There is a knowledgeable concensus on the Obama foreign policy and it ain't pretty

Obama's chickens are coming home to roost

Hillary Spanks Obama For His ‘Failure’ In The Middle East    "It’s not even Presidential election season yet and already Lady Hillary is distancing herself from Barack Obama’s foreign policy disasters.

"In an interview with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, Mizz Pantsuits took a shot at her former boss’s failure to take the right side during the Syrian uprising. She said that he should have supported the rebels in their struggle against the government of President Bashar al Assad.
Because he didn’t, she said, we now have ISIS invading Iraq.

"“The failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against Assad—there were Islamists, there were secularists, there was everything in the middle—the failure to do that left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled,” Clinton said."

George Will: Obama’s Foreign Policy Is ‘Conceding The Advances That Our Enemies Have Made’

   "Will said that he learned three things about the President’s foreign policy this week. First, he said, the President wants a settlement in Iraq where there are no victors and no vanquished.

“ 'Now, ISIL is not in the realm of splittable differences,” Will said. “They cut people’s heads off. They say that the Yazidi have to be exterminated because they’re devil worshipers. It’s very hard to have a ‘no victors/no vanquished’ relationship with people like this.”

"Next, Will noted that the President said that “we have a strategic interest in pushing back ISIL.” But back to where?"

Suppose young Obama immediately gave his lunch money to the school bully every day to get the guy to not bother him?

Ron Fournier Calls Obama ‘The Underestimator-In-Chief’ Over ISIS, Says We Are In For Another Terrorist Attack
 

A Weak Horse Will Not Defeat ISIS

And post-Kennedy Democrats are weak horses.

Nice Deb "... Retired General Thomas McInerney has been saying that we need to [be] hammering ISIS with up to 200 strikes a day. A general consensus has formed that Obama’s actions in Iraq are more of a political solution than a military one.

“ 'It’s clearly very very ineffective to say the least,” Senator John McCain told Fox News, Sunday morning. Some generic Democrat no one’s ever heard of skillfully spouted the talking points the White House supplied him: “I think what has contributed clearly to the situation has not been our presence or lack of presence…” (uh-huh) “It’s been the politics of Maliki. – his alienation of the Sunni community…” Oh, that’s clearly it, Ben Rhodes. (We may as well address the actual person  behind these idiotic talking points.)
 

... "Sick slasher films with lots of blood and gore, screaming, and crying. But these monsters are real. So is the blood and gore, screaming and crying. These monsters can not be placated or negotiated with. They simply need to be stopped – which means eliminating them off the face of the earth."

“Liberal” Is Just A Synonym For “Smug”

Kurt Schlichter   " It's astonishing that an ideology which such an unbroken track record of failure has adherents who are so incredibly pleased with themselves." ...

 

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"I guess it's easy to be moral when morality is defined as whatever you need at that moment. Still, it’s annoying to listen to people with such a weird, unearned sense of their own moral superiority. In truth, they are utterly morally illiterate. These are folks who draw parallels between Hamas and Israel when the only parallel between the Israelis and the jihadist degenerates is that they share the habit of breathing oxygen."

 

 

Nazi-era anti-Semitic propaganda handed out at pro-Palestinian rally — in Chicago

Joe Newby  "Not that long ago, I said the one difference between Hamas and the Nazis was the native language spoken by members of the two organizations.

"According to a post at Legal Insurrection, it seems supporters of Hamas have decided to recycle the same propaganda used by Hitler’s thugs."

 

"There is one difference, here, and it’s very important.  This wasn’t handed out at a Nazi reunion in Germany — it was reportedly handed out at a pro-Palestinian rally — in Chicago."

 

 

Vassar Nazi cartoon reflects campus dehumanization of Israel

 

But wait! There's more!

Nazi-Like Posters In Rome Urge Boycott Of Jewish-Owned Shops    ... "Renzo Gattegna, the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, issued the warning after fliers urging a boycott of Jewish-owned stores in the capital were discovered plastered on walls in several districts of Rome on Saturday. " ...

"Spectacularly Wrong", by Alan Caruba

Warning Signs

 

... "The irony of the speech is that it was spoken by a man for whom no leader in the Middle East has any respect, putting the Prime Minister of Israel and the Supreme Leader of Iran on the same page together. Add to them the leaders of virtually all other nations. Obama thought he could dictate to Israel and could charm the Iranians to make concessions. He was wrong."

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  "These days, Iran is still playing Obama for a fool while pursuing its quest to build its own nuclear weapons. The Russian Federation has seized the Crimea from Ukraine. Latin American nations are dumping their children into an America that has no real border anymore.

  

"Since he gave that speech in 2009, the Middle East has seen the rise of the Islamic State stretching from Syria to Iraq. Syria remains embroiled in a civil war. The Palestinians are again attacking Israel. Iran is still intent on building its own nuclear weapons. Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya have removed former dictators and chaos is the order of the day in Libya.  

"If you read Barack Obama’s Cairo speech from start to finish, you are likely to conclude that a self-deluded fool gave it, a man determined to avoid confronting the enemies of mankind until an Islamic-inspired genocide required it."

McDonald’s Replacing Cashiers With Machines?

Legal Insurrection
“ 'Would you like fries with that?” may soon be a long forgotten relic of American pop culture."

 

"McDonald’s employees who picketed for a better living wage (whatever that means) may come to regret that decision. According to a Redditor, a McDonald’s in Illinois replaced their cashiers with machines.  The machines appear to be the cousins of the ones found in grocery stores, big box stores, and CVS that allow customers to complete transactions.
"How cost effective is replacing an organic employee with a mechanized one? According to an economic blog, and unsurprisingly, the machines likely come out on top in terms of pricing:

• For a location open 24 hours: The cost of human cashiers, not counting benefits, $15/hour * 24 hours * 365 days/year = $131,400

• For a location open 6AM to Midnight:  $15/hour * 18 hours * 365 = $98,550.

• For the machine to be cost effective, all it needs to do is cost less than $100,000 a year to buy and maintain.

"Who could’ve possibly seen this coming? Forbes. They predicted this exact scenario last July.

A recent article at the Huffington Post makes the claim that if McDonald’s MCD +0.26% doubled its employees salaries it would only cause the price of a Big Mac to go up by 68 cents. The implication here is that 68 cents isn’t much money, so they should do it. There’s a few things missing from this.
One is that the article itself alleges that doubling wages would lead to a 17% increase in costs. And I guess this is obviously supposed to seem like a small amount? It doesn’t look that way to me. What do people expect will happen when prices go up 17%? If McDonald’s could raise its prices by that much without lowering demand they would. No, what would happen is people would shop at those stores less, there would be less profit and less McDonald’s stores to hire workers.
Doubling of labor costs will simply increase a fast food restaurant’s incentives to adopt technology like this. And if fast food wages doubled everywhere it would spur the development of these technologies even faster.

"This is all basic economics, really. As costs of labor increase the added cost must be offset. In order to satisfy operating costs, produce a product consumers want to purchase, and still turn a profit, it’s perfectly reasonable for a company like McDonald’s to look for cost-cutting alternatives. As Forbes pointed out, the added pressure to increase wages only serves to expedite technological solutions.
"But cooks are safe from the machination of American fast food, right?
"Not if companies like Momentum Machines has anything to do with it. “Our technology will democratize access to high quality food making it available to the masses,” their site claims. They also claim their burger making machines can, “do everything employees do except better” and that the machines reap such large labor savings, restaurants will be able to afford twice as fancy ingredients. Tempting little proposition they have there.

“ 'Would you like fries with that?” may soon be a long forgotten relic of American pop culture. And all because it makes good economic sense.

"Update (WAJ): Prof. Reynolds notes that Robot makers must be loving the recent NLRB ruling, as well, which held McDonald’s parent corporation liable for franchisee employment practices. Can a kiosk file an employment grievance?"

This cartoon below shows us how liberals look upon the small businesspeople who are the engine of this economy; with great disdain. Shame on the left. Shame on cartoonist Milt Priggee for this cartoon.