When You Set Out to Take Vienna, Take Vienna!

Victor Davis Hanson "Why are we so eager to claim a U.N. sanction to American action when we have not introduced the matter to the U.S. Congress for approval? At least we can say of our Congress that its members were all elected, which we cannot say of many in the General Assembly and some in the Security Council. I’ll pass on the Arab League, but the president for some reason in his statements thinks it is more important to justify American military force through a vote of approval from non-democratic states than his own country’s legislature."

The English Blog; cartoon by Morten Morland from The Times

Libyan rebels say ready for conditional ceasefire

Ahram Online. "Libya's opposition is ready for a ceasefire provided Muammar Gaddafi's forces end their assaults on rebel-held cities, Transitional National Council leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil said Friday."

The Shores of Tripoli: Our Latest Wilsonian War  "On top of that is the oil question. While there are a lot of Americans who think war for oil is immoral, there are plenty more who think that oil, that necessary driver of our economy and the condition of our prosperity, is one of the few things worth fighting about — and a much better reason for war than helping to put one gang of thieves in while kicking another one out." Walter Russell Mead

US May Use Covert Action Against Gadhafi  "Covert action is any U.S. government effort to change the economic, military, or political situation overseas in a hidden way. Covert action can encompass many things, including propaganda, electoral manipulation, funding, arming and training insurgents, and even encouraging a coup.It is not clear what actions the CIA is taking or has been authorized to take in Libya. But the situation there is chaotic, with a ragtag rebel army in retreat from Colonel Gadhafi’s forces.
"Georgetown University Visiting Professor of Security Studies Jennifer Sims is a specialist in intelligence affairs. She says covert action should not be undertaken without a clear picture of who you are supporting and what the outcome will or should be."  GlobalSecurity.org

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/lisabenson

Mike Ramirez on Nukes

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/michaelramirez

The April Fools' Day Defense Kit

Slate  "Shun the British press. The British tabloids make stories up all the time, but on April Fool's Day, everybody on Fleet Street fabricates."....
"Alex Boese, curator of the Museum of Hoaxes and expert on all things April Fools', advises that you finish reading articles before rushing into the next cubicle to spread the incredible news. Many hoax articles end with an obvious clue or an explanation that it's all a joke. Double-check all radio warnings of disasters—volcanic eruptions, floods, killer bee invasions—and question any story uncovering a new, onerous tax (say, on Linux)."

Branded an Idiot for Life  "This clothes company is offering 20% off their clothes if you tat yourself with their company logos. There will be idiots doing this. Remember the moron that was suckered into the forehead tattoo only to be told it was an April Fools joke?"

"Well, there is a joke to this too. In the fine print it says that the 20% off cannot be combined with any other offer, like these offers from the next page after the tat offer."
iOwnTheWorld.com

We Win On The Facts

Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion "Mockery may be part of the plan, but it's not going to be enough in 2012. Not with the mainstream media and entertainment industry on his side.
"Just tell it like it is, straightforward and hard hitting. He's driving us over a cliff. We win on the facts.
"Whaddaya think about this first RNC 2012 ad?"

GOP launches mock 'Obama 2012' ad  "All indications have been that the president's move to file for a second term will come within weeks, and the Chicago Sun-Times reported yesterday that the decision could come as soon as Monday. "
 We know how sensitive Obama is to any criticism. Expect this: Obama will appear before a live audience on a stage with smiling supporters behind him. He will mock the ad using phrases such as "think about it" and "let me be clear" with his supporters applauding and cheering. Network commentators will be impressed with his response and dismissive of the ad.
But then, what do I know?

Another Libyan official defects

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Obama and Libya

Three from American Thinker:
Waiting for Obama to assume his Presidency  "So whenever Obama claims he "inherited" the massive debt the Obama led Democrat controlled Congress created, it should be noted that Obama voted for every spending bill sent to Bush after 2006 and signed every spending bill after 2008. Facts are almost as stubborn as the 4 years of Obama led policies that got us into this mess. Had enough? "

Obama's Contribution to the Emerging Middle East Landscape
"With all its resources and power, the United State cannot single handily shape the new geopolitical landscape of the Middle East, but it can and should play a leading role in influencing it. The great tragedy is that the Obama administration has chosen passivity, timidity, and a desire to be controlled by the weak will of the international community, rather than providing resolute, principled, leadership. The unfortunate result may be replication of Lebanon-like states as the new norm in the Middle East."

Obama Self Destructing Over Libya "Nine days after the Libyan uprising the president issued a flat, canned condemnation of the violence with no mention of Gaddafi. His misfiring caused conservatives and liberals to question his Ft. Hood style lack of enthusiasm. On February 23 Nile Gardiner told Fox News that Obama was acting "spineless, weak-kneed" and "like a deer in the headlights." That was enough to fire up the community organizer. Obama does not act from conviction, loyalty or a belief system; he reacts to others' reactions."

And this from DEBKAfile:
Obama’s Libyan strategy: Recipe for a deeper, lengthier US military role "The only way to “help the opposition” in its campaign against Qaddafi is to transform a pack of squabbling dissidents into military-capable units with proper training and arms, a feat requiring a substantial US military presence on Libyan soil and time – as Washington has discovered painfully in Iraq and Afghanistan."

New sizes at Starbucks (Updated)

PCWorld  "Forget about Tall, Grande and Venti, Starbucks has two new sizes: Plenta and Micra. The Plenta is a 128-ounce drink for caffeine addicts who can't get enough coffee, and for those who need just a tiny sip, you can get the 2-ounce Micra. And don't worry about all that paper waste from the new Plenta sized-cup, Starbucks says you can reuse your gigantic Plenta cups in a number of useful ways including as a planter, lampshade or yoga block."

Graphic of new Starbuck's sizes

Starbucks site  to see what's April Fool and what's not.

Racist Van Jones Rally Cheered 9/11 Attacks



fastcompany.com

 Big Government  "When Obama administration Green jobs czar Anthony “Van” K. Jones resigned late Saturday night, September 5, 2009 over the long Labor Day weekend, a storm of breaking news about his radical anti-American history was being reported by conservative bloggers. One such storm was about the racist, hate-America rally Van Jones held the day after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the United States where speakers cheered the attacks and Jones himself said America deserved it."

Text of Van Jones remarks: 

■“It’s the bombs that the government has been dropping around the world that are now blowing up inside the U.S. borders.”
■“We’ve got something stronger than bombs, we have solidarity. That dream of revolutionary change is stronger than bombs.”

"That second item sounds a bit like someone who occupies the White House, doesn’t it?
"No wonder Jones resigned just after midnight on Sunday, mere hours after Powerline spilled the beans about what Jones said at this event.
"Also, at about the 3:05 mark, someone who may have been the inspiration for Obama pastor Jeremiah Wright’s sermon (at 2:10 through 2:45 of the video at the link) the next Sunday, talked of “chickens comin’ home to roost.” Imagine that."

Gateway Pundit  "The video also shows one speaker praising the 9-11 attackers as heroes. Disgusting… Yet this radical activist is still a hero on the left."

Chuck Schumer, Democrats and their techniques of demagoguery

Chuck Schumer Caught on Tape Instructing Fellow Dems on How to Spin Media, Networks Ignore
"The New York Times' Caucus blog explained:"

After thanking his colleagues — Barbara Boxer of California, Benjamin L. Cardin of Maryland, Thomas R. Carper of Delaware and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut — for doing the budget bidding for the Senate Democrats, who are facing off against the House Republicans over how to cut spending for the rest of the fiscal year, Mr. Schumer told them to portray John A. Boehner of Ohio, the speaker of the House, as painted into a box by the Tea Party, and to decry the spending cuts that he wants as extreme. “I always use the word extreme,” Mr. Schumer said. “That is what the caucus instructed me to use this week.”

The Extremists are Coming! The Extremists are Coming!  "Any casual observer of Schumer over the years knows labeling opponents extremists is his stock in trade, as ubiquitous as his Sunday press conferences. In Schumer's world, anyone to the right of Joseph Stalin is an extremist. What's newsworthy, I suppose, is the media finally notices this and the coordinated efforts by Democrats trash Republicans at every opportunity. Still, it'll be in the news cycle for a short period, quickly forgotten until the next press conference, when he'll probably change things up and call the GOP "radical extremists" instead."

http://terrellaftermath.com/

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Media Matters’ War on Fox News

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE "And we thought we had you. Using the media that really matters for America — our lapdog media, whose stories are written and broadcast by our friends from the old neighborhood, the same people we still live among on the Upper West Side, in Brentwood, on the Cape, and on the Island — we had kept Amerikkka blinkered and blindfolded, distracting the rubes from our slow-moving demolition derby with trash-culture stories whenever it seemed your side might finally be waking up. "
— David Kahane misses the Berlin Wall, because it was so much easier being a double agent in the good old days. You can write to him in invisible ink at kahanenro@gmail.com or pretend to have read his book, Rules for Radical Conservatives, and become his Commie-cell friend on Facebook. Don’t worry, he won’t blow your cover.