Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Call me cynical — but anyone else wonder about the timing of this “revelation”? Remember just last week, senior WH officals were reportedly scurrying around looking for stories to release that proved that the Bushitler was more incompetent? I mean, why waste time looking for solutions, look for ways to deflect blame.
So, pardon me if I see this like a cruise missle strike — just aimed at American opinions. Don’t listen to that dangerous Cheney — we fight this stuff seriously. See what we had to deal with?
So I ask again, why the timing of the release? Why now?
Yep! Bush is certainly to blame. His fault that the WTC was bombed in ’93 too. How could you possibly miss it?
At least cruise missiles don’t put a pilot at risk. Idiocy nonetheless, but at least a politician isn’t trying to save his hide by risking some innocent Navy of AF driver’s life and plans.
After a lot of criticism and falling popularity, I actually heard the words / phrase “war” and “we’re at war” from the President. So I guess maybe that was so that his AG would not indict him for criminal trespass against those poor, underprivileged, alleged possible ‘suspects’ in Yemen?
No complaints from me that Obama has out-Predator’d Bush in Pakistan. I do feel some sympathy for the problem any president has, even Obama, in having to be 100% right. If the NYT is right in reflecting Obama’s intentions and not fluffed up in worship-mode, I might even respect the man’s efforts. Seems to me we have far greater justification for concern about Mr. O’s socialism than his “soft on terrorism” intentions. How can a guy who admits to “systemic failure” not cashier Napolitano – the person most directly in charge that doesn’t have a clue? Isn’t it because he assumes that those in our government’s service are somehow more noble than e.g. GM execs coming to hearings on private jets? Isn’t the real danger of his policies not anti-Americanism but rather elitism – if one belongs to the right elite, because, “Gosh, we’re taking care of you the best anyone can expect”?
When Bush 43 was in office his first year we had 9/11. That seems to have polarized his presidency, and the result also seems to have been no further successful attacks on US soil. Iraq was largely won under his command. Afghanistan not so much, but of two main fronts he’d won one, stale-mated the other, and had no further successful attacks. Many did not like the tactics, but looking at the record they were successful when it came to results.
Which, September 12, 2001 I would have bet the farm that it couldn’t be done, that we’d have other bombings and hijackings and terrorist plots. Especially if TSA was a government agency and unionized (“You can’t professionalize unless you unionize!” — tax cheat Tom Daschle, my former senator, apparently incapable of understanding the tax code he passed. I searched and did not find anything in his list of submitted amendments about unionizing tax preparers.)
I now feel a bit sorry for Obama’s administration. Here was the most intelligent administration put in place since the last Democrat (and we’ve mainstream media telling us how smart these people are), and in the span of a couple of months he’s had an airliner attack that was foiled only because the bomb fizzled and the passengers acted, plus we’ve two breaches of security into the White House for State dinners. They’re telling us they’re keeping the borders and the airports safe and he can’t even secure his dining room. *His dining room!*
This has *got* to have Obama steaming, not so much for missing the ball but for making him look less adept than the previous administration that didn’t miss.
It’s going to be difficult to say you inherited a problem the previous guy didn’t have a problem with.
– Max
Speaking of Tom Daschle and Tim Geithner, this just came across the wire:
http://townhall.com/news/business/2010/01/04/tax_preparers_to_face_new_regulation,_irs_scrutiny
No word yet on if programmers at TurboTax will be subject to the same regulations. There is also no word on if the IRS employees reviewing your tax returns will likewise be subject to this same sort of quality review.
In hindsight, when SecTreas is an admitted tax cheat this response stands to reason.
– Max
“Here was the most intelligent administration put in place since the last Democrat”
When did they lower the IQ requirement for genius to room temperature?