Archive for January, 2009

Keeping Promises: Direct Talks with Iran and the Long Term Affects

January 28th, 2009 by xformed

Well, here we are in Week Two of the Change Presidency, and it’s changing the World alright. Count on it: If President Obama said it in the race to the White House, it will be done or pushed hard.

Guess what? He really will hold direct talks with a nation that declared war on us in 1979.

Just a few days ago, he told the Arab news interviewer that America has too often dictated to other nations. Now, maybe in some warped emotion of “fairness,” President Obama wants to let other nations get their fair share of dictating to the rest of the World. Look at it like “reparations of a diplomatic type.” You know, Iran is all about telling us how we will do things with/for them (basically dictating to the President that he will do as he said and change), while President Obama will set on “pre-conditions.”

I’m really wondering, just who got elected to the most powerful position in the World.

Note: If you read down in the post at Lawhawk, you’ll note the other promise of President Obama mentioned: Getting rid of Missile Defense Systems. Now, just why do you think the Russians have decided to offer to not put offensive weapons in place

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to counter the missile defense systems President Bush was working to place in Eastern Europe, to protect that region from ballistic missiles fired from Iran? Note: Iran has contracted to buy Russian made S-300 anti-aircraft systems, and Russia has been assisting Iran in developing “peaceful” nuclear plants.

Why would Russia back off after all the threats issued to President Bush? My conjecture: It gives President Obama “top cover” to slash the missile defense work out of the entire budget, saying the threat has evaporated. Practically: That leaves us, as well as Allies (which he says he wants to work with on world issues – I guess the MSM asked who he considered allies, and who he considered enemies, right?) out in the cold, while the Russians develop new generations of ballistic missiles and as Iran works towards longer ranged tactical ballistic weapons, and heads towards strategic ones. And Iran has called for the eliminatation Israel from the face of the planet. Words, just words, I guess.

Tell me, if our own President has made the decision to make sure he speficically and exactly fulfills his promises he made on the Campaign trail, and now in his Inauguration Speech, why would he dismiss that other world leaders/spokepeople wold not do the same, or will he pretend he is the only one who will be ture to his own words?

Is the connection all to clear here?

The major power players in the World, Russia, Iran, China and North Korea will see how this Administration handles this “test” and move forward accordingly. The stage has just been set for the rest of the world to govern our every act, from energy consumed (energy policy tied to international Kyoto type treaties) to the use of our military (with the UN dictating to us when and where – count on the military staying in place as a arm of the UN to send troops to issue rations to starving nations, at the US taxpayers expense, but never being given the Rules of Engagement to actually defend anyone, let alone the US, our citizens, or commerce abroad.

Point of education: Major military developments don’t come up to operational use with the snap of anyone’s fingers. They take years of analysis, development, testing and then fielding. Dropping the work on the missile defense will: Cut jobs for skilled American workers (oh, yes…that’s already been called for by the new Secretary of Labor), and all the supporting industries that are involved in the support and supplying functions.

It won’t be long before the World celebrates our new found “domesticability” for them to come around and ask us to “Sit!”, “Lay Down!”, “Stay!” or…the favorite, I’ll predict: “Play DEAD!”

And to toss another log on the fire, wasn’t it Candidate Obama who chastised the Bush Administration for going it alone and not working with our Allies? So, who does he think he is now? God’s gift to a world desiring to be peaceful at the wave of a hand?

Thank you, President Obama, for dooming present and future generations of Americans to serving the whims of dictators and tyrants around the world, while using their money to be subject to the abuse.

In the end of this course of action, President Obama will have turned his back on the countries we have been allied with and try to become allies with those who are our enemies. Net result: We will be alone, very alone in the geo-political world, with our necks bared to the wrath of those who hate anything “Western” and their knifes.

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Technology Tuesday: The Connected (Disconnected) You

January 27th, 2009 by xformed

Wow…just look how we can use digital means to know more about our surroundings:

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Lots of capability of the iPhone to plug you into the world and society, but…read the last paragraph closely….

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The First Test – Irainian Weapons Bound for Gaza

January 25th, 2009 by xformed

Vice-President Biden warned us a test for the President would come. I believe it is here and now. It will define the relationship President Obama forms with the most significant exporter of terror. It is a big deal, regardless of how small it appears.

Players: Iran, Israel, the US Navy, Hamas, Egypt, and the Gulf States. Toss in the pirates in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea area, if you like. It’s a very complicated matter, not for the faint at heart, or the international affairs inexperienced crowd (I count both the President and the Secretary in that group, and I don’t trust the judgment of Vice President Biden in such issues – he’s been wrong far too often)

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A “merchant” ship, chock full of weapons, ranging from small arms and explosives, to rockets and rocket launchers, in plain view, and in “secret” welded shut compartments, as detected by the USCG boarding teams that ride US ships in the Indian Ocean region to provide the specific skill of “Visit Boarding Search and Seizure” (VBSS), making sure all the maritime legal rules are met.

So, here we have it: We now are in control of the future of this vessel, which, as noted in the article sailed under one name, and later changed it (nothing to hide…). The Navy shadowed it, and now controls it. It has weaponry bound for the Hamas players, who are wantonly, and with evil intent, killing Israelis, mostly civilians, but happier, I’m sure to kill the IDF soldiers, too. We, as a Nation have always been allied with Israel, however, President Obama’s first ever phone call to a foreign leader was to President Abbas, of the Palestinians authority of Gaza.

Who;’s side will we be on? To let the ship proceed to it’s destination is to sentence more Israelis to death, with full knowledge of this fact. To hold it, means we need to take it to a neutral port and have the contraband offloaded. That triggers the second international issue, as noted in the article: Where?

Like the confrontation with Libya in 1986, Europe, who was under threat of attack by Khadaffi, except for Italy, stopped all support for US forces involved in the Freedom of Navigation operations. Now, Egypt, a Muslim nation, who doesn’t want the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians to go on is still…part of the Muslims. To let their port be used makes them look like they are siding with the “Occupiers.” They will most likely decline a port facility. The Gulf Nations, are but a hop, skip and a short-range tactical missile (SCUD like weapons) from the originator of the shipment, Iran. Even if they disagree with Iran’s involvement, they are within the “weapons envelope” of that nation. Other countries? Aden, Yemen, Sudan? Basically lawless nations, in the best of cases, but in the worst, radicalized Muslim states.

So, for the new administration, via proxies and a maritime issue, President Obama can now see if he’s got the guts to step onto the World’s stage.

Options: “Talk to them.” Didn’t work for Jimmy Carter. Didn’t work, in the long run for Bill Clinton. Sanctions? At least delayed some of it for both Bushs. Strongly worded letters? Good luck. President Ahmadinejad could lose his head or be hanged from a construction crane or be stoned, as so ordered by the mullahs. Do you think a personal phone call from President Obama has any leverage?

I think the Iraian leadership is having a big party right now, pre-celebrating their success of shoving weapons meant to directly be used in a conflict against our ally and we will not have the courage to take the difficult, step to stop it.

I predict President Obama will, via the media, but not directly in public, say this behavior is unacceptable, then and we’ll count on the Iranians seeing a new page has been turned, so we’ll let this count a “Strike One.” The Navy will be ordered to pull the VBSS teams off and allow the ship to continue on it’s voyage.

He’ll call it “diplomacy.” I call it “gutless.”Hide and Seek

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Technology Tuesday – Bonus for iPod Users – Part II!

January 20th, 2009 by xformed

So, the return of (maybe) a normal blogging schedule!

Anyhow…speaking of the “law of unintended consequences,” some may feel as though their heads will explode, but on the other hand, some will see the device fit for music and pictures has another value with the creation of a new app, BulletFlight

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Go Ahead, Throw Your Shoes at a World Leader…

January 19th, 2009 by xformed

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Between natural, ingrained tolerance of expressing opposing views, to the ACLU, he’d have been on all the morning talk shoes and most likely be given a job at MSNBC, CNN, or nay other lefty MSM outlet.

Not so when you are outside of the “mean” (Thank you Michelle Obama) nation of the USA….

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A "Blogging General?"

January 18th, 2009 by xformed

After all the fits and starts and threats and non-guidance for Army personnel blogging, finally, a 2 star steps up to the plate. Half Past Dead release

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“There are some concerns by some people, based on the nature of our hierarchical organization, who feel this is inappropriate — going around the chain of command,” Major General Michael Oates, the commander of the Army’s Task Force Mountain, tells Danger Room. “It is not in fact going around the chain of command; it allows us to connect to the chain of command in ways we have not been able to experience before.”

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Very, Very "Lexable…"

January 18th, 2009 by xformed

Hmmm…can fly over land or water, has a more affordable price tag (no gear option, I think was $113K), two seats, truck-able, too. What’s not for Neptunus Lex Romero trailer to like about it, or some of the rest of us, too, with a little hankering for fun in a VFR world on a “conservative” budget?

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and that’s much less expensive. Stuck with flying by eyeball and below 10KFt at a max of 120 kts! Oh, yeah…another “Lex” feature: Auto-fold wings!Saw the article n the new wired.Drawbacks? Well, an F-16 “driver” is part of the design team…which may be a plus for some others.

Get busy filling his tip jar, so we might vie for an opportunity to be a “guest” in the right seat..Just read about this in the Wired Magazine

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You, Too, Can Be a Speech Writer!

January 16th, 2009 by xformed

Hurry up…you only have a few days left to submit your work to “The Office of the President Elect!”

Short on time? Try this speech writing aid!

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Windows 7? Yep,it's running

January 13th, 2009 by xformed

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Managed to grab my copies of both the 32 and 64 bit betas of Windows 7. Decided to put the 64-bit on the extra HD in the secondary system, which is a healthy machine in its own right.

Went on smooth as silk and left me with a dual boot option on startup of the machine.

Avira Anti-Virus (free, btw) went right on, as did Adaware 2008 (the free version, too). Looking for a free and capable firewall. Comodo looks like it went on, but the last message on the install says “Rollback Complete” and that sounds like it backed itself off at the end. Can’t find it on the programs list…so no go right now.

The screen is nice. Translucent edges on the windows frames and the desktop picture is very sharp.

More later as I play.

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2012? No…2029 is looking bad

January 13th, 2009 by xformed

The hype is now is the end of mankind is coming in 2012, based on the fact that that’s the last day listed on the Mayan calender. You know, sometimes you just have to work with finite boundaries and it means nothing more than that’s all the space you have to work on.

Things imitating art may be more of an issue than we think in reality: Apophis is coming.

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