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Posted at 6:20pm on Apr. 9, 2008 Ice age is coming, the re-run
By 10ksnooker
If you under age 50, you probably missed all the fun of the 70s, Democrat President Jimmy Carter in his cardigan sweaters sitting by a fireplace, he called them fireside chats. And what did he say? Well stupid things like the world will be out of oil by the year 2000, completely out, all the wells run dry. The other was the mullahs are nice people, I just gave them Iran, and oh yeah, the hostages will be released soon.
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Posted at 12:27pm on Jan. 7, 2008 Mitt On Gun Rights
By 10ksnooker
When the government decides what weapons are of "such lethality" then you have no rights. Anybody knows that even a 22 rimfire has "such lethality" that it can kill a policeman.
Where he stands on CCW and Castle doctrine laws is anyone's guess, but I bet it isn't good for the citizen.
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Posted at 4:11pm on Nov. 2, 2006 VIDEO: Terrorists are all about Iraq
By 10ksnooker
For most, Iraq has now become the main front in the war on terror, not the cause of the war on terror.
The al Qaeda and other Islamo-Fascists terrorists groups didn't just pop up out of the ooze in 2001, they came from somewhere. You can trace the genesis of the current strain back to the Carter Administration, when the Shah of Iran was allowed to fall and the Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini assumed control of Iran, February 1979. The left in the U.S. rejoiced, naming him Time's Man of The Year in 1979. Throughout the 80s the Islamo-Fascists continued to build up and spread their ideology, mostly centered around the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Then they began to spread, through Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and finally ending up head quartered in Afghanistan under the Taliban. It is not true that there is one group, there is one ideology, that of radical Islam, that wishes to conquer the world and establish a caliphate for all mankind.
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Posted at 10:26pm on Nov. 1, 2006 VIDEO: Confused Democrats
By 10ksnooker
You got to love YouTube.
Democrats, here is a news flash just for you, you voted for the Iraq war, you voted to send the troops into battle there, you voted to oust Saddam Hussein, you do not get to draw a mulligan, no matter how hard you try.
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Posted at 3:36pm on Oct. 25, 2006 Read Before Voting
By 10ksnooker
Generally a good idea to be informed, but especially this election season.
Make sure you read the fine print -- You may not be aware of all you are getting.
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Posted at 1:44pm on Oct. 22, 2006 The Story That Needs To Be Told
By 10ksnooker
The al Qaeda and other Islamo-Fascists terrorists groups didn't just pop up out of the ooze in 2001, they came from somewhere. You can trace the genesis of the current strain back to the Carter Administration, when the Shah of Iran was allowed to fall and the Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini assumed control of Iran, February 1979. The left in the U.S. rejoiced, naming him Time's Man of The Year in 1979. Throughout the 80s the Islamo-Fascists continued to build up and spread their ideology, mostly centered around the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Then they began to spread, through Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and finally ending up head quartered in Afghanistan under the Taliban. It is not true that there is one group, there is one ideology, that of radical Islam, that wishes to conquer the world and establish a caliphate for all mankind.
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Posted at 8:28pm on Oct. 3, 2006 Clinton Front Group Behind Foley Phone Banks
By 10ksnooker
Phone calls are going out nationwide to Republicans from a group called American Family Voices, the group is run by Mr. Mike Lux, who was in the Clinton WhiteHouse from 1993 - 1995 as aide to President Clinton and former political director of People for the American Way. So the Clinton war room is in full operation, smear smear, destroy destroy, it's the Clinton way. The group asks the call recipient to call their Republican member of Congress and demand that the Republican leadership resign for covering up the Foley affair.
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Posted at 9:54am on Sep. 27, 2006 NIE, How It Looks Overall, In Context
By 10ksnooker
After reading the NIE several times, some general conclusions begin to form. The conclusions I draw are obviously different from those that come from the drive by media and your home grown nightly news. It is curious how these organizations are taking a few quotes from the NIE out of context and spoon feeding the leftist view to the public. An informed public will read the report for themselves and listen to others who have done so. The media has given up on bias and is now a full blown partisan participant on the side of the left. They are no longer a source of objective news, just as simple as that.
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Posted at 5:43pm on Sep. 26, 2006 NIE
By 10ksnooker
The first thing that strikes me is if we lose in Iraq the terrorists will be embloldened big time -- The basic strong horse weak horse argument.
• The Iraq conflict has become the 'cause celebre' for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of US involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the global jihadist movement. Should jihadists leaving Iraq perceive themselves, and be perceived, to have failed, we judge fewer fighters will be inspired to carry on the fight.
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Posted at 12:09pm on Sep. 26, 2006 Bush To Declasify Entire NIE
By 10ksnooker
The Democrats latest election season trick is turned into a win. At the news conference with Karzi this am, Bush said he ordered Negroponte to declassify the entire document and let people see for themselves.
Good move Mr. President.
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Posted at 9:19pm on Sep. 24, 2006 Mogadishu, bin Laden and Clinton's Memory
By 10ksnooker
Today on FNC former President Bill Clinton blew his top, literally, and issued the strangest spew of lies ever. Right from the top, here is the first juicy one ... it went downhill from there. He had to know that the pajama bridagades would check them out, why would he do it.
OK, now let's look at all the criticisms: Black Hawk down, Somalia. There is not a living soul in the world who thought that Osama bin Laden had anything to do with Black Hawk down or was paying any attention to it or even knew Al Qaida was a growing concern in October of '93.
Clinton Justice department 1998 indictment of bin Laden ...
The indictment also states that beginning in 1993, Al Qaeda began training Somali tribes to oppose the United Nation's humanitarian effort in Somalia. In October, members of Al Qaeda participated in an attack on U.S. military personnel where 18 soldiers were killed and 73 others wounded in Mogadishu. In another reference, the indictment noted that an unnamed "co-conspirator" transported weapons and explosives from Khartoum to Port Sudan for transshipment to the Saudi Arabian peninsula.Comments (0) / Email this page » / Read More »
Posted at 10:46am on Sep. 22, 2006 Border Fence
By 10ksnooker
Remember back when the illegal immigrant rallies were taking place? Conventional wisdom was 'oh no, look at all the illegals, we have to do something, grant them all amnesty and then citizenship'. What a difference a few months and the spread of reality makes. Now the public is completely on the side of Border security first, documented guest workers yes, and no to guest voters. You want to vote, you know where the citizenship line forms. Polls now stand at 80% plus for border security first.
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Posted at 12:56pm on Sep. 21, 2006 Now they want paper ballots
By 10ksnooker
After all the millions in taxpayers expense, after all the whining, we arrive right back where we started -- Paper ballots. Thank you alGore. If alGore had any decency, any shred of gentleman's rules in politics, the whole wasteful affair would have been averted. The lost confidence, that was the whole idea. They tried in Mexico, but by now everyone understood the gambit.
Today the Washington Post starts it off ...
If Paper Ballots Restore Trust In Elections, Let's SwitchComments (0) / Email this page » / Read More »
Posted at 5:02pm on Sep. 9, 2006 Discovering the obvious
By 10ksnooker
Captain Ed, over at the Captain's Quarters blog got the latest Senate report documents scanned into a searchable format. Being curious, I entered the word nuclear sat back and started reading all the relevant hits.
Scanning the first document 'Phase2aacOCR[1]' for the word nuclear ...
A point often overlooked by all is this passage from the file 'Phase2aaOCR[1]'(page 16)
... (2)The procurement is not particularly significant to Iraq's nuclear ambitions because the Iraqi's already have a large stock of uranium oxide in their inventory.
This is a major piece of the puzzle as it answers two very important questions at once.
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Posted at 6:08am on Jun. 23, 2006 Old WMDs, Just Like STuff Under The Sink
By 10ksnooker
So you think that old WMDs are harmless? Then why have we spent some $1.2 billion dollars in Oregon to destroy old chemical weapons? Yes, remeber the hysteria a few years ago when we were setting up an incinerator to destroy chemical weapons that dated back since the beginnings of the cold war? I see no need for this if as the liberals say, just dump the stuff under Rep Harman's sink if there is no problem with these old cold war era chemical weapons, I am sure she wouldn't mind.
A timely article from June 13, 2006 ...
The last GB sarin-filled bombs at the Umatilla Chemical Depot (UMCD) were destroyed Friday.
This marked not only the end of 2,418 MC-1 bombs originally stored at the depot, but also the final destruction of the nation's entire bomb stockpile. The United States originally had about 13,500 GB-filled bombs.
Bruce Henrickson, public affairs officer for the depot, said workers at the Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (UMCDF) destroyed the final 750-pound MC-1 bomb at 6:30 a.m. Friday morning. Each bomb contained 220 pounds of liquid sarin nerve agent.
The final 18 MC-1 bombs processed last week were leaking munitions. Previously, the bombs had been placed inside "overpack" containers to safely contain nerve agent. Two-person crews dressed in protective suits unpacked each leaking bomb.
Henrickson said there are no more bombs of any kind stored at the depot and "no more bombs of any kind in the U.S." On May 18, workers destroyed the last 27 of the depot's MK-94 500-pound sarin bombs.
The depot continues to securely store rockets, artillery projectiles, land mines, spray tanks and bulk containers awaiting disposal.
The depot and the chemical agent disposal facility reached other milestones as well.
On June 1, depot chemical operations storage workers delivered the 3,000th enhanced on-site container shipment, which contained four MC-1 bombs, to the disposal facility. This represents about 40 percent of the expected 7500 deliveries needed to move the entire depot's stockpile to the UMCDF.
Enhanced on-site containers are cylindrical containers, eight-and-half feet tall and nearly 12 feet long, weighing 18,500 pounds empty, and they can hold 7,000 pounds of munitions and chemical agent.
The containers are designed to safely resist impacts, punctures, crushing and fire. They have been tested by being placed in a jet fuel fire, by being dropped on a metal spike and by undergoing 50,000 pounds of compression for 24 hours.
The containers also would prevent the release of chemical agent into the atmosphere if a munition should develop a leak during movement, the depot reported.
"Moving and eliminating the last of the bombs further reduces the risk of stored chemical munitions," UMCD Commander Lt. Col. Donna Rutten said.
Since disposal operations began at the UMCDF in September of 2004, the overall risk has been reduced by 78 percent, Henrickson said.
The disposal facility also completed the final permit-required, GB-agent trial burn for the liquid incinerator No. 2 on Friday.
Henrickson explained that any furnace at the facility has to meet environmental permit requirements. To do that, the furnaces are tested by incinerating small amounts of nerve agent. If the agent is properly incinerated and environmental requirements are met, then the state allows the facility to proceed with burning agent that has been drained from munitions.
If approved in the state review process with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, this will mean all GB-agent trial burns are completed -- an effort covering several years to prepare and prove the UMCDF's four furnaces for chemical agent disposal.
After completing the MC-1 bomb campaign, the UMCDF resumed processing M55 GB rockets. More than 72,000 of the depot's M55 rockets have been destroyed, Henrickson said.
In the last weekly project update released Thursday, 1,271,977 pounds of agent have been destroyed, or 17.19 percent of the total pounds to be destroyed.
Gee, I thought old chemical weapons are no problem, just dump the stuff under the sink and forget about it, looks like a big waste of taxpayers money if you believe the lefty crackpots.
Here is a question -- do liberals hope people are not smart enough to figure them out, or do they just automatically belive they are?
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