Unless it’s said by a fellow Demorat. From The Daily.com:

Fed up with a president “who can’t make his mind up” as Libyan rebels are on the brink of defeat, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is looking to the exits.

At the tail end of her mission to bolster the Libyan opposition, which has suffered days of losses to Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s forces, Clinton announced that she’s done with Obama after 2012 — even if he wins again.

“Obviously, she’s not happy with dealing with a president who can’t decide if today is Tuesday or Wednesday, who can’t make his mind up,” a Clinton insider told The Daily. “She’s exhausted, tired.”

He went on, “If you take a look at what’s on her plate as compared with what’s on the plates of previous Secretary of States — there’s more going on now at this particular moment, and it’s like playing sports with a bunch of amateurs. And she doesn’t have any power. She’s trying to do what she can to keep things from imploding.”

Clinton is said to be especially peeved with the president’s waffling over how to encourage the kinds of Arab uprisings that have recently toppled regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, and in particular his refusal to back a no-fly zone over Libya.

In the past week, former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton’s former top adviser Anne-Marie Slaughter lashed out at Obama for the same reason.

Huh; imagine that. A Demorat actually acknowledging that Mr Obama commits to nothing, decides nothing, sits back and prefers — as I’ve certainly stated before — to be “concerned” and “monitoring”?

Let’s tot things up on the Big Board, shall we?

March 11th, the 9.0 Richter Tohoku earthquake in Japan; Mr Obama played golf.

Egypt and Libya cooked off; Mr Obama was likewise “concerned” and “monitoring.” It was the UN which decided to instigate a “no fly” zone — not a unilateral Mr Obama, who is unfamiliar with the definition of the word.

Simultaneously, the Middle East continues to cook, in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, the UAE, Algeria, Morocco, Somalia, Tunisia (to name a few locales). Mr Obama concerns and monitors with unfurrowed, lethargic brow.

The country directly to our south, Mexico, is beyond merely cooking and is now boiling, bringing death to our border, into our nation, whilst our good, young men and women combat Mexican cartels with LTL beanbag shotguns vs fully automatic AK-47s, Ingrams, ARs and the like.

Meanwhile, back at the DC ranch, the Demorats and Mr Obama absolutely refuse to make significant cuts to the national budget, argue over defunding the CPB (a mockery of a do-nothing bill anyway!), whilst Republicans such as Boehner, Cantor and GOP Congressman Jack Kingston (his dribblings on Hugh Hewitt’s Wednesday show are here) indicate that — check this out — the GOP “needs to be more inclusive, collaborative and inclined towards compromise and concessions.”

Isn’t it odd, I should care to point out, that when the GOP is allegedly in power, it needs to compromise; when the Demorats are in power they can simply ram ObamaKare down the national throat.

Mr Obama indecisive? Perish the thought!

BZ

From the UK Daily Mail:

Al-Qaeda has launched a women’s magazine that mixes beauty and fashion tips with advice on suicide bombings.

Dubbed ‘Jihad Cosmo’, the glossy magazine’s front cover features the barrel of a sub-machine gun next to a picture a woman in a veil.

There are exclusive interviews with martyrs’ wives, who praise their husbands’ decisions to die in suicide attacks.

The slick, 31-page Al-Shamikha magazine – meaning The Majestic Woman – has advice for singletons on ‘marrying a mujahideen’.

Readers are told it is their duty to raise children to be mujahideen ready for jihad.

And the ‘beauty column’ instructs women to stay indoors with their faces covered to keep a ‘clear complexion’.

They should ‘not go out except when necessary’ and wear a niqab for ‘rewards by complying with the command of Allah Almighty’.

A woman called Umm Muhanad hails her husband for his bravery after his suicide bombing in Afghanistan.

And another article urges readers to give their lives for the Islamist cause.

It advises: ‘From martyrdom, the believer will gain security, safety and happiness.’

No.

I’m not kidding.

BZ

This might be my most important post to date.

Please: go with me here, and read until the end.

Whilst the rest of the world’s journalists pen uninformed and untruthful screeds about the circumstances in Japan in re its three runaway reactors, there is yet still an overarching concern. If one but dons and utilizes the Long Run Glasses.

And, in my world, in the long run, this issue easily, very easily trumps whatever jeopardy Japan may face.

Because the United States of America — Uncle Sam — is in fact the Last and Best Hope for the entire planet.

And America has been betrayed, ladies and gentlemen.

You have been betrayed.

Every lawful citizen and taxpayer has been betrayed.

I first became aware of this situation via TexasFred:

New report says US has largest fossil fuel reserves in the world.

I read this once in disbelief and then had to read it again. I’d never heard of this, prior. I thought: it simply can’t be true. It must be a lie. Read it. What do you conclude?

Weren’t we told the exact opposite?

In that light, at the same time, Mr Obama wants to tap our oil reserves. Why?

This is fuel kept in reserve for, bottom line, our last-chance military needs. Mr Obama wants not to enable military victories, but to try to drop the cost of a crude barrel. He is in “good” company: Bush Sr did this in 1991 during the Gulf War; Clinton did it in 2000. And Bush Jr did it behind Katrina in 2005. And it is WRONG. Even Chevron — who could profit — thinks this is a bad idea.

Moreover, did anyone make a stutter-step besides ME when you read the “fossil fuel reserves” link?

That is my point.

From The Daily Caller:

Senators James Inhofe of Oklahoma, Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Ranking Member of the Environment and Natural Resources Committee, will release a report Thursday from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) showing that the United States’ combined recoverable natural gas, oil and coal endowment is the largest on Earth.

Russia comes in as a close second with recoverable fossil fuel reserves, followed Saudi Arabia, China, Iran and Canada.

According to the new report, an updated version of a 2009 paper, the United States’ resources are larger than Saudi Arabia, China and Canada, combined. The report estimates that the U.S. has 163 billion barrels of recoverable oil and enough natural gas to meet the country’s demand for 90 years.

The CRS report is being made public at a time when oil and gas prices are skyrocketing and the Department of Interior is embroiled in a battle with oil companies over offshore drilling. Last week, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Michael Bromwich, Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, appealed a court decision that ordered them to act on five pending drilling permits.

Further:

Moreover, earlier this week it was reported that President Obama is considering tapping into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a response the rising gas prices. On Monday, the national average for a gallon of gas was $3.51 – up 39 cents since the unrest in Libya began in mid-February.

The rising cost of oil is putting immense pressure on the White House to act. And Obama, said White House Press Secretary Jay Carney is “very cognizant of the fact that Americans are experiencing a sharp rise in prices at the gas pump that affects them and their family budgets.

“The largest on earth.”

Those points made, let us consider an overarching goal or — a placement, a massively-important question. In consideration of the fact that technology enables our ability to tap oil heretofore unconsidered.

It distills down to an IF / THEN equation.

IF the US may possess the greatest untapped oil fields, greater than Russia, greater than Saudi Arabia, Canada and China combined — THEN why have we sent our young and good men into heavy combat behind various wars and skirmishes in the Middle East — which is a place on earth wherein inherent Evil exists behind Islam and wherein there exists the belief that “oil stability” is paramount?

I’m telling you, ladies and gentlemen, I am still having a hugely difficult time wrapping my Wheelhouse around the concept that the largest oil reserves on the planet lie beneath our feet.

Because, if this is true, we have literally wasted more American lives and billions of American dollars than we would even remotely want to consider. Our entire defensive posture, our entire linear Strategic Thought has, if this is true, been a blatant LIE.

And we could have let all those heathen Middle Eastern nomadic, barbaric, no-account pederastic bastards kill each other off with abandon and not much cared. Much as they’ve themselves wished.

Because you and I and the rest of cogent Americans know the actual unspoken truth: that we’ve invested ourselves in the Middle East due — primarily and only — due to oil. The gift of which by recognition we, truly, gave to them.

Perhaps it’s time to bring in the Religious Left.

Perhaps it’s time for the Leftists and Marxists and Socialists and Demorats to make an accounting.

And, moreover, perhaps it’s time for Republicans to take their own share of the guilt.

Above, I mentioned genocide.

I ask you: is it not genocide when you purposely sacrifice generation after generation of good American soldiers behind the uninformed and — further — the politically-correct stance of energy disavowance when, truthfully, the answer literally lay beneath our feet? Purposely occluded and stymied by Leftists, Demorats and “wanting to get along” Republicans?

We could solve our own problems. We could abandon the Middle East. We could, concurrently, develop alternate resources in the ten, twenty, thirty, forty years in reserve?

And we REFUSE to do so?

Oh my God. How many Americans have we sacrificed on the altar of Politically Correct?

I still find it difficult to wrap my Brain Housing Group around this.

Please weigh in. What think you?

BZ

Fact, and not-so-much:

Said it before and I’ll say it again.

Many people disagree with me.

But my numerous years of experience have affirmed: you get the kind and type of cops you pay for. If you’re not interested in paying for them, you’ll get — again — what you pay for. If you’re not much interested in choosing and paying them correctly, then they’re not much interested in serving you. Particularly considering the newest generations extant and upcoming.

Dayton, Ohio, is having problems with hiring via the US DOJ. From ABC22:

DAYTON — The Dayton Police Department is lowering its testing standards for recruits.

It’s a move required by the U.S. Department of Justice after it says not enough African-Americans passed the exam.

Dayton is in desperate need of officers to replace dozens of retirees. The hiring process was postponed for months because the D.O.J. rejected the original scores provided by the Dayton Civil Service Board, which administers the test.

Under the previous requirements, candidates had to get a 66% on part one of the exam and a 72% on part two.

The D.O.J. approved new scoring policy only requires potential police officers to get a 58% and a 63%. That’s the equivalent of an ‘F’ and a ‘D’.

Perfect!

There you go, that’s what I want: an ignorant and, moreover, documentedly-more stupid cop. Wielding “deadly force” with an ability to physically place you under arrest — hey, that’s not so terribly important. Really. It’s over-rated. Further: speaking the English language: not so important anymore as well. Reading and writing: well hell, everything is relative, isn’t it?

But I’m the primary racist because, now, in Sacramento, Fornicalia (where I work) I am the Official Minority as a member of Caucasoids.

Making me, of course, quite glad I’m not so far from retirement and, moreover, living numerous miles away from places where cops will be desperately needed.

So, people, keep on trying to balance your local, state and federal budgets on the back of public workers. Kick them damned privileged cops to the curb. Reduce their salaries and benefits. Reduce entrance level skills and testing thresholds.

At this point, I damned near couldn’t care less. I can see retirement in my crosshairs. I’ve got mine, my house, my precious metals, and distance from the valley’s Thug Culture.

Oh boy, people, I can’t wait to see how positively all this plays out.

BZ