Honduras

Today will prove interesting as today is the start of talks with Costa Rica’s President Arias as a negotiator between ousted President Zelaya and current President Micheletti.

Here’s what I’m assuming. Zelaya agreed to these talks because with the UN and OAS and Obama on his side he’s certain this will mean his return as President. As a matter of fact, he insists on it.

And I’m assuming President Micheletti agreed to these talks quickly because he knows he/they followed the rule of law as it’s written in Honduras. That being the case, the fair minded President Arias can be shown the paperwork (constitution) and make his decision.

We’re going to find out soon though.

Here is the Wall Street Journal and here is the WSJ again. Read away.
Here is Fausta’s blog with a huge roundup of news including a hint that Clinton may be softening to Micheletti.

Morning Funnies

This story out of the Arab News is a precautionary tale to President Obama.

Don’t mess with Iran. You need to talk with Iran. Iran has now made overtures and you need to respond.
Iran has a right to nuclear power. There’s nothing wrong with Iran, so get on board there Obama.

Followed by:

No country in this region would feel comfortable with a nuclear armed Iran so it is in everyone’s interests to bring Iran into the international community’s fold. This cannot be done using threats, which will only inflame Iran’s desire to shore up its own security in the same way Iraq tried to do when Israel destroyed its civilian nuclear facility at Tuwaitha in 1981. It was only after that, that Saddam summoned his nuclear scientists and asked them to make a bomb.

Any attack on Iran would be a logistical nightmare because its nuclear sites are spread all over the country while many are buried deep. Not only would this strengthen Iran’s nuclear resolve and bring the Iranians together, Tehran is well placed to retaliate against Israel and Western interests in the Gulf.

Don’t worry about Iran. But in the meantime, we’re a little worried about Iran. But if you worry and attack, then Iran can attack back with all it’s secret underground facilities used for “nuclear power”.

ROFL

History

I am of Obama’s generation.

I wanted to be a hippie when I was 6.

I “know” we backed evil when we backed the Shah and when we backed dictators in South and Central America.

How is it that I can see a difference between Zelaya and Pinochet, but Obama can’t?
How is it that I can see “the people” in Iran are on the side of more freedom and democracy but Obama can’t.

It’s almost like Obama’s knee jerk reaction is,
“Whatever the right would do, I’ll do the opposite.”
“Whatever the middle class to rich think, is wrong.”

I want to give this guy the benefit of the doubt and agree that what he wants is what he thinks is best for this country, but it seems like what he wants is to turn this country into that which it isn’t in order to prove some point from his youth.

Surely he has some secret information that leads him in the direction he keeps choosing, right?? Right????!! Please….

I can’t stand it. I just can’t stand it.
Read Gateway pundit every day.
Read Ed Morrissey
Read the Anchoress
Read what “the people” of Honduras are thinking.
Read how Ford is doing in comparison to GM.

Monday Links

Honduras
Honduras is still a stage.
Apparently the Nicaraguans are not amassing on the border, but Zelaya did try to land back in Honduras from Dulles. ?? And was stopped.

In the meantime Reuters is putting up staged photos. For affect?

Here is the WSJ on this Honduran tipping point.
And here is a Latin perspective on what’s going on there.

The fact of the matter is that the Zelaya supporters as numerous as they might have been were still not that many, and certainly not enough to storm Tocontin Airport. CNN camera pointed at them all the time. If the Honduras regime has the good idea of retransmitting the airborne unconscious words of Zelaya sending his supporters into trouble blithely, he can come out of the scene quite bruised. See, in Latino parlance, he was all talk, no action, and Micheletti held his ground. Zelaya might have scored a point in Paris, but I doubt he gained much in Honduras where it matters right now. After all Tegucigalpa is now banned from everywhere, what do they care about Zelaya scoring in Timbuktu? The show of force, as far as I can tell, was won by Micheletti and his buddies, even though it is most likely only the first one in a long list.

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Iran
In Iran – God seems confused. Is He backing Ahmadinejad or is He backing the opposition? His spokespeople are at odds. (May I add it’s a lot easier to be a Methodist without having others who speak for God.)

Roger Cohen of the NYTimes is back from Iran now and knows who’s side he is on.

The Iranian Constitution says that the president is to be elected “by the direct vote of the people,” not selected through the bogus invocation of God’s will. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the 1979 Revolution, said in 1978 that: “Our future society will be a free society and all the elements of oppression, cruelty and force will be destroyed.”

The regime has been weakened by the flagrance of its lie, now only sustainable through force. No show trials can make truth of falseness. You cannot carve in rotten wood.

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U.S. of A.
Here Joe Biden admits they don’t really understand the economy. But what the heck does this mean?

“The truth of the matter was, no one anticipated, no one expected that the recovery package would in fact be in a position at this point of having to distribute the bulk of the money.”

At what point did they figure this? Should it have already been distributed? In which case, which part of this “efficient” “fabulous” government is in charge and doing a crap job?

Happy Independence Day!!!!

From George Washington himself!

Hilarity from Longmont

Sadly, the online Longmont paper doesn’t link to this hilarious story – but I’m hear to type out the quotables. Frankly I think they don’t want to find themselves on Drudge.

Here’s the headline. (snicker, snicker)

Organizers: Longmont pot proposal lacks momentum

Essentially there is a group that wants to make pot legal in Longmont.

Here’s what’s happened:

“We had a bunch of petitioners lined up to do this, but when the petitions were published, it was difficult to round them (the petitioners) all up, ” Tiger said. (Longmont resident Paul Tiger)

Longmont resident Kevin Clowers, who is heading up the effort, said volunteers are finding that many people aren’t registered to vote-so they can’t sign the petition – or are leery of signing because they fear they’ll end up on a list and have police watching them.

Thanks for making my day stoners. ROFLMAO

Friday Calf Blogging

And a National Holiday coming up to Boot! Yipppeeee she says.

Because this cracked me up

6 New Personality Disorders Caused by the Internet.

I can’t say I’ve shown no signs of any of them.
(ht HotAir)

A Must Read

Of yet another amazing military family.

By Karl Rove who’s writing has been a pleasure to read since he’s started.

Horrible News

My thoughts and prayers are all with this soldier from now until he’s found.

May his captors rot in hell.