The Next Escalation Involves Giving Putin A 'Big Bird'

Obama explains that the Ukraine crisis is as easy as ABC.

Lest you doubt that the President and his advance team could be such amateurs - and this is a topical moment to be practicing your Russian sayings, like "Trust but verify" - the AP has this photo at their website:

It's kind of sad to think The Beast has been converted to a clown car.

Comments

[Jane]

Any ideas on where this is going?

[Buford Gooch]

Where it's going? To hell in a hand-basket.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

a meet with Reggie Love in the little boyz room.....

[Dave (in MA)]

"Dear Vlad,
No hard feelings about the whole Crimea thing, just try to watch your carbon footprint with those choppers if it's not too much trouble.
I sincerely hope that this makes up for the "reset" button,
Your chum,
Jawn"

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

don't laugh...

[Frau Veilchen Dienstag]

Dave(in MA) - "don't you mean Your chump, Jawn."

In other news, some are tuckered out from celebrating Jane's birthday.

[The Pet Alphabet!]

Ana Marie Cox wrestles bare.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Wisc News-- Kareem doing a Wisc advert, with Airplane spoof, good to see: I thought he was great in the movie, the cockpit scenes with him, Peter graves and Nielson were my favorite parts: http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/yes-kareem-is-serious-and-don-t-call-him-bitter-about-milwaukee-030414

[Dave (in MA)]

oldie but goodie, although it should have included this:

as a contrast to the karate one.

[henry]

NK, Kareem wants to get involved in the Bucks somehow (assumes Kohl will sell a majority). That ad has been airing here since the weekend.

[jimmyk]

Someone, maybe OL, asked about the Barry vs. Putin pictorial I'd posted a couple weeks ago. It was from the People's Cube:

http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/putin-vs-obama-pictorial-comparisons-t12846.html

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Yep... barry is as straight as an arrow...
where's that sarcasm font...?

[derwill]

--Any ideas on where this is going?--

Putin will go as far as he wants in order to serve what he perceives as Russia's best self-interest, and the rest of the world will live with whatever that may be.

What worries me more is what could happen in the next three years, now that every thug country out there, many with insane leadership, has been exposed to the full pathetic weakness of our President Mom Jeans. Will China decide to take over Taiwan, or even attack Japan? Will North Korean troops pour across the demilitarized zone? Will Iran nuke Israel? At some point some country could cross a real red line that the world has drawn, and we could suddenly find ourselves in WWIII. It is what happens when there is a power vacuum and the "leader of the free world" is a sociopathic, malignant narcissist and coward who has been caught in the corner playing with his marbles.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Henry-- I don't see Kareem leaving the coast.

[henry]

Taxes NK, taxes. A comfy exile might suit him well.

[Adjoran]

Clown car? They should be sending Obama out in full clown costume.

To match his policies.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

perhaps-- 40 years on the coast may have been enough for Kareem, and being a part owner would feed his ego. He's been a celebrity for almost 50 years, I have to admit, I like the guy.

[Ignatz]

Thanks for that peoplescube link, jimmyk. I had forgotten how funny they are.

[Threadkiller]

The Pet Dolt

[Threadkiller]

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[Threadkiller]

First pic got cropped. The arm belongs to a Marine.

[henry]

Typhus just gave me the big bird.

And Vlad gave a big bird to the world -- ICBM test fire (per our friend in ChiTown).

[Ignatz]

Funniest (to me) headline at People'sCube;

White House to American children: Sequester causes layoffs among hens that lay Easter eggs; union-wage Easter Bunnies to be replaced by Mexican Chupacabras

Followed by;

[Jane]

Russia test-fires ICBM amid tension over Ukraine

MOSCOW, March 4 (Reuters) - Russia said it had successfully test-fired an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) on Tuesday, with tensions high over its seizure of control in the Crimea and its threat to send more forces to its neighbour Ukraine.

The Strategic Rocket Forces launched an RS-12M Topol missile from the southerly Astrakhan region near the Caspian Sea and the dummy warhead hit its target at a proving ground in Kazakhstan, the state-run news agency RIA cited Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Yegorov as saying.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

R12M "Topol Missile"-- is that named after the actor who was in "The Russians are Coming"

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Russians launch ICBM?-- is this more evidence that Putin is 'losing already' in Ukraine according to Time Magazine... whatever that is.

[Jim Eagle]

Well the Russkies can launch ICBM's all they want but when the rubber meets the road do they have the warriors?

Mad Dog Mattis' Latest Speech

[narciso]

the Huntress punctuates the point;

http://therightscoop.com/video-sarah-palin-people-look-at-putin-as-one-who-wrestles-bears-obama-as-one-who-wears-mom-jeans/

[narciso]

Cutting through the folderall, with a scalpel

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304815004579416931451436234?mod=Opinion_newsreel_3

[Beasts of England]

Beer Summit Barry had better be working on some updated smart diplomacy Newspeak. His water boys in the media have fallen arches.

[narciso]

Ruh Roh, that wasn't on the teleprompter;

[Frau Veilchen Dienstag]

derwill - I noted last night the Athenian quote to the Melians: "The strong do as they can and the weak suffer what they must."

Barry's Smart Diplomacy doesn't hack it any more than the Melian call for a respect of their neutrality.

Putin must have read his Thucydides while Barry was hanging out with his buddies:

Athenian: "Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can. And it is not as if we were the first to make this law, or to act upon it when made: we found it existing before us, and shall leave it to exist forever after us; all we do is to make use of it, knowing that you and everybody else, having the same power as we have, would do the same as we do"

Putin definitely *knows* Obama.

[Jeff Dobbs]

TM:
The Next Escalation Involves Giving Putin A 'Big Bird'

[Old Lurker]

Thanks Jimmy and Dave. Those were the pics I was looking for because I thought one guy looked like a man and the other...well never mind.

[Old Lurker]

Derwill "Will China decide to take over Taiwan, or even attack Japan?"

I wouldn't want to be on Taiwan or those contested Japanese Islands after the pact apparently reached yesterday for China to support Putin, would you?

Interesting times.

[narciso]

So, that was a stupid move in retrsospect;

http://minx.cc/?post=347633

[Old Lurker]

Great quote at 3:05, Frau.

True then. True now. True forever.

[Beasts of England]

Althouse whines that Palin is 'gender-bullying' Obama. Have the dems pivoted to the Republican War on Men? How truly sad that the reflexive left just can't admit to the fecklessness of Dear Barry.

Other than defeating the Clinton political machine and very smartly selecting Biden as his VP, I can't name one single positive accomplishment by this racist fool. The worst president in America's history. As his already thin skin sheds completely off, I fear the next three years will be totally unbearable for decent Americans. Yikes.

[matt]

What will Obama do now that Putin has once again twisted his tail with an inconvenient missile launch?

The good news is that probably 1/2 of the Russian missile fleet will either blow up in their silos, be shot down, or land somewhere where they were not aimed. Then again, if they use our GPS satellites I may be mistaken. Their rocket scientists are smart, but the hardware sucks.

Of course they will be opposed by a missile force that has been criminally diminished and has not been modernized in 25 years and with a coward of a president who wouldn't use them anyway.

He wanted to end nuclear war, of course. Instead he had made it more likely. But the Union of Concerned Scientists will only move the clock back to 11:59 if a Republican is president.

Saudi is seeking the Bomb and the Israelis must feel completely abused at this point as Iran recently tested a long range missile capable of having a warhead mounted on it.

MAD and an American commitment to peace through strength kept the world safe for 50 years. Now we have GLAAD instead.

And it our kids who die for decisions of a bunch of incompetents.

[matt]

China already owns Taiwan. The Taiwanese could not resist investing much of their GDP in factories on the mainland and so now they are helpless.

For proof look at Taiwanese defense spending.

[narciso]

There's sort of a lesson from house of cards,
Underwood knows there's a complex tie between
the President's best friend and the Chinese,
so he arranges a crisis with them that involves certain rare earths, and some contested islands, the money tie later emerges and he uses that connection to checkmate the President, his pal, the other's business partner, and end the crisis,

[Rex]

What was smart about selecting Biden, other than as a guaranty against assassination, because no one would be crazy enough to trade Obama for Biden?

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

I didn't get the Biden pick as smart either.

Gen. Mattis is a man who knows what he's about.

[Beasts of England]

That's my theory, Rex.

[narciso]

Gates didn't either, but didn't act like it;

According to the New York Times, which obtained an early copy of the memoir, Gates calls Biden “a man of integrity,” but questions his record. “I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades,” Gates writes, according to the Times.

Read more: Gates Slams Biden in Memoir, Reveals He Nearly Quit | TIME.com http://swampland.time.com/2014/01/07/in-memoir-gates-slams-biden-reveals-he-nearly-quit/#ixzz2v1ni5HXv

[pagar]

Wow, just like Obama's Aunt or Uncle.

http://www.politisite.com/2014/03/04/breaking-romeike-family-granted-indefinite-deferred-status-and-can-stay-in-united-states/

Thank God!

[lyle]

You naive JOMers:

Nobody messes with Joe.

[Old Lurker]

WSJ "The president proposed a $3.9 trillion budget package peppered with new taxes on upper-income Americans and businesses, plus numerous spending initiatives aimed at bolstering education, research and low-income work programs. "

[Ignatz]

--Althouse whines that Palin is 'gender-bullying' Obama.--

Fuck Althouse.
Our president is supposed to bully our enemies not have wimpy blondes protect him from tough brunettes, for Christ's sake.
Some of our friends and maybe some of us, maybe a lot, are going to die because of these assholes.

[Beasts of England]

Thankfully the era of austerity is over, OL! Let's get the spending ramped up - crank those printing presses all the way to 11!

[Old Lurker]

Our teams has them scared now:

Times of Israel quoting an Iranian General:

"The low-IQ US president and his country’s Secretary of State John Kerry speak of the effectiveness of ‘the US options on the table’ on Iran while this phrase is mocked at and has become a joke among the Iranian nation, especially the children,” General Masoud Jazayeri said, according to the semi-official Fars News Agency.

Jazayeri was responding to the US president’s interview in Bloomberg on Sunday, in which Obama maintained that the Iranian leadership should take his “all options on the table” stance — including the warning of a potential military strike — seriously.

“We have a high degree of confidence that when they look at 35,000 US military personnel in the region that are engaged in constant training exercises under the direction of a president who already has shown himself willing to take military action in the past, that they should take my statements seriously,” the president told Bloomberg.

Jazayeri called Obama’s statements regarding the deployment of US troops “completely inexpert remarks far from the reality, and these statements can be used as the joke of the year.”

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

$3.9T in spending.. heh heh. Disgrace. This is one of the times I'm most thankful for a Repub/Conservative House. What the Dems did in their 2009-2010 orgy was so destructive.

A Repub 2015 Senate. I am optimistic we get about a real cut in spending, Obummer vetoes, then will see if the Repubs have anywhere near the Guts of Putin.

[Old Lurker]

And you wonder, as Matt states above, why the risk of nuclear war increases with our weakness.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Gen Jazayeri-- well-- all true of course. At least he didn't talk about Bath House Barry and Reggie Love.

[narciso]

Well we know now the Russians had delegated authority to use tactical nukes in the Cuban missile crisis,

[Jane]

Pagar,

I am so happy about that outcome.

Holy cow OL. Maybe Obama can sic the IRS on Iran.

[jimmyk]

That's great news about the Romeikes, pagar. I'm pleasantly surprised.

[trollbetrolls]

Admit it Clarice, you and Perle switched the President's rug to a Sesame Street theme.

[narciso]

great news pagar,

[Beasts of England]

Just received an email from a division president of a rather large aerospace company that I'm currently consulting to in the midst of a half-billion dollar proposal. The capture manager (CM) for the effort failed to deliver his product on Friday. What he delivered Sunday evening was not much better. With a 24-hour reprieve, the CM regressed in his latest effort last night. Simply unreal.

The colorful language used by said president on our telecon a few hours ago directed towards the CM underscored my earlier prediction that the CM would be fired before the close of business today. The email confirmed it.

Not to worry, the economy's humming along and I'm sure the CM will have lots of opportunities to showcase his ineptitude. Perhaps something with the federal gubmint? Obamacare contractor?

[narciso]

I'll have to plead Charlie Gibson, because it runs up against Justified or Person of Interest
or the Americans

http://minx.cc/?post=347638

[lyle]

Paging Dr. Emengele to the white courtesy phone. Paging Dr. Emengele:

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/03/04/ezekiel-emanuel-gleefully-predicts-the-death-of-private-health-insurance-companies/

[Ignatz]

Comment from Narc's link about Ronan Farrow's well oiled path to his MSNBC gig;

Well of course his path is 'guided.' After all, he's Rosemary's Baby.

[Beasts of England]

And the Manchurian Candidate's son...

[narciso]

He was a speechwriter for Holbrooke, who needed a whole other room to hold his ego, at 15?

[Danube on iPad]

Wonderful stuff about the Chevron-Ecuador litigation:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/372526/remarkable-court-opinion-chevron-case-kevin-d-williamson

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Dr. Zeke Emengele sure makes it easy to hang the Dr Death name on him. He has a death fetish... or is it obsession?

[Jim Eagle]

TK may want to go to narc's 4:04 on Ronan Farrow and his being groomed for politics so he can get ahead of the curve on who really is his daddy?

Or maybe Ronan is one of those new 2 dad's and 1 mom babies I have been reading about:)

[Jim Eagle]

DoT,

A good friend of ours and fellow member at our club is the ex-CEO of Chevron Gas. A few months back he and I were discussing the Ecuador claim and he said that the tough stance by Chevron was because of their General Counsel who convinced management and the board if they didn't fight this with every tool then they would be subject to constant legal claims. I think its a lesson for every major or even minor business. If you feel wronged then you have to fight to the death.

[Rex]

Where's my Marine joke, NK?

[Jim Eagle]

Rex,

He posted it on the other thread. BTW, did you see my link to Mad Dog's latest speech?:)

[narciso]

the most obvious tie is to Correa, he's the lefty with the more respectable mien, who nonetheles has gagged the press in Ecuador,
who has given sanctuary to Assuange, and tried to do so for Snowden,

[Miss Marple]

I just got home and saw this:

http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/04-03-2014/127011-viktor_yanukovych_dies-0/

Unconfirmed reports of a heart attack.

If he lied to Putin about those snipers, that would explain it.

[Jim Eagle]

Janet and Jane,

This makes a great sign for the next T-party get together:

[RuthbeRolled]

Clarice,

Your band opened for Pearl Jam at The Paramount in '98. Dave Edmunds was pushed out of the opener to make room for your act, wasn't he? Well?

[Jim Eagle]

If true, CC, its another decrease in the Polonium supply in Russia.

[narciso]

I thought she was sharp some days ago;

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116852/merkel-was-right-putins-lost-his-mind-press-conference

[Bori]

Stop blaming Obama,

"Rachel Maddow Blames Ukraine on Bush"

"the Bush policies of more than a decade ago are the root cause of — everything, Maddow claimed."

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/rachel-maddow-blames-ukraine-on-bush/#.UxZHR7LSMKI.twitter

[sbwaters]

So Yanukovich can now neither confirm nor deny he gave permission or Vlad to land in Crimea.

[Jane]

Does that mean you won't be at the next tea party rally JIB?

Do any of you guys have Apple TV?

[narciso]

So it's what a Bond villain, or Dr, Evil, does to an incompetent underling,

[lyle]

I'm dumping my iPhone for a Samsung Galaxy. That way I can show my righteous anger by getting a phone with Android--you know the one created by Eric "Climate Deniers Should Be Jailed" Schmidt. That'll show 'em!

[Jim Eagle]

Jane,

I have Apple TV and yes if there is a Tparty rally where I live I'll be there.

[Miss Marple]

narciso, I cannot find any other link about this right now. His death might be a rumor or a trial balloon, who knows.

I did note this morning that Putin said that Yanukovich had said he had nothing to do with the snipers. And that might have been true.

Or, it might be that it was a lie.

Or, it might have been the truth because Putin hired the snipers.

Seems like this death would be awfully convenient to Putin, though.

[Jim Eagle]

Headlines that put a smile on my face:

Judge issues injunction after wife says Alan Grayson shoved her during domestic incident

A judge has granted a temporary protective injunction against U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, after his wife filed paperwork accusing the Orlando congressman of shoving and injuring her during an incident this weekend.

[Ignatz]

If clarice pushed Dave Edmunds around she's dead to me. Dead!

[Old Lurker]

JiB "because of their General Counsel who convinced management and the board if they didn't fight this with every tool then they would be subject to constant legal claims"

And THAT is exactly what DoT meant the other day about what a wise client expects from a really good lawyer.

[RuthbeRolled]

Believe it, Ignatz. As IF that's your real name.

[Ignatz]

viktor_yanukovych_dies....exact time yet to be scheduled.

[RuthbeRolled]

Believe it, Ignatz. As IF that's your real name. Your disclaimer does nothing to hide your complicity in Clarice's cabal.

[Jim Eagle]

Jeebus, I just spit out a good swallow of fine wine: Shemp is in Kiev.

[narciso]

Only, vizzini could pull this off, and it was still a reach;

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/03/obama-russias-actions-in-ukraine-are-not-a-sign-of-strength-video/

[RuthbeRolled]

Believe it, Ignatz. And now that I think of it, Typhuspad is neck deep in this as well!!

[miss Marple]

JiB,

I was just going to post about Shep. I guess he felt since Anderson Cooper was going, he should make Ailes pay for his trip, too.

Boy, I hope shooting doesn't break out. Shep is sort of a chicken, as I remember from him going to Israel during the Iraq invasion. He got sent home pretty quick.

[MarkO]

It's not the grassy knoll or the sewer, it's the top of another building.

I read it in an affidavit.

[Jim Eagle]

Narciso, LOL "Putin needs a different set of lawyers" Stuff our President said.

My God, we have a total numbskull as President. Someone please make the case for not having Slo Joe take over?

[narciso]

Have you read hunter's Third Bullet, MarkO, you'd like it, it's an original spin on the matter,

[lyle]

You're drinking fine wine while watching Shemp, JiB? I save mine for Megyn or Shannon.

[maryrose]

JIB:
I think Slo-Joe should take over as preezy. I've had my fill of Odummer.
Jane: For me ,it is tied at the top with wife,mother,sister,catholic. then I see myself as a friend and American.However come St; Paddy's Day, my half Irish part is an Irishwoman.

[miss Marple]

I am drinking the last of my cheapo Chilean wine (pretty good) because Lent starts tomorrow and wine is my sacrifice for Lent.

Cheap wine is a good accompaniment for Shep.