BloggeRhythms 3/11/2012

Not very much going on today in the news at all which caused me to really scrape around for something worthwhile to blog about. However, right near the bottom of the barrel, I found this shortcut on Drudge: “Iron Dome to be moved to airport for Obama photo-op”

 

Reading the article gave me pause for two reasons, one being our budget crisis here and the other about the incumbent’s cost to the Israeli's.

 

Although the trip’s planned for March 20th, “The advance American delegation responsible for organizing President Obama's visit arrived in the country on Sunday evening. The delegation of about 50 people, which includes diplomats, security and logistics personnel and White House representatives, met on Monday with high-ranking officials of the Prime Minister’s Office and the Foreign Ministry to finish preparing the schedule.”

 

Now, I don’t have a clue as to what the total cost of this advance contingent is, but I’m positive it’s not chump change. However, when it comes to sacrifice, cutbacks and austerity, the White House goes on unaffected. Except for cancellation of the public’s visits which make good headlines and hopefully for the administration, put Republican’s on the defensive.

 

Then part two of the incumbent’s excessive wastes of money isn’t hitting our bankbooks, but is clipping the Israeli’s. Because, according to Haaretz.com, The Iron Dome is an air defense system developed by Rafael Advanced Defense System, designed to intercept short-range rockets and mortar shells. Israel deployed the system first in the south in April 2011 to intercept rockets from the Gaza Strip. The Israeli-developed system uses cameras and radar to track incoming rockets and is supposed to shoot them down within seconds of their launch.”

 

So, the way I see it is, this guy decides to visit and have his picture snapped with this huge weapons system, but doesn’t want to go to it and be inconvenienced. Consequently, however many more people are involved in the system's’ temporary relocation or whatever the costs really don’t matter to him, because financial matters simply aren’t his long suit.

 

Which leads to another question that just popped into my head while typing the above: Is there anyone out there who actually knows what this guy’s long suit really is?

 

That's it for today folks.

 

Adios

BloggeRhythms 3/10/2013

Very busy day so far, haven’t had enough time to really digest the news. But  a headline on the Fox website got me to thinking: “Ambassador Susan Rice top contender to become next national security adviser”

 

Just reading the words was astounding because I doubt  there’s anyone on the planet more unqualified for any kind of security position than this total airhead. After her botched cover-up of the attack on our Benghazi embassy it was obvious to everyone that she puts partisan politics and protection of government ineptitude above all else, including  the truth. 

 

Out of curiosity I looked her bio up on Wikipedia and found out that she was “Awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, and attended New College, Oxford, where she earned a M.Phil. in 1988 and D.Phil. in 1990. The Chatham House-British International Studies Association honored her dissertation entitled, "Commonwealth Initiative in Zimbabwe, 1979-1980: Implication for International Peacekeeping" as the UK's most distinguished in international relations.

 

Now, on the surface, her cred’s seem impressive, but as we all found out on Friday, most forms of education today are so watered down, and graduates are such nimwits, diploma’s aren’t worth much more than the the sheepskin they’re printed on. And that pretty much came clear when Rice under pressure stumbled, mumbled, tripped all over herself, because professionally, she’s clueless.

 

However, as I’ve mentioned quite often before, the problem here isn’t simply the incapability of Susan Rice. Because as can be seen in just about all the incumbent’s choices for cabinet posts, staff jobs or practically anything else, there’s no one to choose from but a a pack of losers who couldn’t last in the real world for even an hour.

 

So, this is just one more case where we all have to keep praying that nothing happens requiring real skills. Nonetheless, though, if there’s ever a real test requiring capability, her shortcomings will become quickly obvious to all whereas our national security is one of the most important issues of all, except to the incumbent who apparently isn't concerned at all.

That’s it for today folks.

Adios

BloggeRhythms 3/9/2013

Drudge linked to a U.K. Mail Online, story titled, "North Korea threatening a nuclear strike against U.S." I read it of curiosity, because I wanted to see exactly how leader, Kim Jong Un, was planning to do it.

 

Now, unless I missed it, the article didn’t contain information regarding when, how, or where this attack will specifically happen. However, there was some really interesting other stuff about this Kim Jong Un guy that got me to thinking.

 

For instance: “UN measures target Kim Jong-Un personally by banning the export of goods such as jewelry, yachts and luxury cars. His father once gave 160 upmarket cars to party officials and his personal expenses were said to be 20 per cent of the national budget.

 

The new leader is understood to have similar tastes and enjoys a pampered lifestyle. Recently in Italy, cognac and whisky bound for North Korea worth £10,000 and equipment for a 1,000-seat ‘personal cinema’ worth £110,000 were seized. Meanwhile, the regime has tried to import three dozen grand pianos and expensive cosmetics."

 

At the same time, “A ‘vicious atmosphere of fear' was said to have developed to encourage North Koreans to show their new young leader sufficient respect. The regime has stepped up efforts to enforce the cult of Kim Jong-Un with vehicles in many cities regularly broadcasting praise for him from loudspeakers for 12 hours a day.

 

While reading the preceding paragraphs, I also remembered my recent entry about Hugo Chavez amassing about two billion dollars while he was Venezuela’s leader, which nobody really mentioned till now.

 

And then a few minutes later while scanning Fox News on-Line, I came across an article stating that, “Visitors to the nation's capital looking for a White House public tour are out of luck starting this weekend, courtesy of what the Secret Service says is its own decision to deal with the sequester cuts. 

 

But while the agency said it needed to pull officers off the tours for more pressing assignments, the budget ax didn't swing early or deep enough to curtail a host of recent Secret Service-chaperoned trips like President Obama's much-discussed Florida golf outing with Tiger Woods and first lady Michelle Obama's high-profile multi-city media appearances.”

 

So, what all this boiled down to me was, that while communist and socialist populations ordinarily suffer greatly, their leaders always seem to take extra-special care of themselves financially. And what I’ll never understand if I live to be three thousand, is how the dupes in the masses readily buy the incredible BS the self-serving phonies' at the top keep throwing at them. 

 

And something that keeps coming through loud and clearly is that the most important things these leaders all have in common is control of the military. Because if one of these days their population’s finally wake up and smell the coffee, they’re going to need personal protection very badly and quickly.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

Adios

BloggeRhythms 3/8/2013

Gee whiz! What a surprise to find out just now that according to CBS 2 New York’s website via Drudge, officials told them that “nearly 80 percent of those who graduate from city high schools arrived at City University’s community college system without having mastered the skills to do college-level work.

 

In sheer numbers it means that nearly 11,000 kids who got diplomas from city high schools needed remedial courses to re-learn the basics.”

 

Now, as regular readers know, I write quite often about the deterioration of reading, comprehension and most other skills in most folks, not just high-school students. In fact, I suspect that even the college level standards aren’t too high, because most “educators“ today throughout the system aren’t too well trained themselves.

 

I mention this not because I really care about what all these folks have done to themselves by continually reducing standards, watering down education and permitting unions to literally destroy the system. I only bring it up because the new data simply confirms that I’ve been right all along, and being right makes me feel good.

 

On the other hand, as a practical matter. I’ve truly enjoyed the continual diminishing skills of most of those I encounter professionally. Because it makes it so much easier to compete in the business world, and I appreciate every edge I can get. So, if folks are satisfied, sit still and take it while others dumb them down, I hope they keep that mind-set forever. Because it makes things so much simpler for me.

 

Along the same lines, a question popped into my head last night out of nowhere. “How many democrats does it take to screw in a lightbulb?”

 

Now, I don’t know the actual answer, but I started trying to figure it out. For instance, Is the bulb replacement at home or in a work environment? Because at home you might only need two or three. One to read the instructions on the lightbulb sleeve, one to do the actual replacement, and perhaps one more to oversee the process and critique the performance of those directly involved.

 

In the workplace however, it’s a whole ‘nother story. Especially if it’s in a union shop. First a study would have to be done to determine what kind of bulbs are environmentally friendly. Then comparisons would be required to optimize cost-effectiveness, while others gather lists of worker-friendly suppliers. 

 

Then of course the installation would have to be performed by a qualified electrician along with any needed assistance, such as a ladder holder perhaps.

 

So, as you think through the process step-by-step, you soon realize that what you might assume is a simple task, becomes quite complex when fulfilled by typical democrats.

 

On the other hand, though, if you look at the intricacies of the nation’s budget and fiscal condition and ask how many democrats are required to dismantle it completely, we’re finding out that it takes only one.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

Adios

BloggeRhythms 3/7/2012

Found an article buried (no pun intended) on Drudge just now by Fabiola Sanchez of myway on-line, regarding the recent death of Hugo Chavez.  

 

Apparently, Venezuelan General. Jose Ornella told The Associated Press of his concerns that along with Vice President Nicolas Maduro they both think “some sort of foul play was involved in Chavez's cancer.”

 

The general said that, “I think it will be 50 years before they declassify a document (that) I think (will show) the hand of the enemy is involved.” And also that, although “The general didn't identify who he was talking about, but Maduro suggested possible U.S. involvement on Tuesday. The U.S. State Department called the allegation absurd.”

 

I mention this today because in spite the administration’s ineptitude in most foreign policy issues, they may be getting some positive results in spite of themselves.  Because if a guy like Bin Laden can be blown away in the middle of the night when no one was to even know where he was, that can set many of our enemies to thinking they might be next.

 

And now, if these Venezuelan guys are serious about suspecting us, and not just blowing some political hype, we’re likely making them nervous too.

 

Plus the fact that even Senator Rand Paul, who spent thirteen hours yesterday worried about some drone potentially taking out folks right here in their own homes, makes me believe that we’ve got a weapon with some really scary clout.

 

So, if you add up all these little disassociated events and begin to weave them together, I think it adds up to some pretty potent stuff with which to get our enemies attention. And the best part of it is, the administration’s involved for once. And even though they’re vehemently opposed to decision-making or anything else requiring thought, they may have unwittingly backed into a winner this time by default.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

Adios

BloggeRhythms 3/6/2013

This is one of my favorite kind of days. As mentioned yesterday, Dem’s are worried that a Republican controlled House will prevent the incumbent from fulfilling his legacy, a main target of which is global warming.

 

And then while scrolling through Drudge just now I came across an article by Stephen Dinan of Inside Politics  in The Washington Times which says: “An unusually chilly March day and the snowstorm it spawned have shut down much of official Washington on Wednesday — including a hearing House Republicans had called to examine global warming.

 

“Postponed due to weather,” read the notice from the House Science, Space and Technology Committee sent in the morning.”

 

And then there was a piece in France 24, International News noting that “US filmmaker and long-time Hugo Chavez supporter Oliver Stone hailed the late Venezuelan leader as a "great hero" on Tuesday, saying he will "live forever in history. I mourn a great hero to the majority of his people and those who struggle throughout the world for a place. Hated by the entrenched classes, Hugo Chavez will live forever in history," he added in a statement released by his publicist. 

 

Additionally, “Actor and activist Sean Penn, another Hollywood friend to Chavez, also paid tribute saying the world's poor had lost a "champion" and America had also lost "a friend it never knew it had."

 

Chavez was also mourned by Michael Moore for all his humanitarian efforts.

 

But then, however, there was an link to a story much more likely the truth from Criminal Justice International Associates (CJIA), a risk assessment and global analysis firm in Miami which estimated in a recent report that the Chávez Frías family in Venezuela has “amassed a fortune” similar to that of the Castro brothers in Cuba.

 

According to Jerry Brewer, president of CJIA, “the personal fortune of the Castro brothers has been estimated at a combined value of around $2 billion.”

 

“The Chávez Frías family in Venezuela has amassed a fortune of a similar scale since the arrival of Chávez to the presidency in 1999,” said Brewer in an analysis published in their website.

 

Brewer said that Cuba is receiving about $5 billion per year from the Venezuelan treasury and in oil shipments and other resources.

 

“We believe that organized Bolivarian criminal groups within the Chávez administration have subtracted around $100 billion out of the nearly $1 trillion in oil income made by PDVSA since 1999.”

 

And then to top it all off, I read an excerpt from Zef Chafets’s new book, Roger Ailes: Off Camera, in which the Fox News head said while thinking about vice presidents he had known: “I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he’s dumb as an ashtray.”

 

So, there we have it, and just like this week’s been so far, we keep getting buried in BS 24/7/365 by scads of folks in the news who are somehow misguided, ill-informed, uneducated or perhaps simply stupid. But fortunately, there are others out there who dig for the truth and make sure it gets reported. And I’d love to keep writing more about it but I have to go now and get ready to shovel my car out, because global warming didn’t get to my block and we're in for another blizzard tonight.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

Adios

BloggeRhythms 3/5/2013

Found an article on Drudge just now by Peter Foster, of the The Telegraph’s Washington office that set me to thinking.

 

The column concerns, Vali Nasr, a university professor who in 2009 worked second to Richard Holbrooke, “special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan” for the incumbent.

 

In his new book, The Dispensable Nation: America Foreign policy in Retreat, Mr. Nasr writes of ”profound disillusion” with a “Berlin Wall of domestic-focused advisers erected to protect Mr. Obama.”

 

Nasr apparently describes the incumbent as a “dithering" president whose controlling tendencies and extreme risk-averse attitude to foreign policy has damaged US interests in the Middle East. He also claims there are “damaging divisions between the White House and the State Department,” while Mr. Foster adds that “diplomats around the world wait to see if John Kerry, the new US secretary of state, can persuade Mr. Obama to greater engagement on Syria, Egypt and the wider Middle East.”

 

Now, while I ‘m no expert on foreign policy in any way, shape, or form by any measure, I do read a lot and absorb considerable information which seems to me to be consistent with Mr. Nasr’s opinion. And it also appears to me that many proven experts concur that our Middle-east withdrawals leave a void that soon will be filled by the return of hostile forces we’ve worked hard to dispel while spending considerable sums to maintain a fragile peace that now will be at risk when we're gone.

 

However, I don’t think there are any complex issues regarding presidential plans, strategies or positions taken overseas. I also don’t believe there's any way that any kind of sophisticated foreign policy can be formulated, implemented or enforced at all, simply because the guy at the top hasn’t a shred of ability, knowledge or grasp of the situations because there’s not a thing in his experience to draw on. 

 

So, to me the simple question is: How in the world can a guy who’s only preparation for the job he holds was street-level politicking in Chicago and delivering endless speeches likely written buy someone else, suddenly become an expert in foreign affairs, international warfare and decision making regarding what’s needed to maintain peace between hostile populations and nations fighting battles begun thousands of years ago?

 

The simple answer is: He can’t. Period.

 

Consequently, the issues at hand here can be added to all the others that are suffering from the same causation which boils down to having someone at the helm of the most complex nation on earth who’s totally unprepared and unskilled for the job he holds and hasn’t even tried to improve or learn at all.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

Adios