While that is true, it was also true that Somalia represented no direct threat to America. Yet it was the withdrawal of US forces from Mogadishu, Somalia that inspired people like Osama Bin Laden to pool their resources and attack America on AMerican home soil.

These incidents tend to have indirect consequences which are far more important than the direct consequences.

Just keep quiet and let them go ahead, because if they do it provides an opportunity. Once the bombers are in place, Obama should take note of this provocation and announce that he is proceeding with the anti-missile defense installations in Poland and the Czech Republic. Quid pro quo.”

Only two problems with your excellent suggestion:

1. The Obamatron does not come equipped with a pair of balls.

2. Our president is increasingly a not-so-closeted Marxist. Somewhere deep down he laments the fall of the Soviet Union and the last best hope of mankind that it stood for. Why not let the misunderstood ol’ bear tweak the bad ol’ eagle? We deserve it for not keeping hope alive.

The _reporters_!!! It isn’t just the reporters – I saw an interview with Clinton (Bill, not Hill) – can’t remember where, but what I saw was a transcript – where 3-4 times he makes the statement about “embryos not being fertilized, so using them was no problem”. Jaw dropping ignorance. I guess when he took bio 1, his mind was on a different aspect of reproduction…

And isn’t it true that States were still funding research using embryos if they wished? Bush’s “ban” was only on *federal* (national govt) funding using embryos that had not already been set aside.

I’d prefer more precision in reporting as well. I’d accuse them of being deliberately dishonest, but I actually think this is one of those cases where the reporters, being against the Bush decision, can’t even see the difference themselves. Intellectual laziness coupled with a myopism caused by their own “moral superiority” and their own far-left belief that if the federal government isn’t controlling it and funding it, then it’s not getting done.

Here´s what I cannot understand. I always thought there were experts at the State Department or wherever who specialize in these protocol questions. Surely Presidents don´t pick the gifts for visiting statesmen themselves? The technocrats should ensure that it doesn´t make any difference who is president. Unless the Barackistas upset all continuity by bringing in their own people.

I’ve always been frustrated when libs erroneously complained about Bush “banning stem cell research”, let’s not make the same mistake.

http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/857-The-Bezzle-Defined.html

http://benbittrolff.blogspot.com/2009/03/wall-street-and-dead-donkeys.html

About the bill banning funding of all embryo research…

It looks like this has been in all the budget appropriation bills since 1995. It’s only valid until this budget expires Sept 30 of this year. I suspect that’s why there was no push back – they wanted to get that budget through. Betchya it won’t be in _next_ year’s appropriation, though. Obama probably went ahead and signed it since it’s such a short term problem and it is likely to go away without any action on his part. It’s smarter for him to pass it for that reason, than to fight it and further alienate those who are against it.

And somehow, in my mind, it also links directly to “Children should be seen and not heard”… Not sure why. There’s probably a good reason…

Unkind, maybe even unfair, but also, maybe not untrue. No matter how intellectual you are, no matter how brilliant, someone still has to take the words and put them into action. Your fantastic architectural plans for your magnificent house and hanging gardens will require a qualified contractor who can plan for what is required, and the grunt workers who have to be hired to get the heavy stuff moved. You can plan a garden, but somebody has to dig it up, plant it and pull the weeds. It looks like Obama doesn’t have any contractors so far. He can write checks for the contractors, but somebody has to do the grunt work.

By the way…if you’re looking for a light read somewhat on the topic, try “The $64 Tomato”. I ran across it in our Friends of the Library bookstore – F of the L is an organization that takes book donations, shelves them and resells them to the public. Terrific place to by cheap books, and all “donations” go to the Public Library. The only bad thing about it is that there are _no_ old books to be had at the local yard sales. Not the place to go if you’re looking for a _particular_ book, but great for small treasures you never knew about.