Keeping it Real

Other people say this with far more nicely formed phrases, but the cold reality is that if you are so deeply conflicted, or so over-estimate your intelligence, or in your limited insight fail to understand how committed others are, your mal-execution of state-craft is going to kill men. Vox expounds on the typical leftist tool who can't recognize what is right in front of his face. Unintentionally, and with the best of intentions, he has opened the doors to the demons of Hell, and the darkest forces in the human spirit have much greater scope and much more power today than they did when he took the oath of office back in 2009. Unintentionally? With the best of intentions? Is Mead talking about Obama or himself? Remember, as Mead excoriates Obama's foreign policy, that he not only voted for Obama, but voted to re-elect him. But it's not as if Obama's foreign policy was any better from 2008 to 2012 than it has been from 2012 to 2016. Vox is valid in his perspective,...

Without even addressing personal character or trust, no veteran who has ever been responsible for classified data is going to hold in high esteem someone who decides they can run a private email server while functioning at the highest level of government. If we were in long enough, we all saw inquests, investigations, security inspections where individuals are treated as guilty until otherwise notified. Which of us would ever rationally think that we could run completely outside the system, delete records purely on our personal preference, and expect no consequences?? Anyone? So, when you read things like below, it leaves you wondering just how incompetent or sociopathic a person could be. Clinton said she exclusively used her private e-mail account out of “convenience,” so as not to have to carry two phones. But she conceded that it “might have been smarter” to use a separate government account to conduct her State Department business.

There are certain things that will provoke anyone to write, and this is one of them. When you read this, I should caution that is a real quote from a real Team Obama representative, and not something from the Onion or other satirical content. "We're killing a lot of them, and we're going to keep killing more of them. ... But we cannot win this war by killing them," department spokeswoman Marie Harf said on MSNBC's "Hardball." "We need ... to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups, whether it's lack of opportunity for jobs, whether --"   That's correct readers, give them jobs, and the beheadings will cease! Could YOU say that with a straight face?

You can call him a partisan, but once the polling data comes out, I suspect that it will prove this observation as on point. He supports a proposed travel ban on West African countries that the administration opposes, saying some of its arguments are “absurd.” Murphy also said the so-called Ebola czar that the president appointed to oversee the federal response, Ron Klain, will not calm fears. “The American people are looking for knowledge and expertise,” he told Fox News. “He has none in these fields.” It is a tangential conversation whether we [are yet] to the point where folks should be personally afraid, but putting a PR Flak in charge of the national threat of a Level 4 Contagion sounds like something that Monty Python would do. Ah, just a moment, here we are, The Ministry of Silly Walks .

Refining the level of incompetent miss-use of our military. President Barack Obama issued an executive order on Thursday paving the way for the deployment of National Guard and Reserve forces to West Africa to help contain the Ebola outbreak there. Under the   mandate , the secretaries of defense and homeland security can order to active duty some members of the Selected Reserve and the Individual Ready Reserve mobilization. To which, Americans are responding with: ‘OH HELL NO!’ OUTRAGE MEETS OBAMA PLAN TO SEND NATL. GUARD TO LIBERIA TO FIGHT EBOLA This really does sound like something out of  SNL parody skit; send people trained and to protect their own communities to 'fight' a Level 4 Pathogen in Africa.

H/T to Dalrock for making me aware. Being a recovering engineer, I can appreciate the value in metrics, so we have Team Obama with a self-provided benchmark of 10 years to train a male. The US Military does it in 10 weeks. It seems that Michelle and B should stick to things that they have greater competency in performing.

Lest someone thinks that I want to continue with the "police actions", Karl spells it out well Doesn't matter folks.  You either conduct a war as a war, not a police action,  or you don't go. We have to stop ****ing around, to be blunt.  We've made a hash of basically every foreign place we've gone for the last 50 years because we have forgotten that war is not a nice business and never can be made into one.  You either go into war with the premise that anything that looks like your enemy gets shot and blown up until whatever remains sues for peace  or you stay home. My previous post was made under the understanding that most recent presidents want to "Do Something", so my humble suggestion is either do something kinetic or just STFU. The posing is just weak and embarrassing. Think Zoolander.

I'll have to come up with a new tag to classify this level of clueless-ness. Pink Panther comes to mind, but because of trademarks - pink rabbit? Apparently the response from Team Obama to beheading folks is to open a criminal investigation. Doubtful that has deterrent value; sounds like just what these folks want - more attention.  I suggest instead that we snatch him up at a time of our operational convenience, and show this coward pissing himself when he is grabbed. Plan B would be video of the sniper round impact. I'll take either one.