The New Obama Diplomacy: Clinton and Her Nasty Mouth Soars Beyond Dignity, But Does She Have a Point?

Diplomacy is supposed to be the communication device that is conducted with aplomb, dignity and respect although there is no  cited directive in any history books where diplomacy is presumed to effective. We read from Wikipedia that “…diplomacy is the employment of tact to gain strategic advantage or to find mutually acceptable solutions to a common challenge,[1]” and that definition seems to be out of date. We need some diplomacy that works.

We can search for examples of how certain wars were averted, or, on the contrary how diplomacy obviously failed to prevent our Civil War, WW 1, 2 and Korean and Viet Nam and all that. The only conclusion that makes sense is that diplomacy as currently being practiced is nonsense. A careful reading of the 1957 book:  War and Aftermath 1914-1929 by Pierre Renouvin enlightens us on diplomacy. [2] This source gives us an objective view of the workings of ‘diplomacy’ from the early teens to 1929 and the results obtained from the expenditures seems to show that nearly all the talking and mumbling went for naught. All the meetings and subsequent treaties and erratic whooping about preventing Germany from getting her revenge after Versailles and restraining Japan in the Pacific went for nothing.  For the case of the Middle East, we have had decades of such performances leading to exactly nothing of substance. We need some diplomacy that works.

Perhaps Secretary of State Mx. Hillary Clinton has broken new diplomatic barriers and soars enlightened in the very ethers as she seems to have tossed out the older rules and inserted some kind of trendy Arkansas Dialogue. Some think she is abrasive and insulting; I wonder if she is a herald for a new era of communication among states. She may hold the key to effective diplomacy.

But, the definitive proof is contained in the end result, if we fall back on reason, and assess cause and effect mechanics before the fact. Then, we can test out her new methods. Here are some problems to be solved:

Problem: The Pakistanis cannot find Al Qaeda anywhere in Pakistan.

Solution: “I find it hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they [Al Qaeda] are and couldn’t get them if they really wanted to,” she [Hillary Clinton] added. [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

“Maybe that’s the case; maybe they’re not gettable. I don’t know... As far as we know, they are in Pakistan,”[3]-- Al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan: Hillary Clinton

Freshly translated and presented here, but only broaching the delicate fringe of the new frontier of the new method of reading scripts I have selected to use: the ‘Unspoken Words Theorem’--so aptly invented by Maureen Dowd the Old Red Lady [4][5][6]of the Old Gray Lady[7] [e.g. Quoting Dowd: “But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy!”[8]]—and here it is!

[Fair, or not], we seem to be able to deduce [translations in blue] what Hillary was actually saying:

“Listen you drooling bumpkins, you have terrorists everywhere in your backward country, your military and even your intelligence services so you look like idiots when you say you cannot neutralize them.  Don’t lie to us!”

And more:

Problem: Not enough taxes

“The percentage of taxes on GDP (in Pakistan) is among the lowest in the world... We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn’t move, and that’s not what we see in Pakistan,” she said.”

“You are so stupid not to tax your citizens into oblivion as we are going to do. Where have you been? Do you realize how much money you are ignoring? My co-conspirator and I have made more than 100 million dollars from our corruption and bias and you are cutting off some of that future income. ”

Problem: Population

“You do have 180 million people. Your population is projected to be about 300 million. And I don’t know what you’re going to do with that kind of challenge, unless you start planning right now,” she said.

“Do anything, including total or even nuclear war, to reduce your population and think about free condoms for all citizens. You are screwing yourselves into poverty. “

Perhaps she even hints about the zero-growth notion of spreading around AIDs or malaria in Pakistan as this was very successful in Africa. Capital punishments from committing sodomy under the law in your state might help lower the count also.

And, on tax and population concerns merged we might read:

A combined solution to two problems:

“Raise the taxes as high as you can and make food scarce and expensive and then institute 100% inheritance taxes and then, for the grand move, withhold healthcare for the oldies[9] and this will moderate your population increases and put more money into the hands of politicians.  Those are useless mouths anyway.”

I think being ‘frank’ with the tribalistic protosimians in the Middle East might just shake up the jar and reassemble the marbles. The Clintons have shown us hitherto unknown and unexplored nuances in political conduct such as erotic cigar diddlings, syntax conundrums (like calling taxes “investments”) and how criminality can be excused by political acclaim.

But, there are tacky potential backlashes to her new methods such as her relaying the Obama message that:

“On a one-day Middle East visit on Saturday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton endorsed Israel's view that settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank should not be a bar to resuming negotiations -- contradicting the Palestinian position.”

The reply:

"The negotiations are in a state of paralysis, and the result of Israel's intransigence and America's back-pedaling is that there is no hope of negotiations on the horizon," Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rdainah said.--[10] Palestinians accuse U.S. of killing peace prospects

“Go ahead and build new homes in the settlements because the Jewish lobby was very generous to us in the last election so we owe you one.”

There is a bit of perceptible conflict here among the players from Hillary’s message, but we should give these comments some time to soak into the soft and minuscule neuronal sets of our Middle Eastern friends. It may simply be a soggy residual from the older form of ‘diplomacy.’ Who knows?

Only time will tell, but with Hillary on the scene there are bound to be fireworks and other pyrotechnic illuminations. She is not exactly ‘neutral’ on any topic so we expect her to carve out new ruts in the phony nostrum called diplomacy and might even accomplish something even if it is war.

rycK

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650,000 Strawdogs Bark at the Moon. The Obama ‘Recovery’ is a Numerical Monkey Circus

Abstract: Most of the people who work for our government must be imbeciles. Some of the imbeciles are now known as such and publicly identified  from their own words transcribed here for proof. They reach into the future to make calculations and sift through mountains of anecdotes and error-ridden reports for some numbers that will tell the citizens what they are doing with our money.   One of their chief stooges, using the future as a crutch, reports that the taxpayer cost per “new or saved” job is now $92,000. I am so relieved!

In a two previous blogs, just a day ago, I summarized the woeful mumblings and hokum-chucking follies that posed as ‘predictions’ from those lackeys who stooge for Obama.[1][2] I waited, for nothing—even past 4:00 PM , to view the creepy recovery.gov site to show me something other than a single number being changed and they did just that: one lousy number. This is so pitiful it is no wonder the stock market is crashing again. Touted as a success, as any leftist program always is, Joe Biden [Plugs[3] the Buffoon[4]] boasted to us of all the good jobs being created and we wonder how he knows. Well, some people are calculating a few costs:

Here is the ABC calculations:

“Posting its results late this afternoon at Recovery.gov, the White House claimed 640,329 jobs have been created or saved because of the $159 billion in stimulus funds allocated as of Sept. 30.” [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

“Brian Schmidt, director of planning and programming for the commission said that his staff originally reported to the Obama administration that the stimulus money saved 250 jobs. Then, realizing they had mistakenly double credited, they later changed that to 125 jobs. Tuesday, they updated it again to 74 jobs.

Ed DeSeve, senior advisor to the president for Recovery Act implementation, said he'd been "scrubbing" the job estimates so much since they came it at the beginning of the month that he now has "dishpan hands and my fingers are worn to the nub."[5]-- $160,000 Per Stimulus Job? White House Calls That 'Calculator Abuse' October 30, 2009 7:12 PM  

My calculator seems to show this folly: 640,329 jobs at a cost of $159 billion in stimulus funds works out to $248,309.85 per job. I did fail to add on the 30 years of interest on this money nor did I add in the costs from inflationary pressures that will debase our currency[6]. So, that won’t be so bad if our dollar becomes worth a nickel or so. We can save all the interest! As Paul Krugman sings” “Yes, we have a long-run budget problem, and we need to start laying the groundwork for a long-run solution. But when it comes to inflation, the only thing we have to fear is inflation fear itself.”[7] [Emphasis is mine in all quotes]

Using a Biden-style system of convoluted and monkey putz logic we read that this is what they are doing:

“White House officials heralded the unparalleled transparency in reporting job numbers to the public, but acknowledged there is no consistent standard across states or localities, or among federal agencies giving out stimulus funds, in differentiating between a “saved” job and a “created” job.”-- $160,000 Per Stimulus Job?

Some leftist number monkey popped up and unscrolled for us, probably from a dark place, a better number using this logic:

“Jared Bernstein, chief economist and senior economic advisor to the vice president, called that "calculator abuse."

He said the cost per job was actually $92,000 -- but acknowledged that estimate is for the whole stimulus package as of the end of 2010.”-- $160,000 Per Stimulus Job?

How can you say ‘is” for the current ‘was’ and note that “was’ appears to be in the future tense? We don’t know how many real jobs will be created so how can we make this calculation? Does this depend, critically or mathematically, on the definition of what “was” is? So, this is a forecast assembled with rubber numbers and nobody told Biden? What political tense is this written in: “…White House claimed 640,329 jobs have been created or saved…” Do some of these people even have a G.E.D.?

We are going to get back to some kind of ‘recovery’ using borrowed or printed monies and spend $92,000 dollars per new job? Are we insane?

Our government is populated by imbeciles, throbbing stupids, zombies and racist parasites and other assorted cognitively disnimble beings that honk and wheeze at numbers like a monkey in a candy store while they try to fulfill their phony political predictions and the outrageous promises of our elected officials with phony numbers and absurd calculations not to mention  injecting time travel into the calculations. They swim in slime.

All lies? Looks like that. Where is the meat??

I told you so. rycK a 5^th generation 49er in exile.

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Background on the last two posts:

Stimulus Act of Jan 2009

“An Act: Making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.”[8] [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

The Christine Romer Prophecy:

“…, even with the large prototypical package, the unemployment rate in 2010Q4 is predicted to be approximately 7.0%, which is well below the approximately 8.8% that would result in the absence of a plan.”

 Crystal Ball Follies

"None of us had a crystal ball back in December and January. I think almost every private forecaster realized that there were other things going on in the economy. It was worse than we anticipated. " [9]

Biden[10] also acknowledged the discrepancies in a July 5 interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos.

"The truth is, we and everyone else misread the economy," Biden said. "The figures we worked off of in January were the consensus figures in most of the blue chip indexes out there. ... And so the truth is, there was a misreading of just how bad an economy we inherited. Now, that doesn't — I'm not laying — it's now our responsibility. So the second question becomes, did the economic package we put in place, including the Recovery Act, is it the right package given the circumstances we're in? And we believe it is the right package given the circumstances we're in."

Romer sandbags the Biden follies:

“Most analysts predict that the fiscal stimulus will have its greatest impact on growth in the second and third quarters of 2009,” Romer said. “By mid-2010, fiscal stimulus will likely be contributing little to growth.”[11]— Christine Romer Oct. 22

A few hours ago:

“WASHINGTON — About 650,000 jobs have been saved or created under President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan, the White House said Friday, saying it is on track to reach the president's goal of 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year”[12]-- Gov't says stimulus saved or created 650,000 jobs By Matt Apuzzo And Brett J. Blackledge

Now, we learn all about how the administration calculates these 650,000.  We must put forth a few caveats on our beliefs and acceptance of the new ‘proofs’ that are bestowed upon us by Obama and his number doodlers. But, they have an ‘independent’ group to filter out the hooey or so they say:

“The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board is the independent group which oversees the tracking of all of the data in regard to spending from The American Recover and Reinvestment Act, aka the stimulus package. Their mission statement according to Recovery.gov is “To promote accountability by coordinating and conducting oversight of Recovery funds to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse and to foster transparency on Recovery spending by providing the public with accurate, user-friendly information.”[13]-- White House releases data on stimulus jobs; 1 million jobs created or saved

Here is their pitch:

“JOBS CREATED/SAVED AS REPORTED BY RECIPIENTS

640,329 10/30/2009”[14]

Then crap like this:

Where is the count?

Look at this:

“Here is what you should know:

Governors, mayors, county executives, private businesses and community organizations across the country submit reports to Recovery.gov so that you can get an unprecedented look at how your taxpayer dollars are being spent creating jobs and boosting the economy through the Recovery Act. These reports are not from the federal government – but from the very people putting Recovery funds to work.”

 “The government has overstated by thousands the number of jobs it has created or saved with federal contracts under the president’s $787 billion recovery program, according to an Associated Press review of data released in the program’s first progress report.”[15]-- http://thegovmonitor.com/world_news/united_states/white-house-reports-ap-misleads-on-recovery-act-job-reporting-13025.html

All lies? Looks like that. Where is the meat??

RycK