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Thursday “Run Away” Open Comments

It seems that our fearless Commander-in-Chief seems to be turning tail to avoid certain situations:
He won’t answer questions from the Press Corps, but he’ll schedule time with Telemundo.

President Obama has been less than forthcoming with the press. Picking and choosing his interviews is a tried and true strategy. Don’t expect him to face any serious questions from Telemundo.

Ambassador Murdered, Obama Goes to Vegas

This morning, the White House announced that Obama will continue with today’s campaign schedule. He leaves this afternoon for Vegas, to attend a fundraiser for his reelection. Those mourning the loss of their loved ones, who died in service to their country, will take little comfort in the knowledge that, as President, Obama is so committed…to his own reelection.

Well, he can’t meet with Netanyahu, the Prime Minister worried about a neighbor with a homicidal bent. I guess Jay-Z and Beyonce don’t have that problem.

The White House declined Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request on Tuesday to meet U.S. President Barack Obama during a UN conference in New York at the end of the month.
The White House National Security Council Spokesman Tommy Vietor told Haaretz the two would not meet due to a scheduling conflict. “The President arrives in New York for the UN on Monday, September 24th and departs on Tuesday, September 25th. The Prime Minister doesn’t arrive in New York until later in the week. They’re simply not in the city at the same time.”

He’s the President of the United States, for cripes’ sake. I would think that he could somehow make the time to meet, if he thought it was important enough. Especially with all hell busting loose in the Middle East.

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  1. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Wake up, slackers.

  2. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I’m afraid that his weaknesses overseas are being exposed at a very inopportune time. All he can hope for is that the press will continue to report the middle east situation on the back of page B9 instead of the front pages. Peggy Noonan said the other day in reference to his campaigning to be President that she wondered why he didn’t just go be President right now. Folks, I think there is serious trouble brewing that could get very hot at any time. We might even be wishing we had kept Israel as an ally before it’s over.

  3. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Ya think?

  4. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Morning music from Bonnie Raitt.

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Dang you guys are up early! The empty suit can’t afford to speak to the press because he has NO IDEA what’s going on, let alone any answers to the problem.
    Mornin’ Gang

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Media bias?……Naw can’t be. Press Coordinates Question to Ask Romney.

    The blog RightScoop.com has audio of the press coordinating which question to ask Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at his press conference this morning on the events in Libya and Egypt. “[N]o matter who he calls on we’re covered on the one question,” an unidentified journalist says.

  7. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Dang you guys are up early!

    I hear when you get old you can’t sleep.

  8. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #7 😀

  9. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #6
    SD
    From the comments – The presstitutes were poll dancing today. 😀

  10. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I am at the Mayes Clinic at MD Anderson with the Boss. He has to have a cystoscopic bladder biopsy which will require anesthesia. I will not leave this place until sometime tomorrow. Prayers for a successful procedure and a safe, swift recovery would be appreciated.
    The Boss celebrated his 89th Bday in April this year and the tough old bird still goes to the office every day.
    My job with him is to drive him where ever he needs to go, read some things to him, change light bulbs and whatever else he needs done. He is hard of hearing and has macular degeneration. The most spiritually rewarding job I have ever had.

  11. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I guess y’all have heard about the schizzle hitting the fan in Yemen for the same made up reason. Hitlery simply could not believe that the Libyans would actually attack us after we helped rid them of Qadaffi and saved the town of Benghazi. Izzit possible that she may actually come to the conclusion that them moooslimes simply don’t like us and never will no matter what we do?

  12. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    7 countries warn of possible shenannigans.
    The above is an AP story and does not even list the Yemenese uprising.

  13. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning Hamsters. Lightning shows to the east and west but clear sky over us and 72 at 6:30. Some impressive storm clouds cover the eastern part of Houston and down to Galveston. We have been warned there will be rain for several days thanks to another cool front that will stall not far offshore and keep the faucets on. We can use that rain.
    Regarding Mitt Romney’s comments on the Middle East attacks on America, he should keep on expressing his outrage. Fox and the New Media have disclosed that as the Republican nominee he is supposed to receive briefings on matters of state from Obama’s machine, but as yet he has not gotten one item. Gee, they’re too busy campaigning to even lift a finger to do anything about foreign policy, so why should they bother giving the opposition here any help? The LSM won’t mention that failing unless it blows up big in the New Media and they can’t ignore it. The Chick-fil-A effect hasn’t vanished, but it’s harder to see when you’re hiding under your desk. 🙂 So you stay under your desk.

  14. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    G’Morning All

    7 GJT says:
    September 13, 2012 at 6:10 am
    Dang you guys are up early!
    I hear when you get old you can’t sleep.

    There was other things you couldn’t do, too, but Pfizer fixed that for us.

  15. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Good morning, Hamsterville. I see 100% probability of rain in my neck of the woods noonish. Bring it!

  16. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    Google pays homage to Clara Schumann’s birthday on their home page. Here’s a short bio and a sample of her work.

    Clara Schumann (née Clara Josephine Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era. She exerted her influence over a 61-year concert career, changing the format and repertoire of the piano recital and the tastes of the listening public. Her husband was the composer Robert Schumann. She and her husband encouraged Johannes Brahms, and she was the first pianist to give public performances of some of Brahms’ works, notably the Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel.

    This one completely engulfs my brain and makes every thing right with the world.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz0bZm7Ktck&feature=related

  17. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #16 OletimerLin
    Can’t see videos here. What’s the piece?

  18. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    This goes so far beyond DISGUST the freakin Hubble telescope couldn’t see it!
    Report: U.S. consulate in Benghazi had no Marine protection
    *spits*

  19. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    Can’t see videos here. What’s the piece?

    Clara Schumann – Piano Concerto, op. 7

  20. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    WOW, simply wow.

    An ATF-legal stock that transforms an AR from a semi-automatic rifle to a fully automatic machine gun? To paraphrase the B52′s immortal hit Planet Claire, WELL IT DOESN’T! Otherwise, it wouldn’t be legal would it? What the Slide Fire stock does is make a semi-auto’s trigger very, very fast. So fast, in fact, that the difference between a rifle so equipped and one with a giggle switch is relatively unimportant.

    http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2012/09/robert-farago/slide-fire-stock-this-is-the-machine-gun-youre-looking-for/

  21. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    Breaking News: Romney suggests that the embassy attack was an inside job, masterminded by our Muslim president.

  22. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Bush is criticized for years over finishing a book for 5 minutes while the Secret Service got the car and so the kids would not be alarmed unnecessarily.
    Obama dithers for at least half a day, issues a mealy-mouthed apologetic statement and jets off to Las Vegas and nobody even thinks to question it.

  23. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Your Mechanic

  24. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Rats, my rain chance has faded to 80% already.

  25. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    EPA to require 4 gallon minimum gasoline purchase.

  26. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    #20: Looks like a great way to spend a couple hundred dollars in ammo.

  27. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    This is still my favorite, especially around the 3:00 mark.

  28. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    More Carteresque by the minute.

    “Gov. Romney seems to have a tendency to shoot first and aim later,” President Obama said in a CBS interview last night, criticizing Romney’s reaction to the embassy attack in Cairo.

    Better that than apologize first, then wait to see who’s gonna get the upper hand.

  29. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #25 Shannon
    Sieg heil!

  30. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The slaughter of American diplomats only rated a placement on page A4 in the New York Times.

  31. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #25 – Oh HEYULLL NAW!

  32. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I swear, this reminds me of John Kerry!
    I wonder if the monkey married money, too?

  33. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Well, I guess that TBO and his wife are safe from the upcoming apocalypse.

  34. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #32 TT
    Western scientists better hurry up and collect all those new monkeys, to relocate them out of Africa, before the natives kill them all for supper.

  35. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Gohmert goes off on TBO.

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Meanwhile….
    After hovering in the shadows for several years, calls for a carbon tax have re-emerged from diverse quarters including the Brookings Institution, MIT, the International Monetary Fund, self-professed conservatives, supply-side economists and the usual left-of-center suspects.
    On Aug. 2, Congressman Jim McDermott introduced H.R. 6338, “The Managed Carbon Price Act.” There is even hope of a grand tax compromise in the coming lame duck session of Congress: swapping the looming massive income-tax hike for a carbon tax as part of a proposed tax system overhaul.

  37. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I guess that Debbie Wasaman Schultz was wrong about the loving, kind, respectful relationship between Netanyahu and TBO.

    “There is a lack of rapport between these two men — they don’t like each other very much. Plus, there are serious differences between our interests and Israel’s own security interests,” said former State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley, who was present for several of Obama’s nine face-to-face meetings with Netanyahu.

  38. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #36 Shannon: I think this Jim McDermott is the same POS who illegally leaked transcripts of an illegally recorded cell phone conversation of Newt Gingrich. Limbaugh went on and on about this at the time, something like 10 years ago. McDermott simply being in posession of the recording was a crime, leaking the recording was an additional crime, neither of which resulted in any charges. I think this is the same Jim McDermott who has an assistant named Elizabeth, who reamed a reporter or somebody in repeated emails for daring to call her Liz. This McDermott terdnozzle is one that should be barred from ever serving in any public capacity for life.

  39. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Take home message to older drivers: Go potty before you get behind the wheel.

  40. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #35 – god BLESS Louie G!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  41. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #25: Just another attempt to control every aspect of our lives. Just so we are all clear: ETHANOL IS FOR DRINKING!!
    The very idea that using a substance that costs twice as much petro equivalent to produce as what it yeilds (2 gals of diesel to put 1 gal of ethanol in the tank) could even be considered as “sustainable” or “renewable” is absurd on its face and could only have life in the bizarro world known as: “Inside the Beltway, Washington, DC.”
    The ethanol mandate needs to be repealed and do not replace it with MTBE. There is a better free market solution out there and as soon as the tree humping BEM’s get out of the way it will appear.

  42. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    I just wanted to take a moment to draw your attention to this particular op-ed, because… dang. Former Bush-administration State Department official Liz Cheney is going straight for the jugular with this one, and it is as damning an account of President Obama’s foreign policy failures as I’ve read.

    Cheney: This is just the “logical outcome of three-and-a-half years of Obama foreign policy”

  43. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #10 Bonecrusher, prayers on the way.

  44. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    That is one nasty looking storm headed towards me in Washington, TX.

  45. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    It got pretty gray here, and very thunder-y, but no rain. It looks like it passed us by.

  46. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #43 SD: Many thanks there bro. The boss is out of surgery, in the recovery room about to be transferred to his room for the night. He is awake, lucid, color is good, pain level is 6 out of 10 and declining. All in all not such a bad deal and he will be back to normal by tomorrow or prolly this evening. His Dr is the head of the GU department at MD Anderson and is going to give the 2nd opinion for the next step.
    Have I mentioned how awesome the Medical Center really is? We, here in Houston, have one of the finest if not the finest medical centers on the planet, this is the go to place when you are sick and people come here from all over the world. Those who have the money and connections to go anywhere in the world come here, that speaks volumes.

  47. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam


    State Stereotypes in about 2 minutes.
    Some of them are pretty funny.

  48. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #46 Bonecrusher

    We, here in Houston, have one of the finest if not the finest medical centers on the planet,

    Unless Obamacare goes into effect. Then, it wouldn’t be fair for us to have better medical care than anywhere else, so we’ll have to dumb down our facilities to match those in, say, Stockton, TX.
    Spreading the medical wealth, so to speak.

  49. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #42 Katfish: You can always spot the white house paid troll commenters with a story like this one. The comments are very divided; trolls and reasonable people and most are reasonable.

  50. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The mission of satan is to steal, kill and destroy. Notice any similarities between that and the current admin? How about what is in the wake of islime?
    Remember the this is your brain and this is your brain on dope commercials? How about this is your life and this is your life ruled by satan?

  51. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I just got an email from a friend about Obama bumper stickers. I actually saw one I hadn’t seen before: Go easy on Obama. It’s his first job!

  52. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Wanna know why the Marines at the embassy in Cairo had such a hard time?

    Ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson “did not permit US Marine guards to carry live ammunition,” according to multiple reports on U.S. Marine Corps blog spotted by Nightwatch. “She neutralized any US military capability that was dedicated to preserve her life and protect the US Embassy

  53. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #52 Sarge: from your link, comment #38

    Do they have live ammo now, today?
    I can’t take this s#!t anymore.

    That is an excellent question, do they have live ammo today, do they have permission to use said live ammo on the next ragheaded goat raping sob that comes over the wall? Are the Marine Corps detachments at each embassy in the mooslime dominated countries gonna get beefed up with more relaxed ROE?
    Under the JugEars Admin the answer to all of the above will likely be no, under RMoney most likely the answer to all would be yes.

  54. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #52 Sarge: So the Marines did not fail at all, the failure was one of leadership or lack thereof. Prohibiting the Marines from carrying live ammo while they are guarding the embassy is a glittering jewel demonstrating the insanity that permeates the left. Further it highlights the likely outcome if our nuke stockpile or basic military preparedness is depleted as JugEars has campaigned to do.

  55. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Shocking photos
    http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/09/does-not-represent-us-moving-photos-pro-american-rallies-libya/56803/#.UFHm9mOXoMI.facebook
    h/t Instapundit

  56. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    A United States Marine with NO live AMMO
    ……………………………….”calling Rod Serling!!”

  57. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    After being the hole in the donut all morning, we finally got clouds overhead that just got darker and darker and dumped lots of rain, lightning, and wind over us. We got home from lunch in Sugar Land just after the wind gusts began subsiding but the rain was still pounding. Too late to try getting the mares in. They likely couldn’t hear us calling them or see us very clearly from under a tree in the pasture even if we made it out to the barn.
    Everything is slacking off now and passing through. Thunder rumbles fade in the distance and outdoor lights turn off again, but light rain stays for a bit. About 7/10″ so far. The mares are out grazing again. The weather folks said these storms would be quick to develop and move off, but in between they could be fierce. This on qualified.

  58. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    We had total 2″ in several heavy downpours today. It is still drizzling a bit, but I went out in it to empty the gauge before dark. Woo hoo! I won’t have to haul water to my adopted oak tomorrow.
    I gotta get serious pretty soon and finish my 2011 tax return which I deferred from April, but must be in the mail by the 17th. I just need to check my math, print, and send.

  59. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #58 mharper42
    Don’t do it!!!
    Fight the Man!

  60. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Mongo is reborn in Pennsylvania.

  61. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Mongo only pawn… in game of life.

  62. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #59 Pyro
    No way, dude. If I Fight the Man, I might miss my chance to vote ABO on Nov 6.

  63. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    This is very, very, very bad.

    According to senior diplomatic sources, the US State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the consulate in Benghazi, and the embassy in Cairo, that American missions may be targeted, but no warnings were given for diplomats to go on high alert and “lockdown”, under which movement is severely restricted.

    Any corporate entity reflects the style and values of its leaders. Barry has been skipping all of his daily intelligence briefings lately.
    But it gets worse.

    The US administration is now facing a crisis in Libya. Sensitive documents have gone missing from the consulate in Benghazi and the supposedly secret location of the “safe house” in the city, where the staff had retreated, came under sustained mortar attack. Other such refuges across the country are no longer deemed “safe”.
    Some of the missing papers from the consulate are said to list names of Libyans who are working with Americans, putting them potentially at risk from extremist groups, while some of the other documents are said to relate to oil contracts.

    And this is the real scary part.

    One of the Americans killed alongside Ambassador Christopher Stevens in an attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya Tuesday told ABC News before his death that he was working with the State Department on an intelligence mission to round up dangerous weapons in the war-torn nation.
    In an interview with ABC News last month, Glen Doherty, a 42-year-old former Navy SEAL who worked as a contractor with the State Department, said he personally went into the field to track down so-called MANPADS, shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles, and destroy them. After the fall of dictator Moammar Gadhafi, the State Department launched a mission to round up thousands of MANPADS that may have been looted from military installations across the country. U.S. officials previously told ABC News they were concerned the MANPADS could fall into the hands of terrorists, creating a threat to commercial airliners.

  64. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Just got back from church. My students from last year received the sacrament of confirmation tonight. I was glad to see them, and vice versa. Many hugs all around.
    Ironically, the archdiocese had to loan our parish money to fix our ailing a/c system. Guess what wasn’t working tonight?
    Poor cardinal. Everyone was sweating, especially those under those layers of vestments.

  65. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Our “Senior Choir” (8am Sunday service) wears choir robes.
    The choir in which I sing (6pm Saturday service) does not wear robes. It was discussed at one point, but i told them if i had to wear one, I wouldn’t be wearing anything underneath. The lead soprano agreed with me. Needless to say the idea was quickly dropped.
    It can be sixty degrees in that sanctuary and I would still cook inside that polyester robe.

  66. shamaal Avatar
    shamaal

    The most interesting man in the world is hosting a fundraiser for the President.
    “Stay wealthy my friends”

    The actor known as “the most interesting man in the world” in a series of commercials for Mexican beer Dos Equis is fundraising for the president.
    According to political fundraiser watchers Political Party Time, actor Jonathan Goldsmith is hosting a fundraiser next Tuesday in Vermont.

  67. shamaal Avatar
    shamaal

    The House passed their spending resolution today 329-91 today. Representative Ryan took a day off campaigning to return to Washington to vote for it.

    House Republicans and Democrats spent an hour blaming each other for Congress’s failure to complete its work on 2013 spending bills this year, then held their noses and passed a giant, six-month continuing resolution that will keep the government running until late March.

    I imagine tomorrow, he’ll claim he didn’t mean to vote for it; Governor Romney will declare it’s a mistake, an aide will “clarify” that the governor didn’t really mean it’s a “mistake” mistake.
    Ooh look, shiney objects!!

  68. shamaal Avatar
    shamaal

    The President has released his Rosh Hashanah greeting for the upcoming Jewish holiday.

    In that spirit, the Jewish Tradition teaches us that one of the most important duties we have during this period is the act of reconciliation. We’re called to seek each other out and make amends for those moments when we may not have lived up to our values as well as we should.

  69. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    America’s biggest fool…

    Carter went on to talk about Egypt’s new President, Mohamed Morsi, saying that he knew him well and that they had met.  He added that Morsi was dedicated to peace and a democratic government.

  70. shamaal Avatar
    shamaal

    He speaks his mind, and is occasionally spot on.

    PRESIDENT CARTER: I’d rather have a Democrat but I would be comfortable — I think Romney has shown in the past, in his previous years as a moderate or progressive … that he was fairly competent as a governor and also running the Olympics as you know. He’s a good, solid family man and so forth, he’s gone to the extreme right-wing positions on some very important issues in order to get the nomination. What he’ll do in the general election, what he’ll do as president I think is different.

  71. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    And then all the people in America who give a flying f**k about what Jimmy Carter has to say about anything exited the last lonely phone booth in the country….

  72. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Jimmy who?

  73. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Jimmy who?

    The doddering Anti-Semite Democrat. But I repeat myself.

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