In This Dimension

This is not that hard.

Give a nuke missle to the Saudis. Make it a Minuteman 3. 10 MIRVs (Multiple Independently-targeted Reentry Vehicles). With pre-programmed launch, targeting and detonation altitude data that cannot be overridden (they can enter new data all they want, but the original will be what is acted upon).

Then when the Saudis fire it at Iran (and they will – they hate Iran and the Shias more than anyone hates anyone), those ten .475MT W88 warheads are gonna destroy: Mecca, Medina, Riyadh, Jeddah, Qom, Arak, Islamabad, Sanaa, Al Hudaydah, Kabul.

No American fingerprints. Doubtless the Saudis would announce they[…]

Here are my problems with the Libya deal:

1. There was zero national interest for America - we went at the UN and Arab League’s request with not an ounce of input from Congress. Hard to be more anti-Constitutional than that. (Same, BTW, in Uganda right now.)

2. Obama pretended that NATO was in charge. By statute, the military leader of NATO is an American. So only the ignornat would think that by letting NATO run it, the US no longer was.

3. We said at the outset that the goal was not killing khaddafy. Yet when he was killed, we rejoiced: “We[…]

Take a moment, if you will, to listen to this. It’s a young woman - 13 years old - playing a trumpet solo before a packed audience. The piece is - what’s a good adjective? Grand? Wonderful? Haunting? Beautiful?

Listening to it, taking the time to relax for five minutes and just listen, one thinks of the true glory of our culture and civilization. Nowhere else outside Europe has this - could this have - happened. We treasure music, what it says, what it communicates, how it sounds. It is both an entertainment and a cultural voice of what we have,[…]

FWIW, here’s my summary take on the GOP field as it stands, on the nomination, and the ramifications of the next election, should I be correct.

Romney: Say anything to get nominated and then run-away from Conservatism to get elected; we never win with moderates: Ford, GHW Bush on his own (not as Regan-II), Dole, McCain. If the GOP can’t get past the Rockefeller wing, then we’ll keep losing - and should.

Perry: Can’t debate. Arguably shot himself in the foot with the big prayer meeting, shot himself in the thigh with immigration (with the Base, though I agree with him), shot[…]

The Euro is the next dodo. Dead through over-use by those unwilling to use it responsibly.

The EU, built to forestall wars among Europeans who historically never stop fighting unless made to (like when sandwiched between the Warsaw Pact and NATO, but of course they began fighting immediately after the Pact dissolved), will follow. Turkey and the various non-European islamist states, having never educated their masses of ignorant peoples who still believe in the superstition of religion and have never had an Enlightenment or Reformation, now are running as hard as they can toward war in the Med. And of course[…]

So here’s a scary observation.

I ran the numbers and graphed Rasmussen’s running average of HRH Obama’s popularity among likely voters against the GOP debate schedule. And you know what? The debates most-liked by the GOP base are helping Obama.

After the 8/11 Fox debate, his approval index stayed flat at -22.

After the 9/5 S. Carolina debate, he bumped-up a point, from -20 to -19.

After the 9/7 MSNBC debate, he stayed flat for a day and then dropped two the following day, from -22 to -24.

After the 9/12 CNN Debate, he went up three over the next couple of days, from -20[…]

Bob Beckel evidently told Stuart Varney today that there’s a possibility that Obama will pull an LBJ and decide not to run again.

I wrote here and here that I think Obama will quit or be tossed under the bus by the DNC. I’m not alone in that prediction… and here … and here .

Now Beckel, the face of the Dems on Fox, thinks Obama will quit.

Evidently NY Times is coming-out with a column that HRH Obama is depressed and doesn’t like being president.  Gawker.com’s already printed a similar column.

(He’d like to be King and keeps telling everyone paying-attention, though).

I can’t imagine how he WOULD like being president.

His far-left base is[…]

Paul Ryan.

Here is a link to a speech given today by Mr Ryan. (via RCP and Ricochet.)

As the columnist publishing it concludes: ”Can you imagine either of the serious contenders for the Republican Presidential nomination giving so thoughtful a speech? ”

Answer? No, I can’t.

Here’s the text:

Thanks very much for your kind introduction. It’s always a pleasure for me to speak to Hillsdale folks. Your mission here at the Kirby Center is a great example of what Hillsdale College is all about – that is, in the words of James Madison, “liberty and learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual[…]

So I took my son today to the California DMV. He has reached the age for his Learner’s Permit… and it’s time he was introduced to the wonders of government “services.” Might help him understand my dislike for anything having to do with “government” and “employee” being in the same sentence.

So I made an appointment two days in advance to minimize my time with the morons. Because I made the appointment on the phone (do people really go to the DMV to make appointments to go to the DMV?), I had no official printout of the appointment when arriving at[…]