Waterboarding found Osma bin Ladin

Looks like the issue is settled. Even Panetta, head of the CIA, says that "enhanced interogation" gave us the inital lead that allowed us to capture OBL.

The question remains, however, is waterboarding torture?

The picture below is a shot of man jumping from the WTC towers on 9/11.

Was that torture?

The man had to choose between burning to death or jumping to his death.

And now we find many on the Left crying over OBL being killed.

Tell you what I think.

I wish we could have captured him alive. Then built a tall building, put him in a locked room with one window.

Set the building on fire and then let him choose.

Me being fair minded and all.

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"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.” - William Pitt

"Logic. There is little logic among the cultural elite, maybe because there is little omnipresent fear of job losses or the absence of money, and so arises a rather comfortable margin to indulge in nonsense." - Victor Davis Hanson

Bits and pieces 5-3-11

Sunshine this PM. The yard is so wet you can't walk in the rear but I managed to pick up some more small limbs and get the chain saw ready for tomorrow.

The onions, cabbages and bell peppers look fine and, believe it or not, some of the replanted cucumbers and squash are coming up.

Don't ask when the remainder will get done. Maybe a week if we don't get more rain.

More on waterboarding works.

Rep King of NY said last night that waterboarding of KSM yielded the first nugget of information that led us to Osama bin Ladin.

The Left has its jockey's in a wad. They are totally invested in "waterboarding is torture and doesn't work."

Well, the WaPost agreed today with King, except they described it as rough interrogation, or similar words. Tonight O'Reilly said that King was 100% right.

I'm going with King and O'Reilly.

1975 climatologistas blamed tornadoes on global cooling...

Frankly I think it was Nixon's fault.

Speaking of global cooling, can you read this chart??

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It shows us getting cooler...

Gasoline is around $4.00 and the economy is going to hell if any GD politician out there gives a damn.

OnTwitter I am Lesabre1

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.” - William Pitt

"Logic. There is little logic among the cultural elite, maybe because there is little omnipresent fear of job losses or the absence of money, and so arises a rather comfortable margin to indulge in nonsense." - Victor Davis Hanson

Obama and OBL

You know, there is no evidence whatsoever that Obama made the capture/killing of OBL a priority of his administration. Indeed he wanted to close GITMO and prosecute CIA members who had waterboarded some of the prisoners to obtain the information that helped lead to OBL's killing.

Watching the Democrats and many others on the Left celebrate that Obama actually signed off on the killing of OBL reminds me of a Little League player's Mom jump up and down and yell after he has hit his first ball during an actual game.

The following picture, which I have taken from MostlyCajun says it all.

Now, this inning is over with. Can we please get back to focusing on the fact that the high price of oil is hurting us even more than OBL did sitting in his mansion disconnected from the world?

OnTwitter I am Lesabre1

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.” - William Pitt

"Logic. There is little logic among the cultural elite, maybe because there is little omnipresent fear of job losses or the absence of money, and so arises a rather comfortable margin to indulge in nonsense." - Victor Davis Hanson

Waterboarding works

The proof, as they say, is in the pudding.

The revelation that intelligence gleaned from the CIA's so-called black sites helped kill bin Laden was seen as vindication for many intelligence officials who have been repeatedly investigated and criticized for their involvement in a program that involved the harshest interrogation methods in U.S. history.

"We got beat up for it, but those efforts led to this great day," said Marty Martin, a retired CIA officer who for years led the hunt for bin Laden.

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OnTwitter I am Lesabre1

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.” - William Pitt

"Logic. There is little logic among the cultural elite, maybe because there is little omnipresent fear of job losses or the absence of money, and so arises a rather comfortable margin to indulge in nonsense." - Victor Davis Hanson

Bad weather and Trump

Well, the boomers continue, and the occasional tornado.

The bad weather has continued all day. About 2:30 I was chatting with an old friend, Dave T, while keeping one eye peeled at the computer screen. The weather kept on getting worse and worse and I hurriedly signed off just as the nasty stuff hit. Major bang bangs and rain like we were in a hurricane.

No damage but a funnel cloud was spotted to the south.

The secondary issue is flooding. Last year we were shut off from the town by a creek flooding and closing the road. Looks like that is happening again. Memphis appears to have some real issues north of the city and the casinos to the south at Tunica are closing due to flooding.

You'd think a riverboat wouldn't be bothered by some water.

But you'd be wrong.

The gaming law in Mississippi allows for riverboat casinos. That means that the actual gaming portions are built on a barge that floats on a inlet that is cut out from the river. The hotel lobby, gift shops, hotel rooms, show rooms, restaurants, etc., are build around on land around the gaming part. Walkways between the two parts rise and fall as the water level changes. But the issue here is that this supposedly is a 100 year flood and the support portion will flood.

Nothing like laws designed for work arounds. But hey! That's what government is for!

While watching the storms develop last night I picked up part of the White House Correspondent Dinner and self congratulatory medicine show. I missed the part where Obama zapped Trump.

No problem. I have never enjoyed midget wrestling.

And of course the Left is all in a stir. They do love insulting people and they haven't had a fresh target with some pizazz since they took to the Internet to destroy Palin. I mean Ryan is just so plain brown shoe that no one cares if Obama attacks him. But Trump, that's different.

And the Repub establishment, just as they were last November, are eager to jump in and help destroy anyone who asks tough questions and rocks the career boat.

But you know, not one of the storied talking heads, be they Repub or Demo, have answered this question. Why are people listening to Trump??

I mean, he is obviously self centered, always outspoken, sometimes vulgar, often simplistic and according to the aforementioned Demos and Repubs, not qualified to be President.

Yet people listen.

People voted for Obama because he promised change. He hasn't delivered. The Repubs have no one with a better resume. All they can do is claim they aren't Obama and talk about the deficit.

Of course no one really cares about the deficit. They do care about the price of gasoline. Yet the Repubs act like they secretly agree with Obama that high energy prices are good.

We live in interesting times.

OnTwitter I am Lesabre1

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.” - William Pitt

"Logic. There is little logic among the cultural elite, maybe because there is little omnipresent fear of job losses or the absence of money, and so arises a rather comfortable margin to indulge in nonsense." - Victor Davis Hanson

The Left celebrates the deaths of over 300 Americans

Yesterday was spent using the chain saw. Cutting, raking and picking up trash was good for me. I look at it almost like a stress test for my heart. At my age if I can do that with no symptoms and not dying then that part of my body must be in fair shape.

The forecast called for thunderstorms last night and when I went to bed they were in western Arkansas heading towards the river. Not bad ones, just some boomers with lightening and rain. Trust me. My body craved sleep and rest for all the "new" muscles I had found.

Wasn't to be.

The sirens went off this morning at 2:48. I didn't hear them but my wife did. She woke me up and we all shuffled off down stairs to check the radar and watch TV declare our impending doom by crushing, shredding or drowning.

You know. What happened to the 300 or so dead across the south a few days ago.

Now you would think that was a national disaster and a tragedy on the level of Katrina in which the country was urged to mourn and demand the impeachment of Bush and the firing of Brown.

But no, sad to say, that isn't the case. This is from firedoglake, one of the more feverish of the far Left blog sites..

Are the Tornadoes God’s Judgment Against Conservative States?

Well, the states hit the hardest by the tornadoes are all Republican strongholds: Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Georgia. Surely, that can’t be a coincidence.

So is God punishing these conservative states because they’re not taking care of the poor, the elderly and the sick, as Jesus commanded?

Somehow, I doubt we’re going to hear Glenn Beck or John Hagee speculate about this today.

The above was sent to me by Dark Avenger with evidence of much glee, who also sent this.

It's the Lord's judgment on your iniquities, which no mortal can set aside.

Now, what can we say about these people?

Nothing. They have said it all themselves.

OnTwitter I am Lesabre1

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.” - William Pitt

"Logic. There is little logic among the cultural elite, maybe because there is little omnipresent fear of job losses or the absence of money, and so arises a rather comfortable margin to indulge in nonsense." - Victor Davis Hanson

Bad weather news

Monday had been windy and warm as was Tuesday. The forecast was for bad stuff.

I had watched the front come across the river on radar. The question was, would it kick to the north of us, as it often does, or would we get "it."

So Tuesday night around 11:30 I was watching the TV when the "No Signal" display came on. About 10 minutes later power was lost. About 10 minutes later the thunder and lighting was over powered by a roar that shook the house for maybe 30 seconds and then all we had was rain and rain and rain.

A quick look outside showed the Bradford Pear tree in front of the house was down across the driveway. Another tree was down about 100' away across the driveway. This one was about 18" in diameter. So we went to bed.

No place to go and the driveway blocked. No use to agonize over it.

Didn't sleep much. Come Wednesday morning a stroll around the grounds revealed no damage to the house but a total of 11 trees were on the ground.
Two were blocking the driveway. Three were down across the street in front of the house. The city was very prompt in getting at least part of them removed. The trees had taken down the cable TV cable and a light pole.

The power had came back on around 6:00AM but the cable TV was off until early Wednesday PM. The city showed back up around 2:00PM with a front loader/shovel to crush the trees across the road and stack the brush off to one side. At about that time the phone quit. No Internet. No Phone. No TV.

Things be serious.

Since then we have been busy with the 14" chainsaw. The 20" comes later. Cable came back on Wednesday PM but the phones were off until around 12 noon today.

The front loader had ripped the buried cable out of the ground while trying to use its stablizer feet to enable it to grab the tree across the road.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Kudos to the local cable TV folks. They proved that bad service from the cable company to be a false rumor. Same with the local utility folks. Even with almost all the power lines pole mounted and exposed to the falling trees and limbs they limited the power outages.

Through it all the cell phone worked. Not very well, but it worked. So much for all the worry we had about it back in the 80's.

ATT said they had over 800 trouble tickets. I have no doubt they had at least that many. And with lighting strikes going on you can't work on cable. At last not if you want to live a long life. But I can't shake the feeling that all of the telephone companies bought into the "with electronics you don't need maintenance people" BS and have down sized to the point that they can't react to a major weather related incident.

After the maintenance guy got here it took him about 30 minutes to get us back up and everything working.

Here are a few pictures.

And we were real lucky.

I sure wish Bush would quit harming the country.

This one is across the driveway.

This one is misleading. It is resting on about three other trees. Somehow it has to be cut out and dropped without killing one's self.

How'd you like to work on this tangled mess? Cut a limb under tension the wrong way and have your head taken off.

And yes, Bush has been widely blamed.

But I know it is Obama's fault.

OnTwitter I am Lesabre1

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.” - William Pitt

"Logic. There is little logic among the cultural elite, maybe because there is little omnipresent fear of job losses or the absence of money, and so arises a rather comfortable margin to indulge in nonsense." - Victor Davis Hanson