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regardless of the view point, but I don’t always succeed. As always on the Net,
or in the legacy media, you must read critically and with skepticism.
I may be off-line. Have not included the LAX shooting,as updated frequently. Check the web. ~Bob
Excellent: JFK and the Seeds of Disaster in Vietnam
Excerpt: Fifty years
ago Friday was the most important day of the Vietnam War, when South
Vietnamese generals staged a coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem at the behest
of the United States .
By wrecking the South Vietnamese government, the coup—and Diem’s assassination
soon after—set in motion the events that brought U.S. combat forces into
Vietnam in 1965 and kept them there for seven years. Some of the mistakes and
misdeeds that led to that day bear a disturbing similarity to current events.
(Dr. Moyer, is a Harvard and Cambridge
trained historian. ~Bob. Ngo Dinh Diem has been the victim of very bad press
for a very long time, starting well over 50 years ago when reporters in Viet Nam
focused on everything negative they could find about him and his governing,
while neglecting the overall positive accomplishments of the man. Even the
communists had deep respect for him, yet some Americans made it a project to undercut
him at every turn. Eventually that led to the coup, which was only undertaken
with the permission of the American ambassador. The events that followed his
murder ended up showing how wrong it had been to promote the coup, but the US press never
figured out any of that, nor ever printed a word giving his time in office the
credit it deserved. One of the first major failures of US media to serve the
country, but only the beginning of biased and incompetent media behavior that
is with us today. --Del )
Scary if True: In United States
Excerpt: On more than one occasion President Barack Obama or
a top Administration official has lamented that the Commander in Chief is not a
king or a dictator and is, therefore, unable to ram his progressive policies
down the greater American public's collective throat as quickly as his liberal
supporters would like. And on several occasions, the sole hurdle halting the
President in his dash toward liberal utopia-or totalitarian hell, depending on
whom you ask - has been a pesky 226-year-old document called the Constitution
of the United States of
America . But the Obama Justice Department is
working to change that. Attorneys at the Justice Department are currently
working to advance a Supreme Court argument that the Federal government should
be allowed to invoke international treaties as legal basis for policies that
government officials are unable to put into place because they conflict with
the Nation's Constitution. (Friends, I do not advocate violence. But nor do I
advocate obeying a rogue government. If enough of us say no to this tyranny, it
will have to look for another home. Start with your neighbors. --Don Hank)
For many, Obama's
promise of health care choice does not ring true. By Laura Koran, CNN
Excerpt: But a CNN analysis found that consumer options vary
significantly from state to state, and many Americans are discovering that they
have very few options. In West Virginia and New Hampshire , for
example, residents shopping on the exchanges can only purchase plans from a
single company.
Obama: The Myth of
the Master Strategist: His poor maneuvering before and after the
Obamacare rollout shows that he’s not three moves ahead. By Jonah Goldberg
Excerpt: Often in error but never in doubt, Barack Obama
could walk into the Rose Garden and step on a half-dozen rakes like Foghorn
Leghorn in an old Looney Tunes cartoon, and the official line would be, “He
meant to do that.”
Excerpt: This past month has been among the most dramatic in
quite a while in our politics. October 1st was the first day of what turned out
to be a 16-day government shutdown, and it was the first day of Obamacare’s
launch. The first half of the month was focused on the shutdown, and was
something of a nightmare for Republicans. The second half was focused on Obamacare’s
woes, and has been something of a nightmare for Democrats. In the process, we
have been given an opportunity to learn something important about our political
life.
ObamaCare: Illegal Voter Mine for the Democratic Party?
By Arnold Ahlert
Excerpt: While many Americans remain focused on the ominous
implications of ObamaCare with regard to health insurance or the faulty
website, a far more serious issue remains under the radar. On Wednesday, two
national election watchdog groups alleged that
ObamaCare is really a massive voter registration vehicle masquerading as a
healthcare bill. Gregg Phillips, the founder of the election integrity
group Voters Trust takes it one step further. “I think [it] is the biggest
voter registration fraud scheme in the history of the world,” he told Breitbart
News.
And Here Comes the
Push for Single Payer
Obamacare marketing
push on hold
Excerpt: There’s no point in an ad blitz directing people to
sign up on a website that doesn’t work. And while advocacy groups say they had
always planned to spend more money on the back end to boost enrollment in
lagging states at the end of this year and early next year, they didn’t count
on the opening month fizzle.
Trainwreck: Kathleen
Sebelius' Top Ten Testimony Fails
If you want to see her horrendous performance in front of
Congress dissected, hit this link. Benson does a great job on it. You wonder
how she can not want to just resign and go away. Being a total laughingstock
across the whole nation in something you will never live down has to be really
tough on the ego. But she deserves every bit of it. --Del
Republicans are their own worst enemy on Obamacare. Here’s proof.
Excerpt: The standoff over the budget and debt ceiling that
culminated in a government shutdown amounted to a political disaster for
Republicans. One of the main reasons why has nothing to do with what happened
and everything to do with what didn’t.
A new Kaiser
Family Foundation poll released Friday explains it. Forty-four percent
of Americans say they paid very close attention to the fight over the
short-term budget and the debt limit, while only half as many say the same
thing about the glitches that have plagued the rollout of the health-care law’s
online exchanges or marketplaces.
Court
Strikes Down Obama's Birth Control Mandate Over Religious Freedom Concerns. By
Leah Barkoukis
Excerpt:
The influential D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday sided
with an Ohio
Early state numbers:
People aren't signing up for Obamacare; they're signing up for Medicaid.
Excerpt:
Long story short: Where are the enrollments from healthy middle-class people on
whom so much depends? "The first month of the new health law’s rollout
reveals an unexpected pattern in several states: a crush of people applying for
an expansion of Medicaid and a trickle of sign-ups for private insurance. This
early imbalance — in some places, nine out of 10 enrollees are in Medicaid —
has taken some experts by surprise."
Obamacare
victims and Israel
http://townhall.com/columnists/carolineglick/2013/11/01/obamacare-victims-and-israel-n1734514
Excerpt: On the exchanges, individuals earning more than $46,000 or a family of four above $94,000 don’t qualify for subsidies and must buy overpriced insurance. If these middle-class Obamacare losers can be forced into the exchanges, they become financiers of the new pay-as-you go entitlement.” Sure there is an outcry now about Obama’s dishonesty and the way he has used lying to take away from an unwilling public a right it would never have knowingly surrendered, but it is too late.
Excerpt: On the exchanges, individuals earning more than $46,000 or a family of four above $94,000 don’t qualify for subsidies and must buy overpriced insurance. If these middle-class Obamacare losers can be forced into the exchanges, they become financiers of the new pay-as-you go entitlement.” Sure there is an outcry now about Obama’s dishonesty and the way he has used lying to take away from an unwilling public a right it would never have knowingly surrendered, but it is too late.
Hilarious Obamacare
Halloween Horror Parody: ‘The Healthcare Mash’
Federal appeals court
reinstates most Texas
Excerpt: A federal appeals court has reinstated most of Texas ' new abortion
restrictions. A panel of judges at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a
ruling Thursday evening, three days after District Judge Lee Yeakel said one
provision serves no medical purpose.
At hearing on
security clearances, senators learn that police records can go unchecked
Excerpt: In 2007, three years after that, Alexis, a defense
contractor, was granted a “secret” security clearance. Government officials
didn’t even know details of his earlier wrath. It led to his arrest but not a
conviction. That level of ignorance left members of a Senate committee dismayed
at a federal security-clearance process that does not always check an
individual’s police record.
Obama’s advisers
considered replacing Biden with Clinton, according to book
Excerpt: President Obama’s political advisers secretly
explored the possibility of replacing Vice President Biden on the 2012 ticket
with then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to capitalize on her
popularity when Obama’s reelection seemed precarious, according to a new book.
The eight best tidbits from ‘Double Down.’ By Sean Sullivan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/11/01/the-eight-best-tidbits-from-double-down/?wpisrc=nl_politics
Excerpt: The sequel is here. Journalists Mark Halperin
and John Heilemann followed up 2008′s “Game Change” with “Double Down,” a
detailed account of the 2012 campaign complete with behind the scenes looks at
pivotal moments, tense exchanges, and colorful details from the presidential race.
Excerpt: Sadly, JFK’s dream of federalizing public services
for mentally ill persons was subverted by the law of unintended consequences.
The program has been an unmitigated disaster, both for those who suffer from
severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and for the
communities in which they live. Untreated mentally ill individuals have usurped
hospital emergency rooms, parks, streets, and other public spaces.
Big Wind's Dirty
Little Secret: Toxic Lakes and Radioactive Waste. By Travis Fisher
and Alex Fitzsimmons
Excerpt: As IER pointed out last
week, even if wind curbs CO2 emissions, wind installations injure, maim,
and kill hundreds of thousands of birds each year in clear violation of federal
law. ... Modern wind turbines depend on rare earth minerals mined primarily
from China .
Unfortunately, given federal regulations in
the U.S. that restrict rare earth mineral development and China’s poor record
of environmental stewardship, the process of extracting these minerals imposes
wretched environmental and public health impacts on local communities. It’s a
story Big Wind doesn’t want you to hear.
Excerpt: Uncertainty and struggle are what we most often
associate with poverty. Not knowing if you can still afford to pay next month’s
bills and worrying over how much more you can cut back when you’re already
barely getting by. This way of life has become more associated with the middle
class than with those at the very bottom.
Retired Marine opens Tampa
Excerpt: Almost exactly five years earlier, Hakimi, working
as an interpreter with a team of Marines training Afghan troops, risked his
life to save a Marine lieutenant colonel. Ty Edwards, now medically retired and
living in Tampa Palms, spent the past four years, during an often painful
rehabilitation, fighting State Department bureaucracy to bring Hakimi to the United States .
Excerpt: While her husband's signature health care law goes
up in flames, first lady Michelle Obama is reveling in the success of her East
Wing pet project, the "Let's Move" initiative. But ignore the
do-gooder dressing. Mrs. Obama doesn't care about your children. What we have
here is a textbook case of Washington
influence peddling, which the Obamas so vigorously condemned a long time ago
and far away.
Goodbye New York, Hello South Carolina: Third Gun Company
Leaves Over Cuomo’s SAFE Act. By Leah Barkoukis
Excerpt: When New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the SAFE Act
in January—what he referred to as “common sense” gun-control legislation—the
law not only turned many law-abiding citizens into criminals,
it also drove businesses and jobs out of the state. With a move to South Carolina , American Tactical Imports has become the
third firearm company to relocate its operations from New York to more gun-friendly states.
Excerpt: There are very few issues that anger me to the
extent that my fingers are frozen to the keyboard and I literally can't write
about it. Such was the case over the last few months with the lamestream media
peeling the scales from their eyes and finally deciding they were the
"fourth estate" again.
Excerpt: Syria has
become al Qaeda’s
largest safe haven, with more than 10,000 fighters who outnumber the terrorist
network’s core organization in Pakistan and
its affiliates in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula .
(Heck of a job, Barry. ~Bob)
Arrests, Citations
Lurk at Union Group Approved by Obama Admin to Promote ObamaCare in Wisconsin
Excerpt: Among the 165 groups
approved by the Obama Administration to promote or set-up
ObamaCare in Wisconsin
is Wisconsin Jobs Now, a liberal get-out-the-vote group affiliated with
the SEIU. According to the federal Department of Health and Human
Services, the organization is working as a certified application
counselor, or CAC. Numerous individuals who have been employed by Wisconsin
Jobs Now or who work there now have been investigated, arrested or cited by law
enforcement agencies for legal violations.
Marine Corps
Recruiting Test
I missed two, but would dispute seven. ~Bob
Saudi sheikh Ali al
Hemki declares fatwa against manned missions to Mars
Excerpt: A member Saudi Arabia 's board of religious
scholars Sheikh Ali al Hemki has criticised the Mars One project which
is attempting to organise a commercial mission to the red planet and has drawn expressions
of interest from more than 200 thousand people worldwide.
Don’t Worry – The
Government Says That The Inflation You See Is Just Your Imagination
Excerpt: If you believe that there is high inflation in the United States ,
you are just imagining things. That is the message that the U.S. government and the Federal
Reserve would have us to believe. You might have noticed that the government announced on Wednesday that the cost of living
increase for Social Security beneficiaries will only be 1.5 percent next
year. This is one of the smallest cost of living increases that we have ever
seen. (A hidden gem in here for those of you who have fallen for the lie
that the Fed is a private organization and not part of government:
The Fed has worked for decades to suppress inflation, but
economists, including Janet Yellen, President Obama’s nominee to lead
the Fed starting next year, have long argued that a little inflation is
particularly valuable when the economy is weak. That's right. They are so far
removed from government that they are appointed by the Senate and the
President of the US :
This is one reason why people are saying that capitalism is
no more, having been supplanted by a phenomenon that goes by several names,
such as crony capitalism, corporatism, fascism (scary eh?), or here in Latin
America, clientelismo or corporativismo. These assorted names refer to
something that hasn't the vaguest relationship to genuine competitive
capitalism, or what we often call the free market. The closest relic of that
bygone system is the handyman who comes to your home, fixes your fridge and
gets paid in cash. This guy is a real survivor. The rest are sitting ducks
waiting to be picked off by the oligarchs who own the monetary system. Who do I
mean by "the rest"? Every man, woman and child living on planet
earth, that's who! --Don Hank)
John McCain – We’ll
Pass Amnesty after the Primaries
Excerpt: Oh Boy. Everyone’s least
favorite RINO is at it again. Making waves and stirring up trouble. I thought
that maybe we were finally past all of the Republican civil war ridiculousness,
but John McCain can’t leave well enough alone.
From The Goldberg File. By Jonah Goldberg
Mao killed tens of millions of his own people to “prove”
that collectivization works and capitalism doesn’t. How’d that work out? Well,
today you can buy a great Mao T-shirt at one of Walmart’s many downtown Beijing locations.
Excerpt: Associated Press, citing Pakistan intelligence officials,
reports a drone strike has killed the leader of the Pakistan Taliban.
The Left Will Get Its
Crime-Ridden New York
Excerpt:
Under Giuliani and Bloomberg there was a certain type of leftist who always
whining because Times Square had been
Disneyfied and the city was too gentrified and not as “wild” as it used to be.
The sorts of leftists complaining about it were traditionally veterans of the
more dangerous New York Manhattan
between 1970 and 1975 (when it was Murder
City USA Britain , I had
dreams about Manhattan Manhattan Britain
and got to LA, I missed London
Money
Flows Back to the Mullahs Thanks to Obama. By Majid Rafizadeh
Excerpt:
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s government could not have possibly expected,
or wished for, a better American government to work with than the Obama
administration. The Iranians could not have imagined that an American
administration could so easily buy their argument and image of a “moderate”
government, allowing Iranian leaders to pursue their own Islamist and meddling
foreign policies.
Mohamed
Elibiary Admits America
Excerpt:
Muslim Brotherhood activist and Department of Homeland Security advisor Mohamed
Elibiary, having finally removed the Muslim Brotherhood’s R4BIA hate symbol
from his Twitter profile, when challenged couldn’t name a single Muslim country
that treats minorities as well as America does. So instead of naming a Muslim country that
treats non-Muslims equally,
he named America
American
voters have as much faith in zombies as they do in the federal government. By Nile Gardiner
Excerpt:
A staggering 70.9 per cent of US voters now believe the country is heading down
the wrong track, according to the latest RealClear Politics average. Many Americans now view the
federal government with the same disdain that Brits view the European
Commission in Brussels
Severe Child Abuse
Alleged by Children at Ohio
Excerpt: Allegations of severe child abuse at an Ohio madrassah (Islamic
school) are being investigated by police after a group of Somali children (who
attend a public school in the daytime) reported being chained to a wall by
their wrists and ankles and beaten with a long stick for not learning their
religious texts as instructed.
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