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[4est_4est_Gump]

Two weeks ago in this space, I wrote that, in striking contrast to the official line, the Benghazi slaughter was not a spontaneous movie review that got a little out of hand but a catastrophic security breach and humiliating fiasco for the United States. Even more extraordinary, on September 14, fewer than two-dozen inbred, illiterate goatherds pulled off the biggest single destruction of U.S. airpower since the Tet Offensive in 1968, breaking into Camp Bastion (an unfortunate choice of name) in Afghanistan, killing Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Raible, and blowing up a squadron’s worth of Harriers. And, even though it was the third international humiliation for the United States in as many days, it didn’t even make the papers. Because the court eunuchs at the media are too busy drooling over Obama’s appearance as what he calls “eye candy” on the couch between Barbara and Whoopi.

Eye candy is in the eye of the beholder. And to the baying mob from Tunis to Jakarta those dead Americans and al-Qaeda flags over U.S. embassies and an entire USMC air squadron reduced to charred ruins are a veritable Willie Wonka production line of eye candy. To the president, they’re just “bumps in the road” to the sunlit uplands of “the future.” Forward! Obama has lived on “the promise of the future” all his life — Most Promising Columbia Grad of 1983, Most Promising Community Organizer of 1988, Most Promising Fake Memoirist of 1995, Most Promising Presidential Candidate of 2008 . . . The rest of us, alas, have to live in the present that he has made, which is noticeably short of promise. The Chinese Politburo get it, Czar Putin in the Kremlin gets it, and even the nutters doing the “Death to the Great Satan!” dance on the streets of Cairo and Lahore get it. On November 6, we will find out whether the American people do.

Mark Steyn, NRO

If you search 'Afghanistan Harrier squadron' you will find that this did happen.

Of the major news sources, we see it in the WSJ and Wapo.

The LA Times makes it look like a death...

The NYTimes wants you to know that Obama is winning the war in Afghanistan...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

President of the Future
Mark Steyn, NRO
September 29, 2012

One of the reasons why Barack Obama is regarded as the greatest orator of our age is that he’s always banging on about some other age yet to come — e.g., the Future! A future of whose contours he is remarkably certain and boundlessly confident: The future will belong to nations that invest in education because the children are our future, but the future will not belong to nations that do not invest in green-energy projects because solar-powered prompters are our future, and most of all the future will belong to people who look back at the Obama era and marvel that there was a courageous far-sighted man willing to take on the tough task of slowing the rise of the oceans because the future will belong to people on viable land masses. This futuristic shtick is a cheap’n’cheesy rhetorical device (I speak as the author of a book called “After America,” whose title is less futuristic than you might think) but it seems to play well with the impressionable Obammysoxers of the press corps.

And so it was with President Obama’s usual visionary, inspiring, historic, etc., address to the U.N. General Assembly the other day: “The future must not belong to those who bully women,” he told the world, in a reference either to Egyptian clitoridectomists or the Republican party, according to taste. “The future must not belong to those who target Coptic Christians,” he added. You mean those Muslim guys? Whoa, don’t jump to conclusions. “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam,” he declared, introducing to U.S. jurisprudence the novel concept of being able to slander a bloke who’s been dead for getting on a millennium and a half now. If I understand correctly the cumulative vision of the speech, the future will belong to gay feminist ecumenical Muslims. You can take that to the bank. But make no mistake, as he would say, and in fact did: “We face a choice between the promise of the future or the prisons of the past, and we cannot afford to get it wrong.” Because if we do, we could spend our future living in the prisons of the past, which we forgot to demolish in the present for breach of wheelchair-accessibility codes.

And the crowd went wild! Well, okay, they didn’t. They’re transnational bureaucrats on expense accounts, so they clapped politely, and then nipped out for a bathroom break before the president of Serbia. But, if I’d been one of the globetrotting bigwigs fortunate enough to get an invite — the prime minister of Azerbaijan, say, or the deputy tourism minister of Equatorial Guinea — I would have responded: Well, maybe the future will belong to those who empower women and don’t diss Mohammed. But maybe it’ll belong to albino midgets who wear pink thongs. Who knows? Que sera sera, whatever will be will be, the future’s not ours to see. But one thing we can say for certain is that the future will not belong to broke losers. You’re the brokest guy in the room, you’re the president of Brokistan. You’ve got to pay back $16 trillion just to get back to having nothing, nada, zip. Who the hell are you to tell us who the future’s going to belong to?

The excitable lads around the globe torching American embassies with impunity seem to have figured this out, even if the striped-pants crowd at Turtle Bay are too polite to mention it. Obama is not the president of the Future. He is president right now, and one occasionally wishes the great visionary would take his eye off the far-distant horizon where educated women and fire-breathing imams frolic and gambol side by side around their Chevy Volts, to focus on the humdrum present where the rest of us have the misfortune to live.

In the America over which Barack Obama has the tedious chore of actually presiding, second-quarter GDP growth was revised down from 1.7 percent to 1.3 percent — or, in layman’s terms, from “barely detectable” to “comatose.” Orders of durable goods fell by 13.2 percent — or, as Obama would say, the future must not belong to people who own household appliances. Growth of capital stock (which basically measures investment in new equipment and software — or, as Obama would put it, investment in “the future”) is at its lowest since records began. There are 261,000 fewer payroll jobs than when Obama took office — in a nation where (officially) 100,000 immigrants arrive every month. A few weeks ago, an analysis of government employment data by the nation’s oldest outplacement firm, Challenger, Gray & Christmas, discovered that, of the 4,319,000 new American jobs created since January 2010, 2,998,000 — or about 70 percent — went to people aged 55 or older. This is a remarkable statistic, even in a land of 31-year-old schoolgirls like Sandra Fluke. You’d almost begin to get the vague, unsettling feeling that the future does not belong to Americans aged 54 and younger.

No doubt living in Obama’s future will be peachy. But in the meantime we have to live in his present — the one he’s nominally in charge of, the only one available. It is tempting to compare him to a great magician, artfully producing flags of many lands from his breast pocket while misdirecting the audience. In fact, Obama’s misdirection isn’t even that good: In essence, he’s promising to perform spectacular tricks at some unspecified point in the future even as he stands on stage with an empty top hat, and the girl in spangled tights he sawed in half is bleeding all over the floor.

 

[kbate]

The marines were too busy deciding which outfits to wear to the ball to bother with perimeter security. This proves that repealing DADT was a mistake.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The marines were too busy deciding which outfits to wear to the ball to bother with perimeter security. This proves that repealing DADT was a mistake.

... busy deciding which cocktail weenies are best for White House functions as opposed to Green Zone functions.

Either that or they were in their sensitivity and Muzzie outreach training halls...

... learning how to use the memorial Agent Terry military issue bean-bag propellers...

... for the non-lethal disruption of mobs righteously outraged over the burning of Korans and Utoob videos in the land time forgot and apples are still something you eat (and steal; the Taliban are noted orchard raiders).

 

[kbate]

One would wonder, why 3 days after the general attacks on embassy and consular offices that Military bases - especially those with HV targets would be unsecured.

If a falsely uniformed force of infiltrators can just walk in and begin blowing up jets - the Marines need to wake up and look within for the problem, not at the president.

I can't enter the local library without passing a security guard and a metal detector, but heavily armed Taliban can walk into a Marine hanger by dressing in Army Uniform?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”
Barrack Hussein Obama


Now we know why Madonna is convinced he is a Muslim.



http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid...Blasphemy-Anti-First-Amendment-President.aspx

 

[Saint Peter]

Did you smile when you typed that?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

One would wonder, why 3 days after the general attacks on embassy and consular offices that Military bases - especially those with HV targets would be unsecured.

If a falsely uniformed force of infiltrators can just walk in and begin blowing up jets - the Marines need to wake up and look within for the problem, not at the president.

I can't enter the local library without passing a security guard and a metal detector, but heavily armed Taliban can walk into a Marine hanger by dressing in Army Uniform?

The Occam's answer is that we are broke.

The road less taken is that hunkering down would conflict with the aura of victory over terrorism.

We are not in a war with terrorists, there are workplace incidents, man-made disasters, a few bad apples and a religion to be honored...

Suicides are up, morale must be low, the Marines know that they are being set up for another fall, another helicopter lift from the roof of the embassy, another victory declared by the politician that is wrapped around the blood, sweat, tears and toil of the soldier in the field obligated to a thankless, ill-defined and impossible task, one that would make Hercules blanch, pale and vomit if tasked with as a labor...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

But thank Allah's lucky stars that GI Joe can now openly kiss GI Bob!



(back to the one-note-ism)

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Did you smile when you typed that?

I smile when Manning throws an INT.

This stuff is a bit more serious, don't you think?

 

[mercury14]

Mark Steyn, NRO

If you search 'Afghanistan Harrier squadron' you will find that this did happen.

Of the major news sources, we see it in the WSJ and Wapo.

The LA Times makes it look like a death...

The NYTimes wants you to know that Obama is winning the war in Afghanistan...

The NRO says an entire squadron was destroyed while the WSJ and other actual news outlets say it was six. Where are they getting that it was an entire squadron?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The NRO says an entire squadron was destroyed while the WSJ and other actual news outlets say it was six. Where are they getting that it was an entire squadron?

Fuck you.

You minimize a tragedy by attacking a little humorous literary license.

You are a true piece of shit. Just go back trying to claim Romney said cuts caused spiking suicides...

 

[mercury14]

Fuck you.

You minimize a tragedy by attacking a little humorous literary license.

You are a true piece of shit. Just go back trying to claim Romney said cuts caused spiking suicides...

No I said Romney linked sequester to suicides. Which is true - his message is that Obama is going to cause suicides.

I'm not minimizing a tragedy dumbass. But saying that an entire fighter squadron was wiped out is just distortion. Can we talk about the situation in accurate terms or are only the NRO's terms acceptable to you?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Marine Attack Squadron loses eight Harrier jets in worst U.S. air loss in one day since the Vietnam War

On Friday Sept. 14, at around 10.15 p.m. local time, a force of Taliban gunmen attacked Camp Bastion, in Helmand Province, the main strategic base in southwestern Afghanistan.

About 15 insurgents (19 according to some reports), wearing U.S. Army uniforms, organized into three teams, breached the perimeter fence and launched an assault on the airfield, that includes the U.S. Camp Leatherneck and the UK’s Camp Bastion, where British royal Prince Harry, an AH-64 Apache pilot (initially believed to be the main target of the attack) is stationed.

The attackers fired machine guns, rocket propelled grenades and possibly mortars against aircraft parked next to the airport’s runway. Two U.S. Marines were killed in the subsequent fighting whereas eight of 10 AV-8B+ Harrier jets of the Yuma-based Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 211 were destroyed (6) or heavily damaged (2): the worst U.S. air loss in one day since the Vietnam War.

The VMA-211 “Avengers” is part of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing headquartered in San Diego at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. It deployed to Afghanistan in April and relocated from Kandahar Airfield to Camp Bastion on Jul. 1. According to Wikipedia, the VMA-211 last suffered this level of losses on Dec. 8, 1941.

Considered that the U.S. Marine Corps are believed to be equipped with slightly more than 120 AV-8B+, the attack on Camp Bastion has wiped out 1/15th of the entire U.S. Jump Jet fleet and a large slice of the Yuma-based squadron. A serious problem for the USMC, that was compelled to buy second hand RAF Harrier GR9s to keep the AV-8B+ in service beyond 2030, when it will be replaced by the F-35B.

Furthermore, the VMA-211 was the only Marine Harrier unit in Afghanistan: until the destroyed airframes will be replaced (most probably, by another Squadron), the coalition ground forces can’t count on the CAS (Close Air Support) provided by the Harrier.

Tom Meyer has contributed to this post.

Marine Attack Squadron loses eight Harrier jets in worst U.S. air loss in one day since the Vietnam War « The Aviationist


Eight out of 10 dumbass...

Squadron DESTROYED!!!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

No I said Romney linked sequester to suicides. Which is true - his message is that Obama is going to cause suicides.

I'm not minimizing a tragedy dumbass. But saying that an entire fighter squadron was wiped out is just distortion. Can we talk about the situation in accurate terms or are only the NRO's terms acceptable to you?

You are a turd in the Lit punch bowl.

You do not care about facts and you are careless with your ascriptions.

busybody is right. I should put you on total ignore; you are never ever going to try to be reasonable or hold a conversation.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Fuck you.

You minimize a tragedy by attacking a little humorous literary license.

You are a true piece of shit. Just go back trying to claim Romney said cuts caused spiking suicides...

Such a sensitive little man you are today.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The turd patrol senses a punch bowl...

 

[kbate]

The NRO says an entire squadron was destroyed while the WSJ and other actual news outlets say it was six. Where are they getting that it was an entire squadron?

The entire inventory for the squadron was 10, 6 were destroyed, 2 damaged.

Why are you wasting words attempting to mitigate the scale of the disaster?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The entire inventory for the squadron was 10, 6 were destroyed, 2 damaged.

Why are you wasting words attempting to mitigate the scale of the disaster?

All he knows is that the Cambridge Cops acted stupidly, it was a movie clip on uToob, and future cuts in spending mean current suicides!

 

[RobDownSouth]

The turd patrol senses a punch bowl...

Sensitive AND angry....

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The turds don't feel the swirling of the bowl...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Whether the president is ignorant or knowing, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the Islamic bloc of 56 nations and the Palestinian Authority, certainly understood the Islamic meaning as its representatives sat in the General Assembly. They heard the U.S. president declare that the future “must not belong” to those who analytically or critically approach Muhammad and, by natural extension, Muhammad’s totalitarian religious/legal system of governance. According to this understanding, We the People who prize the First Amendment are out. Those who enforce and follow Shariah are in. I can’t think of another instance in which an American president has publicly uttered such a rank betrayal of American principles. And the media censored it!

Diana West


And the movie maker was rounded up in the US!

Who will they want arrested next? Bigelow? Obama? Biden is going to say something stupid; it is only a matter of time...

 

[RobDownSouth]

The turds don't feel the swirling of the bowl...

Sensitive, angry and bitter......

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

More on missing WMDs...

The U.S. has lost track of some of Syria’s chemical weapons, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Friday, and does not know if any potentially lethal chemicals have fallen into the hands of Syrian rebels or Iranian forces inside the country.

“There has been intelligence that there have been some moves that have taken place. Where exactly that’s taken place, we don’t know.” Panetta said, in a Pentagon press briefing.

http://e-ring.foreignpolicy.com/pos..._syrian_chemical_weapons#.UGXGV4dI4wQ.twitter

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Any guess on what ONE Harrier costs?