Update
On Christmas, two days after my lung transplant, I was in
the hospital, still mostly in a coma. On Memorial Day, I was in the hospital,
on 100% oxygen, close to the edge and had to be put on a ventilator with a
breathing tube down my throat. On the Fourth of July, I was admitted to the
hospital after my O2 de-saturated sue to swelling in the bronchial tubes. So I
was glad to be able spend Labor Day at home, off oxygen. Britnye's dad was
here, so we took him to the House on the Rock in Spring Green. (Our first
visit--it's terrific. (http://houseontherock.com/).
We only did one of the three tours, a lot of up and down, but my O2 level
stayed at 94% to 97% despite the climb, though my breathing got labored. So all
good. ~Bob
Facebook Comments on Old Jarhead Poems. http://tiny.cc/cyp0i
Bob, read some of your poetry today. MY GOD, fabulous! my
dad, Stan (A Marine Officer), would have thoroughly enjoyed your book of
poetry. am purchasing a copy. LOVE that proceeds help the Semper Fi fund....my
mother, Rebel, always admired and enjoyed you. They are both smiling down from
heaven at you! Hugs L--ori. Just finished reading the poetry book - wonderful.
simply wonderful...i was quite tearful reading several of them. whew! I am
going to share with my dear pal Rick who is former Navy & Marine. --Lori.
(I dated Lori a couple of times when I was in the senate. She had a pet boa
constrictor. Critter tried to bite me, but I'm pretty fast. Or I was. ~Bob)
Thanks for pulmonary
fibrosis article -- Robert A. Hall
Letter to WSJ August 29, 2014
General News and Comment
Must Read: The New World
Disorder: To Obama, the retrenchment of the West was not only
inevitable but to be welcomed. By Victor Davis
Hanson
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/386779/new-world-disorder-victor-davis-hanson
Excerpt: In just the last five or six years the world has
been fundamentally transformed. Instead of the old accustomed Western-inspired
postwar global order, crafted and ensured by the United
States and its European and Japanese partners, there is
now mostly chaos, from Ukraine
to Syria to the South China Sea . Or, rather, there may be emerging new
rules, given that we are still frozen in a Wild West moment, when everyone in
the saloon has drawn his six-shooter, paused, and is wondering what happened to
the sheriff — and wondering, too, who will be the first to dare start shooting.
WaPo Editorial Worth Reading :
President Obama needs to focus on how the United States
Excerpt: PRESIDENT OBAMA’S acknowledgment that “we don’t have a strategy yet” in Syria
understandably attracted the most attention after his perplexing meeting with
reporters Thursday. But his restatement of the obvious was not the most
dismaying aspect of his remarks. The president’s goal, to the extent he had
one, seemed to be to tamp down all the assessments of gathering dangers that
his own team had been issuing over the previous days. This argument with his
own administration is alarming on three levels.
Grim Anniversary
September First was the 75th anniversary of the National
Socialist in Germany ,
supported by their International Socialist allies in the USSR , invasion Poland , partitioning it between the
two socialist empires, starting WWII, which killed some 40 million people,
especially Germans and Russians, after Hitler turned on Stalin. Poland was
enslaved until 1989. ~Bob
Quote
"Shame on the men who can court exemption from present
trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!"
--Samuel Adams ("Candidus"), 1776
Worth Reading
Dr. Skogstad is a
blog reader, an economist and, most importantly, a brother Marine. ~Bob
Worth Reading
Excerpt:
With hesitation I opted to write this morning's brief comment. For it must be
written just so as not to breach the topic itself.
Important: Why Conservatives Are Up in Arms at the
College Board's Advanced Placement Course in History. By Peter Wood
Excerpt: In 2012, the College Board released a new set of standards for the Advanced Placement United
States History (APUSH) course. APUSH vanishes some figures who would seem
indispensable to any basic history of the United States . This is American
history seemingly without Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and
James Madison. “Seemingly” is a key word. If you examine the APUSH standards
for the period 1754-1800, these three figures are not mentioned, but there is a
reference to “Jeffersonian Republicans” that could imply the existence of
someone named Jefferson. One of the members of the APUSH Redesign Committee
teaches at a place called the “James
Madison School New York City . He serves as the president of
the National
Association of Scholars (NAS). OK, here it is now, right in-your-face
"revisionist" history in the pejorative sense, where the politically
correct ideology of who we were founded by, what our legacy is from the
Founding years, and how our society was so rampant with terrible faults from
the beginning, is to be set in concrete by the experts over at the College
Board think tank. They didn't quite use the line that our Founders were all
"old White men who owned slaves" with all the negative connotations
that the phrase brings along, but they sure have taken an approach that
neglects the simple facts of who was critical in those times, and how their
ideas and ideals set the bedrock for our nation. Of course by today's standards
the society of 1776 was dominated by Caucasians, mostly Christian, in a class
system, not an open "multicultural" one. There weren't any such in
the Western world (or anywhere else) at the time, and trying to make judgments
on people of that time by some of the standards of this one is not just
inappropriate, it's simply stupid. What is really crazy is that the same kind
of thinking that says all cultures today are equally valid, so let's not be
upset about how women are treated in strict Islamic cultures, somehow says it's
perfectly OK on the other hand to condemn the culture of the far past to which
we are heirs. Hopefully the screaming about this perversion of teaching will
bring about a review and reversal in short order. --Del. The more theories on
modern education that have sprung from liberal academia to percolate through
society, and the more money we have spent on schools over the last 50 years,
the worse educated our kids have become. ~Bob)
Mathematician Dr. Jim
Milgram Warns Common Core Will Destroy America
Excerpt: During a Friday conference call sponsored
by Texas-based Women on the Wall, Stanford mathematician and former member
of the Common Core Validation Committee Dr. James Milgram, told listeners that
if the controversial standards are not repealed, America ’s place as a competitor in
the technology industry will ultimately be severely undermined.
Excerpt: The latest Gallup poll indicates that 14 percent of the
people “moderately disapprove” of Barack Obama’s performance as president and
39 percent “strongly disapprove.” Since Obama won two presidential elections,
chances are that some of those who now “strongly disapprove” of what he has
done voted to put him in office. We all make mistakes, but the real question is
whether we learn from them. With many people now acting as if it is time for “a
woman” to become president, apparently they have learned absolutely nothing
from the disastrous results of the irresponsible self-indulgence of choosing a
President of the United
States on the basis of demographic
characteristics, instead of individual qualifications.
Excerpt: The Cold War ended long ago, and according to one
survey, it’s time for politicians to leave Cold War-era terms such as “big
government,” “socialism” and “capitalism” behind. The reason: Such words mean
little to the millennial generation, who came of age during the Great
Recession. The 18- to 29-year-old demographic played a crucial role in the
2008 and 2012 elections. These millennials were instrumental in electing Barack
Obama to the presidency not once, but twice. In 2008, Obama won 66 percent of
voting millennials; in 2012, he captured 67 percent.
Taxpayers Shouldn’t Have to Support Leftist Foreign Policy
Centers at Universities. By Mike Gonzalez
Excerpt: The foreign crises that have challenged the Obama
Administration this summer are not the result of a happenstance outbreak of
global chaos, but of bad policy choices. From the Middle East to our own border
to the Eurasian steppe, President Obama’s “lead from behind” chickens—his
wanton abandonment of America ’s
leadership role—have come home to roost.
Obama, alas, is not alone in spurning American influence and
power, or traditional support for world actors like Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu who identify with American values. Standing behind him is an
entire philosophical and theoretical framework, born in academia, that guides
his actions.
Obama’s Miserable
Failure. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: It was always obvious what Obama’s supporters
wanted. ... They wanted someone larger than life. A head made for Mount Rushmore and a body that would be cast in statues
across the country. ... They compared him to JFK and Reagan. He was treated as
the icon that his backers wanted him to be. His election was supposed to be a
watershed moment in American history. Instead it ends in miserable failure.
How to Lose a
Constitution -- Lessons from Roman History. By Lawrence W. Reed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&list=UUialsmUlTRABKPw31VDx1eQ&v=x6PjLy6hBqc
Excerpt: The history of ancient Rome spans a thousand years -- roughly 500 as a republic and 500 as an imperial autocracy, with the birth of Christ occurring almost precisely in the middle. The closest parallels between Roman and American civilizations are to be found inRome ’s first half-millennium as a republic.
We in our day can derive the most instructive lessons from that period. The
tyranny of the empire came after the republic was destroyed and that’s the
truly awful consequence of decay that America can yet avoid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&list=UUialsmUlTRABKPw31VDx1eQ&v=x6PjLy6hBqc
Excerpt: The history of ancient Rome spans a thousand years -- roughly 500 as a republic and 500 as an imperial autocracy, with the birth of Christ occurring almost precisely in the middle. The closest parallels between Roman and American civilizations are to be found in
Obama attends WH
chef’s wedding
Excerpt: President Obama was among the guests at the wedding
of White House chef Sam Kass late Saturday, according to a White House
pool report. Kass, the president’s senior policy adviser for nutrition
policy and the executive director of first lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!”
campaign, was getting hitched to MSNBC host Alex Wagner.... Whether or not
Obama would appear at the nuptials had become a Beltway guessing game in recent weeks, especially after the
president interrupted his annual summer vacation on Martha's
Vineyard earlier this month to return to the nation's capital
for Kass’s pre-wedding celebration. (So media knew interruption in schedule was
for other personal pleasure but painted it as concern for matters of state;
this article notes pool reporters puzzled by "return to West Wing"
from Vineyard when Congress in recess. So, after vacation
ends, Saturday wedding party; Sunday golf. --Barb. No time
for General Greene's funeral, or to visit Jim Foley's parents. ~Bob)
Obama plays golf with
staffers
Excerpt: President Obama took advantage of the Washington area’s
hot weather Sunday by playing an afternoon game of golf with three
White House staffers...Playing golf with the Obama were Joe Paulsen, Luke Rosa
and Mike Brush. ...The pool reporter noted that Obama appeared to have a
bandage on his left middle finger.
US Quadruples Expat
Fee As Record Numbers Of Americans Renounce Citizenship
http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/29/us-quadruples-expat-fee-as-record-numbers-of-americans-renounce-citizenship/#ixzz3C3STWXeo
http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/29/us-quadruples-expat-fee-as-record-numbers-of-americans-renounce-citizenship/#ixzz3C3STWXeo
Excerpt: The U.S. has more than quadrupled
the fee to renounce citizenship as record numbers of citizens file to become
expatriates. The State Department increased the fee to renounce citizenship by
422 percent, from $450 to $2,350, Forbes reports, which is a rate more than twenty times the
average rate in other high-income countries. In 2013, the number of Americans
who renounced U.S. citizenship
increased by 221 percent, according Forbes, and Canadians with dual citizenships
who want to renounce their U.S. citizenship
have created a backlog at the consulate in Toronto stretching into 2015.
MAN HATERS: This
Chick Thinks Eradicating The Male Population by 90% Will Heal The World. By Doug Giles
Excerpt: In my 2012 book, Raising Boys Feminists Will Hate, I wrote in the
opening salvo that, “Feminists would love nothing more than to take your son
and eradicate his masculine uniqueness. They hate men, and therefore, they will
hate your son. That is, of course, assuming that you, the parent, intend to
raise your son to be a man instead of a rouged and lipsticked,
male American Idol hopeful.
WaPo Publisher
Katharine Weymouth Steps Down
Excerpt: Today she announced in a note to staff that she’ll
be leaving the publication after 17 years. Owner Jeff Bezos wasted no
time declaring her successor: Fred Ryan, formerly President and CEO
of Politico and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation.
Letter from the
parents of Aaron Carson Vaughn of SEAL Team VI: Please resign, Mr. President.
By Billy and Karen Vaughn
Excerpt: After finally choosing to view the barbaric,
on-camera beheading by ISIS of freelance war
correspondent James Foley, I have been left with a level of rage known only to
those of us who have sacrificed unspeakable offerings on the altar of world
peace. My offering was my only son — Aaron Carson Vaughn. Aaron was a member of
SEAL Team VI. He was killed in action when a CH47D Chinook, carrying thirty
Americans and eight Afghans was shot down in the Tangi River Valley of
Afghanistan on Aug. 6, 2011.
Feds Still Studying Why Lesbians Are Obese. By Elizabeth Harrington
Excerpt: The federal government is still seeking answers as
to why the majority of lesbians are obese and U.S. taxpayers are footing the
bill, which now totals $2.87 million.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) study is now in its
fourth year, receiving an additional $670,567 for
fiscal year 2014. The project seeks to determine why “nearly three-quarters of
adult lesbians overweight or obese,” and why gay males are not. (Here's an
idea: ask them. A lesbian friend told me that gay males are hung up on body
image, lesbians are not. ~Bob)
Mythologies and Pathologies of the California Drought. By
Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpt: The third year of California drought has exposed all sorts of
water fantasies. If in wet years they were implicit, now without rain or snow
for nearly three years, they are all too explicit. Add them up. Take the Bay
Area, Ground Zero of water environmentalism. (A sad situation in CA, but one
that is not hard to understand. And one that is not going to get better, but
only worse, unless state government starts doing some intelligent things. Good
luck on that. --Del )
Leaks of nude
celebrity photos raise concerns about security of the cloud
They had to pay me not to leak mine. ~Bob
Teacher’s arrest over
future school shooting novel suggests antigun hysteria
Excerpt: If there’s more to the story of a Maryland middle
school teacher being suspended and “taken in for emergency medical evaluation”
than the fact that he wrote a novel involving school shootings in the distant
future, administrators and police aren't talking, WBOC16 reported last week. 23-year-old language arts
teacher Patrick McLaw, a.k.a. Dr. K.S. Voltaer and Patrick Beale, is also a
novelist writing under a pen name employed by Mace
Lane Middle
School in Cambridge .
(I had an idea for a terrorist novel, but after the 9/11 murders used Clancy's
plane-into-building idea, I scrapped it. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Imagine you are watching a Presidential debate
sometime in the late spring of 2016. What readily comes to your mind is surely
the faces of Jeb Bush, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Chris Christie...perhaps Marco
Rubio..and even perhaps Mitt Romney again. Now imagine there's one more
candidate up there on the dais. Note the contrast between him and the other
candidates. As each one of the well known politicos accuse each other of
everything from being a big spender, or soft on immigration, or molesting his
children, there is one who speaks softly, without rancor, among that bunch.
Imagine someone who was born in a Detroit
ghetto, who was abandoned by his father at eight years old, who was raised by a
single mom, who knows poverty, knows what it's like growing up among
gang-bangers up on that debate podium.
Race Card News
People rally at Ohio
Excerpt: Some 200 people held signs and chanted Saturday
outside a Wal-Mart where a young man with an air rifle was fatally shot by
police. ... An attorney representing Crawford's family says Wal-Mart
surveillance video of the shooting shows it was unjustified. Crawford is black,
while the two officers involved are white. (Here we go again. This should be
calmly, fairly and impartially investigated just as it would be if the officers
were black or the dead guy was white. If it was unjustified, they should be
charged, otherwise exonerated. ~Bob)
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Obamacare's Death of
a Thousand Rate Hikes. By Sally Pipes
Excerpt: Get ready to pay more
for health insurance next
year, compliments of Obamacare.
A new analysis from PricewaterhouseCoopers projects
that average premiums for policies sold through Obamacare’s exchanges will increase 7.5
percent in 2015. In nearly one-third of the 29 states that PwC investigated,
premiums will rise by double digits.
Undocumented Democrat News
Reports: Obama Considers Postponing Executive Immigration
Action Until After Midterms. By Guy Benson
As I predicted in my last Random Thoughts post. Not a tough
prediction to make. ~Bob
Investigating Washington
Excerpt: The government has abruptly shut down operations at
Fort Sill
in Oklahoma
and two other military bases that sheltered more than 7,700 minors the
government refers to as “unaccompanied alien children.” Thousands have been
transferred to 150 shelters around the country, mostly group homes run by
nonprofits. But try to find out exactly where and the government won’t
answer—not the public or reporters, not even members of Congress. (What do you
expect from "The Most Transparent Administration in History"? ~Bob)
Lawman’s burden. By
Melissa del Bosque
Excerpt: Recovering human remains in the heat of a South Texas summer is not for the faint-hearted. The
sight and smell of the dead can linger with you for days. It can give you
nightmares if you let it. Whenever ranchers in rural Brooks County, 70 miles
north of the Mexican border, find a body, which is often these days, they call
the Brooks County Sheriff's Office. (All the bodies that keep getting found,
because of the now frequent deaths in the desert of the illegals trying to get
further north in the US. A very interesting and informative article about the
real consequences of not tightening the border really well, so that fewer
people even try to make it through. --Del. Collateral damages in a Democrat
voter registration drive. ~Bob))
Border Patrol
Agent Disciplined after Speaking with the Press: Senator
Tom Coburn wrote to DHS about the Border Patrol’s “culture of
retaliation.” By Ryan Lovelace
Excerpt: The federal government has disciplined a Border
Patrol agent for speaking to the media — including NRO. After being
instructed to “immediately cease and desist” from issuing press releases and
statements that contain “Law Enforcement sensitive” information, Agent Ron
Zermeno spoke to NRO.
"You're Greener Than Gore" News
http://www.flashreport.org/blog/2014/08/20/californias-environmental-enthusiasm-is-about-to-become-reality/#sthash.d3wWxjBb.dpuf
Excerpt: In 2006 the California Legislature passed the most sweeping environmental legislation in the nation. Celebrity Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger couldn’t wait to put his signature to the bill. The two basic pillars of AB 32 was first, to reduce California’s greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020 and second set up a cap and trade system that would make evil polluters buy credits to offset their GHG emissions. The money from the credits would go to fund green projects that would in turn meet the goals of pollution reduction. At the time an overwhelming number of Californians enthusiastically supported this noble undertaking without asking what it would eventually cost. (California
enviro whackos got it done...and now the consequences will finally come along
for everyone to enjoy. he already super high gas cost in CA will jump again,
one of those taxes that won't bother the wealthy at all, or even much of the
upper class who don't do a great deal of driving. But it will get felt right
away by the lower class people, and most especially anyone who does a real
commute or driving as part of work. Maybe there will be some articles in the
papers when it hits. --Del )
Excerpt: In 2006 the California Legislature passed the most sweeping environmental legislation in the nation. Celebrity Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger couldn’t wait to put his signature to the bill. The two basic pillars of AB 32 was first, to reduce California’s greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020 and second set up a cap and trade system that would make evil polluters buy credits to offset their GHG emissions. The money from the credits would go to fund green projects that would in turn meet the goals of pollution reduction. At the time an overwhelming number of Californians enthusiastically supported this noble undertaking without asking what it would eventually cost. (
Myth of arctic
meltdown: Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers
1.7million square kilometres MORE than 2 years ago...despite Al Gore's
prediction it would be ICE-FREE by now
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2738653/Stunning-satellite-images-summer-ice-cap-thicker-covers-1-7million-square-kilometres-MORE-2-years-ago-despite-Al-Gore-s-prediction-ICE-FREE-now.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2738653/Stunning-satellite-images-summer-ice-cap-thicker-covers-1-7million-square-kilometres-MORE-2-years-ago-despite-Al-Gore-s-prediction-ICE-FREE-now.html
Excerpt: The speech by former US Vice-President Al Gore was
apocalyptic. ‘The North Polar ice cap is falling off a cliff,’ he said. ‘It
could be completely gone in summer in as little as seven years. Seven years
from now.’ Those comments came in 2007 as Mr Gore accepted the Nobel Peace
Prize for his campaigning on climate change. But seven years after his warning,
The Mail on Sunday can reveal that, far from vanishing, the Arctic ice cap has
expanded for the second year in succession – with a surge, depending on how you
measure it, of between 43 and 63 per cent since 2012.
Religion of Peace News
Excerpt: Journalist Steven Sotloff was pictured at the end
of the video of James Foley'sexecution,
with ISIS militants warning that
he would be executed next. Sotloff went missing in Syria in August 2013. The
executioner in Sotloff's video is thought to be the same man who executed James
Foley. Both speak with British accents, and in the new video, he addressed
the camera saying, "I'm back."
Excerpt: Fox News national security correspondent Catherine
Herridge probes her sources and reports that President Obama received
"specific intelligence" about the rise of ISIS in his daily
briefings for "at least a year:"
While Obama Ponders
ISIS Action, UK
Excerpt: While Great Britain 's
Prime Minister David Cameron cut his vacation short to deal with the Islamic
State (ISIS) crisis, President Obama was golfing on Martha's
Vineyard . While Cameron took action, raising Great Britain 's
terror threat to "severe," Obama told Americans "We don’t have a
strategy, yet." So, while President Obama has spent Labor Day weekend
raising money for Democrats, is it any wonder why some lawmakers and political
analysts, including Red
State UK has reacted realistically to ISIS , you can see the article below for the full details.
The part that really got my attention was that he wants all UK citizens fighting in ISIS identified, so
their passports will be known and they will not be allowed to re-enter the UK . What
a great idea! I said the exact same thing, that the USA
should identify and cancelled the passports of any citizen fighting for ISIS . But our "leadership" is nowhere near such
actions, hell, not even near thinking about it. And I'm sure they would say
that's too nasty or illegal somehow, and presto!... the guys who have been
taking heads off in Iraq get to come home to the USA to spread the virus of the
mental disease that is radical jihadism. Will we have to pay another price of
blood in the streets from more innocent victims before the government does
anything to protect its people from such murderers? --Del )
Democrat Leader
Blasts President Obama on ISIS
Excerpt: Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is a powerful and
important figure in Washington ,
D.C.
Richard Engel, Chief
Foreign Correspondent, Nbc News: Military Officials "Apoplectic"
Over Obama's Approach To ISIS
Tweet from Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy
Obama at DNC event: “[T]hings are much less dangerous now
than they were 20 years ago, 25 years ago or 30 years ago."
Excerpt: They DO have a strategy, but they prefer to appear
indecisive. ... The actual strategy is detente first, and then a full alliance
with Iran throughout
the Middle East and North Africa . ... The
central theme in Obama’s outreach to Iran is his conviction that the United
States has historically played a wicked role in the Middle East, and that the
best things he can do for that part of the world is to limit and withdraw
American military might, and empower our self-declared enemies, whose hostility
to traditional American policies he largely shares.
73% Worry About
Obama’s Lack of Strategy for ISIS
Excerpt: Voters regard the radical Islamic terrorist group
ISIS as a major threat to the United
States and are very worried that President
Obama doesn’t have a strategy for dealing with the problem. They remain
reluctant to send U.S.
troops back to Iraq to take
on ISIS , but support is growing. A new
Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 67% of Likely U.S.
Voters consider the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) a serious threat to
this country.
As Obama considers ISIS strategy, militants continue propaganda push
Excerpt: President Obama flies to Europe on Tuesday ahead of
talks with NATO allies over the crisis in Ukraine . But they will also discuss
the growing
threat posed by ISIS, the Islamic extremists who have seized control of large
sections of Iraq and Syria .
While Mr. Obama was touting an improving economy in Wisconsin , the terror
group released the third issue of its English language online magazine,
complete with pictures of the group executing Syrian soldiers and blowing up the
homes of those who cooperated with police.
Excerpt: The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria said
in a recent tweet it is forcing detained Syrian pilots to train militant
fighters to fly stolen aircraft, CNN Arabic reported on Saturday. In an
account reportedly associated with the militant group, ISIS said in a tweet the
pilots were abducted when the group gained control over the Tabqa military
airbase in Raqqa Province ISIS , according to
several media reports.
British Leader’s Plan
Targets Jihadists’ Passports
Excerpt: Prime Minister David Cameron, trying to show
toughness in the face of young British Muslims’ going off to fight in Syria and
Iraq, proposed legislation on Monday that would give the police the power to
seize the passports of Britons suspected of having traveled abroad to fight
with militant groups.
Militants Add Cluster
Bombing to Tactics, Rights Group Says
Excerpt: The Islamic State
in Iraq and Syria, the extremist militant group now almost universally vilified
for atrocities that include boastful beheadings, summary mass executions and
enslavement in the areas it aspires to control, also has attacked enemies
with cluster bombs, the banned
weapons that kill and maim indiscriminately, Human Rights Watch said
on Monday.
The FBI’s Islamic Terrorism Denial. By Robert Spencer, JihadWath.com
Excerpt: The Washington
Free Beaconrevealed Friday that “the FBI’s most recent national threat
assessment for domestic terrorism makes no reference to Islamist terror
threats, despite last year’s Boston Marathon bombing and the 2009 Fort Hood
Excerpt: An alarming new report from ABC News shows
authorities from U.S. Customs and Immigration and the State Department have
lost track of 6,000 foreign students whose visas have expired. As a
reminder, the 9/11 hijackers purposely applied for student visas to get into
the United States
and knew when those visas expired nobody would come looking for them. (But
don't worry. they are totally competent to track and manage your healthcare.
~Bob)
The Pentagon's Bow to
Islamic Extremism. By Raymond Ibrahim
Excerpt: Caving to pressure from Muslim groups, the Pentagon
has relaxed uniform rules to allow Islamic beards, turbans and hijabs. It's a
major win for political correctness and a big loss for military unit
cohesion," said a recent report. This new relaxation of rules for Muslims
comes at a time when the FBI is tracking more than 100 suspected
jihadi-infiltrators of the U.S.
military. Just last month, Craig Benedict Baxam, a former Army soldier and
convert to Islam, was sentenced to seven years in prison due to his
al-Qaeda/jihadi activities. (And here we are in another mess, giving in to
pressures that can and should be ignored. Muslims all over the world ignore the
requirements for beards and assorted other practices of strict Islam. They can
do so here as well, and most certainly when in our military. --Del )
Islam, Postmodernism, and Political Correctness. By Danusha V. Goska
Excerpt: One of the most important tools humanity needs
right now is frank speech about Islam. Unfortunately, in journalism, on
campuses, and in politics, politically-correct speech codes demonize any
analysis of Islam as "Islamophobia." Speech taboos are obeyed across
a wide spectrum. In September, 2001, after the 9-11 attacks, President
George Bush stated, "Islam is peace." In 2007, his fellow officers
declined to take effective action against U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan,
even after he exhibited to them a PowerPoint presentation that cited the
Koran to predict and support his subsequent, 2009 shooting of soldiers at Fort Hood Del )
Excerpt: The University
of Florida West Point ...and JihadWatch.org should get to design the
curriculum. ~Bob)
CNN host stunned
when Muslim cleric makes 9/11 joke during soundcheck. By Robert Spencer.
JihadWatch.org
Excerpt: CNN thinks a debate between Jew-haters Reza Aslan
and Peter Beinart offers balanced insight into the conflict between Israel and
the “Palestinian” jihadis, and would rather take the gaspipe than give a fair
platform to a counter-jihadist, but they have no problem featuring this
pro-jihad Muslim cleric who gleefully celebrates the 9/11 jihad mass murders.
Boko Haram beheaded
six-year-old Christian boy, group reports
Excerpt: It was revealed this week that Nigerian terrorist
group Boko Haram beheaded a six-year-old boy on June 1 because he was a
Christian. The attack occurred in Attagara, Gwoza district, Borno State
US Delivers Military
Aid to Lebanese Army
Excerpt: The new weapons were displayed at a Beirut air
base on Friday after arriving overnight. A sample of the weapons —
mortars, M16-A4 assault rifles and anti-tank missiles — were placed on a white
satin-covered table with camouflage netting. "This is just the latest in a
series of deliveries that have arrived in the last 36 hours," U.S. ambassador
David Hale said at the event.
Excerpt: American military forces launched an
operation in Somalia
on Monday against the Qaeda-linked militant network the Shabab,
defense officials said. Rear Adm. John F. Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary,
said that officials were still “assessing the results of the operation, and
will provide additional information as and when appropriate.”
Important: Libyan Militias Seize Control of Capital
as Chaos Rises
Excerpt: The government of Libya
said Monday that it had lost control of its ministries to a coalition of
militias that had taken over the capital, Tripoli ,
in another milestone in the disintegration of the state. (How's that
unauthorized, lead from behind war on Libya working out for you, Mr.
President? ~Bob)
Excerpt: This video was all over the internet, at the same
time that it was widely reported that an abandoned annex of the U.S. Embassy in
Tripoli was
taken over by a group of armed rebels. According to the Washington Times, those
in the video are members of an Islamist militia group called the Dawn of Libya.
(Couldn't we send a drone to take out the entire annex? --JB):
Excerpt: Israel
laid claim on Sunday to nearly 1,000 acres of West Bank land in a Jewish
settlement bloc near Bethlehem
— a step that could herald significant Israeli construction in the area —
defying Palestinian demands for a halt in settlement expansion.
Egyptian police
killed in Sinai bomb attack
Excerpt: At least 11 policemen have been killed in a bomb
attack on a convoy in Egypt 's
Sinai Peninsula , officials say. Two others
when injured when a device exploded as they travelled through the village of Wefaq ,
near the Gaza
border.
Moderate Islam Is
Multiculturalism Misspelled. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: I have been searching for moderate Islam since
September 11 and just like a lost sock in the dryer, it was in the last place I
expected it to be.
There is no moderate Islam in the mosques or in Mecca . You won’t find it
in the Koran or the Hadiths. If you want to find moderate Islam, browse the
newspaper editorials after a terrorist attack or take a course on Islamic
religion taught by a Unitarian Sociologist wearing fake native jewelry.
Rape victim used as
sex slave is disowned by family
Excerpt: A YOUNG woman held captive as a sex slave in Bradford has become a suicidal outcast, disowned by her
family because she was raped, a court heard. The Bangladeshi student was a
naive virgin when she was abducted from London
and beaten and kept prisoner by takeaway worker, Abdul Hanif.
I was intimidated and
branded a racist for bringing Rochdale abuse
gang to justice, says prosecutor
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2738804/I-intimidated-branded-racist-bringing-Rochdale-abuse-gang-justice-says-prosecutor.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2738804/I-intimidated-branded-racist-bringing-Rochdale-abuse-gang-justice-says-prosecutor.html
Excerpt: As the Chief Crown Prosecutor for the North West , I led the
teams that brought the so-called Rochdale Grooming Gang to justice in 2012 for
abusing up to 47 girls.
My work saw me go up against not only the offenders, but
those who tried to intimidate me for bringing abusers before the courts. They
said I had given racists a stick with which to beat minorities – I said our
communities should be carrying their own sticks.
3 Million Refugees
Have Fled Syria
Excerpt: In addition to the 3 million people who have sought
shelter in neighboring countries, including Lebanon , Jordan and Turkey ,
another 6.5 million refugees have been displaced within Syria , the
agency said, adding that half of those people were children. The UNHCR
concluded that almost half of the Syrian civilian population has had to leave
its homes. Not only are the refugees fleeing violence, but because they
frequently bounce from village to village before finally leaving their home
country, they arrive in neighboring countries in increasingly “shocking
states[s],” according to a UNHCR statement. (Report on ABC Evening News tomorrow on
refugee children supporting their parents in Lebanon . --Barb)
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