Watching the events unfold in Egypt the past couple of weeks have made it patently obvious to even the most casual of observers that foreign policy under the Obama Administration can most charitably be described as hapless.
CIA Chief Leon Panetta said Mubarek would most likely be stepping down. DNI Gen. James Clapper said the Muslim Brotherhood was now very secular and had all but renounced violence. President Obama has been telling Mubarek that he needs to move aside “yesterday”.
Everybody in the Administration has been either flat-out wrong on their predictions, or willing to throw a long-time ally under the bus, even if that would leave a dangerous power vacuum. Obama said “I just want to say that we are following today’s events in Egypt very closely. We’ll have more to say as this plays out. But what is absolutely clear is that we are witnessing history unfold.” The only thing is, he doesn’t know what history is unfolding.
From Mubarek:
And I tell you here, as a head of state, I do not find any embarrassment at all in listening to the youth of my country, and to satisfying their demands. But the embarrassment would only lie in the fact — and I would never permit — is that I would listen to any sort of intervention that would come from outside, from the outside world, whatever the source is, whatever the intention behind them are.
Looks like he told Obama to get lost and stop calling him.
mhrper42, Just saw the sad news of little Cinnamon. How wonderful were the months she lived with you. How kind and loving for you to gently help her onto the Rainbow Bridge. She can play with our sweet Valentine. You will see her again.
Found on the net:
Chris Baker? to be on KSEV? He doesn’t strike me as being someone Dan Patrick would want on KSEV. Since Baker lost his afternoon show on KPRC (and/or KTRH), I have heard him on air a few times when he was subbing — I think once it was for Glenn Beck. Chris Baker along with the vile Phil Hendrie were… Read more »
Thanks Bob & TT for letting me mourn here.
I figure out it was loading repetitive pages – I couldn’t see them all as the kept “falling” off the RH side of the page. Closed it all down and reopened.
#86 Try Fry’s, or Best Buy, or other sites for printer reviews. Amazon’s site has some issues.
If you decide to purchase locally, sales tax is usually less than shipping, depending on policy and the weight of the device.
AAAAARRRRRGGGHHHH!
I’m trying to do some comparison shopping on Amazon.com and the wissin’ page keeps reloading! When I tell it to stop reloading, the page disappears. So here I am, trying to scan down the printers listed quickly, before the damn reload sends me back to the top.
AAAAARRRRRGGGHHHH!
#83 Sarge
You’re right. But he’s still a fake and annoyingly so.
For about a year now, the bass section of our choir has been singing in missing man formation. Nobody wants to sit in the chair most often occupied by a man who unexpectedly left us a year ago Tuesday. His voice and his involvement with numerous activities there are still missed. Up until two years ago, we had a very… Read more »
Chris Baker was never on KSEV.
You’re thinking of KTRH—and the other one.
I hear that Chris Baker is coming back to KSEV?! That guy is a fake. I guess I’ll have to find something else to listen to on Friday afternoons. I’ll miss the Three Amigos.
It’s official. Based on the headlines on chron.com we are truly a “world class city” now.
Mharper, my condolences. As much as I curse and throw Barf Kitty, I will be sad when her time comes. Pets just have a way of worming themselves into our hearts and making themselves at home in there.
Our next winner for best lede that I did not make up comes to us from the land from which hamous sprung and everyone’s favorite loony farm.
#56 Tedtam
They can have my Wang when they pry my cold dead fingers off of it!
#76 Mharper42, condolences on the loss of your faithful furry companion.
Rest in Peace, Cinnamon. This morning we took our 3-year-old cat Cinnamon on her last trip to the vet. The cancer previously removed from her nasal passages had aggressively returned, invading not only her nose but starting to come through the roof of her mouth. She had been unable to eat but a few bites this morning. She was a… Read more »
Can’t uWang without an iPhone? 😉
#72 TT: If they city would just allow we contractors to access these work orders from their database directly, password protected and read-only of course, about 75% of this work could be avoided. We could download replacement copies as needed without making a nuisance of ourselves. What?!? You mean actually bring the city into the 21st century with that stupid… Read more »
#68 TT:
I don’t own an iPhone so that app don’t do me any good.
#69 Hamous I have also been a proponent of a database for the contractors doing this type of work. There’s about 40-50 of us on the approved list at any time, and there are two sweet little ladies who have to input the new meter request data into the city’s computer system. Then they print out a copy of the… Read more »
#69 Hammy
I sense a serious downgrading in the tone of civility here. Calm yourself, or TBO’s jackbooted media thugs shall hunt you down.
Isn’t that what got Brett Favre in trouble?
Getting rid of your fax machine??? But those have been an integral part of the American business experience for decades!!! Do you know how many jobs you’re shipping overseas because of your callous disregard for the American worker just because you want progress??? For shame!!! But seriously, I’ve been fighting for the last ten years to stop my clients from… Read more »
Boney, uWang all you want. 😉
#66 Mharper42:
But can you access your bosses Wang with an iPhone? I guess the app for that would be an iWang.
#62 TT
I hear you can do it on your iPhone now. Confess, that is.
Ummmmmmmmmm
I guess getting the old “job description” down in writing is pretty important when dealing with a Wang isn’t it?
#60 WB
That edifice looks familiar. If those are saints on the top of the facade, as I think they are, that means you are at St. Peter’s Square.
Big, ain’t it?
I knew I couldn’t get that one past you, WB!
Where’s the nearest confessional, son? Wanna make a visit?
Your sure that’s the only hardness around your boss’ Wang?
Where’s wagonburner?
And besides, Wangs can’t fax. They can’t even email.
All I could do was write hard copy documents with the Wang.
In this technological age, Wangs are pretty much useless.
Well Hambone was right about our President’s Intelligence gathering ability; Obama learns of Mubarak resignation from TV the in Oval Office. 🙁
So you cut your teeth on your employer’s Wang? Don’t know what they called it back then, but nowadays, that’s the makings of a hostile work environment.
Oh, guys! Remember – I never really was the owner of the Wang. The Wang belonged to my employer, and he kept it in a file room, where every secretary could visit it as necessary to complete her duties. I have no idea where that first Wang is today. But if you want to keep your Wangs, you go right… Read more »
#48 – TP – Sometimes the politicians try like the dickens to convince us, the great unwashed, that corporations somehow pay taxes. No, they just tack it on to the price of the product, either before or after the sale. I buy from Amazon from time to time because of (1) no sales tax and (2) free shipping to my… Read more »
Well, we are about to embark on an experiment. Our lifeline is our fax machine, and we have problems every few months with the phone line. We were hanging onto our home land line as a backup, but they are both down right now. I’m tired of messing with it, so we are going to an online faxing service. We… Read more »
#51
“I cut my teeth on a Wang.”
“Two gay bears in bed wearing clown clown suits singing show tunes.”
Google bombing is so much fun!
#28 bob
The Force was strong in that one.
#50 tedtam
What are you gonna do with your Wang?
Well, we are about to embark on an experiment. Our lifeline is our fax machine, and we have problems every few months with the phone line. We were hanging onto our home land line as a backup, but they are both down right now. I’m tired of messing with it, so we are going to an online faxing service. We… Read more »
Obama cuts out that pesky CIA middle man. WASHINGTON – Caught up in stunning news like the rest of the world, President Barack Obama was in an Oval Office meeting Friday when he learned of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s resignation. He watched the celebration on television and prepared to make an afternoon statement. How much does Panetta make? We can… Read more »
Associated Press: AUSTIN, Texas – Online retail giant Amazon.com is closing a suburban Dallas distribution center and scrapping plans to expand Texas operations after a dispute with the state over millions of dollars in sales taxes, an executive informed employees Thursday in an e-mail obtained by The Associated Press. Dave Clark, Amazon’s vice president of operations, writes in the e-mail… Read more »
#46 Big Jolly: Ya most tagot this thingie that STRATFOR requests to go in front of any quotations form the article:
Debunking the myth that 90% of the guns used by drug cartels in Mexico come from the U.S.: There has clearly been a long and well-documented history of arms smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border, but it is important to recognize that, while the United States is a significant source of certain classes of weapons and ammunition, it is by no… Read more »
Caroline Glick nails it again here: Nuclear proliferation analysts from the Federation of American Scientists and the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) assess that since 2006, Pakistan has increased the size of its nuclear arsenal from 30-60 atomic bombs to approximately 110. That makes Pakistan the world’s fifth largest nuclear power ahead of Britain and France. Say, haven’t… Read more »
#39 Fat Albert, I find no connections between the War on Drugs and the Egypt situation, nor have I stated that there were any. However, there are numerous connections between the government’s WoD and foreign policy. Every year, millions of tax payer dollars go to foreign countries to bribe their governments into supporting our silly drug policies. It’s wasteful, ineffective,… Read more »
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