Trading Terrorists for Hostages?

Doesn’t McCarthy realize that long-standing American policies, such as not trading terrorists for hostages, are now a part of acceptable collateral damage? A larger mission, namely, appeasing Iran and attempting to more fully insinuate this country into the globalist infrastructure, for Obama and his sponsors, is vastly more important than silly concerns such as American policy or credibility.

I had been holding out for a long time for a super plush diplomatic appointment. Forget all that. Nothing tops being an Iranian diplomat. I’ll stick to pondering warm fuzzy ideas such as nuclear technology for all and how this might serve as a living laboratory (and grant money magnet) for Evolutionary Psychology theorists.

Obama Frees Iranian Terror Masters

In Iran, it is no longer enough for a rickety regime, whose anti-American vitriol is its only vital sign, to rig the “democratic” process. This time, blatant electoral fraud was also required to mulct victory for the mullahs’ candidate. The chicanery ignited a popular revolt. But the brutal regime guessed right: The new American president would be supportive. So sympathetic is Obama to the mullahs’ grievances — so hostile to what he, like the regime, sees as America’s arrogant militarism — that he could be depended on to go as far as politics allowed to help the regime ride out the storm.

And so he has. Right now, politics will allow quite a lot: With unemployment creeping toward 10 percent, the auto industry nationalized, the stimulus revealed as history’s biggest redistribution racket (so far), and Democrats bent on heaping ruinous carbon taxes and socialized medicine atop an economy already crushed by tens of trillions in unfunded welfare-state liabilities, Iran is barely on anyone’s radar screen.

So Obama is pouring it on while his trusty media idles. When they are not looking the other way from the carnage in Iran’s streets, they are dutifully reporting — as the AP did — that the Irbil Five are mere “diplomats.” Obama frees a terrorist with the blood of American troops on his hands, and the press yawns. Senators Jeff Sessions and Jon Kyl press for answers about the release of the terrorist and Obama’s abandonment of a decades-old American policy against trading terrorists for hostages, and the silence is deafening.

Jim E Heard This in Home Depot Last Week

The Africa Obama Didn’t Visit

The Africa Obama Didn’t Visit
by Kelley B. Vlahos, July 14th

President Barack Obama’s trip to Africa did not include Somalia, but the president needn’t go there to see that U.S. policy in Somalia has been an utter disaster. In fact, it would have been impossible for him to get anywhere near Mogadishu, because there is no real government to speak of, not to mention clean water, safe shelter, or even enough hopeful locals to greet him on the tarmac.

I still owe Yarra a review of Black Hawk Down and what it means in the big scheme of things. I tell you this story just writes itself. But I’ll try and move it along.

Part I. Great intro, but check the dialogue between the two generals closely at the end. Keep in mind this was the best war movie we could think of pre-9/11 (I think this was 2000 or early 2001, maybe 1999. Based on a great book by Mark Bowden on a 1993 incident which left 18 Americans dead (I’m guessing from memory, Doom will correct me).

“This is not Iraq. This is a much more complicated situation.” Classic. Maybe will end up one of the most classic lines in movie history. You heard it here first.

Lovin’ Cup

“By the spring of 1971, the Stones chose to abandon their home country of England to avoid the amount of taxes the British government expected the band to pay. The Stones would have to leave by 5 April, or the government would have seized their assets. After much consideration, the Stones chose to settle in France at Villefranche-sur-Mer, near Nice, where guitarist Keith Richards had rented Nellcôte, the “Gestapo headquarters during the Second World War,” according to Richards, complete with swastikas on the floor vents. It was here that the Stones would begin work constructing their next album.” – Wiki

Nobody Walks in LA

Is that a Bluetooth earpiece she is rockin’ ?- sorry, this one was in the words, I mean works, I’ll move it behind Bif’s in an hour or so.

This next song is not the one I wanted. I’m confusing it with something by the Bangles or even the Go-Gos for all I can remember. I’ll find it one of these days just by returning to the same store that has some idiot programming the CDs (hint:change them once in a while). Actually there is an underlying psychological issue I just thought of, but don’t want to confront this second – no, it’s not mine, it’s women – but we’ll get to that.

I know where to shop for high-quality men’s items for cheap – where 90% of the shoppers are women – so the question is why do you always hear that music. It ain’t the shit you hear where men shop. And there is a reason I like Banana Republic better than J. Crew these days. Fuck! I can’t believe I’ve fallen victim to marketing.

McNamara’s Evil Lives On

Like Thompson used to say about Nixon in response to “speak no ill of the dead” – “I kicked him when he was up, I’ll kick him when he is down.”

Hate is something I try to stay away from, but I never liked McNamara. When I think of the word douche I think McNamara. I didn’t even like him when I was a young kid and kinda liked American militarism. It just always seemed like Harvard made his brain stop working. And then he turned evil. He thought bombing would make him a hero. He thought it would bring him true fame. It did.

He bombed in 1966. 20 years after a serious debate on whether it was a war crime had started. He knew what he was doing. Unlike those at Nuremburg, he had no excuses.  He was Harvard educated.

McNamara’s Evil Lives On

Why not speak ill of the dead?

Robert McNamara, who died this week, was a complex man–charming even, in a blustery way, and someone I found quite thoughtful when I interviewed him. In the third act of his life he was often an advocate for enlightened positions on world poverty and the dangers of the nuclear arms race. But whatever his better nature, it was the stark evil he perpetrated as secretary of defense that must indelibly frame our memory of him.

To not speak out fully because of respect for the deceased would be to mock the memory of the millions of innocent people McNamara caused to be maimed and killed in a war that he later freely admitted never made any sense. Much has been made of the fact that he recanted his support for the war, but that came 20 years after the holocaust he visited upon Vietnam was over.

xxx

the original post (not a long one).

Rot in Hell, You Fucking Piece of Shit. Two Million Vietnamese Want To Thank You.

-sb

…originally posted the minute the Motherfucker died. I don’t care. I won’t be remembering the date.

On Formula One

I really don’t give a shit about Flavio Braitorre. He has always been a marketer, and I hate those type of scum. Flavio is an idiot, the only difference between him and Sebastien Bourdais is Bourdais has actually driven a car.

But Moseley and Ecclestone need to go. This sport has been hijacked by these two assholes for too long.

The Bif Lebowski

I never really got this movie. I mean. I saw it when it came out. I thought it was entertaining. But not a masterpiece. The Cohen Brothers have always been hit or miss. Mostly mediocre. The Big Lebowski is most definitely super mediocre. But there are some good lines.

I wouldn’t even say Goodman’s Vietnam shit is either original, funny, or over the top. The 1991 Gulf War stuff (this movie was made in 1998) and a lot of other stuff is just stupid, dated, or pointless.

Julianna Moore is hot and the soundtrack is kickass even though there is no metal.

Hey, Doom?

I gave up myself. Do I have permission to go score crack?

Down in a Hole

Down in a Hole

Jesus tries to crack a smile.

Beneath another shovel-load.

Are you trying to fuck with me, Sergeant?