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Plus, vacillating President scolds Congress on delay?
Actually, I’m a little surprised by this report from Byron York at the Washington Examiner. If anyone benefits from the casual, off-hand manner in which Barack Obama started a war with Libya, it’s the crew from the Bush administration. After having been beaten over the head by the accusation “rush to war” regarding Iraq after [...]
Plus, vacillating President scolds Congress on delay?
Actually, I’m a little surprised by this report from Byron York at the Washington Examiner. If anyone benefits from the casual, off-hand manner in which Barack Obama started a war with Libya, it’s the crew from the Bush administration. After having been beaten over the head by the accusation “rush to war” regarding Iraq after [...]
Plus, vacillating President scolds Congress on delay?
Actually, I’m a little surprised by this report from Byron York at the Washington Examiner. If anyone benefits from the casual, off-hand manner in which Barack Obama started a war with Libya, it’s the crew from the Bush administration. After having been beaten over the head by the accusation “rush to war” regarding Iraq after [...]
Plus, vacillating President scolds Congress on delay?
Actually, I’m a little surprised by this report from Byron York at the Washington Examiner. If anyone benefits from the casual, off-hand manner in which Barack Obama started a war with Libya, it’s the crew from the Bush administration. After having been beaten over the head by the accusation “rush to war” regarding Iraq after [...]
Plus, vacillating President scolds Congress on delay?
Actually, I’m a little surprised by this report from Byron York at the Washington Examiner. If anyone benefits from the casual, off-hand manner in which Barack Obama started a war with Libya, it’s the crew from the Bush administration. After having been beaten over the head by the accusation “rush to war” regarding Iraq after [...]
Plus, vacillating President scolds Congress on delay?
Actually, I’m a little surprised by this report from Byron York at the Washington Examiner. If anyone benefits from the casual, off-hand manner in which Barack Obama started a war with Libya, it’s the crew from the Bush administration. After having been beaten over the head by the accusation “rush to war” regarding Iraq after [...]
Plus, vacillating President scolds Congress on delay?
Actually, I’m a little surprised by this report from Byron York at the Washington Examiner. If anyone benefits from the casual, off-hand manner in which Barack Obama started a war with Libya, it’s the crew from the Bush administration. After having been beaten over the head by the accusation “rush to war” regarding Iraq after [...]
In FrontPage this morning I discuss our illustrious Director of National Intelligence:
Nothing epitomizes more perfectly the Obama Administration’s abject failure to come to grips with the reality of the global jihad and a rapidly shifting international situation than the embarrassing tenure of James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence. Last week, Clapper again demonstrated how wholly unequipped he is for the job he holds, telling Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) that Russia and China represented the greatest “mortal threat” to the United States.
Russia and China? Not North Korea and Iran?
In an age when North Korea is testing to see how much bullying of South Korea it can get away with, and is aggressively pursuing a nuclear program, and while Iran’s leaders repeatedly make genocidal statements regarding Israel and triumphalist predictions that America and Israel will soon be destroyed, and is pursuing a nuclear program of its own, Clapper’s statement sounded like that of a Rip Van Winkle who had been asleep for twenty years, or maybe twenty-five, and hadn’t yet been clued in that the Cold War was over.
Has James Clapper, a retired lieutenant general in the Air Force and longtime intelligence professional, made any study in the area of national intelligence since 1985? Is he aware that the world situation has drastically changed since 1985? Has he had any kind of thought at all since 1985?
This wasn’t the first time the Director of National Intelligence showed his astonishing lack thereof, either. Late last December, British authorities arrested twelve jihadists who had been planning to set off bombs in a variety of locations; that same day, Clapper appeared on Diane Sawyer’s ABC show, on which Sawyer said to him that she expected he must be very busy with the London arrests. Clapper looked confused, and admitted that he had no idea what she was talking about. Arrests? A terror plot?
Had Sawyer been conducting a man-on-the-street interview, and Clapper was in reality the befuddled accountant he appears to be, he might be excused for having no idea that a large-scale anti-terror operation had just been carried out in London. But this was the Director of National Intelligence, and he was far less informed and up to speed on the situation than was Sawyer herself, or probably an entire legion of befuddled accountants. Nonetheless, Obama’s team ran interference for him, claiming essentially that Clapper had been so involved with the London arrests that he was too preoccupied to answer Sawyer’s question properly, but that his display of cluelessness was no indication of…cluelessness….
Sarah Palin talks at Todd Palin. We would say that this is a tape of Mr and Mrs Palin chatting but, as Todd Palin hardly gets a word in sideways, it sounds more like Sarah Palin is having one of her rants.
Please Note: If you are a Sarah Palin fan do not take this the wrong way. We think Sarah Palin is totally stupid as is our right. It does not mean that the writers of the Sarah Palin Insiders are Socialists or Marxists so don’t waste your time commenting. Read the transcript beneath the following pictures.
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Sarah Palin: Learning stuff can be really tiring Todd, don’t you think?
Todd Palin: I
Sarah Palin: This is not about you Todd. It is about me having to learn about America overseas and where the hell is Egypt.
Todd Palin: It’s
Sarah Palin: I know where it is now Todd that’s what I’ve been learning about. Egypt is in North Africa.
Todd Palin: I
Sarah Palin: Just a minute Todd. Africa! Africa! Is Hawaii anywhere near Africa!
Todd Palin: No
Sarah Palin: Oh. That’s a shame. Oh, hang on I forgot what I was talking about. Africa, Egypt, Africa, Egypt. Africa, Obama, Obama, Africa. Hell Todd doesn’t Obama come from Africa?
Todd Palin: He was born in Hawaii Sarah.
Sarah Palin: Don’t you let my Birther friends hear you saying that. Birth certificates, witnesses and an authentic press announcement don’t all have to be right. Hang on Todd. Stop changing the subject. Why is my mind thinking Egypt Obama?
Todd Palin: It was thinking Africa Obama.
Sarah Palin: But Egypt is in Africa. Oh my! Oh my, my, my. Todd!
Todd Palin: What?
Sarah Palin: Obama could have been born in Egypt!
Todd Palin: He was born in Africa but nowhere near Egypt.
Sarah Palin: Nonsense! Africa is only a small country.
Todd Palin: It’s bigger than America
Sarah Palin: Todd, you are so unpatriotic. Don’t let me hear you talk that way again
Todd Palin: But
Sarah Palin: But nothing Todd. You just remember Troopergate and keep you mouth shut. You hear?
Todd Palin: Yes Sarah.
Sarah Palin: That’s better.
Todd Palin: But
Sarah Palin: Can you be quiet Todd? I’m trying to think here. Africa, Obama, Egypt, Obama. Hey?! Obama wants Egypt to win because he comes from there! Stands to reason. He is just so unAmerican. How can he do what is good for America when he is not American. His children probably come from Egypt too. Wow Todd, imagine that!
Todd Palin: Imagine what?
Sarah Palin: Obama has only gone and manufactured another blood libel thingamajig in Egypt!
Todd Palin: You can’t say that! Look what happened last time.
Sarah Palin: Don’t be unpatriotic Todd. Anyway, I didn’t mean that kind a blood libel.
Sarah Palin talks at Todd Palin. We would say that this is a tape of Mr and Mrs Palin chatting but, as Todd Palin hardly gets a word in sideways, it sounds more like Sarah Palin is having one of her rants.
Please Note: If you are a Sarah Palin fan do not take this the wrong way. We think Sarah Palin is totally stupid as is our right. It does not mean that the writers of the Sarah Palin Insiders are Socialists or Marxists so don’t waste your time commenting. Read the transcript beneath the following pictures.
Image by david_shankbone via Flickr
Image via Wikipedia
Image via Wikipedia
Sarah Palin: Learning stuff can be really tiring Todd, don’t you think?
Todd Palin: I
Sarah Palin: This is not about you Todd. It is about me having to learn about America overseas and where the hell is Egypt.
Todd Palin: It’s
Sarah Palin: I know where it is now Todd that’s what I’ve been learning about. Egypt is in North Africa.
Todd Palin: I
Sarah Palin: Just a minute Todd. Africa! Africa! Is Hawaii anywhere near Africa!
Todd Palin: No
Sarah Palin: Oh. That’s a shame. Oh, hang on I forgot what I was talking about. Africa, Egypt, Africa, Egypt. Africa, Obama, Obama, Africa. Hell Todd doesn’t Obama come from Africa?
Todd Palin: He was born in Hawaii Sarah.
Sarah Palin: Don’t you let my Birther friends hear you saying that. Birth certificates, witnesses and an authentic press announcement don’t all have to be right. Hang on Todd. Stop changing the subject. Why is my mind thinking Egypt Obama?
Todd Palin: It was thinking Africa Obama.
Sarah Palin: But Egypt is in Africa. Oh my! Oh my, my, my. Todd!
Todd Palin: What?
Sarah Palin: Obama could have been born in Egypt!
Todd Palin: He was born in Africa but nowhere near Egypt.
Sarah Palin: Nonsense! Africa is only a small country.
Todd Palin: It’s bigger than America
Sarah Palin: Todd, you are so unpatriotic. Don’t let me hear you talk that way again
Todd Palin: But
Sarah Palin: But nothing Todd. You just remember Troopergate and keep you mouth shut. You hear?
Todd Palin: Yes Sarah.
Sarah Palin: That’s better.
Todd Palin: But
Sarah Palin: Can you be quiet Todd? I’m trying to think here. Africa, Obama, Egypt, Obama. Hey?! Obama wants Egypt to win because he comes from there! Stands to reason. He is just so unAmerican. How can he do what is good for America when he is not American. His children probably come from Egypt too. Wow Todd, imagine that!
Todd Palin: Imagine what?
Sarah Palin: Obama has only gone and manufactured another blood libel thingamajig in Egypt!
Todd Palin: You can’t say that! Look what happened last time.
Sarah Palin: Don’t be unpatriotic Todd. Anyway, I didn’t mean that kind a blood libel.
Sarah Palin talks at Todd Palin. We would say that this is a tape of Mr and Mrs Palin chatting but, as Todd Palin hardly gets a word in sideways, it sounds more like Sarah Palin is having one of her rants.
Please Note: If you are a Sarah Palin fan do not take this the wrong way. We think Sarah Palin is totally stupid as is our right. It does not mean that the writers of the Sarah Palin Insiders are Socialists or Marxists so don’t waste your time commenting. Read the transcript beneath the following pictures.
Image by david_shankbone via Flickr
Image via Wikipedia
Image via Wikipedia
Sarah Palin: Learning stuff can be really tiring Todd, don’t you think?
Todd Palin: I
Sarah Palin: This is not about you Todd. It is about me having to learn about America overseas and where the hell is Egypt.
Todd Palin: It’s
Sarah Palin: I know where it is now Todd that’s what I’ve been learning about. Egypt is in North Africa.
Todd Palin: I
Sarah Palin: Just a minute Todd. Africa! Africa! Is Hawaii anywhere near Africa!
Todd Palin: No
Sarah Palin: Oh. That’s a shame. Oh, hang on I forgot what I was talking about. Africa, Egypt, Africa, Egypt. Africa, Obama, Obama, Africa. Hell Todd doesn’t Obama come from Africa?
Todd Palin: He was born in Hawaii Sarah.
Sarah Palin: Don’t you let my Birther friends hear you saying that. Birth certificates, witnesses and an authentic press announcement don’t all have to be right. Hang on Todd. Stop changing the subject. Why is my mind thinking Egypt Obama?
Todd Palin: It was thinking Africa Obama.
Sarah Palin: But Egypt is in Africa. Oh my! Oh my, my, my. Todd!
Todd Palin: What?
Sarah Palin: Obama could have been born in Egypt!
Todd Palin: He was born in Africa but nowhere near Egypt.
Sarah Palin: Nonsense! Africa is only a small country.
Todd Palin: It’s bigger than America
Sarah Palin: Todd, you are so unpatriotic. Don’t let me hear you talk that way again
Todd Palin: But
Sarah Palin: But nothing Todd. You just remember Troopergate and keep you mouth shut. You hear?
Todd Palin: Yes Sarah.
Sarah Palin: That’s better.
Todd Palin: But
Sarah Palin: Can you be quiet Todd? I’m trying to think here. Africa, Obama, Egypt, Obama. Hey?! Obama wants Egypt to win because he comes from there! Stands to reason. He is just so unAmerican. How can he do what is good for America when he is not American. His children probably come from Egypt too. Wow Todd, imagine that!
Todd Palin: Imagine what?
Sarah Palin: Obama has only gone and manufactured another blood libel thingamajig in Egypt!
Todd Palin: You can’t say that! Look what happened last time.
Sarah Palin: Don’t be unpatriotic Todd. Anyway, I didn’t mean that kind a blood libel.
Sarah Palin talks at Todd Palin. We would say that this is a tape of Mr and Mrs Palin chatting but, as Todd Palin hardly gets a word in sideways, it sounds more like Sarah Palin is having one of her rants.
Please Note: If you are a Sarah Palin fan do not take this the wrong way. We think Sarah Palin is totally stupid as is our right. It does not mean that the writers of the Sarah Palin Insiders are Socialists or Marxists so don’t waste your time commenting. Read the transcript beneath the following pictures.
Image by david_shankbone via Flickr
Image via Wikipedia
Image via Wikipedia
Sarah Palin: Learning stuff can be really tiring Todd, don’t you think?
Todd Palin: I
Sarah Palin: This is not about you Todd. It is about me having to learn about America overseas and where the hell is Egypt.
Todd Palin: It’s
Sarah Palin: I know where it is now Todd that’s what I’ve been learning about. Egypt is in North Africa.
Todd Palin: I
Sarah Palin: Just a minute Todd. Africa! Africa! Is Hawaii anywhere near Africa!
Todd Palin: No
Sarah Palin: Oh. That’s a shame. Oh, hang on I forgot what I was talking about. Africa, Egypt, Africa, Egypt. Africa, Obama, Obama, Africa. Hell Todd doesn’t Obama come from Africa?
Todd Palin: He was born in Hawaii Sarah.
Sarah Palin: Don’t you let my Birther friends hear you saying that. Birth certificates, witnesses and an authentic press announcement don’t all have to be right. Hang on Todd. Stop changing the subject. Why is my mind thinking Egypt Obama?
Todd Palin: It was thinking Africa Obama.
Sarah Palin: But Egypt is in Africa. Oh my! Oh my, my, my. Todd!
Todd Palin: What?
Sarah Palin: Obama could have been born in Egypt!
Todd Palin: He was born in Africa but nowhere near Egypt.
Sarah Palin: Nonsense! Africa is only a small country.
Todd Palin: It’s bigger than America
Sarah Palin: Todd, you are so unpatriotic. Don’t let me hear you talk that way again
Todd Palin: But
Sarah Palin: But nothing Todd. You just remember Troopergate and keep you mouth shut. You hear?
Todd Palin: Yes Sarah.
Sarah Palin: That’s better.
Todd Palin: But
Sarah Palin: Can you be quiet Todd? I’m trying to think here. Africa, Obama, Egypt, Obama. Hey?! Obama wants Egypt to win because he comes from there! Stands to reason. He is just so unAmerican. How can he do what is good for America when he is not American. His children probably come from Egypt too. Wow Todd, imagine that!
Todd Palin: Imagine what?
Sarah Palin: Obama has only gone and manufactured another blood libel thingamajig in Egypt!
Todd Palin: You can’t say that! Look what happened last time.
Sarah Palin: Don’t be unpatriotic Todd. Anyway, I didn’t mean that kind a blood libel.
Sarah Palin talks at Todd Palin. We would say that this is a tape of Mr and Mrs Palin chatting but, as Todd Palin hardly gets a word in sideways, it sounds more like Sarah Palin is having one of her rants.
Please Note: If you are a Sarah Palin fan do not take this the wrong way. We think Sarah Palin is totally stupid as is our right. It does not mean that the writers of the Sarah Palin Insiders are Socialists or Marxists so don’t waste your time commenting. Read the transcript beneath the following pictures.
Image by david_shankbone via Flickr
Image via Wikipedia
Image via Wikipedia
Sarah Palin: Learning stuff can be really tiring Todd, don’t you think?
Todd Palin: I
Sarah Palin: This is not about you Todd. It is about me having to learn about America overseas and where the hell is Egypt.
Todd Palin: It’s
Sarah Palin: I know where it is now Todd that’s what I’ve been learning about. Egypt is in North Africa.
Todd Palin: I
Sarah Palin: Just a minute Todd. Africa! Africa! Is Hawaii anywhere near Africa!
Todd Palin: No
Sarah Palin: Oh. That’s a shame. Oh, hang on I forgot what I was talking about. Africa, Egypt, Africa, Egypt. Africa, Obama, Obama, Africa. Hell Todd doesn’t Obama come from Africa?
Todd Palin: He was born in Hawaii Sarah.
Sarah Palin: Don’t you let my Birther friends hear you saying that. Birth certificates, witnesses and an authentic press announcement don’t all have to be right. Hang on Todd. Stop changing the subject. Why is my mind thinking Egypt Obama?
Todd Palin: It was thinking Africa Obama.
Sarah Palin: But Egypt is in Africa. Oh my! Oh my, my, my. Todd!
Todd Palin: What?
Sarah Palin: Obama could have been born in Egypt!
Todd Palin: He was born in Africa but nowhere near Egypt.
Sarah Palin: Nonsense! Africa is only a small country.
Todd Palin: It’s bigger than America
Sarah Palin: Todd, you are so unpatriotic. Don’t let me hear you talk that way again
Todd Palin: But
Sarah Palin: But nothing Todd. You just remember Troopergate and keep you mouth shut. You hear?
Todd Palin: Yes Sarah.
Sarah Palin: That’s better.
Todd Palin: But
Sarah Palin: Can you be quiet Todd? I’m trying to think here. Africa, Obama, Egypt, Obama. Hey?! Obama wants Egypt to win because he comes from there! Stands to reason. He is just so unAmerican. How can he do what is good for America when he is not American. His children probably come from Egypt too. Wow Todd, imagine that!
Todd Palin: Imagine what?
Sarah Palin: Obama has only gone and manufactured another blood libel thingamajig in Egypt!
Todd Palin: You can’t say that! Look what happened last time.
Sarah Palin: Don’t be unpatriotic Todd. Anyway, I didn’t mean that kind a blood libel.
If further evidence is needed that the European Union is an emperor with no clothes when it comes to global power, look no further than its handling of the Libya issue. With several hundred Libyans already dead at the brutal hands of Colonel Gaddafi and his murderous thugs, all the EU has been able to muster is a mealy-mouthed statement condemning the violence, but without even identifying the key figure responsible. Here’s the full statement issued earlier this week by Baroness Ashton, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Policy:
The European Union is extremely concerned by the events unfolding in Libya and the reported deaths of a very high number of demonstrators. We condemn the repression against peaceful demonstrators and deplore the violence and the death of civilians. We express our sympathy to the families and friends of the victims.
The EU urges the authorities to exercise restraint and calm and to immediately refrain from further use of violence against peaceful demonstrators. Freedom of expression and the right to assemble, as provided for in particular by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, are human rights and fundamental freedoms of every human being which must be respected and protected.
The EU calls on the authorities to immediately cease the blocking of public access to the internet and mobile phone networks. The EU also calls upon the authorities to allow media to work freely throughout the country.
The legitimate aspirations and demands of the people for reform must be addressed through open and meaningful Libyan-led dialogue.
I very much doubt that “mad dog” Gaddafi, as Reagan called him, is taking a blind bit of notice of what Catherine Ashton has to say in her weak-kneed statement. In fact he probably hasn’t even heard of her. What he will pay attention to, however, is the prospect of stringent economic, political and military sanctions against his regime, a complete halt on investment from European countries, the freezing of bank accounts, and above all a travel ban against him, his family, and all of his henchmen. After all, the EU as a whole accounts for 70 percent of Libya’s trade, which amounted to 26.4 billion euros in 2009.
Yet again on a major international crisis, the EU is looking like a deer in the headlights. All of the real action at the moment on Libya is taking place in the major capitals of Europe at a nation state level – London, Paris, Berlin – where there is serious talk of sanctions and concrete action against Gaddafi. Hopefully, the Butcher of Tripoli and Benghazi won’t be in power much longer and will be ultimately removed by his own people. But in the meantime, the free world must do all it can to also help bring his dictatorship to its knees, isolate it on the world stage and apply firm pressure on Gaddafi to go. But Europe should not cling to the illusion that a bunch of unelected bureaucrats in Brussels afflicted with delusions of grandeur will actually be leading the way.
Sarah Palin talks at Todd Palin. We would say that this is a tape of Mr and Mrs Palin chatting but, as Todd Palin hardly gets a word in sideways, it sounds more like Sarah Palin is having one of her rants.
Please Note: If you are a Sarah Palin fan do not take this the wrong way. We think Sarah Palin is totally stupid as is our right. It does not mean that the writers of the Sarah Palin Insiders are Socialists or Marxists so don’t waste your time commenting. Read the transcript beneath the following pictures.
Image by david_shankbone via Flickr
Image via Wikipedia
Image via Wikipedia
Sarah Palin: Learning stuff can be really tiring Todd, don’t you think?
Todd Palin: I
Sarah Palin: This is not about you Todd. It is about me having to learn about America overseas and where the hell is Egypt.
Todd Palin: It’s
Sarah Palin: I know where it is now Todd that’s what I’ve been learning about. Egypt is in North Africa.
Todd Palin: I
Sarah Palin: Just a minute Todd. Africa! Africa! Is Hawaii anywhere near Africa!
Todd Palin: No
Sarah Palin: Oh. That’s a shame. Oh, hang on I forgot what I was talking about. Africa, Egypt, Africa, Egypt. Africa, Obama, Obama, Africa. Hell Todd doesn’t Obama come from Africa?
Todd Palin: He was born in Hawaii Sarah.
Sarah Palin: Don’t you let my Birther friends hear you saying that. Birth certificates, witnesses and an authentic press announcement don’t all have to be right. Hang on Todd. Stop changing the subject. Why is my mind thinking Egypt Obama?
Todd Palin: It was thinking Africa Obama.
Sarah Palin: But Egypt is in Africa. Oh my! Oh my, my, my. Todd!
Todd Palin: What?
Sarah Palin: Obama could have been born in Egypt!
Todd Palin: He was born in Africa but nowhere near Egypt.
Sarah Palin: Nonsense! Africa is only a small country.
Todd Palin: It’s bigger than America
Sarah Palin: Todd, you are so unpatriotic. Don’t let me hear you talk that way again
Todd Palin: But
Sarah Palin: But nothing Todd. You just remember Troopergate and keep you mouth shut. You hear?
Todd Palin: Yes Sarah.
Sarah Palin: That’s better.
Todd Palin: But
Sarah Palin: Can you be quiet Todd? I’m trying to think here. Africa, Obama, Egypt, Obama. Hey?! Obama wants Egypt to win because he comes from there! Stands to reason. He is just so unAmerican. How can he do what is good for America when he is not American. His children probably come from Egypt too. Wow Todd, imagine that!
Todd Palin: Imagine what?
Sarah Palin: Obama has only gone and manufactured another blood libel thingamajig in Egypt!
Todd Palin: You can’t say that! Look what happened last time.
Sarah Palin: Don’t be unpatriotic Todd. Anyway, I didn’t mean that kind a blood libel.
