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Obama, The Feckless Wonder [Mis. Hum.]

Barack Obama came to the White House knowing nothing of substance. He will leave office without learning anything of substance. However he did hone his skills of rationalization.

Take for example Syria.

The man boy child who gave us Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. You remember her. The SoS who in 2011 uttered this brilliant remark.

“There’s a different leader in Syria now. Many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in recent months have said they believe he’s a reformer.”

The Barack Obama who in 2012 would hold Assad to account for the use of chemical weapons; the famous "red line". Now he is backtracking with excuses layered upon excuse.

No one but Obama is responsible for that “red line.” He drew in August 2012 it despite the fact that Damascus was an ally of Tehran and a client of Moscow at the time. When that line was repeatedly crossed, it was Obama who withdrew his threat. It was Obama who warned that non-intervention would lead to a future in which U.S. troops faced chemical weapons on the battlefield— a warning that has proven accurate. It was Obama who looked the other way as Iranian military and proxy forces flooded into Syria in his first term, and it was Obama who invited greater direct Russian involvement in that conflict in his second. It was Obama’s desire to partner with these nations for the sake of an Iranian nuclear agreement that stayed his hand.


As Commander in Chief he has an obligation and fiduciary duty to U.S. armed forces. A little mustard gas here. A little mustard gas there. No big deal and it's not my fault. Besides I have to give billions of dollars to Iran.


That region has been a mixed up tumultuous region for centuries. Between the various tribes, the differences between the Shiites and Sunnis you have one messed up region. The strongest democracy in the region is Israel and it is spat upon by this administration and the Democratic nominee for POTUS.

Is there a solution for peace? Probably not. But neither candidate who wins the presidency should go into their presidency uttering useless and thoughtless words. Because we all know words have meanings and actions have consequences.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 02:13 PM




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1 I just saw that he is in Israel. Almost weird.

Posted by: HH at September 30, 2016 02:12 PM (DrCtv)

2 I thought the solution for peace was to send illegal weapons to the MB through Libya.

Only cost us an ambassador and several guards.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 30, 2016 02:13 PM (7ZVPa)

3 Ans he shit all over Peres's funeral also.

Spoke to long
Was to political
Spit on Netanyahu
And his Hebrew is the worst ever...worst

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 30, 2016 02:14 PM (CVUUB)

4 Because we all know words have meanings and actions have consequences.


Actually, that notion is now considered just so stupid. The Foucaultian idiocy has infected all areas of thought, or "thought" to be more specific, and the notion that words mean things and that actions have is now rejected by far too many who are in charge of real world issues.

We're into all out Alice In Wonderland words mean what I say they mean but about international relations with countries with ill intent and nuclear weapons.

yaaaaaay

Posted by: alexthechick - but I have chocolate chip cookies so that's okay then at September 30, 2016 02:14 PM (mf5HN)

5 He has learned nothing and has forgotten nothing.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - M.A.G.A. Lace Helicopter Wigs are at The Outrage Outlet! at September 30, 2016 02:14 PM (hLRSq)

6 Molotov!

Posted by: Obama offering congratulations in Israel at September 30, 2016 02:15 PM (XIXhw)

7 The strongest only democracy in the region is Israel and it is spat upon by
this administration and the Democratic nominee for POTUS.


FIFY

Posted by: pep at September 30, 2016 02:15 PM (3e8zv)

8 Meanwhile, he is throwing big, threatening words at the Russians. Who might respond back with more than words.


What an utter fool.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 30, 2016 02:15 PM (7ZVPa)

9 As much as I feel bad for the people of Syria, its none of our business. I don't mind using the military to facilitate aid, and I don't mind helping some refugees into the nation -- carefully checked and only those who bring something immediately positive to the nation -- but that's pretty much it.

There's nothing about Syria worth spending our treasury and blood over.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2016 02:16 PM (39g3+)

10 As Commander in Chief he has an obligation and fiduciary duty to U.S. armed forces.




To gay and tranny it up?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 30, 2016 02:16 PM (493sH)

11 10th.

Posted by: Yuimetal at September 30, 2016 02:17 PM (iFgwk)

12 I'm sorry this is off topic, but did you guys see the story about the U of Michigan conservative student? The school decided that everybody has a right to be called by the pronoun of their choice. So he decided officially that he be called "Your Majesty." He's going through with it too. Good for him. I hope he sues them to the foundations if they don't agree to call him that.

Perfect way to troll those idiots. And awesome creative use of Alinksy's doctrine: "Force them to follow their own rules."

As the left gains power and I'm confident this type of thing will spread, and people will find all kinds of creative ways to confound the left and expose their idiocy. The worm is starting to turn. The Left is becoming "the Establishment" and starting to be cool for the kids to rebel against THEM.

Posted by: Agent Cooper at September 30, 2016 02:17 PM (1zARK)

13 Obama is the worst foreign policy President in history bar none. He has shit on our allies and aided our enemies every step of the way.



His actions have been treasonous and he should have been impeached during his first term. But he has no opposition.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 30, 2016 02:17 PM (mpXpK)

14 La Choom!

Posted by: Obama offering a toast in Israel at September 30, 2016 02:18 PM (XIXhw)

15 I remember saying "I didn't draw a red line. The world drew a red line." Or something quite similar.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2016 02:18 PM (IqV8l)

16 15th.

Posted by: Yuimetal at September 30, 2016 02:18 PM (iFgwk)

17 18th.

Posted by: Yuimetal at September 30, 2016 02:18 PM (iFgwk)

18 Obama saying

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2016 02:18 PM (IqV8l)

19 The school decided that everybody has a right to be called by the pronoun of their choice. So he decided officially that he be called "Your Majesty." He's going through with it too.

I probably would go with "Lord" so they can't use some one-word loophole.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2016 02:18 PM (39g3+)

20 As CiC of our military, I have a personal, seething hatred of him.

As I informed the horde in the art thread, our son is one of thousands of GA college attending vets who are going into their third month without their cost of living stipends.

We are more than able to help our son pay his rent again, but as he told the VA douche in Ohio (where GA has outsourced VA claims), there are many vets on his campus who are about to become homeless.

"Dave" in Ohio said he's "sorry."

Got lots of great advice this morning, and have forwarded to our son.

Prayers for the vets who'll be getting kicked out of their apartments next month.

Posted by: Jane D'oh, Proud Deplorable at September 30, 2016 02:18 PM (1ZOkK)

21 I don't mind using the military to facilitate aid,

I'd rather we had a separate organization dedicated to the aid mission, and let the military pursue their own mission. I'm convinced the reason we don't do that, though, is that the military is uniquely qualified to do the required mass logistics in a hurry. NGO types don't do logistics, at least not well.

Posted by: pep at September 30, 2016 02:19 PM (3e8zv)

22 Is there a solution for peace? Probably not.

Funding a terrorism-sponsoring country that's pursuing nuclear weapons certainly doesn't help.

Posted by: Insomniac - Irredeemably Deplorable at September 30, 2016 02:19 PM (0mRoj)

23 Other than Israel, I'm pretty content to let the entire region burn. I realize this is against the arguments made by people smarter than I am, but I'm at that point with the whole thing. I have a feeling a lot of people agree with the Trumpian notion to just ban anyone from the Middle East that's not Israel from coming into this country. I know, I know, I'm a racist bigoted homophobic sexist deplorable for even suggesting such a thing but that is also where I am on the whole thing.

Also, its a shame we can't move the entire state of Israel somewhere that's not surrounded by long feuding homicidal lunatics.

Posted by: Are we not still doing Phrasing? at September 30, 2016 02:20 PM (EIZU+)

24 Obama is a big talker who got his bluff called and did nothing about it except to backpedal and deflect criticism.

He has weakened our country like no other president has. It will take a very long time to repair the damage he has done, if it even can be repaired.

Posted by: bluebell at September 30, 2016 02:20 PM (xpSCc)

25 Meanwhile, he is throwing big, threatening words at the Russians. Who might respond back with more than words.


What an utter fool.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 30, 2016 02:15 PM (7ZVPa)



A question for the Horde. Do you think who wins the US election matters to Putin other than as amusement?

Because I think Putin will do what he wants, when he wants, where he wants and how he wants, no matter what anyone else thinks.

Posted by: alexthechick - Darth Sugartits at September 30, 2016 02:21 PM (mf5HN)

26 So he decided officially that he be called "Your Majesty

That's Grand Poohbah to you, peasant.

Posted by: pep at September 30, 2016 02:21 PM (3e8zv)

27 To gay and tranny it up?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 30, 2016 02:16 PM


The Navy is getting rid of "man" in ratings (Yeoman, Signalman", etc.).

It's keeping "Seaman", though.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2016 02:21 PM (cjVcY)

28 He has weakened our country like no other president has. It will take a very long time to repair the damage he has done, if it even can be repaired.

Posted by: bluebell at September 30, 2016 02:20 PM (xpSCc)




He's down far more damage than Jimmah Carter and unfortunately there's no Reagan in the wings

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 30, 2016 02:21 PM (493sH)

29
I'd rather we had a separate organization dedicated to the aid mission, and let the military pursue their own mission.

Hillary's volunteer corps.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2016 02:22 PM (IqV8l)

30 I'd rather we had a separate organization dedicated to the aid mission, and let the military pursue their own mission.

I have for years proposed a 5th branch of the military that handles this kind of thing: aid, moving stuff around, logistics, rebuilding after wars, etc. Sort of a super-engineers division, but like the Navy or Air Force. That would free armed forces up for their proper job, like you say.

I don't mind an aircraft carrier used to aid people after a disaster, but why not one built for the purpose?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2016 02:22 PM (39g3+)

31 A little mustard gas here. A little mustard gas there.
...........

Pardon me, have you any Grey Poupon?

Posted by: Barry Soetoro - AA, BFD at September 30, 2016 02:22 PM (HgMAr)

32 The Navy is getting rid of "man" in ratings (Yeoman, Signalman", etc.).

It's keeping "Seaman", though.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2016 02:21 PM (cjVcY)




When asked about getting rid of seaman, Barry said, NEVER! We need seamen. Lots and lots of seamen.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 30, 2016 02:23 PM (493sH)

33 A question for the Horde. Do you think who wins the US election matters to Putin other than as amusement?

Because I think Putin will do what he wants, when he wants, where he wants and how he wants, no matter what anyone else thinks.

Posted by: alexthechick

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I think Clinton would cooperate with him for cash, regardless of the consequences to the US. Trump is more of an unknown, and Russians don't like to deal with unknown.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 30, 2016 02:23 PM (7ZVPa)

34 Well, the good news is, we're going to have a UN-like party running the internet now.

/s

He's fundamentally transformed the hell out of the US. As planned.

Posted by: Jane D'oh, Proud Deplorable at September 30, 2016 02:23 PM (1ZOkK)

35 It's true. This man has no feck.

Posted by: freaked at September 30, 2016 02:23 PM (KvWlw)

36 >>>The Left is becoming "the Establishment" and starting to be cool for the kids to rebel against THEM.

Yeah, but the consequences will be far worse for them now.

Posted by: Max Power at September 30, 2016 02:23 PM (q177U)

37 Because I think Putin will do what he wants, when he wants, where he wants and how he wants, no matter what anyone else thinks.

I don't think so. To quote Barack Obama:

"This is not the nineteenth century. You can't change geographical borders with military force".

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 30, 2016 02:24 PM (mgbwf)

38 The guy whose strategy has been:

"smart diplomacy"
"don't do stupid sh#t"
"just muscular enough to not be mocked"


Color me surprised this SCOAMF continues to blunder!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2016 02:24 PM (NOIQH)

39 Ace, Obama hates white people, hates America and hates the military. So he does not care in the slightest if US troops get hit by mustard gas from ISIL. And he does not care, in fact, he has specifically said, the US can absorb another 9/11 attack, so if US cities are hit with poison gas he will not mind.

Posted by: BattleofthePyramids at September 30, 2016 02:24 PM (oFo/r)

40 TECH BLEG (CON'T)

It depends. What are you doing?

If you're just surfing, emailing, word processing, etc., not much.

Heavy graphics, numerical, etc., yes.

IOW, how much core vs. I/O bus?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2016 01:54 PM (cjVcY)



Mostly this will be for digital x-ray, bookkeeping and insurance filing.

Not sure if Dig. X-ray counts as heavy graphics.

Maybe some photos.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2016 02:24 PM (9q7Dl)

41
Also, its a shame we can't move the entire state of Israel somewhere that's not surrounded by long feuding homicidal lunatics.

What planet did you have in mind?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2016 02:24 PM (IqV8l)

42 This is a narrative war. It's not Obama's fault if the Syrians are too dumb to know that.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at September 30, 2016 02:24 PM (Nwg0u)

43 Maybe Someone should ask Hillary: "Name a couple of Obama's foreign policy successes."

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2016 02:24 PM (NOIQH)

44 The point of not enforcing the red line on chemical weapons was so that Democrats in Congress would not have to vote in favor of any war-like type of thing.

To order a naval barrage of cruise missiles against the government of Syria would have been so clearly an Act of War against that country, which had not attacked us, by the United States and Obama could not as easily hide it behind NATO or the UN as he did with the bombing of Libya.

There were more and more pundits saying he needed to go to Congress to get authorization for the attack. He could have easily gotten the approval, with the neocons like McCain and Graham leading a GOP contingent and Obama whipping the Dems for a favorable vote.

But Obama was unwilling to use his presidential influence to get the Dems to vote for a pro-war bill. He has never been a leader of people, he is a whiner and an agitator. So he decided not to even try for a vote in Congress to authorize him to launch a military attack on Syria, for Democrat political reasons.

Of course, do we really know who used the chemical weapons? Assad or the Islamic fighters? We can't take Obama's assertions at face value.

And Obama ordering the United States to launch a war against Syria would have only made a mess a bigger mess, which is what he is an expert at doing.

Posted by: Scalia's Ghost at September 30, 2016 02:25 PM (fgOnp)

45 'Because I think Putin will do what he wants, when he wants, where he wants and how he wants, no matter what anyone else thinks."

Pretty much my take - if he can get away with it, then Putin will do it.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - M.A.G.A. Lace Helicopter Wigs are at The Outrage Outlet! at September 30, 2016 02:25 PM (hLRSq)

46 I don't think so. To quote Barack Obama:

"This is not the nineteenth century. You can't change geographical borders with military force".
Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 30, 2016 02:24 PM (mgbwf)



Not only did you do that just to make my eye twitch, you know how out of range screechy I just got when yelping at you.

So. Mean.

Posted by: alexthechick - Darth Sugartits at September 30, 2016 02:25 PM (mf5HN)

47 "Because we all know words have meanings and actions have consequences. "

If that were true on all levels--Hillary would be in prison.

Posted by: rld77 WAY down south at September 30, 2016 02:25 PM (dHV+w)

48 He has been the worst President in US history.

The scary thing is that he'll probably relinquish that title in 2017...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 30, 2016 02:25 PM (wtvvX)

49 He has learned nothing and has forgotten nothing.

-
Holding strong at zero.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at September 30, 2016 02:26 PM (Nwg0u)

50 My position on Syria has always been there are no good guys there. Syria has been a Russian client State for decades. It has also been a terrorist State for decades. If we were going to do anything it should have been to consolidate forces in Iraq after we went through there. Have Israel go after Syria and we go after Iran.


Iran was already sending troops after our forces and finally settling the hash of both them and Iraq would have quietened things down there for at least 50 years.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 30, 2016 02:26 PM (mpXpK)

51
Anyone else so fed up with our politics in that region that they've stopped following it? I used to be huge on ME politics -- even before 9/11 -- but now I'm just covering my ears waiting for the big explosion.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 30, 2016 02:27 PM (oGNNA)

52 The point of not enforcing the red line on chemical weapons was so that Democrats in Congress would not have to vote in favor of any war-like type of thing.

...

And Obama ordering the United States to launch a war against Syria would have only made a mess a bigger mess, which is what he is an expert at doing.

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I would be very reluctant to ever give Obama a vote for war. Leadership matters and I would never want him leading our army in a war setting.

Posted by: SH at September 30, 2016 02:28 PM (gmeXX)

53 I used to be huge on ME politics -- even before 9/11 -- but now I'm just covering my ears waiting for the big explosion.

Duck and cover!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2016 02:29 PM (39g3+)

54 In a few short years we went from having Iran shitting bricks to having a brick of shit as POTUS.

Thanks, Jugears McFuckstick!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 30, 2016 02:29 PM (wtvvX)

55 Dude who's building the PCs claims he can get everything to perform well with an i3.

My experience with i3 makes me doubt that but what do I know.


Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2016 02:29 PM (9q7Dl)

56 So the big October Surprise is Pakistani nukes ? While everyone is watching the Mideast, India goes up in flames?

Posted by: GT 5.0 at September 30, 2016 02:30 PM (mGMEC)

57 I'm just a fuckless wonder.

Posted by: penissize at September 30, 2016 02:30 PM (LdMbv)

58 Not too many years after Obama would have, I met a guy as an undergrad who looked something like Obama. Was articulate (yes, he was), with a soothing, friendly voice, spouting platitudes.

Three days after you meet him, you realize there's no depth behind it. You realize it's empty, and you further realize as the days go by, he's going to be praised all up and down the campus, and beyond.

That's when I learned of the perpetual sophomore. The guy who thinks he's got it all figured out by his second year of undergrad, and the world does NOTHING to convince him he actually doesn't know jack squat.

Looks like Obama, sounds like Obama, acts like Obama. The perpetual sophomore.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 30, 2016 02:31 PM (TOk1P)

59 Hillary Clinton announced Friday that she wants to enlist 5 million new volunteers into a "national service reserve" aimed at 18- to 30-year-old
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There it is. Obama's civilian security force, just as strong, just as well funded as the military. Which was erased from transcripts and sent down the memory hole eight years ago. They are getting ready to do it.

You rons and ettes know what this "force" is, don't you? The Nazi Commie f*cks really are going to do it. They really, really are.

Posted by: rat a tat at at September 30, 2016 02:31 PM (EdXI9)

60 At this point, I don't care what happens, as long as we do basically one of two things:

A) invade, take their oil, and occupy them for as long as we need to.

or

B) tell them to go fvck themselves while we arm up Israel and invest in popcorn.

None of this half-measure business. Go big or go home.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at September 30, 2016 02:31 PM (u0s1P)

61 So the big October Surprise is Pakistani nukes ?

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That would be one big October surprise.

Posted by: SH at September 30, 2016 02:31 PM (gmeXX)

62 "I would be very reluctant to ever give Obama a vote for war. Leadership matters and I would never want him leading our army in a war setting."

TOO STUPID and ARROGANT to lead cats to tuns fish dinner

Posted by: rld77 WAY down south at September 30, 2016 02:31 PM (OlUfP)

63
I think Clinton would cooperate with him for cash, regardless of the consequences to the US. Trump is more of an unknown, and Russians don't like to deal with unknown.
-----------------

I agree. I think he's got reliable leverage with Hillary and some high-stakes die-rolls with Trump. He'd rather use the leverage.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 30, 2016 02:32 PM (oGNNA)

64 13
His actions have been treasonous and he should have been impeached during his first term. But he has no opposition.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 30, 2016 02:17 PM (mpXpK)
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It takes 2/3 of the Senate to remove a POTUS from office. Impeachment is DOA. Can't be done.

Sure, Congress could assert the power of the purse, but they don't, largely because the MSM whips up hysteria against them.

But whether the GOPers are cowards or collaborators, it doesn't matter.

The only effective opposition to Obama had to come from the electorate --- and the 48% wasn't enough.

The MAJORITY of Americans either approve of Obama's idiocy or just don't care.



Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 30, 2016 02:33 PM (Nox3c)

65 At this point, I don't care what happens, as long as we do basically one of two things:

A) invade, take their oil, and occupy them for as long as we need to.

or

B) tell them to go fvck themselves while we arm up Israel and invest in popcorn.

None of this half-measure business. Go big or go home.

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C) Build a fence around the entire area, put the refugees back, rename it Obamaland, and forget about them.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at September 30, 2016 02:33 PM (Nwg0u)

66 Clinton is accusing Trump of being a fan of Putin.


Which means, in classic leftist projection, that Clinton is in Putin's pocket.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 30, 2016 02:34 PM (7ZVPa)

67 question for the Horde. Do you think who wins the US election matters to Putin other than as amusement?

+++

Yes. He's already talked a little about it. Not by name, but in response to a question. Said they wouldn't get involved in anybody's domestic politics unlike some he could name, but if the administration is adversarial they have one way to deal with that, another way if someone else is elected.

Basically the Russians view the USA as unable to make a binding agreement, that systemically and foundationally we are incapable. This, while they'll still speak to us their actions will be to contain, like a feral beast.

Posted by: Bigbys other phone at September 30, 2016 02:34 PM (IXAbU)

68
The MAJORITY of Americans either approve of Obama's idiocy or just don't care.

Democracy, if you can keep it.

Posted by: Not Ben Franklin at September 30, 2016 02:35 PM (IqV8l)

69 It takes 2/3 of the Senate to remove a POTUS from office. Impeachment is DOA. Can't be done.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 30, 2016 02:33 PM (Nox3c)


I think we're beyond the point of talking about what can and cannot be done, aren't we?


At this point, we only know what has and hasn't been done. The next few weeks, and the next few years are likely to show MANY things we previously thought couldn't be done, being done.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 30, 2016 02:35 PM (TOk1P)

70 C) Build a fence around the entire area, put the refugees back, rename it Obamaland, and forget about them.

We can't build a fence here or round up known criminals living in the most open and unafraid shadows of all time.

But sure, okay, none of that is incompatible with B).

Posted by: Lance McCormick at September 30, 2016 02:35 PM (u0s1P)

71 Can't I just finish my waffle?

Posted by: Emperor Clusterfuck I at September 30, 2016 02:36 PM (qJhUV)

72 We don't have a commander-in-chief, we have a duffer-in-chief. When was the last time Obama golfed with his anybody from the Pentagon? Seems he prefers to hang out with johns-who-like-trannies, dopers, and sports celebrities. Legacy, indeed.

Posted by: Fritz at September 30, 2016 02:36 PM (2Mnv1)

73 And his Hebrew is the worst ever...worst

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 30, 2016 02:14 PM (CVUUB)


I wouldn't expect Obama to know a single word of Hebrew. For him to even attempt it comes across as patronizing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2016 02:36 PM (o9m/V)

74 Assad is no reformer, but he's the best you'll get compared to the lunatics fighting against him in the country.

He's actually pretty incompetent, especially compared to his father. His brother, who was set to take over but died in a car accident, would've been a nightmare.

Love him or hate him, Bashir is about as good as it will get. We should've propped him up.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 30, 2016 02:36 PM (4ErVI)

75 (C)linton as president would be MUCH worse.

Posted by: Taqyia2Me, I'm Deplorable at September 30, 2016 02:37 PM (QFpXi)

76 It takes 2/3 of the Senate to remove a POTUS from office. Impeachment is DOA. Can't be done.

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While this is no doubt true, there are still reasons to impeach. I would agree that Senate removal should be taken into consideration, but the idea that you should never impeach unless removal is certain (or even possible) to me is too high a standard.

An impeachment is still a political process that likely weakens a presidency - not one that makes him stronger. It rallies the base, and it shows that you are at least willing to use your constitutional powers to hold him accountable. Impeachment may sway public opinion (admittedly it could sway it to the President as well).

Posted by: SH at September 30, 2016 02:37 PM (gmeXX)

77 So, this being a smart military blog and all-- how feasible/ridiculous/ is the idea of bombing the Middle East and turning into glass or a parking lot?

'Cuz I've been hearing variants of that plan mostly in jest for a long time now and it doesn't sound so unthinkable.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at September 30, 2016 02:38 PM (u0s1P)

78 So the big October Surprise is Pakistani nukes ? While everyone is watching the Mideast, India goes up in flames?
Posted by: GT 5.0 at September 30, 2016 02:30 PM (mGMEC)



Now now now be fair.

Pakistan will be in flames too so that will be nice.

Posted by: alexthechick - Darth Sugartits at September 30, 2016 02:38 PM (mf5HN)

79 The MAJORITY of Americans either approve of Obama's idiocy or just don't care.

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I'll also add this.

If Congress doesn't care, why would the American people? And if Congress doesn't push back, then it appears that Congress approves.

Show the country that you care and disapprove by filing articles of impeachment - you may find that some Americans actually wake up.

Posted by: SH at September 30, 2016 02:38 PM (gmeXX)

80 Don't think "the navy" is going gay, social engineering, word changing. It's all from the political administration. SecNav's office is run by a Gore campaign media consultant.

Posted by: deplorable dagny at September 30, 2016 02:38 PM (09Ay7)

81 "71 Can't I just finish my waffle?
Posted by: Emperor Clusterfuck I at September 30, 2016 02:36 PM"

NO--you may not! Not unless you are willing to share with snowflakes and non-snowflakes alike--AND you have REAL maple syrup.

Posted by: rld77 WAY down south at September 30, 2016 02:39 PM (OlUfP)

82 A) invade, take their oil, and occupy them for as long as we need to.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at September 30, 2016 02:33 PM (Nwg0u)

Syria doesn't have much oil, or anything else worthwhile.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at September 30, 2016 02:39 PM (EIB5Y)

83 The word "solution" in the same sentence as "Hillary" gives me the creeps.

Posted by: votermom the deplorable @vm at September 30, 2016 02:39 PM (Om16U)

84 Pakistan will be in flames too so that will be nice.

*****

There is a silver lining.

Posted by: deplorable dagny at September 30, 2016 02:40 PM (09Ay7)

85 Of course you all know what is going to happen if Trump wins the election?

Putin!!! The Russians hacked the voting machines!!!

Bet on it. I don't usually bet outside of poker but I'll easily put $100 on it.

Posted by: HH at September 30, 2016 02:40 PM (DrCtv)

86 Now now now be fair.

Pakistan will be in flames too so that will be nice.


Don't forget, we all get a small increase in the background radiation that our cells crave.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 30, 2016 02:40 PM (YEelc)

87 Man, for all the grandstanding and pandering and demagoguery politicians are supposed to do, the (R)s in Congress sure don't do a whole lot of that.

It's a puzzlement wrapped in a riddle locked in a poser, covered with a special sauce.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at September 30, 2016 02:41 PM (u0s1P)

88

WEST POINT — Knicks center Joakim Noah skipped Thursday night’s team dinner at the mess hall with Army cadets as well as a speech from a retired colonel because of his stance against war and gun violence.

Noah said he feels “uncomfortable’’ the Knicks are conducting training camp for the third straight year at West Point, where the United States Military Academy is based.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2016 02:41 PM (IqV8l)

89 he does know how to troll the media

latest tweet by Donald

For those few people knocking me for tweeting at three o'clock in the morning, at least you know I will be there, awake, to answer the call!

Posted by: spypeach at September 30, 2016 02:41 PM (nyYhO)

90 Well, we all know the JEF is flexible. Just ask Reggie...and Vladimir.



And BTW, I caught a snippet of something yesterday hinting that James O'Keefe may have some video to drop in October.

Posted by: Country Singer (gab @BertG) at September 30, 2016 02:41 PM (uiwCw)

91 3 Ans he shit all over Peres's funeral also.



Spoke to long

Was to political

Spit on Netanyahu

And his Hebrew is the worst ever...worst

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 30, 2016 02:14 PM (CVUUB)

What a classy Golfer-In-Chief.

Posted by: pookysgirl channeling the MFM at September 30, 2016 02:41 PM (ar2KI)

92 77
So, this being a smart military blog and all-- how feasible/ridiculous/
is the idea of bombing the Middle East and turning into glass or a
parking lot?



'Cuz I've been hearing variants of that plan mostly in jest for a long time now and it doesn't sound so unthinkable.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at September 30, 2016 02:38 PM (u0s1P)


*****
You should see the reaction from the upper echelon if you even joke about that.

Posted by: deplorable dagny at September 30, 2016 02:42 PM (09Ay7)

93 dagny, if you're able to talk to someone with influence in DC re the vets, please do.

Our son has a fundraiser going tomorrow to help his fellow vets. Doing it in conjunction with the school of nursing.

Posted by: Jane D'oh, Proud Deplorable at September 30, 2016 02:42 PM (1ZOkK)

94

I'm uncomfortable that the Knicks are able to use West Point's facilities.

Posted by: SH at September 30, 2016 02:42 PM (gmeXX)

95 Syria doesn't have much oil, or anything else worthwhile.

Oh, in that case, F them, absolutely. I'm just in it for the natural resources. Foreign treasure is a time-honored way to boost the economy of a nation.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at September 30, 2016 02:42 PM (u0s1P)

96 So Trump wasn't on cocaine, there was a problem with His Mic...

Posted by: deplorable donna at September 30, 2016 02:43 PM (O2RFr)

97 Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 30, 2016 02:33 PM (Nox3c)


No Republikons haven't done anything because they are a worthless POS Party kissing the ass of the Chamber of Commerce. No, they may not get an impeachment as long as the commie Party has such stalwarts as Elija The Mouth but they could sure as hell DeFund FOR REAL one time some of Obama's shit.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 30, 2016 02:43 PM (mpXpK)

98 Love him or hate him, Bashir is about as good as it will get. We should've propped him up.

++++

They were blocking a pipeline we wanted. Russians have enough oil, I guess. Plus, our economy will tank if we don't get it.

Notice it isn't about bashir anymore, but splitting the country. We want a ceasefire on the eastern side, where we want the pipeline.

Look guys, you keep saying take the oil. Isis is the price, apparently. Everything is tribes and lands over there.

Posted by: Bigbys other phone at September 30, 2016 02:44 PM (IXAbU)

99 So does lack of action because a vacuum will lead to those nasty unexpected consequences that happen so often to TFG.

Posted by: Gmac - Dependably Deplorable at September 30, 2016 02:45 PM (z9LiC)

100
Because we all know words have meanings and actions have consequences.

Actually, that notion is now considered just so stupid. The Foucaultian idiocy has infected all areas of thought, or "thought" to be more specific, and the notion that words mean things and that actions have is now rejected by far too many who are in charge of real world issues.

We're into all out Alice In Wonderland words mean what I say they mean but about international relations with countries with ill intent and nuclear weapons.

yaaaaaay

Posted by: alexthechick - but I have chocolate chip cookies so that's okay then at September 30, 2016 02:14 PM (mf5HN)

In his New Criterion essay, 'The perversions of M. Foucault', Roger Kimball makes a strong case that Michel Foucault knew he had AIDS when taking part in the San Franscisco early 80's bath house scene and knowingly infecting God knows how many sexual partners. The idea of sex and death mixed up together evidently gave Foucault that frisson he had been looking for.

Foucault committed murder by any definition of the term yet postmodern academics still hold up this monster as some sort of philosophical giant. Makes me heartsick.

Posted by: troyriser at September 30, 2016 02:45 PM (OGbEB)

101 Governor Greg Abbott has just pulled Texas out of the federal refugee resettlement program.

Thank God for Texas...


Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 30, 2016 02:45 PM (wtvvX)

102 Hillary is able to laugh in the face of calamity ... not out of bravery, she actually thinks it is funny.

Asked about overthrowing Ghadaffi, Hillary smiled and said "we came we saw, he died" followed by a sincere long cackle/laugh. Ghadaffi had warned he was the one keeping the flood of Muslim radicals from flooding Europe. He was right.

With our aircraft spun up and waiting, several requests for the "GO" were met with silence from the WH. But while emailing Chelsea and Egyptians, the war room produced the necessary cover ... not for the battle to save Stevens and others, cover for the reality of the terrorist attack underway.

"America is Islamophobic, and that video caused this outrage ... we will get that filmmaker and silence him, and any other American deplorable that calls this Muslim terrorism."

I don't know if she laughs at all the beheadings or gays thrown off buildings, or rapes and torture. The Soros backed invasion of Europe by the "refugees" must be pretty funny to her, as she adores open borders Merkel and the predictable jihad fires in France and Germany.

Merkel finally recanted ... that really should be a clue for America to not elect Hillary.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 30, 2016 02:46 PM (n6rAX)

103 Jane, is this at U of G? or GaTech or somewhere else? Detail helps me not sound like a dumb broad.

Posted by: deplorable dagny at September 30, 2016 02:46 PM (09Ay7)

104 So the big October Surprise is Pakistani nukes ? While everyone is watching the Mideast, India goes up in flames?

Posted by: GT 5.0 at September 30, 2016 02:30 PM (mGMEC)

No, the surprise is that Israel has switched the targeting coordinates for the Pakistani nukes. When launched they will head to Iran.

(Hey - why not?)

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - M.A.G.A. Lace Helicopter Wigs are at The Outrage Outlet! at September 30, 2016 02:46 PM (hLRSq)

105 And I'm sure the Russkies and Mullahs and Chicoms being kept abreast in real time about the thoughts of the CIC and SOS via "Source Chappaqua" was of no help to them.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at September 30, 2016 02:47 PM (QtQaN)

106 >>>77 So, this being a smart military blog and all-- how feasible/ridiculous/ is the idea of bombing the Middle East and turning into glass or a parking lot?

Ridiculously ridiculous.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at September 30, 2016 02:47 PM (GqdlE)

107 It'll take a million man standing army to march across the ME and straighten it out.

Posted by: A Blinkin at September 30, 2016 02:47 PM (ucKOk)

108 From spypeach:
89 he does know how to troll the media

latest tweet by Donald

For those few people knocking me for tweeting at three o'clock in the morning, at least you know I will be there, awake, to answer the call!

TRUMP2016 FTW!!
#WAR

Posted by: Taqyia2Me, I'm Deplorable at September 30, 2016 02:47 PM (QFpXi)

109 Commander Clusterfuck will go down as the guy that started the destruction of freedom on Earth, first and foremost. Secondly, will be the destruction of civilization on Earth when Iran nukes the piss out of everything in the name of allah.

Posted by: Sponge at September 30, 2016 02:47 PM (xttKs)

110 Posted by: deplorable dagny at September 30, 2016 02:46 PM (09Ay7)



He's here at Armstrong State Univ. One of the "top ten veteran friendly schools in the U.S."

Posted by: Jane D'oh, Proud Deplorable at September 30, 2016 02:47 PM (1ZOkK)

111 Love him or hate him, Bashir is about as good as it will get. We should've propped him up.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 30, 2016 02:36 PM (4ErVI)

Ah... but we couldn't because he had a Defense Treaty with the ultimate EVIL!!!!!

You know... Russia?

So instead, we weakened him... enough to where ISIS was able to take parts of his country, and for Turkey to be able to invade to get at those dastardly Kurds...

Still looking for the declaration of war... or ANYTHING from Congress saying that bombing Assad is OK.... because he was never an ally of either the Taliban or Al Q.... which is the trigger needed for the War on Terror forever War.

Posted by: Don Deplorable... at September 30, 2016 02:48 PM (qf6WZ)

112 Governor Greg Abbott has just pulled Texas out of the federal refugee resettlement program.

-
Standing tall.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at September 30, 2016 02:48 PM (Nwg0u)

113 Foucault committed murder by any definition of the term yet postmodern academics still hold up this monster as some sort of philosophical giant. Makes me heartsick.
Posted by: troyriser at September 30, 2016 02:45 PM (OGbEB)

The new AIDS risky behavior. People are holding sex parties where one of the participants has AIDS, but, no one know who, so everyone has unprotected gay and straight sex with as many partners as possible while hoping they don't get infected.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes now with tiny wizened charcoal grey lump that is the McEvil heart at September 30, 2016 02:48 PM (kXoT0)

114 Basically ISIS-estan is a crossroads , East and West are Shia states (If Alawites count) and north and south are Sunni. Used to be that Saddam kept the Shiites apart from each other, now ISIS fills that role.

If Assad wins, Iran stretches to the Med. Which might even be okay. But the Sunnis don't want that.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at September 30, 2016 02:49 PM (jYiRF)

115 Jane D'oh, thanks for mentioning back in August that turmeric had helped your knee. I tried it and my knee also thanks you.

I hope it all comes right for your son and all the vets being screwed by this treasonous administration.

Posted by: the deplorable sock_rat_eez, stay calm and carry on at September 30, 2016 02:49 PM (Z8DIA)

116 Hilary is also the person who said in Libya:

"We came, we saw, he died!"

Why isn't that played on an endless loop by Republicans?

Democrats play-acting tough and turning an entire country onto a chaotic cauldron of dysfunction.

Posted by: West at September 30, 2016 02:49 PM (1Rgee)

117 Also, its a shame we can't move the entire state of Israel somewhere that's not surrounded by long feuding homicidal lunatics.



What planet did you have in mind?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2016 02:24 PM (IqV8l)


Don't move Israel. It is where it belongs. Remove the long-feuding homicidal maniacs, who did not originate in the area.


"Look, Achmed! We won a 3-week, all expenses paid cruise to the South Seas!"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2016 02:49 PM (o9m/V)

118 77 So, this being a smart military blog and all-- how feasible/ridiculous/ is the idea of bombing the Middle East and turning into glass or a parking lot?


---


I mean, I'm sure that we technically have the capability to do so. We could probably even do it before the other major powers are able to retaliate. What would happen after we did so is the main question.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at September 30, 2016 02:49 PM (KUaJL)

119 No, the surprise is that Israel has switched the targeting coordinates
for the Pakistani nukes. When launched they will head to Iran.

(Hey - why not?)


Would make for a great spy novel.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 30, 2016 02:49 PM (YEelc)

120 The new AIDS risky behavior.

--

So Russian roulette, but with the 'O' face.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 30, 2016 02:49 PM (7ZVPa)

121 Because we all know words have meanings

Yeah ... like "marriage" and "male" and "female" and "states" and "prosecutorial discretion" and "wee wee'd up" and ....

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 30, 2016 02:50 PM (zc3Db)

122 "The new AIDS risky behavior. People are holding sex parties where one of the participants has AIDS, but, no one know who, so everyone has unprotected gay and straight sex with as many partners as possible while hoping they don't get infected. "

Just call me the door prize.

Posted by: Hepatitis B at September 30, 2016 02:50 PM (QtQaN)

123 +++++BREAKING NEWS+++++

FBN channel exclusive!

Trish Regan is gorgeous!

+++++END NEWS ALERT++++


Posted by: Trish Regan Fan Club at September 30, 2016 02:50 PM (+wjl1)

124 Barry was born devoid of shift.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at September 30, 2016 02:51 PM (QQ+il)

125 121 Because we all know words have meanings

Yeah ... like "marriage" and "male" and "female" and "states" and "prosecutorial discretion" and "wee wee'd up" and ....

H8er!

Posted by: deplorable donna at September 30, 2016 02:51 PM (O2RFr)

126 The new AIDS risky behavior. People are holding sex parties where one of the participants has AIDS, but, no one know who, so everyone has unprotected gay and straight sex with as many partners as possible while hoping they don't get infected.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes now with tiny wizened charcoal grey lump that is the McEvil heart at September 30, 2016 02:48 PM (kXoT0)

That can't possibly be true, can it? That's just...I don't know what that is.

Posted by: troyriser at September 30, 2016 02:51 PM (OGbEB)

127 106 >>>77 So, this being a smart military blog and all-- how feasible/ridiculous/ is the idea of bombing the Middle East and turning into glass or a parking lot?

Ridiculously ridiculous.

I think you start small-- ME I would begin with one of the more non-aligned aggressors- North Korea--Then you look around and say--"ok-- Who else would like to threaten us?"

Just remember, the containment and clean up in the aftermath--monumental

Posted by: rld77 WAY down south at September 30, 2016 02:51 PM (OlUfP)

128 The new AIDS risky behavior. People are holding sex parties where one of the participants has AIDS, but, no one know who, so everyone has unprotected gay and straight sex with as many partners as possible while hoping they don't get infected.


Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes now with tiny wizened charcoal grey lump that is the McEvil heart at September 30, 2016 02:48 PM (kXoT0)




I was reading an article a few months ago that referenced "bug chasers" in the gay community. I had never heard that term, so I looked it up. Evidently, there is a subset culture of gay men that intentionally have unprotected sex with the *goal* of acquiring HIV.

Posted by: Country Singer (gab @BertG) at September 30, 2016 02:52 PM (uiwCw)

129 H8er!

Posted by: deplorable donna at September 30, 2016 02:51 PM (O2RFr)


Word.

Posted by: The Oxford English Dictionary, Yo at September 30, 2016 02:52 PM (zc3Db)

130
"Look, Achmed! We won a 3-week, all expenses paid cruise to the South Seas!"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


A three hour tour.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2016 02:52 PM (IqV8l)

131 Don't move Israel. It is where it belongs. Remove the long-feuding homicidal maniacs, who did not originate in the area.


I agree. We should pay the Palestinians to move. The further away they move, the more they will get paid.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at September 30, 2016 02:53 PM (QQ+il)

132 I am amazed at the similarities between the US now and the Weimar Republic. Also the Roman Republic. Neither one of those had admirable successors.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 30, 2016 02:53 PM (7ZVPa)

133 "The new AIDS risky behavior. People are holding sex parties where one of the participants has AIDS, but, no one know who, so everyone has unprotected gay and straight sex with as many partners as possible while hoping they don't get infected. "

Do you have to do the AIDS part to have the party?

Posted by: Sandy F. at September 30, 2016 02:53 PM (QtQaN)

134 >>>And I'm sure the Russkies and Mullahs and Chicoms being kept abreast in
real time about the thoughts of the CIC and SOS via "Source Chappaqua"
was of no help to them.<<<

Maybe this was the transparency they were all jawboning about during the campaigns.

Posted by: Fritz at September 30, 2016 02:53 PM (2Mnv1)

135 That's not a new aids risky behavior.

Posted by: Bigbys other phone at September 30, 2016 02:53 PM (IXAbU)

136 I was reading an article a few months ago that referenced "bug chasers" in the gay community. I had never heard that term, so I looked it up. Evidently, there is a subset culture of gay men that intentionally have unprotected sex with the *goal* of acquiring HIV.

Posted by: Country Singer (gab @BertG) at September 30, 2016 02:52 PM (uiwCw)


Sorry, but proving again that homosexuality is not a "normal" mindset.

Posted by: Sponge at September 30, 2016 02:53 PM (xttKs)

137 Sign cropping up all over San Antonio. "Vote Democrat" has JFK, BHO, HRC, and żBernie? First, no LBJ in south Texas? Second it has a man who wouldn't be a democrat today. Third it has a man who wasn't a dem until politically expedient to do so. And fourth, three of the knuckleheads aren't running for anything.

Posted by: A Blinkin at September 30, 2016 02:54 PM (ucKOk)

138 So the big October Surprise is Pakistani nukes ? While everyone is watching the Mideast, India goes up in flames?

Posted by: GT 5.0 at September 30, 2016 02:30 PM (mGMEC)


India has nukes, too. And missiles to deliver them. And probably a higher degree of competency. Also, it's a much bigger country. If it came to a slugfest, India could probably depopulate the whole of Pakistan.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2016 02:55 PM (o9m/V)

139 Because we all know words have meanings

Peregruzka!!

Posted by: Queef Shrillary of Cankledom at September 30, 2016 02:55 PM (zc3Db)

140 There's AIDS roulette, or there's the sort where you don't know going into your first date whether you're going to end up with a STD, a stalker, a gold digger, a bunny boiler, abuser or any or all the above. In Houston we called those "Fridays"

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at September 30, 2016 02:55 PM (jYiRF)

141 It's been around for awhile now. Most common seen at circuit parties, also of long standing.

Posted by: Bigbys other phone at September 30, 2016 02:55 PM (IXAbU)

142 I was reading an article a few months ago that referenced "bug chasers" in the gay community. I had never heard that term, so I looked it up. Evidently, there is a subset culture of gay men that intentionally have unprotected sex with the *goal* of acquiring HIV.

Posted by: Country Singer (gab @BertG) at September 30, 2016 02:52 PM (uiwCw)




been around for more than a decade.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2016 02:55 PM (cPsPa)

143 Talk about your greatest generation! Not only did this WWII veteran win the war, he's been dead two years and he still registered to vote.

http://tinyurl.com/j62ewrn

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at September 30, 2016 02:55 PM (Nwg0u)

144 let the islamists all have a 100 year civil war.

Posted by: Queen lateral rectus at September 30, 2016 02:56 PM (ir/G5)

145 My niece, whose husband is at Ft. Leonard Wood, just sent me this:


7 Afghan military students AWOL from U.S. posts


http://tinyurl.com/gurla8b

Posted by: Tami...Powering through being a depolorable at September 30, 2016 02:56 PM (Enq6K)

146 It'll take a million man standing army to march across the ME and straighten it out.


What has Maine done now?

Oh, wait the Maine sunk in Havana harbor 1898, don't you remember?

Posted by: W. Gnostic Fiddleslee Jr. at September 30, 2016 02:57 PM (va9fI)

147 77 So, this being a smart military blog and all-- how feasible/ridiculous/ is the idea of bombing the Middle East and turning into glass or a parking lot?


---


I mean, I'm sure that we technically have the capability to do so. We could probably even do it before the other major powers are able to retaliate. What would happen after we did so is the main question.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at September 30, 2016 02:49 PM (KUaJL)




since we do not need them, clear out, let them set upon each other and when the sand settles, move in.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2016 02:57 PM (cPsPa)

148 India has nukes, too. And missiles to deliver them. And probably a higher degree of competency. Also, it's a much bigger country. If it came to a slugfest, India could probably depopulate the whole of Pakistan.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2016 02:55 PM (o9m/V)


The Indian and Pakistani governments already detailed all this in 2003. Pakistan said they would unleash their whole nuke arsenal on India and India responded by saying, "Go ahead. We can survive your arsenal but you can't survive ours."

And then Bush got in the middle of it to calm things down, which was one of the stupidest acts ever.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 30, 2016 02:58 PM (zc3Db)

149 >>>I think you start small-- ME I would begin with one of the more non-aligned aggressors- North Korea--Then you look around and say--"ok-- Who else would like to threaten us?"

Just remember, the containment and clean up in the aftermath--monumental
Posted by: rld77 WAY down south at September 30, 2016 02:51 PM (OlUfP)

North Korea would be even worse. Russia and China aren't going to take kindly to nukes being used in their backyard. South Koreans aren't going to appreciate it either.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at September 30, 2016 02:58 PM (GqdlE)

150 My niece, whose husband is at Ft. Leonard Wood, just sent me this:


7 Afghan military students AWOL from U.S. posts


http://tinyurl.com/gurla8b
Posted by: Tami...Powering through being a depolorable at September 30, 2016 02:56 PM (Enq6K)



well, have you ever been to Fort Leonard Wood? if you had you would understand their going awol was understandable.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2016 02:59 PM (cPsPa)

151 I was reading an article a few months ago that referenced "bug chasers" in the gay community. I had never heard that term, so I looked it up. Evidently, there is a subset culture of gay men that intentionally have unprotected sex with the *goal* of acquiring HIV.

I recall reading an SF story - in retrospect it was probably in Omni - that had a character that went around effing everything in the hopes that he would turn up the right combo for immunity. It might even have been a whole group, not just the one guy, and this one guy was one of them.

It was the 80s.


Posted by: blaster at September 30, 2016 02:59 PM (ACqhm)

152 India has nukes, too. And missiles to deliver them. And probably a higher degree of competency.

----------

He who controls the help desk, controls the world.

Posted by: SH at September 30, 2016 02:59 PM (gmeXX)

153 how feasible/ridiculous/ is the idea of bombing the Middle East and turning into glass or a parking lot?

-
The world is a giant game of Jenga. You pull the Gavrilo Princip tile and we all fall down.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at September 30, 2016 03:00 PM (Nwg0u)

154 The Indian and Pakistani governments already detailed all this in 2003. Pakistan said they would unleash their whole nuke arsenal on India and India responded by saying, "Go ahead. We can survive your arsenal but you can't survive ours."

And then Bush got in the middle of it to calm things down, which was one of the stupidest acts ever.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 30, 2016 02:58 PM (zc3Db)



yeah but then what are they going to do about the chicoms?

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2016 03:00 PM (cPsPa)

155 Also - my proposed Allies for the GWOT from 2001: US, Russia, Israel, India.

Posted by: blaster at September 30, 2016 03:00 PM (ACqhm)

156 yeah but then what are they going to do about the chicoms?

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2016 03:00 PM (cPsPa)


They, who?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 30, 2016 03:00 PM (zc3Db)

157 Also around a long time

Serosorting
Being only receptive if infected

With prep we are currently seeing an increase in stds and more partners to HIV, meaning non HIV guys with say gonorrhea giving that to the HIV guys.

My job requires informing of the exposure though. We haven't caught up yet

Posted by: Bigbys other phone at September 30, 2016 03:01 PM (IXAbU)

158 C'mon down to Ernie's House of Feck!

For Feck's Sake!

We buy in bulk, and pass the savings on to YOU!


Posted by: Ernie's House of Feck at September 30, 2016 03:01 PM (EVi2J)

159 Oh my, now the debate commission says that Trump did indeed have a bad microphone on Monday night. So much for Howard Dean's cocaine theory. Why would you even think that unless...

Posted by: Countrysquire at September 30, 2016 03:01 PM (LSJmV)

160 yeah but then what are they going to do about the chicoms?

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2016 03:00 PM (cPsPa)

They, who?
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 30, 2016 03:00 PM (zc3Db)




the surviving indians.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2016 03:01 PM (cPsPa)

161 well, have you ever been to Fort Leonard Wood? if you had you would understand their going awol was understandable.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2016 02:59 PM (cPsPa)

Yeah, I have been but they weren't all at FLW.
"Two of the students were at Fort Benning in Georgia, while one was
at Fort Lee in Virginia and the other in Little Rock, Arkansas.






Three more students - two at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and one at
Fort Gordon, Georgia - were discovered missing the weekend of Sept. 17,
Evans added"

Posted by: Tami...Powering through being a depolorable at September 30, 2016 03:02 PM (Enq6K)

162 I'm convinced the reason we don't do that, though, is that the military is uniquely qualified to do the required mass logistics in a hurry.


When you think about it, any deployment of troops, whether to invade a place or defend it against that, is mass logistics in a hurry.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at September 30, 2016 03:02 PM (ujg0T)

163 Also from the 80s I remember the Army showing us a video about AIDS. There were soldiers with AIDs, and there were these guys who said they had hundreds of partners in a year. We thought, man, that's a lot of tail!

We had no idea. Army didn't want to let on they were teh ghey.

Posted by: blaster at September 30, 2016 03:02 PM (ACqhm)

164 North Korea would be even worse. Russia and China aren't going to take kindly to nukes being used in their backyard. South Koreans aren't going to appreciate it either.
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at September 30, 2016 02:58

Depends on HOW it's done in part.--We now have "tactical nukes" that actually are less destructive than a MOAB. There are lots of variables as well---altitude at detonation, neutron, etc

Posted by: rld77 WAY down south at September 30, 2016 03:03 PM (OlUfP)

165 the surviving indians.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2016 03:01 PM (cPsPa)


??

China is going to invade a nuked India? I don't think so. If the Mongols were still running China, then maybe ... but not with the Chinese.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 30, 2016 03:03 PM (zc3Db)

166
The world is a giant game of Jenga. You pull the Gavrilo Princip tile and we all fall down

+++

Exactly. We would be gone in a puff of smoke

Posted by: Bigbys other phone at September 30, 2016 03:03 PM (IXAbU)

167 I don't know how much you could count on Republicans in Congress voting to give Obama war powers in a part of the world where he had just thrown away the sacrifice of so many American lives by taking all the US troops out of Iraq, creating the power vacuum that gave rise to ISIS.

Obama would have faced another embarrassment in Congress when neither Democrats or Republicans would vote for his authorisation.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at September 30, 2016 03:03 PM (OLaZH)

168 in other great news Horse Face signed the UN gun ban treaty...

http://weaponsman.com/?p=35430

fuck these fascist fuckers, sideways, with a tanker's bar wrapped with three spools of rusty concertina wire.

Posted by: redc1c4 at September 30, 2016 03:03 PM (aEZpQ)

169 You can't fix the shitty actors in the ME when they are all mostly shitty actors, and the non shitty actors are unwilling to put any of their own skin in the game to help. They would rather see the area one big terrorist craphole than be seen as even indirectly siding with Israel against an islamic organization.

Posted by: A Blinkin at September 30, 2016 03:04 PM (ucKOk)

170
Pakistan and India are not going to nuke each other. They just have a border dispute that has been going on since the separation.

Don't let the pot stirrers in the media get you all upset.

Don't you remember the Sino-India war of 1962. I remember the pictures on the TV (black and white) of armies of men walking up hill while Walter Chronkhite told us how terriblly dangerous it was. Made Life magazine too, I think. Lasted about twenty four hours and then everyone forgot about it. I'm not even sure who won. Nobody ever said.

Posted by: W. Gnostic Fiddleslee Jr. at September 30, 2016 03:04 PM (va9fI)

171 168 in other great news Horse Face signed the UN gun ban treaty...



The UN is banned from owning guns? Endorse!

Posted by: A Blinkin at September 30, 2016 03:05 PM (ucKOk)

172 When does FBI - Hillary Clinton Friday afternoon news dump occur?

Posted by: SH at September 30, 2016 03:05 PM (gmeXX)

173 China lacks the logistical ability to invade India.

there aren't any roads or railroads and they don't have the sea lift nor air lift to do it those ways.

Posted by: redc1c4 at September 30, 2016 03:05 PM (aEZpQ)

174 I don't know how much you could count on Republicans in Congress voting to give Obama war powers

You think he'd ask?

Posted by: blaster at September 30, 2016 03:06 PM (ACqhm)

175 168 in other great news Horse Face signed the UN gun ban treaty...


When do we sign over the Internet?

Posted by: deplorable donna at September 30, 2016 03:07 PM (O2RFr)

176 My pronoun of choice is "Master". There is no safe word.

Posted by: Whatevs at September 30, 2016 03:07 PM (7wyDO)

177 >>>I don't know how much you could count on Republicans in Congress voting to give Obama war powers

You think he'd ask?

Posted by: blaster at September 30, 2016 03:06 PM (ACqhm)


Really. This issue is already known from Libya.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 30, 2016 03:07 PM (zc3Db)

178 Internet goes at midnight tonight.

Posted by: the deplorable sock_rat_eez, stay calm and carry on at September 30, 2016 03:07 PM (Z8DIA)

179 When do we sign over the Internet?

Posted by: deplorable donna at September 30, 2016 03:07 PM (O2RFr)


In a couple of days, I believe. Fundamental transformation.

Posted by: Jane D'oh, Proud Deplorable at September 30, 2016 03:08 PM (1ZOkK)

180 When do we sign over the Internet?



Already signed over, signed off, sealed, delivered, accepted, return receipt in hand, done deal.

Midnight tonight the internet as we know it goes dark.

Posted by: W. Gnostic Fiddleslee Jr. at September 30, 2016 03:08 PM (va9fI)

181 China is going to invade a nuked India? I don't think so. If the Mongols were still running China, then maybe ... but not with the Chinese.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 30, 2016 03:03 PM (zc3Db)



well, they are not exactly friendly.

I am not saying china has an imminent plan to invade but if your very large unfriendly suddenly gets nuked and expends most of its nuclear arsenal you should have a contingency plan.

if everything has gone so far astray as to have india and pakistan involved in a nuclear exchange lots if not all bets are off.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 30, 2016 03:09 PM (cPsPa)

182 Internet goes at midnight tonight.

-----------

So one final overnight thread before before the purges start.

Posted by: SH at September 30, 2016 03:09 PM (gmeXX)

183 I mean, I'm sure that we technically have the capability to do so. We could probably even do it before the other major powers are able to retaliate. What would happen after we did so is the main question.

I was thinking more of what would actually happen to the desert if it was bombed heavily enough. I mean, how glass-like would the sand become? Would it be as smooth as people seem to imagine? It's a science/materials question, really.

I know it's not gonna happen and oh yeah loss of life blah blah blah. Science!

Posted by: Lance McCormick at September 30, 2016 03:09 PM (u0s1P)

184 If only we had a Congress with balls.

Posted by: Jane D'oh, Proud Deplorable at September 30, 2016 03:09 PM (1ZOkK)

185 So one final overnight thread before before the purges start.

I'd laugh if I didn't think it was possible...

Posted by: deplorable donna at September 30, 2016 03:09 PM (O2RFr)

186 Has anyone else asked how Al Gore feels about us losing control over his invention?

Posted by: SH at September 30, 2016 03:10 PM (gmeXX)

187 The world is a giant game of Jenga. You pull the Gavrilo Princip tile and we all fall down.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at September 30, 2016 03:00 PM (Nwg0u)


Lots of tiles like that throughout history. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald... who knows how they changed what might have been from happening?

Posted by: Gran of the Deplorables at September 30, 2016 03:11 PM (XIXhw)

188 Last day today to vote for the November horde book in the goodreads group. It's a tie right now between Christopher Taylor and Mike Banzet.

Posted by: Votermom the deplorable @vm on Gab at September 30, 2016 03:11 PM (Om16U)

189 113
The new AIDS risky behavior. People are holding sex parties where one of the participants has AIDS, but, no one know who, so everyone has unprotected gay and straight sex with as many partners as possible while hoping they don't get infected.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes now with tiny wizened charcoal grey lump that is the McEvil heart at September 30, 2016 02:48 PM (kXoT0)


That sounds like the behavior of people who are complete nihilists. They see no meaningful hope for the future, and just want to enjoy themselves in the here and now.

Between impending economic collapse, galloping totalitarianism, Islam on the march everywhere, and a world spiraling towards WWIII, who's to say they don't have a point?

Posted by: rickl the deplorable at September 30, 2016 03:11 PM (zoehZ)

190 Relax, everyone. I heard a news reader say yesterday that the internet will be controlled by a UN-like body.

Absolutely nothing can go wrong.

Posted by: Jane D'oh, Proud Deplorable at September 30, 2016 03:11 PM (1ZOkK)

191

Get your domain names now, while you can.

Selling cheap.

Cheap domain names.

Garenteed grandfathered in under the old rules.

Time is tick, tick, ticking away.

Sign up now before it is too late.

Getjer domain names now before it's too late.

address in nick

Don't miss out on this one time lifetime offer.

This is your last chance, you will never get another chance like this one.

Don't miss out

Posted by: W. Gnostic Fiddleslee Jr. at September 30, 2016 03:11 PM (va9fI)

192 Texas is trying to enjoin the Obama administration from turning over the Internet. I'm guess she will not be successful.

Posted by: SH at September 30, 2016 03:11 PM (gmeXX)

193 >>>>>in other great news Horse Face signed the UN gun ban treaty...

http://weaponsman.com/?p=35430

fuck these fascist fuckers, sideways, with a tanker's bar wrapped with three spools of rusty concertina wire.
.
.
.
.Max Nix. He can sign anything he wants to, doesn't make it a Treaty though.

They are just trying to get enough stuff to fill out obama's library.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at September 30, 2016 03:11 PM (iONHu)

194 55 Dude who's building the PCs claims he can get everything to perform well with an i3.

My experience with i3 makes me doubt that but what do I know.


Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2016 02:29 PM (9q7Dl)



Well looking at Newegg, I can tell you that the newest generation the price point jumps about $100 between each. $120, 200, 340.

Good news is though that if you do go with the i3 and its not handling it, it should have the same socket type as the others so you can upgrade.

Posted by: buzzion at September 30, 2016 03:11 PM (z/Ubi)

195
Internet goes at midnight tonight.

Stossel said no big deal. Don't worry about a thing.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2016 03:12 PM (IqV8l)

196 So one final overnight thread before before the purges start.

I'd laugh if I didn't think it was possible...
Posted by: deplorable donna at September 30, 2016 03:09 PM (O2RFr)

I think tonight's ONT will be epic.

Posted by: spypeach at September 30, 2016 03:12 PM (nyYhO)

197 500 Quatloos on Team Sanjay.

Posted by: Roland [OMITTED] at September 30, 2016 03:13 PM (QM5S2)

198 192
Texas is trying to enjoin the Obama administration from turning over the Internet. I'm guess she will not be successful.

Posted by: SH at September 30, 2016 03:11 PM (gmeXX)

Texas and 3 other state's attorney's general. Hearing is today before a federal judge in Texas but I haven't heard any ruling.

Posted by: Tami...Powering through being a depolorable at September 30, 2016 03:13 PM (Enq6K)

199 >>>Depends on HOW it's done in part.--We now have "tactical nukes" that actually are less destructive than a MOAB. There are lots of variables as well---altitude at detonation, neutron, etc
Posted by: rld77 WAY down south at September 30, 2016 03:03 PM (OlUfP)

No it doesn't. We have less of a relationship with Mexico but we'd be more than a little pissed if someone nuked them regardless of how neatly they did it. And Russia and China are much more touchy about there spheres than us. Population of N Koreacis around 25 million. You're either talking about killing 25 million or destroying government and creating chaos and 20+ million refugees in someone else's backyard. Ridiculous, even if there were popular support, which there isn't.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at September 30, 2016 03:13 PM (GqdlE)

200 113
The new AIDS risky behavior.


Is this really a thing?

Reminds me of that "rainbow party" thing that turned out to not really be a thing.

Posted by: Gran of the Deplorables at September 30, 2016 03:14 PM (XIXhw)

201 Between impending economic collapse, galloping totalitarianism, Islam on the march everywhere, and a world spiraling towards WWIII, who's to say they don't have a point?

Posted by: rickl the deplorable


And so they engage in behavior that endangers themselves and those in contact with them outside of it as well as increasing costs to those who will inevitably foot the bill?

Yeah, no.

Seal off the house where it's happening and never let them out. If they want their own little Masque Orgy of the Pink Plague, let them be the sole participants...and victims.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, convening Horde Thunderdome at September 30, 2016 03:14 PM (9krrF)

202 Tami, I sent ya an e-mail. Hope it went through. Windows 10 can burn in hell.

Posted by: Jane D'oh, Proud Deplorable at September 30, 2016 03:14 PM (1ZOkK)

203 Oh, wait the Maine sunk in Havana harbor 1898, don't you remember?
Posted by: W. Gnostic Fiddleslee Jr. at September 30, 2016 02:57 PM (va9fI)

Maine sunk?!? See, I told you people it could happen!

Posted by: Rep. Hank Johnson at September 30, 2016 03:14 PM (7HtZB)

204 Ok, Jane...I'll go look.

Posted by: Tami...Powering through being a depolorable at September 30, 2016 03:15 PM (Enq6K)

205 Well, those urns on the front porch aren't going to plant themselves.

Later, all.

Posted by: Jane D'oh, Proud Deplorable at September 30, 2016 03:15 PM (1ZOkK)

206 I will make myself stay awake for the ONT tonight.

Posted by: deplorablejewells45 at September 30, 2016 03:15 PM (zRZaJ)

207 Well, those urns on the front porch aren't going to plant themselves.

Later, all.

Posted by: Jane D'oh, Proud Deplorable at September 30, 2016 03:15 PM (1ZOkK)


Planting urns ... I never thought of that. I keep going out and buying new ones. Silly me.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 30, 2016 03:16 PM (zc3Db)

208
I will make myself stay awake for the ONT tonight.
Posted by: deplorablejewells45


It'll be up in a Giffy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2016 03:16 PM (IqV8l)

209 If we are just going to turn over US property to the UN, why couldn't we have just given up San Francisco and kept the Internet.

Posted by: SH at September 30, 2016 03:17 PM (gmeXX)

210 I was thinking more of what would actually happen to
the desert if it was bombed heavily enough. I mean, how glass-like
would the sand become? Would it be as smooth as people seem to imagine?
It's a science/materials question, really.



I know it's not gonna happen and oh yeah loss of life blah blah blah. Science!

Posted by: Lance McCormick at September 30, 2016 03:09 PM (u0s1P)


Well, the Trinity test turned some of the desert sand into glass (Trinitite), but the device was on a tower maybe a hundred feet off the ground, so the fireball spread over the ground. I think most nuke weapons are fused to go off at a couple of thousand feet, so as to increase the radius of destruction. So the sand might not get melted at all.

I seem to remember seeing a photo of Trinity Site, and the stumps of the tower legs could be seen projecting from the fused sand.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2016 03:17 PM (o9m/V)

211 @193
The fact that a UN small arms ban isn't immediately effective and will likely be defeated is nice, but the endless probing by the hard left is dispiriting.

Not only are they always probing for weakness, but the very act of seeking what (now) seems an outrageous advance of their "progressive" agenda itself serves (they hope, and they are often right) to make what once was ridiculous acceptable, and eventually the enforced "norm."

Just like "Occupy" made blatant class warfare "acceptable" among the coastal elites, and just like "equal marriage" shifted the narrative to mandated Celebration cakes.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at September 30, 2016 03:17 PM (QtQaN)

212 I think one reason some people are attracted to"bug chasing" and AIDs-roulette, is just the age-old love of forbidden fruit.
When a society has declared just about all sexual behavior to be cool, healthy, and even righteous, you have to push the envelope to get the forbidden-fruit thrill.

And people are bored.
And some, evidently, are bored to death.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 30, 2016 03:18 PM (Nox3c)

213 I will make myself stay awake for the ONT tonight.




Nah. ICANN offices will be closed until Monday morning and it will take them at least a month just to get a position paper written up, and another six months to get it passed around the member nations.

Things might be a little confused for a year or two, and all those people selling domain names will be wondering where they are suppossed to send the money.

Posted by: W. Gnostic Fiddleslee Jr. at September 30, 2016 03:18 PM (va9fI)

214 Not sure if Dig. X-ray counts as heavy graphics.

Maybe some photos.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2016 02:24 PM (9q7Dl)


Depends on the resolution of the images. If they're really high-res, then I'd recommend a discrete GPU.

Posted by: Gran of the Deplorables at September 30, 2016 03:18 PM (XIXhw)

215 "My pronoun of choice is "Master". There is no safe word."

Is your name John Bates??

Posted by: rld77 WAY down south at September 30, 2016 03:18 PM (fwtA1)

216 Nada Jane....

Posted by: Tami...Powering through being a depolorable at September 30, 2016 03:19 PM (Enq6K)

217 Nah. ICANN offices will be closed until Monday morning and it will take them at least a month just to get a position paper written up, and another six months to get it passed around the member nations.

Things might be a little confused for a year or two, and all those people selling domain names will be wondering where they are suppossed to send the money.

----------

If you liked the Obamacare websites, you are going to love the new domain name registration process.

Posted by: SH at September 30, 2016 03:19 PM (gmeXX)

218 He has been leading the free world from behind without a shred of feck. The only times he has shown he has any testicles at all is when he was dealing with the Republican eunuchs.
The only time the eunuchs have defied him was in his most recent SCOTUS nomination.

Posted by: Hank at September 30, 2016 03:19 PM (1LTqH)

219 ok.. that was kind of a joke guys.

Posted by: deplorablejewells45 at September 30, 2016 03:20 PM (zRZaJ)

220
Young gays don't view AIDS as an automatic death sentence anymore.there are drug cocktails now that can keep them alive indefinately.The problem is it will end up creating a super strand resistant to the cocktails.

Posted by: Deplorabe Male Logic at September 30, 2016 03:20 PM (lKyWE)

221 Building PCs is passe. You can get shitloads of power for not a lot of money buying prebuilt.

Core i5 8GB RAM 1TB HP with 3 years onsite service is ~650

Posted by: blaster at September 30, 2016 03:20 PM (ACqhm)

222
One thing with the mustard gas incident. US doctrine on WMD use has almost always been that gas=germ=nuke. The world at large has always suspected that this doctrine was a bluff (which it was), but no one was willing to call the US on it.

Now, JugEars has thrown that away, which actually makes chemical warfare against the US MORE likely. Fucking dumbass.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 30, 2016 03:20 PM (MjHtC)

223 201
Seal off the house where it's happening and never let them out. If they want their own little Masque Orgy of the Pink Plague, let them be the sole participants...and victims.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, convening Horde Thunderdome at September 30, 2016 03:14 PM (9krrF)


That works for me.

Posted by: rickl the deplorable at September 30, 2016 03:21 PM (zoehZ)

224 203
Maine sunk?!? See, I told you people it could happen!
Posted by: Rep. Hank Johnson at September 30, 2016 03:14 PM (7HtZB)
-----------------------------
I predicted it before you did!!!!!!

Posted by: Al Gore at September 30, 2016 03:21 PM (Nox3c)

225 I was thinking more of what would actually happen to
the desert if it was bombed heavily enough. I mean, how glass-like
would the sand become? Would it be as smooth as people seem to imagine?
It's a science/materials question, really.

I know it's not gonna happen and oh yeah loss of life blah blah blah. Science!

Posted by: Lance McCormick at September 30, 2016 03:09 PM (u0s1P)

I've fired clay with a galvanized steel trashcan and a bag of sawdust. I'm sure nukes generating the heat of the sun can make oceans of glass out of desert sand.

Posted by: troyriser at September 30, 2016 03:21 PM (OGbEB)

226 OT Just a darkly amusing headline and second line over at Frontpage Magazine:

Obama: "THERE'S NO RELIGIOUS RATIONALE FOR JIHAD TERROR."

Right, and Hillary is honest too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke, redeemed and redeemable at September 30, 2016 03:21 PM (EnGQE)

227 most religious extremists have never heard of the word "RATIONALE "

Posted by: rld77 WAY down south at September 30, 2016 03:24 PM (fwtA1)

228 You don't want to nuke the ME because that would hurt us just as much with the total destruction of the gulf oil fields.

What you want to do is just retake the oil fields and then the primitives will all be totally neutered. Without control of the oil fields they stole, the arabs would interest people about as much as the hindus do. That would pretty much be the end of the arabs and the persians. And if they continued to cause problems then cleanup would be ridiculously easy with conventional weapons.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 30, 2016 03:26 PM (zc3Db)

229 One thing with the mustard gas incident. US doctrine on WMD use has almost always been that gas=germ=nuke. The world at large has always suspected that this doctrine was a bluff (which it was), but no one was willing to call the US on it.

Now, JugEars has thrown that away, which actually makes chemical warfare against the US MORE likely. Fucking dumbass.


I think that was blown before. We know Saddam Hussein used chemical on US troops in the Gulf War, and we did not retaliate. I believe that is why we refused to disclose the chemical weapons that WERE found (yes, there were chemicals found in Iraq). I think Iraq was behind (at least in part) the anthrax attacks on the US post 9/11.

To acknowledge those things would be to blow our if you use WMD first we will nuke you policy.

Posted by: blaster at September 30, 2016 03:26 PM (ACqhm)

230 221 Building PCs is passe. You can get shitloads of power for not a lot of money buying prebuilt.

Core i5 8GB RAM 1TB HP with 3 years onsite service is ~650
Posted by: blaster at September 30, 2016 03:20 PM (ACqhm)


I've built my last two computers and have enjoyed doing so. Along with that I know what components are going into the system and don't have to rely on a generic motherboard, RAM, power supply, and GPU that the hacks at HP put into their shitty ass computers.

Now that being said, if you're just going to be using a PC for going on the internet, watching movies and facebooking, then yeah some cheap pre-built is the way to go.

Posted by: buzzion at September 30, 2016 03:28 PM (z/Ubi)

231 @230 if your just going to do those things you can go even cheaper. An i5 with 8GB is aactually a lot of juice.

Posted by: blaster at September 30, 2016 03:29 PM (ACqhm)

232 222
One thing with the mustard gas incident. US doctrine on WMD use has almost always been that gas=germ=nuke. The world at large has always suspected that this doctrine was a bluff (which it was), but no one was willing to call the US on it.

Now, JugEars has thrown that away, which actually makes chemical warfare against the US MORE likely. Fucking dumbass.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 30, 2016 03:20 PM (MjHtC)



And the foolish leftists argued against US chemical or bio weapon stockpiles on the grounds that "We can always nuke anyway".

I think they opposed tactical nuclear weapons for the same all-or-nothing rationale.

All-or-nothing responses tend to lead to--nothing. Deterrence, to be credible, must be in kind.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at September 30, 2016 03:30 PM (ujg0T)

233 You don't want to nuke the ME because that would hurt us just as much with the total destruction of the gulf oil fields.



What you want to do is just retake the oil fields and then the
primitives will all be totally neutered. Without control of the oil
fields they stole, the arabs would interest people about as much as the
hindus do. That would pretty much be the end of the arabs and the
persians. And if they continued to cause problems then cleanup would be
ridiculously easy with conventional weapons.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 30, 2016 03:26 PM (zc3Db)


Well, if you carpet-bombed the ME with nukes, you'd take out all the oil infrastructure, and leave a bunch of burning wells spewing out oil and gas in a radioactive wasteland. But you could nuke some of the major cities, and military bases, and then march in and simply own all that oil. You could do it without nukes, too, but it would be a longer, tougher campaign with more casualties.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2016 03:30 PM (o9m/V)

234 I'm sure nukes generating the heat of the sun can make oceans of glass out of desert sand.




The fireball isn't all that big; not like the anti-nuke hysterics want you to think. An airburst, the fireball doesn't even touch the ground.

Sure, radiant heat can ignite wooden structrues for 'some distance' but that is a lot lower temerature than that required to fuse silicon.

The damage is done by the pressure wave of rapidly expanding atmospheric gases.

The anti-nuke hysterics make it sound like a nightmare, which it isn't. For some values of nightmare. The US can absorb a few with only minor discontinuities from paniced anti-nuke hysterics.

Posted by: W. Gnostic Fiddleslee Jr. at September 30, 2016 03:31 PM (va9fI)

235 218 --- The only times he has shown he has any testicles at all is when he was dealing with the Republican eunuchs.

Posted by: Hank at September 30, 2016 03:19 PM (1LTqH)
-----------------------
Well, he cares about THAT.
Leftists only care about foreign affairs to the extent that it helps them against their real (domestic) enemies.

Sometimes it can be fun --- photo-ops in exotic locales, champagne suppers with international leftists who hate the US as much as American leftists do.

But mostly it's annoying because you can't manipulate or control foreigners so easily. A lot of them don't even care if you call them racist!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 30, 2016 03:33 PM (Nox3c)

236 if you need more evidence obama is the worst president ever, check this:
http://tinyurl.com/zdxup5x

and long strings of text are annoying my ass. why don't you update your 1990s comment software?

Posted by: docweasel at September 30, 2016 03:33 PM (6aY/x)

237 Well, if you carpet-bombed the ME with nukes, you'd take out all the oil infrastructure, and leave a bunch of burning wells spewing out oil and gas in a radioactive wasteland. But you could nuke some of the major cities, and military bases, and then march in and simply own all that oil. You could do it without nukes, too, but it would be a longer, tougher campaign with more casualties.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2016 03:30 PM (o9m/V)



"Starship Troopers", with Muslims as "Bugs".

Posted by: Curmudgeon at September 30, 2016 03:33 PM (ujg0T)

238

Where did everyone go?

Posted by: W. Gnostic Fiddleslee Jr. at September 30, 2016 03:36 PM (va9fI)

239 The anti-nuke hysterics make it sound like a nightmare, which it isn't. For some values of nightmare. The US can absorb a few with only minor discontinuities from paniced anti-nuke hysterics.

Posted by: W. Gnostic Fiddleslee Jr. at September 30, 2016 03:31 PM (va9fI)

So we really could survive a nuking of DC and New York City.

Awesome!

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at September 30, 2016 03:36 PM (/+VTF)

240 The anti-nuke hysterics make it sound like a nightmare, which it isn't.

Posted by: W. Gnostic Fiddleslee Jr. at September 30, 2016 03:31 PM (va9fI)


The left has convinced people that a couple of nuke explosions would irradiate the planet and bring on a 20 year winter. Funny how we had nuke explosions all the time in the mid 20th century and people didn't even notice. Although pretty much everyone's favorite picture is of the bikini nuke test.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 30, 2016 03:37 PM (zc3Db)

241 >>>Well, if you carpet-bombed the ME with nukes, you'd take out all the oil infrastructure, and leave a bunch of burning wells spewing out oil and gas in a radioactive wasteland. But you could nuke some of the major cities, and military bases, and then march in and simply own all that oil. You could do it without nukes, too, but it would be a longer, tougher campaign with more casualties.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2016 03:30 PM (o9m/V)

We're seriously risking losing our "smart" military blog reputation here.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at September 30, 2016 03:40 PM (GqdlE)

242 240
The left has convinced people that a couple of nuke explosions would irradiate the planet and bring on a 20 year winter.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 30, 2016 03:37 PM (zc3Db)
------------------------------------
Solves the global warming problem!!!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 30, 2016 03:41 PM (Nox3c)

243 The left has convinced people that a couple of nuke explosions would irradiate the planet and bring on a 20 year winter. Funny how we had nuke explosions all the time in the mid 20th century and people didn't even notice.



Those freaking out about it weren't even alive back then.
Morning all. I knew there was something I forgot to do.
Headed to OKC on 35.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2016 03:42 PM (PrVhQ)

244 "Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled. Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again; and when the hill stood still he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill'." - Francis Bacon

Welcome to the hill.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 30, 2016 03:44 PM (9mTYi)

245 Well, if you carpet-bombed the ME with nukes, you'd take out all the oil infrastructure, ...

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Uh, what about us?

Posted by: Area Rugs at September 30, 2016 03:45 PM (9mTYi)

246 People are holding sex parties where one of the participants has AIDS, but, no one know who, so everyone has unprotected gay and straight sex with as many partners as possible while hoping they don't get infected.

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So it's kinda like Hot Potato.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at September 30, 2016 03:47 PM (Nwg0u)

247 Newt! No.... Nude! Rats... that isn't it either

Posted by: Area Rugs at September 30, 2016 03:48 PM (9mTYi)

248 226 OT Just a darkly amusing headline and second line over at Frontpage Magazine:

Obama: "THERE'S NO RELIGIOUS RATIONALE FOR JIHAD TERROR."

Right, and Hillary is honest too.

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Islamic
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Posted by: Says so right in their name at September 30, 2016 03:51 PM (kTF2Z)

249 the only thing the WON attacks are conservatives and golf balls

Posted by: talgus at September 30, 2016 04:22 PM (UaPF2)

250 What you're not understanding is that's how bad Bush left the Russia situation. Obama inherited these issues..and if not these exact issues, then their precursors, which Bush had screwed up so badly, 8 years of awesomeness had no chance to fix.

Posted by: Axeman at September 30, 2016 04:24 PM (2mC6G)

251 Feckless Wonder? I'll go with Dickless Schmuck.

Posted by: Skeptical Voter at September 30, 2016 05:14 PM (Sda6L)

252 "Now, JugEars has thrown that away, which actually makes chemical warfare against the US MORE likely. Fucking dumbass."

To be fair to JugEars, Bush threw that away after the anthrax attacks.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at September 30, 2016 05:17 PM (fVubI)

253 Is he "feckless"--ineffective--in defending America? Or is he feckful--very effective--in not defending these colonies?

Your military aircraft are falling apart--feckless or feckful?

'Tis truly a quandary.

With Sincerest Regards,

Posted by: Benedict Arnold, World Citizen at September 30, 2016 08:24 PM (Ndje9)

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