The 1980s are calling and John Kerry has picked up the phone:
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that Russia's plan to buy more intercontinental ballistic missiles was concerning and could herald a return to the international hostility of the "Cold War."
Speaking at a military and arms fair on Tuesday, Russia President Vladimir Putin announced the addition of 40 intercontinental ballistic missiles which, he said, were able to overcome "even the most technically advanced anti-missile defense systems."
...
Kerry said that, since the 1990s, there had been "enormous cooperation" in the destruction of nuclear weapons that were in the former territories of the Soviet Union.
No one wants to see us step backwards, nobody wants to, I think, go back to a kind of Cold War status," he added.
One might have thought that imagining that it can't happen can lead to a situation where it does happen. But maybe "Peace Through Strength" was just more Cold War nonsense brilliantly rebutted by the "Peace Through Unilateral Disarmament" crowd. Maybe!
Maybe first.
Posted by: Lazybusy | June 17, 2015 at 11:08 AM
Well, at least it's not Kerry's fault that Hillary gave the Russians an "Overcharge" button.
Posted by: Jeff Dobbs | June 17, 2015 at 11:16 AM
Jeff, did they ask for a horse instead?
Posted by: henry | June 17, 2015 at 11:19 AM
NyetNeigh!Posted by: Jeff Dobbs | June 17, 2015 at 11:26 AM
Global Warming is our real national security threat. Tropical Storm Bob needs to be put down.
Posted by: GUS | June 17, 2015 at 11:44 AM
I take it a lot of you have already watched the heartbreaking video of Daryl and Trey breaking up outside the committee hearings on Benghazi. Like me you probably found it really hard to watch.
Who do you think is at fault? I know Daryl hasn't been giving Trey a lot of space and he's very forceful and full on and that can feel like you're being suffocated sometimes.
By the same token Trey has to learn to commit a lot more......he's too on the sidelines as a spectator when he should be a player.
I hope they make up and have lots of gay sex because they're beautiful together.
Posted by: DublinDave | June 17, 2015 at 11:54 AM
Trump is a certifiable mental case, an ignoramus, a buffoon and a clown and as Phil Klein points out, the person most likely to benefit from his running is the Red Witch.
Posted by: Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz | June 17, 2015 at 11:54 AM
Russell Simmons: I’d Rather Kim Kardashian be President than Donald Trump
I don't know who this guy is, but apparently he's a thought leader.
Posted by: Extraneus | June 17, 2015 at 11:54 AM
Smart Diplomacy™ is headed for the ash heap of history.
We can only hope that it's only figuratively so headed without any literal radioactive ash.
Posted by: Jeff Dobbs | June 17, 2015 at 11:59 AM
Have the doctors removed the mashed potatoes from Lurch's lantern jaw?
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPad | June 17, 2015 at 12:03 PM
Gowdy and Issa don't walk in MARXIST lockstep, that bothers the drunken fuktard.
Posted by: GUS | June 17, 2015 at 12:03 PM
he's a thought leader in the hip hop community, of course he would endorse the kardashian even before the chimera, and of course the Jersey wastrels, as well as the other detritus were big Zaphod supporters
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 12:09 PM
Get this over with and just give Iran the damn bomb. Shelter in place.
Posted by: MarkO | June 17, 2015 at 12:09 PM
New post up http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/fodder-for-political-exploitation-when-ecaa-removes-all-barriers-and-adds-required-intrusions/
Posted by: rse | June 17, 2015 at 12:10 PM
CH,in an interview with the Boston Globe over the week-end,he said he's only using Tylenol for pain. He told the doctors to take him off the narcotics. He's looking at months of physical therapy,so his mobility is going to be limited. Maybe that is a good thing.
Posted by: Marlene | June 17, 2015 at 12:10 PM
Dowdy, should have gone and subpoened Drumheller right off, and avoided Sid Vicious, neither one will give you a straight answer, but the slime trail is less obvious,
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 12:12 PM
Steve Malanga on the crushing burden of state and local pensions.
Note the Dem solution almost invariably is not only higher taxes, but higher taxes on the middle and lower classes through property tax and sales tax increases.
But don't ever accuse a Dem of favoring public sector unions over "folks" or "da peoples".
Posted by: Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz | June 17, 2015 at 12:13 PM
He told the doctors to take him off the narcotics.
Wow, what a brave man.
Btw, who's on narcotics a week after breaking their leg?
Posted by: Extraneus | June 17, 2015 at 12:18 PM
welp, there it is,
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/06/arizona-jihadist-indicted-on-terrorism-charges-once-sued-sheriff-joe-arpaio-over-prison-conditions/
so the DolezAL freakshow continues, with the usual suspects saying nee,
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 12:18 PM
Marlene, his doctors and nurses need to be on pain killers.
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPad | June 17, 2015 at 12:21 PM
John Hinderaker;
How many windmills has the Pope?
Posted by: Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz | June 17, 2015 at 12:21 PM
no, he's a knave, for reasons I've made clear before,
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 12:22 PM
So Issa bursts into Gowdy's hearing and stands in front of Gowdy as if to say 'Here I am.A boy.Standing in front of you-also a boy.Telling you that I love you."
So Gowdy freaks out and grabs Issa's arm and escorts him out of the chamber upon which the argument ensues, followed by the break up and the soda can being chucked by Daryl into the trash as if it were their love.
This is so heartbreaking.
Posted by: DublinDave | June 17, 2015 at 12:25 PM
next squirrel: Greek tragicomedy. National debt is an infringement on human rights, therefore no cash for Merkel. (ht our Chicago lurking one).
Posted by: henry | June 17, 2015 at 12:28 PM
Ext,I'm brave too! I'm into my third week of back spasms and I stopped taking muscle relaxants. I'll stick with wine. :)
Posted by: Marlene | June 17, 2015 at 12:28 PM
Ext:
Btw, who's on narcotics a week after breaking their leg?
Not Dave Grohl.
Posted by: Jeff Dobbs | June 17, 2015 at 12:30 PM
Working the glory hole for Soros must homoerotic projection.
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPad | June 17, 2015 at 12:30 PM
Hinderaker is stealing my material:
Posted by: lyle | June 17, 2015 at 12:31 PM
Must lead to homoerotic projection.
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPad | June 17, 2015 at 12:32 PM
We know it's hard to have to cheer lead for the evil hag for the next 17 months, dublindave.
Posted by: Extraneus | June 17, 2015 at 12:32 PM
Just release the Kraken already, now the concern is
the German banks holding the debt, and the daisy chain, but it you're already steering for the rocks,
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 12:32 PM
TM is exactly right. "unilateral Disarmament" is exactly what this crew have been doing for 6 years. Putin going the nuclear blackmail route was the obvious result, blind man could see it from a mile away. That's why we call him John Effin' Kerry.
Posted by: NKonChrome | June 17, 2015 at 12:35 PM
Btw, who's on narcotics a week after breaking their leg?
Only if I can.
Posted by: MarkO | June 17, 2015 at 12:39 PM
While unilaterally disarming, the Obamaites are still managing to bankrupt the country. The Malanga essay was spot on about the PENSIONDEBT default people like me and others at JOM have been banging on about for 5+ years. It is now here. CT will default first, then Ill, then NJ. Then Calpers, which will be spectacular in its magnitude and effect. DD and other parasites injured most.
Posted by: NKonChrome | June 17, 2015 at 12:39 PM
that New Start Treaty worked out great, didn't it, that Scott and Mxlplk
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 12:39 PM
Victor Davis Hanson on The Decline and Fall of the California Empire.
Posted by: Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz | June 17, 2015 at 12:41 PM
marlene-or gin. That's what I did on flight home when I realized I was having spasms under my right shoulder blade. I went to back, asked for the Bombay sapphire, a lime, and a splash of tonic. It helped and it let go completely after the second one.
Flight attendant was quite nice. Of course hubby will likely recognize exactly what I bought for $8 when I was over kansas Sunday morning.
Posted by: rse | June 17, 2015 at 12:41 PM
NK, how do you expect pension defaults to ripple through the economy?
Posted by: sbw | June 17, 2015 at 12:41 PM
red queen is fading fast, if Doc Brown, is catching up without much fuss, I don't see much traction, the nutroots having become even more dominant, like
strigoi in the party,
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 12:42 PM
Marlene
I remember the last day of school as a teacher. Very well
Good times
Also Rachel's 15 minutes of fame are almost up
She can thank her parents for her multiple new job opportunities
However because of her delusional narcissistic attitude she won't acknowledge this fact
Posted by: maryrose | June 17, 2015 at 12:43 PM
Ext and Marko
Answer no one except woozy Kerry would still be demanding heavy drugs
I am 65 and recently went white water rafting
Only the non showboat normal people succeed in life
Corrzine driving 90 miles an hour cracks up with bad injuries
What bad judgment in these two show offs lives
Posted by: maryrose | June 17, 2015 at 12:49 PM
any further questions,
http://www.weaselzippers.us/226705-loretta-lynch-is-sworn-in-as-attorney-general-in-front-of-al-sharpton-using-frederick-douglass-bible/
Frederick Douglass is doing capoiera in the ether,
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 12:50 PM
State Defaults-- other than the obvious, state bond ratings will drop, and bond interest will rise, who knows. I sincerely doubt (hope) there is no federal taxpayer bailout for the defaulting Blue Hells. I think TPs nationally are fed up with Gov't Debt that makes them liable. Greece will give some clues about how defaults play out.
Posted by: NKonChrome | June 17, 2015 at 12:51 PM
Narciso
From your lips to Gods ears
Also I demand to see Hils health records and every Repub candidate should beat this drum daily saying
What has she got to hide
Posted by: maryrose | June 17, 2015 at 12:51 PM
rse,the daughter is a fearful flyer. She has a chat with the flight attendant when boarding and they have been very understanding,in fact after she is seated,the attendant will bring her a glass of wine.
Posted by: Marlene | June 17, 2015 at 12:54 PM
Narciso-- the Progs rule the Dem Party. The faux Dems are dead. The Clintons are desperate to leverage their $$$ for one last fling of power. I hope they fail miserably.... then go to prison in a Walker admin.
Posted by: NKonChrome | June 17, 2015 at 12:54 PM
The Rachel 15 minutes have been extended:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3127173/Rachel-Dolezal-SEX-TAPE-ex-husband-forced-perform-sex-acts-camera-against-claimed-court-papers.html
My personal opinion after reading this is that she used the stereotype of the sexually aggressive black male against him.
Also, I think the Daily Mail should start their own news channel in the US. They apparently already have a monopoly on actual reporters.
Posted by: Miss Marple | June 17, 2015 at 12:56 PM
well it's not an original thought, she did better last time, because she was a placeholder for the blue collar Democrats, but she's pretended to go granola, despite her backers,
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 12:57 PM
How many windmills has the Pope?
I presume that's a riff on Stalin's "The Pope? How many divisions has he got?" In any event, the translated portions of the encyclical are disappointing. And, as Hindrocket points up, there is little doubt turning over control to the greens would make everyone's life worse, with poor people hardest hit (per usual).
"unilateral Disarmament" is exactly what this crew have been doing for 6 years.
That's certainly what we did on the nuclear arms reduction talks (reducing our stockpiles while negotiating with the Russians to keep their stockpiles at their current effective limit). The obvious result would be to encourage arms races amongst the non-signatories and encourage modernization efforts by the Russians. Not surprisingly, we're getting both. (Unexepectedly!)
Posted by: Cecil Turner | June 17, 2015 at 12:59 PM
From Klein's tearjerker:
Ah yes, the dreaded LIV would have gladly voted for 14 other "conservatives" next Tuesday if it wasn't for Trump today.
Nonsense.
Posted by: Threadkiller | June 17, 2015 at 12:59 PM
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-admin-cheered-private-scolding-of-israeli-ambassador/
When anti-Semitism trumps employment law.
Posted by: Miss Marple | June 17, 2015 at 12:59 PM
really the Daily Mail is like a calling card to SMOD sometimes, or the Indominus Rex, a tour of 'the scum and villainy' in the world,
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 01:00 PM
...15 other...
Posted by: Threadkiller | June 17, 2015 at 01:01 PM
Heh, on horseface & narcotics... anyone going to a VA overseen by Tammy Baldwin will be on OD levels of narcotics for life.
Posted by: henry | June 17, 2015 at 01:03 PM
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/Stephen-Moore-Rand-Paul-Flat-Tax-fair/2015/06/15/id/650602/
Posted by: Threadkiller | June 17, 2015 at 01:04 PM
Ig@12:41. That VDH article is depressing. I've mentioned my mother grew up in CA. When we were kids,my siblings and I thought CA really was the Golden State. My grandmother used to send us tourist brochures for school projects. My great aunt lived in Truckee in more snow than we could imagine,even though we lived in New England. One of my aunts was married three times! People only did that in CA! One of my cousins,after returning home from Vietnam was an honest to God hippie who smoked pot! I finally went to CA at age 19 to meet all these characters. I learned that I'm really a New England girl at heart,but CA was a beguiling place. That was over 40 years ago. Everything has changed.
Posted by: Marlene | June 17, 2015 at 01:05 PM
the divisions are Soros and steyer, and their minions in the press,
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 01:06 PM
a good precis on the nature of the party,
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/06/john-kerrys-absolute-idiocy.php
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 01:09 PM
http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/teacher-i-dont-teach-newton-because-hes-white-t16470.html
Posted by: lyle | June 17, 2015 at 01:13 PM
The Rachel 15 minutes have been extended:
Okay, I'll play. I have a politically inocrrect theory on Dolezal. Recall she sued Howard University over [reverse] discrimination, and the lawsuit was dismissed:
I'm assuming at some point Dolezal met the AA judge who ruled against her, who looks like this:And then she decided, hey, I can be as AA as she is . . . and maybe sell some of my paintings.
(I would point out that whatever her motivations, it seems to've worked . . . for a while.)
Posted by: Cecil Turner | June 17, 2015 at 01:14 PM
I believe Hillaritys campaign is a last lunge for power
I don't thi NK she will succeed and Sanders will be the nominee ala McGovern
Posted by: maryrose | June 17, 2015 at 01:15 PM
CecilT-- interesting take. Rachel may have usedJudge Bush s an exemplar to follow as far as her looks, but I do believe Rachel is a wacko who misIDsherself for some bizarre compulsion. She is mentally ill.
Posted by: NKonChrome | June 17, 2015 at 01:20 PM
For our JOM legal eagles re Dolezal's counsel in her case against Howard: contingency fee or straight up billable hours for our latter day female Zelig?
Posted by: lyle | June 17, 2015 at 01:26 PM
a good precis on the nature of the party,
Powerline is en fuego. But I'd quibble that the military dimensions issue is a minor one. Once we accept an enrichment program, we've effectively accepted a nuclear Iran . . . and we did that at the start of negotiations. Since then, it's been one after another of us wanting it so badly we don't care what it looks like . . . and the mullahs gleefully sticking it to us.
Not saying "KERRY’S ABSOLUTE IDIOCY" isn't fair (and double that for his boss), but it happened long before they got played in this latest round.
Posted by: Cecil Turner | June 17, 2015 at 01:29 PM
Just wait until this gets included in the TPP.
Posted by: henry | June 17, 2015 at 01:32 PM
Dolezal has been misunderstood. She's not trying to be Black. She's trying to be a Black Hawk. She's a hockey fan.
Posted by: Thomas Collins | June 17, 2015 at 01:32 PM
If you want to see a photo that sums up the Greek monetary crisis in one picture then look at the front page of the WSJ. It's above the fold and when Mrs. JiB saw it at breakfast today she busted out laughing so hard the waitress had to , bring her a glass of water.
It's not online so I can't post it. But it shows the finance minister sans jacket white shirt unbuttoned a the neck, shirt tail out, sitting on the floor of parliament, head in one hand. Next to him is a weathered old Greek pol in shirt with no tie, arms folded on his desk, coke can next to him. Caption starts: "Floored". They were listening to the PM's denouncement of the German and IMF package.
Posted by: Jack The Trans-Former | June 17, 2015 at 01:32 PM
The headline is more telling, imo, Jack:
Defiant Greeks Say They Won't Stand for Creditor's Demands
So I guess that explains the "Floored," huh?
Posted by: lyle | June 17, 2015 at 01:36 PM
narciso,
The Daily Mail should buy an American cable channel and call it SVTV - Scum and Villainy channel!
Guaranteed money-maker.
Posted by: Miss Marple | June 17, 2015 at 01:38 PM
Somebody may have already linked this one, but I think Cruz has it right on the Iran deal. SEN. TED CRUZ: State Dept. must release the Iran human rights report now:
Let the talking heads at State try to square a nuclear Iran with their human rights shenanigans. That'll sell well.Posted by: Cecil Turner | June 17, 2015 at 01:38 PM
TC:
She's trying to be a Black Hawk.
This after Miss Marple's sex tape link?
Are you trying to get a Black Hawk Down joke? Because this is how you get a Black Hawk Down joke.
Posted by: Jeff Dobbs | June 17, 2015 at 01:46 PM
Gag!
Posted by: lyle | June 17, 2015 at 01:48 PM
Donald Trump campaign fires back: We paid to use Neil Young's song
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/06/17/neil-young-donald-trump-wasnt-authorized-to-use-my-song/
Posted by: Threadkiller | June 17, 2015 at 01:48 PM
Jack's photo:

Posted by: Cecil Turner | June 17, 2015 at 01:48 PM
it's a little like Soul Man, the inspiration for Dolezal, and how he ran afoul of the black version of kingsfield, james earl jones,
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 01:54 PM
Why would Francis align with the pro-abort left in ANY WAY? Do his lefty Gaia-worshipping buddies want more ardent Catholics in the world, or fewer?
Everyone is of course free to ignore this encyclical, just as we're free to ignore Obama's BS pronouncements (when they aren't matters of law). But they are both still tremendously influential.
Posted by: Porchlight | June 17, 2015 at 01:54 PM
Video at the link.
http://m.therightscoop.com/donald-trump-calls-charles-krauthammer-a-loser-and-a-jerk-on-fox-news-before-host-shuts-him-down/
Hahaha! F' these guys!
Posted by: Threadkiller | June 17, 2015 at 01:57 PM
and Sanders will be the nominee ala McGovern
Don’t forget Andrew Cuomo is creating new, distasteful, and possibly unconstitutional New York laws to position himself to ride to the rescue to “save” the Democrat party from the Clintons, Obamas, Sanders, and O’Malleys.
Posted by: sbw | June 17, 2015 at 01:58 PM
http://pjmedia.com/michaelwalsh/2015/06/16/pope-releases-laudato-sii/
David Kahane is telling us righties to just ignore him, Porch. Ain't no big thang and all...
Posted by: lyle | June 17, 2015 at 02:00 PM
For our JOM legal eagles re Dolezal's counsel in her case against Howard: contingency fee or straight up billable hours for our latter day female Zelig?
Contingency. Where would she get the money?
Posted by: Jane | June 17, 2015 at 02:00 PM
The NYS legislature just passed a new yes-means-no-and-damn-civil-rights private college celibacy law that Cuomo will sign. Based on a bogus definition of what constitutes sexual assault, Biden better stay off New York campuses.
Posted by: sbw | June 17, 2015 at 02:01 PM
I was being a bit tongue in cheek, Jane. Maybe the NAAWP was representing her pro bono?
Posted by: lyle | June 17, 2015 at 02:03 PM
Porch,
Francis' chruch is growing in Africa, South America and Asia not in Europe and North America where the traditional capital is located. For him he is speaking to his base and the base is a lot poorer than the capital parts of the world.
As I have noted before, all this is doing is driving the traditional base of capital giving away not bringing it in. Watch how Catholic Charities and various diocesan Bishop appeals drop off. Who will make up the difference, the Vatican. No way and this could come back to drive a schism between the Pope's base and the Northern churches of Europe and America.
He is s typical Prog who believes there is no limit to OPM.
Posted by: Jack The Trans-Former | June 17, 2015 at 02:03 PM
Good Morning!
Rush just made a big point we always make around here. He thanked the UKDaily Mail for covering all the stories that our MSM won't. In this latest case, the Mail just completed a genealogy on Racial Donezal going back to 1671. Conclusion---She's White:)
Rush says the circulation of the UK Daily Mail is going thru the roof, T'was good to hear them getting the credit they deserve.
Posted by: daddy on iPad | June 17, 2015 at 02:04 PM
Biden better stay off New York campuses.
Biden? How about Clenis??
Posted by: lyle | June 17, 2015 at 02:05 PM
BTW, thanks for finding and posting the pic, CT. Its a beaut:) Rick Ballard couldn't have posed those guys better.
Posted by: Jack The Trans-Former | June 17, 2015 at 02:06 PM
http://www.mediaite.com/online/dolezal-wanted-to-boycott-exodus-for-casting-white-actors-as-africans/
Posted by: lyle | June 17, 2015 at 02:08 PM
she's laura linney's younger sister, for pete's sake,
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 02:11 PM
I would attempt to formulate a reply, Jeff, except that I would eventually wade into "Black Hawks Hockey Sticks and Pucks in the Net" territory, which I fear may bring the Internet Microaggression Police DOWN on me (there I go again).
Posted by: Thomas Collins | June 17, 2015 at 02:12 PM
i'm shocked aren't you:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/16/opm-was-urged-last-year-to-shut-down-systems-without-a-valid-security-authorization-but-refused/
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 02:13 PM
one of the arguments against better incription was that older programs were harder to guard against, but data is transferrable from their origin point,
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 02:17 PM
http://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2015-06/194830_5_.jpg
Posted by: lyle | June 17, 2015 at 02:18 PM
I assume that the guy in the photo is 'floored' because he went long on the Drachma last month?
Posted by: Beasts of England | June 17, 2015 at 02:25 PM
Greece just told them what they can do with their
debt.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-17/greek-debt-committee-just-declared-all-debt-illegal-illegitimate-and-odious
Posted by: pagar | June 17, 2015 at 02:26 PM
they do indulge in this sort of stupidity, on occasion,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3128401/Jurassic-World-comes-fire-sexist-portrayal-stiff-non-maternal-female-lead-officially-biggest-opening-film-time.html
might as well be critical of the Saudi investor, who makes the park possible,
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 02:26 PM
Or maybe he ordered one of those Papa John's Greek pizzas...
Posted by: Beasts of England | June 17, 2015 at 02:26 PM
Jackie Chiles declared the Greek debt to be outrageous, egregious, and preposterous.
Posted by: Beasts of England | June 17, 2015 at 02:30 PM
who could be played by the fellow in this piece
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3127158/Pictured-stunning-Lebanese-supermodel-stole-heart-one-world-s-richest-men-sparked-4-BILLION-divorce-battle-Prince-Andrew-s-glamorous-former-flame.html
who happens to be an investor in red queen, ltd,
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 02:30 PM
actually the character is Indian, as the website they put up to promote the film, informs me,
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 02:35 PM
Jeff: "Miss Marple's sex tape"
MM has a sex tape out? Link?
Posted by: Old Lurker | June 17, 2015 at 02:37 PM