Obama will pimp Hamas

And if you are Jewish, tell me again why you voted for Hussein.

The incoming Obama administration is prepared to abandon George Bush's ­doctrine of isolating Hamas by establishing a channel to the Islamist organisation, sources close to the transition team say.

The move to open contacts with Hamas, which could be initiated through the US intelligence services, would represent a definitive break with the Bush ­presidency's ostracising of the group. The state department has designated Hamas a terrorist organisation, and in 2006 ­Congress passed a law banning US financial aid to the group.

And then take the time to view this video. (Hat tip to Larry P.)

As was said in the Forest Gump movie, "stupid is as stupid does."

Bush and the Texas Air National Guard

Along with all the street dancing and shouts about a 1000 year Hussein reigns, or at least until 2012, I find a fair amount of history rewriting going on. To help us all in remember a few simple facts, I note the following thoughts about the various claims of those suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome – BDS.

Bush was AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard (Tang) unit, and numerous other charges.

I guess the place to start would be at the beginning. “Bush’s daddy used political influence to get him into TANG.”

E.D. Hill: One of the other claims is that President Bush, because of his connections, was able to, in essence, jump in front of hundreds of applicants. Now, you were the head of the Texas National Guard at that time. Did a significant number of people meet the requirements for the physical, educational, and security needs to even apply for the specific position that Bush took?

Col. Lively: No. Actually, I wasn't the head of the Air National Guard. But I was the head of Operations. I was Director of Operations and I oversaw and inspected all of the units in Texas. Flew with them. And the, there was no waiting list for this. See, this is often confused with another thing. Which was a waiting list to simply enlist in the Guard and do your service their rather than in the regular military. And there were lots of people on those waiting lists. But those people weren't qualified to go to pilot training school.

Now, in the course of reading all this stuff, I discovered that Lt. Bush took the Air Force Pilot and Officer examinations while he was still at Yale finishing up. So obviously he was looking for a place to be a pilot.

Link

So there you go. A Waiting List to become a ground pounder and keep out of the Army, but there was no list to attend flight school.

BTW – When Bush joined TANG other Air National Guard units were serving in Vietnam, some flying the same F102 that TANG was flying and Bush would train to fly, and did fly. If he was going to use “my daddy’s influence” to keep out of danger he could have been “put ahead” for one of the coveted ground pounder slots.

My guess is that he wanted to a pilot because his Father had been one, took the exams while in school and TANG was available. He had no idea if he would wind up in Vietnam, just as if he had joined the Air Force he wouldn’t have known.

So he went into TANG, went through training and things just went along. Then in May of ’72, he asked to be allowed to do his monthly training near Montgomery. AL at the 187th TAC Recon group so that he could work for William Blount in Blount’s Senate campaign. He also failed to take a flight physical and was placed on non-flying status.

There has been a lot of back and forth over why he did this and the infamous forgery that almost threw an election but wound up getting the CBS producer, Mary Mapes, fired as well as Dan Rather. My thoughts? Media corporations do not like to eat crow. If the memo was not a slam dunk fake CBS would never have done what it did.

As for the flight physical, I think the answer to be simple. Bush was not going to be flying, so he didn’t bother.

Now I know this may be hard for some to realize, but you don’t just take the keys to a jet off the hook on the closet door and go for a spin. Procedures vary from squadron to squadron but such things as training needs… say cross country navigation…..etc., of the individual pilot is taken into consideration… And you especially don’t go out and hop in an aircraft you have never flown. There’s training… that word again…required.


And there’s something that every teenager knows. “Gas money.” Yes dear chums, military organizations just don’t have an endless supply of fuel. They have…gasp!....budgets. What this means is that flight time is precious and you don’t just show up and start taking someone’s place. Bush would not have been welcomed in that regard.


And then there’s the training issue. I don’t know what the 187th was flying in 1972 but since they were a reconnaissance squadron you can be sure it wasn’t a F102 jet fighter. In other words, Bush would have known he wouldn’t be flying so a flight physical wouldn’t have been very high on his list of “do things.” Plenty of time for that when he came back and if he went back to flying. (More on this later.)

But of course none of this happened because “Bush was AWOL.”

Problem is, they dug his pay records that showed he was there. And the:

commander of the Alabama unit of the Air National Guard, Brigadier General William Turnipseed, said he doesn't remember seeing Bush at Air Guard meetings in Alabama at that time.

But, in an NBC News interview this week, the general expressed surprise that his remarks caused such consternation. "George Bush wasn't even famous back then, so why would I notice this outsider showing up at a couple of meetings. I just wouldn't."

Not only wasn’t he famous, he was a First Lieutenant. Dearest Chums, Base Commanders do not notice First Lieutenants unless they have done something really, really good or really, really bad. Bush had done neither.

So not only was he there, but they found a lady who said she dated him.

But further confirmation was supplied yesterday by a woman who dated the young George W. Bush in 1972 who says she distinctly remembers the young pilot visiting Montgomery that year to fulfill his Air National Guard commitment.

Emily Marks Curtis told The Times that she and Mr. Bush met in the summer of 1972 when he went to Montgomery from Texas to work in the U.S. Senate campaign of Winton Blount, a Bush family friend. She said the two became good friends.

After that election, she said, Mr. Bush returned to Texas. A few weeks later, he telephoned to say he was returning to Montgomery to complete drilling days at an Alabama squadron to which he had been transferred that year.

It has been standard procedure for many years for National Guard units to excuse members from scheduled drills for employment reasons, with the stipulation that missed drill time be made up.

"He called to tell me he was coming back to finish up his National Guard duty," said Mrs. Curtis, who now lives in New Orleans. "I can say categorically he was there, and that's why he came back."

She said that he rented an apartment for a two-week stay and that she met him for dinner several times.

MSNBC LINK

Base Commanders may not notice or remember First Lieutenants. But young ladies notice them, and older ladies remember…”If I had married him I would be First Lady.”

But she didn’t and Bush returned to Houston where he asked for and received an early out to attend Harvard Business School.

And therein we have another complaint. Why did Bush get out? Why did TANG let him go?

Again the answer is simple. Remember when I said “if he went back to flying?” And remember my comments about training and fuel and approval? Well, it works like this. By 1973 TANG knew that the F102’s days were numbered and that from there through 1974they would be getting ready to transition into the Voodoo? (They completed in 1975.)

Well, they had a choice with Bush, and others like him. Keep him around and spend time and money on keeping him capable of flying the F102 and then lose him in 1974, when his enlistment expired, or let him go and devote resources to those who were going to stay in TANG..

Guess what. The military is not, no matter what you believed after reading “Catch 22,” irrational. They gave him his early out.

But none of this will make sense to the average Leftie. 99% of them have never been near the military and 99% believe that there are only two people who control the US and they are pawns of the evil Zionists! OK! I overstate but you get the idea.

Clowns in the market and government

It can also be said one's response to a clown might depend on where it's seen[citation needed]. At a circus or a party, a clown is normal and may easily be funny. The same clown knocking on one's front door at sunset is more likely to generate fear or distress than laughter or amusement[citation needed]. This effect is summed up in a quote often attributed to actor Lon Chaney, Sr.: "There is nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight." Ute myths feature a cannibalistic clown monster called the Siats.[citation needed

Maybe there is a point there.

Quote of the day from a fund manager: "This is worse than a divorce.... I've lost half of my net worth and I still have my wife.."

The bailout: a different perspective. Back in 1990, the Government seized the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada for tax evasion and, as required by law, tried to run it. They failed and it closed. Now we are entrusting the economy of our country to a pack of nit-wits who couldn't make money running a whore house and selling booze? You better hope your car keeps running!

WikiLink

Both jokes have been around for a bit and I thought of the Mustang Ranch one today while listening to The Chosen One tell us how bad things were but how he would save us all...

Jimmy M must have been reading my mind because he sent it to me.

Palin re Couric

Point of the Century!

"…Katie, you’re not the center of everybody’s universe,"

Palin interview video.

Obama Comes

THE COUNTDOWN


This is from Urgent Agenda!

12 DAYS TO THE COMING OF OBAMIUS

Posted at 7:30 a.m. ET

We begin a new feature - the countdown to the new age, when peace will cover the Earth, the oceans will recede, and Chryslers will sell again. This is the coming of the age of Obamius.

With 12 days to go, we can report the following developments:

- CIA director designate Leon Panetta was seen, with fake beard, and nose and glasses set, sneaking out of a video store with old DVD's of "I Spy." In addition, it is known that Panetta has written to Sean Connery, asking for advice.

- Chris Matthews was rushed to Washington's Georgetown University Hospital suffering from acute leg tingle. Matthews, who once reported a tingle up his leg whenever he heard Obama speak, alarmed co-workers when he complained of a sharper tingle up the other leg.

- Some five million people are expected at the inauguration, 95 percent of whom are personal friends of Roland Burris.

- The president-elect, after reviewing the work of Governor Rod Blagojevich, is set to announce that he is no longer from Illinois, but from Kansas. He will say, "We only have one state at a time."

- After seeing the latest Senate polls from New York, Mr. Obama denied knowing Caroline Kennedy, but said he understood that she was a campaign volunteer.

- Mr. Obama profusely apologized to the living former presidents, who met with him at the White House, after learning they'd been stripped searched and drugged before being allowed near him. But Jimmy Carter bit him anyway.

More bulletins coming each day 'til January 20th, the day of Obamius.

January 8, 2009.

Dallas.. the ninth least desirable place to work?? heh

There is some list around that shows Dallas as the ninth least desirable place to work. Mike L sent the following, I thought it worth sharing with you.

Subject: Texas after the election

THE COUNTRY of TEXAS

Please note that Texas is the only state with a legal right to secede from the Union . (Reference the Texas-American Annexation Treaty of 1848.)

We Texans love y'all, but we'll probably have to take action since Barack Obama won the election. We'll miss you too.

Here is what can happen:

1: Barack Hussein Obama becomes President of the United States , and Texas immediately secedes from the Union .

2: George W. Bush will become the President of the Republic of Texas . You might not think that he talks too pretty, but we haven't had another terrorist attack, and the economy was fine until the effects of the Democrats lowering the qualifications for home loans came to roost.

So what does Texas have to do to survive as a Republic?

1. NASA is just south of Houston, Texas. We will control the space industry.
2. We refine over 85% of the gasoline in the United States.
3. Defense Industry--we have over 65% of it. The term "Don't mess with Texas ," will take on a whole new meaning.
4. Oil - we can supply all the oil that the Republic of Texas will need for the next 300 years. What will the other states do? Gee, we don't know. Why not ask Obama?
5. Natural Gas - again we have all we need and it's too bad about those Northern States. John Kerry and Al Gore will have to figure out a way to keep them warm....
6. Computer Industry - we lead the nation in producing computer chips and communications equipment -small companies like Texas Instruments, Dell Computer, EDS, Raytheon, National Semiconductor, Motorola, Intel, AMD, Atmel, Applied Materials, Ball Semiconductor, Dallas Semiconductor, Nortel, Alcatel, etc, etc. The
list goes on and on.
7. Medical Care - We have the research centers for cancer research, the best burn centers and the top trauma units in the world, as well as other large health centers. The Houston Medical Center alone employees over 65,000 people.
8. We have enough colleges to keep us getting smarter: University of Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Texas Christian, Rice, SMU, University of Dallas, University of Houston, Baylor, UNT (University of North Texas, Texas Women's University, etc. Ivy grows better in the South anyway.
9. We have an intelligent and energetic work force, and it isn't restricted by a bunch of unions. Here in Texas , it's a Right to Work State and, therefore, it's every man and women for themselves. We just go out and get the job done. And if we don't like the way one company operates, we get a job somewhere else.
10. We have essential control of the paper, plastics, and insurance industries, etc.
11. In case of a foreign invasion, we have the Texas National Guard, the Texas Air National Guard, and several military bases. We don't have an Army, but since everybody down here has at least six rifles and a pile of ammo, we can raise an Army in 24 hours if we need one. If the situation really gets bad, we can always call the
Department of Public Safety and ask them to send over the Texas Rangers.
12. We are totally self-sufficient in beef, poultry, hogs, and several types of grain, fruit and vegetables, and let's not forget seafood from the Gulf. Also, everybody down here knows how to cook them so that they taste good. Don't need any food.
13. Three of the ten largest cities in the United States , and twenty three of the 100 largest cities in the United States, are located in Texas. And Texas also has more land than California, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maryland, Rhode Island and Vermont combined.
14. Trade: Three of the ten largest ports in the United States are located in Texas.
15. We also manufacture cars down here, but we don't need to. You see, nothing rusts in Texas , so our vehicles stay beautiful and run well for decades.

This just names a few of the items that will keep the Republic of Texas in good shape. There isn't a thing out there that we need and don't have.

Now to the rest of the United States under President Obama:

Since you won't have the refineries to get gas for your cars, only President Obama will be able to drive around in his big 9 mpg SUV. The rest of the United States will have to walk or ride bikes.

You won't have any TV as the Space Center in Houston will cut off satellite communications.

You won't have any natural gas to heat your homes, but since Mr. Obama has predicted global warming, you will not need the gas as long as you survive the 2000 years it will take to get enough heat from Global Warming.

Signed, The People of Texas

P.S. This is not a threatening letter - just a note to give you something to think about!

SLEEP WELL TONIGHT THE EYES OF TEXAS ARE UPON YOU!!

Florida 31 Oklahoma 30

Some Congressman, a Repub I think, has called for Congress to shut down for the National Championship game.

Naturally many Lefties are in a high fever about this. Mostly because the chances of Harvard ever playing in one are about as good as the average Leftie understanding that radical Muslims are not our friends.

Frankly, I can't figure out what the big deal it would be for Congress to take off a day early. I mean they work soooooooo hard.



Hat tip to whoever sent the video.