Update
Five AM Sunday morning, and every hard-wired smoke alarm in
the house went off. We searched for the cause while trying to calm the pup. The
fire Department came. Finally they discovered that one of the detectors had
gone over to the dark side. Firefighter said they only last ten years at most.
We are at 10.5...~Bob
General News and Comment
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Post-election analysis falls somewhere between
amusing and clueless. In the amusing camp are Democratic strategists who intone
that more Democrats would have won if only more people had voted. The gods
surely blush with envy. And of course, there’s the conventional wisdom that
Democrats always suffer in midterms because they lack “intensity,” meaning they
don’t care, and that presidents are always unpopular in their sixth year in
office. So much for insight.
Worth Reading
http://host.madison.com/ap/mcclatchy/commentary/jay-ambrose-fighting-public-unions-saving-the-future/article_c1865a5a-5374-56d8-a6d0-003d5cde0e4f.html
http://host.madison.com/ap/mcclatchy/commentary/jay-ambrose-fighting-public-unions-saving-the-future/article_c1865a5a-5374-56d8-a6d0-003d5cde0e4f.html
Excerpt: Scott Walker, the Republican governor of Wisconsin , took on
public employee unions about to sink the state and reduced their bullying
powers sufficiently to save the government billions and help rejuvenate a tepid
economy. Despite a variety of retaliatory efforts by the unions and rival
politicians to then sink him — some of the efforts about as dirty as dirty gets
— he rose high, he overcame and, in the recent elections, was happily
victorious. Three other Republican governors beat back intense opposition from
public unions they had challenged — Rick Scott in Florida ,
John Kasich in Ohio and Rick Snyder in Michigan . That’s major,
but the story does not end with Republicans.
A Russian Plane Zaps U.S.
An unarmed Russian bomber in April flew over a high-tech U.S. ship. A
crew member pressed a button. Poof! No more missile defense system on the ship.
No more radar. The ship became a defenseless floating coffin. Then the plane
flew over the blind ship a dozen times. Basically, it was “Nyah, nyah, nyah.”
This story got no play in American media. (This is very unsettling, and it does
seem strange there's been so little reported about it. --Del )
Reagan Praised as Hagel Announces ‘Game-Changing’ Military Strategy to Compete With
Excerpt: Wary of a more muscular Russia
and China , Defense Secretary
Chuck Hagel said Saturday the Pentagon will make a new push for fresh thinking
and creative ideas about how the U.S. can keep and extend its
military superiority despite tighter budgets and the wear and tear of 13 years
of war. ... Speaking just a short walk from Reagan’s tomb, Hagel invoked the
late president’s legacy as a rebuilder of U.S.
military strength in the 1980s and cited Reagan’s famous call for the Soviets
to tear down the Berlin Wall, which epitomized a divided Europe
and a world at risk of a new global war. (Reagan rebuilt the military after
Jimmy "Barack One" Carter wrecked it. ~Bob)
Dir. of U.S. Navy
Intelligence sacked for warning about China’s aggressive designs in East
China Sea
Excerpt: In February of this year, at the U.S. Naval
Institute’s WEST 2014 conference, Capt. James Fanell, 52, the director of
intelligence and information operations at U.S. Pacific Fleet, said that the
Chinese Navy was practicing for a “short sharp war” against Japan .
According to Fanell, the PLA Navy had been carrying out amphibious assault
drills to practice taking territory in the East China Sea, specifically the
Senkaku or Diaoyu islands that are claimed by both Japan and China . Once the uninhabited islands
come under Chinese control, the PLA could then attack Okinawa
to remove the facilities of the US Air Force and Marine Corps from the island.
(Folks, I had pointed out before that the US
oligarchs keep telling us that the Russians are our no. 1 enemy while giving China a pass.
That is absolutely false and I would never vote for a candidate who said that.
Romney did say it, among others. Obviously the real reason the oligarchs want
you to hate Russia is that Russian officials like Vladimir Putin and foreign
minister Sergey Lavrov tell the unadorned truth about US and EU foreign policy,
which is utterly diabolical and seems aimed at getting Christians and minorities
killed while supporting Muslim thugs. Assad supports and protects Christians so
he must be ousted. Libya
protected its minorities so Ghadaffi had to go. As bad as he was, Saddam also
protected Christians and minorities. As soon as we 'won' the war, the Assyrian
Christians who had lived in relative peace in Iraq for 2000 years started
emigrating and their churches were burned by the people we helped put in power.
Please read my article on this here http://www.americandailyherald.com/pundits/donald-hank/item/facts-be-damned-russia-is-foe-china-is-friend and
connect the dots in that to this big dot. China
is clearly the REAL enemy while Russia
is potential friend and is a natural friend of the American people. Our
oligarchs are the real enemy and that means both parties (I just sent you a
link to a video of the opening prayer in Congress. Boehner invited a
Muslim imam to offer this prayer to Allah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA7mS77fhYQ.
The political class is openly defiant and antagonistic toward us. I see
that some of the enthusiastic GOP defenders are starting to get the point.
So what to do? The first step is to warn as many people as you can. The
solution starts with education--and ends with education. It is all we need to
win. The elites are like cockroaches prancing around the kitchen floor in a
dark house. When the family flips on the light, they scurry off behind the
fridge and stove. Keep the lights on and keep them at bay indefinitely. --Don
Hank)
Excerpt: He has captured the media's imagination. He's
unlikely to capture the Republican nomination. (Paul has some foreign policy
positions that really worry me. ~Bob)
Nancy Pelosi, partisan warrior in denial. By Dana Milbank
Excerpt: There are five 2014 House races still to be decided
before we can answer a question of historical interest: Was this the worst
election for House Democrats since 1928? Or was it merely their worst since
1946? Either way, the results do not reflect well on the House Democratic
leader, Nancy Pelosi — a conclusion that seems to have escaped Nancy Pelosi.
Decorated Combat
Commander Learns the Hard Way: Military Rules Don't Apply to Lesbian Officers
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/decorated-combat-commander-learns-the-hard-way-military-rules-dont-apply-to-lesbian-officers-thomas-more-law-center-files-federal-lawsuit-282548581.html#>
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Excerpt: The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, late yesterday (Nov. 12th) filed a federal lawsuit in the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against the Secretary of the Army on behalf of highly decorated active duty Army Officer Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Christopher Downey. ... The lawsuit stems from LTC Downey's effort to prevent two female officers under his command, a Captain and a Lieutenant, who were in uniform at a formal military ball and were on the dance floor engaged in prolonged French kissing, taking off each other's uniform jackets, and other intimate conduct, from violating Army regulations regarding public display of affection.
Excerpt: The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, late yesterday (Nov. 12th) filed a federal lawsuit in the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against the Secretary of the Army on behalf of highly decorated active duty Army Officer Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Christopher Downey. ... The lawsuit stems from LTC Downey's effort to prevent two female officers under his command, a Captain and a Lieutenant, who were in uniform at a formal military ball and were on the dance floor engaged in prolonged French kissing, taking off each other's uniform jackets, and other intimate conduct, from violating Army regulations regarding public display of affection.
Food Stamps--comment
on the Grunt.com e-newsletter
Bob received his Phd in Bio-Chemistry in 1976. During that
time we ate a lot of hot dogs, chicken pot pies (when you could buy them 5 for
$1.00.) When I told him we qualified for food stamps, he looked at me with his
typical jaw out and said, "You have a roof over your head? You have enough
to eat?" When I said yes, his reply was, "We don't need food
stamps!" Marine training! After that he accepted a position for 3 years in
a post-doc research position.
Colonel's call for
better leadership touches a nerve. By Stephen Losey
Excerpt: Col. Donald Grannan's commentary, "How did we
lose this young Airman?" has sparked widespread discussion about Air Force
leadership. It was the shot heard 'round the Air Force. On Nov. 7,
Wright-Patterson Air Force base posted a commentary from 88th Communications
Group commander Col. Donald Grannan entitled, "How did we lose this young
Airman?" In the short space of a dozen paragraphs, Grannan related the
story of a bright, talented, and driven airman he knew who, nevertheless, chose
not to reenlist because "in her words, the Air Force had made it clear it
didn't want her." He pointed the finger at failures in the service's
leadership culture. (Sad story, but at least it got out and is causing some
thinking. --Del )
Homeschool Family Sends Seven Kids to College — All by Age
12! By Dave Bohon
http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/family/item/18485-homeschool-family-sends-seven-kids-to-college-all-by-age-12
Excerpt: A family from Alabama is inspiring the nation with its
amazing homeschool success story. In fact, Kip and Mona Lisa Harding, from Montgomery , have been so
successful in educating their 10 children at home that seven have gone on to
college — by the age of 12!
A brave new world of
intolerance
Excerpt: Confronted with Muslim demands for equal status
with Christian and Jewish holidays, the school
board
in Montgomery County , Md.
board
in at Christmas and
Easter, and days off for Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah. However, as with the
evil Lord “He-who-must-not-be-named” Voldemort in the “Harry Potter” books, the
holidays shall go unnamed on school calendars, replaced by Winter Break, Spring
Break and days with “no school for students and teachers.”
Tweet from WH PRESS SECRETARY @weknowwhatsbest (Parody
Account)
We have the smallest Army since 1940, the smallest Navy
since 1950, and the smallest president since, well, ever.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Seven years ago I was talking to a longtime
Democratic operative on Capitol Hill about a politician who was in trouble. The
pol was likely finished, he said. I was surprised. Can’t he change things and
dig himself out? No. “People do what they know how to do.” Politicians don’t
have a vast repertoire. When they get in a jam they just do what they’ve always
done, even if it’s not working anymore. This came to mind when contemplating
President Obama. After a devastating election, he is presenting himself as if
he won. The people were not saying no to his policies, he explained, they would
in fact like it if Republicans do what he tells them.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: The Obama presidency is a failed presidency. He has
presided over one of the slowest economic recoveries in history. His foreign
policy has been a disaster. ObamaCare is a mess. And it’s hard to lay the blame
off on anyone else. The president didn’t make Republicans part of any of his
decisions and most of the time he ignored congressional Democrats as well. To
make matters worse, Barack Obama is the most polarizing president we have had
in the past 60 years. What makes that so strange is that we were all promised
something completely different.
Walker-Martinez in 2016?
By Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
When I declared, tongue-in-cheek, that ticket had already
been decided in advance and that the correct answer was Scott Walker-Susana
Martinez, the audience seemed pretty darn pleased by that combination. ...
Jumping off a John Fund comment, I don’t see how Hillary Clinton can be the
first woman president when Valerie Jarrett has been running the country for six
years.
NJ: Poll: The high-tax, gov’t union model at work. By
Steve Malanga
Excerpt: A new poll finds that half of all New Jersey residents say they plan to leave
the state, compared to just 45 percent who want to stay. The desire to leave is
particularly strong among working age people, reflecting the state’s more than
10 years of economic struggles. Some three-in-ten who say they want to leave
specifically blame the state’s high taxes for their desire to leave, while 12
percent blame a lack of economic opportunity. Business executives around the
country who rate Jersey as one of the nation’s
worst business environments would tell you that, too, is largely a function of
high taxes. (Since I grew up in South Jersey ,
I'd love to live there. Just not possible on Social Security and savings, now
that my health has forced my retirement. ~Bob)
Vote Fraud News
Excerpt: Contrary to allegations that voter ID laws amount
to a poll tax because identification cards cost money, many states with voter
ID laws make the identification available for free to anyone who cannot afford
it. In Wisconsin, where the state’s voter ID law was recently upheld by the 7th
Circuit Court of Appeals only to be briefly and temporarily suspended by the
U.S. Supreme Court for the midterm election, the state’s Division of Motor
Vehicles website explains how one may obtained a free state-issued photo ID
card for voting purposes. State law also allows for certain non-government
issued forms of photo ID to suffice as a valid voter ID card on election day.
... What is known for sure is that in the state of Georgia voter turnout actually
increased after that state passed a voter ID law.
Gun News
Excerpt: With all the numbers tallied, out of 251 races,
NRA-backed candidates won in 229, over 91 percent of Congressional races in
which they endorsed a candidate. According to the Washington Examiner, NRA
spokesman Andrew Arulanandam explained that the Second Amendment group was able
to win at this level because individual NRA members were motivated to vote for
freedom. He said: “Our members came out in droves and voted for their rights
and their freedom. This was one of the most successful election cycles in a
decade.”
Ebola and Enterovirus News
Excerpt: Ebola patient -- and Good Samaritan -- Dr. Martin
Salia landed
in the United States from Sierra Leone on Saturday. He was,
one might say, trying to make the world a better and more humane place. Earlier
today, however, the hospital treating him announced he didn't make it: (Prayers
for him. Rest in Peace. ~Bob)
Race Card News
‘What Is the
Probability That LaPrincess Will Inherit Her Mama’s Big Bootie?’: High School
Test Question Leaves Parent ‘Stunned’
Excerpt: North
Carolina school district officials acted quickly to
remove a question that appeared on a high school biology test that more than a
few observers said was racist. Here’s how the question began: “LaShamanda has a
heterozygous big bootie, the dominant trait. Her man Fontavius has a small
bootie which is recessive. They get married and have a baby named LaPrincess…”
(The kids are being educated by idiots. The person responsible should be fired.
Both racist and stupid--a twofer. ~Bob)
True, this: Black Males Open Fire on 5 Year-Old White
Girl. Where’s Sharpton and Jackson?
Excerpt: A five year old girl who had done nothing wrong was
wantonly murdered as she sat on the lap of her grandfather. You haven’t heard
about it? That’s not surprising; while the Al Sharptons and the Jesse Jacksons
of the world posture and bloviate about violence and a lack of respect for
human life that permeates communities, they routinely keep quiet about attacks
that happen every single day in America
unless the victim was a person of color and there are television cameras
pointed at them. (Her picture will move you to tears. We have a double standard
in the media. The average person doesn't know that blacks kill twice as many
whites as whites that kill black. and both whites and blacks murder people of
their own race at ten times the rate of interracial murder. There isn't a
person in America
who hasn't heard of Trayvon Martin, but not one in ten thousand can tell you
who Chris Cervini is: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/what_if_trayvon_had_been_white_and_the_shooter_black.html#ixzz1qBLNnX9L
~Bob)
Dear Black People: The Democrats Are About To Break Up With
You. By Derek Hunter
Excerpt: or decades, the black vote in the United States
almost uniformly has gone to Democrats.
How’s that working out? Black unemployment is twice the
national average, poverty rates are higher than before Democrats offered
“help,” and the education system fails a disproportionate number of black
children. That’s what 50-plus years of blind voting loyalty to Democrats has
earned. And, thanks to those same Democrats and the nation’s first black
president, it’s about to get a lot worse. (back in the late 1890s, early 1900,
Chicago democrat alderman used to bring in drifters from outside the city who
slept in the bars and brothels the week before election day, got 50 cents for
each chain vote election day. This is just importing outside votes on a grand
scale. ~Bob)
Black Man Arrested for Keeping Slaves. By Dave Jolly
Excerpt: Case in point is 45 year old Christopher Hisle, a
black man who lives in Cincinnati .
Hisle was arrested this past April after he drove a woman
down to Louisville
to be used as a prostitute. Since his crime involved the crossing of state
borders, the FBI got involved in the investigation. When they went to Hisle’s
home they discovered a dozen women being held captive and being used as sex
slaves. (He has historical precedent. In 1860, there were 3,000 black slave
owners in New Orleans .
~Bob)
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Tweet From WH PRESS SECRETARY @weknowwhatsbest (Parody
Account)
O-Care architect Jon Gruber is in trouble for saying O-care
passed thanks to voter stupidity. Here are the YES voters: Dems: 219 GOP: 0
Thanks to Gov. Jim
Doyle, Wisconsin Taxpayers got to Pay Jonathan
Gruber $400,000
Excerpt: As Gruber-gate
accelerates, it is interesting to note that Governor Jim Doyle
once paid Gruber $400,000 to conduct a study released in 2011 on
"The Impact of the
ACA on Wisconsin's Health Insurance Market." Proving him right
about some WI voters. ~Bob)
Empirically
Speaking, Gruber Has a Point, Americans Are Stupid. By Andy Weddington
Excerpt:
Jonathan Gruber, an economist and among the chief designers of the Affordable
Care Act (Obamacare), said Americans are stupid. Mr. Gruber said it
multiple times over a handful of years, and was recorded as many times. That is
empirical evidence. His audiences laughed - at his condescending putdown, and
at stupid Americans (their brethren).
Jonathan Gruber
cashed in even more than previously thought; Update: And Obama JUST
found out about all this. By Doug Powers
Excerpt: For ObamaCare “architect” Jonathan Gruber, the
health law he helped design has been the gift that keeps on giving. Gruber has
come under blistering criticism since videos resurfaced of him saying the law
passed due to the “stupidity” of Americans who didn’t understand its
complexity. Now, a series of
government contracts totaling more than $2 million for consulting services
provided by the Harvard-trained economics professor are coming under scrutiny.
Gruber White House
Meeting Included CBO Director, Robert Gibbs, Axelrod and Barack Obama
Excerpt: "In addition to the president and Elmendorf,
present in the meeting were White House officials such as Assistant to the
President for Legislative Affairs Phil Schiliro, Director of the White
House Office of Health Reform Nancy-Ann DeParle, Office of Management and
Budget director Peter Orszag (a former CBO director himself),
National Economic Council Director Larry Summers, chair of the Council of
Economic Advisers Christy Romer, senior adviser David Axelrod, and press
secretary Robert Gibbs. Others were there as well, including Department of
Health and Human Services adviser Meena Seshamani, Harvard University
Excerpt: Washington’s state’s healthcare exchange shut down
after the first few hours of open enrollment on Saturday, as state officials
and software engineers tried to resolve a problem with tax credit calculations.
The much-maligned federal site, Healthcare.gov,
appeared meanwhile to be working smoothly on the first day of the second open
enrollment period for people seeking insurance plans under President Barack
Obama’s signature – and singularly troubled – reform.
State, federal
insurance sites face first-day hiccups
Excerpt: Open enrollment on the federal HealthCare.gov site
kicked off relatively smoothly in many parts of the nation Saturday, although
there were reports in some areas that consumers and brokers had problems
logging into accounts. Healthcare.gov launched amid much anticipation after
last year's botched rollout.. Department of Health and Human Services reported
more than 23,000 people had submitted applications in the first eight hours. Just
as the federal log in issues appeared resolved Saturday afternoon, issues on
state-run sites cropped up.
Medicaid Spending Has
Exploded, And It Will Keep Rising Faster Than Expected. By John R. Graham
Excerpt: In 2014, total Medicaid spending is projected to
grow 12.8 percent because Obamacare has added about 8 million dependents. A
large minority of states have chosen to increase residents’ eligibility for
Medicaid by expanding coverage to adults making up to 138 percent of the
federal poverty level. Unfortunately, more states are likely to expand this
welfare program. This is expected to result in a massive increase in the number
of Medicaid dependents: From 73 million in 2013 to 93 million in 2024.
Undocumented Democrat News
Tweet from WH PRESS SECRETARY @weknowwhatsbest (Parody
Account)
Pres. Obama will not only pardon this year's WH turkey
again, it will receive a work permit and a driver's license.
Worth Reading Cillaizza , Washington
Excerpt: Reports are rampant that President Obama will sign
an executive order as soon as this week that
will allow up to 5 million undocumented immigrants to avoid deportation.
Signing such an order would have explosive political consequences — it would
not only reshape the near-term fights in Congress but also have a potentially
profound effect on the two parties’ national coalitions heading into the 2016
election and beyond.
Obama Once Worried
About Immigration's Toll on U.S.
Excerpt: Obama’s ambivalence on the issue was even evident
in his famed 2006 autobiography, “The Audacity of Hope,” in which he states:
“The number of immigrants added to the labor force every year is of a magnitude
not seen in this country for over a century. If this huge influx of mostly
low-skill workers provides some benefits to the economy as a whole – especially
by keeping our workforce young, in contrast to an increasingly geriatric Europe
and Japan – it also threatens to
depress further the wages of blue-collar Americans and put strains on an
already overburdened safety net [emphasis added].” He continued, “When
I see Mexican flags waved at pro-immigration demonstrations, I sometimes feel a
flush of patriotic resentment. When I’m forced to use a translator to
communicate with the guy fixing my car, I feel a certain frustration.”
The Midterms’
Immigration Lesson. Last week’s election results proved that
open-borders advocates have become reactionaries. By Victor Davis
Hanson
Excerpt: Everyone finds a lesson in the Republican midterm
tsunami. One message was that so-called comprehensive immigration reform and
broad amnesty have little national public support. Polls have long shown that,
but so do last week’s election results. Candidates in swing states who promised
amnesties got no edge from such opportunistic posturing. Candidates who
pandered to identity groups and played the ethnic card lost in most cases.
"You're Greener than Gore" News
I think summer is
over
Sunday morning we had about 2 inches of Global Warming--on
November 16. The Weather Channel said the average national high temps were 27
degrees, and that it has only been this cold this early 8 times since the 1880s.
They were posting, "You know it's cold when" jokes from viewers. I
sent, "You know it's cold when...people are burning copies of Al Gore's
books to keep warm." Yes, I know your bosses won't let you use it, but
thought it was funny. On Monday morning, the wind chill was minus 7--on
November 17. All 50 states are supposed to go below freezing tonight. ~Bob
Tweet from Walter Cronkite @CronkiteSays (Think
a parody account)
BREAKING Gore was asked to comment on the recent record low
temperatures but unfortunately his tongue is stuck to a flagpole in Tennessee .
Weather Channel
Comment
There is a famous quotation that is suitable here, “If you
tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to
believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can
shield the people from the political, economic and or
military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the
State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal
enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the
State.” Can anyone say, "Obama"? --Noel Mann, Ph.D. (in Environmental Science).
Global Warming Quote
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the
populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series
of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary." --H.L. Mencken, [1918]
Worth Reading
Excerpt: With nasty cold fronts thrusting an icy and early
winter across the continental U.S. — along with last winter described by USA
Today as "one of the snowiest, coldest, most miserable on record" —
climatologist John L. Casey thinks the weather pattern is here to stay for
decades to come. In fact, Casey, a former space shuttle engineer and NASA
consultant, is out with the provocative book "Dark Winter: How
the Sun Is Causing a 30-Year Cold Spell," which warns that a radical
shift in global climate is underway, and that Al Gore and other environmentalists
have it completely wrong. The earth, he says, is cooling, and cooling
fast. (Isn't this an interesting twist? --Del. Very scary. Warming has
some winners in increased food production. Cooling has none. Ask the Norse, who
settled Greenland during the Medieval Warm Period, when it was much warmer than
now due, I suppose, to SUVs, but who died when the Earth returned to normal
temps. ~Bob)
Ice Visible on Lake Superior Weeks Ahead of Schedule
Excerpt: Cold temperatures and snow across the Great Lakes
in November is certainly nothing out of the ordinary, but this morning, a layer
of ice was visible on parts of Lake Superior in Ashland , Wis. Great Lakes
overall usually occur during the beginning to middle of December.
Special Interests
Keep Ethanol Mandate Alive (Second story on this page)
Religion of Peace News
Excerpt: The Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot that
controls large portions of Iraq
and Syria ,
has released a new video showing the mass beheadings of Syrian soldiers. The
video also includes a scene purportedly showing the severed head of Peter
Kassig, who was kidnapped in late 2013. Kassig is a former US Army Ranger who
was serving as an aid worker in Syria
at the time of his disappearance. As in past videos, the Islamic State's
executioner, a man dubbed "Jihadi John" in the press because he
speaks with an English accent, is featured. He taunts the West, saying that the
Islamic State cannot wait to face American ground troops. (If they were
beheading illegal immigrants, or if the Sierra Club said beheadings cause
global warming, Obama would spring into action. ~Bob)
Islamic State beheads
American Kassig; Obama condemns ‘act of pure evil’
Excerpt: The Islamic State beheaded an American Muslim convert and former U.S. Army Ranger who had traveled to Syria
on a humanitarian mission, according to a gruesome video released Sunday by the
terrorist group. The death of Abdul-Rahman Kassig, previously known as Peter,
came weeks after the terrorist
group said it would kill him because of the U.S.
bombing campaign in Syria .
Tweet from AdolfJoeBiden™ @Bidenshairplugs
Nothing says "peaceful" quite like a weekly
beheading.
A 26 Year-Old Woman
Is ISIS ’s Last American Hostage
Excerpt: The extremists didn’t show her off in their latest
snuff film. And her family doesn’t want her name released. But what is known
about ISIS’s remaining U.S.
captive is heartbreaking.
Got him! Jihadi John
is 'wounded in US airstrike
that killed 10 top ISIS commanders at secret bunker meeting in Iraq
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2836124/GOT-Jihadi-John-wounded-airstrike-Foreign-Office-confirms-MOS-aware-reports-injury.html#ixzz3JEM80J6T%20
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2836124/GOT-Jihadi-John-wounded-airstrike-Foreign-Office-confirms-MOS-aware-reports-injury.html#ixzz3JEM80J6T%20
Excerpt: Jihadi John, the Briton who beheaded two British
and two American hostages held by Islamic State terrorists, has been injured in
a US-led air strike, according to reports received by the Foreign Office. The
masked ‘executioner’ with a London
accent is believed to have narrowly escaped death when he attended a summit of
the group’s leaders in an Iraqi town close to the Syrian border last Saturday.
(Note to Air commander: Need bigger/more bombs. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Militant leaders from the Isis
and al-Qaeda terrorist groups have agreed to stop fighting each other in order
to join against their opponents. Isis, which calls itself the Islamic State
(Isis), and al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra, have been engaged in
bitter fighting for more than a year in an attempt to dominate the bloody
rebellion against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: The “pivot to Asia,” also known as the “rebalance,”
is the most important geopolitical shift in U.S. strategy since the declaration
of the “long war” (against terrorism) after September 11, 2001. Yet try as it
might, the U.S. seems
permanently bogged down in the Middle East . As
Fred Kaplan has noted, the campaign against the Islamic State (also known
as ISIS or ISIL) has “already lost its way.” After just a month, the U.S. already seems adrift; it is becoming painfully
clear that America is once
again fighting a war in the Middle East with
no clear goal, strategy, or exit pathway. There is growing talk of a ground
intervention that would suck the U.S. much more deeply into Iraqi,
Syrian, and regional affairs. If this all seems familiar, it should. This has been the U.S. way of war in the region for
more than two decades.
The Emergence of the
Islamic State's 'Cyrenaica Province ' (Wilayat al-Barqa) in Libya
Excerpt: As has been noted previously, in his new speech put out by
al-Furqan Media, the Islamic State's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi explicitly
acknowledged the recent series of pledges of allegiance to him from Sinai , Libya ,
Yemen , Saudi Arabia and Algeria , with the creation of new
'wilayat' ('provinces') therein. I had also noted that the most realistic
prospects of this declaration translating to tangible results on the ground-
that is, in terms of actually building the trappings of a state on the
precedent in Syria and Iraq- exist in Libya and Sinai.
Excerpt: This 1939 flag of Palestine shows that it was
recognized as a Jewish entity even then, and that the name “Palestine”
historically referred to a region (so named by the Romans after they expelled
the Jews in 134AD, using the name of the Philistines, the Israelites’ Biblical
enemies), not to a people. There was no Palestinian nationality before the
1960s, when it was invented in order to reposition what was then universally
known as the Arab/Israeli conflict. Up to the invention of “Palestinians,” the
Israelis were the tiny, besieged people amidst a huge number of hostile Arabs;
after that invention, the “Palestinians” themselves became the tiny, besieged
people against the big, bad Israelis. PLO executive committee member Zahir
Muhsein said this in 1977:
Worth Reading
Excerpt: I’m not sure that we will survive…It’s interesting
to me how even the most obvious provocations…for example a woman being beheaded
in Moore, Oklahoma, a policeman having a hatchet stuck in his skull on the
streets of New York, a guy being shot at the War Memorial in Ottawa, somebody
being beheaded — hacked to pieces on the streets of London in broad
daylight…even the most obvious provocations, we…duck into the multicultural
cringe.
And Obama, and David Cameron and Justin Trudeau (who G-d
help us may well be the next Prime Minister of Canada) — all these people…keep
saying “No Islam to see here.”
UAE Designates CAIR,
MAS as Terrorist Groups
Excerpt: The United
Arab Emirates ' (UAE) cabinet approved a
comprehensive list of 83 designated terrorist organizations Saturday, the
WAM Emirates News Agency reports. The list includes various al-Qaeda affiliates and
the Islamic State. But the UAE also considers the Muslim Brotherhood and some
of its global affiliates as terrorist organizations. The list includes
the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim American Society (MAS). (Huh. CAIR and MAS are
practically wings of the Democrat party. ~Bob)
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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.
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His blog of political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com.
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