Let's Make A Deal!

Obama announces he will be going to the two-minute offense in negotiating with Iran, with no further extensions of talks on the table.

Since I have no confidence in Obama or Kerry I have no confidence in this.

Comments

[NKvirusedand back]

I have complete confidence... that Obummer will screw the pooch... as far as American interests are concerned. The Mullahs will LoooooVE the deal.

[henry]

He just wants a deal before Congess passes a reminder that they need to approve it.

[matt]

Thirdsies!

[rich@gmu]

wonder if the Iranian celebration of the deal will be a nuclear test ...

[Threadkiller]

Two minute offence??

Is the nuclear football properly deflated?

[NKvirusedand back]

rich@6:50-- younaughty boy!

PS: best a luck with the interviews.

[Jim Miller]

rich - Good luck with the job interviews.

(The boy asked for a clip-on, but that Target store didn't carry them. So, instead, he bought a standard tie, and got a little help with tying it.)

[MarkO]

“As much as I love Angela,” Mr. Obama said of Ms. Merkel . . ..

He loves her so much he has to listen to all her calls and read all her email. Obsessed, perhaps.

[Danube on iPad]

What has been Obama's signature negotiating success?

[Rahms Missing Half Finger]

"CHICAGO (CBS) — State workers who do not agree with their union’s political activities would not have to pay dues under an executive order signed by Gov. Bruce Rauner."

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2015/02/09/rauner-order-state-workers-dont-have-to-pay-union-dues/

Ha, executive order.

[Steve]

Of course, he's not pushing for a deal deal, at least not the way normal people define the term. He's merely hoping that Iran will agree to agree to something that has yet to be determined. That's like a kid promising to be behave while not defining what it means to behave. In other words, Obama has nothing, will get nothing, and doesn't t want anyone to know he's got and getting nothing.

[PDinDetroit]

rich - Good luck on the interviews!

[Miss Marple]

O'Reilly is giving Axelrod hell.

Recommend watching on the repeat at 11:00.

[PDinDetroit]

MM -

Axelrod: "Don't want to inflame..."

O'Reilly: "Sure want to use those words after what happened to the Jordanian Pilot?"

Axelrod: Clueless...

[Miss Marple]

PD,

Exactly.

Axelrod is unable to admit that Obama is not able to see what the trouble is.

[Jane]

I watched Dukakis on Cavuto business, (because I refuse to watch O'Reilly). #1 Dukakis is clueless, #2 he is very old and #3 he reminds me of my old radio partner Dick.

Still probably better than having to watch O'Reilly.

[jimmyk]

When Obama says "Angela," hard 'g' or soft? I noticed the NPR twits all use the German hard 'g' to show their superiority.

[Cecil Turner]

Has anything changed on this? Last I checked, Iran insisted it had a right to enrich uranium, and we argued they didn't . . . but then signed an interim agreement that allowed them to do it.

The only reason Iran needs an enrichment program is to build nukes. And at this point, there's probably no stopping them. Sanctions certainly won't. And since we can't stop 'em, shouldn't we get rid of the sanctions?

Don't you love smart diplomacy?

[Miss Marple]

Cecil Turner,

Why do the same people who oppose nuclear plants in the US support Iran getting one?

[maryrose]

Iran says Obama is begging for a deal

[Captain Hate]

I watched Dukakis on Cavuto business, (because I refuse to watch O'Reilly). #1 Dukakis is clueless, #2 he is very old and #3 he reminds me of my old radio partner Dick.

No wonder Kitty had a drinking problem.

[Captain Hate]

Iran says Obama is begging for a deal

Does anybody doubt that the Ferret deliberately keeps him clueless (and with 404 that isn't difficult) on how much Iran despises him?

[Janet]

from Ann McElhinney on FB about Brian Williams -

"Two things
1. the very bloggers in their 'bathrobes' that were so mocked by Brian Williams are now the people who are bringing him down. Poetic Justice? Think so.
2. he earned $10m a year, $208,333 a week to tell the truth and couldn't."

http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/flashback-brian-williams-mocks-bloggers-lack-credibility

“All of my life, developing credentials to cover my field of work, and now I’m up against a guy named Vinny in an efficiency apartment in the Bronx who hasn’t left the efficiency apartment in two years… On the Internet, no one knows if you’ve been to Ramadi or you’ve just been to Brooklyn and have an opinion about Ramadi.” ~ says the guy who was unclear if he was shot out of the sky or not!

[Miss Marple]

Captain Hate,

No doubt at all. Why she has Secret Service protection is still something I want answered.

Very disturbing.

[Jim Miller]

Back in January, I described Valerie Jarrett as "King Obama's "favorite".

I think that historical metaphor works quite well -- and I may get around, some time, to expanding it.

(As most of you know, favorites were almost universally despised, because it was thought that they came by their power illegitmately.)

[Miss Marple]

Nytol.

[daddy]

Megyn Kelly: But we've had so few? Why are we having so few trials down in Gitmo? Almost all the guys who are down there are just being held without facing trail?

Judge Napolitano: It takes a lot longer in the Military System than it does in the Civilian System, and I've argued that more of these people should be tried here.

Is that true? My understanding was that the Military was way the heck faster Trial wise than the Civilian System. I can understand if the delay is because they do not have the ability to round up witnesses for evidence from the battlefield, but in general I thought the Military was able to convene Hearings and Courts of Inquiry and whatever the proper terms are very fast after the fact (i.e.) the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949.

Anyone know if once again the Judge is simply bloviating about a subject which he does not know
much about?

[Frau Protokoll]

jimmyk - Chacellor Merkel did not once refer to herself but spoke only in the name of the country she represents. She did not call President Obama by his given name Barry the bastard Barck-k-k-k-kk-chhhhhh. (Sorry, something caught in my throat.) It is the height of disrespect to address her by her given name while she is representing her government. He should have said Chancellor Merkel or Frau Merkel. Who preps the dunce?

[Miss Marple]

daddy,

I discount Napolitano as he is so blinded by his libertarianism he often makes incorrect statements.

You are right that the military system is quicker.

[Frau Protokoll]

daddy, I don't know about Judge Napolitano, but there's been too much bloviating going on around here by trolls 'r us.

jimmyk = Soft or hard "g"? The NPR twits win but the preezy can always issue an EO .

[Miss Marple]

Nytol!

[Rick Ballard]

Jim Miller,

I assume you're speaking of favorite in the sense of George Villiers. We might only wish the Ferret could reach that level of incompetence. Obama allows no one who is his intellectual superior to advise him and it really shows.

Cook County political skills really don't belong on the international stage.

[PDinDetroit]

"Axelrod is unable to admit that Obama is not able to see what the trouble is."

Water seeks its own level - Civil Engineer.

[Frau Protokoll]

Ny-tee-oh, Miss Marple.

Janet, under the heading of payback, Brian tempted fate when he ridiculed regular citizens looking for answers not found on the MSM. *He* has not been ridiculed enough yet. He can go out for drinks with Keef Olberperson.

[jimmyk]

I don't know if Barry called her "Angela" in her presence or not. It's disrespectful regardless, but especially if he addressed her directly. I know that the German pronunciation is with a hard 'g', but when someone has a name that's identical to an English name, to me it always seems a bit pretentious to pronounce it with a foreign accent. I'm pretty sure I remember Obama also referring to Sarkozy as "Nicolah" when most Americans simply pronounced it like the American name Nicholas.

[Jane on Ipad]

He referred to as Angela in their joint press conference.

[Dug]

Now, An-guh-la, would you like to keep the mullah uranium enrichment, to trade it for what's behind door number two?

Audience?

[Eric in Boise]

Off, doggie sock.

[Frau Protokoll]

jimmyk - I commented on the beginning of the press conference this morning on the previous thread and listed the times he used her first name. He only said Chancellor Merkel once in the *middle* of his opening words. He's a clod.

I've tried to see if GWB used her first name in official settings and have not found any so far. Mostly it's "Bush groped Merkel" links.

President Bush. Thank you all. It's such an honor to welcome Chancellor Angela Merkel here to the White House. We just had a long visit. The first thing I did was ask everybody to leave the room except for the Chancellor. And we talked about our philosophy and our hopes. We talked about our desire to work together to accomplish important goals for the world, starting with peace.

[Frau Protokoll]

Till Tuesday...

[narciso]

Loofa boy is ignorant of much, like John mako Jovi ch said in a different context,'did you delouse,' when dealing with axelturf

[narciso]

Congrats rich

Khomeini is plu trained, and a veteran of evil prison, the notion you can get anything on him is ridiculous, specially for our vox tied president

[Janet]

http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2015/02/09/the-end-of-a-dream/

a bit - "Events in Eastern Europe — even the loss of whole countries in the Middle East — were dismissed as only a “flesh wound”, something easily borne with “strategic patience”. But now the hurts have grown too obvious to hide. Three weeks ago the editorial board of the Washington Post described the fantasy world of the Obama administration as it entered its last phase of self-deception....
...Pervasive disconnect about Putin, ISIS, Iran and China. Pervasive disconnect is the Obama administration’s standard operating procedure."

and -

"For those who want defense from China, Russia, ISIS and other dangers; who seek sanctuary from Biblical scale dangers which presidents formerly dealt with, then repeat after me, “Our Father who art …”"

[I'm Ward, I troll women. Julia dumped me]

Frau, EVERYTHING is about OBAMA. He's a narcissist. IT'S ALWAYS about OBAMA.

[Jim Miller]

Rick Ballard - Villiers was a favorite, but I was thinking more of the favorites who rose to power without the romantic connection to the monarch, the favorites who took over much of the king's job.

Often, because they were willing to do the work that the king didn't want to do.

(I suppose some time I should do a little research and identify one or more favorites who are most similar to Jarrett.)

[narciso]

So the head of the Heiden get society did not their hero was a nazi

[daddy]

I just heard this Brian Williams soundbite again about Katrina:

“I accidentally ingested some of the floodwater. I became very sick...

Just as a very basic question, how would an adult accidentally ingest flood water from Katrina? What's the mechanics of that?

I spend a lot of time in India and China and Malaysia and the P.I., 4 locations where I do not drink the local water. I can understand maybe getting sick from the water in those locations that they put into the airplane's water system, which feeds into our coffee making machine, or maybe getting sick from using the ice cubes in the cooler or in a soft drink I might have at the bar (Which BTW is why I drink beer on the road:)

But seriously, how would someone physically accomplish the task of getting flood water from the streets of New Orleans into your mouth, and then sucking it down? Here's my list of possibilities:

A) He dropped his Altoids container into the flood waters, but "the 5 second rule applied" so he retrieved them from the flood waters and ate 'em wet.

B) A disgruntled NBC Make-up Artist, seeking revenge for missing out on the Iraqi chopper ride, filled up William's Avian Water bottle with N'awlean's street sewage water as he was putting on William's make-up for the evenings "on scene" broadcast.

C) Williams tried to give 'mouth to mouth' resuscitation to a corpse floating by.

D) A dog who drank from the gutter licked Williams on his tongue.

E) Some elected Democrat Official (Ray Nagin perhaps) happened to have fallen on his ass into the Katrina floodwaters, and immediately afterwards Williams interviewed him, so that's how Brian Williams got flood water on his arse-kissing lips.

There may be other possibilities that I am missing, but since I am now aware of how extremely easy it must be for an adult multimillionaire Newsreader to ingest floodwaters in dangerous locations like Bourbon Street, you can imagine how worried I am about accidentally ingesting dangerous flood waters in locations like Bombay or Shenzhen or Batu Feringi or Olongapo.

If you have any suggestions for how Williams accidentally ingested some of the Katrina floodwater and became very sick.... please let me know what they are, as I have not been so frightened since I was hit with an RPG in a Chinook.

[Gus]

Daddy, I don't know how he got dysentery, but Bush is to blame fo shiz.
Maybe Lyin' Williams can tell us the name of the "young Police Officer" who saved him at a 5 star hotel in the "quarter".

The guy is pathological.

[Eric in Boise]

OT (of course). Yesterday, we lost the creator of Grado Headphones.

Now, we've lost the creator of the Kikkoman Soy Sauce Dispenser.

Hell of a week.

[jimmyk]

Just as a very basic question, how would an adult accidentally ingest flood water from Katrina?

I'm sure it was when he dove into the raging waters to rescue a puppy that was drowning.

[narciso]

When I mentioned axelturf I didn't know his firm is trying to topple another us ally in nigeria

[Jim Miller]

narciso - Today's NYT review of Axelrod's book paints him as an idealist, a man who understands winning elections but not governing.

(The notion that Axelrod is an idealist, rather than a mixture of machine pol and leftist ideologue is so interesting that I am still thinking about it. It's weird, I kept thinking as I skimmed through the review, but might there be a little truth in it?)

The review doesn't address the question about Axelrod that interests me most: Did he use his connections to inspire the Chicago Tribune to help Obama in his campaign?

[daddy]

The only thing I find positive about Obama's 'no Existential Threat' comments today, are that they are made to order for Netanyahu to knock out of the Park when he addresses Congress.

It's become a big stink due to the Dem's reaction: ("we're too busy to attend the speech") so that when Bibi speaks he will get tons of Press and America will hear some straight talk, even if the MSM tries to ignore it. I pray that his speech is great, and unfortunately the chances are that ISIS and Islam will provide further examples of horrendous terror between now and then.

[narciso]

Well It was david 'audio siminex' gergen, no surprise he would miss that major tell

[daddy]

D) A dog who drank from the gutter licked Williams on his tongue.

I change my item (D) to A puppy Williams had just bravely rescued from drowning (or catching on fire) in the Katrina Floodwaters gratefully licked Williams on his tongue.

[daddy]

JimmyK,

You beat me on the puppy rescue. Grrrrr. Think that'll teach me to post without having caught up?

Nah:)

[Strawman Cometh]

A Fibonacci sequence was a clue on Jeopardy tonight. Mrs SC asked me "How did you know that"?

[Janet]

A Fibonacci sequence was a clue on Jeopardy tonight. Mrs SC asked me "How did you know that"?

hahahaaa! My only chance on Jeopardy would be if they had a Medieval Pants category! :)

[Strawman Cometh]

Kevin Williamson is getting slattered regarding his Bush ME failure remark in the comments of the article linked earlier. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/398133/brute-force-left-kevin-d-williamson

[Strawman Cometh]

It is the semi-finals of the Teachers Tournament, one of the gals was just adorable with her expressions as she worked through the answers in her head and awaited hopefully that she'd gotten it right. She didn't win, but she may have made emough to get through to next round as a wildcard.
I did offer the Mrs. an example of a Fibonacci sequence in Nature, in retrospect, I should rather have mentioned the Nautilus shell.

[daddy]

I wonder if Axelrod cut off his Hitler mustache so that he could be be considered for the Anchor Chair at NBC.

[daddy]

Straw,

Thanks for mentioning that and providing a link.

Yep. Feeling some pushback he is.

[Gus]

Axelknob, ju$t like Rove, ha$ only one thing in mind.

Can you gue$$?

[Strawman Cometh]

Axelknob might have been giving the Ferret a rash.

[GUS]

Axelknob and the Ferret. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

[GUS]

Is Jerry Rivers related to Lyin' Williams?

[Strawman Cometh]

Insty links to a piece on yesterdays German presser: schadenfreude

"What would be the red line on Ukraine," the reporter asked,

"What can the Nobel laureate Obama do more to defuse this conflict?"

[GUS]

Obama has no clue. His whole life is dedicated to MARXISM and his LOSER Daddy.

[GUS]

Have any of you heard the most recent Brian Williams bullshit? In all of his interviews, he tries to use COOL COOL NUANCED terms. AIR-FRAMES is one, but in others he tries to talk OH SO COOL in terms that make him COOL.
He's a FUKTARD.

[Janet]

Thanks for pointing those questions out, Strawman.
They're from this link - http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/obama-and-merkel-meet-the-press-unhappily-20150209

[Janet]

http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/09/obama-that-kosher-deli-massacre-in-paris-was-purely-random/

Obama: It is entirely legitimate for, uh, the American people to be deeply concerned when you’ve got a buncha, uh… violent, vicious zealots, uh, who behead people or randomly shoot… uh… a buncha folks, uh, in a, in a deli in Paris. Uh…

"See? Those folks in that Paris deli were shot at random. Those folks could have been anybody. Any folks at all. There was no particular reason for these violent, vicious zealots — “whatever ideology they’re operating off of,” in Obama’s words — to kill those particular folks.

That’s all, folks.

But enough about that. Don’t you think it’s about time you people apologized for the Crusades?"

[Man Tran]

daddy,

Small correction about Eric G. He doesn't own the Travelair, but has flown it for the owner when the owner had a medical issue.

[glasater]

Janet @ 1:43

Even Andrea Mitchell threw up in her mouth over those Zero comments.

[glasater]

Zero got the best lighting one could possibly get in that Vox.com interview and he still looked terrible. I think his conscience is finally getting to him and its showing up on his face.

[glasater]

Nope, it was Mara Liason on Special Report that couldn't buy the deli comments.

[daddy]

Wretchard is pessimistic but realistic: The End of a Dream

Recently he (Obama) told Vox in an interview how tough he is. Asked whether he can handle the world’s bad guys he said, “I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That’s what I take with my morning tea.”

Our President is crazy:(

[Extraneus]

How do you like the book, Janet? I'm thinking of picking up a copy. (It's going for $0.01 at Amazon in very good condition.)

[Captain Hate]

Today's NYT review of Axelrod's book paints him as an idealist, a man who understands winning elections but not governing.

They misspelled ideologue and what they're describing also sounds like Rove as related to Bush.

[James D.]

Today's NYT review of Axelrod's book paints him as an idealist, a man who understands winning elections but not governing.

Hitler had ideals, too.

Oddly enough, his ideals and those of Obama, Axelrod et al appear to be fairly similar.

[Captain Hate]

This is how it's done:

http://therightscoop.com/mark-levin-shreds-obamas-vox-interview-its-none-of-his-damn-business/

[anonamom]

CH, thank you.

BTW, does anyone know if Axelrod's book tell how he got those sealed Illinois divorce records and who he leaked them too so BO could be Senator?

[BR]

Gauguin is smiling :)

[Miss Marple]

Morning, all!

I do not think that presidential political advisors should be allowed to provide help in foreign elections.

If the CIA were doing this the dems would be in an uproar. The same rules should apply.

I don't think foreign leaders' flunkies should be interfering in our elections, and the reverse should be true as well.

[Miss Marple]

This is a neat story:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11401966/Top-secret-D-Day-plans-found-hidden-under-hotels-floorboards.html

[Captain Hate]

BTW, does anyone know if Axelrod's book tell how he got those sealed Illinois divorce records and who he leaked them too so BO could be Senator?

I doubt it. The MFM should have been forced to investigate that by the campaigns of McRINO and Romney making sure every voter was aware of that. But the Top Men approved operatives, like Schmidt and Wallace, were more interested in COMITY than winning elections.

[Another Bob]

Strawman Cometh | February 09, 2015 at 11:57 PM:

Yeah, Williamson was too glib by half there.

Bush is not above criticism (and would be the first person to tell you that) but Williamson has forgotten where things stood in 2008-9. Would have been nice to see how things might have been better had leftist opposition not been of the scorched earth variety.

And he has a point re. the "fiscal incontinence", but that's hardly some grand insight.

He was on the money re. the current crop of leftists though. That last line was worth the wait.

[Miss Marple]

http://time.com/3702584/gay-marriage-axelrod-obama/

Apparently Axelrod's book admits Obama lied about not supporting gay marriage. Time considers this a stunning admission, but I personally am not surprised. That "evolving" pose was just his usual BS.

[James D.]

So according to the top two links on Instapundit right now, the odious Axelrod acknowledged that Zero's little speech at the National Prayer Breakfast was deliberately intended to be provocative (towards his own citizens, and towards Christians specifically); and increasing numbers of Dem members of Congress are planning to boycott Netanyhu's speech.

Why do the R's not have leadership who will call this out directly for what it is, in blunt language?

Will it take a freaking mushroom cloud over Tel Aviv - or Manhattan, or DC - before they wake up and realize that our survival is threatened, and that Obama, and most of the Dems, are actively on the side of those threatening it? Or would even that not be enough to convince them?

[clarice]

daddy,http://www.adn.com/article/20150209/stymied-lower-48-alberta-floats-idea-moving-tar-sands-oil-through-alaska

How hard did Williams work to build up his credentials? You think staying fit, keeping your hair expensively cut and shaving every morning is easy?

Did O call her Angela to shoe close ties, to diminish her because he's a misogynist or because he's a clod? There can be more than one answer.

[Marlene]

The Vox interview was taped three weeks ago,if I heard the news correctly this morning. The White House allowed it to be aired after the horrific death of the Jordanian pilot. He used the trite phrase, "if it bleeds it leads" which minimizes the barbaric acts of the terrorists to the level of street crime.

[Captain Hate]

404's imaginary son strikes again:

http://www.inquisitr.com/1828763/disturbing-16-year-old-teen-commits-murder-and-takes-selfie-with-dead-body/

[Miss Marple]

Football and vintage finds, all in one story!

http://www.citizen-times.com/story/sports/2015/02/09/lombardi-worn-sweater-purchased-asheville-goodwill/23126123/

[henry]

Interesting twist, taxpayer suit against Madison schools / teachers union to go forward. The suit alleges union contracts were illegal after Act 10, judge confirms standing.

[Janet]

How do you like the book, Janet? I'm thinking of picking up a copy. (It's going for $0.01 at Amazon in very good condition.)

I haven't read it yet. It was like I found a treasure when I spotted that book! Hah!

[Extraneus]

Drudge features Sharyl Atkisson's question about why Brian Williams is held to a higher standard than Hillary Clinton.

[Strawman Cometh]

When I hear the argument that Iraq was the wrong target after 9/11, I agree with them. "Yeah, it's as if, after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, FDR had invaded north Africa."

[Marlene]

MM,there was a story here last week that someone brought a box of books to Goodwill in Ellsworth (ME). One of the books was actually a book safe and inside was an antique derringer. A few sharp-eyed commenters at the BDN thought it looked like a black powder derringer. Interesting find.

[jimmyk]

From the Levin link, just caught this from Obama:

Some people who just control enormous amounts of wealth--and we don't resent their success, on the other hand just as a practical matter, y'know, you're going to have problems making sure that we're investing enough in the common good to be able move forward."

What the h*** does that even mean? It's complete gibberish. It's like he's a random cliche generator.

[Extraneus]

Netanyahu considering changes to Congress speech after criticism

Israeli officials are considering whether Netanyahu should speak to a closed-door session of Congress, rather than in a prime-time TV address, so as to drain some of the intensity from the event, a source said.

Another option is for the prime minister to make his speech at the annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington the same week, rather than in Congress.

"The issue has been under discussion for a week," said a source close to the prime minister's office. "(Netanyahu) is discussing it with Likud people. Some say he should give up on the speech, others that he should go through with it."

As if appeasing Obama is gonna help them now.

[Janet]

why Brian Williams is held to a higher standard than Hillary Clinton.

Daniel Greenfield had a good post on that. Lists a bunch of lying politicians....

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/brian-williams-for-president/

"Are there really higher ethical qualifications for reading the news from a teleprompter for NBC than there are for the President of the United States? If so, maybe we should just replace the Democratic Party with NBC. They’re hard to tell apart anyway."