Mr. Barry Gets Something Totally RIGHT

As the leader of the free world, Barry got it right. Through connecting the dots the CIA found the home/lair of Osama Bin Laden and Barry blew his sorry ass up. (Parted his butt crack, put a cap in him, sent him to see the virgins).

The piece of shit Bin Laden was living a 40 Miles outside of Islamabad. Who would have thought it? Less than an hour's drive from the capital of our Muslim ally Pakistan. Can you imagine only a mere 1 hour commute from the ISI (Pakistan' Inter-Services Intelligence) headquarters?


Sharky&Sharky in the past has complained about Barry's stupidity and in the future the Sharks will complain and rally against him to be sure. But Not to Today when you are right you are right. Today Mr. Barry you are right. 

A sweet follow up would be for you to bring all the troops home, this coming weekend for Mother's Day.  Much to SharkyandSharky's chagrin this would guarantee your re-election.

Barry is Brainless...a Complete Nincompoop

Barry's Administration is committed to nincompoopery. His declared united state of nincompoopery is continous. His latest demonstration of brainlessness is the invasion of Libya.

Sharky&Sharky does not accept his humanitarian rationalization expressed as to why the Libya invasion was done by the US. Sharky&Sharky does not accept this denial of sovereign ethical responsibility and ownership: The denial being, The US did it with our NATO and UN partners. None of these organizations would have done anything without the US fire power. The US bears ethical responsibility; this bombing is in no way ameliorated; as chidren we used to say when confront by a parent "well everyone else was doing it".

This begs the questions what alternatives should have been considered in addition to 120 plus Tomahawk missiles which are still being fired.

The citizens of Libya are demonstrating against the dictator Colonel Gaddafi. However, Libya citizens unlike the people of Tunisia or Eygpt seem to have weapons. There appears to be a Transitional National Council posited as Libya's legitimate government backed by at least France; The TNC continues to wrestle with how to achieve its goals of pushing Gaddafi from power. The leaders appear to be men (of course women should stay in the most central part of the house) named Mahmoud Jibril and Ali al-Essawi. Who knew? What are their credentials and authenticity? Of course there are a few turncoat Generals (1) and (2) who are now advocates for the revolution:

(1)A Major General in the Libyan Army, Suleiman Mahmoud, has declared himself and his soldiers as being on the side of the people and against 'the tyrant' Muammar Gaddafi.Maj. Gen Mahmoud is the commander of the army in the port city of Tobruk and the highest ranking officer to have declared his opposition to Gaddafi.

(2)In an "urgent" on-screen caption, a state-controlled television station reported that Maj. Gen. Khalid Shahmah had joined the rebels in Zawiya. It did not further identify the general or clarify his role in the military.

We the US citizens who funded this invasion were not asked, informed, or consulted. We are dead broke and Barry fires of 122 Tomahawk missiles that cost $2M a piece  (do not fall for the $600,000 price tag, that does not include a warhead) plus naval transport and payload to back a dubious nation composed of Arab tribes.
 
The Libya's tribal breakout are manifold. There are 140 tribes.

 There is the Gaddafi tribe. Great, he has his own tribe. The two largest tribes

are the Beni Salim tribe that settled in Cyrenaica, the eastern coastal region of Libya, and the Beni Hilal that settled in western Libya around Tripoli. Some people have no tribes like 15% of the population, the Berbers. The Magariha tribe is in the best position to carry out a coup since they are in the sensitive position in the government. The Zawiya tribe can stop the flow of oil to western countries.

Gaddafi maintained anti-tribal posture during his long reign. His government was composed of people from various tribes. After the coup d'etat in 1969 Gaddafi removed tribes from political power. There does seem to be that the larger tribes are planning a march of reconciliation from Tripoli to Benghazi:

Mar. 25 (Prensa Latina) Members of Libya´s largest tribes on Friday joined the so-called “Green March” from the capital to Benghazi, organized by citizens interested in promoting reconciliation between the government and rebels.Civilians carrying green Libyan flags and olive branches and chanting slogans for unity of the Libyan people above political differences were seen in the march to what is now the capital of the opposition.

The Warfalla tribe will not be coming; they are sending regrets. They see march of Reconciliation an act of loyalty to Gaddafi. How many Libyans are upset with Gaddafi? Could this be a small number of radical folks and an army that just got out of control? What was the measure that required western world violent response? Was it the possibility of mass killings by Gaddafi? Will there be mass killings after Gaddafi is "stopped"? Of course no one knows the answer. We cannot say what the future will be or what it might have been if we had not intervened.
 
Barry does not know if this a revolution, or is this an insurgency  or a civil war or a riot that has went bad. Although he says otherwise.What are the ideals and ideology of these rebels or revolutionaries? What gives them the right to cry to the US for help when Gaddafi starts kicking their asses all over the school yard? Who gave them the weapons to fight their government? Forget asking what is the plan for this conflict? The rebels plan is simple: get a weapon, ( from where?) jump in a truck, and shoot at Gaddafi's Libyan Army and when we get in trouble cry out to the Great Satan to come save our ass. Forget that MLK and Ghandi stuff of demonstrations lets "kick some Gaddafi butt". Then beg for the Great Satan to come and bail us out when we lose.

Thanks to the NYT: Here is a few of the Libyan rebels; Where did they get those guns?

Where do they get all these toys?

Well it appears that it will not be hard to tell the Gaddafi loyalists from the Rebels; there is something about the loyalist skin color. Sharky&Sharky wonder if we will see any of these black fellows again before they get their virginal reward.

Now you boys ain't hiding no watermelon down in there?

Lets think about this. It is possible that the natural rights of man consciousness is arising in the Middle East. It is possible that the America is being seen by the Middle East as the "bright, shinning city on a hill." There is turmoil in Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, Saudi Arabia. etc. Here is a Washington Post article that walks you through the turmoil of the Middle East state by state. Let not your brains be muddled. The natural rights conscious is occuring, but there is no single Pentecost in the Middle East where everyone is seeing the same single freeing flame of democracy which will organize all these countries. These are all different situations. Intermuslim wars of Sunni against Shia, Shia against Sunni, poor Peasant class and/or Middle class against ruling class. Every situation is different and complex. Nevertheless, Barry and the three Hawklets have introduced US chaos into already irrational situations. There is no way that they can predict the outcome in Libya. No more than we could have predicted the outcome in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Tunisia. Both of which are hung at the moment. By the by do not think that Iraq is over. Is the results of the last Iraqi election finally in yet.

General Wesley Clark nets it pretty well:

In a best-case scenario[in Libya], there would be a constitutional convention, voter lists, political parties and internationally supervised free and fair elections. But there could also be a violent scramble for authority in which the most organized, secretive and vicious elements take over. We are not well-equipped to handle that kind of struggle. And once we intervene, Libya's problems would become our responsibility. 

What should we have done. First we should have NOT bombed Libya. Neither ideals nor values nor imagined outcomes justify either means or the results (ends) of this action. The ethical chain is not the ethics of good intentions but the ethics of responsibility leading to ownership of the most human enabling outcome. Bombing is not humanitarian.  Second everyone must realize that the cost of revolutions are high. If you start one then you must pay for it. You pay for revolutions with your lives; in this case Libyan lives. The American people should not be suckered into paying for it. Barry wants to sidetrack the issue by saying there will be no American ground troops. Or Libyans will be slaughtered. However what about the quarter billion spent on Tomahawks? Who will pay for those? The Libyan Rebels should pay for them; they have command of the oil outlets now. They ordered the Tomahawks; freedom is not free. At the heart of the problem is necessity for practising and using JUDGMENT
Finally the high crime in all of this is American involment. We are creating chaos. We are not helping. What will we do when Libyan tribes begin to war among themselves when Gaddafi is gone? Those countries who want to be fledging democracies have to work at democracy development themselves. Running about with pickup trucks and automatic rifles is not a revolution or hoping for generals that change sides is suicide. These startup democracies need to nuture their own John Adamses and Thomas Jeffersons and George Washington and George Mason's etc. Individuals that desire to sacrifice their futures, fortunes, and collective national faiths to achieve their national unified democratic sovereignty. Failing the startups will remain enslaved to dictators and tribal warfare. And of course the US will support that next dictator. America needs to take a position on how we are going to develop democracies. Looking for allies at the last minute to support us when these fledglings are about to crash and burn only introduces more chaos in the world. The first step that America should take is to denounce all of our allies and sovereign business partners that are dictators. Encourage our NATO allies to do the same. President Carter tried this in the seventies and he was laughed out of town. It appears that he was right. By supporting dictatorships, we are introducing chaos and Fitna and supporting dictator's evil. America needs to be the bright, shinning city on a hill in our actions and in our spirit. Next we need to inform all dictators that we will support their nation's movements to democracy. America will speak out for democracy and liberty at every turn. No matter how uncomfortable this is or politically incorrect, it trumps 120 Tomahawk missiles and shirking the ethics of responsibility.

Sharky&Sharky©

Bobby Manifests a Set of Balls

Sharky&Sharky could never understand why the state of Lousiana elected a Republican governor, Bobby Jindal (It is really not Bobby but Piyush; but southerners can't say and would prefer not to say PiYush). There have only been three Republican governors since 1877. One was a switcher. The third one was Bobby.

In all articles Booby is proclaimed Indian American. Of course Sharky&Sharky have not idea what that is. Does that means he is member of the Cherokee Nation. Guess if Barry is an African American then Bobby is a ok being a Paiute or Piyush.

As said earlier Sharky&Sharky could not understand why Bobby a rather homely, short, poor speech-giving Indian American was elected by the citizens of the Lousiana to be their governor. Perhaps it is because he is smart just plan smart.

However we all know that smart is not enough in the political arena. There bulls gore smart. Sharky&Sharky wanted to know does Bobby have balls: Yes nerve, Clint Eastwood/John Wayne fiber, Shane flint (Joey: Was that him Shane: Shane: That was him. That was Wilson alright. He was fast - fast on the draw.)

On Monday June 14, Bobby met with Barry. Sharky&Sharky note this event as a first meeting of an African American and  Indian American Barry did not stay for oily oysters. I am sure that Bobby pressed his case for help, but Barry gave him nothing that Sharky&Sharky can find. However within less than 24 hours of Barry meeting with Bobby; Bobby strapped on some steel. (Bobby is the Indian American in the picture from ABC News) quoting from ABC News: Eight weeks into the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of the Mexico, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has told the National Guard that there's no time left to wait for BP, so they're taking matters into their own hands. In Fort Jackson, La., Jindal has ordered the Guard to start building barrier walls right in the middle of the ocean. The barriers, built nine miles off shore, are intended to keep the oil from reaching the coast by filling the gaps between barrier islands. Today, huge Blackhawk and Chinook helicopters lined up in the air, dropping sandbags one by one into the sea. "They are lifting up about 7,000 pounds of sandbags," said 1st Lt. James Tyson Gabler.

Now Sharky&Sharky have no idea if this is a good plan or a horrible plan. However a man has to do what he has to do; even if it means defying the federal government. Also, It may happen that the Kingfish was wrong when he said, "One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it." Sharky&Sharky suggest that BP grant Bobby's $500 million research proposal.

Because BP "Bobby is not only smart but fast"

Sharky&Sharky agree with Rabinowitz…Barry is an Alien

Dorothy Rabinowitz, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, has proclaimed the proposition that Barry is an alien in the White House. She says
"Those qualities to be expected in a president were never about rhetoric; Mr. Obama had proved himself a dab hand at that on the campaign trail. They were a matter of identification with the nation and to all that binds its people together in pride and allegiance."…"He is hard put to sound convincingly like the leader of the nation, because he is, at heart and by instinct, the voice mainly of his ideological class. He is the alien in the White House."
Ms Rabinowitz goes on to powerfully remind us how difficult it is for the Barry's people to say jihadist or terrorist and that the White House is no longer the cornerstone and keystone of the world's freedoms and leadership but
"It is a White House that has focused consistently on the sensitivities of the world community—as it is euphemistically known—a body of which the president of the United States frequently appears to view himself as a representative at large..."The beliefs and attitudes that this president has internalized are to be found everywhere—in the salons of the left the world over—and, above all, in the academic establishment, stuffed with tenured radicals and their political progeny. The places where it is held as revealed truth that the United States is now, and has been throughout its history, the chief engine of injustice and oppression in the world."
Sharky&Sharky wish to turn from these profound expressions of policy and politics of Ms Rabinowitz to the more technical world of space a program which now he modifies to embrace the sensitivities of the world and assuredly arrests US hegemony in this technical arena.
First Video of Mr Obama's speech at the Kennedy Space Center, the text of the text of the Speech.
The warriors embroiled in the speech are the forces for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) activities and the forces for going on to Mars directly. (The speech is 30 minutes) In this speech Barry basically aligns with the LEO advocates desiring to rely on Russia's International Space Station and commercial development staging steps to get to Mars against the Advocates for Mars Direct who do not want the Constellation cancelled as this is a big direct step to getting to Mars. Now not even Sharky&Sharky can say what is the right choice so let us turn to some experts.
Dr. Buzz Aldrin is a big advocate for LEO direction he asserts that the President's plan gets us to Mars:
"Mars is the long-range objective for our space program. Just as deep sea exploration began with practice in our littoral waters, a successful Mars mission begins with near-Earth orbit testing. To get to the final stage, we must perfect all that we'll need for the journey. The president' budget and step-by-step approach helps do that, minimizing the risks and costs as we go."
The President's plan comes from a study that determined that the Constellation plan was flawed and the direction should be changed. This study was headed up by Norm Augustine former CEO of Lockheed. The LEO plan calls for considerable commercial development. Mr. Augustine presentation to Congress his plan indicates that(1) Current program is not sustainable (say Constellation) (2) The US needs to encourage the development of dependencies on the commercial environment (3) We will get us to Mars in stages. Unsaid by both the President, Augustine and Aldrin is that the US will be dependent on Russia's International Space Station and commercially built spaceships to launch the US astronauts. Sort of like taking a ferry across the Potomac to get to Air Force 1.
Well, what is the opposing view from Armstrong, Lovell, and Cernan. Cernan wishes that the Congress will veto the President's LEO direction in that (1) After three more shuttle trips to the ISS the US will no longer be going anywhere (2) The Moon will not be used as a stepping stone to Mars. Lovell asserts that the plan "gives NASA nothing to strive for". Along with Armstrong, the boys got a little testy in a signed open letter.
"For The United States, the leading space faring nation for nearly half a century, to be without carriage to low Earth orbit and with no human exploration capability to go beyond Earth orbit for an indeterminate time into the future, destines our nation to become one of second or even third rate stature." (Remember the great Portuguese explorers: Prince Henry the Navigator, Vasco DeGama, Ferdinand Magellan; their people can no longer travel due to their debt). ...Without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operation provides, the USA is far too likely to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity. America must decide if it wishes to remain a leader in space.
How does third rate work for you?
Now let us reflect on Ms Rabinowitz concern that Barry is an alien. Sharky&Sharky are sort of smart but we are not smarter than Armstrong, Aldrin et al. Moon first; Mars first; Sharky&Sharky do not know. Sharky&Sharky do not know why the heck Mar's is the target. But we know leadership; we know hegemony; we know mediocrity. We know that if you are sitting at the international poker table focused on world sensitivities you will either be shot or you will lose. This is not the time to become Portuguese. Barry's plan as stated takes away US control of its space fate; it makes us weak and dependent on the most corrupt country on earth, Russia. But this is the type of plan the Alien comes up with; a plan that blunts the US leadership and creates dependencies, comparable to the ideological class that he knows well as a neighborhood organizer.  

©Sharky&Sharky

Barry: "Let Off-Shore Drilling Begin"...Or Grab the Money and the Power

How far back shall we go to see the saga of ocean oil drilling unfold; we could go back to pre-Elvis 1953 and the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act? Since this ocean oil drilling has undergone many drill and do not drill cycles, we will go further back than President GHW Bush. But the question to consider is what is driving the socialist Barry is saying to permit the off-shore drilling for oil.


In 1990 GHW Bush ordered the Department of Interior to limit off-shore leasing activity (for oil pursuits) to Louisiana, Alabama, Texas and part of Alaska. His son Govenor Jeb did not want any oil drilling off of Florida. In 1998 President Clinton extended the oil ban for another ten years.

In 2008, President George W. Bush signed the Energy Independence and Security Act, which included a provision calling for Congress to pass legislation opening access to the outer continental shelf and ANWR for oil exploration.

How could Barry endanger these polar cuties?

So why did the President Obama adopt a similar plan? (Unfortunately, the new plan is not on the President's website so we will have to use second hand sources to explain it.) Initially Barry was preaching that changing your tire pressure was enough.

Well Interior Secretary Salazar is doing the environmental impact studies. He is currently getting new studies done to obtain new data on the location and properties of oil reserves.On March 31, 2010, President Obama announced the expansion of oil exploration, flipping his position on benefits of tire pressure.

No longer is President Obama ridiculing the long wait to oil output. He is no longer skeptical about the productive capacity of 1.7B acres of the outer continental shelf (OCS) under management of the OEMM which may produce 86B barrels oil, possibly generating 15 to 20 years of oil supply. Here is an ABC report that discussing the specific areas of the OCS that will be leaseable .(Sorry: there is a bit about Iran in the video skip that for now.)

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There are those that think Barry has not flipped on OCS leases, like PolitiFact.Com. Remember he updated his position on nuclear fuel on February 16, 2010, by providing $8.3B in loan guarantees to build nuclear reactors. Why did the Socialist Barry flip or did he flip? John Broder of the NYT gives rational reasons for the flip. Such as: one, there is a need to reduce our dependency on foreign oil especially since some of the oil comes from enemies of the US, two, the government is going to need money to fund the new monster health plan, three this is a way to get more Republicans to support the climate change bills such as "Cap and Trade". Not bad reasons for a President but not good enough for a socialist.

Other reasons for a politician: Look at the map, notice the number of southern blue states that could gain from oil lease revenue and oil taxes assuming it is shared. This can become only lip service, with a head fake, as the closing of the formerly available Bristol Bay and now opening of the Chukchi Sea and the Beaufort Sea. Another head fake could easily follow. Two, it could be that President Obama sees the nexuses of low cost and always accessible domestic oil and more US jobs and low cost American goods. Three, it could be that in the manner in which he plans everything, namely without a plan, oil exploration is added to the mix that is not working, biomass, windmills, batteries etc, along with a poorly funded nuclear power loan guarantee plan. Fourth in the poker game of energy between the environmentalist and the oil companies President Obama saw that denigration of the oil industry was not working for him. But these are all presidential or political reasons not socialist reasons.

Sharky&Sharky side with Rightpundits and say look for the power grab. Look for the Socialism. Look for the state insitutionalization of the oil industry; that is the crushing of its liberty. Sharky&Sharky says, look for money and the power flow forming a nexus that structured somewhat like this: Purchases of the oil leases from the government, high cost royalty payments to the government, prices and salaries set by the government, and distribution approved by the government via strong licensing and regulation by the government. The Oil Industry is in line to suffer the fates of the Insurance Industry. Steal yourself to fight modern corporatism or be prepared to loose your liberty!

©Sharky&Sharky

“What you shooting at, Hoss?”

On Sunday February 20, 2010, The New York Times' writer C.J. Chivers, did a military analysis of the current situation in Afghanistan. Sharky&Sharky think that this is another situation in which the American citizen is being financially hosed to the tune of billions and the American soldiers are being wounded and killed due to little Afghanistan National Army support:

U.S. Fatalities in and around Afghanistan

Country of Death ......................................Fatalities
Afghanistan ...................................................880
Germany (from wounds in theatre) .................... 12
Pakistan........................................................   15
USA (from wounds in theatre)...........................   17
Uzbekistan ...................................................     1
Total ............................................................ 925

On the battlefied at Marja, Chiver's noted:

1. No Afghan soldier used a map or planned a complicated patrol
2. Afghan officers organized no indirect fire support
3. The ANA provided no battlefield resupply ( probably to busy smoking dope)
4. In battles the Afghan soldiers did not aim; they would point in the rough direction of the incoming fire and pulled off rounds without sighting.
5. The Afghani soldiers' rifles muzzles were often elevated several degrees high of any visible target.

The US Marines would often shout at the these Afgani clown soldiers (remember these are the warriors that allegedly defeated Alexander and the Russians). “What you shooting at, Hoss?” one Marine yelled during a long battle on the second day, as an Afghan pulled the trigger repeatedly and nonchalantly at nothing that was visible to anyone else.

Sharky&Sharky thought that commiting to taking out the Taliban in Afghanistan was a good thing that Barry had decided to do. Events are proving us and Barry wrong. It appears that the Afgani soldiers do not want any harm to befall the Taliban.

©Sharky&Sharky