While Rome Burns..........

Rumor had it that during the Great Roman Fire in A.D. 64, Nero was busy  standing in a tower playing a fiddle while watching Rome burn.

Yesterday, we find out from CBS's Mark Knoller, that President Obama has tied his predecessor in rounds of golf. However, it took Bush 43 two years and ten months to do it.

This is particularly amusing in light of the lefts excoriation of Bush for spending so much time on vacation. The Obama's also love to party. A recent air America headline: "White House Hotspot: The Obamas Love To Party."

In fact, the parties take place almost daily. In addition to the regular Wednesday cocktail parties there are many other gigs and balls regularly going on in the White House. Then there are the taxpayer supported dates and trips the Obama's take. Other Presidents have done this as well, but none has matched the Obama's frequency thus far.

In other news, 14 more Americans died in Afghanistan as a result of combat related helicopter crashes. Say what you will about the justification of the conflicts Bush started, but he personally wrote over four thousand condolence letters to the families of our soldiers who were killed in action, whereas Obama just throws another cocktail party.

More left wing hypocrisy in action. It's not OK for Bush to hit the Western White House, but it's cool if Obama parties every night on the taxpayer's dime while we have serious issues that need the FULL TIME attention of the President. 

 

 

Where are the carriers?

Gary Baumgarten, in an Open Salon post today, mentioned the news items that indicated the Saudis gave the Israelis the green light to overfly their airspace if they need to attack Iran and the other item mentioned that Israel had sent a sub through the Suez Canal. In my opinion, it looks like the Israeli attack will soon be on.

Another indicator that Uncle Sam may be aware of an imminent attack is that we currently have nine of our aircraft carries deployed. The Enterprise is not scheduled to leave dry dock until August 2009 and the Lincoln is currently in dry dock.

We also recently tested a Titan III ICBM which had three independently targetable dummy warheads on it. Now, every military tests it's equipment to make sure it is functioning properly, but a successful test launch of a MIRVed Titan III at this particular time sends a very clear signal to some of our enemies, namely, that despite whatever other problems we are having in America at the moment, we can still drop a nuclear warhead on a gnat's ass from over 4,000 miles away.

Something is going to happen soon.