Stupid is as stupid does....

The U.S. government is snapping up Russian-made helicopters to form the core of Afghanistan's fledgling air force, a strategy that is drawing flak from members of Congress who want to force the Afghans to fly American choppers instead.

In a turnabout from the Cold War, when the CIA gave Stinger missiles to Afghan rebels to shoot down Soviet helicopters, the Pentagon has spent $648 million to buy or refurbish 31 Russian Mi-17 transport helicopters for the Afghan National Army Air Corps. The Defense Department is seeking to buy 10 more of the Mi-17s next year, and had planned to buy dozens more over the next decade.

The spectacle of using U.S. taxpayer dollars to buy Russian military products is proving a difficult sell in Congress. Some legislators say that the Pentagon never considered alternatives to the Mi-17, an aircraft it purchased for use in Iraq and Pakistan, and that a lack of competition has enabled Russian defense contractors to gouge on prices.

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"If people come and fly in Afghanistan with the Mi-17, they will understand why that aircraft is so important to the future for Afghanistan," said Brig. Gen. Michael R. Boera, the U.S. Air Force general in charge of rebuilding the Afghan air corps. "We've got to get beyond the fact that it's Russian. . . . It works well in Afghanistan."

Will somebody tell this bureaucrat, he can't be a military man, that helping our enemy is kind of like.... well.... stupid?

I sear. This right after some doofuss in the Coast Guard can't figure out how to inspect barrages for fire extinguishers and life vests while they are working.

There is a theory that says there are alternative universes... These two birds must have slipped across with Obamie and his minions. They could not have been born and raised in the USA.

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You have to wonder why some Jews want to commit suicide

Can't we all just get along?

A group of German Jews planning to take a boat with humanitarian aid to break the Gaza blockade now says it's looking for a second boat because so many European Jews have asked to join them. Jewish Voices for a Just Peace, which includes the offspring of German Jews who fled the Holocaust, want to take children's food, clothes, medicine and school supplies as well as musical instruments, "food for the soul."

"We just see that a Jewish state is occupying Palestine, laying a siege, and depriving children of the things that they need. We as Jews are saying, 'not in our name.'" - Kate Katzenstein-Leiterer, a leader of the new flotilla effort.

These are the children and grandchildren of those who survived Nazi death camps, yet they still can't grasp that when Hamas, and other radical Muslims, say they want to kill Jews and destroy Israel, they mean it.

You have to wonder what it is in their background... education, societal influence... exactly what drives them.

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Casety Stengel once said of his

incompetent Mets.... "Can't anybody here play this game?"

After having to wait 17 days for permission to build the sand barriers.... after watching Obamie refuse help from countries that know how to contain leaks because he didn't want to go against the unions..... after watching him dispatch lawyers instead of engineers and make a fool out of himself with his threats....

We now have this:

Eight days ago, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal ordered barges to begin vacuuming crude oil out of his state's oil-soaked waters. Today, against the governor's wishes, those barges sat idle, even as more oil flowed toward the Louisiana shore

"It's the most frustrating thing," the Republican governor said today in Buras, La. "Literally, yesterday morning we found out that they were halting all of these barges

Sixteen barges sat stationary today, although they were sucking up thousands of gallons of BP's oil as recently as Tuesday. Workers in hazmat suits and gas masks pumped the oil out of the Louisiana waters and into steel tanks. It was a homegrown idea that seemed to be effective at collecting the thick gunk.

"These barges work. You've seen them work. You've seen them suck oil out of the water," said Jindal.

why stop now?

"The Coast Guard came and shut them down," Jindal said. "You got men on the barges in the oil, and they have been told by the Coast Guard, 'Cease and desist. Stop sucking up that oil.'"

A Coast Guard representative told ABC News today that it shares the same goal as the governor.

"We are all in this together. The enemy is the oil," said Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Dan Lauer.

Oh, really? Frankly Dan, I think you are a confused bureaucrat pretending to be a leader in the Coast Guard. Shame on you for that. Why do I say that?

But the Coast Guard ordered the stoppage because of reasons that Jindal found frustrating. The Coast Guard needed to confirm that there were fire extinguishers and life vests on board, and then it had trouble contacting the people who built the barges.

I just wonder if any of these supposedly smart people thought about checking these things while the barge was doing its job.

Oh, I know that these was some small degree of risk and if anything happened his rear would be on the line. But taking charge and doing what needs to be done comes with the terriority. He didn't. And that's why I say that Dan ain't a Cmdr....

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Why, if you don't know about the people running,

you absolutely positively should not just "pick" a name.

Wanna see a video of a dofus? Click here.

She also probably voted for Obama because she recognized the name "Hussein."

You know, I couldn't make this stuff up. But if I did no one would believe me.

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Concealed carry permit holder saves lives

Tell me again that an armed populace doesn't stop crime.

Deputies with the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office are investigating a shooting in Winnemucca early Sunday morning that left three people dead and others injured.

The shooting happened at the Player's Bar & Grill on South Grass Valley Road.

Investigators say a feud between two local families is behind the early-morning shooting inside the bar. Three men from Winnemucca died from gunshot wounds, and two others are in critical condition at the hospital.

Deputies say about 2:25 a.m., 30-year-old Ernesto Villa Gomez walked into the bar and starting shooting. 20-year-old Jose Torres and his 19-year-old brother Margarito Torres were killed. When Villa Gomez was reloading his semi-automatic gun, a man from Reno took out a gun and shot Villa Gomez. That man has a concealed weapons permit.

The unidentified man who shot Villa Gomez is not expected to be charged in this incident; law enforcement call it a justifiable homicide.

Local police, the Sheriff's Office and the Nevada Highway Patrol are preparing for retaliation from one or both of the families, and rumors are already circulating in the small town of Winnemucca. There is a sense of sadness for losing three local men in this violent incident.

The Player's Bar & Grill was full of about 300 people, because a local biker event "Runnemucca" is going on this holiday weekend.

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You have to wonder how many others would have been killed if the guy with the concealed weapon had not been there.

Hat tip to "pickinfool."

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Now they want to give Obama the power to

shut down the Internet.

No President. Repeat no President, Demo or Repub should be given this power.

I mean I couldn't make this stuff up. I just emailed my two Senators. Here is a
link to a site that will give you your Senator's telephone number and email address.

These guys are so out of control it is unbelievable. Term limits has got to happen. We need a constitutional amendment.


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