Someone’s Not Doing Their Job:

As you can see, someone on Mr Obama’s staff didn’t do their job and, as a result, our Mr Obama got egg on his face in Ireland, leaving the US Embassy.

Anyone with a good background of 4 X 4’ing knows this is called a “high center,” and in the instance here it results from the wheelbase of Mr Obama’s limousine (as I documented here) being overly long and its chassis height too short — for the approach angle, departure angle and height of that concrete rise.
Looking at the wheelbase of the ObamaMobiles (the lead vehicle does not contain Mr Obama) and the peak of that exit rise, someone with a practiced eye could readily have observed that the length and angles would be incompatible.
This video tells me two very, very important things:
1. The USSS failed to do adequate prep in terms of the routes to and from the Embassy;
2. The USSS failed miserably in their response when the vehicle stopped
Had this event occurred on other soil, that is to say, an overtly hostile or moderately hostile or questionable country, this would have been an Epic Fail for the USSS on the above points and placed their principal, Mr Obama, in grave jeopardy. You did note, did you not, the inordinately long amount of time it took agents to even open their doors to examine the situation, and the fact they placed no immediate defensive measures around their charge?
This is poor planning and lazy execution.
Something is going on. This is not customary for the United States Secret Service.
BZ

Gene Simmons: Obama Has No Clue

And to think that I despised Kiss all these decades.

I can remember, many years ago, traveling to Tower Records on Watt Avenue in Sacramento and purchasing a Kiss album. It was the only record or piece of entertainment that, in my entire life, I ever returned for a refund/exchange.
[Wait. I take it back. Robert Wyatt’s album, “Shleep,” which is an absolutely unmitigated piece of week-old fecal material, is light-years worse. Don Van Vliet of Captain Beefheart had more inherent musical talent in the upper-left quadrant of his spleen. Wait. I take it back again. I literally walked out of the Bill Murray movie “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou” because it was so brain-glazingly stupid. That counts as a piece of entertainment returned, doesn’t it?]
That said, my esteem of Gene Simmons (he of the foot-long tongue) has leaped immeasurably when, as documented in NewsBusters.org, he said that our Mr Obama has “no fucking clue what the world is like.”
And to think that Mr Simmons “gets it,” though he is no beribboned, medal-winning journalist!
In an interview with CNBC’s Jane Wells:

JANE WELLS, CNBC: What do you think of President Obama’s suggestion that the borders be redrawn pre-67?

GENE SIMMONS, KISS: President Obama, I voted for an idea. What I didn’t realize what I was getting was an idealist. If you’ve never been to the moon, you can’t issue policy about the moon. You have no f—king idea what it’s like on the moon. For a president to be sitting in Washington, D.C., and saying, “Go back to your 67 borders in Israel,” how about you live there and try to defend an indefensible border nine miles wide? On one side you’ve got hundreds of millions of people who hate your guts, on the other side you’ve got the Mediterranean. Unless you control, in Israel, unless you control those Golan Heights, it’s an indefensible position.

It’s a nice idea, when you grow up you find out that life isn’t the way you imagined it, and President Obama means well. I think he’s actually a good guy. He has no f—king idea what the world is like because he doesn’t have to live there.

To that I would reply: Mr Simmons (who, oddly enough, was born Chaim Witz in 1949, Israel) merely states facts in evidence. Much more, as I alluded above, than the bulk percentile of persons deeming themselves “journalistas.”

The video of this interview is below:

Unlike Mr Obama, Simmons realizes there is Actual Evil in the world, and it couldn’t care less how it gets it, and how it keeps it. To wit:

Vladimir Putin has, out of the blue, now decided that he’ll simply re-take the Russian Presidency. Because, after all, he knows he can. As I learned many years ago, whilst a rookie starting my career in our fetid and festering jails, the prevailing philosophy of criminals was and is: “what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine unless you have the balls and strength to stop me.”
And Medvedev simply lacks the power.
Who could have, in reflection, imagined such insight from an aging bass player in a talentless rock band?
BZ

Harold Camping: MOONBAT


Let’s see, last night at 6 pm I was driving home on I-5.

No yawning chasms cracked before me, due to an earth-wracking quake.
I turned on the TV. Nope, no earth-cracking quakes reported.
I went to dinner with my wife, we saw a movie. Still no earthquakes.
I woke up this morning in one piece. TV on. No quakes.
As I wrote earlier, Harold Camping exists solely to part the eminently-fleecible — particularly the gullible and the elderly — from their cash.
Instead of haughty and proud, he should be ashamed and fearful, thinking that God would choose him, of all people, to be a conduit for any form of Truth.
BZ

Herman Cain Announces His Candidacy For President

From Yahoo News:

ATLANTA – Herman Cain has run a pizza chain, hosted a talk radio show and sparred with Bill Clinton over health care. He’s never held elected office. Now the tea party favorite wants to be president.

“In case you accidentally listen to a skeptic or doubting Thomas out there, just to be clear … I’m running for president of the United States, and I’m not running for second,” he told a crowd at Centennial Olympic Park on Saturday. Chants of “Herman” erupted from the crowd of thousands in downtown Atlanta.

The announcement by the businessman, author and radio talk show host that he was joining the expanding Republican field came after months of traveling around the country to introduce himself to voters.

Now the 65-year-old will see if he can use that grass-roots enthusiasm to turn a long-shot campaign into a credible bid.

Your thoughts on Herman Cain?

BZ

The Rapture: Why Not Take Care Of Your Pets?

From the UK Mail Online, regarding today’s “end of the world”:

  • Saturday is last day on earth, claims evangelical Christian
  • Harold Camping, 89, wrongly predicted ‘the rapture’ date once before in 1994
  • God’s chosen few ascend to heaven, sinners left behind to face earthquakes
  • Atheists hold parties to celebrate ‘inevitable embarrassment’
  • Christian author calls Camping’s prediction ‘flat-out wrong’
  • That said, however, perhaps it’s time to throw some actual concern towards this: what would happen to your pets under Mr Camping’s dire prediction? Fear not, then:
    Click here for your post-apocalypse/all-purpose pet care providers, namely: After The Rapture Pet Care!
    As one Rapturist noted:
    I agreed – it’s a real concern, and a legitimate concern. Our pets are given to us by God for us to care for. We are stewards of their lives. Should we simply forget them at the Rapture, allow them to starve or worse?
    To wit:

    This is what will happen for all pets registered with us immediately after the Rapture:

    1. Our non-Christian administrators will activate our rescue plan.
    2. Volunteers will be alerted immediately by email and telephone that they have been activated.
    3. Pets will be assigned to our Volunteer Pet Caretakers based upon location and other factors.
    4. Our administrators and Volunteer Pet Caretakers will do whatever it takes to find and rescue your pets. If your pet has a location chip, they’ll use that, or they’ll go to every location you’ve registered with us, and, if your pets are not at one of those locations, they’ll search for your cars as well as stay in contact with the local pet shelters. If they are unable to reach a Volunteer Caretaker in your area for whatever reason, our administrators will communicate with local animal organizations, like the Humane Society, to advocate for your pet’s rescue and care.
    5. Our administrators will stay in touch with our Volunteer Pet Caretakers regarding each and every pet to be sure everything is being done to rescue and care for them.

    Ease your mind as you transition freely into perpetuity, knowing your personal pet will be overseen, as least for a time, by the evildoers left behind! And isn’t that, at once, both ironic and somehow satisfying?
    Before I go, I should care to point this out, from CNN Money:

    NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — By now, you’ve probably heard of the religious group that’s predicting the end of the world starts this weekend.

    Harold Camping and his devoted followers claim a massive earthquake will mark the second coming of Jesus, or so-called Judgment Day on Saturday, May 21, ushering in a five month period of catastrophes before the world comes to a complete end in October.

    At the center of it all, Camping’s organization, Family Radio, is perfectly happy to take your money — and in fact, received $80 million in contributions between 2005 and 2009. Camping founded Family Radio, a nonprofit Christian radio network based in Oakland, Calif. with about 65 stations across the country, in 1958.
    I observe: isn’t that odd? How many times must we be told that when persons seem to insist it isn’t “about the money,” it’s inevitably about the money?
    I’m sorry, ladies and gentlemen, but it’s evangelical Moonbats like Mr Camping, who take advantage of the elderly and the infirm on TV, that assist in giving Christianity a bad name.
    As in: do you possibly think that somehow our Lord has deemed Mr Camping, of all people on the planet, to be the recipient of the most important information in the history of Mankind?
    Nah. Me neither.
    See you tomorrow.
    BZ