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Let’s Book A Trip To Libya

Time has been kind to Bill and Hillary Clinton because people’s memories get shorter by the hour.

Bill Clinton was a pig, and Hillary Clinton believed herself to be the vice president.  Reality says that they are a couple huckleberries from Arkansas who never had a clue, and if “Mrs. Rodham Clinton” was put under the grill at this most critical moment in American history she would be considered the most inept party-line-believer since Joseph Kennedy, who tried repeatedly to persuade FDR that Hitler was “someone we could work with.”  I’m not exaggerating.  Pull out your history books.

I’ve lived with vultures and can state without equivocation that predators smell weakness.  I can also tell you that such animals know fear, and that is why the policy of accommodation is blowing up in the face of this president; he is a rookie being advised by a Secretary of State, an uncredentialed woman who has vicariously thought herself to be the straw that stirs the drink of this country since 1992.  Her husband was too timid to go after Osama bin Laden, and she, just like her frightened husband, believes it better to hold hands with terrorists than attack them.

Whaddya say?  Let’s book a trip to Egypt or Libya real soon to get a good look at history.  Just make sure you have a will and your affairs are in order before we go.

About Dan Bubalo

Daniel J. Bubalo was hired by the venerable firm of Kidder Peabody in 1978, before becoming a shareholder and partner with Drexel Burnham Lambert in 1984. He ultimately bought his own brokerage firm and steered it successfully through the market crash of 1987 before starting a venture capital and advisory company in the early 1990's. He has been a broker, manager, owner, trader, financier, and advisor on mergers and acquisitions, and throughout his career has opined regularly about the intractable nature of government and its inextricable hold and influence on financial markets. A securities violation landed him in federal prison from 1999 to 2003 which served to only sharpen his observations, watching in dismay at the dissolution of the Glass-Steagall Act, the 2001 dot.com bubble burst without so much as an investigation or arrest, and has since lectured between 2005 and 2011 at the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University on government intervention and ethics, as well as being presciently critical about Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank. Dan can be contacted at dan@mychal-massie.com

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50 Responses to Let’s Book A Trip To Libya

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  2. roy October 28, 2012 at 12:41 am #

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  3. jim September 17, 2012 at 9:41 am #

    This is what we get for bring weak !!!!! barry and hillary will only get groups together and sing “Kume-by-yah”.NO BACKBONE,no courage….well we may hurt someones feelings…….A couple of comments I read above and what Harry S.and what he might have done…..my comment is…..if we were once again strong,we can send the same message to those imbicile’s in the middle east…..”SURRENDER OR FACE TOTAL DESTRUCTION” ala Harry S. I suspect no-one will want to book a trip to Libya….even though U.S.A. under this regime will do absolutely nothing….ever. Remember 1st World trade center bombing and the USS Cole…Billy boy was to busy entertaining and smoking cigars to even notice.

    • Dan Bubalo September 17, 2012 at 10:16 am #

      History is treated like a nuisance, Jim, when in fact it holds lessons.

      Thanks for reminding us. People’s memories get shorter by the minute.

      DB

  4. Dan Bubalo September 15, 2012 at 7:11 am #

    GREAT question Sunny.

    I can just see them riding to school in a bus “designated” for other purposes.

  5. Dan Bubalo September 15, 2012 at 7:07 am #

    People forget that HST saved the country billions of dollars and millions of lives by his decision to go with the nuke.

    To this day, can anyone blame him? ? ?

    • sumitch September 15, 2012 at 3:53 pm #

      Yup, as you know Dan, Harry “The buck Stops here” decided to use “Little Boy” and his brother bomb “Fat Boy” and pretty much closed the book on the Japanese resistance and probably saved millions of lives and dollars. My “Pop” was part of the occupation of Japan after the war and went to work at Tinker AFB as soon as he was released from active duty. He spent the next 30 years there never missing a day’s work. He dropped out of school when he was 16 to work the farm outside of El Reno, Oklahoma because the family needed him to help support his mom and his sisters.

      One of those lives maybe saved was my little round step father “Pop” who thought the flat top hair cut was the ultimate solution to his cow lick and all he wanted to do was rebuild old cars, plant peanuts and his truck garden with the “Johnny Popper” he rebuilt and piddle with his pecan trees. He wasn’t a trouble maker and shared hundreds of bushels of his garden with the folks around him at “Aloha Gardens” at Lake Texoma. I suspect I was something of a disappointment to him, but a source of enjoyment because at first I didn’t know about the stickers on okra and digging potatoes almost killed me.

      He caused no trouble to anyone but at the ripe old age of 62 when he was threatened by a 25 year old not too smart aleck with an arse kicking over a fishing spot he made the comment that he might have something to say about that. He left the 25 year old on the ground with an education he probably still hasn’t forgotten and his fishing equipment in the water. He left me with my Army saber and an understanding that a massive set of shoulders on an old coot was probably something to respect or leave alone.

      At 72 he fell off the house while he was reroofing it and at 87 died happy of a heart attack after plowing his truck garden.
      He was an admirer of Harry Truman and flew our flag ever day of good weather.

      I suspect Harry Truman would have been glad to know him and would be proud of him.

  6. RickD. September 15, 2012 at 12:56 am #

    Dan,
    Well said as usual. I for one and I can think of many other Veterans who will happily agree, it is time to go seriously into any stinking place whose citizens attack U.S. personnel, just please let us take along our “toys” that we know how to use. I was at a V.A. medical facility today and listened carefully to several expressing their anger and frustration with the last three donkeycrattic presifools who have been major failures as leaders. Sadly what we need is not what we will get no matter the result of the upcoming elections but hopefully it will not be another O’bummer. Keep the fires burning and maybe one day we can walk softly with that big stick again. Nuke em all and let GOD sort em out.

  7. sumitch September 15, 2012 at 12:18 am #

    I just thought of another reason to vote against Obama. If, as I am relatively sure and would make book on it, they have our names, addresses, phone numbers and probably our photos and they have logged some of the comments made in here (well maybe just mine), what do you suppose he will cause to happen to us (me) now that he has the authority to indefinitely imprison anyone for any reason without benefit of a trial?

  8. pblee September 14, 2012 at 10:34 pm #

    Fine rant Dan! Why is it that nobody in our currently seated government, from the Muslim/Atheist In Chief to our Senate and House (Senator McCain and others) understands that is IMPOSSIBLE to impose the principles and practice of representative democracy, which REQUIRES a civilized and virtuous civil society, on other nations and cultures which do not function as such? Who cares that these animals can vote? They are under cultural and religious tyranny unlike anything we know or understand. Democracy merely begins at the ballot box. They have neither the religious or cultural underpinnings which would support the free exercise of democracy.

    I might add that there is nothing in our founding documents which supports the rediculous notion that we are obligated to “spread democracy” as John McCain as said. We are obligated to preserve and protect our own democratic republic and civil society against threats at home and abroad. We are not obligated to undermine the governments of our allies against common enemies no matter how odiferous that government may be. We do not throw our allies under the international bus no matter how expedient or convenient a political move that may be. We are better people than that, I hope.
    I think I’ll plan a trip to Israel, the capital of which is Jerusalem.

    • sumitch September 15, 2012 at 12:24 am #

      Or put another way, “Who made us the High Sheriff and police of the world”?

      Which nation has ever given us a thank you for our help and money during their political or natural crisis’s? Dern few. Look at our allies in the Mideast.

      Our borders are a freeway to every illegal alien that can walk, drive or fly. We have babies going to bed hungry tonight. Dozens of murders and burglaries ever day and there are thousands of good men and women ready and willing to work for their keep. And yet we run around all over the world fighting others fights and giving them money to use against us. Say for example, oh I don’t know, Pakistan?

  9. Sunny van Zyl September 15, 2012 at 1:33 am #

    Why doesn't our muslim loving pres. send his daughters to school in Iran?

  10. Wakinyan September 14, 2012 at 9:27 pm #

    This was the last paragraph to my other comments and I don’t know why it didn’t show up.

    I too was sickened by the treasonous reign of the clintons and actually didn’t think we could possibly do worse short of being invaded by a foreign nation. I just didn’t know about obama back then. He is not inept; he knows exactly what he is doing and where he wants to take this country. I believe he will stop at nothing to retain and expand the power he has usurped and I am sickened by the millions of blind sheeple that still support him but even more so by the politicians of both parties who have aided and abetted his crimes against America and are still doing so in the face of indisputable evidence of where he intends to drive this country. Get ready folks, it is going to get worse, especially if he is allowed to stay in office.

  11. Wakinyan September 14, 2012 at 8:30 pm #

    As always Dan, you have nailed it again. These violent invasions of American Embassies and the tragic results perpetrated by mindless beasts that wouldn’t know freedom or democracy when it was presented to them should have been met with withering fire from the Marine security assigned to all American Embassies everywhere. Where were the Marines or had hillary in all her wisdom and brilliance as a super Sec of State decided they were not needed or had they been given orders not to use deadly force to repel invaders? Or had the Marines been purposely pulled out and replaced by local forces? The word coming down is that hillary had been warned in plenty of time these attacks were coming but chose to disregard those warnings. What is the definition of treason and imbecilic incompetence? After all, aren’t Libya and Egypt our solid allies now? Surely they would provide the necessary security.
    Suggestion to readers of the Daily Rant: READ “Obama’s America – Unmaking the American Dream” by Dinesh D’Souza and if you haven’t already done so, go see the movie “2016″ that is based on the detailed research for that book. You will come to a much deeper understanding of why we are where we are and that if we are to survive with any vestige of individual liberty and prosperity there is no alternative to putting obama OUT of the White House without any semblance of the power and influence other former presidents exercise. (In fact he really should spend the rest of his life in prison for the crimes he as already committed and be stripped of all the perks and funds routinely accorded to former presidents after they leave office.) No one that isn’t brain-dead can absorb the information in just those two sources and fail to recognize the lethal danger obama is to this country and what was once our way of life. Much of what we see daily is purposely intended to distract the sheep from grasping how they are being shorn.

  12. Elda Maria Orozco-Delgado September 14, 2012 at 10:34 pm #

    You Nailed..That's my opinion too…I couldn't wait for those to leave the White House…It was a nightmare…And now we are suffering the same type of deficiency, pluss missery, that is killing the will of the American people..We are suffering a crissis, that only we have seen in Socialist Countries…and it is going to get worse, ifdo do something soon…People this not a game..Fanatics like everyone else are going to going down..There is not one in top of Obamas list, except for himself. He is arrogant and a control freak..A SOCIALIST with an AGENDA of DESTRUCTION for AMERICA…HE IS NOT A CHRISTIAN..HE IS A MUSLIN…AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A MUSLIN…HE WILL NEVER DFEND AMERICA, HE IS COMMITTED TO HIS RELIGION AS A MUSLIN..DO NOT FORGET THAT…IT IS NOT S RUMOR..IT IS THE TRUTH…HIS GOAL IS THE COMPLETE CONVERSION OF OUR NATION TO A MUSLIN NATION…AND HE AT THE HEAD..LIKE A KING.

    • Dan Bubalo September 14, 2012 at 6:38 pm #

      You said better than I could, Elda.

      Well done.

  13. Rebecca September 14, 2012 at 6:03 pm #

    Hey folks, it plainly states that this column was written by Dan Bubalo. Please give credit where credit is due.
    Good article, Dan. :)

    • Dan Bubalo September 14, 2012 at 6:42 pm #

      Thank you, Rebecca.

      Mike and I are a team, so compliments to him merely reflect on me.

      How bad is that? ? ? ? ?

      Regards,

      DB

      • sumitch September 15, 2012 at 12:57 am #

        Good going Dan. I know that you appreciate her praise but are humble enough to share it. If you were Obama the answer would have been more along the line of “I’m happy that I’m able to give you the benefit of my wisdom. But I’m happy to have Dan carry my luggage”.

  14. Rebecca September 14, 2012 at 6:01 pm #

    I don’t think Bill or Hillary either one are too timit to go after the Muslims. I think they are both so Socialistic that they want to weaken America . .. in order to guide it into socialism. . . .and I think the Muslim at the helm, has fooled the Dems into thinking that is is a Socialist . . when he is a Muslim first and foremost. I think he probably cried when OBL was killed.
    Now Obama is getting ready to throw Hill under the bus, and Bill will fight back . . if he has any cajones at all. O doesn’t seem to realize that without Bill, he won’t win the coming election.

    • sumitch September 15, 2012 at 12:28 am #

      Maybe we should send Hillary a ball bat and a pic of Bill and Monica just in case it’s slipped her mind. Just saying ….

  15. renee September 14, 2012 at 5:59 pm #

    Mychal, as usual you’ve hit the nail right on the head and reminded us once again, of the travesty known as “The Clintons”. I’m always disppointed though not shocked when I see those lukewarm conservative talking heads, especially on Fox news, celebrating this man as if his disappointing presidency ushered in some kind of era of peace and prosperity!

    Clinton, like Obama and nearly every other youthful looking and incompetent liberal Democrat politician in the future, will forever be modeled after the Democrat establishments “politically-superior” poster boy, John F. Kennedy! Though JFK spent very little time in office establishing any real kind of monumental policies due to his untimely and tragic death, he continues to remain etched in the hollow minds of millions of liberals and some conservatives as some kind of “iconic” hero!

    Even in my own home and upbringing, the name and image of JFK was somehow always correlated to that of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. From my own educational and historical accounts, JFK was held as a crusader for the Civil Rights Movements and welfare of African-Americans. But I’m not even going to get into the lengthy details of the real, womanizing JFK.

    The point is that The Clintons along with Obama have left such a soiled and indelible mark on our spiritually sinking culture through their decades long promotion of morally crippling, failed tax-payer funded, government social policies!

  16. Kwatz September 14, 2012 at 5:45 pm #

    Thank you Dan for your kind words, or should I say Danny. Who would have thought that picking Political Science for a Liberal Arts degree would turn into a lifetime obsession. I may have spoken too soon in my earlier post. It seems that the Obama regime is trying to introduce Hillary to the tires under the bus. This race is about to get really interesting. Does Bubba retaliate or play the good soldier? Inquiring minds want to know

    • Dan Bubalo September 14, 2012 at 6:06 pm #

      I’m not sure who sings it, Kwatz, though it could be Tug McGraw’s kid, and I’m paraphrasing: who you once were ain’t who you’re going to be.

      Like I told a friend today, we’re now “that guy.” “That guy in the neighborhood, that guy with the perfect lawn, that guy whose house nobody throws tomatoes at out of utter fear.

      That guy.

      Let’s be that guy.

  17. Chris September 14, 2012 at 5:25 pm #

    Love your Rant today, Dan! Sad thing is, Libya has some historic ruins dating from Roman times that these monsters don’t give a hoot about. Go to any muslim country & you find the equivalent of a rat-&-flea infested slum! We should turn both countries into dark,smoking craters. There was some truth in that song parody ‘Bomb Iran’ by Vince Vance & the Valiants when they sang: “Ole Uncle Sam’s gettin pretty hot, Gonna turn Iran into a parking lot”.

  18. Marilyn September 14, 2012 at 5:11 pm #

    Dan, Nope. I don’t want to go into Lybia or Egypt any more than our 50-60 military WANTS to go. They are put in harm’s way especially during this month. American embassies should have been fortified and aware that Muslims could breach the U.S. embassies. Where was Stringy haired Clinton and what was she thinking?! U.S. Ambassador Joseph Kennedy’s service was ended in 1940, I think, when he declared that U.K. was no longer a democracy and U.S. may be the same. (Negative thinker and rumor monger?) His message reached many ears and his career was over. Much more to it but I have to admit that I don’t recall all of it. The stories I do recall about “The Kennedy Family” are not so good. I see we have another running for political offce. They just don’t give up.

  19. simmjz September 14, 2012 at 4:51 pm #

    we had the iran embassy with a stand down from high ups. now we have guards that may not have had orders to shoot or even loaded guns. no wounded from the other side? Great in depth media investigative reporting. how about next time lock and load and when the walls are breached open fire!this is the most inept bunch of leaders we have ever had in this country! Give them the boot.

  20. jim September 14, 2012 at 4:47 pm #

    where are you charmin’ billy,billy boy,billy boy
    I agree,barry needs bill politicing for him real bad,a utter disgrace(no pun intended)that bill– still is.Of course,that party makes a frat party look religious.billy boy,stuck in his thumb,pulled out a plumb and the democrap party said what a good boy he is…..

  21. Gary Thomsen September 14, 2012 at 4:25 pm #

    Concerning yesterday’s and today’s rants, I have this to say. If you belong to a religion which demands absolute obedience from a narcissistic, child-molesting, lying phony (Mohammed); then you have the mindset of a zombie. You need a powerful, cruel, absolute leader for the country you live in, and you will get it. In dealing with the muslim countries, our choice is, and always has been; brute force.
    They understand nothing else and will respect nothing less. We can do one of three things: let the American-hating mullahs run the show, help into a power a ruthless dictator and prop him up with American money, or blow the place to smithereens. Invade, don’t try to make friends, don’t be nice, don’t build up the infrastructure. At least not for a generation. Don’t allow any interference or resistance. I know this sounds harsh, but harsh is the only thing these fanatics understand and respect. “nuf said.

    • Dan Bubalo September 14, 2012 at 4:31 pm #

      Gary, you’ve been looking over my shoulder and reading my playbook.

      I’m a Harry Truman type of guy. There weren’t any questions remaining after he decided to make a statement, and we could do it all over again in spades right now if we had the —–to do so.

      Work with Mike and me and let’s keep it rolling.

      DB

      • pblee September 14, 2012 at 9:39 pm #

        Perhaps the word/words you are reluctant to spell may be one or all of the following: A.Balls, B.Nuts, C.’Nads, D.Brains, E.Nerve, OR D.All of the above. Barry does not have any of the previously mentioned assets and neither does Hillary.

        • sumitch September 15, 2012 at 12:38 am #

          Hillary may have A, B and C. Hard to tell.

      • sumitch September 15, 2012 at 1:00 am #

        There sure weren’t any questions after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

  22. Terrence Snyder September 14, 2012 at 8:14 pm #

    In 2007 I gave a friend a T-shirt with Hillary's picture on it with a circle over it and a slash through…with the caption underneath, "Redefeat Communism"… At the time I thought she would be the worst… Little did I know that someone would follow who would truly be the worst..

  23. Kwatz September 14, 2012 at 3:54 pm #

    Karma is a bitch. Obama’s natural response to the crisis in the Middle East would be to throw someone under the bus. The natural sacrifice would be Hillary. Problem is, the more his ineptitude surfaces, the more he needs Bubba. So he can’t blame Hillary. Some of this may actually stick to him, despite the MSM spin to the contrary. Obama is in deep trouble and it won’t be going away any time soon.

    • Dan Bubalo September 14, 2012 at 4:11 pm #

      I want the world to know that Mr. “Kwatz” is a man I’ve known for almost 40 years, and if we could just capture his ardor the world would be a better place.

      We remember Carter, do we not Kwatz? It’s 1979 redux, and it’s sickening.

      • Kwatz September 14, 2012 at 7:47 pm #

        As my brother Fritz repeated to me, It takes a Carter to make a Reagan. Let’s hope history DOES repeat itself. While Mitt isn’t Ronnie, Paul Ryan might be and we know the problems that have to be addressed will take longer than 2 terms of Mitt to solve.

  24. JoAnn Turner September 14, 2012 at 7:50 pm #

    Better yet, lets book her and hubby a trip!

    • Dan Bubalo September 14, 2012 at 4:12 pm #

      I’ll put down my own VISA card for that vacation, JoAnn.

      • r. woods September 14, 2012 at 5:46 pm #

        Dan;
        I’ll go DUTCH with you on the expense and if we can get bill c. on the plane I’ll cover his ticket all by my self. It’s way past time for these folks to wake the hell up, their still putting the spin on this as anger over a movie! Ft. Hood was work place violence! And our buildings got in the way of their student pilots! Just my opinion but it’s time to be putting some of those virgins to work! Dan you and Mychal keep telling the truth and thank you for what you do.

    • Danease Gresch September 14, 2012 at 4:44 pm #

      Minus the Secret Service – give them no protection whatsoever!

    • Lindamaeusa Davis September 15, 2012 at 6:17 am #

      JoAnn: You need to book that ticket ONE WAY please!!! Wasn't eight (8) God-Awful years of those demons enough??? They stole every National Treasure in OUR White House that wasn't nailed down when they finally left! Geeeeezzzzz!

      On Another Subject: Did you read the recent http://www.personalliberty.com article where Clinton is trying to "set it up" for her to be POTUS in 2016? (IF America still exists by then! . . . obama is already "coaching" different crowds to refer to him as: "America's First (and only!) Dictator and this beautiful country will be assimilated with Canada and Mexico into the NORTH AMERICAN UNION! Research this information to see if it's right or wrong: NAU, The Amero, Forced RFID's inserted by 2014 . . .and read Gerome Corsi's book: "The Late Great U.S.A."

  25. Mimi McHale September 14, 2012 at 7:44 pm #

    Holy Moly! I agree with you 100%. Well said!

    • Dan Bubalo September 14, 2012 at 4:13 pm #

      Thanks, Mimi.

      Stay with us.

      We’re just getting warmed up.

  26. Wes Harris September 14, 2012 at 7:24 pm #

    Michael…You have this spot on. Both Clintons are a disgrace to this country and I marvel that there are those that think otherwise. They remember their history, not at all.

    • Lolo September 14, 2012 at 3:44 pm #

      If you watched any of the DNC you were probaby as amased as I was at the swooning over Slick Willie. The whole time he was speaking I barely listed to him; all I could think of was Monica and the blue dress…And we (they) now worship the very ground he walks on? Yikes!

      • Dan Bubalo September 14, 2012 at 4:16 pm #

        You can put earrings on a pig, Lolo, but……………

        you still have a pig.

        Bill Clinton was and will always remain a disgrace.

        • sumitch September 15, 2012 at 1:08 am #

          And people still kiss the ground he walks on even after the lies, the tax increases (remember the first thing he did was raise taxes saying “We didn’t realize how bad it was”), Monica, disgracing the office and his draft dodging. Yep, he’s an icon. Just not sure of what.

          Jimmy Carter may be happy that he’s no long the worst president we’ve had, but Obama will hold the title of most corrupt for many decades.

      • G2Shoes September 14, 2012 at 4:45 pm #

        I felt a certain obligation to watch the Democrat Convention– equal time I guess after watching the Republicans. I was fascinated by Clinton, like watching a snake or a snake charmer. He is the consummate liar, an almost perfect politician!

    • Kathleen Makkreel September 14, 2012 at 8:21 pm #

      History? What history? Schools deem it isn't necessary to teach history anymore, and you know what they say, "If you don't know history you are bound to repeat it" Seems to be much more important to have the little darlings sing a song about O rather than learn anything.

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