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1. #1
   On May 24th, 2009 at 11:46 pm, AlohaGuy said:

   When notified of the test, Obama immediately phoned Bill Gates…

2. #2
   On May 24th, 2009 at 11:51 pm, William Amos said:

   North Korean is looking for a US bailout from Obama.

3. #3
   On May 25th, 2009 at 12:05 am, William Amos said:

   CNN reported this as an Earthquake almost 2 hours ago

4. #4
   On May 25th, 2009 at 12:11 am, Joy said:

   Does Anyone here think they would have done this if Dubya and Cheney were still in office?

   No way… Notice the ramping up of military threats from many countries in just a few short months.

   Not to worry though, cuz hussein’s going to heal it all with his oratory. Has the tide begun to receed yet? Are all the childrens of every country flying kites yet?

5. #5
   On May 25th, 2009 at 12:13 am, txvet2 said:

   I wonder which of our enemies will take out a U.S. city first – N Korea, Iran, or a terrorist who snuck in from Mexico. In any event, it’ll be Bush’s fault.

6. #6
   On May 25th, 2009 at 12:13 am, ajmontana said:

   USGS has the EQ (cough) at 4.7 magnitude.

7. #7
   On May 25th, 2009 at 12:13 am, right_on said:

   What’s to worry about? Bush had been implementing Obama’s “let’s talk” agenda for the past 8 years (without knowing it was Obama’s plan), proving to all statists that diplomacy works. He also took NK off the state sponsors of terror list, and given them food and money to boot, trusting their previously untrustworthy word that they would behave.

   Surely no right minded individual sees this nuclear test as provocative? No. This modern socialist country has a lot in common with the United States, and don’t forget, as in the case of Iran’s “peaceful” nuclear program, they have no hostile intentions……..

   Socialist countries in Europe and Asia, get peace through military intimidation.

   Imperialistic Islamic countries get peace through military intimidation, and threats of terrorism, and violence.

   Socialist America believes peace is attainable by disarming, diplomacy, duplicity, and the willing suspension of disbelief.

   Utopia is here……….r-i-i-i-g-h-t!

8. #8
   On May 25th, 2009 at 12:19 am, Joy said:

   This is not about NK, but this WAY COOL Touch Table shows a time lapse of Google Earth showing how Iran literally COVERED up two huge nuke facilities with dirt so that you can’t even tell they’re there anymore. It’s a couple of minutes into the demonstration.

   But they’re not hiding anything of course…

9. #9
   On May 25th, 2009 at 12:20 am, no2pcbs1 said:

   the teleprompter is speechless and zero is as well.

10. #10
    On May 25th, 2009 at 12:31 am, William Amos said:

    How long till the left screams “Fear mongering” ?

    Will Nancy Pelosi still distrust the CIA ?

11. #11
    On May 25th, 2009 at 12:35 am, William Amos said:

    Also remember it is George Bush that pushed Korea to do this during Obama’s Presidency/
    Moonbats everywhere.

12. #12
    On May 25th, 2009 at 12:40 am, Stillwaiting said:

    On May 25th, 2009 at 12:11 am, Joy said:

    Yes, I think NK would have done it anyway. Their dear leader is crazier than ours.

13. #13
    On May 25th, 2009 at 12:44 am, William Amos said:

    Just a reminder of what US leader went to Hiroshima receintly to apologize for A Bomb attack

14. #14
    On May 25th, 2009 at 1:03 am, amerpun said:

    Yonhap says they test-fired missiles, too.

15. #15
    On May 25th, 2009 at 1:11 am, JHSII said:

    Time for a Strongly Worded Letter!!

16. #16
    On May 25th, 2009 at 1:12 am, William Amos said:

    AP News now carrying the Missile launch story as well

17. #17
    On May 25th, 2009 at 1:24 am, William Amos said:

    Nancy Pelosi in China

    U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, long a fierce critic of Beijing, toured China’s financial center of Shanghai on Monday on a visit meant to highlight common goals in promoting clean energy to fight climate change.

    Pelosi kept silent on human rights issues — at least in public. Her visit comes a week ahead of the 20th anniversary of the 1989 crackdown on the Tiananmen Square democracy movement.

    The Democrat from California arrived Sunday accompanied by a delegation of four Democrats and one Republican, all members of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

    “The urgency of the global climate crisis requires that critical choices be made now that are bold and based on the clearest understanding of how to achieve our goals of preserving the planet and protecting the health of the world’s people,” Pelosi said in a statement.

    “Climate change provides a crucial opportunity for dialogue between our two nations,” she said.

18. #18
    On May 25th, 2009 at 1:29 am, Speakup said:

    I’ll bet our Pres. is just fit to be tied.

    There’ll be sharp words in the morning, that’ll show that truculent Kimmie.

19. #19
    On May 25th, 2009 at 1:34 am, torabora said:

    When in trouble, when in doubt

    Run in circles, scream and shout!

20. #20
    On May 25th, 2009 at 1:41 am, rowsdower said:

    Can’t I just eat my waffle?

21. #21
    On May 25th, 2009 at 2:02 am, thelcabroadside said:

    First image of Kim Jong-il post nuke test:

    http://thelcabroadside.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/north-korea-nuke-test-nah-nah-na-boo-boo/

22. #22
    On May 25th, 2009 at 2:02 am, a crapweasel said:

    I blame this on GITMO. /rolleyes

23. #23
    On May 25th, 2009 at 2:04 am, Joy said:

    Stillwaiting – So you think it was just a coincidence that they fired their test missile just weeks after Dubya left office? Could be. It was only 2 months after hussein was sworn in.

    I believe they’ve had that missile ready to test for a while and waited to get a new Pres before testing it. But I could be wrong. Just seems uncanny that they would test it so quickly after hussein was sworn in and while he was bowing to the saudi king.

24. #24
    On May 25th, 2009 at 2:07 am, Joy said:

    On May 25th, 2009 at 1:11 am, JHSII said:
    Time for a Strongly Worded Letter!!

    hussein: Now, uh… this is serious, uh… Swift action will be taken, um, and we’re going to TALK! We’ll go to the UN and TALK! You’ll be sorry!

25. #25
    On May 25th, 2009 at 2:12 am, Stillwaiting said:

    Hi Joy,
    You could be right, but I don’t remember that little nut being very respectful towards any US administration. Their 1st nuke test took place on Dubya’s watch. I wouldn’t mind one more test in NK if it took place on Kim Jong-il’s head.

26. #26
    On May 25th, 2009 at 2:15 am, conservative in europe said:

    Joy,

    I think the NK’s are soulless and nuts. They would have tested a nuke the first chance they got. It wouldn’t matter who was in office.

    Based on what I saw, Bush/Cheney would have done nothing and I think Right_On’s assessment is correct.

    NK has taken a cue from Iran and is using the threat of Nukes as leverage for money. They will test, Obama/Clinton will panic, demand more talks and the NK’s will agree to come back to the table in exchange for financial aid – which they will immediately dump in to further nuclear research. The NK’s have done it with us since Bill Clinton caved to them the first time just like Iran has been doing it with the Europeans for the last 10 years.

    Reagan would have figured out a way to cut them off at the knees. I don’t think any Administration since has had the huevos to do the right thing here..

27. #27
    On May 25th, 2009 at 3:39 am, William Amos said:

    Remember who Obama’s prime National Security Advisor is

    3. “Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along and not bothering.”

28. #28
    On May 25th, 2009 at 3:48 am, ajmontana said:

    4.5 magnitude = 5100 kilotons of TNT or an average Tornado, (total energy)
    5.0 = 32,000 kilotons or the Nagasaki atomic bomb
    Hiroshima was 15 kilotons.
    Gives one an idea of what their testing.

    Hey Odopey, this isnt a party popper!

29. #29
    On May 25th, 2009 at 4:01 am, tbear44 said:

    Kimmy won’t be using a nuke. He is just showing his terror org buddies that his nukes do indeed work. After he makes a sale he can sit back and laugh while it gets lit off someplace. I doubt it will be where I live in Western Alaska, but I am nervous anyway because if that little tin-pot dictator does put one on a missle it might just fall in my backyard.

30. #30
    On May 25th, 2009 at 4:03 am, ajmontana said:

    4.7 magnitude is what the USGS measured in N. Korea.

31. #31
    On May 25th, 2009 at 4:06 am, tbear44 said:

    I wish Gene Hackman was out in the Pacific commanding a nuclear sub right now.

32. #32
    On May 25th, 2009 at 4:13 am, a crapweasel said:

    So I wonder how Newsweek going to spin this? Will it be for civilian use as well?

33. #33
    On May 25th, 2009 at 4:15 am, tbear44 said:

    Oblama: “Better watch out! I’m gonna sic the U.N. on you!”

34. #34
    On May 25th, 2009 at 4:17 am, tbear44 said:

    Or better yet: “Don’t mess with Joe!”

35. #35
    On May 25th, 2009 at 4:30 am, fred5676 said:

    On May 25th, 2009 at 1:24 am, William Amos said:
    Nancy Pelosi in China
    …
    to fight climate change.
    …..
    House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

    Make up your mind, Congress! Is it Global Warming or just Climate Change?? If you can’t decide what your name is, do you really think you know enough to squander a trillion dollars on it?

36. #36
    On May 25th, 2009 at 5:34 am, slp said:

    On May 25th, 2009 at 1:11 am, JHSII said:

    Time for a Strongly Worded Letter!!

    Absolutely, we must send Kim a Strongly Worded Letter.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0hk9vaqWUg

37. #37
    On May 25th, 2009 at 6:07 am, herself said:

    Isn’t Obama overreacting? I thought it would be merely another distraction for him. Now he has to figure out which pinkie to slap with what gauge of well cooked wet noodle.

    {+_+}

38. #38
    On May 25th, 2009 at 6:31 am, jamesgreenidge said:

    Remember the valiant fallen.

    We shouldn’t jump prematurely just because N. Korea or Iran shoots off a missile. A missile by itself is just an empty truck that’d cause very little damage smacking the ground; it’s their damn WARHEADS that we have to worry about — which DON’T need a missile to take them anywhere! These dictators are smarter than people give credit for, even that clown in Iran! Why fire a missile that can easily be traced back to you when you could slip Al Quada or whoever a warhead under the table to sneak into your country. No finger — no blame — no retaliation. I’d lay a million dollars this is exactly how the Iran dic plans to level Tel Viv and how Al Quada wants to level NY. THIS is the real threat, NOT the missiles!

    James Greenidge
    Queens, New York

39. #39
    On May 25th, 2009 at 7:13 am, Tazed and Confused said:

    Let’s talk… without preconditions…

    Nancy will be right over…

40. #40
    On May 25th, 2009 at 7:29 am, DanME said:

    I just love it. Everyone around the world is sticking their finger in Obama’s eyeball. His inexperience is being tested.
    Israel, Russia, N. Korea, Iran, even Europe is poking their finger in his eye.

41. #41
    On May 25th, 2009 at 7:53 am, ThatSamIAm said:

    Obama, like Carter and every other cowardly weak socialist, will not do anything. He will hope someone else stands up and does something. The USA wll be France-light by the end of Obama’s first term.

    There has never been a less honorable president going to Arlington on a Memorial Day than B.H. Obama. You can almost hear our fallen soldiers turning over in their graves. He dishonors the life they gave to our country with his policy and his anti-American agenda.

42. #42
    On May 25th, 2009 at 8:06 am, huhwhat said:

    ThatSamIAm,

    Amen Brother, Amen.

43. #43
    On May 25th, 2009 at 8:18 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    On this Memorial Day I feel so safe for my Country, my Children and Grandchildren now that President Obama is “concerned”. I feel all warm and fuzzy over his appeal to the international community; is that the same international community that is suppose to bring pressure on Iran or do we wait for another?
    Perhaps I am too cynical so let us make another agreement with “Dear Leader” (North Korea’s-not ours) and provide them with some more aid and perhaps this time they will not be lying. If worse come to worse I am sure the international community will step up to help.

    God Bess our Sacred Dead: I fear the cards are aligned for more in the interest of the international community. Allah Akbar and All Power to the Soviet Mr. President.

44. #44
    On May 25th, 2009 at 8:38 am, jangar said:

    We have been and will continue working with our allies and partners in the Six-Party Talks as well as other members of the U.N. Security Council in the days ahead.

    Yawn…business as usual.

45. #45
    On May 25th, 2009 at 8:41 am, GraniteMan said:

    We have been and will continue working with our allies and partners in the Six-Party Talks

    Did O clear this with Joe? I distinctly remember Joe saying what a bad idea 6 party talks were (he said this in chorus with House and Senate plus media).

46. #46
    On May 25th, 2009 at 8:43 am, jangar said:

    Obama will not oppose Il’s agenda, he agrees with too many of the principles (with exception of nuclear weapons, of course).

47. #47
    On May 25th, 2009 at 9:08 am, Boomer said:

    Not to worry folks I’m sure “dear leader” and thunder thighs will slap the renegade communist nation with a strongly worded rolled up piece of paper along with his best Mussolini stance.

    ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE (mo-lone lah-veh) Translation: Come and take them!

48. #48
    On May 25th, 2009 at 9:09 am, zorro said:

    Our version of dear leader: “…Such provocations will only serve to deepen North Korea’s isolation. It will not find international acceptance unless it abandons its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery.

    North Korea wants international acceptance? I thought they wanted to conquer South Korea and wipe out Japan…

49. #49
    On May 25th, 2009 at 9:13 am, rplatt said:

    While Russia rebuilds its military; North Korea detonates nuclear devices and fires more medium range missiles; and, Iran prepares its nuclear facilities and strategic missile systems; Obama cancels the F-22 project, stops the missile defense project and reduces overall military spending. Obama is right, there’ll be no war . . . our enemies will simply walk across our borders and assume control of the country and our weak, ill prepared military will have no choice but to yield. This is a sad and dangerous time for the Republic.

50. #50
    On May 25th, 2009 at 9:18 am, ajmontana said:

    “It’s Gitmo’s fault”

51. #51
    On May 25th, 2009 at 9:19 am, corona said:

    So, tell me : just how far does North Korea have to deepen into isolation until it hits bottom?

52. #52
    On May 25th, 2009 at 9:24 am, WarEagle82 said:

    Wait! I thought Clinton and Carter resolved this problem years ago. It must be Bush and those evil Neo-cons at it again provoking the peace loving people of the DPRK.

    Thank God we now have a strong, visionary, multicultural leader with truly excellent teleprompter skills who can unite the world and restore American credibility. Please, “Dear Leader,” make that other “Dear Leader” love us before he nukes us.

    That warm sensation you feel may in fact be the thermal radiation from all those peaceful centrifuges in Iran spinning up…

53. #53
    On May 25th, 2009 at 9:26 am, Savage24 said:

    That ding dong Biden was right, Obama would be tested within six months. Well just about every despot in the world is giving it a try, and guess what, the despots are winning. But not to worry, Obama is in great concern.

54. #54
    On May 25th, 2009 at 9:29 am, jsmiddleton4 said:

    Maybe Israel will attack North Korea for us too?

55. #55
    On May 25th, 2009 at 9:33 am, Patronedheart said:

    All politics aside…
    Why can’t America just show the North Koreans how to successfully conduct a nuclear missle “test”? Lead by example, I always say…
    Oh I forgot…we don’t have anybody in congress who knows how (aka: has the cajones) to push that little red button anymore.
    Seems kinda like a sherrif who’s scared of his own gun to me.

56. #56
    On May 25th, 2009 at 9:37 am, conservative in europe said:

    On May 25th, 2009 at 9:19 am, corona said:

    So, tell me : just how far does North Korea have to deepen into isolation until it hits bottom?

    They will keep going until China tells them to stop. China controls what NK does. My theory is that China sees Obama devaluing the dollar faster than the Italian Lira in the ’70′s and, with the PRC’s economy and political control of the US tied in to it’s ownership of most of our debt, they needed to distract Blue Lips from his money game.

    This would subvert him from his real goal of bringing Socialism to the US, devaluing the debt owned by China and reducing American spending power (the only true power over China we have left) to the point that China’s economy suffers.

    China could do the same by sending a ship to Taiwan but, this way, they don’t loose face – leaving them open for more trade.

    The Chinese think in terms of Generations, not months or years. They were buying our debt back in the ’80′s very quietly through straw companies. The PRC’s have positioned themselves so that their brand of Communism (now totalitarian psuedo-CapitalCommunism) is deeply tied to our brand of Capitalism. Strange as it seems – a Democrat led move to the left hurts the ChiComs. They know it. So, they use NK as a distraction to slow Obama’s pace.

    I could be completely wrong on this but it sure seems reasonable to think.

57. #57
    On May 25th, 2009 at 10:08 am, av8tr said:

    This is just playing out like a lousy scirpt to a movie that bombs.(No pun intended.)It would be stupid-funny, like an Airplane movie, but too much is at stake.

    Maybe this will make it to the UN Debate Society. And as mentioned before, a strongly worded letter, followed by a sharp rebuke from the White house, can be expected. In addition to “concern” our Dear Leader will be “troubled” by their Dear Leader’s actions, at which point sanctions will be threatened, followed by another strongly worded letter or two.

    For an advanced view of how this goes, just look at UN vs Saddam Hussein 1993-2003. In the end, it’s Bush,s fault. Both of them.

    Barry’s white house is amateur hour. Someone gotta hook?

58. #58
    On May 25th, 2009 at 10:16 am, BOB said:

    On May 25th, 2009 at 9:13 am, rplatt said:
    While Russia rebuilds its military; North Korea detonates nuclear devices and fires more medium range missiles; and, Iran prepares its nuclear facilities and strategic missile systems; Obama cancels the F-22 project, stops the missile defense project and reduces overall military spending. Obama is right, there’ll be no war . . . our enemies will simply walk across our borders and assume control of the country and our weak, ill prepared military will have no choice but to yield. This is a sad and dangerous time for the Republic.

    Yep, they’ll walk right in and take the country from Mexico and turn into a Socialist/Communist place.

    Or, they can just hang loose while our Dear Leader turns it into the same thing.

    Either way, we’re screwed.

59. #59
    On May 25th, 2009 at 10:20 am, granite said:

    This excerpt from a post the other day at Atlas Shrugs might be a very good distillation of the difference in worldviews between conservatives and statists/existentialists/collectivists.
    Worth the read:

    UPDATE: And Atlas reader Dennis M sent this from a novel by Terry Goodkind:

    We do not fight for land. We are loyal to an ideal-an ideal of liberty wherever man lives. We do not guard territory, bleed for a piece of dirt. We don’t fight because we love violence. We fight for our freedom as individuals to live our own lives, to pursue our own survival, our own happiness.

    Your unconditional rejection of violence makes you smugly think of yourselves as noble, as enlightened, but in reality it is nothing less than abject moral capitulation to evil. Unconditional rejection of self defense, because you think it’s a supposed surrender to violence, leaves you no resort but begging for mercy or offering appeasement.

    Evil grants no mercy, and to attempt to appease it is nothing more than a piecemeal surrender to it. Surrender to evil is slavery at best, death at worst. thus your unconditional rejection of violence is really nothing more than embracing death as preferable to life.

    You will achieve what you embrace.

    The right, the absolute necessity, of vengeance against anyone who initiates force against you is fundamental to survival. The morality of a people’s self-defense is in it’s defense of each individual’s right to life. It’s an intolerance to violence made real by an unwavering willingness to crush any who would launch violence against you. The unconditional determination to destroy any who would initiate force against you is an exaltation of the value of life. Refusing to surrender your life to any thug or tyrant who lays claim to it is in fact embracing life itself.

    If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner.

    If, hoping to appease it, you willingly compromise with unrepentant evil, you only allow such evil to sink it’s fangs into you; from that day on its venom will course through your veins until it finally kills you.

    Compromising with murderers grants them moral equivalence where none can rightly exist. moral equivalence says that you are no better than they; therefore their belief-that they should be able to torture, rape, or murder you-is just as morally valid as your view-that you have the right to live free of their violence. Moral compromise rejects the concept of right and wrong. It says that everyone is equal, all desires are equally valid, all action is equally valid, so everyone should compromise to get along.

    Where could you compromise with those who torture, rape and murder people? In the number of days a week you will be tortured? In the number of men to be allowed to rape your loved ones? In how many of your family are to be murdered?

    No moral equivalence exists in that situation, nor can it exist, so there can be no compromise, only suicide.

    To even suggest compromise can exist with such men is to sanction murder.

    Many teach that saying someone is evil is prejudiced thinking. it’s a way of belittling someone already in pain for some reason. Such people must be embraced and taught to shed their fears of their fellow man and then they will not strike out in violent ways.

    They are dangerous to everyone because they embrace evil with their teachings. In so doing, in trying to be kind, to be unselfish, in trying to be nonjudgmental, you allow evil to become far more powerful than it otherwise would. you refuse to see evil, and so you welcome it among you. You allow it to exist. you give it power over you. You are a people who have welcomed death and refused to denounce it.

    You are an empire naked to the shadow of evil.

    These people think of themselves as enlightened, as above violence. They are not enlightened; they are merely slaves awaiting a master, victims awaiting killers.

60. #60
    On May 25th, 2009 at 10:22 am, ajmontana said:

    Earthquake Details
    Magnitude 4.7
    Date-Time Monday, May 25, 2009 at 00:54:43 UTC
    Monday, May 25, 2009 at 09:54:43 AM at epicenter
    Around 9a.m est

    Location 41.306°N, 129.029°E
    Depth 0 km (~0 mile) set by location program
    Region NORTH KOREA
    Distances 75 km (45 miles) NNW of Kimchaek, North Korea
    95 km (60 miles) SW of Chongjin, North Korea
    180 km (110 miles) SSW of Yanji, Jilin, China
    380 km (235 miles) NE of PYONGYANG, North Korea

    Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 3.8 km (2.4 miles); depth fixed by location program
    Parameters NST= 75, Nph= 75, Dmin=371.4 km, Rmss=0.57 sec, Gp= 72°,
    M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=A
    Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

    Event ID us2009hbaf

61. #61
    On May 25th, 2009 at 10:31 am, Flyoverman said:

    I do not understand all these posts against our beloved President.

    We, like he, are all proud citizens of the world. Because we are, we have to redouble our efforts to understand how the North Koreans could have the attitudes they have about the rest of the world.

    This proves we must engage them in a dialog and discover how the previous administration could have embittered them so much to do what the did today. The people of North Korea are not threatening us, they are crying out to us. They are troubled and in pain, and we must reach out and do what we can to turn them to more peaceful attitudes.

    So how did I do on my progressive apologist impresssion?

    And now for my actual comment. I am pleased this happened on Memorial Day. This reminds us that when we choose to fight somewhere like we did in Korea in 1950, if we commit the flag and the blood of our children then let’s do what’s needed to win the d**n thing and still not be dealing with it 53 years later!

62. #62
    On May 25th, 2009 at 10:32 am, happyscrapper said:

    On May 25th, 2009 at 9:29 am, jsmiddleton4 said:
    Maybe Israel will attack North Korea for us too?

    I was thinking along those lines myself. But my solution to this problem is simple. We nuke them first. Not the whole country…just their nuclear facilities and, of course, the city that houses their “government”. No government at all is better than what those people have now. There. Problem solved.

63. #63
    On May 25th, 2009 at 10:39 am, txvet2 said:

    On May 25th, 2009 at 10:20 am, granite said:

    That does put the stupidity of the average liberal right up there in front, doesn’t it? No wonder there’s no ILMC, OMU, or Chap on here today defending NK’s “right” to blow us up.

64. #64
    On May 25th, 2009 at 10:47 am, txvet2 said:

    And naturally the world responds swiftly and decisively – with more chin music.

65. #65
    On May 25th, 2009 at 10:48 am, conservative in europe said:

    Txvet2,

    Give ‘em time. The Trolls will come up with an excuse to defend NK and Blue Lips on this..

66. #66
    On May 25th, 2009 at 10:49 am, gco said:

    On May 25th, 2009 at 4:01 am, tbear44 said:
    Kimmy won’t be using a nuke. He is just showing his terror org buddies that his nukes do indeed work.

    Yep. Advertising.

67. #67
    On May 25th, 2009 at 10:51 am, backwoods conservative said:

    I think we should calmly and quietly inform North Korea that we intend to resume testing our nuclear weapons. Since they obviously don’t mind using their territory for a testing ground, we shall test our weapons there also. Our tests will be above ground.

68. #68
    On May 25th, 2009 at 10:57 am, ajmontana said:

    Hasn’t taken long Bob Beckle and Jeckle Blaming President Bush for this…..
    Ha, What a CRAPWEASEL Beckle is. geeze, first words BAM! directed at the former admin.
    These whiners are really starting to make me sick.

69. #69
    On May 25th, 2009 at 10:58 am, MrOlympia said:

    Kimmie is dissin our BroBama.

    Maybe Hussein The Community Organizer should get some advice from the southside Chicago gangs about how they perceive weakness. Maybe he would then start to understand that “dialogue” isn’t much of a strategy.

70. #70
    On May 25th, 2009 at 11:01 am, ajmontana said:

    and he speaks their language MrOlympia. fo’ shizzle, yo.

71. #71
    On May 25th, 2009 at 11:04 am, BOB said:

    On May 25th, 2009 at 10:32 am, happyscrapper said:
    On May 25th, 2009 at 9:29 am, jsmiddleton4 said:
    Maybe Israel will attack North Korea for us too?
    I was thinking along those lines myself. But my solution to this problem is simple. We nuke them first. Not the whole country…just their nuclear facilities and, of course, the city that houses their “government”. No government at all is better than what those people have now. There. Problem solved.

    Your last sentence hits really close to US.

72. #72
    On May 25th, 2009 at 11:05 am, b-cat said:

    What’s all the hubbub? They are just a peaceful socialist state exercising their right to be a nuclear state, you know, for peaceful purposes.

    Is that about it, libs?

73. #73
    On May 25th, 2009 at 11:06 am, Ragspierre said:

    It is REALLY important to remember who did and did not call this accurately.

    John Bolton = right, prescient, dead-on

    All Leftists = wrong, blind, delusional

    It is amazing that a group of people can be so consistently WRONG, so publicly, and retain the least credibility.

74. #74
    On May 25th, 2009 at 11:06 am, Boomer said:

    Happyscrapper #62 being an old Strategic Air Command (SAC) guy having pulled the old SAC Alert of the bad old days of the Cold War I feel the same way. With some of the low yield precision nuclear munitions we have in the US inventory I’m sure we could eliminate the threat rather handily if we had someone with the intestinal fortitude give the order to finally put an end to this threat we have failed to eliminate since the cease fire was signed with this rouge regime in 1953. It also wouldn’t hurt to do the same with Iran’s facilities at the same time. To me it is a better alternative than watching a US city vaporize in the very near future.

    ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE (mo-lone lah-veh) Translation: Come and take them!

75. #75
    On May 25th, 2009 at 11:16 am, sonofdy said:

    Great, the most insane wacked out leader in the world has working nukes.

    Wonderfull.

76. #76
    On May 25th, 2009 at 11:17 am, sonofdy said:

    No, the otherone, North Koreas leader. Had to clarifiy.

77. #77
    On May 25th, 2009 at 11:21 am, b-cat said:

    On May 25th, 2009 at 11:16 am, sonofdy said:
    Great, the most insane wacked out leader in the world has working nukes.

    The one that worries me is Eichmanndidajob. The prospect of his country dying under a mushroom cloud is no deterrent. He wants to bring about the end times and to do that there must be mass death.

    He will have nukes soon.

78. #78
    On May 25th, 2009 at 11:21 am, BlameAmericaLast said:

    Hmmm…maybe I need to get out of CA and start heading east.

79. #79
    On May 25th, 2009 at 11:22 am, backwoods conservative said:

    the most insane wacked out leader in the world

    Obama?

80. #80
    On May 25th, 2009 at 11:26 am, ajmontana said:

    Odopeys just the Puppet, doesn’t qualify.

81. #81
    On May 25th, 2009 at 11:33 am, Ragspierre said:

    John Bolton

    “The curtain is about to rise again on the long-running nuclear tragicomedy, “North Korea Outwits the United States.” Despite Kim Jong Il’s explicit threats of another nuclear test, U.S. Special Envoy Stephen Bosworth said last week that the Obama administration is “relatively relaxed” and that “there is not a sense of crisis.” They’re certainly smiling in Pyongyang.“

    The Huffington Post

    Today, Bolton chose to growl at the old, but reliable, enemy of North Korea. This is a particularly vintage move when one considers North Korea already tried to strike fear into the hearts of Americans last month when they tested a missile that fizzled and fell into the ocean 1,300 miles off the east coast of Japan. Bolton’s stance is pretty brave because his frenzied ideology flies in the face of scholarly counsel.

    Experts on North Korea say Kim Jong-il’s motives center around receiving aid, and fear of the United States, since they bombed his country during the Korean War. B. R. Myers, a researcher of North Korean ideology and propaganda at Dongseo University, recommends America ignore Kim.

82. #82
    On May 25th, 2009 at 11:36 am, jsr said:

    Text of statement by President Barack Obama on nuclear and short-range missile tests conducted by North Korea.

    I think we should be giving Obama more credit for this strongly worded rebuke. After all, the North Koreans haven’t had any more nuclear or missile tests is at least 12 hours.

83. #83
    On May 25th, 2009 at 11:37 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    On May 25th, 2009 at 10:48 am, conservative in europe said:

    Txvet2,

    Give ‘em time. The Trolls will come up with an excuse to defend NK and Blue Lips on this..

    Bush, Chaney, Rove did it to help Haliburton (just in case the trolls are off today).

    Blue Lips have anything to say about our Bill of Negative Rights today?

84. #84
    On May 25th, 2009 at 11:53 am, Ragspierre said:

    North Korea’s decision to detonate a nuclear device underground Monday caught the United States by surprise, officials said.

    “They didn’t give us any warning whatsoever,” one senior U.S. intelligence official who works on North Korean issues told FOX News.

    Another official told Reuters that North Korea gave less than an hour’s notice to the United States that it would carry out the test.

    The official said the communist country made “no demands,” and passed on the message that it would carry out the test through diplomats at the United Nations in New York City.

    The senior intelligence official said that even after the demonstration at the Punggye nuclear test site, the only evidence of activity that analysts could see in aerial imagery was a “couple of spoil sites,” or large holes.

    “We saw some activity” at Punggye prior to the test, the official said. But the activity was not as intense as that which normally precedes a detonation, so few anticipated such an action at this time. “They are really good at hiding things from us.”

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/25/north-korean-nuclear-test-catches-surprise/

    Oh, yeah. THE ONE is making the US safer every day, in every way…

85. #85
    On May 25th, 2009 at 11:54 am, GladzKravtz said:

    Nothing will be done to stop this…. Obama, the UN, Japan….blah blah blah..only words.

    Actually speaking TO myself as I say, we need to be prepared to take care of ourselves should the day arrive….

86. #86
    On May 25th, 2009 at 11:59 am, ajmontana said:

    ROFL

    From Wiki just for kicks…

    Grave Concern
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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    “Grave Concern”

    Single by Powderfinger
    from the album Parables for Wooden Ears
    Released 1994
    Format CD Single
    Genre Rock
    Length 4:46
    Label Polydor
    Writer(s) Bernard Fanning
    Powderfinger singles chronology
    “Tail”
    (1994) “Grave Concern”
    (1994) “Save Your Skin”
    (1994)

    “Grave Concern” is the second single by Powderfinger from their debut album Parables for Wooden Ears.

    [edit] Track listing
    “Grave Concern” and “Blind to Reason” music by Powderfinger. Lyrics by Bernard Fanning. “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” lyrics and music by George Harrison.

    “Grave Concern”
    “Blind to Reason” (Live)
    “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (Live)

87. #87
    On May 25th, 2009 at 12:00 pm, happyscrapper said:

    China should be all over this! And Japan. They are at more risk than the rest of us. Why are they so silent on this issue? Are they waiting for the U.S. to take the lead?? It won’t happen..not on Obama’s watch anyway! He has more important things to do, like keep up his image by appearing on TV every day and campaigning for the next election, or flying to Vegas to campaign for his buddy, Harry Reid. He has no clue how to run a country, except into the ground.

88. #88
    On May 25th, 2009 at 12:00 pm, ajmontana said:

    Parables for “WOODEN EARS”
    lmao

89. #89
    On May 25th, 2009 at 12:08 pm, Ragspierre said:

    Japan and S. Korea aren’t asleep. You can count on them having to enlarge their nuclear weapons systems to meet this. I think that it is apparent to various nations that THE ONE can’t be counted as a reliable anything. Anything good, at least…

    http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZWEzNDg0N2Q2OTg5ZGFlM2ViZDc2YTE4MGI0NzZkOGQ=

    It should be apparent to us, as well.

90. #90
    On May 25th, 2009 at 12:11 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    “If we feel good about ourselves and do nice Touchy Feely things everybody will love us and even atomic weapons won’t hurt-much”
    BHO

    or the telepromter, I am not sure. But perhaps Hussein and Friends were surprised the sun rose this morning. Hit the reset button b!tch.

91. #91
    On May 25th, 2009 at 12:16 pm, Kingfish said:

    Gird your loins…
    Prophetic or part of the plan?

    I believe the first casualty of Kimmie’s firecracker may have been the First Teleprompter due to EMP.

    A strongly worded “Mother may I” may be in order now.

92. #92
    On May 25th, 2009 at 12:20 pm, Flyoverman said:

    The North Korean Government is not an expantionist communist state. It is more like the Mafia. Their goal is to remain in power and accumulate wealth for “The Family.” They are not jihadists who want to see 72 virgins.

    North Korea has three sources of income; weapons sales, drugs and counterfeiting. Our response should be to interdict their means of earning income.

    I do not know what one does with the drug trade. I would stop and search every ship leaving North Korea and any containing military equipment would be turned back. We can use the international banking system to thwart their counterfeiting activities. The Clinton and Bush administrations after doing a nice job in this area, backed off when North Korea made concessions, which they, of course, reneged on. Freezing their assets is also a tool.

    This will come down to a nuclear showdown, but they can’t win a nuclear exchange so we hold the cards. If they want to survive they will have to back off. BUT…. we have to have the strength to face them down.

93. #93
    On May 25th, 2009 at 12:25 pm, Truesoldier said:

    …Such provocations will only serve to deepen North Korea’s isolation. It will not find international acceptance unless it abandons its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery.

    When will the liberals figure out that some nations could care less about being part of the kumbya national community and that sanctions dont work against leaders who already treat their people like crap.

    We have been and will continue working with our allies and partners in the Six-Party Talks as well as other members of the U.N. Security Council in the days ahead.

    In otherwords, this statement is nothing but rhetoric and Obama does not truly see this as a pressing matter. He would rather get back to work on his domestic socialization agenda.

94. #94
    On May 25th, 2009 at 12:32 pm, simcoe said:

    I was greatly concerned and disappointed by the way that Bush handled Iran and the nuke situation. As far as anyone can tell who wasn’t involved, it was all just unrealized threats. Now he’s walked away from it.

    I doubt we can expect anything more from this POTUS.

95. #95
    On May 25th, 2009 at 12:33 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On May 25th, 2009 at 12:25 pm, Truesoldier said:
    In otherwords, this statement is nothing but rhetoric and Obama does not truly see this as a pressing matter. He would rather get back to work on his domestic socialization agenda.

    Exactly. Foreign policy is not his favorite subject. That is why he made Hillary his Secty of State. It’s her problem, not his. And when it goes wrong, he can blame her. A win/win in his book! He just can’t be bothered with foreign policy when he is busy turning this country into one similar to N.Korea.

96. #96
    On May 25th, 2009 at 12:36 pm, Ragspierre said:

    The North Korean Government is not an expantionist communist state.

    Bull. They have a starving population, and one way to manage that is a constant state of near-war. It is easy to push that to real war.

    Tell the S. Koreans they aren’t expansionist.

97. #97
    On May 25th, 2009 at 12:40 pm, MacEamonn said:

    “Talk softly and carry a big stick.”

    The “One” has the talk softly part down pat, to bad he doesn’t know what to do with the “big stick”!

98. #98
    On May 25th, 2009 at 12:59 pm, SHoward said:

    The “One” has the talk softly part down pat, to bad he doesn’t know what to do with the “big stick”!

    That’s because Michelle O has control of the stick.

99. #99
    On May 25th, 2009 at 1:02 pm, ajmontana said:

    Only one capable of holding a stick in that admin is BO.

100. #100
     On May 25th, 2009 at 1:14 pm, Flyoverman said:

     Rags,

     What I meant by expantionsit was ideological expansion,like the Soviet communists.

     The North Koreans would be used up within 30 days of the start of a conventional war. They had every advantage in 1950. South Korea’s army was pitifully equipped. We had scaled back so much that in June 1950 the U.S. Force Structure did not even have one Marine Division. The occupation troops in Japan were utterly untrained and had equipment not as good as the North.

     Still by August 1950 we had stopped them cold and by October 1950 they were detroyed militarily. What they face now with South Korea, Japan, and the U.S. is in a word; daunting.

     They can bluff, but they will LOSE any conflict they can start, but ONLY IF we are WILLING to fight it.

     You are oh so correct in saying near war is all that keeps their people in line. And yes, that’s dangerous.