Old Jarhead's Political
SitRep for May 20, 2013
Robert A. Hall
Amazon Reader Review: More Grabowski's,
please! By C. Nagle
The publisher's review says this novella is "...an old
Marine's lessons on life, love and giving. You will want to read it more than
once, and give copies to those special people you care about." and it is
exactly right. I am a long time correspondent with the author, and a subscriber
to his blog. Knowing him as I do, I am certain that much of the novella is
based on his personal experience. He knew Eddie Grabowski, perhaps by another
name, and has met the other characters in the story. It is a straightforward
tale, easy to read, and the ending will be predictable to many. Nevertheless,
the novella deserves 5 stars because it is a story that is heartwarming at a
time when there is little warmth in the world. You will like Eddie Grabowski
and his friends, and you will want to introduce them to your friends and family
by giving them a copy. It is easy to do, especially since the author
contributes all proceeds to the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation. Get it, and
meet Eddie. (Chet Nagle is a Naval Aviator, former CIA agent and author of the
frightening terrorism thrillers The Iran
Covenant and The Woolsorter's Plague.
Iran
Covenant ~Bob)
Eddie Grabowski's Gift: A Marine Chris tmas
Story. by Robert A. Hall
Worth Reading
Excerpt: But since witnessing and thinking about your out-of-doors
appearance at the White House earlier this week, the only words that
do not escape me are, "You look ridiculous. You look beneath a United States
Old Jarhead Blog Readers
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outside the United States
Hoax: Swedish Man 'Dies After Having Sex With Hornet’s
Nest'
Excerpt: The bizarre story of a man who died after trying to
have sex with a hornet's nest has been exposed as a hoax. (Okay, I withdraw the
Darwin Award. But have a different award for the person who created the hoax.
~Bob.)
Piers Morgan: Now I
See U.S.
Excerpt: Now - after learning of the Obama administration's
involvement in the IRS' targeting of conservative groups and its secret seizure
of Associated Press phone records - the CNN host admitted to guest Penn
Jillette that perhaps gun advocates were right about creeping tyranny after
all:
IRS commissioner
stonewalls on prying into pro-life group’s prayers
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/17/irs-commissioner-stonewalls-on-prying-into-pro-life-groups-prayers/#ixzz2TfUk2q1B
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/17/irs-commissioner-stonewalls-on-prying-into-pro-life-groups-prayers/#ixzz2TfUk2q1B
Excerpt: Testifying before the House Ways
Didn't get the memo. ~Bob. Excerpt: Bombs struck Sunni areas in Baghdad
and surrounding areas Friday, killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day
in Iraq
http://www.globalmbwatch.com/2013/05/14/naval-academy-instructor-teaching-behalf-muslim-brotherhood/
Excerpt: According to promotional
material, a United States Naval Academy professor is teaching on
behalf of the International
Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), a part of the US
Muslim Brotherhood and where global Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi
reportedly serves as a trustee.
Christian leader
gunned down by Islamic militants in Nigeria
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/05/16/christian-leader-gunned-down-by-islamic-militants-in-nigeria/?test=latestnews#ixzz2Tg1JoLrl
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/05/16/christian-leader-gunned-down-by-islamic-militants-in-nigeria/?test=latestnews#ixzz2Tg1JoLrl
Didn't get the memo. ~Bob. Excerpt: A Nigerian Christian
leader was killed when suspected Muslim militants burst into his home and shot
him, as the religious fighting in Africa ’s
most populous nation continues to worsen. Two members of Islamic militant group
Boko Haram shot Faye Pama Mysa, a Pentecostal pastor and secretary of the
Christian Association of Nigeria, in his home Wednesday, according to multiple
reports.
Excerpt: Fifteen men of Palestinian origin have been
arrested on charges of running a multi-million-dollar cigarette smuggling ring in
New York , and New York
Student Rejected for Diversity Post Because He is “White.” By Todd Starnes
Excerpt: A Northwestern
University
IRS Told Pro-Life Group Not to Picket Planned Parenthood. By Todd Starnes
Excerpt: The Internal Revenue Service allegedly told an Iowa pro-life group they had to sign documents promising
not to protest or picket Planned Parenthood and they told a Texas
Obama, IRS and Eric Holder: The Axis of Hear No Evil, See
No Evil. By John Ransom
Excerpt: You know the people I’m talking about. The
Know-Nothings. You know the folks who pushed that one law regarding almost
20 percent of the entire economy before they even read the bill? The ones who
rushed it into law just to see what was in it? The ones who managed to write a
bill, while still not being familiar with what the bill actually did? Yeah, those guys?
The Know-Nothings. Well, they know nothing about a lot of other stuff too.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: 5) The Democrat Party's slogan in 1868: "This is a white
man’s country: Let white men rule."
Shocking: Study Admits Income Taxes Penalize Growth. By Daniel J. Mitchell
Excerpt: Now that there’s no ambiguity about my overall
position, I can admit that the OECD isn’t always on the wrong side. Much of the
bad policy comes from its committee system, which brings together bureaucrats
from member nations. The OECD also has an economics department, and they
sometimes produce good work. Most recently, they produced a report on the
Swiss tax system that contains some very sound analysis –
including a rejection of Obama-style class
warfare and a call to lower income tax burdens.
'It made him look
like a butler': Retired general blasts President Obama for ordering U.S.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325893/President-Obama-makes-U-S-Marine-break-rules-does-look-happy-it.html
Excerpt: President Obama humiliated the marine who he asked to hold his umbrella by making him ‘look like a butler’, a respected military general claimed today. Thomas McInerney, a former United States Air Force Lieutenant General, said that the President showed a ‘lack of respect’ by making the soldier shelter him from a shower. (What do you expect from a guy who calls a Navy medical person a "corpse man." ~Bob.)
Excerpt: President Obama humiliated the marine who he asked to hold his umbrella by making him ‘look like a butler’, a respected military general claimed today. Thomas McInerney, a former United States Air Force Lieutenant General, said that the President showed a ‘lack of respect’ by making the soldier shelter him from a shower. (What do you expect from a guy who calls a Navy medical person a "corpse man." ~Bob.)
Obama breaches Marine
umbrella protocol
Excerpt: The commander in chief of the American armed
forces today forced a violation of Marine Corps regulations, so he wouldn’t get
wet. According to Marine Corps regulation MCO P1020.34F of the Marine Corps
Uniform Regulations chapter 3, a male Marine is not allowed to carry an
umbrella while in uniform. There is no provision in the Marine Corps uniform
regulation guidelines that allows a male Marine to carry an umbrella.
Nevertheless, during a press conference under a light drizzle with Turkish
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan this morning, President Obama allowed the
First Head to be protected from the elements by an umbrella held by a male
Marine corporal. (There are few things more elitist, more arrogant, than having
someone you view as a menial stand in the rain to hold an umbrella over you so
you stay dry. Wouldn't matter who it was. ~Bob.)
The New Science of
Giving.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-new-science-of-giving-212647170.html
Excerpt: The Arnolds, who call themselves "independent-minded Democrats," say they don't have political motivations and even hired Denis Calabrese, a former Republican operative, to run their foundation and build its strategy. John says they only donate "where the politics start to meet in the middle." Don't tell that toHouston
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-new-science-of-giving-212647170.html
Excerpt: The Arnolds, who call themselves "independent-minded Democrats," say they don't have political motivations and even hired Denis Calabrese, a former Republican operative, to run their foundation and build its strategy. John says they only donate "where the politics start to meet in the middle." Don't tell that to
Bill Maher: GOP
guilty of ‘treason’; Michael Moore: ‘They hate America
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/18/bill-maher-gop-guilty-of-treason-michael-moore-they-hate-america/#ixzz2TfVdYYWZ
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/18/bill-maher-gop-guilty-of-treason-michael-moore-they-hate-america/#ixzz2TfVdYYWZ
Excerpt: On Friday’s “Real Time” on HBO, two of the most
prominent liberal personalities, Bill Maher and Michael Moore, said the
Republican Party’s opposition to President Barack Obama at almost every turn
amounts to anti-American criminality. According to Maher, the show’s host, House Republicans’
efforts to repeal Obama’s health care reform and Senate Republicans’ blocking
of his judicial nominations go beyond loyal opposition and could rise to
the level of treason. (Drank the Kool-Aid…or have had the robochips imbedded.
--Barb. So the Senate can consent, but not consenting is treason? Kind of like
some other countries where it's death to vote against the leader. No one hates America like Moore
IRS head on targeting
tea party: ‘It is absolutely not illegal’
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/17/irs-official-on-targeting-tea-party-it-is-absolutely-not-illegal/#ixzz2TfWyeGNc
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/17/irs-official-on-targeting-tea-party-it-is-absolutely-not-illegal/#ixzz2TfWyeGNc
Excerpt: The outgoing leader of the Internal Revenue Service
drew audible “wows” from Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee on
Friday for saying he doesn’t think what the agency did to tea party groups was
illegal. “It is absolutely not illegal,” Steve Miller, the acting commissioner
of the IRS who resigned this week because of the scandal, said while being
questioned by Georgia Rep. Tom Price.
Disabled
Veterans Have Checks Stolen By IRS
Excerpt:
I kindly read the federal code mentioned above to the lady I spoke with at the
IRS, reminding her that VA disability money is 100% exempt. She placed me on
hold for another age (I could see a man coming- bearing water- over the
horizon) and then she came back on the line and told me, “We do not take
veterans’ disability money. We wait until the funds are deposited from the VA
and then we take all of the funds from your bank account.” (So they are just
taking the banks money, right? Although lost somewhere in the bank his
disability money is safe and secure, right? --MM)
IRS Sued For
Allegedly Seizing Medical Records of 60 Million Americans
Excerpt: An unnamed California
IRS,
Labor Department Audit Businessman on Obama’s Enemies List
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/07/21/irs-labor-department-audit-businessman-on-obamas-enemies-list/
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/07/21/irs-labor-department-audit-businessman-on-obamas-enemies-list/
Excerpt: VanderSloot
is now facing persecution from the federal government. Kimberly Strassel
reveals in The Wall Street Journal that two federal agencies — the Internal
Revenue Service and Labor Department — both launched investigations of
VanderSloot after his name appeared on Obama’s enemies list. (Let's connect
some dots here. Obama, thousands of new IRS agents to enforce Obamacare,
Obama's unconstitutional appointments to the NLRB, both the Labor Department and
the IRS auditing and intimidating those that disagree with Obama's agenda. --MM)
More Marines holding
umbrellas for Obama than defending the embassy in Benghazi
This Is No Ordinary
Scandal: Political abuse of the IRS threatens the basic integrity of our
government.
Excerpt: We are in the midst of the worst Washington
Nigel Farage and Scotland
Excerpt: It might be some consolation for the British
nationalist to know that he is in step with a lot of Scots. Radio 4’s Today has
at least as many listeners in Scotland Scotland
The
Expulsion of the Moors. By Mike Konrad.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/05/the_expulsion_of_the_moors.html#ixzz2TgaBiiu2 Excerpt: By 1609,Spain
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/05/the_expulsion_of_the_moors.html#ixzz2TgaBiiu2 Excerpt: By 1609,
Excerpt: I also seem to be a "big fish in a small
pond". My page views average about 10,000 per month. That is far above the
average. Here's how the blogging experts grade the small guys like me: “Up and
Coming”: 500 unique visitors each month (16 visitors a day/1100 page views
month) “Loyal Following”: 3500 unique visitors each month (112 visitors a day,
10,000 page views per month) “Popular Blogger”: 15,000 unique visitors each month
(483 visitors a day, 45,000 page views per month) So, as you can see, my page
views indicate that my blog is three times the rate for a "loyal
following" and I'm about 75% of the way toward achieving "popular
blogger" status. Some months I achieve that goal, especially when one of
my blog entries go "semi-viral". I've exceeded 20,000 page views in a
month three times since I began. (I frequently link to pieces on "Lost in America
Worth Reading
Excerpt: There is one area in particular where it is
hard to find the truth spoken by either Republicans or Democrats: namely, this
whole idea that Muslim people yearn for democracy. It is a glaring
short-sightedness that both sides hold in common. To be sure, many of my Muslim friends long for Western-style
democracy and freedom. But they are always thwarted (and always will be) by the
majority view. That is why even those friends of mine would admit that
democracy is incompatible with Islamic ideology.
‘Joe’s Law’: Sheriff
Joe Arpaio’s Strategy to Derail Amnesty for Illegals Enrages the Left. By John
Hill
Excerpt: Sheriff Joe Arpaio is facing an unprecedented
campaign to recall him from office. This follows a re-election campaign
last year which saw unprecedented amounts spent on both sides, as George Soros
committed $10 million to oust “America America Chicago
Excerpt: Kidnapping infidels and releasing them for ransom
or killing them, as well as enslaving them if that option is deemed most
advantageous for the Muslims, is fully sanctioned in Islamic law: "As for
the captives, the amir [ruler] has the choice of taking the most beneficial
action of four possibilities: the first to put them to death by cutting their
necks; the second, to enslave them and apply the laws of slavery regarding
their sale and manumission; the third, to ransom them in exchange for goods or
prisoners; and fourth, to show favor to them and pardon them. Allah, may he be
exalted, says, 'When you encounter those [infidels] who deny [the Truth=Islam]
then strike [their] necks' (Qur'an sura 47, verse 4)" — Abu’l-Hasan
al-Mawardi, al-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah (The Laws of Islamic Governance),
trans. by Dr. Asadullah Yate, (London), Ta-Ha Publishers Ltd., 1996, p. 192.
The Qur'an allows for the owning of sex slaves:
Anti-Christian
Hostility High in Zanzibar as Tanzania
Excerpt: Islamic extremist attacks and land grabs on this
semi-autonomous island off the coast of Tanzania
Excerpt: This AP story uses "conservative" to
refer to the pro-Sharia Muslims who blocked this women's rights law. That's in
accord with common journalistic practice, which refers to religious people of
any religion as "conservative" and to more secular types as
"liberal." The common journalistic practice runs into a contradiction,
however, with the global alliance between Islamic supremacists and the forces
of the Left. That leads the mainstream media to term opponents of Sharia
"right-wing" and even "far-right," their all-purpose term
to semaphore to readers that we are bad people and decent folks should stay
away from us. But that means that in the U.S. ,
opponents of Sharia are "conservatives," while in Afghanistan Afghanistan
Moroccan jailed for Milan
Didn't get the memo. ~Bob. Excerpt: A 22-year-old Moroccan
man has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for planning terrorist
attacks on Milan
Not to minimize
terrorism, but illegals kill every day
Per FBI stats, Mexicans are the demographic with the highest
number of DUI arrests. It is part of machismo. It makes some of them feel
important for a moment. Please don't let your senator vote for amnesty. --Don
Hank
Moon Explosion
Sparked By Meteorite Crash On Lunar Surface, NASA Says (VIDEO)
Excerpt: Scientists deduced the rock had been roughly
1-foot-wide (between 0.3 to 0.4 meters) and weighted about 88 lbs (40 kg).The
explosion it created was as powerful as 5 tons of TNT, NASA scientists said. When
researchers looked back at their records from March, they found that the moon
meteor might not have been an isolated event. (The video and voice-over is from
NASA, the print coverage by HuffPo is based on NASA’s press release. At about
18 miles per second, the object’s weight isn’t all that important; a
snowflake moving that fast would have enough force to penetrate a tank’s armor
and kill the crew. We may live in a dangerous universe, but it’s the only one
we have. Ron P. Actually, I'm thinking of moving out. ~Bob.)
The Quiet Triumph
Of Oil And Gas In Obama's Policies. By Wolf Richter
excerpt: It was announced Friday afternoon, when
no one was supposed to pay attention: after years of controversy, heated
rhetoric, intense lobbying, and stiff opposition from some unlikely bedfellows,
with multinational industrial and chemical companies weighing down one side of
the bed, and environmentalists tossing and turning on the other, the Obama
Administration decided in favor of the US oil and gas industry. With
geopolitical ramifications. (Despite his atrocious behavior, Obama could
preside over a much better economy this term. If I had a few extra bucks, I
might invest in some of the LNG transport. --Don Hank)
A Culture of Intimidation: If Barack Obama didn’t directly
order the harassment of his political enemies, he certainly encouraged it.
Excerpt: Similarly, while we still don’t know what the White
House knew and when it knew it (and the president’s non-responsive answer to a
question that wasn’t asked on
Thursday not only failed to clarify the issue, but increased
cause for suspicion), the administration certainly created an environment in
which IRS functionaries might have thought it was their job to go after his
political enemies. If they weren’t doing literally to them what the Abu Ghraib
rogue soldiers were doing to individual Iraqi’s fundaments, they were certainly
doing it figuratively. This is particularly true because by the very
nature of their job, and the ideology of the limited-government groups, many of
the IRS employees probably viewed them as their own political
adversaries. (The only resolution is to prosecute those involved, see if a plea
deal will make them sing. DOJ will move heaven and earth to prevent that.
~Bob.)
Excerpt: It seems Ms. Abedin,
accurately described by the New York Times as Hillary
Rodham Clinton’s ”longtime aide and confidante,” spent her last months at the
State Department not really at the State Department….While the State Department
was paying her $135,000 as a “special government employee,” Abedin was also
permitted to moonlight as a “strategic consultant” for Teneo, a firm
founded by Doug Band, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton…..Apparently
not to the great delight of the Clintons, Weiner, as part of his effort to come
back from his virtual sex scandal and maybe make a run for New York City mayor,
decided to release the couple’s 2012 tax returns. (Per author, records show
double dipping plus Weiner’s income made “just shy of a half-million dollars
last year.” --Barb)
Excerpt: President Obama continues to insist that he first
became aware of his IRS targeting conservative groups a week
ago Friday when the news first broke. This, despite the fact that his
White House counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler, had been informed of the probe on April
22. …The inspector general gave Republicans some fodder Friday when
he divulged that he informed the Treasury’s general counsel he was auditing the
I.R.S.’s screening of politically active groups seeking tax exemptions on June
4, 2012.
Excerpt: In the parade of United Nations absurdities, here
comes Iran’s four-week presidency of the UN Conference
on Disarmament — an arrangement that the U.S. Mission to the UN has described
as “unfortunate and inappropriate,” and Hillel Neuer of UN Watch has more accurately compared to “putting Jack
the Ripper in charge of a women’s shelter.” But should anyone be surprised?
This is how the UN works.
Why Would Eric Holder Want to Deport This White, Evangelical Christian,
Homeschooling Family?: My money is on political profiling.
Excerpt: Subjected to criminal prosecution for homeschooling
their six children, Uwe and Hannelore Romeike fled Germany
Obama, the Betrayer: Democrats discovering what the right has
known about Obama since the beginning.
Excerpt: The right noticed long ago that Obama is a cold
fish and an arrogant loner, a man willing to abandon longtime mentors in the
blink of an eye if need be (think Jeremiah Wright). It never seemed as though
Democrats cared, though, as long as Obama served their purposes and they served
his….What they haven’t yet learned is the significance of another major part of
the Obama resume, which is that he does not operate on the usual political
system of “you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.” Instead, he’s just as
likely to thank you by sticking a shiv (metaphorically speaking, that is) in
your back.
MasterCard to Power
Nigerian Identity Card Program: 13 Million Cards to be issued first, in largest
card rollout of its kind in Africa
Excerpt: The Nigerian National
Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and MasterCard today announced at the World Economic Forum on Africa the roll-out of 13 million
MasterCard-branded National Identity
Smart Cards with electronic payment capability as a pilot
program. The National Identity Smart Card is the Card Scheme under the recently
deployed National Identity Management System (NIMS). …. As part of the
program, in its first phase, Nigerians 16 years and older, and all residents in
the country for more than two years, will get the new multipurpose identity
card which has 13 applications including MasterCard’s prepaid payment
technology that will provide cardholders with the safety, convenience and
reliability of electronic payments.
Did Obama’s Media Market Bubble Burst? by John Daly
Excerpt: It sure has been interesting over the past week to
watch the news media finally approach the Obama administration with the one
tactic many of us thought they’d never use in their coverage: Some good old
fashioned scrutiny. Despite showing up to the game way late on Benghazi
Traffic Stop (Video
of shooting)
Shooting took place in March. Middlefield , OH
Excerpt: The middle class American worker is in danger of
becoming an endangered species. The politicians are not telling you the truth,
and the mainstream media is certainly not telling you the truth, but the
reality is that there is nothing but bad news on the horizon for workers in the
United States China
Estacada farmworker
resentenced in robbery, shooting death of foreman
Illegal Alien Convicted Of Murder In Oregon Benghazi
WH: ‘Irrelevant’ Where Obama Was
During Benghazi
Excerpt: On Fox News Sunday this
morning, White House spokesman Dan Pfeiffer was asked by Chris Wallace where in
the White House President Obama was during the September 11, 2012 terrorist
attack in Benghazi
WH: Legality Of IRS
Action Against Conservatives ‘Irrelevant’
Excerpt: Appearing on Sunday morning on ABC
News’ This Week, White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer told a credulous
George Stephanopoulos that the IRS’ targeting of conservative groups was
“inexcusable,” and that the law with regard to the activity was “irrelevant.”
“I can’t speak to the law here,” he said. “The law is irrelevant. (Between
Holder fixing elections, allowing BP intimidation again, throwing out licensed
poll watchers, holding elections in rooms with Obama’s graven image emblazoned
on the walls, over 100% of precincts turning out for regime without a single
opposing vote recorded, people in foreign countries making donations to his
campaign and integrity of donations never audited, then opposing voices
stonewalled by government union agencies….well, I just noted all the
surveillance cameras on US 90 on every stoplight in my city—not there
before—and now CBS news is telling me this bull…that the “government is limited
in how it can use face recognition cameras.” Pishtocky. Do not know who licensed,
voted or authorized but Big Bro is here with an iron fist. It is payback time
for the “folks.” I’m sure this is irrelevant. --Barb)
Irony Alert: Obama to black graduates: Don’t use
racism as an excuse
And the award for most hilarious irony goes to... Tom H.
Excerpt: Speaking at an historically black college President Obama said
Sunday he sometimes blamed his youthful failings on racism and urged the
all-male class of graduates to look up to black male role models such a
filmmaker Spike Lee. Protected by a canopy in a steady rain at Morehouse College
in Atlanta
Increase in doctors’
pay for Medicaid services off to a slow start
Excerpt: The Obama administration’s strategy of enticing
more primary-care doctors to treat the poor by raising Medicaid reimbursement
rates is off to a slow start. Only a handful of states, including Maryland
Excerpt: What happens
to everyone in the ruling Elites and those desperately trying to join the
ruling Elites when the debt-serfs stop paying and the tax donkeys drift away to
lower-cost, lower-income lifestyles? ... Once you opt out of debt and
excess consumption, you need a lot less money to live; that means one can work
less and have more time for family, gardening, self-cultivation, entrepreneural
enterprises, etc. For many, the cash economy and generous state benefits
beckon. I am not recommending any particular lifestyle or set of choices here,
I am simply stating what can easily be observed in any developed nation should
you remove the mainstream media/state propaganda blinders: people are earning
their livelihood in the informal cash economy, avoiding VAT and sales taxes,
and many are drawing some sort of state benefit for one reason or another:
unemployment, disability, early retirement, etc.
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