Showing posts with label Dan Collins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dan Collins. Show all posts

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Everyone Link Dan Collins Day and Rubens Rule 5

Bob Belvedere poses the question on why more of us are not reading Dan Collins' blog?  Good point.

So you should start by following Dan Collins at Twitter (@vermontainge)  And if you miss linking or following on April 11, don't let that stop you.  It is never too late to link or follow.
Rubens, The Three Graces (1635)
Here is my link of the day for Dan Collins:  He has News, Politics, Science and Technology, Entertainment, Opinion, Local, and Society (and several others).

Rubens, Venus in a Fur Coat (1640)
Rubens, Leda and the Swan (copy of lost Michelangelo painting) (1598)

Rubens, Susanna and the Elders (1608)
Rubens, Samson and Delilah (1610)


Friday, September 21, 2012

Why is the Obama Administration lying about the Benghazi Libya attack? Did the Administration know more in advance than they are letting on?

Fox News sums up the situation rather well, but so far I've not seen evidence of leftists who claimed that Nakoula Besseley Nakoula's lame-ass movie caused the deaths of the Americans in Benghazi repenting. What this means is that the primary target might not have been Christopher Stevens*, but rather retired Navy SEAL Glen Doherty, who was tasked with trying to get shoulder launched anti-aircraft missiles out of the hands of militants. And it also prompts the question, "Who supplied those armaments?"
I'm not saying that the administration did. It would have been madness for them to have supplied shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles to rebels among whom were elements of al-Qaeda when US was engaged in enforcing a no-fly zone in Libya, in order to help those rebels get rid of Gaddafi. Still, given the variety of very obvious lies we've been fed by this administration, and given its fecklessness on other occasions, it seems to me within the realm of possibility.
Of course why the White House wants to change the topic is also that security at Benghazi was completely lacking. It was fool hardy to have that facility so lightly guarded.  Especially if Ambassador Stevens thought he might be on an al Qaeda kill list.  The weapons agents and retired SEALs Glen Doherty and Sean Smith must have thought they might be targeted too.
Today, White House liars are still telling us that the terror op in Benghazi was "opportunistic," and that none of these Muslim-world-wide demonstrations is anti-American. Well, sure it was opportunistic. The State Department neglected to give the embassy anything approaching adequate security, and al-Qaeda took advantage of the opening.
More from The Other McCain: It is not necessary for the U.S. to have directly supplied the weapons in order for the administration to be at fault for having indirectly supplied the weapons:
   1.  U.S. supports rebels.
   2.  Rebels capture weapons from Libyan military.
   3.  Rebels use captured weapons to kill Americans.

Gulag Bound is also pursuing the same line:
It should also be known and understood that communications between and among the leadership of terror networks is performed on the Internet by means of dynamic chat rooms and similar websites. The most clandestine communications are found on the sites of video games and other computer games. Here, open chatter, instruction, and planning take place under the guise and cover of gaming. Such is the case in the matter of weapons and the terror attacks we are witnessing in the Middle East. 
One of the four Americans murdered in Benghazi was Sean Smith, who was known for his online gaming and social media skills. He and Ambassador Stevens, as well as the two other special operators from Wind Zero, were executing a CIA and State Department mission to track not only Qaddafi’s weapons, but to trace any and all weapons trafficking in the regions. Smith was the information officer at the Benghazi mission and likely was too close to having uncovered intelligence that pinpointed key players both in and outside of Libya. Intelligence was shared with the CIA, which does enforce the drone program, whether inside Libya, stemming from the mission to remove Qaddafi, or in other hot-spots in the Middle East. 
The single Obama regime method of processing the ‘kill list’ is to use drone strikes and having proven intelligence as provided by Sean Smith and the two retired SEALS via Wind Zero connecting the dots of weapons, money, and names, led to the violent event and their deaths in Benghazi. It was never about a video. That pretense was concocted as cover and the State Department, as well as radical Muslims had their hand in disseminating that disinformation.
Smith reported this the day of the attack:  Smith, an avid gamer and married father of two, typed out a harrowing message to the friend: “assuming we don’t die tonight. We saw one of our ’police’ that guard the compound taking pictures.”  At one point, Mittani said, Smith wrote the words “f–k“ and ”gunfire,” then was disconnected.  The US is investigating whether there was inside help on the attacks.  


Saturday, January 21, 2012

What is the matter with Rick Santorum?

No eye contact?
In the debates, when Santorum is sticking it to somebody—and he’s usually done his homework—he doesn’t look them in the eye. I want a President who will level his gaze at his opponents when he stabs them... 
I know that some of you are going to say that this reaction to Santorum’s posture in the debates is far overblown, and not far from David Brooks’ hanging an entire epistemology on the perdurable unfalsifiability of trouser creases, but this matter of orientation and proxemics gives me a gut reaction that I don’t like. It’s almost as though Santorum is squeamish about telling the unpleasant truth about his rivals. And that may make him a kinder and more shamefast person, but it is worrisome in a candidate.
Collins gets a negative gut reaction to Rick Santorum?  Well as Frank Luntz notes, politics is gut.  Frank Luntz goes on to state:  "80 percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you. How you think is on the outside, how you feel is on the inside, so that's what I need to understand."
Update:  Santorum battling for third place with Ron Paul in South Carolina...
Update:  No one home at Santorum Sanctum?
Related Posts:
Did Mitt lose South Carolina over Mormonism?
Can Newt win the nomination and then prevail in the general election?  
Update II:   Here is Piers Morgan showing again why he is a hack journalist.  Now Rick Santorum's answer is a good pro life answer--but maybe Rick should have thrown that one back at Piers a bit and challenged him what his motivation was in asking the question in the first place?  Rick (and probably Piers) must know that this question brings up something that is in fact exceedingly rare--why not point that out too?  And even when he is facing Piers, face to face, Rick does not maintain eye contact.  I think it is more of a personal habit than anything else--but it does lessen his public speaking effectiveness.  

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

The Toughest Job!



The Conservative Commune on the toughest job there is...

Cheetah R.I.P.


Star of Tarzan, Beloved Character Actor and Sidekick, Champion Poo Tosser.
1931--2011

Which of course begs the question:   Do you remember Winston Churchill's parrot?  How many other animal stars of stage and screen are out there living quiet lives in retirement?


Is Arnold still with us?


Update:  Another monkey falls, but this one less beloved.  And that may be some of the worse acting of grief I have seen.

Update II:  But as for the beloved Cheetah I can only say this:   And when I die, and when I'm gone  there will be one child born in this world to carry on.

Update III:  Conservative Commune notes the loss.  They also fill in some of the gaps from Cheetah's retirement life in near seclusion.