Paging John Kerry, There's A Call On Line One

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!

 

 

Comments

[Lazybusy]

Maybe first.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Well, at least it's not Kerry's fault that Hillary gave the Russians an "Overcharge" button.

[henry]

Jeff, did they ask for a horse instead?

[Jeff Dobbs]

Nyet Neigh!

[GUS]

Global Warming is our real national security threat. Tropical Storm Bob needs to be put down.

[DublinDave]

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.

[Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz]

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.

[Extraneus]

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.

[Jeff Dobbs]

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.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Have the doctors removed the mashed potatoes from Lurch's lantern jaw?

[GUS]

Gowdy and Issa don't walk in MARXIST lockstep, that bothers the drunken fuktard.

[narciso]

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

[MarkO]

Get this over with and just give Iran the damn bomb. Shelter in place.

[rse]

New post up http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/fodder-for-political-exploitation-when-ecaa-removes-all-barriers-and-adds-required-intrusions/

[Marlene]

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.

[narciso]

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,

[Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz]

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".

[Extraneus]

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?

[narciso]

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,

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Marlene, his doctors and nurses need to be on pain killers.

[Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz]

John Hinderaker;
How many windmills has the Pope?

[narciso]

no, he's a knave, for reasons I've made clear before,

[DublinDave]

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.

[henry]

next squirrel: Greek tragicomedy. National debt is an infringement on human rights, therefore no cash for Merkel. (ht our Chicago lurking one).

[Marlene]

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. :)

[Jeff Dobbs]

Ext:
Btw, who's on narcotics a week after breaking their leg?

Not Dave Grohl.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Working the glory hole for Soros must homoerotic projection.

[lyle]

Hinderaker is stealing my material:

How many divisions "climate science" hacks does the Pope have?

Posted by: lyle | June 15, 2015 at 04:27 PM

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Must lead to homoerotic projection.

[Extraneus]

We know it's hard to have to cheer lead for the evil hag for the next 17 months, dublindave.

[narciso]

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,

[NKonChrome]

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.

[MarkO]

Btw, who's on narcotics a week after breaking their leg?

Only if I can.

[NKonChrome]

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.

[narciso]

that New Start Treaty worked out great, didn't it, that Scott and Mxlplk

[Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz]

Victor Davis Hanson on The Decline and Fall of the California Empire.

[rse]

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.

[sbw]

NK, how do you expect pension defaults to ripple through the economy?

[narciso]

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,

[maryrose]

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

[maryrose]

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

[narciso]

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,

[NKonChrome]

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.

[maryrose]

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

[Marlene]

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.

[NKonChrome]

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.

[Miss Marple]

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.

[narciso]

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,

[Cecil Turner]

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!)

[Threadkiller]

From Klein's tearjerker:

As it is, with 15 expected candidates (not including Trump), the Republican field has already taken on the image of being a bit of a circus. Trump now adds to that perception, and because he has the highest name recognition of any Republican candidate, he'll help define field for lower-information voters.

Ah yes, the dreaded LIV would have gladly voted for 14 other "conservatives" next Tuesday if it wasn't for Trump today.

Nonsense.

[Miss Marple]

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-admin-cheered-private-scolding-of-israeli-ambassador/

When anti-Semitism trumps employment law.

[narciso]

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,

[Threadkiller]

...15 other...

[henry]

Heh, on horseface & narcotics... anyone going to a VA overseen by Tammy Baldwin will be on OD levels of narcotics for life.

[Threadkiller]

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/Stephen-Moore-Rand-Paul-Flat-Tax-fair/2015/06/15/id/650602/

[Marlene]

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.

[narciso]

the divisions are Soros and steyer, and their minions in the press,

[narciso]

a good precis on the nature of the party,

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/06/john-kerrys-absolute-idiocy.php

[lyle]

http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/teacher-i-dont-teach-newton-because-hes-white-t16470.html

[Cecil Turner]

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:

The court opinion also noted that Dolezal claimed that the university’s decision to remove some of her artworks from a February 2001 student exhibition was “motivated by a discriminatory purpose to favor African-American students over” her.

As detailed in the court opinion, Dolezal’s lawsuit contended that Howard was “permeated with discriminatory intimidation, ridicule, and insult.”

Judge Zoe Bush dismissed Dolezal’s complaint in February 2004, 18 months after the lawsuit was filed and Dolezal was deposed on several occasions. Bush found no evidence that Dolezal was discriminated on the basis of race or other factors. The D.C. Court of Appeals subsequently affirmed Bush’s decision.

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.)

[maryrose]

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

[NKonChrome]

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.

[lyle]

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?

[Cecil Turner]

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.

[henry]

Just wait until this gets included in the TPP.

[Thomas Collins]

Dolezal has been misunderstood. She's not trying to be Black. She's trying to be a Black Hawk. She's a hockey fan.

[Jack The Trans-Former]

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.

[lyle]

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?

[Miss Marple]

narciso,

The Daily Mail should buy an American cable channel and call it SVTV - Scum and Villainy channel!

Guaranteed money-maker.

[Cecil Turner]

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:

If, as Assistant Secretary Frifield suggests in her letter, the report is complete, it should be released immediately. If it is not immediately released, a full and thorough explanation for the delay must be forthcoming. For this reason, I intend to file legislation that will fine the State Department five percent of its operating budget for every 30 days the report is delayed. As inconvenient as this may be for the State Department, it must respect the law and Congress owes it to the American people to gather all relevant information before it casts what may well be the most significant vote of this legislative session.

Let the talking heads at State try to square a nuclear Iran with their human rights shenanigans. That'll sell well.

[Jeff Dobbs]

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.

[lyle]

Gag!

[Threadkiller]

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/

[Cecil Turner]

Jack's photo:

[narciso]

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,

[Porchlight]

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.

[Threadkiller]

...Donald Trump was on Fox and Friends this morning and was asked to respond to Krauthammer’s comments from yesterday where he decried Trump as an unserious candidate who will actually hurt the field.

Trump responded by calling Krauthammer a loser and a jerk before Elisabeth Hasselbeck shut him down because she couldn’t handle his barbed comments.

Trump also made a fantastic comment on whether his remarks on Mexico sending us their worst people would hurt him with Latinos. He essentially told Brian Kilmeade that he didn’t care, that telling the truth was more important that getting votes. BOOM! He couldn’t be more right

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!

[sbw]

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.

[lyle]

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...

[Jane]

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?

[sbw]

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.

[lyle]

I was being a bit tongue in cheek, Jane. Maybe the NAAWP was representing her pro bono?

[Jack The Trans-Former]

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.

[daddy on iPad]

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.

[lyle]

Biden better stay off New York campuses.

Biden? How about Clenis??

[Jack The Trans-Former]

BTW, thanks for finding and posting the pic, CT. Its a beaut:) Rick Ballard couldn't have posed those guys better.

[lyle]

http://www.mediaite.com/online/dolezal-wanted-to-boycott-exodus-for-casting-white-actors-as-africans/

[narciso]

she's laura linney's younger sister, for pete's sake,

[Thomas Collins]

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).

[narciso]

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/

[narciso]

one of the arguments against better incription was that older programs were harder to guard against, but data is transferrable from their origin point,

[lyle]

http://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2015-06/194830_5_.jpg

[Beasts of England]

I assume that the guy in the photo is 'floored' because he went long on the Drachma last month?

[pagar]

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

[narciso]

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,

[Beasts of England]

Or maybe he ordered one of those Papa John's Greek pizzas...

[Beasts of England]

Jackie Chiles declared the Greek debt to be outrageous, egregious, and preposterous.

[narciso]

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,

[narciso]

actually the character is Indian, as the website they put up to promote the film, informs me,

[Old Lurker]

Jeff: "Miss Marple's sex tape"

MM has a sex tape out? Link?