Thursday, August 6, 2015

Some articles and graphics that may interest, inform or entertain you

Some articles and graphics that may interest, inform or entertain you.

VA
Had my 3-month evaluation at the VA on Tuesday, 8/4. Blood work, PFT, 6-minute walk, three meetings with Transplant Pharmacist, Transplant Coordinator and Transplant Pulmonologist. They are pleased with all the numbers. The doc said that I may just stay at this level, not show much improvement. I'm tired a lot and short of breath sometimes, especially after a coughing bout, but I'm alive and enjoying life, so much to be grateful for. Also checked on my new glasses to deal with the double vision and had to reorder, it had not gone in. ~Bob

Book Recommendation: there is no goat. By Jennifer Dunham 
I would have missed this one, except it turned up on an email feed of free Kindle books I get. Dunham is a former Army Intel Officer with service in Iraq who volunteered for a civilian contract in Afghanistan. Though confined to base, her job was to interview local Afghan men to vet them for jobs with the coalition forces. Her insights into how they think, their ignorance and backwardness and the oppression of women in their society are excellent. She has bought into the party line, that the extremist have nothing to do with Islam, going so far as to suggest that Shari'a Law is an un-Islamic creation of the Taliban. But her accounts give the lie to this meme and are well worth reading. She favorably contrasts the Iraqis she met with the Afghans. Reading it, one thinks it is hopeless to advance such a society, the best we can hope for it to contain it so it does not threaten us.

Bill Clinton called Trump ahead of his 2016 launch
I'm sure Bill had the best interests of the Republican Party at heart in pushing Trump to run. ~Bob



The link below will take you to the site where the full discussion is, plus you could download the text of the Treaty there, but I've attached it for anyone who really wants to get into it.  It's a lot of pages, but that bit where they can sign up, get their 150 billion bucks back, and then drop out, laughing all the way, is there.  Why anyone would have let that part get in is a complete mystery, but it again tells us that Obama and Kerry wanted a deal no matter what.  And this is why the ayatollahs have made speech after speech to their people saying they have given up nothing. Trust them?  Really? --Del

Vietnam's Unending Oppression. By Michael Benge
Vietnam

Navy responds to reports sailor will be charged for returning fire against Chattanooga gunman

REJECTED AND IGNORED FOR NO "WO" IN "INFANTRYMEN"

Worth Reading: Progressive Paradise Lost. By Salim Furth

Memphis police officer killed; suspect identified
Memphis police identified 29-year-old Tremaine Wilburn as the suspect in a weekend shooting of an officer. (Brother Marine. ~Bob)

Worth Reading: A Nation of Takers

American Voters Oppose Iran Deal 2-1, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds;
But since went do Democrats care what the majority thinks?

Assailant in Garland, Texas, attack bought gun in 2010 under Fast and Furious operation

Israel’s Choice: Conventional War Now, or Nuclear War Later

Here's Why States Must Resist The Temptation To Expand Medicaid

Obama’s $500 million 50-man “moderate” army: half already dead, captured, out of action

What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea

How Obama Shrank the Military

HANDS, WARES, AND CARDS - CARSON, FIORINA, AND TRUMP, EACH HOLDS THE HAT TRICK

22 Ways to be a Good Democrat

Islamic State Circulates Sex Slave Price List

What Society Says When Children are Murdered

Netherlands abandoning multiculturalism

Norway Deported 824 Muslims And The Immediate Impact Is Something That Every American Needs To Know About It

Ahead of summer fests, Scotland’s new pro-Israel network stands guard

GEORGE WILL - WORDY WUSSY

SNAP To It: Restoring Work Requirements Will Help Solve the Food Stamp Crisis

ISIS or Al Qaeda? American Officials Split Over Top Terror Threat
How can they be threats? ISIS is the JV team and Al Qaeda is on the run. Obama told us so. ~Bob

Afghanistan: sharp rise in women and children casualties in first half of 2015
In 2008, Obama called Afghanistan the necessary war, the war we must win. Now he has cut and run--with this result. ~Bob

Muslim cleric: Jews paid doctors to “create and spread diseases"


Libyan force was lesson in limits of U.S. power

Very Funny Satire: I Will Always Remember Where I Was When Cecil The Lion Was Killed
http://www.duffelblog.com/2015/08/will-always-remember-cecil-lion-killed/#ixzz3hwd51VPj

The Future of Transportation
The Osprey Car? I want one! Though it is doubtful this would work. ~Bob
































1 comment:

  1. Good to hear the old warrior is doing fairly well. Don't listen to the doc's on your level of improvement. My doc told me eight years ago that I wouldn't live a year...and I'm still kicking.

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