We are only going to use air strikes. We won't send in troops. Those are familiar statements about an Action taken by the US in 1999 in Kosovo. We still have US troops in Kosovo. Kosovo is tiny, so we don't have many troops there.
Are we going to have the same fate in Libya? I hope not. Read the following:
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by ... weekend warriors ... to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne.
... What I'm opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.
Now let me be clear: I suffer no illusions about Muhamar Qaddafi. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power.... The world, and the Libyan people, would be better off without him.
But I also know that Qaddafi poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors...and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history.
I know that even a successful war against the Qaddafi supporters will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences.
I know that ... without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda.
I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars. So for those of us who seek a more just and secure world for our children, let us send a clear message...
...You want a fight President Obama? Let's fight to make sure our so-called allies in the Middle East, the Saudis and the Egyptians, stop oppressing their own people, and suppressing dissent, and tolerating corruption and inequality, and mismanaging their economies so that their youth grow up without education, without prospects, without hope, the ready recruits of terrorist cells.
You want a fight, President Obama? Let's fight to wean ourselves off Middle East oil through an energy policy that doesn't simply serve the interests of GE and failed "green programs."
Those are the battles that we need to fight. Those are the battles that we willingly join. The battles against ignorance and intolerance. Corruption and greed. Poverty and despair.
Switch Muhamar Qaddafi with Saddam Hussein. Switch Libya with Iraq, and switch Obama with Bush. Swich GE and "failed green programs" with Exxon and Mobil . You have Obama's speech on Iraq in 2002. Funny how perspective changes when you become president.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Who Was the Target in Arizona Shooting? - John Roll
I am not prone to buy into conspiracy theories myself. However, even the craziest of all conspiracy theories - usually has some degree of truth behind it. What I think odd, in all of the news coverage of the Arizona shooting, that no one in the big media has looked into the death of Judge John Roll.
There are 2 facts that are interesting:
1) Judge Roll had just ruled days before on the case US vs $333,520.00. This was a ruling that blocked the Obama Administration's attempt to seize assets and currency w/o any criminal charge or law violation. This includes IRAs and 401Ks. He was trying to use a decree that FDR had made when he illegally took gold from US Citizens.
2) US Marshall protection for the Judge had just been suspended.
As translated from the Generaccion.com:
"Federal Judge John McCarthy Roll, three days ago had issued a ruling on the case "United States of America v. $ 333,520.00 in United States Currency et al "[Case Number: 4:2010 cv00703 Filed: November 30, 2010], which paralyzed Obama a decree law to intercept every American bank accounts without having any criminal action in between . The reason is that the American state has come to bankruptcy and intends to intercept Americans' accounts directly (ie, "playpen"), for which it has begun issuing a series of ads that staff prepare for the worst . Tremendo, dies a federal judge and the media do not count !"
Also, I found it interesting that only the media in Spanish covered this as a story. You can see the story here.
This is likely not just an internet rumor, as truthorfiction.com has nothing (as of this posting) concerning this one way or another.
Stay Safe!
There are 2 facts that are interesting:
1) Judge Roll had just ruled days before on the case US vs $333,520.00. This was a ruling that blocked the Obama Administration's attempt to seize assets and currency w/o any criminal charge or law violation. This includes IRAs and 401Ks. He was trying to use a decree that FDR had made when he illegally took gold from US Citizens.
2) US Marshall protection for the Judge had just been suspended.
As translated from the Generaccion.com:
"Federal Judge John McCarthy Roll, three days ago had issued a ruling on the case "United States of America v. $ 333,520.00 in United States Currency et al "[Case Number: 4:2010 cv00703 Filed: November 30, 2010], which paralyzed Obama a decree law to intercept every American bank accounts without having any criminal action in between . The reason is that the American state has come to bankruptcy and intends to intercept Americans' accounts directly (ie, "playpen"), for which it has begun issuing a series of ads that staff prepare for the worst . Tremendo, dies a federal judge and the media do not count !"
Also, I found it interesting that only the media in Spanish covered this as a story. You can see the story here.
This is likely not just an internet rumor, as truthorfiction.com has nothing (as of this posting) concerning this one way or another.
Stay Safe!
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Arizona Shooting
So many have posted so much about the "Arizona shooting." I will not try to get into the investigation or anything else now, as the Feds have taken over the case - and we all know that means not much will be revealed from now on.
What we do know is the folowing people were killed:
-John Roll, 63, a federal district court judge.
-Gabriel Zimmerman, 30, Giffords’ director of community outreach
-Dorwin Stoddard, 76, a pastor at Mountain Ave. Church of Christ.
-Christina Greene, 9, a student at Mesa Verde Elementary
-Dorthy Murray, 76
-Phyllis Scheck, 79
Christina Greene was born on September 11, 2001 - Very interesting considering her fate.
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head - in critical condition
12 others were injured in the shooting.
Pray those injured and for the families of the ones killed.
What we do know is the folowing people were killed:
-John Roll, 63, a federal district court judge.
-Gabriel Zimmerman, 30, Giffords’ director of community outreach
-Dorwin Stoddard, 76, a pastor at Mountain Ave. Church of Christ.
-Christina Greene, 9, a student at Mesa Verde Elementary
-Dorthy Murray, 76
-Phyllis Scheck, 79
Christina Greene was born on September 11, 2001 - Very interesting considering her fate.
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head - in critical condition
12 others were injured in the shooting.
Pray those injured and for the families of the ones killed.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Chinese Stealth Fighters and Dead Blackbirds
The rolling in of the new year gave us some strange news for sure. With the mass death of over 5000 Red-winged Blackbirds in Arkansas and Louisiana, a 100,000 fish dying in the Arkansas River and Chinese Stealth fighters being revealed the coming new year is not short on "news."
Thank goodness there is something going on besides the new Congress and more Obama Administration BS.
The Chinese have unveiled a new Stealth Fighter that is to compete with the F22 and be superior to the F35 fighter. This is interesting as Japan was planning on buying several F35's for their own defense.
The deaths of the thousands of blackbirds is still mysterious. Of course many that have had farms and the like probably said "good riddance" as these birds are often major pests that travel and feed in huge flocks and are just plain annoying. I have killed a many of these birds, and thankfully ended up with an owl that took care of a major infestation problem. You see owls are known to kill an entire flock of blackbirds in one night. These birds were not killed by the talons of owls, but were killed by blunt trauma to their organs and died in the air - not from the fall.
Anyhow happy New Year and Stay Safe!
Thank goodness there is something going on besides the new Congress and more Obama Administration BS.
The Chinese have unveiled a new Stealth Fighter that is to compete with the F22 and be superior to the F35 fighter. This is interesting as Japan was planning on buying several F35's for their own defense.
The deaths of the thousands of blackbirds is still mysterious. Of course many that have had farms and the like probably said "good riddance" as these birds are often major pests that travel and feed in huge flocks and are just plain annoying. I have killed a many of these birds, and thankfully ended up with an owl that took care of a major infestation problem. You see owls are known to kill an entire flock of blackbirds in one night. These birds were not killed by the talons of owls, but were killed by blunt trauma to their organs and died in the air - not from the fall.
Anyhow happy New Year and Stay Safe!
Friday, December 10, 2010
The Economy - What No One is Saying
The Economy and Energy: I find it interesting with all of the talks about the economy - basically no one has proposed anything known to really work. OK, not raising taxes is smart. It is a start - but the tax rates are already there - so how will that change anything?
What I find interesting is that President Obama often has in the same speech, talked about trying to do something positive for the economy, while at the same time restricting access to one or more forms of energy. Any development by any nation has greatly hinged on the the access to affordable energy. Don't believe me? I challenge you to find a case historically that differs with what I am saying.
Lets look at what our government's policy on energy is or has been recently:
More regulations on Nuclear Power. This has been done and now there are even plants that will shut down sooner than scheduled, because of regulations that have basically been "retroactively applied" to existing plants. With no more Nuclear plants being built, and not even planned - this is ridiculous. If I bought into conspiracy theories, I would definitely think this was part of some sort of "plan" to attack our energy and economy. Nuclear is the most efficient way to produce electricity known to man.
America hates using coal. While we are the world's largest producer of coal, an we are exporting it to our competitors, we are not ready to use it ourselves. All is talked about "alternative energy sources" which all have to be subsidized or we would not even be using it now. I am not against wind power - but even with subsidies I will explain why it will not work in the short term.
Baseless moratoriums on offshore drilling. The US has moratoriums against offshore drilling. This somehow includes in international waters. The bad part about this - other countries can drill in the same places we are banning US companies from drilling. You may claim that this is based on the horizon platform aka BP oil spill. That was an excuse to put a choke hold on American oil while helping our competitors from over seas.
The Wind Problem: I am not going to get into all the hype about "alternative" energy sources, but they are not efficient. I said I would explain about wind power. I have studied it a bit as Texas produces more wind power than anyone- as much as 6,200-megawatts a day. The problem is - when you build a power plant - there is infrastructure designed to transmit the power into the electrical grid. Wind farms do not have such a transmission line in place - and engineers are yet to find a good way to do this as wind farms are not a power plant - but many small power plants. The current grid cannot even support what energy is generated today in Texas. Texas is spending over $5 billion to address this issue - but if many more wind farms pop up - look for more big spending.
The Answer - Easy Access to Affordable Energy: When you need to build your economy - you need to have easy access to affordable energy. Yes, it is that simple. China has this, India has this. The US does not have this. The bad part is, it is all self inflicted. We had it in the 80's and even the beginning of the 90's when our economy was strong. Any real talk about helping the economy has to include accessing affordable energy.
I am not against "going green" but we need to take much more measured changes. We need to quit listening to the Chicken Littles of this world "The sky is falling" (or getting a hole in it, etc). We need cheap energy. - Stay safe!
What I find interesting is that President Obama often has in the same speech, talked about trying to do something positive for the economy, while at the same time restricting access to one or more forms of energy. Any development by any nation has greatly hinged on the the access to affordable energy. Don't believe me? I challenge you to find a case historically that differs with what I am saying.
Lets look at what our government's policy on energy is or has been recently:
More regulations on Nuclear Power. This has been done and now there are even plants that will shut down sooner than scheduled, because of regulations that have basically been "retroactively applied" to existing plants. With no more Nuclear plants being built, and not even planned - this is ridiculous. If I bought into conspiracy theories, I would definitely think this was part of some sort of "plan" to attack our energy and economy. Nuclear is the most efficient way to produce electricity known to man.
America hates using coal. While we are the world's largest producer of coal, an we are exporting it to our competitors, we are not ready to use it ourselves. All is talked about "alternative energy sources" which all have to be subsidized or we would not even be using it now. I am not against wind power - but even with subsidies I will explain why it will not work in the short term.
Baseless moratoriums on offshore drilling. The US has moratoriums against offshore drilling. This somehow includes in international waters. The bad part about this - other countries can drill in the same places we are banning US companies from drilling. You may claim that this is based on the horizon platform aka BP oil spill. That was an excuse to put a choke hold on American oil while helping our competitors from over seas.
The Wind Problem: I am not going to get into all the hype about "alternative" energy sources, but they are not efficient. I said I would explain about wind power. I have studied it a bit as Texas produces more wind power than anyone- as much as 6,200-megawatts a day. The problem is - when you build a power plant - there is infrastructure designed to transmit the power into the electrical grid. Wind farms do not have such a transmission line in place - and engineers are yet to find a good way to do this as wind farms are not a power plant - but many small power plants. The current grid cannot even support what energy is generated today in Texas. Texas is spending over $5 billion to address this issue - but if many more wind farms pop up - look for more big spending.
The Answer - Easy Access to Affordable Energy: When you need to build your economy - you need to have easy access to affordable energy. Yes, it is that simple. China has this, India has this. The US does not have this. The bad part is, it is all self inflicted. We had it in the 80's and even the beginning of the 90's when our economy was strong. Any real talk about helping the economy has to include accessing affordable energy.
I am not against "going green" but we need to take much more measured changes. We need to quit listening to the Chicken Littles of this world "The sky is falling" (or getting a hole in it, etc). We need cheap energy. - Stay safe!
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Private Rockets in Space
It looks like the private company SpaceX will be launching a capsule into orbit soon. There have been successful tests of the engines and all systems are go - for now. SpaceX is owned by the same guy that owns Paypal. Yes, Elon Musk is filthy rich. I am a Paypal fan and so kudos to him. SpaceX has a contract with NASA to send supplies to the space station for around $1.6 billion. Supposedly cheaper than NASA doing it themselves.
I wonder if the company sells advertizing space on the side of the rocket like NASCAR. It would be smart to do that, and it could help off-set the costs of operation. I do not know how the company got the contract - but it does not surprise me that the CEO of the Tesla car company has a space contract with NASA with the current administration.
Good luck to SpaceX and may you have a lot of competition soon.
UPDATE:
The spacecraft successfully lifted off at 10:43 EST on 8 Dec 2010.
Remember to Stay Safe!
Saturday, November 6, 2010
More Wasted Stimuls Another Bailout Bust
So with all of the wasted stimuli - why do some in power, including the Preident, think that the American people are just too dumb to get it? After all, if he just explained it better... He does consider himself a great communicator - so why can't he then? Back to facts.
Some company called Solyndra in California got a LOT of stimulus money. Why? Because it was a favorite. It has "green energy" it makes solar panels. It is a privately owned corporation. It was supposed to go public, but. Yes, an Obama but. Oh yeah, this company apparentlyis or maybe was the cornerstone of Obama's highly touted green-energy future. Now it is a Rupublicans taking over the house - size political embarrassment. Solyndra got a $535 million Department of Energy loan guarantee. In June it cancelled a public offering because their auditor PricewaterhouseCoooper said its operating losses and negative cash flow show it is unlikely to be able to continue operations.
The company received bailout funds and spent them on executive salaries and to build a plant. Now they are closing the plant. This is the company that Obama said in May :"leading the way toward a brighter and more prosperous future."
Get the story here.
Here is a list of some of the executives:
BRIAN HARRISON: PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
DR. CHRIS GRONET: FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
BEN BIERMAN: EVP, OPERATIONS AND ENGINEERING
W.G. BILL STOVER, JR.: SVP, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
JOHN GAFFNEY: SVP, CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT AND GENERAL COUNSEL
CLEMENS G. JARGON: PRESIDENT EMEA & CORPORATE SVP
KAREN ALTER: SVP, MARKETING
CORBY C. WHITAKER: VP of NORTH AMERICA SALES
These folks got paid to operate a failing company with your and my hard earned tax dollars. Thanks Mr. President.
Stay Safe!
Some company called Solyndra in California got a LOT of stimulus money. Why? Because it was a favorite. It has "green energy" it makes solar panels. It is a privately owned corporation. It was supposed to go public, but. Yes, an Obama but. Oh yeah, this company apparently
Get the story here.
Here is a list of some of the executives:
BRIAN HARRISON: PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
DR. CHRIS GRONET: FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
BEN BIERMAN: EVP, OPERATIONS AND ENGINEERING
W.G. BILL STOVER, JR.: SVP, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
JOHN GAFFNEY: SVP, CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT AND GENERAL COUNSEL
CLEMENS G. JARGON: PRESIDENT EMEA & CORPORATE SVP
KAREN ALTER: SVP, MARKETING
CORBY C. WHITAKER: VP of NORTH AMERICA SALES
These folks got paid to operate a failing company with your and my hard earned tax dollars. Thanks Mr. President.
Stay Safe!
Monday, November 1, 2010
al Qaeda Attacks Church
For reasons yet to be made clear - a group of muslim extremists attack a Church in Baghdad. While Churches within Baghdad have been fairly well protected by police in general, this one suffered. The Islamic State of Iraq claims responsibility for the attack. The al Qaeda group in Iraq, said it would "exterminate Iraqi Christians" if Muslim women in Egypt were not freed. You can get the whole story here: http://www.latimes.com/news/la-fgw-iraq-church-attack-20101101,0,5355537.story?track=rss
At least 52 were killed including 10 police, and 67 were wounded. It is unknown how many of the Christians were killed by the terrorists and how many were killed by the police in the rescue attempt.
It is a shame this kind of "news" gets little attention.
Whatever you do - be safe!
At least 52 were killed including 10 police, and 67 were wounded. It is unknown how many of the Christians were killed by the terrorists and how many were killed by the police in the rescue attempt.
It is a shame this kind of "news" gets little attention.
Whatever you do - be safe!
Friday, October 29, 2010
Yemen, Yemen What are You Doing?
One has to wonder about what has been going on with Yemen lately. Ok, not lately, as if you go back to the USS Cole, about which nothing has been done, by ANY administration, Yemen has been a sore spot for the US for a long time.
I do not hate Yemen, I have friends from Yemen. I believe some in Yemen have even lost their lives to fight Al Qaeda. However, we know that Yemen is home to terrorist training grounds. We also know that Yemen is the source of at least two explosive devices and some more hoax devices that were destined for the US today. What the bad guys have planned on a total scale so far - who knows? The explosive devices were destined for Jewish houses of worship in Chicago. Right now it is unknown why those targets.
Jihadists are anti-semitic which does not make sense to anyone outside of the jihadists. Judaism is not a threat to Islam in any way or fashion. Some simpletons believe it is an Israel Palestine thing, but all you need to do is look around the world at what the jihadists are doing to see otherwise.
I am hoping that at least a large part of the threat has been caught, but we may not know for a few days. I will post more when I know more and feel free to give your analogy in comments.
I do not hate Yemen, I have friends from Yemen. I believe some in Yemen have even lost their lives to fight Al Qaeda. However, we know that Yemen is home to terrorist training grounds. We also know that Yemen is the source of at least two explosive devices and some more hoax devices that were destined for the US today. What the bad guys have planned on a total scale so far - who knows? The explosive devices were destined for Jewish houses of worship in Chicago. Right now it is unknown why those targets.
Jihadists are anti-semitic which does not make sense to anyone outside of the jihadists. Judaism is not a threat to Islam in any way or fashion. Some simpletons believe it is an Israel Palestine thing, but all you need to do is look around the world at what the jihadists are doing to see otherwise.
I am hoping that at least a large part of the threat has been caught, but we may not know for a few days. I will post more when I know more and feel free to give your analogy in comments.
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