Arthur Carter Watch Lets try to re-lose the cold war

Posted: March 14, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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You know it took about 46 years to win the cold war. And it looks like president Obama is doing his best to undo that win:

A Russian Air Force chief said Saturday that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has offered an island as a temporary base for strategic Russian bombers, the Interfax news agency reported.

The chief of staff of Russia’s long range aviation, Maj. Gen. Anatoly Zhikharev, also said Cuba could be used to base the aircraft, Interfax reported.

Lets see kicked out of Kyrgyzstan, pulling out the missile defense that Poland still wants and now here come bombers once again on the doorstep. Hotair nails it:

Recall that Barack Obama ran in part on a campaign to “restore diplomacy” in foreign relations. Hillary Clinton made a big show of bringing a “reset button” to her first meeting with her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, in which the button was labeled incorrectly and not spelled in Cyrillic. This followed her bumbling show at the EU, making it clear to the Russians that our foreign service was in complete disarray, run by imcompetents.

Can you imagine Russia trying this with George Bush? For that matter, can you imagine Bush losing Kyrgyzstan — and a vital military route — to Putin? Russia is doing this now because Putin and Medvedev understand that they can get away with it.

Do you think the middle east et/al is noticing who the strong horse and how the weak horse is. And just think we have another 46 months of this.

Carter 11 Arthur 6

Update: Don Surber nails it:

President Obama’s overtures to Russia and Cuba have been answered.

They think he is a lightweight.

Read his whole post, I agree with every word except for “think”.

Update 2: Stop the ACLU has a roundup.

Looking at this story on renaming enemy combatants all I could think of was the movie Porkys.

You can rename terrorists all you want but they are still pric**.

Update: Villainous Company had the same laughter without the Porky’s clip.

Splitting headache

Posted: March 13, 2009 by datechguy in personal
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One sick kid and splitting headache. Blogging will be light.

WBC Round 2 Pool 1 Saturday

Posted: March 12, 2009 by datechguy in baseball
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The 2nd Round of the WBC begins Saturday. Here is what we see.

Hugo’s boys play the Dutch at 1 p.m. They will be facing the Dutch A team. I don’t know they they are going to take the Dutch lightly or not. Bobby Abreu is likely going to walk every time at bat. Hugo’s boys have to be considered the favorites in this one. However with the relationship between Hugo & Fidel and the game being in Miami you’ve got to believe that the Dutch is going to have the crowd with them.

US vs Puerto Rico. This is going to be a pretty solid game. All these players know each other and have likely faced each other. In my opinion the significance of this game is it’s potential to setup a 3rd Dutch vs. PR game. It is very hard to beat a team 3 times in a row. Because of this I think this game is much more important for the Puerto Ricans to then the US. They would much rather face the Dutch again in a non-elimination situation.

You have to favor US and Venezuela in this round but I actually wouldn’t be surprised to see anything happen.