SNAFU
While the Air Force is grounding a third of the fighter fleet, an air show trade group is complaining to Congress about the Thunderbirds and Blue Angels flight demonstration teams being grounded with all shows cancelled.
To combat the threat of attacks by drones, that we started, the Navy is deploying a laser weapons system that probably won’t work through rain, smoke, or fog, and might even take out satellites or high flying aircraft if it misses its intended target.
Senate Republicans are already saying they are going to filibuster the Democratic gun bill even though they haven’t seen it. Zero’s constant courting of Republican Senators doesn’t seem to be having the hoped for effect.
One of the good things to come out of this mess it that it looks like they are going to have to hold a lot of bake sales if they want to bomb Iran.
[SNAFU – Situation Normal – All F**ked Up]
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I read about this and I am still PMSL!!! LMAO
It’s toooo funny! The biggest bunch of Warmongers on the planet, can’t afford to start another War! LMAO
Ooooooh! The Rethugs will be screaming to cut all the worthless Social plans to fund Wars! They have their priorities you know (and, all jokes aside… There is a good chance they will win the next election! Even of they put up Miss Miss Wasilla 1984 again! And the only talents she has are: Looking good in a bathing suit (in the 80’s anyway), playing the flute (badly) and being a moron!) Hmmm! Come to think of it… you could do a lot worse! 😆
Just too funny! (Sorry m8! I really am… But seriously??!!)
And PS…
This is beyond a normal SNAFU, and is well into seriously FUBAR BIG TIME!! territory!
Just sayin…
“Zero’s constant courting of Republican Senators doesn’t seem to be having the hoped for effect.”
Are you sure? Stella is just certain that O’Bummer IS a Republican, that he’s doing their bidding because he is one of them. I can’t tell her she’s wrong; he may be exactly that.
When Cheney was Secretary of Defense for GHW Bush, he did essentially the same kind of hatchet job on the military immediately following Gulf War I, so I have seen this stupidity before. The Pentagon may be reusing his plan. The big contractors won’t feel the cuts anything like what is happening to government side of the Pentagon. That’s why I didn’t call it FUBAR – I recognized the pattern.
They will really save when flight crews can’t make their flying time requirements and lose their flight pay. That will really PO the troops. I’m assuming the same rules that I knew, when your flight time for pay was reset to zero every quarter. Without that rule I would have only had to fly about once every 9 months for flight pay, rather than logging enough time every month to cover me for 4 years. The troops are always the ones that feel the cuts.
[We were posting at the same time, Steve.]
I’ve been saying he’s a Republican since 2008, and suggesting it the year before, Steve.
He has the typical prejudice of a former Senator, that the House is the junior partner and doesn’t really matter if you can get the Senate on board. He still doesn’t understand the bit about where ‘revenue bills’ originate. House Republicans have shown no indication that they will change their minds because of the Senate Republicans, and exhibited a lot of distrust of Senate Republicans.
Obama personally chose Joe LIEberman as his mentor and was endorsed early by Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska [Insurance company executive] add to the repeated glowing references to Ronnie Raygun, it didn’t take much to convince me that his registration as a Democrat was political, not personal.
When you have a guy who was raised by a banker, his outlook is naturally going to be quite conservative. I pointed out in 2008 that Obama’s health care plan was even more conservative than Romneycare, for example (thankfully what got passed wasn’t Obama’s health care plan, it’s bad but nowhere near as bad as the one Obama campaigned on, it’s almost exactly Romneycare as you’d expect since it was written by the same consultants as Romneycare). I’ve voted for him in the November election because the alternative was worse, but have never voted for him in a primary.
The thing that always irked me was that the Kossites thought this guy was liberal because, well, because he’s black just like Jesse Jackson (the only other black politician they’ve ever heard of). Reverse racism of that sort is just as obnoxious as racism of the “porch monkey” sort. Look at his policies, not the color of his skin. SHEESH!
But one thing I will point out is that Obama is a Democrat because in today’s day and age, one must be an utter loon to win a Republican primary. It appears we have two political parties in the USA today — the Conservative (Democratic) Party, and the Batsh*t Fscking Crazy (Republican) Party. Any liberal voices in politics are few and far between, they all have a (D) after their party affiliation in the voter guide but they certainly don’t speak for today’s Democratic Party, which is dominated by people who would be Republicans if the Republican Party hadn’t jumped the shark when Reagan let the religious loons in (the same religious loons who voted George H.W. Bush out when he wasn’t sufficiently loony for them).
Actually, you had to have ID’ed him in 2007, because I made the call in January of 2008, and you did it before I did.
To paraphrase a well-known speaker on the issue – they judged him on the color of his skin rather than the content of his policies. I wouldn’t have cared if they didn’t call everyone who disagreed with those policies a racist. It’s like they never heard of Clarence Thomas, Alan Keyes, or J.C. Watts.
His first job out of Columbia was working for a financial newsletter in Wall Street, but they didn’t look at anything but ‘community organizer’ and black.
If you are politically left of center, like most voters, you don’t get a seat at any table.