmood has been identified as the suspect in the Washington Naval Yard shooting. Not much is known about him. He is identified as a 50 year old with some involvement with the Navy. One report has him as a Naval Officer while another has him as a civilian employee. He apparently had some job issues-- unclear if fired or retired.

UPDATE: Not clear if different person, but now id'd as Rollie Chance. More info here.

UPDATE: Suspect #1 now identified as Aaron Alexis.

Abeed Al Mahmood Information 9/16/2013

Abeed Al Mahmood has been identified as the suspect in the Washington Naval Yard shooting. Not much is known about him. He is identified as a 50 year old with some involvement with the Navy. One report has him as a Naval Officer while another has him as a civilian employee. He apparently had some job issues-- unclear if fired or retired.

UPDATE: Not clear if different person, but now id'd as Rollie Chance. More info here.

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Washington Navy Yard Shooting: At Least Four Shot in "Lone Wolf" Attack

Fox News reports that at least four people have been shot in a Washington Navy Yard.

This is from CNN:
Several people were injured Monday after a person fired shots inside the Washington Navy Yard, the U.S. Navy said.

The injured included a Washington, D.C., police officer who has been hospitalized, said Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman Saray Leon.

The incident occurred at 8:20 a.m. when several shots were fired inside the headquarters for Naval Sea Systems Command in southeast Washington, D.C. An "active shooter" remained inside the building, said the Navy and Leon, the police spokeswoman.

Emergency personnel, the FBI, U.S. Capitol Police and local D.C. police responded to the shooting, shutting down traffic in the area on the district's south side along the Anacostia River. Some people are being evacuated and others are sheltering in place.

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Friday, September 13, 2013

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Fire Ravages Newly-Opened Jersey Shore

This is tragic.

From CBS:
Crews continued to battle a massive fire raging on the Seaside Park, N.J. boardwalk on Thursday evening.

The fire started at the iconic Kohr’s Frozen Custard at 1800 Boardwalk at around 2:15 p.m., officials said. It quickly reached five alarms before jumping to a sixth shortly before 4 p.m.

Multiple witnesses who work in the shops surrounding the ice cream shop told CBS 2 that they heard a series of popping noises from under the boardwalk attached to the shops before the fire broke out.

Then they said they saw flames erupting from electrical wires under the boardwalk, starting a small fire that spread into the custard shop, which fueled what developed into an inferno.

The fire spread to several neighboring buildings, and black smoke was billowing into the sky.

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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Transcript of Obama Speech on Syria 9/10/2013

My fellow Americans, tonight I want to talk to you about Syria, why it matters and where we go from here. Over the past two years, what began as a series of peaceful protests against the oppressive regime of Bashar al-Assad has turned into a brutal civil war.

Over 100,000 people have been killed. Millions have fled the country. In that time, America's worked with allies to provide humanitarian support, to help the moderate opposition, and to shape a political settlement, but I have resisted calls for military action because we cannot resolve someone else's civil war through force, particularly after a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The situation profoundly changed, though, on August 21st, when Assad's government gassed to death over 1,000 people, including hundreds of children. The images from this massacre are sickening: men, women, children lying in rows, killed by poison gas, others foaming at the mouth, gasping for breath, a father clutching his dead children, imploring them to get up and walk.

On that terrible night, the world saw in gruesome detail the terrible nature of chemical weapons and why the overwhelming majority of humanity has declared them off-limits, a crime against humanity and a violation of the laws of war.

This was not always the case. In World War I, American G.I.s were among the many thousands killed by deadly gas in the trenches of Europe. In World War II, the Nazis used gas to inflict the horror of the Holocaust. Because these weapons can kill on a mass scale, with no distinction between soldier and infant, the civilized world has spent a century working to ban them. And in 1997, the United States Senate overwhelmingly approved an international agreement prohibiting the use of chemical weapons, now joined by 189 governments that represent 98 percent of humanity.

On August 21st, these basic rules were violated, along with our sense of common humanity. No one disputes that chemical weapons were used in Syria. The world saw thousands of videos, cell phone pictures, and social media accounts from the attack, and humanitarian organizations told stories of hospitals packed with people who had symptoms of poison gas.

Moreover, we know the Assad regime was responsible. In the days leading up to August 21st, we know that Assad's chemical weapons personnel prepared for an attack near an area where they mix sarin
gas. They distributed gas masks to their troops. Then they fired rockets from a regime-controlled area into 11 neighborhoods that the regime has been trying to wipe clear of opposition forces. Shortly after those rockets landed, the gas spread, and hospitals filled with the dying and the wounded.

We know senior figures in Assad's military machine reviewed the results of the attack and the regime increased their shelling of the same neighborhoods in the days that followed. We've also studied samples of blood and hair from people at the site that tested positive for sarin.

When dictators commit atrocities, they depend upon the world to look the other way until those horrifying pictures fade from memory, but these things happened. The facts cannot be denied.

The question now is what the United States of America and the international community is prepared to do about it, because what happened to those people - to those children - is not only a violation of international law, it's also a danger to our security. Let me explain why.

If we fail to act, the Assad regime will see no reason to stop using chemical weapons. As the ban against these weapons erodes, other tyrants will have no reason to think twice about acquiring poison gas and using them. Over time, our troops would again face the prospect of chemical warfare on the battlefield, and it could be easier for terrorist organizations to obtain these weapons and to use them to attack civilians.

If fighting spills beyond Syria's borders, these weapons could threaten allies like Turkey, Jordan and Israel. And a failure to stand against the use of chemical weapons would weaken prohibitions against other weapons of mass destruction and embolden Assad's ally, Iran, which must decide whether to ignore international law by building a nuclear weapon or to take a more peaceful path.

This is not a world we should accept. This is what's at stake. And that is why, after careful deliberation, I determined that it is in the national security interests of the United States to respond to the Assad regime's use of chemical weapons through a targeted military strike. The purpose of this strike would be to deter Assad from using chemical weapons, to degrade his regime's ability to use them, and to make clear to the world that we will not tolerate their use.

That's my judgment as commander-in-chief, but I'm also the president of the world's oldest constitutional democracy. So even though I possess the authority to order military strikes, I believed it was right in the absence of a direct or imminent threat to our security to take this debate to Congress. I believe our democracy is stronger when the president acts with the support of Congress, and I believe that America acts more effectively abroad when we stand together. This is especially true after a decade that put more and more war-making power in the hands of the president and more and more burdens on the shoulders of our troops, while sidelining the people's representatives from the critical decisions about when we use force.

Now, I know that after the terrible toll of Iraq and Afghanistan, the idea of any military action - no matter how limited - is not going to be popular. After all, I've spent four-and-a-half years working to end wars, not to start them.

Our troops are out of Iraq. Our troops are coming home from Afghanistan. And I know Americans want all of us in Washington –especially me - to concentrate on the task of building our nation here at home, putting people back to work, educating our kids, growing our middle class. It's no wonder then that you're asking hard questions.

So let me answer some of the most important questions that I've heard from members of Congress and that I've read in letters that you've sent to me. First, many of you have asked, won't this put us on a slippery slope to another war? One man wrote to me that we are still recovering from our involvement in Iraq. A veteran put it more bluntly: This nation is sick and tired of war.

My answer is simple. I will not put American boots on the ground in Syria. I will not pursue an open-ended action like Iraq or Afghanistan. I will not pursue a prolonged air campaign like Libya or Kosovo. This would be a targeted strike to achieve a clear objective, deterring the use of chemical weapons and degrading Assad's capabilities.

Others have asked whether it's worth acting if we don't take out Assad. Now, some members of Congress have said there's no point in simply doing a pinprick strike in Syria.

Let me make something clear: The United States military doesn't do pinpricks. Even a limited strike will send a message to Assad that no other nation can deliver.

I don't think we should remove another dictator with force. We learned from Iraq that doing so makes us responsible for all that comes next. But a targeted strike can makes Assad - or any other dictator - think twice before using chemical weapons.

Other questions involve the dangers of retaliation. We don't dismiss any threats, but the Assad regime does not have the ability to seriously threaten our military. Any other - any other retaliation they might seek is in line with threats that we face every day. Neither Assad nor his allies have any interest in escalation that would lead to his demise, and our ally, Israel, can defend itself with overwhelming force, as well as the unshakable support of the United States of America.

Many of you have asked a broader question: Why should we get involved at all in a place that's so complicated and where, as one person wrote to me, those who come after Assad may be enemies of human rights?
It's true that some of Assad's opponents are extremists. But al Qaida will only draw strength in a more chaotic Syria if people there see the world doing nothing to prevent innocent civilians from being gassed to death.

The majority of the Syrian people, and the Syrian opposition we work with, just want to live in peace, with dignity and freedom. And the day after any military action, we would redouble our efforts to achieve a political solution that strengthens those who reject the forces of tyranny and extremism.

Finally, many of you have asked, why not leave this to other countries or seek solutions short of force? As several people wrote to me, we should not be the world's policemen.

I agree. And I have a deeply held preference for peaceful solutions. Over the last two years, my administration has tried diplomacy and sanctions, warnings and negotiations, but chemical weapons were still used by the Assad regime.

However, over the last few days, we've seen some encouraging signs, in part because of the credible threat of U.S. military action, as well as constructive talks that I had with President Putin. The Russian government has indicated a willingness to join with the international community in pushing Assad to give up his chemical weapons. The Assad regime has now admitting that it has these weapons and even said they'd join the Chemical Weapons Convention, which prohibits their use.

It's too early to tell whether this offer will succeed, and any agreement must verify that the Assad regime keeps its commitments, but this initiative has the potential to remove the threat of chemical weapons without the use of force, particularly because Russia is one of Assad's strongest allies.

I have therefore asked the leaders of Congress to postpone a vote to authorize the use of force while we pursue this diplomatic path. I'm sending Secretary of State John Kerry to meet his Russian counterpart on Thursday, and I will continue my own discussions with President Putin.

I've spoken to the leaders of two of our closest allies – France and the United Kingdom - and we will work together in consultation with Russia and China to put forward a resolution at the U.N. Security Council requiring Assad to give up his chemical weapons and to ultimately destroy them under international control.

We'll also give U.N. inspectors the opportunity to report their findings about what happened on August 21st, and we will continue to rally support from allies from Europe to the Americas, from Asia to the Middle East, who agree on the need for action.

Meanwhile, I've ordered our military to maintain their current posture to keep the pressure on Assad and to be in a position to respond if diplomacy fails. And tonight I give thanks, again, to our military and their families for their incredible strength and sacrifices.

My fellow Americans, for nearly seven decades, the United States has been the anchor of global security. This has meant doing more than forging international agreements; it has meant enforcing them. The burdens of leadership are often heavy, but the world's a better place because we have borne them.

And so to my friends on the right, I ask you to reconcile your commitment to America's military might with the failure to act when a cause is so plainly just.

To my friends on the left, I ask you to reconcile your belief in freedom and dignity for all people with those images of children writhing in pain and going still on a cold hospital floor, for sometimes resolutions and statements of condemnation are simply not enough.

Indeed, I'd ask every member of Congress and those of you watching at home tonight to view those videos of the attack, and then ask, what kind of world will we live in if the United States of
America sees a dictator brazenly violate international law with poison gas and we choose to look the other way?

Franklin Roosevelt once said, "Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideas and principles that we have cherished are challenged."

Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security, are at stake in Syria, along with our leadership of a world where we seek to ensure that the worst weapons will never be used.

America is not the world's policeman. Terrible things happen across the globe, and it is beyond our means to right every wrong, but when with modest effort and risk we can stop children from being gassed to death and thereby make our own children safer over the long run, I believe we should act.

That's what makes America different. That's what makes us exceptional. With humility, but with resolve, let us never lose sight of that essential truth.

Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.

From CNN.

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New York City Mayor Race Election Results 9/10/2013

An update here from the NYDN:

With 45 percent of precincts reporting, Bill de Blasio, the city's public advocate, has about 39 percent of the total vote. Former city Comptroller Bill Thompson has 26 percent, and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has 15 percent. They were followed by current city Comptroller John Liu at 8 percent and Weiner at 5 percent.

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Big News as Syria Accepts Tentative Russian Plan

Can't say I expected things to roll out like this. Syria is looking at accepting a Russian plan to destroy its chemical weapons.

• Syria says it is ready to disclose the location of its chemical weapons stockpile, halt production, and show its facilities to representatives of Russia, the United Nations, and other states, Interfax cited Moallem as saying. The report did not identify the other states.

Monday, September 09, 2013

Video of Syrian Rebels Destroying SAA Tank from Miles Away

Why was George Zimmerman Arrested? 9/9/2013

George Zimmerman Arrest Information 9/9/2013

Looks pretty serious:

The phrase that pays

"War-weary public"

This is the phrase that I have been hearing more and more over the past few days regarding Obomba's drumming up of support for action upon Syria.

While attending my nephew's wedding in Ohio, I've had an opportunity to watch cable news. I don't normally watch any news at all, preferring to get my news from the newspaper and from online. I have a very narrow focus for news, and I've noticed that most of broadcast news have a certain percentage of "fluff" news: human interest stories are what they are called in the journalism business. "Man rescues cat from tree", that sort of thing.

While they are nice, I've always thought they should be fewer in number than hard news stories. Nowadays, the fluff pieces are rather numerous, and seem to dominate the time over what is given to hard news. Perhaps if broadcast news corporations want gain back the viewers that they have lost over the past few years, they should split the fluff to an online site while leaving the hard news to being broadcast.

But I digress.

So sometime this week, Obomba is going to be making his case to the American people as to why we should be getting involved in Syria's civil war. Let me make this clear right up front: the images that have been released of the people who have been gassed is horrible. The suffering that is obviously going on there in Syria is heart-breaking.

The problem is, I can see no American interest in this. The stated reasons for our involvement in Iraq doesn't apply to us here. A war in Syria doesn't affect us economically, nor is there any threat of terrorism that might effect us. Syria's leader Bashir Assad doesn't have a history of invading neighboring countries, nor of sponsoring terrorism, nor of seeking weapons of mass destruction to be used against Israel. Indeed, certain elements of our Donk intelligentsia have called Assad "a reformer".

Well, you can't argue with success, can you? Besides, what difference does it make at this point, anyway?

So we don't really have any real reason to get involved in Syria, at least speaking from a practical viewpoint. Which leads us to the only real reason that has a realistic chance for being successful: humanitarian reasons. "We should try to stop this sort of thing from happening because letting it continue is inhumane and evil," proponents are saying. "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Comparisons will be made to the massacre that happened in Darfur, and pictures will be shown, and emotional appeals will be made over and over again.

And, in the end, nothing will be done.

Oh, sure, Obomba will appear on television and read a rousing speech. Donks will try to shame people into supporting Our Revered Leader, suggesting (or even outright stating) that not to support him is "racist!" The TV newsheads will fret that the President, and therefore the country, will lose face in the league of nations. Perhaps a few missiles will be launched, or armaments will be sent somewhere, or some advisers will lend their expertise to the subject.

But Americans are, I think, not going to assent to any kind of action in Syria.

And the Establishment Media, God bless 'em, have actually noticed this. While I was watching just a few minutes of cable news, one particular phrase kept popping up. I've put it at the first part of this post, so you should have already figured out what it is by now.

"War-weary public".

Yep, that's what it is. And I'm not the only who who has noticed this.

The problem with the above linked analysis is that it doesn't address what I think is the true reason why the media is expressing such frustration at America's balking at getting involved in Syria. What is at the heart of why the media is so frustrated is the inability of Americans to blame George W. Bush for this.

George W. Bush, you see, is the reason why we are so weary of war. We got involved in Afghanistan, you see, because of W. We invaded Iraq, you see, because of W. If that darned George W. Bush hadn't gotten us involved in a bunch of pointless wars, Americans would be chomping at the bit to follow Dear Leader, er, I mean, to allow ourselves to bask in President Obama's radiance, I mean, to allow the leadership of Obama to shine through and lead the rest of the world to peacefulness and light. It's just rotten luck that a wise and benevolent leader such as Obama had to follow that reckless cowboy who made us hated by the world. That's why Obama can't build a united coalition like Shrub did. Er, um...

...you know what I mean.

So we are being inundated with the phrase "war-weary Americans" and "war-weary public" and "war-weary ____", while the slaughter continues.

A real leader would have already have sold us on involvement there. A real leader would have worked on building a coalition of allies who would stand by us and help us. A real leader would have cut off any threat of involvement by Russia or Iran or Hezbollah long before it ever became a problem. A real leader would have made known that any war-time atrocities performed by anybody would have serious repercussions.

It's just too bad that we no longer have a real leader.

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Saturday, September 07, 2013

Video of Intruder After Tony Abbott Victory Speech 9/7/2013

Friday, September 06, 2013

The Utter Height of
           Heathen Hypocrisy

So now we are being told by the lying liars in
Gehenna, DC, that the reason for starting another
war is that children are being "gassed."

Actually, the number, if you can believe anything
coming out of any mouth in Gehanna, DC, the
number used to sell the war and get our attention
is "400." 

Four hundred.  Four hundred.  Four hundred.

No matter how many times you say it, it still sounds
like: Four hundred.

Assaassaad supposedly "gassed"  "Four Hundred"
children.

And he most likely did not.

All we have is a semantic hypocrisy.  Had he used
forceps, scissors and a suction tube, no one here
would be saying anything.

Were it those heathen at Planned Murderhood, they
would call that a really slow day.

Four Thousand.  Four Thousand.  Four Thousand.

Every day.Every day.Every day.  Every day in America
we are murdering four thousand babies.

Say that often enough and it turns into 1.5 Million.

1.5 Million.  1.5 Million  1.5 Million  1.5 Million

That is how many babies we are killing per year.

Were there any justice in the world, Syria would be
going to war with us.

Thursday, September 05, 2013

Video of Chilean Ultra Reality Prank

Russian Embassy in Damascus Attacked by Rebels

Syrian rebels have struck the Russian embassy-- described by Moscow as "barbaric."

"The Russian side once again reiterates its call to those who can influence Syrian militants to exert their influence so that such barbaric acts cease," a representative of the Foreign Ministry's press service told RIA Novosti.

"The embassy continues to operate as normal. There are no casualties among the embassy staff," the representative said.

Tuesday, September 03, 2013

Monday, September 02, 2013

Text of Obama Syria Congressional Resolution

a) Authorization. — The President is authorized to use the Armed Forces of the United States as he determines to be necessary and appropriate in connection with the use of chemical weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in the conflict in Syria in order to –

(1) prevent or deter the use or proliferation (including the transfer to terrorist groups or other state or non-state actors), within, to or from Syria, of any weapons of mass destruction, including chemical or biological weapons or components of or materials used in such weapons; or

(2) protect the United States and its allies and partners against the threat posed by such weapons.

Syrain Rebels Shoot Down MiG