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However, Clinton was only Impeached because the real stuff - his dealings with the PLA - was too volatile and would have shown him to be the traitor he was. Thus, the settling on the blue dress and all that implied.

O’s Impeachment would be similar - while the Libya stuff would be the meat, Congress would come up with something equally lame (as they did with Clinton) to Impeach him on. And like Clinton, no Congress critter would read the documents on Libya.

While many here and elsewhere are reasonablily informed on the facts, most of the public neither know or care these days. There would be no popular outcry - with Clinton most had no clue about his dealings with the PLA.

Gun running. That was my first thought also - all those months ago. But now that hypothosis does not make sense. (Christians in the ME were slaughtered long ago, only a few remain in scattered communites.)

or that that Puff was too far away?

Whatever can be done, the direction does not lie in Impeachment as that would be a farse and greatly discredit any genuine efforts.

There likely is nothing that can realistically be done at this point, short of making sure O does not finagle a third term.

If I might add my 2 cents:

While everyone is looking at the impressive release of rock and aerosols for the Bottleneck, I think there is an overlooked factor which may be the real culprit: Tsunami.

Tsunamis come in two versions: the first is uplift or subsidence - which was the 2004 variety - creates a rolling ocean wave like as a storm at sea.

The energy released by the uplift is dissipated and dispersed over a wide area. Toss a rock in a bathtub filled with water. The ripple is the wave, and while large were the rock entered the water, the wave becomes small at the edge as the energy dissipates.

The 2004 tsunami, centered near Toba, caused massive loss of life where the wave came ashore, but only went ashore as far as the energy would push it.

The second tsunami version is collapse - when rock collapses into or under the ocean. This version makes a standing wave.

Standing wave tsunamis, unlike their cousin rolling wave tsunamis, builds to a height in direct proportion to the falling distance and mass of the collapsing formation. The farther it falls, the larger the formation, the larger the wave created. The energy here is massive. Slide a bucket of rocks down the side of the bathtub and the wave created continues at the same height until it reaches the opposite end of the tub.

The only real world example I know of this sort is a bay in Alaska - there is a video of this taken by a crabber. The far wall of the bay collapsed creating a standing wave which scoured the bay down to bedrock of everything up to the height of the wave.

Another predicted wave could be created by the collapse of the west side of the Canary Islands. This wave could be from several thousand feet to three miles high and hit the East Coast of the US stopping only at the top of the Allegheny Mountains. Everything below the mountain tops would simply be gone - like it never existed.

It is possible that the initial stage Toba eruption pushed massive amounts of material into the ocean before the finial stage of the eruption. No matter what happened in the later stages of the eruption, the standing wave tsunami would have been created and traveling outward at whatever height it was until the wave met some formation taller that it was. Everything below that would have be erased - including all the people living below the height of the wave in all the lands bordering the Indian Ocean.

I don't know if there is any evidence for this, nor if anyone has looked.

Another thing this climate change researcher overlooked is the effect of inhalation of those volcanic glass particles - inhaling glass particles will cause hemorrhaging in the lungs and death.

“... it's just too simplistic ...” And why does every explanation have to be complex to be true, Ms Lane?
Her specialty: Tephrochronology: a geochronological technique that uses discrete layers of tephra —volcanic ash from a single eruption—to create a chronological framework ...

More reviews here

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_trek_into_darkness/

“… Americans Were Deliberately Left There To Die”

This is the result, but what was the reason? Find that and find the truth. Remember, the Principles were all watching this live as it went down. All had signed off on the Flash traffic that the incident was in progress.

The only plausible explanation for me in allowing or planning for this event and then so heavily covering up has to lie somewhere in an area which ordinary people would see as unspeakable, as an abomination, as a crime of such proportions that the entire US government would fall overnight.

O could be signaling via this Gift that he is willing to trade as many American lives, as many US troops, as many Israeli lives needed to mollify the muslim world. Everyone who is paying attention knows that when Iran has enough working nukes, they intend to use them. They may have one now, and that may not be enough or the right moment has not yet come round.

O, by this act, has said in effect, “kill as many as you want, I'll just watch and make strong speeches.” ... The darkness drops again but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? -- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

“Articles of Impeachment....a mile long!”

Articles to Convict....zero!

Give this up. The Senate will not vote to Convict and Remove - House votes to Impeach will only further destroy us as it did with Clinton's trial. Moreover, Zero will only do more of the same destructive crap while the House Trial is in progress.

Eska,
Thanks for trying, but most here think food grows in grocery stores and salmon are something rich people eat. Many have not been out of their town or city, and a few not out of their parents’ basement.

Any attempt to disturb their consensus reality continually meets with failure and a collective sigh of boredom.

Trying to convince them just how delicate the balance is for Bay salmon is next to impossible.

They often would take mine products over food any day. the formulae here is mine products equals money, food equals grocery store.

Hope you can keep beating back this project.

The Royal Saudi family sanctioned Wahabism to keep the population in check. Wahabism is mainly used to export the worst jihadis in order to keep things under control at home. Exporting the Wahhabi beliefs is part of the price the Royal family pays for keeping the Kingdom's population under control. Without the Royal family the place would be very much worse off - no matter how bad things are under the Royals today.

However, this whole affair is in the process of being swept under the table with that guy Ben Gazi, so Obizmo can get back to campaigning. Right now, he is being placed in a position to close to governing for comfort.

Debka’s angle
The Tsarnaev brothers were double agents who decoyed US into terror trap
http://www.debka.com/article/22914/The-Tsarnaev-brothers-were-double-agents-who-decoyed-US-into-terror-trap

“But what woke up these guys after centuries ...”

Demonstrable Western weaknesses: smaller militaries, liberalism, etc.

Pressure cookers loaded with explosives are cheap, plentiful, easy to make, and will kill ...

It's not about conquest in the sense of a large army conquest, but of attrition as the koran commands and has worked for centuries to defeat armies which are larger and better equipped. Terror reduces the will of a population to fight. Especially a population with politically weak leadership and which is focused on handing out free stuff and not defense.

To muslims revenge is every bit as important as conquest of enemies, aka everyone who is not a muslim, not in the same sect, or not following the same imam.

The First Barbary War: Muslims were astounded that their terrorism at sea was challenged by a handful of US Marines. Soundly defeated, the muslims withdrew and were not heard from for centuries, until Hitler gained the support of the Grand Mufti and formed SS brigades in Albania. Since then they have begun a slow rise in activity and the pace will continue to accelerate in direct proportion to perceived Western weakness.

Compare and contrast “Mein Kampf” with “Koran” (the second given half as the first was invalidated by Mo his self), the Hadiths and Sunnahs which chronicle the life and sayings of Mo: “Talibari”, “Muslim”, “Isaq” and “Bukhari”.

Get back when you have done this assignment. We are not comparing nation to nation, but philosophy to philosophy. They are what they believe. The rest is just gloss and Taqiyya.

Pygmies? The Liliputians tied Gulliver down, remember?

Know and name your enemy — that's the guy who wants you and yours dead.

Ah, just convert now, all is lost. The world is a dangerous place and by converting en mass we solve the problem. Just quit now, we are such wimps and losers, cowering in fear of what might be.

Let's all confess that we were wrong to go after Hitler in WWII, as Nazi tenants and Islamic tenants are so strikingly similar. In the end we can become either good Nazis or good muslims as there is no real difference. Problem solved again.

So its your theory against what devout muslims have said.

OK, then. Let's just get along and leave the ME to it's own devices - we really do not need to support ‘democracy’ in muslim countries where such a concept is anathema, nor support the Israelis who are just pigs, muslim women are inferior and should be allowed to be abused and killed, slavery should be legal, let the Saudi princes fend for themselves and revoke any and all mil equipment licences we have given them.

We all know that this country could survive a few nuclear hits, as Obizmo claims, so why not just let the muslims do what they will, and besides, they are simply practicing their religion.

Perhaps we should all just convert to Islam and get rid of the Constitution and current flag, substituting Sharia and the flag of Islam, while paying jizra to what ever Caliphate muslims set up.

There, it's fixed and everyone is happy and at peace singing Kumbaya in Arabic.

Or we could just nuke Mecca - other countries would protest but their muslim problems would be solved also. And BTW, if we do not, some other country eventually will.

He is either a Saudi prince who supports and finances jihad, or a relative of said prince. I saw his name mentioned somewhere recently - not on FR.

More to the point ro bad we no longer have 5 mt weapons, just piddly 1.5s ...

Well if you care to believe that feel free, but that is not what devout Wahhabis said, as I reported.

Humiliation is a very big factor in determining what muslims go or do not do. You really need to read the hadiths and sunnahs to understand why your theory would never happen.

Destroying Mecca is the same as destroying Islam - whose god controls everything down to the molecular level - and thus proving their god is a fraud. Most said around 911 that, if mecca was destroyed, they would become variously Christians, Jews or atheists. No one wanted to pray to a god who was a fraud, nor be so humiliated by doing so.

Time to go for it. At the Haj, no warning ...

Perfumed Princes by definition are already infected. No ‘some’ about it.

“And they get to blame the Republicans for it.”

Bonus feature.

The Chinese stole it and the Russians have already hacked it.

Of course, everyone does understand that this whole thing is being used to take Iran of the Iran-NK axis out of the news?

The end game is not Un’s, but the Iranian Supreme Leader’s ploy for more time to get a nuke to use on Israel.

Also on the Northern NK border, the local towns are conducting air raid drills, while on the Southern Chinese border, the 192nd Corp frontline, crack PLA troops are assembling ...

If the .... hits the fan, we will be able to see how well PLA women in their spec ops teams perform ...

That looks like a Tiger mussel, an invasive species from Asia ...

More like the fruits - period.

The mil has just as much money as it did in the previous years, plus the 2013 increases (where the minuscule cut in the rate of increase occurs).

Groundings are simply a show for the public that an overall 2 percent decrease in the rate of increase is untenable - going to prove that any cuts to the federal budget are impossible. Therefore, the federal budget can only be increased.

Any book containing allegory, symbolism, stream of consciousness, but not containing gratuitous violence and hardcore sex, spanning more than 10 pages, or written before yesterday can be avoided as overrated. Follow these rules and you can safely remain illiterate.

The koran was compiled from bits and scraps that had been lying about for 200 years after Mo was assassinated. The book was purportedly given in two parts; the last given part is the last words of Allah and overrules anything which came before and which is in conflict.

How to tell which part is which. The easy way to tell the difference is: any verse which sounds vaguely nice is likely plagiarized from the Bible or Torah and is first given; any verse which sounds vaguely warlike or hateful is the second given. The first given is therefore discarded and should be disregarded in your service to allah who has predetermined everything down to the molecular level.

To understand what is being said you must read the Hadiths and Sunnahs which chronicle the life and sayings of Mo, these are Talibari, Muslim, Isaq and Bukhari; Hadiths are Mohammed’s word to his followers, The Sunnahs are the history of Muhammad and his motto (sic) was “Kill, kill, kill”.. Or you could safely go with just killing, converting, or collecting money from everybody who is not a muslim, or not in your sect, or not in following the particular version preached by your imam; see Victor Mordicai: “Islam operates in this way: Kill the Jews on Saturday, the Christians on Sunday, the Buddists and Hindus are pagans - so kill them first, then everybody else. Next we kill each other.”

You personally are expected to wage jihad, killing as many of the hated others as possible, going to a glorious martyrdom to Paradise, where before entering you will have to wait in line as Paradise (according to Mo) only holds 72,000. If you do not follow this path, then others are obligated to kill you.

There’s the short course on understanding and making sense of the koran. Hope this clears up you well-founded confusion.

“... Muslims are in the Asia/Pacific ...”

Indonesia the wolrd’s largest Islamic country. A country where open warfafre on Christian communities is a way of life.

It’s languishing in committee beacuse those people already know the truth, but exposing it would destroy the nation, much like exposing the real reasons for Clinton’s impeachment would have done. The are just waiting for a plausable “blue dress” to move on it.

Message received, northern NK cities doing air raid drills ...

Food and stuff is all good, but what Un wants, and what set him off was the West’s refusal to publically accept NK as a nuclear power; hence the threats to bring war. An NK nuke warhead going off anywhere would make NK a defacto nuclear power.

And they have the PLA’s frontline 192 div on their northern border for back up.

“This time impeachment... will happen, I swear ...”

Impeachment is a Congressional slap on the wrist. Only if the Senate takes a vote to Convict and another to Remove will Obama be thrown out of Office.

The Senate is Dem controled - so impeach away for all the good it will do - and if the Clintion impeachment was any indication, the results will be very bad. Worse, because Obizmo will still be POTUS and really mad.

Be careful what you wish for ...

We cam pretty much disregard ANY thing that comes from any ice core ‘scientist.’ As a group, they seldom preserve their data; thus, no one can check their findings. We all have to just take their word that what they say they found is what they found.

Thanks for remembering.

Right guy, wrong question.

Gotta be careful, as if the question is asked, the universe ends ...

“We had just such a plan in the 60’s and 70’s if the USSR invaded Western Europe and we were getting the worst of it.”

Which we would have. We were told several times before we departed NSA (in the late 60s) for Europe: when the Russians crossed through Fulda Gap in Germany - they were 72 hours from the English Channel - even after the use of theater nukes ...

“On the fields of Trensalore, at the fall of the 11th, when no living creature can speak falsely or fail to answer, a question will be asked. A question that must never, ever be answered........The first question. The oldest question in the universe, hidden in plain sight.”

A clue.

That is not the “Question That Can Never Be Asked.”

Maybe it is like some high level codes: It can be read plainly with one message, but is actually encrypted, and the real message can only be read by using the key. In some cases, the key is embedded in the original system used to produce the code itself and not available to discovery independently.

If the original system is lost or otherwise no longer available or even once write, self destruct system, then the encrypted message can never be read.

Perhaps the encrypted message asks the “Question That Can Never Be Asked.”

When the predicted 9.0 quake happens, and if the viaduct is shaken to the ground, the Media will film the horror of all that twisted concrete, cars, and bodies.

Now, when the predicted 9.0 quake happens, the tunnel will just collapse burring any unsightly problems. Nothing to see there.

Only on the Farside, in lefty King County - its power over the rest of the State gone to its collective head - would actually pursue this 30 year old ‘pipe’ dream.

I think it matters more WHO you buy the drive from than manufacturer. Warranties and such are a good thing. Some vendors will attempt to recover data from faulty drives they sold you for a very small fee or free.

My preference for multi-terrabyte drives:
OWC
http://www.macsales.com/

Veto power can only be exercised in the Security Council, not the General Assembly which is a just who has the most votes for what.

Is it a heavily Republican area? If it is, then no need to help the opposition.

Buried down at the bottom of Bill Gertz’s (a national defense reporter with connections) story, are several paragraphs talking about practice evacuations in NK’s NORTHERN cities, while across the boarder the PLA and PLAF are mobilizing.

Those items with China cutting back on NK oil, and other goods, seems to me that China told Un if he does something, there will be mil consequences. Un, meanwhile, full of himself and his family's legend, will lose face, if he does nothing but bluster.

China knows UN may have painted himself into a corner and is simply getting ready. China's mil lacks any external combat experience in recent decades - none since the border war with Russia - and this might be as good a time as any to get some - plus trying out new mil toys in real combat - against NK.

My 2 cents.

Amy Pond?

“”After I was recruited in 2011 and later joined the navy’s South Sea Fleet, two of my younger sisters followed suit and are now serving in the North Sea Fleet and East Sea Fleet. We are the pride of our family ...” because now we will be able to find nice Han men with a future to marry ... they will have to convert, but that’s no problem.”

3. Limit electrical usage to DC and a few other chosen cities to reflect a nighttime image similar to and in solidarity with NK as well as control global warming.

“Has there been any movement of North Korean troops and supplies to a forward position?”

Since NK moves troops and vehicles through huge, extensive, underground tunnels, any movement will be noticed when the tunnles open behind SK lines. This will happen after several million arty rounds land on Soul and so on.

Jezz, this story has been around since the early 90s; I remember writing about it at the time.