“There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people…religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.” Linus from Peanuts.
Author: lenbilen
Retired engineer, graduated from Chalmers Technical University a long time ago with a degree in Technical Physics. Career in Aerospace, Analytical Chemistry, computer chip manufacturing and finally adjunct faculty at Pennsylvania State University, taught just one course in Computer Engineering, the Capstone Course.
National security adviser Susan Rice denounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming address to a joint meeting of Congress, calling it “destructive” to the relationship between the United States and Israel.
Rice, appearing on “Charlie Rose,” said that Netanyahu’s decision to accept the invitation of House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) to offer critical views of a potential nuclear deal with Iran shortly before the Israeli elections has “injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate. I think it’s destructive of the fabric of the relationship.” Netanyahu is scheduled to speak March 3; the Israeli elections are March 17.
Which leads to verse 29 of the Obama Impeachment song:
Greta van Susteren leveled this fiery salvo in response to Susan Rice’s comments:
“Has President Obama’s Nation Security Adviser Susan Rice gone off the deep end? What kool aid is SHE drinking?
Rice, who as you know ridiculously went around to the 5 Sunday shows claiming Benghazi was caused by a video, just claimed to CBS Charlie Rose that Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech to Congress next week is “destructive” to the relationship between the US and Israel. Really? PM Netanyahu is the destructive one to the relationship?
Ah…maybe she ought to look at her boss’ conduct if she wants to talk ‘destructive’ to the relationship.
Consider this..
1/ Remember when her boss, President Obama, got caught on a hot mike ‘trash talking’ PM Netanyahu with then French President Sarkozy? Does she not think THAT was destructive to the relationship? Insulting another world leader like that?
or how about this?
2/ When the Jewish deli got hit by terrorism in Paris in January, and PM Netanyahu and all those world leaders showed up in solidarity — where was President Obama? A no show! Does she think THAT was not destructive to the relationship? A no show for that terrorism attack on a Jewish deli?
or how about this?
3/ In October an Administration official called PM Netanyahu in a magazine article “chicken shit” and “a coward.” Does she not think THAT was destructive to the relationship?
And how about the fact that President Obama did not followup with an apology to PM Netanyahu on behalf of his Administration? Does she not think THAT was destructive to the relationship?
And by the way, was SHE the “Administration official” who called PM Netanyahu ‘coward’ and ‘chicken shit?’
and want more?
how about this?
4/ PM Netanyahu is desperately trying to protect his country from Iran getting a nuclear weapon….and is speaking to Americans via Congress..
– a/ Democrats are going to be a ‘no show’ to insult him and have already made that known….and
-b/ the VP, as President of the Senate says he is not showing up…and
-c/ President Obama won’t find 5 minutes to meet with the Prime Minister when he is here in DC.
Does she think THAT might be destructive to the relationship?
The is all because the White House is upset because Speaker Boehner did not tell them first before inviting PM Netanyahu. Do you know how insane that is to be upset about ‘manners’ and ‘protocol’ when the topic is NUCLEAR WEAPONS?
What kool aid is Susan Rice drinking?”
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Here is the Washington Post article:
“Homeland Security” Secretary Jeh Johnson recently said: (Yes, this is a direct quote)
“We in the administration and the government should give voice to the plight of Muslims living in this country and the discrimination that they face. And so I personally have committed to speak out about the situation that very often people in the Muslim community in this country face; the fact that there are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world and the Islamic faith is one about peace and brotherhood.”
If you love Government run Healthcare, remember the good old days when MaBell had a virtual monopoly on telephones, appreciate the simplicity of the tax code and the IRS, you must be for “Net Neutrality”.
“In my adult life I have never seen a situation that paralleled what I read in Ayn Rands books until now with Net Neutrality,” tweeted Billionaire Mark Cuban in November. “If Ayn Rand were an up and coming author today, she wouldn’t write about steel or railroads, it would be net neutrality.”
Which brings us to verse 27 of the Obama Impeachment song. The regulation proposed far exceeds Presidential authority.
And this was Verizon’s response: (Their original response was in Morse Code, but few still remember Morse Code so they had to find an old typewriter to type the message)
WASHINGTON, – The United States has laid out a battle plan to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul in an April-to-May time frame, using some 20,000 to 25,000 Iraqi troops who currently are being trained, a highly unusual disclosure that one intelligence source told is “pure lunacy.”
In a teleconference with reporters at the Pentagon, a U.S. Central Command official said brigades of Iraqis along with Kurdish peshmerga forces and Sunni militia will seek to take back Iraq’s second largest city from ISIS, which has held it since June.
Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the United Nation’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, recently made a devastating admission… the goal of environmental activism is not to save the world from terrifying environmental calamity, but to end capitalism.
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,” she said.
Referring to a new international treaty environmentalists hope will be adopted at the Paris climate change conference later this year, she added: “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”
This brings us to verse 25 of the Obama Impeachment song (as if sung by President Barack Hussein Obama to the tune of “Please release me, let me go”)
The White House on Feb 17 began hosting a three-day summit to examine ways to counter violent extremism.
The meeting put a special emphasis on domestic and international efforts to prevent extremists and their backers from radicalizing young people.
The conference, which has been in the works for months, came just days after fighters with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) executed 21 Egyptians and terrorist attacks in Copenhagen left three people dead including the radicalized Islamic terrorist.
President Obama addressed the summit twice, which included representatives from more than 60 countries, during events at the White House and at the State Department. There were delegates from the most repressive authoritarian regimes, representatives from Russian counterpart to FBI, but not our own FBI
I am paraphrasing and consolidating his remarks with this (admittedly incomplete) version in verse 24 of the Obama Impeachment song:
Gunfire in Copenhagen art debate featuring the theme “Blasphemy and freedom of speech”. The featured speaker was to be the Swedish Cartoonist Lars Vilks, famous for his Muhammad Cartoons. The gunfire started before he was to speak.
First a background on Denmark and its people:
The Danes, a friendly people are hard to impress and hard to scare. Lately, they too have had to take in their fair share, (as defined by EU) of Muslim refugees and immigrants. The Danes decided to distribute them evenly across the country and thus they would be absorbed into Danish culture in no time. After all, they had successfully assimilated even the Gypsy. However in mid 2000 they experienced a few honor killings in their peaceful country, since some young women sought to assimilate into Danish Culture. The Danish judicial system decided to apply Danish law on the perpetrators and everyone associated with one honor killing got long prison terms, including the taxi driver who provided the getaway car. The Danish newspaper Jyllandsposten gave it maximum publicity. This didn’t sit well with the Muslim Imams, so they complained and threatened them, telling them to stop writing evil of our sense of honor or else. The newspaper editors responded with a competition who could produce the best Muhammad cartoons, and so in 2007, slowly at first, but the religion of peace activists grew angrier and angrier and a total of about 93 people were killed worldwide. The results linger as we saw in Paris lately.
Now back to the Cultural center “Krudttønden” (The Powder Keg) in Copenhagen.
One person is dead, a 55-year-old male, film director Finn Norgaard. 3 policemen wounded, none life threatening.
Two armed gunmen opened fire at the attendees of the debate, one gaining entrance through the kitchen, and the other shooting from the outside through the windows.
About 30 shots were fired from automatic weapons, more powerful than the police weapons
The getaway car, a stolen VW Polo was found a few blocks away but the gunmen, described as “Of Mideastern Descent” are still at large.
Update:
There is since 2007 a Fatwa on Lars Vilks, and a $100000 reward for his death.
There were 40 shots at the Culture Center.
They now think there was only one gunman at the culture center, not two as first reported
The first shooting at around 4:p.m. local time.
There has been a second shooting outside the Jewish Synagogue on Krystalgade in Central Copenhagen about 12:45 a.m. Monday, three people wounded, including 2 policemen, one shot in his head, the policemen with flesh wounds.
There also may be a shooting at the Norreport Metro Station, two blocks from the Synagogue.
The person killed outside the synagogue, 37 year old Dan Uzan was standing guard safeguarding a Bat Mitzvah (coming of age for 12 year old Jewish girls). He was a member of the Synagogue.
After a shootout the perpetrator, 22-year-old Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein,a person on the police watch-list was killed by the police.
Jan 20: U.S. officials told NBC News late Monday that they don’t plan to evacuate the American embassy in Yemen’s capital, where government soldiers and Shiite rebels fought near the presidential palace and a military before agreeing to a cease-fire.
The rebels seized Yemen state television and its official SABA news agency, Information Minister Nadia Sakkaf told The Associated Press. Nine people were killed and 67 injured in the fighting in Sanaa.
“This is a step toward a coup and it is targeting the state’s legitimacy,” Sakkaf told AP.
But the two sides agreed to a cease-fire after holding day-long negotiations, on Monday.
The strife comes as the U.S. and its allies fight al Qaeda’s Yemeni operation, which said it was responsible for the Jan. 7 attack on a Paris-based satirical magazine in which 13 people were killed.
There was no imminent threat to Americans inside the embassy, U.S. military officials said. It would be “more likely and safer” for any Americans to leave the capital of Sana’a on a commercial flight, said one senior U.S. official, who noted that the military had not stepped up its alert level.
Feb 11: Yemen the model of American Diplomacy took over the Embassy as the State Dept evacuated all US personnel – including the US MARINE GUARDS who were ordered by State Dept to destroy any and all weapons – including personal weapons before being allowed to leave the country – on a commercial flight .
So individuals had to abandon the Marine Code of NEVER GIVE UP YOUR WEAPON – under orders from State Dept –
Obama seems to have a far reaching hand in the demoralization of the US – with this being the latest .
The rebel group who ordered the US out of the embassy says they will respect the US property now under their control including 20 vehicles left behind with their engines running – which they are only borrowing to use “temporarily.”
Verse 23 of the Obama Impeachment song: (as if sung by Obama to the tune of “Please release me, let me go”)
Yemen loss was a surprise, And my successes were but lies. This will lead to my demise, I never was worth my Nobel Prize.
This morning (Feb 12) the Baltic Dry Index hit an all time low at 553. The previous low of 554 was set on Aug 6 1985. What is the BDI you say?
The BDI is a very leading indicator signaling future guesses on the amount of shipping of dry freight that are to be conducted in the future. It is very volatile as we can see from these charts with a high of nearly 12000 in the spring of 2008 and dropping to about 700 a couple of months before the crash of 2008.
The new low of 553 signals major trouble ahead.
A hint is in the Chinese trade balance for Jan 2015.
China Posts Highest Trade Surplus on Record in January.
China reported a USD 60 billion trade surplus in January of 2015 compared with a USD 31.86 billion surplus a year earlier as imports fell at a faster pace than exports.
In January, imports dropped by 19.9 percent toCNY 860 billion year-on-year (approximately USD 140 billion) with imports from US down 9.3 percentExports unexpectedly declined by 3.3 percent to CNY 1.23 trillion (approximately USD 200 billion), but exports to the US rose 4.9 percent.
Since the Lunar New Year typically falls in January or February, the country’s trade figure in early year often considered as volatile, due to companies rushing to fill orders ahead of holidays. What is doubly troubling is that this year the Chinese new year fell in February. Last year it fell in January, so the declines are doubly troubling.
There is trouble ahead.
Update 1: Friday 2/13 it hit 530, a new record low
Update 2: Tuesday 2/17 it hit 522 a new all-time low.
Update 3: Wednesday 2/18 hit 516, a new all time low.
Update 4: Thursday 2/19 hit 509, a fourth new all time low in a row.
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