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Ollie North said his sources at the Pentagon have said Libya could turn out to be Somalia on Steroids. Also Special Forces are very concerned about some of the vast amount of stored weapons falling into Al Qaeda hands, especially thousands of surface to air shoulder held missile and radioactive material for dirty bombs. Some may have already. The Pentagon is scrambling to make up contingency plans.

A Little late ya think?
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Aug 24 2011, 03:46 PM
Ollie North said his sources at the Pentagon have said Libya could turn out to be Somalia on Steroids. Also Special Forces are very concerned about some of the vast amount of stored weapons falling into Al Qaeda hands, especially thousands of surface to air shoulder held missile and radioactive material for dirty bombs. Some may have already. The Pentagon is scrambling to make up contingency plans.

A Little late ya think?
Do we even know where the chemical weapons are stored? While we are patting down grandma's and babies at airports, al-queda is trying to figure out how they can get those chemical weapon to the US and Europe.
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Baldo
Aug 24 2011, 03:00 PM
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Europeans Retreat on Defense Spending

BRUSSELS—The unraveling of Col. Moammar Gadhafi's regime is a milestone for the European armed forces providing the air support that turned the tide for Libyan rebels, who were on the verge of being overrun only five months ago.

Yet despite the scenes from Tripoli of rebel forces advancing with the help of European air strikes, the first North Atlantic Treaty Organization campaign not led by the U.S. has shown the limitations of the Continent's military power in an era of crushing national debt and slashed defense spending.

"The fact is that Europe couldn't have done this on its own," said ...snipped
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903461304576524503625829970.html?mod=WSJ_article_forsub


So guess who will be stuck going into Libya to try and find & secure all those surface to air missiles, poison gas stocks, and radioactive material?

I hope it doesn't but this is going to be a real mess and even under a rosy projection it will take years to get oil production up to per-rebellion levels according to reports.

So why did we do this? The tribal warfare will continue with an insurgency, weapons will fall into Al Qaeda hands, and in the long run I doubt it will be a pro-western country.

You think we would have learned
Libyan rebel envoy in Europe to seek frozen funds



No, wait, that didn't work in Iraq.
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Aug 22 2011, 07:02 PM
White House Insider Interview part 3
Excerp
"That’s who you see in the room – the real Barack Obama. Pretty f...g unsettling. Those world leaders, they sensed this. They saw through the façade and saw who was running the United States of America, and the word went out – “Don’t count on this American president – he doesn’t have a f...g clue.” And they’re right.

Read more: http://newsflavor.com/politics/us-politics/white-house-insider-the-obama-plan-part-three-2/#ixzz1Vo05uZ3YNews Flavor
Even if half of what this Insider says is correct, it's pretty bad. From what I recall about him so far, I haven't seen him show up on time for any of his press conferences or WH talks, never. The MSM always claimed that Bush was dumb, stupid or whatever, but at least he could tell time and was on time. Obvious insults to the American people like that lead me to believe most, if not all of what this Insider is saying. Tardiness is a sign of Laziness. The man dictates the time the presser will start and then shows up late, if he is going to be late then don't set a time you cannot meet. I know when I was in the Marines and was a platoon sergeant in a barracks, I was up, showered and dressed before revelry. I figured it would demonstrate leadership to my fellow Marines.
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from Chatham in the Roundup...
 
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/early_obama_letter_confirms_inability_to_write.html

August 29, 2011
Early Obama Letter Confirms Inability to Write
By Jack Cashill

On November 16, 1990, Barack Obama, then president of the Harvard Law Review, published a letter in the Harvard Law Record, an independent Harvard Law School newspaper, championing affirmative action.

Although a paragraph from this letter was excerpted in David Remnick's biography of Obama, The Bridge, I had not seen the letter in its entirety before this week. Not surprisingly, it confirms everything I know about Barack Obama, the writer and thinker.

Obama was prompted to write by an earlier letter from a Mr. Jim Chen that criticized Harvard Law Review's affirmative action policies. Specifically, Chen had argued that affirmative action stigmatized its presumed beneficiaries.

The response is classic Obama: patronizing, dishonest, syntactically muddled, and grammatically challenged. In the very first sentence Obama leads with his signature failing, one on full display in his earlier published work: his inability to make subject and predicate agree.

"Since the merits of the Law Review's selection policy has been the subject of commentary for the last three issues," wrote Obama, "I'd like to take the time to clarify exactly how our selection process works."

If Obama were as smart as a fifth-grader, he would know, of course, that "merits ... have." Were there such a thing as a literary Darwin Award, Obama could have won it on this on one sentence alone. He had vindicated Chen in his first ten words.

Although the letter is fewer than a thousand words long, Obama repeats the subject-predicate error at least two more times. In one sentence, he seemingly cannot make up his mind as to which verb option is correct so he tries both: "Approximately half of this first batch is chosen ... the other half are selected ... "

Another distinctive Obama flaw is to allow a string of words to float in space. Please note the unanchored phrase in italics at the end of this sentence:

"No editors on the Review will ever know whether any given editor was selected on the basis of grades, writing competition, or affirmative action, and no editors who were selected with affirmative action in mind." Huh?

The next lengthy sentence highlights a few superficial style flaws and a much deeper flaw in Obama's political philosophy.

I would therefore agree with the suggestion that in the future, our concern in this area is most appropriately directed at any employer who would even insinuate that someone with Mr. Chen's extraordinary record of academic success might be somehow unqualified for work in a corporate law firm, or that such success might be somehow undeserved.

Obama would finish his acclaimed memoir, Dreams from My Father, about four years later. Prior to Dreams, and for the nine years following, everything Obama wrote was, like the above sentence, an uninspired assemblage of words with a nearly random application of commas and tenses.

Unaided, Obama tends to the awkward, passive, and verbose. The phrase "our concern in this area is most appropriately directed at any employer" would more profitably read, "we should focus on the employer." "Concern" is simply the wrong word.

Scarier than Obama's style, however, is his thinking. A neophyte race-hustler after his three years in Chicago, Obama is keen to browbeat those who would "even insinuate" that affirmative action rewards the undeserving, results in inappropriate job placements, or stigmatizes its presumed beneficiaries.

In the case of Michelle Obama, affirmative action did all three. The partners at Sidley Austin learned this the hard way. In 1988, they hired her out of Harvard Law under the impression that the degree meant something. It did not. By 1991, Michelle was working in the public sector as an assistant to the mayor. By 1993, she had given up her law license.

Had the partners investigated Michelle's background, they would have foreseen the disaster to come. Sympathetic biographer Liza Mundy writes, "Michelle frequently deplores the modern reliance on test scores, describing herself as a person who did not test well."

She did not write well, either. Mundy charitably describes her senior thesis at Princeton as "dense and turgid." The less charitable Christopher Hitchens observes, "To describe [the thesis] as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be 'read' at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn't written in any known language."

Michelle had to have been as anxious at Harvard Law as Bart Simpson was at Genius School. Almost assuredly, the gap between her writing and that of her highly talented colleagues marked her as an affirmative action admission, and the profs finessed her through.

In a similar vein, Barack Obama was named an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Although his description of the Law Review's selection process defies easy comprehension, apparently, after the best candidates are chosen, there remains "a pool of qualified candidates whose grades or writing competition scores do not significantly differ." These sound like the kids at Lake Woebegone, all above average. Out of this pool, Obama continues, "the Selection Committee may take race or physical handicap into account."

To his credit, Obama concedes that he "may have benefited from the Law Review's affirmative action policy." This did not strike him as unusual as he "undoubtedly benefited from affirmative action programs during my academic career."

On the basis of his being elected president of Law Review -- a popularity contest -- Obama was awarded a six-figure contract to write a book. To this point, he had not shown a hint of promise as a writer, but Simon & Schuster, like Sidley Austin, took the Harvard credential seriously. It should not have. For three years Obama floundered as badly as Michelle had at Sidley Austin. Simon & Schuster finally pulled the contract.

Then Obama found his muse -- right in the neighborhood, as it turns out!

And promptly, without further ado, the awkward, passive, ungrammatical Obama, a man who had not written one inspired sentence in his whole life, published what Time Magazine called "the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician."

To question the nature of that production, I have learned, is to risk the abuse promised to Mr. Chen's theoretical employer. After all, who would challenge Obama's obvious talent -- or that of any affirmative action beneficiary -- but those blinded by what Obama calls "deep-rooted ignorance and bias"?

What else could it be?
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From everything I have read voting present was about the top of the ladder for Obama.

We are all paying the price for that mistake in judgement.

Whomever we elect as the next President we must put him/her through the crucible that reveals true character & the ability to be President through real accomplishments.
Edited by Baldo, Aug 29 2011, 04:43 PM.
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Flashback Obama in 2010: New Jobs Plan after Vacation



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Is there such a thing as a 'teleplanner'?
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White House: Only 'Fervent Partisan' Would Suggest Obama To Blame For Job Losses

Tuesday, August 30, 2011
By Eric Scheiner

(CNSNews.com) - When asked questions about the president’s upcoming speech on jobs and economic growth yesterday, White House Spokesperson Jay Carney claimed that only the most ‘fervent partisan’ would suggest the 8 million plus jobs lost in this recession were lost because of actions Barack Obama took.

The question was asked by CBS reporter Norah O'Donnell. The exchange appears in the official White House transcript of the press briefing:

VIDEO

Q -- Jay, the question is what is different in this new speech? What is going to be different?

MR. CARNEY: Well, you will see what the President proposes to enhance growth, enhance hiring, and you will judge then what's different about the new ideas that are contained within it as well as ideas that you've heard about. But I can't let the premise go uncommented on when you talk about the amount of job loss in the time since the President took -- was sworn into office. I don't think anybody except the most fervent partisan would suggest that the 8 million jobs lost because of this recession were lost because of actions that this President took. Those jobs were lost within the four months -- in the months prior to his swearing-in, his inauguration, and in the months thereafter.

Since this President’s economic policies had a chance to take effect there have been more than 2 million private sector jobs created. The economy has grown, albeit not at a pace that satisfies him or any of us here in the administration. And that’s just a matter of absolute record and fact -- indisputable.

The fact is that we inherited a terrible situation, a terrible economy, and an economy that threatened to become far worse than it did become -- because of the actions that this administration took with Congress in 2009 and perpetually since then in different measures that have been taken, as well as -- including December of last year.

Q: The President and you’ve made the case that the President inherited this economy. When does it become his economy?

MR. CARNEY: Look, he’s responsible every day for this economy. He absolutely understands that and makes it clear. And he’s responsible for working directly and with Congress to take every measure possible to improve the economic situation in this country to increase growth and job creation. But it has to be absolute --

Q: Is he responsible for the economy?

MR. CARNEY: -- he is not -- what has to be clear when you phrase a question like that in the way that you did, it has to be clear the situation that we have been -- the hole that we have been climbing out of as a country -- Democrats, independents, Republicans -- Americans have all been climbing out of because of the terrible, great recession that this country has endured.

So he is on the job and responsible every day. And that’s why he is -- to go back to your first question -- why he is coming forward in the coming days with new proposals to further job creation and economic growth.


No, we do not blame Obama for the 8 million jobs lost, it is a failure to have created ONLY 2 million since he took office ...msny through excess spending.
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Baldo
Aug 29 2011, 04:43 PM
From everything I have read voting present was about the top of the ladder for Obama.

We are all paying the price for that mistake in judgement.

Whomever we elect as the next President we must put him/her through the crucible that reveals true character & the ability to be President through real accomplishments.
I agree, but we need to do that with Obama first and foremost, we need to see some school transcripts, your suggestion about putting the next candidate through a crucible will certainly be done by the MSM, including making up things.
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Obama said on the radio yesterday that he was for anti-discrimination legislation for the unemployed. I sure hope that wouldn't include those that can't pass a drug test!

The president is making me nervous.
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Another brilliant appointment by the Obama administration, this is why Obama is changing the immigration laws by Executive Order.


Labor Dept. Signs 'Partnerships' with Foreign Gov’s to Protect Illegal Workers in U.S.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/administration-partners-foreign-gov-s-pr

video included
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"anti-discrimination legislation for the unemployed"


That's grasping at straws in search of victims to support. They need JOBS to apply for first.
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Aug 30 2011, 05:46 PM
Another brilliant appointment by the Obama administration, this is why Obama is changing the immigration laws by Executive Order.


Labor Dept. Signs 'Partnerships' with Foreign Gov’s to Protect Illegal Workers in U.S.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/administration-partners-foreign-gov-s-pr

video included
This probably means more open borders, competition with illegal immigrant and the end of the sovereignty of the United States. Mark Steyn might be right, this country might not have 50 stars by 2016, if Owebama gets re-elected.
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retiredLEO
Aug 30 2011, 05:59 PM
retiredLEO
Aug 30 2011, 05:46 PM
Another brilliant appointment by the Obama administration, this is why Obama is changing the immigration laws by Executive Order.


Labor Dept. Signs 'Partnerships' with Foreign Gov’s to Protect Illegal Workers in U.S.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/administration-partners-foreign-gov-s-pr

video included
This probably means more open borders, competition with illegal immigrant and the end of the sovereignty of the United States. Mark Steyn might be right, this country might not have 50 stars by 2016, if Owebama gets re-elected.
It was something I had posted on. The agreement is not binding by any way I know of without Congress to approve it. Also, the rules she is noting about employment are not laws in the USA anyway.

I am not sure why she's signing the agreement.
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Obama Labor department to protect Illegal Alien workers.
So let me see. people here illegally can obtain
help from the federal government to go after
big bad American employers without fear of
being prosecuted for their owns crimes. This is
outrageous.


Labor Dept. Protects Central American Migrants
ViewDiscussion.Last Updated: Thu, 06/16/2011 - 2:56pm
A year after launching a nationwide campaign to protect illegal immigrant workers in the U.S., the Obama Labor Department has entered formal agreements with two foreign countries vowing to preserve the rights of their migrants.

Signed this week by the U.S., Guatemala and Nicaragua, the declaration will make it easier to protect the rights of migrants from those Central American countries who work in the United States. Under the decree, Labor Department regional offices will team up with local Guatemalan and Nicaraguan embassies and consulates to distribute information to their citizens about their “rights” in the U.S.
It's part of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis’s plan to help illegal aliens, who she refers to as “vulnerable” and “underpaid.” Last year Solis, a former California congresswoman with close ties to the influential La Raza movement, deployed 1,000 new field investigators to enforce labor and wage laws in industries that typically hire illegal aliens without reporting anyone to federal immigration authorities.

Also this week, Solis announced another initiative (Water Rest Shade) to help landscapers and farm and construction workers avoid illness and death related to heat exposure. Thousands of workers die annually after becoming sick from heat exposure on the job, according to the new government web site promoting that project.

It goes on to say that “Latino workers suffer disproportionately from on-the-job heat injuries and illnesses,” which is why the heat campaign will “particularly reach out to those workers” with Spanish materials and publicity campaigns.

To make its point, the Obama Administration uses the case of a pregnant, teen-age illegal immigrant farm worker who collapsed from heat exhaustion during a shift at a California vineyard. Two days later she died, according to the government story that points out there was no shade or water available to any worker on the site.

In a related matter, a separate federal agency is holding a special forum this week to explore ways the nation can honor the contributions of Latinos. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will headline the powwow along with a “broad spectrum” of influential scholars and business and cultural leaders from the Latino community. The goal is to “better integrate and highlight” past and ongoing contributions of Latino women and men into the National Park Service.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2011/jun/labor-dept-protects-central-american-migrants






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