RWC Unfiltered 8-25-11

• Obama’s Rodney King - Policy Makes Neville Chamberlin Look Like Oracle
• Top Republicans in Dead Heat With Obama
• Wilson Plays 2^nd Kazoo to Maxine Waters.
• CBO: Miserable Economy To Continue At Least to 2014.
• William Wallace Executed 706 years ago.
• Maxine Waters to TEA Party “go to hell.”
• Obama Job Approval At New Low
• LA Charter Schools Get $15 Million Wal-Mart Grant
• Are Trojan Asteroids “Stalking” Earth?
• Ghadafi No Patrick Henry
• Obama Pledges Regulation Cuts
• Black Hole Found Tearing Star Apart

Bush’s Fault Epicenter of DC earthquake.

The Pentagon this week will release its long-delayed annual report to Congress on China’s military with a new title that officials say reflects Obama’s conciliatory, “soft power” approach to world affairs. A foreign policy approach I have branded Obama’s Rodney King-Like policy, and most call ineffective and even dangerously irresponsible..

The Pentagon notified the House and Senate Armed Services Committees on Friday that the report, which was due to Congress on March 1, will be released Monday after a closed-door briefing for staff members.

The report, formerly called the “Annual Report to Congress: Military Power of the People’s Republic of China,” has been renamed as a further accommodation to China and its exploding military power, It is now entitled the “Annual Report on Security Developments Involving China,” according to congressional and defense officials.

Obama has sought to reorient U.S. foreign and security policies by seeking to play down U.S. military power, a policy known as soft power. The policy has been applied to China, Russia and Iran with few matching conciliatory policies from those states.

The congressional briefing on the new report is set for Monday and will be led by Michael Schiffer, deputy assistant defense secretary for East Asia and Pacific affairs, and include officials from the Joint Staff, Defense Intelligence Agency and the State Department.

The unclassified report also contains a classified annex and will outline China’s large-scale military buildup that has been based on double-digit annual spending increases by Beijing.

Details of the latest report remain “close hold” until its formal release, set for Monday afternoon.

A defense official familiar with the latest report said it will be based on previous annual reports and contain few new details of Beijing’s development of an array of new missiles, submarines and warships including aircraft carriers to soon two nuclear powered warships capable of challenging the U. S. fleet in the western Pacific.

The report is required under a 2000 law and was modeled after the Cold War-era annual Soviet Military Power reports produced by the Pentagon.

The Beijing government each year has protested the release of the report, asserting that it exaggerates China’s military and saying the U. S. should have no concerns about the World’s largest standing military.

A group of former U.S. and Chinese military officials, known as the Sanya Initiative, also have lobbied successive administrations and Congress against the report, claiming the report unfairly characterizes China’s military modernization.

Last month, five Republican senators wrote to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates to ask why the report was not delivered to Congress despite the fact that a draft of the report had been completed early in 2010.

They said the report was needed for the authorization and appropriations committees to determine whether U.S. force structure should be adjusted to meet the challenge of China’s military buildup.

Senate Democrats also approved language in their version of the fiscal 2011 defense authorization bill expressing “displeasure” at the failure of the Pentagon to produce the report on time.

China’s military has taken a hard line against the Pentagon in recent months, cutting off military exchanges to protest U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. China’s government also was angered by statements from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that the United States is willing to mediate ongoing territorial disputes in the resource-rich South China Sea, which China is claiming as its domain.

Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, has said he has changed his view of China’s military buildup from curiosity to concern.

He said in remarks in Seoul last month that the concern is based on China’s significant investment in “high-end” weaponry, including satellites, ships, missiles, anti-ship missiles and advanced warplanes (including an advanced stealth fighter challemging the now cancelled F-22 and surpassing he F-35 Joint Strike Fighter neither of which are opertional.)

We’ll get and summarize the report next week. Previously I have catelogued China alarming armament efforts.

British TV viewers will be blocked from viewing Olympic Shooting competitions fearing a backlash from anti-gun groups.

In Gallup’s first poll of Republican voters since Rick Perry officially joined the 2012 presidential race, the Texas governor has jumped out to lead the pack of contenders for the Republican nomination. Perry and Obama are in a 44-43% dedheat along with the top three other Republicans.

Twenty-nine percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents nationwide told Gallup they are most likely to support Perry, putting him well ahead of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who attracted 17 percent. Gallup polls in May, June and July each had Romney in first place.

Then came Paul at a Lucky 13; Bachman at 10%; Cain and Gingrich nabbed the crumbs at 4% besting Sanotrum at a weak 3%.

The Public Policy Institute poll put Perry leads with 33 percent, followed by Romney at 20 percent and Bachmann at 16 percent.

ABC Says Obama is in the dead heat with any of the top 4 Republicans.

 The Wisconsin based Freedom from Religion Foundation sued a Kentucky School Board stopping its high school football teams from praying before their games. Citing costs to defend itself the School board collapsed.

It also looks like memorial ceremonies at the World Trade center site on next month’s 10^th Anniversary of the terrorists attack will be “clergyless” to conform to the political correct and avoid even a smidgen of anti-Islamic blemish.

Looking like a deranged rodeo clown Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, (D) Florida agrees with the liver lipped Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D) Flroida saying it’s the Tea Party making the economy bad and racism accounts for the depths of black unemployment. Her striking red cowboy hat is presumably lined with tinfoil.

She claimed the Teafolk hold Congress hostage, clearly an untruth since Congress has paid so much to so many it would certainly have paid its own ransom, probably adding a tip.

She and kindred spirit Maxine Waters (D) Californian who both attribute black unemployment to racism fall into the same class, not only ignoring  Obama in the White House but also all the Asians who started in the same position as blacks and are now, entirely without all the government “help” accorded blacks, occupying the U.S. catbird seat. Perhaps her Florida base explains the lady’s swamped faculties…

Labor Unions spent $400 million to elect Obama in 2008, The AFL-CIO Super Political Action Committee (PAC) is gearing up to spend $1 billion to reelect Obama, Simultaneously its leaders are pleading poor saying they can not compete with the US Chamber, Carl Rove or others. So far the fund raising numbers do not support the AFL-CIO claim of a negative dollar bias.

The Congressional budget office (CBO) predicts “pain” and unemployment to remain above 8% until 2014. As bad as this report maybe the projection is based on early July numbers that have gotten must worse since. Therefore  unepmployment could be evben higher.

 Obama is said to roll out his “so-called” jobs plan on Labor Day. Few expect Obama to produce any revelation as he clings to hie Keynsian spend thrift policies ignoring massive and growing evidence those policies have failed.

 The epicenter of the Washington DC quake has been pin-pointed to a graveyard outside of DC, where our Founding Fathers just rolled over in their graves.

Tuesday marked the 706^th anniversary of the execution of William Wallace Scottish leader in its War for Independence   Wallace became famous for defeating an English army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297 with a ragtag band.

Wallace raised an army marauding into England but was defeated at the Battle of Falkirk. In 1305, Wallace was betrayed and captured in Robroyston near Glasgow and handed over to King Edward I (Long Shanks) of England by a rival Scottish nobleman. Wallace was tried and convicted in Westminster Hall hanged but released before he strangled, castrated, eviscerated and his bowels burned before him and beheaded. His head was dipped in boiling tar and displayed atop London Bridge. Later his brothers were beheaded and their heads adorned the bridge in turn.

Much later Wallace was knighted and enshrined as a great hero of Scotland. great hero. The Scots were punished and forbidden education or even to write down their history so the old women of clans memorized it singing and teaching it from generation to generation.

The best known depiction of Wallace is in the Academy Award winning if highly fictionalized epic film Braveheart, which was directed by Mel Gibson and based upon a screenplay by Randall Wallace - no relation.

Gracie Allen’s famous cookbook complaint was that a recipe called for separating two eggs but didn’t say how far.

Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D) CA. the defacto Queen of Handouts said last weekend the TEA Party can “go to hell” and she’d help them get there. Her 35^th Congressional district is composed of parts of the Westchester District of the City of Los Angeles and the neighborhoods of Inglewood, Hawthorne, Gardena and Florence-Graham, as well as some adjacent areas. Democrats have a 31% registration bulge among 47% Hipanics; 34% blacks and just 10% whites. It has one of the highest rates of welfare and food stamp recipients in the nation and the worst school. Obama won over 84% of the vote there.

A rotund Paul Kramer has written a book “Maggie Goes On a Diet” about a ficticious 14-year-old girl who diets and  becomes svelte, gains staus and friends. She becomes a star soccer player. In what appears to be a clever publicity stunt it has ignited a controversy about how soon is too soon to inject weight and body image into a child’s life. The book’s official release is in October.

Just 19% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Obama is performing as president. Forty-five percent (45%) Strongly Disapprove. This is the lowest level yet.

Rasmussen polls only voters whereas most others poll random citizens and consider as approval any rating above ” fair.” In a big change since  Obama “fair” has been considered a positive response for approval by numerous polling firms. That tends to inflate Obama’s approval rating.

Only 20% think government anti-poverty programs reduce poverty.  Seventy-one percent (71%) believe too many people get welfare who should not be getting it.  Only 18% believe the opposite is true. Fifty-nine percent (59%) think immigrants who follow the law and enter the United States legally should have to wait three years or more before collecting welfare benefits

College cost inflation has been over 20% per year for several years leading to charges of irresponsibility and mismanagement and raises issues over tenure and whether a college education is worth it. The amart aleck answer is, it is if you’re a good running back. The unrelenting price spiral has sent public college and university flacks lining up to panhandle state legislatures nationwide.

The California charter school association has received a $15-million grant from the Walton Family Foundation to add 20,000 more charter school students in Los Angeles and 100,000 statewide.

The grant, was announced Tuesday, is the largest by far to the California Charter Schools Assn., and also the largest of its kind from the nonprofit established by the founders of the Wal-Mart Corp.

The Los Angeles Unified School District has more charter schools - 183 last year - and more charter-school students than any school system in the country, and that growth spurt is poised to continue despite countervailing pressure from reduced education funding and political resistance from teacher unions and other critics.

The charter association “has been very effective in a very difficult political environment where there’s very well-organized opposition to the growth of charter schools,” said Jim Blew, who heads the foundation’s education efforts. “And creating this growth with the restricted funding levels of schools in California also is very difficult.”

Charters are independently managed and free from some of the restrictions that govern traditional public schools, including having to abide by a district’s union contracts with teachers and other employees.

Wal-Mart has opposed unionization in its own operations, but the Arkansas-based foundation does not require charters that it supports to do likewise, although most charters are non-union. The foundation also supports providing government funding to allow low-income students to attend private schools; such publicly funded vouchers are not legal in California.

Obama appointed General Electric’s CEO Jeff Emelt to head his commission on jobs competetiveness and promptly shipped tens of thousand of American jos to China.

A new analysis of a lunar rock brought back to Earth in 1972 by Apollo 16 Moon astronauts, indicates that the moon could be a more youthful 4.36 billion years old - and that the process by which it was formed happened later than scientists thought. Or possibly this lunar rock, part of the moon’s crust, isn’t exactly what scientists thought it was. Maybe the crust wasn’t formed by a magma ocean after all. “And that’s a big deal,” said Lars Borg, the lead author of the study and a geochemist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

And the next solar system surprise? The rings of Saturn aren’t really rocks and dust but instead a billion pieces of Styrofoam from discarded coffee cups?

For centuries, scientists have been making paradigm-shifting discoveries that reordered our sense of the universe and our place in it.

The beauty of science is how it embraces redefinition, even if it’s disconcerting. And these days, a scientist rarely risks being brought to trial for it - as Galileo was.

Turn out the moon’s not the Earth’s only traveling companion. Space scientists have discovered an asteroid that’s been following our fair planet for thousands of years. These so-called Trojan asteroids.

Most of the asteroids in the solar system populate the belt of rocky debris between Mars and Jupiter. But planets can pull asteroids into their orbits, too. More than 4,000 Trojan.asteroids have been discovered around the gas giant Jupiter, along with a few around Neptune and Mars. O is Earth ann orphan?

In order for an asteroid to attain a stable position in a planet’s orbit, it must find the spot where the gravitational pull of the planet and that of the sun cancel each other out. Two of these spots, called Lagrangian points, lie along a planet’s orbit - one ahead of the planet and one behind it. Drawing straight lines between the Earth, the sun and a Lagrangian point produces a triangle whose sides are equal in length. An asteroid there would hover in the sky at a 60-degree angle from the sun.

Any object that close to the sun would be difficult to see from Earth because it would be overhead mostly during broad daylight, as invisible as the stars.

Hard to see is not impossible, and recently scitntists spotted Trojan asteroids, Sure enough a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who wasn’t involved in the study, which was published online Wednesday by the journal Nature. “It’s a new class of near-Earth object that’s been hypothesized to exist.”

And if more Trojan asteroids can be found, researchers said, they could be ideal for astronaut visits and the mining of precious resources. (This particular asteroid is too tilted with respect to the solar system to make a good candidate, Mainzer said.)

Stuffed into a forgotten closet in the sky, such relics could also give scientists a fresh glimpse into the early formation of the solar system.

The troglodytes  are ranting about the costs of such research and god forbid actually going to such an asteroid unless, of course, a Trojan asteroid is found to be on a collision course with Earth

People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights!

A shoplifter at a garden supply store would likely have gotten away with stealing hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise despite being seen clearly on security camera video tape had the “genius” not stopped to enter a store drawing leaving behind her name, address and telephone bumber, She was arrested later at her home and moved to the week’s stupid crook list.

Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is just $2,500! Reportedly the largest Bank robbery was in 2005 in Brazil and one of the largest in history when thieves made of with US$70.1 million

Libyan Dictator Ghadafi’s declaration that he will fight to victory or death will be fulfilled one way or another but his declaration will not replace Patrick Henry’s (May 29, 1736 - June 6, 1799) March 23, 1775 speech.

“Give me Liberty, or Give me Death!” is a quote similar to Libyan Dictator Ghadafi’s declaration that he will fight to victory or death will be fulfilled one way or another but will not replace Patrick Henry’s (May 29, 1736 - June 6, 1799) March 23, 1775 speech.

“Give me Liberty, or Give me Death!” is a quotation attributed to Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Virginia Convention. It was given on March 23, 1775, at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia, and is credited with having swung the balance in convincing the Virginia House of Burgesses to pass a resolution delivering the Virginia troops to the Revolutionary War. Among the delegates to the convention were future US Presidents Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. Reportedly, those in attendance, upon hearing the speech, shouted, “give me liberty or give me death!.

The play Cato, a Tragedy contains the line, “It is not now time to talk of aught/But chains or conquest, liberty or death” (Act II, Scene 4). This play was popular in the colonies and was well-known by the Founding Fathers, who used quotes from the play. George Washington had this play performed for the Continental Army at Valley Forge. The phrase “Liberty or Death” also appears on the Culpeper Minutemen flag of 1775.

Read Patrick Henry’s full address at http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/henry-liberty.html

tion attributed to Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Virginia Convention. It was given on March 23, 1775, at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia, and is credited with having swung the balance in convincing the Virginia House of Burgesses to pass a resolution delivering the Virginia troops to the Revolutionary War. Among the delegates to the convention were future US Presidents Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. Reportedly, those in attendance, upon hearing the speech, shouted, “give me liberty or give me death!.

The play Cato, a Tragedy contains the line, “It is not now time to talk of aught/But chains or conquest, liberty or death” (Act II, Scene 4). This play was popular in the colonies and was well-known by the Founding Fathers, who used quotes from the play. George Washington had this play performed for the Continental Army at Valley Forge. The phrase “Liberty or Death” also appears on the Culpeper Minutemen flag of 1775.

Read Patrick Henry’s full address at http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/henry-liberty.html you may be surprised.

Today nearly one in five American children relies on some form of food assistance or charity for their daily food. More and more are planting vegetable gardens in backyards, on vacant lots or public plots. After this Fall’s harvest it will get worse.

Tuesday Obama pledged to reduce regulations saving businesses $10 billion over the next five years he claims. The devil is in the detail buried in his announcement was another plank in his stealth amnesty plan is an intention to lower the bar for visas and various other immigration regulations.

Critics of Obama’s tone deafness and anti business bias called his announcement too little, too late branding it “underwhelming.”

Ghadafi’s stockpile of chemical weapons and perhaps nuclear material has not been located provoking concerns about the stockplle getting into the hands of terrorists. Weapons including nerve gas and blister agents such as Mustard gas and other disabling agents. Libyan rebels already shipped missile via Sudan idstined for Sinai but Israeli forces learned of it and blew them up before they could be used.

A black hole described as a “cosmic monster” lurking at the heart of a galaxy has been recorded as it tore apart a luckless star, astronomers report in the journal Nature on Wednesday.

On March 25, NASA’s Swift orbital telescope captured a surge of X-rays from deep space, disgorged by what was clearly an immensely powerful source.

Closer observation revealed a “supermassive” black hole with a mass a million times that of the Sun.

The X-ray flare was a “relativistic outflow,” or a jet of high-energy matter that flowed from the star as it was pulled apart by the black hole’s gravitational pull and hauled towards its maw.

The jet moved at 99.5 percent of the speed of light.

“Supermassive” black holes are commonly found at the centre of galaxies. The newly discovered black hole is about the same size of its counterpart in our galaxy, the Milky Way.

Even so, they are relative tiddlers, for some “supermassive” specimens have been measured at a mass of more than a billion Suns.

The National Debt is growing at FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLRS A SECOND!