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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Sharp speech to non-representatives Thanks Anon!
Hee Haw ! Sarah R!
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Subject: Fw: Very Rare Photos.
VERY RARE PHOTOS!
Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney
Michael Jackson, Francis Ford Coppola & George Lucas
The Beatles & Little Richard
Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine & Elvis Presley
Elizabeth Taylor & Diana
Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi & Barrack Obama
Captain Queeg as pusa ... Thanks Ramey!
PRESIDENT OBAMA'S QUEEG MOMENT
By Hal G.P.
Colebatch on 1.29.13
A
perspective on our president from Down Under.
In
Herman Wouk’s classic World War II novel, The Caine Mutiny, there is a moment when
a group of the ship’s officers are getting away from the increasingly
eccentric Captain Queeq by relaxing ashore.
Suddenly
the malcontent Lieutenant Keefer asks the others: “Does it occur to you that
Captain Queeg may be insane?
In
fact Queeg is not insane, at least not at that time. He is simply grappling,
more and more disastrously, with a job too big for him. Come the crisis of a
typhoon, he becomes paralyzed and nearly sinks the ship by failing to give the
obvious orders. At the subsequent court-martial he appears quite normal until
he breaks down under the pressure of cross-examination. Before this, the
officers have searched the regulations for guidance, but the regulations refer
only to a captain who is clearly and unmistakably insane, not one who is
merely guilty of eccentricity and bad judgment. At a lower level of
responsibility, Queeg might have performed adequately, but with Keefer’s
question, the remaining respect for Queeg’s office has
gone.
Obama’s
second inauguration speech may be his Queeg moment — an undeniable
demonstration that, in an emergency, he is incapable of grappling with
reality. For all his unceasing invocation of the word “change,” the
outstanding thing about Obama has been his apparent inability to react, even
to an imminent crisis. Like Queeg, he stands frozen on the bridge as the waves
grow higher, or obsesses over issues like homosexuals and women in the
military as the typhoon rises.
Faced
with the worst looming fiscal cliff-fall in world history Obama, like Queeg in
the typhoon, has done nothing at all, but has, increasingly, resorted to
meaningless words. His pseudo-Keynesian fiscal notions and a mantra-like
repetition of old and failed ideas, suggest a serious lack on mental
versatility.
Economics
is not an exact science, but some of its rules are now well-known, and one is
that a government cannot spend its way out of a recession.
Yet
Obama does not project any sense of urgency, merely a smug, radiating sense of
his own greatness. The one fiscal measure to which he seems committed — taxing
the rich — is infantile stuff, like Queeg’s obsession with who ate the
wardroom strawberries. Any first-year politics or economics student knows that
there are not enough rich, even in as wealthy a country as the United States,
to have raising their taxes make any appreciable difference. President
Reagan’s application of the Laffer Curve proved emphatically, and only a short
while ago, that the way to both stimulate the economy and to increase
government revenues is to lower taxes. And it is not hard to pick some areas
as least where towering taxes would make no appreciable difference to public
infrastructure.
Like
Queeg, Obama shows an inability to change course when such a change is
desperately needed. Giving 20 F-16 fighters and hundred of tanks to Egypt was
never, in my opinion, a clever idea. Even when Egypt was an unequivocal friend
its security required things like armored cars to put down street violence,
not these hi-tech weapons whose only conceivable use would be against Israel.
Indeed, Obama seems to show no awareness that Egypt and other major Islamic
countries have changed from being friends to something like enemies in a few
months. For a President of the United States there is a difference between
making a bad policy choice and clinging to that policy when it is plainly
completely wrong, like the Caine steaming in a circle and cutting
its own tow-line. Mistakes that cannot be ignored are always someone else’s
fault (refer George Bush).
The
dancing is still there, the golf, the celebs, the multi-million dollar
holidays, but behind them it is possible to detect a desperate emptiness, a
interconnected mosaic of failure. The one much-boasted triumph, the killing of
Osama Bin Laden, was the work of other men. One of those most responsible, Dr.
Shakil Afridi, rots in the hellhole of a Pakistani jail, abandoned. Obama’s
oath to bring the Benghazi murderers to justice seems to have been forgotten
as soon as it was made, something — I am not sure if there is a word for it —
actually below the level of a campaign promise. Allies have been lost or
slighted in almost every part of the world, the Afghan war has brought the
U..S and NATO humiliation and Russia and China lead in Space. The defenses of
the U.S.’s major allies, such as Britain, are in an even more dire
situation.
This
does not even consider the exploding levels of domestic poverty. Restoring
flexibility to the wage system, so as to give American industry a reasonable
degree of competitiveness, seems out of the question.
The
Western position in Mali seems to have suddenly collapsed without warning, or
without preventative action being taken, and meanwhile, we have had the North
Korean threat. I somehow doubt we would have had that if Reagan had been at
the helm. What, exactly have things come to when a cockroach of a country,
apparently run by real, certifiable lunatics, can threaten the United States
with nuclear weapons? The typhoon waves are starting to break over the
bridge.
Obama's
Administration has strongly condemed Iran for their nuclear program and
pleaded for Iran to talk about this. We have done the same with North Korea
about their nuclear program and just today (2-12-2013) North Korea EXPLODED ANOTHER NUCLEAR DEVICE! Obama really gets tough
with these people!
Heavenly humor- Jobs and Gates Oh Sarah R!
Subject: Fw: Steve Jobs
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Guns and laws ... Thanks Ramey H!
Think about this...A person steals guns, (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW), shoots and kills his own mother (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW), transports these guns loaded (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW), brings guns onto school property (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW), breaks into the school (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW), discharges the weapons within city limits (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW), murders 26 people (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW), and commits suicide (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW).And there are people in this country who somehow think passing ANOTHER LAW banning guns would protect us from someone like this. People like this are not concerned about breaking laws - they care only about fulfilling their own twisted agenda.The only people a gun ban law would impact are LAW ABIDING CITIZENS by crippling their ability to protect ourselves.If you agree with this, please re-post.If not, read it again and see if it does not make a wee bit of sense.
Malachy prophesied the 268th Poope would reign during the tr=ibulation
Subj: PROPHECY UPDATE: The Pope Resigning February 28th: St Malachy's
Prophecies In Play?
http://prophecyupdate.
Cowboy ... Thanks Judi!
Every decision must be rational, Judi. Right? Good one!
Sam
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Judi C wrote:
> COWBOY
>
> A cowboy, who just moved to Wyoming from Oklahoma , walks into a bar and
> orders three mugs of Bud. He sits in the back of the room, drinking a sip
> out of each one in turn. When he finishes them, he comes back to the bar and
> orders three more.
> The bartender approaches and tells the cowboy, "You know, a mug goes flat
> after I draw it. It would taste better if you bought one at a time."
>
> The cowboy replies, "Well, you see, I have two brothers. One is in Arizona ,
> the other is in Colorado . When we all left our home in Oklahoma , we
> promised that we'd drink this way to remember the days when we drank
> together. So I'm drinking one beer for each of my brothers and one for
> myself."
> The bartender admits that this is a nice custom, and leaves it there.
>
> The cowboy becomes a regular in the bar, and always drinks the same way. He
> orders three mugs and drinks them in turn.
> One day, he comes in and only orders two mugs. All the regulars take notice
> and fall silent. When he comes back to the bar for the second round, the
> bartender says, "I don't want to intrude on your grief, but I wanted to
> offer my condolences on your loss."
>
> The cowboy looks quite puzzled for a moment, then a light dawns in his eyes
> and he laughs.
> "Oh, no, everybody's just fine," he explains, "It's just that my wife and I
> joined the Baptist Church and I had to quit drinking."
> "Hasn't affected my brothers though."
Sam
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Judi C wrote:
> COWBOY
>
> A cowboy, who just moved to Wyoming from Oklahoma , walks into a bar and
> orders three mugs of Bud. He sits in the back of the room, drinking a sip
> out of each one in turn. When he finishes them, he comes back to the bar and
> orders three more.
> The bartender approaches and tells the cowboy, "You know, a mug goes flat
> after I draw it. It would taste better if you bought one at a time."
>
> The cowboy replies, "Well, you see, I have two brothers. One is in Arizona ,
> the other is in Colorado . When we all left our home in Oklahoma , we
> promised that we'd drink this way to remember the days when we drank
> together. So I'm drinking one beer for each of my brothers and one for
> myself."
> The bartender admits that this is a nice custom, and leaves it there.
>
> The cowboy becomes a regular in the bar, and always drinks the same way. He
> orders three mugs and drinks them in turn.
> One day, he comes in and only orders two mugs. All the regulars take notice
> and fall silent. When he comes back to the bar for the second round, the
> bartender says, "I don't want to intrude on your grief, but I wanted to
> offer my condolences on your loss."
>
> The cowboy looks quite puzzled for a moment, then a light dawns in his eyes
> and he laughs.
> "Oh, no, everybody's just fine," he explains, "It's just that my wife and I
> joined the Baptist Church and I had to quit drinking."
> "Hasn't affected my brothers though."
Mirrors on quiet waters ... Thanks Sarah R.!
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