Posted on 05/21/2010 9:17:25 AM PDT by Nachum
“What is truth?” -Pontius Pilate
We have just experienced yet another Close Encounter with the Loony Left.
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Another glittering example of Obama’s dip-lunaitc prowess.
When the POTUS commits a political gaffe of sufficient political magnitude and import to sufficiently embarasses either Speaker of the house and / or Senate is when the national security threats posed by said POTUS will beome manifest in the public media.
Impeachment and conviction of a sitting President is entirely political; impeachement process may appear borne in legal procedings such in and of themselves are merely a mirage.
Sentances that begin like this:
The Democratic administration's goal...
What's wrong with that?
I guess (and I s'pose I'm merely nit-picking): we don't have a 'Democratic administration'?
I'll concede that we have a 'Democrat administration', but the other really annoys me. In fact: it pisses me off to read such tripe as that as if its fact.
“I have run clean out of my “WTF?” supply. Have to order more.”
LOL! I can relate to this. Order some for me too. :-)
This is nothing new. The pre-announcements of launches has been going on and off for decades as has open missile telemetry.
http://www.dod.gov/acq/acic/treaties/start1/protocols/telemetry.htm
It was all part of the confidence building measures between the Soviets/Russia and US. No one wanted a test-launch to be misinterpreted as a rogue launch. The window time frame allowed each side to move intelligence assets into place to cover the launch.
The Russians like the US used to pre-announce intercontinental ballistic missile launches with a time-window. This allowed the US to pre-position assets such as RC-135 Cobra Ball to cover the launch.
http://www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/cobra_ball.htm
Agreement on Ballistic Missile Launch Notifications during the Cold War.
http://www.missilethreat.com/treaties/pageID.182/default.asp
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