TOO MUCH GOOD STUFF LATELY, SO -

THIS JUST IN!

Guns and Crime:
  Story A:  Crime at all time low!
  Story B:  Gun Ownership way up!
   Hmmmm . . . .

Ferguson:
  Story A:  Another Common Variety Street Thug Dead!
  Story B:  Race Baiter in Chief sends 3 Representatives to the funeral!
  Story C:  Race Baiter in Chief sent 0 Representatives to Margaret Thatcher's funeral!
  Story D:  Race Baiter in Chief sent 0 Representatives to beheaded journalist's funeral!
   Hmmmm . . . .

Ukraine:
  Story A:  Obama Tells Putin:  Sending anything into Ukraine, including 'humanitarian aid', will be viewed by the US as an invasion!
  Story B:  Putin sends in stuff anyway!
    Hmmmmm . . . .

Islam:
  Story A:  Carter to Deliver Keynote Address at Muslim Convention in Detroit!
   Story B:  Hamas begs the Race Baiter in Chief to stop the 'holocaust' in Gaza!
    Hmmmm . . . .

Burger King:
  Story A:  Burger King considers moving to Canada to reduce corporate taxes!
  Story B:  Race Baiter in Chief calls Burger King and companies like them 'corporate deserters who renounce their citizenships to shield profits!'  (Ostrich Killer comment:  the purpose of any business is to profit.  Ask their shareholders.  Duh.)
  Story C:  Burger King would save 46% on its corporate taxes by moving to Canada!
  Story D:  (prediction:  Burger King stock soars after move to Canada.  Other fast food companies study Burger King model.)
    Hmmmm . . . .

The Reverend Jeremiah Wright:
  Story A:  The Race Baiter in Chief's pastor for more than 20 years, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright,  says "God Damn America!"
  Story B:  The Reverend Wright's Daughter convicted of embezzling 'my brother's keeper' taxpayer-provided money.  
     Hmmmm . . . .

Do you doubt any of the above?  Does some of it seem simply absurd?  Google it.  See for yourself.

Sometimes the news just begs for this sort of fun story comparisons.  Time for a beer.

Putin's Plan

Reboot the Soviet Union

There it is.  That's his plan.  He has correctly assessed that no one - not the US, not NATO, not the European Union - is willing to do what's necessary to stop him from re-capturing those 14 nations that broke away from the Soviet Union when the Soviet Union fell in 1991.

Put another way, his plan is to conquer 14 sovereign nations, and he is sure no one will stop him.  The worst that will happen is that there will be stern rhetoric, economic sanctions, and maybe even military training exercises in European nations and perhaps an ocean or two.  But nothing more.

How can he be so sure?

1.  Obama and his 'more flexibility one he's re-elected.'

2.  He controls the gas / oil aorta of Europe.  If Europe begins to act belligerent, he cuts off their gas. This is why your Ostrich Killer thinks that the takeovers of eastern European countries other than the Ukraine won't get into high gear until November of 2014, when the citizens of Germany and Austria and all those other eastern European  countries will need Russian oil and natural gas for home heating.  His threat: don't intervene unless you want to freeze.  Imagine what the citizens of eastern Europe will choose.

3.  The state of military readiness in those 14 countries is woeful, meaning they cannot meaningfully resist Russian invasions - meaning that the mere threat of such invasion may be enough to topple the still-emerging freedom of those countries.

4.  NATO unwillingness to expedite membership to those Europe-bordering countries that want membership - this out of concern for 'worrying' Russia.

To those Americans who don't know history, take a moment to review the legacy of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.  Yes, I know that it's futile to remind Americans, most of whom are living proof that all we really learn from history is that we don't learn from history.

In short summary, Putin knows that no one is willing to go to war over any of those 14 countries, so he can safely consider them ripe cherries for the picking.

My second cup of coffee awaits.

Another Russian Invastion

Another Czechoslovakia?

Hungary, 1956.  Czechoslovakia, 1968.  Afghanistan, 1979.

And now, in 2014, Ukraine.

What are the lessons?

1.  The Soviet Union is dead, but Russia is still Russia.

2.  Russia can invade and the west will wring their hands and sit on their asses.

3.  It doesn't matter what the nations bordering Russia WANT as their government; it only matters what Russia wants for them to have.

4.  The west can no longer be trusted help any struggle for freedom.

5.  The Russians know this, and are going to take advantage of our Anointed One's foreign policy illiteracy to attempt to rebuild the Soviet empire.  Ukraine is the breadbasket of Europe - so where better to start?

6.  Our Charismatic Ruler and his Alfred E. Neuman-like lickspittle enablers will continue to disarm America unilaterally, without regard to global threats, to below pre-WW2 levels so that even if we'd like to help, we won't be able to.  Even the defense of our shores and cities may not be feasible soon.

I'm beginning to believe our founding fathers fatally over-estimated the intelligence of the American electorate.  The evidence is overwhelming.

I need another cup of coffee.