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BlueStrat
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:23pmGlenn states in his radio program today (Tues, Nov. 23rd) that he thinks that antagonizing TSO‘s is not good because he says that it’s making them consider regular citizens “the enemy” and after they are unionized they will be part of the “union brownshirts” (my term) when the “go-signal” is given for takeover.
I love Glenn and agree with most of his theories & conclusions, but here I must disagree. The idea that the TSA and the TSO’s considering regular citizens as the enemy, as well as the coming unionization and their possible use as brownshirts has already sailed. Those things already have been occurring and will continue to progress.
The only thing we can really do outside of purely political pressure (which will likely be ignored as much as possible) is to make it so undesirable to be a TSO doing groin-checks that those they have now quit, and make it so they will be unable to hire enough groin-checking TSOs at any pay to accomplish their goals.
I‘m sure that the Nazi soldiers that had to haul out Jews from the rubble of the Warsaw ghetto didn’t like the body odor or getting their uniforms soiled with bits of skull & brain matter when they shot them in the back of the head either. I don’t think the Nazis were any kinder to Jews that were deferential and respectful to the soldiers.
Report Post »roseofsharon
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:39pmI guess it’s a possibility that giving a TSO a hard time will deter them from working there, but they have kids’ mouths to feed too.
Report Post »BlueStrat
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:53pmOops, I meant to post this under the “‘Furious’ TSA Screeners Complain About Smelly Passengers ” story.
“That’ll learn me” to try commenting while reading multiple stories opened in multiple browser tabs.
Sorry fellow Blazers.
Report Post »republitarian
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:11pmThis right after Obama‘s failed diplomatic Asian Tour ’10. The world smells weakness. If we do nothing, Taiwan will be next.
Report Post »roseofsharon
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:30pmThe world is watching. We have to get America back to her glorious self.
Report Post »Buydebook56
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:29pmI read an intellengence report that basically intimated that if the U.S. and South Korea were to attack North Korea that the war would be over in 3 days. One day for the war and the other two days to try to stop laughing. North Korea’s military strategy is the same as the former Soviet Union. Mass large amounts of troops and supplies and overwhelm the enemies defences. Most of North Korea’s artillery and troop concentrations are along the DMZ. Drop a few Neutron Bombs which only kill humans to soften em up. Let the F-22 Raptors and the F-35 JSF‘s take out their air to air and slip the B1’s and B52′s through the hole. They’ll never see it coming. What we need is another “Patton.“ ”If I found myself with China on one side and North Korea on the other, I’d attack in both directions.” And taking out China has the added bennies of wiping the slate clean on our debt. Sounds like a win win scenario to me.
Report Post »grahampink
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:07pmI’m sure your president will give the North Koreans a stern talking to.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 8:30pmor a beer summit
Report Post »Hondaman
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:06pmFolks, this is one dangerous situation.
Report Post »Galt wanna be
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:02pmI think if we call for talks and “strongly condemn” these actions, it will be resolved. If that doesnt work, then we need to REALLY condemn it and consider sanctions. If it persists, we should REALLY, REALLY put our foot down and condemn it for a second time. Then we can demand to sit down and talk. That’ll stop this nonsense.
Report Post »roseofsharon
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:14pmI doubt that.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 6:46pmI think people like Obama WANT North Korea to do crap like this. Everytime a lot of stuff is going on they do this for attention, it‘s icing on the cake of Obama’s bowing.
South Korea are our allies. Obama has shown a pattern of creating enmity between us and our allies.
Report Post »roseofsharon
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 6:57pmWants to create strife, a situation that scares us so much we run to the gov’t for help?
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 9:16pmBy the same token, I’ve read that South Korea fired first in a training exercise which prompted the North Korean response.
If anybody can confirm or dispute this, I’m interested in hearing it.
Report Post »Just_Someone_Who_Cares
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:01amSouth Korea did fire but it wasn‘t at north Korea it wasn’t even into North Korean waters. It was into south korean waters
Report Post »rdk
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 6:45pmGive tactical nuclears to the South Koreans and the Japanese. That will give the Chinese and North Koreans something to respect.
Report Post »roseofsharon
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 6:25pmStill thinking about the 4th son.. I mean I know this is what the liberals scream about: us minding our own business and letting other countries fiend for themselves, but can we really? N KOREA IS DANGEROUS just as much as Iran is.
Whenever I think about how much of us China owns and how barry’s just going to sit with his thumb up his a#!, and how much the progressives have damaged us already, all I can think is how very careful we have to be to get this right in the ensuing years- there is just no room to eff it up.
Report Post »Mikee T
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 6:34pmThat’s right……..and if they don’t systematically remove all progressives we will be sunk as a once great nation….period. I fear, however, that we have too many brain dead people constituing our electorate…. Liberalism, to me, is a condition….a malaise of some kind…. They are satanic….
Report Post »roseofsharon
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:05pmOk so it’s a plan: remove the progressives, get our businesses out of China (lower taxes, fines, regulations, etc), sneak a smart bomb to S Korea and to Japan, get someone in the North to stir up the family strife, and oh yeah, get barry the h#!! out of office!! (And don’t replace him with Chillary)
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 6:21pmDamn, that was close.
Whoever that person was near that explosion, it’s going to take a lifetime for his/her anus to un-pucker.
Report Post »roseofsharon
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 6:29pmAh thank you. Want to cry and end up laughing..
Report Post »Star Spangled
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 6:20pmObama has done all he’s going to do about this . China is on N. Koreas side and China owns us thanks to Obama . So whatever else happens we’ll just sit it out . China rules the world now .
Report Post »roseofsharon
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 6:42pmI remember the Clintons doing alot with China back in the day- and that was 20 years ago. barry’s magnified everything from bad to much worse but this has been going on for decades, slowly China buying us out, either by taking our companies that produce or just buying our bonds- it’s been a slow bleed and we have to stop it and then reverse it NOW.
It’ll take some time, some stones and perserverance, but we can do it.
Report Post »CHINA DOES NOT OWN THE WORLD… yet.
INTHEBEGININGGOD
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 6:19pmLet’s just put this situation in respective for a minute. IFSouth Korea was muslim, barry obama would had have boots hitting the ground 1/2 hour after they woke his little skinny ass up. Maybe this is Hillary’s 3:00 wake up call. We only know what was reported, he probably went back to sleep in the Lincoln bedroom because mikshell told barry once you leave don’t come back.
Report Post »roseofsharon
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 6:17pmHas Il Jong Kim given his “throne” to his 4th son yet? I know there could be skirmishes from within- not between brothers (or maybe yes) but between 4th son and uncle, Kim’s brother… There’s a situation to take advantage of within the “Il Jong dynasty” if possible… Any thoughts anyone?
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 8:11pmYeah lil’ kim got it.
Report Post »Mikee T
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 6:14pm@#ckface Obama should go over there and kiss some more ass and maybe invite his pay from Iran as well…… What a @#cking joke………what has happened to this country ?
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 6:46pmapparently the @#ck faces voted enmass last presidential election.
Report Post »crolic9
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 6:06pmsorry did not mean to do it twice
Report Post »crolic9
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 6:01pmWe should be moving a carrier group into the area.
North Korea needs to step back and get with the times.
I think the people would like to have the freedom we had before Obama.
It is time America gets the nadds we once had…. But of course if China gets involved we would have capitulate to them because they basically own us DON’T they??? FEDERAL Gov..???????
General MacArthur was correct so was General Patten… I fear so many have sacrificed so much to have this country turn its back… my Father a Purple Heart earner is turning in his grave.
Oh Well we cannot see the past we have to replay it again. I Pray for our children and Service men and women …. I fear harms way is coming even stronger in the future.
Be prepared America it is coming our way….
Report Post »crolic9
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 5:59pmWe should be moving a carrier group into the area.
North Korea needs to step back and get with the times.
I think the people would like to have the freedom we had before Obama.
It is time America gets the nadds we once had…. But of course if China gets involved we would have capitulate to them because they basically own us DON’T they??? FEDERAL Gov..???????
General MacArthur was correct so was General Patten… I fear so many have sacrificed so much to have this country turn its back…
Oh Well we cannot see the past we have to replay it again. I Pray for our children and Service men and women …. I fear harms way is coming even stronger in the future.
Be prepared America it is coming our way….
Vote 2012
Leave my TEA BAG Alone.
Report Post »Boojer56
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 5:52pmHistory shows that it usually takes a world war to mend a broken world economy. I wonder if we will win this one?
Report Post »roseofsharon
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:44pmwell if that is the case eventually, food storage people, food storage!!
Report Post »subsailorman7
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:58pmIt would probably clear up our debt to China because we would more than likely be at war with them primarily. After we win, we can charge them for reparations. We did the same thing to Germany in WW2.
Report Post »Paul_Missouri
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 5:45pmObama is the Barney Fife of US foreign policy. As with Iran, he just sits there with the political effectiveness of sucking on his thumb and wetting himself. He is far more then just an unending embarrassment to the office of the presidency – making even Jimmy Carter look competent by comparison; He is as useful as a blind man at the helm of rudderless ship, in a violent storm. Remember the Iran hostage crisis when Carter – the worldwide laughing stock- was in charge? 52 hostages were held for 444 days, then just MINUTES after Reagan was sworn in as president, they were released! Because the Iranians feared Reagan and laughed at Carter.
Unfortunately, no one fears Obama, the teleprompter reader, a man who is better suited to be a game-show host, giving out wads of cash (ours) to gushing sycophants.
We need a Reagan to take charge and soon.
Report Post »Lars Skipole
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 6:21pmWow! I couldn’t have said it better.
Report Post »subsailorman7
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:55pmI wish I could hack into his teleprompters and tell him what he needs to do.
Report Post »davecoolworld
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 5:44pmThis is the beginning. The CIC is j-ing off thinking it’s smart to have federal employees feeling up old aunt martha making her 200th trip to florida…or are they just training the TSA to begin screening in the streets of America after people stop flying and the airlines go out of business, thus needing a bailout in which case the Gov owns the airlines. NKorea bombing South Koreas could evolving into what the CIC needs to declare martial law…tick tock. WWIII is upon us, started a few years ago actually it’s just becoming a bit more obvious for the more obtuse.
Report Post »jb1972
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 5:10pmThis is bad for all, but me personally too. I work for a company just outside of Seoul. If it goes bad , i will be on the unemployment list as well!
Report Post »paleoconservatarian
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 6:15pmIf you’re just outside Seoel, you have several hundred artillery pieces aimed at you. If it goes bad, unemployment may be the least of your concerns.
Report Post »BeckFan1964
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 6:39pmSorry about your job but I’m more worried about the WORLD!
Report Post »roseofsharon
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:10pmOh I thought your company was located just outside of Seoul, not your workplace.. I thought you were here in America.
Report Post »New-American-Saviors
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 5:07pmPerfect time to begin a coalition with China. A Joint Cease fire ORDER from China,and just let OBAMA sing backround.
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 5:03pmThis is a very serious situation.
Report Post »john seven eighteen
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 5:02pmRemember the time the military “lost” a couple of nukes? Couldn’t we “lose” just one more, just a small one right in the middle of that hell hole? Yeah, I know, not very PC but it sure would solve a lot of problems.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 5:19pmbut, if I were Potus, a nuke would be my answer to attack.
Report Post »what4
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 5:25pmThats kinda what I was thinking, Like Billy Clinton used to do when he was mad…Just lob a missle into Kims Bedroom! Make everyone happy!
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 5:50pmOh how the left will shudder at the thought of engaging north korea in any way. Don’t we have smart bombs that will produce results in the north without too many civillian casialities?
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 6:08pmcasualties, sorry.
Report Post »paleoconservatarian
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 6:31pmThere are more than thirteen thousand artillery pieces aimed at cities (namely Seoul itself, a city of ten million), infrastructure, military installations and the boys of our thirty thousand strong Eighth Army posted all along the DMZ. Anyone considering an FU attack might consider that the northern reaches of South Korea would be instantly shelled into oblivion in retaliation.
Internet bellicosity might feel be a good chuckle for some, but there’s nothing behind it but the mutterings of no-nothing blowhards.
Report Post »roseofsharon
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 6:32pmUntameable Kate, they have bombs that can directly hit it‘s target and leave it’s circumference pristine. The bigger problem is China in my estimation.
Report Post »roseofsharon
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 6:50pmPaleo- some of it’s blowhard mutterings, yes. It’s considered idiocy for some intellectuals like yourself, a release for others, and once in a while I learn something that I didn’t know before. Since you walk such the high road perhaps I’ll learn nothing from you.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:12pmThank you ROSE it is a shame that some of the people who are on here are so darned smart that they snap like children when someone asks a question or has an opinion that differs from thiers.
Report Post »roseofsharon
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:41pmJust speaking my mind.
Report Post »paleoconservatarian
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 8:34pmWhat this site needs less of is internet tough guys affirming each others prejudices and antipathies.
Report Post »A Disturbed Giant
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 10:36pmlets remember ppl…the N/Ks are from the old commy biulding blocks….after a first strike they will fold like a cheap camera….remember a little place with the fourth largest army in the world…i think iraq was its name….any army with a commy structure will fail…..always has and always will…..all we need is a pres that will let the military do its job…
Report Post »New-American-Saviors
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 5:02pmThis is one WE’ve predicted for a long time. Put some ships in the water NOW.
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:27pmfor that we have to wait ’till 2012 .
Report Post »GnomeChomsky
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 8:25pmUmmm we have ships in the water. We maintain permanent Naval Stations in Korea and Japan
Report Post »geminisailor
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 5:01pmThe world doesn’t fear us anymore because of this manchild that we have in office and his liberal sissies — China, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, etc. They are all thumbing their noses at us because they KNOW Barry won’t do anything to stop them.
Report Post »MAULEMALL
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 5:26pmI love the way the “brodcaster” said that diplomacy was the only thing left…
South Korea is more than capable to hand the north their ass.
Report Post »Nightstalker
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 5:36pm155′s with High Explosive rounds are not very good for anybodies day!
It‘s a shame we don’t have a back bone to respond to this!
Report Post »I thank G-d my father is not here to see the way we are letting “lil Kim” handle us.
He gave blood, sweat, tears and a brother for that war.
Now Barry, is going to let yet another “incident” go by with a “stern” warning!
Robert W
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 5:49pmIm sure Obama will fix the situation….hes gotta tune up the teleprompter first.
Report Post »DocH
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 6:44pmNorth Korea has a million man army and total superiority in equipment. It could invade South Korea and wipe it off the map in 30 days. http://www.holyhillcross.com/COMING%20CONFLAGRATION.htm
Report Post »Kaen
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 6:54pmEnough is enough, why delay the inevitable? Diplomacy NEVER works, ask Neville Chamberlain.
Here is an example of the only effective diplomacy:
Stop now! No? BOOOOOOOM!!! simple really.
Report Post »subsailorman7
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:36pmI agree on all parts. Nobody fears this so-called president.
Report Post »South Korea can more than handle North Korea. North Korea may have the numbers, but South Korea has the equipment and the training. A lot of North Korea’s equipment is antiquated. A lot of South Korea’s equipment is, well, ours. South Korea has one of the largest Navies in Southeast Asia. Japan’s is even larger, so China and North Korea might want to think about that. They might not have to worry about us getting involved because obummer has no balls, but they should worry about South Korea and Japan. Japan is not going to allow China and North Korea to cut them off from us and the rest of the world.
snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 8:02pmUnderstand if we wind up engaging the North, there is one part we need to prepare to face from just north of the Yalu river, and that is China. We figured they would not intervein once before and they did. So we need to be careful of them, and punish the north.
Unlikely that man in the white house will do so.
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Report Post »Parkeralan
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 8:34pmAbsolutely right Sailor,
Reagan knew “peace through strength”. Korea has been testing Obama from day 1. Nuclear reactors, missile tests, sinking of sub and now this. They clearly are hoping for some reaction from us. Why? Perhaps to fire up a war to give them an excuse to nuke Seoul. Who cares why, give them what they want, WAR, and this time finish the damn thing. China won’t arm the north and will secretly be happy to have that nut job Kim Ill out of the neighborhood.
As you said, others are watching, this must be answered. Even if there could be nukes at play, which I doubt and think is a bluff. If we fail to act this time then let’s just bring home the 40,000 troops, give the South a couple of nukes just in case and call it a day.
Cheers – Parker
Report Post »akim
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 8:38pmMunich, maybe the Obama would want to talk things over with North Korea in Munich. Obama thinks our flag colors run.
Report Post »rnurmikko
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 9:07pmGeminisailor nailed it. Manchild, sissy, wafe, concoction, whatever you call what’s his name (sorry, but it’s true) they are all making bank on us right now. No Fear Stickers are the rage in Chicom City.
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 9:47pmgemini, your observations are not complete.
While Obama is, essentially, a pacifist (what’s wrong with that) our Nation is in no way in a position to take on China via the North Korean proxy. Which is what this all boils down to.
The attack by NK today does not reflect Obama‘s weakness nor China’s strength but; moreover, the power struggle that is now going on in North Korea, the worlds ONLY necrocracy, between the already dead president (Kim Il-sung), the dying leader (Kim Jung-Il), the 27 year-old heir Kim Jung-un and the militant factions of the military gung-ho on whatever crazy ideas they have. Coupled with the depravity of the entire country’s structure and social order.
The fluster cuck of NK is entering a new phase. A phase that, I think, will lead to either total implosion of NK or total war in the region.
I don’t think Obama has done anything wrong yet in handling this situation.
We must wait and see
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 10:35pmhow is the improving of our image around the world going?
Report Post »robspectre
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 10:28amThe World War has just begun. This time though, the National Socialist are in this country. This war will be fought on many different levels. Our financial crisis is a set up. Prepare for the worst.
Report Post »wolfagain
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 4:28pmI disagree with the idea that we are facing WWIII because of the artillery incident between the 2 Koreas. This one of a continuing series of probes. There are several players involved here in what is really a test by the PRC of the West and its Asian allies. Unlike the first Korean War, the UN in these provocations is entirely impotent. Kim-il Sung appealed to his PRC sponsor that he could complete an invasion of the South in 2 weeks.He was allowed to pull the trigger, and he was nearly right. But his failure to do that was so complete that the PRC may have lost close to one million men when they were forced to enage by MacArthur. China can forecast with reasonable certainty that the U.S. will just watch,but the South will not be surprised again. If N. Korea finds a serious weakness – which is doubtful – they could attack without the PRC’s support. That is unlikely. So far the provocations are peripheral. The PRC’s real desire is to take Taiwan, and to prove itself the dominant power in Asia. The Chinese lost their first opportunit by the failure of the North in the first war. Despite its push into hegemony, the PRC‘s patience since the 50’s continues. It will accept a longer timeline to expand its power, but its pressure will increase. The probes by its client will continue. The PRC is surrounding Taiwan economically – and also developing an effective blue-water Navy. Their preference is for a Sudetenland, but if a move on Taiwan goes hot, count on the North to make its move then. South Korea’s survival depends more on the U.S. response to a threat to Taiwan.
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