Posted on 01/29/2009 7:30:27 PM PST by Ultra Sonic 007
Kudos to me. I found it in the chat room at Plains Radio.
LOL
...and passed it on to 2ndDivisionVet and a few others.
:)
Interesting......1 trillion dollar stimulus and not one dime for defense or war on militant Islam.
From "45 Communist Goals":
Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963:
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
'Goals' 4-45 can be found here or at many other sites through a web search for "45 goals":
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
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Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs
February 29, 2008 :: News
MissileThreat.com
A video has surfaced of Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama talking on his plans for strategic issues such as nuclear weapons and missile defense.
The full text from the video, as released, reads as follows:
Thanks so much for the Caucus4Priorities, for the great work you've been doing. As president, I will end misguided defense policies and stand with Caucus4Priorities in fighting special interests in Washington.
First, I'll stop spending $9 billion a month in Iraq. I'm the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning. And as president I will end it.[i.e. not win it]
Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending.
I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.
I will not weaponize space.
I will slow our development of future combat systems.
And I will institute an independent "Defense Priorities Board" to ensure that the Quadrennial Defense Review is not used to justify unnecessary spending.
Third, I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop new nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material; and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals.
You know where I stand. I've fought for open, ethical and accountable government my entire public life. I don't switch positions or make promises that can't be kept. I don't posture on defense policy and I don't take money from federal lobbyists for powerful defense contractors. As president, my sole priority for defense spending will be protecting the American people. Thanks so much.
Article: Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs:
http://missilethreat.com/archives/id.7086/detail.asp
"MissileThreat.com is a project of The Claremont Institute devoted to understanding and promoting the requirements for the strategic defense of the United States."
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New Pentagon Report: China's Growing Military Space Power
By Leonard David
Special Correspondent, SPACE.com
March 6, 2008
GOLDEN, Colorado — A just-released Pentagon report spotlights a growing U.S. military concern that China is developing a multi- dimensional program to limit or prevent the use of space-based assets by its potential adversaries during times of crisis or conflict.
Furthermore, last year's successful test by China of a direct-ascent, anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon to destroy its own defunct weather satellite, the report adds, underscores that country's expansion from the land, air, and sea dimensions of the traditional battlefield into the space and cyber-space domains.
Although China's commercial space program has utility for non- military research, that capability demonstrates space launch and control know-how that have direct military application. Even the Chang'e 1 — the Chinese lunar probe now circling the Moon — is flagged in the report as showcasing China's ability "to conduct complicated space maneuvers — a capability which has broad implications for military counterspace operations."
To read the entire publication [29.67MB/pdf], go to (U.S. Dept of Defense) :
http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pdfs/China_Military_Report_08.pdf
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From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html
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Russia, China flex muscles in joint war games
Reuters: Aug 17, 2007
CHEBARKUL, Russia (Reuters) - Russia and China staged their biggest joint exercises on Friday but denied this show of military prowess could lead to the formation of a counterweight to NATO.
"Today's exercises are another step towards strengthening the relations between our countries, a step towards strengthening international peace and security, and first and foremost, the security of our peoples," Putin said.
Fighter jets swooped overhead, commandos jumped from helicopters on to rooftops and the boom of artillery shells shook the firing range in Russia's Ural mountains as two of the largest armies in the world were put through their paces.
The exercises take place against a backdrop of mounting rivalry between the West, and Russia and China for influence over Central Asia, a strategic region that has huge oil, gas and mineral resources.
Russia's growing assertiveness is also causing jitters in the West. Putin announced at the firing range that Russia was resuming Soviet-era sorties by its strategic bomber aircraft near NATO airspace.
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-29030120070817?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0
Well well well, we finally get something from the Columbia days.
Thanks, Fred Nerks.
Hmmm... why are we getting news about the Columbia days?
What’s happening in D.C. while we’re distracted with this little factoid?
Norman Mailer.
“Prodding students into participating beyond name signing and attending events is tricky,”
“beyond...?” Interesting!
Alumni Corner
Barack Obama ’83, My Columbia College Roommate
By Phil Boerner ’84
I was Barack Obama ’83’s roommate at Columbia College in fall 1981. I met him in 1979, when we were freshmen at Occidental College (Oxy) in Los Angeles and our dorm rooms were directly opposite each other.
I came to college as a middle-class guy from Bethesda, Md., where I’d lived from fifth grade through high school. At Oxy, we attended some of the same social events and had late-night philosophical discussions related to our college reading or to current affairs. We attended rallies on campus where we were urged to “draft beer, not people,” and discussed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, apartheid in South Africa, the hostages in Iran and the Contras in Latin America. The crowd we hung out with included men, women, blacks, whites, Hispanics and international students. Barack listened carefully to all points of view and he was funny, smart, thoughtful and well-liked. It was easy to sit down with him and have a fun conversation.
We both transferred from Oxy to Columbia in fall 1981. Barack had found an apartment on West 109th Street, between Amsterdam and Columbus, and suggested that I room with him. Our sublet was a third-story walk-up in a so-so neighborhood; the unit next door was burned out and vacant. The doorbell didn’t work; to be let in when I first arrived I had to yell up to Barack from the street. It was a railroad apartment: From the kitchen, you walked into Barack’s room, then my room, and lastly the living room. We didn’t have a television or computers. In that apartment we hosted a number of visitors, mostly friends from Oxy who stayed overnight when they were passing through town. Barack was very generous to these visitors. As a host and roommate, he sometimes did the shopping and cooked the chicken curry.
Barack has said that he spent a lot of time in the library while at Columbia and one reason for this was that our apartment had irregular heat, and we didn’t enjoy hanging out there once the weather got cold. The radiators in our apartment were either stone cold, or, less often, blasted out such intense heat that we had to open the windows and let in freezing air just to cool things down. When the heat wasn’t on, we sometimes sat with sleeping bags or blankets wrapped around ourselves and read our school books. We also didn’t have regular hot water and sometimes used the Columbia gym for showers.
I remember often eating breakfast with Barack at Tom’s Restaurant on Broadway. Occasionally we went to The West End for beers. We enjoyed exploring museums such as the Guggenheim, the Met and the American Museum of Natural History, and browsing in bookstores such as the Strand and the Barnes & Noble opposite Columbia. We both liked taking long walks down Broadway on a Sunday afternoon, and listening to the silence of Central Park after a big snow. I also remember jogging the loop around Central Park with Barack.
One weekend I invited Barack to meet my grandparents, Elizabeth and William Lytton Payne ’46 GSAS, at their summer place in the Catskills, which we called “the farm.” I took Barack to meet some neighbors on the mountain; everyone seemed to like him pretty well, whether they were die-hard supporters of Ronald Reagan or extreme liberals. While at the farm, Barack joined the routines there, which typically included a few morning hours doing chores, such as clearing brush and sawing firewood.
After that first semester, we had to move. Barack tried to find an apartment for both of us, but was only able to find a studio for himself. I was able to house-sit in Brooklyn Heights. Barack and other friends came and visited me there a few times; we typically watched pro basketball or football on TV, or went out for dinner at a Chinese restaurant. He was amused by my beginning banjo playing (I’m much better today!). Hanging out, we could get pretty emotional about sports, food and injustice. I remember one time when we were out walking he took the time to ask a homeless guy how he was doing, so even then he was concerned about others.
Through different living arrangements in Astoria, Queens; Bay Ridge, Brooklyn; and all over Manhattan, we stayed in touch and remained friends for the rest of our college years. He got to know my girlfriend from Arkansas, who is now my wife. Since I last saw him in 1985, we have exchanged a few letters and photos. He left for Chicago, and I eventually settled in Sacramento.
Barack wasn’t thinking about becoming President when he was in college; he wanted to be a writer. Barack is a good man — some might even call him a saint for tolerating my beginning banjo playing. Based on my six years of knowing him in college and the years immediately after, I can vouch that Barack is a man of character, and I trust him to do the right things when he is President.
Phil Boerner ’84 was born in Washington, D.C., and lives with his wife and two children in Sacramento, Calif. He is communications and public relations manager at the California Veterinary Medical Association.
Is someone doing a slow leak? Hillary? Bill?
Richardson stabbed the Clintons in the back and Hillary shanked Richardson. Maybe it was Bill.
The Clintons must have given some docs to a reporter on Richardson’s business deals.
You do not cross the Clintons.
Who does Bill hate a lot more than say Rush?
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/recollections-of-obamas-ex-roommate/
I posted this and the above on another thread....
Needs to be here as well.
Full court Columbia press
“Looks like it was written by a high school sophomore.”
More like Jr High.
Berg's little interloper must have them really nervous....No judge is going to accept an Internet document as proof. It would set a precedence that would bring chaos to the entire judicial branch of government.......
OTOH he may just wants to send it up to the SCOTUS to be overturned or that they can take their pound of flesh.
Did you notice the little blurp about registering for the draft and his careful avoidance of mentioning whether he did or didn’t? I will have to reread this tomorrow, my mind and body aren’t co-operating tonight. Thanks for the ping and KUDOS to patriot 08!
Anyone who thinks gathering in a library to hear like minds pontificate that “war bad”, “peace good”, can help to bring an end to war and a lasting peace is - delusional. But he's so full of himself he can't see how wrong he is.
Barry's my age. He's lived a sheltered life and “endured” many years of college and no real job. What he knows of war he's absorbed from folks who have also never served.
He's never witnessed massive anti-Pershing demonstrations first hand. Experienced the Red Army Faction blowing up US Army POVs by placing a bomb under the seat of the unsuspecting person. He's probably never heard of the LaBelle disco bombing. He has no idea of what it means to live in a city surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops ready to turn it into the largest concentration camp in history at a moment's notice. Nor has he ever had to worry about the Soviets finally saying Solidarity is an enemy of the people and, oh, by the way, we won't conduct combat operations in Poland for as long as we did in Hungary or Czechoslovakia.
Barry's daughters have never had to ride to their elementary school with MPs onboard their school bus with combat load, and a jeep following with a mounted Ma Deuce. Once they get there they see a school with flatbed trailers surrounding the entire school and loaded to the school roof with full sandbags. This was to guard against terrorists. The same type of terrorists that some of Barry's cohorts and kool-aid drinkers pal around with.
He's never deployed to the East German border, stood watch over nuclear facilities in -30F weather or picked sand out of every crack in his body for a year.
In short, it's impossible for Barry to “Break” the War Mentality without experiencing the preparations for war or war itself. To think otherwise is - delusional. The media, and Barry himself, have played-up his world travels and oh so marvelous cosmopolitan he is for those world travels. Problem is Barry saw what they wanted him to see. Not what he could have seen from our point of view had he served in the military.
Our country has a long, proud history of a civilian executive. A civilian executive who has served in America's military. Barry is the first break in that chain. And reading this paper of his in that light gives me the willies.
Articulated and well-educated! Ha ha ha!
Well-educated as in he spent lots of time at institutions of higher [leftist] learning, that’s all.
I wonder who wrote this...
What’s happening in D.C. while we’re distracted with this little factoid?
We need to stay focused on DC. I noticed that there may be some diversionary tactics being used here by DU’ers
0bama’s lawyers moved to dismiss one of the cases (no idea which court) and used the reason that 0 had already posted his birth certificate on the internet.
So he’s owning the forgery legally. That’s pretty interesting.
Or have an alert called at 2am.
As far as military service, there have been many who never wore the uniform to include:
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
Martin Van Buren
Grover Cleveland
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bill Clinton
Barack Obama
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