Palin saw it coming 6 years ago....who's being laughed at now, media?

In 2008, then vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin was mocked and ridiculed by the media and democrats for predicting this regarding Obama's weakness with respect to Russia.....

"After the Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama's reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russia's Putin to invade Ukraine next."

She saw it six years ago. Palin understood what US presidential weakness could invite around the world. It's far too late for Obama to do anything now but point fingers at Putin, pretend there's a "red line" he shouldn't cross, and whine to the UN to write a strongly worded letter. 

It is the media who should be mocked for installing into the white house, a two-bit, street hustling community agitator with not a single significant accomplishment other than being born with politically favored skin color. If the Ukrainians want to blame somebody for being so easily under the Russian thumb once again, they can blame the pernicious American media. 

Sure, if Putin wanted to invade the Ukraine, no American President could have stopped him, but the international relations dynamic between Putin and a strong American President would have at least given him pause.  

The infuriating paternalism of nanny-government

Good grief, how patronizing. Michelle O thinks that without her involvement women around the country are "confused, bewildered, and defeated" when trying to buy groceries for their families because they're too air-headed and frazzled from soccer practice and carpool line to understand the nutrition labels. 

I've never once seen a women looking confused in the grocery store. I have seen thousands of husbands, including me, who look confused and bewildered trying to find the excruciatingly specific items on the list their wives gave them. It may as well have been written in Japanese. Try finding Panko breadcrumbs or Sweet Hungarian paprika, or slivered, unsalted, plain almonds......I'll give you a hint on the almonds, in some stores look in the baking section, in others look where the snacks are.

Bottom line, American women should be insulted that Michelle thinks they are too dumb to read a simple nutrition label and not figure out for themselves if they want it or not. Neither the government or the first lady should be assuming the role of condescending parent in the lives of the subjects over whom they pretend to rule.

Global warming cultists shift into the absurd

I've heard it all now. Global warming idiots are trying to terrify people into accepting their preposterous ideology with the claim that warming temperatures will result in greater violent crime by the year 2099. Notably 22,000 new murders and 18,000 new rapes that wouldn't have otherwise happened if only we all rode bicycles to work, read books by candle-light, shivering in the cold darkness, and drank our own urine.

Heh heh heh.

Never mind that....

-Earth hasn't warmed a single iota in 15 years
-India and China account for huge amounts of CO2 output and show no signs of slowing down
-volcanoes account for 97% of all CO2 in the atmosphere
-plants need lots of CO2 to live and thrive when there's more
-or that water vapor is 30 times more potent in greenhouse activity than CO2

....the self-appointed collectivist authoritarians that pretend to rule you will say literally anything to scare you into accepting their control over every aspect of your lives....even that tiny fractions of degrees in global temperatures will result in you being raped or murdered.

People, when your leaders try to scare you into accepting their control over you, turn away from that group as fast as you can.

Two years since the passion of Saint Skittles

Apparently it's been two whole years since model citizen Saint Skittles attacked the wrong neighborhood watchman and tried to bash his brains out on the sidewalk. I still see "I am Trayvon" hoodies featuring this picture being worn around B'ham. and there were vigils held yesterday around town as well, where "Justice for Trayvon" was the theme.

I'd like to know where the "Stay in school, Trayvon" theme was, or the "Quit dealing drugs, Trayvon" theme was, or the "Stop pretending to be a murdering gangsta' on Facebook, Trayvon" theme was.

Everybody. and by everybody I mean liberals, thinks the Saint Skittles killing was about racial profiling, but when irresponsibility, thug mentality, and bad parenting collide with armed citizens protecting their homes, bad things are bound to happen.

The US hopefully out of Afghanistan entirely by the end of 2014

Apparently the chilly relationship between President Obama and Afghan President Karzai have deteriorated still further after a terse phone call between the two. Hamid Karzai told Obama he would not sign a pact that would allow US troops to remain in Afghanistan beyond the end of this year, instead preferring to leave that option open to the next US President.

Obama got his feathers ruffled and basically threatened to take his toys and go home. He immediately had the Pentagon draw up plans for total withdrawal by the end of 2014.

GOOD!

That dirty, backward country isn't worth anything to the US strategically. We aren't even killing enough would-be terrorists to make the cost worth while. And building schools, hospitals, and water-treatment plants isn't what our military is for in the first place. We destroy those things, not build them. If Karzai wants to hire Black Water or Halliburton to rebuild his country, let him pay for it with opium money. The American taxpayer is through with this lost-cause of a country.

Our strategy ought to be to go away and let the Taliban and Al-Qaida reform when they think the coast is clear, then hit them hard with drone strikes in their desert training camps, like a year from now.

We've wasted enough blood and treasure already, and for no gain whatsoever.

My conflicting views of a downsized military

So, Sec. Def. Chuck Hagel says the US military needs draw down to force levels similar to that of WWII....or around 450,000 troops. Basically the US will still be able to defeat any adversary on Earth, but would not be able to spend protracted time occupying other countries the way we have in Iraq and Afghanistan. There's just no money in the budget for it. 

As ex-military, I used to be a war hawk on this stuff, but as a libertarian I think we need to let other countries solve their own problems or suffer with them, whichever, unless the danger there poses a clear and present danger to the US. Neither Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Bosnia, etc. represented immediate threats and we can't afford the blood or treasure to police their countries for political or even humanitarian reasons, or to put it cynically, to create a reason to prop up American defense contractors.

I realize China and Russia are building up their war machines, but are we still the sole check on communist expansion, if that's what they have in mind, in the modern world? Are we prepared to go to war with China over Taiwan or Russia over the Ukraine? Have we ever been? That's likely world war you're talking about....and I don't think the Russians or Chinese want that any more than we do. They know we'll eventually defeat ourselves economically and they'll have won without firing a shot. 

I do question why Hagel is cutting pay and benefits for the troops, but I saw no mention of downsizing plans for Pentagon staffing. That's probably because most of the troops vote R while the ass-kissers in the Pentagon have learned which side their bread is buttered on and dutifully vote D as long as Obama is in charge. I'm sure the bureaucracy at the Pentagon will end up like the education bureaucracy, bloated and top heavy with expensive administration and very little usefulness on the battlefield. 

Powerless Obama acts tough on Ukraine

President Obama laughably warned the Ukranian government not to use unnecessary force against its own people with this statement, eerily similar to his warning to Bashir al-assad of Syria, which was immediately followed by al-assad using Sarin gas on his people:

"[W]e’ll be monitoring very closely the situation, recognizing that with our European partners and the international community there will be consequences if people step over the line."

The Ukraine shares a huge border with Russia and the entire south-eastern half of the country is very pro-Russian and are mostly ethnic Russians. What's Obama, or any EU nation for that matter, going to do? The same thing we did in Syria? Look the other way and pretend the red-line hadn't been crossed? Send in drones to a nation that borders Russia? Send in peace-keeping troops to fight with Russian troops? How about sanctions? Russia won't let that have any effect on the Ukraine. 

Obama is posturing for the media and little else. As far as the Ukraine unrest is concerned, the US is a powerless observer and that's exactly what we should be, Obama's ridiculous saber-rattling notwithstanding. 

No more clowns left to send

Apparently the clown population is dwindling dramatically around the country.....and not soon enough for me. Is there anybody still simple-minded enough to be entertained by grown-ups in ridiculous make-up pretending to hit and trip each other?

Clowns were a useful form of entertainment back in the 20's maybe when nobody had a TV and the only show was when barn-stormers, the circus, or a band of gypsies came to town. But how are clowns supposed to compete with Grand Theft Auto-5, Twitter, and 600 TV channels? Plus, how much can a clown possibly make a year?

I think the idea of a circus itself is antiquated. Who besides those who make money off Ringling Brothers approves of wild animals being shipped around on train cars, forced to perform for thoughtless human amusement, grown people and midgets acting silly on unicycles? All that's left is the high-wire and trapeze acts and we've basically got the summer Olympics for that nonsense.

No, the time for circuses has run it's course. If I go, it's only for the possibility of witnessing firsthand a lion mauling it's trainer, a rogue elephant trampling some families in the front row, or getting intentionally sick from cotton candy.

UAW receives well-deserved ass-kicking in Chattanooga

The UAW suffered a devastating defeat in Chattanooga when the workers at the Volkswagon plant voted NOT to unionize, citing Detroit and union boss thuggery as reasons.

Unions may have played a necessary role in worker safety and fairness a century ago, but all that has been taken care of in the American workplace. Now unions serve as little more than extortion clubs by which union bosses get filthy rich from outrageous mandatory union dues and force companies to downsize or elect not to expand by making them pay far more for labor than it's worth.

Good for Tennesseans for rejecting the scourge of collective bargaining and preventing what happened in Detroit from coming to the South. Let's hope this starts a trend around the country and we rid ourselves of malignant labor unions once and for all.

Gay marriage test in of all places, Alabama

Who thought Alabama would be next in line to address gay marriage? Bored housewives can't even legally buy vibrators in this state......we aren't evolved enough to wrangle with the tough questions like gay marriage. 

Apparently the surviving spouse of a gay man killed in a traffic accident in Montgomery is suing the state to overturn our ban on the recognition of gay marriage on the "equal protection" grounds of the Constitution. They were married in Mass. and he's named sole beneficiary in the will.....as a spouse, but Al. doesn't recognize gay marriage so he can't claim the estate.

I'm sorry but this state is backwards nine ways from Sunday.
-We always self-righteously vote down gaming, but we spend $200Million each year in neighboring states' lotteries and casinos and B'ham is the illegal sports gambling capital of the world....you can't swing a dead cat in B'ham and not hit a doctor, lawyer, or bookie, but the sky will evidently fall if we have an education lottery.

-We stand on our conservative soapbox and demand that government get out of our wallets, businesses, and schools, but maintain an idiotic sex-toy law that puts government in the middle of our bedrooms.

-And we make a show of standing on preserving the Constitution when it comes to elections while ignoring the inconvenient part of the 14th amendment that guarantees all, ALL citizens be treated equally under the law. 

I don't care if same sex couples want to marry. How can that possibly affect me? I don't have to like something in order to recognize it as constitutional. That's the whole point of our Constitution as it defines our supposedly civilized society.

This guy should be able to claim what was left to him the same as anybody else.