Unfuckingbelievable:
Obama Skips National Security Meeting on Russian Invasion of Ukraine
President Obama had no public events on his schedule today, yet skipped a meeting of his national security team at the White House today as they huddled over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Seen leaving the meeting at the White House were Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, and CIA Director John Brennan.
Vice President Joe Biden reportedly joined the meeting via videoconference, while Obama was briefed later by National Security Advisor Susan Rice.
There was no word from the White House on whether Obama would issue any statement.
There are no words . . .
The Crawdad Hole 
Actually there are a lot of words but I am too disgusted to sit here and type them out.
I am going to go to the gym and work out my frustration by watching other people exercise.
I did yard-work this morning. For ten minutes. Then I came in and drank coffee and had a Little Debbies Star Crunch.
Gonna get your errands run before the next storm wave sweeps in dampens your windshield, eh?
The parking lot was full and the only empty spaces were at the back and I didn’t want to walk that far so I came home.
The most important decisions an aspiring candidate make’s are who will comprise his staff AND how will they keep him fully informed? Delegating too much authority to self-important underlings is an eternal pitfall, sinking many quality candidates. In this one area of campaigning for office Obumbles is, or at lease was, supremely competent.
LOSER!!!!
You know, I don’t really fault Russia for ruthlessly looking out for her own interests. I just wish someone was doing the same for ours.
One would hope some Ukrainians are pragmatic enough to realize the threat, and quickly take steps to reassure the Bear her interests will be protected by the new government. Because if that isn’t in fact gonna happen, this will be the world’s second shortest revolutionary administration.
Putin & Bwarky spoke on the phone.
Obama is losing the messaging battle too.
Exactly. Russia is behaving badly, but EU and NATO countries have been interfering over there for months as well. There was a major push on the strongarm Ukraine into the EU without any sort of popular vote. The EU has been funneling money and support to outright neo-Nazi and other batshit groups, so long as they’d be anti-Russian.
Yes, the bear is charging. Bad bear. But don’t sit there all faux innocence pretending you haven’t been poking him.
Unintended consequences.
Sarah Palin knows about bears. They are NOT tame.
Okay, some of the stupider neocons are red-scaring. No, honey, you’re wrong. The only real communists left are in Europe/USA/Latin America and the West.
” He’s a nationalist, abt power, period.”
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Seemed to be a theme at the Olympic ceremonies, with a lot of Czarist era “nostalgia”.
Russian Olympic uniforms often had prominent display of the Czarist Imperial eagle and the current Russian flag is the Peter the Great Imperial flag. The Ruskies have long memories and they are still pissed that the West doesn’t give them credit for kicking the shit out of the WWII German army.
I noticed that. People on Twitter were claiming that the ceremonies “glorified” the communist era, and I was going, “WTF??!! Are they watching the same thing I am? Do they not get artistic symbolism at all?”
The Czarist era was portrayed as rich, cultured, colorful, artistic. The Soviet era was portrayed as very flat and harsh and monochrome and mechanistic. As failed hubris. The contrast was obvious. If the opening ceremonies were “saying” anything, they were saying “Let’s go back to our historic Russian identity”, not “Let’s go back to the Soviet identity”.
Should I make the kids learn Russian?
With Mandarin as a backup.
““Let’s go back to our historic Russian identity”
******
Even during the Soviet era, a lot of money and effort was spent restoring the Czarist “splendor” that was trashed by the Germans.
I was trying to figure that out until now- why the heyday of communism was shown as stark, monochromatic and boring…
Historically, the Russians have been interested in two things:
1) A secure food supply, and
2) access to warm water ports
They’ve recently added:
3) Total control over the natural gas supply to Europe
This is straight-up, 19th Century “Great Game” stuff: nobody gives a damn about ideology. It’s all about empire now.
I may have to steal and tweet that.
Sarah Palin must get tired of being right. She predicted Putin would invade Ukraine under an Obama administration.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/02/28/Flashback-Palin-Mocked-in-2008-for-Warning-Putin-May-Invade-Ukraine-if-Obama-Elected-President
So far all her predictions have been coming true.
http://theulstermanreport.com/2014/03/01/barack-obama-skips-national-security-meeting-while-putin-moves-on-ukraine/
the Ulsterman on this subject
he has to have the worse advisers in history. Is there no one who will say ” hey fool at least try to give the impression of acting like a president”?
everyday in every way he shows his total disrespect for this country.
He probably just needed to catch up on his sleep – like during Benghazi.
off topic
where is Angie?
http://weaselzippers.us/177757-obamacare-gets-its-own-mardi-gras-float/
Richard Fernandez, proprietor of The Belmont Club, recently wrote of progs:
Remaking the past. Changing history. So as to alter its interpretation.
IMO the intrinsic value of the TCH culture is the ability of Klown and the Krew to burrow deeply into the rabbit hole of history, recover odd bits progs would rather leave undisturbed, and repost them boldly on the interthingy even when their reality is inconvenient to the hierarchy.
And drinking. Dah.
And the drinking and the music videos and the nakedness and the general irreverence. That too.
Aren’t they all the same?
http://weaselzippers.us/177837-u-s-calls-for-immediate-deployment-of-un-osce-monitors-to-ukraine/
US calls for immediate deployment of UN OSCE monitors to Ukraine
When TehOne was chairman of one of the Senate foreign affairs committees, It never met – – – ever. That seemed to work out just fine for him. He just doesn’t see the value in making a meeting. He’s got a phone and a pen.
The word that comes to my mind today is impeachment – or arrest.
We have fucking idiots as the “elites” of our country. Putin? IMPULSIVE? Irrational? The European tweeps are laughing their asses off. Putin is icy as they come – a chess player. There’s not an emotionally impulsive bone in his body.
This reaction is bizarre. They are lying. A lot of people saw this coming and understand exactly what Putin is doing. This is ass covering for this administration and their complicity in enabling the foreign policy clusterfuck. Shameful.
Everything is impulsive and irrational to the slow-witted.
LOL, “war jeans” ….
https://twitter.com/GPollowitz/status/439925447904993280
Looks like he is ordering a pizza , to me ….”YES! I said NO mushrooms ! ”
What an ass ; what we don’t see , is Putin on the other end of that call , laughing his ass off .
CBC News Alerts @CBCAlerts · 26m
Canada recalls ambassador from #Russia over #Ukraine situation and suspends participation in leadup to G8 in Sochi in June #cdnpoli
I don’t know how to copy from Twitter, but I just saw this.
When you’re in twitter, copy the time stamp URL and paste it directly into the comment field. In the case of the one above, the link would be the underlined 26m on the top line.
Leave it to Sooper to nail it:
Yep
off topic
http://weaselzippers.us/177846-new-navy-ship-named-to-honor-flight-93-who-fought-terrorists-on-911/
US Navy ship named for flight 93 who fought terrorists on 9-11
USS SOMERSET may she sail the seas with honor and gallantry just like those she was named after
Via AofSHQ:
First they rationalize an unengaged president by giving reasons why something that probably won’t happen can’t happen. Then they cover up when the thing does happen by calling the other guy “irrational” when in reality the White House is just dumb.
Yep. Obama doesn’t get all wee-weed up about anything.
Except weed.
https://twitter.com/votermom/status/439948817593409536
Denied God is more apt, and biblical, I think.
OT — JeffHas & “Charles Foster Kane” (Ha ha!) — you two need to get your Oscar picks in for the Crawdad Hole Pick ‘Em Game — a little more than 20 hours left!
We’re up to 16 players — anyone can compete — you have to create an account, but it’s free.
Go here:
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You can still change your picks right up until the deadline too.
I don’t know any more about the movies and actors nominated than I did the day I chose randomly.
That’s how I plan to vote from now on.
Idiots–all of them.
Jennifer Lawrence who I could drive home since I don’t drink. I bet she is funny as hell. .
Tell that to my penis. He thinks otherwise.
Your’s THINKS? Sorry about that.
It’s like he’s got a mind of his own.
Just because you’re trans doesn’t mean you can’t also be fucked in the head.
Come on down Garry! You can even find a job.
In Idaho, only if you do it by quietly holding up a sign.
Man, I am so thoroughly fed up with whiny, pious, self-absorbed liberals in NYC and San Francisco these days. 🙂 And I still call myself a Democrat.
A lot of that going around.
I read an article yesterday that said that there are moderate and conservative Democrats who do not like super liberal Democrats but it is OK to not like them as long as you continue to vote for them.
https://twitter.com/JustAnotherMo/status/439956900910608384
Off topic but I am suddenly in need of a doctor and I still have no insurance. I can not stop eating. had 14 fish tacos and a pound of muenster cheese two boxes of farfalle and I am still hundry. Three days of it and I lost 3 pounds. Feel like I am trapped in an episode of the x files. About to devour a carton of butter pecan ice cream
You need a thyroid screening. Seriously. If that sucker goes off track you can eat yourself into being the Goodyear blimp.
I do not gain weight. Never have. I can eat whatever I want. As a kid it was a nightmare and winters still suck. 47 and I have not one pound on me . I never go near sweats because sugar makes me feel like shit. One sip from a Jim beam and my face goes bright red. Neon red I get drunk from fumes.
Seems I’ m okay. Drinking skim milk to stop the stomach pains. Working very well. Got some blood work back this morning. Everything is normal. Six months ago I was shopping fot a liver and kidney. Now even my INR(clotting) is a robust .8. Creatine and bilirubin low normal. Not even elevated. Went to the hospital that owns my insurance company so should be interesting when they bill me They wanted to admit me but I refused. Couldn’t get a specialist in but on a Sunday morning they managed to get a social worker. They will billme based on my income. Which for 2013 was a whopping 7 grand. ALL interest. I had given a credit card in the emergency room and it posted a one dollar charge that was then refunded.
I’m praying for your health, Mothy.
It is good. UNFUCKING belevably good. A meld score is used to determine getting an organ. Goes to 40 The higher the number the greater the need. Very high scores work against you because at that point lots of other things are going wrong. Iwas at 28 today I do not even register. I was in the hospital on a monitor with a catheter and IVs out the wazoo. Alone and naked with fecal matter running out of my body. I simply said enough. Not the way I was gonna check out. Stopped all meds and in two weeks I went from 236 pounds to 138. I was so very sick but my brat forced me to get up every day. No way in hell I was going to leave her feeling sorry for me. I owe her more. When my body was really breaking down I had a blood vessel burst on my finger. It was like a horror film. Just shot blood way into the air. We laughed so hard. That is what I want to leave her with
Call me corney. Who cares? Leave Shayla (my brat) tjis song in her memory box
http://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=jUp5sq5Ror0