It will all come down as a public safety issue or something along the lines of the common good.Under that the govt. can do practically anything.
I’m not an attorney and that is obvious from my generalizations to support my theory but I believe SCOTUS will uphold Obamacare. One of the main arguments as I have read is does the govt. under the Commerce Clause have the authority to compel you to buy insurance merely as a condition of being a citizen or merely for breathing…?

In my opinion that argument would fail if used to argue against Obamacare because that is not really the issue in my humble layman opinion.
The Commerce Clause gives the govt. broad powers to regulate commerce, all kinds of commerce.
Health care is commerce.

“But NeoKong… what if I choose not to participate in the health care industry. How can they force me to do so or penalize me if I don’t….?”

That’s where they get you.
It can be reasonably assumed as an almost certainty that sooner or later that each and everyone us will in fact participate in the health care system.
There is no way out of it.
Who has never been in a hospital, a doctor’s office or ever examined by a health care professional ?
Is it actually possible to go your whole life and not participate sooner or later?
Not unless you were born in a cab or a barn and died before you ever saw a doctor. While I am sure that has probably occurred in the old days it is quite impossible today.
Like it or not everyone will receive medical attention whether we want to or not.
Then my friend you have just participated in the health care industry and Congress regulates how people participate in industry all the time.

The examples are so numerous that is merely a small extra step to regulate the delivery and purchase of health care very much the same way as driving a car for example.
If you want to participate as a driver you are compelled to buy insurance are you not?
If you want to put a small child in that car you are compelled to buy a car seat …correct…?
While I suppose you do not actually have to buy a car seat but merely use one somebody else purchased. You cannot just make one out of wood.
The govt. can compel you to use certain fuel blends, carry minimum amounts of insurance and require you to spend all sorts of monies to be in compliance with safety regulations.
You can always argue that only applies to people who actually drive and not to people who do not and that is true but if ever want to travel in a vehicle in any way then the govt. can tell you what to do. Seat belt and cell phone laws are a few examples. Public safety man.
You can go your whole life and never drive a car but is is highly unlikely that you will go your whole life and not participate in the health care system.
It is only a matter of time.
If they didn’t get you when you were born they will get you in the nursing home. Then if they can they will seize all your assets.
The odds that somebody could possibly avoid seeing a doctor are astronomical.

“But NeoKong, what if I decide not to have insurance and always pay in cash…?”

That participation thing comes up again.There are plenty of situations where we are told just how we can pay for something. Sometimes only a credit card is allowed or a cashiers check as with an airline ticket or the purchase of property. Can insurance be considered a form of payment as well and subject to regulation? That does not seem to extreme considering how similar things are regulated. At some Dept. of Motor Vehicles they do not accept cash.

You may think it outrageous that the govt. can compel you to buy something you do not want but it is already happening in Massachusetts with Romneycare. (Thanks Mitt)
All the other side has to do is point to that, say it is the exact same thing and it occurs without all the Constitutional drama that people bemoan.

Want more.
The govt. can make you do much worse and has.
This very same court has ruled that the govt. can compel you to sell your property to a local govt. so that they can in turn give it to a private developer in Kelo vs. New London.
The govt. can and has compelled millions of young men to join the Army against their will and go to foreign lands and kill people.
The United States govt. has pushed millions of Indians off their land and forced them to live on reservations.
The govt. can compel you to have a needle stuck in your arm to have a vaccination.
You are compelled to go to school.
You are compelled to pay Social Security and participate in the govt. pension plan.
They can grope you at will at an airport and if you object they will arrest you or at the very least make you miss your flight.
They even can frisk your little baby.
The POTUS can now even put to death a citizen who has been deemed a terror threat just on his order.

The examples of when, where and how federal, state or local govt. can completely own your butt and make you dance like a little puppet and punish you if you do not are endless.

Is Obamacare really that much of a big leap…?
If you think of how many situations you need permits, permission, licenses, training, certification, inspections, insurance, fees and bluh blah blah the list is endless.
Any good sized construction project cannot be done without proper insurance.
If they catch you without insurance you will regret it.
All they have to do is frame the issue as public safety or something for the common good and there it is.
Obamacare.

If they can make you pay income tax for participating in one form of commerce then they can make you buy insurance for participating in a different form of commerce.

The govt. controls us all the time and it is a rare occurrence to see somebody stand up to that.
They can control what you eat, what you wear, what you can say in certain places, where you can live to some degree. They control how you build your home, what type of light bulbs you can use, how much of your property you can cover and even how you use your property.
They can control how you raise your children.
They can seize your children without a court order. All that is required is a zealous social worker with nothing better to do. It happens all the time. They control how you can treat your dog, your horse and even your goldfish.They can even decide when and where you can pee.

You think you have property rights…? That is an illusion.
There isn’t anywhere in the United States where you can do anything you want with your property without official permission. No lot, no farm, no stream, no ranch or spread or anything. At anytime some local turd city official can come in and shut you down and force you to take them to court at your expense while it costs them nothing.
Some unelected zoning board can strip your valuable buildable lot of all it’s value simply by deeming it non-compliant with a local ordinance.They can hold you up for years simply because your neighbor is somebody’s brother in-law.
Happens all the time.

When compared with some of the things that govt. can compel you to do the idea that they can make you buy health insurance seems tame.
I wish that was the worst they could do to me but on a scale of one to ten…that is a two.

That’s how I see it.

http://www.redstate.com/users/neokong/

The word “Maverick” “inevitable” makes me want to puke.The only word that makes me even more upset is “bi-partisan” “moderate“.Whenever I hear that word I know I’m about to get bum blasted lose an election.
I like the word courage.I wish I had opportunities to use it more.

I don’t believe in evolution.
I don’t believe in global warming .
I don’t believe in Barack Obama.I think all three are the biggest scams going.

I wish I could believe in my own party but they keep on selling me down the road as they secretly yearn to be Democrats.. I don’t believe in them either because I truly feel they will do irreparable damage to this country in their quest to save the world.They don’t seem to want the job of super power anymore and seem content to let China or India have it.

Why are Republicans such pussies now…?

I’m an American dammit!
I don’t want to be a European.
I don’t want to be a ward of the state.
I don’t want to drive one of them silly looking dinky little cars that they drive in France.

I hate berets.
I hate curly Q light bulbs.Candles work better.
I hate MSNBC. I friggin’ despise MSNBC.
I hate tofu.

I like red meat.The redder the better.
I like fossil fuel.
I like Sarah Palin.
I like Michelle Malkin.
I like Ann Coulter. I don’t like Ann Coulter.
I like Laura Ingraham
Why is it the only conservatives with any balls lately are women…?

When will someone in this country stand up and defend me,defend this nation and defend our traditions and customs that have made us leaders in the world?
Someone elected I mean.
Never.

The Washington Examiner.

A former employee of the United States Agency for International Development says Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain asked her to help arrange a dinner date for him with a female audience member following a speech he delivered nine years ago.

Donna Donella, 40, of Arlington, said the USAID paid Cain to deliver a speech to businessmen and women in Egypt in 2002, during which an Egyptian businesswoman in her 30s asked Cain a question.

“And after the seminar was over,” Donella told The Washington Examiner, “Cain came over to me and a colleague and said, ‘Could you put me in touch with that lovely young lady who asked the question, so I can give her a more thorough answer over dinner?’”

Whoa….that sounds serious. Herman Cain was obviously trying to arrange a conversation with someone who asked him a question at a place where he was invited to give a speech.
Not only that. There was a “dinner” involved.
This is the second allegation supported by eyewitness testimony that Herman Cain eats “dinner”
Can we get a special prosecutor here please….?

Donella, who no longer works for USAID, said they were suspicious of Cain’s motives and declined to set up the date. Cain responded, “Then you and I can have dinner.” That’s when two female colleagues intervened and suggested they all go to dinner together, Donella said.

Cain exhibited no inappropriate sexual behavior during the dinner, though he did order two $400 bottles of wine and stuck the women with the bill, she said.

So Donella immediately knew to be suspicious of the guy they paid to give a speech and most likely provided his flight and accommodations.
He was their guest who came at their request to speak and Donella was wary that he might actually interact with some of the people at the meeting…?
Wasn’t that the whole point ?
Frankly, If I invited someone to come as a paid speaker and they didn’t speak with some of the attendees I would be a little pissed.
She doesn’t even say who the woman was.

Who goes to the Middle East to pick up women…?

Also, what is this business about her being “stuck with the bill” ?
What organization flies someone overseas to speak and then expects him to buy everyone dinner and drinks ?
I highly doubt that the two ladies paid the bill themselves.
USAID most likely paid because they were hosting the conference and two of the organizers were dining with one of the guest speakers.
Who the hell was supposed to pay.
Wait…let me guess.
Cain also ate some macadamia nuts from the mini-bar and stuck the bill to someone else.

And finally Donella wraps it up with this lovely quote.

Donella said she felt it was important to describe her encounter with Cain after hearing more serious allegations of sexual harassment brought by other women.

“I couldn’t swear that he had some untoward intentions, but we all thought his tone was suspect and we didn’t feel comfortable putting him in touch with that woman,” Donella recalled.

Uggghhh….(face palm)
So what the hell exactly are we talking about…?
If there is some sort of allegation, accusation or charge in this article it escapes me.

What else does this lady do ?
Does she call up the police late at night and tell them nobody is in her backyard but she just has a funny feeling…?

So now we have a fifth accuser who actually never made an accusation but only wanted to relay the fact that she just…hmmmm…just had a feeling about something.

Oh no.
This coverage isn’t getting ridiculous at all.

A former employee of the National Restaurant Association on Monday said Herman Cain groped her 14 years ago during an unwanted sexual advance, becoming the fourth woman to accuse the presidential candidate of sexual misconduct and the first to publicly identify herself.

Speaking at a press conference in New York City and flanked by celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, Sharon Bialek, a Chicago resident who worked for the NRA from 1996 to 1997, said Cain suddenly reached out and grabbed her after drinks and dinner in Washington D.C. in the summer of 1997. She had left her association job in Chicago, Bialek said, and had traveled to Washington to meet with Cain to ask him for help finding a new job. It was then, she alleged, Cain attempted to force her into a sexual favor in exchange for a job while the two were in a parked car.

Listen…I’m a Cain fan like many of us here.
I know he had a tough week last week and we thought maybe the storm had passed but now we have a new accuser coming at him again.

People, don’t be so down.
There is a silver lining to this all and I think the Hermanator will survive this just fine.
So get ready . Here we go.
All aboard the Cain train.

The Top Ten Reason why it’s a good thing Cain’s 4th accuser came forward.

1. Now we know what happened to the girl who played Lorrie on That Seventies Show.

2.Cain had finally fessed up. He owned an El Camino with astroturf in the back.

3.Cain’s plan lowers spending. Now we only have to drag a twenty dollar bill through a trailer park.

4.The Farrah Fawcett hairdo is making a comeback.

5. We know why now Cain was grinning in the smoking ad.

6.We should be happy. We have a candidate who knows how to create jobs.

7. Unlike Clinton, at least we know Herman will buy you dinner first.

8 Cain has vowed that if elected he will appoint a Booty Czar.

9.There were no gross details like pubic hairs on coke cans.

10. Finally…a press conference that gives me a little bit of a chubby.

So there he was waddling through the crowd at an Occupy Denver rally when a reporter asks him some questions he didn’t like.

As Moore left the protest to go to a book signing event Thursday evening, a reporter from KCNC-TV asked if his rumored wealth made him part of the one percent the “Occupy” movement was protesting against.

“I do very well,” he replied, “Because I do well, I want taxes raised on people who do well, including mine.”

But when asked how he is helping the protesters with his $50 million, Moore said, “I don’t have $50 million,” before growing exasperated and telling the reporter, “You’re just punk media is all you are. You lie. You lie to people. Stop lying to people. Stop lying.”

But that wasn’t all he did.
As he spoke he leaned into the reporter grabs the guy and pulled him in close and absolutely sneered the words right in his face with no fear at all.
Of course not.
Why would he…?
He had two big burly bodyguards there to protect him.
They had ear pieces and everything and I have to wonder if they were so close then why the comm set-up ?
Because no doubt he had an armored limo waiting close by.

Watch the video and see for yourself how Michael Moore treats someone who wasn’t giving him the respect he deserves.
It looked like a scene right out of a gangster movie.
That fat bleep is one sinister dude.

My apologies but you will have to click onto the link.
It will be worth it.

Michael Moore Snaps At Reporter about Rumored $50 Million Fortune at ‘Occupy Denver’ : MyFoxDC.com

This is in regards to streiff’s diary this morning that Herman Cain does not know that China has nuclear weapons.
That is absurd.
For the benefit of our our good friend streif I have actually taken the time to go through the long and arduous process of actually looking at the definition of the word “develop” because some people may be confused as to it’s meaning or meanings.
I have highlighted that definitions that may be relevant to this discussion.
Shall we….?

Develop
develop
[dih-vel-uhp]   Example Sentences Origin
de·vel·op
   /dɪˈvɛləp/ Show Spelled[dih-vel-uhp] Show IPA
verb (used with object)
1.
to bring out the capabilities or possibilities of; bring to a more advanced or effective state: to develop natural resources; to develop one’s musical talent.
2.
to cause to grow or expand: to develop one’s muscles.
3.
to elaborate or expand in detail: to develop a theory.
4.
to bring into being or activity; generate; evolve.
5.
Drafting. to transfer the details of (a more or less two-dimensional design, pattern, or the like) from one surface, especially one that is prismatic or cylindrical, onto another, usually planar, in such a way that the distances between points remain the same.

6.
Biology.
a.
to cause to go through the process of natural evolution from a previous and lower stage.
b.
to cause to progress from an embryonic to an adult form.
7.
Mathematics. to express in an extended form, as in a series.
8.
Music. to unfold, by various technical means, the inherent possibilities of (a theme).
9.
Photography.
a.
to render visible (the latent image on an exposed film or the like).
b.
to treat (an exposed film or the like) with chemicals so as to render the latent image visible.
10.
Chess. to bring (a piece) into effective play, especially during the initial phase of a game when pieces are moved from their original position on the board: He developed his rook by castling.
11.
Mining. to prepare (a new mine) for working by digging access openings and building necessary structures.

verb (used without object)
12.
to grow into a more mature or advanced state; advance; expand: She is developing into a good reporter.
13.
to come gradually into existence or operation; be evolved.
14.
to be disclosed; become evident or manifest: The plot of the novel developed slowly.
15.
to undergo developing, as a photographic film.
16.
Biology.
a.
to progress from an embryonic to an adult form.
b.
to progress from earlier to later stages of ontogeny or phylogeny.
c.
to reach sexual maturity

Related forms
de·vel·op·a·ble, adjective
de·vel·op·a·bil·i·ty, noun
half-de·vel·oped, adjective
hy·per·de·vel·oped, adjective
mis·de·vel·op, verb

non·de·vel·op·a·ble, adjective
pre·de·vel·op, verb
un·de·vel·op·a·ble, adjective
well-de·vel·oped, adjective

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Example Sentences

* By that same fact, it becomes a necessary factor in the child’s development.

* But engineers developing such embedded technologies face a big obstacle: power.

Related Words for : develop
evolve, germinate, acquire, get, grow

World English Dictionary
develop (dɪˈvɛləp) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
—vb (often foll by from)
1. to come or bring to a later or more advanced or expanded stage; grow or cause to grow gradually
2. (tr) to elaborate or work out in detail
3. to disclose or unfold (thoughts, a plot, etc) gradually or (of thoughts, etc) to be gradually disclosed or unfolded
4. to come or bring into existence; generate or be generated: he developed a new faith in God
5. to follow as a result (of); ensue (from): a row developed following the chairman’s remarks
6. (tr) to contract (a disease or illness)
7. (tr) to improve the value or change the use of (land), as by building
8. (tr) to exploit or make available the natural resources of (a country or region)
9. (tr) photog
a. to treat (film, plate, or paper previously exposed to light, or the latent image in such material) with chemical solutions in order to produce a visible image
b. to process (photographic material) in order to produce negatives and prints
10. biology to progress or cause to progress from simple to complex stages in the growth of an individual or the evolution of a species
11. (tr) to elaborate upon (a musical theme) by varying the melody, key, etc
12. (tr) maths to expand (a function or expression) in the form of a series
13. (tr) geometry to project or roll out (a surface) onto a plane without stretching or shrinking any element
14. chess to bring (a piece) into play from its initial position on the back rank
15. obsolete (tr) to disclose or reveal
[C19: from Old French desveloper to unwrap, from des-dis-1 + veloper to wrap; see envelop]
de’velopable
—adj

Nowhere did I read the word “invent”.
China has nuclear weapons that is true but perhaps they would like to develop them even more as they are becoming a super power so they can project their might world wide.
China has the second largest submarine fleet in the world consisting mainly of diesel /electric boats.The largest fleet belongs to the United States but China is in the process of developing a newer and more sophisticated nuclear powered Shang -Class

The Type 093 (NATO designation Shang class) nuclear-powered attack submarine was developed since the mid-1980s under high secrecy. It is a successor to the Type 091 (NATO designation Han class).

Development progress was slow due to enormous technical difficulties, including nuclear reactor and onboard weapon systems. It is speculated that development of the Shang class was assisted by Russian Rubin Central Design Bureau, one of the main Russian centers of submarine design.

While I am certain that China has it’s own commercial aircraft they would like to develop their fleet further and that is why Boeing is going to be building factories in China.

North Korea has detonated a nuclear device and are trying to develop their capabilities even farther but they are far from being a nuclear power.

We are all born with a muscular system but some of us would prefer to develop our muscles even more and go to the gym.

I myself have never really cared for red wine but as I grew older I developed a taste for it.

Sometimes in politics it is often difficult to gauge the complexities of certain event and prudent people often wait for further developments before they form an opinion.

Have I made my point yet or do I need to develop it more for some to understand….?

Oh, come on. I don’t see what the big deal is in this NBC story from Henrico, VA. Isn’t this just a demonstration of open-source redistributionism?

As much as I admire and respect those men I do not think that they are looking at this with the seriousness it deserves.

This is no laughing matter.
Presidential security has been seriously seriously breached.
Yes….I wrote the word “seriously” twice.
Only one person in the world gets to stand behind that podium and it is the POTUS.
Where that podium will be so will the President eventually.

Oh come on NeoKong…what’s the BFD ? They found the damn thing. No one got hurt.

I’ll tell you what the BFD is.
They found it only because I assume that some yahoos stole it without realizing what it was and when they did they abandoned it.
That is only an assumption. I am hoping that is what happened and not something more sinister.
The BFD here people is that that a key part of the Presidential entourage was sitting all alone and unsecured while it’s security detail was maybe drinking beer, singing karaoke and eating 50 cent buffalo wings.

Think for a moment what sort of things might be on that bus.
Are there travel itineraries for the POTUS. Any documents that will tell a reader exactly where the POTUS will be a week from now and in what ballroom between 2:45-3:15 PM….?
Do you think maybe that someone who doesn’t like the U.S. or the POTUS might like that sort of information ?
Were there any security manuals that detail Secret Service detail protocol.?
Could there be any sort of personnel schedules. Things with names, dates, radio frequencies, code words, emergency planning, escape routes.
What about any technical manuals…?
If you know who travels with the POTUS could maybe you find out who their family is?
Who made the bus and is it armored like the POTUS’ own bus.
Might there be some sort of schematic as to where the gas tank is or what sort of electrical system they have ?
Does it have an onboard computer system or GPS…?

I am just some incredibly handsome guy on the internet with many devoted followers but with just a little imagination and thinking I can come up with all sort of questions and scenarios about what sort of intelligence or opportunities can be gleamed off of two or three hours of uninterrupted access to the bus that carries the presidential podium and the TOTUS.
What if somebody who actually does this for a living and had all sorts of high level intelligence and security or military training got inside that bus.
Does it still seem so funny….?
That bus contains a treasure trove of security and intelligence information if breached by the right people.

Think about what if they did not steal the bus but merely tampered with it undetected ?
What if they planted a tracking device.
What if they planted a surveillance camera or an audio transmitter ?
Can you imagine what sort of conversations take place aboard that bus…?
What do you think they talk about ?
What if someone could watch the how all the equipment is prepped and by who ?
What if a small explosive was somehow secured to the Presidential podium…?
What if somebody sprayed an odorless and colorless liquid on the microphone or the surface of the podium…?

Oh come on now NeoKong….you’re getting a little crazy now.
Nobody does stuff like that.

Yeah ..I guess you’re right. Tell that to those Russian journalists who were poisoned and tell that to Viktor Yushchenko.
He was the third president of the Ukraine who was almost killed by poison in 2004 with a deadly toxin that severely disfigured him.

NeoKong…I’m sure that they checked it out thoroughly and looked for all that stuff.
Yeah…because they knew of the breach. But what if they didn’t?

Look at it this way.
What if CIA operatives scanning all the intelligence gathered during the Bin Laden raid had the names and code names of all the people who come into contact with Mullah Omar ?
What if they knew his schedule. What if they knew the structure of his security detail ?
What if they actually had access to any sort on equipment or nomenclature that they knew for sure would eventually be in his presence.
Would that be valuable…?
Of course it would.
Do you think for a moment that Iranian intelligence operatives would like a chance to get inside a bus that travels with Benjamin Netanyahu…?
Would Chinese intelligence operatives like to get inside a bus that travels with the president of Taiwan…?
What do you think the Chinese did to that EP-3 Aries surveillance plane they forced to land at a Chinese airbase in 2001 before they returned it….?

Here is the bottom line.
Something that was under the protection of the Secret Service was breached and stolen.
Something that will definitely have direct contact with the POTUS was out of their control for hours by god knows who.
This wasn’t Hank William’s tour bus where the only thing someone might find is a guitar, some porn magazines and a few empty bottles of Jack Daniels.
This bus travelS with with POTUS, the most powerful man in the free world behind George Soros.

The video is from 2009.
He is giving his briefing with the the White House placard directly behind his head.
He details all the operations and manpower that they have redirected towards the border in an attempt to fight the cartels.
When you hear the size and scope of the operations it is simply unbelievable in any manner that Attorney General Holder was not aware of what was going on.
There is just no way he had not been receiving many briefings on an operation that was tying up so much personnel.

Busted.
There is no way that this will not come to a head.

Obama got his MLK on.
He did some Denzel too.
He was dropping all his g’s and speaking all preachy.
He was using his best authentic dialect.
He threw is some race baiting as well because the CBC eats that up.
A little class warfare too.
Them white folk got all the money.
He even hopped into a time machine and went back to Selma and mentioned fire hoses, beat downs, troopers and tear gas.
He even implied that Republicans are not voting for his jobs plan because he is black.(That’s how I saw it).

He told them that if they start a business and do well that they need to pay their fair share..you know, probably like his Aunt Zeituni would have done if she ever had a job.
The applause seemed a little thin on that one.

He talked about the hard times he and Michelle had coming up on the mean streets, how poor they were and how his own mother had to go on food stamps.
Sadly there was no mention of his dear father.
If you want that good street cred brother you have to have known food stamps.
He said that in this country it shouldn’t even matter where you are born.
Read into that what you will.
I’m not touching it.
He even said how when he and Michelle tuck their children into bed at night….at the White House he thinks about keeping the American dream alive for them. I guess he is worried that after his term that his kids might end up on food stamps or something too.
Why not…?
Everyone is/was/ or will be soon.
I don’t know about you but something tells me he shouldn’t worry about his daughters too much.
Somehow I get the feeling that his kids will somehow be lucky enough to see the inside of a limousine,Secret Service details and private jets again God willing.
Something tells me that Michelle will still have plenty of opportunities to rip the claws of a lobster with her teeth.
Maybe I’m wrong.

Anyways.
This was a speech that he could only give exclusively in front of a black audience.
He could never ever give a speech like this in front of a mixed audience because it was dripping with references of racism and white privilege.
As he closed up his comments he summoned up his best Martin Luther and brought it home with a fiery call for people to fight and march.

Oh…and take off your bedroom slippers.

I have to say that this speech was a little on the offensive side and if this is the sort of stuff he wants to run on then he can kiss the support of the many white people who voted for him goodbye.
Make no mistake about it. He clearly gave this speech in a us vs. them tone.

Hey Khalib…hand me that 5/8ths wrench.

Does anyone remember the true blood for oil war? The war on Libya….?
Well don’t feel bad. A lot of people have forgot about it. It wasn’t really even a war actually.
If it was a war then Barack Obama would of had to consult Congress for their approval. It was just a “Kinetic Military Action” and apparently those only need a resolution from the U.N. and you’re free to bomb away with American jets as long as France and the Arab League says OK.
They were cool with it.
It was all about the civilians you know. Don’t be killing civilians on Obama’s watch. He don’t like it. He’s got a doctrine against that or something and they even named it after him.
The Samantha Powers Doctrine.

So anyway….there we were. Happily and forcefully militarily kineticizing against Col. Muammar Quaddaffi…Khadafi…Gaddaffi….Qadafi…(who the hell knows how you spell it) and pushing his forces back and bombing his guys to protect the civilians and the rebels. And there we were…bombing the rebels too if they got out of line and were also killing civilians.
Obama don’t play favorites. He is an equal opportunity bomber.

So this goes on for a few days and we catch news reports of fighting going back and forth. The rebels are winning. Qaddafy is winning , then the rebels are advancing then retreating.
I don’t know…it was all so confusing.
All I know is that there were a lot of Toyota pickups with machine guns and rocket launchers mounted on them going back and forth.

I always wondered. Where do you get that done…? The body shop? Muhammed’s tire and artillery ?
“Come on in to Muhammed’s tire and artillery. We got a great spring offensive special. An oil change, a tire rotation and a .50 caliber mounting all for the low low price of $99.99 It’s craaaazzzzyy”

Wouldn’t that make a good reality show instead of Axe Men which btw means something totally different in the Middle East. (Hint: It ain’t trees they be chopping)
They could call it Dirt Road Launchers or maybe Deadliest Hatchback. I don’t know.
They could follow two groups of pickups with rocket launchers on them and see who does best.
“Meanwhile out in Benghazi, Team Achmed is having some difficulties”
Hey Amir..who broke the -bleep- latch on this -bleep- launcher you-bleepin’ bleep bleep-
But out in Brega,Team Abdul just bagged it’s quota of two empty buildings and they’re way in the lead.”

It could have been interesting. Anything would have been more interesting than the actual war…er Kinetic Action. You never really knew who to root for. Khadaffy or Al-Qaeda.
Don’t get me wrong. I like a good little war as much as the next guy. It’s the only time you get to see Anderson Copper wearing a canvas vest or Geraldo selling out some rebels but picking a winner was tough.”
Even Obama bailed out after just a few days and gave it over to ..ahem...”NATO” which by no means still meant us. What can I say…? He just wasn’t in to it anymore and some Canadian guy took over….I think. Or were the French running it. Aw.. who knows ? Who cares….?
But I digest.

Now it seems this unusually lame war, non-war Kinetic bluh blah blah might soon come to an end.
After all the trouble we went to to hand it off to whoever would admit to participating in this boring little dust up it now appears as if the African Union is finally going to step in and do one of those jobs that Americans won’t do.
They are going to broker a cease fire.
Swell.
All those those cruise missiles for nothing.

South Africa Leader Says Libya Accepts Cease-Fire Plan.

TRIPOLI, Libya – A delegation of African leaders said Sunday that their Libyan counterpart Moammar Qaddafi accepted their “road map” for a cease-fire with rebels, whom they will meet with Monday. They met hours after NATO airstrikes battered Qaddafi’s tanks, helping Libyan rebels push back government troops that had been advancing quickly toward the opposition’s eastern stronghold.

Hey…who doesn’t like peace ?

“We have completed our mission with the brother leader, and the brother leader’s delegation has accepted the road map as presented by us,” said South African President Jacob Zuma. He traveled to Tripoli with the heads of Mali and Mauritania to meet with Qaddafi, whose more than 40-year rule has been threatened by the uprising that began nearly two months ago.

“We will be proceeding tomorrow to meet the other party to talk to everybody and present a political solution,” Zuma said. He called on NATO to end airstrikes to “give the cease-fire a chance.”

I’m not sure why they had to bring heads. It must be a Middle Eastern thing. They love chopping stuff.
Their version of the Slap Chop is a little different if you know what I mean.

So if this goes through then I guess that’s it.
Obama started a war and now it may be soon over.
Like it never happened.
Never mind….

Gosh…it’s sure going to be awkward bumping into Muammar at the U.N.