Korea may fire missile toward Hawai'i

[Random]

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Regarding the suspicious NK ship, I don't know if they're simply testing the international community, or is it simply a diversion, what a magician would use to make the audience pay attention to one thing while he does another unobserved.

[musubi]

Re: N. Korea may fire missile toward Hawai'i

Well, the tentative missile test date of July 4th has come and gone.
Fortunately, Hawaii did NOT see any of N. Korea's "fireworks" in an up close and personal manner.

N. Korea did launch several short-range SCUD missiles toward the Sea of Japan, but all of them fell harmlessly into the ocean, less than 300 miles from the launch site.

Over at Huffington Post, William Bradley blogged:

Quite a consequential first 4th of July as president for Barack Obama.

Not only did he have 20 of daughter Malia's schoolgirl friends over for a Camp David sleepover in honor of her 11th birthday on the 4th of July -- just wait till her "Independence Day," Dad -- he had a few other things on his plate, as well as the barbecue for military families and the fireworks show. Not counting his inherited worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

North Korea was to have been the drama of the day. But it turned into a major fizzle.

Those wacky characters in Pyongyang had threatened to challenge Obama in two big ways. First, with a ship reportedly carrying contraband weapons technology for sale. And more dramatically, with a threatened test launch of a long-range missile toward Obama's home state of Hawaii on the 4th of July. But fortune, or perhaps the judicious use of presidential pressure, smiled on Obama as the ship turned back and the missile launch to Hawaii did not materialize.

... Perhaps the North Koreans were dissuaded by Obama moving anti-missile units to Hawaii to shoot down their missile on the off chance it got anywhere nearby...

Full post at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/willia..._b_225795.html

Over at Pundit Kitchen (affiliate site to "I Can Has Cheezeburger?"), I really liked THIS point of view on the subject: http://cheezburger.com/view.aspx?ciid=4469405

Yep... even the "short bus" is better than Kim Jong Il deserves.

[Random]

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We did, before 1850....

Mm'mm. Last I checked, "White" America imported slavery. Ironically, a white American President decided slavery is bad, and back then the Democrats disagreed with him.

[Leo Lakio]

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Or, pray Random's motherships get here first.

Anyone care to join me in saying: "All hail to our new alien overlords!"???

[Kaonohi]

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Why? Americans don't make good labor slave force.

We did, before 1850....

But, the 'unknown' of your mothership is preferable to being forced to eat Kim Chee while squatting in a tiger cage....

[Random]

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Or, pray Random's motherships get here first.

Why? Americans don't make good labor slave force.

[Random]

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Oh wait - the great initiator of "CHANGE." Will "He" rescue us?

I dunno. Lucky he moved his sister and her family out of Hawaii.

[Random]

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090624/...koreas_nuclear

"If the U.S. imperialists..."

Kewl. I vote we change our national anthem to the Star Wars Imperial March.

[Kaonohi]

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"If the U.S. imperialists start another war, the army and people of Korea will ... wipe out the aggressors on the globe once and for all," a dispatch from the official Korean Central News Agency said.

Guess that means us....

Well, if Obama, Eric Holder and Dan Inouye get their way in 'disarming' us (pun intended - I've lost all respect for Dan), then it's a slam dunk.

Put you head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye.

Oh wait - the great initiator of "CHANGE." Will "He" rescue us?

[TATTRAT]

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090624/...koreas_nuclear

"If the U.S. imperialists start another war, the army and people of Korea will ... wipe out the aggressors on the globe once and for all," a dispatch from the official Korean Central News Agency said.


Wow.

[Kaonohi]

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And this at a time when, according to Senator Daniel Inouye (personal communication):

"... Attorney General Eric Holder announced his intention to reinstate (...) the Federal Assault Weapons Ban (which) prohibited the sale of ammunition clips with more than 10 rounds and 19 types of semi-automatic (i.e., self loading) military style guns..."

and

"I have supported measures to limit the sale, transfer, purchase and manufacture of handguns and semi-automatic weapons."

Emphasis and (comments) mine.

In 1941 Hawai`i laughed at the idea the Japanese would invade.
Then came December 7.

Now we shrug off the threat of North Korea.
Better get your baseball bats ready, we're about to be disarmed.

Oh, and brush up on your Korean language....

Or, pray Random's motherships get here first.

[Random]

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I thought Kim Jong would be crazy enough to ride the missile like the guy in Dr. Strangelove.

I wouldnt be surprised if he already have a missile to ride on ... in his bedroom.

[Walkoff Balk]

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I thought Kim Jong would be crazy enough to ride the missile like the guy in Dr. Strangelove.

[cyleet99]

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An email from God:
To: People of Earth
From: God
Date: 6/23/2009
Subject: stop

knock it off, all of you

seriously, what the hell


--
God

[TATTRAT]

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http://turnerradionetwork.com/index....news&Itemid=50

Yokosuka, Japan (TRN)-- The United States has deployed the aircraft carrier George Washington and its Strike Group to take up station near North Korea in advance of a planned ballistic missile launch by that nation toward Hawaii. The missile launch is scheduled for July 4.
The aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) with its crew of approximately 5,500 Sailors is the United States’ only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier. The George Washington will be joined by Carrier Battle Force 70, Carrier Air Wing 5, Surface Combatant Force Seventh Fleet (CTF-75), Carrier Strike Force Seventh Fleet (CTF-77) and Destroyer Squadron 15 in a massive show of force.
The mission is to provide centralized planning, control, coordination and integration of assigned assets in support of air, surface, subsurface, strike warfare, space and electronic warfare, amphibious warfare and mine warfare operations - or exercises - simultaneously.
Local commanders have been given Tactical Command of Cruiser-Destroyer, Carrier Air Strike, and Surface Action Groups, and will act as Combined Warfare Commander for the Battle Group and Task Force, and as Naval Component Commander for Combined, Joint, or Allied Forces. The Group operates as a component of, or as the Joint Force Air Component Commander (JFACC) directing tactical air control within a Joint, Unified, or Allied environment. This means that any act of aggression against the United States or its allies in the region will be met with a response immediately, without need for prior approval from Washington.
Sources in the Pentagon tell TRN that this level of autonomy is unusual. One source, who requested anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media, said the deployment "is designed to make clear to North Korea that the United States has had enough of their belligerence and blackmail."
North Korea recently test detonated a second nuclear bomb in defiance of world efforts to persuade them to stop their nuclear arms program. North Korea also recently launched multiple long range missiles capable of reaching South Korea and Japan, in defiance of both countries security.
When satellites detected launch preparations at another long range missile site, North Korea revealed it intends to conduct yet another missile test, this one an intercontinental ballistic missile which they say they will fire "toward Hawaii."
Secretary of Defense William Gates has since ordered the deployment of U.S. Missile defenses to Hawaii. Those defenses, part of the "Star Wars" system created under President Ronald Reagan, can intercept and destroy the North Korean missile if it threatens Hawaii.
North Korea has stated they will respond with military attacks against South Korea and Japan if any of their missiles are shot down by an outside country.