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Monday, May 02, 2011

It's 3 AM but There's a Phone Ringing in the White House

  by NedSparks  Sun May 01, 2011   Original Article

I remember during the ‘08 campaign how so many claimed that Barack Obama was devoid of leadership, especially as it related to national security. The frequent characterization was, “He is inexperienced.”  Many claimed he could never be trusted to handle that 3 AM phone call. But at some point over the past few hours a phone call came in and the word was that the US military, under the leadership of President Barack Obama, caused the demise of US nemesis Osama Bin Laden.

What will the Right have to say about this President now? I have no doubt they will praise the military and marginalize the leadership of the President, but they have always believed and claimed he would never be able to capture the illusive Al-Qaida leader. I remember John McCain who said this in respect to capturing Osama Bin Laden:

I understand and I have the knowledge and the background and the experience to make the right judgments (to capture Bin Laden). Senator Obama does not…Obama doesn't know how -- how the world works nor how the military works.
http://in.reuters.com/...

Congratulations Mr. President and the men and women of the US military who assisted you in this effort.

Bin Laden’s Last Few Minutes

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"Good morning, Mr. bin Laden. Here's your tea. And your noodles. And your Terror Mastermind Daily Brief."

"Ah, yes, my TMDB! I don’t even know why I bother reading them anymore. They always say the same thing: 'Trail is cold. Trail is cold. Trail is cold.' Look, it's been ten years…I got away with it. I tell you, this is going to be the last TMDB I ever read. I simply do not need them anymore. Now read me this last one and then we can sit down for a nice game of Boggle."

"Yes, sir. It says…

United States Determined to Strike Inside Bin Laden Compound in 3…2…1…

Smile, Asshole.

"See? The trail is col…  Wait, what???"

Sunday, May 01, 2011

The U.S. Exterminates Osama Bin Laden

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Donald Trump: A Republicans Wet Dream?

  Nothing describes Donald Trump and the Republicans decent into stupidity more than this article from Common Dreams.

Since the election of Barack Obama, the Republican Party has proved that one of its central intellectual arguments was right all along. It has long claimed that evolution is a myth believed in only by whiny liberals – and it turns out it was on to something. Every six months, the party venerates a new hero, and each time it is somebody further back on the evolutionary scale.

   It would appear that Trump is the new hero/class clown right now.

That wasn't enough. I half-expected the next contender to be a lung-fish draped in the Stars and Stripes. But it wasn't anything so sophisticated. Enter stage (far) right Donald Trump, the bewigged billionaire who has filled America with phallic symbols and plastered his name across more surfaces than the average Central Asian dictator. CNN's polling suggests he is the most popular candidate among Republican voters. It's not hard to see why. Trump is every trend in Republican politics over the past 35 years taken to its logical conclusion. He is the Republican id, finally entirely unleashed from all restraint and all reality.

     On Donald Trump’s wealth, it is noted that most came from filing for bankruptcy.

Johnston says that in fact most of Trump's apparent fortune comes from "stiffing his creditors" and from government subsidies and favours for his projects – which followed large donations to the campaigns of both parties, sometimes in the very same contest. Trump denies these charges and presents himself as an entrepreneur "of genius".

  The rest makes for some great reading, so do so here.

The Republican Party today isn't even dominated by market fundamentalism. This is a crude Nietzscheanism, dedicated to exalting the rich as an overclass and dismissing the rest. So who should be the Republican nominee? I hear the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were considering running – but they are facing primary challenges from the Tea Party for being way too mild-mannered.