March 26, 2014

Obama's FutureWar Battle Plan:
Step 1. Reduce the Military Budget By Relying More on Stand-Off Weapons Like the Tomahawk and Hellfire Missiles
Step 2: Slash Funding for the Hellfire Missile and Eliminate the Tomahawk Entirely
— Ace

I made up "Step 1," sort of. Though it's obvious that Obama prefers light engagements when it comes to war, drones and planes and missiles, rather than heavy ones with tanks and ships and soldiers and seamen.

Which makes it absolutely baffling that he's cutting Tomahawk purchases to 100 in 2015, and then canceling production entirely in 2016.

This will leave us with enough Tomahawks to get us through 2018... maybe. Assuming we don't have to use more of them than we were expecting.

President Barack Obama is seeking to abolish two highly successful missile programs that experts say have helped the U.S. Navy maintain military superiority for the past several decades.

The Tomahawk missile program—known as “the world’s most advanced cruise missile”—is set to be cut by $128 million under Obama’s fiscal year 2015 budget proposal and completely eliminated by fiscal year 2016, according to budget documents released by the Navy.

...

The Navy will also be forced to cancel its acquisition of the well-regarded and highly effective Hellfire missiles in 2015, according to ObamaÂ’s proposal.

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Nearly 100 of these missiles are used each year on average, meaning that the sharp cuts will cause the Tomahawk stock to be completely depleted by around 2018. This is particularly concerning to defense experts because the Pentagon does not have a replacement missile ready to take the TomahawkÂ’s place.

“It doesn’t make sense,” said Seth Cropsey, director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for American Seapower. “This really moves the U.S. away from a position of influence and military dominance.”

Cropsey said that if someone were trying to “reduce the U.S. ability to shape events” in the world, “they couldn’t find a better way than depriving the U.S. fleet of Tomahawks. It’s breathtaking.”

They're claiming they'll just put these funds into the development of the next-gen missile, the Long Range Anti-Ship Cruise Missile, but that is in development hell and isn't even planned to be ready for deployment until 2024. (And you know how schedules usually work out.)

This makes such little sense that I can only think -- or hope -- that Obama and possibly the Navy is playing a variation of Shutdown Theater here, canceling the thing that will grab your attention the most in order to alert you to all the cuts to the DoD's budget you might not notice.

As DrewM. has pointed out repeatedly, these sequester cuts are serious, and they will require genuine cuts, not merely "trims" or the like. Hard decisions will have to be made. (Like retiring an entire carrier fleet, and that's just for starters.)

But canceling the very weapons that President Dronestrike relies upon to carry the weight of warfighting as he cuts the rest of the military budget?

It seems so preposterous I can't believe it's all on the level.

Posted by: Ace at 07:35 AM | Comments (441)
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1 I'm ready!

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 26, 2014 07:37 AM (GjPnA)

2 If you're still in the military at this point, there's no point in complaining.  Just lay back and think of China.  Or in the words of Jack Lambert, put dresses on them all. 

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 26, 2014 07:38 AM (Ec6wH)

3 If you were trying to thoroughly destroy America, what would you do differently from what President Obama is doing?

Posted by: Geraldine Ferraro at March 26, 2014 07:38 AM (epWQP)

4 Everybody calm down.

The esteemed Chuck Hagel says everything is cool.

Posted by: Sgt Hulka at March 26, 2014 07:39 AM (WVjzG)

5 I made up "Step 1," sort of.


Not really, the proposed budget for 2016 cuts the military drastically to pay for his commie programs.


Let's face it, the SOB hates the US and is doing everything he can do to destroy it.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 26, 2014 07:40 AM (T2V/1)

6

Obama's foreign policy and military policy makes perfect sense when you understand his perspective.

 

Support islamic radicals first.  Then dictators and strawmen.  In all things put America in a weak, shitty position.

 

Just look at his IMF reforms.  How the fuck does that make sense.

 

We have an enemy running the country.

Posted by: prescient11 at March 26, 2014 07:40 AM (tVTLU)

7
Maybe the French could lend us some....oh, right.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 26, 2014 07:40 AM (0Kobm)

8 Straight. Up. Treason.

Posted by: The Barrel at March 26, 2014 07:41 AM (naUcP)

9 Ace, don't forget the Hellfire missile is also on the chopping block.


What's TFG's favourite way to strike terrorists?  Predator drones with Hellfire missiles.



No fucking sense.

Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 07:41 AM (GQ8sn)

10 weapons are so last century

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 07:41 AM (zOTsN)

11 The Navy is overrun with farm boys.

Posted by: Bruce Braley at March 26, 2014 07:42 AM (Ua6T/)

12 We were told we would have to elect Carter to get another Reagan. If there is another Reagan out there, he'd better be on steroids.

Posted by: --- at March 26, 2014 07:42 AM (ksJYU)

13 Good piece on the situation at Information Dissemination by McGrath. Bryan McGrath ‏@ConsWahoo #Navy to end TLAM production line. This is what assuming risk looks like. #USN #Seapower http://goo.gl/Bnviix

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 07:42 AM (ZPrif)

14 No fucking sense. Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 11:41 AM (GQ8sn) And isn't that really the story of Obama?

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 26, 2014 07:42 AM (bCEmE)

15 "'It doesnÂ’t make sense,' said Seth Cropsey, director of the Hudson InstituteÂ’s Center for American Seapower. 'This really moves the U.S. away from a position of influence and military dominance.'"

Which for Obama is a feature, not a bug.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 26, 2014 07:42 AM (noWW6)

16 maybe he will ask Putin for help again oh...

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 07:42 AM (zOTsN)

17

It seems so preposterous I can't believe it's all on the level.

 

You know, sometimes I think half of Hordeistan is hyperbolically hyperventilating when they say that Obama is actively seeking to destroy this country.  And then, this.  Sheesh.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at March 26, 2014 07:42 AM (JtwS4)

18 Hey Wingnuts, those foodstamps aren't going to pay for themselves you know.

This also is all part of my brilliant "Lead from behind" strategy.  It's nuance, you wouldn't understand.

Posted by: Sir Golfs Alot at March 26, 2014 07:43 AM (kAniV)

19 did the scientists adjust the Doomsday Clock to factor this?

Posted by: X at March 26, 2014 07:43 AM (KHo8t)

20 Though it's obvious that Obama prefers light engagements when it comes to war, drones and planes and missiles, rather than heavy ones with tanks and ships and soldiers and seamen. Uh, Obama loves semen.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 07:43 AM (b1/nQ)

21 Okay I have a question about this. Someone mentioned the other day that the company that makes the missiles knew about this or agreed with it or some such (I do not recall exactly). Is this as bad as I think it is or is this a way for a defense contractor to go ooooohhhh we're going to need you to come in on Saturday with a whole bunch of money in order to get the replacements ready? Or is it a perfect storm of incompetence and greed? Or just plain old weapons are icky so we're going to unilaterally disarm? Or all of the above?

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 26, 2014 07:43 AM (VtjlW)

22 But the US Navy still plans to buy 32 LCS class ships that can't sink anything larger than a speedboat.  32.  In a fleet that is smaller than 300 ships.  More than 10% of the fleet will be floating targets.

But there is 'good' news on this front.  Just like with the next gen TLAM.  The US Navy is planning to build in the future once the design is finalized a new FFG frigate class.

And the three Zumwalts continue to be sea going white elephants that are more expensive than an aircraft carrier.

Speaking of carriers, our fleet of such is truly down to 9 hulls.  And Gerald Ford is still being worked on and not ready for the fleet.  So the US Navy can no longer keep a carrier battle group in more than say two or three hot spots around the world.  Which means if the PRC gets froggy in the South China Sea with its carrier, it will be 1v1 with Chinese land based airpower in support. 

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 07:43 AM (sLR/I)

23 Hells, he'd enjoy the barrel.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at March 26, 2014 07:43 AM (naUcP)

24 This dude is a genuine enemy of state.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 26, 2014 07:43 AM (FMbng)

25 15 "'It doesnÂ’t make sense,' said Seth Cropsey, director of the Hudson
InstituteÂ’s Center for American Seapower. 'This really moves the U.S.
away from a position of influence and military dominance.'"

Which for Obama is a feature, not a bug.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 26, 2014 11:42 AM (noWW6)

 

Unfortunately, yes.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 26, 2014 07:43 AM (DrWcr)

26 Putin's getting the America he paid for.

Posted by: --- at March 26, 2014 07:43 AM (ksJYU)

27 Missiles don't come with a voter registration card guys.

Well, we did try that, but not many of them actually got returned.

Posted by: Barack Obama at March 26, 2014 07:44 AM (78TbK)

28 It is all part of a long range plan to eliminate weapons in our arsenal that represent phallic symbols. Missiles, while somewhat effective, unfortunately carry the wrong message to friend and foe alike.

Posted by: President Obama at March 26, 2014 07:44 AM (l3vZN)

29 I didn't know the timelines for the replacements. This is idiotic given the gap.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 26, 2014 07:44 AM (659DL)

30
It's almost as if everything he does is purposefully designed to weaken the US.

Gosh, that's just bollocksy lies!

can't be true!

No siree!

Luckily,. we have the GOP to help out.


Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Commissar at March 26, 2014 07:44 AM (HQml1)

31 Isn't the Navy also playing around with high-speed rail guns?  I wonder if they could be used in the same manner as TLAM's.


Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 07:44 AM (GQ8sn)

32 So instead of calling them warships now they'll be called lolships Glad I'm out

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 07:44 AM (+UrNT)

33 With the Hellfire, I think it's replacement (the JAGM - Joint Air Ground Missile) is ready or near ready for production. Lockheed has been developing it for forever it seems.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 07:44 AM (ZPrif)

34 26 Putin's Soros getting the America he paid for.

Posted by: --- at March 26, 2014 11:43 AM (ksJYU)

Posted by: Insomniac at March 26, 2014 07:44 AM (DrWcr)

35 What part of "flexible after the election" did anyone not get?

Posted by: B at March 26, 2014 07:45 AM (Pson9)

36 I always liked Semen more than Corpse Men.

Posted by: Preezy Osqueezy at March 26, 2014 07:45 AM (pgQxn)

37 Tomahawk is a racist word, like Redskin. He's canceling it just due to the name.

Posted by: Roy at March 26, 2014 07:45 AM (VndSC)

38 No, I'm pretty sure Baracl likes semen. Oh. You said seAmen. Nevermind.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 26, 2014 07:45 AM (k/Mc/)

39 You can't believe it?  Why not?   After 5.5 years can you still harbor illusions that Ear Leader wants anything good for our country?  

Posted by: PaleRider at March 26, 2014 07:46 AM (vL0Nv)

40 And henceforth our drones will be armed with the latest military technology...no not hellfire missiles, but the spitballMk1.

Posted by: Barack Obama at March 26, 2014 07:46 AM (78TbK)

41 No I've never hear of Kasserine Pass or Task Force a Smith. Does Kasserine have a golf course?

Posted by: Barakakak Historic First at March 26, 2014 07:46 AM (Aif/5)

42 It's never too early for a dick joke.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 26, 2014 07:46 AM (k/Mc/)

43 Isn't the Navy also playing around with high-speed rail guns? ------- High-speed rail guns!

Posted by: Slow Joey B. at March 26, 2014 07:46 AM (ksJYU)

44 i have decided relearning French is out and Mandarin , Russian is what i should be learning to do in my spare time.

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 07:46 AM (nqBYe)

45 EC a TLAM has more reach over the horizon than a rail gun.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 07:46 AM (sLR/I)

46 With the Hellfire, I think it's replacement (the JAGM - Joint Air Ground Missile) is ready or near ready for production. Lockheed has been developing it for forever it seems.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 11:44 AM (ZPrif)



Here's the kicker question:   does it work?



Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 07:47 AM (GQ8sn)

47 Perhaps if we started heating buildings with Ivy League lawyers we'd get out of this mess.

Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2014 07:47 AM (FcR7P)

48 The JEF and Samantha Power have always been profoundly uncomfortable with American hegemony. They are doing everything they can to surrender it

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 07:47 AM (zOTsN)

49 Whatta we need missile for? Al Qaeda is on the run. All we need to shoot are spitballs.

Posted by: fairweatherbill at March 26, 2014 07:47 AM (Naowb)

50 What's that military genius, McCain got to say about it?

Posted by: Seems legit at March 26, 2014 07:47 AM (A98Xu)

51 42 It's never too early for a dick joke.

A dick is never a joke girl.

Posted by: Reggie Love at March 26, 2014 07:47 AM (pgQxn)

52 Remind me again, how many Generals have suddenly been retired, re-assigned, or removed in the last 2-3 years?

Posted by: B at March 26, 2014 07:48 AM (Pson9)

53 EC a TLAM has more reach over the horizon than a rail gun.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 11:46 AM (sLR/I)



Then it makes no sense we're doing this.


But like Tami suggested, it too is the story of TFG.


Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 07:48 AM (GQ8sn)

54 Affirmative Action has Consequences.

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2014 07:48 AM (MzosU)

55 look defending the country is so not important  in a President job,  what about all the women stuck between the pages of the Republican binders!
priorities folks.

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 07:48 AM (nqBYe)

56 Clearly we will not need weapons in the utopian future that president Rainbowfarts McSkittles will bring us.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 26, 2014 07:49 AM (zfY+H)

57 The rail guns haven't made it out of the lab yet. Made good progress. Haven't got up to full power yet, though. Still have a problem with the durability of the rails -- they get warped and destroyed after some X # of shots.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 07:49 AM (ZPrif)

58 ... Obama prefers...heavy ones with ... seamen.

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2014 07:49 AM (MzosU)

59

My friends, we have nothing to fear with Barack Obama in the White House.

Posted by: John McCain at March 26, 2014 07:49 AM (kFxpe)

60 Funny, he always seems to favor seamen...

Posted by: Reggie at March 26, 2014 07:49 AM (FcR7P)

61 Wonder what conversations the branch heads of the military and Obama had on the golf course?

Posted by: Seems legit at March 26, 2014 07:49 AM (A98Xu)

62 The Long Range Ant-Ship Missile will be a perfect deploymenty system on the F-35.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at March 26, 2014 07:49 AM (XO6WW)

63 The hard ugly truth.

The US Navy will  no longer have enough assets to keep the SLOC open.  They will no longer have the muscle to influence events on land.

The world has just gotten far more dangerous. 

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 07:49 AM (sLR/I)

64 OT.  NCJ, did you see Jared Allen just signed with Da Bears?

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 26, 2014 07:49 AM (sjdRT)

65 21. Is this as bad as I think it is Yes, for the most part, the entire surface fleet is built around launching tomahawks This makes all our destroyers and cruisers basically unarmed

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 07:49 AM (/1Zl6)

66 I know I feel safer

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 07:49 AM (zOTsN)

67 Just wait until he announces the savings are going to fund a military style "counter terror" civilian force.

Posted by: Tin Foil Hat Engaged at March 26, 2014 07:49 AM (Aif/5)

68 "Not really, the proposed budget for 2016 cuts the military drastically to pay for his commie programs."

Including, for those of you who missed it, slashing Army and Navy budgeting in order to pump up the coffers of the International Monetary Fund.

At the same time that Obama is pushing to throw open the doors of the IMF vaults to be looted by dozens of corrupt, backwards Third World countries.

Biggest wealth transfer in history.

Some of you may recognize the concept of a "bust-out" from gangster movies and TV series. Where criminals take over a legitimate business with cash in the bank and good credit, then rob it of every penny, strip it of every asset, ruin its credit with unpaid invoices, and then abandon the bankrupt shell.

This is a bust-out not of a single business, but of an entire nation.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 26, 2014 07:50 AM (noWW6)

69 Don't you get it? This is strengthening us! Just like using force to take a warm water port and parts of countries is "weakness," then totally disarming must be, like totally, strength.

Posted by: AMDG at March 26, 2014 07:50 AM (eFytx)

70
Affix.....  BAYONETS!!!!

-- Moar Stoopid shit our President said.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2014 07:50 AM (nELVU)

71
D'Souza was right on the money with his predictions in the obama 2012 movie.  Massive spending and debt except deep cuts to just the military.

And he based his predictions on Oblamer thinks the US needs to be punished for past transgressions against the world.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 26, 2014 07:50 AM (0Kobm)

72 The US Navy will no longer have enough assets to keep the SLOC open. So let's kill Keystone XL once and for all.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 26, 2014 07:50 AM (659DL)

73 Yes, for the most part, the entire surface fleet is built around launching tomahawks
This makes all our destroyers and cruisers basically unarmed

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 11:49 AM (/1Zl6)



What about Estes rockets?


Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 07:51 AM (GQ8sn)

74 Missles can do nothing against our greatest enemy - Global Warming.

Posted by: Clutch Cargo at March 26, 2014 07:51 AM (pgQxn)

75 Rail guns are at least a decade away from being used. Takes forever to get a new weapons system widely deployed. Every ship will have to be re-engineered. Many, maybe most, don't have the power available to supply a rail gun. New ships are being designed with more flexible power systems so there is power for laser and rail gun weapons. But existing ships will have to be retro-fitted and will be in the Navy's inventory for another 30 years.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 07:51 AM (ZPrif)

76 Enemies of America My friends, we have nothing to fear with Barack Obama in the White House. Posted by: That Fucking Prick Sock, John McCain ...

Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2014 07:51 AM (FcR7P)

77 Hey Vlad!!  How's this for flexibility?  What do you want me to cut next?

Posted by: Sir Golfs Alot at March 26, 2014 07:51 AM (kAniV)

78 With the Hellfire, I think it's replacement (the JAGM - Joint Air Ground Missile) To be replaced by the JAGOFF.....

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 07:52 AM (b1/nQ)

79 64. !!!!!! Going to the trib now to confirm

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 07:52 AM (/1Zl6)

80

Barack always told me, the best defense is no defense.

Posted by: Ambassador Stevens at March 26, 2014 07:52 AM (kFxpe)

81 Welp, 70% of USG spending is cutting checks to individuals. Not much wiggle room left.

Posted by: boniface ballers at March 26, 2014 07:52 AM (l3RZ9)

82 We were told we would have to elect Carter to get another Reagan. If there is another Reagan out there, he'd better be on steroids.


Unfortunatly, the other Reagan is Putin.

Posted by: Emperor Norton II at March 26, 2014 07:52 AM (MlqTY)

83 Zombie Kim Philby is laughing in his grave. We have drones, sure. But every day it's looking more and more like our current President is the product of an incredibly successful foreign intelligence operation, perhaps long-terminated but programmed to continue its attack long after its comm link has been shut down.

Posted by: JEM at March 26, 2014 07:53 AM (o+SC1)

84 Strength Through Weakness!

Posted by: Lessons From My Copy of [i]1984[/i] at March 26, 2014 07:53 AM (FcR7P)

85 Witness the wrath of my Heat Seeking, Moisture Missile. Sexcellent!

Posted by: Zombie Oderus Urungus at March 26, 2014 07:53 AM (MzosU)

86 I don't know shit about this subject but I know I don't like what I'm reading.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 26, 2014 07:53 AM (k/Mc/)

87

Ace wrote, "It seems so preposterous I can't believe it's all on the level."

 

It's all on the level. Remember, this is the same President who denigrates the Russians as a 'regional power', who is determined to reduce our military capabilities to pre-WWII levels while potential enemies such as China and Russia double, triple and quadruple theirs, and who doesn't really believe a nuclear-capable Iran with Shahib-3 missile delivery systems poses a serious threat to its neighbors, and so on.

 

We're in serious trouble. President Obama and his people live in a dream, one from which they won't awaken until the birds are in the air or a nuke stowed on a cargo ship goes off in one of our coastal harbors.

Posted by: troyriser at March 26, 2014 07:53 AM (gNlvW)

88 We are cutting the Tomahawk system, because the name is RAAAAACIST!.... To help our Native American Brothers... who were ALSO so disenfranchised by the White Man.

Posted by: Susan Rice, National Security Advisor at March 26, 2014 07:53 AM (84gbM)

89 It seems so preposterous I can't believe it's all on the level. You misspelled "treasonous".

Posted by: rickl at March 26, 2014 07:53 AM (zoehZ)

90 How many votes have any of BO's budgets actually gotten, though?

Posted by: AMDG at March 26, 2014 07:54 AM (eFytx)

91 I have to believe (based on past behavior and statements) that Powers, Rice, Obama, Jarrett et al are making a big push for the weakest America they can muster before 2016. Does anyone not think this is happening? If not? How does their past behavior support any other theory? I think truck monkey mentioned yesterday that our weak economy is another way to embolden Russia, China, etc..

Posted by: Seems legit at March 26, 2014 07:54 AM (A98Xu)

92 I thought it read Strength Through Weasels.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 07:54 AM (sLR/I)

93 Certain sacrifices need to be made to maintain such creases

Posted by: David Brooks at March 26, 2014 07:54 AM (kFxpe)

94 In the future, all wars will be fought on the golf course in a skins game for Marlboros and condoms.

Posted by: King Barry of the Longshanks at March 26, 2014 07:54 AM (oJUxt)

95 The name Tomahawk is insensitive to Native Americans
and Hellfire triggers those headed for it.

Posted by: DaveA[/i][/b][/s] at March 26, 2014 07:54 AM (DL2i+)

96 And we should listen to an Ewok from one of the moons of Endor on military matters why exactly????

Posted by: candidate braley at March 26, 2014 07:55 AM (hn5v5)

97 No fucking sense. A mature, effective, integrated weapons system to go away? Half the surface Navy's job is Strike (read - Tomahawk) warfare. What'll all those Burkes and Ticos do? BMD and AD? Defensive actions only? What about submarines, who have *dedicated* Tomahawk launchers? If you wanted to remove the USA's ability to punitively and surgically strike anywhere in the world, this would be the way to do it.

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 26, 2014 07:55 AM (Nk6GS)

98 It's not on the level ace. I've heard talk about other parts of his budget no one looks at but are kinda important. He's slashed them to 0. Why? Because his budget is not a serious document. He knows it won't get passed, so he creates something with incredible top line numbers that panders to various groups so it can be used to hammer conservatives. ("They want to give medicare less money than I do!") It's childish really. It'd be like me crafting a household budget that calls for a brand new extended concrete driveway and then bitching when it gets lowered to "wait until next year" That shit wasn't happening, it was an unworkable budget designed to make myself feel better.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 07:55 AM (HDwDg)

99 Don't worry, this will make the world love and respect us.

Posted by: Ambassador Power at March 26, 2014 07:55 AM (Aif/5)

100 It's not baffling, he's a miserable little parlor pink who doesn't like his own country. He really does think that we need to be humbled, and the price in American lives does not matter.

We can't share a country with the post-Americans who worked to place him in office. Something will have to be done.

Posted by: Mike James at March 26, 2014 07:55 AM (2x0sM)

101 @91 - you forgot Chuck Hagel, who should be the first one hanging from the lamp-posts when this all comes apart.

Posted by: JEM at March 26, 2014 07:55 AM (o+SC1)

102 Woohoo Houston on one side Allen on the other I may as well be banned before the season starts cause it'll be bad

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 07:55 AM (/1Zl6)

103

We will watch you crush yourselves

Posted by: Nikita Krushchev at March 26, 2014 07:56 AM (kFxpe)

104 The LRASM is just a replacement for the anti-ship tomahawks, right. Long Range Anti-Ship Missile. The land attack variant -- TLAMs -- are different, right? The LRASM is not a a replacement for TLAMs. The LRASM is gonna be super expensive since it is gonna be designed to be fired from long range, evade enemy air defenses, and strike ships. The LRASM is the anti-Chinese Taiwan invasion missile. Using the LRASM for something like Libya would be insanely expensive. So the land attack variants, especially where the enemy has crappy air defenses, need to be much, much cheaper.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 07:56 AM (ZPrif)

105 I'm sure President College Professor feels that war is so 20th century, and just a distraction from the real job of the government, selling insurance.

Posted by: brak at March 26, 2014 07:56 AM (iEoiA)

106 disarming America brings peace in our time, just as it will  for Crimea the Ukraine, and Other countries wanting a peaceful transfer to socialist paradises all over the world

see the peaceful transition  of countries when sovereignty is given away freely  and without bombs?

now let's join hands.

Yes We Can!
yes we can
Hope!
hope

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 07:56 AM (nqBYe)

107 Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 11:51 AM (ZPrif) NONE of the current crop of destroyers or cruisers have enough power to support a Rail Gun.... the DDG1000 will... if it ever gets built and tested... This will end up like the Littoral ships... designed for weapon systems that don't exist... and then they cut funding to create those weapon systems, while still building the ships? /Facepalm

Posted by: Romeo13, ret Aluminum Can Sailor at March 26, 2014 07:56 AM (84gbM)

108 In the future, all wars will be fought on the golf course in a skins game for Marlboros and condoms.

Posted by: King Barry of the Longshanks at March 26, 2014 11:54 AM (oJUxt)


----


We've seen how you putt.......


We're all gonna die.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2014 07:56 AM (nELVU)

109 To help our Native American Brothers... who were ALSO so disenfranchised by the White Man.

Posted by: Susan Rice, National Security Advisor at March 26, 2014 11:53 AM (84gbM)


Yes we were!! 

Posted by: Elizabeth"Sitting cow" Warren at March 26, 2014 07:56 AM (kAniV)

110 A replacement for the Hellfire is supposed in the works, so I'll hold my tongue on that. But the Tomahawks? TFG burned up over 200 of them liberating Libya alone. And for what? A dead Gaddafi, 4 dead Americans including an ambassador, and a failed nation state.
 
Since the estimated normal burn rate for the Tomahawks is estimated at 100/yr, and we have a supply good until 2018, that means:
 
We have about 400 of them including future purchases.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 26, 2014 07:56 AM (wNF3N)

111 I liked Tomahawks because they looked like giant dicks taking off.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at March 26, 2014 07:56 AM (oFCZn)

112 >102 Woohoo
Houston on one side
Allen on the other

I may as well be banned before the season starts cause it'll be bad

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 11:55 AM (/1Zl6)<



Yep.  I just went  from meh to stoked on our free agent class.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 26, 2014 07:56 AM (sjdRT)

113 For years I said this dude is a suicide bomber on his run, and his target is the US.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 26, 2014 07:57 AM (FMbng)

114 Posted by: JEM at March 26, 2014 11:55 AM (o+SC1) Dude, don't do that. It's childish and gives ammo to the other side.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 26, 2014 07:57 AM (659DL)

115 "Missles can do nothing against our greatest enemy - Global Warming."
Clearly, the emissions on those missiles were contributing to global warming.
But yeah, this doesn't add up to anything because every single budget the President has offered up to congress has been rejected by a totally unanimous nuking. They just laugh at it, tear it up, and hand it to a page to put in the Senate Outhouse.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 26, 2014 07:57 AM (zfY+H)

116 Obama believes in peace through weakness.

Posted by: Caliban at March 26, 2014 07:57 AM (DrC22)

117 Yes, I did forget that ignoramus, Hagel.

Posted by: Seems legit at March 26, 2014 07:57 AM (A98Xu)

118 In the future, all wars will be fought on the golf course in a skins game for Menthols and condoms.

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2014 07:57 AM (MzosU)

119 What do you want me to do next Ms. Jarrett? 

Posted by: Chuck 'Scapegoat' Hagel at March 26, 2014 07:58 AM (kFxpe)

120

Posted by: Elizabeth"Sitting cow" Warren at March 26, 2014 11:56 AM (kAniV)

 

Just look at the flowers, Lizzie.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 26, 2014 07:58 AM (DrWcr)

121

How can you lose the Cold War won 20 years ago?

 

I give you the SCOAMF

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 26, 2014 07:58 AM (/JKmj)

122 Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 11:44 AM (GQ8sn) Yeah I give that 2030 conservatively. We're just now mounting *1* of those to a ship. They take a lot of power and haven't ever been tested in the real world yet. (But the Navy has videos of the test fires on youtube which are fun)

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 07:58 AM (HDwDg)

123 OT sort of anybody know the ID of the trucker who was behaving strangely who shot an MP at Norfolk yesterday? Cant seem to find his name. And what was in his truck?

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 07:58 AM (zOTsN)

124 Weapons development is so slow, I tend to think that if I see a new weapons pass all it's tests in a real world firing test -- then it'll still likely be 10 years before it's widely deployed.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 07:58 AM (ZPrif)

125 The Zumwalts are white elephants.  The DDG-1000 class will be only three ships.  The Navy has been forced to calling them technology demonstrators.  And the Navy had to restart Burke production because the Zumwalts are such a gigantic money sink.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 07:58 AM (sLR/I)

126 These cuts in defense are the obvious results of the Peace Dividend, which is a result of TFG having ended all the wars.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at March 26, 2014 07:58 AM (0HooB)

127 I'm not too worked up about the Hellfire missile; the new 70mm missiles seem like a better option. The Hellfire was designed as an anti-armor missile, but now gets used mostly as an anti-personnel weapon. It just happened to fill a need for something less destructive than a 500lb bomb and small enough to fit on a drone.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at March 26, 2014 07:59 AM (SY2Kh)

128
No fucking wonder his Secret Service detail drink themselves into a stupor.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2014 07:59 AM (nELVU)

129 Wait...
Can't we just ride horses deep into enemy territory.
With bayonets?



Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 26, 2014 07:59 AM (si68n)

130 Back on topic Not to brag but realistically the scariest part of the military is the navy And it's because it can put a TLAM anywhere at anytime Take that away and you just lost the sea lanes And Russia will be the only sea power left

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 07:59 AM (8iy5P)

131 All your missile are belong to us.

Posted by: President B.H. Obama at March 26, 2014 07:59 AM (9eDbm)

132 "Missles can do nothing against our greatest enemy - Global Warming." HA! Good one. John Kerry what a jackass.

Posted by: Seems legit at March 26, 2014 08:00 AM (A98Xu)

133 According to wiki the JAGM is an Army only program, the. Navy and Marine Corps opted out in 2012. Might want to rethink that.

Posted by: Adam at March 26, 2014 08:00 AM (Aif/5)

134 I don't know what his problem is. I love a good missile.

Posted by: Michelle at March 26, 2014 08:00 AM (DrC22)

135 This will end up like the Littoral ships...galvanically corroding and sinking?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 26, 2014 08:00 AM (659DL)

136 And Russia will be the only sea power left Regional Sea Power, please.

Posted by: Barackhenaten I at March 26, 2014 08:00 AM (MzosU)

137 The LRASM is NOT a replacement for the tomahawk. The Tomahawk is a ground strike missile that can also be used as anti-ship, but the reverse is not true. Why? LRASM range: 210 miles Tomahawk range: 1500 miles. It's really that simple. Right now, there are few places on the earth that are out of range of a tomahawk fired from international waters. On the other hand, MOST places on the earth are out of range of an LRASM fired from international waters. LRASM is an anti-SHIP missile intended to replaced the Harpoon. (Anti-ship is right there in the NAME.) It is in no way a replacement for the Tomahawk, or even a workable substitute.

Posted by: Phelps at March 26, 2014 08:01 AM (wdjv2)

138 And Russia will be the only sea power left -------- Give us time round eye.

Posted by: China at March 26, 2014 08:01 AM (Aif/5)

139 How can you lose the Cold War won 20 years ago?

I give you the SCOAMF

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 26, 2014 11:58 AM (/JKmj)


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Heh..... I sooooooo stealing that.....

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2014 08:01 AM (nELVU)

140 128
No fucking wonder his Secret Service detail drink themselves into a stupor.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2014 11:59 AM (nELVU)

 

Can you imagine having a job where you might have to take a bullet for that fuckstick?  I'd be drinking it up, too.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 26, 2014 08:01 AM (DrWcr)

141 It just happened to fill a need for something less destructive than a 500lb bomb and small enough to fit on a drone. Posted by: Hollowpoint at March 26, 2014 11:59 AM (SY2Kh) Sounds pretty good.

Posted by: Seems legit at March 26, 2014 08:01 AM (A98Xu)

142 And Russia will be the only sea power left Posted by: Navycopjoe at no don't forget China!

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 08:01 AM (zOTsN)

143 Nobody in the military is talking about replacing Hellfires with 70mm. That's not a thing anybody is or will do.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 08:01 AM (ZPrif)

144 Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 11:56 AM (ZPrif) If the LRASM is the replacement for the TASM, it's already 10 years past - that missile went out of inventory a long time ago. Tactical Tomahawk was supposed to supplant that. TT is some good shit, BTW. FTR, I'm retired Navy FCCS. Familiar with the systems although not a specialist in it.

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 26, 2014 08:01 AM (Nk6GS)

145 We will watch you crush yourselves Posted by: Nikita Krushchev at March 26, 2014 11:56 AM (kFxpe) We will Barry you.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at March 26, 2014 08:01 AM (0HooB)

146 "you forgot Chuck Hagel, who should be the first one hanging from the lamp-posts when this all comes apart."

Chuck Hagel, who stood for office and was repeatedly elected to same via THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

No one should ever forget why it was Obama picked Hagel for the top job at the Pentagon. As one of Obama's advisers openly admitted in a network TV interview, they plan to impose "huge cuts" (in those precise words) on the services. And they needed a compliant Republican to insulate them from criticism as they rammed through those huge cuts.

We need a whole lot of lamp posts to be hanging people from. Including a hell of a lot of supposed "Republicans".

Posted by: torquewrench at March 26, 2014 08:02 AM (noWW6)

147 "Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military's changed." Horses and bayonets next on the chopping block.

Posted by: RWC at March 26, 2014 08:02 AM (fWAjv)

148 I wonder if they could be used in the same manner as TLAM's.

Let's not get stuck on stupid.

Posted by: Powered flight and Terminal Guidance FTW[/i][/b][/s] at March 26, 2014 08:02 AM (DL2i+)

149 It's about time we got rid of that nasty 'tomahawk chop' of those racist ATL fans.

Posted by: LIV at March 26, 2014 08:02 AM (kFxpe)

150 He's psychotic. There's little other rational explanation for his actions. He's been so stunned into submission by Putin that he is going full retard, thinking that if he just guts the military as much as possible, then we'll never have a war again. Just like gun bans...all it takes to reduce violence is to eliminate the tools to defend oneself, then magically all the bad people in the world will suddenly realize the folly of their ways.

Posted by: YourPoopyPants at March 26, 2014 08:02 AM (Y/HG5)

151 A military is such a 19th century concept.

Posted by: John Foxtrot Kerry at March 26, 2014 08:02 AM (/0PJL)

152 This is where a nice chart of the dozens of missiles, rockets and variants used by all the branches for different missions would be useful.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 08:02 AM (ZPrif)

153 Regional Sea Power, please.

Posted by: Barackhenaten I at March 26, 2014 12:00 PM (MzosU)


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Ummm excuuuuuuse me My Emperor With No Clothes.... but that Regional Power is kicking your Superpower ass.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2014 08:03 AM (nELVU)

154 We will Barry you.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at March 26, 2014 12:01 PM (0HooB)

 

We're the ones getting Barryed.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 26, 2014 08:03 AM (DrWcr)

155 Preznit Dronestrike doesn't give a crap about anything that happens after his watch, surprised by your surprise.

Posted by: Clownf*cker at March 26, 2014 08:03 AM (CGjum)

156 Maybe if we renamed them the "Contraception" and the "Abortion" missles we could get funding.

Just spitballin', here.

Posted by: Dept of defense at March 26, 2014 08:03 AM (1Rgee)

157 Flatbush Joe, this might be a place to start

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/systems/index.html

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 08:04 AM (sLR/I)

158 I thought it read Strength Through Weasels. ------------ Flexibility!

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 26, 2014 08:04 AM (aDwsi)

159 If TFG  and his cronies were purposely trying to destroy the American economy and reduce our prestige/power around the world, what would they do differently?

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 08:04 AM (kAniV)

160 Regional Sea Power, please. Region: Earth

Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2014 08:04 AM (FcR7P)

161

My prediction?  PAIN.


Suck it Americans

Posted by: Barry 'Clubber Lang' Soetoro at March 26, 2014 08:05 AM (kFxpe)

162 I must have missed a couple of posts here. Nobody is blaming this on the Air Force Fighter-Mafia ZoomieBrass who have been stealing from the Fleet ever since the Key West Agreement, Never Wanted the CAS Mission, and have Secretly Killed the Warthog 14 times now?

Oh, and also, All the Loyal Admirals have been purged, and Everyone Left Above O-6 is a Politburo Traitor. Alternative, All Officer were Always Traitors Anyway.

Couple of our senior chiefs must have overslept.

I think "Night of Camp David," a little companion to "Seven Days," more or less covered what happens when the President turns out to be on the other side. What happens when his 52% turn out to be the other side is more or less regularly discussed here, but always with that annoying Latin accent.


Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 26, 2014 08:05 AM (xq1UY)

163 Maybe if we renamed them the "Contraception" and the "Abortion" missles we could get funding.

Just spitballin', here.

Posted by: Dept of defense at March 26, 2014 12:03 PM (1Rgee)


----


Meh.... just convince him the Ruskies and the ChiComs are really Republicans.  


We'd be at war yesterday.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2014 08:05 AM (nELVU)

164 So without tomahawks, what will they arm the ships with?

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 08:05 AM (ieU06)

165 We can't share a country with the post-Americans who worked to place him in office. Something will have to be done.

Posted by: Mike James at March 26, 2014 11:55 AM (2x0sM)



Lamp post wind chimes.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 26, 2014 08:05 AM (FMbng)

166 Directed energy weapons? Rail guns? Lots and lots and lots of drones? I'm struggling to find some kind of replacement for this and everything has a hitch. (Actually, lots of drones seems like the default. Which could turn out to be unfortunate if enough comms satellites get blown up.)

Posted by: joncelli at March 26, 2014 08:05 AM (RD7QR)

167 Hey!  Presidentin' is hard!

And no one told me there would be any math involved. 

So, can I just finish my waffles?

Posted by: Preznit O'Barky at March 26, 2014 08:05 AM (Z7PrM)

168 Just a reminder that TFG has a preferred number of nuclear weapons in our hands -- Zero.
 
None. That's one of his dreams.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 26, 2014 08:05 AM (wNF3N)

169 I thought we were going with the M.O.U.S.E.---you know, the Mickey?

Posted by: joey biden at March 26, 2014 08:05 AM (hn5v5)

170 I launch ICBM and he still calls me regional power? Your Barry, he's not sharpest toll in shed I think.

Posted by: Vladimir at March 26, 2014 08:05 AM (Aif/5)

171 I have a phone and I have a pen, if you won't pass the cuts in my budget, I'll just "retask" the funding congress passes to other areas. Its not my fault, you're forcing me to do it, you teabagging sister-marrying knuckle draggers. If you'd just die out so your racism would die with you, all you bitter clingers would stop being such a hindrance on the glorious future I'm crafting for America.

Posted by: President Obama at March 26, 2014 08:05 AM (zfY+H)

172 My wife has a good friend whose husband is a15 year marine. They are moving nearby soon, I can't wait to take him fishing to see what the ranks are saying.

Posted by: traye at March 26, 2014 08:05 AM (bOF9d)

173 164 So without tomahawks, what will they arm the ships with?

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 12:05 PM (ieU06)

 

Nerf guns.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 26, 2014 08:06 AM (DrWcr)

174 all we are saying, is give peace a chance ..

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 08:06 AM (nqBYe)

175 Someone was looking for pictures of the Rocket in my Pocket?

Posted by: Carlos Danger at March 26, 2014 08:06 AM (MzosU)

176
Barry: We should stop spending money on all of these silly weapons. My goal is to turn the military into one giant college campus of social Marxism. So the focus of the military must be on the gays and crossdressers. Because they are so vital to our military's ability to defend the country.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 26, 2014 08:06 AM (1Jaio)

177

And yet, if the Marine Corps needs to spend money on a couple of new helicopters for the Royal Fleet that will get done instanto. 

 

The King needs a way to escape when the Russian troops are marching up after taking  Norfolk, after all.

Posted by: MTF at March 26, 2014 08:07 AM (LISuA)

178 164 So without tomahawks, what will they arm the ships with? Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 12:05 PM (ieU06) 'Hope' and 'Change'

Posted by: RWC at March 26, 2014 08:07 AM (fWAjv)

179 "FTR, I'm retired Navy FCCS. Familiar with the systems although not a specialist in it."

You know what this place needs?


A good Goat Locker.

With a big ol' pot of coffee.

Cereal.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 26, 2014 08:07 AM (si68n)

180 So without tomahawks, what will they arm the ships with?
Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 12:05 PM (ieU06)

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Hemp rope.... grappling hooks..... cutlasses.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2014 08:07 AM (nELVU)

181 My wife has a good friend whose husband is a15 year marine. They are moving nearby soon, I can't wait to take him fishing to see what the ranks are saying. Wear earplugs.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 08:08 AM (b1/nQ)

182 So without tomahawks, what will they arm the ships with?

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 12:05 PM (ieU06)



Estes rockets.

Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 08:08 AM (GQ8sn)

183 This is where I think President Obama was actually being serious and honest when he said he wanted to cut the budget and reduce the deficit: by hacking constitutional spending away to pay for the unconstitutional.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 26, 2014 08:08 AM (zfY+H)

184 A military is such a 19th century concept.

Posted by: John Foxtrot Kerry at March 26, 2014 12:02 PM (/0PJL)



That's pretty much it.  These guys believe that they are so much smarter than leaders throughout history.  They don't need an armed force because they can find a solution to any problem through dialogue and their razor-sharp logic.

Or, to paraphrase the JEF, "You don't need a military, because you have me."

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 26, 2014 08:08 AM (YQ4mh)

185 So without tomahawks, what will they arm the ships with? Posted by: Navycopjoe ----------------- That sounds bossy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 26, 2014 08:08 AM (aDwsi)

186 Oh, the worst part.... If there are no TLAM launches, that means no more ice cream socials Moral will plummet

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 08:09 AM (ieU06)

187 So without tomahawks, what will they arm the ships with? Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 12:05 PM (ieU06) ---- Hemp rope.... grappling hooks..... cutlasses. 12 pounders........

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 08:09 AM (b1/nQ)

188 IRS is stalling and won't release Lerner's emails until after the mid-terms. Cause the #1 job at IRS is trying to help Democrats hold onto the Senate.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 08:09 AM (ZPrif)

189 "Now THAT's flexibility!" -- Vladimir Putin

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at March 26, 2014 08:09 AM (XO6WW)

190 The last Clinton that occupied/contaminated the WH sent about 300+ of these missiles to take out an aspirin factory.

Posted by: Buffalobob at March 26, 2014 08:09 AM (RZBmV)

191 So without tomahawks, what will they arm the ships with? Sternly worded letters of condemnation.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at March 26, 2014 08:09 AM (0HooB)

192 And look at it this way, projecting weakness is a great way to ensure having to spend even more money on defense.

But, whatever. JEF don't give a shit.

Posted by: Clownf*cker at March 26, 2014 08:10 AM (CGjum)

193 Asked for a reply, Obama said, "Fundamental transformation, bitches. Fun-da-men-tal Trans-for-ma-tion. Did you think I was joking?"

Posted by: miked at March 26, 2014 08:10 AM (xaIQZ)

194 >> So without tomahawks, what will they arm the ships with?
 
Lawyers.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 26, 2014 08:10 AM (wNF3N)

195 So OPNAV and CINCs wanted by 2006 an inventory of over 3,400 Tomahawk missiles.

How many has the US fired since 2009?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 08:10 AM (sLR/I)

196 12 pounders........

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 12:09 PM (b1/nQ)


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That would require black powder.   Too much CO2.


Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2014 08:10 AM (nELVU)

197 The ships still have those cannon thingys don't they?

Posted by: Barkatep I at March 26, 2014 08:10 AM (Aif/5)

198 (Actually, lots of drones seems like the default. Which could turn out to be unfortunate if when enough comms satellites get blown up.)

FIFY

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 26, 2014 08:10 AM (YQ4mh)

199 That's pretty much it. These guys believe that they are so much smarter than leaders throughout history. They don't need an armed force because they can find a solution to any problem through dialogue and their razor-sharp logic. Pro tip: First posess the razor-sharp logic.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 08:10 AM (b1/nQ)

200 "So without tomahawks, what will they arm the ships with?"

The most destructive force in the world.

Harsh language.

It's what I use, and look at the results! I've turned the worlds superpower into a running joke in only 5 years!


Posted by: Obammy at March 26, 2014 08:10 AM (1Rgee)

201 Sadly, I think the question is: If TFG and his cronies were NOT purposely trying to destroy the American economy and reduce our prestige/power around the world, how could they have gotten so damned good at it?

Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2014 08:10 AM (FcR7P)

202 This clown is a fool. At best....

Posted by: backhoe at March 26, 2014 08:10 AM (ULH4o)

203 164 So without tomahawks, what will they arm the ships with?

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 12:05 PM (ieU06)

 

Rancid butter.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 26, 2014 08:11 AM (DrWcr)

204 Lawyers.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 26, 2014 12:10 PM (wNF3N)


If only.  I'd go to an ice cream social on the fantail to see a lawyer launched at an aspirin factory.

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 08:11 AM (kAniV)

205 Greetings: For some reason or other, my favorite Platoon Sergeant used to enjoy telling me about a statue at the Infantry Training Center in Fort Dix, New Jersey. The statue was of an infantryman with his rifle and backpack. The title of the statue was "The Ultimate Weapon". Word to the wise if you get my drift. On the other hand, now that President Obama has decided to address the burning issue of "infantry inequality" by forcing females into the holy of holies, perhaps we can look forward to seeing those two well-travelled daughters his MIA "Y"-chromosome created doing their bit sometime soon.

Posted by: 11B40 at March 26, 2014 08:11 AM (evgyj)

206 Does this have anything to do with pocket rockets? Reggie's always talking about them with Obama.

Posted by: joey biden at March 26, 2014 08:11 AM (hn5v5)

207 Rick, I was in during the beginning of Clinton, I know what was said then. He was nothing compared to jef, can't imagine what is said now. I do KNOW for certain that a very very high General jumped right after the first election because he saw what was coming in barky, and this guy would have been on short list for joint chiefs.

Posted by: traye at March 26, 2014 08:11 AM (bOF9d)

208 179. A good Goat Locker. With a big ol' pot of coffee. There's several of us in the hoard .....hmmm

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 08:12 AM (ieU06)

209 http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/bgm-109-inv.htm

330 were fired during Operation Desert Fox and 160 were launched at Kosovo.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 08:12 AM (sLR/I)

210 How many has the US fired since 2009? Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 12:10 PM (sLR/I) Average of 100 per year.

Posted by: RWC at March 26, 2014 08:12 AM (fWAjv)

211 "The ships still have those cannon thingys don't they?"

Had to get rid of them.
Looked too much like a weapon.

Created a hostile work environment.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 26, 2014 08:12 AM (si68n)

212 >>>So without tomahawks, what will they arm the ships with?<<<

Peace pipes, skittles, and gummy bears.

Posted by: Fritz at March 26, 2014 08:12 AM (oJUxt)

213 >> So without tomahawks, what will they arm the ships with?

Lawyers.

Posted by: GnuBreed

If they're going to be fired from the guns, I'm all for it.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at March 26, 2014 08:13 AM (Uabwh)

214

A good Goat Locker.

 

Is very great idea, infidel!  They stop running away, yes?

Posted by: Abdul Muhammad Mahmoud Mohammed at March 26, 2014 08:13 AM (DrWcr)

215 Also, for those of you who missed it:

USN air wing executive officer and former TopGun air combat instructor says that  the best and most capable officers are being driven out of the Navy. Why? The constant drumbeat of politically-correct leftist social engineering in the Obama era while actual warfighting skills are downplayed and disparaged.

Even the SEALs aren't staying. Those guys are hard and costly to replace.

http://tinyurl.com/oee6k77

Posted by: torquewrench at March 26, 2014 08:13 AM (noWW6)

216 So without tomahawks, what will they arm the ships with? Lawyers. All conflicts in the future will be decided by Student UNs around the world.

Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2014 08:13 AM (FcR7P)

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 08:14 AM (nqBYe)

218 This country has never learned from it's mistakes after a war. After WW1, WW2, Korea, Viet Nam, Gulf War1, and now. Making your priority fighting global warming, creating diversity within the ranks, and cutting weapons systems because you won't cut off the FSA and LIVs isn't going to win any war when your enemy only cares about killing you. Unfortunately the politicians and our senior military "leadership" won't be punished during the next war. Only the grunts, squids, flyers, and jarheads will. And it will be with their blood.

Posted by: ExSnipe at March 26, 2014 08:14 AM (LKJt3)

219 So I didn't read all the comments. But, can Congress stop this foolishness? Does TFG have a bundler in the bayonet industry that he will be sending money to?

Posted by: Misanthopic Humanitarian at March 26, 2014 08:14 AM (HVff2)

220 "There's several of us in the hoard"

Why yes.......yes there are.

It do has possibilities.


VIA
USN (Ret)
RTC GLakes

Class of 77

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 26, 2014 08:14 AM (si68n)

221 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 26, 2014 12:07 PM (si68n) No shit. We tried. Lord knows we tried. But the assholes get to make the decisions. Well, assholes other than us, anyway.

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 26, 2014 08:14 AM (Nk6GS)

222 The only thing that makes sense (to me) is he hates us, hates the USA, and just wants to make himself look good to his loyal fans - he really is an awful man. We (this country, not literally "we" at this blog could hardly have picked a worse man to be President.

Posted by: Baldy at March 26, 2014 08:15 AM (2bql3)

223 They're going to arm the ships with corpsemen.

Nothing more terrifying than a zombie horde.

Posted by: Clownf*cker at March 26, 2014 08:15 AM (XiVKO)

224 209. Desert fox Was there My destroyer launched 34 on the first night Much ice cream and popcorn was consumed that day

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 08:15 AM (ieU06)

225 Even the SEALs aren't staying ------- I'm honestly surprised there wasn't a grand exodus after the assholes in charge prosecuted two of them for subduing a rowdy prisoner.

Posted by: Adam at March 26, 2014 08:15 AM (Aif/5)

226 Expect deployment of red lines. Far less expensive than current ordnance.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 26, 2014 08:15 AM (aDwsi)

227 "An Army Of The Won" Speechifyin' at twenty paces!

Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2014 08:16 AM (FcR7P)

228 224 careful there NCJ, first it was the missiles, then it was the ice cream and popcorn.

Posted by: Misanthopic Humanitarian at March 26, 2014 08:16 AM (HVff2)

229 I read: More Layoffs Through 2016

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2014 08:16 AM (IXrOn)

230 Fuck this POTUS in particular.

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at March 26, 2014 08:16 AM (0kElg)

231 Amazing how much "unexpected" shit bites leftards right on their stupid asses.

Posted by: maddogg at March 26, 2014 08:17 AM (xWW96)

232 The only thing that makes sense (to me) is he hates us, hates the USA, and just wants to make himself look good to his loyal fans - he really is an awful man. We (this country, not literally "we" at this blog could hardly have picked a worse man to be President. Posted by: Baldy ------------------------------ Racist.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 26, 2014 08:17 AM (aDwsi)

233 222 The only thing that makes sense (to me) is he hates us, hates the USA, and just wants to make himself look good to his loyal fans - he really is an awful man. We (this country, not literally "we" at this blog could hardly have picked a worse man to be President. Posted by: Baldy at March 26, 2014 12:15 PM (2bql3) Ding Ding Ding Ding Winner!

Posted by: RWC at March 26, 2014 08:17 AM (fWAjv)

234 OT: FBI and State Police raid offices of State Senator in San Francisco China Town and Sacramento. Drugs supposedly removed. (No party affiliation givenÂ…hmm)

Posted by: Ma Bell at March 26, 2014 08:17 AM (RLdcX)

235 One of the few promises he's kept (cutting defense spending).  It was all laid out in 2008, including "working with Russia":  

http://tinyurl.com/pgprcqp


 

Posted by: Bud Norton at March 26, 2014 08:17 AM (6cOMd)

236 220. Okay We still need a retired BTC to handle the heavy swearing

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 08:17 AM (ieU06)

237 I'm honestly surprised there wasn't a grand exodus after the assholes in charge prosecuted two of them for subduing a rowdy prisoner. Posted by: Adam at March 26, 2014 12:15 PM (Aif/5) It was actually three, and shithead raghead only had a bloody lip.

Posted by: ExSnipe at March 26, 2014 08:17 AM (LKJt3)

238

..... almost.....there.....

Posted by: Long March Thru The Institutions at March 26, 2014 08:18 AM (nELVU)

239 cht.

if one wanted to destroy the american economy what would one do?
if one wanted to destroy our defense , what would one do?
if one wanted to divide  the countries citizens into angry desperate groups , what would one do?

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 08:18 AM (nqBYe)

240 On the bright side, RESET Button, Mark II is showing great promise in early operational testing.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 26, 2014 08:18 AM (8ZskC)

241 "military superiority"

I think that's racist.

Posted by: PJ at March 26, 2014 08:18 AM (ZWaLo)

242 >>>Even the SEALs aren't staying
-------
I'm honestly surprised there wasn't a grand exodus after the assholes in charge prosecuted two of them for subduing a rowdy prisoner.<<<

Wouldn't it be horrible if the entire Secret Service resigned?  Who would carry Michelle's travel bags?

Posted by: Fritz at March 26, 2014 08:19 AM (oJUxt)

243 228. When they get rid of spades on the mess decks there will be mutiny

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 08:19 AM (ieU06)

244 235 One of the few promises he's kept (cutting defense spending). It was all laid out in 2008, including "working with Russia":

http://tinyurl.com/pgprcqp


Posted by: Bud Norton at March 26, 2014 12:17 PM (6cOMd)


We were yelling as loud as we could about it but nobody was listening, because Historic First.

Posted by: joncelli at March 26, 2014 08:19 AM (RD7QR)

245
We should just shoot Iowa Farmers out of them drones.

Posted by: Bruce Braley (D-Iowa) at March 26, 2014 08:19 AM (0Kobm)

246

Obama's Plan 9:

 

1.  De-stabilize the world.

 

2.  Dis-arm the United States

 

3.  Cripple the U.S. economy

 

4.  Shred the Constitution

 

5. - 8.  ????

 

9.  Profit!!!

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 26, 2014 08:19 AM (BAS5M)

247 OT: On my computer, all of the ads on this site are now Mac & Cheese ads, in Spanish.

Posted by: CJ at March 26, 2014 08:19 AM (9KqcB)

248 Maybe the French Chinese/Russians/Iranians could lend us some....oh, right. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 26, 2014 11:40 AM (0Kobm) Kumbaya

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2014 08:20 AM (IXrOn)

249 I simply cannot believe how abjectly bad all of the news regarding the state of this country and our society - western society, is. 

Breathtaking. 


I wonder if when Rome fell, the fall was so precipitous.  I wonder if when it was falling, the ruling class did everything in their power to pick the carcass clean to get all of the scraps they could as ours seems to be doing. 

The story in the sidebar about the establishment repubs meeting to squash the conservative movement, says a buttload about the idiots who keep saying that we need to be united as a party.

If there is not a revolt against the established political machine in this country we and especially our children will be serfs, prisoners or dead - soon.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 08:20 AM (BZAd3)

250 228 224 careful there NCJ, first it was the missiles, then it was the ice cream and popcorn. Posted by: Misanthopic ------------------ Where are the damned strawberries!

Posted by: Captain Queeg at March 26, 2014 08:20 AM (aDwsi)

251 Would be nice if a retiring Admiral or General would go public with a "screw you guys I'm outta here" speech. Active duty can't say doodley about the CIC.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 26, 2014 08:20 AM (9eDbm)

252 Obama wants to turn the military into a jobs program and Diversity Awareness seminar. And so do his hand-picked admirals and generals who have, on many occasions, said that their #1 priority is Diversity.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 08:20 AM (ZPrif)

253 Longtime California Power Broker Leland Yee (D), current candidate for Secretary of State was the target of multiply FBI raids this morning and several people including Mr. Yee have been taken into custody.

http://tinyurl.com/qzxg4ws

Posted by: scottst at March 26, 2014 08:20 AM (idA6q)

254 247 OT: On my computer, all of the ads on this site are now Mac Cheese ads, in Spanish.

Posted by: CJ at March 26, 2014 12:19 PM (9KqcB)


Your search history must be pretty eclectic.

Posted by: joncelli at March 26, 2014 08:20 AM (RD7QR)

255 Personnel is policy. Obama has stacked the leadership of the US military with his buttboys.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 08:20 AM (ZPrif)

256 Wonder where the Obamas are going to vacation next?

Posted by: Seems legit at March 26, 2014 08:21 AM (A98Xu)

257

Plan? Plan? There ain't no plan!

/da Zero

Posted by: maddogg at March 26, 2014 08:21 AM (xWW96)

258 256 Wonder where the Obamas are going to vacation next?

Posted by: Seems legit at March 26, 2014 12:21 PM (A98Xu)


Sochi. Obama promised to be flexible.

Posted by: joncelli at March 26, 2014 08:21 AM (RD7QR)

259 LOneStarHeeb,

So?

Posted by: Ayer's & Wright at March 26, 2014 08:21 AM (nqBYe)

260 Oh, and also on the Navy side, not only are they running out of Tomahawks, but running low on attack subs, which are among the platforms for Tomahawks.

http://tinyurl.com/peyw55a

Note that Kelly Ayotte is taking the lead on this. Not because Ayotte has a lick of sense when it comes to military matters -- she's a ditz -- but because pork.

Her home state of New Hampshire has a naval shipyard that services subs. (Incompetently. They just recently burned up a sub pierside after a stoned, mentally unstable yard rat lit a fire on board. Seven hundred million bucks down the drain.)

So Ayotte is worried about that particular pork trough being overturned.

Gee, might it not be nice to have pols worried about the national defense for its own sake, instead of for what can be cynically siphoned off to their home states?

Posted by: torquewrench at March 26, 2014 08:22 AM (noWW6)

261 And so do his hand-picked admirals and generals who have, on many occasions, said that their #1 priority is Diversity.

----

Goot.  Dat vay ve keel everybody same, da???

Posted by: Valdimir Putey Poot at March 26, 2014 08:22 AM (nELVU)

262 Our enemies can only fantasize about making such a successful strategic strike on our war making capabilities. He's taken out the F-22, A-10, Hellfire, and cruise missile. All while trying to eliminate our nuclear deterrent. I would think outside the box and cut back on shoes, socks, and bottled water.

Posted by: Beagle at March 26, 2014 08:22 AM (sOtz/)

263 Posted by: Count de Monet at March 26, 2014 12:19 PM (BAS5M) Foment a racial divide And I am sick of hearing about stuff like this. MSM wall to wall coverage... http://tinyurl.com/oa3e87q Five juveniles in Philadelphia have been taken into custody in connection the assault of a Temple University student with a brick on Friday evening. The five girls, ages 14, 15 and 17, were arrested early on Tuesday afternoon after police released security camera footage of the gang who also punched two other students in separate incidents within a 20 minute time span. The five girls have all been interviewed at least three will be charged. The 15-year-old who used a brick to beat a 19-year-old student is expected to be charged with aggravated assault.

Posted by: RWC at March 26, 2014 08:23 AM (fWAjv)

264 So?

Posted by: Ayer's & Wright at March 26, 2014 12:21 PM (nqBYe)


Guilty as sin and free as a bird.  Your plan is working flawlessly.  Congratulations.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 08:23 AM (BZAd3)

265 Wouldn't it be horrible if the entire Secret Service resigned? Who would carry Michelle's travel bags? Posted by: Fritz ----------------- No wonder they're going on drinking sprees: http://tinyurl.com/qepho5d

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 26, 2014 08:23 AM (aDwsi)

266 Ooh, let's not forget the new the Operating Concept for special operations forces (SOF): making new friends!!:

"The Special Operations Forces Operating Concept captures the essence of the SOF heritage as it could be – as it should be in the year 2020 and beyond. The concept moves beyond the first decade of the 21st Century, when SOF primarily supported large-scale contingency operations by conducting counterterrorism operations to find, capture, or kill our adversaries.Although of great value to the Nation, these operations were never intended to be decisive. Operating through the Global SOF Network in support of our Geographic Combatant Commanders and Chiefs of Mission, SOF now have the opportunity to achieve strategic outcomes by working with and through interagency and foreign partners to understand and influence relevant populations."

http://preview.tinyurl.com/k2kfgsn

Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2014 08:23 AM (udjuE)

267 Funny, he didn't look Manchurian.

Posted by: The 52 Percenters at March 26, 2014 08:23 AM (8ZskC)

268 Would be nice if a retiring Admiral or General would go public with a "screw you guys I'm outta here" speech. Active duty can't say doodley about the CIC.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 26, 2014 12:20 PM (9eDbm)


srsly i gave up 'hope' of upstanding guys  on the top with Ham and Petreaus .

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 08:23 AM (nqBYe)

269 Fun fact. Obama already granted de facto amnesty. DHS basically won't deport you unless you rape or kill somebody. And it has to be rape-rape, you can do all the drunken sexual assault you want. National Review ‏@NRO A little-know DHS directive protects illegal immigrants from deportation unless they have a criminal conviction: http://natl.re/1fjmlxC

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 08:23 AM (ZPrif)

270 Is all this part of a deal with Putin to beg him to stop his invasions?

Posted by: PJ at March 26, 2014 08:23 AM (ZWaLo)

271 It makes perfect sense. He wants to leave his successors in a much worse position than he had. He doesn't want to leave his successors the tools to even pretend to fight the war on terror like he has. That way he can pretend he's been the Strong Guy and the next guy, whoever it is, Hillary or Cruz or whoever, is a weakling. And you know he's going to hang around DC talking about how "he responded forcefully when HE was presnident."

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at March 26, 2014 08:23 AM (kwc/t)

272 Remember the 6th of November when Obama was re-elected?

Lets get rid of all our nukes too and Pour gasoline on the fire.

Posted by: Gay Fox at March 26, 2014 08:24 AM (225IM)

273 It's almost as if the SCOAMF has malignant and treasonous purposes in every policy, as if he's trying to weaken and deconstruct the country from within. Who'd have thought?

Posted by: Stu-22 at March 26, 2014 08:24 AM (KbrNh)

274 "We still need a retired BTC to handle the heavy swearing"


Got that covered with a good friend down in Texas.
I never could get him to say "My name is MMC(sw) ......."


Don't think he can operate a keyboard either.
That...could be a problem.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 26, 2014 08:24 AM (si68n)

275 Yep, pretty much.
One of the many reasons I return time and again to this award-winning, smart military blog!

Posted by: Erik the Red's Dad, with a really thirsty ulfberht at March 26, 2014 08:25 AM (1/4XQ)

276 RW, did you notice that this mass assault earned the "teens" a scolding from the mayor?

No arrests, just "come on you guys."

Posted by: PJ at March 26, 2014 08:25 AM (ZWaLo)

277 273 It's almost as if the SCOAMF has malignant and treasonous purposes in every policy, as if he's trying to weaken and deconstruct the country from within. Who'd have thought?

Posted by: Stu-22 at March 26, 2014 12:24 PM (KbrNh)


The astonishing thing is that roughly half of the country not only support him, but are pleased with what he has done and what he is doing.  Better red AND dead, I guess.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 08:26 AM (BZAd3)

278 You all know Obama doesn't plan on living in this country after his term right?

If he doesn't take that shack in Hawaii, I figure he'll land in some sandy country somewhere with lots and lots of friendly faces.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 08:26 AM (JS0vr)

279 Let's shut down our space program too.
What do we need satellites for when they can't even find a missing airplane?


Posted by: Gay Fox at March 26, 2014 08:26 AM (225IM)

280 The reports on the Secret Service Agents is disturbing. I have known a few of them from the 'hood. They are pretty buttoned up and solid people. Something must be going on in this regime for them to start acting this badly.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 26, 2014 08:27 AM (32Ze2)

281 Don't worry, we have enough double barreled shotguns to see us through until the next generation of cruise missiles are ready.

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 26, 2014 08:27 AM (xvtYZ)

282 278 You all know Obama doesn't plan on living in this country after his term right?

If he doesn't take that shack in Hawaii, I figure he'll land in some sandy country somewhere with lots and lots of friendly faces.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 12:26 PM (JS0vr)


The Saudis are obliged by their own laws to take in any Muslim who requests asylum there.

Posted by: joncelli at March 26, 2014 08:27 AM (RD7QR)

283 279 Let's shut down our space program too.
What do we need satellites for when they can't even find a missing airplane?


Posted by: Gay Fox at March 26, 2014 12:26 PM (225IM)


No need to shut it down.  Just repurpose it to do muzzie outreach and provide "expert" commentary on redistribution of wealth.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 08:28 AM (BZAd3)

284 276 RW, did you notice that this mass assault earned the "teens" a scolding from the mayor? No arrests, just "come on you guys." Posted by: PJ at March 26, 2014 12:25 PM (ZWaLo) That weakness of the mayor is seen as strength by the yoots. (is that how reality is working today? or has it changed again?)

Posted by: RWC at March 26, 2014 08:29 AM (fWAjv)

285 278 You all know Obama doesn't plan on living in this country after his term right? If he doesn't take that shack in Hawaii, I figure he'll land in some sandy country somewhere with lots and lots of friendly faces. Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 12:26 PM (JS0vr) Is that before or after he ditches the Wookie and their larvae?

Posted by: model_1066 at March 26, 2014 08:29 AM (afNM6)

286 The astonishing thing is that roughly half of the country not only support him, but are pleased with what he has done and what he is doing. Better red AND dead, I guess.
___
I support President Obama's policies to end racism and give me free shit, uh, stimulate the economy.

Obamacare? That's the free shit...right?

Missiles...wait the government has missiles? Is that, uh, like new? Did George Bush like uh make them n'stuff?

Posted by: Some LIV that voted for Obama at March 26, 2014 08:29 AM (78TbK)

287 @280

Wasn't it around a year ago that a bartender got stabbed to death with a broken broom handle?

How could you NOT want to hear the news?

Posted by: Clownf*cker at March 26, 2014 08:29 AM (sPO/s)

288 The reports on the Secret Service Agents is disturbing. I have known a few of them from the 'hood. They are pretty buttoned up and solid people. Something must be going on in this regime for them to start acting this badly. Posted by: Truck Monkey ------------------- Consider the humiliation those guys have to put up with. The Clinton's 'Pet pigs', as they called them.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 26, 2014 08:29 AM (aDwsi)

289 "If they want to buy so many MSRs, let them depend on them for defense." *dangles fey hand from wrist*

Posted by: Your Dear Leader, President Michael Jackson at March 26, 2014 08:29 AM (1/4XQ)

290 I've seen that "shack in Hawaii". It doesn't suck.

Posted by: navybrat at March 26, 2014 08:29 AM (JgC5a)

291 “This really moves the U.S. away from a position of influence and military dominance.” Yes, that's the plan. 'Fundamentally transform', remember?

Posted by: Meremortal, something's burning... at March 26, 2014 08:29 AM (1Y+hH)

292 "So I didn't read all the comments. But, can Congress stop this foolishness?" --- In theory sure. Just have to get both chambers to agree to the tune of 66%. Good luck with that. Of course that's also assuming a president who would then follow such legislation as written, quite the crap shoot these days.

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at March 26, 2014 08:29 AM (0kElg)

293 "The 15-year-old who used a brick to beat a 19-year-old student is expected to be charged with aggravated assault."

The student had part of her fractured jaw hanging out the side of her mouth. She may be permanently disfigured and is in for a couple of tough surgeries.

But, you know, innocent teen hijinks that got out of hand. Now with melanin!

Posted by: torquewrench at March 26, 2014 08:29 AM (noWW6)

294

Hold on, what's  a budget proposal?

 

Since when does  the federal government do a budget? 

Posted by: BurtTC at March 26, 2014 08:30 AM (TOk1P)

295 Is that before or after he ditches the Wookie and their larvae?
___
We've already picked out his dress! He will be the prettiest bride ever!

Posted by: Reggie Love at March 26, 2014 08:30 AM (78TbK)

296 Mayor Nutter


That kinda says it all doesn't it?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 08:30 AM (JS0vr)

297 Lets go through our roster of Generals and Admirals while we're at it. We have too many of them, and some of them are racists.

Posted by: Gay Fox at March 26, 2014 08:30 AM (225IM)

298 The reports on the Secret Service Agents is disturbing. I have known a few of them from the 'hood. They are pretty buttoned up and solid people. Something must be going on in this regime for them to start acting this badly. Mooch.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 08:30 AM (b1/nQ)

299

Your search history must be pretty eclectic.

 

Posted by: joncelli at March 26, 2014 12:20 PM (RD7QR)

 

I likes my Charo pics.  Cuchi-cuchi.

Posted by: CJ at March 26, 2014 08:30 AM (9KqcB)

300 You all know Obama doesn't plan on living in this country after his term right? If he doesn't take that shack in Hawaii, I figure he'll land in some sandy country somewhere with lots and lots of friendly faces. Ancestral Kenya.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 08:31 AM (b1/nQ)

301 Something must be going on in this regime for them to start acting this badly. Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 26, 2014 12:27 PM (32Ze2) Rots from the head. Lawless actions with no consequences for the last 5 years and eventually that mentality trickles down and spreads.

Posted by: RWC at March 26, 2014 08:31 AM (fWAjv)

302 " Something must be going on in this regime for them to start acting this badly." --- Knowing your days are spent protecting a traitor would drive most people to drink.

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at March 26, 2014 08:31 AM (0kElg)

303 He wants to leave his successors in a much worse position than he had. ----------------- The Clinton Gambit. Poison the well.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 26, 2014 08:31 AM (aDwsi)

304 "The Saudis are obliged by their own laws to take in any Muslim who requests asylum there."

That's where Idi Amin went after he was run out of Uganda.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 26, 2014 08:31 AM (noWW6)

305 You all know Obama doesn't plan on living in this country after his term right? Don't get any ideas, Barack! Thanks, by the way, for the fresh cardboard. I expanded the dining room.

Posted by: George Obama at March 26, 2014 08:31 AM (FcR7P)

306 And the press will howl when they try to blame the previous Occupant.

I think that should be his new name:  Occupant of the White House.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 08:31 AM (JS0vr)

307 Leland Yee is or has been a fiscal conservative, goring a few sacred cows along the way.

Could this be why he's been investigated?

Posted by: PJ at March 26, 2014 08:31 AM (ZWaLo)

308 Mayor Nutter That kinda says it all doesn't it? Male reindeer hardest hit.....

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 08:32 AM (b1/nQ)

309 "We still need a retired BTC to handle the heavy swearing." Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 26, 2014 12:24 PM (si68n) Heh. Those Boiler Turds could do a lot of good swearing, especially towards Monkey Mates.

Posted by: ExSnipe at March 26, 2014 08:32 AM (LKJt3)

310 "Something must be going on in this regime for them to start acting this badly."

Command Climate.

It's not just for the military.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 26, 2014 08:33 AM (si68n)

311 Implicated in the arrests with Leland Yee is Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow. You can't make this stuff up.

Here's his twitter feed: #sunoftheunderworld
https://twitter.com/RaymondChow10

Posted by: Chow Fun at March 26, 2014 08:33 AM (idA6q)

312 My time is limited.  I must enact as much of my agenda to take down America before January 2015

Posted by: Barack O'Stalin at March 26, 2014 08:33 AM (kFxpe)

313 Let's shut down our space program too.
What do we need satellites for when they can't even find a missing airplane?




Posted by: Gay Fox at March 26, 2014 12:26 PM (225IM)

-----

Didnt we just shoot our SuperPower astronaut up to the Space Station on a Regianl Powers rocket ship this morning????

Posted by: Valdimir Putey Poot at March 26, 2014 08:33 AM (nELVU)

314 this is an example of being able "to be more flexible after the election"

Posted by: sound awake at March 26, 2014 08:33 AM (pk/NG)

315 299 Lets go through our roster of Generals and Admirals while we're at it. We have too many of them, and some of them are racists.

Posted by: Gay Fox at March 26, 2014 12:30 PM (225IM)


Career military are probably as afraid of their futures as everyone else is, after the purges that happened a couple of time in this administration. 

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 08:34 AM (BZAd3)

316 The Feral Youth incidents in the inner cities will only get worse. This is at least the third generation of kids that have little to no adult supervision. At least in the last generation there were Grandparents that stepped up to keep them in line.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 26, 2014 08:34 AM (32Ze2)

317 This is what he meant in his private message to Vlad, about being more flexible...to surrender!

Posted by: Paladin at March 26, 2014 08:34 AM (E1aoU)

318 298 Mayor Nutter


That kinda says it all doesn't it?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 12:30 PM (JS0vr)


It doesn't help that he looks like Squidward in glasses and a suit.

Posted by: joncelli at March 26, 2014 08:34 AM (RD7QR)

319 Uh oh. Who let the snipe out of his hole?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 08:34 AM (JS0vr)

320 It's almost flash mob season, so we've got that to look forward to, Philly.

Posted by: Clownf*cker at March 26, 2014 08:34 AM (sPO/s)

321 I wonder if when Rome fell, the fall was so precipitous.
***
The analogy is almost complete. They gave up on defending the empire so that they could afford the bureaucrats, bread, and circuses.

Eventually it became cheaper...and safer... to find a local strong man then to keep paying your taxes to Rome...and so the state feel apart.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 26, 2014 08:35 AM (78TbK)

322 Didnt we just shoot our SuperPower astronaut up to the Space Station on a Regianl Powers rocket ship this morning????

Posted by: Valdimir Putey Poot at March 26, 2014 12:33 PM (nELVU)


You'd never know it was a Russian launch if you were listening to the MSM.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 08:35 AM (BZAd3)

323 @291 Until the navy opens up with one of these:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/qdle927

Posted by: Damn Sure NOT Adm. Jack Fletcher at March 26, 2014 08:35 AM (1/4XQ)

324 You all know Obama doesn't plan on living in this country after his term right?

Well, while not technically correct, Hawaii isn't within the fallout zone of the contiguous 48.

Posted by: Barack O'Stalin at March 26, 2014 08:35 AM (kFxpe)

325 No Stalin was a man of steel.

Barack's a Man? of putty.

Barack O'Putty

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 08:36 AM (JS0vr)

326 The joo overlords are making us do this.

Posted by: Chuck Hagel at March 26, 2014 08:36 AM (Aif/5)

327 295 - Clearly we need to ban bricks.

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at March 26, 2014 08:36 AM (0kElg)

328 "The reports on the Secret Service Agents is disturbing. I have known a few of them from the 'hood. They are pretty buttoned up and solid people. Something must be going on in this regime for them to start acting this badly."

Did you read the reports from China about how Mooch and her entourage were rudely verbally abusing the hotel staff? Think that they treat the security teams any more politely or pleasantly?

I read an account about Val Jarrett at a D.C. state dinner wherein she snapped her fingers under the nose of a full bird colonel in formal dress uniform and handed him her empty wine glass to be refilled. As though the nation's military officers are now expected to be on-demand wait staff for Our Betters.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 26, 2014 08:36 AM (noWW6)

329 "Heh. Those Boiler Turds could do a lot of good swearing, especially towards Monkey Mates."


Them was the good ole daze!

Now we have Peace through Superior PowerPoint.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 26, 2014 08:37 AM (si68n)

330 "The Saudis are obliged by their own laws to take in any Muslim who requests asylum there." If Palestinians, Syrians, Lebanese, Egyptians, etc. don't flock to Saudi Arabia, I'm guessing it's because the Saudis make life hell for foreigners.

Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2014 08:37 AM (FcR7P)

331 324 Didnt we just shoot our SuperPower astronaut up to the Space Station on a Regianl Powers rocket ship this morning???? Posted by: Valdimir Putey Poot at March 26, 2014 12:33 PM (nELVU) You'd never know it was a Russian launch if you were listening to the MSM. Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 12:35 PM (BZAd3) The MSM will be using the term 'cosmonaut' shortly.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 26, 2014 08:37 AM (afNM6)

332 Chinese Freemasons Association

See? I told you about those secret societies.

Posted by: Goi Fauxe at March 26, 2014 08:37 AM (225IM)

333 The Chief Justice didn't want a Constitutional Crisis, but he's got a Constitutional Crisis anyway.

Posted by: Aaron Burr at March 26, 2014 08:37 AM (kFxpe)

334 My guess is the WH knows it will be negotiating with a Republican Senate and thus wants some easy trade items to barter more 'community freebies' and to make investigations go away.

Posted by: Chaos the other dark meat at March 26, 2014 08:38 AM (oDCMR)

335 Posted by: 18-1 at March 26, 2014 12:35 PM (78TbK)

Those who were in the know, kinda saw the writing on the wall when Caligula nominated his horse for the Senate.

Hmm Horse in the Senate?

John Effing (you know I was in Viet Nam right? Got Wounded) Kerry

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 08:38 AM (JS0vr)

336 I'm a war vet, and I got instructions for applying for o'care yesterday. 

goddammit.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 08:39 AM (BZAd3)

337 I'll be back here in my air conditioned spaces. Philistines. --Your humble ET (NUKE!)

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 26, 2014 08:39 AM (659DL)

338 I'm beginning to see the parallels between Obama and Richard II, who reigned for 22 unpleasant years before he was deposed.  Vindictive, effeminate, childish, vain, malignantly narcissistic. 

All bets are off, guys.

 

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 26, 2014 08:39 AM (WZD4E)

339 John Effing (you know I was in Viet Nam right? Got Wounded) Kerry Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 12:38 PM (JS0vr) He sustained more injuries at the plastic surgeon's office than in 'Nam.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 26, 2014 08:39 AM (afNM6)

340 I want Scott Walker or Rick Perry to be my new strongman. I will gladly pay taxes to The Republic of Texas or Wisconsin.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 26, 2014 08:39 AM (32Ze2)

341 I read an account about Val Jarrett at a D.C. state dinner wherein she snapped her fingers under the nose of a full bird colonel in formal dress uniform and handed him her empty wine glass to be refilled. As though the nation's military officers are now expected to be on-demand wait staff for Our Betters.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 26, 2014 12:36 PM (noWW6)



Kinda why at this point I would be cheering a military that went rogue and shelled the WH.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 26, 2014 08:40 AM (FMbng)

342 Rather than 'First Black President' (which is weird, since Toni Morrison declared Clinton the first black President), I am inclined to refer to the guy as 'The first person elected President because he was black.' I suppose that I should denounce myself, but the numbers support that perspective.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 26, 2014 08:41 AM (aDwsi)

343 342 I want Scott Walker or Rick Perry to be my new strongman. I will gladly pay taxes to The Republic of Texas or Wisconsin. Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 26, 2014 12:39 PM (32Ze2) Can we invade Minnesota then? That would be fun.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 26, 2014 08:41 AM (afNM6)

344 I will gladly pay taxes to The Republic of Texas or Wisconsin.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 26, 2014 12:39 PM (32Ze2)


My wife has four years to go before we retire.  We plan on leaving the country.  Who knows, I could be moving back to Texas.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 08:41 AM (BZAd3)

345
shocker

Playing the role of First Lady has squelched Michelle Obama’s spirit, and she’s turned the East Wing into the “worst wing,” a former White House aide claims.

The First Lady’s office has become a “confining, frustrating, even miserable place to work,” according to Reid Cherlin, a former West Wing assistant press secretary,...

Stolen from WZ.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 26, 2014 08:41 AM (0Kobm)

346 The Chief Justice didn't want a Constitutional Crisis, but he's got a Constitutional Crisis anyway.
___
Hey John, your browsing history, texts, and the full content of all the documents relating to your kids' adoptions are sitting right here in front of me.

It would be a real shame if some reporter accidentally got access to this stuff wouldn't it?

On a completely different note, Obamacare is still a 100% constitutional tax...right?

Posted by: Obama's NSA at March 26, 2014 08:41 AM (78TbK)

347 No Stalin was a man of steel.

Barack's a Man? of putty.

Barack O'Putty

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 12:36 PM (JS0vr)

 

Depends upon whose interests you think he's working for.

I can't blame the 'man' for soft-footing my work given the armed electorate and semi-free media.

Posted by: Joseph Stalin at March 26, 2014 08:42 AM (kFxpe)

348 It's simple, Barky sucks!

Posted by: Killerdog at March 26, 2014 08:42 AM (bwVNm)

349 Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 26, 2014 12:39 PM (659DL)

You mean in that nice big topside superstructure that makes an excellent OR should I say Exocet target?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 08:42 AM (JS0vr)

350 Them was the good ole daze! Now we have Peace through Superior PowerPoint. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 26, 2014 12:37 PM (si68n) I wonder how todays Navy would react to this bit of Navy slang. Me and Willy were lollygagging by the scuttlebutt after being aloft to boy butter up the antennas and were just perched on a bollard eyeballing a couple of bilge rats and flangeheads using crescent hammers to pack monkey shit around a fitting on a handybilly. All of a sudden the dicksmith started hard-assing one of the deck apes for lifting his pogey bait. The pecker-checker was a sewer pipe sailor and the deckape was a gator. Maybe being blackshoes on a bird farm surrounded by a gaggle of cans didn't set right with either of those gobs. The deck ape ran through the nearest hatch and dogged it tight because he knew the penis machinist was going to lay below, catch him between decks and punch him in the snot locker. He'd probably wind up on the binnacle list but Doc would find a way to gundeck the paper or give it the deep six to keep himself above board. We heard the skivvywaver announce over the bitch box that the bread-burners had SOS ready on the mess decks so we cut and run to avoid the clusterfuck when the twidgets and cannon cockers knew chow was on. We were balls to the wall for the barn and everyone was preparing to hit the beach as soon as we doubled-up and threw the brow over. I had a ditty bag full of fufu juice that I was gonna spread on thick for the bar hogs with those sweet bosnias. Sure beats the hell out of brown bagging. Might even hit the acey-duecy club and try to hook up with a westpac widow. They were always leaving snail trails on the dance floor on amateur night.

Posted by: ExSnipe at March 26, 2014 08:43 AM (LKJt3)

351 Anyone know anything about this guy? Vice Adm (soon-to-be-full Admiral) Mike Rogers, the next NSA director, has cleared the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Posted by: Seems legit at March 26, 2014 08:43 AM (A98Xu)

352 If you like your country you can keep it.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I crack myself up.

As Michelle told you, I ain't going to let you go back to normal clinger boy

Posted by: Barack Obama at March 26, 2014 08:43 AM (78TbK)

353 mike hammer then i'll need to denounce myself too

Posted by: phoenixgirl at work at March 26, 2014 08:43 AM (nbm7W)

354 Completely OT

I went to see Divergent last night (yeah, I'm turning in my man-card) and every time Ashley Judd was on screen all I could think was, "Ha!  Ashley Judd's puffy scamper!"

To much time lurking on AoSHQ.

Posted by: Turnip Defense League [/i] at March 26, 2014 08:43 AM (O7Q1u)

355 Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 26, 2014 12:41 PM (0Kobm) I would think that any place within earshot of her nauseating screech and in view of her horrible taste would count as two steps below North Korea.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 26, 2014 08:44 AM (afNM6)

356 In related news: Raymond Pritchett ‏@Galrahn Russia continues to build up on Ukraine's border with more tanks, artillery, and helicopters.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 08:44 AM (ZPrif)

357 You mean in that nice big topside superstructure that makes an excellent OR should I say Exocet target? No, I mean (classifed) feet down here where the reactor controls are. Good luck finding me.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 26, 2014 08:44 AM (659DL)

358 "Hey John, your browsing history, texts, and the full content of all the documents relating to your kids' adoptions are sitting right here in front of me." Call me what you like, I happen to believe that is exactly what happened. He's a spineless POS.

Posted by: Seems legit at March 26, 2014 08:44 AM (A98Xu)

359 Well, at least Richard II didn't bow to everyone except the dog catcher.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 08:45 AM (JS0vr)

360 @345 I've heard they've weaponized mosquitoes in Fagapolis, Sodom-on-the-Mississippi.

Posted by: Damn Sure NOT Adm. Jack Fletcher at March 26, 2014 08:45 AM (1/4XQ)

361 Your humble ET (NUKE!) Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 26, 2014 12:39 PM (659DL) Howdy from an S5G grad!

Posted by: ExSnipe at March 26, 2014 08:45 AM (LKJt3)

362 352 - Egads!

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 26, 2014 08:45 AM (aDwsi)

363 Noah Rothman ‏@NoahCRothman More tank than think "@daveweigel: Ron PaulÂ’s think tank denounces the “conspiracy theory” Russia invaded Crimera http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/03/26/ ron_paul_s_think_tank_denounces_conspiracy_theory_that_crimea_was_invaded.html Â…

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 08:45 AM (ZPrif)

364 But the US Navy still plans to buy 32 LCS class ships that can't sink anything larger than a speedboat. 32. In a fleet that is smaller than 300 ships. More than 10% of the fleet will be floating targets. But there is 'good' news on this front. Just like with the next gen TLAM. The US Navy is planning to build in the future once the design is finalized a new FFG frigate class. And the three Zumwalts continue to be sea going white elephants that are more expensive than an aircraft carrier. Speaking of carriers, our fleet of such is truly down to 9 hulls. And Gerald Ford is still being worked on and not ready for the fleet. So the US Navy can no longer keep a carrier battle group in more than say two or three hot spots around the world. Which means if the PRC gets froggy in the South China Sea with its carrier, it will be 1v1 with Chinese land based airpower in support. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 11:43 AM (sLR/I) Given the First Lady's choice of vacay, I'd estimate that at 1 v 0 (heading back towards Pearl).

Posted by: Beagle at March 26, 2014 08:45 AM (sOtz/)

365

boy butter up the antennas

 

Go on...

Posted by: Harry Reid at March 26, 2014 08:46 AM (DrWcr)

366 Raymond Pritchett ‏@Galrahn Russia continues to build up on Ukraine's border with more tanks, artillery, and helicopters. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 12:44 PM (ZPrif) I didn't realize Russia was that weak.

Posted by: RWC at March 26, 2014 08:46 AM (fWAjv)

367 362 @345 I've heard they've weaponized mosquitoes in Fagapolis, Sodom-on-the-Mississippi. Posted by: Damn Sure NOT Adm. Jack Fletcher at March 26, 2014 12:45 PM (1/4XQ) Nah, they're drones camouflaged to look like mosquitos...9 out of 10 Minnesotans can't tell the difference!

Posted by: model_1066 at March 26, 2014 08:47 AM (afNM6)

368 America needs a ...wait...Miley Cyrus is on tv.

Nevermind.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at March 26, 2014 08:47 AM (AC0lD)

369 Russia continues to build up on Ukraine's border with more tanks, artillery, and helicopters. Posted by: Flatbush ------------------- Regional story. Page B6

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 26, 2014 08:47 AM (aDwsi)

370 358 In related news:

Raymond Pritchett ‏@Galrahn
Russia continues to build up on Ukraine's border with more tanks, artillery, and helicopters.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 12:44 PM (ZPrif)


Herr Gospodin Putin has no further territorial ambitions.

Posted by: Neville Obama at March 26, 2014 08:47 AM (RD7QR)

371 Issa is wrapping up with the head of IRS today, I missed it.

Posted by: Madamex at March 26, 2014 08:48 AM (vaWdD)

372 Can we invade Minnesota then? That would be fun. Posted by: model_1066 at March 26, 2014 12:41 PM (afNM6) ________________ You betcha! Golly, it is always nice to have visitors.

Posted by: Ole Anderson, Who Wears Clogs at March 26, 2014 08:48 AM (32Ze2)

373 Oh emm gee. Some of the Common Core criticism I've seen has been, IMHO, over the top (GASP! An error in a new textbook!!1!), but this...this... >>'Correct answers, but let's find the 'friendly' numbers'' I get that they are trying to teach a method and that the instructions were to use the method, but... Link to Daily Caller: http://tinyurl.com/FriendlyNumbersFTW

Posted by: Mama AJ at March 26, 2014 08:48 AM (SUKHu)

374 Which means if the PRC gets froggy in the South China Sea with its carrier, it will be 1v1 with Chinese land based airpower in support.
___
Bah, we aren't going to war with them.

If they want some little rocks in the ocean like say Japan why do I care?

Posted by: Barack Obama at March 26, 2014 08:48 AM (78TbK)

375 Howdy from an S5G grad! Ah, beautiful eastern Idaho...

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 26, 2014 08:49 AM (659DL)

376 Pardon moi
ET?

back in the old days an ET was an Electronics Technician.

what's it now:

Extraneous Tightener?

Extra Tits? (radiation causes mutations)

Elevated Torquer?

Engine Tachometer?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 08:49 AM (JS0vr)

377 Link to Daily Caller:

http://tinyurl.com/FriendlyNumbersFTW

Posted by: Mama AJ at March 26, 2014 12:48 PM (SUKHu)

 

What's an unfriendly number?

Posted by: Insomniac at March 26, 2014 08:49 AM (DrWcr)

378

This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.

Posted by: Admiral Painter at March 26, 2014 08:50 AM (kFxpe)

379 Ron Paul's Institute for Peace and Prosperity is denying that Russia invaded Crimea: -- We know what an invasion looks like -- it's called shock and awe and it happened eleven years ago this month, in the US illegal invasion of Iraq. It happened fifteen years ago this month over the skies of Serbia, another illegal US attack. If it had happened earlier this month in Crimea would we not have video? Everyone has cell phones these days.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 08:50 AM (ZPrif)

380 If there is a serious secession movement, I really can't see Barry and co fighting it militarily.

This isn't so much an issue with Barry being too "idealistic" to do so, but the left is convinced that "flyover" country is just a bunch of worthless bitter clingers....who needs the hinterlands when you've got the big coastal cities right?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 26, 2014 08:50 AM (78TbK)

381 @309 Leland Yee is better known as the most vocal gun-grabber in California govt. He continually revises and re-submits bills that have been defeated in the courts. Anyone who supports the 2nd amendment is glad to see this guy in cuffs.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 26, 2014 08:50 AM (9eDbm)

382 In other news...


The barbarians are at the gate is so 732.  Gooks are in the wire is so much more appropriate now.

http://tinyurl.com/nfvydy8

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 08:51 AM (BZAd3)

383 The war they're training and arming up for is the *civil* war.

Posted by: lenin, trotsky, zinoviev and pals at March 26, 2014 08:51 AM (jShwB)

384 Can we invade Minnesota then? That would be fun. I've seen Wisconsinites drive. Half your troop transports would end up in the river or ditch before they hit Stillwater. The other half would pass out drunk behind the wheel.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at March 26, 2014 08:51 AM (SY2Kh)

385 Posted by: Beagle at March 26, 2014 12:45 PM (sOtz/)

That's so we'll have a Navy that looks like all the other 3rd world countries' navies.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 08:51 AM (JS0vr)

386 What's an unfriendlynumber? The kind a Common Core math teaching innovator will use to cause the buckling of a bridge over [insert name of river/chasm/really high thing] in the 2020's.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 26, 2014 08:52 AM (659DL)

387 Ron Paul's Institute for Peace and Prosperity is denying that Russia invaded Crimea:

The batshit is strong in this one.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 08:52 AM (BZAd3)

388 Haha late again!

Posted by: Barack Obama at March 26, 2014 08:52 AM (Aif/5)

389 389 Ron Paul's Institute for Peace and Prosperity is denying that Russia invaded Crimea:

The batshit is strong in this one.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 12:52 PM (BZAd3)

 

I'd really like to know what color the sky is on their planet.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 26, 2014 08:53 AM (DrWcr)

390 Why should our Navy be any stronger than the Swiss Navy???

Posted by: Barky O'Bamastain at March 26, 2014 08:53 AM (kFxpe)

391 My son signed a 6 year contract wirh USAF. 3.5 years to go.

Posted by: small town girl in wyoming at March 26, 2014 08:53 AM (ImQSs)

392 "I wonder how todays Navy would react to this bit of Navy slang."

75% of the words in that story are now banned, in one form or another.

And the other 25% are under review.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 26, 2014 08:54 AM (si68n)

393

Step 3:  PROFIT

Posted by: Barry Soetoro - stoner at March 26, 2014 08:54 AM (kFxpe)

394 Seriously, that's not a joke. The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity is literally saying that it is a neocon conspiracy to claim that Russian invade Crimea.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 08:54 AM (ZPrif)

395 >>What's an unfriendly number? The actual correct answer. No, really.

Posted by: Mama AJ at March 26, 2014 08:54 AM (SUKHu)

396 @386 Yeah, that Hwy. 63 hill is a b**ch!
Here, hold my beer-- watch this.

Posted by: On my way to El Paso for a few brewskis at March 26, 2014 08:54 AM (1/4XQ)

397 We know what an invasion looks like -- it's called shock and awe and it happened eleven years ago this month, in the US illegal invasion of Iraq. It happened fifteen years ago this month over the skies of Serbia, another illegal US attack. Hey, remember when we annexed Iraq and Serbia? Good times. Luapron is a boring idiot.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 26, 2014 08:54 AM (659DL)

398 I'd really like to know what color the sky is on their planet.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 26, 2014 12:53 PM (DrWcr)


-----


.... silver

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2014 08:55 AM (nELVU)

399 352. Oh load I understood every single word Helps being a black shoe on the bird farm I guess

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 08:55 AM (g8+Vr)

400 393 My son signed a 6 year contract wirh USAF. 3.5 years to go.

Posted by: small town girl in wyoming at March 26, 2014 12:53 PM (ImQSs)


Thanks to him for his service.

Posted by: joncelli at March 26, 2014 08:55 AM (RD7QR)

401 >I've seen Wisconsinites drive. Half your troop transports would end up in the river or ditch before they hit Stillwater.

The other half would pass out drunk behind the wheel.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at March 26, 2014 12:51 PM (SY2Kh)<



F*cking mud duck.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 26, 2014 08:55 AM (sjdRT)

402 Does this mean the Redskins are changing their name to the Tomahawks?

Posted by: Low Information Voter at March 26, 2014 08:55 AM (pmsMR)

403 Ron Paul likes his crazy to show.

Posted by: Seems legit at March 26, 2014 08:55 AM (A98Xu)

404 @398 OOPS!
Highway 64 hill.
Have one on me, ok?

Posted by: On my way to El Paso for a few brewskis at March 26, 2014 08:55 AM (1/4XQ)

405

SILVER DIMES !1!!

Posted by: Luap Nor at March 26, 2014 08:56 AM (kFxpe)

406 .... silver

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2014 12:55 PM (nELVU)

 

A magical world where the rivers flow with silver dimes, and the fields of weed stretch farther than the eye can see.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 26, 2014 08:56 AM (DrWcr)

407 314  Have a sinking feeling TFG is in for the long haul.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 26, 2014 08:56 AM (aUQgu)

408 Does this mean the Redskins are changing their name to the Tomahawks?
___
I still don't get why they always play early games. Isn't Washington like near California and Peruvia?

Posted by: Some Other LIV at March 26, 2014 08:56 AM (78TbK)

409 Interesting sockfail. Yikes. Anyway, the Bagaudae are the most interesting "barbarian" crew IMO. They appear to be local Gauls and Romans who teamed up to create their OWN "tribe". Sort of a late-antique Tea Party.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 26, 2014 08:57 AM (jShwB)

410 Pardon moi ET? back in the old days an ET was an Electronics Technician. what's it now: Extraneous Tightener? Extra Tits? (radiation causes mutations) Elevated Torquer? Engine Tachometer? Illegal alien with a phone?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 08:57 AM (b1/nQ)

411 If you had voted for me you could use your gold coins to buy weed at the grocery store.

Posted by: Ron Paul at March 26, 2014 08:57 AM (Aif/5)

412 If there were an opposition party in this country, someone would have found a way to impeach this sonofabitch already.

Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at March 26, 2014 08:58 AM (JQuNB)

413 Just to be clear, those are the words of the exec director of the Ron Paul Institute for Paultardary and not Ron Paul himself. So I guess Paul can always claim, like he did with his neo-confederate newsletters, that he knows nothing about it.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 08:58 AM (ZPrif)

414 My son signed a 6 year contract with USAF. 3.5 years to go. Posted by: small town girl in wyoming at March 26, 2014 12:53 PM (ImQSs) God bless him small town girl in wyoming.

Posted by: ExSnipe at March 26, 2014 08:58 AM (LKJt3)

415 Nood

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 08:58 AM (b1/nQ)

416

Corleone 2016 - I'll settle all family business once and for all

Posted by: Michael Corleone at March 26, 2014 08:59 AM (kFxpe)

417 You betcha! Golly, it is always nice to have visitors.

Posted by: Ole Anderson, Who Wears Clogs at March 26, 2014 12:48 PM (32Ze2)

 

*flashes 4 fingers*

Posted by: Arn Anderson at March 26, 2014 08:59 AM (61BD9)

418 412 If you had voted for me you could use your gold coins to buy weed at the grocery store.

Posted by: Ron Paul at March 26, 2014 12:57 PM (Aif/5)


Which actually sounds pretty appealing right now, unfortunately.

Posted by: joncelli at March 26, 2014 08:59 AM (RD7QR)

419 Have a sinking feeling TFG is in for the long haul.
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When the Constitution says two terms how can we really be sure they didn't mean to terms. Like to the end of the term the President wants.

That thing is like really old. Who can read that language anyway?

Posted by: Ezra Klein at March 26, 2014 08:59 AM (78TbK)

420 Which were the "legal" wars? Ever. Throughout time.

Posted by: Beagle at March 26, 2014 09:01 AM (sOtz/)

421 I know it's always been hard to have sons/daughters in service, but with Barky at the helm the problem is I'm not at all convinced he's on our side. I'm at the point where I'm relying on prayer and luck.

Posted by: small town girl in wyoming at March 26, 2014 09:02 AM (ETCgz)

422 People here appear to be laboring under the misapprehension that the DoD's primary purpose is to defend the country and protect its interests. Nothing could be further from the truth. The primary purpose of the Department of Defense is to spend incomprehensible amounts of money on incomprehensibly complex technologies. Major acquisition programs are approved based on, first, the amount of money that will eventually be paid to select defense contractors and two, the future employment prospects of the DoD officials (uniformed or otherwise) in a position to approve the program. Everything else is incidental. First principle of acquisition: every dollar spent is paid to some politician's constituent.

Posted by: VADM (Red) Cuthbert Collingwood (Mentioned in Despatches) at March 26, 2014 09:03 AM (1mtKP)

423 1-I was right when I predicted that it will be 30yrs to recover from electing Obama 2-After reelection, I am bumping that up to 60 years for the world to recover 3-THIS administration is why he founders didn't want foreigners to be eligible for the presidency. And I count us citizen kids raised by communists outside the us (excl military bases) in his bucket. Formatively, he is not an American and we all know it.

Posted by: Tonic Dog at March 26, 2014 09:03 AM (TyCa2)

424

Russia continues to build up on Ukraine's border with more tanks, artillery, and helicopters.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 12:44 PM (ZPrif)

The scary thing is that the White House, the CIA, and State will all be surprised when Putin gives the go order to invade the Ukraine and--later--to intimidate, subvert and suborn other former satellites of the old Soviet Union. The Pentagon knows what's coming, of course, but the higher echelons of the officer corps in all branches are purely careerists now, with all the good ones forced out or soon to go, at a professional dead-end.  They won't speak out, not one.

 

Besides, I've read where no one--no one--is allowed in the President's presence if that person disagrees with the President's opinions, ideas, or assessments even once. As a result, Obama never hears an opposing point of view or a take on things differing from his own. And, thanks to an adoring and subservient media, he never reads, hears, or sees anything that gives him an accurate picture of events or his role in those events. The bubble is impenetrable.

Posted by: troyriser at March 26, 2014 09:04 AM (gNlvW)

425

A year and a half after the election, it's about time we saw some flexibility.

Posted by: Brisco_County at March 26, 2014 09:05 AM (YynD5)

426 Technically, this almost makes sense considering the Navy retiring all of the frigates and shelving half of the guided missile cruisers.

Just kidding. He's neutering the Navy

Posted by: Dick (@DicksTrash) at March 26, 2014 09:06 AM (GrtrJ)

427 236 220. Okay We still need a retired BTC to handle the heavy swearing Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 12:17 PM (ieU06) You date yourself. Me too.

Posted by: Buck Farack, Gentleman Adventurer at March 26, 2014 09:06 AM (Nk6GS)

428 Another fun fact is that drones are ineffective versus a technologically competent country.

The Air Force lost one of it's spendy Global Hawk drones over the Ukraine during the coup there. The Russian military simply used radio jamming to fubar it, and recovered the wreckage.

Top. Men.

Almost as competent as McNamera.


Posted by: Kristophr at March 26, 2014 09:09 AM (c6N69)

429 218 This country has never learned from it's mistakes after a war. After WW1, WW2, Korea, Viet Nam, Gulf War1, and now. Making your priority fighting global warming, creating diversity within the ranks, and cutting weapons systems because you won't cut off the FSA and LIVs isn't going to win any war when your enemy only cares about killing you. Unfortunately the politicians and our senior military "leadership" won't be punished during the next war. Only the grunts, squids, flyers, and jarheads will. And it will be with their blood. Posted by: ExSnipe at March 26, 2014 12:14 PM (LKJt3) Reposted because it bears repeating.

Posted by: rickl at March 26, 2014 09:10 AM (zoehZ)

430 They're claiming they'll just put these funds into the development of the next-gen missile, the Long Range Anti-Ship Cruise Missile, but that is in development hell and isn't even planned to be ready for deployment until 2024. (And you know how schedules usually work out.) We defeated the Japanese Empire in 3 years and 9 months; but, we cannot field a cruise missile in less than 10 years. Only in the DoD would this make sense.

Posted by: VADM (Red) Cuthbert Collingwood (Mentioned in Despatches) at March 26, 2014 09:13 AM (1mtKP)

431 Vice Admiral Michael Rogers is a Chicago native.  Prolly all I need to know about the to be new NSA guy.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 26, 2014 09:13 AM (aUQgu)

432
Unfortunately the politicians and our senior military "leadership" won't be punished during the next war. Only the grunts, squids, flyers, and jarheads will. And it will be with their blood.

Posted by: ExSnipe at March 26, 2014 12:14 PM (LKJt3)

Reposted because it bears repeating.

Posted by: rickl at March 26, 2014 01:10 PM (zoehZ)


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This.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 26, 2014 09:19 AM (aUQgu)

433 President Teetime hates America. That's all you need to know.

Posted by: ToursLepantoVienna at March 26, 2014 09:35 AM (miAG4)

434 There is a way to prevent cuts to these weapons programs. Re-name them after left-wing politicians. Tomahawk missile = Obama missile Hellfire missile = Pelosi missile Javalin anti-tank weapon = Barbra Boxer anti-tank weapon. M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank = M1A1 Axlerod Main Battle Tank repeat ad infinitum

Posted by: Taco Shack at March 26, 2014 09:37 AM (C+qQ0)

435 Now I understand why he received the Nobel Peace" at any price" Prize .

Posted by: DrDrill at March 26, 2014 09:37 AM (sOFZs)

436 OT: Surveillance camera train crash porn (That's thing, isn't it?)

http://tinyurl.com/m7a6ezf


Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 09:44 AM (MNq6o)

437 It seems so preposterous I can't believe it's all on the level. Posted by Ace at 11:35 AM I think that just about sums up the last 5 years.

Posted by: Daybrother at March 26, 2014 09:50 AM (u/g/l)

438 Perhaps he's going for his legacy by making sure the NEXT president looks even worse.

Posted by: sexypig at March 26, 2014 09:54 AM (dZQh7)

439 Savagely cutting the military and advanced weaponry, giving our best to jihad Islam like NASA and abundant amounts of infantry weaponry and our treasury, while trying to disarm American populace too.  While inviting jihad muslims to come to America in millions and accpeting muslim terrorist camps to be set up by the dozens here.  Whatever is Obama up to ? Besides consolidating the MiddleEast under jihad and Russia back to the USSR ? Nahhh, you don't wanna know, it take more than a village idiot to figure this rocket science out.

Posted by: ron n. at March 26, 2014 01:29 PM (c7HxG)

440 When you say "it doesn't make sense" when Obama does something you are making the incorrect assumption that all US Presidents will work in the best interests of the US.

Posted by: SamIam at March 26, 2014 03:00 PM (Lh8u2)

441 Exactly. What else would a communist traitor do?

Posted by: Beverly at March 27, 2014 12:02 AM (oqx7Z)

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