I Believe It Is Peace For Our Time

The Crimea has a special place in Russian history. Per David Brooks, Putin has a much grander vision but right now, Putin seems to be offering Obama an off-ramp (rather than the other way around): accept the revised status quo, dial back the bloviating, and move on.

Sufficient unto the day are the snacks thereof for the Russian bear. By way of comparison, Hitler expanded Germany in patient steps over several years, remilitarizing the Rhineland in 1936, annexing Austria in the spring of 1938, and picking up the Sudetenland that fall.

If Putin really wants to bite off the eastern Ukraine, he need not hurry - Obama is unlikely to be a less lame duck in six months or a year. So Putin can let the world recalibrate to the new status quo and then impose a new recalibration when it suits his vision or political needs. Rome wasn't built in a day and the Ukraine won't be re-integrated in Greater Russia in a week. But it is hard to see why Putin would stop now, forever.

TROUBLING: Hillary Clinton Compares Russia Moves To Nazi Aggression. I'm on the same wavelength as Hillary?

GUTLESS: Perhaps fearing a Godwin's Law disqualification, Hillary backs off the Hitler talk. But wait a second! Comparing a tin-pot tyrant like Assad to Hitler has obvious flaws. But with Putin we are talking about the leader of a former superpower contemplating its former greatness and seeking a rematch. Why is the comparison to post-WWI Germany out of bounds there?

Comments

[Miss Marple]

I should have added to my last comment that if we hear leaks from that Q & A, it will be a further sign they are abandoning ship.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

The scared Dems will leak like sieves to try and save their own sorry skins. Rats and SS Obummer.

PS: where is DD?

[Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself]

Maybe a waiter will leak some video footage of the Q & A.

Just kidding...that only happens with Republicans.

[Miss Marple]

Janet, so true on the waiter thing.

On the other hand, if we hear verbal leaks popping up in the WaPo and other places, we will know the long knives are out.

[Account Deleted]

Dr. Emengele is ignoring the Oregon experience where exposure to the "free" ProleCull clinics drove the new parasites straight back to ERs. He needs to either recruit kinder, gentler Einsatzkommandos or find a more effective method of coercion.

[MarkO]

Progressives love to explain how wonderful it is to lose your freedom.

[Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself]

Listening to Reid call Americans liars & the Kochs un-American...& accusing them of being criminals...on the Senate floor.
...it's hard to believe Allen was pummeled for saying some word nobody had ever heard before.
one guy - macaca
Americans - liars

[Miss Marple]

Rick, I think Dr. Emengele should be required to tell a bunch of black inner-city moms that they don't need a doctor for their sick kids.

In fact, that is how I am going to portray it:

"The architect of ACA thinks poor people, especially people of color, can do without doctors!"

[Ignatz]

Entered a strange Twilight Zone at breakfast this morning. Sat down and turned the TV on just to make some noise and caught the tail end of an old Dating Game with about a 12 year old Michael Jackson and some pre pubescant girl blowing kisses our way. Then a minute later there's Jim Lange introducing us to this little known Austrian dude who at the time was Mr Olympia; an extremely youthful Arnold Schwarzenegger.
It was like a flat screen time capsule. Very weird and, considering what the two of them later became, kind of sad.

[Miss Marple]

Ignatz, One time I was watching an old re-run of Groucho Marx in "You Bet Your Life" and one of the contestants was Phyllis Diller.
She was a housewife contestant!

I looked it up and what I was watching was the show where she got her break!

[Ignatz]

Presumably inner city knuckleheads will be better off with isotoners than neurologists.

[Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself]

and nowadays who knows who those "clinics" will be hiring. Self certified health experts who get the job cause they're 1/16th Cherokee...also self certified.

[Account Deleted]

Miss Marple,

If I were setting ad policy, I would not spend a cent on any ad with a "especially people of color" line in it. That's Progressive Fascist territory which is profitable only when white female LIVs play along.

I'd buy ads focused on ACA lies and IRS thuggery in the tabloids and on The View and there would be precisely zero reference to race.

[matt]

If Obama were anything but a hollow left wing tool, he would be announcing a radical shift in U.S. energy policy.

More drilling, more fracking, and the ability to export crude. Approve Keystone and screw the Marxist environmental Luddites.

This would have a huge effect not on on the global power balance, but also on US jobs, new industrial capacity, and our balance of payments.

But since he is an anti-American Marxist scumbag I am pretty sure he won't.

[Bori]

NK,

"PS: where is DD?"

Guess who shows up? Not the same, but funny!!!

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

'Einsatzkommandos' = too funny RickB... too funny.

[Danube of Thought]

Imagine the cheek of that son of a bitch in nominating Ebigbile.

[Ignatz]

Now they tell us yelling at our kids is as harmful as smackin em around.
I'm afraid that pretty much exhausts my repertoire. What's left?
Withholding their EBT cards?

[Bori]

Hmm,

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/05/pope-francis-church-could-support-civil-unions/

[matt]

By the way, the Professional Latina who runs La Raza flamed Obama tiday complaining that 2,000,000 illegal immigrants had been deported under Obama.

As the old joke about lawyers goes, that's a good start.

Ear leader is being torched and his minions are beginning to run like hell down the ratlines.

[Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself]

"The architect of ACA thinks poor people, especially people of color, can do without doctors!"

and I think that's a great idea.
Ya think your politician is gonna go to those clinics?
Point out how most of the abortion death huts are also in their neighborhoods.
Those "clinics" that don't have health & safety standards.

Will the new medical clinics with no doctors have health & safety standards?

[Jim Eagle]

I believe it to be in the interest of the GOP to get as much exposure of Dr. Zeke as possible. Every time he opens his mouth about health care, the GOP gains votes.

Reading Grassley's prepared remarks on Reid demonstrates why Rush calls him "Dingy" Harry Reid. He has no shame. If he was hooked up to a lie detector he's short it out just by opening his mouth.

[pagar]

Last night there was a discussion about some fraud that some judge did the right thing about.

If the right judge can be found and the right prosecutors can put the case together, IMO the Obamacare fraud will make the Chevron case look like a very very small part of the leftist corruption fraud.

http://weaselzippers.us/178246-internal-emails-show-white-house-was-aware-sebelius-was-shaking-down-companies-she-regulates-for-obamacare-donations/

Furthermore, I believe the climate warming fraud will be hundreds of times bigger than the Obamacare scandal.

http://poorrichardsnews.com/post/78652393831/latest-data-theres-been-no-global-warming-for-more

[Jane]

Good to see you CR.

I spent the morning with my accounted, who confided in me she does not believe the IRS scandal started with Lerner. My appt went a 1/2 too long as it took a while to lay out the evidence that she was right.

I have a fairly hefty tax bill this year. I figure it will cover about 24 seconds of Mochelle's spring break trip to China. You can't say I'm not doing my part.

If Lois Lerner is scared then put her in jail. She will be protected there.

[Jane]

Was Cop-Killer Mumia Abu-Jamal…voted up or down?

[Jim Eagle]

Bori,

The Pope on civil unions is not earth shattering.

We have a Roman Catholic Apostalate called Courage which ministers to same-sex attraction and their famiies. A lot of our recent young Bishops are part of that Ministry.

[lyle]

Don't skip the comments, either:

http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/obama-sings-crimea-river-and-other-greatest-hits-t13237.html

[Captain Hate]

And from our ChiTown friend: The Mumia lawyer Abegbile REJECTED by the US Senate 6 vulnerable Dems PLUS Reid vote NO. Nuke option blows up in Obummer's face like a trick cigar. Obummer is a dead man walking -- politically of course.

I think this is kind of a big deal; maybe indicating a turning point.

[henry]

Voted down Jane, with Dingy Harry and 6 Dems joining the beating.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

'Civil unions' to get government benes for instance? Why should the Church have an issue with this?; It is in the New Testament that Christ --and by logical extension his Church-- sought no temporal political power over the state, render unto Caesar our lord said. Christ sought souls not marriage license fees. If Buggerers want to register for survivor benefits, and they otherwise qualify, without fraud. why not? The state can only recognize marriage, which is defined by God and nature, the State can't define something that doesn't exist. 'Civil unions' those can be defined any way voters decide IMO.

[Captain Hate]

I think I've been consistently ok with civil unions; there's no jacking around with the definition of words there.

[Dave (in MA)]

I waded into the sewer again:

http://www.universalhub.com/2014/thanks-obama-cambridge-traffic-be-living-hell#comment-333736

We'll see what gets on my shoes.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

BTW-- 15 years ago or so the HomoMarriage set (like Sully) rejected 'civil unions' as unequal. Well yeah. It was at that point it became clear that their objective wasn't fairness under civil law, their objective was to destroy marriage.

[Ignatz]

Temporarily lost my mind and read Flathead Friedman on Putin and how to undercut him.
My reading became more frantic as I went down the column and the clown wasn't completely wrong or his usual imbecilic self.
But my equanimity returned as the dolt advised us how to do so.
After a short alarm that he sagely advised producing and exporting more natural gas the world began spinning on its axis again when the cretin couldn't extend that logic to oil but instead advised a large gas tax and "investment" in green boondoggles to somehow slash the price of oil. Presumably it would be through crashing the economy.
Wonder how much gas and oil is in that monolith of shale poking out of his turtleneck sweater.

[rootin tootin pootin.]

And I wonder how much of the XL pipeline will be reserved for domestic consumption. Of course the other issue is availability after the auctioneers displace to a more generous customer.

[centralcal]

Taking a quick break and check into Twitter - Agdebile (or as I call him, bile duct) was voted down!!!!

That is really great news.

[Ranger]

Instapundit is bumping this story today because, as he says, "because this seems big."

Obama knew CIA secretly monitored intelligence committee, senator claims

White House declines to comment after Mark Udall says agency spied on staffers preparing scathing report into CIA torture after 9/11

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/05/obama-cia-senate-intelligence-committee-torture?CMP=twt_fd&CMP=SOCxx2I2

Though I have to say, the wording they are relying on for the "Obama knew" idea is rather ambiguous. But why quibble over such minor technicalities. It's time for payback on the "sixteen words." If the Dems can spout "Bush Lied, People Died" for years, I think we can feel comfortable simply asking "What did Obama know and when did he know it?" Chicago rules for all I say.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Obama knew-- this will NOT become a Legacy Media meme.

[Ignatz]

--And I wonder how much of the XL pipeline will be reserved for domestic consumption. --

Who cares? It's a worldwide commodity traded in a worldwide market.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Forget it Ignatz-- he's from ProgTown.

Balance of trade payments, Dollar strength, refining jobs in Texas and La. Longshoreman and port pilot jobs mean nothing to a Prog.

[anonamom]

Marlene---85 and overcast today at Ft. Myers.
Maybe rain tomorrow; cooling down to 70 Friday.

OL--your 9:29, about the codes. The reasons why NPs and PAs
will be taking care of everybody is because it takes five times as long to care for patients with all this meaningless coding we are mandated to do.
AND the "records' it generate fail to communicate information in a meaningful format. Great for billing though!

[C.R.]

Thank you Jane and Happy Belated Birthday.

[Ignatz]

-- The reasons why NPs and PAs
will be taking care of everybody is because it takes five times as long to care for patients with all this meaningless coding we are mandated to do. --

Just another step in the long march to the Mao-like efficiency of single payer.

[Rocco]

Considering marriage is one of the seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church. I just don't see that happening.

[Old Lurker]

Funniest thing about today's WaPo story on the Chevron ruling was how far into you had to go before seeing the one glancing reference to Patton Boggs. It was all blamed on some lone ranger lawyer in NY and crooks in country.

Nothing to see here, move along.

[Beasts of England]

So we missed the chance for Issa to say 'Liar, liar, water skis on fire'? Crap...

[Jim Eagle]

Dave (inMA),

Think Cambridge is going to have it bad?

You should live in DC:)

[rootin tootin pootin.]

"Who cares? It's a worldwide commodity traded in a worldwide market."

Is that how it's being sold? If so, they can sell ice cubes at a Gulag.

[Ranger]

The new coding regs are just a way to create tens of thousands of new admin jobs in healthcare, all of which will be filled with people forced to join SEIU.

[Dave (in MA)]

JiB, no thanks. I really don't care if El Jugears causes a blue-on-blue mess. I was just pleasantly surprised that that site's owner called him out on it, although it was only after a few instances of me calling him out for hypocrisy after years of his complaining whenever W or Cheney came to the area.

[Jane]

Why did Reid vote "no"? The cop killer is his kinda guy.

Stick around if you can CR. We need you.

I don't see a turning point but I will say I think more people are becoming aware of what is going on.

Oh and I don't think any gay person has ever had the goal of destroying marriage. That makes no sense at all.

[Jane]

Dave, Any idea who Obama is visiting in Cambridge?

[Captain Hate]

Here are the donks who voted against the cop killer's lawyer:

Chris Coons (Del.)
Bob Casey (Pa.)
Mark Pryor (Ark.)
Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.)
Joe Manchin (W.V.)
Joe Donnolly (Ind.)
John Walsh (Mont.)
Harry Reid (Nev.)

According to the Powerline guys, the Searchlight Pederast's vote may have been a procedural one so that he can bring the nomination up in the future.

[Beasts of England]

Great news, centralcal! What a disgusting piece of shit that Adegbile creature is... Can't find another term to describe him - or those who nominated him. Thank God for a moment of clarity in the Senate - however brief!

[Jane]

Report: John Kerry Confidantes Say Obama Sabotaged Mideast Peace Talks With Harsh Interview

Since I don't think Obama actually believes in anything, I assume this stuff is coming from ValJar.

[Dave (in MA)]

Jane, the AP says:

"Obama is set to attend a round-table discussion fundraiser Wednesday for the Democratic National Committee with about 25 supporters in Cambridge.

Obama is then scheduled to headline a DNC dinner in Boston at the Artists for Humanity EpiCenter with about 70 backers. The event is also intended to raise money for the party.

Obama's visit follows a stop at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain to renew his push to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.

During his stop in Connecticut, Obama will appear with Democratic governors, including Gov. Deval Patrick."

[Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself]

So the "practically conservative blue dog" Dems from Virginia voted for the cop killer's lawyer & advocate.

Warner is just as hard left as....Obama.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Danny Malloy will be there.. drunk of course.

I thought Central Connecticut State was in Newington... no matter.

[C.R.]

What is the problem with having the government confer legal civil union status (or whatever term you want to use for legal "marriage") to all couples, straight and gay, seeking such and churches conferring religious or sacramental marriage?

[Threadkiller]

Cummings blowing a gasket:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDJ5hIxTWVY&feature=player_detailpage

[Old Lurker]

JiB, when that presidential caravan transits the DC area, the ripples are endless. I recall you have connections in Rockville, MD.

Last year when Obama went to Rockville to give a speech at some factory, his caravan left DC to VA, then up the GW Parkway to the Beltway, then over the Cabin John Bridge, then up I270 to the Rockville exit.

Along that entire route the police closed every bridge crossing the route then cleared all traffic off the roads of the route itself, restoring things to normal only after the king had passed.

Repeated in reverse an hour later.

You know DC....just imagine the nightmare.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Speaking of Drunken Danny Malloy-- Quinnipiac (yes they do know the Ct electorate) has Malloy at 42% TIED against Foley. Women gap saves Malloy ... so far, he has 45% of women, Foley only 37%. If Foley does no worse than a tie with women... Katie bar the door. malloy goes to the land of the perpetual double vodka martini.

[Old Lurker]

Obama in Boston. Maybe to give the humanitarian family award to BCH?

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Obama in Boston? visit relatives?

[Ignatz]

--Oh and I don't think any gay person has ever had the goal of destroying marriage.--

If the word no longer means the union of a man and woman it is effectively destroyed.

[Old Lurker]

FYI rse:

SAT to drop essay requirement as part of overhaul
The SAT college admission test will no longer require a timed essay, will dwell less on fancy vocabulary and will return to the familiar 1600-point scoring scale in a major overhaul intended to open doors to higher education for students who are now shut out. (Washington Post)

[MaryD]

Jane,Reid voted No so he could bring the nomination up again. Some arcane Senate procedural thing.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

The HomoMarriage movement has leaders whose objective is to destroy mariage as the core of the family, and then destroying family as the social gluue in order to reorganize society strictly as decided by the state. There are many sincere useful idiots to this movement who believe in 'fairness' and equality. But they are nothing but useful idiots. After HomoMarriage is universal, then ManBoy 'marriage' and then marrying your pet, all to make marriage a farce and illegitimate. That's their hideous plan. The HomoMarriage leaders are not honest people-- their rejection of civil union proves that.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

The Quinnipiac Ct poll WSJ link: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304815004579419111173348896

[JiB]

OL,

Actually Darnestown. But having lived in the DC metro-plex I can understand how time stands still. Since he likes the trappings of office why not use Marine One?

[jimmyk on iPad]

"Just another step in the long march to the Mao-like efficiency of single payer."

Naive question, but what gives the Feds the authority and enforcement power to make doctors do all this. What if a doctor refused? Or a hospital refused to make its doctors waste time on this? Are Obamacare-compliant insures being forced to require this?

[rootin tootin pootin.]

""Just another step in the long march to the Mao-like efficiency of single payer."

They call it self-fulfilling prophecy. Whining has it's own gravitas.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

JimmyK-- with singlepayer, only one paymaster for Drs. hence compliance becomes economic necessity.. except for celebrity Drs who treat government officials and their cronies.

[jimmyk on iPad]

"I don't think any gay person has ever had the goal of destroying marriage."

It doesn't have to be the intent of any individual to be the result of their collective actions. Just like no fisherman intends to cause overfishing, but collectively they do.

Myself, I think marriage will survive, but in a weakened state, not just from the appropriation of the term "marriage," but from all the other assaults on it by the left. Especially the welfare state.

As for civil unions, ok, but what is the societal interest in this? One reason government sanctions marriage is because a society where people of opposite sex pair monogamously and raise children in a home with a mother and father has better outcomes. Is that the case for civil unions? Otherwise, they don't need government sanction other than to enforce the agreement between the two parties.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Dr. Emengele says 'no need to see pediatrician' techs will do for sick kids. Alll..righty then, the Emanuel brothers can go first... Rahm... have you kids see the techs when they are sick. Oh... rahm the dancer has no children, because he's ....you know... not that's there's anything wrong with that.

[clarice]

DoT:"Imagine the cheek of that son of a bitch in nominating Ebigbile." I think so, too And now that he got hit on the head with a 2x4 do you suppose he got the message?

Mark Udall's in big election trouble..nice little pirouette to get himself in the news and distance himself from you know who.

I'm adding a long knife sharpening service to my pikes and pitchforks stand right here in the nation's Capital.

[jimmyk on iPad]

"with singlepayer, only one paymaster"

We don't have single payer yet. My question is, how can this be enforceable now.

[Stephanie VIP shhhhh its fight club]

The insurance companies can't pay docs until the codes are coded. Properly. Some docs are submitting codes four or more times to get visits paid for stupid shit that they never had denials for before.

Reminds of Wal-Mart where all workers comp claims are automatically denied.

[Jane]

I hope Obama is flying from Ct to Boston. Otherwise he will be about a mile from my house which makes me feel like I need protection.

Ranger, the most amazing thing about the CIA spying on Congress article is that the complaint is from a democrat. Apparently it is fine to spy on you and I, but not an elected democrat.

Things are really piling up on the CIC. I assume the lamestream media is still ignoring it. I wonder where the tipping point is.

(A question for Catholics: Are all priests as petty and vindictive as the one I know? A better question is how frequently that happens. Everyone fawns all over him and there is no accountability. At least on facebook.)

[pagar]

Speaking of black panthers/cop killers.

http://weaselzippers.us/178292-black-panther-cop-killer-released-after-40-years/

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Enforceable-- If MediCare/MediCaid/and big Gov health insurers aren't paying without Dr. compliance, it's pretty darn close to a paymaster monopoly and lots of leverage on Drs. to comply.

[Ignatz]

--They call it self-fulfilling prophecy. Whining has it's own gravitas.-

Man bites doggerel.

[Danube on iPad]

Iggy, as we have seen repeatedly, you're dealing with an economic illiterate.

[Stephanie VIP shhhhh its fight club]

Btw my doc told me if you go for the supposedly free wellness check and you are prescribed for a minor cold, too, the entire visit is no longer free and you will get hit for deductible/Copays as if it was a sick visit. Entirely.

Multitasking aren't us it seems.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Get hit for the visit -- if true, classic bait and switch. retailers pay big fines for nonsense like that.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Opps-- correction, Rahm does have children who Emengele can send to the techs to treat when they are in agony with ear or throat pain. H/T friend in ChiTown.

[Miss Marple]

Jane, no, most priests are pretty nice, although just like any group of people, a few are petty, a few are lazy, etc.

If I had to deal with my large parish and all the responsibilities, I would be insane. I think our priest is going to retire next year; he's been hinting about it. It's a shame, but he has more than done his job and whoever we get will have a big job to fill his shoes.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Priests are people... they run the gamut of personalities. Except for USA jesuits in their 50s-60s today, they are all gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[anonymous]

What did you mean to say ?

Priests are people... they run the gamut of personalities. Except for USA jesuits in their 50s-60s today, they are all gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Posted by: NK(withnewsoftware) | March 05, 2014 at 03:17 PM

[Danube on iPad]

WaPo:

"President Obama strongly denounced the Senate on Wednesday for failing to confirm a top nominee to the Justice Department.

"In a statement released by the White House, Obama said Debo Adegbile's defeat is a 'travesty' and is based on unfair attacks.

"'The Senate’s failure to confirm Debo Adegbile to lead the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice is a travesty based on wildly unfair character attacks against a good and qualified public servant,' Obama said. 'Mr. Adegbile’s qualifications are impeccable.'"

I love it when he gets petulant.

[Jim Miller]

Old Lurker - Here in the Seattle area, when Obama does fund raisers, his motorcades are almost always timed as if he were trying to maximize traffic problems.

He's done it often enough so that I began to think that the timing was deliberate.

(I should add that he has never caused me any problems, personally.)

[RuthbeHoled]

Clarice,

Are you trying to hide the fact that you know Steve Miller? Haven't you, in fact, flown like an eagle to the sea?

[lyle]

(I should add that he has never caused me any problems, personally.)

After five years of this fraud? You'd better start paying closer attention, JM.;)

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Long story but in the 1960s the Jesuits in the USA opened their seminaries to gay seminarians, so long as they vowed to be chaste. Sort of a Cathlic DADT policy. Consequently gay seminarians applied to the jesuits, and straight seminarians opted for other orders. That was the situation for 15-20 years, so USA Jesuits of a certain age fit a certain profile.

[RuthbeBold]

Clarice,

Are you trying to hide the fact that you know Judith Hill and that she's 1.68M tall and her music is influenced my Michael Jackson? Well, are you?

[Jane]

Clarice, are you trying to deny the fact that you know me, and that I am Judith Miller? That would be silly because everyone knows it is true. BTW the asshole needs a better picture of me, that one sucks.

John Kerry can talk longer and say less than anyone on the planet, except maybe his boss. But no worries, Putin is all in on getting out - or something.

[**Bill in AZ**]

Clarice, what does the color nine smell like?

[Account Deleted]

I can't get to net positive on Landrieu and Hagan voting to confirm the dirtbag. Even if the plantations are whipped end to end, it won't drive enough black nitwits to the polls to offset the cop-killer ads to come.

[RuthbeCold]

Clarice,

Have you ever been to a Turkish prison? Do you enjoy gladiator movies?

[Captain Hate]

I love it when he gets petulant.

He takes everything personally and then quickly shows it because nobody can talk any sense to him. I think this only gets better from this point forward.