Missives from the land of the birthers
I’m in the courtroom of Judge Michael Malihi, awaiting arguments in a case attempting to remove Barack Obama from the 2012 Georgia presidential ballot.
Roughly 100 people are in the courtroom, most of them older white Americans. The conversations are thick with various birthed theories being bandied about.
Dressed tastefully in black and wearing a pearl choker, The redoubtable Orly Taitz swept in a few minutes ago, making a star’s entrance amid whispers of “look, there she is!”
A bailiff has summoned attorneys for the plaintiffs and defendants into chambers for a pre-hearing conference. Since the Obama camp has decided to boycott the hearing, only the four plaintiffs’ attorneys, including Taitz, are in the session.
The plaintiffs have queued up a number of exhibits, including CBS and ABC videos reporting on Obama’s time in Indonesia. No sign of whether such exhibits will be allowed.
I’m in the courtroom of Judge Michael Malihi, awaiting arguments in a case attempting to remove Barack Obama from the 2012 Georgia presidential ballot.
Roughly 100 people are in the courtroom, most of them older white Americans. The conversations are thick with various birthed theories being bandied about.
Dressed tastefully in black and wearing a pearl choker, The redoubtable Orly Taitz swept in a few minutes ago, making a star’s entrance amid whispers of “look, there she is!”
A bailiff has summoned attorneys for the plaintiffs and defendants into chambers for a pre-hearing conference. Since the Obama camp has decided to boycott the hearing, only the four plaintiffs’ attorneys, including Taitz, are in the session.
The plaintiffs have queued up a number of exhibits, including CBS and ABC videos reporting on Obama’s time in Indonesia. No sign of whether such exhibits will be allowed.
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getalife
January 26th, 2012
6:22 pm
The cons are deflecting to his secretary.
Weak.
Anyhoo, murdoch was right.
They are in panic mode.
Should be a better debate on CNN,
Soothsayer
January 26th, 2012
6:23 pm
A single person (based on 2010 tax rates) would have to have taxable income (after deductions) of over $373,650 to be in the 35% federal tax bracket. Their effective tax rate would be somewhat less than that.
Brosephus Lite™ - All the sarcasm, half the words
January 26th, 2012
6:25 pm
josef
md
January 26th, 2012
6:27 pm
“Update: apparently, she makes $60K. So I gather what Buffet is talking about is comparing her federal marginal tax rate, including both sides of the employer tax, to what must be his effective tax rate, since there is no marginal rate of 17.4%. That comparison is beyond bizarre.”
Now it’s only 60k……..how comical…….round and round it goes where it stops nobody knows.
I bet this poor lady is rethinking getting involved in this fiasco……shame on them using her as a pawn.
(And for another update, @60k Warren now makes 1,047 times what she makes……that can’t play well in the media)
Soothsayer
January 26th, 2012
6:29 pm
I’m looking forward to this debate tonight. I think Willard is going to come out swinging. Ol’ Gnute’s gonna have to come up with some real dirt on Willard (uh oh! Swiss bank accounts).
It’s just too bad that Callister cain’t come on stage and stand beside her Sugar Daddy, er I mean husband, on stage. That way, she could show off them $500,000 diamond earrings.
Anyhow, this debate ought to really show who’s the biggest Dick, er I mean, the best candidate the RepugNOwecan’ts have to offer.
I’m just glad I ain’t got one of them 3d tellyvision sets so’s the shyte don’t come flyin’ in my living room!
F. Sinkwich
January 26th, 2012
6:35 pm
“The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Florida Republican Primary Voters, taken Wednesday night, shows Romney with 39% support to Gingrich’s 31%. Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum earns 12%, and Texas Congressman Ron Paul runs last with nine percent (9%).”
Looks like Newt has an uphill climb.
I’m no Mitt supporter so far (but he’s sooo much better than the Marxist we have in the WH now). If he could just show a little anger tonight about the direction this country is taking, like Newt does, he’d do much better.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
January 26th, 2012
6:35 pm
I’m just glad I ain’t got one of them 3d tellyvision sets so’s the shyte don’t come flyin’ in my living room!
Well, I got to admit I never thought of that. People watching them in 3D will be ducking and dodging and doing everything but paying attention to the debate.
Paul
January 26th, 2012
6:36 pm
Sooth
All Romney’s team needs to do is scan Drudge. He’s got an article up about “Now Dole Drops Stink on Newt” and several articles about how he viewed Pres Reagan as a loser. All Romney has to do is wait for the inevitable “back when Reagan and I worked together to…” and “…. I’m the only Reagan Republican up here” and then skewer him with his own words.
bman
January 26th, 2012
6:37 pm
i read somewhere that Warren Buffett was not going to leave his kids any $ .. .. is that really true?
josef
January 26th, 2012
6:39 pm
bman
Taking attendance?
bman
January 26th, 2012
6:41 pm
hi Josef
Welcome to the Occupation
January 26th, 2012
6:41 pm
Sinkwich: “I’m no Mitt supporter so far (but he’s sooo much better than the Marxist we have in the WH now”
That’s ILK! Marxist ILK!
C’mon Sinkwich.
Paul
January 26th, 2012
6:41 pm
Evening, Sinkwich
Your posts are beginning to sound…. reasonable! Only one “Marxist” in the whole thing!
Kamchak
January 26th, 2012
6:42 pm
Jan Brewer in 2010 on her requested meeting with Obama, a “very cordial conversation.”
Jan Brewer describing the same meeting in her book, “It wasn’t long before I realized I was hearing the president’s stump speech,” she wrote. “Only I was supposed to listen without talking.”
She called him “patronizing.”
“Then it dawned on me: He’s treating me like the cop he had over for a beer after he badmouthed the Cambridge police, I thought,” Brewer continued. “He thinks he can humor me and then get rid of me.”
josef
January 26th, 2012
6:46 pm
PAUL
No ilk yet…the boy’s slipping…
Midori
January 26th, 2012
6:47 pm
Jan Brewer has to be one of the most IGNORANT women to hold public office:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUPKKbmWMZ8
She would be halfway palatable if she didn’t eerily resemble The Crypt Keeper
F. Sinkwich
January 26th, 2012
6:47 pm
Thanks, Paul, but just getting wound up.
That’s lib ilk, Welcome etc.
Jack
January 26th, 2012
6:48 pm
55 ain’t old. Trust me.
bman
January 26th, 2012
6:48 pm
Warren Buffett is losing his mind …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBKwTSBBn7U
F. Sinkwich
January 26th, 2012
6:48 pm
Midori doesn’t like successful women!
Who knew?
Thulsa Doom
January 26th, 2012
6:51 pm
The ole mule is perty smart. Its the 2 billy goats, karl and kurt, that aint too bright.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 26th, 2012
6:52 pm
Jan Brewer has to be one of the most IGNORANT women to hold public office TRANSLATES for Sinkwich to: doesn’t like successful women
Someone’s Ilk to Republiconned translator is not set properly…. shouldn’t that be HATES?
Thulsa Doom
January 26th, 2012
6:53 pm
F. Sinkwich,
No surprise there.
Kamchak
January 26th, 2012
6:53 pm
“Go Greyhound — and leave the driving to us.”
–Thomas Jefferson
There's A Stench of Racism and A Putrid Odor of Ignorance In Atlanta
January 26th, 2012
6:54 pm
They CAN’T STOP the “O”-mentum.
Kamchak
January 26th, 2012
6:55 pm
Someone’s Ilk to Republiconned translator is not set properly…. shouldn’t that be HATES?
Or, “is scared of.”
Thulsa Doom
January 26th, 2012
6:56 pm
Jan Brewer is right. Obama needs to toughen up a bit. Too thin skinned. Of course we’ve heard that only about 4 million other times about the man.Must be something to it. Just sayin…
Midori
January 26th, 2012
6:56 pm
F. Sinkwich doesn’t like common sense.
Who else knew?
Kamchak
January 26th, 2012
6:57 pm
“What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.”
–Thomas Jefferson
There's A Stench of Racism and A Putrid Odor of Ignorance In Atlanta
January 26th, 2012
6:58 pm
@Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 26th, 2012
6:52 pm
Jan Brewer has to be one of the most IGNORANT women to hold public office.
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Jan Brewer should think her lucky stars that it was Obama.
There are MILLIONS of us who would have gone GHETTO on her.
The Secret Service would have been picking her FINGER up off the ground.
Midori
January 26th, 2012
6:59 pm
Jan is running reelection ads already: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-e8ATuFpIc
Thomas
January 26th, 2012
7:00 pm
“Bosanek pays a tax rate of 35.8 percent of income, while Buffett pays a rate at 17.4 percent”
That, by definition would put her in the 300k+ TI category. Something or someone is not right-
Nevertheless all a moot point as Sir Newton has promised a robust moon colony where money and tax brackets will be weightless
Ronstradamus
January 26th, 2012
7:02 pm
I love how the socialist media in this country says that only nuts think Obama might not have been born here…….
How many other Presidents have had not one, but two close family members arrested for being illegal aliens?
How many othet Presidents had a team of lawyers on retainer to hide the truth about their past, everything from his highschool yearbook to his college transcript!
WHY did Michelle refer to Kenya as “Obama’s home country”?
It’s actually stupid to not believe Obama is hiding something!
There's A Stench of Racism and A Putrid Odor of Ignorance In Atlanta
January 26th, 2012
7:03 pm
@Thulsa Doom
January 26th, 2012
6:56 pm
Jan Brewer is right. Obama needs to toughen up a bit. Too thin skinned. Of course we’ve heard that only about 4 million other times about the man.Must be something to it. Just sayin…
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Doomy, Obama is not thin skinned. Ask Osama Bin Laden. Ask the terriosts in Somalia. Ask Quadafy.
ITS CALLED CLASS.
Some of you think class is a room in a school.
Some of you would not know class if it SAT ON YOUR FACE.
Kamchak
January 26th, 2012
7:04 pm
WHY did Michelle refer to Kenya as “Obama’s home country”?
“Why ask why, drink Bud Dry.”
–Thomas Jefferson
There's A Stench of Racism and A Putrid Odor of Ignorance In Atlanta
January 26th, 2012
7:04 pm
@Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 26th, 2012
6:52 pm
Jan Brewer has to be one of the most IGNORANT women to hold public office.
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CORRECTION:
Jan Brewer should THANK her lucky stars that it was Obama.
There are MILLIONS of us who would have gone GHETTO on her.
The Secret Service would have been picking her FINGER up off the ground.
AmVet - Every time a publicly educated neo-con drives on public roads they are Marxists.
January 26th, 2012
7:06 pm
bman, I read back in 2007 that his kids would get a billion dollars each for their own charitable foundations, but hardly anything for themselves.
He is the antithesis of the pompous, arrogant fat cat and I suspect that is what drives his slobbering, star-struck detractors so wild. You see, he’s not a sleazy, “Hey look at me!”, Reality TV fraud and bombastic womanizer like their big hero Donnie Combover is.
They can’t figure him out. They’ve come up with tons of idiotic speculations and grand conspiracy theories about him, yet they do not know the very first thing about him. Hell, most of them have never even read the very first paragraph about him, his life or his history.
But they damn sure will tell you what he thinks and what his motivations are.
I have family that has lived in Omaha for a long time and the people there, regardless of politics, will give you the straight scoop on that family. They are just “normal” folks and he is a quiet man of morals and a HUGE philanthropist.
This flies in the face of the would-be narcissists and forever neer-do-wells here, who dementedly think they can bask in Trump’s ostentatious and tawdry reflected glow. Or is it glare?
Paul and I have talked at length about this and always chuckle at the fools…
josef
January 26th, 2012
7:07 pm
RONSTRADUMBASS
“How many other Presidents have had not one, but two close family members arrested for being illegal aliens?”
Well, it they got arrested, he must not be doing such a good job of keeping it hush-hush, reckon? Not the best evidence for your argument, Orly..
There's A Stench of Racism and A Putrid Odor of Ignorance In Atlanta
January 26th, 2012
7:08 pm
@Kamchak
January 26th, 2012
7:04 pm
WHY did Michelle refer to Kenya as “Obama’s home country”?
“Why ask why, drink Bud Dry.”
–Thomas Jefferson
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WHY DO WHITE PEOPLE SAY……..
Ireland is my home land. Or
I am Italian. Or
I am Polish. Or
I am …………….
Everyone has ancestors even Obama.
GIVE US A BREAK
Take a chill pill.
Relax.
Kamchak
January 26th, 2012
7:11 pm
Everyone has ancestors even Obama.
GIVE US A BREAK
Take a chill pill.
Relax.
Not my words, sport.
The italicized text is the giveaway.
Welcome to the Occupation
January 26th, 2012
7:13 pm
The Republican establishment is a hysteria machine. It has utterly gone off the rails.
It has a propaganda machine that breeds hysteria, and thus hysteria-mongers, but then when those figures threaten to embarrass the movement, it finds its powerless to stop the forces it has unleashed.
It’s insane.
Thulsa Doom
January 26th, 2012
7:13 pm
Jay
January 26th, 2012
6:01 pm
““Doom, it’s estimated based on the rate she pays that Buffet’s secretary earns somewhere between 200k to 500k”
“Estimated by whom, based on what?’
I dunno. Recon posted that and I was just reprinting what he posted. Executive secretarys to powerful men and CEOs often make a bundle and they themselves often have their own secretary. She’s not the typical secretary type that you think of. I would be shocked if she didn’t make 6 figures and additionally a number of non-pay benefits such as an expense account, 401k, company stock options in Berkshire Hathaway, cadillac health plan, vacation, car allowance, cell allowance, company limo time possibly,life insurance,etc.
I would be very surprised if her total compensation wasn’t 200k. I would also be very surprised if she is not a millionaire assuming she has been working for him for an appreciable amount of time.
Either way Buffet loses on this. She either makes enough to be a 1%er or close to it or if she only makes 100k a year then she is grossly underpaid by a greedy pig of a CEO.
Last the mere fact that Jay and some of the liberals on here doubt that an executive secretary such as this woman wouldn’t make a substantial amount of money such as 250k or more in total compensation shows me just how little they seem to know about the business world and or executives. This aint no run of the mill secretary. She has enormous responsibilites.
F. Sinkwich
January 26th, 2012
7:13 pm
I quoted a press story about the increase in jobless claims then added this:
All hail Obamacare! Stimulus! Cash for clunkers! Solyndra! EPA regs! Green jobs! Dead Keystone pipeline! Oil drilling moratoriums! GM bailout! Volt! High taxes! $4 gas!
I was put in “moderation.”
Huh?
AmVet - Every time a publicly educated neo-con drives on public roads they are Marxists.
January 26th, 2012
7:13 pm
…socialist media…
Just when I think I have seen all of the idiotic McCarthyisms there are, some new age would-be pinko chaser and birther comes up with a new one.
I swear that some of these demented cons won’t be satisfied until they can get a modern day House UnAmerican Activities Committee cranked up and looking for commie witches everywhere…
There's A Stench of Racism and A Putrid Odor of Ignorance In Atlanta
January 26th, 2012
7:14 pm
@Ronstradamus
January 26th, 2012
7:02 pm
I love how the socialist media in this country says that only nuts think Obama might not have been born here…….
How many other Presidents have had not one, but two close family members arrested for being illegal aliens?
How many othet Presidents had a team of lawyers on retainer to hide the truth about their past, everything from his highschool yearbook to his college transcript!
WHY did Michelle refer to Kenya as “Obama’s home country”?
It’s actually stupid to not believe Obama is hiding something!
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What is that horrible smell?
Oh, its Ronstradamus with the Stench of Racism, a Putrid Odor of Ignorance and the Foul Air of Lies.
Soothsayer
January 26th, 2012
7:16 pm
The conquest of Iran’s oil riches is the driving force behind America’s military agenda.
The US-led conquest of Iraq – costing over a million lives in a nine-year occupation – is part of Washington’s long-held plans to dominate the globe’s vast energy resources that reside in the Persian Gulf and Central Asian regions. The decade-long war in Afghanistan is another flank in this US bid for hegemony over the fuel for the capitalist world economy. For nearly three decades, the US-led Western capitalist world has been deprived of exploiting Iranian energy wealth. The Islamic Republic has remained defiantly independent of Washington’s control, not just in terms of its vast hydrocarbon riches, but also politically. Iran is no puppet of the West as it was formerly under the despotic Shah Mohammad Rezā Pahlavi.
Tehran has shown itself to be a trenchant critic of Western imperialist meddling in the region and fawning over the criminal Israeli persecution of Palestinians. Another important source of Western animus towards Iran and the deeply held desire for regime change is the loss that the Iranian revolution implies for the lucrative American, British and French weapons industry. When Shah Mohammad Rezā Pahlavi was kicked out in February 1979, so too was a massive market for Western arms dealers. The recent $50 billion arms sales to Saudi Arabia – the “biggest-ever in history” – that had the Pentagon salivating, would be easily replicated in Iran, if a similar client regime could be installed there.
From the Western powers’ point of view, Iran is both an elusive prize and a frustrating obstacle. Bringing Iran back into the orbit of Western capitalist control has the added significance of depriving energy and other geopolitical advantages to rival powers, in particular Russia and China. In a strategic review earlier this month, Washington highlighted China as its pre-eminent global competitor in the coming decades. The militarized agenda towards China was also heralded by US President Barack Obama during his Asia-Pacific tour at the end of 2011. China is heavily dependent on Iranian oil. Some 20 per cent of all Iranian crude oil exports are traded with China. The latter has billions of dollars worth of energy investments in Iran, in particular the natural gas sector, which energy analysts view as the primary fuel in forthcoming decades. Washington’s policy of hostility and regime change towards Iran and furthering its hegemony over this vital region is as much about wresting control from its perceived competitors, Russia and China. That factor takes on added importance as America’s economic power wanes.
Hmmmm . . .
AmVet - Every time a publicly educated neo-con drives on public roads they are Marxists.
January 26th, 2012
7:16 pm
Recon posted that…
I hate the stupid saying, and this is the first and likely the last time I ever use it here, but in this case it works.
There’s your sign!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 26th, 2012
7:16 pm
I dunno. Recon posted that and I was just reprinting what he posted.
F. Sinkwich
January 26th, 2012
7:17 pm
“Just when I think I have seen all of the idiotic McCarthyisms there are, some new age would-be pinko chaser and birther comes up with a new one.”
To what and whom are you referring?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 26th, 2012
7:18 pm
hiding his highschool yearbook?
Why I bet that “team of lawyers” is going to door to door to every former classmate demanding their yearbook copies…… or else!
Thulsa Doom
January 26th, 2012
7:19 pm
“There are MILLIONS of us who would have gone GHETTO on her.”
Yes. Of course. And that lack of discipline and self control has put quite a few people from the ghetto in jail. Somebody “disses” somebody so that person that got “dissed” pulls a gun and shoots that person. Sounds real productive sir.
Geo
January 26th, 2012
7:21 pm
Please November, arrive quickly so that the socks might be placed in the pie holes.
Thulsa Doom
January 26th, 2012
7:22 pm
keep up,
If you don’t understand just how richly rewarded some executive assistants are then I just can’t help you. You should read more or learn more about the business world.
F. Sinkwich
January 26th, 2012
7:23 pm
“An Indiana-based energy-storage company, whose subsidiary received a $118.5 million stimulus grant from the Energy Department, filed for bankruptcy Thursday. Ener1 is asking a federal bankruptcy court in New York…”
All hail O’bozo!!
Geo
January 26th, 2012
7:24 pm
Hey – that secretary owns two homes. That ain’t right!
Midori
January 26th, 2012
7:24 pm
hiding his highschool yearbook?
Why I bet that “team of lawyers” is going to door to door to every former classmate demanding their yearbook copies…… or else!
LOL!!!!
barking frog
January 26th, 2012
7:25 pm
I’m a lawyer -Harvey Levin(TMZ), Keep up the good fight, DebbieDoRight,
Tommy Maddox, etc..
F. Sinkwich
January 26th, 2012
7:25 pm
GM still owes me $15 billion.
Show me the money!
There's A Stench of Racism and A Putrid Odor of Ignorance In Atlanta
January 26th, 2012
7:25 pm
@Thulsa Doom
January 26th, 2012
7:19 pm
“There are MILLIONS of us who would have gone GHETTO on her.”
Yes. Of course. And that lack of discipline and self control has put quite a few people from the ghetto in jail. Somebody “disses” somebody so that person that got “dissed” pulls a gun and shoots that person. Sounds real productive sir.
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Where did I mention a gun?
That was just a SLANG.
Meaning she would have gotten a TONGUE LASHING.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 26th, 2012
7:26 pm
doomy, you are having comprehension issues….but if you have any evidence that I said anything about her salary other than quoting a FactCheck estimate, please provide a link. You might want to stick with the mules and aspire to reach their level of intelligence.
Brosephus Lite™ - All the sarcasm, half the words
January 26th, 2012
7:26 pm
“Are those Bugle Boy jeans you’re wearing?”
–Thomas Jefferson
AmVet - Every time a publicly educated neo-con drives on public roads they are Marxists.
January 26th, 2012
7:27 pm
The Az. guv seems a bit loony to me, but if she wants to get in Obama’s face and stick her bony finger in it, especially on her home turf, what the hell?
I’m pretty sure he has had to deal with much worse than her histrionics.
What is bizarre to me is that this woman said she felt “threatened by him”.
He’s the leader of the f&cking free world and if he wants to, he will do what he did to her – turn around and walk away in mid-sentence.
Not much of a threat, but pretty damn funny…
bman
January 26th, 2012
7:29 pm
Sink .. .. GM won’t make it. However, it does help that they have finally started to change the looks of their autos. Eventually, they will fail. That’s my guess.
Thulsa Doom
January 26th, 2012
7:29 pm
Stench,
And isn’t it usually the tongue lashings, these dissings, that escalates into someone pulling a gun and shooting someone all because they went “ghetto” on them?
getalife
January 26th, 2012
7:30 pm
“This is your brain and this is your brain on drugs” Thomas Jefferson
Erwin's cat
January 26th, 2012
7:30 pm
So a serious question…is the President the least powerful of the 3 branches policy wise and politically speaking?
AmVet - Every time a publicly educated neo-con drives on public roads they are Marxists.
January 26th, 2012
7:32 pm
Whoop, Whoop, Whoop, Whoop, Whoop, Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk. ~Thomas Jefferson
Welcome to the Occupation
January 26th, 2012
7:32 pm
Hi Sinkwich!
“An Indiana-based energy-storage company, whose subsidiary received a $118.5 million stimulus grant from the Energy Department, filed for bankruptcy Thursday. Ener1 is asking a federal bankruptcy court in New York…”
So, let’s review the logic here.
A system, in this case the government, that funds an organization through an investment grant and that organization fails is obviously on that basis alone irretrievably stained by that failure.
So, given the many thousands of private firms that fail each year after receiving private capital, can we not on that basis judge that capitalism must be the most illegitimate system of all given the cornucopia of failure that it promotes?
No bozo
January 26th, 2012
7:32 pm
I will make your electricity more expensive
I will make your cars more expensive
I will make all things more expensive
I will make natural gas more expensive
I will spend your money on people who don’t need it
I will bail out my union friends
I will give money to lots of people who are my chums. It’s your money and they will never repay it, but why do I care?
And if you have savings, I won’t pay you any interest for your capital
I am our savior president.
Thank ou very much.
Tommy Maddox
January 26th, 2012
7:32 pm
Barking Frog – the Angry Red Woman from Mars is one too.
Midori
January 26th, 2012
7:33 pm
Robert Hegyes, Epstein of ‘Welcome Back Kotter’ Fame, Dead at 60
getalife
January 26th, 2012
7:33 pm
Ron Paul fans are chanting end the TSA on CNN.
A rowdy crowd.
Soothsayer
January 26th, 2012
7:34 pm
Iran can be characterized as a geo-strategic pivot. The geo-political equation in Eurasia very much hinges on the structure of Iran’s political alliances. Were Iran to become an ally of the United States, this would seriously hamper or even destabilize Russia and China. This also pertains to Iran’s ethno-cultural, linguistic, economic, religious, and geo-political links to the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Moreover, were the structure of political alliances to shift in favour of the U.S., Iran could also become the greatest conduit for U.S. influence and expansion in the Caucasus and Central Asia. This has to do with the fact that Iran is the gateway to Russia’s soft southern underbelly (or “Near Abroad”) in the Caucasus and Central Asia.
In such a scenario, Russia as an energy corridor would be weakened as Washington would “unlock” Iran’s potential as a primary energy corridor for the Caspian Sea Basin, implying de facto U.S. geopolitical control over Iranian pipeline routes. In this regard, part of Russia’s success as an energy transit route has been due to U.S. efforts to weaken Iran by preventing energy from transiting through Iranian territory.
If Iran were to “change camps” and enter the U.S. sphere of influence, China’s economy and national security would also be held hostage on two counts. Chinese energy security would be threatened directly because Iranian energy reserves would no longer be secure and would be subject to U.S. geo-political interests. Additionally, Central Asia could also re-orient its orbit should Washington open a direct and enforced conduit from the open seas via Iran.
Thus, both Russia and China want a strategic alliance with Iran as a means of screening them from the geo-political encroachment of the United States. “Fortress Eurasia” would be left exposed without Iran. This is why neither Russia nor China could ever accept a war against Iran. Should Washington transform Iran into a client then Russia and China would be under threat.
Common Sense isn't very Common
January 26th, 2012
7:34 pm
‘Who can rid me of these pesky birthers’
- Thomas Jefferson
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Thulsa Doom
January 26th, 2012
7:34 pm
keep up,
I’m just educating you. Because you often need it of course. No charge either. You’re welcome. The mule is pretty cool but its the 2 K brothers as I call them, the goats Karl and Kurt, that really amuse me.
AmVet - Every time a publicly educated neo-con drives on public roads they are Marxists.
January 26th, 2012
7:35 pm
Erwin,
In order of power – legislative, executive, judicial.
barking frog
January 26th, 2012
7:36 pm
Tommy, I knew I had forgotten one, thanks..should have included
the Prez too although he doesn’t post here he is often a topic..
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 26th, 2012
7:36 pm
Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle
Thomas Jefferson
Common Sense isn't very Common
January 26th, 2012
7:38 pm
Bro – My Ga. river water plan can now be advanced as we know the people of Ga. want freedom from the EPA. Warn the family
AmVet - Every time a publicly educated neo-con drives on public roads they are Marxists.
January 26th, 2012
7:38 pm
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. ~Thomas Jefferson
Seriously.
And why I detest these demented advocates of our unAmerican corporatocracy.
F. Sinkwich
January 26th, 2012
7:39 pm
“So, given the many thousands of private firms that fail each year after receiving private capital, can we not on that basis judge that capitalism must be the most illegitimate system of all given the cornucopia of failure that it promotes?”
That’s close to being the stupidest post I’ve ever seen on this blog, but there’s so much lib ilk competition that’s it’s hard to judge a winner.
Private investment means just that. O’bozo MADE me invest in that loser company.
I want my money back. Now.
kayaker 71
January 26th, 2012
7:41 pm
AmVet, 7:27,
I don’t think that there is one American with half a brain that does not “feel threatened” by this clown. He threatens everything we hold dear in this country. His narcissism will not allow him to confront those who do not agree with him…. Oh, no. It’s just easier to walk away when you don’t have a friggin’ leg to stand on. What a sorry excuse for a president.
Common Sense isn't very Common
January 26th, 2012
7:41 pm
‘It’s not the corporations that cause the problems, it is the people who continue to run the corporations that are causing the problems.’
- Anybody with any Common Sense
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No bozo
January 26th, 2012
7:42 pm
Sinkwich
Deduct it from your taxes
Boris Badnoff
January 26th, 2012
7:43 pm
One would think that A Living God who spent $ 118 million in stimulus money
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/electric-car-firm-got-biden-visit-118m-stimulus-files-bankruptcy
on car batteries could get a better Birth Certificate than the one he got off of e bay. It was suspicious from Day One when it was signed by Jack Lord from Hawaii Five O.
Tommy Maddox
January 26th, 2012
7:44 pm
That’s an idea!
josef
January 26th, 2012
7:44 pm
frog
Obama doesn’t post here? Not so sure, myself, I think he’s Bill Orvis White…
No bozo
January 26th, 2012
7:44 pm
Every American should deduct $50 per person in their household for the money illegally given to GM
At minimum
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 26th, 2012
7:45 pm
I don’t think that there is one American with half a brain that does not “feel threatened” by this clown
Thankfully the President relies on those with a full brain.
But Mitt is your guy if you want have a brain. And Newt if you are looking for a brain.
St Simons - we're on Island time
January 26th, 2012
7:45 pm
well, on what blog other than this one could you learn spittoon history..
hold on to that one if you can, josef
I can tell you this much i guess. Mrs. Bos made less than $40k for
most of the 90’s and I didn’t make much more than her. My last work
for BH was in 99. I know as late as 98 she drove a 76 Pontiac.
Pretty, shiny, that 70s off-green. He spoke to me once, asked me
what was for lunch (sandwiches). I heard somebody ask him what
he did one time, and he said “I sit here a lot and look at the phone,
and wait for it to ring.”
Tommy Maddox
January 26th, 2012
7:46 pm
“Nuts.”
Anthony McAuliffe
Soothsayer
January 26th, 2012
7:47 pm
On January 12, 2012, Nikolai Patrushev told Interfax he feared that a major war was imminent and that Tel Aviv was pushing the U.S. to attack Iran. He dismissed the claims that Iran was secretly manufacturing nuclear weapons and said that for years the world had continuously heard that Iran would have an atomic bomb by next week ad nauseum. His comments were followed by a dire warning from Dmitry Rogozin.
On January 13, 2012, Rogozin, who had been appointed deputy prime minister, declared that any attempted military intervention against Iran would be a threat to Russia’s national security. In other words, an attack on Tehran is an attack on Moscow. In 2007, Vladimir Putin essentially mentioned the same thing when he was in Tehran for a Caspian Sea summit, which resulted in George W. Bush Jr. warning that World War III could erupt over Iran. Rogozin’s statement is merely a declaration of what has been the position of Russia all along: should Iran fall, Russia would be in danger.
Iran is a target of U.S. hostility not just for its vast energy reserves and natural resources, but because of major geo-strategic considerations that make it a strategic springboard against Russia and China. The roads to Moscow and Beijing also go through Tehran, just as the road to Tehran goes through Damascus, Baghdad, and Beirut. Nor does the U.S. want to merely control Iranian oil and natural gas for consumption or economic reasons. Washington wants to put a muzzle around China by controlling Chinese energy security and wants Iranian energy exports to be traded in U.S. dollars to insure the continued use of the U.S. dollar in international transactions.
Moreover, Iran has been making agreements with several trade partners, including China and India, whereby business transactions will not be conducted in euros or U.S. dollars. In January 2012, both Russia and Iran replaced the U.S. dollar with their national currencies, respectively the Russian rouble and the Iranian rial, in their bilateral trade. This was an economic and financial blow to the United States.
Ignorant, dumbass Americans. I wonder what Snooki will do tonight?
barking frog
January 26th, 2012
7:49 pm
josef, you may be correct.
Erwin's cat
January 26th, 2012
7:49 pm
Jam – thanks in retro it’s hard not to agree…i’m just amazed how much credit/blame the man in the leather chair gets when it’s really the 400-500 other folks…..another stupid ?…does congress follow the white house in an election yr?…see where I’m goin’ ?
Thomas
January 26th, 2012
7:51 pm
So, given the many thousands of private firms that fail each year after receiving private capital, can we not on that basis judge that capitalism must be the most illegitimate system of all given the cornucopia of failure that it promotes?
Fundamental and distinct difference between the voluntary investment of one’s capital into an institution in pursuit of montary greed and the involuntary investment by a non controllable governmental institution utilizing taxpayer (other people’s) money
No bozo
January 26th, 2012
7:51 pm
Nothing is free but the grace of God
Liberals do not know this though. Poor devils.
josef
January 26th, 2012
7:54 pm
St Simon’s
I didn’t get the spittoon…one of my nephew’s has it. It’s good since he knew Granny and Grandaddy and he appreciates what it is and the history behind it.
bman
Does make you wonder…! If you were President, wouldn’t you want to anonymously blog and find out what people thought about this, that, and the other….and what better place than this one here?
josef
January 26th, 2012
7:55 pm
No Bozo…
So, you know who G-d graces and who H- doesn’t, eh? Do tell….
Brosephus Lite™ - All the sarcasm, half the words
January 26th, 2012
7:56 pm
So a serious question…is the President the least powerful of the 3 branches policy wise and politically speaking?
I’d echo AmVet’s assessment @ 7:35 in the order of power. I think it’s a toss up when it comes to public opinion on power, but public opinion does not always match reality.
Thulsa Doom
January 26th, 2012
7:56 pm
F. Sinkwich,
Aaaah shucks. Its just another measley 118 million that the govt threw down the toilet. No big deal to the O man in charge.