The Leopard's Limb SU 10/02/11

Good evening/morning, folks!

A busy but pleasant fall Saturday it has been as I ready for my new job, paint my Dad's house, and recreate a bit, thus my intermittent presence the past few days, as well.

Mrs. Stab and I ventured this evening from the safety of our westside WS redoubts to the Dixie Classic Fair. Like good middle-class middle-agers (one of us verging on old fart status, that one of us not being Mrs. Stab), we looked at the exhibits and farm animals, spurned the food offerings on the midway in favor of the preparations of Palmyra UMC, and embarked on a safari through the midway to observe the wildlife. There were considerable migrations from the outlands, which, judging from the lines at the various rides, must be enjoying economic recovery.

As we threaded our way around the lines, Mrs. Stab remarked that the carnies must all live in mansions. No, the owner of Strates Shows (WW, I met Mr. Strates years ago) surely does, I replied, but the carnies themselves most likely live in trailer parks and residential hotels and motels in Florida, where the Shows winter. After a few hours of fairgoing, we conferred mercy upon ourselves (it was windy and cold), and gratefully returned to our humdrum suburban existence.

Credit where credit is due
In order to retain some measure of credibility and objectivity in between my blasts at union predation, I try to confer credit upon those whom I usually criticize. In this case, it is President Obama, whose obedience to organized labor I decry, and his AG who cannot recognize voter intimidation, Eric Holder, who receive kudos from the Limb. Conversely, Congressperson and nomination contender Ron Paul warrants a crackpot comment.

On Friday, a Predator-launched, SEAL Team Six-guided Hellfire missile removed 3 important cutthroats from the Al Qaeda order of battle in a remote part of Yemen. Two of those three, were dubious holders of American citizenship: Anwar al-Awlaki, Samir Khan, and a Saudi citizen named Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri. Awlaki's departure is reckoned to be as significant as the killing of bin Laden. Khan was an English-language propagandist. Asiri was a bomb designer, whose creations included the PETN underwear bomb that was intended to be the Grinch that blew up Christmas. Analysts actually say Asiri's elevation to the virgins who will not be there is probably the most damaging to AQ.

President Obama authorized the strike; Holder signed off on it, also. Holder? BFD? No, the matter of American citizenship was a prickly issue. But, apparently the Prez and his AG thought this was a matter of war, and that we did not need to try to arrest the two American losers and try them. Good on you, Mr. Prez, and good on you, Mr. Holder.

OTOH, Ron Paul says we shouldn't have bumped off these traitorous citizens (Awlaki, a Muslim cleric, was Yemeni-American; Khan was Pakistani-American). Instead, Seal Team Six should have captured them and returned to the U. S. to be tried for crimes including treason. Now, had they fought back, Paul is OK with them being shot. Paul ignores the fact that these two cancers were traveling in a convoy, so serving a warrant would have put SEAL Team Six at risk, and would have required considerably more people and resources.

 And this is war. Mr. Paul should discontinue his futile Presidential bid and retire at the end of his term. Once again, thanks to the President, the AG, along with many more thanks to the defenders who detected and Hellfired the AQ murderers.

Couldn't even vote Present
I have slammed President Obaam for his invisibility in the legislative chambers to which he was elected. Not surprisingly, a pretender to his throne displays the same absenteeism. Michelle Bachmann missed every House vote in September.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/184937-bachmann-missed-every-house-vote-in-september