Update
Bogus Quote
Correction
I've been using this quote on my email signature: "In
the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. When the Athenians
finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the
freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free." —Edward
Gibbon. A very scholarly Marine buddy (and a Khe Sanh combat vet), let me know
that despite being all over the net, it was really a version of a quote from
Edith Hamilton: "Athens had reached the point of rejecting independence,
and the freedom she now wanted was freedom from responsibility. There could be
only one result... If men insisted on being free from the burden of a life that
was self-dependent and also responsible for the common good, they would cease
to be free at all. Responsibility was the price every man must pay for freedom.
It was to be had on no other terms." --Edith Hamilton, The Echo of Greece
General News and Comment
Excerpt: The Obama administration imposed new sanctions on North Korea on Friday, the first known U.S. response
since authorities concluded the repressive government was behind the cyberattack
on Sony Pictures Entertainment. President Obama, while vacationing in Hawaii , signed an
executive order authorizing the sanctions.
Ten Quick Facts You May Not Know About NYC Mayor Bill De
Blasio. By Matthew Burke
Excerpt: In 1994, Bill de Blasio married a lesbian activist,
Chirlane McCray. The newlyweds honeymooned in Fidel Castro’s Communist
Cuba. ... Both of de Blasio’s parents were communists, leading historian
Ron Radosh to describe him as a “bona fide red diaper baby.” (Have not
verified. Some of this is hard to believe, but in America today, who knows? ~Bob)
New U.S.
Excerpt: Even though the Joint
Strike Fighter, or F-35, is supposed to join frontline U.S. Marine Corps
fighter squadrons next year and Air Force units in 2016, the jet’s software
does not yet have the ability to shoot its 25mm cannon. But even when the jet
will be able to shoot its gun, the F-35 barely carries enough ammunition to
make the weapon useful. (...) The lack of a cannon is a particular problem, as
the F-35 is being counted on to help out infantrymen under fire. (Remember our
Cousin Clyde who couldn't count his fingers and get the same answer twice in a
row? The one everybody in the family breathed a sigh of relief when he went to
work for the government, because now he couldn't screw up things at home
anymore? Guess what he's been working on? Seriously, what sort of idiot would
design a close air support combat plane that has to be operated--and
fought--from OUT OF SIGHT OF THE TARGET? The Pentagon seems to want all the
weapons to be interchangeable from service to service; would they ask their
proctologists to use the same tools their plumbers use? After all, it's the
same poop, just at a closer range. Ron P.)
Quote From The Patriot Post
"During the course of administration, and in order to
disturb it, the artillery of the press has been leveled against us, charged
with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an
institution so important to freedom and science are deeply to be regretted,
inasmuch as they tend to lessen its usefulness and to sap its safety."
--Thomas Jefferson, Second Inaugural Address, 1805
Satire--too funny: 2015
- Your Handy Month By Month Guide To The Year Ahead. By James Delingpole
Excerpt: April Field researchers in Alaska
and Norway
establish that the world’s polar )bear) population is at least twice as big as
previous estimates and growing by the day. To compensate, environmental
activists campaign for the polar bear to lose its “Threatened” status on the
IUCN ‘Red List’. They now have it re-categorised as “Extinct”, so as not to
jeopardise its vital symbolic value in the cause of “combatting Climate
Change.”
Who Is Paying Federal
Income Taxes?
Overall, more than 136 million Americans filed tax returns
for overall earnings of $9.04 trillion. They paid $1.1 trillion in federal
income taxes. Income -- and resulting taxes paid -- increased for all income
groups in 2012 compared to 2011. The top 50 percent of taxpayers (68,040,177
filers) paid almost all of the nation's income taxes -- 96.7 percent. The 68
million filers in the bottom 50 percent of taxpayers paid just 3.3 percent of
income taxes.
Excerpt: The logic behind President Obama’s Cuba
normalization, assuming there is one, is the nylon strategy. We tried 50 years of containment and that
didn’t bring democracy. So let’s try inundating them with American goods,
visitors, culture, contact, commerce. It’s not a crazy argument. But it does
have its weaknesses. Normalization has not advanced democracy in China or Vietnam .
Excerpt: So then, if there’s more oil, why would OPEC continue
to produce so much — too much? The answer is simple: If the OPEC countries
can drive down the price
per barrel, U.S. producers
using fracking to draw oil out of shale rock will be hard-pressed to stay
competitive. “This is largely an effort to push U.S. independents out,” said one
knowledgeable oil lobbyist. “They are less likely to sustain $60 barrel crude,
whereas the Saudis can with their cash reserves. Its all about staying
power over next two years. This is good for us as a purchaser of crude (and
consumers writ large); it is not necessarily good for upstream producers as the
cost of production in these shale plays is quiet significant. If prices
continue to drop you could see rig counts come down and thus production of U.S. crude
decrease.” And therein is the real story behind the
falling prices.
per barrel, reserves. Its all about staying
power over next two years. This is good for us as a purchaser of crude (and
consumers writ large); it is not necessarily good for upstream producers as the
cost of production in these shale plays is quiet significant. If prices
continue to drop you could see rig counts come down and thus production of
Nonsense That Kills:
'Police Brutality' as an 'Epidemic'. By Jack Kerwick
http://townhall.com/columnists/jackkerwick/2015/01/03/nonsense-the-kills-police-brutality-as-an-epidemic-n1937495?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
http://townhall.com/columnists/jackkerwick/2015/01/03/nonsense-the-kills-police-brutality-as-an-epidemic-n1937495?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
Excerpt: And only simpletons and liars
can deny that this idea—the idea of a “pandemic” of police
brutality sweeping the nation—has the consequence of endangering police
officers.
Yet this idea isn’t just dangerous. It is also a lie.
And it is a huge lie at that. “Police brutality” is an all-purpose
piece of rhetoric that, as such, can mean anything and everything—and,
thus, nothing at all. When anti-police misologists—a “misologist” was
the word that the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant used when
referring to an enemy of reason—sound off about “police brutality,” they are
referring to the police’s unjustified use of force.
Why Bob Corker is the
senator to watch in 2015. By George F.
Will
Excerpt: Standing at the intersection of three foreign
policy crises and a perennial constitutional tension, Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), incoming
chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, may be the senator who matters
most in 2015. Without an authorization for the use of military
force (AUMF) tailored to novel circumstances, the United States is waging war against
an entity without precedent (the Islamic State). Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons
during negotiations that should involve congressional duties. And Russia is revising European borders by force
and, like Iran , is the
object of a U.S.
experiment testing the power of economic sanctions to modify a dictator’s
behavior. As Congress weighs its foreign policy role regarding these three
matters, Corker treads the contested terrain between deference to presidential
primacy in foreign policy and the need for collective wisdom and shared
responsibility.
Gun News
Pastor exchanges
gunfire with former employee, Osceola deputies say
Excerpt: During the meeting, church employees told deputies
they saw Parangan take out a handgun and shoot at Howell several times, but
none of the bullets hit Howell. Deputies said Howell returned fire with his own
weapon and hit Parangan.
Fireworks stand
worker turns table, shoots attempted robber
Excerpt: "They told him we want the money and he tried
to talk him out of it, so he said 'I have to go to this little room and get the
money'," said Richard Treichel, who owns the fireworks stand. At that
point the employee grabbed his own gun and started firing at the crook. He was
shot in the face, wrist and back, then rushed to the hospital via Life Flight
in critical condition, The employee was not injured.
Teenager Who Tried to
Steal New Air Jordans at Gunpoint is Shot Dead by Concealed Carrier
Excerpt: Sixteen year old Jawaad Jabbar made a fatal mistake
when he drew a firearm on a concealed carrier who had a pair of the coveted
shoes.
Despite an Ominous
New Poll, Speaker Boehner Isn’t Going Anywhere. By Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
Excerpt: House Speaker John Boehner is not particularly
popular with Republican voters. We now know just how unenthusiastic Republicans
feel from a new poll conducted by Pat Caddell and EMC Research, commissioned by the People’s Poll, in an
exclusive to the Morning Jolt/Campaign Spot. Nine percent of self-identified
Republicans and self-described independents who say they lean closer to
Republicans say they feel “strongly favorable” about Boehner, and another 34
percent say “somewhat favorable.” Another 23 percent say they’re “somewhat
unfavorable,” and another 11 percent say “strongly unfavorable.” An entire 11
percent say they’ve never heard of John Boehner. Asked, “If it were up to you,
would you elect John Boehner to continue as Speaker of the House or would you
elect someone new?”, 11 percent of respondents said “definitely” Boehner, 15
percent said “probably,” 26 percent said “probably” someone new, and 34 percent
said someone new, “definitely.”
Initial report shows Missoula
Excerpt: "He (Williams) had the female in a lethal
stranglehold," Newell explained.
The situation erupted Wednesday around 2 a.m., when
dispatchers received a call from Williams' mother, reporting that she had been
assaulted by her son and he had driven off in her car with his girlfriend. ...
She told law enforcement Williams was heading toward Interstate 90 and told her
he wanted to drive into oncoming traffic to kill both of them. "She
thought he was going to kill her," Newell said. "She felt the police
saved her life."
Deaths of Granville County
couple linked to shootout on W. Va. highway
http://www.wral.com/deaths-of-granville-county-couple-linked-to-shootout-on-w-va-highway/14322988/
http://www.wral.com/deaths-of-granville-county-couple-linked-to-shootout-on-w-va-highway/14322988/
Excerpt: The driver of the truck opened fire on officers,
hitting them both, but was injured when the officers returned fire, troopers
said. The two Lewisburg officers and the shooter were being treated for
injuries that were not life-threatening, said Donna Hinkle, administrator of
the Greenbrier County 911 center. The driver of the SUV left the scene, but
eventually surrendered to law enforcement without further incident. When
officers searched the vehicles, they found the bodies of the Faulkners under a
mattress in the bed of the truck.
Race Card News
The Big Lie of the
Anti-Cop Left Turns Lethal: The real story behind the murder of two NYPD
officers. By Heather MacDonald
Excerpt: Since last summer, a lie has overtaken significant
parts of the country, resulting in growing mass hysteria. That lie holds that
the police pose a mortal threat to black Americans—indeed that the police are
the greatest threat facing black Americans today. Several subsidiary untruths
buttress that central myth: that the criminal-justice system is biased against
blacks; that the black underclass doesn’t exist; and that crime rates are
comparable between blacks and whites—leaving disproportionate police action in
minority neighborhoods unexplained without reference to racism. The poisonous
effect of those lies has now manifested itself in the cold-blooded
assassination of two NYPD officers.
Too Good to Check:
The Racist Republican. From The Patriot Post
Republicans haven't even officially taken control of both
houses of Congress yet and they're already embroiled in a drummed-up scandal.
Specifically, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) is a "racist"
-- like all other Republicans. Why? Because in 2002 he allegedly spoke to a Louisiana white supremacist group affiliated with
infamous racist and anti-Semite David Duke, a former KKK leader who ran for
multiple elected offices in Louisiana .
Reactionary head hunting aside, Scalise didn't actually speak to the
supremacist group in question but to a civic-association meeting before the racist conference began.
The two happened to be in the same venue, but at different times. As National
Review's Quin Hillyer, who knows Scalise personally, sums up, "In short, the more we find out about that
event, and about Scalise, the more this whole 'scandal' looks like a case of
guilt not just by association, but by unintentional, second-degree association
-- a guilt wrongly assessed against a man with a long record of working not to
divide the races but to bridge the differences between them." Even
Democrat Rep. Cedric Richmond of New
Orleans said Scalise "does not have a racist bone
in his body." But never mind the facts when the Leftmedia can claim a
Republican scalp. Still, Scalise took the high road and apologized, while
condemning the supremacist group. Perhaps now the media could look into
Democrat Sen. Cory Booker, whose website featured David Duke propaganda.
Malik Shabazz Gives
New Year’s Resolution for 2015 to New Black Panthers: “Time to Build up that
Army” & “Go to the Gun Range”
http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/01/malik-shabazz-gives-new-years-resolution-2015-new-black-panthers-time-build-army-go-gun-range/
http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/01/malik-shabazz-gives-new-years-resolution-2015-new-black-panthers-time-build-army-go-gun-range/
Excerpt: Former national chairman of the New Black Panther
Party and current president of Black Lawyers for Justice, Malik Zulu Shabazz
told his party in an address on the weekly "Black Power Radio" show
that in the new year of 2015 it will be time for the Panthers to build up their
army and go to the gun range.
Notre Dame ‘white
privilege’ class promises ‘personal transformation’
Excerpt: Next semester, Notre Dame will offer a class
that aims to help students acknowledge and understand their so-called “white
privilege” and – as a result of their “personal transformation” – find ways to
“disrupt … oppression,” a description of the class states. “The goal for each participant is personal
transformation: to leave the class… more aware of injustices and better
equipped with tools to disrupt personal, institutional, and worldwide systems of
oppression,” according to a description of the six week, one-credit sociology
course titled “White Privilege Seminar.” (Substitute
""Achievement" for "Privilege," see how it reads.
~Bob)
Cute little guy and
some statistics in Part II. Thought provoking
Excerpt: Don’t recognize me? That’s OK; I understand.
My name was Antonio West. I was the 13-month old child who
was shot in the face at point blank range by two black teens, who were
attempting to rob my mother, who was also shot.
I think my murder and my mommy’s wounding made the news for
maybe a day, and then disappeared. A Grand Jury of my mommy’s peers from Brunswick , Georgia
ANGEL OF DEATH:
Street Art in Detroit
Excerpt: So cui bono, as the lawyers say, who benefits from
this narrative? The federal and state entitlement industry, of course, whose
agencies and bureaucrats profit from having a permanent underclass of clients.
So too the Democratic Party, which buys black votes with promises to keep the
transfers and set-asides flowing. So too the racial grievance industry, that
gang of activists, academics, ethnic studies professors, “diversity”
consultants, and shakedown artists like Al Sharpton who use black misery as
leverage for more power and pelf. So too the leftover leftists, who find in
racial discord a weapon for attacking the country that kicked their cherished
collectivist ideology into the dustbin of history. Most black Americans aren’t
invested in this narrative.
Empowered thug gets
questioned by cops, returns with huge posse to attack officers
Excerpt: A Delray
Beach , Fla.
#AllLivesMatter? Not
So Much. By John Nantz
Excerpt: Or, consider the Left's newest saint in the diabolical
pantheon of race, Michael Brown. The Left has been screaming for the murder of
cops ever since Brown embarked on a drug fueled rampage that culminated in his
crazed attack on Officer Darren Wilson. Apparently, Wilson should have "run" or
submitted meekly to Brown's murderous attack. If you wear a badge, your life
has been weighed in Al Sharpton's balance and has been found wanting. And, God
help you, if you're an unborn child your life is valued least of all. It's a
pity that a fetus can't commit a felony, maybe then his or her life would
matter--at least as political mammon.
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Tweet from shannon allen @usacsmret
I had to give more personal information to sign up for
Obamacare than Obama gave to run for President.
Undocumented Democrat News
Doesn't look like Photoshop, but hard to
believe
Excerpt: Under California 's
Safe and Responsible Drivers Act, illegal immigrants will be able to apply for
drivers licenses this year. Before, a legal social security number was required
for a license in California ,
but under the new law as many as 1.4 million illegal immigrants are expected to
be granted licenses. ("Hi. I'm a criminal. Here's what I want from the
government..." ~Bob)
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Tweet from Bob Owens @bob_owens
I just helped remove animal-caused methane from the
environment by eating a tasty venison steak. #EatBambiToStopClimateChange
Religion of Peace News
Worth Reading : Egypt
Excerpt: Speaking before Al-Azhar and the Awqaf Ministry on
New Year's Day, 2015, in connection to Prophet Muhammad's upcoming birthday,
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a vocal supporter for a renewed vision
of Islam, made what must be his most forceful and impassioned plea to date on
the subject. Among other things, Sisi said that the "corpus of [Islamic]
texts and ideas that we have sacralized over the years" are
"antagonizing the entire world"; that it is not "possible that 1.6
billion people [reference to the world's Muslims] should want to kill the rest
of the world's inhabitants—that is 7 billion—so that they themselves may
live"; and that Egypt (or the Islamic world in its entirety) "is
being torn, it is being destroyed, it is being lost—and it is being lost by our
own hands." (This is the guy Obama doesn't like, preferring the Muslim
Brotherhood. ~Bob)
Times of London : Obama Outreach to Iran
Excerpt: President Barack Obama's hope to turn Iran's President
Hassan Rouhani "into a friendly ally in the fight against Islamic
State" could lead him to undertake "the single most reckless act of
2015" and cut a bad nuclear weapons deal with Teheran, The Times of London editorialized on January 1. The
newspaper agreed that "a deal that places Iran significantly farther away
from developing a nuclear bomb is clearly attractive." It cautioned that
the "weakened American leader" could turn to foreign policy to justify
his 2009 Nobel peace prize. "If he does so, it has to have at its heart a
sense of what the West considers to be worth fighting for and worth
preserving." (It's nice to see that someone in London
has the clarity of vision to see how terribly dangerous this cozying up to Tehran can be. And we know
that Obama will make whatever concession he has to in order to claim he's made
an historical deal for the record books. That is what is so scary about this.
--Del )
How campus speech
codes silence the pro-Israel community. College students today are facing the
most serious threats to their civil liberties. By Alexandra Zimmern
Excerpt: The infamous Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
(BDS) campaigns and “apartheid week” displays on college campuses are not the
only threat to Jewish students. A much greater threat looms: the inability for
students to publicly defend their beliefs. While universities claim to be
havens of open debate and intellectual curiosity, they are in reality black
holes of political correctness. On campus, only certain ideas are worthy of
consideration and Zionism is definitely not one of them. This culture doesn’t
just threaten members of the Jewish community, who are terrified to challenge
those who accuse Israel
of the most heinous crimes. Rather, it threatens all of us who value free
speech and its ability to encourage criticism, debate, and original thought on
college campuses.
Children in ISIS Describe Atrocious Beheading Lessons. By Joel
Himelfarb
Excerpt: Jomah, a 17-year-old child soldier who joined the
Islamic State (ISIS) last year, sat in a circle of fellow trainees to learn
lessons about the proper way to behead captive enemy soldiers – lessons taught
to children as young as 8. Then, the Wall Street Journal reported, his teachers
brought in three terrified Syrian soldiers who were forced to their knees.
#BringBackOurGirls: With Schoolgirls Taken by Boko Haram Still Missing, U.S.-Nigeria Ties Falter
Excerpt: Seven months later, the drone flights have
dwindled, many of the advisers have gone home and not one of the kidnapped
girls has been found. Many are believed to have been married off to Boko Haram fighters, who in the past six months
have seized hundreds more civilians, including children, planted bombs in
Nigerian cities and captured entire towns. (You mean Michele's tweet of a pic
of herself with a sign didn't work? Boko Haram must be racists! ~Bob)
Excerpt: Not since America 's
humiliating defeat in Vietnam
has that country faced such a comprehensive failure of objectives as in Afghanistan ,
where last Friday the NATO flag was lowered to mark the end of a 13-year war. While
the ignominious April 30, 1975 American retreat from Saigon was a public
debacle, best captured by the scene of the last U.S.
helicopter lifting off from its embassy in the South Vietnamese capital, the
withdrawal from Kabul
was a quieter but sorry ceremony. (As with Vietnam , the troops were not
defeated in the field. The politicians gave up in DC. ~Bob)
The 'Good War' Obama Surrendered. Thousands of American
lives squandered as the Radical-in-Chief oversees the triumph of the enemy.
By Arnold Ahlert
Excerpt: On Christmas Day at Marine Corps Base Hawaii,
followed by a White House press release on Dec. 28, President Obama announced
the end of the war in Afghanistan .
... If that message sounds familiar, it’s because virtually the same message
was delivered on Dec. 14, 2011 at Fort
Bragg , NC America ’s
war in Iraq
will be over” and that “we’re leaving behind a sovereign, stable and
self-reliant” nation. That would be the same Iraq where, swiftly after Obama’s
precipitous military withdrawal, Islamic militants embarked on a barbaric
campaign of terror, seizing large swaths of Iraqi territory and wiping out much
of the security gains achieved through the loss of thousands of American lives
in that country.
2014 deadliest year
in Iraq
Excerpt: Violence in Iraq in
2014 killed at least 12,282 civilians, making it the deadliest year since the
sectarian bloodshed of 2006-07, the United Nations said in a
statement. The majority of the deaths - nearly 8,500 - occurred during the
second half of the year following the expansion of the Sunni Muslim Islamic
State insurgency in June out of Anbar province leading to widespread clashes
with security forces.
Excerpt: The nationality of the migrants was not yet known,
a coastguard spokesman said, but there are women and children on board. It is
the third such migrant ship in the past two weeks as smugglers turn to
abandoning old ships in a shift in tactics. On Wednesday, about 800 migrants,
mostly Syrian refugees, arrived in Italy after
they were apparently abandoned by their ship's crew and set on a crash course
for the Italian coast. The coastguard also boarded that vessel and took over
navigation.
Excerpt: In Iraq’s western Anbar province, more than 300
U.S. troops are posted at a base in the thick of a pitched battle between Iraqi
forces, backed by tribal fighters, and well-armed Islamic State militants. The
militants, positioned at a nearby town, have repeatedly hit the base with
artillery and rocket fire in recent weeks. Since the middle of December, the
U.S.-led military coalition has launched 13 airstrikes around the facility. (If
you are under arty fire, it sounds like combat to me, but what do I know?
Especially dangerous as our troops are barefoot, Obama having promised "no
boots on the ground." ~Bob)
Jihadi Debate over
Jamaat Ansar al-Dawla al-Islamiya fi Bayt al-Maqdis. By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
Excerpt: I have previously written about the group 'Jamaat
Ansar al-Dawla al-Islamiya fi Bayt al-Maqdis' ('The Group of
Supporters/Partisans of the Islamic State in Bayt al-Maqdis') here and here. Based on the data at the time (which was before
Jamaat Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis' pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State [IS] to
become 'Sinai Province'), my conclusion was that the group appeared to function
as IS' network in Gaza, acting as a supplier of fighters- most notably claimed
'specialists'- to IS in Syria/Iraq, while apparently doing propaganda work for
IS under the guise of 'Ansar al-Shari'a- Gaza.'
The Christian
Association of Nigeria (CAN)
in Kaduna State
Excerpt: “It has become imperative for us to clarify this
falsehood and confusion in local and international media. Many of our
members have been calling and asking questions whether a Church was protected
from being attacked by Muslims in [the] Sabo area on Christmas day? And we said
it is not true, and we don’t want people to create panic and dishing out [an]
inciting story.” CAN representative added that there was not a single church of
600 that was protected by Muslims on Christmas.
The Real Islam: Outrage after man tortures and
murders 10-year-old daughter. Yemeni admits to torturing and gunning down
10-year old for allegedly having sex. By: Saeed Al Batati
Excerpt: A Yemeni father callously tortured and killed his
daughter, 10, for allegedly committing adultery in the northern Dhamar
province, a local official who questioned the man told Gulf News on
Tuesday.
The Real Islam: Saudi Clerics Fight for the Right to
Marry Children. By Raymond Ibrahim
Excerpt: Appearing in Saudi papers, the fatwa complained
that "Uninformed interference with Sharia rulings by the press and
journalists is on the increase"—likely a reference to the justice ministry's
advocacy—"posing dire consequences to society, including their
interference with the question of marriage to small girls who have not reached
maturity, and their demand that a minimum age be set for girls to marry."
Fawzan insisted that nowhere does Sharia (or Islamic law) set an age limit for
marrying girls: like countless Muslim scholars before him, he relied on Koran
65:4, which discusses marriage to females who have not yet begun menstruating
(i.e., are prepubescent) and the fact that Muhammad, Islam's role model,
married Aisha when she was six or seven, "consummating" the
marriage—or, in modern/Western parlance, raping her—when she was
nine.
In Turkey
Excerpt: On Dec. 9, the front page of the maverick daily
BirGün featured a big headline in bold letters in Arabic script. For the
readers who cannot read Ottoman, BirGün explained that the headline just meant
"thief." On top of the headline the newspaper's editors explained: If
you forcefully teach us Ottoman this is what you get. It was a dissident
newspaper's response to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who in early December
insisted that "whether you like it or not Ottoman will be taught and
learned in this country."
Women who were
kidnapped after ignoring parents' pleas not to travel to Syria
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2894168/Women-kidnapped-ignoring-parents-pleas-not-travel-Syria-aid-workers-issue-video-plea-begging-lives.html#ixzz3NgVEvixk
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2894168/Women-kidnapped-ignoring-parents-pleas-not-travel-Syria-aid-workers-issue-video-plea-begging-lives.html#ixzz3NgVEvixk
Excerpt: Two Italian aid workers captured by Islamic
extremists in Syria
this summer are believed to have appeared in a new video begging for their
lives. Greta Ramelli, 20, and Vanessa Marzullo, 21, were captured by militants
believed to be from Al-Qaeda affiliated group Jabhat al-Nusra in August
while distributing aid in Aleppo .
(Will Michelle tweet #BringBackOurGirls? Of wait, they're white. Never mind.
~Bob)
Muslim cleric killed fighting for the Islamic State. By Robert Spencer, JihadWatch.org
Excerpt: How did a Muslim cleric get the idea that he should
fight with the Islamic State? Doesn’t he know that what they do has nothing to
do with Islam? Did he miss the Qur’an’s peaceful and tolerant passages? (Too
bad this Muslim Cleric didn't have Imam John Kerry there to explain Islam to
him. ~Bob)
The Real War on Women: Islamic jihadist says slavery
biggest honor for non-Muslim women. By Robert Spencer, JihadWatch.org
Excerpt: AN Australian Islamic State fighter who has been
used in a propaganda video has claimed non-Muslim women are “used and abused”
and should become slaves as it would be “the biggest honour for them”. Abu
Khalid, whom The Australian last year revealed was a former Melbourne man of
Cambodian and Fijian ancestry and had ties to the al-Furqan Islamic centre,
yesterday took to social media from the Middle East to make the claims.
The Real War on Women: Iranian police arrested 50
women for 'un-Islamic' dress
Excerpt: Officers reportedly confronted and arrested a big
group of women walking near Vanak square, in an affluent area of the Iranian
capital's northern region. According to police, they were guilty of wearing
"shameful and immoral dress in public," not in accordance with the
Islamic code, which was put in place by Ayatollah Khomeini in the beginning of
1981. He ordered covering all the parts of the body except the face and wrists.
*****
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://www.amazon.com/Coming-Collapse-American-Republic-prevent/dp/1461122538/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304815980&sr=1-5
For a free PDF of Collapse, e-mail him at tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. Hall’s
eleven books are listed here:
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-book-published.html.
His blog of political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com.
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