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Los Angeles Marathon May 25, 2009
Flap will be a run/walk participant in tomorrow’s Los Angeles Marathon.++++++++++In blogging matters, besides Flap’s Links which will appear later tonight this will be my last post until Tuesday morning.Happy Memorial Day!
See you then.
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Poll Watch: 23 Per Cent of Israelis Will Leave Israel If Iran Obtains a Nuclear Weapon
The test-firing of a new medium-range surface to surface missile in Iran on May 20. Iran’s former Revolutionary Guards chief Mohsen Rezai has warned he could stop Israel with “one strike” and said it would not dare to threaten the Islamic republic if he is elected president
Looks like Iran’s nuclear blackmail of Israel is already succeeding.Some 85 percent of respondents said they feared the Islamic Republic would obtain an atomic bomb, 57 percent believed the new U.S. initiative to engage in dialogue with Tehran would fail and 41 percent believed Israel should strike Iran’s nuclear installations without waiting to see whether or how the talks develop.
“The findings are worrying because they reflect an exaggerated and unnecessary fear,” Prof. David Menashri, the head of the Center, said. “Iran’s leadership is religiously extremist but calculated and it understands an unconventional attack on Israel is an act of madness that will destroy Iran. Sadly, the survey shows the Iranian threat works well even without a bomb and thousands of Israelis [already] live in fear and contemplate leaving the country.”
Israel had an opportunity a few years ago after the 2006 midterm American elections and would not or could not pull the trigger against Iran’s nuclear program.
Now, under Obama, Iran will continue to stall by negotiations until they reach Breakout Capability and then the nuclear blackmail scenario will be complete.
Bye Bye Israel……
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The Partisan Divide on Missile Defense – What is Obama Cutting?
Political Cartoon by Michael Ramirez
There is a good piece about the Obama Administration’s attempt to cut defense costs by reducing the Missile Defense Agency in Congressional Quarterly.So, what is Obama cutting?
Obama’s budget plan would reduce the planned number of deployed ground-based missile interceptors in Alaska
and California from 44 to 30, keeping the remainder as backups ortesting devices.Many GOP lawmakers are angered at the move.
“This is the one system that protects the homeland from ICBMs that’s completely on our land, our territory, that’s under our control without having to ask permission to place it in a foreign nation,†said Sen. Jeff Sessions , R-Ala.
The president’s budget also would kill two problem-plagued futuristic technology programs: the Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI), which was meant to hit missiles in their earliest stage, and the Multiple Kill Vehicle program, which was conceived to hit multiple incoming warheads at once.
Sen. Richard C. Shelby , R-Ala., wrote to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on May 13 calling on them not to halt the KEI project just yet. “Stopping work on the program now is irresponsible,†he wrote.
The new MDA complex is in Huntsville, Ala., as is the Army’s Aviation and Missile Command. Boeing, a major MDA contractor, also is moving its missile defense headquarters to Huntsville.
The budget would cancel plans for a second prototype airplane for the Airborne Laser program, which envisions shooting down missiles with lasers from 747airplanes. House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee Vice-Chairman Norm Dicks , D-Wash., is a staunch defender of the program. The planes would be built by Boeing Co. in his state.
No funding is suggested in the budget request to build two planned missile defense sites in Europe, following Obama’s promise not to move forward until more testing is completed and agreements with the host nations
Poland and the Czech Republic are signed.Republicans say stalling work on the European sites risks damaging diplomatic outreach to the two countries.
“It leaves the Poles and Czechs and all of those who have been courageous in this effort fundamentally and objectively betrayed,†said Rep. Trent Franks , R-Ariz.
In the meantime, Iran and North Korea develop and test new missiles which can carry nuclear warheads.
And, the Obama Administration proposes saving money in its budget by cutting vital missile defense programs, including the deployment of missiles to protect the United States from an actual attack – making America less safe.
The wrong move and it will be up to Congress to correct Obama’s misplaced priorities.
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Poll Watch: Strong Support for Missile Defense by Americans Across the Political Spectrum
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Folly of the Day: Obama Cuts Missile Defense
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Day By Day by Chris Muir May 24, 2009 – Horror Film!
Day By Day by Chris MuirThe RIGHT resistance to the FAR LEFT of President Obama and his minions in the Congress is alive and well. The LEFT likes to portray their success at the polls lately as far more than what reality says.The facts are Obama majorities in Congress will decrease in 2010 and he will move his policies to the right to recapture independent voters in a bid for re-election in 2012.
Now, if the economy stays poor and unemployment high, the losses to the LEFT will be substantial.
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links for 2009-05-24
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At least one Republican doesn't think it's OK to compare Nancy Pelosi to Pussy Galore.
After viewing an RNC video that juxtaposed the speaker with the James Bond
villainess, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) told POLITICO Saturday:"I thought it was reprehensible, irresponsible and unpersuasive. If we're going to regain the credibility of the American people, we're going to have to stop with silly antics like that. It may get a snide chuckle inside the Beltway, but it offends most people. We have to get away from the politics of personal destruction," he said of the video.
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Knowing that history of this MORON, he is sue a GOP primary challenge in 2010 anyway. Sleeping on a cot in his office indeed. -
Under intense fire from the right, former secretary of state Colin L. Powell is preparing to answer his Republican critics this weekend in a television appearance that is likely to add fuel to his long-standing feud with top conservatives in his party.
The appearance will come just days after Powell, one of the country's leading black political figures, told an audience in Boston that a new Republican Party is "waiting to emerge." Earlier this month, he said the party is in "deep trouble" because "Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less."
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The RNC uses images and audio from 1964’s Goldfinger, where not only Bond but the CIA gets to play, to tweak Liar Pelosi and Hapless Gibbs. For a brief 3 seconds (at .40) SanFranGran is shown side-by-side with Bond villainess, Pussy Galore, and all kerfuffle breaks loose.
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Michael Steel, press secretary for House Republican leader John Boehner, said that while there isn’t a “deliberate strategy,†he’s noticed “Republican aides being sure to engage with liberal websites like Huffington Post — just because for no other reason than they drive a lot of cable coverage.â€
With that kind of cooperation from the right, it’s not surprising that Republican points of view have shown up on the site recently.
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