Update
Pulmonary Fibrosis Article: The article below was in the Wisconsin State Journal on
8/24/14. It was published in many other papers. As regular blog readers know, I
was diagnosed with PF in 6/06, on oxygen from 6/10 until my lung transplant on
12/23/13. Had to go back on O2 in March of 14, but off--at least for now--on
Friday, 8/22/14. Good article. ~Bob
Raising awareness of
covert killer: pulmonary fibrosis. By Campbell
North - Pittsburgh
Excerpt: Despite claiming an estimated 40,000 lives annually
- roughly the same number as breast cancer or prostate cancer - pulmonary
fibrosis remains one of the least known covert killers in the country. "Survivors of breast
cancer come together in droves to raise awareness," said
Teresa Barnes, vice president of patient outreach and program support for the
Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis, based in Culver City, Calif. "Pulmonary
fibrosis leaves no survivors," except a relative handful who receive lung
transplants. Pulmonary fibrosis causes progressive lung scarring and
eventually suffocation.
General News and Comment
Updated: A Reading
Pleaes feel free to share. ~Bob
Excerpt: I know reporters didn’t get a chance to ask
questions, but I had to bounce. I had a 1 p.m. tee time at Vineyard Golf Club
with Alonzo Mourning and a part-owner of the Boston Celtics. Hillary and I
agreed when we partied with Vernon Jordan up here,
hanging out with celebrities and rich folks is fun. Now we are engaged in a
great civil divide in Ferguson ,
which does not even have a golf course, and that’s why I had a “logistical”
issue with going there. We are testing whether that community, or any community
so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure when the nation’s leader wants
nothing more than to sink a birdie putt.
A Murderess's Tale.
By Theodore Dalrymple
Excerpt: The accused was a girl aged 18, who had stabbed her
16-year-old lesbian lover to death. There could be no doubt as to who had
inflicted the fatal wounds: a tape from a closed-circuit camera in the entrance
hall of the accused’s apartment building showed her following her lover out of
the building with a long knife in each hand, raised ready to stab, as in a
too-melodramatic rendition of Lady Macbeth. Under English law, then, only two
defenses were left to her: insanity or diminished responsibility. There was no
question of insanity, however. She was not, nor did she claim to be, mad.
(Published in his book Not with a Bang,
but a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline.)
The Obama Bank
Shakedown
Excerpt: The $16.65 billion settlement by Bank of America
over financial-crisis-era mortgage securities “highlights a pattern of the
government extorting the banks,” Dick Kovacevich said on CNBC this
week. (Italics mine.) … These huge bank settlements are election-year
ATMs for the Obama administration. … All this sounds suspiciously like the
housing version of the ACORN electioneering operations.
Another Dumb Idea
From Los Angeles
Excerpt: The city of Los Angeles is considering paying voters to
encourage turnout. Needless to say, it's a ridiculous idea that will reward
low-information voting, foster political demagogues and breed corruption. Sure,
some in the political class will say what's not to like? Higher voter turnout
sounds good and, more to the point, the political left likely will benefit from
paying people to vote. (Come up with a REALLY stupid idea! Being damn near
bankruptcy, they want to start paying people to vote? If you want to encourage
voter fraud on a serious scale, this is one way to go at it. Idiots. --Del. not at all dumb.
Smart politics from those who benefit from increasing the turn out of
low-information, biddable voters. Besides, it's not there money, so no downside
to the politicians. ~Bob)
Harry Reid Cracks
Asian Joke: Can't "Keep my Wongs Straight"
Excerpt: Why are the language police never around when a Democrat
makes some silly joke using racial stereotypes? If some conservative makes a
comment about “Chicago
politics,” that’s all it takes for the media to go crazy and act
shocked that anyone would make such a racist remark.
Chicago crime rate drops as concealed carry applications surge: City sees fewer homicides, robberies, burglaries, car thefts as
Excerpt: An 86-year-old Illinois man with a concealed carry permit
fired his weapon at an armed robbery suspect fleeing police last month,
stopping the man in his tracks and allowing the police to make an arrest. Law
enforcement authorities described the man as “a model citizen” who “helped
others avoid being victims” at an AT&T store outside Chicago where he
witnessed the holdup.
‘Disconnected Obama’ needs to change conversation to help
party in midterms. By Chris Cillizza
Excerpt: That series of events left the impression of
a disconnected president, frustrated with both
the expectations and the limitations inherent in being the nation’s leader at
this moment in history. It also led to worries — expressed privately — among
Democratic party strategists that Obama’s seemingly long-view approach to
international and domestic conflicts could spell doom for the party’s chances
in the midterm elections, which are only about 10 weeks away.
Video: Andrew Klavan:
Democrats at War
Excerpt: In this special episode, our host Andrew Klavan
discusses the lies, double-speak, failures and foibles of Democrats at War. See
the video and transcript below:
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Friday morning rolling along I-10 East I
happened upon the Rush Limbaugh radio program. Not a regular listener
but the program caught my attention because Rush said it was open
line Friday for callers. Public opinion is always interesting. A
32-year veteran of law enforcement (police officer), now retired,
called to comment on the Michael Brown shooting (by police officer Darren
Wilson) in Ferguson , Missouri
Quotes
“Good news! Our
impartial chief law enforcement officer is here to help indict a white cop w/o
evidence because black race-baiters demand it.” --Ben Schapiro. “Can you
imagine a Attorney General saying, “I’m the AG, but I’m also a WHITE man” and
KEEP HIS JOB!?” --Kevin Jackson. "If Michael Brown had been Jewish, Holder
and Sharpton would have a whole lot of time on their hands, and you would never
have heard of Ferguson .
If Darren Wilson had been Jewish, well, I dare not think of what might have
happened." -George
Ben Carson Clashes
With Jesse Jackson Over Ferguson
http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/24/ben-carson-clashes-with-jesse-jackson-over-ferguson-has-nothing-to-do-with-race-video/#ixzz3BKo94qhD
http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/24/ben-carson-clashes-with-jesse-jackson-over-ferguson-has-nothing-to-do-with-race-video/#ixzz3BKo94qhD
Excerpt: Carson pushed back
against Jackson ’s
portrayal. “If you take race out of the issue altogether,” he explained, “and
you take a group of young men and you raise them with no respect for authority,
not learning to take on personal responsibility, having easy access to drugs
and alcohol, they’re very likely to end up as victims of violence and
incarceration. Has nothing to do with race.”
Excerpt: Jackson
replied: "Well, first of all, I wish Dr. Carson and I were on that white
panel you just had because it does have a race dimension. We come by it from
experience differently than your previous guests, number one. Number two, it
seems to me that when blacks kill whites, which is rare, it's swift
justice. (According to FBI statistics, Black make up 13% of the population,
commit over 50% of the murders--and a black kills a white twice as often as a
white kills a black. But black killers have black victims about 85% of the
time. No money to be made or stores to be looted when that happens. ~Bob)
Eric Holder’s Soros-Sponsored Police
Sensitivity ‘Training’: Your money went to the radical
Institute on Race and Justice.
Excerpt: The vice president’s Boeing 757 delivered Eric
Holder to St. Louis yesterday.
In Ferguson , Holder announced that he was
“a black man” and therefore had the power to heal Ferguson in ways that no other law enforcement
official could. …What is shocking is who is fueling the Justice
Department’s “training” of police departments around the country: radicals,
communist-affiliated organizations, and George Soros.
New York Times defends Michael Brown Jr. ‘no angel’ characterization.
By Erik Wemple
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/08/25/new-york-times-defends-michael-brown-jr-no-angel-characterization/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/08/25/new-york-times-defends-michael-brown-jr-no-angel-characterization/
Excerpt: An outrage plume is now settling over the New York
Times over two words in a retrospective
on the life of Michael Brown Jr., the victim of the Ferguson , Mo.
More White House
officials at Michael Brown’s funeral than Thatcher’s
Excerpt: For Monday's funeral, the White House
sent two officials with the White House Office of Public Engagement as well as
Broderick Johnson, chairman of the My Brother's Keeper Task
Force. ... The White House also came under criticism recently when
Obama did not attend the funeral for Maj. Gen. Harold Greene, the highest-ranking U.S. military
officer killed in combat since the Vietnam War. ... Obama was in Martha's Vineyard during the funeral, but Defense
Secretary Chuck Hagel and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno attended. (More
than at the MajGen who was KIA in Iraq I think. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Evidence has been uncovered showing Eric Holder
contributed funds to Ferguson ’s
gang population as incentive to loot and spread civil unrest in the area. These
angry, government-sponsored terrorists have systematically infiltrated peaceful
protests with the intention of escalating the situation and inciting
riots. (Needs confirmation. But I didn't believe the first reports of Fast
and Furious either...~Bob)
Police Chief Tears
Into Obama For His Comments About Ferguson
Excerpt: Jim Pasco, the executive director of the Fraternal
Order of Police, had some helpful advice for the vacationing Obama on Thursday.
During an interview with The Hill, Pasco said: “I
would contend that discussing police tactics from Martha’s
Vineyard is not helpful to ultimately calming the situation.” Ouch.
But Pasco
wasn’t done.
Obamacare News
Another Bogus Attack
on Wisconsin Medicaid
Excerpt: Opponents continue to heap criticism on the state
of Wisconsin
for its refusal to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, insisting
that the state is losing millions of dollars as a result. But over at the
NCPA's Health Policy Blog, Senior Fellow Devon Herrick explains why Wisconsin took the right
route in restructuring its Medicaid program. The Affordable Care Act encourages
states to expand Medicaid eligibility to include adults up to 138 percent of
the federal poverty level (FPL); in return, the federal government promises to
pay 100 percent of the costs through 2016, dropping to 90 percent by 2019. Wisconsin already had a
generous Medicaid system -- most residents up to 200 percent of the FPL were
eligible for the state's Medicaid coverage known as BadgerCare, and pregnant
women and children had access to the program at even higher income thresholds.
But as the low-income uninsured flooded the program, the state had to cap
enrollment.
"You're Greener Than Gore" News
Saving the Planet
Good graphic. ~Bob
Religion of Peace News
Worth Reading : There's ISIS and There's
Ice Us. By Andy Weddington
Excerpt: ISIS: Enemy of the United States of America Syria and Iraq
Peter Theo Curtis, U.S. Journalist Missing Since 2012, Freed By
Kidnappers In Syria
Excerpt: Kidnappers in Syria have freed an American writer
missing since 2012, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday,
following what Qatari-owned TV station Al Jazeera said were efforts by the Gulf
Arab state to win his release.
Quote
“ If after murder of one American you want ISIS
exterminated but demand proportional strikes against Hamas from Israel …You
might be a bigot. ” --John Nolte
Important: US, UK
Excerpt: A senior Western
intelligence official told Fox News that 23-year-old London rapper Abdel Majed Abdel Bary is the
suspect believed to be Foley's executioner. U.S.
intelligence officials are not commenting publicly on the reports, but a
well-placed source told Fox News that Bary's Egyptian-born father was
extradited from London to the United States in 2012 for his alleged connection
to Usama bin Laden and the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa .
(Yeah, another young man raised in a civilized society whose mind has been
taken over by radical, bloodthirsty fanaticism. Again, it must be understood
that this kind of murderous insanity is like a mental virus that can infect
people who have no real reason to become sadistic killers, but who, once
infected, are beyond our understanding just as much as a mad dog is. I think
the UK and the USA should declare anyone who leaves the country
to go fight for ISIS to be disenfranchised as
citizens, their passports declared null and void, and they have no right ever
to return to our shores. Radical? No, reasonable. --Del. Very reasonable. I
personally would let them come back, arrest them at the airport, give them a
fair trial for the next hour of so, then shoot them. I volunteer for the firing
squad, will bring my own M1 rifle and ammo to keep costs down. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Our barbaric jihadist enemies – the ones President
Obama repeatedly assured us he had “decimated” and put on “the path to defeat”
– are now stronger than ever. Not stronger than they have been in years, or
decades – stronger than ever. They have seized a country-size swath of
territory (and growing). They have just beheaded an American journalist – which
is the sort of thing they do as a matter of routine but has obviously, and
finally, gotten our attention. Not to worry, though: The Obama Justice
Department has
opened a criminal investigation. I’m sure ISIS
is quaking. (So why has the Holder DOJ not opened a criminal investigation into
the murder by Hamas of 16-year-old Naftali Fraenkel, who had dual Israeli-American
citizenship and family in New York state? He was American? Oh, I forgot, he was
Jewish. Thus to most progressives, he had it coming. See next article: ~Bob)
Islamic State goes
from 'junior varsity' to all pro in 8 months, Admiral Kirby says
Excerpt: In an Aug. 22 press briefing, Rear Admiral John Kirby,
the Pentagon's Press Secretary, attempted to defend President Barack Obama's
poorly timed statement in January where he referred to the Islamic State as a
"jayvee team." This is what Obama
had said in an interview with The New Yorker while answering a
question on the resurgence of jihadist groups in Iraq :
What Obama doesn’t
get about the Islamic State. By Marc A. Thiessen
Excerpt: A day before the Islamic State released a video of
the brutal execution of American journalist James Foley, President Obama
declared at a White House news conference that defeating the Islamic State was
not his responsibility. “We’re
not the Iraqi military, we’re not even the Iraqi air force,” Obama
said, adding “I am the commander in chief of the United
States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately
provide for its own security.” That attitude — that refusal to lead — is
precisely why the Islamic State has been able to take control of a swath of the
Middle East the size of Belgium and carry out the crimes against humanity we
are witnessing today, from burying women and children alive to crucifixions to
the beheading of a U.S. citizen.
Does Islamic State Now Have an Air
Force? By Rick Moran
Excerpt: A bloody assault by Islamic State forces captured
the Syrian government air base in Tabqa, today, acquiring “several warplane
squadrons, helicopters, tanks, artillery, and ammunition bunkers.” An aviation
“squadron,” according to
Wkipedia, is “a unit of aircraft that consists of three or four
flights with a total of 12 to 24 aircraft, depending on the type of aircraft
and the air force, naval or army air service.” (OK, this IS bad news. Let's
hope there are no trained pilot members of ISIS .
--Del )
Worth
Excerpt: Meshaal acknowledged for the first time that Hamas
members — but not the group’s political leadership — were behind the slaying of
three Israeli settlers on the West Bank in
June. But he defended the murders as a legitimate action against Israeli
“illegal” occupation.
Important: Al-Qaida in Yemen
Joining Forces With ISIS
Excerpt: In a reversal of its previous stance, al-Qaida's
Yemen-based branch, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, has expressed
"solidarity" with the ISIS militants who have been terrorizing
Christians and others in Iraq
and Syria .
"We announce solidarity with our Muslim brothers in Iraq against
the crusade," AQAP declared in a statement reported by the Yemini Times.
"Their blood and injuries are ours and we will surely support them. We
stand by the side of our Muslim brothers in Iraq
against the American and Iranian conspiracy and their agents of the apostate Gulf states ." (As
Bin Laden used to say, when looking at two horses, a man will always choose to
go with the strong horse. Originally the Al Qaida bosses said ISIS
was just too nasty (they certainly weren't paying attention to many parts of
the Quran and Sunnah) and condemned them. But now they have had a lot of
victories, taken over an enormous amount of territory, got their hands on
millions of dollars, and are attracting fanatic young men from all over. So...
now maybe they aren't so bad after all! Nothing succeeds like success, and success
attracts a crowd. Which is why they need to be clobbered mercilessly and beaten
so badly that it cannot be denied, and all their gained territories rolled back
under Baghdad 's
control, all their equipment lost or destroyed, and a lot of them, preferably
most of them, dead. What is sad is that it's only the USA so far that is coming
in with any aid to the Kurds, why in hell can't Germany, England, France,
and others jump in and send in aid as well? Are they OK with the horrendous
behavior of these vicious bastards? Where are all the super moral experts of
Europe, Scandinavia, and elsewhere, the ones so ready to condemn the USA or
Israel for things they don't like, when people are being beheaded, shot,
crucified, driven into the wilderness from their homes, given the choice of
conversion or death? But when it really hits the fan, everyone still waits for
that rotten old imperialist monster to actually do something. Of course,
they'll forget this in no time at all when things finally blow over. --Del )
Excerpt: An Israeli missile strike that killed a man riding
in a car in Gaza City Gaza authorities did not
immediately identify the victim, but the Israeli military identified him as
Muhammad al-Ghoul and said he had been responsible for Hamas’s financial
transactions and handled its “terror funds.
Hamas: Israel
Excerpt: To hear some Palestinian advocates, if Israel simply lifted its blockade on Gaza – aimed at curbing
weapons smuggling into the Hamas-controlled territory – then peace could be
enjoyed by all. One of the main Hamas spokesman made it clear in an Aug. 17
speech that those advocates are misguided. "The time has come for us to
say that our true war is not aimed at opening the border crossings. Out true
war is aimed at the liberation of Jerusalem ,
Allah willing," Sami Abu Zuhri said in a speech aired on Hamas' Al Aqsa
television
The Arab Empire: There already is one, of
course: Arabs are not indigenous to most of the land they
control. By Josh Gelernter
Excerpt: A map has circulated showing the Islamic
State’s five-year plan: a caliphate that stretches from the Iberian peninsula
to western China , including
all of India , north Africa,
the Middle East, Asia Minor, and southeastern Europe .
It’s an ambitious agenda. (Especially ambitious for what Obama called the JV
team. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Two days ago, more than 70 Sunnis were slaughtered
at a mosque 160 kilomenters north of Baghdad .
The attack at the Musab bin Omair Mosque in the village of Imam Wais in Diyala
province has been blamed by some on Shia militiamen exacting revenge for
a roadside bombing and combat losses, while other sources attribute the massacre to the Sunni
Islamic State, noting that the attack began with a suicide bombing, a tactic
typically employed by Sunni extremists in Iraq:
Islamic State
fighters assault last Syrian stronghold in Raqqah
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/08/islamic_state_overru_2.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29
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Excerpt: The Islamic State is close to cementing its control
in the eastern Syrian province
of Raqqah
News video of Hamas demonstration in Miami . A bunch of men chanting "We are
HAMAS, We are JIHAD" across the street from the Israeli consulate. And
they get violent with the cameraman, who is doing perfectly legal filming of a
public demonstration. And they are sponsored by CAIR, the supposedly moderate
representative of Muslims in the USA . These guys are a very long way
from moderate! --Del
Jewish Man Arrested
After Chasing Off 'Anti-Semitic' Pro-Palestinian Protesters In London
Excerpt: A Jewish man has been arrested for common assault
after he drove away socialist, pro-Palestinian protestors who were menacing a kosher
delicatessen in Bushey, just north of London .
Jewish
News is reporting that witnesses described how a group of around 15
men, who had been taking part in a socialist ‘March for jobs’ unfurled Palestinian
flags outside Flax’s Kosher Deli, at about 5.20pm last Tuesday. Some of the
customers went out to confront the men, chasing them down the street where the
scene escalated into violence.
Excerpt: A cleric in Dearborn popular with supporters of the militant group ISISowes
a quarter of a million dollars in restitution and other costs stemming from his
fraud convictions, according to newly filed court records. Ahmad Jebril, 43,
who has gained an international following among ISIS
fighters and sympathizers, is on probation after serving 6½ years in prison.
After being released in 2012, he has used social media to become what experts
say is the most popular religious leader for Islamists from the West fighting
for ISIS, also known as ISIL or the Islamic State.
Excerpt: White House deputy press secretary Eric Schultz was
asked at today’s press briefing why the administration was unwilling to
negotiate with terrorists in James Foley’s case, yet traded five Taliban for
the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. ... “As we’ve made previously clear, the
administration determined that it was lawful to proceed with a transfer in
order to protect the life of a U.S. service member held
captive and in danger for almost five years, notwithstanding that Congress did
not receive the 30 days’ notice.
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