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Book Recommendation. At All Costs: How a Crippled
Ship and Two American Merchant Mariners Turned the Tide of World War II. By
Same Moses.
I enjoyed this wonderfully-told story on audio book during
my commutes. It's a must for the WWII or Navel History Buff. Operation Pedestal, the convoy that
saved Malta
for the allies despite losing nine of 14 merchant ships, was arguably a turning
point in the war. Yet it is a little known tale of great heroism. One hopes
that we can find such men for the challenges of the future.
Excerpt: It is becoming increasingly clear that we in America are
living through a period of transition. One chapter of our national life is
closing, and another is about to begin. We can sense this in the tense
volatility of our electoral politics, as dramatic "change elections"
follow closely upon one another. We can feel it in the unseemly mood of decline
that has infected our public life — leaving our usually cheerful nation fretful
about global competition and unsure if the next generation will be able to live
as well as the present one. (This interesting article was sent to me by Dr. Jon
Haidt, the author of the excellent book The
Righteous Mind. He's a moral psychologist who supported Obama and Kerry.)
If I had a son, he'd
look like Brian Terry
Excerpt: “Attorney General Eric Holder’s refusal to fully
disclose the documents associated with Operation Fast and Furious and President
Obama’s assertion of executive privilege serves to compound this tragedy. It
denies the Terry family and the American people the truth. Our son, Border
Patrol Agent Brian Terry, was killed by members of a Mexican drug cartel armed
with weapons from this failed Justice Department gun trafficking investigation.
Forkless Friday at
Obama event
http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/06/forkless-friday-at-obama-event-127056.html
Excerpt: Does a fork or dinner knife pose an unacceptable danger to President
Barack Obama? One wouldn’t think so, given the hundreds of lunches and dinners
he’s attended ranging from state dinners to political fundraisers to
run-of-the-mill stops on the rubber-chicken circuit. However, at one such lunch
Friday afternoon, guests heard an unusual announcement that they needed to hand
over their silverware for security reasons. (Well, maybe he doesn't trust
Latinos. ~Bob.)
Obama’s new
fun-raising pitch; Give me your wedding presents
Excerpt: President Barack Obama is so short of campaign cash
that he’s asking for a percentage of your wedding, birthday and anniversary
gifts — but the visitors to his fundraising site are leaving contempt, jibes
and scorn, plus a few declarations of embarrassment. “Is this what the office
of the president of the United
States has come to? Pandering for wedding
and birthday money?”
The push for
micro-stamping is really a push for national gun registration
Excerpt: And this time around, The New York Times is pushing
it, Time magazine is pushing it and other outlets of the same political
persuasion are doing their level best to show us how micro-stamping the firing
pins in our firearms could reduce crime by miraculous levels overnight. Of
course, they don’t mention the gun registration, the new powers of gun taxation
or the all-out gun bans associated with the scheme. Nor are they bothered with
another major sticking point— micro-stamping doesn’t really work.
Pat Boone: Obama's
Plan to Raise Estate Tax is 'Robbery'
Excerpt: President Barack Obama's promise to raise the
estate tax by 5 percent to 55 percent should he be re-elected in November is
“not just wrong, it’s criminal,” legendary singer Pat Boone told Newsmax.TV.
"People that have worked hard, people who have saved, paid their taxes,
set something away and now want to leave it to their family — if they have the
bad judgment to die, the government will step over and say: ‘Thank you. We will
take 55 percent of that,’ ” Boone told...
Man Without A
Country: Me
Excerpt: Do any of you remember the famous story, "Man
Without A Country"? Written by Edward Everett Hale, it is a story about a
fictional character, Philip Nolan, who curses the state of the U.S. and is subsequently tried for treason and
exiled from the United
States . The story was in all of our
elementary school textbooks when I was in school.
The Muslim Brotherhood's
Useful Idiots. By Caroline Glick
Excerpt: You have to hand it to the leaders of the Muslim
Brotherhood. They know how to play power politics. They know how to acquire
power. And they know how to use power. Last Friday, the day before voters by
most accounts elected the Brotherhood's candidate Mohamed Morsy to serve as Egypt 's next
president, The Wall Street Journal published a riveting account by Charles
Levinson and Matt Bradley of how the Brotherhood outmaneuvered the secular
revolutionaries to take control of the country's political space.
Going Green is Gauche
on Robert Kennedy’s Private
Ocean
Excerpt: That alone should qualify him for a Presidential
Medal of Freedom… if, you know, he hadn’t supported Hillary Clinton for
president rather than Barack Obama.
But Kennedy also thinks that we shouldn’t get too carried
away by the prospect of “free wind power”- especially when his pet projects
like the Kennedy trust fund, the Kennedy ocean views and the Kennedy beachfront
property on Nantucket Sound are in conflict with “free wind power.”
About 13,000 Sacramento County
Excerpt: President Barack Obama was the only choice on the
ballot for the 85,000 Sacramento County Democrats and 5,000 decline-to-state
voters who took Democratic ballots during last Tuesday's primary. But about
8,000 of those voters left their presidential ballots blank, and another 5,300
scribbled in a write-in candidate. (17% did not want to vote for O. --DH)
‘My only crime was to
be Muslim’
Excerpt: DESPITE being warned by trial judge Mushtaq Khokhar
not to reveal his previous convictions to the jury, Shabir Ahmed ignored the
advice. Throughout the trial Ahmed ranted at jurors that his convictions in the
child sex scandal had been a “conspiracy by the police, English Defence League
(EDL), British National Party (BNP) and social services” and added that he had
instructed his barrister, Simon Nichol, to appeal the sentence.
Excerpt: Christians are being targeted by Muslim rebels
according to the Vatican
and other sources amongst besieged Syrian Christian communities. According to
reports by the Vatican 's
Fides News Agency, the US-backed Syrian Army are sacking churches and issuing
threats that all Christians will be cleansed from rebel-held territory.
German neo-Nazis helped Palestinian
terrorists kill 11 Israeli athletes in 1972 Munich Massacre, intelligence files
reveal
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2161177/German-neo-Nazis-helped-Palestinian-terrorists-kill-11-Israeli-athletes-1972-Munich-Massacre-intelligence-files-reveal.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2161177/German-neo-Nazis-helped-Palestinian-terrorists-kill-11-Israeli-athletes-1972-Munich-Massacre-intelligence-files-reveal.html
Excerpt: German neo-Nazis helped Palestinian terrorists kill
11 Israeli athletes during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, newly released
intelligence files reveal. Abu Daoud, who is believed to the mastermind of the
atrocity, met fascist Willi Pohl in Dortmund ,
according to a city police dossier kept secret for 40 years. (Gee, will there
be a backlash against Nazis from the Naziophobic? ~Bob.)
‘Mom, Dad, I‘m a
Democrat’: The Worst Attempt at Outreach to Republicans You’ll See This Week
Hope the idiots do more of these. ~Bob
Special Operations
Speak: Obama's Worst Nightmare. By Austin
Bay
Excerpt: A string of White House information leaks, each
leak a war-story skit crafted to buff President Barack Obama's tough-dude cred
in the upcoming presidential election, has very likely harmed U.S. national
security interests. These leaks may also make future military and intelligence
counter-terror operations more difficult to organize and, for the American
covert intelligence agents and special operations commandos who jeopardize
their lives in these grim endeavors, much riskier to execute.
NYT: Jay Carney Made
An ‘Angry Phone Call’ To Fox Exec. Following Anti-Obama Video
Excerpt:
White House press secretary Jay Carney made an “angry phone call” to a Fox News
executive after the network aired a scathing video review last month of
President Barack Obama’s first three years in office, the New York Times
reported.
Romney Says President
Doesn’t Need Congressional Approval to Go to War
Excerpt: can assure you if I’m president, the Iranians will
have no question but that I will be willing to take military action if
necessary to prevent them from becoming a nuclear threat to the world. don’t
believe at this stage, therefore, if I’m president that we need to have a war
powers approval or special authorization for military force. The president has
that capacity now.
How Much Oil is Left
in the World? By Robert Rapier. The Energy Collective.
Excerpt: In 1980, U.S. proved reserves were 36.5
billion barrels. In 2011, U.S.
proved reserves were 30.9 billion barrels. Over the course of 31 years, the U.S. produced 103 billion barrels of oil, but U.S. reserves
only fell by 5.7 billion barrels. This is a result of continued improvements in
oil extraction technology (e.g., hydraulic fracturing) as well as from new
discoveries (especially offshore). But it also demonstrates that one must allow
for reserves growth when looking at a country’s proved reserves. I think it’s a
safe bet that even though U.S. proved reserves are 30.9 billion barrels, a lot
more oil than that will ultimately be produced in the U.S. (Loaves, anyone?
Fishes? Kate.)
Rage at boiling point
after farm murder
Wait, Did This
15-Year-Old From Maryland
Ok, I'll try one last time to get the right link to paste.
~Bob
Death of a Muslim
Honor Killer. By Daniel Greenfield (aka Sultan Knish).
Excerpt: On the day of the shooting, Awkal, who would base
his entire twenty year defense on an insanity claim, wrote a check for most of
his assets to his brother, and arrived at the courthouse with the stroller,
child seat and baby food that he would need once he abducted his daughter. He
met up with his wife and her brother inside the courthouse and killed them.
Then he tried to use his 15 month old daughter as a human shield before being
shot in the back by law enforcement.
Mark Steyn: Obama the
First Invented American President.
Excerpt: Courtesy of David Maraniss' new book, we now know
that yet another key prop of Barack Obama's identity is false: His Kenyan
grandfather was not brutally tortured or even non-brutally detained by his
British colonial masters. The composite gram'pa joins an ever-swelling cast of
characters from Barack's "memoir" who, to put it discreetly, differ
somewhat in reality from their bit parts in the grand Obama narrative. The best
friend at school portrayed in Obama's autobiography as "a symbol of young
blackness" was, in fact, half Japanese, and not a close friend.
Going Global: English
Defence League to attend first Global Counter-Jihad Demonstration in Stockholm
Excerpt: But it was not in the mosques of Stockholm
that al-Abdaly [who, in December 2010, blew himself up while trying to blow
Swedes up in Stockholm ] became a terrorist, but
in Luton [in Bedfordshire , England
The People’s Right to
Know. By Paul R. Hollrah
Excerpt: In September 28, 2005, after nearly three months
behind bars, New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from a federal
detention center in Alexandria ,
Virginia
Long "South Park
Excerpt: A convert to Islam who helped promote death threats
against the producers of the animated television show "South Park
Pink Slips for
Everyone
Excerpt: Lockheed Martin will formally notify its 120,000
employees this fall that they may lose their jobs because of sequestration, said company chairman and CEO Bob Stevens June 19. During a press conference
in Arlington , Va.
Excerpt: Here are the facts: the catastrophic Anthropogenic
Global Warming on which Maurice Strong and his watermelon cohorts asked us to
bet the world economy back in 1992 hasn't happened. That's why, at this Rio they're playing down the "Climate Change"
issue and concentrating on "Biodiversity" instead. But as Driessen
and Rothbard note at Watts Up With That, there is no scientific evidence
whatsoever for the greenies projections of catastrophic species loss.
Afghan officials
report suspected poison attack in Sar-i-Pul
Excerpt: Afghan authorities reported a suspected poison
attack today against an all girls' school in the northern province of
Sar-i-Pul, but fell short of publicy accusing the Taliban of planning or
conducting the attack. Provincial education chief Abdul Ghafoor Sar-i-Puli told
Khaama Press that an investigation has been launched but so far health
officials have not found any traces of hazardous or toxic gases at the Hazrat
Imam Zada Yahya high school where the incident took place. More than 100
students were rushed to a local hospital for treatment after scores of students
fell ill and were reporting symptoms of headaches, fever, and nausea.
(Poisoning schoolgirls keeps them busy when they aren't handing out the
"Islam is a Religion of Peace" flyers to western media types. ~Bob.)
Taliban Take Women and
Children Hostage in Hotel Attack
http://gma.yahoo.com/taliban-women-children-hostage-hotel-attack-113903140--abc-news-topstories.html
Excerpt: Heavily armed Taliban insurgents stormed a popular
lakeside hotel just outside of Kabul ,
killing at least 18 people and wounding several more in a brazen overnight
attack. The assault, which lasted nearly 12 hours, began shortly before
midnight on Thursday. As many as eight insurgents, some reportedly disguised in
burqahs, killed the security guards at the hotel, stormed inside, and began
firing at guests. (They probably were not on the list to receive the
"Islam Is A Religion of Peace" memo. MasterGuns)
Rodney King Saved My
Life - by James Delingpole
Excerpt: But while I was talking to the gang [of Four Tray
Crips in Hollywood ],
I wasn't scared one bit. What helped, I think, was that my guilelessness and my
English accent appealed to them. Anyway, before I left they gave me a friendly
warning. "Be safe, bro," they said. "You wanna be careful. Guy
was round here last night, asking questions like you. He got himself stuck with
an axe."
Obama’s Truthiness:
The truth must be bent to show that it’s somebody else’s fault. By Jonah
Goldberg
Excerpt: But Obama was supposed to be different. He was a
“lightworker,” an ocean tamer, and cynicism slayer. In short, he was supposed
to be too good to be true — and it turns out he was.
Chart of the Day:
Share of World GDP, 1-2008 AD
Excerpt: Bottom Line: Free market capitalism is the best
path to prosperity illustrated, or how a minor British colony became a world
economic superpower with free market capitalism. (this blog is worth following.
~Bob.)
Here Are 41 Joe Biden
Expressions You Must Know
Excerpt: As the campaign trail heats up, it is important to
keep a close eye on our elected officials. But due to talking points and
teleprompters, our leaders true feelings are often hard to predict.
Test of Fire:
Election 2012
Powerful Ad. ~Bob.
Video by AZ Prof ob
Obama vs. Arizona
What Was So Bad About
the 1950s? By Ed West
Excerpt: But what do people have against the 1950s? It’s a
strange insult to use because, not only were the 1950s an incredibly peaceful,
ordered time but they were also, by today’s standards, very equal (and getting
more so). It was a great time to be poor – the first time in history when a
working-class Englishman could afford to support a wife and two kids, as well
as having enough to save, afford a holiday and, often even run a car. Today,
especially when housing costs are considered, that is very difficult.
Pelosi: Obama should
unilaterally eliminate the debt ceiling
Excerpt: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.,
thinks that President Obama should unilaterally eliminate the debt ceiling,
rather than negotiate with Congress to spend more money when the United States
hits the debt ceiling later this year. (If George Bush has even suggested...Oh,
never mind. ~Bob.)
$365,000 extra, and
counting: U. of I.
Excerpt: Yet Bazzani, the university's longtime vice
president for business and finance, is drawing a pension not as a regular
university employee but under the more lucrative pension formula intended for
university police officers and firefighters. (Just can't figure out why so many
people loath government, Democrats and public employee unions. You can read
this kind of stuff almost every week in Chicago .
~Bob.)
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