i have been asking the samething over and over for 2 days heres the problem i a writing a story about an assassin who is very strong that he kills people publicly when everyone is watching and he kills important people and rich people and still never mistakes so the whole world is looking for him govs agents gangs assassins CIA FBI even KGB but problem is how can people contact him to hire him for a job or a kill i mean it cant be with mobile cuz they will trace it down and it cant be an agnet cuz he could turn sides on him and it cant be by mail cuz its stupied and one more thing he cant show his real face or show him self so plz people someone help me out here i am in a big hole in the story so plz all creative people who got any ideas any ideas plz try to help me
thanks for everyone who will help me ; pI need someone creative?
Honestly, the character seems completely untouchable so almost anything you can imagine will work. I'm not sure what kind of plot line this story involves or where the drama comes in (if he's so invisible and undefeatable, what happens in the story?) I'd say you should create a character who is a FOIL (someone for your main character to play off of) and that person acts as the go-between, etc. It would make for a more dynamic story. Maybe it could be his grandmother or something like that, someone who would never turn on him and she is just as tough even though she's just a little old grandma. And something could happen that puts her in danger, or even SHE could turn on him and it would work into your story - the drama, I mean. Does that help at all?I need someone creative?
he could hause a public computer, and have an email lol
You need some punctuation so we can tell what the heck you're asking. Ease up on the cocaine while you're writing!
the ppl need to know a guy who knows a guy, extremely exclusive, but not to secret. in other words, trust! if u use trust then make a traitor
A messenger who is kept in the dark, someone who leaves the messages at the door of an apartment three doors away from where he lives, or something.
Maybe he's physycotic. He hears all this in his mind telling him to kill people or certain people. But it turns out that someone planted a chip in his brain and is controlling his thoughts and actions. So really, it's not the assassin, it's someone else who is mentally contrlling this guy, which causes the assassin to think he is crazy. Of course, he keeps it to himself for fear of someone locking him up. So if he does get caught, the assassin is the one who takes the fall and not the real brains behind the matter.
He is really a she!
this is a hard one.... well.....he could spread the word that the only way to contact him is to call him on a phone booth. u cant trace a call on a phone booth. so u have to go to a certain booth and call his number. the way u find out which one it is is he calls you on his phone and tell u were it is in less then 30 seconds becuase thats how long it takes to trace a call.....
problem solved. theres no way of finding him.
Untraceable e-mail, then he could be known as the e-mail killer/assassin
Only people with the right connections can reach him.
Untraceable phone?
Assassins have their ways. If you don't go into it too deeply in your story, it will add a element of mystery to your character.
Good luck! :)
Do the payphone thing. If someone were to contact him they go to a pecific phone booth.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
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i have been asking the samething over and over for 2 days heres the problem i a writing a story about an assassin who is very strong that he kills people publicly when everyone is watching and he kills important people and rich people and still never mistakes so the whole world is looking for him govs agents gangs assassins CIA FBI even KGB but problem is how can people contact him to hire him for a job or a kill i mean it cant be with mobile cuz they will trace it down and it cant be an agnet cuz he could turn sides on him and it cant be by mail cuz its stupied and one more thing he cant show his real face or show him self so plz people someone help me out here i am in a big hole in the story so plz all creative people who got any ideas any ideas plz try to help me
thanks for everyone who will help me ; pI need creative people with a good mind?
I would say, you need some symbolic act that's dangerous enough to get his attention (tweak it in your own way so that this assassin knows it is meant for him). it could be anything from another person threatening to move in on his area
to just a flagrant violation of laws (like killing people he gets close to -or his next victims)
it could be very spectacle like breaking into a building and stealing something only to frame him for it. (this can act as a sort of calling card for his business)--he could even set up the rules if you want. there could be different risks people would have to take depending on who they are. it could even over lap into the other institutions such so that like the gang members would have to risk being caught in the act by the FBI but if they get past it your assassin would know they committed fully in the process of trying to contact him
you could also do drop offs for the more formal associations
like leaving little insignificant things around that don't make sense alone but when a key is mixed with a mailing address on an envelope (an address that doesn't really exist and ended up being directed to this guy) so he has to like find where the nonexistent place would be in order to find what will lead him to his secret encounterI need creative people with a good mind?
Carrier pigeons...
Trained falcons (lulz)
write a letter :)
near death experience with him ' yer u cut it '
Buy an xbox 360 and then buy Assassins Creed, and tell me where you got the idea for your story.
He should have a secret network of people who sell him weapons, pass him information and whatnot. They could arrange the jobs for him and set him up for the kill and in turn he protects them and pays their bills or something? Or if you want him to work alone, there could be a way to reach him by leaving hidden messages in certain places with blacklight reactive ink.. good luck with the story.
maybe he works top secret, has an assistant to set up his jobs, works underground, or maybe just has some secret identity, maybe wears a mask when talking to people when getting hired...thats the only thing i can really think of
I think you will have to make the people contacting him almost as clever as he is to make the story more interesting and less cliche. You should make it different every time they try to contact him. He should just be able to pick up on the most minute signs that these people send him. Try to make it plausible though.
First of all mail is not stupid.
Second of all, he could have a code or signal that others know he is an available hitman. Or it could be word of mouth.
If it is not by word of mouth, he could have a website that offers something ordinary, but people in a higher secret world of killing affairs can recognize as code for email me with a pic and description of someone you admire, I dont know.
You should be able to think of tons of things like this. Good Luck
i dont know however, have u read the da vinci code, digital fortress, and angels and demons? theyre really good mystery books and they all have killings in them, in fact angels and demons is a little bit similar to ur story. u could look there for ideas.
make it end in a bad way like he never gets caught and kills 4 FBI people to give it a new twist.
messages/letters could be sent secretly to him from person to person until it arrives to him/a specific location. Or if you've seen Phonebooth you can try that. if not check out the profile on wikipedia or imdb.
What about that he meets in unlikely places? No one patrols churches, synagogues, or holy shrines, because normally assassins are not at confessional. He could also have a partner who makes the contacts for him.
I hope you use proper English spelling and grammer when you are writing your story.
What you need is a set of 'triple blinds' to contact your 'agent' ... three to six people who know ONLY the persn above and below them, and they set out a 'sign' your assassin knows about to 'pick up' the possible assignment from a 'dead drop' that changes frequently. It would be impossible to 'catch' your assassin if the last person had to put the message into 20 different dead drops every time ... and the dead drops can be isolated or in a very crowded place where there are always so many people that you couldn't tell who your assassin is. It's 'difficult' but not impossible and your assassin actually MUST have an 'Achilles heel' or he'll be a 'super hero' ... and that never works in a 'spy novel' or 'thriller.' GOOD LUCK.
God tells him who to kill, like in Frailty.
He would have to be performing these acts on his own free will and accord. I would suggest taking the angle that he makes these determinations to act after doing his own intelligence investigations and makes a determination of whether or not the person should receive this fate...
well everyone that is employed has a boss. i mean your boss is the one who tells you to make the shots. so maybe his boss can be like someone who runs some business and the assassin meets him there daily or something like that.
Who does this assassin work for? Where does he get his assignments. Who is his handler? The person you are describing is not an assassin but rather a psychopath. How does he determine who is to die? Is he judge and jury? That would make him a vigilante. In the real world most assassins are assigned their wet work through a handler who represents a government or private agency. To contact this person these agencies would use several different methods including a pigeon drop- a pre-determined location which is checked on a regular basis by the agent or assassin. A newspaper ad with key words under a specific classification and yes even by snail mail or e mail. This is to name only a few. Use your imagination.... I would suggest you research your subject a little further and then refine your plot line.
Here is an example. I hope this is helpful.........
An invincible assassin is terrorizing the world. Important people from both business and government sectors are being killed in public places in broad daylight. Agencies from around the world are trying to access this killer before he kills again. Who is this madman and why is he killing the leaders of the world?
Good luck.......
I already answered your question once. You should have him headquartered in a flowershop. When people want to place a hit on somebody, they call him up and say a codephrase: ';Lillies for (whoever is supposed to be murdered)';.
The flower shop is a perfect cover for him. He has people running the shop for him while he is out increasing his flower business by the people he kills. Heck! You may even want to have him leave a trademark business card on each corpse he leaves behind. It could add an egotistical yet clever trademark to each kill.
thanks for everyone who will help me ; pI need creative people with a good mind?
I would say, you need some symbolic act that's dangerous enough to get his attention (tweak it in your own way so that this assassin knows it is meant for him). it could be anything from another person threatening to move in on his area
to just a flagrant violation of laws (like killing people he gets close to -or his next victims)
it could be very spectacle like breaking into a building and stealing something only to frame him for it. (this can act as a sort of calling card for his business)--he could even set up the rules if you want. there could be different risks people would have to take depending on who they are. it could even over lap into the other institutions such so that like the gang members would have to risk being caught in the act by the FBI but if they get past it your assassin would know they committed fully in the process of trying to contact him
you could also do drop offs for the more formal associations
like leaving little insignificant things around that don't make sense alone but when a key is mixed with a mailing address on an envelope (an address that doesn't really exist and ended up being directed to this guy) so he has to like find where the nonexistent place would be in order to find what will lead him to his secret encounterI need creative people with a good mind?
Carrier pigeons...
Trained falcons (lulz)
write a letter :)
near death experience with him ' yer u cut it '
Buy an xbox 360 and then buy Assassins Creed, and tell me where you got the idea for your story.
He should have a secret network of people who sell him weapons, pass him information and whatnot. They could arrange the jobs for him and set him up for the kill and in turn he protects them and pays their bills or something? Or if you want him to work alone, there could be a way to reach him by leaving hidden messages in certain places with blacklight reactive ink.. good luck with the story.
maybe he works top secret, has an assistant to set up his jobs, works underground, or maybe just has some secret identity, maybe wears a mask when talking to people when getting hired...thats the only thing i can really think of
I think you will have to make the people contacting him almost as clever as he is to make the story more interesting and less cliche. You should make it different every time they try to contact him. He should just be able to pick up on the most minute signs that these people send him. Try to make it plausible though.
First of all mail is not stupid.
Second of all, he could have a code or signal that others know he is an available hitman. Or it could be word of mouth.
If it is not by word of mouth, he could have a website that offers something ordinary, but people in a higher secret world of killing affairs can recognize as code for email me with a pic and description of someone you admire, I dont know.
You should be able to think of tons of things like this. Good Luck
i dont know however, have u read the da vinci code, digital fortress, and angels and demons? theyre really good mystery books and they all have killings in them, in fact angels and demons is a little bit similar to ur story. u could look there for ideas.
make it end in a bad way like he never gets caught and kills 4 FBI people to give it a new twist.
messages/letters could be sent secretly to him from person to person until it arrives to him/a specific location. Or if you've seen Phonebooth you can try that. if not check out the profile on wikipedia or imdb.
What about that he meets in unlikely places? No one patrols churches, synagogues, or holy shrines, because normally assassins are not at confessional. He could also have a partner who makes the contacts for him.
I hope you use proper English spelling and grammer when you are writing your story.
What you need is a set of 'triple blinds' to contact your 'agent' ... three to six people who know ONLY the persn above and below them, and they set out a 'sign' your assassin knows about to 'pick up' the possible assignment from a 'dead drop' that changes frequently. It would be impossible to 'catch' your assassin if the last person had to put the message into 20 different dead drops every time ... and the dead drops can be isolated or in a very crowded place where there are always so many people that you couldn't tell who your assassin is. It's 'difficult' but not impossible and your assassin actually MUST have an 'Achilles heel' or he'll be a 'super hero' ... and that never works in a 'spy novel' or 'thriller.' GOOD LUCK.
God tells him who to kill, like in Frailty.
He would have to be performing these acts on his own free will and accord. I would suggest taking the angle that he makes these determinations to act after doing his own intelligence investigations and makes a determination of whether or not the person should receive this fate...
well everyone that is employed has a boss. i mean your boss is the one who tells you to make the shots. so maybe his boss can be like someone who runs some business and the assassin meets him there daily or something like that.
Who does this assassin work for? Where does he get his assignments. Who is his handler? The person you are describing is not an assassin but rather a psychopath. How does he determine who is to die? Is he judge and jury? That would make him a vigilante. In the real world most assassins are assigned their wet work through a handler who represents a government or private agency. To contact this person these agencies would use several different methods including a pigeon drop- a pre-determined location which is checked on a regular basis by the agent or assassin. A newspaper ad with key words under a specific classification and yes even by snail mail or e mail. This is to name only a few. Use your imagination.... I would suggest you research your subject a little further and then refine your plot line.
Here is an example. I hope this is helpful.........
An invincible assassin is terrorizing the world. Important people from both business and government sectors are being killed in public places in broad daylight. Agencies from around the world are trying to access this killer before he kills again. Who is this madman and why is he killing the leaders of the world?
Good luck.......
I already answered your question once. You should have him headquartered in a flowershop. When people want to place a hit on somebody, they call him up and say a codephrase: ';Lillies for (whoever is supposed to be murdered)';.
The flower shop is a perfect cover for him. He has people running the shop for him while he is out increasing his flower business by the people he kills. Heck! You may even want to have him leave a trademark business card on each corpse he leaves behind. It could add an egotistical yet clever trademark to each kill.
Rate this Joke please....I liked it?
TALKING DOG FOR SALE
A guy is driving around Tennessee, and he sees a sign in front of a
house: ';Talking Dog For Sale.';
He rings the bell and the owner tells him the dog is in the
backyard.
The prospective buyer goes into the backyard and sees a Labrador
Retriever sitting there. ';You talk?'; he asks.
';Why, yes, I do,'; replies the Lab.
';So, what's your story?';
The Lab looks up and says, ';Well, I discovered that I could talk
When I was pretty young. I wanted to help the government, so I told the CIA about my gift, and in no time at all they had me jetting
from country to country, sitting in rooms with spies and world
leaders. I mean, let's be honest-no one figured a dog would be eavesdropping. I was one of their most valuable assets for eight years running.'; ';But, all that jetting around really tired me out. Plus, I knew I wasn't getting any younger so I decided to settle down. I signed up for a job at the airport doing some undercover security work.
I did, in fact, uncover some incredible dealings and was awarded
numerous medals. I then got married, had a mess of puppies, and now I'm just retired.';
The guy is utterly amazed. He goes back in and asks the owner how
much he is asking for the dog.
';Um, ten dollars, I guess,'; the guy says.
';Ten dollars? Really? Why, this dog is amazing. Why on earth are
you selling him so cheap?';
';Because he's a liar. He never did any of that ****!';Rate this Joke please....I liked it?
lol great joke loll... id give it a thumbs ^ lol take careRate this Joke please....I liked it?
Hey thx for picking me for best answer.... now i know who to pick for mine lol take care and hagd (have a good day) bye.
2 thumbs up
It's ok. 1-10 I give it a 4.
too much to read
i cant read. but if i could, i wouldnt read all that for a joke. sorry. :(
the story was good, but the ending was dissapointing.
that's cute!
Too long...
HAHAHA
That's very good! I give it a ten!
I like it. Very good.
its ok, but its too long for so little payoff
Excellent joke.
he shoots...he scores 2 points
I like it! hahaha.
Was the **** at the end really necessary? Take that out. Plus it's a bit too long. I've heard similar jokes before. That was good.
That's my kind of humor! :D
So what if he never did any of that?
he can still talk.
i don't get it.
I give it a 7 that was pretty funny
Nice :)
Cute, on a scale of 1-10 I would say a 5.
Ah yes hysterical indeed. On a scale of 1 to 10 I give it an 8
Funny, not THAT funny, I give it a 7 out of 10. But it kept me reading to the end, I guess that shows something (I don't read much).
I told this joke to my dog and he said he had already heard it.
1/10
tall jokes are the worst, it's like a story and in the end you don't feel like laughing -even if it was funny-
4 stars..I liked it to!
lol
8. very good and clean, I like it too.
i honestly give it close to a 10..i chuckled after i read it..and thats the point of a joke
umm.. no i didn't really like it..
u are right, it is cute.
very funny
I chuckled. Not heartily or anything, just a little bit.
i'd give it a 7 out of 10
A guy is driving around Tennessee, and he sees a sign in front of a
house: ';Talking Dog For Sale.';
He rings the bell and the owner tells him the dog is in the
backyard.
The prospective buyer goes into the backyard and sees a Labrador
Retriever sitting there. ';You talk?'; he asks.
';Why, yes, I do,'; replies the Lab.
';So, what's your story?';
The Lab looks up and says, ';Well, I discovered that I could talk
When I was pretty young. I wanted to help the government, so I told the CIA about my gift, and in no time at all they had me jetting
from country to country, sitting in rooms with spies and world
leaders. I mean, let's be honest-no one figured a dog would be eavesdropping. I was one of their most valuable assets for eight years running.'; ';But, all that jetting around really tired me out. Plus, I knew I wasn't getting any younger so I decided to settle down. I signed up for a job at the airport doing some undercover security work.
I did, in fact, uncover some incredible dealings and was awarded
numerous medals. I then got married, had a mess of puppies, and now I'm just retired.';
The guy is utterly amazed. He goes back in and asks the owner how
much he is asking for the dog.
';Um, ten dollars, I guess,'; the guy says.
';Ten dollars? Really? Why, this dog is amazing. Why on earth are
you selling him so cheap?';
';Because he's a liar. He never did any of that ****!';Rate this Joke please....I liked it?
lol great joke loll... id give it a thumbs ^ lol take careRate this Joke please....I liked it?
Hey thx for picking me for best answer.... now i know who to pick for mine lol take care and hagd (have a good day) bye.
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2 thumbs up
It's ok. 1-10 I give it a 4.
too much to read
i cant read. but if i could, i wouldnt read all that for a joke. sorry. :(
the story was good, but the ending was dissapointing.
that's cute!
Too long...
HAHAHA
That's very good! I give it a ten!
I like it. Very good.
its ok, but its too long for so little payoff
Excellent joke.
he shoots...he scores 2 points
I like it! hahaha.
Was the **** at the end really necessary? Take that out. Plus it's a bit too long. I've heard similar jokes before. That was good.
That's my kind of humor! :D
So what if he never did any of that?
he can still talk.
i don't get it.
I give it a 7 that was pretty funny
Nice :)
Cute, on a scale of 1-10 I would say a 5.
Ah yes hysterical indeed. On a scale of 1 to 10 I give it an 8
Funny, not THAT funny, I give it a 7 out of 10. But it kept me reading to the end, I guess that shows something (I don't read much).
I told this joke to my dog and he said he had already heard it.
1/10
tall jokes are the worst, it's like a story and in the end you don't feel like laughing -even if it was funny-
4 stars..I liked it to!
lol
8. very good and clean, I like it too.
i honestly give it close to a 10..i chuckled after i read it..and thats the point of a joke
umm.. no i didn't really like it..
u are right, it is cute.
very funny
I chuckled. Not heartily or anything, just a little bit.
i'd give it a 7 out of 10
Just how powerful is the United States..(militarily)???
This was not writen by an American...This comes from an european newspaper...I post this in lue of the recent uprising in ';loosing confidence of the American Military. Our boys and girls, of the USAF, are the finest in the world...There is no question about it...Anyway...This is what people in Britain think of our military capability...
Armed to the teeth
Is Bush's awesome increase in military spending a reasonable response to the afermath of September 11, or is he creating a force almost too powerful for its own good? Peter Beaumont and Ed Vulliamy report
Is America too powerful for its own good?
You can have your say online here.
Observer Worldview
Sunday February 10, 2002
The Observer
There is a United States special forces dog-handler who meets journalists, diplomats and aid workers off the UN flight to Kabul. His job is to search luggage and ensure the security of US troops in Afghanistan. He is short, gingery and aggressive. His skills at persuasion are limited to shouting at the milling crowd: 'Stand back! Stand back! My dog will bite!'
Last week that phrase had become the defining motto and operating credo for the military and foreign policy of the Bush administration. Already President George W. Bush has put Iran, Iraq and North Korea on notice as terrorist-sponsoring nations at the centre of an international 'axis of evil', despite the CIA's recent evidence that none of them was in the business of threatening the United States at present.
Last Monday, to back that explicit threat, he announced an increase in US military spending of 15 per cent, the biggest in 20 years, more than double the military spending in all of the European Union. The rise will be $36 billion (拢26.5bn) this year, $48 billion next year and $120 billion over the next five years, rising to a staggering two trillion over the next five years.
Even this is not enough for General Richard Myers, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. They want the US defence budget to increase at an even faster rate.
What all this means is clear. Troubled by the 11 September attacks and buoyed by the ease of the war against Afghanistan, Bush's message to the 'evil doers' of the world is that he has a dog; that it is very big, getting bigger, and certainly it will bite.
The puzzle about the latest rise in defence spending is that America at the beginning of the 21st century is already not so much a superpower as a behemoth on the world stage. Economically dominant, it enjoys military and cultural power unrivalled since the days of the Roman emperors, as the American author Robert D. Kaplan reminds us in his new book, Warrior Politics.
Typically, it has been left to the French, traditionally suspicious of US global hegemony, to find the best words to describe it. Gigantisme militaire they call it, in a phrase that describes both the scale of America's ambitions and also a pathological condition: an organism grown so large it is sick.
The question the rest of the world is asking itself is: Who is the enemy America is arming itself so against? And why?
'Ostensibly,' says one European diplomat, 'this is about security. But quite how a massive increase in defence spending is supposed to prevent another terrorist attack remains unclear. Instead this seems to be about repairing the bruised American psyche after 11 September. America's powerlessness in the face of this attack requires big gestures and reassurances, even if they are counter-productive and meaningless.'
Indeed, some analysts say, if it is security that America seeks it is better sought in dialogue with potentially threatening states, rather than in reinforcing the idea already held by many anti-US groups that it is an evil empire bent on world domination.
Cynics have identified more overtly self-serving strands in the Republican obsession with America's defence. The 'war' rhetoric, as some US liberal commentators have pointed out, serves a purely domestic Republican agenda in the post-11 September mood of national paranoia: to win Bush a second presidential term and, in the shorter term, regain Congress.
The reality - even before the latest proposed increases in military spending - is that America could beat the rest of the world at war with one hand tied behind its back. The requirement that US armed forces be able to fight two fully fledged wars with two separate adversaries simultaneously may recently have been dropped, but only because it would be hard pushed to find two such equal foes to fight.
A single US nuclear-powered carrier group - which forms around the USS Enterprise, for example, with a flight deck almost a mile in length and a superstructure 20 storeys high - concentrates more military power in one naval group than most states can manage with all their armed forces. America has seven of these battle groups.
It is not just the scale and power of these weapons systems. The reach of US arms, too, is awesome. When the USS Kitty Hawk was sent with its accompanying warships from Yokohama to the Gulf for the war against Afghanistan, it covered 6,000 miles in just 12 days to be transformed into a vast floating forward attack station for thousands of US special forces.
Its B-52 bombers can fly and refuel across the world armed with cruise missiles that can be fired hundreds of miles away from hostile skies, the missiles themselves directed to their targets by satellites in orbit.
And America's supremacy in bombs, planes, satellites, tanks and real-time intelligence have made the prospect of US casualties remote, except in the event of cock-up or disaster. And, significantly, as the world's only economic hyper-power, it can afford this level of militarisation.
But against all this even the manufacturers of America's arms - like the aviation giant Lockheed-Martin - have been struggling for a decade or so to define the threat its top-shelf jets will be battling in the skies, being forced in one memorable presentation to show the European Eurofighter as a potential adversary.
So why the need for more and better military power? Even military analysts are baffled. 'The rise in US military spending,' says Dan Plesch, senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, 'ought to be compared to the decision in the First World War to order up more cavalry when the first wave had been mown down by machine-guns.
'The US has no competitor in high-tech military equipment. And what it is spending its money on is mostly irrelevant against the knives used to carry out 11 September. The bombing of Afghanistan has created the illusion of victory.'
Professor Paul Kennedy at Yale University calculates that the US now spends more each year than the next nine largest national defence budgets combined. Indeed America is responsible for about 40 per cent of the world's military spending.Just how powerful is the United States..(militarily)???
This has nothing to do with the rest of the world. The strategy is aimed at countering China. The US Administration that if America is to retain its dominance sometime over the next 20 years it will have to fight Chinese forces. This is about preparing for that day.Just how powerful is the United States..(militarily)???
It's just another narrow-minded view by someone who cannot see the forest for the trees. I guess that North Korea's recent missile test should be seen as a game of horse shoes and that someone else is going to foot the bill for our war on terrorism. I tire of those who have nothing but criticism while sitting in the stands. I tell them to put yourself in the seat of the President, and without changing the course of events, or placing any conditions on the situation, what would they do. We are too spread out trying to solve everyone's problems. I think we can afford to pull in the reins a bit and let other countries that want to go to war with one another have their way.
Bloody hell, Bush is going to blow up the world - providing he can figure out which way to aim.
I wouldn't push your luck. America could be over extended quickly if too many things happened at once. A simple deduction not over looked.
America are overextending themselves and losing.
Powerful enough to stop any enemy of any size from ever forcing its view and way on the people of America.
I don't feel like reading all of that but I know we(the Us) are the most powerful of all that is why others are trying to get here. You need a publisher.
Good question.
I've long had a theory that Soviet glasnost and China's so-called opening in 72 are nothing more than a Communist grand plan to weaken and ultimately destroy the ';Main Enemy';.
Possibly few here were born when Nixon went to Beijing. What has happened in the intervening thirty years tells a LOT !.
Gone to China has the industrial base, gone to China has a huge amount of capital...Who has gained on net balance ?.
And _WHO_ is really behind terrorism ?. I can see a third partying strategy designed to bring the US into various quagmires that would ultimate debilitate her political will to fight, and ultimately crumbling dowjn in chaos, social, economic, military or likely a combination thereof. In this LONG TERM strategy the former Soviet Union and China have been solid allies.
North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, etc are all part of the show.
Noticed all the mutual state visits ? What's that tell you ?
And one day comes, just HOW MANY fires can the Fire Brigade go put out ?
Why shake a tree to get the apple when you can just help the ripening process right along ?.
Ask yourselves some questions, DAD-BURNIT !
In addition the encircling by China in Latin America speaks powerfully to this suspicion. Fact is, the US cannot and does not enforce the Monroe Doctrine to any extent. I'm finished.
Anyone here thinking that I'm talking about Marilyn Monroe needs to hit the books.
To me U.S. is powerless if every country turns against it.
lethal...
the hardwares make the American,
the savage killers of all time.
Just wondering if those hardwares were made for
PEACEKEEPING, make sense...
isn't it?
Those who live by the weapon,
will surely die with the weapon!
Blessed are the PEACEMAKERS
Not powerful enough, apparently, to 'win' in Iraq.
Let me remind you that America is at war with Iraq, possibly iran in the future and thats generally what you do in wars, spend lots of money on the military
in a thousand years america will be and the world will still love the americas and seek to live in a cheap inexpencive world of the boundful world.The world will be happy with such ideas as freedom and will be still protected by the brave.and the amounts you count are only american tax dollars at work .america is rich yes but the goverment is poor.
Being ex British special forces I am biased!....The Americans look after their troops far better than we do. They get the kit they need and more besides. They learned a lot from Vietnam and are putting those lessons into practice. The average American soldier is just that,average. But then he has no need to be highly trained as he has some of the best technology at his disposal.
British Army on the other hand has to do it all with ***** all kit and s odding useless back up. Try being stuck in Iraq with a radio that doesn't work, A satellite phone that picks up a signal once every leap year and you are wearing kit you bought from an army/navy surplus store because good old Tony Blair had spent the money for your kit on Housing a ******** immigrant!
Add to that a GPS system that would struggle to find a continent let alone a road or town and a Land rover that has permanent pmt! Its time the British government realised their army is their to protect them not to play c ocksucker to Bush. Stop lining the pockets of the old boy network and give us some decent kit that ******** works, you bat eared f uckwit!
The US are very stong, which is reinforced by their smart weapons and equipment.
I do not put their troops better than any other though. That would be doing many countries a disservice.
Their special forces are no better, and have been tested to be inferior to other nations.
The US can build up as many troops and weapons as they like to feel secure.
What they seem to not realise is that a war on terror cannot be won this way.
Prevention of terrorism must be done by intelegance.
The USA has doen too much poking around in other peoples countries and cultures.
It considers itself the worlds police man. But to whose legal system????????
It is a stereotype that generally the USA has no idea there is a world outside of teh USA.
very powerful
Don't forget that there are nearly 100 million people in America that own their own firearms as well. That is for home defense. Perhaps the pussified europeans should be ready to protect themselves as well, instead of relying on America to do so!
Now all you dern varmints get your guns and ammo ready for these ragheads!!!!!
too powerful
Depends on who the USA is fighting.
If they USA is fighting a conventional army then, yes they are very powerful and probably have more tanks, guns and soldiers than anyone else.
However, if they are fighting terrorist, who hid amongst the crowd then they are not well suited.
When the Islamic terrorists crashed the planed on 9/11 then USA was powerless to respond.
They best they could do was to invade Afghanistan, a country which was used a base for Al Qaeda.
So what happens AFTER Afghanistan and Iraq ? When the terrorists are still killing innocent Americans in some ';holy jihad'; ? Who is the USA gonna bomb then ?
You sit there enjoying the peace and protection that America's might provides. If they did not have the ';dog that will bite'; then who would have the money, balls or sheer confidence to prevent evil little buggers who hate us as infidels from doing god knows what! The events that have been rolling out over the last 60 years and punctuated by events like (though thank god are few and far between) 9/11 are pushing humanity into two distinct groups - Islamic/Islamic sympathisers - against Christian democratic. Those countries that sit on the fence will inexorably be drawn in when there inactivity blows up in their face. If it wasn't for the fact that the USA is so big and powerfull we would all be in a far more precarious position right now and to use a metaphor such as the cavalry against machine guns quote is just plain silly.
I for one am glad for the protection on a global scale that the USA provides (I'm English) and grateful too. I'm also very happy with the military escalation and only wish it were on an even larger scale.
1. It should be remembered that unsustainable defense spending brought down the Soviet Empire. The US is becoming more and more indebted to China and other overseas lenders. It can diminish that burden -- once -- by devaluation, something that is happening now gradually. But aside from instituting currency controls or repudiating the debt (and putting at risk massive US manufacturing investment in China) it can do nothing to avoid servicing the debt, and hoping that it may be rolled over indefinitely.
2. While spending vast sums, sometimes unwanted by the military itself, the US is nickel-and-diming the troops. And because it is unable or unwilling to impose conscription it is relying on lower quality voluntary recruits. The burden of third and fourth tours in Iraq and Afghanistan is making it difficult to meet enlistment and re-enlistiment targets.
3. All the hardware in the world will not resolve the Islamist guerilla threat. Inevitably, the terrorist an guerilla enemy will lead to an erosion and a reversal, of human rights norms established after World War II: an end to asymmetrical (non-reciprocal) grant of rights as under the Geneva conventions and the various human rights documents. As of now, only the Geneva and New York Refugee Conventions impose a requirement of reciprocity (a candidate for refugee status is ineligible if he is a war criminal, terrorist, etc.)
4. The State's first priority, first loyalty, is to the survival of its own institutions. Vested interests, including existing frontiers, are sacrosanct and ancient injustsice to generations now dead carry no weight. The Islamists in Britain are in for some surprises. In Lebanon, Hezbollah (whether it cares or not, for the moment) is just learning that the right of self-defence is primeval. And that whatever philosophers may debate today about Dresden and Hiroshima, there was no such debate when they happened and there will be no debate when the State feels itself threatened in the future.
5. The mere existence of the terrible weaponry described in your quoted article may become ';justification'; for their use. If only ';pour encourager les autres';.
Remember, they are the only ones to use nuclear weapons, Hiroshima.
But there is going to be a nuclear war by the Euphrates River by Sept. 12, 2006.
http://www.lastdayswarning.clearwire.net鈥?/a>
Take a look you'll either believe or just fall out off of your chair laughing.
very
I wonder how powerful terrorist are they(American army)!!!
Get a life ....
Powerful enough 2 kill children and women..
Armed to the teeth
Is Bush's awesome increase in military spending a reasonable response to the afermath of September 11, or is he creating a force almost too powerful for its own good? Peter Beaumont and Ed Vulliamy report
Is America too powerful for its own good?
You can have your say online here.
Observer Worldview
Sunday February 10, 2002
The Observer
There is a United States special forces dog-handler who meets journalists, diplomats and aid workers off the UN flight to Kabul. His job is to search luggage and ensure the security of US troops in Afghanistan. He is short, gingery and aggressive. His skills at persuasion are limited to shouting at the milling crowd: 'Stand back! Stand back! My dog will bite!'
Last week that phrase had become the defining motto and operating credo for the military and foreign policy of the Bush administration. Already President George W. Bush has put Iran, Iraq and North Korea on notice as terrorist-sponsoring nations at the centre of an international 'axis of evil', despite the CIA's recent evidence that none of them was in the business of threatening the United States at present.
Last Monday, to back that explicit threat, he announced an increase in US military spending of 15 per cent, the biggest in 20 years, more than double the military spending in all of the European Union. The rise will be $36 billion (拢26.5bn) this year, $48 billion next year and $120 billion over the next five years, rising to a staggering two trillion over the next five years.
Even this is not enough for General Richard Myers, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. They want the US defence budget to increase at an even faster rate.
What all this means is clear. Troubled by the 11 September attacks and buoyed by the ease of the war against Afghanistan, Bush's message to the 'evil doers' of the world is that he has a dog; that it is very big, getting bigger, and certainly it will bite.
The puzzle about the latest rise in defence spending is that America at the beginning of the 21st century is already not so much a superpower as a behemoth on the world stage. Economically dominant, it enjoys military and cultural power unrivalled since the days of the Roman emperors, as the American author Robert D. Kaplan reminds us in his new book, Warrior Politics.
Typically, it has been left to the French, traditionally suspicious of US global hegemony, to find the best words to describe it. Gigantisme militaire they call it, in a phrase that describes both the scale of America's ambitions and also a pathological condition: an organism grown so large it is sick.
The question the rest of the world is asking itself is: Who is the enemy America is arming itself so against? And why?
'Ostensibly,' says one European diplomat, 'this is about security. But quite how a massive increase in defence spending is supposed to prevent another terrorist attack remains unclear. Instead this seems to be about repairing the bruised American psyche after 11 September. America's powerlessness in the face of this attack requires big gestures and reassurances, even if they are counter-productive and meaningless.'
Indeed, some analysts say, if it is security that America seeks it is better sought in dialogue with potentially threatening states, rather than in reinforcing the idea already held by many anti-US groups that it is an evil empire bent on world domination.
Cynics have identified more overtly self-serving strands in the Republican obsession with America's defence. The 'war' rhetoric, as some US liberal commentators have pointed out, serves a purely domestic Republican agenda in the post-11 September mood of national paranoia: to win Bush a second presidential term and, in the shorter term, regain Congress.
The reality - even before the latest proposed increases in military spending - is that America could beat the rest of the world at war with one hand tied behind its back. The requirement that US armed forces be able to fight two fully fledged wars with two separate adversaries simultaneously may recently have been dropped, but only because it would be hard pushed to find two such equal foes to fight.
A single US nuclear-powered carrier group - which forms around the USS Enterprise, for example, with a flight deck almost a mile in length and a superstructure 20 storeys high - concentrates more military power in one naval group than most states can manage with all their armed forces. America has seven of these battle groups.
It is not just the scale and power of these weapons systems. The reach of US arms, too, is awesome. When the USS Kitty Hawk was sent with its accompanying warships from Yokohama to the Gulf for the war against Afghanistan, it covered 6,000 miles in just 12 days to be transformed into a vast floating forward attack station for thousands of US special forces.
Its B-52 bombers can fly and refuel across the world armed with cruise missiles that can be fired hundreds of miles away from hostile skies, the missiles themselves directed to their targets by satellites in orbit.
And America's supremacy in bombs, planes, satellites, tanks and real-time intelligence have made the prospect of US casualties remote, except in the event of cock-up or disaster. And, significantly, as the world's only economic hyper-power, it can afford this level of militarisation.
But against all this even the manufacturers of America's arms - like the aviation giant Lockheed-Martin - have been struggling for a decade or so to define the threat its top-shelf jets will be battling in the skies, being forced in one memorable presentation to show the European Eurofighter as a potential adversary.
So why the need for more and better military power? Even military analysts are baffled. 'The rise in US military spending,' says Dan Plesch, senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, 'ought to be compared to the decision in the First World War to order up more cavalry when the first wave had been mown down by machine-guns.
'The US has no competitor in high-tech military equipment. And what it is spending its money on is mostly irrelevant against the knives used to carry out 11 September. The bombing of Afghanistan has created the illusion of victory.'
Professor Paul Kennedy at Yale University calculates that the US now spends more each year than the next nine largest national defence budgets combined. Indeed America is responsible for about 40 per cent of the world's military spending.Just how powerful is the United States..(militarily)???
This has nothing to do with the rest of the world. The strategy is aimed at countering China. The US Administration that if America is to retain its dominance sometime over the next 20 years it will have to fight Chinese forces. This is about preparing for that day.Just how powerful is the United States..(militarily)???
It's just another narrow-minded view by someone who cannot see the forest for the trees. I guess that North Korea's recent missile test should be seen as a game of horse shoes and that someone else is going to foot the bill for our war on terrorism. I tire of those who have nothing but criticism while sitting in the stands. I tell them to put yourself in the seat of the President, and without changing the course of events, or placing any conditions on the situation, what would they do. We are too spread out trying to solve everyone's problems. I think we can afford to pull in the reins a bit and let other countries that want to go to war with one another have their way.
Bloody hell, Bush is going to blow up the world - providing he can figure out which way to aim.
I wouldn't push your luck. America could be over extended quickly if too many things happened at once. A simple deduction not over looked.
America are overextending themselves and losing.
Powerful enough to stop any enemy of any size from ever forcing its view and way on the people of America.
I don't feel like reading all of that but I know we(the Us) are the most powerful of all that is why others are trying to get here. You need a publisher.
Good question.
I've long had a theory that Soviet glasnost and China's so-called opening in 72 are nothing more than a Communist grand plan to weaken and ultimately destroy the ';Main Enemy';.
Possibly few here were born when Nixon went to Beijing. What has happened in the intervening thirty years tells a LOT !.
Gone to China has the industrial base, gone to China has a huge amount of capital...Who has gained on net balance ?.
And _WHO_ is really behind terrorism ?. I can see a third partying strategy designed to bring the US into various quagmires that would ultimate debilitate her political will to fight, and ultimately crumbling dowjn in chaos, social, economic, military or likely a combination thereof. In this LONG TERM strategy the former Soviet Union and China have been solid allies.
North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, etc are all part of the show.
Noticed all the mutual state visits ? What's that tell you ?
And one day comes, just HOW MANY fires can the Fire Brigade go put out ?
Why shake a tree to get the apple when you can just help the ripening process right along ?.
Ask yourselves some questions, DAD-BURNIT !
In addition the encircling by China in Latin America speaks powerfully to this suspicion. Fact is, the US cannot and does not enforce the Monroe Doctrine to any extent. I'm finished.
Anyone here thinking that I'm talking about Marilyn Monroe needs to hit the books.
To me U.S. is powerless if every country turns against it.
lethal...
the hardwares make the American,
the savage killers of all time.
Just wondering if those hardwares were made for
PEACEKEEPING, make sense...
isn't it?
Those who live by the weapon,
will surely die with the weapon!
Blessed are the PEACEMAKERS
Not powerful enough, apparently, to 'win' in Iraq.
Let me remind you that America is at war with Iraq, possibly iran in the future and thats generally what you do in wars, spend lots of money on the military
in a thousand years america will be and the world will still love the americas and seek to live in a cheap inexpencive world of the boundful world.The world will be happy with such ideas as freedom and will be still protected by the brave.and the amounts you count are only american tax dollars at work .america is rich yes but the goverment is poor.
Being ex British special forces I am biased!....The Americans look after their troops far better than we do. They get the kit they need and more besides. They learned a lot from Vietnam and are putting those lessons into practice. The average American soldier is just that,average. But then he has no need to be highly trained as he has some of the best technology at his disposal.
British Army on the other hand has to do it all with ***** all kit and s odding useless back up. Try being stuck in Iraq with a radio that doesn't work, A satellite phone that picks up a signal once every leap year and you are wearing kit you bought from an army/navy surplus store because good old Tony Blair had spent the money for your kit on Housing a ******** immigrant!
Add to that a GPS system that would struggle to find a continent let alone a road or town and a Land rover that has permanent pmt! Its time the British government realised their army is their to protect them not to play c ocksucker to Bush. Stop lining the pockets of the old boy network and give us some decent kit that ******** works, you bat eared f uckwit!
The US are very stong, which is reinforced by their smart weapons and equipment.
I do not put their troops better than any other though. That would be doing many countries a disservice.
Their special forces are no better, and have been tested to be inferior to other nations.
The US can build up as many troops and weapons as they like to feel secure.
What they seem to not realise is that a war on terror cannot be won this way.
Prevention of terrorism must be done by intelegance.
The USA has doen too much poking around in other peoples countries and cultures.
It considers itself the worlds police man. But to whose legal system????????
It is a stereotype that generally the USA has no idea there is a world outside of teh USA.
very powerful
Don't forget that there are nearly 100 million people in America that own their own firearms as well. That is for home defense. Perhaps the pussified europeans should be ready to protect themselves as well, instead of relying on America to do so!
Now all you dern varmints get your guns and ammo ready for these ragheads!!!!!
too powerful
Depends on who the USA is fighting.
If they USA is fighting a conventional army then, yes they are very powerful and probably have more tanks, guns and soldiers than anyone else.
However, if they are fighting terrorist, who hid amongst the crowd then they are not well suited.
When the Islamic terrorists crashed the planed on 9/11 then USA was powerless to respond.
They best they could do was to invade Afghanistan, a country which was used a base for Al Qaeda.
So what happens AFTER Afghanistan and Iraq ? When the terrorists are still killing innocent Americans in some ';holy jihad'; ? Who is the USA gonna bomb then ?
You sit there enjoying the peace and protection that America's might provides. If they did not have the ';dog that will bite'; then who would have the money, balls or sheer confidence to prevent evil little buggers who hate us as infidels from doing god knows what! The events that have been rolling out over the last 60 years and punctuated by events like (though thank god are few and far between) 9/11 are pushing humanity into two distinct groups - Islamic/Islamic sympathisers - against Christian democratic. Those countries that sit on the fence will inexorably be drawn in when there inactivity blows up in their face. If it wasn't for the fact that the USA is so big and powerfull we would all be in a far more precarious position right now and to use a metaphor such as the cavalry against machine guns quote is just plain silly.
I for one am glad for the protection on a global scale that the USA provides (I'm English) and grateful too. I'm also very happy with the military escalation and only wish it were on an even larger scale.
1. It should be remembered that unsustainable defense spending brought down the Soviet Empire. The US is becoming more and more indebted to China and other overseas lenders. It can diminish that burden -- once -- by devaluation, something that is happening now gradually. But aside from instituting currency controls or repudiating the debt (and putting at risk massive US manufacturing investment in China) it can do nothing to avoid servicing the debt, and hoping that it may be rolled over indefinitely.
2. While spending vast sums, sometimes unwanted by the military itself, the US is nickel-and-diming the troops. And because it is unable or unwilling to impose conscription it is relying on lower quality voluntary recruits. The burden of third and fourth tours in Iraq and Afghanistan is making it difficult to meet enlistment and re-enlistiment targets.
3. All the hardware in the world will not resolve the Islamist guerilla threat. Inevitably, the terrorist an guerilla enemy will lead to an erosion and a reversal, of human rights norms established after World War II: an end to asymmetrical (non-reciprocal) grant of rights as under the Geneva conventions and the various human rights documents. As of now, only the Geneva and New York Refugee Conventions impose a requirement of reciprocity (a candidate for refugee status is ineligible if he is a war criminal, terrorist, etc.)
4. The State's first priority, first loyalty, is to the survival of its own institutions. Vested interests, including existing frontiers, are sacrosanct and ancient injustsice to generations now dead carry no weight. The Islamists in Britain are in for some surprises. In Lebanon, Hezbollah (whether it cares or not, for the moment) is just learning that the right of self-defence is primeval. And that whatever philosophers may debate today about Dresden and Hiroshima, there was no such debate when they happened and there will be no debate when the State feels itself threatened in the future.
5. The mere existence of the terrible weaponry described in your quoted article may become ';justification'; for their use. If only ';pour encourager les autres';.
Remember, they are the only ones to use nuclear weapons, Hiroshima.
But there is going to be a nuclear war by the Euphrates River by Sept. 12, 2006.
http://www.lastdayswarning.clearwire.net鈥?/a>
Take a look you'll either believe or just fall out off of your chair laughing.
very
I wonder how powerful terrorist are they(American army)!!!
Get a life ....
Powerful enough 2 kill children and women..
Is Obama TRYING to be Super Fly by WINGING IT and MAKING IT UP as he goes ALONG SHOOTING BLANKS from the HIP?
Cabinet Nominees:
Take the vetting of cabinet nominees. Mr. Obama's aides ignored a federal investigation of New Mexico's Gov. Bill Richardson that started last August for a possible pay-for-play scandal. Mr. Richardson had to withdraw after being named to become secretary of commerce.
Tax Cheats for Officers
The administration treated as inconsequential the failure of its choices for Treasury secretary and White House performance officer, as well as its labor secretary-designate's spouse, to pay taxes. It failed to uncover Tom Daschle's problems with more than $102,943 in previously unpaid taxes, penalties and interest -- and once it did, aides assumed Mr. Daschle would be given a pass.
Gregg Fiasco
Team Obama promised Gen. Anthony Zinni he'd be ambassador to Iraq, then cut him loose without explanation. After the Bill Richardson fiasco, it romanced Republican Sen. Judd Gregg for commerce secretary -- then ignored his advice on the stimulus and wouldn't trust him with running the department, moving supervision of the Census into the White House. Mr. Gregg withdrew himself from consideration.
Spending Porkulus
Then there is the stimulus itself. Mr. Obama's economic team met with congressional leaders in December to green light a bill costing up to $850 billion. But they described less than $200 billion of what they wanted in the envelope. In return for outsourcing the bill's drafting to Congress, the administration took on two responsibilities: running polls to advise Hill Democrats on how to sharpen their marketing, and putting the president on the road to sell a bill others wrote.
Lying about how many jobs saved
Team Obama was winging it when it declared the stimulus would ';save or create'; 2.5 million, then three million, then 3.7 million, and then four million new jobs. These were arbitrary and erratic numbers, and they knew there's no way to count ';saved'; jobs. Americans, being commonsensical, will focus on Mr. Obama's promise to ';create'; jobs. It's highly unlikely that more than 180,000 jobs will be created each month by the end of next year. The precise, state-by-state job numbers the administration used to sell the stimulus are likely to come back to haunt them as well.
Partisanship Only
Bipartisanship? The administration failed even to respond to GOP offers to endorse an Obama campaign proposal to suspend capital gains taxes for new small businesses.
Giethner's Plan of Non-planning
Inexplicably, the president, in a prime-time press conference, raised expectations for Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's bank rescue plan, which turned out the next day to be no plan at all. The markets craved details; they got none. When markets cratered, spokesmen didn't acknowledge the administration's poor planning, but blamed the markets.
Freeing Dangerous Terrorists
Team Obama was also winging it on enhanced interrogation of terrorists. First it nullified all the Bush administration's legal authorities before considering what rules it should have in place. When the CIA briefed White House officials on the results obtained from these techniques, the administration backtracked and organized a four-month study of what rules were appropriate.
Something similar happened with the promise to close Guantanamo Bay within a year: The administration has no idea what it will do with the violent terrorists detained there. And on ethics, Mr. Obama proclaimed an end to lobbyist influence in government -- even as he was nominating lobbyists for major posts and filling White House ranks with former lobbyists.Is Obama TRYING to be Super Fly by WINGING IT and MAKING IT UP as he goes ALONG SHOOTING BLANKS from the HIP?
Why are you getting so riled up? Crap, I'll bet you didn't give a rat's as* about what Bush did and now all the sudden you care about spending too much?Is Obama TRYING to be Super Fly by WINGING IT and MAKING IT UP as he goes ALONG SHOOTING BLANKS from the HIP?
You are obsessed with President Obama. I for one would appreciate your ability to research being applied to the broken promises and huge gaffes of President number 43, that might give you some insight into our current crisis.
Take the vetting of cabinet nominees. Mr. Obama's aides ignored a federal investigation of New Mexico's Gov. Bill Richardson that started last August for a possible pay-for-play scandal. Mr. Richardson had to withdraw after being named to become secretary of commerce.
Tax Cheats for Officers
The administration treated as inconsequential the failure of its choices for Treasury secretary and White House performance officer, as well as its labor secretary-designate's spouse, to pay taxes. It failed to uncover Tom Daschle's problems with more than $102,943 in previously unpaid taxes, penalties and interest -- and once it did, aides assumed Mr. Daschle would be given a pass.
Gregg Fiasco
Team Obama promised Gen. Anthony Zinni he'd be ambassador to Iraq, then cut him loose without explanation. After the Bill Richardson fiasco, it romanced Republican Sen. Judd Gregg for commerce secretary -- then ignored his advice on the stimulus and wouldn't trust him with running the department, moving supervision of the Census into the White House. Mr. Gregg withdrew himself from consideration.
Spending Porkulus
Then there is the stimulus itself. Mr. Obama's economic team met with congressional leaders in December to green light a bill costing up to $850 billion. But they described less than $200 billion of what they wanted in the envelope. In return for outsourcing the bill's drafting to Congress, the administration took on two responsibilities: running polls to advise Hill Democrats on how to sharpen their marketing, and putting the president on the road to sell a bill others wrote.
Lying about how many jobs saved
Team Obama was winging it when it declared the stimulus would ';save or create'; 2.5 million, then three million, then 3.7 million, and then four million new jobs. These were arbitrary and erratic numbers, and they knew there's no way to count ';saved'; jobs. Americans, being commonsensical, will focus on Mr. Obama's promise to ';create'; jobs. It's highly unlikely that more than 180,000 jobs will be created each month by the end of next year. The precise, state-by-state job numbers the administration used to sell the stimulus are likely to come back to haunt them as well.
Partisanship Only
Bipartisanship? The administration failed even to respond to GOP offers to endorse an Obama campaign proposal to suspend capital gains taxes for new small businesses.
Giethner's Plan of Non-planning
Inexplicably, the president, in a prime-time press conference, raised expectations for Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's bank rescue plan, which turned out the next day to be no plan at all. The markets craved details; they got none. When markets cratered, spokesmen didn't acknowledge the administration's poor planning, but blamed the markets.
Freeing Dangerous Terrorists
Team Obama was also winging it on enhanced interrogation of terrorists. First it nullified all the Bush administration's legal authorities before considering what rules it should have in place. When the CIA briefed White House officials on the results obtained from these techniques, the administration backtracked and organized a four-month study of what rules were appropriate.
Something similar happened with the promise to close Guantanamo Bay within a year: The administration has no idea what it will do with the violent terrorists detained there. And on ethics, Mr. Obama proclaimed an end to lobbyist influence in government -- even as he was nominating lobbyists for major posts and filling White House ranks with former lobbyists.Is Obama TRYING to be Super Fly by WINGING IT and MAKING IT UP as he goes ALONG SHOOTING BLANKS from the HIP?
Why are you getting so riled up? Crap, I'll bet you didn't give a rat's as* about what Bush did and now all the sudden you care about spending too much?Is Obama TRYING to be Super Fly by WINGING IT and MAKING IT UP as he goes ALONG SHOOTING BLANKS from the HIP?
You are obsessed with President Obama. I for one would appreciate your ability to research being applied to the broken promises and huge gaffes of President number 43, that might give you some insight into our current crisis.
What do you make of this? ?
The following is adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond's book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat:
Islam is not a religion nor is it a cult. It is a complete system.
Islam has religious, legal, political, economic and military components. The religious component is a beard for all the other components.
Islamization occurs when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their so-called 'religious rights.'
When politically correct and culturally diverse societies agree to 'the reasonable' Muslim demands for their 'religious rights,' they also get the other components under the table. Here's how it works (percentages source CIA: The World Fact Book (2007)).
As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness:
United States -- Muslim 1.0%
Australia -- Muslim 1.5%
Canada -- Muslim 1.9%
China -- Muslim 1%-2%
Italy -- Muslim 1.5%
Norway -- Muslim 1.8%
At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs:
Denmark -- Muslim 2%
Germany -- Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom -- Muslim 2.7%
Spain -- Muslim 4%
Thailand -- Muslim 4.6%
From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.
They will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves -- along with threats for failure to comply. ( United States ).
France -- Muslim 8%
Philippines -- Muslim 5%
Sweden -- Muslim 5%
Switzerland -- Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands -- Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad %26amp;Tobago -- Muslim 5.8%
At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.
When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions ( Paris --car-burnings). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats ( Amsterdam - Mohammed cartoons).
Guyana -- Muslim 10%
India -- Muslim 13.4%
Israel -- Muslim 16%
Kenya -- Muslim 10%
Russia -- Muslim 10-15%
After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning:
Ethiopia -- Muslim 32.8%
At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare:
Bosnia -- Muslim 40%
Chad -- Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon -- Muslim 59.7%
From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels:
Albania -- Muslim 70%
Malaysia -- Muslim 60.4%
Qatar -- Muslim 77.5%
Sudan -- Muslim 70%
After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide:
Bangladesh -- Muslim 83%
Egypt -- Muslim 90%
Gaza -- Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia -- Muslim 86.1%
Iran -- Muslim 98%
Iraq -- Muslim 97%
Jordan -- Muslim 92%
Morocco -- Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan -- Muslim 97%
Israel -- Muslim 99%
Syria -- Muslim 90%
Tajikistan -- Muslim 90%
Turkey -- Muslim 99.8%
United Arab Emirates -- Muslim 96%
100% will usher in the peace of 'Dar-es-Salaam' -- the Islamic House of Peace -- there's supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim:
Afghanistan -- Muslim 100%
Saudi Arabia -- Muslim 100%
Somalia -- Muslim 100%
Yemen -- Muslim 99.9%
Of course, that's not the case. To satisfy their blood lust, Muslims then start killing each other for a variety of reasons.
'Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel. – Leon Uris, 'The Haj'
It is good to remember that in many, many countries, such as France, the Muslim populations are centered around ghettos based on their ethnicity. Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. Therefore, they exercise more power than their national average would indicate.What do you make of this? ?
That is a scary scenario you outline.
Of course, in France, as you say many live in ghettos. What keeps them from integrating into the population at large?
Is that accomplished because of their desire for keeping separate, or is that a racial component because they moved to a strange country?
Clearly, the world now is poised for the Biblical Great Tribulation, and this fire you mention is just part of the conflagration that will burn all the wicked.What do you make of this? ?
Pretty dang scary.
SOUNDS LIKE THE TYPICAL CHAOS THAT satan BRINGS,,, DOES NOT SOUND UNREAL TO ME AT ALL !!
My comment? Oopsie, it mentions Israel twice, first at 16% then again at 99%. Which is it?
im not going to read a novel
This seems to be the same pattern with Christendom. When there was only ONE faith in the country, they dominate all the politics, moral laws, and community actions.
That is why so many escaped from Europe in the 15th to the 19th century, to the New World, and other locations.
You will find this pattern in all Monopolies in the religious fields around the globe.
This gentleman has just picked on this one example, and ignored both history and other faiths that he finds ';ok';.
One flaw there my friend.....
Muslim killing Muslim is the number one cause of homicide in the world.
I suppose the ';peace'; will come much later.
Look how Muslims get hurt or killed doing botched animal sacrifices each year?
How many thousand women are blinded by acid annually?
Honor killings?
Islam is not moral.
Why else do they wall themselves off from the world?
Why are all their positive accomplishments historical?
listen ISRAELI:
who told u that the cow that wrote the book considered as an authority by any one but ppl like u?
we know the zionist movement and what it is trying to achieve.
as for u and that who u r quoting , well, ur efforts are in vein.
always the Wright thing is the most attacked. if u don't believe me ask moses and jesus.Oh i forgot u don't believe in jesus neither because he did not say that u r going to haven no matter what u do jews.
well have a lousy night and live in ur misery my friend.
by the way did u look at ur own history?
just 1% of u anywhere r enough to Create problems and injustice, that is documented history , not some stupid retarded moran like hammond.
Islam is not a religion nor is it a cult. It is a complete system.
Islam has religious, legal, political, economic and military components. The religious component is a beard for all the other components.
Islamization occurs when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their so-called 'religious rights.'
When politically correct and culturally diverse societies agree to 'the reasonable' Muslim demands for their 'religious rights,' they also get the other components under the table. Here's how it works (percentages source CIA: The World Fact Book (2007)).
As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness:
United States -- Muslim 1.0%
Australia -- Muslim 1.5%
Canada -- Muslim 1.9%
China -- Muslim 1%-2%
Italy -- Muslim 1.5%
Norway -- Muslim 1.8%
At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs:
Denmark -- Muslim 2%
Germany -- Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom -- Muslim 2.7%
Spain -- Muslim 4%
Thailand -- Muslim 4.6%
From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.
They will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves -- along with threats for failure to comply. ( United States ).
France -- Muslim 8%
Philippines -- Muslim 5%
Sweden -- Muslim 5%
Switzerland -- Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands -- Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad %26amp;Tobago -- Muslim 5.8%
At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.
When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions ( Paris --car-burnings). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats ( Amsterdam - Mohammed cartoons).
Guyana -- Muslim 10%
India -- Muslim 13.4%
Israel -- Muslim 16%
Kenya -- Muslim 10%
Russia -- Muslim 10-15%
After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning:
Ethiopia -- Muslim 32.8%
At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare:
Bosnia -- Muslim 40%
Chad -- Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon -- Muslim 59.7%
From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels:
Albania -- Muslim 70%
Malaysia -- Muslim 60.4%
Qatar -- Muslim 77.5%
Sudan -- Muslim 70%
After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide:
Bangladesh -- Muslim 83%
Egypt -- Muslim 90%
Gaza -- Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia -- Muslim 86.1%
Iran -- Muslim 98%
Iraq -- Muslim 97%
Jordan -- Muslim 92%
Morocco -- Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan -- Muslim 97%
Israel -- Muslim 99%
Syria -- Muslim 90%
Tajikistan -- Muslim 90%
Turkey -- Muslim 99.8%
United Arab Emirates -- Muslim 96%
100% will usher in the peace of 'Dar-es-Salaam' -- the Islamic House of Peace -- there's supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim:
Afghanistan -- Muslim 100%
Saudi Arabia -- Muslim 100%
Somalia -- Muslim 100%
Yemen -- Muslim 99.9%
Of course, that's not the case. To satisfy their blood lust, Muslims then start killing each other for a variety of reasons.
'Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel. – Leon Uris, 'The Haj'
It is good to remember that in many, many countries, such as France, the Muslim populations are centered around ghettos based on their ethnicity. Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. Therefore, they exercise more power than their national average would indicate.What do you make of this? ?
That is a scary scenario you outline.
Of course, in France, as you say many live in ghettos. What keeps them from integrating into the population at large?
Is that accomplished because of their desire for keeping separate, or is that a racial component because they moved to a strange country?
Clearly, the world now is poised for the Biblical Great Tribulation, and this fire you mention is just part of the conflagration that will burn all the wicked.What do you make of this? ?
Pretty dang scary.
SOUNDS LIKE THE TYPICAL CHAOS THAT satan BRINGS,,, DOES NOT SOUND UNREAL TO ME AT ALL !!
My comment? Oopsie, it mentions Israel twice, first at 16% then again at 99%. Which is it?
im not going to read a novel
This seems to be the same pattern with Christendom. When there was only ONE faith in the country, they dominate all the politics, moral laws, and community actions.
That is why so many escaped from Europe in the 15th to the 19th century, to the New World, and other locations.
You will find this pattern in all Monopolies in the religious fields around the globe.
This gentleman has just picked on this one example, and ignored both history and other faiths that he finds ';ok';.
One flaw there my friend.....
Muslim killing Muslim is the number one cause of homicide in the world.
I suppose the ';peace'; will come much later.
Look how Muslims get hurt or killed doing botched animal sacrifices each year?
How many thousand women are blinded by acid annually?
Honor killings?
Islam is not moral.
Why else do they wall themselves off from the world?
Why are all their positive accomplishments historical?
listen ISRAELI:
who told u that the cow that wrote the book considered as an authority by any one but ppl like u?
we know the zionist movement and what it is trying to achieve.
as for u and that who u r quoting , well, ur efforts are in vein.
always the Wright thing is the most attacked. if u don't believe me ask moses and jesus.Oh i forgot u don't believe in jesus neither because he did not say that u r going to haven no matter what u do jews.
well have a lousy night and live in ur misery my friend.
by the way did u look at ur own history?
just 1% of u anywhere r enough to Create problems and injustice, that is documented history , not some stupid retarded moran like hammond.
Did you hear Rush Limbaugh today? Guardsman Mad as Hell at Democrats?
Guardsman Mad as Hell at Democrats
September 14, 2007
RUSH: Somewhere in Tennessee, this is Daniel on Open Line Friday. Hello.
CALLER: Hello, Rush. I'm in the National Guard, and my blood is just boiling with the way Senator Clinton had talked to General Petraeus.
RUSH: Suspending disbelief in order to listen to what he has to say -- that probably is what irritates you.
CALLER: Roger that. That just makes my blood boil. The guy's a four-star general; I believe he's got a doctorate degree in military science; he's been over there three times; he gets the intel data every day, he sees what's going on. He is the best qualified person to tell everybody what's going on, what he needs.
RUSH: Exactly.
CALLER: Now, I got two other points. Congress, they need to let us do our job, not only us in the National Guard, but our brothers and sisters on the active duty side, they need to let us do our job, stop handcuffing us.
RUSH: Wait a second.
CALLER: If they can do the job better, take my M-16, take my gas mask, take everything I got and do my job. I'm tired of these guys sitting down there telling me how I'm going to fight this war, so on and so forth. This is ridiculous. They sit there and they don't know what we do. They don't see what we see. They haven't been shot at, for crying out loud.
RUSH: Daniel, they don't want you to do your job. They are trying to see to it that you can't do your job. They know exactly what your job is. Your job is victory. They don't want that. They are trying to undermine your job. It's not that they're dense and don't understand your job. They know it very well. They resent the hell out of your job and that you might succeed at it.
CALLER: Well, then the general public needs to stand up and say, ';You know what, if you're not going to let our boys do their job, we're putting somebody else in there that will, regardless.'; And, my last point on this, and then I'll stop on it, is we're a nation where we don't go after world leaders and so on and so forth. I wish the president would take a bully's stance on world leaders that we're going after and eliminate 'em. I know we're not supposed to, but from the time that was written 'til 2007, the playing field has changed, and we need to adapt to that. I wish he would take that bully mentality and go after these world leaders.
RUSH: Well, that would require a change of the law.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: The Frank Church committee, I'm sure you know, who, in the seventies, was in charge of emaciating the CIA, came up with this, and that would require a change in the law. But, you know, I love you and I love your call and I love your passion. It breaks my heart to have to tell you, Daniel, but they don't want you to do your job.Did you hear Rush Limbaugh today? Guardsman Mad as Hell at Democrats?
That's one caller. How many others who are fed up with the war did he talk to?
Limbaugh is totally biased and a drug addict.Did you hear Rush Limbaugh today? Guardsman Mad as Hell at Democrats?
Does this surprise you?
No, because I'd rather die than listen to that asshole.
We are winning. WE=Americans of both parties.
Thank you for printing that. I missed the show. Rush does us all a great service, by bringing the truth to the air-ways. Hillary is a closet communist and trader. Her and her ilk ought to be locked up at Get Mo.
No, somehow I missed it.
Rush who?
Like that guy could have been from prison for all we know and Rush takes the call literal, as if he knew who he was talking to, but the guys was right the 4 star general been there done that and will do what ever Bush tells he to do or to the brig with him.
And if Hillary or any other democrat gets in the presidency, should the military take arms against the white house and physically remove the president and vice president , have new elections, and make sure that no liberal gets into office?
God I would hope so!!!
Is Rush anti-gay now, too?
Amen, brother. And thank you very much.
ManifeeManiac, are you three years old?
I would have asked this Guardsman what he thinks about th efact that a host of other equally high-ranking officers, including Petraeus' own boss--don't agree with his claims.
Of course, then, I'm not Rush. maybe the drugs are making him a bit fuzzy?
But I hope this idiot remembers what he said as more of his fellow soldiers come home in body bags because Petraeus didn't have the guts to stand up to Bush and tell the truth.
No, but I read your transcript. Thank you.
September 14, 2007
RUSH: Somewhere in Tennessee, this is Daniel on Open Line Friday. Hello.
CALLER: Hello, Rush. I'm in the National Guard, and my blood is just boiling with the way Senator Clinton had talked to General Petraeus.
RUSH: Suspending disbelief in order to listen to what he has to say -- that probably is what irritates you.
CALLER: Roger that. That just makes my blood boil. The guy's a four-star general; I believe he's got a doctorate degree in military science; he's been over there three times; he gets the intel data every day, he sees what's going on. He is the best qualified person to tell everybody what's going on, what he needs.
RUSH: Exactly.
CALLER: Now, I got two other points. Congress, they need to let us do our job, not only us in the National Guard, but our brothers and sisters on the active duty side, they need to let us do our job, stop handcuffing us.
RUSH: Wait a second.
CALLER: If they can do the job better, take my M-16, take my gas mask, take everything I got and do my job. I'm tired of these guys sitting down there telling me how I'm going to fight this war, so on and so forth. This is ridiculous. They sit there and they don't know what we do. They don't see what we see. They haven't been shot at, for crying out loud.
RUSH: Daniel, they don't want you to do your job. They are trying to see to it that you can't do your job. They know exactly what your job is. Your job is victory. They don't want that. They are trying to undermine your job. It's not that they're dense and don't understand your job. They know it very well. They resent the hell out of your job and that you might succeed at it.
CALLER: Well, then the general public needs to stand up and say, ';You know what, if you're not going to let our boys do their job, we're putting somebody else in there that will, regardless.'; And, my last point on this, and then I'll stop on it, is we're a nation where we don't go after world leaders and so on and so forth. I wish the president would take a bully's stance on world leaders that we're going after and eliminate 'em. I know we're not supposed to, but from the time that was written 'til 2007, the playing field has changed, and we need to adapt to that. I wish he would take that bully mentality and go after these world leaders.
RUSH: Well, that would require a change of the law.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: The Frank Church committee, I'm sure you know, who, in the seventies, was in charge of emaciating the CIA, came up with this, and that would require a change in the law. But, you know, I love you and I love your call and I love your passion. It breaks my heart to have to tell you, Daniel, but they don't want you to do your job.Did you hear Rush Limbaugh today? Guardsman Mad as Hell at Democrats?
That's one caller. How many others who are fed up with the war did he talk to?
Limbaugh is totally biased and a drug addict.Did you hear Rush Limbaugh today? Guardsman Mad as Hell at Democrats?
Does this surprise you?
No, because I'd rather die than listen to that asshole.
We are winning. WE=Americans of both parties.
Thank you for printing that. I missed the show. Rush does us all a great service, by bringing the truth to the air-ways. Hillary is a closet communist and trader. Her and her ilk ought to be locked up at Get Mo.
No, somehow I missed it.
Rush who?
Like that guy could have been from prison for all we know and Rush takes the call literal, as if he knew who he was talking to, but the guys was right the 4 star general been there done that and will do what ever Bush tells he to do or to the brig with him.
And if Hillary or any other democrat gets in the presidency, should the military take arms against the white house and physically remove the president and vice president , have new elections, and make sure that no liberal gets into office?
God I would hope so!!!
Is Rush anti-gay now, too?
Amen, brother. And thank you very much.
ManifeeManiac, are you three years old?
I would have asked this Guardsman what he thinks about th efact that a host of other equally high-ranking officers, including Petraeus' own boss--don't agree with his claims.
Of course, then, I'm not Rush. maybe the drugs are making him a bit fuzzy?
But I hope this idiot remembers what he said as more of his fellow soldiers come home in body bags because Petraeus didn't have the guts to stand up to Bush and tell the truth.
No, but I read your transcript. Thank you.
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