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Tomahawk Cash

YOU might not have noticed but while Tubularsock was overseeing his vast stock portfolio he noticed a very interesting development.

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Obomber speaks of attacking Syria and RAYTHEON’s stock goes up reaching a 52-week high at $81.26 per share. 

Now for you hoi polloi ,your ability to grasp this development, more than likely, passed over your heads but for Tubularsock and the capitalist class this was great news.

Tubularsock cashed in buying low and selling high. Using this new found wealth to invest in body-bag sales. There is going to be a killing to be made in this market, yes pun intended.

LET ME EXPLAIN IN SIMPLE TERMS:

Obomber announces attacking Syria.

RAYTHEON’s stock jumps up.

Tomahawk Missiles are made by RAYTHEON.

 

A Tomahawk Missile cost $1,000,000.00 each.

 

Once they blow up you need another one.

 

More than 2,000 have be fired in combat over the years.

 

Once they blow up you need another one.

 

Most American warships are equipped with 90 of them.

 

Once they blow up you need another one.

 

There are four U.S. warships set to fire these missiles at Syria.

 

Once they blow up you need another one.

 

There is BIG profit to me made by RAYTHEON here.

 

WHY?

 

ONCE THEY BLOW UP YOU NEED ANOTHER ONE!

But there’s more.

The Pentagon buys 196 Tomahawk missiles a year. That is what is considered the “minimum sustaining rate” but after firing hundreds of them on Libya in 2011, well gosh we have had to ramp up production.

Now accounting for the extra orders, RAYTHEON delivered 252 missiles this fiscal year and 361 last fiscal year. But one can’t have enough because Tubularsock has read some place that “once you blow them up you need another one”.

“In its budget submission for fiscal 2013, the White House requested 196 Tomahawks, for a total program cost of $320 million. It’s requesting the same amount next fiscal year, for a cost of $325 million. The increase in price, defense watchers say, is the result of several factors: inflation, rising fuel costs and a shrinking supply chain.”  (Austin Wright, Politico)

But when you factor in the “total program cost” a Tomahawk Missile costs $1,658,163.26. Think about that …..

every time the Navy presses a button ……..

 

BOOM $1,658,163.26 goes up …… and we need another one.

A Tomahawk Missile has “advanced contour mapping” so they can fly low and avoid ground radar. They have a range of up to 1,300 nautical miles. They travel at more than 500 miles an hour. And they can hover over their targets for hours providing a real-time view of the battlefield.

They deliver a 1,000 pound warhead that can devastate half an urban block and can hit a target the size of a home’s window.

 

THEY HAVE AN 85% DIRECT HIT RATE.

Are you impressed yet?

Well Tubularsock has come up with a couple of thoughts here.

Ahhh ……… 15% of the time they don’t have a direct hit so how many urban blocks are wiped out by hitting the WRONG home’s window?

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I guess it’s not much. You know how ALL urban blocks look pretty much the same.

But to be fair Raytheon was not the only defense contractor who saw their stock price go up during the buildup for a potential strike. Boeing, General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin — all missile system manufacturers — all saw sharp gains.

And can you believe that those homeless people Tubularsock has to set over ever time I walk down a city block have the nerve to ask for money to eat! The nerve of some people!

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THE LIE IN THE “TRUTH”: OBOMBER ON SYRIA

You know, Tubularsock wasn’t going to bother listening to Obomber’s speech Tuesday night because when it comes to Black Jive I prefer public transportation.

But I found myself tuning in to NPR radio for coverage because I am interested in Presidential-Spin no matter what party is running it. And I wasn’t disappointed.

Two things:

  1. The next time Congress wants to cut NPR’s governmental funding ……. I vote YES!

The commentators are in the BIG SLEEP and are piss poor at political coverage with any insight ………. they are very good at status quo! Depressing. Are they affiliated with FOX NEWS now? I guess it is no surprise, Tubularsock wants to go to the White House Press Corps Dinner too! Gosh, with a black tie and a suit prancing around! Could it get any better than that as a “journalist”?

       2.  There was not ONE, count them ………. NOT ONE point of PROOF that the Assad Government was the one that used Chemical Weapons. Not even a little one. No, Obomber assumed that Assad was guilty without a shred of evidence provided and NO ONE QUESTIONED HIS PREMISE. Even those that were against the action accepted the premise. Disgusting!

Yes, and children frothing at the mouth and the EXCEPTIONALISM of Americans with the ol’ God Bless America conclusion and Tubularsock almost got out his flag to wave next 4th of July with bombs bursting in air.

But the only way that Tubularsock can express this fallacious argument that Obomber is pushing is by this example and maybe those who themselves are in the deep sleep will get just a glimmer of understanding of the Obomber Logic of lie-in-the-”truth”. And perhaps better understand how this entire position was created. So Tubularsock will attempt this Herculean feat with a little allegory.

THE STORY: (all names have been changed to protect the innocent)

Let’s say that Barbrick Insomnia started to have suspicions that Michshella (his wife) was cheating on him. So he asks John Fury to follow Michshella and substantiates what Barbrick KNOWS is happening.

 

John Fury follows Michshella and she goes to MAIN STREET. Nothing seems to be out of the ordinary and he reports back to Barbrick.

 

Barbrick Insomnia KNOWS that John Fury must be incorrect and tells him to check again. And follow up on this sighting of Michshella on MAIN STREET.

 

Barbrick then calls his good friend at the N_A (redacted) General Fumbleson and asks him to checkout MAIN STREET and report back to him.

 

Within minutes of Barbrick’s call to General Fumbleson of the N_A (redacted) and not just minutes AFTER Barbrick hung up the phone BUT just minutes BEFORE he dialed the phone the N_A (redacted) knew the nature of the incoming call and had prepared a full dossier on MAIN STREET.

 

John Fury returns to Barbrick’s office and reports that once again Michshella was seen on MAIN STREET and there was nothing out of the ordinary that occurred.

 

Barbrick was so furious that John Fury was taken aback.

 

The phone rings, not the RED phone but the RED, WHITE, and BLUE phone, and Barbrick knew that the N_A (redacted) was calling with the “known-knowns”!

Note: This following information was given to Tubularsock by a “highly placed government official in the Administration, who is just Biden his time, and is not authorized to speak to the press on this issue.

General Fumbleson from the N_A (redacted) reported that “a foreign person of interest” by the name of ISSAID was on MAIN STREET exactly the same time that Michshella was on MAIN STREET.

 

It was further disclosed that even though ISSAID was on EAST MAIN STREET and Michshella was on WEST MAIN STREET the link of MAIN STREET indicates that all the signs are present that Michshella and ISSAID were having an affair.

 

Barbrick was convinced but John Fury felt that as an adviser he must ask at least one probing question. Which was, “Is there concrete proof? Proof beyond a shadow of a doubt?”

 

General Fumbleson of the N_A (redacted), now on encrypted speaker phone answered,

“Ghrgte fbfgru gkdjdhey nbh jghdtsiwoy kgghff fhdjur!”

Note: Tubularsock has gotten from a well placed N_A (redacted) official that is not authorized to speak to the press on this issue but can verify that this top secret speaker phone encrypted answer is totally the proof needed and can not be told to the public in order to protect them. A relief, for Tubularsock to be told the TRUTH.

Barbrick and John both nodded their collective heads in the affirmative.

 

Both men agreed that action at this time may not be optimum politically due to the fact that it may look bad for Barbrick Insomnia to expose Michshella while she was in the middle of the Saving-American-Children-From-Being-Fat Campaign.

 

“In due time”, Barbrick said aloud as he lit his cigarette. “In due time”, echoed John Fury.

TO BE CONTINUED ………..

So remember: There was not ONE point of PROOF that the Assad Government was the one that used Chemical Weapons. Not even a little one.  Obomber ASSUMED that Assad was guilty without a shred of evidence provided and NO ONE QUESTIONED HIS PREMISE.

A premise without facts to prove it correct is called A GUESS. And to push A GUESS as the truth is a LIE. How many people do you feel should die for a lie?

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Now that we know what Petraeus has been doing in his spare time Tubularsock would like to focus on the Benghazi Boogie.

This is not a new nor is it a unique Dance. The CIA’s dance card has always been full when it comes to these kinds of operations. Just like Jackie Chan always beats his way to victory and James Bond always gets the girl, the CIA ALWAYS funds extremists in a conflict.

When Tubularsock was researching Latin America the same theme prevailed and the Benghazi Boogie is the same old templet.

It goes like this ……… they always start with the “right” foot. Hence, all those right wing dictators the U.S. supported for years in Latin America. The CIA would and did overthrow democracy in order to have the Corporate class maintain that ol’ “free enterprise” spirit.

Supporting the “interests” of the United States has ALWAYS been getting the natural resources of other countries for ourselves. And if the “people” are in the way? Kill them, torture them, disappear them. They are dispensable.

Now a half dozen Congressional Committees are up and running investigations into the Benghazi Issue. The House Committee On Home Land Security and the Senate Intelligence Committee (an oxymoron if there ever was one) to name just two.

Sen. John McCain is calling for the establishment of a Super Special Committee to investigate the matter but he can’t even attend the committees he is on already and got all pissey with the press when confronted with that reality.

But really what in the hell is Congress doing?

As I sit and read about Petraeus’ CLOSED testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee I am once again in awe. Just how does Representative King, the chairman of the committee pull his head out of his ass in order to tell reporters that the testimony differed from a classified briefing he (Petraeus) gave lawmakers on Sept. 14, three days after the attack.

Did the attack come about because of the anti-Muslim film or was it a “terrorist attack”?

On Friday, however, Mr. Petraeus “told us that this was a terrorist attack, and there were terrorists involved from the start,” Mr. King said.

Now this was a closed session because?

Well, ahh. Well, there are “secrets” that can’t be told to ahh …….. the American public for Christ sake!

Ok ………. what do you want to know America?

Now a case can easily be made that Tubularsock is not in a position to know government secrets. In fact, truth be known, Tubularsock is like the low man on the totem-pole.

But this is what Tubularsock knew before the Benghazi attack.

1. The CIA were running guns and heavy weapons as well as recruiting fighters to bring

down the Assad’s government in Syria.

2. The CIA was using Libya as a staging area.

3. Among the “recruits” were known jihadists from al-Qaeda.

4. The CIA  has always supported terrorists and used them as proxy warriors to

overthrow  foreign governments ……. it’s a major thing they do along with money

laundering, as well as arms and drug trafficking. (Who do you think trained and

supplied bin Laden in the early days?) Expect blowback from these new actions.

5. Libya after the killing of Gaddafi went into and still remains a country that is

destabilized. So is Afghanistan and Iraq no matter how much the litany has continued

that “we have won”.

6. U.S. programs that included the use of secret prisons, extraordinary renditions, and

torture and abuse involved CIA collaboration with Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi as well

other despotic Arab regimes.

Now EVERYONE knows this! All you have to do is Google it. There is so much information on this subject that you couldn’t read it all if you wanted to. And if you follow the links provided with the articles and papers you can get down to people that are in positions to report what they are seeing in real time.

So if you want to know you can know. So why doesn’t Congress know? Why doesn’t Obama know? Because they are SO IMPORTANT that they are briefed by the CIA.

It’s the old fox in the hen house scenario. Are you kidding! The CIA is going to brief Congress on the CIA!

Give Tubularsock a break!

Why are all these committees in closed sessions? The people on the ground in Libya know, the Syrians know, the Arab street knows. So why is Congress so “secret”? Just maybe it is to prevent the American public from knowing.

But you can know if you want to know. It really isn’t even that time consuming. Maybe three beers and you have the overall plan that is being conducted. Five beers and you are communicating on an al Qaeda website and by seven beers you are a jihadists!

Tubularsock is on his ninth beer and is working on plastic explosives. Hmmm.

What did Tubularsock know within one day after the Benghazi attack?

  1. The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was a CIA cover. The U.S. State Department list NO consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (The news media is still referring to the consulate as a consulate even after nearly three months!)
  2. How could this “consulate” be surprised without adequate protection when it had been a target of a bomb in June?
  3. Ambassador Stevens was negotiating between militant groups and was running guns and larger weapons. He was no innocent bystander. He was killed.
  4. Sean Smith a State Department information management officer was also killed.
  5. The first accounts claimed that Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were “private Security Contractors” while in reality they were both CIA. The idea was to divert attention away from the CIA. (No one that counted was fooled.)
  6. The “Consulate’s Annex” held three prisoners. This was confirmed by Paula Broadwell in a speech in Denver on October 26th.
  7. The assumption of the attackers was that the CIA were torturing the prisoners. This may have been true but Tubularsock is just reporting on hearsay about this. I haven’t heard any further collaboration but it is the CIA after-all!

So, now tell Tubularsock what exactly is Congress investigating? Is there any above information that is not found by pressing Google?

And these guys get paid for this bull shit? I guess the whores are on winter break so Congress has nothing better to do until they return.