AP trying to do the math

The AP assigns 11 staff writers to immediately fact check Palin’s book.

They apparently haven’t yet read Obama’s book, which precludes them from asking him why he won’t admit that it was written by Bill Ayers

Ask a Pakistani why Afghanistan matters

If you want to know, ask somebody: (ht: smallwarsjournal)

Afghanistan: Seven Fundamental Questions by Major Mehar Omar Khan

I know we live in a world that is real and is moved by minds – thinking, manipulating, conniving, conspiring, calculating and masquerading minds. Our world therefore seldom has a place for ‘sentiments’ – pure, sincere, honest and spontaneous as sentiments are. But when it comes to war in Afghanistan, I am not deterred by the tyranny of the trend. I like, in fact I am forced, to think through my heart. What else can you do when you see images of your countrymen; innocent and unsuspecting men, women and children; ripped apart by other human beings exploding in their midst almost on a daily basis? How can I not worry about my daughter when I see a pale and empty face of a mother in Kabul or Peshawar, bent like a broken branch of an old, dried up tree; over the dead body of her child? How can I not cry when the soul of my nation is hit and hurt by violence that is so inextricably linked with bloodshed beyond the snaky Khyber Pass? For us in Pakistan, the ongoing struggle in Afghanistan and astride Durand Line is the most seminal endeavor of our history. If this war is won, the entire world stands to benefit. But if it is lost, one country that will be hurt the most is Pakistan – my daughter’s home and her future. War astride the Durand Line is therefore so personal to so many of us.

This war is also extremely personal for thousands of American mothers who await and pray for the safe return of their sons and daughters: bright young men and women who deserve to live and who must never be wasted just because someone considers it politically expedient to continue to muddle along and because setting the course right needs some statesmanship and may also involve some political cost.

Major Mehar Omar Khan, Pakistan Army, is currently a student at the US Army Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. He has served as a peacekeeper in Sierra Leone, a Brigade GSO-III, an instructor at the Pakistan Military Academy in Kakul, and as Chief of Staff (Brigade Major) of an infantry brigade. He has also completed the Command and Staff Course at Pakistan’s Command and Staff College in Quetta.

The weightless administration is even further out of touch

At some point, you hope the administration will find the time to prevent a possible wave of shootings of Americans by Muslims.  You know, to go along with the duty description of Department of Homeland Defense

The U.S. Homeland Security secretary says she is working to prevent a possible wave of anti-Muslim sentiment after the shootings at Fort Hood in Texas.

Janet Napolitano says her agency is working with groups across the United States to try to deflect any backlash against American Muslims following Thursday’s rampage by Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim who reportedly expressed growing dismay over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The shootings left 13 people dead and 29 wounded.

Meanwhile the President’s tone-deaf teleprompter gets it wrong again

Obama, often described as “cerebral” by the mainstream media, should know the difference between the Medal of Honor and the Medal of Freedom, especially since he personally awarded the latter to Crow.  Don’t expect his blunder to receive wide coverage.  It’s not something he can blame George Bush for.

Our hope is changing in the wind

The New York Times reports:

The group’s calculations last week put the number of American jobs at a little more than 300 — most of them temporary construction jobs, along with about 30 permanent positions once the wind farm is operating. Mr. McGarr told The Wall Street Journal that more than 2,000 Chinese jobs would be created by the deal.

Now that’s NOT the kind of change we want to believe in. I applaud Kos for telling the truth and being outraged

More bungling, this time for Gitmo

Time to order new busses: it’s getting crowded under the ones the White House currently has.  This time the clowns have dropped the ball on closing Gitmo

Greg Craig, the top in-house lawyer for President Barack Obama, is getting the blame for botching the strategy to shut down Guantanamo Bay prison by January — so much so that he’s expected to leave the White House in short order.  

But sources familiar with the process believe Craig is being set-up as the fall guy and say the blame for missing the deadline extends well beyond him. 

Instead, it was a widespread breakdown on the political, legislative, policy and planning fronts that contributed to what is shaping up as one of Obama’s most high-profile setbacks, these people say.

Send in the clowns, oops, they are already there

Hilarious bungling.  Might as well move the White House to Hollywood where image is everything. Is this any funnier, or more pathetic than the faux Grecian temple BO erected in his own honor back in the primaries?

I am eagerly awaiting the spin that shows why this is different than “B-b-b-but Bush’s” foto op on the carrier

Who is the political novice?

It is funny to me to see leaks from the administration trying to undercut GEN McChrystal as being naive about how the Washington game is played.  Seriously, is this the mark of an administration that is in charge of itself?  Is it good policy to be undercutting your own field commander?

This administration ahs no clue about what to do. Obama said 6 months ago that he had carefully studied the situation and had a plan. Now, not so much.

There is public support by the CJCS, GEN Petraeus and GEN McChrystal for the McChrystal plan. It is fully in line with current thinking about the conduct of COIN.

There is no political will in the admninistration to face reality, so instead they blather and treat foreign policy as if it were Chicago ward politics.

We just saw how sueful Chicago style politics is on the world stage where no one cares about your life story. So, who are the naive ones?

GEN McChrystal is a very savvy general: as a commander, as a warrior, as a professional.  His experience in Washington is on par or superior to any of the clowns in the current administration and he has been our most lethal general for years as commander of global SOF forces.

He made the speech he made in London as a way to force the administration to act in public on his plan. He is too savvy to be their fall guy. Whatever the decision is made, it will be the administration’s, and it will be pinned firmly to Obama: once he gets done wasting time on trivial issues.

3 out of 4 isn’t bad, it’s the government!

Here is how modern economics is played. You need to know this so you know how to protect yourself.

Picture 4 groups:  government, the middle class, the banks, and the speculators.  3 out of 4 groups have acted badly in the housing meltdown.

Consider:

1. Speculators bought houses they couldn’t afford to try to make a quick buck in real estate. When they failed, they get bailed out, and in some cases get to stay in homes at a much reduced rate, on the backs of the middle class.

2. Banks (some) lent speculators money they didnt have to buy houses they couldnt afford. If you didnt make bad loans, you faced government censure. When the banks received bailout money they paid off bad loans, not the good loans.

3. the government: underwrote the bad loans, darn near required the bad loans to be made, then raised taxes on the middle class to cover the banks losses.   Then the governmant allowed banks to write off the bad mortgages and keep the good ones paying.

4. The middle class pays for everything, but they didnt get their mortgages and credit card balances written off, even though they have demonstrated they are the bty far, the best stewards of money from among the 4 groups.

any questions?

extra credit: if you were a good steward of your money and the planet you bought a car that gets good gas mileage. Now you get to pay for the morons who bought cars that get terrible mileage, who get a handout  at your expense.

because the government is shocked…shocked! that people will lineup for free money, they are now throwing another couple of billion after the first billion in the cash for clunkers program.

Survival and reward for the most unfit. That’s how you get ahead in modern economics.

carbon units fail trade-in value test, offered assisted suicide instead

• welcome to Obama-care carbon unit.  You will be absorbed, or not, based on your trade -in value.  I wonder if the old lady would have qualified as a "cash for clunkers?"

   

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    Cancer Patient Offered Gov’t Suicide
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    Doctor C.L. Gray and his Physicians for Reform group tell us of the horror story of Oregon’s government run healthcare plan that offered a cancer patient named Barbara all the suicide assisted funding she wanted, but not one penny for the medical care that could save her life. As Doctor Gray put it, Barbara was no longer thought of by government as a patient but instead had become a “negative economic unit.”

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  • WASHINGTON – The White House is turning to the Internet to hit back at a Web posting that claims to show President Barack Obama explaining how his health care reform plans eventually would eliminate private insurance