Update
Getting caught up, should be by Sunday. Went to rehab today,
first time in a week. Did all the usual--thanks to nine hours of sleep last night
and a two hour nap afterwards. ~Bob
General News and Comment
Jurors sentence
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death in Boston Marathon Bombing trial
Excerpt: A federal jury Friday sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
to death of the Boston Marathon Bombing. Tsarnaev showed no emotion as he
learned his fate. He stood with his hands clasped in front of him, his head
slightly bowed. He faces death by lethal injection. (The appeals will still be
going on during my funeral. He'll get the best lawyers, because of the high
profile. you don't see them doing pro-bono lawyering for some poor city kid.
But he will suffer, so that's good. ~Bob
Worth Reading : Get Real America
Excerpt: Twenty-six and a half plus hours rolling
byways, highways, and more byways and as much time afoot navigating a trout
stream affords time to think. That was last week. One thought:
Hillary Clinton. Her politics fishy. Real Fishy. She stinks. She reeks - like
week-old over-cooked left over crap(pie). And she's in the mix for president?
Of what?
Once again, democrats
dance on the dead
Excerpt: There’s something very wrong with liberals....They
love to take political advantage of the dead, whether it’s Trayvon Martin,
Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Benghazi or the Amtrak dead. The bodies of the
dead in the Amtrak crash weren’t cold- and perhaps hadn’t even been recovered
yet- when the left began using the Amtrak tragedy to hammer Republicans, blaming budget cuts for the
crash.
Investigators look at
why train sped up before deadly derailment
Excerpt: Investigators are trying to determine why the
Amtrak train that derailed at a curve this week in Philadelphia sped up when it was
supposed to be slowing down, the National Transportation Safety Board
said Thursday. In the minute or so before the crash, the train sped up
from 70 mph until it reached more than 100 mph at a sharp bend where the
maximum speed is supposed to be 50 mph, NTSB member Robert Sumwalt said. It's
unclear, Sumwalt said, whether the speed was increased manually by engineer
Brandon Bostian, who grew up obsessed with trains. (State of art, new
locomotive. If folks worry that planes can be hacked, cars known to be able to
be hacked with "smart" wiring, why couldn't a train be hacked? The
editorial comment that the engineer "grew up obsessed with trains"
looks like he is going to be smeared whether or not liable. --Barb)
Obama: Jesus Christ
Too Cynical About Poverty
Excerpt: Obama scorned Christians at
the Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit on Tuesday, twisting the words
of Jesus Christ into an insult against the Savior of the believers he was
addressing. "And I think it’s important for us to guard against cynicism
and not buy the idea that the poor will always be with us and there’s nothing
we can do, because there’s a lot we can do. The question is, do we have the
political will, the communal will to do something about it.” (The big lie a la
Marx, Stalin, Lenin, Mao. Those in the Communist Party have the cars, the Kobe beef, the
caviar, the champagne. The peasants....let them stand in bread lines and drink
fouled water. --Barb)
The Obamas Have Spent
Over $44,351,777.12 In Taxpayer Cash On Travel
http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/05/the-obamas-have-spent-over-44351777-12-in-taxpayer-cash-on-travel/
http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/05/the-obamas-have-spent-over-44351777-12-in-taxpayer-cash-on-travel/
Excerpt: In 2013 alone, President Obama incurred $7,396,531
in flight expenses for his family vacations to Hawaii and
Martha’s Vineyard, as well as a trip to California to appear on the Jay Leno
show. “The Obamas are abusing the public trust and the taxpayers with
unnecessary luxurious vacations and travel,” Fitton said in a press release. “These staggering costs show
why these documents were covered up and we had to sue in federal court to get
them.
Fox Poll: Hillary
Clinton’s Favorability Plummets 11 Points Among Independents
Excerpt: With 544 days until Americans vote for a new
president, a new Fox News poll reported Hillary Clinton’s favorability among
independents has fallen to 45 percent, down 11 points from last year.
WaPo Fact Checker: Clinton
Excerpt: But comparing the taxes of hundreds of thousands of
people to the tax bill of one corporation is a stretch and fairly misleading.
Even the companies that pay little or no federal income taxes end up paying
lots of other taxes. So it’s a nonsense comparison.
We wavered between Three and Four Pinocchios, but ultimately
settled on Four. As a former senator, Clinton
should know better.
Peter Schweizer calls
for another ABC News interview
With ALL the cards on the table, Schweizer calls for another
ABC News interview with Clinton
donor of $75,000, Stephanopolous. --Barb
Report: 3,554 new
regs in 2014, 16 for every law, $1.8 trillion pricetag
Excerpt: A sobering new report on the cost and scope of
federal regulations puts the price of the rules at $1.88 trillion annually, a
"hidden tax" of $14,976 on every single household, or about 29
percent of an average American's income. In "Ten Thousand Commandments,"
the Competitive Enterprise Institute
also reveals that regulations far more than laws are how the administration
rules the land. While Congress, well known recently for doing little, passed
224 new laws last year, federal agencies issued 3,554 new regulations, or 16
per law.
Important: How the IRS
seized a man’s life savings without ever charging him with a crime. By Christopher
Ingraham
Excerpt: In seizing property, law enforcement agencies tend
to prefer these civil forfeitures to criminal ones, because the
standard of proof is considerably lower in civil cases. Some
numbers that speak to that point: in 2014, U.S. attorneys seized $679 million in assets through
criminal actions, and $3.9 billion through civil actions. ... But in
at least one case this week -- the case involving the $107,000 mentioned above
-- the federal government relented and agreed to return all of the money it
seized from a small business owner last summer.
Excerpt: The media have had great fun candidates
whether they would have gone to war in Iraq had they known there were no
weapons of mass destruction. Whenever the media can corner Hillary Clinton,
they might ask some what-if questions:
If you had known the Islamic State would rush in, would you
have negotiated the withdrawal of all U.S.
troops from Iraq ,
or would you have insisted on a stay-behind force of the type the military
recommended? If you knew how it would affect public perception of your honesty,
would you have wiped the server at your home clean? (Asking the tough questions
of Hillary you'd ask of other candidates is, you know, sexist. ~Bob)
The State as God. By Jonah
Goldberg, The Goldberg File
The State is a human institution, run by humans who
are all too human. The problem is that many people want it to be
more. Progressives used to be much more honest about their aspirations for the
State. Richard Ely, the founder of the American Economic Association and the
most important and influential of the “Wisconsin
school” progressives, declared that “God works through the State in carrying
out His purposes more universally than through any other institution.” It “is
religious in its essence,” and “a mighty force in furthering God’s kingdom and
establishing righteous relations.” For Ely, redemption wasn’t an individual
religious experience, but a collective one orchestrated by the state.
Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste. By Jonah Goldberg
Excerpt: A few minutes ago on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, the show
was interrupted by a press conference from the hospital where many of the
injured passengers from last night’s hellacious Amtrak crash were taken. Once
that was over, former Pennsylvania governor Ed
Rendell came on to goose everyone into a spirited discussion of how America ’s
meager spending on infrastructure is to blame. I was disappointed to see Joe
Scarborough, who’s increasingly a useful brake on this kind of groupthink, jump
in with both feet. China
spends so much more than us on infrastructure! So does Barbados ! (I
assume that was in percentage terms.) To his credit, Scarborough
did ask Rendell about the stimulus bill. Didn’t we drop a bundle on
infrastructure in that? Rendell’s response was classic: “Not enough.” Of course
it wasn’t enough. It never is.
Democrats Get a Taste of Obama’s Arrogance. By Jonah Goldberg
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418417/democrats-get-taste-obamas-arrogance-jonah-goldberg?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=GFile&utm_campaign=GFile05152015
Democrats Get a Taste of Obama’s Arrogance. By Jonah Goldberg
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418417/democrats-get-taste-obamas-arrogance-jonah-goldberg?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=GFile&utm_campaign=GFile05152015
Excerpt: With the sand running out on the Obama presidency,
it’s finally dawning on the president’s friends and fans that he can be a real
jerk. Consider the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank. For the last six years, he’s
spent much of his time rolling his eyes and sneering at Republicans. His
subspecialty is heaping ridicule on conservative complaints about, well, everything
and anything. If it bothers conservatives, it must be irrational, partisan,
churchy, fake, hypocritical — or all of the above. Meanwhile, poor Barack
Obama, while not always without fault in Milbank’s eyes, is the grown-up, the
good guy trying to do good things amidst a mob of malcontents and ideologues. (Obama has always behaved boorishly, but
the Democrats are only noticing now. Oddly, they aren’t being called racist for
pointing it out. --Jonah Goldberg)
Questions So Stupid
Only MSNBC Would Ask
YOUNG MARINE:
Delivers Epic Slam To Goofy Liberal Flag Hater
The Incredible
Entitlement of the Welfare Lobby. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Progressive America has a fever and the only
solution is more welfare. Celebrities are trying to buy only $29 worth of fair
trade arugula at Whole Foods and then taking snapshots of it in a mistaken effort
to show how little food stamps buy. Obama is urging more social welfare
spending as the answer to the race riots he stirred up across the country by
embracing the Ferguson “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” hoax. Outraged rich liberals are
furiously lecturing the rest of the country on income inequality as if there
were no escaping the fact that we’re a society of greedy plutocrats that
doesn’t care about the poor.
Imports a Boon to the
United States
Excerpt: Imports are often misunderstood as being
detrimental to economic growth and employment. But in practice, they provide
invaluable benefits to American workers, consumers and producers. As
demonstrated in numerous empirical studies, the following benefits from imports
that accrue to the American economy are real and undeniable: Imports contribute
to job creation on a large scale. The increased economic activity
associated with every stage of the import process helps support American jobs.
Historically, the highest levels of U.S.
employment growth tend to have occurred during periods when U.S. imports
exceeded exports. Imports provide key inputs for U.S. businesses. Not only do
imports support American jobs, they also provide vital components to American
businesses, particularly manufacturers. ... Imports give a greater purchasing
power to American consumers. Imports from our trading partners also allow U.S. consumers
to buy a wider variety of goods at lower prices.
A story of the
Vietnam War. The favorite myth of the left survives in a Pentagon scheme of
commemoration
Excerpt: One of the myths the left holds closest to its
heart is the myth that America “lost”
the war. The leadership in America ,
beginning with the accidental President Gerald Ford, who with Congress could
not stand up to the pressure of the left, abandoned the war and the allies. Allied
on one side are the usual suspects, who think their country is always wrong. On
the other side are a minority of academics and a new veterans’
organization, Vietnam Veterans for Factual History, who are eager to see
the war portrayed as it really was. (A very, very nice piece, and with our name
in it for the whole world to see. Please circulate this as far and wide as you
can, people need to understand what is going on. The antiwar people, again well
financed (by whom?) have a polished website up, and have hammered the people at
the Commemoration office to let them start naming what "proper"
historians they need to listen to in order to tell the "real story"
of the war, which is the one where they are the true heroes, who brought an end
to a terrible war where we were fighting the real "good guys". That
what happened after Saigon fell was anything but "liberation and
justice" they refuse to admit, one of their big names, Tom Hayden, just
the other day proudly proclaimed that Viet Nam is a land of real freedom.
Apparently even the reports by numerous international organizations about the
lack of human rights and freedom of the press there have never made it to
his attention. But then again, like all the real leftists, he is going to go on
saying and thinking what he wants to, regardless of anything as inconvenient as
truth. --Del )
North Korea could
have missiles submarines in five years, says South
Excerpt: The South Korean government has said that North Korea
could have a submarine fleet capable of launching missiles in fewer than five
years. Its assessment follows North Korea's publication
of pictures showing its leader Kim Jong-un observing a missile test
launch from a submarine last week.
Rising Dragon News
Important: Obama’s quiet nuclear deal with China
Excerpt: Not so typical was something that didn’t appear
that day on the president’s public schedule: notification to Congress that he
intends to renew
a nuclear cooperation agreement with China. The deal would allow Beijing to buy more
U.S.-designed reactors and pursue a facility or the technology to reprocess
plutonium from spent fuel. China
would also be able to buy reactor coolant technology that experts say could be
adapted to make its submarines quieter and harder to detect.
Modi Calls on China to Rethink Stances That Strain Ties to India
Excerpt: India’s prime
minister, Narendra Modi, told China’s leaders on Friday
that it was up to them to rethink policies that he said had hindered
cooperation between the two Asian giants.
Mr. Modi made the comments to reporters in Beijing after meeting with Premier Li Keqiang
and unveiling 24 agreements that both men said would help improve relations.
But Mr. Modi added a proviso: that the Chinese government should consider India ’s
grievances.
Save Obama (on
trade). By Charles Krauthammer
Excerpt: That free trade is advantageous to both sides is
the rarest of political propositions — provable, indeed mathematically. David
Ricardo did so in 1817. The Law of Comparative Advantage has
held up nicely for 198 years. Nor is this abstract theory. We’ve lived it. The
free-trade regime created after World War II precipitated the most astonishing
advance of global welfare and prosperity the world has ever seen. And that
regime was created, overseen, guaranteed and presided over by the United States .
... Moreover, the overall gain is more than just economic. In our deadly serious competition with China
for influence in the region, the TPP would anchor our relations with Pacific Rim nations. If we walk away, they will
inevitably gravitate to China America or China ?
Excerpt: German contrition over World War Two stands in
contrast to Japan's failure to reflect on its past, the official newspaper of
China's ruling Communist Party said on Sunday, following war commemorations in
Moscow. Sino-Japan relations are plagued by China 's
bitter memories of Japan 's
occupation of parts of the country before and during World War Two. Ties have
also chilled in recent years over territorial rows and mutual mistrust over Japan 's bolder security policies and China 's
military assertiveness. (And China 's
war crimes in Tibet ?
~Bob)
Gun News
Excerpt: FBI stats show that 26 police officers were shot
and killed with guns in 2013. Of these, half were killed by people who were
completely barred from gun possession.
According to Huffington
Post, 13 of those who shot and killed officers in 2013 “were prohibited
from possessing guns in the first place.” They faced 100 percent gun control
due to “prior criminal convictions, mental illness or other factors,” yet they
ignored the prohibitions against gun possession and stole or otherwise acquired
the guns they used to carry out their heinous deeds.
Three Men Tried
Forcing Their Way Into Gun Owner’s Apartment. As His Terrified Wife Watched
With Their Baby in Her Arms, He Refused to Be Robbed. By Dave Urbanski
Excerpt: Sure enough, there was a knock on the front door
just minutes later. Some of the same men he saw from his balcony were now
demanding that he step outside. One of them was holding a baseball bat. Another
was wearing a mask. But as he tried to shut the door, the group pushed
back and attempted to enter the apartment in Peachtree Corners. Inside, his
terrified wife was watching everything unfold with their infant in her
arms, WGCL-TV reported. The man fired his gun, killing one of the
intruders and wounding another.
New information
released about suspect shot by homeowner
Excerpt: During the foot pursuit the Shasta County Sheriff's
Office had placed out a call to local residences in the area advising residents
that officers were in foot pursuit with Dillon Carmelo and he was considered
armed and dangerous and on parole. Jennifer Doolittle received the reverse 911
call, and had armed herself with a handgun. She went out her back door to
retrieve her dogs to lock them inside when she saw Dillon Carmelo jumping over
her fence. Doolittle told deputies he advanced on her and again acted as if he
was reaching for a handgun. She said she feared for her life fired several
shots at Carmelo striking him once in the ankle.
Police: 19-year-old
man shot, killed while forcing way into apartment in Parkland
Excerpt: A 19-year-old man who was trying to force his way
into a Parkland apartment Wednesday night was
shot and killed by the tenant, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department said.
Man shoots home
intruder
Excerpt: A homeowner shot a man who was reportedly trying to
enter his Fayette
County
KPD: One shot in self-defense: shooting victim in serious condition
Excerpt: Investigators with the Knoxville Police Department
said the man who admitted to shooting a 41-year-old man did so in self-defense.
Witness Pulled Gun On
Burglary Suspect Who Was Beating OKC Officer
Excerpt: During the struggle, Jermaine was able to take
Eller's police baton and then proceeded to strike him over the head somewhere
between six and 12 times.
According to a report, that's when a witness nearby charged
up with his weapon drawn and told Jermaine he would shoot him if he did not
stop hitting Eller. That heroic witness has not been identified.
Excerpt: It seems like one of those anti-gun Democrats in
Detroit proved his own inability to control his temper early Sunday morning, as
he blasted away with a shotgun to his girlfriend’s car over what should have
been a simple domestic argument: Sources told Local 4 state Sen.
Virgil Smith, who represents the fourth district, fired several shots into the
woman’s car.
Attempted home
invasion leaves 1 dead in Minerva
Excerpt: According to Sheriff Raymond Stone, the suspected
perpetrator, 33-year-old Ryan P. Johns of Canton ,
attempted to enter a home and was shot by the homeowner, 63-year-old William
Dietrick Jr. Police say Johns was shot in the chest then ran from the house and
collapsed in a neighbors yard. He was transported to Alliance Community
Hospital
Race Card News
Michael Obama: Black
at Princeton
Michelle Obama's racial obsession is traceable to her
semi-illiterate thesis on being black at Princeton ,
which Christopher Hitchens once noted "wasn't written in any known
language." --Dinesh D'Souza
Excerpt: When Black unemployment is 3 times higher than that
of Whites...and you give Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats 95% of your
vote. When Black youth unemployment is 30% and Barack Obama wants to grant
amnesty to 30 million illegal Mexicans who will take the rest of your
jobs...and you vote for him anyway.
Black Woman loses job after celebrating murders of
police officers
Excerpt: “2 police officers was shot in hattiesburg tonight…GOT EM,” she wrote. “We
can turn this bxtch into Baltimore
real quick….Police take away innocent people lives everyday now & get away
w/ it, fxck them…no mercy.”
'War on police':
Line-of-duty deaths rise amid racially-charged rhetoric, anti-cop climate
Excerpt: Former NYPD Commissioner Howard Safir believes
there is a "war on police," and said the flames are being fanned from
the nation's highest office.... According to new preliminary data released by
the FBI on Monday, the number of law enforcement officers killed in the
line of duty in 2014 nearly doubled to 51 from 27 the previous year.... “With
the recent tragic loss of three fallen heroes, and a contagion of anti-cop
rhetoric permeating, some have understandably reached the point of
re-evaluating what they're risking their life for,” Adler told FoxNews.com. (Alinksy
methods continue. Think about it: Obamacare has MDs and nurses rethinking their
career choices after years of training and expense; US military limited by
"rules of engagement" with enemy combatants with subsequent losses,
depression, suicides and VA still unresponsive in many cases; football players
rethinking their million-dollar contracts and opting to retire versus have a
concussion; cops villianized and wondering if worth the risk to serve. --Barb)
Wave of Baltimore
shootings, killings continues
Excerpt: The increase in violence that has followed the
death of Freddie Gray continued through the weekend, with four homicides
reported since Saturday, according to Baltimore police. Ten people were
reported shot on Sunday alone, including three who were shot to death
within a span of 39 minutes. The violence comes as the city prepares for the
Preakness on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course. (Notes 10 shot Thursday. Race not
indicated. --Barb)
Horror injuries of Baltimore
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3077655/Antoine-Lawson-charged-beating-Richard-Fletcher-Baltimore-April-22.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3077655/Antoine-Lawson-charged-beating-Richard-Fletcher-Baltimore-April-22.html
Excerpt: A 17-year-old boy has been charged as an adult for
his role in beating a 61-year-old alongside a group of approximately 50 other
teens in Baltimore , Maryland
Richard Fletcher was brutally beaten by the teens after he
went outside to ask two girls who were fighting on top of his truck to move
along and continue their dispute elsewhere. The mob of teens began to hit and
kick Fletcher until he fell to the ground, but the attack didn't end.
Neighbor Of
61-Year-Old Brutally Beaten Near Baltimore
Excerpt: Lamb said that the attack was “definitely a race
thing” and that he has witnessed other incidents of black students targeting
whites in the neighborhood.... “The kids walk on top of cars, kick dogs, let
dogs out, throw trash, steal milk from school and throw it at houses, threaten
neighbors with bodily harm,” Lamb said. Baltimore County America will
reap what the Democrats, NAACP, POTUS, FLOTUS, Wright, Sharpton, BLP, Clintons , Bushes, and
ACLU have sown. --Barb)
Excerpt: A black gun owner denied a concealed carry permit,
along with many others, raises questions about racism in Illinois government. Liberal racists? If so,
this should not surprise you at all! Didn’t Michael
Bloomberg tell us that minorities must be disarmed for their own good? (So
the Klan thought. ~Bob)
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Senate panel probes
ObamaCare aid confusion, as customers learn they owe IRS
Excerpt: The Senate's top investigative committee has
launched an inquiry into the system that's supposed to ensure ObamaCare tax
credits go to the right customers for the right amounts -- amid concerns that
many Americans are getting inflated or improper subsidies. Sen. Rob
Portman, R-Ohio, who is leading the investigation, says because of the confusion
with the system, millions of Americans are learning after the fact they
inadvertently got too much money and now owe the IRS hundreds. "I'm
concerned that the subsidy eligibility process is so complicated that many
consumers believed they were receiving cheaper insurance coverage than they
ultimately got," Portman said in a statement.
Patient dumping
in America
Excerpt: LA City Attorney Mike Feuer has filed multiple
lawsuits against hospitals for alleged homeless patient dumping. He filed his
latest in April against a hospital for allegedly dumping a 38-year-old
schizophrenic homeless woman, wearing only paper pajamas, on Skid Row. Various
reports from the past decade allege similar cases: a hospital van in 2007
dropping off a paraplegic man on Skid Row, leaving him crawling in the street
wrapped in a soiled gown and a broken colostomy bag; and another female patient
in 2006 transported by taxi cab to the area wearing only a hospital gown and
slippers. (Patient dumping used to refer to ERs refusing to care for indigent
patients and transporting to another hospital; federal law against this, though
it still occurs. --Barb)
Important: Senate panel probes ObamaCare aid
confusion, as customers learn they owe IRS. By Rich Edson
Excerpt: The Senate's top investigative committee has
launched an inquiry into the system that's supposed to ensure ObamaCare tax
credits go to the right customers for the right amounts -- amid concerns that
many Americans are getting inflated or improper subsidies.
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, who is leading the investigation,
says because of the confusion with the system, millions of Americans are
learning after the fact they inadvertently got too much money and now owe the
IRS hundreds.
Attempt to force
Obamacare expansion on states backfires. By Jason Hart
Excerpt: Trying to force Obamacare expansion onto Florida by cutting
funding for an existing Medicaid program has backfired on
President Obama. Florida Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican, is suing Obama’s
Department of Health and Human Services over plans to stop funding the state’s Low Income Pool program,
which compensates hospitals for seeing uninsured patients.
Obamacare Exchanges
on Life Support. By Michelle
Malkin
Excerpt: You will be shocked beyond belief, I'm sure, to
learn that Obamacare exchanges across the country are instead bleeding money,
seeking more taxpayer bailouts and turning everything they touch to chicken
poop. Wait, that's not fair to chicken poop, which can at least be composted.
Undocumented Democrat News
Open Borders: Sheriffs:
Violent Mexican Drug Cartels Have Infiltrated More Than 3,000 U.S.
Excerpt: Near the U.S.-Mexico border, the federal government
has posted signs warning passersby that the area they are in is not safe, as
they’re entering an “active drug and human smuggling area.” Sheriffs in Arizona even admit that
parts of the state are in fact controlled by Mexican drug cartels. But
the dangerous problems associated with the cartels—drug and human trafficking,
kidnapping, prostitution, violence, money laundering—are now reaching places in
the United States far beyond the Border States. (Just seeking a better life,
doing jobs Americans won't do. ~Bob)
"You're Greener than Gore" News
No, Antarctica
Is Not Experiencing Rapid Ice Melt. By Jordan Candler
Excerpt: Antarctic sea ice is so expansive that researchers
are exploring ways to avoid more embarrassing. Writing in The Daily Caller,
Michael Bastasch says, “50 scientists have gathered in Tasmania to discuss more accurate ways to
predict Antarctic sea ice levels so researchers don’t get stuck in ice pack
when traveling southward.
Excerpt: “Shared sacrifice” in the rich liberal dictionary
is defined as “everybody except me,” and the response from the “elite of the
elite” in Hollywood (we’re talking the Delta Force of eco-hypocrites) to the
California drought, has affirmed
that definition: As these aerial photos from The Post prove, Hollywood
celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Barbra Streisand and Jennifer Lopez continue
to suck up water to keep their gardens fresh and lawns green, while Southern
California withers from a devastating drought.
Religion of Peace News
Excerpt: Islamic State fighters took control of key sites
Friday in the heart of Ramadi, capital of Iraq ’s largest province, in what
appeared to mark a significant blow to a U.S.-backed military campaign to
retake territory from the militants. The Islamic State offensive — which began
with ambush-style attacks after sundown Thursday — touched off panicked
attempts to flee the city and avoid the militant’s tightening noose on routes
to safety.
Really?: Obama says chlorine gas is not a chemical
weapon
Excerpt: According to President Barack Obama, the use of
chlorine gas on military targets and civilian populations during the current
conflict in Syria
have not been acted upon because, he says, it is not "historically"
considered a chemical weapon. During a press conference on May 14 during a
summit conference with leaders of several Persian Gulf
states, Obama evaded calling chlorine a "weapon.” He noted that it has
non-threatening uses. "Chlorine itself is not listed as a chemical
weapon," Obama claimed while referring to his administration’s pledge
against the use of chemical weapons in Syria . (“When I use a word,’ Humpty
Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean
— neither more nor less.’ See below. ~Bob)
Chlorine Gas used in
WWI
Excerpt: According to the fieldpost letter of Major Karl von
Zingler, the first chlorine gas attack by German forces took place before 2
January 1915: "In other war theaters it does not go better and it has been
said that our Chlorine is very effective. 140 English officers have been
killed. This is a horrible weapon ...".[12]
By 22 April 1915, the German Army had 168 tons of chlorine
deployed in 5,730 cylinders from Langemark–Poelkapelle, north of Ypres. At 17:30, in a
slight easterly breeze, the gas was released, forming a gray-green cloud that
drifted across positions held by French Colonial troops from Martinique who
broke ranks, abandoning their trenches and creating an 8,000-yard (7 km)
gap in the Allied line. However, the German infantry were also wary of the gas
and, lacking reinforcements, failed to exploit the break before the 1st Canadian Division and assorted
French troops reformed the line in scattered, hastily prepared positions
1,000–3,000 yards (910–2,740 m) apart.[6] The
Entente governments quickly claimed the attack was a flagrant violation of
international law but Germany
argued that the Hague treaty had only banned chemical shells, rather than the
use of gas projectors.[13]
Obama and Kerry are suckers: Again: Another Report of
Iran
Excerpt: Four stories on our Iranian "peace
partners," for your consideration: (1) On the heels of these
unlawful procurement efforts, this embargo-busting arms
purchase from Russia, and this British
report of ongoing Iranian cheating, we have yet
another development underscoring the painfully obvious reality that
the regime cannot be trusted (via Reuters): The Czech
Republic blocked an attempted purchase by Iran this year of a large
shipment of sensitive technology useable for nuclear enrichment after false
documentation raised suspicions, U.N. experts and Western sources said.
Excerpt: There appears to be a small problem with President
Barack Obama’s summit of Persian Gulf states taking place at Camp
David on Thursday: Arab leaders want virtually nothing to
do with it. Only the emirs of Qatar
and Kuwait ,
two out of the six leaders of countries that comprise the Gulf Cooperation
Council (GCC), will attend. The point man of the apparent snub is Saudi Arabian
monarch King Salman, who took power in January after his brother, King
Abdullah, died. Salman decided not
to attend at the eleventh hour, despite Obama promising him a separate
meeting, described by
sources in Riyadh as a “photo op” aimed at
convincing an American audience that Saudi Arabia
and other Arab states are on board with Obama’s determination to secure a deal
with Iran .
They aren’t.
Worth Reading : Dire
prediction: Syria
http://www.worldmag.com/2015/05/dire_prediction
Excerpt: “The
Syrian government is about to fall,” began an email from a trusted source and
long-standing observer of events in the Middle East .
He contends Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, four years into a catastrophic
civil war, has run out of fighters. ... The Obama administration, and most
Americans, have decided it’s OK to let the open warfare in the Middle East run, to lead from behind regional powers that
themselves appear intent on operating as jihadi states. It’s OK to allow key diplomatic
opportunities to slip. Obama negotiated a nuclear deal with Iran , Syria ’s
chief backer, without making it contingent on a negotiated peace in Syria Turkey
What do Americans
think about this Muslim leader saying that practicing Muslims are above the
laws of America
White Mercenaries
Have Boko Haram On Run. Aging South African apartheid-era soldiers sign up for
1 last battle
Excerpt: They’re Nigeria ’s unlikely saviors – most
being white, in their 50s and 60s and combat veterans of the former South
African apartheid regime. But, tainted resumes notwithstanding, they’ve been
getting the job done in northern Nigeria, hitting the Islamist terror group
Boko Haram hard enough to send the jihadists into retreat, liberating dozens of
villages and freeing hundreds of women and girls held as slaves and “bush
wives” during a six-year-long reign of terror, reported the London Telegraph.
(The sad thing is that when they get the job done and try to go home, it will
probably be bad for them. But they have great skills that deserve respect. I
hope they have somewhere else to go. --Del )
Interesting: Beheaded Christian Doesn't Regret Faith.
By Pete Hoekstra
Excerpt: Only among the U.S. media would such a headline
make sense.
Radical Islamist terrorists armed with AK-47s attacked
hundreds of people at an event in Garland ,
Texas Sweden ,
rape capital of the world. ~Bob)
Islamists Hack
Another Secular Writer to Death in Bangladesh
Excerpt: For the third time this year, Islamist radicals in Bangladesh hacked a secular writer to death in public. Four
masked men chased down Ananta Bijoy Das Tuesday morning as Das left his home in
Sylhet. They hacked him with machetes after running him down. (Well, he must
have provoked them, like the draw Mohammad contest did. ~Bob)
*****
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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