Update
Our friend, Joe Bomblosky, 54, who received a lung in July
of 2013, and was doing well, has died from pancreatic and liver cancer. It is
not unusual for the immunosuppressant drug to give a green flag to cancer cells
if they are there. Good guy.
I met with the post transplant pulmonologist Friday.
Everything looks good. Lowered my Prednisone dose, which is good. he is certain
that is the cause of my cataracts. Also contributes to weight gain and
shakiness, though the Tacrolimus and Albuterol are the big ones there. FEV
average 1.698 Friday highest since 4/22. So it's good right now.
Walked the 'Teddy Bear" dog before I went in to Rehab
Friday. He saw a golden doodle about 6 times his size, pulled out of his
harness, raced across the street and attacked--all 12 pounds of him. I ran over
puffing, swatted him and picked him up. No damage to the dogs, but I thought I
would collapse--he was unrepentant. He doesn't look like his siblings--we think
a roving terrier might have slipped into the barn.
I will be out of pocket Sunday, visiting friends in Chicago , so posting what I
can now. Not sure when next post will be--maybe Tuesday. ~Bob
October 25th, Saint
Crispin's Day.
With apologies to Will Shakespeare: "Left wing protesters and communists dupes who were safe a-bed
in America shall think themselves accursed they were not there, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles
any speaks, that fought with us in
Vietnam." Not to mention the sad wanna-bees playing dress-up in purchased uniforms
and medals, claiming to be heroes. ~Bob
General News and Comment
Must Read: Could non-citizens decide the November
election? By Jesse Richman and David Earnest, Washington
Excerpt: Most non-citizens do not register, let alone vote.
But enough do that their participation can change the outcome of close races. Our
data comes from the Cooperative
Congressional Election Study(CCES). ... More than 14 percent of
non-citizens in both the 2008 and 2010 samples indicated that they were
registered to vote.
Excerpt: But what Obama and his fellow Illinois Democrats
love most is voting “the Chicago
Way .” That involves bending every rule in the
book, appointing compliant election judges, and looking the other way when some
of Chicago s
notorious voter fraud occurs behind the curtain. This Chicago
Tribune news
story told the story in droll terms: ... That lax system has led to frequent reports of fraud and
abuse in neighboring Wisconsin
Excerpt: North Carolina ’s
Board of Elections found that
tens of thousands of registered voters from the state have personal information
matching that of registered voters in other states, and appear to have voted in
states other than North Carolina
in 2012. In some cases, votes were cast under names of individuals who had
passed away before Election Day.
Concerning: Wisconsin Governor: Burke (D) 49%, Walker
(R) 48%
Excerpt: The Wisconsin
governor’s race remains up for grabs going into the final stretch.
The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of
Likely Wisconsin Voters finds Democratic challenger Mary Burke with 49% support
to incumbent Republican Scott Walker’s 48%. One percent (1%) like another
candidate in the race, and two percent (2%) are undecided. (We are
anchored in the Madison , WI
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Some raids were precursors of, others were parts
of, the nastiest episode of this unlovely political season, an episode that has
occurred in an unlikely place. This attempted criminalization of politics to
silence people occupying just one portion of the political spectrum has
happened in Wisconsin ,
which often has conducted robust political arguments with Midwestern civility.
Excerpt: Last time we checked in on the Wisconsin
gubernatorial race, Scott Walker away from Mary Burke. He led by nearly
six points in the respected Marquette Law poll, had cracked 50, and enjoyed a
13-point cushion with independent voters. Then came MU's mid-October survey, in
which Walker 's
lead vanished completely, with the race deadlocked
at 47.
Real Books are Better for You than E-Books. By David L. Goetsch
Excerpt: The results are in and old-timers like me have won!
It turns out that those of us who believe reading real books is inherently
better than reading e-books are right. This is the finding of a recent study
conducted by Anne Mangen of Norway ’s
Stavanger University
White House: Ask DOJ About What's in The Fast and Furious Documents
Covered By Obama's Executive Privilege. By Katie Pavlich
Excerpt: When asked by Fox News' Ed Henry about why those
communications were covered and what was discussed, Earnest deferred all
questions to the Department of Justice. "Did the Attorney General talk
about this sensitive gun running operation with his wife and is mother and
that's why he [President Obama] had to invoke executive privilege?" Henry
asked. "Well Ed I'd refer you to the Department of Justice about
this," Earnest said. "It wasn't justice privilege it was executive
privilege. It was invoked by the president not the attorney general
right?" Henry followed up.
Obama Asks Judge To
Hide Emails To Attorney General Holder’s Wife
Excerpt: Late Oct. 22, moments before a judicial deadline,
the White House sent the judge a 1,307-page list of 15,662 Fast and Furious
documents that it wants to keep hidden from Judicial Watch and the
public.... The list includes almost 20 emails between Attorney General
Eric Holder and his wife, Sharon Malone. Malone is not a government official,
and so communications with her are not shielded by the “executive privilege”
rules that keep internal White House documents secret.
'F' Words -
For Flags. By Andy Weddington, Col.
Excerpt: "It's not often a Marine officer has
opportunity to throw 'F' words around in public but today is such an occasion. And
it's not often a Marine officer has opportunity to administer the oath of
office to a new admiral but today is such an occasion, rare as it may be. Twenty-five
and a half years ago the privilege mine to administer the oath of office
to this same officer - when commissioned an ensign.
Judge dismisses Tea
Party group's lawsuit against IRS over targeting
Excerpt: Rep. Jim Jordan called the decisions a “sad ruling
for liberty,” saying it “makes no sense” because the group was targeted because
of its political affiliation. “If that isn’t unwarranted harassment, I don’t
know what is,” Jordan, R-Ohio, said. “If such grievances don’t warrant redress
by our federal courts, I don’t know what does.”
Man accidentally
texts his probation officer asking for weed
Excerpt: In yet another story that involves a potent mixture
of mobile technology and general stupidity, Georgia resident Alvin
Cross, Jr. most definitely texted the wrong person when recently seeking a
little marijuana. Specifically, Cross sent a text message to his probation
officer which read “You have some weed?” Upon receiving the text message,
the probation officer notified local police and a search warrant was issued
for Cross’s residence.
CO: Michelle Obama apparently mixes up Colorado
Excerpt: She touted Udall’s Senate record in her speech, and
called him a “fifth-generation Coloradan.”.... “Udall is not a fifth-generation
Coloradan. ....It is Gardner who is a fifth-generation Colorado resident, a fact he touts
frequently on the campaign trail. (About as successful at campaigning as
designing school lunch menus. --Barb)
MA: Martha Coakley’s campaign seems to be in
mid-collapse. By Jazz Shaw
Excerpt: If you’re a Democrat in a statewide race in Massachusetts , you
really almost have to try to lose. ... And then you have Martha Coakley,
who according
to the most recent poll numbers, probably couldn’t be elected to carve the
turkey at her own family dinner this Thanksgiving. Republican Charlie Baker has
opened up a 9-point lead over Democrat Martha Coakley, 45 percent to 36
percent, according to a new Globe poll that depicts a far more comfortable
advantage than
either candidate for governor has enjoyed in months.
Barack Obama,
Bewildered Bystander He’s angry, but not angry enough to fix
what’s wrong. By Charles
Krauthammer
Excerpt: The president is upset. Very upset. Frustrated and
angry. Seething about the government’s handling of Ebola, said the front-page
headline in the New York Times last Saturday. There’s only one
problem with this pose, so obligingly transcribed for him by the Times.
It’s his government.
How to Increase the
Value of a Dollar? Move.
Excerpt: The state of Kansas
may soon be flooded with surgeons, if doctors take a look at a new tool from Rasmussen College Kansas
make more than surgeons in any other state based on the adjustment: $277,820
annually. The tool can look at individual occupations and compare the value of
salaries across states. In general, however, it determined that workers in Washington , D.C.
Don't Mess With Us Grandpas! Grandpa Shoots Trio of
Thugs Attempting to Rape His Teen Granddaughter – Kills One
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/10/grandpa-shoots-trio-of-thugs-attempting-to-rape-his-teen-granddaughter-kills-one/
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/10/grandpa-shoots-trio-of-thugs-attempting-to-rape-his-teen-granddaughter-kills-one/
Excerpt: The grandfather exchanged
fire with the trio and killed one of them, saving his granddaughter from rape. The
unnamed 67-year-old grandfather, his wife and 19-year-old granddaughter were in
the midst of a home invasion by three men wearing black clothes, ski masks and gloves. The thugs demanded the couple open up their safe at gunpoint. All three men were armed and
attempted to rape the young lady. (Wow, three guys with guns try a home
invasion, the grandfather sees them trying to rape his granddaughter, gets his
hands on a gun, and shoots all three men, while being shot several times
himself. One of the invaders dies, the other two are caught at the hospital,
the old man is in a hospital as well. This man is my idea of a great granddad,
or maybe just one hell of a good guy. And gee, he used a gun to protect his
family.... I wonder how all the antigun people will jump on this. --Del.
They'll say she should have had a rape whistle and a "no guns zone"
sign on the door. ~Bob)
Obama moves key Senate races toward GOP. By Manu Raju, Politico
Excerpt: The GOP efforts appear to be working in both races,
which have moved back in the party’s direction in recent days after a flurry of
speculation that they might be prime pickup opportunities for Democrats.
Excerpt: The investigation is largely a whitewash. There is
no mention of the fact that one whistleblower related to the case, Richard Higbie,
had his emails
deleted by a hacker. Or that the main whistleblower, Aurelia
Fedenisn, was harassed at
home and had her law firm
burgled. ... There is also no mention of the more explosive
allegation that Howard Gutman had not merely solicited a prostitute on a single
occasion, as the report mentions, but had escaped
his detail to “solicit sexual favors from minor
children.”
GA: Democratic
Operative Gets Called Out By His Own Brother For Failed Hit Job On GOP Candidate.
By Chuck Ross
Excerpt: An attempt to make David Perdue, the Republican
nominee for Senate in Georgia ,
look like a creepy old man by showing a video of him purportedly signing the
stomach of a teenage girl backfired in grand fashion on Friday. ... But the
moment was actually completely innocent, if not touching, as rather than
signing the girl’s exposed skin, Perdue was autographing her diabetic pump. The
one she has because she has juvenile diabetes. The one that she has had other prominent
figures sign in the past in order to raise awareness of the affliction.
CO: Dem Sen. Introduces Michelle O At Campaign Event:
‘We Judge People By The Content Of Their Color’
http://patdollard.com/2014/10/dem-sen-introduces-michelle-o-at-campaign-event-we-judge-people-by-the-content-of-their-color/
http://patdollard.com/2014/10/dem-sen-introduces-michelle-o-at-campaign-event-we-judge-people-by-the-content-of-their-color/
Hillary: Corporations
And Businesses Don’t Create Jobs
Excerpt: Then Senator Hillary Clinton voted in favor of a
minimum wage hike in 2007, under President George W. Bush. In 2008, the housing
market collapsed and the nation went into recession. Clinton didn’t elaborate on when those
jobs created by her vote to raise the minimum wage occurred.
Student allowed to bring
religious knife to class
Excerpt: District administrators are citing state and
federal guidelines that allow certain exceptions to Washington 's "zero tolerance" for
weapons policy. They say there are plenty of Sikhs, both students and staff,
who have carried Kirpans to school for years without incident. (no danger,
unless a kid makes his fingers look like a gun. Then they'd have to crack down.
~Bob)
Government to
Ordained Ministers: Celebrate Same-Sex Wedding or Go to Jail
I don't have a problem with gay marriage. I have a big
problem with forcing people who don't believe in it to support it. ~Bob
‘Black Hawk Down’
hero dies at 52: ‘Probably the best soldier I ever served with’
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/24/black-hawk-down-soldier-robert-gallagher-dies-at-5/
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/24/black-hawk-down-soldier-robert-gallagher-dies-at-5/
Worth Reading
Excerpt: 1) No one will really understand politics until
they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are
trying to solve their own problems — of which getting elected and re-elected
are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.
— Thomas Sowell
Bombshell: Valerie Jarrett Helped Manage Fallout Over Eric
Holder's Changing Fast and Furious Testimony to Congress. By Katie Pavlich
Excerpt: For years the White House has argued it had nothing
to do with Operation Fast and Furious while it was active and certainly wasn't
involved the fallout and cover-up that followed after Border Patrol Agent Brian
Terry was killed in 2010 by Mexican bandits carrying guns from the lethal
program. Now years later, a Vaughn Index describing Fast and Furious documents
being held from the American people and Congress under President Obama's
assertion of executive privilege shows White House Senior Advisor Valerie
Jarrett played a key role in Attorney General Eric Holder's changing testimony
to Congress.
Ebola and Enterovirus News
Ebola hits New York City
Excerpt: The first case of Ebola arrived in New York City on Thursday.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that a
doctor who recently returned from West Africa ,
working with Doctors Without Borders treating Ebola patients, had tested
positive for the infection.
Ebola Hits the Big
Apple: Doctor Returns from Africa , Goes
Bowling, Dines Out, Takes Public Transit
Excerpt: Problem: while he was watching himself for symptoms
he apparently, though feeling sluggish, decided to spend Wednesday night going bowling with his live-in
girlfriend. He took an Uber car both ways. Today, the UK Daily Mail reports one of Williamsburg ’s bowling alleys was closed. (If
Obama says Ebola is "The JV team of diseases," I'll get rally worried.
~Bob)
Race Card News
Excerpt: Back in August, when news first broke of a shooting
in Ferguson , Mo. Boston to New York to San
Francisco .
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Woman's kidney
infection turns out to be 6-pound baby
Excerpt: After experiencing stomach pains she called an
off-hours hotline, which advised her that it could be a kidney infection. She
then called her doctor's office and was told to come in later that day; when
she arrived, she was asked to provide a urine sample. .... A doctor quickly
checked her and was able to see the baby's head, reports the South Wales Argus.
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Greenpeace Founder: No Risk in Global Warming. By John Ransom
Excerpt: Dr. Patrick Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace—you
know? the save-the-whale people who block Japanese harpooners?-- says that
there is no evidence that humans are in any danger from global warming. In
fact, he says that today’s temperature changes are just a blip on the radar
according to the online site The Australian.
Coal Miners Fired in
Appalachia Getting Hired in Wyoming
Excerpt: : It’s boom times in Wyoming for embattled U.S. coal companies, where the mining industry is
hiring workers while shedding them in Appalachia .
(I’m sure the EPA is burning the midnight oil figuring out a way to
put a halt to this. There is no way that it can allow the coal industry to
survive. --Don. And if the economy tanks and the cost of energy and everything
else shoots up for the poor and working class, the elite left won't care. ~Bob)
Religion of Peace News
The Homegrown
Jihadist Threat Grows: ISIS’s online recruitment is reaching into North America , yet the Obama administration still has no
strategy to fight it. By Joseph Lieberman and Christian Beckner
Excerpt: Al Qaeda’s online efforts have evoked similar fears
over the past decade, and played a role in inspiring a number of terrorist
attacks, including the Islamist terrorist attack at Fort
Hood , Texas , in 2009, where 13
people were killed; the unsuccessful car bombing in Times
Square in 2010; and the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013, which
killed four people. Despite all this, the U.S. government still has no strategy
to counter ISIS’s and al Qaeda’s violent online propaganda when it is directed
at Americans. (Joe Lieberman is a lifelong Liberal, but of the old-fashioned
breed that still believed in tolerance and responding to facts, not simple
ideology. Here he comes out and says we have a problem and this Administration
has been talking about it for years and gotten nowhere. Maybe all the other
people saying the same thing aren't just obstructionist GOP activists? --Del.
People who voted for Lieberman for VP now trash him, while people like me who
didn't vote for him respect him. Politics in the 21st century. ~Bob)
Peace According to
Radical Islam. By Reuven Berko
http://www.investigativeproject.org/4626/guest-column-peace-according-to-radical-islam
http://www.investigativeproject.org/4626/guest-column-peace-according-to-radical-islam
Excerpt: One can hope that the ISIS
execution of American correspondent James Foley, carried out by a British-born
Muslim, would be a wake-up call for not only the British, but all the European
security services. The chilling similarity between the horror of Foley's
execution at the hands of a British-born ISIS operative and the Hamas execution
of dozens of Gazans, as well as the ISIS slaughter of hundreds of virtually
naked Syrian soldiers, should have sounded alarm bells regarding the dangers
inherent in the fermenting Islamic enclaves in America
and Europe . Unfortunately, that does not seem
to be the case.
America’s
“moderate Syrian rebels” are all Islamic jihadis, says Saudi intelligence.
By Raymond Ibrahim
Excerpt: More indicators that the Obama administration is
using the pretext of fighting one set of Islamic State terrorists in a way to
help support another set of Islamic State terrorists—those fighting Syria ’s Bashar
Assad—recently came out. ... However, according to Arabic sources, Khalid bin
Bandar, chief of Saudi intelligence, “Any Syrian fighter who will enter Saudi
land is, in the end, from the Islamic jihadi camps. There is no presence of any
armed moderate nationalist or democratic movement inside Syria .” (As
I've been saying for years, THERE ARE NO GOOD GUYS IN SIRYA! ~Bob)
Excerpt: While U.S.
warplanes strike at the militants of the so-called Islamic State in both Syria and Iraq ,
truckloads of U.S.
and Western aid has been flowing into territory controlled by the jihadists,
assisting them to build their terror-inspiring “caliphate.” The aid—mainly food
and medical equipment—is meant for Syrians displaced from their hometowns, and
for hungry civilians. It is funded by the U.S. Agency for International
Development, European donors, and the United Nations.
Muslim Terrorists
Execute More than 700 Men and Boys
Excerpt: A new report from the Washington Post uncovers an ISIS massacre
that took place in August, when ISIS thugs
murdered more than 700 men and boys in response to an uprising. The Shaitat
tribe was forced to sign a truce with ISIS after ISIS armed themselves with US
weapons from Iraq
and invaded their community
Imam John Kerry's "Real Islam"? Iran
Excerpt: A 26-year-old Iranian woman convicted of murdering
a man she accused of trying to rape her as a teenager was hanged on Saturday,
the official news agency IRNA said, despite international pleas for her life to
be spared.
Man Attacks NYPD
Officers With Hatchet Unprovoked
Excerpt: A Facebook page of man who gruesomely attacked New York police officers
with a hatchet Thursday features a profile photo of a heavily-armed man and an
image of Islamic prayers, although officials have not confirmed links to
extremist documents or jihadi groups at this time. NBC News, citing law enforcement sources, reported the
Facebook page belongs to Zale Thompson, a 32-year-old resident of Queens . The report describes the profile picture of his
Facebook page as appearing to be "a Muslim warrior."
One Political Cartoon
from Canada
Cpl. Cirillo leaves #Ottawa on his way to #Hamilton. This
powerful photo shows his mom, Kathy: http://cbc.sh/CPji4JS (Sad
pictures on their site. ~Bob)
Comforting
Cpl. Nathan Cirillo: 'I kept telling him he was loved.'
Excerpt:
Barbara Winters, a government lawyer, was walking by the National War Memorial
the morning of Oct. 22 when she heard gunshots. She rant to the scene and
provided words of comfort in what may have been the last words heard by Cpl.
Nathan Cirillo. (Not to sound cynical but had it happened in this country
someone would have been using a cell phone to make a video instead of providing
words of comfort. Just my opinion. --MasterGuns)
*****
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam Veteran who served five
terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. He is the author of The Coming Collapse of the American Republic.
http://tiny.cc/g02s4 For a free PDF of Collapse, e-mail him at
tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. Hall’s eleven books are listed here: http://tinyurl.com/o4nu65u. His blog of
political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com.
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