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http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-lifts-ban-on-libyans-attending-u-s-flight-schools-training-in-nuke-science/
Hey, what could POSSIBLY go wrong…???

Unilaterally lifting a ban that has been in place since the 80s…and for what?  Where the FLUCK did that decision come from?  What was the rationale behind that…???

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Is Libya really a country these days?   I mean, geographically I guess, but otherwise?

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How many actual people are affected by this ban?
I’d like to know.

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He should hire Baghdad Bob as White House Press Secretary and make the delusion official.

“This is the mother of all Presidencies!”

Accomplished two things – degraded the Office of the Presidency to a new low and proved that even I could be President (and probably do a better job, at least I wouldn’t GOLF so much).

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You quote a partisan rag.  Growth was 4% last quarter, first time jobless claims are coming in at 2006 levels, and the jobs lost during the great recession have been recovered.  Most of the numbers in the aggregate look low because Obama inherited the worst economic conditions since the great depression.  It took time to work through that recession, and now we’re coming out of it.   The deficit is way down, economic stats improving, we’ve made it through the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression – something Obama inherited and worked to fix.
The US is going through a transition into a multipolar world, and Obama is handling it very well.  Most of the criticism comes from people who don’t understand how the world is changing, and fantasize that we can go back to Cold War era dominance of the so-called West.  That world is gone.  The Iraq war proved the limits of US power – Bush having to back down from his goals and embrace a “peace with honor” escape from Iraq (which Obama smartly continued – that’s the irony, Bush actually was smart enough to realize we had to get out of Iraq and the policy there failed) demonstrated the very real limits of US power.  Obama is shifting us to a multi-lateral leadership role.  Right now Obama has a great opportunity to demonstrate that new kind of leadership by putting together an international coalition to defeat ISIS (I discuss what needs to be done there in my blog).   But for all the right wing personal attacks, Obama has reshaped the country, passed some of the most significant reforms since the LBJ era, and put us on a path congruent with 21st Century realities.  So the right can hurl their impotent epithets.  Watch and learn – Obama will be remembered as one of the greats.

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Wow, so much delusion in just a couple of paragraphs. Go back to the faculty lounge, Erb. You’ll be more comfortable there.

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You’re just trolling now.

As to why you would troll so hard to be so wrong so often on such an obvious subject is a mystery only a trained expert in mental health issues might resolve.

Expecting you to actually be rational and explain anything without using your usual talking points is like asking my great Danes if they want cookies – the result will be a lot of dancing and funny noises.

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No, I’m pointing out facts – especially on the economy.  I truly believe you guys are either knowingly spreading very misleading info designed to sway the discourse (create memes, etc.), in which case you are volitional propagandists and – meh – OK, that’s the norm.  Or else you are so caught up in like minded writings that you don’t stop to think about how the situation might be viewed differently.  I give that different perspective.  I read your perspective that is different than mine.  Nothing wrong with that.

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You never seem able to deal with direct questions.

Why did the U.S. economy SHRINK in the first quarter when the Canadian economy GREW?  It wasn’t the cold, was it?

Why are Deemocrats seeking office running AWAY from Pres. ScamWOW?

Where, besides the fringe of the moonbattery, do you find good economic news?  Provide links, moron.

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I’m taking odds that the Q2 4% is revised to be around 2% when the Q3 numbers come out.
The Q1 was revised from 0.6% to -2.0% when that Q2 4% came out.
I’m willing to put money on my supposition that the BLS will keep this wave of “inflated good news behind revised bad news” going.

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“Right now Obama has a great opportunity to demonstrate that new kind of leadership by putting together an international coalition to defeat ISIS (I discuss what needs to be done there in my blog).”
Oh, THERE’s the reason for the trolling….

 

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Well, that DID have the dubious merit of being a pretty complete compendium of stupid bullshit moonbat talking-points.  Quite remarkable for that.

The world is pretty unanimously awakening to the disaster Barracula hath wrought everywhere.  Our enemies hold him in totally justifiable contempt, and our friends have learned they will only be hurt by trusting him in any matter.  Even a lot in the Collective now see how dangerous their magic thinking (and you are a LEADING culprit) has been.  ISIS is the JAY-VEE…?!?!?!


Domestically, the Deemocrats…including even Ol’ Walleyes Clinton…are running AWAY from him.  And little wonder.  Everything he has touched has turned to un-composted dog shit.  ObamaDoggle is killing American jobs and economic success, and people are pissing on it in their droves.  And THAT’s after Barracula has illegally suspended whole swaths of it.

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I’m sure his suggestion is the usual witless suggestion that ‘NATO’ and here we’ll pretend that the bulk of NATO is some alien force NOT composes of US troops,
We will further pretend that ‘NATO’ is not in fact a treaty organization guaranteed to protect countries IN the treaty organization, of which IRAQ is NOT…..
so he’ll suggest that ‘NATO’ do a little bombing like they did in Libya.
Maybe have the Kurds do some dying for the government in Baghdad on the ground.

If only people would just do what Scott suggests!   Or what Obama suggests, which often is identical, regardless of those border thingies, or the treaty thingies, or the cost thingies, or the responsibility thingies that we USED to use in the olden days before the new world order swept all that away in 2008 (or something).
Arab spring! Arab Spring!   Good and necessary!   Watch and learn!

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Oh be FAIR! If someone draws a red line in the sand for ISIS I am damn sure that they will fear the repercussions of crossing said red line since no one would be foolish enough to draw a red line and not follow up if it were crossed. Watch and learn!

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Oh, not if Obama drew the line!   People only cross those lines when they’re drawn by ‘the world’ which is obviously some coalition of powers that is to be feared less than the United States if Hafez Assad is any indication after his last violation of red lines that ‘the world’ drew.

Pondering more on NATO, one wonders why it’s NOT okay for NATO to, I don’t know, intervene in Ukraine where some 270 citizens of largely NATO countries were blown from the sky by madmen who fire at civilian jet liners in international air space like some band of Libyan terrorists. It seems if ‘terrorists’ can score a missile launcher capable of reaching 32,000 feet that’s to be handled differently than if they get ON the plane WITH the bomb and blow themselves up at 32,000 feet.   Anyway, one would think NATO, this coalition organization that’s not composed largely of US forces, would INTERVENE and take action, yet it hasn’t happened.
I think perhaps they are waiting for some really really massive humanitarian crisis that can’t be ignored that Barack can really sink his teeth into to demonstrate his phenomenal world class Churchillian style of leadership that we will REMEMBER when we talk about GREAT Presidents.   Yes indeedy, I’m certain that’s it.

Dude, pass me that ganja

All things considered, I think it is safe to assume that Erb does not know what “NATO” actually is.

Apart from his previous denigration of Americans for maintaining a viable combat force and pointing out how the Euro’s mock us for actually DOING so while we are ‘occupying’ Europe.

Funny how on one hand he trashes the US spending on the military (which provides 70% of NATO DEFENSE spending), but on the other is the first to suggest that some FRONT LINE force of these magical NATO combat forces be deployed so the average European military LOGISTICAL forces can keep these mysterious combat troops fed, housed and far from the local civilian populations.
Using Afghanistan as an example of percentages we see roughly 50,000 ‘NATO-ISAF’ troops from 49 countries, of which 66% are from ONE country, that being some place called the United States.
But hey man, Austria kicked in their 3 guys, and Ireland has 7 (which means they can surround the Afghans almost 2 times!  Up the Republic! ) and Iceland has their 3.
Kudos to Germany, Italy, Romania, JORDAN! for sending contingents in excess of 1000, with triple Kudos to the United Kingdom with a force exceeding 5k.
Having taken a gander at that, shall we GUESS who is going to do the bulk of the bombing and spending to degrade ISIS?
 

Not to mention the genius of advocating that NATO get involved in a Middle East country (far outside its sphere of interest), fighting in its oil producing regions. If that happens, just what does Prof Pollywobble think that NATO’s main antagonist currently already on a rearmament and intimidation drive will make of that? Not altogether wise one might think. What would China think, who is already doing petroleum deals with Russia and lessening the leverage Europe has in terms of buying Russian gas? It might be the 21st century but it is looking more and more like the late 19th century from where I am sitting. And Professor Dimbulb seems ready to send the colonial forces back into same regions to restart the great power games. Watch and learn!

The US is not powerful enough, nor are the American people willing enough to the price, for the US to do it alone.  The European states have some of the best professional armies in the world, if much smaller than the US, and can contribute to a limited military campaign which, combined with arming Kurdish Peshmerga fighters can change the military tide.  Politically, the ICC is the perfect mechanism for going after individual ISIS leaders.  The cost of dealing with the refugee crisis should be spread among Asian, Latin American and other emerging strong economies, so that the price is shared globally, and not borne by the US alone.  If we could do this, there could be a true international response to ISIS – the world saying ‘never again’ to genocidal acts.  President Obama can help lead building this unilateral force, but the US is not in a position to “fix” this alone.  Look at what happened in the ill fated effort to turn Iraq into a model democracy and, as President Bush said, “spread democracy” in the Mideast.   Bush and his advisors over estimated the potency of American unilateralism and they failed.  Bush would have loved to have Obama’s approval ratings!  Obama is breaking the mold by charting a multi-lateralist path, and many who think the US can still “lead” dislike that.  But it’s the only possible way to deal with the realities of the 21st Century.
And anyone who thinks it would be better to try to stop change in the Mideast by holding on anachronistic obsolete doomed to fail regimes like Mubaraks or Gadaffi’s really shows a lack of understanding of the politics of the region (including demographic change) in the last two decades.  If you really think the Arab Spring could have been avoided, or this transition somehow could have been stopped, you really don’t understand politics, or that region of the world.

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But powerful enough to provide the as Obama words go provide the vast majority of funds and men for the effort.  Britain God bless her puts puts 5000+ men in the field to our 33k but we’re not strong enough for the job.
When the next effort goes on, since it hasn’t't so far (very telling) we’ll see who does the heaviest lifting.

If ‘we’ don’t have the will maybe it’s because we’re always fighting far from home on behalf of assists like you that mock us for being their police force and security.  Maybe WE would like to secure our own borders before we reinforce a defeat that could have been at least a stalemate if the assist commander in chief could make a decision more decisive than which frickin golf course he was going to today.
But blame Bush moose turd, it’s the only arrow left in your quiver.

Heh, yep multilateral forces composed of Americans with a few Swedish cops, Belgian truck drivers and French waiters thrown in for that international coalition pretension.

If it’s all such a crisis to them why are they waiting for a guy who can’t even show up to his own frickin press conferences on time?  You think they don’t know he puts the I in indecision and the P in procrastination?

Heh, you claim the American public is not willing to do it but somehow think that small European countries are going to? Hmmm, you clearly do not understand the willingness of most European polities to go into another dead-end campaign now that they have withdrawn from Afghanistan. No one is going to immediately start ramping up again in Iraq, it would be a big fat political shot in the foot. It ain’t going to happen. You can throw some magical unicorn farty dust around about Asian and Latin American countries picking up the tab, that is if you haven’t snorted it all concocting this fantasy at complete odds with reality.

You quote a partisan rag. Growth was 4% last quarter, and that number definitely won’t be adjusted downwards like all the others, I’m sure of it. So don’t start about how it barely averages out to decent growth with the quarter before it, just don’t start. Besides, first time jobless claims are coming in at 2006 levels, and the jobs lost during the great recession have been recovered. Not enough to compensate for population growth, but it’s mean to point that out so don’t.


Most of the numbers in the aggregate look low because Obama inherited the worst economic conditions since the great depression. Yes, worst economic disaster since the Great Depression – something Obama inherited and worked to fix. The US is going through a transition into a multipolar world, and Obama is handling it very well. Obama is shifting us to a multi-lateral leadership role. Obama has reshaped the country, and put us on a path congruent with 21st Century realities. Obama, PBUH, will be remembered as one of the greats. Obama, Obama, Obama, Obamamablahgump duhglubahug.


Sorry. I got overly excited for a moment and shoved my new Obamacok oral therapy device in a bit too far. I have the same model used by Ezra Klein. It’s the latest treatment to help me deal with the giant magenta caterpillars with Sarah Palin’s face, naughty glasses, and ample bosom. Somehow they seem less threatening when I have the Obamacok in my mouth.

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I think in the future it would be appropriate to post a reader’s advisory on these posts -
“Warning, do not consume beverages of any sort while reading this post.  Consuming beverages while reading may result in beverage spew on display devices, keyboards, mice, desktops or clothing.”
 

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You know what’s a real knee-slapper to me, Erp…???

It’s how those piratical monsters in ISIS are using social media SOOOOOOooooo well and with such gusto!  Why, they would happily saw off your head and post it hanging on a pike to Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, etc.  And did you notice how almost all those guys are young?  Watch and learn…bwaaak.  Good and necessary

There’s your “Arab Spring”, you moron.  Really too bad for all those dead, displaced, dying, and otherwise victimized people, huh…???

Obama will be a hiss and a by-word all over this planet, and down through history.  Which is just fair.  He’s earned it.

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That is a great observation. Remember when Erb said technology and young people would create the Arab Spring?
Looks like it created ISIS just as easily. And Morsi is long gone with a military dictatorship back in control of Egypt.
Erb’s looking pretty dumb.

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Oh, yeah, and Egypt’s new BFF…???  Vlad, the airliner impaler…!!!  ANother example of the KGB butt-flucking the stars out of the faculty lounge.

What have I been saying for years…???  Oh, yeah.  This guy is going to get a lot of people killed. And we’re just starting

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In Erblet’s universe it’s all old dudes who are the forces for ISIS. Aside from showing Erb doesn’t know jack about ages in fighting forces, it shows he also doesn’t know jack about young men, adventure, or young Islam.

So when he assures you that young male Islam wants a change you can be sure the only thing they want to change is who is in charge.  ‘Young lions’ has no meaning to him and with no surprise since he was probably more of a young hamster for half his life.

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Not to mention a lifelong sufferer of EDB – Ego-Brains Discrepancy.

The Arab spring was the first step.  As I blogged back then, it’s a necessary step – the old regimes have to go (and that includes the Saudi royal family).  They’re obsolete and doomed in the 21st century.  The battle will be for the hearts and minds of the youth, which make up half the Arab world.  ISIS cannot win that fight.  They are using fear and butchery as a way to scare people, but ultimately that’s not what most Arabs want.  That makes this a golden opportunity for the international community to come together, stop ISIS, and help the region through a transition into modernization and democracy.  Because anyone who thinks the patterns of the 20th Century could continue into the 21st are lost in the fog of an obsolete way of thinking.  Anyway, the change is happening, you can’t go back now even if you wanted to!

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More date magic.  Your calender does not control the course of history or society.  But you keep pretending that 2 ion the century means something special.

What was special was the Pax Americana show moron. And big ears Barry is telling the world we’ve closed that to renovate America into a third world banana Republic.

No, ISIS is not the mass of the Arab youth – they are a small, brutal cadre, using fear to hide the fact that they know they won’t win the hearts and minds of the youth with their ideas.  That’s why they resort to these tactics – tactics that are actually easy to defeat.  This is a real opportunity – mark my words, the defeat of ISIS will mark the turning point when it becomes clear that it was the last effort of al qaeda like extremism (al qaeda has declined dramatically) to take control of events.  They will fail because they represent the fringes, the fringes that need brutality and raw emotion to cloud the reality of their message.   Because if you think somehow Obama is at fault for the tumultuous changes in this part of the world, well, that’s ODS in extreme.  (Though many on the left are just as adamant that Bush is at fault because of the failed Iraq war – but that’s also not true – believe it or not, the US President doesn’t control cultural change on the other side of the globe.)

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HIGH-larry-ous…!!!  This may be your biggest pant-load of pablum EVAH…!!!

Let’s see if we can put bones to your pablum, eh?

1.  Quote where you predicted ISIS amid your blathering about the “Arab Spring”.
2.  You mentioned ISIS tactics.  What are they?
a. you answer should EXPLICITLY review ISIS military tactics
b. next, your answer should EXPLICITLY review ISIS political tactics
c. your answer MUST review ISIS psychological tactics
3.  How are these tactics “easily defeated”?  Please be VERY detailed.
4.  Why would any European power follow Barracula, John F’ing Kerry, and Hagel into battle?
5.  Explain why Muslims from all over the world are traveling to fight with ISIS if they are “a small cadre who know they won’t win the hearts and minds” yada, yada, and yada.
6.  Given that the “international community” is expressed in the UN, and that the UN is dominated by Muslims and dictators, what OTHER “international community” do you posit?
7.  What on earth makes you think Barracula wants to lead a major land battle in the ME?
8.  Tell us about this “new man” you imagine for the 21st Century.  In detail.  No more pablum.
9.  Given that I can show you pictures of Muslim yoots…and seven-year-olds with severed heads…who are eager ISIS killers, show us some pictures of the “new Muslim” youth majority you claim.

Do that, or STFU.

Ah, ISIS is the Muslim A-team huh? Or maybe they’re like Rat Patrol. You know seven or eight guys in a couple jeeps creating mayhem and easily defeating larger military forces left and right with weekends off for massacres kidnapping beheading and some Sunday afternoon historical site devestations.

Small poorly armed camel mounted forces handily defeating a larger modern Iraqi army.  Your continued subliconsciousl racism astounds.

Mark your words. Yes, the same way I mentally mark where dogcrap is on a lawn.

Weak President.   And the wolves of the world figured it out.

Wow, Erb, you hit the trifecta this time.  You not only called CNN and Gallup a “partisan rag” you then went on to talking about a multipolar world.  Is that Political Speak for “Political Bi-Polarism”?  ‘Cause if that is the case, you hit the nail on the head.  Here we are, 4 years after the Surge (Spending Suge that is – where Obama and company told the American People that Unemployment would be at less than 5% by now) and you keep repeating the same Democratic Talking Points you have used for the last 4 entries you have chosen to comment – you know jobless claims, 2006, we’re coming out, etc. etc.  What a load of crap.  But you keep digging ever deeper with “Obama will be remembered as one of the greats.”  And here I have to agree with you – ONE OF THE GREAT DISASTERS OF ALL TIME!!!

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Whoooo! Obama manages to get us back to normal in “only” 6 years.
Also, keep in mind that Erb could have made this comment 3 months ago, except he’d have to use -2.9% growth in that case.

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You should probably stick to reviewing movies with cute girls and highly derivative plots, you make yourself slightly less foolish with your sophomoric gushing in those instances.

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Heh!  You used “derivative” in a sentence….

Erp thinks those are spooky financial instruments from hell that reach up outta the Wall St. sewers and grab your economy and pull it down to Hades.  When a GOP president is in office…

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Thanks for reading my blog DocD!  It’s much appreciated.

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Oh, and did you check out the dance video?   Yeah, I’m the old guy trying to keep up :-)

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So, just like here, but with co-eds laughing at you…!!!

Sweet…!!!

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Well I have now, it looks like a scene acted out in many travel destinations. Did you notice the travelers in the queues behind you at airports, hotels, restaurants, museums, etc rolling their eyes and muttering while waiting for the sophomores to get over their giggles and painful mating rituals and just get bloody moving? Watch and learn!

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Well at least I know now not to bother with that movie since it is basically a rehash of themes dealt with in the entire Dune series. So you do provide some service.

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Even some of Obama’s friends are acknowledging the truth about the Obama economy. Fox had a report on a study by a group of liberal mayors stating as such. The only people who seem to believe he has done a good job are the ones working for him.

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http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/08/french-foreign-minister-scolds-obama-when-people-are-dying-you-must-come-back-from-vacation/
Well, hell.

Now we have to suffer the humiliation of having Frenchman give sound foreign policy advice to Barracula.  Just damn…
 

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