Prepare To Be Offended

HotAir.com has a post about the impending collapse of the Venezuela government due in large part to Hugo Chavez’s spending on social programs and not paying the contractors that keep his one vital money maker flowing. oil.

What does this have to do with the U.S.? Simple. The U.S. is borrowing heavily from China to fund our social programs and at any time they could simply stop, or keep going to the point where we can’t afford to borrow anymore and worse, not pay anything back. What will happen then?

Here is my favorite part:

Chavez faces another key vote this year. If he stops spending money on his pet projects, he’ll lose the support of the poor, practically his only constituency now. If he doesn’t pay the contractors, though, his entire economy could collapse, creating a huge backlash against the man who claimed nationalization would cure all Venezuela’s ills. Chavez may soon reach the end of his rope, and as Benito Mussolini discovered when his dictatorship resulted in disaster, that’s not necessarily a figurative phrase.

Many in this country also think socialism is the way to go. Newsweek even claims we are already there, that we are just like France.

Will we fore go our failed social programs to save the country? Is that what it will take for people of this country to finally wake up and see what a mess government controlled social programs are and how they are slowing killing us? I’m not generally a pessimist, but I have no faith in the American public. This past election has proven how the ignorant and lazy can elect people into office whose only goal is power and corruption.

With Hillary’s confirmation today on Secretary of State, that makes Bill the most powerful lobbyist in Washington. How this can be allowed in American politics is just absurd. Bill’s ‘donations’ from foreign countries are now well known and Hillary is now the top diplomat in the country. How can there not be a conflict of interest here?

You can sure bet that these foreign donaters will be calling up Bill whenever something arises. It’ll be interesting to see how many scandals sprout up from this.

Alan Colmes, and apparently many others, think they are. Coming from Alan I’m not surprised. He has been and always will be an apologist for the left, always giving the benefit of the doubt to his party while slaming the right for the same things.

However in this particular case I think “over reation” is exactly the right move. When it comes to war you don’t fight an eye for an eye. No, you fight to wipe out. Utterly and completely. If you don’t then the conflict drags on and on and never ends.

Talk to any decent military commander and they will tell you the fastest way to win is overwhelming force. It was the basis for the Iraq war’s “shock and awe” campaign. It was the basis for the ending days of the Gulf War when we destroyed 100’s of retreating military vehicles. You are not out to destroy the people necessarily, you are out to destroy their means of waging war.

Back to Israel. Look at what they are doing, they are going so far as to tell the Palestinians that they are coming. Called people and told them to leave/move/whatever. If the military calls you and says they are going to block up your city block and you don’t move, you’re a fucking idiot. Plain and simple. Not only that, but Israel telegraphed their plan by lining up their military at the border for a couple days before moving forward.

Hamas isn’t entirely stupid though. They knew they would get world wide sympathy for what they are doing, which tells you the state of the world.

Here is the video clip:

When you have Hamas supporters in the United States, Florida to be exact, telling the Jews to “Go back to the ovens”, a cease fire will never work, let alone peace.

Never mind the 3,000+ rockets that Hamas has fired into Israel. Nevermind Iran’s backing of Hamas. Speaking of Iran, I thought they said that the holocaust never existed? If so, then to which ovens where they referring to?

You can read more on the Israeli operation against Hamas on PatriotRoom.com.

Oh yea, this says it all…

I’m not sure who originally said this was an A-10 doing the shooting, but I doubt it. If it is, it isn’t from its famous front gun as the blast radius is far too big. I’ve seen them shoot and they are pretty damn precise. It looks more like a cluster bomb or maybe it came from an AC-130 Spectre. Who knows.

Either way, it is great.

Apparently Putin told Nicolas Sarkozy that he wanted to hang the Georgian President by the balls after Sarkozy told Putin that the world would not accept the overthrow of Georgia. Here is part of the exchange:

“I am going to hang Saakashvilli by the balls,” Putin replied (to Sarkozy regarding the overthrow statement)

Sarkozy responded: “Hang him?”

“Why not? The American hanged Saddam Hussein,” Putin said.

Sarkozy replied, using the familiar “tu”: “Yes but do you want to end up like (President) Bush?”

Putin was briefly lost for words, then said: “Ah, you have scored a point there.”

Two things are interesting there. First, Bush didn’t hang Saddam, the Iraqi’s did. The U.S. doesn’t allow hanging anymore (although we should…). Second, Saddam was brutal dictator that not only defied the world, but murdered his own people. Saakashvilli is nether.

Seen on FoxNews.com

As reported by IBD Editorials, Iran could posses missiles capable of reaching all of Europe and perhaps the U.S. in roughly five years according to the head of the Missile Defense Agency, General Henry Obering.

That urgency, Israel Radio reported Obering as saying, was that Iran is not far from attaining the means to use missiles against all of Europe and against the U.S. in five to six years.

What is even scarier was this from Dinshaw Mistry, professor and missile proliferation expert at the University of Cincinnati.

Mistry warns that if its own missile development falls short, Iran could acquire North Korea’s Taepo Dong ICBM technology to strike at the United States. It wouldn’t have to be accurate. A single warhead detonated high over the U.S. would unleash an electromagnetic pulse that would fry our high-tech economy and send us back a century or more. Millions would die or starve from its aftereffects.

All of this while the Democrats want to cut defense spending by 25%. IBD’s lead in was exactly right:

While the U.S. scores yet another successful missile intercept, the missile defense chief warns that Iran could target all of Europe and the U.S. within five years. It’s 3 a.m., and the phone is ringing.

Forgot all about these two did you? Seems that after some heated talks, NK threatened to turn SK into ‘debris’.

The North threatened to cut off all ties if the “confrontational racket” continues, citing a South Korean general’s recent threats to launch a pre-emptive strike against its nuclear sites and the refusal of civic activists in the South to heed Pyongyang’s demands to cease distribution of propaganda leaflets critical of its leadership.

“The puppet authorities had better remember that the advanced pre-emptive strike of our own style will reduce everything opposed to the nation and reunification to debris, not just setting them on fire,” the North’s military said in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency.

Well, if it isn’t Iran that causes the “test” of Obama, as Biden puts it, or McCain if he becomes president, then it might just be North Korea. The statement of “…reduce everthing…to debris…” implies a nuclear attack. However I doubt NK would drop a nuke right next door, but who knows…

With Tuesday’s 889 point gain in the DOW, the Bank of Japan considering lowering interest rates and Australia and New Zealand’s indexes are both up over 3%. Wednesday’s trading should hopefully confirm this worldwide trend to recovery.

I sure hope so, I’m managing two IRA’s that I would like to see get back in the black before election day if possible!

However, at the same time consumer confidence is taking a nose dive.

Since the Israelies decided to take the initiative and kill a couple middle eastern women, I thought I would reveal their secret. You see first you have to be facing an enemy that is utterly fanatical and therefore not too bright. Now, the trick is to start shooting at the enemy while they are in or near one of their shrines, that way they don’t have far to drag their injured comrades for their final prayers.

If you are truly lucky you will be facing a dumber than normal enemy and that enemy will enlist, cajole or otherwise bribe a bunch of women to come running to their rescue — after all they know they can’t win — and you keep shooting. Just because this new enemy comes into the battle without a dick, although they do have big balls, doesn’t mean they can’t stop a bullet just like any other enemy. Besides, if you are dumb enough to be coerced into running in front of flying bullets without being able to shoot back, you deserve to get shot.

Don’t worry about the political backlash you might receive from the rest of the world. After all, arm chair generals are not the ones getting shot at right? To hell with them. Tell them to keep drinking their koolaid and send you some more ammo, you have righteous work to do.