Question, what is more important to the editors of the New York Slimes, true Middle East peace or a feather for President Pinocchio? Ok shoot me, rhetorical question,via Israel Matzov *:.
Even so, Israel, groups like the Washington, D.C.-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies and lawmakers like Senator Mark Kirk, Republican of Illinois, want to ratchet up the pressure. Their stated aim is to force Iran to completely dismantle its nuclear program.
From a Western perspective, that would be an ideal outcome. But new sanctions are unlikely to force Iran to abandon an enterprise in which it has invested billions of dollars and a great deal of national pride. Fresh sanctions would also shred whatever little good will the United States and Iran have begun to rekindle. If Tehran walks away from the talks, Washington will be blamed, the international unity supporting the network of sanctions already in place will unravel, and countries that have reduced imports of oil from Iran will find fewer reasons to continue doing so.
A nuclear Iran is not a recipe for Middle East peace. The Slimes wants a deal, any deal, much like Obama wanted any health care law associated with his name. We are seeing the price our nation’s is paying for Barack Obama’s obsession for a health care law, any law. Let us not condemn the State of Israel to destruction because of Obama’s blind obsession with any Middle East deal both purporting to deal with peace and to be associated with his name. Remember the same geniuses who thought that Obama Care would insure the uninsured, bend down the cost of health care, and lower the rise of the oceans, are the same idiots who sent John “French” Kerry to negotiate a so-called peace deal.
(*) I will not link what I am blocked from quoting.
At least Captain Edward Smith was smart enough to realize that there were icebergs in the North Atlantic. Not so much President Fifty Seven States. President Dim Won was intent converting health care to Obama Care, that he never bothered to study the problem, from Clarice Feldman, American Thinker:
Just a few days ago the president’s defenders were calling his critics “racists” and claiming ObamaCare was merely allowing us to get rid of our “substandard health insurance” for better plans our betters, the Democrat leadership, thought we should have. Thursday he offered up a purported rollback fix announcing, incredibly “we are discovering that insurance is complicated to buy …”
This would be like Dwight Eisenhower and his entire staff being totally unaware that the Germany might oppose the Normandy landings.
The New York Slimes tried to analogize Barack Obama’s man made disaster of Obama Care to Dubys’a response to the natural disaster that was Katrina. For her part, Professor Ann Althouse was having none of it, the Snark of the Day:
But think about it this way, NYT. What if Bush and the Republicans had created the hurricane, and the Democrats adamantly believed it would be better not to have a hurricane? Would the Democrats have been “occasionally cooperative” to Republicans who smugly announced that they won the election and they’ve been wanting this hurricane for 100 years and canceling the hurricane was not an option?
This may end of being the coveted Snark of the Year.
I love the smell of panic in the morning, From Charles Krauthammer, Salt Lake City Tribune:
As the only socially transformational legislation in modern American history to be enacted on a straight party-line vote, Obamacare is wholly owned by the Democrats. Its unraveling would catastrophically undermine their underlying ideology of ever-expansive central government providing cradle-to-grave care for an ever-grateful citizenry.
For four years, this debate has been theoretical. Now it’s real. And for Democrats, it’s a disaster
Obama Care, a Bill too Far.
The Snark of the Day, from B.J. Clinton:
“I personally believe, even if it takes a change to the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.”
Hat tip: Politico
B.J. Clinton wants to president again. So much so that he will have his wife run for office for him, from Investors Business Daily:
Politics: Who would think the president who proposed HillaryCare would help kill ObamaCare. Bill Clinton just gave congressional Democrats cover to oppose their party’s president — and try salvaging their political skins.
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Whatever happens, by backing changing the law to fulfill a promise Obama knew he couldn’t keep, Bill Clinton may find himself having written ObamaCare’s epitaph.
Letting folks keep the insurance policies they had and liked will kill Obama Care. Barack Obama can either keep his promise or his namesake law. He can not do both.
Who says the space program is dead. Secretary of State, John “French” Kerry was lost seen orbiting some distant planet, from Jackson Diehl, Washington Post:
John Kerry’s Middle East dream world
Imagine a world in which the Middle East is not descending into carnage and chaos but is on the brink of a monumental series of breakthroughs. By next spring,Iran’s nuclear program will be secured and Egypt will be a liberal democracy. Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has stepped aside. And, not least, Israelis and Palestinians have settled on the terms for a Palestinian state.
This is the world that John Kerry inhabited as he shuttled across the world last week: a fantastical realm created by his billowing vision of what he can accomplish as secretary of state
Now imagine a world, where both our President and Secretary of State were sane and sober.
The honoring of our vets has always held special meaning for me; it’s a lesson my parents instilled very well, indeed. It was brought home to me, as I was recently looking at pictures from a trip we made through the Gettysburg PA area some years ago.
It’s a particularly meaningful thing, when you’re standing on that field…. something that goes well beyond the cold facts and figures about who died from what company, how old they were, or even where they were from. It’s more a feeling you get…. you can sense it… not unlike being at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, or visiting Arlington National Cemetery. I’m told Omaha Beach, and Pearl Harbor and many other sites are the same way. I’ve been at the funerals of firemen and policemen who died in their line of duty, and that was also remarkably similar.
In each case, we’re dealing with places and concepts of death. But death alone doesn’t do it; doesn’t create that solemn atmosphere that is so unique to the above places. After all; there are lots of mass casualty accidents have happened over the centuries and their sites are well marked, and revered, or at least held apart, and yet, their impact doesn’t approach that of an Iwo Jima or a Pearl.
Even under the shelter of the relative safety of the time that has passed since the events, as you stand in each place, you can still feel it; Lives were lost there that were willingly (And in the case of the civilian deaths at the towers, unwillingly) sacrificed toward a higher ideal.
Our feelings and conclusions can be far different from what those lost experienced. Yet, their lives and their sacrifices still count for something. And the thing is, it doesn’t take much for us to out ourselves in their mindset.
Think of it this way; Every single man who died at Gettysburg, at Normandy, at Pearl and all he rest, and now in the Middle East, has meaning for us because each of them, had their own lives, just as we have our own lives.
These people loved, they laughed, they cried. They had a favorite food, a favorite color, a particular bit of music, or of poetry stirred their souls, like none other, just like we, ourselves. Every bit as much as you and I love our lives, they loved theirs. Their lives were as precious to them, as yours is to you. Their loss was as keenly felt by their loved ones as yours would yours. And yet, they put their lives at risk and many lost them, for something bigger.
I have a neighbor, whose father just recently needed a liver transplant. This neighbor willingly gave up part of his liver to be transplanted into his father. A noble action, certainly, commendable, and impressive. But with all respect to my neighbor, the choice to do that is comparatively easy to make. He knows and loves his father, and the sacrifice is fairly light by comparison.
How much more noble is a sacrifice of one’s life for people that one will never meet?
These people we honor today, gave of themselves for the benefit of people they would never know…. you and I, and countless others from many nations. If not for their sacrifices, you’d not be reading this, because I’d not have written it…. we’d be living in a very different world, possibly, one not nearly as good to us as it has been.
Look upon those actions, those sacrifices, and know what you’re seeing is strength, courage, and nobility in measures that should not… can not, be ignored. It must be honored by us all; it was made, after all for our benefit.
They’re all worthy of the very same respect, living or dead. Not because of their having lived or died, but because of their respect and understanding of the ideals that uniform represents. Ideals they hold highest.
These are values I’ve been at some pains over the years to teach my boys as they grow up in this wonderful place called America. I fear that when and if we let these values pass away, America will, as well.
It is with this passage I salute our vets today.
The Snark of the Day, from R.S. McCain:
Just about the only good news about ObamaCare is that it may FINALLY communicate what we’ve said for five years: BHO is not merely your garden-variety politician having a casual relationship with truth. Chuck Todd does not seem convinced that OccupyResoluteDesk is aware he lied about keeping insurance plans.
Do we have a Mad Hatter President, a President who seems to believe that the truth is whatever he deems it to be? Paging Doctor Krauthammer, isn’t it a test for sanity, or lack thereof same, to be able to distinguish fact from fantasy?
Is Paris the only thing standing in the way of the Barack Obama and John Kerry dream of nuclear Iran, and a hollow crater of what used to be Israel, from the New York Times, via William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection:
In the end, though, it was not only divisions between Iran and the major powers that prevented a deal, but fissures within the negotiating group. Earlier in the day, France objected strenuously that a proposed deal would do too little to curb Iran’s uranium enrichment or to stop the development of a nuclear reactor capable of producing plutonium.
“The Geneva meeting allowed us to advance, but we were not able to conclude because there are still some questions to be addressed,” the French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, told reporters.
The French have knifed “French” Kerry God bless them. Kerry’;s arrogant bumbling is almost enough to make one pine for the days Secretary Clinton and endless travels.
Oh a tale from two Posts, Washington and Jerusalem, first from Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post:
Critics of the president’s feeble Iran policy have known all along this was coming. If the report in the New York Times is accurate, the president is about to countenance a nuclear-armed Iran. The administration doesn’t put it that way, and the Times is compliant enough not to mention it directly, but that is precisely what is entailed: “On the eve of a new round of talks between world powers and Iran, a senior Obama administration official said Wednesday that the United States was prepared to offer Iran limited relief from economic sanctions if Tehran agreed to halt its nuclear program and reversed part of it.” The planned “relief” is to last six months, much longer than some experts believe is needed for Iran to go nuclear.
Second from the mouth of John “French” Kerry, via Jerusalem Post:
Friction over the talks has risen this past week on the back of Israeli plans, announced in tandem with its release of 26 Palestinian prisoners, for some 3,500 new homes for settlers in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
“Let me emphasize at this point the position of the United States of America on the settlements is that we consider them… to be illegitimate,” Kerry said after discussions with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
So the regime of the Nobel Peace Prize designee Barrack Obama, supports a nuclear Iran, opposes Jews living in sovereign Israel, Jerusalem, but somehow claims to support Middle East peace. On what bloody planet is a Jew living in Jerusalem a bigger threat to peace than a nuclear Iran?
The Snark of the Day, from George Will, Washington Post:
If you believe this, your credulity is impervious to evidence. And you probably are a progressive.
The man has a way with words.
From R,S. McCain:
Police Seek Drug Trafficking Network Inside New Mexico Man’s Rectum
A guy named David Eckert of Deming, New Mexico, was suspected of concealing an entire drug cartel in his colon. Or maybe he just ran a stop sign and some cops with nothing better to do decided they had probable cause to get all up into David Eckert’s ass:
The judge, police and the doctors have some explaining to do.
What probable cause existed after one, or two, enemas?
The Obama Lies have become legend. The allegation seemed all too familiar, Clayton Cramer, yesterday, on Barack Obama’s inherent honesty, or lack thereof:
Every promise from that liar’s lips has an expiration date. And a revision date, too.
I keep wondering: does anyone under 35 care that they were lied to by this guy? And that he keeps lying? And isn’t even slightly bothered by it?
Mr. Clayton meet Mr. Geraghty, from Jim Geraghty, National Review, 5 November 2008:
All Barack Obama Statements Come With an Expiration Date. All Of Them.
By popular demand, the list of expired Obama statements…
Consumers should be aware that promises, pledged, and soul-healing rhetoric are only effective for a limited time; upon expiration they become “just words.”
With Obama, it is not “just words” but merely lies.
Oh Joy! An obituary that you can feel good about, from Today:
She was a winner, a relentless competitor, and as befits her name, a pleasure to be around. Joy Johnson, 86, who ran her 25th New York City Marathon on Sunday, died one day later at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan.
Johnson had fallen and hit her head around the marathon’s 20th mile, refused a trip to the hospital, and as was characteristic for her, continued the race with her face and head bandaged to stop the bleeding.
A widow and former gym teacher from San Jose, Calif., Johnson didn’t start running until age 59. She averaged three marathons a year, ran anywhere from 25 to 50 miles a week, and made quilts from her race shirts.
RIP Joy, as in Race in Peace.
