Nuclear Intercontinental Balastics Missles In Venezuela?

Well, no,.....not exactly......as the old Hertz car rental advertisement used to say.

BUT....Iran has made an agreement with Hugo to place an Iranian missile base in Venezuela. The Iranian Shahab 3 (range 1300-1500 km), Scud-B (285-330 km) and Scud-C (300, 500 and 700 km) will be deployed in the proposed base according to one German news service.

Now, look at a map and just how far is it from Venezuela to Texas? Its approximately 4,000 Km. From NY, 3,500Km. From Miami, 2,100km. According to the above intended missile list, the longest range missile, the Shahab 3, has a range of only 1500 km thats just a bit less than the distance to Miami FL.. We are in the clear, right? Well, ....not exactly...... The argument for this base is that Iran needs to defend itself from Israel.....about 10,000 Km away. How will they defend themselves from Israel with missiles that cant even reach the US?

I guess they will have to put in some longer range missiles, right? If they put in a missile with the range to reach to Israel, that missile will have the range to reach ANY PLACE IN THE USA.

Even if they don't put in longer range missiles, just how hard do you think it would be to "soup up" the 1500Km missile to get another 600 km out of it. Then they only have to threaten to nuke Miami to get concessions.

But they don't have nuclear warheads, right?..... well, not exactly.....They have the ability to get them from several sources that are on their side politically. AND the current intelligence suggests that they will have their own nuclear warheads within two years.

But thats still OK because Obama, is a Democrat, like Kennedy, right? So He will stop the deployment of these missiles to Venezuela just like Kennedy did to Cuba. right? A blockade. right?

Personally I would not want to be living in Miami, as nice a place as it is, until someone besides Obama is in the Whitehouse.

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If This Wasnt So Sad, It Would Make You Laugh

At conference on Global Warming recently, some college students, as a prank, passed around a couple of petitions to the "Experts" attending the conference.One of the petitions was to punish the US for their refusal to take a strong stance to limit global warming by trying to collapse the US economy by 6% in the next 10 years. The other was a petition to Ban Water, Its Dangerous as a component of Acid Rain and Insecticides and contributes to global warming. They got plenty of signatures on their petitions which just goes to show that there is a fool born every minute. They described water as Di-hydrogen Monoxide. OK, that is a bit of a subterfuge, but then these people are supposed to be "experts" on global warming, scientists.

The best definition of an "Expert" that I know is:

Ex denotes a "has been"
and a spurt is a "drip under pressure."

Or another I have heard, "A man with a briefcase, 25 miles from the office"

We need fewer experts and more thinkers.

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We Got Screwed And We Didnt Even Get Dinner And Wine!

Obama pulled it off all by himself and the Democrats are even fighting him.

This "agreement" on the extended tax cuts is a Trillion dollar stimulus package that will further hurt the country with little or no benefit to the people.

13 months of unemployment is outrageous. Thats 3 years without a job and everyone of them will become wards of the state and so dependant on government money that they will then vote for anything the Progressives ask for.

And what do the conservatives get, an extension for two years of the current tax structure. Not a reduction in Taxes, just an extension of the status quo, a tax rate that has been with us for 10 years.

It looks like the Liberals may stick their finger in their own eye. For once I am voting with the Liberals, against this travesty. I agree, he caved too soon. Hopefully the House will reject it after taking 2 weeks to fight over it.

It would be much easier if he has stood his ground and wasted the entire Lame Duck session on arguing this thing and failing to get ANYTHING done. Then in the first weeks of January, the newly elected 63 representatives and the Republicans could ride to the rescue by passing the extension and saving the people from the evil Taxman. It wont make a bit of difference to the taxpayer that its two weeks late. They will get their first checks shorted but the next one will be fine, showing how much the Republicans are on their side. This is the kind of spin we are used to from the Democrats, right.

But even with this out of the way....where is his focus on Jobs??? I havent yet heard anything about creating jobs...unless we are talking about the people that will be hired to write all those extra unemployment checks.....

And, can you imagine this? Who is going to be the first one to say, "Well, the recession is now over and we are cutting unemployment back to only 6 months where it was" before this fiasco? Do we really expect that it will ever again be just 6 months?

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What a diference a day makes (Nov 2nd,,,)

First the stimulus would make sure that unemployment would stay below 8% and if it didn't get passed he was sure it would reach 9%. Today he said it kept unemployment at 9.8% and if it hadn't been passed it would have been "15% or more." Looks like he runs on a sliding scale.

Guantanamo was to be closed in the first year of his presidency and now they say never.

He said he would never approve letting the Bush tax cuts extend after December 31st Now, today, he said they would go on for another 2 years. (putting them into the next presidents administration...) I love the way he says that he will "Give them the money" Just when was it his money to give, It was my impression it was mine to keep until the government wanted to confiscate it from me. The government had nothing to do with the creation of that wealth, why do they think it is theirs to distribute?

Then in almost the same breath he says that we should look at his achievements and we would see that he has kept his promises. Where? What?

Ok, Ok, Maybe I shouldnt be complaining about the results, because its what I would have wanted. But I get aggravated at the "Spin" that he puts on it. He tries to make it look like it was his idea to be beaten to a pulp and left in the ally bleeding and dirty.

But in all fairness he did manage to slip in an 800 billion "Stimulus Package" by not calling it a stimulus. He is allowing the tax cuts to go on, costing 80 billion, Hes is giving a FICA tax holiday costing another huge amount of deficit spending, And on top of that another year of unemployment checks, huge deficit.

I can tell you when I was unemployed in 1990 and I had 6 months of benefits I actually said to my wife, "I am going to get every penny before I look too hard for a job." Yes, if one had fallen in my lap I would have taken it but otherwise it was a six month paid vacation....and we did go on vacation during that period. All in all, I am not sure that the Republicans didn't get snookered in spite of what the left is screaming about. An 800 billion stimulus package that was called a "compromise."

His comments today that he would not let the Republicans hold the middle class hostage to give their rich friends a tax cut was stated in such away you would think he was the most generous person in the world, He actually implied that the Republicans didn't want the middle class to have a tax break. That was a lie and he knew it....He Lies.....

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Term Limits, to do or not to do, that is the question.

I have been discussing Term Limits on an email list I belong to and there are two sides to this question....as there always are..... But I think it all boils down to what our opinion of "mankind" in general is.

The Progressive (modern day Liberal) believes that man is capable of perfection and only needs education to realize his perfection. But the Conservative realizes that man is far from perfect and has many incurable faults that education wont fix.

So the Progressive/Liberal thinks that Term Limits will only hold back a "perfect politician" from achieving his best. But the Conservative knows that all men are imperfect so we must put bounds on their activities. The founders of our nation, the guys that wrote our Constitution, were Conservatives so they wrote it with "meets and bounds" as George Washington, a surveyor, might have said, or as we often hear "checks and balances".

The Constitution is constantly putting limits on man because he is imperfect. But they didn't plan on career politicians. They thought that politicians wouldn't be paid enough to make it a career!!

So we need Term Limits because man is not perfect nor can he be made to be perfect.

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Charlie And The Roman Games

I keep hearing that Charlie didn't do anything wrong....at least compared to a lot of others. OK so why don't all of them get censured? We need to root out all the "Evil Doers".

Charlie thinks he was treated harshly. If I had done what he has done I would be facing criminal charges and my bank accounts would have been seized by the IRS. I wonder where it goes from here? Will the IRS follow up on the information they are having handed to them in a silver platter? Don't hold your breath till he is prosecuted. He will just offer to pay up, no penalties, no interest, and they will accept it. After all, according to him "I don't deal in average American citizens." The treatment of the "average American citizen" doesn't concern him, he is only concerned about how the privileged class is treated.

I think we should send Charlie into the arena and let him fight a lion or two, like they did with undesirables in Roman times. Of course having to stand there and listen to and look at Nancy during the censure may be a fate worse than facing a lion.......

Speaking of the Roman "games", I was struck by the similarity of our times to Roman times recently when I was sitting in front of the TV at a friends house. She doesn't allow politics to be talked about in her house and all you see on the TV is movies and children's shows.

In Roman times, toward the end, the government was about to fail because of excessive spending, foreign wars, and citizen unrest. Not dissimilar to our times, right? In order to control the citizens they had the "games" in the coliseum. If you can keep the citizens entertained they wont be able to riot in the streets. Let them take out their aggression in the arena.

Today we have "Survivor", "Cage fighting", and all sorts of violent movies on TV. This is the modern equivalent of the Roman "games". And of course, the FCC will try to shut up all dissent on the air waves. This will allow the government to pursue foreign wars, excessive spending, and Charlie Rangel without interference from its citizens.

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US Follows China And Iran In Controlling The Internet

This link will take you to a discussion of the coming fight over the FCCs latest attempt to take over the Internet.

Attack on Free Speech

The FCC has now set out to create a giant utility out of the Internet. For almost 20 years the Internet has been a "Free Space". Almost a lawless land in that the only regulation has been self control. It has worked and until it shows that it cant regulate itself it should remain that way.

Only China and Iran currently restrict the citizens use of the Internet. Do we really want to join that axis?

The Internet is like a huge library where every book ever written is on display. It is the perfect way to bring democracy to the entire world. If the government begins suppressing the thoughts of Americans then who is going to be "Teaching" the rest of the world about democracy? Do we really want, whoever that is, to be doing the speaking for us....until their government shuts them down as well?

Librarys in the US are free and the only restrictions that are put on their content is by the library itself. Can you imagine the uproar..maybe even revolution...that would occur if the President stated that in the future all Librarys would be "Content neutral"?

We must stop this before it gets started. The FCC has no jurisdiction when it comes to a world wide phenomenon that is "owned" by the people of the world, not by any three countries, China, the US, and Iran. These are the axis for the destruction of FREE SPEECH.

This is just one more indication of the horrible mistake that was made in November of 2008 when we elected a socialist dictator to run our country!


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