Bombs and Dollars – American Foreign Policy Blog – China, Afghanistan, Pakistan

Tiger, don’t cheat on her!

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Well, I’ve been kind of lazy with Babe of the Day, but I’m getting back on it.

Here we go:

Also, China Hush has some Asian horror movie posters, and here are some funny ones:

Eating an eye with chopsticks!
(That’s from Thailand.)

Chinese:

Okay, so go to ChinaHush for the rest.

Now here’s the rest of the links:
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• In election of hell, Obama beats Palin by 1 point
• Beijing imposes steel duties on the US Good idea taxing tires, Barrack.

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• Rumsfeld says some BS about Afghanistan
• Chicago guy helped attack Mumbai

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At Bombs and Dollars (as my loyal subscribers know…) we like to do Military Babe of the Day every day. (Because it educates people about the military.) And so, at the end of the week we will provide you will a long-form list of the babes ranked in order of what I think of them (plus a lot of other variables, cuz it has to be like the BCS or something).

Also, today is Rule 5 Sunday, so there’s gonna be some good stuff around the blogosphere today. Just check out R.S. McCain’s blog for the Rule 5 goodness.

Now here I go with my favorites:

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Tomorrow is Rule 5 Sunday, but in advance, we bring you a special edition of Saturday Military Babe of the Day (written on Thursday night!).

• Unlike this girl all of the girls featured on my blog know how to use a gun.
• Responses to Obama’s Afghanistan speech (Politico Video)
• Conservatives win in Honuras, Zelaya loses
• Crackpot Sarah Palin brags about her belief in global climate change warming “I’ve never denied the reality of climate change. I was the first governor to deal specifically with the issues of changing water levels, erosion patterns, and glacial ice melt.”
• Conservative bloggers continue to make a big deal about Ken Gladney He was only assaulted four months ago…
• It’s the weekend, so what the hell, I’m not really going to make this all a bunch of serious links:
• Don’t dance on a chair if you look like this. Also, don’t watch this video, maybe. Best to stick with Bombs and Dollars Babe of the Day.
• “Come play with me! Be lord over me!” Closer the level of Babes of the Day. Also relates to Asia, but it looks more like Japanese, I’d say.
• WTF? Hannity pretends to interview Thomas Jefferson Is he descending to Glenn Beck’s level of theatrics? Actually, this clip is about a month old, but I just found it.
• There’ll be no nativity scene in Washington this year. Something about not finding 3 wise men…
• Whoa, Nifty Nick runs way too many blogs…

Sumantra provides me with this sweet looking Australian military babe for today:

And here’s some links:

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• China begins branding campaign for made-in-China products This is a good start for the next step of China’s economic advancement. China currently has a bad reputation for their products, so if they can establish a good reputation, they will have more consumer confidence about buying stuff made from China, including luxury goods, as this commercial notes some of those made in China. Yet the commercial also notes the other countries that partner with the manufacturing of Chinese products (”Made in China is made with the world.”). I guess that will encourage global trade, showing that it helps all countries, yet it doesn’t explicitly establish China’s production quality, but bases it’s claims for production quality on other countries.
• R.S. McCain fails to see the obvious… So a thug convicted for 95 years sends Huckabee a letter telling him that he came from a “very good Christian family” so Huckabee, a Baptist minister who believes in redemption through his savior, Lord Jesus Christ, pardons him on the assumption that he has “changed,” thus being an accomplice to the murder of 4 police officers
• Dan Gilgoff also notes that the Huckster may have been influenced by religion, as he has been on other issues, like supporting free college for illegal immigrants, and supporting massive government spending on other social programs
• Salon also confirms that Huckabee pardoned a lot of felons because of religious officials’ advice
• Some moron thinks Lou Dobbs should run for president in 2012 (presumably so that he could steal enough votes from braindead Republican voters who think that capitalism and free trade is wrong–just like Dobbs thinks–and then elect Obama), and Jumping in Pools interviews him
• Obama’s Af-Pak speech was too solicitous of the left-wing – Obama campaigned on the issue of increasing troops in Afghanistan. Why are libs so “angry” that he’s following through?
• National Review praises Obama for going against the leftist anti-war libs Yet, that’s what Obama said he’d do all along during the campaign, so, if anything, he wasn’t forceful enough in standing up for his campaign promises (having waited so long to “decide on” that promise which he had made months earlier.)

  Furthermore, Obama following McChrystal’s “COIN” strategy but trying to do a “lite” approach with a timeline is probably not going to succeed. COIN involves building a nation, and it takes a whole freakin lot of money and time, so a timetable will leave it without enough time.

  As Thomas Friedman points out, nation-building in Afghanistan probably won’t work well, even among the best efforts, and it would have been better all along to go with an “anti-terrorists” strategy there, not an “anti-terrorism” strategy.

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You know how the People’s Liberation Army finds such talented recruits? (Like this and this and this.)

The evaluation for women wanting to join the Chinese military now includes a “talent show,” which involves signing or dancing, along with judgments on beauty and “impression.”

You can see a girl trying out for the army here.

As the Wall Street Journal reports:

Wang Bosheng, a member of the National People’s Congress and an interview judge, told China Daily that the talent show would help ensure the selection of the right people for the job. (He seemed to enjoy the performances, saying “It is amazing to see so many girls with such great gifts.”)

Now some other links:

• Anti-Semites at Talking Points Memo support Palestinian terrorists, attack the Jews for perpetuating holocaust
• Obama “inadvertently” excused Palestinian violence
• Anti-Semite at TPM responds by saying, “Violence won’t end until the Palestinian terrorists have what is rightfully theirs.” (i.e. having the entire state of Israel)
• China’s “global warming” “solution” will increase carbon Considering economic production is much more important than the amount of carbon, I’d say that’s a good plan, but the Hopenhagen people think that you should decrease total carbon AND decrease economic production.
• Amazon’s 25 Days of Free: Free mp3 downloads every day until Christmas:
  

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