If so, here’s your bit of you’ll-wish-you-had-done-this-in-January advice for the day: take some time off from running over a cliff for the greater glory of your party’s leadership and publicly react to the President’s latest move against an ally. (H/T: Instapundit)
The United States has diverted a shipment of bunker-busters designated for Israel.
Officials said the U.S. military was ordered to divert a shipment of smart bunker-buster bombs from Israel to a military base in Diego Garcia. They said the shipment of 387 smart munitions had been slated to join pre-positioned U.S. military equipment in Israel Air Force bases.
“This was a political decision,” an official said.
I would further suggest that said reaction include the word ‘idiot,’ but I suppose that’s just a little too much to expect in the way of political courage. At least, from Democratic legislators.
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Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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Moe, is this your not-so-subtle way of saying that
throwback59 Friday, March 19th at 9:15AM EST (link)if Obama will throw a 60 year close ally under the bus, a one or two term congressman doesn’t have a chance?
Strength
neoavatara (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 9:15AM EST (link)Well, it is nice to see that Obama is taking a stand against foreign rogue states!
Oh, wait a second…we are talking about Israel, our real ally in the Middle East.
Hope and Change.
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Question:
Charles Cianfrocca (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 9:24AM EST (link)If those bunker busters were ordered by Israel, we all know why they ordered them. And now they won’t have them because of the duplicity of our president, are they down to using nukes to do the job?
I suppose it will work at least as well that way… lots more mess, though, but one does what one must; an existential threat is an existential threat.
Amazing that even Cpt. B+ is THAT stupid, though. Unless he WANTS the eventual destruction of Iran to be nuclear.
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I really wonder if that is their only choice
JoeG Friday, March 19th at 11:34AM EST (link)Option A is a large scale air strike. But that is off the table if they can’t over-fly Iraq.
Option B is a missile attack. Given the much lower throw capability of using missiles, I wonder if they would chose to use a few nukes. Israel is really backed into a corner here and is rightly worried about their survival.
I shudder to think of all of the implications…
Yeah; well,
Charles Cianfrocca (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 3:08PM EST (link)I don’t think that, without bunker busters, anything less than a nuke will do. Remember, the Iranians planned on this. The stuff is buried and hardened all to hell. And that’s assuming you know where it all is, too.
“Get your hand out of my pocket. Ain’t nothin’ there that belongs to you.”
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Yeah; well,
Charles Cianfrocca (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 3:08PM EST (link)I don’t think that, without bunker busters, anything less than a nuke will do. Remember, the Iranians planned on this. The stuff is buried and hardened all to hell. And that’s assuming you know where it all is, too.
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I ran this up last evening.
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 9:29AM EST (link)Only a few people seemed to care then too.
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…….and no……. no, I’m not calmed down yet.
OH MY GOD!
smitch61 Friday, March 19th at 9:29AM EST (link)I don’t know what else to say.
We have no friends left....
chbroussard (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 9:31AM EST (link)…because we have stabbed them in the back. Under the rule of the current president, we have spit on our good friends the Brits (with Hillary’s statement on the Falklands) and now we’re spitting on our good friends in Israel. Using the word Idiot to describe this is just too kind. I hope that my Jewish friends who have blindly voted for the Democrat Party for years will open their eyes to the truth.
I Don't Feel To Sorry For All These Foreign Countries, Really
IJB Friday, March 19th at 9:49AM EST (link)Nearly all of them tacitly, or explicitly, supported Obama winning.
Hey, man – you reap what you sow.
I just hope all these foreign governments and foreign populations have a new appreciation of Republicans and Republican leadership. Otherwise, the next time we’re in there, they’re likely to get the elbows *from us*. And we’re much better at delivering elbows on our side, because ours are thought-out and intentional…
Just a friendly reminder, and warning, to our friends on the outside…
"...ours are thought-out and intentional..."
edintexas Friday, March 19th at 10:13AM EST (link)You seem to be under the misapprehension that Dear Leader’s anti-Semitism is “knee-jerk” and unintentional. Nothing could be farther from the truth. He is as vicious and rabid a Jew hater as his ex-Pastor, Jeremiah Wright, and his friend “Calypso Louie” Farrakhan. He just isn’t public about his hatred of Jews as those two mentors. There is no way he could have lived in a Muslim country at a very impressionable age, and sat through the rants of Wright (please, there’s no way anyone could have slept through those), and not come away an anti-Semite.
I think that they know, as we do, that they only have to put up with this moron for 32 more months.
Teresa in Fort Worth, TX (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 11:29AM EST (link)Then the grown-ups will be back in charge, and those relations will go back to where they were before. In the meantime, this gives all of them a chance to learn what their country’s strengths are and to grow from that.
The world will go back to “right” when Obama is defeated in 2012, and our country will be stronger for it, as well, because it will be a LONG time before someone like Obama and his ilk will be put into office again.
It was almost 50 years between Kennedy and Obama (and Kennedy’s presidency was just as disastrous, I believe), and it was 40 years between Wilson and Kennedy (Wilson was another “cool-headed intellectual”).
We need these kicks in the head every so often to remind us of what this country is made of. We’ll get through this, and now that we have the Internet, more people are aware of what is going on at lightning speed. We love our liberty and freedom too much to let someone as small as Obama take it away from us.
Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride…..
We elected the enemy
smitch61 Friday, March 19th at 9:33AM EST (link)So what the hell do we do now?
No, the *opposition* won
Neil Stevens (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 9:39AM EST (link)There’s a difference.
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IJB Friday, March 19th at 9:45AM EST (link)You have much to learn then (nt)
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Neil, with ALL due respect,
Charles Cianfrocca (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 10:20AM EST (link)I warned here when he was elected that Obama was not merely our enemy as Americans, he was our enemy as humans.
I wished, as I also said at the time, that I was wrong. I wished it bitterly, and still do. But every day brings more evidence I am not. The military abandonment of Israel is as big a piece of evidence as there’s been so far, although the attempted seizing of control over the life and death of all Americans is a close second. But neither was in the slightest unexpected to me.
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I'll put it this way
Neil Stevens (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 10:23AM EST (link)The greatest thing that we accomplished in this country was the ability to transfer power peacefully and according to the wishes of the sovereign people.
Even the Civil War didn’t oppose that, as it wasn’t technically a civil war for control of the state.
We cannot and must not start thinking of our political opposition like they are potential enemies in a war.
If they do, it’s because they have no respect for our country and its traditions. I will not be like them.
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Fair enough.
Charles Cianfrocca (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 11:02AM EST (link)And I’ll put it this way, again, with the greatest of respect:
No ordinary terrible president would deliberately and specifically abandon Israel to nuclear destruction at the hands of a nation that has repeatedly sworn to destroy them, and now very nearly has the means. As gently as I can: Obama is not simply another bad president, to endure and outlast in the way we did with, say, Carter.
It is possible that to merely save America and its political system, as you are evidently trying to do with great devotion, is to see the problem too narrowly. It is a little like patching a single leak hole in the roof when all the shingles are in the process of being blown off,, all over town, in a hurricane.
In the end, I think that all decent people everywhere will unite against Obama, and that only in that way will he be defeated. As much as I love the America I have already bled in battle for, Zero is becoming a problem for all humanity, not just for our nation.
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I agree that we must unite and defeat him
Neil Stevens (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 11:04AM EST (link)I just think we need to do that according to the political processes we already have, culminating with the elections in November 2010 and 2012.
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Oh, I am absolutely for that.
Charles Cianfrocca (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 11:13AM EST (link)I plan to be on the mall on Tax day. But there is a larger picture to see, if only for the sake of being ready for anything. As I said, Zero is no ordinary terrible president. The battle he brings is without precedent, and the stakes are not just everything we have as Americans, but rather everything we have as humans.
I didn’t mean that the local battle (by local I mean the American political battle) should be abandoned. But there is more to see, and it matters very much that we see it.
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They certainly view us as the enemy, Neil.
Achance (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 11:54AM EST (link)There’s a lot of bravado on this side of the ditch about how the left is a bunch of metrosexual cowards and wimps and while there is some truth in it, there are a lot of wannabe Strelnikovs over there who’d just love to take that armored train and a brigade or two of cavalry through flyover country.
In Vino Veritas
And that's why we must defeat them in our own way
Neil Stevens (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 12:00PM EST (link)The American way.
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Sure.
Charles Cianfrocca (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 12:26PM EST (link)I just hope there’s still an Israel by the time we get done defeating them by no other means than what you call “the American way”.
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See, we disagree on one key point
Neil Stevens (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 12:40PM EST (link)Obama is not our first fascist President. We had at least Wilson, FD Roosevelt, LB Johnson, and Carter before.
I don’t know why you think Carter hasn’t openly favored the terrorists over Israel. He was drooling all over Arafat.
The only reason Carter didn’t do more to shiv Israel is that he didn’t get a chance. Israel’s problems only became centered on “Palestinians” because of events like the Camp David treaty.
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regarding Carter: Well, sure;
Charles Cianfrocca (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 12:50PM EST (link)But Iran wasn’t a hair from having nukes when Carter was no friend of Israel’s. He could only do so much harm at the time. Iran was a 7th century power back then. This time, Israel may well be gone already by the time we do it your way.
IOW: Not saying Carter wasn’t willing to be as bad as Zero. Just saying Zero, unlike Carter, actually has the tools to get it done. And your-way-and-nothing-but-your-way gives him all the time he’s likely to need.
There has to be some other parallel effort. If Israel is to be saved, it will take uncommon gumption on the part of anti-Obamaites who are NOT red blooded Americans.
As I said — it will take heroic effort from decent people EVERYWHERE to win this one. Americans alone, going to the polls, great and necessary as that is, will not be enough.
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Israel won the Six Days war
hickorystick (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 12:47PM EST (link)with the worlds crappiest military hardware. It was their choices, intelligence, moral strength, and strategy that saved them. Much of that has been allowed to dissipate. It ticks me off too, what the O is doing, but Israel is a sovereign people and needs to stand on their own. They have been making some really dumb choices just as America has. We need People renewal, to implement good political renewal.
Yes, and that's where I came in
Charles Cianfrocca (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 12:58PM EST (link)As I said, this leaves Israel to do it themselves, with all that they have that is up to the task — which is pretty much their nukes. Regrettable. And a shame on us, since we had agreed to give them non-nuke means, and we just reneged. Now that will not be an option.
May they do what they have to do. I wish things were different, but they ain’t, are they?
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Agreed
hickorystick (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 1:49PM EST (link)I wish Obama and the country were united in following the path Pres. Bush laid down in the early part of his Presidency, to fight terror. We made an agreement to sell these arms to Israel, and the Israeli”’s counted on us to keep our word. this was an agreement made by President Bush, and ratified by Congress. We are bound by our word, and contract, to do what we said we would do. President Obama should be called what he is. A Liar and a deal-breaker. Israel is a sovereign country and has every right to develop on it’s soil. That obama does not understand the importance of contracts, keeping the countries word, and sovereignty, is troubling in the extreme. The right of self-determination, private property, contract law, is foundational to what this country is.
I have had a pit in my stomach since before the election, since this guy never affirmed USA or western traditions, or swore allegiance to them. He is using this country as his personal horse to make the world into the way he personally thinks it should be. To hell with whatever happened before, to hell with Congress, to hell with our history. I had been reading the history of James the Second of England and his Earl of Tyrconnel, how they rounded up guns, displaced Protestants from official positions and the military, oppressed the citizenry. Their was a conflict between the old world order and the new, which had already been decided in favor of the new. One person, under the influence of foreign powers, stuck it in the face of the entire British Isles (except Ireland minus Ulster). That lead to the Glorious Revolution, bloodless in England, not so much in Ireland. The historic Siege of LondonDerry was horrible for the besieged. 15 years, the leaders of Scotland sold out their Independance, and the great Ulster Scot migration commenced. 70 years later, in America, when the English were puling the same tricks, removing Govenors, Disbanding legislatures, imposing taxes without the consent of the people or represention in Parliament, The Scots-Irish were ready to fight. Not with England, but against her.
But now we have represention and a electoral process. We’re still willing to fight, but within the elections system. Still, throwing the healthcare ‘tax stamp’ in the river does have historical legal precedent. We do have our own traditions and come with our own histories. This president respects none of them. If this President insists on dividing The People by race, We may have to take charge of our individual histories/stories to show him he has no authority to do what he is doing, nor does he work for the betterment of The People.
Yes, and that's where I came in
Charles Cianfrocca (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 12:58PM EST (link)As I said, this leaves Israel to do it themselves, with all that they have that is up to the task — which is pretty much their nukes. Regrettable. And a shame on us, since we had agreed to give them non-nuke means, and we just reneged. Now that will not be an option.
May they do what they have to do. I wish things were different, but they ain’t, are they?
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It's not like the US hasn't strongly influenced Israel's "choices."
Achance (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 1:03PM EST (link)We and the Europeans and Brits have yanked them around for their whole history. Clinton and his bunch practically engineered a “regime change” in Israel to make them conform to US wishes. We yanked hard on them to back off and negotiate the end of the Yom Kippur War when they had the Arabs racked and stacked. Then Carter puts a gun to their head and comes up with the Camp David Accords which the Arabs never complied with and nobody with a brain would have expected that they would. The whole thing was a sacrifice of Israel’s interests on the altar of Carter’s failing agenda.
In Vino Veritas
We got on board with Israel after they proved themselves to be winners
hickorystick (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 2:09PM EST (link)Americans in those days loved winners. Not so much now. We could also see ourselves in the Israeli’s who fought impossible odds and won. It was after that point we started to sell the ‘good stuff’ military hardware to them. I hate to say that American interest in Israel has weakened their people.
-”The whole thing was a sacrifice of Israel’s interests on the altar of Carter’s failing agenda”.-
America’s interest has always been weakened by Democrat Presidents, with the exception of Jackson and Knox. My own personal ‘interest’ is being destroyed by Carter and Clinton, and their imperial directives to the banks. but then again, Democrats have no love of Contractors, whichever part of the world they live in. Border? what Border? The idea of America minding it’s own business has always been anathema to the Democrats.
George Washington was very keen on his own ‘interest’, and he gets bigger in my own eyes every day. His example is the ‘one’ we should be following.
The difference between them and us
Leopard1996 (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 12:39PM EST (link)They would only want to do it if they had the full backing of govt tryanny to do it. If they were left to their own devices, they would curl up into balls and cry like little girls. We believe in rule of law first and foremost and will only resort to things to defend the rule of law.
Hell, I look back at the whole JFK assasination thing, and think O. Stone can go screw. He tried to paint this as some “right-wing” conspiracy, but in actuallity, if you believe the Warren Report, it was a commie that capped, and if you don’t it was mostly the Mob, that wanted him capped thanks to brother Bobby. Niether screams “right-wing” conspiracy to me.
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Al Qaida is the enemy...
houstoneagle (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 10:11AM EST (link)not the Democrats. We are the loyal opposition. The representative democracy our founding fathers instituted will NOT go down on my watch. The pen truly is mightier than the sword. The remedy at the ballot box is more powerful than any medicine we could deliver at the point of a gun.
Speaking of the Democrats as the enemy detracts from the strength of that word in reference to true enemies of our great country. While it is true that progressivism is the enemy of democracy and freedom, that does not mean that our fellow misguided Americans (aka Democrats) are enemies. We must show them no mercy as we show them the door, but we do it respectfully and within the system. And we will do it in November.
“We preach the conservative gospel of individual liberty and choice and point out the only choice the Democrats want you to have is whether or not to kill a baby.”–Erick Erickson, D-Day 2010
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Progressives Are Enemies
edintexas Friday, March 19th at 10:20AM EST (link)Progressives are enemies of the Constitution. As such they fall into the category of “enemies domestic”. They don’t deserve to be shot on sight (well, these days we don’t even do that to external enemies with whom we are at war, we have to be kinder and gentler). They deserve a trial first.
For those with no appreciation for dark humor, that last sentence was a joke. Sort of. I think.
This is a dangerous time
Neil Stevens (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 10:25AM EST (link)The reason I don’t like those kinds of jokes is that in lesser nations, the kinds of things Obama is doing *would* lead to bloodshed.
But WE ARE BETTER THAN THAT.
OUR WAY OF GOVERNMENT AND OUR CIVIL SOCIETY ARE BEYOND THAT.
I *value* that and will *stand up* for it. With the words the Constitution GUARANTEES me the ability to use.
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I agree completely this is not open for joking around.
houstoneagle (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 10:37AM EST (link)99% of the time when someone tells you something and then they say lamely, “just kidding”….THEY WEREN’T.
It thrilled my SOUL to see President Bush give President Obama the dignified transition and welcome in January 2009 that he earned by virtue of his election by We, the People. The true believers reading this will know that this is the farthest thing in the world from stating that I am pro-Obama. Do you realize the signal that sends to the world for the most powerful man in the free world to willingly step aside because a piece of paper tells him he must? We have something very special here, and we cannot joke around about this stuff. It’s not funny, and it depreciates the value of our democracy. When Obama’s term (hopefully singular and not plural) is up, I expect him to be the same way for our next president as Bush was for him.
Bush knows better than most former Presidents about the importance of a respectful welcome to the new leader. I’m sure all the keyboards had the W’s intact when Obama took over. Unlike eight years previous.
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Lefty Progressives
hickorystick (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 12:38PM EST (link)Progressive Politics is just a car Marxists jump in, to nudge (body slam) the electorate to do what they wan’t. They have used Democrat vehicles, RINO vehicles, Green vehicles, Black vehicles, Ivy League vehicles. The real enemy, or reactionary, are those who have always hated freedom, choice, and the ability of ‘lessers’ to move up the social and economic ladder.
They want stasis. They don’t care if the rest of the country rots, as long as they are in control, and have the privilege. You can see these themes throughout the history of western civilization, not just our countries history. Europe had been in conflict since at least the time of the Vikings. Southern Europe chose to lock down their country into Feudalism,, Northern Europe stayed more free market and trade. England was split in half, the southern portion having serfdom, the northern having Lords, but greater freedom, anchored by a distinct language and culture.
There were many progressives who really thought of the betterment of Man. The mechanism of re-organizing society was too tempting for the Lefty Marxists to leave alone. To limit the blame to the Progressive movement, you would have to ignore their taking over Universities, governments, city councils and committees, churches denomination organizations, and every other institution they could get their hands on.
President Bushes worst mistake was an over-reliance on institutions. He assumed the rest of America was like Texas, who seems to have better control over their institutions. Obama is making the same assumption, and can’t figure out why the people aren’t more compliant. The Resistance has left the left flat-footed. All we have to do is keep up what were doing. When we get control of Congress, we will have plenty of power to pro-scribe Obama’s agenda. We will just have to hold our own Representatives feet to the fire.
Beck has done a disservice with the way he has conflated
Achance (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 4:37PM EST (link)the “progressive” reformers of the late-19th and early 20th Centuries with statists like Wilson and FDR and with the growing communist influence on “reform” movements in this Country.
The 19th and early 20th Century Reformers were American to the core but they were willing to use the power of the state to address some of the legitimate excesses of free market capitalism. With Wilson, you had both America’s first entry among the Great Powers in WWI and an overweening elitism. Wilson seems to have really believed that an academic and aristocratic elite should rule. He can thank his Southern upbringing for some of that and his Ivy League background for the rest but even he was a solidly patriotic American who didn’t challenge the fundamental premises of the Country. FDR was in much the same mold as WW, but by his time the Comintern was very active in America and he came to be surrounded by communists and fellow travellers. By FDR’s time, “Progressive” had simply become a synonym for Communist or fellow traveller and many of these Communists owed their allegiance to the USSR, not the USA or, at best, had a divided loyalty in wanting to make the US more like the USSR. LBJ was in the FDR liberal/social democrat mold and had a lot of the more American aristocratic Kennedy influence around him; very liberal, but not a communist. I don’t think Carter ever knew what he was; he was a good government reformer Governor of Georgia, excoriated as a hick by the DC elites, and has spent the rest of his unhappy life trying to get them to like him. In Comrade Obama and his cohort, we have true communists who have spent their whole lives from their Red Diaper baby upbringing to their education to their working lives in unions, academia, and in Blue State politics. They’re not like anything we’ve ever seen in American politics before and Beck shouldn’t even compare these “Progressives” to the progressives of the turn of the prior century.
In Vino Veritas
That's said very well
hickorystick (Diary) Saturday, March 20th at 4:00PM EST (link)We went through some things in the first half of the century, that we still haven’t grasped. It’s normal, that as America moved from a primarily agrarian society, to and industrialized, modern society, that we would grapple with new ideas. Some we tried and discarded. Most of Europe was in some form of command and control economy. What Beck doesn’t grasp, is that the electorate felt deeply let down. The American dream wasn’t happening for them, and they blamed it on the industries, and the establishment. Populism was very strong. They wanted to take control of their future; nothing wrong with that.
Something I am starting to investigate is the historical Wobblie movement. I have been reading my Seattle history. Seattle reacted very differently than the outlying areas. We didn’t care for Socialists, but we didn’t beat the h*ll out of them either. The largest Port could have been located at Tacoma, Bellingham, Everett, Port Angeles, or a number of other places. Seattle did a better job of sticking to the rule of law, and I believe was rewarded for it by greater investment; still researching. In Everett they arrived by boat to support a strike, and the Sheriff and Deputies opened fire on them. They returned to Seattle and were arrested. At the trial of the first man, it became apparent the Sheriff’s men opened fire first (and perhaps were the only ones firing). He was acquitted, and no one else was tried. I think you would enjoy this article;
http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1967/4/1967_4_30.shtml
Beck is from Mt. Vernon , rural Washington. Their perspective is different about the forces that shaped America than Seattle’s. He should spend some more time researching the context in which progresiveism started, and what it was reacting to. I’m reading about R.H.Thompson, the City Engineer who did the most to physically build Seattle. He brought the water supply in, built the sewers, and regraded the hills in the City. He was very patriotic, Republican, ‘classical’, Presbyterian, and highly Progressive. The men of these times had big dreams of building the world, and they did.
Here’s a good link on him:;
http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2074
heres a good shot of the regrade work:
http://rogue-publishing.com/Denny_Regrade_ca.1909a.jpg
Safeco field and Quest field are sitting on fill from these regrades on reclaimed tidelands. Seattle never would have been the city it is without him dream and persistance.
p.s. The regrades would be considered and environmental holocaust today.
Agree with you about Obama. He’s been manicured for this job from day 1. We should have listened to Corsi.
Totally agree with this
Leopard1996 (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 11:09AM EST (link)Especially now that Erick got his gig at CNN, the LSM would be looking to anything to cast a majority of decent conservative americans as fringe elements that are only talking violence because we have a 1/2 black president.
We can win this on the merits of our arguements not by the force of our arms.
“The accumluated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout, “Save Us!”….and I’ll look down and whisper, “No”…The Watchmen
What???
hickorystick (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 11:56AM EST (link)I thought this was being done because he’s half Scots-Irish. Kidding, but I am bitter we were kicked off the Census.
LOL
Leopard1996 (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 12:34PM EST (link)Yeah, they don’t let me break down the three or four ethnicities that make up my background either. I don’t think they let you check off, African-American, Carribean Islander, Polish, German, and Russian for one person.
“The accumluated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout, “Save Us!”….and I’ll look down and whisper, “No”…The Watchmen
Other - American. [nt]
cwilson (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 1:21PM EST (link).
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom — go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! –Samuel Adams
Other- Scots-Irish-Washington State-ian
hickorystick (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 2:17PM EST (link)and damn proud of it. Otherwise were bound together by the US Constitution. When there is a war, I’ll call myself American.
Very true. nt
Leopard1996 (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 5:32PM EST (link)“The accumluated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout, “Save Us!”….and I’ll look down and whisper, “No”…The Watchmen
Congress Busters
GreyCloak (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 9:44AM EST (link)Gee … we diverted some GBU-82s (maybe another model) from Israel. No surprise, as these are not much use against the Palestinians or Hezbollah … many would hope that they would be used against Iran.
I am sure our pissant Congress and most of Europe would be happy to stick Israel with the responsibility for taking out Bushehr or other nuclear facilities, but is this likely to promote peace or responsibility?
Believe what you will, but settlements are not conducive to peace in the area. Israel has continued to add them, but every US President since Reagan has condemned them:
I’ve MANY disagreements with Obama, but this is not one of them. If our “ally” chooses to insult the Vice President of the United States (regardless of Party) while he is in their country, diverting a shipment of bombs is not a bad message to send.
Are you serious?
Neil Stevens (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 10:02AM EST (link)It’s not remotely reasonable to bring up Ronald Reagan’s opinions as though nothing changed over the last 28 years.
Don’t be ridiculous.
But then again you’re trying to blame the victim, blaming people building homes for being brutally murdered, so I’m not sure that’s avoidable.
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EVERYBODY should insult that moron Biden
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 10:26AM EST (link)Just as a matter of normal business.
Israel has its own self-interests, and they are entitled to conduct their business on their own land without punks like Obama getting all hissy about it.
Obama tried to meddle in Honduras the same way. I’m sure it was a coincidence, but in that case he also sided with tyrants, drug traffickers, and terrorists against a legitimate republican democracy.
Hmmmmm……
Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
I actually agree with you on the merits.
Section9 Friday, March 19th at 10:09AM EST (link)Israeli settlements policy since the Labor Governments of the Bar Lev Line Era have been an ongoing catastrophe. All they have done is permanently intermix Israelis with a Palestinian population who wish for Israel’s extermination as a Jewish entity.
Wise Israeli policy would look to disengage Israelis from their Palestinian neighbors, and allow the Palestinians to settle their own hash.
However, all of this misses the central point: the so-called Palestinian Question was never the central issue. The main question was always an inability of the Arabs to accept a national home for the Jewish people in their midst in the post-Holocaust era.
The Israelis could go back to the Green Line and give half of Jerusalem to the Palestinians, and it would never be enough. It has always been the Arab wish dream to liquidate the Jews, as the presence of Israel is a constant source of shame and humiliation for the Arabs.
The Foreign Policy community in this country never gets this. So they invest millions of man-hours in a “peace process” that will never produce peace.
“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it”-Winston Churchill
It's just irrational hatred on their part
Neil Stevens (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 10:12AM EST (link)Nobody who isn’t sick in the head responds to building houses by bombing children.
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There is an enormous amount of Shame built into their psyche.
Section9 Friday, March 19th at 11:46AM EST (link)The very existence of Israel is the humiliation that Arabs have suffered since 1948. The chattering classes don’t get this. It’s why Israel must suffer a Spartan existence.
The Palestinians, such as they are, are only an excuse to be used against the existence of the Jews as a people. Were it not the Palestianians, it would be something else.
Americans don’t get this, and never will. We genuflect at the altar of pragmatism, and do not understand people who are sworn to the annihilation of a whole race of people.
“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it”-Winston Churchill
They're saving the bombs for Rep. Cantor's
johnt Friday, March 19th at 10:54AM EST (link)district. They know who the REAL enemy is.
You can’t fool a liberal.
“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville
The endgame
raydawggie Friday, March 19th at 2:32PM EST (link)It’s almost Orwellian. Force Israel into using nukes. Declare Israel a rogue state. Lead the charge to eliminate Israel.
The thing is, Barack really doesn’t understand Israel. He really doesn’t understand just how sick and tired the Jews are of being the world’s whipping boy.
Barack should read up on the tale of Samson and the temple to decide if he really wants to pick this fight.