Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Tuesday's Topics

GOP 2012:  Ron Paul visited KC this last weekend. It was during the same period as the KC Republican Lincoln Days session but I don't know if Paul appeared at that gathering.  But, from reports, he did gather a large group, a thousand or more depending on which source you read.

A few days ago, on CNN, Paul made this statement about social issues.
Crowley asked Paul. "Are you uncomfortable with this talk about social issues? Do you consider it a winning area for Republicans in November?"

"No," said Paul. "I think it's a losing position.
  -- CNSNews.
My immediate thought when I read this statement was---Loser.  Paul is so far from the conservative arena that it isn't visible from whatever planet he's currently orbiting.  His foreign policy is a joke, he's so narrow focused on one topic, smaller government, that he ignores all the other issues that are serious concerns for the survival of the country.  I agree with his views on a smaller and restricted federal government but there is more that we have to battle than just that single subject.

Like I said, "Loser."  Paul is the one GOP candidate that could cause me to skip checking a box for President when I vote next Fall.  He's as dangerous for the country as Obama.  Paul is dangerous in different areas, to be sure, but the end result would still be the same as Obama, make our country vulnerable to attack from outside, emasculating our military, and the increased probability of war. Those issues would tie him in knots and he'd never get to address reducing the size of government.  

It's the Bush Conumdrum.  What would have happened in 2001 if 9/11 hadn't occured.  We'll never know, but I doubt we would have had the massive spending needed to support the War on Terror.
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The Cold War is returning.  Putin plans on spending $770 Billion to upgrade and refit the Russian military.

Putin to pump $770 billion into Russian military

AP by: AP
Monday, February 20, 2012
Russia needs to modernize its military arsenals to deter others from grabbing its resources, Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in an article published Monday. ...

"We mustn't tempt anyone with our weakness," Putin wrote in the government daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

Putin said the government plans spending about $770 billion over the next decade to purchase more than 400 intercontinental ballistic missiles, more than 600 combat aircraft, dozens of submarines and other navy vessels and thousands of armored vehicles.
 Read the original article at AP
Obama and Hilliary want to help Putin pay for this expansion while shrinking our own military. Just how would Obama and Hilliary help Putin?  This is how.

Will U.S. give Russia energy-rich Alaskan islands?

WorldNetDaily by: Joe Miller, Friday, February 17, 2012

Obama’s State Department is giving away seven strategic, resource-laden Alaskan islands to the Russians. Yes, to the Putin regime in the Kremlin. ... The seven endangered islands in the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea include one the size of Rhode Island and Delaware combined. The Russians are also to get the tens of thousands of square miles of oil-rich seabeds surrounding the islands. The Department of Interior estimates billions of barrels of oil are at stake.

The State Department has undertaken the giveaway in the guise of a maritime boundary agreement between Alaska and Siberia. Astoundingly, our federal government itself drew the line to put these seven Alaskan islands on the Russian side. But as an executive agreement, it could be reversed with the stroke of a pen by President Obama or Secretary Clinton.

The agreement was negotiated in total secrecy. The state of Alaska was not allowed to participate in the negotiations, nor was the public given any opportunity for comment. This is despite the fact the Alaska Legislature has passed resolutions of opposition – but the State Department doesn’t seem to care.  Read the original article at WorldNetDaily.

Obama won't let us drill for oil in our off-shore and inland territories but he will give it away to one of our most dangerous enemies. Just who are Obama and Hilliary working for?  It appears to be everyone who is an enemy of the United States.

World Bank President Robert Zoellick has announced to step down from at the end of his five-year-term in June, giving rise to speculation that the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, may be headed to replace him, which was immediately denied by her aide. 
I smell payoffs in the air.      

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