RWC Unfiltered 10-13-11

• Nancy Reagan Would Oppose Michael’s Senate Run Against Feinstein.  So would Nancy Pelosi.
• Hank Williams Jr. Fired For Likening Obama To Hitler
• Is Iranian Plot An Act of War?
• Cyber Attacks Delay Iran Nuke; Damage U. S. Drones
• Romney neck-in-neck with Obama: Gets Christie Endorsement: Perry Debate Undistinguished.
• Obama’s Complicity In Muslim Takeover of Egypt Bad Move.
• Russia Moves to Front Row In Syria
• Riyadh’s Iron Fist On Protest
• Turkey Wants to Rule 7 Seas
• Republicans Call for Holder To Quit

Michael Regan was born March 18, 1945 and adopted days later by Ronald Reagan and his then wife Jane Wyman is said to be running against California’s Democrat U. S. Senator Diane Feinstein to the chagrin of Nancy Reagan his father’s second wife. The pair have reportedly never had a close relationship. She now says she would oppose him  if he runs.

Nancy’s willingness to go public with her opposition is something of a stunner. Whatever else one might say about Nancy, her number one concern is her husband’s legacy.  That she doesn’t think having her husband’s son in the United States Senate would contribute to that legacy says quite a bit about myriad familial topics.

It is a bit of a hubbub in GOP circles

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It sounds like Hanks Williams Jr., the Country Music star, is not going down quietly after his comments last week on the Fox News television program  “Fox and Friends”, obliquely comparing President Obama to Adolf Hitler.

After those comments, ESPN decided to pull the song  “All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight” from their Monday Night Football intro. The song by Hank Williams Jr. has been the intro to the program since 1989.

In a musical response Williams said the U.S. is “going down the drain” and becoming “The United Socialist States of America.” The song also implores his supporters to not watch ESPN.

Disney owned ESPN appears unwilling to reinstate Hank William Jr. or his iconic introduction to Monday Night Foorball nor is Williams budging..

Last Monday the Bears vs. Lions game from Detroit, was introduced by former Lions running back Barry Sanders.

The winter of 1932 in the US was so cold that Niagara falls froze completely solid!

An Iranian backed assasination plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the U. S. and attack its and Israel’s embassy here in U. S. was uncovered by FBI, and DEA agents after a downpayment of $100,000 was seized in New York. By filing a complaint in a domestic court the matter is being handled as a crime and because there was no violence it is not an act of war as some say.

So more huffing and puffing but little else. The timing suggest a CYA by Holder and the White House.

Hermann Cain said the plot was possible because of Obama’s weakness.  The Iranian plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s ambassador and blow up the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington is a clear act of war says former Rep. Pete Hoekstra and called for attacks on its nuclear facilities.

Although Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the US, it is technically number 47. Until 7 August 1953, Congress forgot to vote of formal resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.

The Stuxnet cyber attack on Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities and other incompetencies appears to have so damaged Iran’s plan to build a nuclear warhead at early as 2012 delaying it until 2015. But not before. Iran’s President has said he would use his first nuclaer weapon on Israel and the second on the U. S.

This week the U. S. military announced software used for its drone has been so fatally infected that only the complete erasing of all computer files can correct the issue although the remote control of drones has not been compromised and they can still operate.

“Son, never kick a cow turd on a hot day,” Harry ‘ Give Em Hell’ Truman in response to a knotty political question in a Rose Garden interview in 1948.

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney remains neck-and-neck with President Obama in the latest hypothetical Election 2012 matchup. Texan Perry continues to sputter while Hermann Cain is in a solid 2^nd place behind Romney and ahead of Perry. But, it doesn’t appear Cain can beat Obama but, Romney can.

Cain has closed the gap to be just 4% behind Obama in a head-to-head matchup. Bill O’Reolly says Dennis Miller’s endorsement is the reason for his rise.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie endorsed Romney putting another nail in Perry’s political coffin making the debate something of a coming out party for Mitt. For Perry Tuesday’s GOP debate was critically important. Perry again was undistinguished.

Romney leads Obama 54% to 41% and the will decide who will be the next President.

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The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.

The claim Friday by Field Marshall Mohamed Tantawi, head of the military junta ruling Egypt, of “complete security on the Sinai Peninsula” was belied Monday, Oct. 10, by the Israeli Counterterrorism Bureau’s warning against travel to Sinai for Sukkot. As Cairo lets Sinai security go by the board, the Netanyahu government leans over backwards to pretend business with Egypt is back to normal - even after armed Bedouin cut the trade route between Egypt and Israel through Sinai three weeks ago.

Obama’s tacit nackinh of the Muslim Brotherhoods takeover in Egypt is now widely seem as a mistake that could lead to widespread bloodshed. Last week end the Egyptian military killed a score of Coptic Crhsitians who had been attacked themselves.

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Five days after defeating a Western-backed UN Security Council resolution condemning Bashar Assad’s savagery against his opposition, Moscow turned the heat on him by inviting an opposition delegation for a visit Monday, Oct. 10 and offering to host talks between the Syrian government and the opposition umbrella Syrian National Council.  Syrian Foreign Minister Wallid Moallem threatened unspecified “tough measures” against any countries recognizing the council, evidently fearing a repeat of the Libyan exercise which toppled Muammar Qaddafi.

Damascus also pointedly released a rare photo of President Assad with his army chiefs, a not so gentle hint that tough measures might well take military form.

In issuing the invitation, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov explained: “Our main message is that all the problems which have accumulated in Syria over many years can’t be resolved through force or confrontation” - a failed mark equally assigned by Moscow to Assad’s methods of suppression and potential foreign intervention. “In our view there is no alternative to broad-based political dialogue,” the Russian official insisted.

Russian and Iranian sources report that Moscow’s willingness to receive a delegation of the newly formed opposition council has gone down badly not just in Damascus but also in Tehran.

Sunday, Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s senior military adviser warned Turkey to “radically rethink its policies on Syria, the NATO missile shield and promoting Muslim secularism in the Arab world - or face trouble from its own people and neighbors.”

Maj.-Gen. Yahya Rahim-Safavi did not mention Russia, but his warning coinciding as it did with the Syrian foreign minister’s threat did not go unnoticed in Moscow.

Turkey was singled out by name when Moallem said that Syria’s hands were not bound and it would retaliate against any Turkish moves.

he Erdogan government did not wait for the Security Council before imposing its own sanctions on Syria. Furthermore, Istanbul was the venue for the foundation of the Syrian National Council umbrella of all opposition groups for the declared goal of replacing the Assad regime and seeking recognition as the legitimate rulers of Syria from Arab governments including Egypt.

The Turkish army also staged a large-scale army mobilization exercise on the Syrian border from Oct. 2 to Oct. 13.

sources report that Damascus views all these steps as replicating the process which led to the ouster of the Qaddafi regime in Libya and its replacement with forcible NATO backing by the National Transitional Council.

Russia was and remains flatly opposed to the Western alliance’s military intervention in Libya following its recognition of the NTC in Benghazi as legitimate rulers of Libya and is determined to deny the West an opening for similar military action in Syria. Hence the Russian veto, along with China, of a Security Council motion paving the way for such action.

For a few days, Syrian President Assad was allowed to hail this diplomatic success far and wide as attesting to the support of his regime by two big world powers.
However, his victory march was short lived. Friday, President Dmitry Medvedev admonished the Syrian president by saying:”If the Syrian leadership is incapable of conducting reforms, it will have to go, but this decision should be taken not in NATO or certain European countries, it should be taken by the Syrian people,” he said.

Then, after the assassination of Kurdish leader Mashaal Tammo at his home in Qamishli, the White House for the first time called on Assad to go. Spokesman Jay Carney said the Syrian ruler must “step down now before taking his country farther down this very dangerous path.”
All at once, President Assad was confronted by two very strong voices telling him his time was up. When he failed to respond, Moscow stepped up the diplomatic pressure by reaching out to the Syrian opposition, the first government to do so after Turkey. This setback was serious enough to alarm the Assad regime and elicit threats.
In the case of Libya, Russia went along with the Obama administration - but only in as far as helping to negotiate the installation of an alternative government in Tripoli for the opposition to share power with Qaddafi’s sons. This diplomatic collaboration was cut short in August by the French-British-Qatari-Jordanian special forces’ conquest of Tripoli. Moscow is now bidding to broker a similar power-sharing administration to take the reins of government in Damascus from the bloody hands of the Assad regime. Only this time, the Russians hope to act in time to preempt Western military intervention in Syria.

Last week, the Syrian ruler threatened to flatten Tel Aviv and Jordanian cities if attacked.

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After saying it would crush activists with an Iron Fist some are accusing Saudi Arabia of using excessive violence in its eastern oil rich provinces to put down mahine-gun toting Shiites. Saudi officials blamed “a foreign country” and “mercenaries” after demonstrators fought the police with classical Iranian Revolutionary Guards tactics in the Shiite town of al Awamiya near the kingdom’s largest oil terminal at Ras Tanura:  In one incident, the security police were allowed to break up demonstrations. But when they chased the ringleaders into the alleys, they were ambushed with machine gun and automatic fire. Eleven officers were injured but as they retired with their wounded, they were hit a second time by Molotov-wielding motorcyclists with two riders - one driving and the other shooting.

Although Iran is not named in official Saudi communiqués - only “a foreign country seeking to undermine the security and stability of the homeland in blatant interference in national sovereignty,” no one in Riyadh doubts Tehran’s hand in the unrest, using its own and Hizballah undercover agents to smuggle the guns through neighboring Bahrain to Shiite activists in Al-Awamiya and teaching them assault tactics.

Last week, Riyadh sent military reinforcements to Bahrain to help suppress a new wave of disturbances after discovering that the Shiite activists in Bahrain and Qatif had linked up for action. The Saudi expeditionary force in the tiny neighboring kingdom has been more than doubled to 3,600 fighting men plus 30 tanks.

According to an old English system of time units, a moment is one and a half minutes (90-seconds).

Turkey’s Operation Barbarossa aims to establish a naval and air force presence on six world seas while making a grab to wrest oil and gas from Israel and Greek Cyprus (Jews and Christians.

Military experts note that the Turkish Navy has 19 frigates, 14 submarines, 7 corvettes, 75 navy aircraft and 108 fast attack craft, manned by a total of 48,600 personnel. They are not up to challenging the US and European Mediterranean fleets and would be outmatched qualitatively even by Israel’s much smaller navy.

Nazi Germany called its invastion of the then Soviet Union Operation Barbarossa. The invasion failed and most think it was the beginning of the end for Hitler’s Reich.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question “How?” but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question “Why?” (Erwin Chargaff, biochemist)
Raul Labrador (R-ID), is the first Congressman to call on Attorney General Eric Holder to resign after Fast and Furious documents showed he knew about the scandal and its details.

Labrador said: “I first learned about Fast and Furious early this year from several of my constituents. I then asked Chairman Issa to hold hearings on the topic. As I attended the hearings and reviewed the evidence, I was careful to not jump to any conclusions about the extent of Mr. Holder’s involvement. However, the recently published documents that directly link Mr. Holder to Fast and Furious have convinced me that he is either lying or grossly incompetent.”

The recently surfaced documents this week obviously contradict Holder’s May 3rd congressional testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. These documents show that he was briefed on the operation as far back as early July, 2010!

U.S. Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), who led the congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious with Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), said these new documents prove Holder knew the details of the operation and debunk the DOJ’s latest explanation which claimed Holder did know about Fast and Furious, but was unaware of its specific details. Right!

Labrador said Holder’s May 3rd testimony was “either UNTRUE or deliberately misleading.”

On Wednesday, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) suggested that Obama administration officials responsible for Operation Fast and Furious are “ACCESSORIES TO MURDER!”

For now Obama is sticking with Holder and few expect him to resign although many expect him to be replaced if Obama wins a second term.

If you’re worried about all of those protesters engaging in unprotected sex and contracting ghastly sexually transmitted diseases, you can breath a sigh of relief. Now condoms to honor (and protect) the Occupy Wall Street movement have been rolled out. Dubbed Occupy Condoms, these prophylactics promise to be “99 percent effective” a nod to the 99 percent of Americans devastated by the economy whom these protestors say they represent.