SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:52 P.M. ET: 

OBNOXIOUS – From Townhall.com:  "Last week Angela Ricketts, the wife of an active duty military officer, received a message through her author page on Facebook. At first she assumed it was an average online troll, but after further investigation discovered the message came from an ISIS account. On the same day she received the threat, four other military wives received something similar.  'I read the message and it was terrifying. It threatened my family, it threatened me, it threatened my husband, it said they knew everything about us and where we were and threatened us with Shariah law,' Ricketts said On The Record Thursday night. 'This isn't the mountains of eastern Afghanistan and Paktika province. This isn't the desert of Iraq. This is here and this is now. This is a brand new world and how are we going to deal with it now that it's here and these threats are directed towards us?'"  Obama would probably tell Angela that she must understand the sins we've committed against these poor, brotherly ISIS fighters.

WE WEIGH, THEY PLAY – From the Washington Post:  "The Obama administration is weighing a new round of sanctions against Russia in response to its continued 'land-grabbing' in eastern Ukraine despite a cease-fire agreement, Secretary of State John F. Kerry said Saturday.  Speaking to reporters in London, where he met with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, Kerry said he expected that the United States and its European allies would impose some 'very serious' sanctions and other steps to punish Moscow after repeated cease-fire violations by Russian-backed Ukrainian separatists."  I'm sure Putin is deeply frightened and has nightmares over having to confront Field Marshal of the United States (and parts of Rhode Island) Barack Obama. 

NANNY MOVES INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD – From the Washington Times:  "A federal advisory committee this week urged that the government’s next generation of dietary guidelines for the first time take into account environmental factors, specifically recommending more fruits and vegetables and less meats.  'Consistent evidence indicates that, in general, a dietary pattern that is higher in plant-based foods, such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds, and lower in animal-based foods is more health promoting and is associated with lesser environmental impact (GHG emissions and energy, land, and water use) than is the current average U.S. diet,' the U.S. 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee recommended in a wide-ranging report.  GHG standards for greenhouse gas emissions, which climate scientists blame for global warming."  They'll have to pry that ice-cream cone out of my cold, dead hands.

February 21, 2015