Looks like it's coming out that there was an AC 130 flying gunship on scene in Benghazi, but the Obama adminstration's representatives refused to let it attack the Muslims fighting our people there.

  "The security officer had a laser on the target that was firing and repeatedly requested back-up support from a Specter gunship, which is commonly used by U.S. Special Operations forces to provide support to Special Operations teams on the ground involved in intense firefights. The fighting at the CIA annex went on for more than four hours — enough time for any planes based in Sigonella Air base, just 480 miles away, to arrive. Fox News has also learned that two separate Tier One Special operations forces were told to wait, among them Delta Force operators."

What were they thinking at the CIA??

Whoever it was that denied this request should be identified, their employment terminated and publically shamed for costing the lives of our people there.  This is a true abdication of duty and common sense.  Then the survivors families should sue each and everyone in the chain of command that participated in this travesty, for everything they are worth. 

Check out the article for the full story, but also recall those stories last month about tungsten filled gold bars, the making of which is apparently big business in China.  This action by the Bundesbank shows that those who argue that an audit of our own gold holdings are not engaging in tin foil hattery, but may well have a good reason for their concern.  God help us if it turns out the gold isn't there or that any significant portion is counterfeit.

  "Today, in a surprising development, via the Telegraph we learn that none other than the same Bundesbank which is causing endless nightmares for all the other broke European nations due to its insistence for sound money, decided to voluntarily pull two thirds of its gold holdings held by the Bank of England. According to a confidential report referenced by the Telegraph, Buba reclaimed 940 tons, reducing its BOE holdings from 1,440 in 2000 to 500 in 2001 allegedly "because storage costs were too high." This is about as idiotic an excuse as the Fed cancelling its reporting of M3 in 2006 because "the costs of collecting the underlying data outweigh the benefits." So why did Buba repatriate its gold? Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has an idea.

The shift came as the euro was at its weakest, slumping to $0.84 against the dollar. But it also came as the Bank of England was selling off most of Britain's gold reserves – at market lows – on orders from Gordon Brown.

Peter Hambro, chair of the UK-listed gold miner Petropavlovsk, said the Bundesbank may have withdrawn its bullion in self-protection since it did not, apparently, have its own specifically allocated bars in London. "They may have decided that the Bank of England had lent out too much gold, and decided it was safer to bring theirs home. This is about the identification. Can you identify your own allocated gold, or are you just a general creditor with a metal account?"

The watchdog report follows claims by the German civic campaign group "Bring Back our Gold" and its US allies in the Gold Anti-Trust Committee that official data cannot be trusted. They allege central banks have loaned out or "sold short" much of their gold.

The refrain has been picked up by German legislators. "All the gold must come home: it is precisely in this crisis that we need certainty over our gold reserves," said Heinz-Peter Haustein from the Free Democrats (FDP). "

On this day, St. Crispin’s Day, in 1415 King Henry the Fifth and his band of brothers won the Battle of Agincourt.

And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,

From this day to the ending of the world,

But we in it shall be remembered-

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;

For he to-day that sheds his blood with me

Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,

This day shall gentle his condition;

And gentlemen in England now-a-bed

Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,

And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks

That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”

Henry V (Act IV, Sc. iii)

Over at Every Day Dutch Oven,  Liddy put up a recipe for apple streusel cobbler that sounded both good and super easy to make.  To start the fall weather dinners here, we made some down home potato and sausage soup, scratch made bread and this cobbler.  

Turned out very tasty!  An excellent recipe to put in the card file.

                               Out it comes from the oven, looking really good.

The finished product.  I could eat this pretty much every day.  Next time I think I'll add some cranberries to the apples for a bit more tart taste.

Freckles, they are good.

This kid is Brazilian super model Cintia Dicker.

Freckles?  In Brazil?

Gun porn!

This is a custom job on a Sako A1 action that was tuned and trued by Idaho gunsmith Tony Barnes.  It's chambered in 6.5 TC/U.  It has a 15 inch tapered octagon barrel, and exhibition grade fiddleback walnut stock.

What a beauty.

This story about Beluga whale learning to imitate the sound of human speech has been all over the internet.  Apparently, they have been listening to their trainers, and trying to copy the sounds they are hearing.  The trainers say that when the whales do this, they sound like two people talking at a distance where you can hear the conversation but not the words.

Here is a cool example

Ever get tired of the hairy chested truck commercials government dependent car companies put on TV?

If so, this one will make you laugh.

From Free N. Carolina.

This article beggars belief, but if true, it means that the Obama administration was using the Benghazi consulate to collect the massive piles of weapons left over from the Gaddafi regime, and send those to Islamic extremists fighting in Syria through Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.  Note that it was a Turk that our ambassador was meeting just before the attack, and the two large warehouse like buildings, whose purpose is undisclosed, were raided by the attackers. 

What could go wrong with this policy? 

Read it all.

I saw this over at Curmudgeonly and Skeptical, but I see that Brock has it up at Free North Carolina as well.  This story definitely needs wide distribution, so pass it on, Bloggers!

Heh

Professor Meow at your service.

Probably was held back in third grade.

Fail

Boeing has developed a missile that destroys everything electronic, but nothing else.

Seems like a lot of places in the middle east are crying out for a demonstration of this fully operational death star... I mean new technology.

You know the Democrats see a landslide for Romney coming when they pull out the long knives to sacrifice someone for the debacle.

Looks like some of them are already pushing Bill Clinton onto the alter.

Honestly, if any Lib thinks Bill or Hillary is going to go under the bus without a fight, they are in for a nasty surprise.  I am looking forward to the contest, as it promises to be nasty, very public and highly entertaining.

But in a larger sense, the battle is between the more centrist Democrats like Clinton, and the hard left socialists like Obama and his crew.  That is the battle that will determine the nature of the Democratic Party for the next ten or twenty years, as well as their fate for that period.

If the Democrats suffer a crushing defeat this election, expect the Clintons and their ilk to come out swinging, and the Obamabots to take it in the chin.  Pass the popcorn.

An interesting statistic that tells a lot about the economic and political issues facing us.

In only four years since 1963 have annual new-home sales come in below 400,000 units. Barack Obama was president in each one of those years: 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.

The worst year for new-home sales under George W. Bush was 2008 at 489,000 units. Obama's best year seems to be 2009: 375,000. (The September 2012 pace of 389,000 is the highest of all of 2012. But when adding up the year until now, it's doubtful that new-home sales will hit the 2009 levels.)

Keep in mind how much smaller the economy was in the sixties, seventies and eighties, and that number becomes even more descriptive of how really bad the economy is right now.