"This makes life more complicated from the standpoint of this: If we get into a cycle where every time one side loses, they run a third-party candidate, we’ll make Pelosi speaker for life and guarantee Obama’s re-election," said Mr. Gingrich, who had endorsed Ms. Scozzafava."
So tell me, is Mao Tse Tung dead? Hardly.
He is alive and well and controlling huge slices of the population in India! Here is the article. It seems that Maoism is growing stronger in an ever splintering India and it is now at the point where these rebels have set up a counter government to the one in Delhi in huge swaths of the land. Wow. This cannot be good for American interests.
The Afghani National Intelligence agency is claiming that Al Qaeda had a role in the U.N. bombings which killed many U.N. and Afghan employees last week. That story is here. Please do not misunderstand, I mean no disrespect here. But this story is a little too convenient for my belief meter to peg out into the red zone.
Just two weeks ago the Afghanis were claiming that essentially there were no Qaeda left in Afghanistan. Now this massive bombing is their doing? I am sorry. We have been down this road before with manipulated intelligence.
Intelligence is too easy to manipulate when our government is not getting what it wants. We have all seen this before. I have to tell you. I do not believe this is accurate.
In this article, we have women with combat induced PTSD returning home to the U.S. from Iraq and Afghanistan and attempting to be mothers and wives again. The problems are massive. The story is here.
In an Op Ed piece by Maureen Dowd, she laments the growing realization that Obama cannot deliver on any promises he made or inferred in his campaign as long as two expensive wars are going on. His hands are tied.
There is no money left to fulfill any of his promises to the American people. The war industry captains have it all. That story is here. Somehow or other, I think we all realize this.
In another Op Ed piece by Frank Rich entitled "GOP Stalinists Invade Upstate New York", well....the title says it all. The story is here.
The subtitle and lead-in line for the story is "The battle for upstate New York confirms just how swiftly the right has devolved into a wacky, paranoid cult that is as eager to eat its own as it is to destroy President Obama." Wow. WOW!
This story really shows the depth of despair that our Democratic Candidate for Governor, Creigh Deeds, is showing. He is a native Virginian running for office here in Virginia and the election is on Tuesday. Things ain't good here for him.
With so many transplants like me living here (I am from Pennsylvania originally), a native Virginian in public office is a rarity. Our congressman was born and raised in Massachusetts. This guy is probably going to lose turning the myth of a Democratic Virginia into dust. Here is the story.
And here is another opinion of Obama's salute at Dover AFB last week. It is from Carey Winfrey the editor of the Smithsonian Magazine and a former marine. I stand corrected on my opinion of salutes out of uniform, at least to honor the dead. The article is here.
Get informed and stay informed. An informed veteran is a comfort to his friends and a danger to his adversaries.
CWO3 Tom Barnes, USCG (Ret.)
