It's A Second Santorum Surge

The following is vintage fourth grade in a school district far away:

Kenny:  "What's the difference between a rooster and Marolyn Monroe?

Marcus: "I don't know; tell me"

Kenny: "A rooster says cock-a-doodle-doo, and Marolyn Monroe says - Any Cockle Do"

Marcus:  "I don't get it"

The Bible says to spare the rod and to spoil the child.  But just to be on the safe side, make sure he's getting enough anti-oxidents in his diet.

The founders of this country say "In many- Strength (or "One")"

Marcus Arelius says "Spare the originalism and spoil the Court ruling"

The tea party says "Spare the right to work laws and spoil the worker".

The peace sign was conceived with the letters D and N in mind for "down with Newt"


"You're screwing up the Bible.  You'r using the imperitive mode rather than the indicitive mode"  "Well, I think it is imperitive that you pastors get your Dick out of other people's business- - so there!"


The oil worker fell into bad health from excessive jacking off.  On that Arctic oil rig he developed a rare Icelandic 104 deg fever and kept taking off his jacket in a futile attempt to cool off his body.

With final results in from Tuesday’s caucuses and primary, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum pulled off large margins of victory in three non-binding nominating contests, all marked by low turnout.  In Missouri, which held a primary but will not use the results to award delegates, Santorum got 55.2 percent of the vote. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney got 25.3 percent, and Texas Representative Ron Paul got 12.2 percent. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich did not appear on the ballot. There were just under 252,000 votes cast, according to the Associated Press tally, less than half of the 588,000 votes that were cast in the Republican primary in 2008.  In 2008, the Missouri primary featured a winner-take-all system where John McCain narrowly beat Mike Huckabee to win all of the state’s delegates. This year, the primary was no more than a “beauty contest,” since delegates will be awarded at a caucus in March.  In Colorado’s caucuses, Santorum won with 40.2 percent of the vote, followed by Romney with 34.9 percent, Gingrich with 12.8 percent, and Paul with 11.8 percent. Just over 65,500 votes were cast. Turnout was down slightly from 2008, when more than 70,000 people voted.  In Minnesota’s caucuses, with 97 percent of precincts reporting this morning, Santorum won with 44.9 percent followed by Paul with 27.1 percent, Romney with 16.8 percent, and Gingrich with 10.7 percent. Only around 47,000 attended caucuses, compared to record-breaking attendance of around 62,000 participants in the 2008 Republican caucuses, held on Super Tuesday.  Romney won the Colorado and Minnesota caucuses in 2008, making yesterday’s finishes even more disappointing for him.

If you are not prepared to go to war, 

you cannot threaten that “nothing is off the table”

as you search for diplomatic solutions. 

 Thus there are completed plans, updated daily, at Israeli military headquarters in Tel Aviv and at the Pentagon for carrying out attacks on Iranian facilities in a last-ditch effort to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.  

Israel has a plan to go it alone. So does the United States. And there may even be a plan for the two countries to collaborate. Back on Dec. 20, the Joint Chiefs chairman, Gen. Martin Dempsey, told CNN: “We are examining a range of options” and “I am satisfied that the options that we are developing are evolving to a point that they would be executable if necessary.”   In any event, the plans exist, and they illustrate the difficulties in carrying out what some people think would be a simple operation.

For example, should Israel act alone, it would face the extraordinary problem of needing to refuel its bombers en route to targets about 1,000 miles away and refueling them again on the way back. That is why in the new Bipartisan Policy Center report, “Meeting the Challenge: Stopping the Clock,” former senator Charles S. Robb (D-Va.) and retired Air Force Gen. Charles F. Wald suggest that the United States provide Israel with three KC-135 refueling tankers.

Robb and Wald do not advocate that the Israelis undertake such an attack, but they say that providing the tankers would “extend the effective range of Israeli aircraft” and “improve Israeli credibility.”

Then there are questions about what targets should be hit, and how many planes would be needed, to stop Iran’s nuclear program, even temporarily. Israel’s two past successes hardly count.

Now look at the potential targets in today’s Iran.

There is the fuel-enrichment plant at Natanz, a collection of below-ground facilities used to produce enriched uranium. There is the newer Fordow fuel-enrichment plant near Qom, built into the side of a mountain and heavily fortified. This is where Iran has already moved 3.5 percent enriched uranium from Natanz and where most analysts believe it will be enriched to weapons grade, if Tehran decides to take that step.

Of course there would be other targets if a strike is to do more than set back Iran by one to three years. At Parchin, one of the nation’s leading munitions centers, Iran is suspected of testing high explosives for use in nuclear weapons, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s November report. There is a uranium conversion plant at Isfahan, a heavy-water facility being constructed at Arak and centrifuge factories outside Tehran.

It would seem that Rick Santorum has a second or perhaps a third life.  The Lord must be with him.  I'm sure there are people of faith all over the place       praying for his success seeing the utter unfitness to run of both Gingrich and Romney.  These two have engaged in this ongoing cock fight for months now and each candidate at this point is nore more than a bloody hulk and utterly destroyed.  Of the two, Newt has the more political baggage.  And yet the whole Romney tax business seems to be catching on.  Mitt Romney paid 16.35% of his income in taxes.  I        calculated it correctly taking off income that is not counted that he gave to the Mormon Church.  That's still less than a lot of people.  I  am puzzled why this blog doesn't automatically skip paragraphs even when they are spaced in the original article.  Previously if you hit enter even if the next line were consecutive to the previous one in Edit, it would come out with a space in-between.  I can live with the way it is now; it's just different.  I hope the letter shaving doesn't extend to the final publish       .                
                                                                    
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