Not just tactical or half-measures. Let's not monkey around. We need strategic and full measure, and we need to do so in Iraq, Syria, wherever they are, whatever it takes.  But, relax, they are not advocating (in fact, they assure us that no one is) for a unilateral invasion, occupation or nation-building (although that seems to contradict their introduction).

No, siree, not unilateral, but multilateral with "partners" who will be the boots on the ground. As we know,  there are plenty of boots (and other parts of uniforms) left on the ground as our Iraqi partners fled in the face of gun fire.  And, of course, all that military hardware left for ISIS pickings. Peshmerga gives big hopes, provided they are not on their own.

And, regional partners are key, say Lindsey McCain, but, hold your horses, that does not mean all regional forces.  Iran is a no, no, even though they are part of the key.  

Lindsey McCain  want us to know that their simplistic solutions are not so simple, and "we need to face facts."  A comprehensive strategy will require more troops, assets, resources and time. Wars and bombs, after all, do not come cheap, as if war-weary and economically challenged Americans need that reminder.  No mention of costs in lives, unless that is included under resources, or assets.

This, from the guy who went shopping in body armor to show how safe Iraq was :). And had his photo taken with ISIS when he was trying to make the Obama administration look bad when they wouldn't arm them or support them :). Does anyone who listens to him remember any of these things?

A "comprehensive" plan.  OOh.  I'm so impressed.

"It requires an inclusive government in Baghdad that shares power and wealth with Iraqi Sunnis"

GW already tried the neocon reconciliation  strategy for the Sunni and Shiites for 8 years.  It essentially consisted of us policing the Sunni lands and paying off billions of US dollars to Sunni tribal leaders so they would be nice to us.
Not suprisingly, when we stopped being the free police force and stopped paying off the Sunni tribes.  They started fighting the Shiites again.   How many more hundreds of billions of dollars do we want to spend to try and get the Sunnis and Shiites to play nice.  The money could be a lot BETTER spent at home.

" It requires an end to the conflict in Syria, and a political transition there, because the regime of President Bashar al-Assad will never be a reliable partner against ISIS; in fact, it has abetted the rise of ISIS, just as it facilitated the terrorism of ISIS' predecessor, Al Qaeda in Iraq."

Yes, all we need is a leader to unite, subjugate and pacify both the Sunnis (ISIS) and Shiites (Assad regime) in Syria.  Piece of cake!  Thanks Neocons for your input.  How many trillions and thousands of young men and womens death will this cost to impose Democracy in Syria?

Neocon strategy has set the Middle East on fire.  Humpty Dumpty has fallen and there is no putting him back together again.  No more Iraq or Syria as the maps were drawn together by European colonizations.  As Biden brought up in 2006, let the Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds have their own lands where they have the majority population is probably the only realistic solution.  

I just saw a clip of Feinstein saying Obama needs to stop being cautious, in fact being too cautious, regarding ISIS. She also expressed support for the McCain-Graham plan.

"Feinstein, a democrat, said she agreed with Senate colleagues on the opposite side of the aisle, John McCain and Lindsey Graham, who "laid the basis for confrontation" in a New York Times op-ed published Friday. "In that same newspaper is one by our secretary of state, John Kerry, and in that he does in fact lay out a strategy," Feinstein said.

"And so hopefully, those plans will coalesce into a strategy that can encourage that coalition from Arab nations," Feinstein said.

"ISIS "is a major varsity team, if you want to use those kinds of monikers," Feinstein added, saying Obama mistakenly characterized the terrorist group as a "JV team" in January."

"This is a vicious, vicious movement, and it has to be confronted," she said. "I mean, [ISIS] crossed the border into Iraq before we even knew it happened. So this is a group of people who are extraordinarily dangerous. And they'll kill with abandon."

It makes me think of the Oliver Sacks subject who woke up one day with the heightened smell and taste ability of a dog. Also the subject was able to see 20 or more shades of brown.

It lasted a week or two and then back to normal. The guy was a medical student (resident) and could tell who each patient was in his waiting room by smelling them through the closed door.

Many animal abilities that Humans do not need as "domesticated" may be able to be switched on or off, once scientists have a better understanding of the switching process.

Reading Temple Grandin's Animals in Translation for my book commentary for this course, I came across an interesting passage in which Grandin notes that on a very basic level, human beings and animals have the same kinds of brain cells--the same neurons--we just use them differently. Grandin concludes, "That means that theoretically we could have extreme perception the way animals do if we figured out how to use the sensory processing cells in our brains the way animals do" (63). She goes on to recount a story of one of her students who is severely dyslexic but has such acute auditory perception that she can hear radios that are "turned off"--that is, she can perceive the radio waves being received by the radio, even if the radio itself is not playing....

Grandin cites a story from Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat to offer her own explanation of this phenomenon. I own Sacks' book, so I thought I'd turn to the story myself, before looking for other examples.

The story in question is called "The Dog Beneath the Skin." In it, Sacks describes meeting a 22-year-old medical student who, after an amphetamine binge, dreamed he was a dog and experienced, in his dream, all the unimaginable smells that dogs smell every day. Upon waking, however, he found that the smells were still there. For the next three weeks, his world was greatly enhanced: he could recognize people he knew by smell...

And your claim again ignores the context of my comment re visit.

Nice try but no bananas.

And yes the south, hard hit by Obama's recession, has been hard hit by undocumented workers taking low skill jobs from poor blacks and whites.

When I replaced the roof on my house I had to go through 4 contractors before I found one who didn't use undocumented Hispanics.

'One of the things that we did notice when we were processing some of these students coming in was that they were adults,' she told CNS News at a press conference.

Interesting web site you found there.

This thread plainly shows via photographic evidence that:

Everyone who has said Big Mike had his "hands up" or anything related to "hands up, don't shoot" - were all clustered together in a parking lot just West of Piaget's apartment.

this video 5 minutes after the shooting is what appears to be Brown's baseball cap laying in the road in the distance to the left of the driver's door of Wilson's SUV.  

The police Chief of Ferguson calls that 35 feet from the body. Who is he kidding??? That's closer to 100 feet.

And worse yet the Chief was on the scene -- does he know how to count off steps or was he just straight out lying.

Here's a later closeup shot of the baseball cap and  cone markings

I haven't worn it in years.  For a while I was looking less like Bogie and more like Sidney Greenstreet (Kasper Gutman in the Maltese Falcon) but I'm over that now.

The festival is named for George D. Hay, who called himself the Solemn Old Judge and in a visit to Mammoth Spring in 1920 attended a hoedown that he later said was his inspiration for what became the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tenn. At the time he was working at a newspaper in Memphis and was assigned to cover a war hero's funeral in Mammoth Spring.

The gospel singing will be 7 p.m. Friday at the multipurpose building at the Mammoth Spring School campus. Refreshments will be sold. To take part contact Jim Mills at 870-625-7278.

Events Saturday include a pancake breakfast 6 to 10 a.m. at the fire station (cost by donation), sponsored by the firefighters.

The Beaver Spring 5k Fun Run and Walk registration will be 7 a.m. and the start at 8. Registration fee is $15.

An antique car show is set for the Mammoth Spring State Park. Gates will open 9 a.m. with judging 11 a.m. Trophies will be presented 2 p.m. There will be grilled hamburgers and drinks sold by the Spring River Lions Club and ice cream by Spring Dipper. All the shows and exhibits are free.

At 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Crowbar Russell and the Clash of the Ozarks Clan will re-enact the early 1900s Citizens Bank robbery on Main Street.

A quilt show will be 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Mammoth Spring Floral Express on Main Street. For quilt show entries contact Charlotte Hurtt at 870-625-3515.

Music shows are scheduled at Keith Auto Sales throughout